Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1907 — Missouri Has An Epictetus. [ARTICLE]

Missouri Has An Epictetus.

Hale is not on any trunk line, and deep down in our hearts we are glad it is not. As it we have four trains a day and they all stop. Here on our line If a fellow gets tired waiting and starts out on foot it is his own fault if he lets the train overtake him. And down here on our road you can work till the train whistles and then have plenty of time In which to get ready and have your baggage checked. Trains on our line hit the low place—sometimes rather hard—but no such thing as an engine going round a curve playing whip cracker with the coaches; no wrecks; no rear-end collisions, for the two trains going the same way are always at least seven hours apart and sometimes as far distant as seventeen miles. Head-on collisions are avoided by having certain places to meet, nnd the train that gets to those places first always waits for the other. No night trains to break one’s slumbers; no Sunday trains to mar the sanctity of the Sabbath or to lure one from church sei’vice. No “Elis” on our road, but we “git there” just the same, and If we miss the Saturday train we stay over til! Monday.—From an editorial in the Hale (Mo.) llustle-Leader.