Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 March 1894 — Page 7

THE FAIR-FREEZER-FROZEN-OUT.

She was seated in the street cai% And the passengers had to frown, -For 'twas blowing cold as thunder tVhon she let the window down.

The people shook and shivered. Pullet! their collars 'round their ears, "While she sat there unmolested

In a fine, new set of furs.

She was a&ked to "close the window,** But

Kite

merely waved her arm.

"No, gentlemen, excuse in:?, For I'm comfortably warm."

Then the men, as mad as blazes, 5iose en masse "just then an thar,** -And they let down every window

That would open in the car.

And the woman in tue sealskin Got a blossom on her no^e. :S1jo began to shake and shiver

Till her face as nearly froze.

"The pa-ssengers enjoyed it. And she soon was looking sad, -For it was the first new sealskin

That the woman ever had.

And she was out to show it. As she took in winter's breath By a great big open window,

Freezing other folks to death.

But she jerked the strap directly, And she, shivering, left the car. And they laughed to hear her mutter, "What a naughty set you are'"

'.Then they hoisted all the windows And in comfort gave a shout. For instead of being frozen

They had friz the freezer out. —Will Essays in Waterways Journal.

ORDER NO. 52.

When Mr. Ellis, the trainmaster of the 0«jt riil at entered bis office this b*5ght summer morning, be was looking particularly pleasant, and evidently was at. peace with himself and all mankind, but as he commenced looking over the dispatcher's train sheet of the night before his aspect speedily changed, and a very gloomy look Bottled in his eyes.

An extra was "in the ditch" on the north end. and the road was completely Mocked as far as the north end was concorned. Everything was late on the south end, and here were two trains of s^ock coming in olT the branch that must be rushed through without fail. He bad one extra conductor at I.' and an excursion train was ordered from the superintendent's office to go to W a station 20 miles south, and bring buck a load of colored people to the big camp meeting then being held in 1'

This would have been all right if the conductor in question bad been one of the reliable old hands, but be happened to be one of the latest promotions and a jduii with a very nervous, excitable temperament who was easily mixed up if anything happened to go wrong and who had only just completed a 10 day suspension •for neglecting, in one of his passions, to rcuicmher an order about some work on the line. So blind and forgetful did ho become when his anger was once aroused that his associates had nicknamed him 4rary Horse, and tin* appellation seemed tv fit him exaetly.

I,it-tie wonder .Mr. Ellis was blue. The special had to he started at once, and this wan the only man available, lie didn't ttfctt it "a little bit," but there was no lulp for it. "Where's the call boy, Mr. Hand?" he nuked of the dispatcher then on duty. "Out hunting a crew for the special. He ought to be back by this time. didn't enfi a conductor, as 1 didn't like to send Howell without seeing you about it." "lie's the only one we've got. He will have to go, but watch liirn close. I don't •want any mere niggers killed on this division while T'm here after the turn we had when No. l(i hit the work train at Sand Cut. It was only a scratch that Murphy didn't get lynched that trip." "Morris," he called to a boy coming up the platfi rm outside, "go and hunt up Howell for the apodal, and hurry up too. They ought to be out in 15 minutes." 1m» train had been ready for some time, ftud in a few minutes Howell was Been cowing down the platform toward the of-

He received his orders, and after a short talk with the trainmaster, in the owai'we of which ho was told to keep cool and not ^et into trouble and if any doubt arose to take the uafe side, be left for W bad nothing to meet going down, aud after seeing to the turning around of lxi« wigine he reported at the office for his orders for the return trip.

Tim dispatcher at was waiting lor hi hi and sent tbo following: Wrvlar No. 51. I' (MS, 188—. Conductor «itd engineer special north. Spccial north, llaweM, conductor, engine 1~1, will run "VV to P-— ahead of all second class trains »jh1 will meet first No. 10, Murphy, conductor «&gUMi J*, at. Sand Cut, and will meet second N®. 1« at IS E. J. It.

Unwell and Kuan. O. K. 10:4A a. m. E. J. R. "How's that? lioth 10's ready? Hold Mwrpby a minutv. Hob. (lot. him* Tell W— Wii'll want to send orders to Howell at SiMd Cut by hiui."

Mr. Ellis had beau talking over the tel ejAon« with t4i« yardmastor at the big ircdglit yard* a mile bolow the town, where aM ttia freight trains were switched and mad* ready for Ui« road.

Snnd Cut wju» a small statiou five miles from at which there was siding, bat ao telegraph office, and a# both trains of •lock were ready to go forward it was deeded to send orders to Ilowoll to meet t\it» two sections of 10 at Sand Cut instead of holding t4i« aeceud ouo at until bis arrival. la a few minatea Conductor Murphy vm tov receipt of the following order:

Order No. ftS. 0-12, lf£—. Conductor and «Htiue«r special north. Sand Cut. Spe«wU aort b, llowall, conductor, engine 121. will fhe«t sreem! No. 16 at Sand Cut instead of

E. J. R.

For conductor and engineer, special north. Murphy, conductor first lft. O. K. 11:05 a. iru E. J.R.

Wtfch the order* addressed to the special was a message to Muiphy to deliver theni to Howell and to be sure and know that b« understood them.

Owing to a hot journal the second section of No. 10 was detained in the yard aearW half an hour after tbo first section bad left.

Wnrjihy mad* the ran to Sand Cut in good time, and stopping his train so that 1» blocked the sidetrack where the special •tood waiting a chance to get out, handed Howell the new order that was to supersede the oue he had been running on.

He bad been detained already about 15 tniunfcta and wm walking up and down the track aide of hi* train and cursing Wurphjr for not palling op far enough to let biui out.

He was raving mad when Murphy pre•ented a receipt for the order and asked bim *o sign it. "You think because you're been ben longer than I hare that I don't know any-

TKKRE ACT HI

Uhiug," be fetid, adding an oath by way of emphasis. "I'll run this train without any of your help. Pull up so I can get out." "I'll pnll up just as soon as yon sign that receipt and not before." "Iknow what the order is," said White, "and I'll npt sign any receipt of yours for it either." "Then I'll' stay here till Clark gets in sight," said Murphy.

White had the orders and had shoved them down in his pocket, and now, fairly ablaze with wrath, was abusing Murphy to the top of his bent. After nearly 10 minutes of a heated wrangle White finally signed the paper tendered by Murphy, and the latter signaled his engineer to go ahead, leaviDg White standing by the side of his train, still cursing liim for laying him Out.

He caught on the front end of his caboose as ft pulled past him, and going through the car and opening the rear door he saw White's train moving out on the main track.

The sight for a moment paralyzed him. Was White crazy? No. In his transport of rage he bad forgotten the order entirely and was now facing certain destruction.

This thought entered Murphy's head in an instant: lie will have to close that switch—maybe I can catch him yet.

He dropped to the ground from his now rapidly moving train, shouting to his rear brakeman on top of the caboose to back up for him, and started on a run to try to catch White's train.

Too late. Though he ran like a racer, the excursion train was on themain track, the switch set up and White himself, on the rear platform of the coach, signaling ahead with the bell cord, turned and shook his fist at Murphy.

A collision was inevitable, and just as' Murphy's train backed up and stopped he heard one call for brakes, then an awful crash in the woods just around the curve. The excursion train, crowded to its full capacity with human freight, had met the second section of 16.

Murphy uncoupled his engine and leaving his train on the main track, ran through the side track and down the hill to give his assistance at the wreck.

It was a horrible sight. Both trains were running at high speed, and the wreck was almost complete, and under the massive boiler of the big passenger engine lay Eagan, her engineer, an unrecognizable mass of flesh and broken bones. Others were in the debris of the wrecked coaches, and as body after body was taken out and laid on the grassy bank beside the track the more serious became the mutterings of the uninjured negroes.

Murphy was working with all the strength ho possessed trying to extricate the dead and wounded victims of his brother conductor's carelessness when a big black band was laid on his shoulder, and a negro's voice asked: "Boss, is you do man's 'sponsible fur dis?"

The little conductor, recalling a former experience of almost the same kind, turned pale, but vigorously denied connection with it. "What's dem orders I see you all gib Cap'n White? Dey had somefin tq do 'bout dis."

Murphy tried his best to explain, but the negro's intellect, was unable to grasp the meaning of the order, and then from out the crowd that bad collected another voice was heard saying: "Dis yer's de second time dat man's done datsame thing. lie done run dat wuk train las' summer when s' many ob de boys was killed. Right yer's wliar dey hit together too."

It was enough. Murphy, alone and unarmed, in the mob of negroes, was to pay with his life for another man's carelessness.

No oue had seen Howell since the collision occurred. Clark, the conductor of the wrecked freight train, as soon as he had seen the magnitude of the disaster, had started on a run to two miles away, for help, and his brakeman as well as the men of Murphy's crew, noting the angry and excited gestures of the negroes, as they gathered around their conductor, and seeing no chance for rescue in their small number, bad taken the engine to Sand Cut, hoping there to get re-enforce-ments and return in time.

A belleord from one of the coaches was thrown over the limb of a tree, and the •noose was fastened about the neck of the seemingly doomed man when the switch engine from turned the curve hauling a coach crowded to the doors with the con pa \s pi oy ees.

Ellis knew the temper of these people in cases of this kind, and he had come prepared to fight if necessary, to protect the innocent or to bring to legal justice the man who was at fault.

They were only just in time. One minute more and Murphy would have tasted hemp. Even now the negroes were loath to give up their intended victim, but the arrival of the engine from Sand Cut with her tender crowded with men settled it. The rope waa removed, and under a pledge from Mr. Ellis that he should be tried by law they returned to the care of the dead and wounded.

Eleven were killed and over 30 wounded, aud the coroner's jury, in an inquest on the dead, placed the blame where it belonged—on White, the conductor of the excursion. Only White's signature to the receipt for the order saved Murphy. Later in the year tho grand jury found an indictment against White for criminal carelessness, but no one ever saw him in that part, of the country again, so he was never brought to tiral.

The incident of the above story is an absolute truth, and one of the principal actors in it is now in the employ of a railroad in Atlanta. The accident happened on a northern r&ad in June, 1888. The names used are all fictitious.—A. M. Strong in Atlanta Constitution.

Armour's Revenue.

One of Phil Armour's $25,000 men went into business on his own account some years ago and built up a powerful opposition house. Tho man had remarkable ability, but his career shows that he had not Armour's conception of things nor his loftiness of character. And it shows, too, that despite bis long and intimate association with bis old employer the seceder had not thoroughly appreciated the quiet power of the originator. X, for we will call him so, rose to prosperous heights and then was seised with the desire to be thought a greater man than his old chief, against whom be began operations in the ehosen way of corners and similar financial exercises known to the street. He said one day, "I used to work for PUil Aruiour, but before long Phil Armour will be working for me." He thought he bad the old man squeexed. as the won] goes, but Armour proceeded at 9 o'clock one morning to convince the complacent gentleman that he was sadly mistaken. By noon there was a rushing fall in prices, and the once jubilant merchant was a bankrupt. With the news, he also received from Mr. Armour the offer of an instant and friendly loon of *500,000 in cash.— Detroit News.

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TAX BACHELORS.

The Matrimonial Market WooH Be Boomed and Commerce Benefited. We commend the suggestion recently offered by a Baltimore woman to the effect that a tax should be levied on bachelors. There is something in this proposition that commends itself to the judicial mind. It does not, for instance, attack asocial class. It makes no discrimination between the rich and the poor. The idea is to tax every bachelor who cannot show that he is unable to marry because of having to support dependent relatives to the extent of $ 10 per annnm. The estimate is that there are 6,000.000 of marriageable bachelors in the United Slates, and that at least 4,000,000 of these have no valid excuse for their selfi. hand useless condition.

A tax of $10 per capita, therefore, would yield £40,000,000. It could be collected wituout much expense. It wduld do no great harm, and it would have.the merit of providing its own remedy for those who felt unwilling to pay. If it accomplished nothing else, it would communicate a powerful boom to the matrimonial market, and so, for every $10 that the government lost, put at least $100 into general circulation. It might, to be sure, divert some of those thin but noisy little rills that run to ice creain, soda water, steamed oysters, theater tickets and philopenas, but it would turn loose whole torrents into the coffers of the butcher, the baker, the grocer, the apothecary, the family physician and the wet nurse.

And though under such a dispensation the American youth might put on the yoke of Hymen rather than be taxed as a renegade to that rosy deity, and though government might thus be compelled to seek elsewhere for a revenue, the revolution would so fill the land with new activity, so load the air with the perfume of paregoric, and so throng tho parks and sidewalks with nursemaids that the whole nation would feel the impulse and all mankind be made the happier and better through its influence. Either the treasurer would get a revenue or society be purified and population stimulated.-

The real cause of the commercial depression is want of confidence, tho hoarding of money, stagnation in trade and dearth of investment, but with 4,000,000 of young briues moving hito new quarters, setting up independent establishments and preparing for the responsibilities and the consequences of wedlock, the wheels of industry would once more begin to hum and the pulses of business go to beating with fresh force and vigor.

Washington Post.

SOLID SILVER BATHTUB.

Freddy (iebhard's Unique Antenuptial Gift to th« Lvuiy Who I* Now His Wife. A New York correspondent says thai the last antenuptial present made by Fred Gebhard to the lady who is now Mrs. Gebhard was sent to Baltimore two days before the wedding. This present is a solid silver bathtub. The correspondent coi.tiuues: "It is not one of those common everyday German silver affairs such as Albany legislators art wont to lave in. The white metal in this gorgeous antenuptial gift is wil.lfout, alloy. The vessel is aa commodious as the workmanship displayed on il is intricate and ingenious. Tall and beautifully proporti ned as the lady is,,she will be able to disport herself in this lover's gift without fear of stubbing hor pink toes at one end of it or abrasing lier scalp by sudden contact with the other. "This little piece of boudoir furniture is beautifully embossed. The exterior, resembles a perfectly laid out flower garden in miniature, while the interior is delicately chased. On the bottom of tliQ tub are engrossed Mrs. Gebhard's initials in huge letters. It weighs 200 pounds avoirdupois weight. The market price for silver at present is 83 cents an ounce. In this double decked and triple riveted vessel suggestive of female sybaritism there are 55,200 ounces. At 83 cents an ounce this amounts to $2,656 for the metal alone. "Silver workers in New York who were allowed to feast their eyes on the beautiful vessel before it was swathed in tinted cotton and soft tissue paper, preparatory to being sent to Baltimore, say that it could not possibly be made for less than $2,500. This brings the cost of the gift up to$5,156. The interior of the bathtub is fitted up with recep tacles for soap, brushes, sponges, etc.. and near the head of it in a dainty silver box attached to the side, in which is a silver manicure set. There is also a comfortable headrest, with an open space for a rubber air pillow should the fair user desire to take a dolce far niente bath. Altogether this little pieoe of water bric-a-brac is decidedly Gebhardesqne."

French Lovers of Art Anxious. French lovers of art are becoming anxious over the distribution of many priceless treasures in the past year among English, German and American collectors. The original gallery of Genera! Hacquin, the Napoleonic general who sacked the city of Pavia, has been broken up. World renowned originals of the early Italian, Dutch, Flemish and French schools went, most of them, to London and Berlin. The absence of any national reserve fund for the purchase of such treasures is much regretted. The annual subsidy allowed to the government galleries is only $30,000. It is urged that the unused fund of nearly $2,000.000, the product of the sale of the crown jewels, be devoted to this purpose. A small admission fee at the Louvre is also advocated for the double advantage of keeping out loafers and raising revenue to purchase additions.—Art Journal.

Chicago** Alleged Blarney Stone. Those who took the trouble to kiss the alleged "Blarney stone," in the walls of the reproduction of Blarney castle, in the Midway plaisance, will be delighted to learn from an official report of Deputy Customs Collector J. F. $&lph that the object of their osculations was a limestone paving block, dug out of the streets of Chicago and palmed off on the customs officers and public as a genuine stone from Blarney, County Cork, Ireland.—Philadelphia Lodger.

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Wannowsky has prepared for war, Gourko has threatened it, and Nicholas de Giers has averted it. On the continent the statesman without a war policy is usually condemned to the obscurity of the virtuous woman. M. de Giers' efforts to preserve the peace have been so evident and so successful, however, that the ebbing of his life is watched with the keenest hopes and fears from Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome.

Giers, Gourko and Wannowsky are the last of the celebrated Russians who survived the Bismarckian period of European politics. They were contemporaries of Gambetta, MacMahon, Disraeli, Gladstone, Moltke, Roon, Bismarck, Benedek and Andrassy, altll&ugh none of the three came into his fame until long after the names of those men became household words throughout Europe. Of the famous statesmen and generals of their day, only Francesco Crispi, the Italian prime minister, is still in office. Of the sovereigns of great powers, only Queen Victoria and Emperor Franz Joseph still jign.—Exchange.

THE HONEST INJUN.

Day before yesterday he went to the firewater man again, and while he was buying of him a United States marshal arrested him and took him before the commissioner. Contrary to Christian custom, he pleaded guilty. The commissioner, knowing him to be a pagan and believing him to be drunk, thought it best not to enter that plea. Bnt the Indian cried out: "I'm guilty! Any man who pleads not guilty when lie's guilty js

NU VFACL, MARCH -31 1894.

THEY WILL BE MISSED.

and Gourko Are Dying, and Wannowsky Is Breaking Down. K'HYrtJL. de Giers is dying in St. Peters-

j' hGourko is awaiting his end "w' Peter Wannowsky recently

Russian home

but he has- retarttwfv ,, down man. Bach I ss he left i£, a mwefl. ,, ,, .j* Me men has been or these three remarks*. fshalf a century in tfte serw try. Each has exercised! ti the Berlin ence on Russian politics congress. Each approaches IW*. his breast covered with decoiatfvx

nifying that he has enjoyed So tlie

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ship of Ms sovereign. It is a trite saying in Berlin that Count von Roon forged the German sword, Mol^ke sharpened it^nd Bismarck drew it from its sheath. In St. Petersburg it might be said with equal truth that Wannowsky forged the Russian: sword, Gonrko sharpened it, and Giers kept it in its sheath.

He Broke the Law of the Land, but Would Not Tell a Lie. It would be interesting to know what the enemies of the red man have to say about the case of Nathaniel Jamison. Nathaniel comes from down Lawton's way, and Tuesday he was selling the dark brown sassafras on the streets of the city. Now Jamison is a thrifty rH man. Having disposed of many goodly bundles of sassafras, he went to a dealer in firewater and bought a demijohn of rare whisky. This he took with him to the reservation at night, and to his red brethren of the forest he disposed of it at retail prices. So he made two profits on his sassafras. The red man knew that it was contrary to law for him to sell whisky to his people, but in his own heart he felt no sense of guilt.

liar!" Of course there was no

answer to make to this, and the honest Injun had his way for once.—Buffalo Courier.

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The Greatest Glacial Syitem. Chief of all among the wonders of tht Washington National park region ar« its glacienr. Spun round the mountain as an axis, lik« the radial spokes of some gigantic wheel, are some 14 huge icefields, varying from a mile to 12 mile* in leDgth. Though no one of them taken alone equals in size the great Muir glacier of Alaska, together they constitute the greatest glacial system in the world. By way of comparison, rather than disparagement, it may be said that all the glaciers of the Alps might be snugly stowed^ away in a minor segment of this immense circle.

Perhaps the largest of the icefields is the Tahoma, lying on the southwestern slope of the mountain. Its proportions may be roughly stated as about one milw in width, seven miles in length and ao average depth of 600 feet. Imagine, if you will, a solid block of ice whose average thickness is twice the height of Tnnity spire and in places between 1,000 and 2,000 feet, and of sufficient length and width to cover one-half of Manhattan Island. The Nesqually, the Cowlitz, the Carbon and White river glaciers are of but little less immensity, the last named being fully 12 miles in length. When now you consider that a glacier a mile in length and half a mile wide in Europe is an eminently respectable afTair, you may grasp something of the size and bulk of this field of ice.—Review of Reviews.

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Caaaed aa Epldemle.

Some municipal authorities declare that the universal use of confetti in the recent fetes was the cause of the prevailing epidemic of typhoid fever. The Paris streets were not only covered as with snow, but the trees were filled with p*ier serpentines thrown by the revelers. Clearing away the flimsy ribbons cost the city nearly $10,000, besides injuring young foliage.—Paris Herald.

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CIRCULATING ART.

Should Picturec Not Be Passed Aronnd Just Like Books Are? The other day I heard an excellent notion propounded with regard to works of art. Ifc was the establishment of a circulating picture gallery, which should occupy the same relation with regard to paintings as Mudie does in respect of books. Of cohrse the subscription •would be higher, as the number of subscribers would be limited. But the pictures would be changed every month," so that a man need never be bored by the eternal sameness of the walls.

Why

"e his shattered health on

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A story is told of a man who dined opposite to a fine work by Sir Joshua Reynolds for so many years that it at last had to be moved, for it irritated him to ^'nich an extent that he threatened to hurl

^ecanter of port wine at it. The new soefck*7

wonld

effectually obviate any

rachf Anoyance. All the works would be for

an-"

fancy toa:y

subscriber taking a

articular

picture might ob

tain thq prk» fro™ the secretary and on payment the*6©A.^

c°ttld

become its pos

sessor. The advantage'®/ .this system, especially in the present depressed state of the fine art market, is obvious, and it would also be a benefit to the buyers, because they would discover after the trial of a month whether they really liked a picture or not.

The terms of the subscription would of course be in proportion to the style of pictures supplied. Of course if you expected to have works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and Sir John Everett Millais the payment would be very much more costly than if you only required a scries of prints. But the subscriptions should be so regulated that it would bring the circulating picture gallery within the reach of all.—London Graphic.

Unable to Tell.

Yes, that was so. For years I suffered severely *with scrofula sores broke out all over my body, and I am unable to tell one half that I suffered. I was not able to obtain relief until I used Sulphur Bitters, which completed cured me.— C. B. DAT.E, 17 Al^ston street, Boston.

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