St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 26 July 1890 — Page 7

TUB OLD PLAID SHAWL, 1 BT FRANK A. VARY, ° Uld ln the “ err y ^n’rh ^•“a^H^way^ ^‘b'there cauie angel chanced A little D^fi Cailin in an ould plaid shawl. saluted her-“ God save you,mi M ,- ’^.Sl”."^ “■> “Mr "" " h ” °“ M W‘« I* th « ’ratal. Made trembling travelers yield them uu ♦>,<.< money or their lives. 1 up their Bu t thmk of me that handed out my heart and head, and all J uturi ana To a simple little Cailin in an ould plaid shawl nh! some men sigh lor riches, and son^ . live for fame. ’ 111 801110 men Pag6S ho l’° ‘owiua Mystl bu ß t“mX' UnbltioU9 ’ and Cesare you might wrap them all together in an ould plaid shawl. uu ou *d Hl seek her all through Galway, and I'll seek her till through Clare 1 Beek I'll search for tale or tidings of my traveler everywhere, 1 umiaer For peace o^mind 1 '!! never find until niy own That shawl’ Irißh CaHiU iU her Ou!d P la id ^Hetc York Tribune. A RAILROAD ADVENTURE. A Railroad Adventure. “No money! What in thunder'd von get on for? How’d you expect to travel on this road thout the stamps? Oft with you, and no whining around me ’ I know my business and you know yours, maybe. Any baggage?” “No baggage,” I muttered, dolefullv “but you can take my overcoat. 1 ta n get the money at Savannah.” “Dang your old overcoat! What you e'pose I want wit!. - your old rags?” “Rags! Look here, there's not a break in this coat. Good as new.” “Off with you. quick I” “For heaven’s sake.” "Shall I kick you off?” “I’m a thousand miles from home ” “Dang your home! Off with you, or I’ll sling you off.” “Try it, if you dare!” Whop! thud! biff! biff! lick-to-whack! spat! scnftie-a-banglej crask, thrash! whollop! and out we went together into a pile of cross-ties As he clinched me I struck him a heavv blow in the face with my right fist, while with my left hand 1 pulled the bell-rope. Toot! toot! said the signal whistle and off went the train. Do you quite understand what I had ! done? It's all very plain to me. I had ' stolen a conductor. Let me be ex- I plicit. To tell you the truth 1 had ' just served through the war in the Confederate army, and only twenty-one ' years old at that. You know there was ; a conscription law, and when I was | eighteen 1 had to go in. I was assigned ' to duty in Florida, and when the war j ended I found myself suffering from a I wound and a thousand miles from home. I 1 staid in Florida till the winter of ’6B, I wnen, finding myself well again, and | seeing no earthly chance of finding ■ employment in that distracted Slate ; which would enable me to lay up mouey > enough to pay my way home on tiie cars, I set out afoot Not till 1 had walked a hundred miles or more did 11 fully realize the difficulty of my under- । taking. lu consequence of my wound 1 | had for a long time been in-doors, I scarcely taking any exercise at all, and now, although I was well, I was as : tender as a woman. My ieet swelled so that I had to split my boots all to j pieces, and my legs got stiff and sore. 1 suffered from lack of food, too, at j times, for the country through which I j passed was thinly settled, with people bo poor that they had nothing for me. > Finally I reached the railroad, and as j it was my direct route to Savannah, J where I hoped, to find some friends. I followed it. This railroad passes through the outlying marshes and cypress wastes of the great Oakefeuokee swamp, and it was in the most dismal part of that wild barren that a happy idea entered my brain. It was that of stealing a ride. A freight-tram had just passed me going north, and I I knew that in less than an hour a passenger train would follow. My plan was to stand near the track and leap upon the platform of the hindermost; car. I did this without accident, and j found myself, a moment after, whirling ( along very comfortably, seated on the ; platform steps. Ah! it was delicious | to feel the cool night breeze tanning . my feverish face. iSight air? Yes, it , was near midnight, and the full moon was shining gloriously. How sweetly rested. llow much pleasanter than walking! , r . ' But luck did not favor me. My ride was a short one. I had not been seated more than two minutes when something tapped me on the shoulder. 1 looked up. “Tickets!” said the man who leant over me. “Got none.” said I. “Money, then,” said ne. “Got none,” I replied. . Then followed what is chronicled at the beginning of this sketch. He had reached up and pulled the ’e T • bringing the train to a stand-still. I did not think of stealing him t 1 the very moment he clenched me t me from the platform. •n’b * once the resolve came. As rail! I struck him with one pulled the bell-rope with the othe We had a short, furious fight on the platform, then rolled oil into a pile it ^s-ties just '■XP fiS Conductor heard^he^gine too‘much for him, though I had not me strength, foi 1 g thumped there on the cross-ties, and thunipea him till he bawled ^-% U t faintlv time the train was roa he in the distance. I let Hint up gazed around. train ?” said he. “Wh-wheres mv tram - “Don’t you hear it? I aske^, myself on a cross-tie, breathless state. h t eng i“What in thunder ! Ding i neer! What on earth made^ him me? I’ll report him to

^blustery,” 8ai(1 X> the si Knal jnst I gave the engineer asked. 10w much is it?” 1 rephS*” 1 a <IUWt and ha lf-a-gallon,” through tiffs inSnai il d^ “ ileß muttered. filial old swamp,” he ‘/Better two of us than one’” * 4,strain!” k . ust so!” said I. mißs me forly ‘‘Nor me.” yoi^ anyhow?” Di " g y ° u! Who ' have let’me alon^” 1 “y° u ’ d better i ordei%’ The^roai man ’ 1 must °bey me reported f» d 'v ftSter have you oft without A dlslniKsal if I’d ’a let « . u "miiont. the money'” •nduioVAXiyltaS Uy no means,” said I. ( M hy not?” । 111 not allow you.” ’You won't’” to iust the I conductor's face turned “Don’t 1 m lOl °» ? 16 moon shine. 1 on t kill me, he suggested “Iwas only obeying orders, indeed’l was, Maybe you’d like to pray a little?” in earnest?” ° d heaVCUs! You ’ re not T yon d ? n ’ fc wan t to pray," said ^cocking my pistol and examining the He went down on his knees and prayed qmte fervently. Just as he I heard the train coming back at lull speed. mi Hjngdif they ain’t backing down! They ve nnsse^me!” he cried, springing to his feet. b /They'll never find vou,” said T. ‘Very easy,” said lie, “I’ll wave my hat. J * Not at all,” I rejoined. ।W hy not? I’ll let you ride to ” I do not care to ride,” he interrupted; “let’s take a stroll into the swamp. N\ hat for?” he said trembling. “Oh, just to avoid being seen,” I replied. “For heaven’s sake!” he cried. । “Moye ahead!” I said, as I drove him back into the thicket swamp a lew hundred yards. Now you just open your mouth.” I remarked, as the tram trundled slowly j past with lights hanging on every side, : “and 1 11 put a ball down your throat!” Ho kept very quiet, and we could i plainly hear the excited voices of t lie | jiassengers and train-hands as they । were borne along at a constantly Jessl ening sjamd. Finally the train was . brought to a stand-still half a mile be- ! low. After remaining there awhile it i came pulling slowly back, the men ’ running along beside it, beating the j woods a few yards in either direction. Meanwhile 1 was not idle. I bound I the conductor's hands and feet with bis । suspenders and gagged him with my j handkerchief. In this condition I sat j him down against the root of a large i pine-tree, au<d throwing my overcoat across my arm, left him there. As | soon as 1 got out of sight of my prisi oner, I took off my mall coat and I turned it It was a small flannel sack i made to lie worn eiuber side out. It 1 was black on one side and white on the i other. 1 hastily put a pine-knot in my I cap and threw it into a potxd near by, 1 and put on a soft hat which I had been ! carrying in my pocket. This hat was i white and very broad-brimmed. I now hastened to the vicinity of the railroad track, and as the train with its excited attendants began to pass I coolly joined the crowd of persons who walked beside the cars. , “Singular what’s Iwome of him, I remarked to the man nearest ine. “Tarnation queer, indeed,” was the reply. . “ He’s sloped with the money, said a i pulling fat man on my left, “bet my 1 boots on that.” “That’s my notion.” said I. “Yes, yes,” continued the fat man approvinglv. “that’s it xactly. I know a I conductor out in Texas to do this very same trick once.” “You did!” , , “Yes, sir, and he never has been found.” “Indeed!” “So, sure’s the world, and they Baid he had a pile of money on hands, to °-” . “Real sharp villain, wasn t he ? “Was that, sure!” “Hist, listen ! Who’s that. “Help! help! help!” roared a voice down in the swamp. _ Everybody halted to listen. “Help! help!” n “It's the conductor’s voice, yelled a brakesman, and forthwith everybody rushed into the swamp. In a veiv fit tie time we had found my man, who had managed to spit out his gag. helved to untie him. . . -How the dickens came you in this fix 9 ” said lin an assumed voice, helpthe devil. Great big black fellow sit ting on hind platform. Asked him foi ticket - said had none. Asked him f< r money, b ad « one eitb « n , S J° PP o ft d the ii^ain and went to kick him oft Ding^camp pulled the bell-rope and L' like Haze,. Took - down in the swamp and tied me. ,1 two feet long. Ding if twasnt. Well after everybody had congratu12a the conductor we all wen back to the train and got aboard. 1 tooK a,?;we sued./ I 'leaned seat and soon fell as . le ®P' . “ p ac t was excited and talking but me. i 8 I was exhausted. Sacked nrc lathed I sprang wildiv to mv feet.

I “Ho, ho; here, what ails you ?” said i the conductor, laughing. I rubbed my eyes and sat down. “Thought that fellow of yours had - got me,” I muttered, coolly taking off । my hat, as if looking for my check. t “Lost,” said I; “must have fallen ou. s when that infernal brush dragged my f hat off.” t The conductor rubbed the knots on 1 his head, made by my fist, and said, I smiling painfully: _ “You fellows must have torn about $ like one possessed, about one-half of B you are minus your checks; but ding if s J a’n’t monstrous glad you found me! t Awful beating that fellow gave me. r He’d ’a’ killed me if the train hadn’t ’a’ 8 come back just as it did! Bless my * life, yon ought to have seen his eyes. ' 1 hey had the devil in ’em!” । < The conductor passed on. I rode to ■, Savannah, where I found a friend who j j furnished me the means to get home. Such is the history of my first, last, and i only highway robbery. An Awfal Calnilty. A number of Kentuckians that were engaged in working on the county road, 1 had sat down in the shade to rest, when 1 a man came along and asked the way to Dorch’s mill. “Wall,” said the road overseer, “es , you go down this ’er way (pointing) fur j enough, and then go down that er way fur enough (again pointing) you will git thar all right.” “les. but how far will be far ; ' enough?” “Oh, about two sights an’ a half.” , “How far do you call a sight?” < “As fur down the road as you can । see.” ' i “But I can’t see very far down this ] way. A hill shuts oft the view.” “Yes, but you can see as far as you kin, kaint you?” “Oh, yes.” i “Wall, then that’s a sight.” “So it’s about two sights and a half from here?” 1 “That’s whut I ’lowed.” “How much is half a sight?” “As fur as vou kin see chopped in I half.” “Ah, you mean that when I get to the last sight, I will find the mill just half way of the distance I can see?” “That’s whut I ’lowed.” “You have a very peculiar way of expressing it, but I suppose it's all right.”. “So do I." “How many days during the year do you have to work the road?” “Owin’ to how much rain we’ve had. Sometimes wc don't tech it fur a whole • year, an’ then agin we hattei hit it putty j often. Fellers grumble might’ly too, I when they do hatter tech it. They I ’pear to think that all the work they |do on the road is Hung away; an' it is mighty nigh the way so fur as they j i air consumed, fur we all ride hoss | back when we wanter go anywhar, an’ jit’s only the outsiders that travels on j wheels. Don’t be snatched,” he added I as the man started to ride away. “Yes, must bo moving; have business j ! with old man Dorch and am anxious j i to see him.” “ Wait a minit an’ we’ll have a little ! licker. Sent my son Tom over to the j sti’l house with a jug jest now, an’ its j I putty nigh time he war a gettin’ back.” j Just then a young fellow dashed up i lon a horse, and calling the overseer, cried: “Say, Mr. Denson, jest now as j Tom war coinin’ back frum the still ’ j house, the hoss flung him an’ the | j folks do ’low that he has broke hie ' I neck.” “Laws a massy!’’ exclaimed the over i seer, "jest lissen to that. Tom dun j । Hung, an’ I bet a dollar that jug is । busted all to Hinders. Never did have iso much trouble in ray life. Never ' needed licker more than I do right j now, an’ I bet that jug is busted. ’Pear like times gits harder an’ harder on a ’ honest man every day of the world.”— i ^.rkan^aw Traveler. ' i Bi-euking In a Brakeman. j; A conductor on one of the railroads । j running out of Boston, had recently an amusing experience in breaking in a j new brakeman, an obtuse individual frow Way-back, who seemed to per- । versely understand the simplest instruc- ; > • tion. j ' | “Now,” said the conductor, as the j j train started, “remember that you are I to open the car door where you stand, and call out the name of the stations as j we stop at them.” “But I don’t know the name of any '.orn 'em.” । 1 I “Well, then, you can listen to me; I will call the name of the station when we stop, at the door at the other end of the-ear, and you can sing out the same 1 at this end.” “All right,” said the new official, and , the conductor passed on. 1 Presently the train drew up, and the ’ latter, putting his head in the rear door, shouted the name of the new town,— “Frontviile, Frontville.” This was followed by the new brakeman’s putting his head in at the other 3 door of the ear and shouting, in stentorian tones, — “Same at this end; same at this end.” 1 An Eye ,o Business. “I have just been up in Vermont.” > said a Treasu’-y clerk yesterday. “The [ natives have lost none of their cuteness. The town where 1 was stopping has 3 about 4,500 inhabitants. One of the selectmen runs a hardware store, and two weeks ago his dog was bitten by a i neighbor’s dog. It was a small enough matter, but see what happened. First, r he had the neighbor’s dog killed; then r I he raised the cry that the dog had been j ! mad and had bitten other dogs. The j selectmen met and ordered that every i । dog should be muzzled for forty days. . I and the thrifty hardware man has sold I ’ nearly 500 muzzles at $1 apiece. Staid ' old family dogs travel around town with leather thongs around their jaws, which - never closed on anything more human 1 than a beef bone. I saw one big mastiff that had worked his muzzle oft 1 and was lugging it around in his mouth.”— i The cares, which are the keys, of riches, hang often so heavy at the rich man’s girdle that they clog him r with weary days and restless night.-, when others sleep quietly.

working Togother. A visitor to the recent convention of Workingwomen in New York says that a large pioportion of the audience were young girls whose wealth and social position rendered any work unnecessary to their support. Yet they did work actively and effectively for the help of their less fortunate sisters, in orgenizing and sustaining the guilds, reading-rooms, gymnasiums, etc., which give the friendless working-girl in our great cities the comfort and protection of homes. The relation between the two classes of girls was most cordial and hearty. The shabbily dressed shopwoman and seamstress served on the same committees with the daughters of wealthy men from Murray Hill, with the hope of helping their sisters who are still poorer and more needy than nny of themselves. For the time, all of the committee forgot that there was any difference of fortune or education between them. They were only women working shoulder to shoulder in a noble cause. 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