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w * ■■ < irf' ’ feM, *. v AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, .....iftt.i'-.y. A Vol. 47. Houlton, Maine June, 12, 1907. No. 26. f e ; lights and torpedoes to warn the sec­ Second Seventy-seven. ond section well up the hill, lhen ■,;> ; y -'T z & tf- walking across from his caboose, he got under the lee of the hind Pullman C l o t KINS By Frank H. Spearman. sleeper to watch for the expected headlight. It it • bftd grade yet. But before first one anyway and pend you out The storm increased in violence. It the new work w*e done on the river right behind the flier. Get your badge was not the rain driving in torrents, division Beverly hill wet ft terror to and your punch from Carpenter, and. not the lightning blazing nor the deaf­ trainmen. On rainy Sundays old whatever you do, Buckley, don’t gee ening crashes of thunder that worried ■t T :.' •witchmen in the Znoeeville yard* still rattled." him, but the wind. It blew a gale. tell in fiteir ehantiee of the night the “ No, sir. Thank you, Mr. Heed." In the glare of the lightnmg he could 'Blackwood bridge went out and “ But his “ thank you” was so pleas­ see the oaks which crowned the bluffs Cftmeron’s tt« ok train got away on the ant I couldn’t altogether ignore it I whip like willows in the storm. It ldUt with the Denver flier caught at compromised with a cough. Perfect swept quartering down the Beverly rim foot like a rat in a trap. courtesy even in the hands of the awk- cut as if it would tear the ties from r in Bnokley wat only a big boy j wardest boy that ever wore his trou- under the steel. Suddenly he saw far tfcat, braking on freights, I was dis- sers short is a surprisingly handy thing up in the black sky a star blazing. It fitiibiag under Alex Campbell on the! to disarm gruff people with. Ben was the headlight of Second Seventy- was undeniably awkward, his legs Watt End. Ben wat a tall, loose seven. --iff'' jointed fallow, but gentle at a kitten ; were too long and his trousers dded-eci A whistle cut the wind, then another. Ifgi at long at pineh btrs, yet none ly out of touch with his feet, but I It was the signal for brakes. The too long running for the Beverly turned away with the conviction that second section was coming down the •*Heb tint night. Hit great chum in in^epite of his gawkiness there was steep grade. He wondered how far The Leading Union Square Clothing Store something to the boy. That night those days wat Andy Cameron Andy back his man had got with the bombs. W here you will find a full line of Men’s, Boy’s and Children’s Clothing. The only store in Houlton that Guarantees every­ proved it. v a t tlm youngoot engineer on the lino. Even as he wondered he saw a yellow thing we sell to give Satisfaction or your Money Back The rim time 1 over raw them to- When the flier pulled in from the flash below the headlight.t Tt was the f-'i Aady, abort ftnd chubby at a west in the afternoon it carried two first topedo. The second section was MY CLOTHIER wet dooring around, half dres- extra sleepers. In all eight Pullmans, already well down the top of the hill. B. S. GREEN ‘/O id , oo tbs roof of tbt bath house, and every one of them loaded to the Could they hold it to the bottom ? ventilators. While the train was *iriQfflBg to got away from Ben, who had Like an answer came shorter and sheets of rain poured on him. Water slowly and so smoothly—up over the comfort to the mother’s lonely heart to changing ^ngines and crews the ex­ HjltjflN Koto below, ploying on him sharper the whistle for brakes. Ben streaming down the track caught his switch and past, over the hill and past feel that somebody else cares for that cursionists swarmed out of the het cars « trio inch ttreomof ice water, thought he knew who was on that en­ feet. A slivered tie tripped him, and, and so to Turner Junction and around which means so much to her. Especi­ to walk up and down the platform. op to tome tort of • prank gine ; thought he knew that whistle, falling headlong, the sharp ballast cut by Oxford to Zanesville. ally we ought not to he too buay to They were from New York and had a >• for engineers whistle as differently as his wrists and knees like broken glass. When the sun rose the earth glowed give and receive kindness in our own band with them— as jolly a crowd as *«** oottUy o roah* month with they talk. He still hoped and believed In desperate haste he dashed ahead in the freshness of its June shower home.” we ever hauled—and I noticed many m m the ooast we caught the — knowing who was on the engine— again. The headlight loomed before bath. The flier, now many miles from May no one be able to say of us that boys and girls sprinkled among the toot and tbe fall im- that the brakes would hold the heavy him like a mountain of flame. There Beverly hill, was speeding toward we are too busy to be kind.—The grown folks. «p| Obioa tllkt. California load, but he feared— was light enough now through the Omaha, and mothers, waking their lit­ Young Woman. As the heavy train pulled slowly out fruit*, and Colorado was A man running up in the rain pas­ sheets of rain that swept down on him, tle ones in the berths, told them how the band played, the women waved ittle ikipmonta. From sed him. Ben shouted and help up his and there ahead, the train almost on close death had passed while they handkerchiefs and the boys shouted STATE OF MAINE. p i ehetp and from Oregon lantern. It was his brakeman. il, was the spitch. slept. The little girls did not quite themselves hoarse. c o r NT Y OF AROOSTOOK, &». IL j$|Nfcrae not merely in oar- “ Who’s pulling Second Seventy-sev­ Could he make it ? understand it, though they tried very Half an hour after the flier left, 77, Taken this lirst day of June, 1907, on an ex- AMM trains, At timer we en ?’’ he cried. A cry from the sleeping children rose hard, and were very grateful to that cution dated May 9, 1997, issued on a judg­ overland traffic the fast stock freight wound like a ment rendered by tiie Supreme .Judicial Court “ Andy Cameron.” in his heart. Another breath, an in­ man, whom they never saw and whom for said County of Aroostook, at a term there- keep us bbtf. On great snake around the bluff after it. “ How many air cars has he got .' ’ i of begun and held at Houlton within and for stant'floundering, a slipping leap, and they would never see. But the little , saitl County, on the third Tuesday of Septem- iw a t movement of Ben Buckley, tall and straight as a “ Six or eight,” shouted Ben. “ It’s lie had it. He pushed the key into boys— they understood it, to the j her 1900, to wit, on the twenty-eighth day of that summer, and pine, stood on the caboose. It was his ! September, 190<i, in favor of the National Fer- the wind, Daly— the wind. Andy can th e lock, threw the switch and snapped youngest urchin on the train, and : tilizer Company, a corporation duly incorpor­ first train, and he looked as if he felt ated under the laws of the State of Connecti­ gpr < trouble* a rate war hold her if anybody can. But the it and, to make deadly sure, braced fifty times their papas had to tell them it cut and having its office and principal place very men, women end wind ; did you ever see such a blow ?’’ himself against the target rod. Then how far Ben ran and how fast to save of business in Bridgeport in said State of the lliaeisaiipi appeared In the evening I got reports of heavy Connecticut, against Fred M. Melville of Even while he spoke the cry for he looked. their lives And one little boy—I Houlton, in said County of Aroostook, for object in life— that was rains east of us, end after 77 reported brakes came a third time on the storm. tlfty-two dollars and seventy-three cent*, No whistling now. It was past that. wish I knew his name— went with his debt or damage, and seventeen dollars and ta and to go over our “ out” of Turner Junction and pulled A frightened Pullman porter opened He knew the fireman would have papa to the depot master at Omaha seven cents, costs of suit, and will be sold at peeeengfcr traffic burdened over the divide toward Beverly it was public auction at the office of Powers «fc Arch­ the rear door of the sleeper. 1 ive jumped. Cameron too : For not Andy, when the flier stopped and gave him ibald, in said Houlton, to the highest bidder the l et degree, storming hard ail along the line. By hundred people lay in the excursion therefor, on the eighth day of July, 1907, at not if the pit yawned in front of his his toy watch and tsked him please to nine o'clock in the forenoon, the following de­ on new men every dty the time they reached the hill Ben had train, unconscious of this avalanche pilot.

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