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AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. Vol. 47. Houlton, Maine December, 26, 1906. No. 1. You needn’t send Batholomew out on The Million-Dollar Freight Train. my account.” “Give him a slow schedule, ami 1 11 give him orders to jump early ; that's By Frank H. Spearman. all we can do. If the strikers don’t -"3 ditch him, he’ll get through somehow.” FO X BRO S It stuck in my crop—the idea of The Story of a Young Engineer on His First Run. putting that boy on a pilot engine to GREAT SALE OF take all the dangers ahead of that It v u the second month <»f the When I went over to the round-house particular train ; but I had a good Trtrike, and not * pound of freight had and told Neighbor the decision, he said deal else to think of besides. From J. H. BISHOP CO. Im»d moved. Thing* did look smoky never a word ; but lie looked a great the minute the silk got into the Mc­ deal Neighbor’s task was to supply fm the Weat End. The General Super­ Cloud yards, we posted double guards the motive power. All that we had, CELEBRATED FUR COATS intendent happened to he with uh when around. Adout twelve o’clock that uncrippled, was in the passengei ser­ the newt earn*. “ Too can’t handle it, night we held a council of war, which vice, becouse passengers should be hoy.” Mid ho nervously.. 4,What ended in onr running the tra;n info the taken care of IFst of all. In order to you’d bettor do it to turn it over to the out freight house. The result was M. Thibet, Buffalo, Cub Bear, win a strike, you must have public IMumM ui Ihtfftfa.” that by morning we had a new train *8Sr* Natural Mongolian, Marten, opinion on your nide. tvacting flig h t agent on the made up. It consisted of fourteen KM “ Nevertheless, Neighbor,” si id I, Grizzly Bear, Wombat, Oooat at that time was a fellow ao refrigerator cars loaded with oranges after we had talked a while, ‘we must tltntio that ho was nicknamed “ Crazy- which had come in mysteriously the Raccoon and Fur Lined Coats. move the silk also.” hotso” Right in the midst of the night before. It was announced that Neighbor studied ; then he roared at d w Cnaj-hun* wired that he hed the silk would be held for the present eon his foreman. “ Send Bartholomew silk shipment for New and the oranges rushed thtough at Mullen here.” He spoke with a Now is the time Wo wore paralysed. We had once. Bright anil early the refrigera­ decision that made me think the busi .(to firemen, and no motive tor train was run down to the ice­ to save dollars. ness was done. I had never happened, ^ttp opoak of. The strikers were houses, and twenty men were put to our men, wrecking our it is true, to hear of Bartholomew woik icing the oranges. At seven Mullen in the department of motive p i i gM ag us the worst of it o’clock, McCurdy pulled in the local F O X BR O S., k», when we couldn’t power ; but the impression the name passenger with engine 10.5. Our plan gave me was of a monstrous fellow, M fctnt, Why the fellow dis- was to cancel the local ami run him hi« activity at that particulai big as Neighbor, or old man Sankey, right out with the oranges. When he Aroostook’s Greatest or Dad Hamilton “ I’ll put Barthol­ • *n remains s mystery got it, he reported that the 105 had omew ahead of it,” said Neighbor 'J'4 hoWd a grudge against the sprung a tire ; this threw us out en­ Clothiers, hatters tightly. set ho took an artful revenge, tirely. There was a hurried confer- I saw a boy walk into the office. a.V- and Furnishers. bn the aystem with ordinary euce in the round-house. “ Mr. Garten said you wanted me, sir," |M know that our struggle “ What can you de ?” asked the HOUI/l'ON, PRESQUE ISLE, CARIBOU- said he, addressing the Master Me­ Roan of freight business Superintendent in desperation. -rid of our strike. Any- chanic. “ There’s only one thing I can do “ I do, Bartholomew,” responded m pOfiehable was espe- Put Batholomew Mullen on it with the Neighbor ■ &■’ * But the stuff was 44, and put McCurdy to hed for und fendod, and consigned in The figure in my mind’s eye shrunk Number Two to-night,” responded frigerators to confuse tlie strikers. J torrent slowly. But losing her balance, instantly. “ We’ve got this silk on & befbro wo know it. Aftei in a twinkling. Then it occurred to Neighbor. The great risk was that they would j the 44 kicked her heels into the air our hands now, and I’d move it if it }, a refusal to earry i t . would be me that it must be this boy’s father We were running first in first out : try to ditch us. ; like lightning, and shot with a fright- tied up every passenger train on the tit white flag; and that who was wanted. but we took care always to have I was watching the track as a mouse jened wheeze plump into the creek, division. If we can get the stuff k wUoh never yet flew “ You have been begging for a chance somebody for One and Two who at least would a cat, looking every minute for dragging her engineer with her. through, it will practically beat the Weal End. to take out an engine, Bartholomew,” knew an injector from an air-pump. trouble. We cleared the gumbo cut l he head car stopped on the hank, 8trike. If we fail, it will beat the ^iW ilceer to the Columbian,” began Neighbor coldly ; and I knew It was eight o’clock. I looked into west of the Beaver at a pretty good Running across’the track, I looked for company.” ita General Superintendent; but it was on. the locomotive stalls. The first—the Bartholomew. He wasn’t there; I By the time we had backed to * Buptrintondont; was not “ Yea, sir.” clip, in order to make the grade on the only—man in sight was Bartholomew other side. The bridge there is hidden knew he must have gone down with Newhall Junction, Neighbor had made lo our division. He “You want to get killed, Barthol­ Mullen. He was very busy polishing in summer by a grove of haek-berries. his engine. Throwing off my gloves, up his mind my way. Mullen and 1 Mnd, Our head was s omew.” the 44. He had good steam on her, I had just nulled open to cool her a 1 dived, just as I stood, (dose to the climbed iuto the 109, and Foley, with he guv* tone to every man Batholomew smiled as if the idea and the old tub was wheezing away as ^ w ien I noticed how high the hack-! tender, which hung half submerged, I** Mm. “ No,” he thundered, was not altogether displeasing. the 2 lb, and none too good a grace, if she had the asthma. The 44 was water was on each side of the track. ; I am a good bit of a fish unde, water, down his fist. “ Not in a “ How would you like to go pilot to­ coupled on to the silk, and flying red old ; she was homely ; she was rickety; Suddenly I felt the fill going soft under j but no self-respecting fish would be signals, we started again for Zanesville t*, Jjpiwaad years. We’ll move it our- morrow for McCurdy ? You to take the but Bartholomew Mullen wiped her the drivers; felt the 11 wobble and j caught in that yellow mud. I realized, over the river division. % IWire Montgomery [the Uener- 44 and run as first Seventy-eight. battered nose as deferentially as if she slew. Batholomew shut off hard, and j too, the instant I struck the water, Mjjf^llaoagci]• hat we will take care of McCurdy will run as second Seventy- Foley was always full of mischief. had been a spickspan, spider-driver, threw the air as I sprang to the win- | that I should have dived on the np- '|tf • And wire him to fire Cra/.y-horse— eight ” He had a better engine than ours, and th' tail-truck mail-racer. She wasn’t much dow. Tin* peaceful little creek ahead , stream side. The current took me AMMo do it right off ” And before “ 1 know I could run an engine all he took great satisfaction the rest of the 4 ' —the 44. But in those days Barthol­ looked as angiy as the Ulatte in April) away whirling; when I came up for jf i ' was' turned over to us Crszy- right," ventured Bartholomew, as if afternoon in crowding us. Every mile omew wasn’t mu oh : and the 44 was water, and the bottoms were a lake. j air, I was fifty feet below the pier, I ! ; Immo was lrolritg for another job. It Neighbor were the only one taking the of the way he was on our heels. I was Bartholomew’s. Somew here up the valley there had j scrambled out, feeling it was all up . v |a the only ease on record where s chances in giving him an engine. “ I throwing the coal, and have reason to “ How is she steaming, Bartholo- been a cloudburst, for overhead the sun with Bartholomew ; but to my amaze- Aeight bustler was discharged for know the track from here to Zanesville.

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