£ Now,
ted cld eck the sky—
ues, in varied colors wrought,
wake my thought, attract my eye.
That hand has laid those colors there?
What mind conceived the grand design?
Ah, yes; 'tis He who framed the world-—
'Tis He, my father’s God—and mine.
He dipped His pencil in the sun,
And painted on the piled-up cloud,
And wrought out for the dying day
No somber, but a glorious shrtud.
The evening shadow falling fast,
Gather the colors Re has given—
Emblem of light along the way
That leads from earth, through death, to
Heaven.
Aye! on life’s gathering field of clouds
He paints with Heaven's sunlisht falr
A shroud of peace for death's dreamland--
Yet robes as bright as angels wear.
So when the evening's shadows fall,
And tell the end of toil and care—
May all our clouds be tinged with light—
Qur robes be bright as angels wear. i
—Rev. A. H. Sembower, in Baptist Union. |
The Freight Crew
That Stole a Jail
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Ways 3 <ruel and re-
‘aging between the
ailroad company and”
of Manikee.
Wiikee was a small town, but it
dig not know it. In its own estima-
tion Manikee was a metropolis, and it
pained Manikee that the C. J. & I. K.
railroad had not recognized that fact.
Manikee felt certain that the C. J.
& I. K. railroad owed most of its
prosperity to the fact that Manikee
was on the line. Yet the railroad
seemed singularly unmindful of all
that it owed to Manikee.
Several things had happened to
widen the growing breach between
the town and the railroad. One of
the things that hurt Manikee most
was the running of the St. Louis can-
nonball express through the town at
the rate of about a mile a minute.
1f the people of Manikee wanted to
go to St. Louis on this particular
train they had to drive six miles
south to a town named Hamptonville,
the hated rival of Manikee.
Manikee had wailed loudly over
what it called the unjust discrimina-
tion of the railroad company, and
the company had sent a man all the
way from St. Louis to explain to
Manikee that the reason the train
stopped at Hamptonville was because
there was another railroad there
which crossed the C. J. & FF. K. at
grade, and, therefore, both roads were
compelled by the state law to bring
their trains to a dead stop at the
junction.
But Manikee refused to accept the
apology. The express stopped at
Hamptonville, and therefore, it ought
to stop at Manikee.
To be sure, there were hardly three
persons a week who would have
boarded the train at Manikee ig it
had stopped there. and one of se
' to take the places of the men being
"of weeks, as it was not more than 12
a teat
a Srahonan or connector at a time |
when the justice of the peace could
not be found at his office or in his
house, so that the railroad men would ,
have to be confined in the calaboose |
until the magistrate returned.
One night three bhrakemen were ar-
rested for keeping the crossing |
closed for four minutes. The agent
piteously protested that the freight
train could not be delayed, but the
president of the town board was re-
lentless, and the three men were
locked up, and the freight train had
to wait on the side track until a
crew could be sent down from Hillton
held in durance vile.
The three brakemen did not remain
in jail quite as long as the jubilant eiti-
zens of Manikee thought they would
The brakemen got tired of staying in
the calaboose about midnight, so they
broke down the door and went away on
! the midnight passenger train.
After that it was hard to keep the
railroad men in the calaboose. They
had a way of breaking down the door
or tearing the bars out of the chim-
ney that was discouraging.
Finally the town of Manikee voted
money to build a new calaboose with.
Tt wasn’t to be large, but it was to be
tighter than a drum, and so construct-
ed that there would be no breaking
out of it. It was built within a couple
feet long by about ten wide.
jut it was made of heavy timber and
the door was of wak that would have
defied an ax to chop it down. There
was one little window near the roof
not more than six inches wide and
about two feet long, so that even if the
iron bars were pulled out it would be
impossible for the slimest brakeman
on the C.J. & F. K. railroad to squeeze
himself through.
“Now, gul darn ye,” said Marshal
Salters, as he shoved Conductor Tom
Donovan and Brakeman Jim Rodgers
into the hot little hole, “I'll guess ye
won't break out of that in a hurry.”
“Good heavens,” said Jim, as he sat
perspiring in the mean little calaboose,
“T would sooner be shut up in a smoke-
house. If this is what we're going to
get as a regular thing in this town I
think I’ hunt another job.”
“It's pretty tough,” said the con-
duetor, “but the worst part of it is
that we will both be fined about $20
apiece to-morrow, and we'll have to pay
it. The company has had so much to
pay out in this town, and has had so
much trouble with these people, that
strict orders have been given the train
crews to avoid any unnecessary col-
lision with their blue laws here, and
the old man farther says that when_
any of us are clearly proven to have
kept that blessed crossing closed long-
er than the time allowed, why, we'll
have to pay the fine ourselves, that’s
all. And you know I did keep that
crossing closed about six minutes to-
night. I thought that old tin-starred
marshal was at his supper, where he
belonged.”
“Well,” said the brakeman, “I guess
we're up against it, but the worst part
of this business is to think of the boys
sweltering in this bake oven in sum-
mer. What train is that whistling?
Guess it must/be the wrecking train
at’s been D to put those |
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He—Women are a delusion and a
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She—It is curious how people will
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Money for Her,
Mr. Gull—I dreamed the other night
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Fortune Teller—Ah! that means
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Fortune Teller—Yes, indeed. One
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Her Plan,
Mrs. Smith—But do you manage to
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Mrs. Jones—Oh, I let her have her
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Life.
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“Does your daughter
natatorium?”’
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Silicus—Woman is a riddle.
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Cynicus—And yet we would rather
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Philadelphia Record.
She |
The Innocent Condemned.
Many an innocent man is con-
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Daily News.
Good and Bad Thuader,
Winter thunder is considered
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omen. But April thunder is considered
be very beneficial.
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