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NEW BLOOMFIBLD, lJi.M TUESDAY, MAJROI-I IB, 1871).
NO. 12.
THE TIMES.
An Independent Family Newspaper,
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FAINT HEART.
She stood before him, tall and fair
And gracious, ou that sumnier'4 day,
' With June's first roses In her hair,
And on her cheek tho bloom of May.
But rosy cheek, and dimpled chin,
And raven lashes drooping low,
Conceal the answer lie would win :
. It might be Yes ; would it be No t
Ah, If 't were No his throbbing heart
8lood fairly still with sudden pain (
And If 't were Tes, the world so wide
' His deep content could scarce contain.
So wondrous fair I how could she stoop
To favor snch such a one as he T
Ah, sweet suspense that still leaves hopo !
Ah, pain of sad uncertainty !
He held her band so white and small,
And moved to press it with his lips,
But changed his mind, and let it fall,
With chillest tonch of finger tips,
And took the seat sho offered him
Upon the sofa by ber side,
Nor made the space between them less,
Which seemed bo narrow, yet so wide.
Then gazing on the perfect face,
The dimpled mouth, the surious eyes,
And drinking in with eager ears
The music of her low replies,
He let the bright hours dVrft away,
Nor told the secret of his heart,
But when the shadows lengthened lay,
Rose, all reluctant to depart,
And stammered forth with blushing cheek,
An eager, timorous request
That she, for old acquaintance sake,
Wonld grant tho rosebud from her breast.
She gave It him, with downcast eyes,
And watched him leave her, with a sigh,
" So good," she said, " so trnc, so wiso ;
Ah me, if be were not so sby !"
A TERRIBLE RIDE.
I HAD spent a night iu a stage, a day
in a saddle, a night in a sleeping car,
half a day doing bu Milieus, half a day in
bed, and was, after supper, enjoying a
cigar and a newspaper, in the reading
room of the Redwood House, Fayette,
Indiana. The newspaper was uninterest
ing, or else I was rather sleepy and I
guess it was a little of both so that I
soon neglected it, to watch the fantastic
curling of the smoke from my fine-flavored
cigar. I didn't feel much like
talking, and still less like reading ; but
T did feel as if I would like exceedingly
well to hear a good story.
I had barely come to this conclusion,
and commenced wishing for some one
of my acquaintances to amuse me till
the time was up for the train which was
to take me to Indianapolis, when I rec
ognized, in the person who sat next to
me, a 'fellow-traveler in the sleeping-car
of the night before.'
He, too, had laid abide his paper, and
was apparently, like me, watching the
smoke of his cigar, and wishing for ab
sent friends to keep him company.
He was a very agreeable-looking little
man, with a clear, gray eye, light hair,
sandy whiskers, and smiling mouth.
Indeed, he had so much the appearance
of the man that I would like to hear tell
a story, thut I thought Dame Fortune
had smiled upon me, when he recogniz
ed me with a genial, "How d'ye do,
stranger?''
I returned his salutation, and asked
him sorhe common-place questions about
how he had enjoyed the ride wo had to
gether. He said something in reply about the
running being too fast for the poor
track, and from this the conversation
ran upon fust traveliug in general, for
sometime. At ltt I remarked, that
sixty miles an hour was the most speedy
traveling that I had ever done. Where
upon my friend informed me, with a
pleasant but knowing smile, thut he hnd
traveled considerably fnBter than thnt,
and, in fact, fnster than he had ever
heard of, besides.
Of course I wus anxious to know
where, how, and when he hud done It ;
and, after the modest assurance that lie
feared his tale would not be interesting,
my friend relieved my anxiety by re
lating the following story :
" I am a railroad engineer. Away
along in fifty-seven, during the great
pnnlo, I was running on the F. & C. It.
R. The railroad companies were going
under, in all directions. Every dny we
heard of new failures ; and quite often in
a quarter where we least expected it.
Our road was generally looked upon as
one of the most substantial in the na
tion ; nobody seemed to have any fears
that it would fail to survive the general
mash-up. But yet I did not fully share
In the general confidence. Wages were
cut down ; arrearages collected ; and a
great many other little matters seemed to
Indicate to me that the road had got
into, rather deeper water than was
agreeable ull around.
" Among other things, the muster
mechanic had told me in the spring that
the company had ordered four first qual
ity Taunton engines for the fall passen
ger business. The road was put In the
very best condition, and other prepara
tions were made to cut down the time,
and put the trains through quicker than
was ever known before, when the new
engines should come. Well, there was
but one of the engines came.
" I said there was but one engine
came; but she was, in my opinion, al
together the best ever turned out of the
Taunton Works ; and that is saying as
much as can be said in praise of any en
gine. She was put in my charge im
mediately, with the understanding that
she was mine.
" It was Saturday when she came out
of the shop, and I was to take a special
train up to Y . The train was to
carry up the president and several of
the officers of the road, to meet somo of
ficers of another road, which crossed
ours there, and arrange some important
business with them.
" I had no trouble at all in making
my sixty miles an hour going out. The
engine handled herself most beautifully.
We were just holding up at Y ,
when Aldrich, tho treasurer, who had
come out on the platform to put the
brake on, slipped and fell. As we were
yet under good headway, he was very
much injured, .and was carried off to the
hotel insensible.
"According to the president's direc
tions, I switched oft' my tralu, turned
my engine, and Btood ready to start back
to C at a moment's notice.
" Aldrich 'a presence was of so much
importance that the business could not
be transacted without him-; so all those
I had brought out, except the president
and Aldrich, went back to C on
the three o'clock express train. This
was the last regular train which was to
pass over the road until the next Mon
day. " Early in tho evening I left the ma
chine in charge of my fireman, and
went over to an eating-house, to see if I
could not spend the time more pleasant
ly than on my engine. The hours drag,
ged themselves away slowly. I was
playing a game of dominoes with the
station agent, when in came Roberts,
the president, in a state of great excite
ment. ,
" ' Harry,' said he to me, ' I want you
to put me down in C at twelve
o'clock.' j
" As it was nearly eleven o'clock then,
and the distance was seventy-five miles,
I thought he was joking at first ; but
when we got outside the door,he caught
me by the arm, and hurried me along
so fast that I saw he was in earnest.
" 'Harry,' said he, 'if you don't set me
dowu in C by twelve o'clock, I'm
a ruined man, and this' road is a ruin
ed road. Aldrich is dead ; but he told
me, before he died, that he had embez
zled from time to time, five hundred
thousand of our money ; aud his clerk
is to start with it, on the twelve o'clock
train for Canada. If we don't have the
money on Monday morning, to make
some payments with, the road goes into
other hands ; and if you put me In C
at the right time, so that I save the
money, you shall have five thousand
dollars. Understand it, Harry ? Five
thousand dollars.'
"Of course I understood It. I saw
now the renson why the wages had been
cut down ; I understood it all, and my
blood boiled. I felt that I would save
the rond If I lived, aud told Mr. Koberts
so.
" ' Bee that you do it, 1 larry,' ho re
plied, as he climbed upon the step of
the coach which, whs coupled to my
engine.
" I sprung up into the foot-board of
my engine, got up the switch-tender to
help my fireman, opened the throttle,
and just as she commenced moving,
looked at my watch It was just eleven
o'clock, so that I had one hour to make
my seventy-five miles in.
" From T to C there were few
curves ou the road; but there were sev
eral heavy grudes. I wus perfectly ac
quainted with every rod of it: so that
1 knew exactly what I hud to encoun
ter; and when I saw how the engine
moved, I felt very little fear for the re
sult. " The road, for the first miles, was an
alr-llne, and so smooth that my engine
flew along with scarcely a perceptible
jar. I was so busy, posting myself up,
as to the amount of wood and water
aboard, etc., thut we dunced by the first
station before I was aware of It, having
been five minutes out, aud having five
miles accomplished.
" You are losing time !' yelled a voice
from the coach. I looked around, and
there stood Koberts with his watch iu
his hand.
"I knew very well, that we would
have to Increase our speed by some
means, if we carried out our plans of
reaching C by midnight, and looked
around, to see what I could do to ac
complish that purpose. She was blow
ing off steam fiercely at one hundred
and ten pounds; so I turned down the
valve to hundred and ten pounds, for I
knew we would need it all to make some
of the heavy grades which lay between
us and C .
" It was three miles to the next sta
tion. With tho exception of a few
curves, the track was as good as the last.
As we durted around what commonly
seemed to be a rather long curve, at the
station, but which was, at our high
speed, short enough, I looked at my
watch ; and we had done it in two min
utes and a half.
" Gaining,' I shouted back to Koberts,
who was yet standing on the plutforui
of the coach.
" ' Look out for the heavy grades,' he
replied, and went insldo the car. ,
" The next six miles rose gradually
from a level the first, to ten and a half
feet grade the last, which lay between
us and the next station. My fireman
kept her full ; and now she began to get
hot. The furnace door was red, and
the steam raised continually ; so that
she kept her speed, and passed the sta
tion, like a streak of light, in five min
utes. " Now came nine miles like the lust ;
over which she kept pace with her time
and passed the station in seven und a
half minutes.
" Here, for ten miles, we had a twen-ty-foot
grade to enoounter, but the worst
of it all was, at this place we would be
obliged to stop for wood. I was just go
ing to speak to Koberts about It, when I
looked around aud saw him filling the
tender from the coach with wood which
had been placed there before starting,
while he was gone after me.
" I believe we would have made this
ten miles with the same speed as before ;
but, through the carelessness of the
firemen, the fouutain-valve, on the left
hand side of the engine, got opened, and
the water rose lu the boiler so fast as to
run the steam down to one hundred
pounds, before I discovered where the
difficulty lay.
" At first, Koberts didn't appear to
notice the decrease of speed, and kept ut
work at the wood as if for dear life.
Hut, presently, he looked up ; and, see
ing that the speed had decreased, he
shouted :
"Harry, we are stopping 1" aud then
coming over to where I was, he said:
" Why, here we have been ten minutes
on the lust ten miles, and I believe that
we will come to a dead stand-still if
something it not done. The speed is
continually slacking. What Is the mat
ter V"
" I explained the cause. He was ap
parently satlsfU-l with my explanation,
ttiid, after having tied down the safety
valve, he climbed nek over the tender,
exhorting me to V at her through, for
God's sake, or wti are all beggars to
gether 1'
"Just then wo passed the next sta
tion, having taken nine minutes for
eight mites. We were now more thau
half over the road ; but we had lost
nearly ten minutes' time, and had left
only twenty-seven minutes to do thirty
four miles in. '
" I had stmt the water off from both
my pumps, a little distance back, when
I discovered what was the matter, and
she was now making steam finely dowu
a slight grade. From less than one
hundred, with which we started over
the ten-mile stretch, she had two hun
dred pounds before we finished it; and,
as the gauge indicated uo higher no
higher than that, and the valve was tied
down, I could not tell ' how much over
two hundred pounds she carried, but
she certainly carried none less the rest
of the Jouruey. And well might she
carry such on enormous head of steam :
for, after passing over that ten miles In
eight minutes, there lay ten miles of
five-feet up-grade, and fourteen miles of
twentv-feet-to-the-mile depression be
tween us and C , and it was now
eleven o'clock und forty-seven min
utes. " Now the engine was hot in eurnest.
The furnace door, smoke arch, and
chimney, all were red; while she seem
ed to fly onward as If the very Evil One
himself operated her machinery.
"Six minutes carried us over that
ten miles; and we darted by the last
station that bad lain between us and
C 1 . Now we had fourteen miles
to go, and my time showed 11 o'clock
and G3 minutes.
'" If I live,' said I to myself, I will
make it.' And we plunged down that
twen ty-foot grade with all steam on.
Persons who saw the train on that wild
run, said that it was so soon after they
heard the first sound of her approach,
when the strange object, which looked
as if it was a flame of fire, darted by,
and then the sound of its traveling died
away in the distance, that they could
hardly convince themselves they had
really seen anything. It seemed more
like the creature of a wild dream than, a
sober reality.
" And now let me tell you, that no
engine ever beat the time ws made on
fourteen miles. Those great wheels, 7
feet in diameter, spun around so swift
that you couldn't begin to count the
revolutions. The engine barely seemed
to touch the track as she flew along :
aud although the track was as true as it
was possible for it to be, she swayed
fearfully, and sometimes made such
prodigious Jolts that it required con
siderable skill for one to keep his feet.
No engine could hold together If crowd
ed to a greater speed.
' "Well, just as I came to a stand-still
lu the depot at C the big clock
boomed out twelve, and the steamboat
was getting her steam on. Koberts got
on board in time and nothing to spare."
" And he saved the money, did he 1"'
I asked, when I saw that my friend had
finished his story.
" Yes ; he found it hid away in some
old boxes as Aldrich had directed him."
" If you are the passenger for G ,"
said a waiter, " tho ' bus' is ready."
So I thanked my friend for his story,
and bade him " good-by.,'
A Juryman's Grievance.
"w
KL.li, gentlemen, have you de-
asked a Judge in San Francisco, the
other day, as the Jury returned to the
box.
" Did' I understand that the prisoner's
name was Severance,!'. K. Severance V"
asked the foreman, gloomily.
" It is."
" Then we bring in u verdict of mur
der in the first degree," and the fore
man rubbed his hands with an expres
sion of horrible satisfaction.
" But this isn't a murder case," said
the astonished Judge, " this is an ac
tion to recover insurance. What on
earth do you mean V"
" Don't make any difference," growl
ed the foreman. " My name is Sever-
ance, too T. H. Severance and for the
last four years some unprincipled wretch
of the same surname has had his wash
ing done at the laundry 1 patronize.
The result is that every now and then
I find some of my silk embroidered
handkerchief aud four dollar shirts gone
and in place of them about the worst
looking lot of old rags on record
things mixed, you see."
"Well, but"
" I know what you are going to say,
but that ain't the point. The other;
Severance, always takes back the things
of his I return. Oh I yes; but he freezes
on to my garments like a mud turtle to
a worm-"
" Notwithstanding which"
" I wouldn't arainded it so much, but
the cold-blooded appropriator always
keeps posted as to when I change my'
Chinaman, and the next week follows
with his wash too. Why, I've been
clear round to all the wash-houses in
the city six times already this fellow
after me like a sleuth hound."
"Really, Mr. Foreman, this is all
very well, but"
" I even went so far, your honor, as
to change my name actually had all
my underclothes marked Gungleburg
Julius G. G. Gungleberg just think of
It but what did this wretch do but find
it out, and change hls'n, and before I
knew it he had gathered in six more of
my brand new shirts and a set of po-
jamas. It's no use recommending him
to mercy. I've explained the whole
thing to the jury, and they all agree he
ought to be hanged before sunrise to
morrow, If the Sheriff can fix thinga on
time," and there was a universal roar of
Indignation from sympathetic specta
tors as the Judge ordered a new trial,
and put the foreman under heavy bonds
to keep the peace.
Carried Her Point.
San Francisco has witnessed a scene
which bus created much fun, but more
profanity in every post-office in the U.
8. " A female argonaut of fearful vi
tality," we read in the San Francisco
" Bulletin," "a tall and extremely ugly
female called at the post-office, tendered
ninety-nine coppers to the urbane clerk
and asked in lieu thereof three cent
stamps. The official remarked that he.
could only receive four coppers as a le
gal tender, and at the expense of a deal
of precious time endeavored to convince
the young lady that he was guided by
certain rules, and had no latitude in the
mutter,
" She waned wroth, and remarked
that when, in the course of human
events, United States coin was to be re
fused by a United States official, she
thought her forefathers had died in
vaiu, and she considered it her duty to
bring the government to account.
"Then she paced the corridor, of the
post-office until she had made thirty
three separate tenders of the coppers
and obtained thirty-three three-cent
stamps. During her transactions with
the clerk she gave him much unsolic
ited advice, and otherwise contributed to
enjoyment of a little knot of spectators.
The clerk acted the gentleman throughout."
O Mark Train visited Nlaglra and
was sadly troubled at the various signs
he saw posted up. He says : " To tell
the plain truth, the mulltude of signs
annoyed me. It was because I noticed
at last that they always happened to
prohibit exactly the very thing I was
just wanting to do. I desired to roll
on the grass ; the signs prohibited it I
longed to smoke ; the sign prohibited it.
And I was just iu the uct of throwing a
stone over to astonish and pulverize
such parties as might be plcniclng be
low, when a sign I have just mentioned
forbade that. Even that satisfaction 'was
denied me (and I a friendless orphan).
There was no resoun-i now but to seek
consolation in the flowing bowl. I drew
my fla,sk from my pocket, but it was all
In vain. A sign confronted me, and
said :
"' No drinking allowed on the prem
ises.' " On that spot I might have perished
of thirst but for the saving words of an
honored maxim that flitted through my
memory at that critical moment. " All
signs full in a dry time." Common law
takes precedence of the statutes. I wan
mved.