Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 7, 1914, Page 2

TNE SCUUNDREL ! .= AND | NAYE JUST FOR~ THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY, whom we represent in this temitory, desires to secure the name, and if possible, the manufacturers® number, of every square piano and patlor organ in this vicinity and offers to each person giving the name or number of each such instrument together with the name of the owner (entirely without cost or obligation) . + S i - Wiy, either one orthe other of the pop- ular Song Books here shown. . Give us this information in_ per;onjt’e our_store, or if “unable to call, mail to us and we"will forward your“pame~ to the office of the company and you will receive one of * these books without delay. z r e ; Be sure to name the book desired. Each contains _ about 50 popular melodies arranged for the piano. KIMBROUGH' SUPPLY COMPANY. Lakeland, Fla. DISTRIBUTORS FOR SOUTH FLOR- IDA DI LOSOLOIOPVSOBOEH GBS Phone 46 THE ELECTRIC STORE 307 E. Main St. POEOPOPOG T Buy Your Electric Lights FROM US AND SAVE MONEY Your Monthly Light Bills Florida Electric and Machinery Co. & PIMON TEMBY THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., NOV. 7, 1914. SIVE /IE THAT BAT yoU 3car, ! oreIeToOOTOTOTOTOTOT OO LEAP OF OLD 637 By EMMET F. HARTE. L 2ol D Dot B BT Bt B 2eX 2 2o 21 3 Half an hour before train time, I passed through the gate and sat on a baggage-truck| near the iron| fence in the Ninth [ 2~ 21 2-% 2. 3 e : engine! and Broadway streets station, Louigville. The train nearest me —eight electric- ! lighted palaces, besides mail and baggage-cars, drawn by a 100 ton racer—was the one by which 1 should depart. I became aware of a small, gray man sauntering ! along by the big engine—a grizzled, | stocky figure of a man with a slight | roll in his stride, seemingly engrossed | in his own thoughts. He passed along, stopped, examined her outlines with | an admiring eye, patted her ponderous cylinder as one might pet a child, and ' { 8tood listening to the purr of her steam. Presently he noticed me, and strolled over to {he truck. : Ain't she a beauty?” he queried, Jerking his thumb in the direction of the engine. I remarked that he must have leaned from a cab in his time, and he nodded | with some pride. “Yes,” he sald. “I wrestled the re- verse-lever and eased the steam into the cylinders on one of them for 18 years. Not a big girl like that ono.' though; there wasn’t any like her in my day—I quit in '86.” He relapsed into silence, and I I waited. “Excuse me,” I said finally, am waiting for you to tell me it.” “About what?” he asked. “Well, about—your most thrilling [ experience!” I said. ' “Never had any thrills,” he said | “Used to have lots of hard work and plenty of wrecks and very little pay; but thrills, as you call them, we didn't pay much attention to. “We rarely ever got from one end of the division to another without go- | ing in the ditch. “One time we got into West Point about midnight, and the river was out in the bottoms. There used to be an old wooden drawbridge across the Salt there that was built like a culvert— nothing above the stringers but ties and rails, not even a hand-rail. “The Ohio was backed up in the Salt, chock-full, and there wasn't any bridge in sight—just black, lapping water. Old man Morrison and me went down and set sticks to see how fast he was rising, and she was crawling pretty fast. “‘What'll we do? said the old man. **‘Cross her, if the bridge is there, I said; and we all climbed on, and I let 637 walk out on that bridge mighty slow and careful, with the crew ready to plle off if she dropped. Tbe bridge “but I about water, and we got across. “Old 637! There was a good old She knew just as well as a horse or dog knows their masters, and she never went back on me.” “How did I happen to quit? See these gray hairs? I reckon I got most of them one night on old Muldraugh’s hill, “You know how the old line winds in and around that old knob and all those old wooden trestles. There used to be nine of them trestles—some away up in the air, too—built on short curves; one had a reverse curve in the trestle itself, DA MARBES A Run ¥ | wa@ there, all right, four Inches under “I was pulling a local freight that ' year, and we had quite a bit of busi- ness hauling dried apples, tobacco, sorghum, and such like, and we never had any schedule except to start out on—we got back when we could. “It was about seven o’'clock of a summer evening, quiet and peaceful, the fireman standing in the gangway enjoying the breeze; everybody feeling comfortable. “Down around the hill we bowled, over the trestles, and around the rocky points, I was thinking about supper and a smoke on my back porch at home when we came out of a short curve in a shallow cut and out onto one of those hundred-foot high bridges, and my breath stopped. About the middle, the bridge was burned in two. “It took me & second to pull a screech for brakes. The fireman jumped before we had hardly left the embankment, and wasn't hurt. The rest of the crew got off, “As for me and 637, we were out in the air; behind us, a loaded train shoving too hard to be stopped; be- fore us, a gap in the trestle, where for three or four feet everything was gone but the rails. When I saw how it stood, I got up and threw her into the forward like a maniac—I guess I was crazy. “Then I gave her steam, and we jerked away from the train like a horse when you cut it with the whip. Then, when we reached the gap, I pulled her wide open, and she took it like a hunted deer. She shivered one instant, settled, and sunk—then she rose and leaped, sir, she leaped across, and we went out on the firm track beyond. “The rest of the train went through, the box cars dropping and crashing, end over end, to the valley below, and the farmers used them for kin- dling wood afterward. “1 took my engine in and resigned. I haven't been in a cab since.” B I Sy In Practice. “A man should follow a determined course regardless of criticism,” said the resolute idealist. “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne; *“but 80 many of you are that way only when you waltz!” — Selvages Still Apparent. When the dressmakers first began to leave selvage edges exposed at the bottom of skirts and draperies, and at any conceivable point on the bodice, there were exclamations of amaze- ment. But the freedom that this use allows, the grace and suppleness it gives to the fabrics, have more than Justified it. It is still used in the Same way in the new models, ! S—— e HOW ABOUT YOUR EVEs Why suffer with heada nervousss, pain in and the eyes when all such bles can be relieved * special ground lenses. We make a speciality c:fl such work. Come in and £ your eyes examined and %% out what your troubles an | COLE & HUL Jewelers & Optometrist | 112 Kentucky Ave. Phone . Lakeland, Florida ‘ We handle only fresh, clej goods and we keep a full lif of Fresh Meats, Including Nice Steaks, Roasts, Chops, Breakfast Ba Hams, Brains, Chickens, etc, Vegetabiesd Our Specialty. we Keep Fresh Fruit, d anything in Can Goods that you may sl inciuding Vegetables, Soaps, etc. ..Is to buy your goods where You can get the most for the & That place is the grocery of . 6. TWEEDEL PHONE 59