Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 6, 1915, Page 6

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(Copyright.) “These stories of holdups and train robberies,” said Monk, “always re- mind me of an actress who has been robbed of her glittering glassware. You never heard of anyone doing much on the proceeds of historic highway- ing, and the man who attempts to hold up a modern express train, may get away with the goods, but eventually the sheriff puts him on his visiting list.” “Right you are,” replied the pug- nosed brakeman. “It takes nerve to hold up a train, but it takes more than nerve to pull the trick off successfully and retire on the proceeds. The men who possess all the qualifications req- uisite for such jobs generally land a sinecure behind the frosted-glass par- tition.” “Now you're talking classical Eng- lish,” commented Monk, “and ex- pressing clarified thought in capsule form. I never knew but one man to pull off a holdup successfully, and then obliterate himself from the sur- roundings. “It happened down South, where at ! one time the railroads were noted for their lack of speed, and where it was impossible to miss a train. All you had to do, if your train had left the station, was to follow it on foot, and you couldn’t miss it unless you over-l looked it or mistook its creeping for the inertia of a side-tracked section.” “Yes,” commented the pug-nosed brakeman, “I knew of a man down there who brought suit against the S. L. O. road to recover for damages sus- tained in bumping into the rear end of the moonlight limited while walking along the track. “The company tried to non-suit him by bringing a counter-charge of tres- pass; but his lawyer threatened to at- tack the validity of their charter onl the ground that they could not prove | that they were running trains, and they withdrew their charge. “The plaintiff won his suit, and the packiig W8~ IT5 thé Tab, and ordered uu engineer to start up. “‘Say,’ queried the engineer, with his hand on the throttle, ‘aren’t you going to ride? “‘No,’ replied the mountaineer, ‘I hain’t never been on one of those pesky things, an’ I ain't going to take no chances. to run away from me, or I'll plug you | full of lead!’ “The engineer started up, and the highland holdup man had no trouble keeping up with us. The queer proces- | sion proceeded for several miles, then we came to a place where a track branched off from the main line into the heart of the wilderness. Here he brought the engine to a stop by point- ing his gun at the engineer and shout- ing, ‘Whoa!" “‘Now, you-all git down and move the track over so we can go up this ‘ere way,’ he commanded, addressing the man-of-all-work. “That worthy lost no time in climb- I guess I can hoof it and | keep up to you; but don’t you-all tryl on display. FISHING 1S FINE! Fish are plentiful, and nothing is better sport than catching a big string of or better yet, in Our Spring Stock Perch, landing a big Trout! of Tackle has just been placed Look it over. Some New Minnows that Trout CAN'T RESIST Reels ing down and throwing the switch, and | we moved along the old unused track. ! “‘What the nation does that elon- gated outlaw want to run us up this old lumber line for?" growled the en- gineer. ‘There hasn't been a train along here since the road stopped tak- ing out timber.’ “‘Say, you train robber!’ shouted ! the man-of-all-work, addressing the patriarchal pirate in his most courtly manner, ‘will you kindly inform us whither we are going and why, and what is our doom.’ “‘You-all "Il find out soon enough,’ he answered. ‘Shut up!’ “We proceeded for about three miles, and then the grizzled guerrilla commanded the engineer to stop. He told the fireman to fix his fires so they would last for a couple of hours. When everything was ready he lined us up in single file, with the lanky coon dog in the lead, and made us precede him along a path in the wilderness. In about fifteen minutes we came to a cabin in a clearing. In answer to a whistle from our captor, a woman ap- peared at the door. “‘Mandy,’ he said, ‘I've brought com- pany for dinner. Rustle around lively. These gents is in a hurry.” “In short time the meal was ready, company was ordered to upholster the rear end of their trains to prevent a repetition of such accidents.” “Well, to get back to the holdup,” said Monk, “I was touring the South, some years back, and at this partic- ular time my objective point was Boonville. As I had lots of leisure, 1 decided to make the trip by rail. “I caught up to a freight bound for that point, and, sauntering up to it, I swung myself aboard the caboose and proceedcd to accord mysel: with a cor- dial welcome. I took possession of the lower bunk without waiting for the porter to appear, and was soon in the land of dreams. “I was awakened by the crew, who had come back to see if the rear end was all right. He asked me what the Stonewall Jackson I meant by intrud- ing, and volunteered to punch my ticket or my head without fear or favor. “I hypnotized him by making a few occult passes, and he 'nd.d me the cordial entente. It v protty good stull, even though it was tax free and did not bear the pure-food guaranty.” “If you will pardon the interrup- tion,” said the pug-nosed brakeman, “I want to pay tribute to the railroads of the South. The southern spirit of | hospltality is not dead, and the Ches- terfields of the rail will give you the glad welcome or the G. BB. with all thal grace born of hercdity and long prac- | tice. They will fire you from a truin! in such courtly manner that you feel like apologizing for giving them the trouble.” “Your prognostication coincides with my observation,” commented Monk. “This Chesterfleld of the caboose told me we were approaching Hog mountain, a moonshiners’ stronghold, noted for its reluctance to contribute to the revenues of the government and for the weirdness and grandeur of its scenery. “He said he had to go back to the engine and tend to his fire, and he ad- vised me to take a seat in the observa- tory of the caboose and enjoy the | Phantasorama. “I took his advice, and found that we were traveling up into the moun- tain, and that the scenery was all that he claimed for it. I was taking in the scape, when I noticed a tall moun- taineer making his way down a rugged path toward us. “He carried a long rifle, and was accompanied by a lean, lanky coon dog. He reached the railroad track just as we passed, and, spying me looking out the observatory window like a blooming Juliet scouring the horizon for a dilatory Romeo, he point- ed his rifle at me and commanded: “‘You-all throw up your hands!’ “I looked at him in amazement, but lost no time in doing the upward Del- sarte movement. “‘Say you moth-eaten mountaineer,’ 1 shouted, ‘what’s the answer to the riddle you're propounding? Have I unconsciously butted into a Hatfield- McCoy combination, or do you imagine this is a treasure train? “‘You-all stop that train, or I'll blow your darned head off!" he replied. “‘How the heck do you expect me to stop the train? ‘Run along, Reuben, and file your re- quest with the engineer. He's run- ning this seeing-the-scenery from the front end.’ “For a moment he looked as if he doubted my sta t; then, lowering his gun, he sy ed for the forward end, while | climbed down from my perch and started out to investigate. “As 1 stepped from the traip, it ! came to a stop, and when I reached the engine the mountaineer had the engineer and his man-of-all-work lined up with their hands as far from earth as possible. He caught sight of me, | and in a wink he bad me doing the high reach alongside the others. | “‘Say,’ growled the engineer, ‘what you want to do? take, unless it's the coal in the tender.’ | “‘Don’t you-all give me no sass,’ elu- | tioned the tall man of the mountains. ' 'l'-nlu(obomv!hlltnh.md you-uns'll have to run it for me - “Well he made.us all climb ahoard, | past, but it didn’t spoil my appetite. 1 shouted back. | special i Steal this outfit? ' There isn’t anything on board you m | and we all sat down. It knocked the wind out of me to hear that venerable villain ask a divine blessing on the re- “After we had finished and the table had been cleared, our host procured writing materials and placed them on | the table. “‘I want one of you-uns to write a letter,” he said. ‘Guess you-all had bet- ter do it he continued, addressing me. “I expressed my willingness to ac- commodate him, and perpared to sten- ograph his dictation. “‘This here letter,” he said, ‘is to be ' wrote to the president of the United States.’ “l indited the superscription and waited for him to commence dictation. | “‘Mr. President, he started, and then continued: Dear 8ir: This here section of the country has been | pestered by a lot of no-account revenue | men huntin® for nmnnnhlneru They made honest nati Keg of first-cluss moonshine whisky which 1 made in my eabin while your varmints was there eating my grub. I guess you- all will find it all right, but there is no use you sending any more of them crit- ters down here to get me, for I am go- ing away. Please excuse the writing, as it was done by a no-account railroad man. | Yours truly, (his) I JAKE X. TOLLIVER. [mark] “Quite an expressive epistle,” mented the pug-nosed brakeman. “Yes,” replied Monk. “That moun- taineer had the art of letter writing down fine. After I had finished my . stenographic duties, that moonshiner produced a five-gallon keg and made us lug it down to the train. He told the engineer to see that it was deliv- ered to the president along with the letter. Then he bade us adieu and told us to clear out. “We backed out of that wilderness, and eventually reached our destina- tion.” “And was the liquor sent to the president?” asked the pug-nosed brake- man. “Not in a thousand years!” ex- claimed Monk. “Scmehow or other that keg sprung a leak, an' before we reached our destination every drop of the liquor was gone. If the train hadn't run so slow, we might have saved some of it.” com- ! Potash in United States. A discovery of a deposit of potash within the United States was made some time ago, though little has been done in the way of its development. The department of the interior has ex- pressed the hope that this supply would for some time at least make the farmers of this country independent of foreign sources. It lies, however, still undeveloped. Germany, up to now, has had a world monopoly of potash. Electroplating Mirrors. A new method of silvering mirrors consists of depositing the metal on the glass by means of a high poten- tial electric current. A plate of metal is placed against the glass; these are laid flat on a table and the air above them is exhausted to a high degree of vacuum. Then a small quantity of hydrogen gas is introduced and the | current is turned on through a nega- | tive pole attached to the metal piate. In 30 eeconds the glass has been sil- vered. 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They look ll‘oundl until they find a particularly busy place in the street where there is al | patch of shade, wrap a dusty cloth’ around their faces, curl up and peace- i fully glide off into a dreamless sleep. In walking along the street one has C. E. TODD, Mg . MAIN ST. and FLORIDA AVE. Q0 Bates Store) Lakeland Agency ||Hh American Lady Madame Lyra and Frolaset Corsets None better, few as good to be careful of every splotch of shad- | ., ow that he comes to for fear of step- | ping on a native's face. Even when * you do step on this usually sensitive | part of the anatomy, they merely alt yawn thankfully that you are a on the other side. But these are the | people that the papers are quoting as being in bloody revoit. The orly dan- ] ger of revolt would be if some coun- | try should come along and pass a law | prohibiting the use of all shady spots | trom one till three. Then there would | be trouble—the amount of blooduhed‘ makes even the most uninterested | i shudder.—Homer Croy in Lesli¢'s | Weekly. I FAIL IN CHARACTER DRAWING American Novelists Not Happy Whm They Depict Lives of American “Multi-Millionaires.” The life of our rich,especially in the the large tribe of journalistic novelists. | American life as {llustrated in popular | commercial fiction abounds supera- bundantly in men servants, private cars, yachts, clubs, international mar- riages, spectacular luxury and duplu ~—all of which is quite foreign to the experience of the majority of readers, and, we may suspect, to that of the writers themselves, writes Robert | Herrick in the Yale Review. Our lux- | ury, it seems to me, is the most unreal ' thing about us as a people; in all the flux of our social background the most uncertain and ephemerial—the most uncharacteristic. And yet our news- papers, magazines and novels are d-( most insanely preoccupied with Amert- | can wealth. As an economic phenom- enon, evidence of a redundant vitality, | it is certainly marvelous. As literary | material it has proven barren. The! figure of the “captain of industry”— that self-made and badly-made hero— has been done to death in our novels. But I cannot remember a single multi- millionaire who has established him- self as a veritable person in all our fic- tion. Cheapest Place of All. | Crusty Customer—Gimme a pound o' sulphur. How much is it* Druggist—Fifteen cents a pound.” Crusty Customer—What! Hang it. man, I can get it across the street for 10 cents.” Druggist (in disgust)—“Yes, and! there's a place where you can get it for nothing.—Kansas City Star. The Clerk’s Error. Travers (phoning tailor)—What do | you mean by sending a bill with my new suit? I consider it an insult. Tailor (meekly)—Very sorry, sir.| It's the new bookkeeper's fault; he evidently got you mixed up with those who pay. 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