Show A fa headlight t in in hiow 11 yes said tile conductor bilica ailing off oe the iho tip of a cigar anti and slowly scratching a match on oil ins his leg lee ive io seen it good deal ot of railroad life lifa thata interesting slid bud ex exciting eiting in in the twenty years ear that ive boon bem twisting brakes and doors tor for a living 11 ive affo seen ull all linda kinds of sorrow borrow and all kinds of joy ocell boon the happy bridal couple starting out on their wedding monr with willi the bright and ho filature before them ond and tho the black robed mourner out oa her way to a new made grave wherein the must bury the idol ol of her lonely 01 old ad heart 11 wealth sm and I 1 pi pinching aching poverty ride ou on the name alume train and tho the merry laugh of the joyous healthy child is 19 mingled w with till the despairing sigh of the tha aged the great antipodes antipo ilaa ot of lito life are familiar to tho the conJ conductor actor for every day the ox extremes of the tha world oro re meeting beneath th kin his eye 11 ive the ticket ol of many blackleg black leg nod find handled the tha passes of all our conr most eminent detta dead liendo hinds I 1 dont know what walk tit ol ufa life is is mote mole crowded with thrilling incidents ahta mine liuo ever have hao ncy any smash ups 8 smash matill ups upa oil oh yes several beveral of them none however that ilat have lavo been a goo goob 1 deal worse there is in oue one incident of 0 my railroad 0 ad life cont irined cho conductor running his tongue carefully over a broken place in in the wrapper ot of his hia cigar that i never spoke of before befaro to ady one it if lias has caused me more misery anodic an than any uno one tiling thing that bat ever happened to me ma in in my al career sometimes even now lifter tho the lapse ol of many years cara I 1 awake in tho the night with the cold drops of agony abony standing on my lay faco face and the horrible nightmare upon mo me with its terrible surroundings as plain as on the memorable memora blo night might it occurred 1 I was running extra ou on tho the unto union a for a conductor who was en an old eld irie need n d of dailue una bud who be had bad gone south on a vacation in cation for his hia health 11 at about us as near as I 1 cn can re m 1 her wo we were siuling sailing along nit corn com f a r 1 ablo one oco evening with a straight stretch of track ahead tor for ten tea or 0 fifteen milea ilee re lining oa a time tiao and everybody feeling tiptop tip top toil Us ns 0 verland overland travelers trave iota do who got acquin acquitted ted with each other and feel eel congenial cong oong euiAl exial all at once knoo the train suddenly blow el down ran in in on tin nu old bid siding biding arill and stop stopped pod 1 of course coarse I 1 got out nod and raut ahead to 0 the engine to seo sea what the matter was old the tha engineer had got 01 ol down and was on the main track looking ahead to where twinkling along about six six or seven miles down tho the road load apparently was waa the tha headlight of on an up ap train it was waa evidently wild lor for nothing was ilia dao that we knew of at that hour hoar il however wo we had been almost mir nir saved aved from a frightful fright tal wreck by ly tire engineers watchfulness and everybody went forward annd shook old by the abo land hand owl and cried and thanked banked him till it w wan a tile the most moat affecting scene for a while that I 1 ever wit mena it 11 was ns as though we ba bad d stopp stop poil etl upon the very verge of LL a bottomless chasm ilius ni and everybody was laughing laug bing and crying at once till it was waa it a kind of a cross between a revival and A picnic isonio alter after we had waited about half an hour I 1 may flay for the blasted train to corno conio tip and pass us still and apparently she blia was waa n rn nearer a cold 1 clammy sas Us biclon iliou began to hero boro itself into the adamantine shell of my intellect the tha more inore I 1 thought of it the more unhappy efell I 1 felt I 1 almost wished cold streaks realia st ran up op my back followed tollof loil by hot bob ozes I 1 wanted to go homo home I 1 bantel w 1 I tea to bo be chero tho the hungry prying i great areat throbbing day world could coald not moo eco mo 1 I called ono side eidt aull aud said something to him ile ha swore softly to danl kicked tho the ground and looked ut ot the headlight glimmering ila m the dia tanco then he got on hia is engine und and 1 I y aal yal V I 1 I 1 all aboard 1 in a fow faw moments wo were moving benin again and alid the gli ceral was van that the train allaead was waa clde tracked trachea and wait ing for no although there n eida t track stick within twenty except the ona oile we hid had just jast left it was waa never elc aly clear olcar to the passengers gers dherit w pi juel oi tint that will train but I 1 xi all lull it to lo them bi in I 1 wits WH too with illy 11 glug I 1 never felt roy ow awu n inferiority so no hill h its I 1 dw ill 1 that lint night I 1 nevor m m fully f ill real izol 1 hat it 11 ut awro ru spook ni nun tit is ia upon illa ilia of the universe univ irso divoll I 1 bur burrowed royed abe wilt valila of mild its ils illimitable I 1 pace liero tt beyond and berf telling on oil nuil ou forever fo rici countless count loun tl lesi bi ila shiun art placed ni its coaters couters lou cou tors ulich fol la to systems tire revolving iu in their regular orbits each ditch little world poo people lilot 1 por 1111 hanpa willi ill its ita deeming millions ot of huni humility anity rind nuil thou other aud na dobli mightier ot of rovold lug till tho mind is ia darld on aud gidaly tile la thought bought nuil and then eliou horl I 1 I 1 nil ill this thia universal c chiti bill hunt aggregation of 0 and of 0 woi lils with oni libor worm ot if tho ibo dust ruly only it t ikuo insignia atou atom only it poor weak erring fallibly tall falli ihlo blo blind groping railroad conductor with my trina traia panco fully sidetracked in in tho the galli tring gloom and a venue d patiently waiting for tho cho planca venus to pats pass ou on tho the main ammu truck track there was waa something Bou ething abbat clio whole member picture that has oi my whole life and in ido ado mo me un unhappy h hoppy appy i 1 a 1 I 1 wreathed thed chod whilo while theis others gay 1 I sometimes any myself moct tit lit somo some liquid restaurant anti ami silently talo COLO to in morgory ol of our conr grant sorrow borrow but bat never mention it we 1118 never fear ear open the tha old rauk liag itil or laugh over the tha night we fe politely gave tile tho main track to younis venna while we tj tood stood patiently ou on tho the si billing diri 11 bill nye in detroit press |