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Show 1 " " Beet Hinder Train. I A swarm of bees created a block in a curious manner on the Perkiomen railroad rail-road the other day. A freight train run-ning run-ning between Perkiomen Junction and Allentown, Pa., stopped to take water at Palm station, twenty miles north. A swarm of bees from a neighboring farm house had taken refuge in some woods near by, and when the train stopped at the station they come buzzing out and alighted with one accord on the tender behind the engine. The engineer and his assistant in the engine and the brakemen standing around the train were astonished at the visitation and promptly sought safety in the waiting room of the station. The fireman, William Heist, was on the engine en-gine cab at the time busily shifting coal from one side of the tender to the' other, and in an instant a hundred bees set upon him. ' Half mad with pain he jumped off the tender and rolled wildly in the grass at the roadside. The schedule time for starting the train came and went, but the crew saw no way in which to start. They held a consultation over the problem, and finally final-ly a bright idea struck the engineer. Putting it into execution he crept softly and unconcernedly up to the tender, after af-ter the manner of an experienced bee farmer, and secured riossession of the adjustable hose with which engineers are accustomed to clean np their cabs. He got the drop on the bees and turned on them a steady stream of cold water. The effect was magical. The entire swarm took to their wings and described a straight line a bee line toward the woods. The train then resumed its journey, fifteen minutes behind time. Uor. .New York Sun. , |