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Show r a'b i 'i THE WORLD i v i i AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER VOL. IV. t 4 & -- 1 NO. 51. SOT. Just a year from that night I hipWTTTT EAGLES ped the big whitewash brush I was using Into the paint and started to only appears one night In a year, and I pened to be camped out In Dlxvlllt 1 work. A minute or two later I we towards or and have woods, suppose, luckily midnight, unluckily, long chanced upon that night. saw passin high up on ths peak id OVER THE SIDE OF A T thought I beard a swish in tbs sir, (By Hr. Mary R. P, Hatch.) Absurd as the story has always ap- rocks a train tearln along at a terand, looking up, 1 saw a big eagle tbat T waa in the fall of PRECIPICE. looked about the size of an ostrich rible rate. It was all lit up, but then 1881, Sept 20, that peared to me, I did not, in the unswooping down on me. He was so doss a party of five. In- canny darkness which surrounded us, wa'nt only the lngine and one car a a Paint Brush aa a that I didn't have time to Fainter I'm too find for belief. It see winto off fnr too inter the 1 Indeed, Twas strange e grab either f, cluding m y Weapon With It lla Mwlpod a Bald my ilub or revolver. I made a pass atarted on a trip to had we not seen with our own eyes, dows, but I knew It was the same train. Ksfla la tba Era Than Uaad Hla at him with my big brush as he came That feller was a tendin' of ths lngine, ) Dlxvllle Notch,, a the phantom train? "Shall I tell you the story as I heard and the pretty girl was cryin' Inside. Una. down. I hit him a kind of a glancing wild and romantic Mr. Ackley. lick and I think I got a little paint In was sure ont, fnr when a man calls paaa altuated aome It? asked ROM the Chicago his we are out of this on the devil as he did, hes sure to git not until no, 0, of mllea north eye or his mouth, for be sat down fifty Chronicle: Many on a ledge for a minute and made queer glcom, said L help, and hes pretty sure to git moren the White Mount-aln"If we ever are, said Miss Alden. sSd struggling young motions with his head, as if he were Clrcum-atance- a he wants on't. We went on, past one or two lumartists can Wall, the next year me and Jim prevented trying to get the paint out of his eye untenanted and hard - luck stories or mouth. camps, bering wed we solitary, our netting forth at the proposed hour, git nigher, if Gallgher thought and tales of trials so It waa nightfall Then another eagle came to bis asere we pasaed and just as we began to feel hopelessly could, an so we set out to climb the In by dangers, seen and unseen, and tribulations in- sistance and the two began gyrating rocks, long In the afternoon, but sure's through Colebrook; Indeed, lampa were shut numerable, but so around In my neighborhood In a manlit In many of the atorea and dwellinga we entered a cleared space, and in a your born, we never got no higher, moment drew rein at a large, pleasant, though we dim an dim. When night far as Is known ner tbat I didn't like. I dropped my Upon Inquiry we learned that we were hotel, the Dlx house. there is only one in paint brush and went to bunting, so came, we waa In a different place, but till ten mllea from the Notch. We dewas wonderful. Out of no higher. By an' by the train came The change alChicago who once to speak. I shot at them a time or to forward, go cided, however, dreadful darkness into the cheerful tearin along. It looked wickeder this had to wield bis two, but didn't seem to do much damthough our horaea were tired and did the not pull well together, being both off bouse and the pleasant parlor where time. The lngine seemed possessed, an paint brush with one hand while he age. Again one of them flew above me, horaea which had never before been quite a number of guests, remnants of belched an blowed an quivered, and fought eagles with the other. Morefolding his wings to his sides, the summer visitors, were sitting cosily throwd Are, and this time I could Just over, this was while the artist was sus- and, driven aide by aide. came down with a swoop. If he inmake out the Agger of a man walkin' pended in a basket 125 feet down the tended to hit me squarely bis aim The twinkling lights grew lesa fre- together. See It? Yes, I see It every 20th of on the car. I looked round at Jim an' perpendicular face of a precipice, wasnt any better than mine. I shot quent and finally disappeared altogethfor years till the landlord he laid on the ground rollin an twist- which was 840 feet from er, which led ua to conjecture that we September top to bottom. at him and missed, and be opened a me here to tell the in aa he was in a lit I shook Frank L. Van Ness, who la now a por- wing that knocked my bat off aa he were now In the Dlxvllle region. The took to having though of his company, broke from one him stars came out and the moon gave a story pretty rough an he set up and trait painter In this city, was the ar- shot past me. Then the other one corner of the room, and then we ob- gasped. tist who had this unusual experience. came at me with a scream of rage. faint light, but thla only served to make weather-beate- n old man more apparent the gloom of the Im- served a tall, Wall, Kl,' says be, I never believ- Mr. Van Ness says he Is not likely to But, as good luck would have it, I out of place in ed nothin before that you ever see It who looked forget the first and only sign he ever blazed away with my revolver and hit penetrable forests and rocky cliffs, and the midst of strangely the group of aa we observed all thla, we regretted but thats a phantom train, sure 'nough painted, for it waa while putting a pat- him, and he flew back wounded to the people. Where's it goin to? that we had not retained at Colebrook city ent medicine advertisement on the face family below. None of the eagles came Heieklah Winters, said one gentleacIf not Sure's the world, I never thought ol of a precipice In the Adirondack moununtil morning, for the road close after that, but I kept up an and placing chairs for Miss man, but Jims a readln feller, yov tains that he made his too intimate very that, tually dangerous, waa dreary enough. Aldenrising intermittent firing to let them know and myself, was about to tell see. At the rate that train traveled It We seemed as much out of the world, acquaintance with a colony of Amer- that I proposed to hold the fort. It of is which the Phantom Train popn could go round the world pretty quick ican or at least from the abodes of man, aa eagles. was the time of year when young supposed to appear every 20th or down to Chlny, and round tothei though we had been traveling days In- larly adventure in the Adirondacks eagles were in the nests and the old "My of September. stead of hours. The cry of a loon, or for it don't need no rails, you see occurred several years ago, said Mr. ones feared tbat I had eomt Let us not Interrupt his recital," way, some other bird of nlgbt, occasionally But who was the feller an who was ths Van Ness, "but I remember it Just as to robprobably either learned that them. as we Mr. said all They Ackley exchanged broke over the alienee which settled girl, an was It a lie about her sick well as if It were only yesterday. I my mission was peaceable or else I over ua; for the gentlemen were too glances. mother? Ive flggered on' pretty had gone to Keene Centre, a little town scared them for they did not You see, said the old man, "I was much engaged In their efforts to keep but I dont git nnlgher th in the mountains of Western New bother me at out, stlddy, after all waa the first day. to down a hostler and I Cohos, the horaea In the narrow path to In' truth. York, with a friend to do some sketchEven without to molestation further Into when the tendin' my duties, "Wall, two or three years after a ing from nature. Some of the moundulge In any but laconic remarks, and stable comes a om the eagles I had a pretty big young man, genteel but tall, Phe-niM!bs Alden and 1, with tightly clasped x come to the melancholy man. tain scenery there Is very fine, and' we . ib on my hands. The men had to pull sorter dissipated lookin', and with to after his daughter; said wanted to take hands, sat rigid and still, waiting for inquire In advantage of It during me arid down quite a distance, foi his eye that I didnt like hed tracked her so the carriage to be overturned or hurled somethin' fur; said he sup- the warm vacation' months There of. was I made Vttslgn letters twenty two feet looks the darkdownwards Into the tc off a with stranger posed shed gone 'They tell me at the house that I him. Hla daughter got acquainted wltl then no railroad at Keene Centre, but nigh. EafVTetter, as a whole, .jvag ness. to Dlxvllle cant get tonight, but Ill go him somewhere to school. Course n a stage coach line ran from the town twelve feet wfoe.aqd the lines of thj "Aren't you afraid T" exclaimed Mlaa If devil will the he, and I believe one could tell anything about her, anc to Westport on the banks of Lakfe letters three feet amLa half in width!-'By- ; help Alden. will. Champlain, about 30 miles So. he ropes anchored far away from the y' No, I feel aa safe aa though I were there wa'n't no one could bear to tel we had an Ideal location. away. One his be own, from which the basket was sussay says helps day "They In my mothers lap," returned Charlie, point stores the 'bout him the turrible goin came to the little hotel, where we there seem he mind to but didnt I, perlltely, the men pulled me In the direcsubpended but Immediately before the laugh phantom train, so he went back tc were stopping, the agent of a tion I. had to travel along the fact sided he drew the horaea up suddenly. what I said. " 'You see,' says he, theres a young Canady. patent medicine company. He of the precipice to continue the paintMr. Ackley got down and discovered was accompanied by two sign painters ing. The rock on which I was paintthat he had narrowly escaped being lady with me, an her mother Is very MANUSCRIPT ROOM, and we were Informed that these two ing waa a dark gray, so I painted thi sick; If we can get through the Notch thrown down a precipice. she will see her mother st oat (nleroatlng Fines In ths Wholi men were going to paint a sign on the sign pure while, and It took three hall "Shall we go on? 1 asked anxious- tcnlght maybe before she dies. We've got to go an we face of a precipice about 900 feet high, barrels of Brltlah Mnneom. ly. paint to finish the Job. It In the bewildering maze of the which was located about half way be took me twenty days to complete mj "We cant turn around, and I sup- will go. ' But there aint no train and there British museum, where many miles ol ween Keene Centre ana Westport, undertaking. The sign could easily pose we must, returned Charlie. no time team er this that aint goes precipice was high 1 the moun- - be read from the stage road, but tht The gloom Increased, the darkness shelves and cases are filled with worldt night,' says I, and I turned round to treasures, there Is one little room that j taIna and ,n p,aIn Tlew of the atage letters appeared from there to be only card one er the hosses and when I look- attracts a oach 1,na 'which wound around lower an Inch and a half In height. Tht greater number of visitor ed 'round he want there. I was surj The do"?, and alm8t two 1,ea away' than period at the end of the advertisement other, any says Lippincotts. prised, because you see, the stable doors crowds that enough t0 I made as big as the bead of a large pe, e ere about the cases a ,gn barrel, but from the road it looked could opened and shut terrible hard and this room arethrong kaye J7. composed of persons ol!kn" on wM in letters about the size squeaked on their hinges. painted of the head of a match diverse characteristics. It If to be read from stage Well, he was gone. Vanished like. curiously . . . . enough large on the Passengers stage roaches would r ackolap and I went up to the house an the cook an' by It would be a great frequently hot on the height of the and seems as yet forVm. So two pslnter. were the chamber maid was a talkin about litertry people letters, but few ever guessed them anytractive to the least learned of the vis-- , a lady in the parlor. to do the Job Th aRcnt took where near their actual brollght ' height. Thai tors. This is the room which contain them out to the " 'Shes handsome as a drawn picprrclpIce. They took was my first, last and only sign. the of and department autographs ture, sayr Mary, 'and her feller Is glance down the 840 feet of ,ier. handsome, too. Theyre a runaway u scripts, and the treasures within ll pendicular rock and absolutely refused Thr Former Dalill Crux. are perhaps the most humanly Interest. to couple, I b'leve. go down the face of the moumalns The dahlia, named after the famoue 'Handsome! said the cook, Hes lng in the whole museum. Here are to paint the advertisement. The med-a- ll Swedish botanist, Dahl, appeared early manner of writings by the hands ol iclne man came back to the hotel too wicked lookin' to be handsome !' e wish I could see her,' says I; for world's great men of many age rating the men and wishing he could in this century, and was as popular Ir you see I pitied the girl if she was go and countries. There are personal let- find somebody who would tackle the the flower garden ub were the ramelliai ters of kings and popes, queens, minis-- ; Job. I told him I would do it If he and fuchsias in the green house, anc ing to run off with that man. still holds its own. This plant, whlet Well, come with me, says Mary. ters and courtiers, whose names in his- - could make sufficient Inducement, I guess you can get a look at her, for tory, in story and in song seem not tc The agent offered me $300 and we is a native of Mexico, was practically I am Jest a goin to ask If she wants stand for real men and introduced Into England by Lady each women, bu posted a forfeit of $50. The two anvthlnx.' rather for legendary beings; and these painters who declined to make the de- Holland in 1804, as It had been lost "I followed Mary as fur as the par- letters reveal in some homely phrase scent agreed to handle the ropes In since Its first appearance, some flfteer lor door, but In a minute she comes out or bit of simple sentiment a touch o. letting me down, and as soon as I was years previously, when Lady Bufe imlookin scared. She aint there, says human nature whirh seems to make ready we made our way to the preci-the- ported It from Spain. During the flrsl she. more akin to those who curiously pice. I looked over thp ledge, and forty years of Its popularity double A TRAIN TEARING ALONG, Wall, ladles and gentlemen, no one scan the documents Here one I'll acknowledge the prospect was dahlias were all the fashion, and sinre thickened. Trees grew thick on either ever set eyes on them after that, but as it seems, to actual ac- pretty scary. About 200 or 3')U feet then the single varieties have bad side of the road, the curtains of our strange sights and strange sounds was may come, quaintance with the most notable ol down there were projecting ledges and their day, while at the present time carriage were down, and Miss Alden heard that night by more'n one. Miss the characters In the new cactus kinds hold the foreShakespeares histor- here and there on the ledges bald and myself were thus enveloped in to- Higgins, the milliner, was waked by A florist, writing about most place. had their nests. And they were tal darkness. As for my little boy, he a noise like a train passin' her win leal dramaB, and get a new reading, lr eagles com red 1830, the fashion for dahlias pa too none hiB of owl B00'1 the your eagles, quaint original, of passages In hit had fallen asleep. der, and Dick Henderson was run over which was then at its height, to the works. Here are state charters and Suddenly we heard the shrill whistle by a train and had his leg broke. There "I10 nu-- Med strong ropes to the tulip mania two centuries enrlier.and of a locomotive and the thunder of a wan't no track, mind you, where they papers that tell volumes of history ir! few a lines ;letters of the great reiig-- ' "Pru, c tr,,s row!nS at th top of although the comparison is hardly train broke the silence. Our horses found him, ant a good many folks said lous reformers, of statesmen, generals tho pnripice and the other ends of the correct, it slunva the dahlia craze mu quivered with fright so that their har- Dick was too drunk to know what hurt lied to a big bosket, into have been very marked to have ever ness shook, and they began plunging him. poets and compbsers. These autograpl 0PP" 1 limlnl with my buckets of suggested it. wl,c!l and rearing. Bending forward to peer nut old Mr. Fellows Is the soberest documents, many of them letters frorr Thrn tl,f y llrni'i"l1 ,,,p banket Pai!,twe husband on wife to man or the the a saw, high up out, lover to sweetheart crags, you ever saw, end he heard train tliiwii on l.mljr r1ifr "nd M s,i,w!y duwl lights of a passing train. Another a tootin and bellerin' that night, like show famous personages in a very dif- ov,r ,,! A young Scottish clergyman, fresl h, 112,'I whistle, a rumble, and it had van all possessed. I herred him tell on't ferent light from that In which they an unM1 I .".I was allowed or from the h!,d an about bhed. down to the store. He thought the day commonly, seen in the pages of his t,,p one tu in a certain par onaMon preach the peint where I wanted to begin Heavens! exclaimed Charlie, we of Judgment had come. And the Wld tory. mil ish the text, "Wlie c'uireh. (Jiving I hadn't on havpaintin':. have seen the phantom train. der Storm, a mother in Isniel, if there Mini a virtuous woman?'' he led of tun !o tmu! with lunch the but fugles, ing 'Thantoin train! repeated Miss A1 ever was one, says she waa a comin Hnn-t- i iif Impnitmiifiit, with the remark: "laoly Macbeth re' to be cm th? srife side I had taken den, 1 see nothing remarkable about from a sick neighbor's and saw right The old elm (re in Anderson, Ind. nt tins the etci t'.al tpe of the ambit iom a In am me revolver with the before her an lngine. but she didn't see under whivi. lira: lies it. Martin Vai Afterward a parishioner infemale. 1 tell WVl. fir.it the basket. you no day else one car till the "Nothing remarkable when there Is passed her, and Burcn was once iip.-ea from old fellows made it pretty quired: slagt those ha'd not a railroad track within twenty then, sittin by the winder that was couch Into a mud puddle, has been ru hot. for me. My basket hadn't Hi Who Is yon Lady Macbeth? any miles of here! That train, said Char-ll- u all lit up. she saw a beautiful young down to make room for street Improve more than stopped In Its when had nought in r name in all his "If It did not float In the air, ran lady and she was a cryin. works of refen nee and not flndiny the birds set tip a tcrrlhto racket far "She fei; so sorry for her, the Wld over the points of stones bristling sevconclitdi-dnm. below "She'll he some grant it an and down and at altitude der she never Storm she that feet They that gererrhod did, eral apart, says ChnniheTs Journal. serenir.eil as if they were holding a London lady. surveyors have thus far not interfered thought of there bein no track 'for the car till she got home and then she raid terrible Indignation meeting. I watchwith. Fortune no longer knocks nt u mant ed them for a minute or two, but as she shook like a leaf, and she remem la this true? I asked. You must have an electric butr door. ' I l be on to have bored hat the smoke had a dreadful It Is Indeed, he replied. figuring they didnt appear If want to by in the push. ton I assault you and heard of this phantom train, but never curious KBf-.ldipbattery .committing relieved In THE PHANTOM TRAIN. t 20, tts existence nntll now. It piQIIT tAAll - 900-FOO- Ni 1 a. tell well-light- ed well-dress- ed It -- far-reachi- ng . - well-kno- - . 1 itjed,cie I d man-!on- t : e : 'I i n be-th- - i m f3 u J t to-da- y. - - . we - "I - i- cab-uiatr- f ) Mm-liPtl- 'j iln.-srocn- i, d t . avail-Hid- dc-se- : , . r |