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Show THEY ''PASSED THE BUTTER." Brakeman's Happy Inspiration Met with Deserved Success. "When I was connected with a certain cer-tain western railway," says a prominent promi-nent ofllclal of an eastern line, "we had In our employ a brakeman who, for special service rendered to the road, was granted a month's vacation. "He decided to spend his time In a trip over the Rockies. Wo furnished him with passes. "He went to Denver, and there met a number of his friends at work on one of the Colorado roads. They gave him n good time, and when ho went away mado him a prescut of a mountain moun-tain goat. Evidently our brakeman was at li loss to get the animal home with him, as the express charges wero very heavy nt that time. Finally, however, hitting upon a happy expedient, he made out a shipping tag and tied it to the horns of the goat. Then he presented the beast to tho office of the stock car lino. "Well, that tag created no end of amusement, but It served to accomplish accom-plish the end of the brakoman. It was Inscribed as follows: "'Please Pass tho Hutter. Thomas J. Meechln, Drakeman, S. S. & T. Ry.' " Harper's Weekly. |