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Show WHL RE HADES IS LOCATED Drummer ia Confident He KoV ,b Spot tod Circa Good Rcaaea far Hrf Aaeeriioo, The burning of a mall car no the New York Central road near flyrteiae remindl a man who read of it of'h burning of a aleeping car, and that led up to another atory touching 4on the gi'ographli al locwtlon of hell "1 left yuetiec in die face of a " fall late In the day, for Ht. J. ,ha, N. It.," ho aald "There waa only one aleeping car on tho train. Thermite waa tho old Intercolonial ' raiirod. which 1 believe waa built erlaarlly for military puriKmea. At the erne I apeak of the aervlce had sot hero noticeably Improved. "I turned Into my bunk early i the night to keep from freezing Kre-auently Kre-auently 1 heard and felt the train creeping along aa If the eniilnim had loat hla way. About 1 o'clock In the mornlrl the conductor atlrred me up with Ue Information In-formation that the car waa i)i fire and we would have to turn out. ; None of the occupanta mcd alarmel or Inclined to move. We got u lela-urely. lela-urely. "Aa noon aa we got our triui together to-gether and pacd Into an orrtnary pamenger car ahe.nl. the trait waa uncoupled from the elicprr, at! we almply watched the coach burn until there waa nothing left eircp: lta Iron frame. Thle tho crew rencved from the tracka and then our Iraln pulled out. "Thore waa no ayalrm of tinting eoachna on the Intercolonial at the time of which t apeak except ly a wood atove. All the fuel waa consumed con-sumed and the paaaengera hucjlrd and chattered and awore tho baance of the night. Ono man fmr.e hlanoae trying to look through a fratcd glaaa. "The engineer made no effor. to make time. We got to an eating Mellon Me-llon about 10 o'clock In the monlng, four houra late. The chap who ran the place bad given ua up and fone to bed. "We routed him out and be five ur what he hsd prepared. It was frown; everything ;i. rrnren. It war Munday, and the Hk,h h Hunday laws were In force. o Hint we could get nothing to warm us up. The chap who ran the eating bouse aald he had no fuel with which to prepare roffee. "We reached Ht John some time after noon. Wo appealed to the landlord land-lord to give us toddy, but the wretch said It was Sunday and he couldn't do It. He finally told us a place Just outside of town where one of bis countrymen ventured to violate the law. "I hired a sleigh and drove about five miles, according lo the driver's count, but I don't think he had any more conception of distance than he had of the canals of Mars. When I got to the shanty on the outskirts the proprietor Inloimed that every drop of liquor in bis place was frosen solid. "In a fit of disappointment I cried out: "This Is hell!' "The old proprietor replied: 'Indeed, 'In-deed, you are right. This bit of rold, sir, has so rompletely uiieet all my religious belief about hell that I did not venture to church. From my youth up I have been taught to believe In a hot bell: but you are right, air. Hell la a placo whero they freese tho tipple.1 tip-ple.1 "1 was In no mood to appreciate bla wit. " 'Hell,' I said, 'la In Canada, on the Intercolonial railroad, and In 8L John.' "He looked at me as kindly aa he was capable of looking and replied: "'We differ geographically, but we are agreed on the main Issue. It's hell -wherever the whisky freesee.' "I.Ike the littlo cottage girl of Wordsworth, he would have his way, and 1 left him so." |