Show sa HEADLIGHT IN VIEW alio story of a sigh train on alo union aill ajo ye said the conductor condu clor biting bs the tip of his cigar and slowly scratching a match on his leg I ve seen a good deal of railroad life interesting and exciting in the twenty yearn that ive been twisting brakes and slamming doon for a living ive seen all kina of sorrow and nil kinds of joy seen the happy bridal couple starting mflton wedding tour with the bright and hopeful future before them and the mourner on her way to a a new W made grave wherein she mus bury tho idol of her lonely old hearl wealth and pinching poverty nil on train and the mer ry laugh of alie joyous healthy child is mingled with tho despairing sigh of alie aged the great antipodes ol 01 ufa aro familiar to tho conductor for every day the extremes of the world are meeting beneath his eye ive mutilated the ticket of many n black leg and handled the passes of all our most eminent dead heads I dont know what walk of life is mare crowded with thrilling incidents than mine ever have any smash ups amash up oh yes several them that have been a great deal worse there is one incident of my rail mad life continued the conductor running his tongue carefully over broken place in the wrapper of hi ciar that I never spoke of before to anyone it has caused me more misery fandi than any one thine that ever happened td to me in my official career sometimes even now after the lapse of many years I awake in the night with tho cold drops of agona standing on my face and the honl lo 10 nightmare upon me with its terrible gur soundings roun dings aa plain as on the memorable night it occurred I was running the union pacific fur a conductor who was an uld friend of mine and who had gone on a vacation for his health at about as near as I can remember we were sailing along all comfortable one evening with a straight stretch of lr ick ahead for ten or fifteen miles running on time and everybody feeling tiptop as overland travelers do who get acquainted quain ted with each other and fol all at once the train u benl slowed down ran in on an old siding a nd stopped of course I ran ahead to tho engine to see what the matter was old ariti fat the engineer had got down and was on the main track looking ahead to where twinkling along about six or seven miles down the rod was the he light of train it was evidently wild for nothing ws due knew of at that hour however we had been miraculously ved from a frightful wreck by the engineers watchful neland everybody went forward and shook old by the hand and cried and thanked him till it was the moil affecting acene for a while tatt I ever it wits ns though ire had stopped upon th very verge ot a bottomless chin and everybody was laughing and cay ing at once till kind ot u brosi between a revival and a yian r alter we had waited about ha f an hour I should eay for the blasted train to come up aud pass us and apparently she was no nearer a cold clampi suspicion begin lo 10 bore ii rel finto the ada manlino shell of ay iy intellect the more I thought of it the more unhappy I fel I almost wished that I was dead cold ran up my back followed by hot ones I wanted to go home I wanted to be where the hungry prying fye of the great throbbing workday work day carld could not see me I called one side and said to him he swore effly 10 end keched the ground at the headlight nill lin lit the distance ahm lr g atou his engine and yelled ali abbad in a few moments we were moving again and the general was that the train wn sidetracked and waiting for u there a eide strack swithin twenty miles except the aelia htwa nevo exactly clear I the where wo passed that wild train but I explain it to them much engrossed with my I never felt my own inferiority fo much as I did that nihl I nevar 10 fully realized what a mer apeck a man is upon tho bosom of the aoi cereo when I surveyed the gearry vault of and considered its illions pace beyond and on and on forever count acsa uns are placed as centam around which bolar bysick are revolting vol ting regular orbits each little world peopled perhaps with its teeming millions of humanity and then and bior of revolving about till the world is daz d and giddy with abo mighty thought and then when I compared brilliant aggregation of and of worl dit with ona poor borot of the dust only a little only a poor weak eans worthless fallible fall iUle blad groping railroad con ductor with lay tra iti peacefully ic sidetracked Bide tracked iti ahe and patiently waiting for the venus to pa on track was som elbing about the picture haac lia ovar eh avowed my whole lifo ond ni d roe unhappy and wretched while were gay and met at some liquid res laurant iino take something in mem ry of our great orrow but nevera inn on it vcr tear open the id ankli li g wound or lauli over ibe ioli lely nick o venus while we patiently on the tiding |