A CHALLENGE.

Drop your dainty heads awhile. Flowers rich ami ravo, Ere you meet my lady's smile And find you are not iair. Fly away, you little birds, Tuneful throats of spring, Lest you hear my lady's words And learn you cannot sing. Call the clouds to cover you, Faroff summer skies, Or you'll sec a deeper blue Within my lady's eyes. Things below and things above, All things ev'rywhere, Challenge not niy ladylove Or perish m despair. —J. A. Flynn m St. Paul's.

STRUGGLE ON AN ENGINE.

>| C How an Engineer on Bis Back, S Looked With an Enemy, Stopped \ (T the Train. / Over m the lounging room for the trainmen at the terminus of one of the trunk lines m Jersey City several train men were exchanging stories of hair breadth escapes.fast rides and instances of presence of mind, while waiting to be summoned to their duties. Finally it came the turn of a small, gray haired, keen eyed man. "Well, yes," he said, taking a chew of his neighbor's tobacco. "I had one excitin trip. It was long back m '88, before the cornin of these double cabbed Mother Hubbard enjines on which, if you want to speak to the fire man, you have to stop at a telegraph station 'n send him a message or else slap the air over m the 'mergency notch 'n bring him up to you whether he wants to come or not. Never did like these pesky double deckers. I was doing stunts on the 607—a good old mogawl she were, too. Just out the shop, where she'd been overhauled 'n had the airbrakes put on her. "I left the other end of the division on a trip right after pay day 'n my reg ular fireman had reported ill. I'd seen him the night before 'n he looked rather weak 'n tired, 'n I thought he'd been taken ill. They used to have a great trick doin that after they's got their mon. I had a fellow by the name of Conroy m his place, 'n we hadn't got along; very far 'fore I came to the conclusion that he was a mite under the weather, too, 'n he couldn't make the old 607 steam nohow. The outcome of it was that we laid down several times on the trip 'n barely caught the steamer with our export freight. Old Nuthead, the enjine dispatcher, he made me walk the carpet, 'n said if I didn't do better'n that he'd drop me back on coal again. I hadn't been run nin fast freight very long 'n I left him feelin rather testy, but I didn't say anything 'bout Conroy, as I thought that durin our lay over m this end he'd kinder pound his ear 'n sleep off the booze 'n be all right goin back. "We caught train 79 for the return trip with about 13 cars perishable stuff for Chicago which were rigged up with the air, which was a purty good string of airbrake ears for those days, 'n about 15 scabs, without air. I was thinkin what a stop you could make on short notice with them, 'n how you could turn things over m the caboose. Old Joe Hoffman was our conductor, 'n he was an awful man to swear 'n cut up high jinks if everything didn't come his way. "We hadn't moved out very far along the meaders when I saw as how I'd have to do some tall figurin to git that train mon time. Soon's we'd git to a little grade I'd drop her down a notch or two, 'n she'd kick up her heels 'n lay right down for want of wind. Con roy, instead of sleepin while he was off duty, had gone out 'n put on some fin ishin touches 'n made it worse. "You can just guess I was mad clean through, 'n I thought to myself as how I would get Mr. Conroy about 30 days In which to rest 'n p'raps end his little railroadin career soon's we got home again. When we got to the first wa terin tank, about 40 miles out, we had used up jest 2 hours 'n 15 minutes. The regular runnin time was only 1 hour 'n 45 minutes, so you see we'd lost 30 minutes on 40 miles almost lev el 'n with a light train. The outlook was that we'd never make the heavier grades on the western end unless Con roy took a brace. While I was oilln around Hoffman came runnin up cuss in like one mad 'n says: " 'Blankety blank blank, you, what the blank's matter widjer? I wanter git home m time for church Sunday. Here's a message from Jersey which says as how if yer don't hurry up they'll take yer off here at the nex' plug 'n give us a respectable man.' "As this was only about midnight Tuesday night his speech got my dan der up, 'n I told him as how he 'n Jer sey could both go where asbestus cloth- In is a boon 'n the broilin sun never sets. But I climbed up on the tank, 'n maybe I didn't give that fireman a settin out. " 'You long 1, lanky blunderbuss,' I says, for he was a big codger, much bigger'n meself, 'if you don't take a purty sudden brace 'n keep the wind up on this mogawl till we get m you might as well sit right down here 'n send your regrets to the super, 'cause I'll report you soon's we git m, or my name ain't Johu Stafford.' "He give me a kinder reproachful look 'n commenced fixin his fire. As I turned to put my oil can m the box I spied a bottle of whisky. I grabbed that bottle 'n turned roun to Conroy. 'Aha!' I says, 'so this is the cause of our gaspin for breath every five min utes, is it? Well, here she goes,' 'n I plugged that bottle over on the track !n broke it into 50 pieces, not without some regrets, as it had a pretty good

[ smell, 'n I'm not dead set against the i stuff myself, but I let her go. ] [ "We got started again 'n walked i away up the hill from the tank as easy as Willie Bryan makes a nice, long speech, 'n I noticed an improvement m the steam gauge right away, 'n I commenced to let 'er out at once to make up for lost time. It was purty good, even goin then for about 20 mile, then up an incline of about 8 mile 'n down the mountainside 12 mile. When We struck the top of that 12 mile hill I kept her wide open for about a half mile to give us a good start down the hill 'n then shut her off 'n let 'em buzz. "The old 607 was a stem winder, with a boiler runnin right through the cab to the back, dividin the fireman and engineer's side. The airbrake valve was placed right ou top the boiler, to ward the baick end of the cab, so's you could reach, it nice 'n handy while sit tin m the seat. I'd no more 'n shut her off when a shadder fell over my shoul der, 'n I turned quick, 'n Conroy sprung on me. " 'You dirty blackguard!' he scream ed. 'I'll teach yer to chuck my booze overboard. Report me, is it? You dirty rag! Shure 'n you'll never live to see the super agin. "As he leapt on me it took me back so that before I could do anything he grabbed me by the shoulder, 'n I fell backward alongside the boiler, my head on the front doorsill of the cab, my back on the floor 'n Conroy on top of me. Although I was partly stunned by the fall, I had mind enough left to get my arms around him 'n hug him close to me. "All this time the train had been gainin headway down that hill, Jn we were fairly sizzlin, the old mogawl swayin to 'n fro as we swung around turns. The space between the boiler 'n the side of the cab was so narrer I couldn't turn Conroy off me, 'n I didn't dare let loose of him for fear that he'd get hold of my throat. He was so crazed by the liquor that he'd drunk 'n his cravln for more that there was no reasonin with him. He was so big 'n heavy that I couldn't do much the way we lay, my back flat on the floor, hemmed m by the side of the j cab on one side 'n the boiler on the other 'n I huggin him Kke a long lost brother, the cars behind us meanwhile j doin the ragtime down that hill. ! Things were gettin rather excitin, as | there was likely to be somethin ahead of us, 'n at the foot of the hill was an- j other water plug. It was a branch sta tion there, 'n the engines were switchin there at all times. If we ever hit any thing at that rate of speed, I don't think Joe Hoffman or any of us would ever get m a church but once again, 'n that would be ahead of the mourners. I couldn't depend on the train crew to do anything, as you know a crew on these fast freights draw their money for sleepin 'n playin penuchle m the caboose durin trips. "We flashed by a station half way down the hill, goin so fast that I thought as Jiow that dispatcher m Jer sey City would giggle with delight if he saw what good time that perishable freight was makln toward Chicago. I racked my brain to think what to /io. As the light of that station flashed through the cab I spied the engineer's valve of the airbrake. I figured as how I could reach it with my right foot, xisiug my toe as a hook, 'n jerk the valve around to the 'mergency notch 'n stop that train with a bang that would make Joe Hoffman 'n his crew m the caboose think we'd rim i into a stone wall. I wriggled !n got my leg loose from under Conroy, 'n with a mighty effort give him a raise 'n kicked out at that valve. As luck would have it, my foot just caught the valve m the rebound 'n jerked It j around m the 'mergency, 'n, say, you j would have thought we had been las- | soed. The jar broke both our holts, 'n Conroy staggered to his feet, fell I backward through the back cab door 'n rolled off the tank. 'N that end ed his railroad career then 'n there without any special assistance from me. "Hoffman came runnin up from the caboose when we had stopped 'n yelled: 'Well, dash yer, whatcher | stopplnhere for? Can't you keep steam nuf to drag 'em down hill?' " 'Oh,! I said, 'Conroy, my fireman, 's got a sick sister livln back up here m the woods, 'n I guess he's gone to see how she is. "We went back 'n picked Conroy up. His skull had been fractured by strik in a milepost, 'n they put his body m the caboose, 'n I got another fireman at he water itfug, 'n we went m on time." Just then the messenger boy came m and yelled, "Stafford, they want you fer train 81," and, taking a farewell chew of tobacco, he left.—New York Sun. " I

Skylark's Glorious Song.

&eed I say a word about the skylark and its wholly joyous song? It in spired one of Jeremy Taylor's most beautiful and best known passages— the lark rising from his bed of grass j and soaring upward, singing as he rises and hoping to get to heaven and climb above the clouds; singing "as if it had learned music from an angel as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministering here below." And it inspired, too, one of the finest odes m the English language, Shelley's finest work, his ''supreme ode." But, as may be said of another ode, it is "not m tune with the bird's song and the feeling it does and ought to awaken. The rapture with which the strain springs up at first dies down before the close into Shelley's ever haunting melancholy. Like Keats' "Ode to the Nightingale," it is no key to the bird's song. It does not teach us anything of the thought and feeling which inspired that quiver ing, ascending embodiment of joy, that pilgrim of the sky, hiding itself m the glorious Hght of the summer heavens. —Minneapolis Journal.

HE AfIBLBOBTON OfUARDf AN % TUESDAY, DECEMBEK 12 1899

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