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r t r : 8 K 55 55 8 K 8 r & Nerve Foley Mfc X MM MM MM MM k MM MM MM MM MM MM HKUE had boon nil winter that the engineers w ere going to strike. Certainly we of t li e operating il iMiar t went vuy .. had warning enoucii. let in tie railroad life there 1 always friction in some quarter. The railroad man sleep like the o!dIor, with an ear alert, but Just the same he sleeps for with waking comes duty. Our engineers were good fellows. If they had faults they were American faults rashness, a liberality bordering on extravagance and a headstrong, violent way of reaching conclusion traits born of ability and self confidence nnd developed by One of the bet men we had on a locomotive was Andrew Cameron: at the same time he was one of the hardest to manage, because he was youug nnd headstrong. Andy, a big, powerful fellow, ran Felix Kennedy on the flier. The fast runs require young men. If you will notice, you will rarely see an old engineer on a fast passenger run. Even a young man can ttand only a few years of that kind of work. High speed on a locomotive is a question of nerve and endurance to put It bluntly, n question of flesh and blood. "You don't think much of this strike, do you, .Mr. lteed?" said Andy to me one night. "Don't think there's going to be any, Andy." He laughed knowingly. "What actual grievance have the boys''" I asked. "The trouble's on the East Eud," ho replied evasively. "I", that any reason for calling a thousand men out on thl end'" "If one goes out. they all go." "Would you go out''" "Would IV Y.n betl" "A man with a home and a wife aud a baby boy like yours ought to haw more sense." Getting up tt leave, he laughed again confidently. "That- all right. We'll bring ou fellow to terms." "Maybe," I reported as ho cloed the door. IJut I h.iiln't the -lightest tue.i they would begin the attempt that night. I w.i at home and ou;d asleep when the caller tapped on my window. 1 threw up the sash; It was pouring rain and dark as a pocket. "What is it. I'.arney? A wreck':" I exclaimed. "Worse than that. Everything's tied up." "What do you mean:" "The engineers, have struck." "Struck? What time l It?" "Half pat 3. They went out at 3 o'clock." Throwing on my clothes, 1 floundered behind Harney's lantern to the depot. The superintendent was already in his office talking to the master mechanic. HullHiii came in every few minutes from various points announcing train tied up. Before long we began to hear from the Ent End. Chicago reported all englneeis out: Omaha wired no trains moving. When the sun roe that mormt.g our entire system, extending through seven state and territories, was abolutely paralyzed. It was an ntoundIng situation, but one that must be met. It meant either an ignominious surrender to the en pincers or n tight to the death. Tor our part, we had only to wnlt in-orders. It was just (5 o'clock when the chief train dispatcher, who was tapping at a key. aid: "Here's something from headquarters." We crowded cloe around him. His pen Hew across the clip: the mca'.e was addressed to all division super lutendent. It was hort. but at the end of It he wrote a name we rniely saw in our office. It was that of the railroad magnate we knew as "the old man," the president of the system, and his words were few: "Move the trains:" "Move the train!" repeated the superintendent. "Yes. but trains can't be moved by pinch bars nor by main force." We spent the day arguing with the strikers. They were friendly, but Jinn Persuasion, entreaties, threats, we exhausted and ended just where we began, except that we had lost our teni pers. The sun set without the turn of n wheel. The victory of the first d-..' was certainly with the strikers. Next day It looked pretty blue around the depot. Not a car was moved. The engineers and firemen were a unit. But the wires suntj hurd all that day nnd all that night. Just before midnight Chicago wired that No. 1 oil" big passenger train, the Denver flier kind started out on time, with the of motive power as engineer nnd a wiper for fireman. The message enmu from the second vice president. He promised to deliver the train to our division on time the next evening, and he asked, "Can you get it through to Denver?" We looked nt each other. At last all eyes gravitated toward Neighbor, our master mechanic. The train dispatcher was walt'ng. "Whnt shall I say?" he asked. The division chief of the motive power was a tremendously big Irishman with a voice like a fog horn. WlthW 55 55 55 55 55 55 33 of f By a 55 I FRANK 55 Cor 1i0, rlKbt, H. 33 by Sptarnian Frank H. SPEARMAN ft ' '' MM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM nn Instant's hesitation the answer came clear: "Say 'yes!' " Every one of us started. It was throwing the gage of battle. Our word had gone out: the division was pledged; the tight was on. Next evening the strikers through some mysterious channel got word that the flier was expected. About 0 o'clock a crowd of them began to gather round the depot. It was after 1 o'clock when No. 1 pulled In, aud the foreman of the Omaha roundhouse swung down from the locomotive cab. The strikers clustered around the engine like a swarm of angry bees, but that night, though there was plenty of Jeering, there was no actual violence. When they saw Neighbor climb Into the cab to take the run west there was a sullen silence. Next day a committee of strikers, with Andy Cameron, very cavalier, at their head, called on me. "Mr. Heed," said he officiously, "we've come to notify you not to run any more trains through here till this strike's settled. The boys won't stand It. That's all." With that he turned on his heel to leave with his following. "Hold on, Cameron," I replied, raising my hand as I spoke; "that's not quite all. I suppose you men your grievance committee?" "Yes, sir." "I happen to represent. In the superintendent's absence, the management of this road. 1 simply want to say to you aud to your committee that I take my orders from the president and the general manager not from you nor anybody you represent. That's all." Every hour the bitterness Increased. We got a few trains through, but we were terribly crippled. As for freight, wo made iu pretense of moving it. Train load of fruit and meat rotted la the yard. The striker grew more turbulent dally. They beat our new men and crippled our Then our troubles with the new men were almost as bad. They burned out our cmvn heets; they got uux.d up on older all the time. They r.:t Into open switches and Into each continually and had u very nearl; crazy. I kept tab on one of the new for a week. He began I y backing into a diner so hard that be smahed every dish In the car and ended by running Into a siding a few days later and setting two tanks of oil on fire, that burned up a freight depot. I figured he cost us $40,000 the week he tan. Then he went back to selling windmill. After thl experience I was sitting in my office one eening, when a youngish fellow lu a slouch hat opened the door and stuck his head In. "What do you want?" I growled. "Are you Mr. Iteed?" "What do you want?" "I want to speak to Mr. Reed." "Well, what is it?" "Are you Mr. Iteed?" "Confound you. yes! What do you want?" "Me? I don't want anything. I'm just asking; that's all." His impudence staggered me so that I took my feet off the desk. "Heard you were looking for men." he added. "No," I snapped. "I don't want any men." "Wouldn't be any show to get on an engine, would there?" A week earlier I should have risen nnd fallen on his neck, burtheie had been others. "There's a show to get your head broke," I suggested. "I don't mind that If I get my time.' "What do you know about runulng an engine?" "Hun one three years." "On a thrashing machine?" "On the Philadelphia and Reading." "Who sent you In here?" ".Tust dropped In." "Sit down." I eyed him sharply as he dropped Into a chair. "When did you quit the Philadelphia nnd Reading?" "About six months ago." "Fired?" "Strike." I began to get interested. After a few more questions I took him in' . the superintendent's office, but at th? door I thought It well to drop a hint. "Look here, my friend, if you're a spy you'd better keep out of this. This man would wring your neck as quick ns he'd suck an orange. See?" "Let's tackle him anyhow," replied the fellow, eying me coolly. I Introduced him to Mr. Lancaster and left them together. Pretty soon the superintendent came Into my office "What do you make of him, Itecd?" Bald he. "What do you make of him?" Lancaster studied n mluute. "Take him over to the roundhouse and see what he knows." I walked over with the new find, chatting warily. When we reached a live engine I told hlra to look it over He threw off his coat, picked up a piece of waste nnd swung Into the cab. "Run her out to the switch," said I. stepping up myself. He p'.uched the throttle, and wo itcamed slowly out" of the bouse. A tilnute showed he was at home on an tngine. "Can you handle It?" I asked as he shut off after backing down to the roundhouse. "You use soft coal," he replied, trying the Injector. "I'm used to hard. This Injector Is new to me. Guess I can work It, though." "What did you say your name was?" "I didn't say." "What is it?" I asked curtly. "Foley." "Well, Foley, if you have as much sense as you have gall you ought to get along. If you net straight, you'll never want a job again as long as you live. If you don't, you won't want to live very long." "Got any tobacco?" "Here, Baxter," said I, turning to the ronndhouse foreman, "this Is Foley. Give him a chew, and mark him up to go out on 77 tonight. If he monkeys with anything around the house, kill him." Baxter looked at Foley, and Foley looked at Baxter, said, Baxter not getting the tobacco out quick enough. Foley reminded him he was waiting. We didn't pretend to run freights, but I concluded to try the fellow on one, feeling sure that If he was crooked he would ditch it nnd skip. So Foley ran a long string of empties and a car or two of rotten oranges down to Harvard Junction that night, with one of the dispatchers for pilot. Under my orders they had a train made up at the Junction for him to bring back to McCloud. They had picked up all the strays in the yards, Including half a dozen cars of meat that the local board of health had condemned after it had laid out In the sun for two weeks nnd a car of butter we had been shifting around ever since the beginning of the strike. When the strikers saw the stuff coming in next morning behind Foley they concluded I had gone crazy. "What do you think of the track. Foley?" said I. "Fair." he replied, sitting down on my desk. "Stiff hill down there by Zanesvllle." "Any trouble to climb It?" I asked, for I liad purposely given him a henv train. "Not with that car of butter. If jvj hold that butter another week, It w.ll climb a hill without auy engine." 'Tan you handle a passenger trniu:" "I gues so." "I'm going to send you wet on No. 1 tonicht." "Then you'll have to give me a five man. That guy you sent out last nlcl.t is n lightning rod peddler. The dis patcher threw most of the coal." "I'll go with you myself, Foley. I ran give you steam. Can you stand it to double back tonight?" "I can stand It If you can." When I walked into the roundhouse In the evening with a pair of overall on Foley was In the cab getting ready for the run. Neighbor brought the flier in from the east. As soon as he had uncoupled aud got out of the way wo backed down with the US. It was the euglne we had left nnd, luckily for my back, an easy steamer. Just as we coupled to the mall car a crowd of strikers swarmed out of the dusk They were In an ugly mood, and when Andy Cameron nnd Bat Nicholson spraug up into the cab I saw we were In for trouble. "Look here, partner," exclaimed Cameron, laying a heavy hand on To- XkUohon bprang on him like a tiger ley's shoulder, "you don't want to take this train out, do you? You wouldn't beat honest worklngmen out of a job?" "I'm not beating anybody out of a Job. If you want to take out this train take it out. If you dou't, get out of thl cab." Cameron was nonplused. Nicholson. a surly brute, rnised his fist menacingly. "See here, boss," he growled, "we won't stand no scabs on this line." "Get out of this cab." "I'll promise you you'll never get out of it alive, my buck, If you ever get Into It again!" cried Cameron, swinging down. Nicholson followed, muttering nngilly. I hoped wo were out of the scrape; but. to ray consternation. Foley, picking up his oil can, got rlgl.t down behind them nnd began filling his cups without the least attention to anybody. Nicholson sprang on him like n tiger. The onslaught was so sudden thnt they (Continued on next page.) COMMISSIONER'S SALE. A. J. Graves etc Plff. 1 vs s Equity Virginia Graves etc Dft. ) By virtue of a judgment and Order of Sale of the Crittenden Gircmt Court, rendered at the March term thereof. 1007 in the above cause. I shall proceed to offer for sale at the Court-house door in Marion to the highest bidder, at Public Auction, Monday the 13th day of May 11)07 at 1 o'clock P. M. or thereabout, (being Court day), upon a credit of six months, the following described properity, to wit: A certain house and lot near Crittenden county Ky, 7-V acres and bounded as follows beginiug on the Eddyvillc road and comes to Mrs. Cooksey thence with her line N (50 E 30 poles to her a stake thence with another line of her's S IS E 25 poles to a stake on side of road thence N o;i L ou poles to old line of Jacobs thence with same 2s SU W 02 poles to a stake on Eddyville road, thence with said road S 81 W 10 poles, thence S 14 W 22 poles to the begining. For the purchase price the purchaser, with approved security or securities, must execute Bond, bearing legal interest from the day of sale until paid, and having the force and effect of a judgment. Bidders will be prepared to comply promptly with these terms. J. G. Bochestek, Commissioner. COMMISSIONER'S SALE. Joe L. Clinton, Plff J vs Equity. Ja. F. Cook, ct al, Dft. By virtue of a Judgement and Order of Sale ot the Crittenden Circuit Court, rendered at the March Term thereof, IDC 7, in the above cause for the sum of $'.', Til.'i.b" with interet at the rate of 0 per cent, per annum lrom the 2.") day of August ll'Ol! on .?14.")1 and interet on remainder from November 2."). 1002. until paid, and 2.")U cots herein, 1 shall proceed to oiter tor a!e at the Courthouse door in Marion to the highet bidder, at Public Auction, on Monday the i:Hh day of May 1007, at 1 o clock P. 31.. or thereabout, (being Court day) upon a credit oi -ix. twelve and eighteen month, the following described property, to-wit: A certain tract ol land situated in Crittenden county, Ky., and known a the John Walter Cook iaim, near Mattoon. Thi farm i situated within two miles ol llepton, on the I. C. 11. It. and within six miles of Weton, on the Ohio Itiver, and lie on the old Fynu'. ferry road between said points, aud is iu a line state ot cultivation, with good improvement and well watered, and contains acies. Or sufficient thereof to produce the tunis oi money so ordered to be made. For the purchase price the purchaser, with approved security or securities, must execute bond, bearing legal interest irom the day of sale until paid, and having the force and effect of a judgment. Bidders will be prepared to comply promptly with these term. J. G. KOCHESTEK, Commissioner. Sale For School Taxes. By virtue of taxes due Marion Graded Common School District No 27 of Crittenden county Kentucky. I will on Monday May 13th, 1007., between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 2 o'clock p. m. expose to public sale, to the highest bidder for cash in hand, the following property, for so much thereof as may De necessary, to satisfy the amount of the taxes due and costs, and assessed in the following names to wit. Dollins Nelle house and lot in Marion Ky taxesf or 1004-3-G 12.10 Givens J. W. house and lot in Marion Ky taxes for 1904-5-6 25.95 Henry Albert M. house and lot in Marion Ky taxes for 1904- 5-6 7. SO Henry S. N. house and lot in Marion Ky taxes for 1905-6 11.45 H. A. Haynes Treasurer, Marion Graded Common School Dist. No. 27 This April 1st. 1907. Eczema is Now Curable ZEMO, a scientific preparation for external use. Stops itching instantly and destroys the germs that cause ekin diseases. "Eczema quickly yields and is permanently cured by thfs'remarknb.e medicine. All Druggists. Write for sample. E.W. Rose Med. Co..St. Louis, Mo. HAYNES & TAYLOR. .Louis O. 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M., or thereabout, (being Court day), upon a credit of six months, the following described property to wit: A certain tract of land lying and being in the county of Crittenden and state of Kentucky and being the same tract of land purchased by A. J. Grant from J. B. McKinlcy on the Sth day of Oct. 1902. See deed recorded in deed book 13, page 159, in the office of the Clerk of the Crittenden County Court Said land is bounded as follows: Beginning on a white oak corner T. W. Hughes, thence S. 20, E. 20 poles to a hickory, thence X. S3, E. 20 poles to a stone, thence S. 04, E. 56 poles to a stone at the Xorth corner of the lane, thence X, 15, E. 4S poles to a white oak, thence 16 E. 04 poles to a stake, thence 75 W. 20 poles to a small black oak (now down), thence W. 54 poles to a poplar, thence about South and about 12 poles to a white oak and hickory, thence S. 00, "W. 15 poles to a white oak, thence S. 22, W. 44 poles to becinninc containing 57 acres. Or sufficient thereof to produce the sums of money so ordered to be made. For the purchase price the purchaser, with approved security or securities, must execute Bond, bearing legal interest from the day of sale until paid, and having the force aud effect of a Judgment. Bidders will be prepared to comply with these term. J. G. BocuETEn, Commissioner. COMMISSIONER'S SALE. It. C. Hill l'lff. ) v Kquity. W. E. Cuirv Dft. By virtue of a judgement and Order of sale of the Crittenden Circuit Court, rendered at the March term thereof, 1007, in the aboe cause for the sum of $201.09 with interest at the rate of 0 per cent, per auuuni from the Oth day ot July 1000. until paid, and $40.00 costs herein, I shall proceed to o'fler for sale at the Court-house door in Marion to the highest bidder, at Public Auction, on Mondav the 13th day of May 1007, at 1 o'clock P. 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