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THREE CALLS F Strange Superstition I 1 the Th Outside the Southern Cacilie round- ! house in this city a group ol' locomo- J live engineers were sitting and chat ting. "Now, there's no use denying that it's thc third ? all that gets an engi neer," said .lohn Nolan, thc oldest cngirn er in California, as he came out of the roundhouse wiping oil from his hands. "I have yet t<> know an eng i ncer who doesn't believe that, and I could tell all day long of instances lo prove thc correctness <>f the belief. "Then, too, there's no use denying that most engineers can go through any sort of wreck and not get killed until they have their third call. Take the case ?d' Mill Conner upen the Frisco and Sacramento division last year. "Mill was hauling n six-car tr.iii) 00 which was half a ton af giant powder on thc gondola car. A lot of Mexican track laborers were in a car near the gondola. "Noone ever knew how it happen ed, but the dynamite ignited. Half the Mexicans were blown to atoms, and the rest were mangled. "The fireman on the engine with Bill Conner had been in two wrecks before. Ho was blown over 100 yards away, and probably nover knew bis fate. "The gondola was shivered to matches. The rails were bent like hairpins, and the whole train and lo comotive were in ruins. "When the wrecking car came to clear things up the tender was jacked up, and there, beneath a lot of coal, covered with blood and coal dust, and many broken bones, waa Bill Conner, unconscious and apparently breathing his last. The doctor said life was a matter of only a few hours. ''The railroad boys gathered about Bill as he lay on the grass alongside the track. Ile regained consciousness and, getting his breath, managed to say: " 'Oh, I'll como through all right This is only my second call.' "The doctor shook his head, hut every railroad man there knew Bill was right. Well, it took four month's of nursing and a heap ol' pluck on Bill's part, but hu came out sound and well. "Bill was transferred to tho Port land division, and had tho softest and safest job in his lifo. Ho feared an other and third call. So he Bought as safe a job as possible, and at much smaller, pay. "Last Spring he was drawing No. 6 passenger accommodation, just outside of Woodburn, when tho connecting rod on the engineer's side of the loco motivo snapped, and the looso end stuck through tho cab, breaking Bill's leg and crushing his ankle. "It didn't seem like such a serious accident for a railroad engineer, but Consumption Salt pork is a famous old fashioned remedy for con sumption. "Eat plenty of pork," was the advice to the consumptive 50 and 100 years ago. Salt pork is good if a man can stomach it. The idea behind it is that fat is the food the consumptive needs most. Scott's Emulsion is the mod ern method of feeding fat to the consumptive. Pork is too rough for sensitive stomachs. Scott's Emulsion is the most refined of fats, especially prepared for easy digestion. Feeding him fat in this way, which is often the only way, is half thc battle, but Scott's Emulsion does more than that. There is some thing about the combination of cod liver oilandhypophos phites in J Scott's Emulsion that puta new life into the weak parts and has a special action on thc diseased lungs. -~ -^r- ? r^. sarnp]e v?n ke sent free upon request. Ba ?ur? that thU pieter? In th? form of a label U OD the wrapper of every bottle of EtUuUIbn you buy. SCOTT & BOWNE, CHEMISTS, 409 Pear! St., N. V. 50c and fi; all druggists. OR ENGINEERS.! <. ?cii?ia-r to ti io Km^s ol j rottlc. Bill said : "Boys, it'?my third call. I'll make a powerful effort to gel round again, but it looks bad to me." "lu i month Bill died. Blno<l poi soning M t ni and all sorts of unusual complication.?; came into thc case. "lbj you remember that case of you ii?? Fred Fuller, out on thc cast I'll I'aso division?" said an engineer at Nolan's elbow. ThatprovcsthoHcn.se ol' the three time? :i 11 ? I OUt belief. "One night flown t!:<.re when the dark ni.-.-.- was so heavy that you could almost chop it, and tho rain came down in rivers, Fred Fuller's engine was turning a heavy curve out on the Texas plains, and a drivcwhcel Hange broke. The encino jumped thc track, and Fred had a close shave from in stant death in thc wreck. "lt was his fisrt call, and of course, he survived. A few months in the hospital, and ho wus ready foran en gine again. "Ho got light work about the Kl I'aso yards and on duylight runs. About a year after thc wreck he be- 1 gan taking regular night runs and ap peared to be as good au engineer as he ever was. "(Juc night it happened that Fred was put on the same train that ho was on when hurt. It was noticed that he was a little nervous, but no attention was paid to this. Thc night turned out to bo the same kind of one as that on which he was hurt-dark and rainy. "AH tho train neared thc curvo where the first accident had occurred the fireman noticed Fred slack up his engine, and at thc same limo he began to get paler and paler. As thoy rounded the curve where he had been ditched beforo Fred uttered a shriek aud fell over in a faint. Thc strain was too much for him. "He was taken off his engine, this time for good, of course, and was for a couple ol' years doing switch work in the yards. As an engineer his first call had ruined him for life. No amount of money could biro him to steer an eugine around that curve again after daik, and he was known to bo a man of great nerve, too." "1 fired for seven years forold Har vey Post, and ho was thc mort dare devil man at a throttle I ever knew, until he had his secoud close oall in a railroad wreck," said a man in tho group. "Harvy Bost w 'Jollis 1*. Huntington's favorite on _eor. He used to run from San Francisco to Bakcrsvillc. "I have never known any ono with so little fear nnd so much faith in fate as Bost. He believed that fate ruled everything in au engineer's life, and that, do wh^.t he might, an engineer would not die until his time had come. He was the fastest locomotive runner 1 ever knew. "Boat's urt?t call came along in the summer of 1881, when ho was running the Los Angeles express out of Oak land carly in the afternoon of a very hot day. ; Thc great speed was easily made. "About two-miles south of thc Mcr cedo Station he struck thc double track, and a little further ou a freight train going south on thc opposite track hove on sight running at a good speed. When within 100 feet of the freight train Bost saw a car iu the middle of thc long line of freight ears leave thc rails and strike thc track. "The cor struck so hard that it bounded back and turned partly over on thc south track. Post's train shot by the^deiailed car an instant after ward at thc rate if forty miles an hour. Thc place at which tho acci dent occurred was near a culvert and steep embankment some fifty feet high, and had he struck the cara ter rible wreck would have resulted. "I was on the fireman's side of thc locomotive, and was too paralyzed at thc prospect of instant death to move, much less speak. When wc stopped at Merccdc old Harvey called across the cab to me : " 'Soy, boy, that was a terrible close call, wasu't it?^ Guess no one aboard thc cars knows what a shave that was from a?-whooping big wreok. That's myjfirst call." "It waB along in thc winter of 1882 83 that Post got his second call. He was then pulling tho Coast express from San Jose to Frisco. "He waa on the north-bound train one doy,'and was two miles from Red wood City. Heavy rains had loosened the earth obeneath the rails at this point, and as Post's engine shot over the soggy earth, down thoy went. "Tho sudden stop of the engine hurled about two tons of ooal and the baggage and mail cara on top of Post and me, and we were in imminent dan ger of being burned or smothered to death, ?after we h-\d escaped being crushed to death. But ne got off with ?ome severe injuries.' ''In two moil'.hi Post was hack ?rn j his engine andas L'?"'1 a;? ever. In describing I i- experiences he used t ? >:iy h<' was most surprised, wheu ho found his engine finking beneath him, that he had not taken thc precau tion to jump out of tho cab window. Ile haili he knew it was his second call, and he could, therefore alford to take some chancea. "1 <iuit tiring for I'ost after that ac cident at Redwood, Two calls inside of two years were too much for mc. "I'ost thought it a great joke. He declsred a man could do anything he liked with a locomotive and not die until fate had so decreed. Post's wife begged him to give up engineering, or at least take a yard locomotive, where | thc danger is lc-s. I'ost replied : "If I can't run first-class I'll not run at all. ' "1'iist said that this third call would be his end, but he was dead sure that the third call would not come until fate said so. Well, fate claimed him about two years later. "Ile had been working overtime for several weeks, running between Frisco ami Santa Cruz. There were a lot of big seashore excursions, and Post was making uioney4by extra work in haul ing them. "He went without sleep, and nod ding for a moment while he was at the throttle, he can past a siding which the train dispatcher had ordered him to take. A few seconds later his lo comotive crashed full into an engine . miling a fast northbound freight. "lt was a horrible wreck. Thc freight engineer was bruised and cut frightfully. It didn't seem as if he could live a day, but it - was his first call. So he ultimately got well. "Post was taken out of the wreck scalded about the legs. He had been jammed against the smoko stack. Every one of thc railroad boys knew it was his third call. Death claimed him an hour later." "Speaking of superstitions ou a lo comotive," said Dan B. Miller, "re minds mu of a time I had when I wat pulling the California overland ovci thc Tucson and Yuma division, dowe in Arizona. What I am going to saj proves that thcro is something uncan ny, something human-like about a lo comotive-that an engiuc can be youi hoodoo or your friend, i "Ono evening I got orders to takt the Sunset Limited Westbound out o Tucson at miduight. Kverythinj seciiud to go wrong with tho engine Tho roundhouse hostler had forgottei to set the oil valves properly, thc lire man was slower than molasses; am the baggageman were woefully slow Besides, thc dispatcher kept us in th station half an hour past lcavin time. "Just as we were about to pull awa the conductor came and whispered i my car that ono of the railroad vice presidents was back in a Pullman o thc train. That was enough to mak any man in an engine cab want to d his level best for his reputation. "Notwithstanding the dark night the danger of track washouts, and th lateness of our departuro, I mado u my mind to make up time betwec Tucson aud Marioopa, if thc whee stayed on the tracks and thc truel and cars held together. The fircmo gaid he'd risk anything to make tim So, two miles out of Tucson, I put c all thc speed thc engine had. "But she didn't seem to move mut faster. The steam ran down. ? w perspiring with anxiety, Right the midst of it all thc pumps begs to act wrong. One quit work alt gother." "I was beside myself. We bcg? to drop even our running timo. \V left Marioopa a little before dayligh an hour and a half late. "At that station tho conductor cac to tho cab and said : 'Hope wo w get to Yuma in time for dinner,' ai I was boiling at his sarcasm. Yuc was a breakfast station, you know. "Things went worse. We lost tit all along. Three miles east of Azt Springs I found tho water was gett ii low in the boiler. Something had be dene immediately with the pum] there was a long, heavy grade to climbed, just ahead. "Thc conductor was well-nigh oraz and I was in despair. We pulled in a sido track and I began examini thc pumps. "Suddenly thcro was a locomoti shriek and a special tourist tm hound for New Orleans came rollir at thc rate of forty miles an hot down the long grade toward us. i my despair turned into amazemoi Wc had miraculously escaped a bei on collision. "The telegraph operator at Marico had neglected to give us a meeti order for the speoial. But for o balky engine we would have met th fast train full tilt. As frightfu wreok as ever was known in the Soul west would have resulted. "Hero is the strange part of tl experienoe: I. found nothing wrc with the pumps. After the spec bad passed and we pulled back on tho main track both pumps work like a oharm. "If a magio wand had been wa; over? tho engine it could not have dc bette;- work. We quiskly hid all I steam we wanted /ind in half an h< we ireie making reenid-brAaking ?tv utT'isn th?: Ariz ina wastes. Wereach ed Yuma on the very second of sched ule titue."-rLos Angeli*Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean. A Future Financier. Tlierc is a six year old West Phiia deljihiau who already gives evidence of possessing the necessary qtialilica tions to place hiuiat the head of some great truHt. For some weeks past he has been troubled with toothache, and his mother has coaxed, threatened and hired him to go and have the too.h extracted, but the small hoy could not get his courage to the ueccs sary point. Finally one morning when mamma had Leen making bids, like the crowd at au auction, "Une dollar, one and one half," and at last had reached "three," the small boy broke in with : "Say, mamma, would you give me $:,(" The mother hesitated a moment and then said: "Ves. Anything to have it over." "I'll do it, then," said the small boy. ?o away they went in a hurry before he could repent of his bargain. Ar rived at the dentist's, the operation was so painless and so soon over that the small boy didn't realize that the tooth was out uutii they told him. On the way home his mother said, "Now, Harold, don't you think that was a very little thing for mamma to give you ?5 for?'' "Yes, mamma, ? do," said the youug Gnrncier. "But I'll tell you what. We'll call it $4.75, and you give me the $5, and I'll give you back the 23 cents some timo when I have an other tooth pulled."-Philadelphia Ledger. The Retort Courteous. A Baltimore girl who has boen liv ing in California for Hoveral years and who has recontly returned home has brought with her a number of sto ries of the way of the "heathen Chinee" as he appears to the dwellers on thc racine coast. Thinking that her laundryman could understand pig- ' eon English only, 'tho girl from the effete east addressed him on one oc casion thus: "Mc no likce my waBhec brought home Friday. Mo likce washee T' i-sday. Why you no bliogeo wa? bee Thursday?" And the Chinaman, to her complete discom?turo, replied, "Madam, it was not convenient." After that fro9t, so the teller of the story says, nothing but thc most irre proachably correct English of the uni versity type was spoken out to that Celestial.-Baltimore Sun. - When a man tells tho truth in a horsctrade it is a sign that he will never go to congress. - The chief trouble about good advice is that those who give the Minst of it usually follow il the least. - Gold may buy obedience, but it takes something better to secure love and respect. - Charity covcrb a multitude of tins only when it is not exercised for that specified purpose. - Young man, the story that is not fit for "ladies to hear is unfit for a gcntlemau to tell. - "Tapcriug off" on a bad habit is very much like tryiug to wash ohar eoa'. white. - For tho purpose of studyiug Biblical history and geography twen ty-one divinity studonts of the Uni versity of Chicago are going for a four month's tour of Palestine. This will be tho second studcut expedition, Prof. Shailer Mathows having taken a party to Damascus three years ago. The latest party will bo in oharge of Prof. Herbert L. Willett. - Rev. James Warden has just been admitted at his own rejuest to the Baltimore county alms house at Texas, Md. He is an unordained Methodist preacher and has labored for more than sixty years in promo ting the spread of tho gospel. His age is now 102 years, making him the oldest of tho alms house inmates, and one of thc oldost men of the Stativ CRUELTY TO THE HORSE. The Ut: of Blinders. Checkrcins, Curb G ts and Docking. Thc horse, the most useful of all animals, is the one marked ?<>r thc most of incus iii ?rcu?mehi. I'or ihc most part housed in .!! lighted, ill ventilated and ill smelling quar ters, worked to its full capacity, cared for only to the degree that selfish interest prompts, thc animal is delivered over ns the unprotected object of thc unrestrained passions of man. The average man fails ap parently to understand that ani mals lune a nervous system, among them to a marked degree the horse, and that were he to govern his own temper he could, with a little pa tience, get control of thc horse's nervous system and make out of it a servant vastly more cllicient than it is under thc system in which he heats and jerks and drives it to dis traction. A short walk in any city will dis cover ninny hi iud horses. Why? There are no blind cows compara tively. And yet the sight of the one naturally is as good as that of the other. The diilerence is simply that ihc horse from the beginning has been abused, ill housed, over worked and worked under condi tions that have driven him blind. His eyes are shut in hy blinders at each side, for which there is no usc but to satisfy thc caprice or fashion of man. So, his vision interfered with and deprived of air, thc wonder is that with tlie other treatment he gets he is not blind oftener. Be sides this, in other cases his neck is aimost pulled out of joint by over head checkreins that raise his face to the air and turn his eyeballs to thc glare of thc sun unprotected. Or, on tho other hand, deprived of chcckrcin, he is bitted with a curb that pulls his jaws to his breast and tortures him in this fashion. And then, according to thc spreading fashion of the day, he is subjected to thc most cruel of all practices, docking, which not merely tortures in the practice, but leaves him to the torment of flies for the rest of his life. It is thc merciful man that is merciful to his beast, and if it is the merciful that obtain mercy wc have, as a people, some way to come before we get that blessing. Indianapolis News. Mistaken Politeness. A Fort street car was "bowling merril}' along toward Woodmere cemetery the other afternoon when a white haired old man who had been sitting quietly in front of a stylishly dressed young woman who was standing up started as if to rise and give her the live cent scat. Thc yourie woman put her hand on his shoulder and, gently restraining him. said: "Xever mind, sir; just keep your seat." Thc old man looked dazed for a block or two, then attempted to gain his feet, only to be again pushed back by the young woman, politely remarking as she held him down: "Keep your seat, please. I've stood up so long now that I don't mind it." "Well," said the old man in shrill falsetto tones, "I want to get off! You've made me go half a mile past my street now!"-Detroit News. Different Climates. An Irishman returning home from America got into conversation with a ii Englishman, who asked him. what part of America he hailed from "California." said Pat. "I believe," said thc Englishman, "there are different climates near each oilier there." "Well, to give you an idea," said Pat, "I was shooting one day, and my dog, a well trained one, set him self across a ditch. 1 was surprised to find on my giving him- the usual token to start that he remained mo tionless. Going toward bini to as certain the reason, I found that his tail was frostbitten at one side of the ditch and his head sunstruck on the other."-London Tit-Bits. A COMMON I COMPLAINT. Catarrh begins with a stubborn cold in the head, inflammation or sore ness of the membrane or lining of the nose, discharge of mucus matter, headaches, neuralgia and difficult breathing, and even ia this early stage is jkuost intolerable. But when the filthy secretions begin to drop back i ure the throat and stomach, and the blood becomes polluted and the system contaminated tJ , . . . . . _. . .__ . " ..._._? i ?i.?., I had a continual headache, my cheoku had nowa by the cat ai rn al pois- purple, my noaa waa always stopped up. my breath on. then the sufferer had a etokenlng- and disgusting- odor, ana X cpu?. hod L inoeaatwUy. I heard ot a. S. 8. and commenced to usa begins to realize what a it and after takln* several bottles X wea oared and disgusting and sicken- have never slnoe had the eli*Meat symptom of tho |MnT^.-?,.n?A r*"f~.~1, :?. disease. Mi? MASYL.8TOBM. lng disease Catarrh is. xrerthweat Cor. 7th and FoMx ats., st. Joseph, Ve. It affects thc kidneys and stomach aa well as other parts of the body. It is a constitutional disease and as inhaling mixtures, salves, ointments, etc., are never more than palliative or helpful, even in the beginning of Catarrh, what can you expect from such treatment when it becomes chronic and. the whole system affected ? Only such a remedy a' ?. S. S. can reach this ebsti <m ?w i ? y****^ nate, deep-seated disease and purge the blood of the ? C** catarrhal poison. S. 8. S. purifies and builds up the diseased blood, and the inflamed membranes are I^J I^^J healed ana" tlie excessive secretion of mucus cease? ..eaaew ..anew' ^mmir when new, rich, blood ia coming to the diseased (arts, and a permanent cure is the result. S. 8. 8. ia guaranteed purely vegetable and a reliable remedy for Catarrh in all stages. Write if in need of medical advice; this win coat yon nothing. THE SW?FTSP?CtFSC CO?, AnJlHf?fM, Five Physicians bad dona their beat tc ??re J-aa WHttes, of Dinoa, 8. C.. who bad one o? tho moat terri bk? c-**s of RHEUMATISM M record. Tb*y ell failed nelli ono doctor ?roscrlbcd IT CURCO HELPLESS CRIPPLE. Mr. Wilkel writci In the coarte of a lone letter, dated Augutt 18,1902: "Mr lett were drawn back until mr leet touched mr hips. I wat at helplets tl ? baby for nearlr 12 months. The muse lea of mr armt and lee? were hard and shriveled up. I suffered death manr times over. Wat treated by six different physicians in McColl,Dillon and Marion, but none of them could do me any eood, until Or. I. P. Ewing, of Dillon, told me to try your RHEUM ACIDE. I began to take it, and before the first bottle was used up I beean to get better. I used Si bottles and nat completely cured." Dr. J. P. Ewing confirms Mr. Wilkes' statement lo erery particular. FREE TR I AC BOTTLE SEKT ?>N A5??UC?.TiOH TO BOBBITT CHEMICAL CO., PROPRIETORS. BALTIMORE, MO BLOOD PURIFIERS, A preparation that will purify the blood, renew strength, fortify against disease and make one feel, even in the Spring? like working. Such a preparation should be in demand, and is. The name cf it is " EVANS' SARSAPARILLA.1' Now is the time to take on this valuable remedy. EVANS PHARMACY, Manufacturers of EVANS* LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS. 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