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THRILL!! I n Cab of Doon Thc following Btory, written by .Jacob "Waldeck, who rode in the en gine cab of the Twcutieth Century Limited, will be of especial interest, ni?ee it was this same train which was destroyed in the frightful wreck at Mentor, Ohio: "It will be the ride of your life," said thc high official as he handed out a letter authorizing the bearer to ride in the cab of the engine on that flying initial trip of the Lake Shore's eighteen hour flyer to New York. It proved to be the ride of the life of everybody that made that time killing, record-breaking trip. The engine ride was made from Elk hart to Cleveland, over two divisions of the road. It meant four hours in the cab, mostly in daylight, but in cluding an additional touch of excite ment that came from flying over the rails in thc dark. Somehow tho engine took on an ap pearance different from other engines when the bearer of the letter from headquarters climbed into thc cab at Elkhart. It seemed to be more than a mere machine. In tho majesty of itB power, groomed and primed for thc race, it almost appeared to be a thing of life. It was like a thoroughbred waiting for the word. John Gulmyer was thc engineer and ft. H. Dunemeir was tho fireman. Both live in Elkhart. The engineer is s veteran and he looked the part. He was grizzled, deliberate in action and slow in speech, but giving the im pression of ono who knew II?B busi ness every minute and at all angles. Dunemier was sleuder and wiry and he kept the engine keyed up every inch of the way. The run to Toledo was 1311 miles. The last 71 miles of this distance, Butler to Toledo, was a straight and level stretch of track. Just before the engine pulled out -of Elkhart a man brought to Gulmyer this cheerful message: "You can go through stations ahead of time aud get to Toledo ahead of time." Gulmyer's faoe lighted with pleas ure. His sohedule was a mile a min ute, but he knew it would be beaten. "We will hold our own to Kendal ville,'' (42 milos,) he said, "and be yond that I will puen her along. We'll get there io good time." The way he said "good time" meant plainly enough a "busted" sohedule. "She can stand a little more water," suggested Fireman Dune emeir. She was given a little more water and then some ooah Opening of the furnace door filled the cab with withering heat. "It'll be oooler when we get under way," said Dunemeir, reassuring ly. Within a few seconds of starting time Gulmyer got ready for business. ? One hand was cn the throttle and in the other ho held his watch. There was a piping whistle as tho con ductor gave the starting signal and she was off at the instant. In a few minutes Elkhart had faded away and the engine was booming along at the 60-mile-an-hour clip called for by the schedule. Goahen was reaohed in thirteen minutes. A monster sign at a race track there set forth Audubon Boy had covered a mile in 2.03 3 4. Fine time, of oonrse, but not impres sive as seen from the cab. Gulmyer was nipping out two miles in the timo given on the sign, and, a little further along, he crowded three miles into Audubon's record for a mile. A gale blew through ?he cab. Tho engineer leaning from tho window, was a heroic figure. His grayish hair streamed in the wind and his "jump er" assumed balloon-like proportions, Dunemeir with bare head and his shirt open at the throat, was trying to sat isfy the everlasting desire of the f ur nace for coal. East of Greshan the train hit a nine mile grade. The engine tugged and struggled ae though it would shake off the dragging oars and make some real speed. A little beyond the rise a mile was covered in 51 seconds. The big engine was swaying; not enough to be unsteady, bnt enough to give some thrills to a layman. The men on a passenger train going west on the second traok waved a sa lute. The waving began half a mile away ?nd didn't ooneist of more than two or three waves because in a few seconds the flyers had passed. . A glistening white streak was seen between the rails ahead. "We'll take wa^er - there," exclaim ed the firemen. In ? few moments a ?coop connecting with the water tank /Was dropped into the trough. There was no slackening cf speed, and tat a mlle a minute it Soon became appar ent that a traie can take on a lot of wa* <iG RIDE ned !Fast Flyer. ter in a very short time. Besides the tender, there wa^ a tremendous cloud of i-pray. A few moments later water began Fquirling out of the top of the tank. Near Kendallville was a sharp curve and a view of thc track beyond wa? hidden by a hill. Now, if any body thinks its fun to approach a curve of thin sort at SH feet a second or so, when he don't know what is to j bc found beyond, he wants to try it. In this particular case it happened that there lay beyond the curve a long stretch of straight, level track. A chaoge in the motion of tho engine told of increased speed. Gulmyer arose to coax even more speed from the engine and there was a ready re- ? sponse. Five miles wero covered in four minutes, or at the rate of 75 miles an hour. Looking straight ahead the track seemed to be rushing towards thc train. As the rails and ties disap peared under the engine the sensation* of the tenderfoot in the oab was (some thing like flying or riding a cannon ball or using some such swift means of moving along. Meadows and groves went by a swimming mass of green. After Butler, Ind., there was a Btraight-away course for Toledo. Gul myer wno on his feet again forcing the utmost bit of power from the engine. The engine swayed and tossed as it torc along. The wind swept through tho car windows in a perfect hurri cane. There was a hissing, roaring sound that was deafening. A stretch of 18 miles down grade waB covered at the rate of 8F> miles an hour. A smile of satisfaction ap peared on Gulmyer's grim faoe. "This is going some," yelled I>un emicr, barely succeeding in making himself heard above the raokct. Yes, it was going some. It was fly ing. Glaring white mile posts became more and more frequent. There was a feeling of exhilaration that wa9 tem pered by an occasional oinder that found its way into the cab. These oinders were numerous, but ridiog in like on the wind, they had a way of Btinging like hornets. Just outside of Toledo, thc engine was shut down a bit. There was a run of six miles in eight minutes. Then the train went rattling through the yards. Switohes there took on an ugly look. They looked like traps set in the traok to wreck. The train swung into the crowded station, the distance from Elkhart having been oovered at the rate of 71 miles an hour. Scores of people hur ried forward to congratulate Gulmyer. He paid little heed to hurrah. He felt that the great performance was nothing extraordinary. They had told him to put the train through in quiok timo and he had done it. That was all. There was a change cf engine at Toledo. Engineer C. C. Robertson and Fireman O. H. White were charged with the duty of getting the train to Cleveland in time that would be a credit to the Lake Shore. From Toledo to Cleveland is 108 miles. The sohedule gave Robertson 125 minutes in which to make the trip. He made it clear that he needed no suoh an ex travagant allowance of time. They told him that the way was olear and he might hurry along and get to Cleveland as soon as he oared to. Robertson was strong, compactly built and aggressive, and proceeded in a business-like way to get ready for the run. White was tall, broadehoul dered and clean-cut as an athlete. To protect his eyes tho engineer wore automobile goggles. When the word was given she was off like a racer. Tho yards were olear and the train sailed through Toledo at express speed. Beyond the town it hit up a 16-hour-to-New York clip. It was dusk, but crowds were ont to see the train. They waved hats and handkerchiefs. Probably they oheer ed some, too, but nothing of the sort oould be heard in the oab. White worked like a nailer, with the reault that the dial on the steam guage hovered steadily between 195 ead 200 pounds. At intervals he pulled down a hose and soused the cab floor and the coal pile. The cab of the flyer locomotive is no summer resort. Oak Harbor was reached three min utes ahead of the schedule, and the engine hammered on at a rate that in sured bigger gains farther ?long. Robertson kept ? keen . sud steady lookout for the signala that gave him the right of way. The throttle was wide open and tho fifine sailed along steady as a dook. Port Clinton was reached 4 min?tes ahead of time. There are some sharp curves along there, but nobody noticed, any slackening of ?peed. "Hold on," was the word at one of them. Thc warning was timely enough in view of the lurch with which the engine hit the turn. Across Sandusky bay the train sped almost at the water edge. At Sandusky depot there was a large throng. The train, though, dusted by at the rate of 70 miles an hour. There was no disrespect to Sandusky in the go by, but Rob ertson was io a hurry to get to Cleve land. Darkness set in and there was a blinding Hash of light. Water was taken on the fly and lhere was another exhibition of a moving Niagara Falls. Signal lights gleamed along the track. Never before had it seemed that green and white were such friendly colors. With the train moving at close to 70 miles an hour, there was no yearning for red. When there was a glimpse of the latter in Bwitch yards it was suggestive of blood and trou ble. All along the main track, though, there was a steady lice of the friendly lights that seemed to be beckoning on the flyer. The train now straightened out for the run into Cleveland. There was a bewilderiug mpss of lights when thc city was Anally reached, but the ones that concerned Robertson all indicated a clear track. When he struck the down grade west of the city he kept a spcoial lookout. Would the drawbridge over the river be elosed for the train? It was a time of anxiety because with a vessel passing through the draw there would be a delay of 10 minutes probably more. All the time that had been gained in the magnificent rua from Toledo would be lost. A system of signals had been ar ranged so that Robertson would get ample warning whether the way was clear. lIo leaned forward eagerly, watching for thc sign. At last ho saw it. A white light. Ile settled back satisfied, and tho train boomed along at the high rate that had been maintained. Skimming through the yard, over rattling switches and among trains thal had been anchored to make way the flyer rolled into the union station 20 minutes ahead of time. ? Jilted Man Triumphs. Mrs. Winkins Freeman, tho novel ist, nodded toward an angular woman of forbidding aspeot at a tea. "You would hardly believe," she said, "that she was once a very beau tiful girl. And she was as vain and selfish as she WBB beautiful. She jilt ed three desirable young men in two years. "She had, I suppose, a good time while her beauty lasted. Now her beauty is gone, and she is alone in the world-a hard, cruel old woman, with a bitter tongue. "And if she onoe triumphed over men, mou now, if they are vindictive and cruel enough, may triumph over her. "Ono of the men she jilted was sufficiently cruel and vindictive for such a triumph. She met him a few years ago and said: " 'Let me see; was it you or your brother who proposed to me when I was a girl?' " I don't know, madam,' the man answered. ? 'Probably it was my fath er.' " _ m ^_ HAY FEVER FOR 27 YEARS. Well Known New England Woman Cured of Hay Fever-Cure Was Lasting. The thousands of discouraged peo ple who dread the approach of Bum mer because they have hay fever and cannot find any relief from it, will read with interest and gratitude the following ?talement from Helen S. Williams of Mansfield, Mass. "For 27 years, from the month of August until heavy frost, I have been afflicted with hay fever, growing worse and worse eaoh hear, until of late years I was unable to attend to my work during that period. "Last summer I fortunately gave Hyomei a trial, and 1 am happy to say that entirely oured me, and. I have had no occurrence of tho dis ease since." Breathe the germ-killing and heal ing balsams of Hyomei and get rid of your hay fever. The complete outfit costs but $1, extra bottles 50 cents. Evans Phar macy agree to refund the money to any hay fever sufferer who uses Hyo mei without benefit. - E. G. Billingsley, vice president of the West Construction company, of Chattanooga, was shot in Darling ton by Joe Brook, a finishing smith of the same concern. The company is building the sewerage system in Dar lington. The wound ie in the jaw, ana is not considered serious. Brook was reprimanded about spme work, whereupon he drew a revolver and firod several shots. '-There ismore fun in tho preli minary engagement, than there is in tho first do mes ti o battle. " -f A widow never calls for help when v a. man attempts to kiss her. It ia usually thc man who needs help. A Bold Bad Book Agent. One day an enterprising agent who had informed himself approached a Mr. Smith with the interested sug gestion '"Now, Mr. Smith, I kuow that to day is your wedding anniversary. Don't you want to give Mrs. Smith a handsome Iiiblc as an anniversary present? I can let you have today a beautiful fifteen dollar Bible for five dollars." After some discussion Mr. Smith took the Bible. Just here the plot thickens. The book-agent pocketed the proceeds, then promptly ran up to Mr. Smith's house, called for Mrs. Smith, and asked if she wouldn't like to raak' ber husband a present of a floe ?J.ble on this anniversary. He said that as he was anxious to dis pose of all his books before going to Cleveland at BIZ o'clock, he would sacrifice a beautiful fifteen dollar Bible for five dollars. After some hesitation Mrs. Smith bought the Bible. When Mr. Smith reached home that evening and presented his wife with a large package containing an anniversary gift she went into the next room and produced its mate. Tableau! Smith vowed vengeance with all the heat of a warm disposi tion. However there was a fine festal supper waiting, so he contented him self for thc present with a t?l?phonie appeal to one Lewis Johnson, a near by friend. "Lewis," he urged, "I want you to hurry down to the station and stop a book-agent who is going to Cleve land at six o'clock. I must see him befdre he leaves town. You just hold him until I can fioish supper and get there." Then he gave a brief description of the man and rushed back to his supper. The good Lewis hopped on a pass ing car and swept down upon the book-agent just as the train pulled in. "See here," he explained, "Smith says that he must see you and that you are to wait over a train for him." "Sorry; I'd like to oblige him, but it's impossible. I'm due in Cleveland at eight-thirty and have got to get there. But I know what Mr. Smith wants. He was thinking of buying a Bible of mine for his wife's anni versary present. It's really a hand some book, whioh I usually Bell for fifteen dollars, but as it is the laet one I have, I offered it to him for five dollars" (producing the Bible.) "He was to let me know if he wanted it. Couldn't you take it to bim, as I can't possibly wait? He'd be disap pointed not to have it, I know." The obliging Lewis thereupon hasti ly produced five dollars for the agent, acquired the Bible, and with the heat intentions in the world trotted back to the Smiths with the book. Seoond tableaul Fortunately their sense of humor saved the situation, and with chastened spirits they dis play all three hooks of Holy Writ to the initiated.-Lippinootts. How He Knew the Size. A man who had recently become engaged to a oharming young girl, Bays Harper's Weekly, ohanoed to be in a fashionable shop when his eye caught a glimpse of a jeweled belt that seem ed to him an acceptable gift for his fiancee. He asked a derk to place an assortment of the belts on the counter. "LadieB* belts?" queried the po lite salesman. "Certainly, sir; what size?" The yonng man blushed; "Real ly," ho stammered, "I don't know." And he. gazed about him hopelessly for m moment or so. Finally a happy thought appearod to strike him: "Can't you let me have a yardstick for a moment?" he asked. The yard? stick being forthcoming, he placed it along the side of his* arm from shoul der to wrist. Then, looking up st the derk, he exclaimed triumphantly, "Twenty-one itches!"1 - A man begins to be old when, no matter how orazy he is over a wo man, he ean't sit out in the moonlight with her without worrying about whether he is catching odd. You've got to be pretty noisy about your religion to make people be lieve you mean it. - A woman asks questions BO as to argue with you if you answer them and to be mad, with you if you don't. - The money a man spends in drinking and smoking would buy something else just as foolish and muoh less enjoyable. - If people had to work as hard performing their duty as they do get ting their fun, the whole world would go on strike. - People call a man a good fel low as long as he lets thom impose on him. - The time a woman has faith in a maa ia when she suspects nobody else has. . - About the time ac amateur gar den gets ready to yield anything it all goes to seed suddenly. - The reason married men don't go looking for trouble the way bache lors do is they have all they want at ho ai e. r-Ee who praises men and flatters* Women his many friends. THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Sailors Say There's No Luck In a 8hip That Has Seen lt. New islands at times rise up from and fall hack into the ocean. Au island suddenly came to light off the coast of Sicily, remained for two months and as quickly disappeared. Sabrina, near the Azores, retired from public life before it was fairly charted. The gulf of Mexico has witnessed thc advent and subsidence ?.f small islands. These upheavals of the bcd of thc ocean suggest all sorts of mysteries connected with the unknown depths. An uncanny experience is related in the Pall Mall Magazine: Our ship was out twenty-three days from Manila to the Sandwich Islands. It was a silent, dead black night. The lead showed deep sea. Suddenly we felt as if we had grounded. The mate suggested a sunken wreck, but the skipper stuck to the theory of earthquake. Sub sequent events showed that he waa right. Daybreak revealed a low and misty sky. We lay as if becalmed in the midst of an oily sea, strangely discolored in patches. Suddenly the water trembled. I can use no other word. The ship rolled, and in the distance rose a huge, balloon shaped mass of vapor, steam or smoke. There was not the slightest sound, but a long line of chafing water stretched across the streaky calm ness. Then thc vapor settled over all, and we could hear but not see the seething and pouring water all about us. The captain ordered a bucketful to be drawn up. It was hot and smelled like gas works. "H'm!" remarked the skipper as he sniffed it. "They're poking up a new continent. I wish we were out of it." The air grew more oppressive ev ery moment. The vessel gave a gen tle side roll, and word was passed that we were aground. Over went tho lead and came up covered with blue, oozy mud. We were wallowing in sludge, thc darkness was pall like and the atmosphere suffocating ly close. Then the air was rent with reports awful to hear in that black ness. There were three of the deaf ening, roaring blasts, and all was again still. When the light came, red and un natural, a strange sight met our eyes. It was as if the bottom of the Pa cific was laid bare. We were help less in a sea of thick mud. The sul phur fumes were choking, and we had to take refuge below. Hour after hour wc gasped, facing thc probability of death by suffocation. Suddenly we felt that we were afloat. Whatever the bank of mud that held. UR, it had disappeared, and after a time we made our way out of the grew?ome spot. When we reached Honolulu tho crew deserted. "There's no luck in a ship that has seen the bottom of the sea," they said. A Boy Bee Eater. A boy bee eater is described by the Rev. Gilbert White as having lived in the neighborhood of Sel borne. He was weakminded and is said to have passed the winter doz ing by the fire in a half torpid state, but when the bees and wasps reap peared he also woke to active life and hunted them constantly for food: He had no fear of their stings, which, however, he extracted before sucking their bodies, as was his custom. He made himself a nuisance to the beekeepers about by robbing the hives Of their in mates/ even sometimes overturning^ the sleeps for the sake of getting at' the bees. Mr. White pictures this human bee eater as "lean, sallow and of cadaverous complexion," and says that, he died before attaining man hood. His morbid, appetite was therefore undoubtedly the outcome of disease.-London Globe. Tho Word "Ci0ar." The word "cigar" is believed to come from the Spanish cigarra, meaning a grasshopper, and at first the significance and propriety of tho term seem questionable. But in Spanish a garden was cigarral, or the place where the grasshopper sang. Tobacco was usually grown ina cigarral, and when the leaves were rolled up and brought to a ! guest the host, specially to? recom ; mend the product, was careful to state that it was grown in his own i cigarral. Thus the word which ' means grasshopper came, in a modi ! fied form, to be applied to the hab itat of the grasshopper and finally to the cigar, whose material was grown there. Landed. He had been calling at intervals for five years, and one night when he and the young lady were seated m u sc'C'luuG'u corn-"r of thc di'?tv&ng room the front ?oor bell Tang. ? . "Oh, bother/' cried the young man; "better tell the servant j -ra ?nonti'' v "Shall ? hot tell her to say Fm en ??ffed?" asked the girl shyly. And before ?nother quarter of an hour had passed abe wai. : ; ' ' ? na ?"? tmi ' . . ' - A soeieiy woman says th at men probably quit canning their wives be caune other men do , it>o much more jnioely. - ftis is the season when tho wise restaurant patron passes up the scram bled ogg. v/^-ii'/'jHBHBB - Every girl imaginas Bbe possesses, all the qualifications necessary in.aa ideal wife. - A woman would- rather talk to a disagreeable man than libttn to agreeable pee. The Kind Vom Have Always Bought, and -which has been iii urie for over SO years, has borne the signature of* - and has been made under his per? .j^y1 sonal supervision since its infancy?. , (<%?cJu&t Allow no one to deceive you In this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and ?? Just-as-good" are but? Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of* Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment*. What is CASTORIA ?astoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Fare* gor ic, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It? contains neither Opium? Morphine ncr other Narcotic* -substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms ?nd allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and 'Wind. Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food? regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep? The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend? GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Beare the Signature of The Kind You Haye Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. TMK CENTAUR COMPANY, YT MURRAY STRICT, NCW TORN dmr. Olflft Bil Cilia Uti This Establishment has been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. During all that time competitors have come and gone, but we have^remained right here. Wo have always sold Cheaper than any others, and during those long years we have not had one dis satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at any time we found that a customer wa3 dissatisfied, we did not rest until we had made him satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and laot ing, and we oan say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the confi dence of the people of this section. We have a larger Stock of Goods thin* season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that we have never* sold Furniture at as olose a margin of profit as we are doing now. This ie? proven by the fact that we are selling Furniture not only all over Anderson? County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and see us. Tour parents saved money hy baying from us, and you and your children oan save money by buying hore too. Wo carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line?, C. P. TOLLY & SON. Depot Street, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers A LONG LOOK AHEAD A man thinks it is when the matter of life insurance suggests itself-hut circumstan ces of lato have shown how life bongo by a thread when war, flood, hurricane and fire suddenly overtakes you, and the only way to be sure that your family is protected in case of cala* %ity overtaking you is to in* sure in a soLd Company lilce The Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Go. Drop in and see us about it. SI. m. MATTISON, STATE AGEST? Peoples' Bank Building, ANDEREON, O 8. ARMOUR'S GUANO AND ACID. ALSO, COTTON SEED MEAL. If yon want 'High Grade Goods we will bs glad to sell yon? Splendid line of-r FL?TJTR, COFFEE, TOBACCO, OATS AND OORN. We want your trade. VANDIVER BROS, TURNIP SEED Fresh Shipment just in-all the varieties that grow well ia this section. / trait S?m-W?Sfc . . . : Jar Tops and ^ - - - > ESvansv PHamaoYe ? Phone 182. . \ ?5? . 'DE3STTIST. ". Office over Farmers and Sfc?nh^ta Bank, Anderson? ?, C.