sent a &t down the wrone"attack. for me then than how. Father was so the wheels touched the last rail,Annie how they were paictfojv but they were, HOW TO CET RICH. *This is very annoying to the engine easy to get excited*, and then he would reashed the switch. One hand pulled and in a few years I owbecl some crews, as they nave to back down and forget, bad to watch him and do the pin, the other turned the lever,' different pieces of property in XowellcaI/ ****Jusfc tired out," the neighbor said," Cen. Butler's Advice to Would-be eet it. As the engine went by one of my own work, besides.^ ^Now I have and the switch was set right with less^ burning from tke squalid bed, that'came to me in that way. Thrifty Young Men. the swicthmen save Annie poofcblast a for only myself to look after." rj Where the weary woman lay, than ten feet 'to spare. The tram only say that I wish I had been wise the girl was Tne Boston Herald prints the following Well,1 her mistake, JPanting life's last hours away, "Do you not often get Jired ot )ie rushed on in safety, with Annie enongh to have continued this course^ fiave fliafe pound of sobbing breath,&jP heart-broken to think she had made work?" f^K letter from Gen. Benjamin $f iff" breathless but triumphant, waving a through life. AM was at ill ns coming Death a mistake-for she takes great pride during strain "Well, I'm not dead struck on it, Butler: f"v^S j^-'X^v? salute to the crew without the least en For the friphtoned children cowered^ in her workand then to have this and would take another job too quick on thought of having done the least gjV Where, with heavy brows that lowered BOSTON, Mass., Aug.'26. 1887^ A Beautiful Tribute. on top broke her all up. I happened ^i?ea*'1 if I could get it." Annie occasionally thing heroic. as* DEAK SIR: I have received your to come out soon afterward and she drops into slang. "But I have been C. A. Dana in the New York Sun. The story got out, however, K, a*The oyite husband bore his pain. told me about it. The man was given note asked me to write some practical brought up to the work, and there's and Annie found herself, whether Dr. Edward D. Ritto, who died recently Wv^ Ijfv -Jtuat tired outfar down belcw his time, and that was the last nothing else I could do where I could hints for young men on the acquirement she would or no, a heroine. at Galena, 111.,full of years and 5*7! Waves were fretting on the flow complaint I ever heard from Annie. earn as much. Sometimes ladies talk This was 6njy one of many instances of wealth, which may be published. honor, was a most worthy and useful j^nd the fail, recurrent roar But go out and see her yourself."'M to me and some say they would not where she has saved property Yy Echoed upward fron the shore, man, whose abilities and services entitle vi?s I did so. do it for anything, and others again y^ fainter grew.the pulses' beat from destruction by her cool him to a place among the genuine A difficult task is set me, as the circumstance W AiTtbe wornmands plucked the sheet, praise me. I don't know Which "are The stock yards are situated about head and prompt action. heroes of the civil war. We met him under which young men right.^AU I know is that I am used And the death-damps gathered, where a mile and a half west of the main The family live in a modest twostory fiist when he was serving as staff sur-, Ruffled all the tangled hair. to the switches and don't mind, except yard, although an interlacing chain of commence life are so widely varied. frame house, painted a sober geon with"Grant,in front of Vicksburg. j$, 'Saiedis the watcher at her side, at times." tracks extends the entire distance, filled '*Sh waiting forth tide. brown, which stands back from the But I think that more young men fail and found him to be not only a man S most of the time with puffing engines The tone of voice was cheerful, although track in.the midst of an unshaded in the investment of what they earn of great skill in his profession, but a JH and moving cars. Out beyond quiet, and the words came as mead ow. The house and fuel are furnished When the waves had ebbed anew, most patriotic and devoted officer,en- f|| or receive that in anv other way to the gigantic elevators, where is stored the conviction arrived at after a careful jjtj. 'The tired life was over too, free by the company. This, fiowed with extraordinary courage^ The [g\ -Gone from want, andcare, and ill, acquire property. Th temptations away the product of the northwestern weighing of all the advantages and de with the $40 salary, is supposed to and resolution. It is related of him ^r very peaceful and still, equalTheT5rpaidorhe7sVwitchm prairies, the tracks narrow a disadvantages. that during the battle of Shiloh he 1T "^Jtfter aU she bore and weDt, they leave the yard proper ands "Do you not suffer from cold in the 2% .Hard-worked wife and mother slept Like them, Annie has a famfcr rendered great and unusual services that I becomeeeight believ suddenlyt ou of ten strong,t if no ^re to rich so stretch away to the stock-yards. winter?" 0 fi% #ery fair shle looked andnmeek,breast, under most painful circumstances. Although support but, unlike them, she gets df crossed upo her more, of young men are wrecked at It was a lowering day in August an "O yes, sometimes. The wind has no pay fcr Sunday work Ion dark lashes swept her cheek, rn y h's own leg had been broken by jthe very beginning. when I walked out along the track. such a sweep here but I dodi.e in and On this small income the family the fall of his horse early in theaction, If a young man is earning something Out the open, like a brown dot in a t^"*'", JJOT the^weary was at rest." out of the shanty, if it is only for a liveas do hundreds of otherscomfortably, he strapped it to a piece of board and more than the expense of his living All the Year Round. mass ot black spider-threads, lay Annie's minute to warm my fingers. The but with little chance to lay stood at a field hospital tabletwentyfour and has no object in view, he is likely switch "shanty a mark for biting cold I don't mind so much as the by anything for the inevitable "rainy hours without rest or in-' 'either to increase those expenses carelessly A Female Switch-Tender. winter winds and scorching heat. These tracks draw the sun so. day." termission.operating upon the wounded or to loan his money to his summer suns, from which its thin aids It is very hot here at times, and then soldiers who needed his attention. friends, and in so doing in the majority would seem to afford but poor protection. I have awful headaches." Throughout the entire war, whether of cases he will lose both friends Chicago Trifoa ue. A cold north wind came sweeping "You don't give up?" Nina Van Zandt and Spies. as an active surgeon or as an administiatire and money, so that the best thing he across the marshy valley, bringing Milwaukee has a curious figure in "I can't there's no one to take my officer, he performed every duty Chicago Herald. can do is to have an object, to gather with it a suspicion of rain. It was place," was the quiet reply. *be person ol a female "switchman." with equal ability and industry, bis money, and have a call for it Nina Van Zandt is altogether the one of those days peculiar to the western "Does your sister practice telegraphy Ber name is "Switch Annie," and He enjoyed, most deservedly, the confidence I which shall be a profitable one. He most interesting person of all the shore of Lake Michigan, where the now?" ^fce is in the employ of the Chicago, makes nomvesement because he says, and esteem of Gen. Grant and queerly-assotted crowd that daily flop of a weather vane changes to dogday "No she was taken sick then mother "I have got so littlo money that it Gen. Rawlins* as well as of all others haunts the visitors' cage of the County heat to autumn's chill. Jft ilwarukee and St. Paul company. was sick and needed someone to won't come to anything. I will wait who had the good fortune to make-his Jail. She is Detter dressed than Over the northeast the soires and She has tbe honor of being the only help her with the housekeeping." until I get more and in waiting, generally, acquaintance and to share his genial most of the other women and she carries cupolas of the crowded city stood out "Then you support the family?" ,femate exponent of the art of "throwing what he has goes. companionship. He was one of thosehumane, herself with an air ot graceful refinement Against the cloudy sky. Back and beyond "Yes," with a littie laugh. The next switches" in the country. modest, unselfish men whc When a young man has a very little that is most conspicuous for the brown shanty a small grove moment Annie was outside setting a are an honor to their I ace and totheir The work is masculine, but the money let him buy some property, his absence in the make-up of the others. of second growth trees climb the switch for a freight train that went preferably a piece, however small, according country, and make us not only glad abrupt hill, leaving the little strip of When she enters the outer office worker is iemininefrom the sole of her thundering by. As the caboose passed, to bis means, of improved that we knew them, but better for the* meadow beneath to look out for itself. she "curtsies" slightly to the* men at a shout of "Hello Annie!" brought an sensible walking-shoe to the top of real estate that is paying rent. He pn\ ilege. the door and hurries into the cage, answering smile and wave of the h&t shapely head, possessed of the had better buy it when sold at auction, where she stands a moment to The door of the switch sharily hand from the girl. feeaitty of an English dairymaid and under a judicial sale, payingcash what Born and educated in England', take an observation. Of course stands open. Inside a young woman "They all speak to her, and she has he can, giving his note for the balance the rausde oi a blacksmith. where he had many relatives, among Spiss is the object of her was busily engaged with knitting work. a pleasant word for everyone," said in small sums coming due at frequently them Admiral Kitto of the British In answer to a question if thi is search. If he does not happen the uncle, and I had the occasion to ^Phe eleven switches which she looks recurring intervals, secured "Switch Annie" a bright, comely face, navy,he came to tins country shortly to be standing against the wne notice the truth of the remark during .after are out near the stock-yards, and by a mortgage on bronzed by summer sun to a color after reaching manhood, and became screen that protects the bars she assunaes the course of my visit. the property, and then use all bis extra ^include the most important points in which an Atlantic City bather would a dreamy attitude directly opposite as thoioughlv American-as if he had "Were you not frightened when the income in paying up those notes. envy, is projected from behind the first seen the light among us. He passed his cell in murderers' row, and febe yards. Ihey were formerly in Polish rioters came down through the It is always sale to discount your door, and an affirmative reply, accompanied most of his life at Galena in fcheconstant her eyes try to pierce the gloom of the yaid last year?" I asked as Anniereturned. charge oi the girl's father, Joseph own note, and if the note** coooe a lictle by a smile that reveals two and charitable practice of narrow apartment. There have been ^iraufcner. For years Annie was his too fast as soon as he gets anything rows of white, even teeth, is given. his profession. A truer or better man days since her proxy marriage when fhe "Well, I wasn't frightened, but I assistant, belpiog him almost from paid his friends will aid him It was the first glimpse of sunshine never lived or died. her lover, or husband, or whatever he didn't feel exactly comfortable," was time s*he was large enougn to when he is putting hi3 money where it that day. I had pictured a tall, rawboned, May God bless his memory and rest is, has allowed her to remain this attitude the naive reply. "I was out in the yard throw th switch-lever. Then she was cannot be lost, and where the property tfd stolid-featured amazon, in his soul in peace. for a full hour, but since the suSreme when I saw them coming. I couldn't dvamced to uvular assistant. Th'e is taking care oi the interest, and whom muscular development had court affirmed the verdict, he leave, as there were the switches to -11 man was easily "rattled" but Anpie in a very short time he will find that checked all other. I found a plump, as generally been most prompt in throw. One fellow called out to me Queen Christina Converts an. never. Her coolness and dexterity he has got a very considerable investment. comely young woman, with a sunshiny reaching the wire netting. There interviews that I should quit wotk. I told him nave saved many a loss to the comany Enemy into a Friend. He will become interested in face and modest manner. to irind his own business. Then a occupy all of the time Spies while foe hesself she was never it, save his money to meet his notes, Clear-headed, intelligent, quick-witted, Letter hi the Y. Sun. great big Pole attempted to put his if al owed to remain out of his cell, notwi to make a mistake that in^kved and he will directly come into a considerable hut calm -and self-reliantaltogether A well-known poet of Spain deservedly arms around me. I cried 'Get away and when they are brought to a close the loss of a dollar to the company. possession of property and an enjoyable picture of strong, healthful famous fcr his work, was- at thesame from me, you great nasty Polack''and by the sullen clanking of Jailer Folz's hardly know how it came to him. womanhood. In stature Annie is time a man of most advanced gave him such a slap in the face that keys, Nina resumes her standing position Although Anaie has been "throwing That is, he will have had motive for a little above average height, with a he staggered off. The others laughed Radical opinions, and waged such bitter opposite Anarchist Spies' cell and ewifcehes" for over twelve years her saving, and will get the result of that plump, well-formed figure and a and made no attempt to touch me and open war against the Regency remains there until he lights the lamp uliar history has been hidden un,er saving, and will not be tempted to enter shapely head firmly poised on a pair when I went through them to set a with the green shade. It generally that he was at last arrested, tried, the bushel of her isolated station. into speculations. Nothing is so of shoulders a duchess might envy. switch for a train that was coming. takes a direct hint from the gruff jailer and exiled. He was but scantily endowed the thousands of people who used sate for an investment as improved A broad, straw hat coquettishly pinned After that I went into the shanty and to satisfy her that she is violating with the world's goods, and the wevery year to pass bier brown switch real estate Nothing is likely to grow up on pne bide shades the round the crowd went toward the city that the rules of the jail by remaining after *hanty, not one was aware that it hid wife and children he left behind soon in value faster. In the last 50'years face. The hands which ply the knitting-needles was the last I saw of them." the key signal has been sounded. She a curious history. fell into absolute poverty. The poet 90 per cent, of ail the merchants and are brown and calloused, This was a very simple, modest recital has evidently determined to lose none When I applied for information at petitioned Queen Christina for pardon traders in Boston have failed. In the but shapely, A neat diess of dark i i' of an event that few men would of her lover's regard if she can hold it the general offices ia regard to Annie, last fifty years 90 per cent, in their behalf and was at once permitted colors with broad-toed low-heeled m- have cared to have been concerned in. I was referred to the yard master, H. by wearing new and smart gowns. She of all the business corporations by her to return to Spam and walkiug shoes, built for service and The mob was made up of Polish laborers US. Teall. I found him in his office on wears a new dress, or a different one, have failed or gone out of busi his family. He obtained an audience not for show, completed the picture. who were flushed with victory at Su the second floor of a dingy and histori at least, every day. Some of the ness, so that their stock has been and went in person to tender his At the time of my visit Annie was the West Milwaukee shops, and nad i. *3e requesk bric pile "down smilee in th yards." My styles she has essayed hab been rather wiped out. In the last fifty years all brought a thanks to the Sovereign and offer her receiving a call from her uncle, himself announced their intention of driving 'L remarkable. One day her costume the improved real estate on the average "'You want to know about Annie?" a railroad man, and to whom I the expression of his gratitude and off evey workman found employed yj will be severely plain and the next has paid its interest and taxes and am indebted for many facts in relation homage. He was graciously treated, anywhere. It was composed of the i qsaid the rugged yardmaster, as he very stylish. In this regard she is the quadrupled in value. If ayoung man's to this remarkable girl. less as the enemy that was than thefuture same element that two days latter mL' wung himself around so as to keep in envy of all the other women who father can give him anything to start After the first slight reserve had friend. made the attack on Bay View that resulted view the glistening tracks and moving make daily calls on the condemned him in the world he had better invest worn off, Annie talked freely in regard so disastrously to themselves. m-ty panorama of puffing engines shifting Anarchists, for as a rule they dress it in that way and let it accumulate to herself and ber work. Suddenly the Queen said: "You are Only once did Annie dodge a question. H* i 4Kain8 that kept weaving the trans?ortation and earn his living, and hew^ll be richer rather plainly and rarely disport a not rich, senor literary men of merit 'How long have I been throwing That was when, rising to go, I threads in the patchwork than if he had gone into business. new dress or bonnet. Mrs. Parsons seldom are, and you have a largefamt switches?" she said in reply to a question. asked: "How old are you, Annie?" *OT commerce as we talked. Jay Gould is eaid to have started alone seems to pay no attention to ily, have you not?" "About twelve years. How "Just as old as I look," was the reply, **v 5*', "Well, she's a character. You must from a mouse trap seller to become a the North Side beauty. They may did I commence? Well, when father "I have six children, your majesty." quick as a flash, but the sting of ^o out and see her. She'll talk to millionaire. Assuming that to be true, pass and repass each other a dozen was first given this place there were the words was drawn by a merry peetl "Six," continued the Queen "then you. Isn't afraid of anybody." he is only one of 60,000,000 of people times in the cage and no sign of recognition only two switches to look after. Then of laughter. there are three for you and three for %h and if any young man thinks that he "How long has she been on the will be exchanged, but the close business began increasing and more "How old do I look?" she asked, a me." *-oad? is going to imitate Jay Gould, there observer can detect a defiant look in switches were put in. That made it moment later. From that day the poet's threedaughters are 60.000.000 chances to one he g,hi ""Ever since she was a child. Her the eyes of both. There is very little lather was with the company twenty hard for him but he got along until he After a hasty sum in mental arithmetic -f won't succeed. were cared and educated at in common between the two. had to be out nights. Of course then I diplomatically replied: "Twen- 5-ea-s. He only had one leg, and (vas the Queen's expense, who considersthem The rule I would lay down for a he had to get some sleep in the daytime. ty-three." cathersiow getting about. He was her special and personal charge* young man is never do a mean thing So my sister, four years older &AI tight so long as he had only cne or "I'm all of that," was the smiling for money. Be prudent and saving of than I,used to come out and tend the Cov. Hill on Land Taxation. Napoleon and the Revolution. JU .^w switches, but when business ingf response, and the interview closed. your money. Be careful to have no interest switches when father was asleep. Af terwardshe -greased and more were put in he had The most prominent feature in Annie's At the Yates county fair at Penn account running against you From the New York Herald. went to learn telegraphing and *$ have assistance. Then Annie character is her sunny disposition. unless you have an equal or greater Yan recently Gov. Hill spoke. In the Among the copious extracts from.* %J~ when I came from school I used to ^an m. She was a little This, perhaps, is the secret ^pf interest account running in your favor. help father. I was spry and I guess I course of his address he said* Prince Napoleon's- forthcoming book, 3*5tt4hing a* that time, but she was her hold on the rough men with whom Work dilllgentry and you learned quick anyway 1 gave good yo, ^pry, and the way she would The prosperity of the farming she is thrown in contact. She is never "Napoleon and. His Detractors/' are sure of a competency jet back and forth between those satislaction, and was finaHy put on regions will not be advanced idle. When sitting in the switch by im- in j'our old age, and as early as possible, which the Paris- Figaro publishes, is* as an assistant when the number of ^'-switches was surprising. After a while posing all our taxes upon land. It Bo-,J^ "shanty" she knits mittens and stockings if you can, find a saving, prudent the following terse picture of witches increased. At first I received |i ~he was put on regularly as an assist'Oftt will not be aided by having the government both for herself and the remainder girl who has been brought up by $25 a month, then $30 and $35 one naparte's debut, comprising a sue- to feer father. When he was assume the control of the of the family. When all are provided a mother who knows how to take month I received forty, but was afterward y&Uled last winter she was given his banks, telegraphs and railroads. It cine*' account of the great warrior's- i for she employs her needles on care of a house and make a wife of her, put back to thirtyfive. j!*jplace and now supports the family. will be retarded by any attempt to connection with the revolution, which pis wristlets, which find a ready sale 3he will aid and not hinder you. That was my wages until Sj|r They live back of the switch 3hanty confiscate the property of individuals, as clear and faithful as it is laconic* among the train-crews. I ciaim no originality in this advice I father was killed. Then they gave me |V An icompany.e a hous furnished rent-free by the and to unsettle rights of ownership The revolutioa (breaks out. It ca| Annie is a firm believer Ira woman's and will relate you an incident in my A his place. I now get $40 a month, ls which have existed for generations. tivates him. Itimakes him a Frencbmenj rights, so far as they pertain to labor, own experience to illustrate it: In my with house rent and fuel. My hours The farmer takes no interest in the His race,-, his instincts, his but troubles herself very little "How does her work compare with earliest practice in my profession I are from 6 in the morning until 6 in Utopian schemes of those political studies, his sufferings, his passions about the question which agitators ihar $ other switchmen?" was quite successful in earning money, the evening. In the summer I have SSh has the cleanest record of any economists who seek to have a compulsory all within him becomes democraey. ^4 continue to thrash over )$* and I had a small balance in the Lowell every other Sunday off, but in the fall hman ia my employ, and we have two division of property. He is All draws him toward the revolution.. and over. White they have-been striving bank, at the bead of which was and winter must work every Sunday." the conservative element in the community, He had awarded and expected it. SSe ',,,/l* after the unattainable, she has I hundred men in the yard. She never Mr. James G* Carney. The bank was i lost a dollar for the company, and "You do not have much time for and believer in "proving all salutes and welcomes it. For it- ho Deen quietly working out a practical fH directly across the hall from my office. recreation?" things and holding cast to that which abandons wli&t he had heretofore solution of the perplexing problem. \_'that is more tha.n I can saymake of any I'stepped mto the bank to deposit a man i a the yard Sh rarely a is good." He fails to comprehend loved the mostCorsica. For itrbe *v 1 Many stories are told of Annie's "No that's the hardest thing about little money on one occasion, and how the social or political millennium is prescribed, andi it is the revolution pluck and dexterity, whereby serious the work. When I see every one else Mr. Carney said to me: "Why don't ^mistake, and when she does it is al-waya is to be reached by the abolition of he oefemls in his first writmes. The tt accidents which would have entailed going out Sunday to have a good time you invest our money?" "Invest," through a signat carelessly civen. the burden of taxation in every form education which he'had receivedil*ad &'\~ great destruction of life and property and I have to work, it breaks my said I "!'have notning to invest." "There is one thing about Annie, ratttiarkable and on all species of property except made him a soldier- by trade, and ^4* were averted. One of the-most exciting heart." The words were followed "Oh, yes," he says, 'you have quite in a woman she don't saem land, and imposing it all upon land already he launches-criticisms on: the* instances of the kind occurred a by a cheery laugh t^at little indicated a little sum,of money, and I see that '.$9 know wha fear is. At the time of itself. He cannot see how men wno military artk H&des not hesitate'^ year or more aso. By way of preface a damaged anatomay. your young friends come with your the riots last year that Polish mob, own no property and pay no taxes onejmoment as to the course topur-* "0 it must be explained that there is a Do not imagine all this conversation checks occasionally, evidently borrowing (-after eleaniag out the shops, came whatever are to be particularly relieved sue. Between Fftanee and royalty he- A down grade from the west toward the was carried on uninterruptedly. it. Now you had better invest it." 4ovn through the yards, cleaning by a change in the forms or chooses Franca, switch shanty. On the occasion in All the time Annie was glancing up "How can I invest it?" "Invest it in .^Ot evei'y oae in their way. Annie methods of taxation. If there was question a heavy freight train was and down the track, keeping a sharp real estate." "1 know nothing about -wa on duty at the time, and was the an entire abolition of all taxes, there f coming down at full speed. As it lookout for trains, while her nimble real estate." "Gojto the first auction -inl employe who was not driven would be poverty then as now. There AnGTdOne. neared one of the switches the engineer fingers plied the knitting-needles on and buy the property. You cannot trom work. AM the rest of the men would be as much inequaSty of ownership was horrified to find that it was what was to be a warm mitten for be too. much, cheated that vv van away ana then came back after Nebraska. State Jburoal. then as now exists. turned wrong. The clear, glistening winter wear. Suddenly, in the midst because youi have to givevery *he mob passed. Bui Annie staid by The oldest human being irafcfleworld^j| iron lines sparkled mischievously in of a sentence.she would start up, seize little aiore than somebody Jier switches. When the mob reached is an Indian- woman living in the||^t| the sunlight up to the switch. There a pair of gauntlet gloves lying else will bj willing to pay for it. filer onsayingPol"Get big grabbed oher by the southern subaBobs of Lincolat. She was \t'3 .furm out here go -43iHe Bad Fate. they broke sharp off. Beyond was on the window ledge, and Give your noftes for it, save youa: 3 born in.14.7Sv. and distinetljsr rpmem- 3T%* lMore1" Belore wreck and danger. The engineer step out fo throw a switch or monay, coll^ctt your fees pay your Miss Mary Tucker, the beautiful Ikonae. you can't work no beis* the discovery of &meri"a byJlf whistled for brakes, reversed his engine, signal that all was clear. There was See that the words were out of his mouth young daughter of ex-Kepresentati notes as they become due. Chri&tophea Columbus, assisted byl^^- sanded the track in an endeavor nothing of rush about her movements the property ss improved property, so jjbaaie hauled*off and gave him a slap Tucker, of Essex, Comr., who ewped Susan B. Ju&fcbony. Sh* sold Colura- f# to check the ponderous mass while quick, they were collected and, that tho rent will keep dwn your interest t&kat sent him spinning. Her pluck j~- with her father's cokre coachmen bus a pais of beaded moccasins at the behind him.^TThe wheels hissed, showed a cool, well-balanced head. accou&t, and when* you get any raised a laufift, and she was not moJested Hanchett, and was* married by tie vo this once .when she* time, and he gave her a Waterbury snapped, and cracked as they endeavored I referred Ofeher money invest it in tbe same further. The bis fellow was minister in her towov she pre^ousiy watch, *d a man to wiad it for her, to get a reversegrip on the treacherous came in, and asked if she never became way, and lSyonr notes press upoatyou jeatisfied to mix up with the crowd and having colored her skin to conceal her rails, but in vain. Annie was in ShareBws to him aflectionately aa excited or nervous when several trains little faster than you can pay ^hem, jgefc out of sisfbt. Without a word identity, was foundH^says a special from r" the house at the time, fifty yards requiring to be switched on different Chris* Id boy. She says she had a why, we mil when we find that is what ignore Annie then went right through Hartford, deserted and nenni&ps, at a from the track. The whistle for tracks were arriving in quick succession. ways predicted that America would be* you are doing with your money, discount tihe crowd to set a switch for a train farmhouse between Lyme aad. Black brakes brought ber to the door. A -l your note and,give you a little discovered, when a general botwn, ig rthat was coming out. The gang Hill, on the Shore Line roadV When, single glance showed her the danger "O no fifty trains would not make more time, so that you can pv it up* passed on and the girl was left alone. would be inaugurated. She was SOTVant her Absence fro home was discovered! and her father hobbling toward the me nervous," was the calm reply. "I This will necessitate th prompt collection ^fine's a good one, and no mistake." to George Washington tor a num* her father and friends started out la switch. With a bound she sprang have a cool head. When many trains of your bills for I kaow that "How is she regarded among the ber oi years, and was present when, he pursuit and traced the coupfeto Lyme, from the doorstep and sped down the are coming, I 'tend to the main line you would rather work and earn a yardmen?" chopped down the cherry tree,. Sba where Hanchett boatdeserted! York.bride his grassy path. Over the log fool-bridge for Ne Th and transfer switches and let the others hundred dollars than dun a wan for "They think the world of Annie. the1 protested against, but George answer- 1 and took that spanned a dip in the fiefd she flew wait, or leave them' for the Bwitchraen it, unless you have a presisting need "*Tbey would fight for her in a minute, girl made her way on, foot to the ed that he had to do something to up on to the track. Tb switch was to look after." for it. You have not asked {or a lit? fi vfiiiecesftAry." home at her father's bouse, and fell make a reputation, and he had a still twenty to thirty yards away. I! 'Of how many switches have you tie bill that we owe you In the bank, *o not^ complaint^s oome in occa- ill with fever brought on by exposure weakness for chopping down cherry Heedless of the danger,, for if tbe tram charge!" which shows me that you do not ^otvaiy?" _* i' and excitement. She will pro! ahly ""For a time rbefore ber of pieces collect,yourryuues,- of propert duesthat in man- trees and tellirg the truth* The old left the track she was' oertain to be "Eleven.now.1 promptlyy I never nad but one complaint T- ov" i ~""L i"i~~ *"f Tv' promptl gcMiect you I fol- They, to lady attended th* fair and drew tha% crushed, intent only on her duty, the father was killed wehad fifteen. 6 childP from Annie in the whole twelve years die. She is an only ol^wealthy if dthi advice and bought a nam- tirst prwe as the charnpiftu Yin faithful girl run on. Nearer the engine owe are the most important switches in bee .she has been throwing switches. Once haA **!?*?!dt th country. came, creaking and groaning. Just as childhoo up the yard. It was much harder work ner, and I never did exactly know cAfae was given aaienal imperfectly, and 1&- S^'is^^k&S^^i?^i%^^EiS vi)#iii$i*i^ *|ffiitiii||*i