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Updated: May 21, 2025
"I've been railroading for the last ten years, but was awfully unlucky; so after the last smash-up I decided I would come back and see what this old mine held for me. It's a funny thing about mines, boys you can dig and work, work and dig, and be more or less contented as long as you find nothing but prospects.
The case has gone against us. I knew Judge Rossmore's decision would be for the other side. Public opinion is aroused. The press " Mr. Grimsby's red face grew more apoplectic as he blurted out: "Public opinion and the press be d -d. Who cares for public opinion? What is public opinion, anyhow? This road can manage its own affairs or it can't. If it can't I for one quit railroading. The press!
He must have a consuming contempt for the ignorant, complacent asses that go skurrying about the world in these railroading days and call it traveling. When the guide pointed out where the Wandering Jew had left his familiar mark upon a wall, I was filled with astonishment. It read: "S. T. 1860 X." All I have revealed about the Wandering Jew can be amply proven by reference to our guide.
The best families of the State were heavily interested in it, the younger generation of bloods expecting by means of it to rival the railroading exploits of their fathers, whose fortunes, as everybody knows, were acquired in the golden seventies and eighties in much the same way.
There's lots of 'em here that don't know nothin' about railroading, as far as I can see, and they're running engines, too. 'Tain't right." The little town was booming, and 'Lige invested in lots, and became interested in many schemes to benefit the place and make money.
Ogilvy desperately. "I'm answered. Well, I'll not stick around here much longer, Moira. I realize I must be a nuisance, but I can't help being a nuisance when you're near me. So I'll quit my good job here and go back to my old game of railroading." "Oh, you wouldn't quit a ten-thousand-dollar job," Moira cried, aghast. "I'd quit a million-dollar job.
If I chose, I could go to sea there wasn't a vessel but what would take so husky a youngster; if I wished, I could go into railroading here again there was a demand for youth and brawn. I could go into a factory and learn manufacturing or I could go into an office and learn a business. I was young, I was strong, I was unfettered. There is no one on earth so free as such a young man.
Some of our men will be so badly done up that it will be a week before they get back to work unless there is some way that we can stop the fleecing." "There isn't any such way," declared Superintendent Hawkins, with an air of conviction. "You've surely been around rough railroading camps enough to know that, Mr. Reade."
If it's a mining country," he continued, puckering his heavy eyebrows, "if it's a mining country, an' the mines are far enough off the roads, maybe I'd better get to the mines an' lay quiet for a month before I try to get any farther south." He washed the cinders and dust of a week's railroading from his face and hair, put on a fresh pair of boots, and went down to supper.
The speaker jests about his own locks whitened by the cares of railroading, and the raven hair of the reporters where do they get their dye? Stanley's lecture fee, $250. Lotus Club gets one for only the price of a dinner! Stanley a great artist in his descriptions as well as a great traveler. Americans a nation of travelers. This makes railroads prosperous! What some reporters have done.
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