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Updated: May 21, 2025
Whether the shipper or the railroad is to blame makes no difference; the rebate must be stopped, the abuses of the private car and private terminal-track and side-track systems must be stopped, and the legislation of the Fifty-eighth Congress which declares it to be unlawful for any person or corporation to offer, grant, give, solicit, accept, or receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect of the transportation of any property in interstate or foreign commerce whereby such property shall by any device whatever be transported at a less rate than that named in the tariffs published by the carrier must be enforced.
I was working for a blamed hard boss, and it doesn't matter why I quit without getting my wages out of him, but he wasn't feeling good when I lit out behind a freight-car. By bad luck, there was a trooper handy when a train-hand found me at a lonely side-track. Well, that policeman didn't know what to do with me.
You don't know what hard is unless I show you! . . . I'll bust the whole outfit to hell and gone if any of you try to side-track him! . . . Just try to side-track him, that is all, and you'll think the Day of Judgment and all God's blastingness has hit the camp in one chunk!"
It will keep to it for a while; then it will quit the rail, so to speak, and run to any side-track which may present itself. "What is the first thing you would do?" asked Number Five in a pleasant, easy way. "The first thing? Pick out a few thousand of the best specimens of the best races, and drown the rest like so many blind puppies."
"If I can manage to side-track them for a while perhaps they won't be so keen. I thought they had it in for me, and have been rather expecting an onslaught." They cut through the woods, coming out the other side and taking a short road not much used, which brought them out a little distance from the main road which was then easily reached.
This was a side-track upon which she had not wished her train to move. Her cogitations took a turn when she heard a quick, firm footfall in the hall. Ruth anticipated the knock, and opened the door to the doctor. Bowing slightly to her, he advanced rather hurriedly to the bedside. He had not taken off his gloves, and a certain air of purposeful gravity replaced his usual leisurely manner.
I tried to side-track the conversation which was very embarrassing, but he would hear none of it. "We are not gypsies, you know, Madame." I smiled and told him that that was more than evident. "Look at our horses and our dogs!" He even offered to show his papers, but I shook my head. His open-hearted sincerity and frank countenance were sufficient. But why had they come away?
I broke out, when we were nearly to the depot "If that isn't do any of you notice anything out on the side-track, over there?" I pointed an unsteady finger toward the purple and crimson sunset. "A maroon-colored car, with dark-green " Beryl began promptly. "That's it," I cut in. "I was afraid joy had gone to my head and was making me see crooked. It's dad's car, the Shasta.
They ran for the train. The screeching whistle of the Yonah, which had sent the General speeding away from Kingston, was a warning to the engineer of the freight train blocking the way of the pursuers. It had pulled out of the station and was lumbering southward, intending to make the side-track at Cass Station and wait for Fuller's passenger train.
Indeed, you would not have suspected that you were travelling on the strength of a dead fact, if you had not seen the engine running away from you on a side-track. Upon my conscience, I believe some of these pretty women detach their minds entirely, sometimes, from their talk, and, what is more, that we never know the difference.
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