most attractive sights of the year in
N Louis. It is carried out without
regard to expense, and the street
•-* -«i p evreH»d only by
that of tne Veiled Propnet-
J here is a railway switchman here
who five years ago was at work in the
yards of the Missouri Pacific, making
j a bare living. The great Southwestern
, strike came, and he struck with the
rest of the men. While the strike
lasted he spent most of his time in his
room, inventing a device to close the
frog of a switch so that men could not
catch their feet in it. When the strike
was over he went around trying to
sell his invention to railways, but
none of them would try it. He was
I discouraged, when two years ago the
| Missouri Legislature passed a law
i compelling all railways to protect the
i lives of their employes by guarding
I the frogs in some way. A market for
J the switchman’s invention was opened
at once. He is now living in a house
| that could be sold for 820,000 any day.
■ and last Sunday he was driving in the
| parks, with the rest of the gay crowd,
I behind two horses that went by every
j body else on the boulevard with ease.
Force of Habit.
One of the 7th regiment boys, who
went to Washington recently, is Mr.
Merritt, son of Undertaker Merritt,
who had charge of Genera] Grant’s
funeral; and Private Jessup, Company
F, says when Merritt wanted to give
the command “Fours Right,” on the
avenue, he shouted: “Friends of the
deceased will please pass down the
right aisle.”
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A Newspaper’s Battle With Death.
