Believing that I could make more money out West on the frontier than I could at Salt Creek Valley, I sold out the Golden Rule House, and started alone for Saline, Kansas, which was then the end of the track of the Kansas Pacific railway, which was at that time being built across the plains.

While I was hunting for the Kansas Pacific railway, I had the pleasure, in the fall of 1867, of meeting the celebrated Kit Carson, one of, if not the oldest and most noted scout, guide, and hunter that our western country has ever produced.

I went into his office for something in a hurry afterwards and he was head over ears in Railway Time Tables.

They marched up the deep cut of projected railway, where, for a time, they were shaded from the sun by the high banks.

"If Frederick had equal forces he would have a reserve just where we shall be in the morningthere at that point marked 'Stone Ridge,' and move a heavy mass to the southwest below McLean's Ford there, where you see the railway runs along the run for a half-mile or more.

The four men were Ernest Solvay, the alkali king; Baron Lambert, the Belgian representative of the Rothschilds; Raoul Warocque, the mine owner, and Baron Empain, the railway magnate.

The chiefs of the Belgian staff had foreseen the invasion and had blown up the bridges of the River Meuse outside the town, as well as the railway tunnels.

More than a thousand shells fell in one night near the railway station and the Rue de France was partially destroyed.

"The line of retreat of the Austro-German forces was blocked with debris of every kindvaluable military supplies, telephone and telegraph installations, light railway and other stores, bridging materialin fact, everything needed by a modern army was flung away in flight.

A railway to the northeast from this Bosnian capital touches the Servian border at Mokragora.

For opening railway communications this "battleship on wheels" is unexcelled.

" As one train of soldiers for the front moved out of a Paris railway station two girls who had bravely kissed farewell to a departing man turned away, and one began to cry, but the other said: "Keep up a little longer, he can still see us."

" RAILWAY STATION

Whoever cuts telegraph wires, destroys railway bridges or roads or commits any act in detriment to the Germans will be shot.

Even the manners of railway travel have improved.

There is plenty of discontent and unrest among the State-employed railway men and munition workers.

It's a railway to some place in Africa, and all these fellowsthe Griffenbergs, and Beltons, that fat German baron, Wirsch, and the rest of them, are in it.

It's nothing less than a railway from" Stafford nodded.

Most of the other guests, though they had no direct and personal interest in the great scheme, more or less had heard rumours and come within reflective radius of the excitement; as for the rest, who knew nothing or cared less for Sir Stephen's railway, they were in a pleasant condition of excitement over the coming dance.

It is nothing more nor less than the acquisition of certain land and rights which carry with them the privilege of constructing a railway in the most promising part of South Africa" Sir Stephen leant forward, his head on his hands, his eyes fixed on the heavy, stolid face of the speaker, the face which the keen, hawk-like eyes flashed under the lowered lids with a gleam of power and triumph.

This railway will be of too much service to the government for them to pass me over.

And, if I am asked why I look so happy, so free from care, I must say that it is because the great Railway Scheme is settled and that I have won all along the line.

A great many of the people were only staying on until we could be sure we had pulled this railway scheme through.

You would not rush into the railway station and jump aboard of the first train you saw, without looking at the sign-boards.

Farther in is the little railway station of Pine Lake" "Jove!