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ME CHEROKEE ADVANCE.
'EXAMINE HOW YOUR HUMOR H INCLINED, AND WHICH THE RULING r\S?ION OF YOUR MIND
VOLUME V.
CANTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 5,1884.
NUMBER 23.
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TllE \VA Y OF THE WORLD.
There Rate s crow on s lofty treo,
Watching the world go by !
flo wnv a throng Hint swept along
With laughter loud and high.
11 In nnd out through Iho motley rout,"
1’nlo ghosts stole on liusoon,
T-h ir hearts wero longing for ono sweet
word
Of the love that once had been.
Jlut never a lip there spoko their natnos,
Never s tear was shod;
The emw looked down from his lofty troo,
“ ’Tis tho wny of the world," be said.
A singer stood in tho market-place,
Kinging a tender lay,
lint no one heeded his sorrowful face,
No ono had timo to stay.
Ho turned away ; he sang no more ;
llow could ho sing in vain ?
And then tho world came to his door
bidding him sing ngain.
Cut he reeked not whctlior they carno or
went
Ho in his garret lay dead;
The crow looked down from his lofty troo,
" ’Tis the way of ttie world," ho said.
There sate a Queen liy a cottage boil,
Hpoko to the widow there;
Did ahe not know the same hard blow
The peasant had to boar?
And sho Usscd Hint bumble peasant's brow,
' And then she bent her knee :
“God of tho widow, help her now,
As Thon hast helped me.”
“ Now God be thanked," snid tho old, old crow,
As ho sped from his lofty bough;
“ The times are ill, but there's much good stil
In the way of the world, I trow."
Railway Heroes
J. M. HARDIN.
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND—
ORNAMENTAL PAINTER,
FRESCO AND MIC ARTIST ALSO.
Oriental and Grecian painting. Mezo
Tin’.in r , Carbo-Tiniing, painting in Be-
pei and India Ink.
Tiventy-five per cent saved by apply
ing to mo bofore contracting with others.
Material furnished at bottom prices.
Satisfaction given or no <jhnre mads.
See or address, J. M. HAllDIN,
[jun3-’83-ly] Canton, Georgia.
^ vu Blit,nmmmmm
running down Bitiie
coffee-pot tied to hlA . ^ u ’.mt works both
every bound, it wouldn t people grow
in the paper. Bat if timber) people
walk quietly down Broaa,[ Kl ..
ioffee pot tied to bis tail il v^uia oo
worth a column.” ' \
[From tho Youth’s Companion.]
Coal-dust, cinders, oil and smoke usu
ally make firemen on duty rather grimy-
looking personages. Perhaps few among
the thousands who ride in the railroad
oars behind ns would core for our ac
quaintance. But we are usefal—os use
ful, perhaps, as any other class of men;
and certainly wo have our full sharo of
the bard, disagreeable things in life, in
cluding frequent peril and much expos
ure to weather.
Working up from fireman to engine-
driver—or “engineer” ns Vo are usually
caned in this country—is often a slow
process. There are men on our line—
the Hudson River railroad—who have
keen firing eleven years, with no promo
tion yet; though they are no doubt fully
competent to run an engino. For pro
motion depends almost wholly npon va
cancies occurring, or some special influ
ence at headquarters.
A man onglit to beoomeiamiliar with a
locomotive in eleven years. I thought I
knew every screw in mine after firing
two years. Yet it takes a good doal ot
time to learn to fire well, so as to get tho
most steam out of the least fuel, and
have the highest pressure at tho grades
where it is most neoded. To do this a
man should know the road, every rod ot
it, us well as tho ougino.
Then comes tlio oiling. An ongine re
quires a great doal of oil, as well as coal
and water. Tho fireman has to keep in
mind all those scores of hearings whore
oil has to be applied. Between oiling,
shoveling in coal, shaking and stirring
up liis fire— to keep it steady and hot—
and looking to his stock of coill and wa
ter, he is kept hnsy, and must need,
watch sharply. But a man gets those
duties well fixed in his head in time.
It is while “firing" that the practical
knowledge of rnnning on engino is
gained. A fireman is tho groom, so to
speak, of tho “iron horse." Ho must,
morning and evening, have tho engine
polished, “fired up,” and reudy for his
superior, the engineer, to step into tho
cab and start off. Usually the engineer
does not make his appearance till tho
moment of connecting with the train.
Between the engineer and his fireman
thero generally exists an easy-going and
manly sort of friendship, though I have
known cases whore the two men detest
ed each other.
When I began to fire under “Doe”
Simmons, I scarcely knew enough to
build a good fire in a cook-stove, and
canid not have fonnd a quarter of the
oil-caps. I must have been a trial to
him the first week or two. Bat be never
gave a sharp word, though he often had
to tell me things over and over again.
“Doe”—as the railway men all called
him—was a superior engineer. He knew
every pound of metal in a locomotive;
just where it lay, and how much it was
good for. Hq was one of those men
who seem to feel just what there is in a
locomotive the moment he takes hold of
the levers and starts np. He was a
good-hearted fellow, and always had a
pleasant word or a joke all along the
line, and it is generally the case that
such men do not fail the company or the
public at a critical moment.
I went home and cried like a baby the
day “Doc” was killed. If it had been
my own father I could not have felt half
j* "8 badly. I actually wished that I had
' "ni the bottom of the river with
a „ne night of the 6th of February,
ana tearfully cold. Wo had “No, 117"
then, and took ont the Faoiflc Express,
as it was called, from New York oity,
np the lino to Albany. It was a bitter
night, and the line was frosty and slip
pery.
The express was always a heavy train.
That night wo had threo baggage oud
express cars and eight passenger
coaches, and we were late ont of New
York, to bogiu with— about fifteen min
utes, I think.
Such oold weather is always demoral
ising to a railroad. It is mnoh harder
to make timo; All metal works bad, nnd
though the fire appears to burn brighter,
it takes more coal to make steam. The
train seems to hang to the line. Then,
too, tho outting wind is enough to freeze
tho marrow in a man’s bones.
It might have been mostly fanoy on
my part, hut I thought “Doe” had an
odd look in his faoo that night, ns ho got
into tho cal'. He was more serious than
usunl, for we both knew wo had a hard
run before ns, and a cold one. Both of
ns were muffled np in fur oaps nnd old
overooats.
•‘Shove in tho coal, Nick, and shake
her down smart. Wo want every duuco
of steam to-night,” says Doc. “Fifteen
minutes behind and eleven oars on 1
Those sleepiug-oooches are as heavy as
a whole block, too. I’m glad this
is a double-track lino, and all clear
ahead."
We pnlled ont, and from tho way Doe
handled her, I knew that he meant to
pick np that fifteen minntes, if it wan in
the old machine to do it I suppose we
made thirty miles an hour—perhaps
forty—on the level stretohes.
On we went, reeling off the dark,
bleak miles, with the sharp wind outting
into the cab, till near Now Hamburg
station, where the line then crossed
Wappinger creek on a trestle liridgo
engino strnok tho oil-oar.
• With tho oollision came a sudden,
brilliant flash of light I Everything
above mo, tho whole bridge nnd tho
ears on it, seemed wrapped in a blaze of
fire 1
At tlio same instant, too, there was a
dull, long, tearing crash I Tho trestlo
had given way beneath the strain.
Dorfi oame oar engine, tho threo
baggage oars, a passenger car, and I
don’t know how many freight cars of
the other train, on to tho ioo. The
whole wreck, as it fell down, seemed en
veloped in flames; for tho oil had
rplashed over •varything, and tho lilnz-
thg ooals from the fire-box ox plotted it
on th$ instant.
Whoh the engine strnok the ioo, it
broke through, and with a hisa went to
iho bottom of tlio deep water there; and
on top of it came tumbling down all tlio
other oars.
For a moment following tho crash
there was an almost complete silence;
then agonizing screams, and prayerful
ories for help from the imprisoned pas
sengers.
We who wero not disabled did what
wo oonld. The seven rear oars did not
mn into tho oluysm, hnt two of them
burned on the track, along with n num
ber of freight ears. Twenty-one of the
passengers wore killed outright, and a
Still greater number wero injured.
As we workod thero in tho noise, heat
ind awful confusion of that night, I cast
many an anxious glance round for
Doo, hopiug nnd half expecting that ho
had got clear and would bo at work with
ns trying to get ont the pnssougors.
But I saw nothing of him, and by dny-
brenk I felt snre that ho hail gone down
with his engine.
The locomotive was not hauled up out
of the water till the next week. Thou
wo found bis body jammed down under
the engine on the bed of tho crock. II is
FOOD ADl’LTF.IUTION.
which had a “draw” In it It was a J hands, face and clothes lind licon
comfort to think that the draw would Vsborchod; but whethor he was drowned,
certainly he open on snch a night, for j or burned to death, wo oonld not toll,
tho creek was frozen np. I Ho had met his death at his post of
Ah, if it were only permitted to train.; 1 fluty; gone out of the world with his
* ... *' ! in aW-od on tCWWy'uad on the lever; giving his own life
mi /a KIaaIt IiUFav nt/iltia t — ■■ - - * ~ --
tracks on these blaok, bitter nights I
But we can only see what the head-light
shows us; and often the signals seem
strangely obscure in fog, or in tho driv
ing rain and snow. p, C*
Ouo of those always possible “hroaks,"
which may not occur for yearn, hut nro
yet constantly liable to happen, hod
occurred that night. Ono of tho South
bound night freight-trains, running
down to Now York, broke nn nxlo and
got one of its middle cars off tho rails, bo
lero reaching Hie bridge.
How far thoy dragged tho car in tbal
condition, no ono knows ; for it was so
cold that the conductor nnd all the
lirakomon wore huddled in tho caboose
behind. But thoy found it out after a
lime, and slowed down ns tho train got
on to tho bridge.
As they oame to a stand-still, two or
threo other cars jumped tho track; and
ono of these, nn oil-car, with a long tank
High Life In Rngland.
The Earl of Enston, tho futnro Dnke
of Grafton, is about to begin the mnoh
talked of snit for divoroe from liis wife,
on the plea that the lady’s first husbnnd
was living at the timo of her second mar
riage. The Countess will submit in de
fence that when she married her first
husbnnd sho supposed him n widower,
hut he proved to liavo another wife, and
when sho learned this sho abandoned
him. Tho case promises to bo exceed
ingly interesting.
Thirteen years ago Henry Filzroy,
eldest son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy,
fell in love with n woman known as
“Kate Cook.” Sho was handsome and
stylish in person, and her matured
charms wero quite snflicient to captivate
tho youth of twenty-throe. Unknown
to his father, who was Equerry to tho
Queen, he married her. Most chronicles
on it, broke its couplings and was shoved of the peerage ignored tlio marriage.
over on to tho up-line of track—our lino
—whoro it stood sidowiso acros:i tho
rails.
Tho accident made great confusion
with the men on tho freight; but they
clnimed that they got out their signal-
lautorns as soon as they could, and that
it was not a minute beforo wo came up.
As we shot along past the dark station
and ont toward tho bridge, 1 snw tlio
white steam of tho freight-train.
“Wo shall pass No, 19 right by the
bridge,” Doc said.
Both of us wero looking, Doc on his
side and I on mine.
Suddenly, right ahead, we saw a red
lantern swinging on our track, at tlio
head of the bridge.
“God save us, Doo I” I shouted, “tho
draw’s open 1” f
“Spring the patent brake 1” he said to
me—that was what we called the air
brake, then—nnd in a moment w* had
shut off, reversed and whistled fair the
hand-brakes.
But we were going at a great speed.
In a moment more wo had come along
side the freight engine, and out on tho
bridge we saw the oil-car right across
our rails! It had a look of death in it
I swung out on the step.
“Shan’t you jump, Doc?” I cried.
He stood with his back to mo, looking
ahead, hnt turned when I caljed out. I
shall never forget that last look he gave
me. He did not speak, but his look
seemed to say, “Yes, yon may as well
jump, but 1 must stick to my post.”
He baroly looked round to mo, but
made no answer, then looked ahead
again.
Then I jumped—went heels over bead
along the side of the embankment lead
ing to tho bridge, rolled over and over,
and landed down on tho ice of the creek,
near the abutment, which I hod scarce
touched when I heard the crash, as onr
WHAT WH BAT AND DRINK, AND HOW 11
18 FIXED UP FOR US.
it is useless to any longer believe that
in order to obtain Iho best food produets
it is necessary only to pay tho highest
prices. Cost once was an uufailtng stand
ard of quality, hut this was In the
days when adulteration was so clumsily
performed that any ono could detect it,
Ifn.lishonest grocer of tlio olden lime put
sand in his sugar, any suspicions house
wife could discover it by looking at tho
sentiment in her teacup, but nowadays
refined sugars are tho rule, and while
they aro seldom adulterated with the in
tent to deooivo there aro refining pro
cesses which loavo deleterious matter in
tho final product, tttaroh, instead of
fruit, is tho basis of most jellies. Flour
barrels seldom contain uuything hut
wheat flour, but some of this which is
utterly unfit to cat is ruixod so skillfully
with higher grades, that tho nutritive
valuo of the mixture is far loss than that
of the commonest brands of Bound flour.
Even condiments aro adulterated
Bran, finely ground nnd colored, is
sometimes found in popper or mustard.
Of itself it is harmless, but somo materi
als with which it is oolored aro unfit to
enter tho human stomach. As for ground
coffee, chicory may bo quite henltliful,
but it is not Oofloe, nor a substitute for
it, aud it can ho bought separately by
those who like it at half tho price of or
dinary coffee.
Tho worst menaces, howevor, to health
and life ore found in the butter pail and
tho milk can. Tho recent investigation
of oloomargarino found nothing against
such artificial butter as is properly
made, but it certainly wnruod the public
against the use of Borne of the substi'
tntos for butter, and it developed tho
fact that fully half of tho so-called butter
trade is in imitation of tho genuine
dairy product. The law requires that
all imitation butter shall ho conspiou
onsly labelled as such; bnt there seems
to bo no ono whoso duty it is to see this
rulo is complied with in spirit, for one
dealer declared that when ho labelled
QUAKER CITY HUMOR.
A FEW JOKES FHOH TIIK “BVICNINO
UAl.ln"
HIS RKYBNClie.
Jones—“That man Jinks did mo a
mean trick, but I havo had my revenge."
Smith—"In what way?”
Jones—"By fixing things so that he
will lie driven crazy in throe months.”
Smith—“Gracious I How did you do
it ?’’
Jones—“I got a family with twin
I tallies to move into the honso next
door."
AN AMRITIOUS DOT.
“No use talking," said young Tommy,
“I am liound to do something to get riolt
when I grow up.”
“I fear thnt you are learning to love
money too well," rcmnrkod his father,
sadly.
“No," said Tommy, “I don’t care for
money for its own sake, bnt for tho
good it can da”
In that ease,” answered tho father,
brightening, “yonr ambition is very
commendable.”
And will you promise to get me a
place whero I oan become rich, oh 1
awfully rich 1”
“1 will," responded the father.
One week afterward the old man, truo
to his promise, took tho boy and got
him a situation in a newspaper office.
tub 1 or oioomargaru « Aim* avturybody noLeven know 'leans."
oonld boo tho name, ho did not sell a
pound in half a year. It is therefore
quite evident that imitation butter is
purchased through ignoranoo and not
from choice, and that it is retailed at
higher prices than those who really want
it would have to pay wero it offered un
per its proper uamo
A OHF.AT COMPLIMENT
Littlo Jack—“Yon nover wns in tho
country much, I guess, Mr. Fopinjay ?”
Popinjay (delighted)—“Do you think
so, my little fellow ? Well, I have not
been in the country form any years, bnt
I used to live thero when I was a littlo
hoy. Yon would not boliove it, I sup
pose
Littlo Jack—“Dnnno about that, bnt
I guess sister would not. I know she
thinks you never was in the country at
nil.”
Popinjay (still more delighted)—“Ah I
Indeed?”
Littlo Jack—“Yes, ahe said you did
Others described Ihe bride as the daugh
ter of John Walsh and the widow of
“Mr. Smith. ” In 1882 the bridegroom’s
mxiial position changed. Lord Augustus
Fitzroy succeeded his brother ns seventh
]>uko of Grafton. Henry Fitzroy be-
ennie Earl of Enston. The widow of
“Mr. Smith” became Countess Enston
and the future Duchess of Grafton But
troubles had already come liotwoon her
and her husband. They separated by
mutual agreement. No fault being
proved against the Countess since her
marriage, tho Earl in vain sought an ex
cuse for divorce. The mysterious “Mr.
Smith” has now appeared aud tho ex-
cuso is found.
Knew What Was the Matter.
'A couple of young elephants which
were recently provided with a home at
the St. Petersburg Zoological Gardens
were fed with cake and other good things
to such an extent by visitors to tho gar
dens that their health greatly suffered
aud it became necessary to interfere.
The public wero requested to bo less
generous in their offerings, and the re
quest being not generally attended to, a
notice to the same effect was painted on
a metal plate fastened above the entrance
of their house. This failing to attain
tho object in view, and visitors continu
ing to feed the elephants with pastry, an
official was stationed at the entrance to
crII attention to the notice. The animals
observing that whenever the latter raised
his hand to point to tho sign, buns and
cakes about to be given wore withheld,
drew their own conclusions and acted in
their own interests. When their keeper
looked in upon them one morning ho
found tho sign on tho gronnd in such a
damaged condition that a new plate had
!irpn|>ulAte<l Ireland
Tho Irish papers nro discussing tho
'eoent census returns in a hitter rpirit,
The Dublin Nation hnH nu article en
titled "Bleeding to Death," in which it
inys: “Tho life blood of Ireland is being
drained by vampires. Every ouo who
has an interest in the country must gird
liis loins against this murderous union.
Tlio extermination of the Irish people
hns long been tho traditional aim of tho
English rulers. The present Executive’s
will is set on actively promoting the
murderous system which has already
robbed tho country of five or six millions
of people.”
Tho United Ireland devotes an
article to the snino subject, which it
entitles “Killing a Nation by Inches.”
It snyH: “For ull practical purposes
Ireland is suffering a more awful drain
of manhood than if engaged in a deadly
conflict witli a first claHs European
power. She has lost siuco the Union
more men than Franco lost in nil the
sanguinary wars of Napoleon, At least
eight millions of people have lieen im
molated in eighty years to tho demon ol
English supremacy. Threo millions of
people whose brawny frames supplied
the physical force of the repeal meetings
wero missing in 18132 when the census
enumerators came to count them. Two
million nine hundred and thirteen thou
sand of the population who wore spared
by famine have been starved or trans
ported since. The waste goes on fustei
and more furiously. Within tho Iasi
year alone Ireland lost 108,000 em
igrants, 71,000 of whom wero single
adults. She lost in mere thews and
mnscles more valued sons than were
slain in any of the greatest battles of tho
world.”
The Canal.—There is, says an ex
change, a likelihood that the Cape Cod
Canal really will bo built. The distance
to be dug is eight miles and the present
estimate of tho cost is a million dollars
a mile. The company already has ex
pended $150,000. The charter compels
the building of a railroad bridgo and
thero will be some expensive locks. Tho
shortest route from Boston to New York
through Vineyard Bound is 836 miles
and by the outside courso 380 mileH.
Through the canal it will bo 240 miles,
saving 96 miles in ono case and 140 in
the other. Bnt there is another saving
to be considered, and that is an occa
to be' procured and placed out of tho j sional shipwreck which tho^shorter^and
animals’ reach.
1 safer passage by tho canal may avoid.
looking ron a frimnd.
“Do you know a Colonel Bmith of
this city ?” asked a stranger of a Louis
ville man.
“Oh, yes,” was tho reply, “there ho
is now, standing on the oppoaite cor
ncr.”
“No, that is not tho gentleman I ro-
fer to. My friend is a taller man. ”
“Well, there is Colonel Bmith just
coming out of tho post office, tho gentlo-
mnn with tho slouch hat.”
“No, noithor of them is tho man that
J am in search of. The man I want is a
smooth-faced, thick-set man, and
achieved some distinction in the lato
war.”
“The late war?” said tho Lotiisvillo
citizen. "J guess I am not acquainted
with him. There is no Colonel Bmith in
this oily that I know of who ever had
anything to do with war."
REGARD fob numiier one.
“Father,” said a youth of tender
years uud sympathetic nature, as he
paused for a moment liefore dipping
into tho brend-pudiling wlrwh formed
tho dessert of his dinner; “father, I
wish the eook wouldn’t use tho brood to
make it up into puddings. Why don’t
sho orumble it up aud throw it out to the
poor birds ?"
“But,” responded his more practical
sire, "that would prevent yon from hav
ing any bread-pudding, which you like
so much.”
“Bnt the poor birds !” said the tender
hearted boy. “I am afraid they will
starve.”
“Yen,” returned tho parent, “but if
you have no pudding you may starve
yourself. If yon should throw away
yonr food to the birds, and thon find
that you wero hungry yourself, what
would yon do?”
The hoy was silent for a moment, then
his fnco brightened, a touch of his
father’s practicality illumined his eye.
"Why, then,”ho said, softly, “couldn’t
we go out and kill tho birdB?"—Boston
Journal,
Balabier.—The President of the
French republic has 8120,000 a year,
and he is allowed 832,000 for household
expenses, while Queen Viotoria has
81,818,800 a year, not counting the rev
enue of tho Duchy of Lancaster, which
amounts to a cool 8185,000 a year. The
Prince of Wales gets 8175,000 a year,
nnd tho royal family has other annuitieo
amounting to 8660,000.
Salty.—The sea holds 60,000,000,-
000,000 tons of salt. Should the sen be
dried up there would bo a deposit of salt
over tho entire bottom 420 feet deep,
and if the salt were spread on the lam]
it would cover it 900 feet deep.