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IIOMEK, GA„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER, l 181)8.
A HARD 3! AN TO BEAT
THE LIVE RAILROAD AGENT IS UP TO
ALL SORTS OF TRICKS.
Circus People Are Pretty Cute Them-
Helves, hut This Story Shows How Ouo
Party Was Cleverly Outwitted by the
HuHtlinj; Railroader.
“There are people who think yon
can’t teat n circus man, but I want to
tell you that the hardest man to do is a
live railroad man.”
Tkj old sawdust mauagor bad tried
it. He continued:
“Knew where I’urccll is in the In
dian Territory? Away down at the
jumping off place on the Santa Ee road.
The show had la -n at Purcell and wt
wanted to get out in the night for a
long run. Wo vw.ro going to make *4
jump to Kansas Oity. Not far from
Purcell is another town, Oklahoma
City. At that point a competing road
with the Santa Fo runs in. We had COO
people, lid of course the railroad men
were after ns. It was a “big haul. Some
of our people t. ugbt through tickets
from Pure, il, and they didn’t worry.
But about 200, maybe moro, of the
crowd that always haggles over a 10
cent dicker concluded to take the Santa
Pc from Purnell to Oklahoma City, pay
the short haul, and tbon take tka com
peting lino at Oklahoma, the agents of
which were active and full of promises.
“Then tbo Santa Fe mm: fixed it so
the dickerers couldn’t buy any tickets
from Purcell to Oklahoma, for the train
wo were to go on was a special. The
dicktrors said that wc3 all right; that
they would wait for the regular. In
less tbau five minutes a bulletin was
slapped on the hoard of the station to
the effect that the regular Santa Fo was
12 hours late. That made the fellows
whe were dickering for a cheaper rate
turn white around tbeir gills.
“In another five minutes I saw a man
on a traofe velocipede scudding down the
stretch. Every man to his business. So
I thought the railroad people knew
what they were doing, and they did.
That chap on the velocipede was going
down the track to flag the regular and
hold it indefinitely. Smart trick, wasn't
it? Wait till I tell you. There was a
smarter trick than that:
“When the epecial got ready to pull
out, the dickerers asked the agent if
they could pay oil the train from Pur
cell to Oklahoma, and he said ‘Cert.’
So they all boarded the train at Pur
cell, intending to \: t off at Oklahoma.
Just bolero tbo train pulled out the
agent walks down to the engine and
asks the old man at the throttle how
long ho h.ul been on the road and about
the capacity of his iron horse, and so
forth.
“ ‘How many miles an hour can she
go at her be- ?’ as : and the agent.
“ *Cn a good tr .ck, 03 u.iit.s.’
“ ‘ls it a good track through Oklaho
ma City?'
“ ‘Yes, pretty good.’
“ ‘All right. You'vo get no orders to
stop there uc-r to slow up, have you?’
“‘Not yet.’
“ ‘ We 11, w hen you get to the edge of
the town you lee h: r go. Don’t stop for
anything—.tag? cr teams or cattle.
Hcoct through the town at a Cos mile
gait, or more if yen like, and don’t
slow up until yee strike that strip of
deeolation about 11 milr-s t’other side
end you si box of the finest cigars
in Chicago. In it a go?’
“‘lf I don’t get no orders ’fore!
start.’
“‘Well, yon ura five minutes late
GOW. ’
“In a minute, and I calculate it was
loss, tbo circus spteial wan underway.
It went around curves like a scared
snake. It shot across straight lines like
a gazelle that had been singed. It
whirled tko dn?t of that country into
tho sky. After awhile wo saw a town.
Then wo w. ; r tb’-ongh it like the wom
an rant’s shot from the catapult, only
more so. O:: , of tbo dickerers, who was
smiling to i : k tho conductor had not
yet come round, asked a brakeman as
the train v.-.: ;; c , through the street,
‘What town is tbi-:?' The brakeman
said, ‘Oklahoma City.’
“The and. Jii tar's smile faded ns it
came, : f : -. poet says, and his hair
stood up, and turning to the brakeman
he says:
“ ‘ Jezooriraiai! Stop her I Here’s
where we get off!'
“ no iff. vest hesitate at a town
like this,’ said tuo hrukeinau.
“Well, al. iff 11 inih 3on this side,
in a strip of country where a crow can’t
live an-.! whe: 1:* Indian wouldn’t bo
caught dead, the old iron horse began to
slow up. Tho conductor came through
just tbeu and said:
“ ‘Tickets!’
“Well, say, that vr-sa a fanny sight.
Them that had tickets showed up and
then went to sleep. Hut the dickerers
began to kick, ‘ihoy said they should
havo bean let off at Oklahoma City.
The conductor said the train didn’t stop
at Oklahoma, that it wasn’t scheduled
to stop there, and that ho wasn’t going
to go back that trip. Thu leader of the
dickerers for cheap f ires wanted to
know what was to ho dooe.
“Tho conductor was an old timer. He
bad a face on him like a woman who
never loved anybody. lit just told
them, ‘Pay cr get off.’ Then they asked
him whore they could pay to. And he
said the train wouldn’t stop any more
until it get to Kansas City the next
morning unless it stopped to put them
off. And he reached up and caught the
belloard
“And (very ono of the dickerers paid
to Kansas City. And, of coerce, under
tho railroad law, they paid more than
they would ha 0 paid if they had
bought tickets at Purcell And the com
pany was t.att-juuch ahead. And that s
■v, licit I tusafr when 1 .. y that the hard
est uiau to do is a live railroad man.”
—New York Sun.
*Ac#ud : . ;to to latest statistics the
wciir t; ia Sweden outnumber the men
by ! id.ti. b.
INSANE MURDERERS.
Dio Question r.f Responsibility anil Pet*.
iniw-ii4u.it For the Chime.
It may well be that a man who could
not bo called insano, but merely, say,
an ordinary member of tho criminal
classes, with strong passions and feeble
intellect, would in the presence of an
opportunity long expected and hoped
for, tho consequences of which his
thoughts had frequently rehearsed, bo
really for the moment incapablo of r.-
straining fcia hand. Wo should burg
him, nevertheless, without tho slightest
scruple, and we should waste no com
passion upou the abseifco of self control.
It is, in fact, Impossible to frame a defi
nition of irresponsibility based upou ab
sence of self control without including
all sorts of crimes which at present are
punished by tho law. For years tack
there has be:-:; a- rt of feud between
the lawyers aud tho alienists on the
subject, so that oven the textbooks speak
of legal iuaauity and medical ii.amity
as distinct.
To taka extreme cases, jurists have
contended that no degree of insanity
should exempt from punishment for
crime unless it has reached such a point
that tho person is utterly unconscious
of tho difference between right aud
wrong at tho time of committing tho
offense, while medical men havo very
generally held to the opinion that this
is not a proper criterion, that many of
the insane are fully conscious of tho
difference between right aud wrong cud
that to enforce such a test means the
hanging of many a lunatic. There can
be no doubt that of late years the med
ical view has met with a wider accept
ance than it used to do amd that even
lawyers have shown an increasing read
iness to admit the doctrine of irrespon
sibility. But it is a very anxious (pics
tiou, especially in view of recent dog
mas as to degeneracy, how far this doc
trine is to be nllowed to go.
The condition of affairs is much more
serious tbau some pcopde think, and it
is highly necessary that those who ad
minister the criminal law should bo on
tbeir guard against any insidious estab
lishment of immunity for the violation
of its most sacred principles. In any
case of murder the presumption in fa
vor of hanging should bo so strong as
to leave very slender prospect of escape
for any muu who prici- to tho commis
sion of his crime had been thought fit
to be at largo. If this condition cannot
be secured, it will become a matter of
grave necessity to take prompt steps for
the incarceration of many people of evil
passions who are now at liberty and to
render the utterance cf tin-cats a matte*
to he dealt with by tho alienist as well
as by tho magistrate.—Bouden Hospital.
SOCIETY IN SIBERIA.
HU‘SB 1 T'-. ntly F.ot'ro to
tho Kitchen to Cook and Kut,
“At cue cf thu grand Lulls I attended
at Krasnoyarsk,” writes Thomas G. Al
len, Jr., of “Fashionable Siberia, ” in
The Ladies’ Home
pressed by the profusion ct Sowers used
in the decoration of tbo ballroom, and
which had Lccu imported from Europe
at enormous expense, and also by tho
importance given to the matter of re
freshments. Although (bore appeared
to be about four girls to one man, the
male portion of the company spent the
greater part of tbo evening at the buffc-t,
cr zokooski table, eating and drinking.
Tho conversation of tbo women, I found,
was most conventional, and one ccr.ld
invariably anticipate tho name remn as
upou an in (reduction to a lady. Knowl
edge of Fvt nob, which I was surprised
to find few could speck, is considered
the most graceful feminine accomplish
ment.
“Tho kitchen, however, has for tin
lady of tho land a peculiar fascination.
Very often whiio dressed in silks end
satins and conversing with her guests
a hostess will proceed to fry a ‘ blin, ’
or pancake and cat it with tho greatest
gusto. Iho ether ladies aro at liberty
(fc follow the hostess’ example if they
choose.”
Frcuac-l! anil EnglLH CrGEoes*
French men of letters have not enough
of tbo audacious spirit cf tbo English,
says Henry D. Sedgwick in The At
lantic. Tk v troop to l aris, where they
havo been accustomed to tit on their
classical benches since Paris became the
center of Trance. Tho romance cf Ail ion
is the romance cf a Parisian thief. The
romance of Ronsard is the romance oi
the Parisian salon. Montaigne lives on
his seigniory while England is topsy
turvy with excitement of- now knowl
edge and new feeling. Corneille bus tnu
nobleness of a jeuna fills. You cun
measure them nil by their ability to
plant a colony. Wreck them cu a desert
island, Villon will pick blackberries,
Hansard will skip stones, Montaigne
whittle, Corneille leek like a gentle
man, and the empire cf France will not
increase by a baud’s breadth. Take a
bandful of Elizabethan poets, and Sid
ney would chop, Shakespeare would
cook, Jonscu dig, Bacon snare, Marlowe
catch a wild ass, and in 24 hours they
v culd have a leg fort, a score of savage
slaves, a windmill, a pinnace, and the
cross of St. George fiyiug on the tallest
tree.
Caloric.
The emotional litterateur had just
written a piece of which he was very
proud. The editor looked it over and
then said:
“Do you candidly think such opinions
ought to go into cold type?”
“I don’t know much about tha prac
tical work of printing,” was the reply,
“butl don’t believe it makes nay differ
ence. Even it the type is cold, iuu t
that article will take the chili off it,”
—Waxhirgtcn Slur.
Paris aud Marseilles are connected ur
telegraph linos entirely underground
They are placed jii iron pipe sand buried
four feet lx uoath the surface, with man
holes 8,000 feet apart. It cost nearly
kI.fiUU.OOU to bury tho wires.
f’utflr© Blacksmith Bhop*
A blacksmith’s shop wituont a forge
may really come to boa popular institu
tion in the near future. Tho idea orig
inated in Belgium. The metal to be
heated is plunged into a metal tub of
water, and, apparently with little rea
son, becomes instantly white hot Asa
matter of fuct, tho metal tub is connect
ed by wive to one polo of a dynamo
The water is acidulated, and when the
metal ia plunged inn. tho w ater an aro
seems to bo established all around tho
submerged portion, which may then be
removed and hammered on an anvil the
same us any ordinary heated metal. —
Los Angeles Times,
An Averted Tragedy.
An Atchison man got angry tbo other
night, aud hissing an angry iarewell at
bis family stalk,d haughtily out of the
house and out tho trout gate. When he
reached it, however, his pants log
caught on a nui! cud was ripped from
top to bottom, aud the angry man who
had gono forever was compelled to re
turn. Thus another tragedy was turned
into n oaundy.—Atchison Globe.
A Cemetery l or old Clothes.
In tho north of Louden there is a lit
tle plot of ground where oirl clothes aro
buried and afterward . burned fora
curious purpose. It is a fiat, barren aud
destitute piece of g: .mud and presents a
very melancholy spectacle. Little wood
en stumps, bearing numbers, mark the
graves.
There is a paper mill near by, which
finds it rather off . off to get suitable
material for the manufacture of u special
paper.
Tho ordinary old rags are no good.
Tho rags themselves have to bo manu
factured. Old coats, old trousers and
old dresses aro covered with wet soil,
and after a few weeks’ rotting are ex
humed.
A corner is set aside for old linen
goods. The linen is placed in layers in
a box, with soft rich soii between tach
layer, aud then buried.
Limswater is then sprinkled over
the grave, and after a fortnight’s rot
ting tho linen is reduced to a mure
skeleton, which is taken out of i..? box,
laid fiat in a warm blanket and ru li
ed off co the paper mili.
Though it is only tho size of a foot
ball ground, it contains 2.000 gravs*.
which aro marked by 2,000 wooden
st umns. each tv:i: ia -a a ---an bar
f*r!ol<eaa c.i.rt Cfilhoim,
The Pendletonions were justly proud
of Mr. Calhoun and sensitive as to the
impression which ho made upon stran
gers. When Judge Prioieau became a
resident, they were anxious to know
his impressions cf their Ajax. When
they first mot, as soon as Calhoun left
the tab.lo, the question was eagerly
asked, “How do yon iike him?"
“Not txt all,” was the newcomer's
reply. “I desire never to meet him
again.” This was a sad rebuff, and an
explanation was demanded. “I hate a
man who makes me think so much,”
the judge replied. “For the last throe
Laura 1 have been on tbo stretch trying
to follow huu through heaven and
earth. I feel wearied with tbo effort,
and I hate a man who makes mo foul
my own inferiority.” Pcndictou was
appeased. —Exchange.
Oocct, !>u6 Not IW 4^ .
Now ard then a man f-\ <-f a good
tiling and dees net know it. An ip
stance is noted by Sir M. Grant Duff in
his “Diary:’’
Y?e begun to talk about the fog. “It
was so l ad,” I said, “a work or two
sgo that I hear Fa -ear preached against
it at St. Margaret’s. ”
“It was at that church, ” my friend
answered, “that a clergyman, denounc
ing Mr. Tooth, tho ritualist, sain, ‘1
will not name him, but his name is in
everybody’s month. ’ Then, seeing the
smiles on the faces of his congregation,
he turned scarlet ”
At tho present rate cf Increase vise
population of fhe earth will double
itself in years.
. - , Mach Eating.
Gluttony has its victims, hardly less
numerous than other vices. To overeat
is to overburden tho digestivo organs to
such an extent that it will be impossi
ble for them to perform their duties
properly. Deleterious products arc cre
ated, and health is finuliy destroyed. A
prominent judge used to say such men
dig their graves with their teeth—and
it is so. On the other haud, there are
those who out too litile. All extremes
aro evils that experience should govern.
•—Exchange.
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inost complete ever l rought to G linesville, embracing everything needed for
man, woman or child.
?•- iiOri oropg and low prUtos
The<v no t vvo classes of men whose interests are nearer the same
than the farmer and the merchant. V >en .Le fanner prosj.eis the merchant
prospers, and when erops are short and cotton low the merchant i* effected by
tiio blow the same as the farmer I>< i<; thm t.. 1 j C t t : •-asou we
have selected om stock and mad 1 our ■• ; xc- i-; ' ■u*t im .
NOTE HIE SJ‘ECT.iI. PUN E,S Gi YEN J- / LQ W
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Boautiful black T.uTctii medinm
weight, regular width ail silk, worth
(!;')(-, at blta
Heavy w eight bhn k " aft. ttu, fu.i h
inches wide, worth nir.i- fO-- a : .Ac
Extry heavy hback Tavett.-*. fuii -•■( m.
u de, sells elsewhere u* til per yard
only BDo
BLACK .V-D COLORED WOOL
DRESS GOODS.
Ten pieces of Be udcl th, ft-1 i lie,,
wide, extra heavv, bauiifnl finish,at §1
Fifteen pieces Ladies- loth very 1 e.a i
all wool 54. inches wide, .-.oil!: 05u to
75c pot yard, cur ; -net • Oc
Twcriiv pieces i. aier . th, rll wooi,|
full width, worth 50c, only 35c
20 pieces woolen Brocades, full 16 w.
wide, 40 (-r.lv ’Jit'-
10 pieces of Novell its, 4 i inches Wide i
worth "J'.f. at 1; c
20 pieetee double wic'th Dress Goods-1
worth resjnlM- L'>", at iOc.
Our line of black Gross Gauds em
hi-ac.ui oi’cri sty aim v e.nve denii and
includine IL-r.n--;‘.s ■' gss.
meres l>i - Wal-s. 'VI. ~
cords, li-.-nojuimA'.-vci ii. Grepons,
Broudclo h- l.nd csclotbs etc ranging
in price fra: i 10* to “20c
CLOAKS, C.'.PES and JACKETS
In Ladies’ end Childrau’s Wraps we |
feci conlident that we can please you i
Our f 2 Plush Cape cannot.hu duplk j
caled elsewhere for less than ¥0 id) j
Extra heavy, latest style Pivsli (’ -i : -
all sizes wortii regular #5 50 to $6 50-
our price .S3 85 [
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in; iinery line it will
■at to call on us, as
you iind everything needed
i $25 Fr< noh pat*
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CLOTHING AND HATS.
H>till g : .llor made Suits
- u ide by the cele
: and Sri; s . ‘IS;os, fef Baltimore,
nv tt: tern in designs and the
ti , clot hi ii gj on the
yics'i uibrace every**
1 for in single breasted
:!>; • Ibiv isted Sacks, Cuta*
nays and Prince Alberts
‘. a I hesi sorted stock
■1 r in town. From a
n little suit to a fit a tot of three
Large
stock of < Md Pant for children, aud
hoys arid men,
HATS AND CAPS,
an_> . head and anysixe ptirse.
ILre von can firnl anything you want
an a 15c Cap to the celebrated John
•stetson Hut as high as $6
ENT’S FURNISHING GOODS
largest line in Collars, Cuffs,
ar. Shirts Lanndried and u
ism ,Vi Hoaeiy, Colton and Wool
C wear for men and boys a!wave
to b * found here at the very lowest
priors