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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1890)
A TALE OF THE MORGUE. KEEPER WHITE, OF NEW YORK, TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE. The Dvad ItoUKo Not Particularly ITn ^ healthy—More Application:; for Position# as Helpers Than There Are Vacancies. The hate Dr. Hamilton’s Views. “Look at me." The speaker was a man of medium height and rather inclined to stoutness. His hair is turning gray, but bis eyes were bright and cheery and his face glowed with the hue of health. “How old am I?" Tho writer placed his age at 40 years at a venture, though 88 years would have been apparently an equally close guess. “That’s what most people take mo for. 1 am nearly 49 years old. and have spent the last seventeen years of my life in tho city dead house. Do I look sickly?” KILLING HAD ODORS. Albert White, the keeper of tho city morgue, was discussing the death of Joseph Fogarty, for several years tho assistant keeper, and was indignantly denying the widely credited report that constant intercourse with the bodies of the dead had evil effects upon the health of the living. “1 have* employed hundreds of men and women here,” continued the keeper, “since I have had charge of this depart ment, and have never vet had one die from the effects of handling dead bodies or being constantly among them. Home have died, it is true, but they have only themselves to blame for it. I have had seven assistant keepers. Fogarty was the last My first assistant was the only man who contracted a disease here, and I am not quite sure that this is the place he caught it. One day lie came down with smallpox, though we never had a ease of smallpox in the building to our knowledge, lie recovered and is now an attendant in the City Insane asylum. Fogarty died from heart dis ease. He was born with it. Why, every week during the college sessions for years Dr. Janeway would have Joe go up before his class for examination. He had a triple murmuring of the heart, so he called it, and he was one of the only eases ever known. When he had Ids leg taken off there was a consulta tion of twenty or thirty big doctors to decide whether they would give him ether or not. They concluded he would die if they didn't, and so they gave it to him and he recovered.” As the keeper talked the wind shifted to the east and the breeze that brought miniature white caps to the waves that slashed under the city dead house also carried into the office a faint odor from the long, low room that extends over the river and where the bodies are kept. “Smell that odor?” went on Mr. White, throwing wide open the door. "Well, that’s all we ever got, and there’s noth ing unhealthy in that. It’s not alto gether pleasant, I know, but if you didn't know what it came from you'd hardly notice it. We pack the bodies in red car borate of lime. That absorbs the ani mal moisture. Then we keep the stone floor always wet. That carries off the odor as fast as it is made. That is the way we manage to keep healthy.” “But isn't work in the morgue calcu lated to uifeet a man's mind more than it does his body?” “Why should it anymore than the work of an undertaker? Look at me,” rejoined the keeper with a touch of par donabie pride in his tones. “I think mv miml is as healthy as most men’s, and I've spent most a lifetime here. a man’s used to the work there is noth ing excessively unpleasant about it. NO keeper ever COMMITTED suicide. •1 have never had a helper go insane. It doesn't affect their moral natures in the least so far as 1 can find out. I never knew it to affect any one's particularly We neve r had a helper commit suicide and I nev r knew of a man’s killhm himself in the ° or near morgue. “Do you have any trouble in getting help, rs?” l ‘I c°n grt more than I need. There are nlv. “ra a dozen or more applications titan there are vacancies, and when 1 discharge a man l am overrun with an plications within twentv-four hours No 1 ; il you. the morgue is ;i healthy place to work in, public opinion to the con trary notwithstanding, and a man who takes care of himself can live here as long as ho can anywhere,” i he late Dr. Frank 11. Hamilton, who won a national reputation during the fatal illness of President Garfield, agreed with Mr. White i.i every particular, and even went farther. The elTects of a rank growth of vege niton." wrote the doctor, “are much more pernicious to human life ami health than the decay of animal structures. In lUe Great Parisian slaughter houses rap . < ill-V 11v- MontLiucon, „ u )7„. licit annual 7 o’” |V art) brought 10,090 to 13,000 dead living or or worn worn out out horses norses. uogs, does rot* t .its ami .,,,,1 oth- r r nonn Stic animals, every portion of whose ** -- — there worked over and used or various economic purposes, the workmen enjoy as good health as tame class of laborers m any other occu patbin. in .*ew iori, he continued, “where large slaughter houses tire scattered lu re a d there along the water fronts, among the poorest hovels and tenement houses, la:, told that there does not exist any mure sickness than m usually found Knu ng the e-iste number of poor in ail 14? crowded tenement distrfrtji of tho bchlet couktt ms. city. Yet there is not a slaughter house fn New York in which more or less of the blood front the slaughtered animals, with fragments of flesh, etc., do not lie in or about or under the floor, there to undergo putrefaction. The mortuary and general sanitary statistics of Chicago will probably not show that it is any more unhealthy today than it was before It became the slaughter house of the world. Dessault, the famous French anatomist, was fond of repeating the saying, ’When the miimal dies the poison dies, too.’”—New York Mail and Express. John Ritchie said he saw a man hit with a “spent” cannon balL He walked over to where the man lay to see what he could do for him—give him a drink out of his canteen, or a chew of tobacco, or something— but all that was visible was a mass of about 100 pounds of flesh and blue cloth, mixed up like sausago, with an eye and two teeth sticking out on top. Capt. Meredith said that, speaking of cannon balls, one of the most nove* sight* he witnessed during the war was a cannon bail about as big aB a flour bar rel going through a horse lengthwise— that is, lengthwise of the horse. There was left of the horse its head, its four feet and the lower six inches of its tail. When it reached this stage I saw that there was a disposition to break down the ropes and let everybody take a hand in the lying, so 1 got away before I was crippled. —Chicago Mail. Trapping Mosquitoes. Throe or four men were sitting on the piazza of a seaside cottage smoking. It was evening. The stars were as thick in the sky as freckles on a red headed girl’s face. The waves came in on the beach with a swish-swash-swosh just as they have done ever since the second day of tho creation. More piercing than the song of the waves were the notes, and more multi tudinous than the stars of heaven the number of the mosquitoes that haunted that piazza, and every one of them was ‘looking for blood.” The men had ceased smoking for fun. They now puffed their pipes and cigars to keep the mosquitoes away. “Something funny about mosquitoes,” said one rather absent mindedly. “Yes, rather,” was the drawling reply. “Funny how much blood it takes to fill one of them up.” “No. but honest, now; do you know that if a mosquito’d get his bill down into yourshami he can t pull it out while you hold your breath?” “Don't believe it.” “It is true, however, for I have tried it.” “Ret you the cigars a mosquito can lake his bill out at any time lie wants to do it, and we will try it right here. Is it a go?” “It is, and I’ll let them try.” A lamp was lighted, the cigars put out and all waited. In less than a minute a mos quito had placed himself on Tom’s hand and begun operations. “Now,” said Tom, and placed the fore finger of his other hand down close to the mosquito. It did not budge. He placed his nail against the abdomen of the insect and whirled it around. Still it remained fixed. “You can do it every time,” said Tom. as he killed the mosquito ami drew a long breath. It is a fact. Go and try it.—Boston Globe. Heii.ng the tv.it. Dr. McCresswcll is troubled with rats 10 sa y’ rat:s infest his drug store. Every now and then he \>id find a Urge rat i:i ihe trap. The otiier day an unusually latge one a as caught. It ' vas I ‘ ot k da ' d ’ T* ^he doctor is too tim dor hearted to kill an> tiling. Mr. Eat ' vas chloroformed, and while asleep a tin y silvi ’ r bd! attached ^ a l )iece of * i!k was placed round the rat s neck. Alter P aintin * H da v and dat<? of ca P ture - on tbf> raf s ba( k restoratives were used. and the rodent v as soon in a condition to walk about the cage trap. Tne merry tinkle of the bell produced a queer sen nation on tho rat. It's a fact, the coun tenunce of the rat assumed a li vid hue an * lt became so mi \ous l*iat its teut.ii chat t< red. Then the mt was Deed, am) darting in its hole disappeared What dl< ‘ tinkling of the bell had on the other rats can belter bo imagined than described, but all the rats have left the drug store.— Washington C apital. A Oat Commit, Suicide. A tabby eat belonging to the family of David B. Paul, Wallingford, in reported to have committed suicide while griev mg over the loss of her family of five kittens that had been drowned in order to keep down the cat population. When tl,P ? Kl ril1 mis T* sh “ W H teann « " vt ‘ r ll, f h ,° USe ’ fihoW,r lw, her « l< rt ’ ‘ Uilli at Hf'Y l *“‘ , l<,u<1 Tf^i' r , ' ai!;a " v ent up to the tan l story and c.cui) erately - jumped out on the porch roof uciow. .... \v in . , kvu , , n p,i U, out tabby lead, her r.eek I cing ' broken iu the fall rnn«wtwpnia i .tss. ^ \ muiuk. .HH Saysit Am Imwe-iiow did you ever come to marrv Mrs. B ? (i rinun ,j Harrett (Iran k!y)-I married her for her money, site said she'd be vvorth a million on her wedding day— estimated me at that figure, vou know. Savsit Atiyliowo—Wliy, she deceived you shamefullvi Grimmd Barrett — Well, I was de cmved, that’s a fact, hut Great Scott! Epoc man, h. just thina how she got loft! — CENT UAL RAILROAD 0? ft BORGIA. (Savahkah a Wkstjerx Dtvisior ) Schedule No. Z in effect Oct. «‘.h. 1859. Going Weet Read Dawn. ; Going Eaet Read Up So. 55 | No. 1 j Between | No. 5C | No. exprski mail | COLUMBUS | exp jki 8 puengr | daily j E LLAVLLS [ pitsngr ( Mail daily, | | and 1 daily 1 Daily. | AMERICUS. 1 | <54 a tn ) 315 p ia | lv Aaeri.’is ar 1 948pm | lOtOam __I j U <v<- e .. a 24 10 15,, S30„ |4*4„ 7 XlSriUt 7 9W7, ldW#m 5 40 „ [444 ,. | „ Putnam „ j f 55 „ 1942., 555 I 4 51 „ | .AVjg-gfnsvIe,. | 8 40 7, I 9 36 7, I?03„ [502 „ ” I „ lull ruts„ I 8 i57,TTTJ~ 6*77" i 5 25 ” HTZilobee 7. [1 Ut v ' | 9 00 11 28 [7 327 i7,"GieirAit«77i e os',7 [«577 <• 35 „ 1 5 42 | „ Cherokee ,. | C 6J „ | 6 45 7 6 51 ,, ff~57 [„ Ilaltoc* „ 1 7 46 „ | 8 297 7 03 „ | „B 10 1 „ Ocbillee | 7 34 | « 15 „ „ „ 7 2 T ., i C87 ,, ., SuHOfM .. [7 13 .. 7 748 7, 7 35 a mil6 45pm|*r Co. jinbuj lv |7 U5pm{7 40aim For further information relative to ticket rates, schedules, best routes etc., apply to G. Vf. Avera, { W. H. McClintock, Clyde Agent, KUnviUe,) Bupt., Coiumbus Bostick ( 3. T. Charlton, Trav. Puss.Agt. ) Geu, Pass. Agt. Savannah, Ga. BY FAB n -TO— NEW YORK OR BOSTON -IF via OAVANNAH c — AND THE— OCEAN STEAMSI i 1 T i -OF TKC r» pn f ra l p«41 Tuclll- rr Ua(t vnd Cif n^riri-i <d^I, V^' . SUMMER EXCURSION TICKETS Now on sale at reduced rates. Good to re turn untill October Slst. 1SS9. Tickets via tbi3 line includes meals and State rooms enroute and is quite a saving- as against cost of Sleeping: berths and saeals via alt rail roads. Magnificent Steamers and elegant service. Free from the heat and dust, incident to Ail Rail-routes, if you are sick the trip will in vivorate and build you up. GO EAST BY SEA AND Y 01 I.l. NEVER REGRET IT P- use age rs, before purchasing tickets via other routes, would do well vo inquire first oi the merits of the Route via Savannah. Fui ther information may be had by applying to the Agent 1 1 your station nr to 51. S. BELKNAP, IV. F. SHELL?!AN, General Manager. Traffic Manager. E. T. CHARLTON, CLYDE BOSTICK, Gen’l Pass. Agent. Trar. Pass Agent. Savannah, Ga. Jri. T T c. c. o. Is a safe and sure cure for cancer and all scrofulous diseases. It contains no poisonous drugs but is composed of roots and herns, natures own remedies, that begins at the root of the disease by purifying the blood and driving out all impurities and leaving the system in a healthy condition. No knife, no plaster and no pain results from its use. Since curing myself many years ago of an eating cancer I have used this remedy with success upon many of my neighbors as the following testimonials will show. I could secure the names of others but it is unnecessary the medicine recommends itself where ever used. I gather the herbs and prepare the medicine myself from the forests of Schioy county and guarantee purity and a safe cure, H. A. Rasco of Smithville Ga is my duly authorized agent. For further par (icttlars call on or address. A. M. Horne. Americus Ga. CERTIFICATES, t do hereby certify that I had a cancer that y, trc nic;;rout pain for y«ar$. l.took $50 worth ( ,f the S. s. S. knit diditmeno good. Mr Home’s Cancer medicine was recommenced to nr*, 1 cent and pot one quert, used it amt it helped me, I sent amd*ut worts and iteureil me sound and well. Mrs. J. S Oliver, Poindexter, Senior Co. Gs. We the UBdersiya-rd know the above to b* true. TVrn. Ed v/e<'$. J. W. Snuter. Mr.Tkornsu Rridx-t-sb»d * e^neer vrhieh Ksff antra tf»tke boce. h« .not if;’, ils-nf's t sneer mrr sml i* now sound and »r»;lly«-,i e;,n refer Li to Mr. Bridges Sr. Theresa Brldi:*# Jr. APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. (Ir.OKliVA, I wtr if. FmifTi. eel i/nnconrr Sen Gixi.miiiit ;y i'ovntv. Goo-ion, f mini ilei.-ao tiaturo.i il ,ei„-ese-t:, the estate »,f to ia his i«*n duly aiui ( iitevd on-tvoi-l ifi.it be has fully Mdiniuivercd deceased This the • State Of ,\ ivvundiia Goodsmt . t 0 che all wA-mns com erned, heir and ered irors. to show cense, tf uttvthev can. why said mliumwn.mrsrn -hi m-t b- ills, barged from : Li-- ;.d:niuis>:iithin :m*l \< oleve It tiers of uis_ AIYVICF. TO MOTHERS. * Mas. Wme low’s Stumary Stiiup should always bo ns'-d v. hen children nre cutting teeth It iclieves the litl In sufferer once; it prcil:lo ss natural quiet sler* l>v relieving the chHil from pain, and the little cherub awakes us :n .'jhtas a button." It "is very ;*1>; snut to tttrte. It soothrsth® child, softens the i.Hnyn till I‘•'In. relieves wind, regulate* the bow els. and is tke best known remedy for aiurrlup.a whether arising from te»thing or other causes Twenty five cents a bo.tlo. Hawkins } ( { House, AMERICUS GA. Jesse Aycocfc. Proprietor ’ Located in Center of Business. First-Class Accommodation In Every Respect. TP JUT. XT. "WII .XjXJUXYLS Cotton avenue, Americus, Ga. Sole agent for the famous old m R at en Broek, STRAIGHT KENTUCKEY WTIISJ^IE'Y'. JUG CUSTOMERS SUPPLIED PROMPTLY BY EXPRESS OR FREIGHT, MONUMENTAL Manufacturers of Mon. uments. Hi ad-Stonef n V- 1 l u T l i - \n \ 7 s Statuary Cemetery Eure Marble, r.nd Work Plinuberj, General Futni. IEEJa-ga,=c Slab?, Marble Tiling, etc. <T jVTilllLcBirr Georgia, Dealer in Italian Tennessee, and (SUCCESSOR TC MILLER – McCALL.1 American Marble, and Foreign H!,tunnies r.r.d Domestic Foreisrn OfScc—C arara,; Italy, Nevr Yoik Office 714 Water St. Furbished 814 Jackson Street and contrasts made for Stone all kinds of Buiidinjl AMERICUS g-a. tery Iron Enclosures Railing for a ''emc.l Spec ialty. H. i WAT T S, ""Wholesale and Liquors and cigars a specialty. Corner Lee and Forsyth Streets, AMERICUS, GA rWI'he people of Sehley County are especially invited to call and get my prices when visiting Americus. REMOVAL NOTICE G Zh..£b iQ-oo III. or–Pe a, jo o .m Have removed totbeir new three rtory building-, 1132 – 1134 Broad street. COLUMBUS GA. OPPOSITE THEIR OLD STAND. They have twice the stock of Clothing, Hats, Umbre'j las, Trunks and Shirts ever carried. Have also added a complete line of men and boys Shoes. rr lany Goods. T lust 53 Soil. eo 1 c? 1 u c V 1 NOTE SOME PRICES 50 Suits at £9,00 cost you $13.00 elsewhere, 100 Suits at I0.5C cost you lo.OO elsewhere. 75 Suits at 15,00 veil worth 20,00 100 Suits at 18,50 well worth 25,00 200 Boys Suits at $2,00 to $3,50 worth $3,00 to $5,CO. The best £>2,50 fine shoe in the South you will pay $5,00] elsewhere, we mean busineess. we have too man]] 7‘oods. They must he sold at once. j Chancellor – Pearce, OLD LOG CA-EIiX \ ■PIT Iiiskies A pure ami unaftulteratcd, distillation from clean grain the land our lore fathers drank in their log cabins in dY Oi p \ 016. J When visiting Columbus call in at Rodin natural*] Jefferson] 1041 Broad street and see the old log cabin as life, with its coon skins on the out side and sideboard aw decanters inside, filled v/ith pure liquors, with [the fashiont'd appliance^ for treating your friends. __ *** PfgWiyi __ WlWITO ____ fN i A _ J I j rlxAvLud–lk I | | l \ '4 | W 8 N N H N N 1 ^ j I 1 1 -A 1041 Broad Street ColuinlusOa »r
