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yiews of Railroaders on Lesson
of Westfield Horror.
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ngITING INCIDENTS ON THE RAIL
mances Taken by Engineers Grown
careless Through Familiarity With
Related by Truinmen-—A
panger
v,ter"‘" opinion of the Proposi
. For Keeping Three Men om
wcnmofl"flh
The agitation for “three men to an
wgint’r" revived and strengthened by
ge disaster near Westfield, on the
central Rallroad of New Jersey tracks,
nds indorsement among railroad em
oyees, Says the New York Times,
ghev cannot be outspoken publicly on
q'uostiou which, though 1t affects
:hem directly, is considered by general
panagers and division superintendents
{o be none of their business, but among
gemselves they point out that almost
prery disastrous collision in recent
yefll-;; in all human probability woula
pave been averted had the engineer
pad an assistant lookout.
Enginemen, brakemen and conduct
ors, homeward bound after their runs,
toll tales in the smoker of incidents of
milroading that had they been wit
gessed by passengers would have in
duced nervous prostration. That fa
piliarity with ever present peril which
preeds contempt in the most cautious
of engineers is instanced by these men
g 8 the chief argument in favor of the
plan of having an assistant engineer,
though the danger of the man in con
trol of the rushing machine falling
dead or going insane is given due
weight. These latter contingencies,
they say, are exceptional. The care
lessness resulting from long associa
tion with danger is ever present.
A story illustrative of another source
of peril, fortunately rare, was told the
day after the recent wreck. It dealt
with one of the most popular en
gineers on a road leading from New
York. He was to take out a special
1 which were several members of the
poard of directors. The man was ob
viously “under the weather” and fell
g 5 he descended from his cab to make
1 last inspection of the slides and rods.
For an instant he lay as if paralyzed,
with his legs between the drivers, but
ouly for an instant. 'The fireman, who
tad been peering apprehensively up at
him from the after deck, was at his
dde with a single bound and struck
him a violent blow across the face
with his greasy cap.
“Make out we're skylarking,” he
sid, “or our folks ’ll notice you and
you'll lose your job.”
Quickly he raised his mate to his
feet. Then he boosted him, laughing
and striking back, up to the footboard.
Then he jammed him on his seat at the
lever, struck him one final blow and,
agile as a cat, climbed back to his cwn
place with a broad grin on his face.
None of the witnesses who understood
the incident interfered, and two min
utes later when the air whistle sound
¢d the special rolled away on her
curse to the mountains and the for
ests as though controlled by the clear
est brain and steadiest hand on the
whole long line. 2
The engineer is dead. He did not
dle that day, nor did any of those who
rode behind or before him suffer as a
msult of his condition. But it was a
long chance.
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Short Sighted People
are surely missing a beautiful opportunity to save money. [f they
fail to see what we are offering in our .
Grand Shoe Sale.
The time for this sale is at hand—a time when all the odd pairs
and surplus stock of shoes are pricea to insure a general clearing
up before stock taking time. The assortment is quite extensive;
men’s, women’s boy’s, misses aud children’s shoes. A cordial
welcome awaits ycu.
J. B. HAYES.
Salesmen: Hayes, Marshall anl Peeples.
They toid one story on one train of
an engineer on another line who was
running at a fifty second clip through
a ten mile stretch of forest with more
than a dozen crowded cars when his
pipe went out. His racing locomotive,
s 0 the tale ran, was one of the newest
type, built to meet the requirements of
modern trafiic. The firebox was the
full width of the widest sleeping car,
so that the greatest volume and pres
sure of steam could be developed. This
ieft no room for the crew to stand be
side it. So the driver stands all alone
in his cab just back of the roaring
gstack, where his view of the track is
of the best, and his stokers—for there
often must be more than one—protect
«d by a massive steel wind shield, leap
from tender to furnace on a narrow
firing deck set low down at the rear of
the whole machine.
This engineer struck several matches,
but he couldn’t hold the fire. Then, so
the story went, he climbed out of his
cab, back along the narrow running
board, through the wind shield to the
firing deck, lit his pipe, spoke to his
subordinate and then slowly wended
his way back to where he belonged. A
casual observer with frightened face
glued to the pane of the forward car
did not compute the time all this took,
for he was glad only tc know that he
was alive. This story created not even
surprise in the little group that heard
it.
A grizzled engineer who has spent
the greater part of his life at the lever
put the proposition this way:
“By law 1t is required that every
ferryboat shall carry two men in her
pilothouse. The law is obeyed, too,
except in emergencies. River pilots
come cheaper than locomotive engi
neers, but is it not strange that the
great transportation companies do not
find it to their own.best interests, in
the light of so much past experience,
to urge the passage of a measure pro
viding that on all fast passenger trains
there shall be a pilot engineer? What
comparison can be drawn between the
horrible possibilities of a wild steam
boat and a runaway engine? The pilot
engineer would have nothing to do
with the operation of the locomotive’s
mechanism. His function would be to
watch the track, to report signals and
to watch ths other engineer.”
ANARCHISTS’ CONVENTION.
May Redically Afrect All Europe’s
Crowned Heads.
The New York Telegram prints a
story to the effect that avparchists
from all over the world are about to
meet in a secret meeting to devise
plans that radically affect the crowned
heads ot Europe. All preparations for
the convention were carefully cuard
ea, but the plans became known
through the boastful talk of a youthful
delegate to the coonvention from New
York. This man, an Italian known as
“Agelo” and “*Rudolph.”” gave up his
piace on Saturday, declaring that he
had been selected as one of five dele
gates from the United States to the
convention.
The Evening Telegram says: ‘Far
reaching anarchistic plans are to be
discussed and perfected at this world’s
convention, it is said, and it is even
whispered that ere an adjournment is
taken a meeting of anarehists will
have been held and this will assign
men to deeds, the full accomplishment
of which may shape the destinies of
the reigning houses of Europe.”
Waketul Children.
For a long time the two year old
child of Mr. P. L. McPherson, 59 N.
Tente St., Harrisburg., Pa., would
sleep buttwo or three hours in the
earlvpart of the night, which made it
very bard for her parents. Her moth
er concluded that the child had stom
ach trouble, and gave her nalf of one
of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver
Tablets, which quieted her stomach
and she slept the whole night through.
Twoiboxes of these Tablets have
effected a permanent cure and she is
now well and strong. For sale by the
Dawson Drug Co., Dawson, Ga., and
Williford & Co., Parrott, Ga.
Names of Dr. Wiley's “Poison Squad.”
The pames . Dr. H. 'W. Wiley’s
“poison squad” have at last been made
public, says a Washington special to
the New York World. One of the
boerders at the scientific boarding
house where the poison food tests are
being held is B. J. Teasdale, once a fa
mous 100 yard runner of Yale. He has
not been put on the “poison” food yet,
but will be within a few weeks. The
other mea are John D. Eldridge, the
“fat man:’ “Big John” E. B. Dudley
of North Carolina, the “thin member;”
Eugene R. McCarthy of Pennsylvania,
J. 8. Gifford of New York and W. J.
Jordan and at the boracic acid table
J. L. Weber, F. Norton, T. E. Smith,
C. Orton and Messrs. Freeman and Du
bois. :
Raw and Inflamed Lungs
yield quickly to the wonderful cura
tive and healing qualities of Foley’s
Honey and Tar. It prevents poeumo
pia and consumption from a bard cold
settled on the lungs.
KENDRICK'S DRUG STORE.
BURIED HER PRIDE FOR $1.5
Poor Woman Took Money Preach
er Offered in Public.
It cost the Rev. William R. Newell
of Chicago $1 to preach a sermon on
pride Sunday night. Mr. Newell,
speaking in the Moody church, was en
deavoring to show that too much pride
was a bad thing, but that most of us
are afflicted that way.
‘‘Here is a aollar,” he said, ‘‘and I
am going to give it to anyone who can
bury their pride long enough to admit
that you need the money.”’
He paused a moment and then con
tinued triumphantly: \
“See, I told youso. Not one of you
would sell your worthless pride for a
good American dollar.”
Just then a shabby little woman, her
face wrinkled with age, came down
the isle, took the money and retreated.
Those nearest her heard her say: *‘l
need the money. L am too poor to
have any pride.”’
For a moment the preacher was
speechless.
“Take it, and God” bless vyou,” he
stammered.
The woman who buried her pride
for $1 refused to reveal her name, but
did not hesitate to tell why she accept
ed the money.
“I am too old to work,” she said,
“‘and for some time have been living
with my sister, who has little enough
on which to support me. When Mr.
Newell offered the dollar I hesitated
at first, then felt compelled to accept
his monev. I shall take it home and
give it to my sister. She needs it,
heaven knows, and after all what is
pride to me ?"’
Foley’s Kidney Cufe makes the kid
neys and bladder right. Contains
nothing injurious.
KENDRICK'S DRUG STORE.
DAILY LIFE OF KRUGER.
Housekeeper Tells How Oom
Paul Spends His Days.
A well known deputy has received
the following qualint letter, dated Men
ton, France, from ex-President Kru
ger's housekeeper, denying the audi
ence asked for, says a Paris cablegram
to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
Dear Mr. Deputy—lt is impossible to
grant you a visit. Even if you were a
king I would have to refuse. Sorry to be
obliged to tell you this.
Maybe you would like to know how the
president spends his days.
President rises at 5 a. m.; no breakfast—
never. Reads the Bible until 8 o'clock
and again goes to sleep until 10:30. Sun
days earlier, because he visits church.
At 10:30 smokes his pipe for six min
utes. Then people come to see him. At
12 sharp breakfast; lasts twenty minutes.
Drinks nothing else but milk. Goes for &
drive between 1:30 and 2:30. Sleeps from
2 until 4:30. Receives Boers and reads Bi
ble.
Dinner at 6 sharp; also twenty minutes,
His prayer before and after dinner is full
of piety and confidence in God. The pres
ident goes to bed at 8:30 and is woke up
at 11, when he takes a cup of coffee and
agaln goes to sleep until 1. At Ihe eats
some fruit. The doctor doesn’t want him
to have continuous sleep—why, I don’t
know. Suppose it is for the president’'s
health. Yours respectfully,
FRAU VON 8.
Everybody Eats Onions.
Visitors to Boyonne, N. J., these
days carrv smelling-bottles in their
hands, and get out of town as quickly
as possible. The reason is that every
body in Boyonne is eating onions, at
every meal and between meals. The
natives do not mind it; it is vhe other
fellows who get the smell. The rea
son for the wholesale onion eating is
the fact that there is smallpox in town
and the beiief is general that the
esculent bulb is a preventive of the
disease. The health officer says ‘‘eat
onions,” and everybody is obeying
orders.
New Statutes for Berlin,
Emperor William has approv&i eight
large statues to be erected in the new
cathedral which is being built on the
Spree embankment opposite the royal
palace. Figures of Luther and Me
lanchthon will occupy prominent places,
and the other statues are those of Cal
vin, Zwingli and four princes whose
names are connected with the dawn of
the reformation—viz, Frederick the
Wise, Joachim the Second, Philip of
Hesse and Albert of Prussia. The
figures will be four meters in height.
A Watermelon Railroad.
The first railroad ever built in the
United States for watermelon traffic is
peing constructed in southeast Missou
ri by the Burlington. It will be fifty
miles long, extending from the interior
to the Mississippi river and goes
through a country which raises enough
melons to keep it very busy during the
season.
Don't believe anybody who tells you
that you need drastlc drugs that purge
apd gripe when you are slightlv con
stipated or Yilious. There is a medicine
that is pleasant to take. easy and mild
in action, but absolutely thorough in
effect, and a month’s treatment costs a
quarter. [t is Ramon's Liver Pills aad
Tonic Pellets. All good druggists
sell it.
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ASHES THROWNINTO RIVER
REQUEST OF WILLIAM ESSEX IS CAR
RIED OUT BY HIS WIFE.
On His Deathbed the “Mayor of Happy
Hollow™ Asked That His Ashes Be
Scattered on the Mississippi.
¥rom the middle span of Eads Bridge
the widow of William KEssex, ‘‘Mayor
of Happv Hollow,” East St. Louis,
scattered his ashes into the river.
The silver plate which had been fast
ened on the casket was also thrown in
te the river.
This disposition of Essex’s ashes was
in accordance with his last wishes as
expressed to his wife and several
friends on his deathbed.
Essex was known to almost every
one in East St. Louis, and to many in
St. Louis. He had a remunerative
business in dealing in coal, wood and
ice, and was looked upon as the chief
justice in the affairs of “Happy Hol
low,” in this way getting his title.
Previous to his setilement in “*Hap
'py Hollow’ he had been a pilot on the
Mississippi river for seventeen years.
It was because of his long service on
the river and hislove for it that on his
deathbed he secured the promise 0f his
wife to have his ashes scattered on the
bosom of the great river.
The funeral was attended-not oaly by
the residents of **Happy Hollow,”” but
by many employes of the St. Louis
Terminal railroad who bad known ks
sex.
Accompanied by several friends Mrs.
lissex received the ashes of her hus
band at the M issouri crematory. They
were placed ip an ordinary pasteboard |
bux, which was wrapped up and car
ried by one of Mrs. Essex's attend-|
ants.
Mrs. Essex led the little party of
mourners, and after leaving the tower
on the west side of the river she no
ticed that the wind was yery strong |
from the south abpd suggested that
they had better cross to the north side |
of the bridge, so that the ashes of her
busband would be blown into the wa
ters of the Mississippi according to his
last wish.
In the middle of the center span of
Eads bridge the party stopped. Mrs.
Essex leaned out beyond the bridge
railing and slowly scattered the ashes.
As the dust left the box they were
taken by the wind and earried hundreds
of feet uway from the bridge to be scat
tered to all parts of the stream. As
the last portion of the ashes were scat
tered Mrs. Essex dropped the box. |
“Poor Bill,”’ she mouaned. *‘l have
pothing now by whiech to remember
him. It was his wish, and he made
me promise that I would scatter his
ashes into the river, ana I have done
my duty.”
Tragedy Averted.
“Tust in the nick ofstime our little
boy was saved,” writes Mrs, W. Wat
kins of Pleasant City, O. *‘Pneu
monia had played sad havoc with him,
and a terrible cough set in besides.
Doctors treated him, but he grew
worse every day. At length we tried
Dr. Kings New Discovery and our dar
ling was saved. He is now sound and
well.”” Eyerybody ought to know it is
the only sure cure for coughs, colds
and lung diseases. Guaranteed by
Dawson Drug Co. Price 50 cents and
$l. Trial bottles free.
Kerosene Drinking a Vice.
Tuv is said that the drinking of kero
sene is such a growing evil in France
that measures against it are proposed.
This vice has long prevailed among
the Indians of the Son!.hern Pacific.
fo such an extent has it been carried
that the importation of kerosene for
drinking is an Important trade in Peru
and Bolivia.
Actor’s Remarkable Pillowcase.
Touis James, the Shakespearean ac
tor, received a telegram not long ago
from a big hotel asking him to return
two pillows. His reply was that the
request was an insult, and now he has
sued the hotel management for $20,000,
says the Portland 'Oregonian. This
looks like a remarkable pillowcase.
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It's All in the P
t's All in the Push.
That's Why
The Racycle sprockets turn between the
bearings— Push easy.
All Dbicycle sprockets turn outside the
bearings--Push hard.
An ounce of demonstration is worth pounds
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We beg to announce to the planters of this section and
surrounding counties that we are prepared, as we have been
in the past, to offer FIRST-CLASS FERTILIZERS for
the coming season, embracing
Guano,
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ainit,
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Acid Phosohat
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Meal,
AT REASONABLE FIGURES.
We offer goods that are well known to the trade, the fa
mous Patapsco Brands having been sold in this section for
over 30 years, and sustains the universal reputation of being
unexecelled by any other goods. It gives us pleasure to offer
you the following goods, which talk for themselves:
Potapsco Acid Phosphate
and Patapsco Guano.
M’t'd. by Patapsco Guano Co. Baltimore.
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M’f'd. by Georgia Chemical Works, Augusta.
We also sell Armour & Co’s. Fertilizers, which
are made entirely of Animal Bore. It will be to your inter
est to see us before placing your orders, as it will mean as
much to you as it does to us. Yours to serve, .
LOWREY BROS,,
Dawson, Georgia.
S. D. BOWMAN,
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Dawson, Seorgia.
Office Adams old place, 21-22 B iua
win Building. Hours 7 a. m, te 6 p. m.
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