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§khe leratd and gitcrttsett. Newnan, Ga., Friday, April 6, 1888. A LIFE OF HARDSHIP. What the Freight Brakeman Undergoes in Wintry Weather. New York Times. On one of the very coldest and storm iest days of this winter I was in the of fice of a Pennsylvania railroad official overlooking a vast yard of endless switches and sidings, over which shift ing trains and locomotives were moving like so many huge shuttles. A rugged looking young man, wearing a cap, a rusty blue reefing jacket, a blue flannel shirt and baggy trousers stuffed in high rubber boots entered the office, took off his cap, and, as soon as he could get his breath, thus addressed the official: “I want to leave my name for the job o’ brakin’ on freight train .30. Jimmy liilev’s out o’ it. He just got cut in two up in the yard. The train was cornin’ in purty lively, an’ the cars were icy on top. The engineer whistled for brakes an’ Jimmy started to run over the top o’ the train. He slipped an’ fell betwixt two cars, He hit on the bumper, an grabbed to save himself, but he couldn’t ketch nothin’, an’ dropped on to the rail. Both trucks went over him. Me an’ another feller was there, an we started for here as fast as we could get, to ask for Jimmy’s place. I got here first, an’ I’d like the job first-rate, if you could give it to me, sir.” The railroad official promised to hold the application for consideration, .and the man went out, evidently well pleased. “There is no calling,” said the official when the man had gone, “so beset with danger and hardships as that of a r.ail- road brakeman, especially on long freight trains; and yet, if there should be twenty brakeinen killed on this or any other road to-day there would be as many applicants for each man’s place as soon as the news of his death became known. The man who was just here was an eye witness of Riley’s frightful death, and yet whatever im pression is made upon him was lost in appreciation of the fact that the dead man had left a place to be filled by some one else. That prompted him to act at once, and he lost not a second in securing all the advantage priority of application might give him. “Every railroad has hanging about its yards and stations a small army of these anxious applicants for chances to step into dead men’s shoes. These are chief ly men who have followed railroading all their lives and who have lost their jobs for some cause. Railroading is a good deal like politics. If a man gets into it once he isn’t worth a snap for anything else. And so if he gets out of it he is constantly on the lookout for the opportunity that he believes must come to let him in again. There isn’t one among this class of men I refer to who does not feel genuine sorrow when a railroad man is killed and not one of them would hesitate to risk his own life to save that of any trainman in danger, although he might be sure that the death of that man would give him a long-hoped-for place on the road; yet they haunt the tracks and the station yards day after day, watching the switching and the coming and going of trains, knowing that sooner or later some one of the men on those trains is bound to be killed or maimed into help lessness. It seems that there were on ly two of these men near to witness the shocking death of Riley to-day, and when others hear of it and that an ap plication for Riley’s place was put in an hour or so ahead of them they will be moan the hard luck that kept them from being present when the accident •occurred and robbed them of an equal •chance in reaching my ear first. It is by no means likely that the young man who ■was just here will be hired, al though he may. If he isn’t given Ri ley’s place it will not break his faith nor that of any of his kind in the im portance of having early intelligence of fatal accidents to trainmen and of being early in my office with the news and an application, or, if the accident occurs somewhere else, at the office of one in authority there.” I walked through the railroad yard and to the spot where poor Jimmy Ri ley was killed. His mangled body had been taken away. A grimy, one-armed switchman pointed out to me where the unfortunate brakeman fell on the rail and explained how it all happen cd. “This has been a hard winter on ’em,’ said the switchman. “Jimmy makes four this week so far. Three of ’em was took just like him and t’other un was flattened ’twixt the bumpers while he was couplin’. I couldn’t tell you how many has been caught up along this line, but I’ve been noticin’ that there's a good many strange brakeinen on some o’ the trains that comes in. There’s five fellows in three gangs alone that I don’t know. I haven’t had the heart to ask where the old hands are, for s’pose I’d be itold that this one had been knocked off his car by a bridge, an’ that one had missed a couplin’ and got the bumpers, an’ that another one had slipped from the roof, like Jimmy just now, and so on. It may be, though, that some of them are only laid up with a few fingers off or an arm twisted out of the socket, or a foot run over and smashed, or some little thing like that. I hope so, anyhow. “What makes brakin’ so dangerous ? A good many things. For instance, top notch of dangerous from one New Year’s to another, every day in the year, year in an’ year out. Just now the ice an’ snow on the cars is danger ous. It isn’t an easy thing for a man to run along the tops of cars going twenty miles an hour, even when there is no ice on the boards an’ the wind is light. But when you take it like it has been for a week or so, with the car-roofs like glass and the wind tearing along faster than the train does, I want you to know that there’s got to be nerve in a man for him to climb up to the top of a car and run over half a dozen or so every time the engineer calls for brakes. Then mind von, a brakeman has no right to ride anywhere but on his car, no matter if the snow is falling on him by the ton or rain drenching him or hail a-pelting him like hot shot. Then he s apt in the night to run his head against some bridge that spans the track. But couplin’ is what carries the most of them away. I used to be a freight brakeman myself, and one day I step ped between two cars to couple them, having at the time two as good arms as anybody ever had. When I came to my senses my right arm was gone. The bumpers took it off. These link and pin couplers are what ruins the boys. Every brakeman knows that just for having to do that he has to pay six times as much for insuring his life as the man who sets in a warm office and makes out the train way bills does. Then brake chains is apt to part, too, when the brakeman is twisting up his wheel, and away goes the brakeman to the ground. If lie don’t, get in under the wheels, lie’s apt to get his head or his neck or his legs broken by the fall.” that visit. He played tenpins with his young hostess, flirted mildly with the pretty girls in Mrs. Smith’s seminary, planted a baby horse chestnut at Mount Vernon, danced on the steamer deck with the buds of society, and near ly ate himself ill trying American dish es. Miss Lane certainly showed skill in keeping the royal guest amused. The Queen was so much pleased with the pretty fuss made over the wander ing heir that she wrote the longest let ter ever received by a President of our country on any subject from the royal hand, expressing her appreciation and sending Miss Lane her picture. In 1806 the President’s niece married a wealthy banker, Mr. Henry Elliott Johnston, of Baltimore, and afterwards became the mother of two handsome boys. Husband and children have alike been taken from her, and now', a white-haired widow, she is re-visiting the scenes of her early triumphs as the guest of Mrs. Hornsby. This lady was a daughter of Judge Jeremiah Black, Buchanan’s Attorney General, and at her firBt wedding to Mr. Shunk v her father’s private COMMON SENSE. FiC ^,„ The day has passed when the world can be humbugged by nostrums. 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I had almost drawn a conclusion that all patent medicines were more or less frauds until about one year ago, I was induced by a friend now living in Tyler to try a preparation known as 3 K, or otanic Blood Balm, and after a long per suasion on his part, I finally made up my mind to make on*-more effort to rid myself of the terrible affliction; and now it affords me the greatest pleasure of my li;e to state to the citiz nsof Smith county that I am entire ly cured, with no traces of the disease left, md all effected by the magic healing proper- — - -- - - - - - -- raud- RIGHT HERE IN GEORGIA. The White House of Old. New York Press. There is a lady in Washington just now w'hose presence has created quite a stir among that more elegant portion of society composed of the old resi dents. A circle, by the way, so jealous ly exclusive that its leader, when asked why the Cabinet families were not re ceived, replied with naivete: “Oh, we must draw the line somewdiere, you know.” The lady referred to is above the common height of woman, her fig ure is good and her bearing exception ally dignified and elegant. She has what we call a fine face, stamped with both intellect and sorrow, though lack ing in feminine softness. From her broad forehead snow white hair is roll ed back in the serene audacity of the Pompadour, and her black drees drapes rather than clothes her statuesque form. Twenty-five years ago and more this rather cold and stately matron was known as the golden-haired,violet-eyed, beautiful Harriet Lane, the fairest mistress the White House has ever had. She who drew about her a society so re fined, high bred and accomplished that even Jefferson Davis, who hated her uncle, James Buchanan, declared Miss Lane had created an ideal republican court. In the early sixties it meant some thing to be a belle in the capital, for it is said by old campaigners that never at one time had so many women re markable for personal beauty, brains, wealth and taste in dress assembled in Washington. There was the fair diplomat, Mrs. Slidell, who set the fashions, and upset her sex at a fancy dress ball by appear ing in a Russian court costume of such magnificence that it spoiled the other toilets. There was the beautiful Lady Napier, who wore a wreath of water- lilies, with emerald leaves in her hair, and as soon as it was copied appeared another of graceful honeysuckle made of fiery rubies. Kentucky was represented in the person of the famous Sally Ward Hunter, who wore gold bangles round her slender ankles and danced into the hearts of men, and by Miss Crittenden, the perfection of whose manner was o«ly surpassed by a coiffure so faultless as to be the envy and despair of others. A pale face, an air of melancholy and “Oriental eyes” distinguished Miss Cass, who was given to gowns of black tulle decorated with buuches of gold leaves aud a wreath of golden grapes worn on her head There, too, coquetted the lovely Ital ian wife of General Sickles, dividing the honors with “la belle Woodbury,” who never carried less than Fix bouquets at a ball and wore thirty-two solitaires round her white neck. Emilie Scliaum- berg, whom we know* as Mrs. Hughes- Hallett, wore redjaponicas and learned how to dance the minuet from Frank Kemble Butler, while Lady Ousely in troduced the Balmoral skirt and ex changed witticisms with Mrs.Greenhow The diplomatic corps embraced many brilliant women, most of them beauties, and entertaining with as liberal and elegant hospitality as the rich Mrs. Gwin. Among this brilliant coterie Miss Lane held her own well. She was the only child of President Buchanan’s sis ter, was educated in the Georgetown Convent, where Nellie Grant, Mrs. Fred Grant, Gen. Sherman’s daughters and the children of many distinguished men have spent their school days, and afterward went abroad with her uncle, where she acquired the accomplish ments and ease of manner for which she was noticeable. When the Prince of Wales came to this country as Lord Renfrew he was entertained at the White House, and at the diplomatic dinners Mias Lane usually sat between him and the Duke of Newcastle, father of the little Duke now here. It is doubtful if H. R. H. ever enjoyed j spcretarv Miss Lane 1 lies of B. B. B., which I consider the _ * ’ 1 est, purest, and «u.st powerful blood remedy known to man. I have beeu subject to In flammatory attacks since ten years ol a fie, and up to the present time have had four. The last spell came on me in November, 1885. over a year ago, at which ime I was confined to my b'-dforeight weeks, passing tlie nigtits in misery, with no sleep except when produc ed by narcotics and various opiates. The week previous to using B. B. B. up to that time I had only eate . six meals and could scarcely sit up without suppon ; but alter us- ng tbree bottl- s I was able to relish my utals and to walk up town, andaftersix bot tles had been used, tnank heaven, I was en tirely cured, and not the slightest pain felt since thut time. When I returned 'o business n Febiuary my weight was 145 pounds, but gradually increased until my regular weight was again attained, 210 pounds. The noticea ble fact in what I have so cheerfully stated is, that this unparalleled and remarkable dis covery B. B. B. cured me in mid-winter, at the very time ray sufferings and misery were the greatest. I lake it on myself as a practi- al druggist, to heartily, cheerfully, as well as conscientiously, recommend this glorious blood remedy to all sufferers from rheuma tism or blood troubles, and not ouly myself, but ihe firm of McKay A Adams, who handle it* will eheer.iilly indorse its superior merits. John M. Adams, ol McKay A Adams, Tyler,Texas, What Your Friends and Neighbors Say- on a Matter of Vital Importance. Below will be found a sample of the multitude of letters of encouragement Messrs. II. H. Warner & Co., of Roch ester, N. Y„ daily receive. The sub joined unsolicited testimonials are from your friends and neighbors, ladies and gentlemen you know- and esteem for their honor and straightforwardness, and who would scorn to be a party to any deception. 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({fit NORCROSS, Ga., Jan. 19th, 1888.— About five years ago I was taken with a rising and thumping and at times a quick beating of the heart, so fast that 1 could not count the beats. I had a dull, numb feeling between my shoul ders, and a pain in the small of my back. I found temporary relief by tak ing some simple treatment but nothing; permanent. The spells kept increasing m number and severity until I was suf fering all the time. I sent for a doctor, the best we had, and I told him thought I had heart disease and re quested him to examine me and find out what was wrong. He did so, but could not locate the disease. He left me some medicine which I took, but found no relief, and gradually got worse. I became so nervous that with the least excitement my whole system would quiver like a leaf in the breeze. I sent for another doctor. He examin ed me and left several bottles of medi cine but he did not tell me what was the matter with me. I was then suf fering very much, and ever}’ dose of the doctor’s medicine made me worse,—no rest dav or night. I got so low that when I looked out everything had a dreary, gone look. There came to my mind a statement which I had some- -where seen, containing numerous re commendations of “W arner’s Safe Cure.” Though opposed to proprietary medicines, I resolved to try it. I sent immediately for a few bottles of it, and as soon as it came I. began to take it according to directions for a severe case. In 24 hours after taking the first dose I felt relief right away. After taking ten bottles ot “Warners Safe Cure” I felt as well as usual. “War ner’s Safe Cure” saved my life. Round Mountain, Tex., March 29,18S7. A lady friend of mine has for several ve«rs been troubled with bnmps and imples on ber face and neck, for which she used various cosmetics iu order to remove thoffi and beau tify and improve her complexion; but these local applicatioi s were only temporary and >eft her skin in a worse condition. I I recommended an internal application- known as Botanic Blood Balm—which I have been using and sei ing about two years; she usee three bottles and nearly all pimples have disappeared, her skin is soft aud smooth and her general health much improved. She expresses herself as well satisfied and can recommend it to all who are thus affected. Mrs. S. M. Wii.son. TESTIMONIAL OF HON. THOS. PAULK, OF BERRIEN COUNTY. Would not Take $1,000 for lieved of Fifteen Years suf fering from Dyspepsia. it—Be* COULD HEAR A TICK CRAWL. Mr. C. E. Hall wrote from Shelby, Ala., February 9, 1S87: “I could not hear it thun der. I heard of B. B. 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Atlanta, Ga.—Gentlemen ; I bad suffered from that terrible disease, dyspepsia for over fifteen years, and during that time tried everything I could hear spent over three hundred dollars in doctor, bills, without receiving the slightest benefit- Indeed. I continued to grow worse. Finally, after I despniied of obtaining reltet, a friend recommended B. B. B., (Botanic Blood Balm) and I began using it; not. however, ex P^ cti y<* to be benefited. Alter using half a bottle I was satisfied I was being benefited, and when the sixth bottle was used I felt like a new man. 1 would not take 11,000 for the good it has done me; in fact, the relief that 1 derived from it is priceless. I firmly believe I would have died had I not taken it. . _ Respectfully, THOMAS PAULK. SUFFERED FROM PILES. Baltimore, February 6, 1887. I had suffered with bleeding piles for two years, and take pleasure in stating that 1 have been entirely cured by the use of one bottle of Botanic Blood Batm, (B. B B.). 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