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FLASH.
THB TTRXMAN’S STORY.
Flastrwas a white-foot sorrel, an’ run on No. 8;
Not tnuoh stable manners—an average horse
to see:
Notional in his methods—strong in loves an'
hates v
Not very tnuoh respected, or popular 'mongst
his mates;
Dull an,' moody an’ sleepy on “off" an’ quiet
Full of tnrb'lent sour looks, an’ small sarcastic
BcowpJl an' bit at his partner, an’ banged the
ttablefloor—
With other tricks intended to designate life a
bore.
But when, be’t day or night time, he heard the
alarm-bell ring,
He’a rush for his place tn the ham ess with a
regular tiger spring;
An’ watch with nervous shivers the clasp of
. buckle an’ band,
Until'it was plainly ev’dent he'd like to lend a
hand.
An’ when the word was given, away he would
rush an’ tear.
As if a thousau' witches was rumplin’ up his
hair.
An' wake his mate up crazy with its magnetic
obarm;
For evefy hoof-beat sounded a regular fire
alarm!
Never a horse a jockey would worship an’ ad
mire
Like Flash in front of his engine, a-racin' with
a fire;
Never a horse so lazy, so dawdlin', an’ so
Slack
As Flash upon his return trip, a-drawin' the
engine back.
Now, when the different horses gets tender
footed an’ old
They ain't no use in our business; so Flash
was finally sold
To quite a respectable milkman: who found it
not so fine
A-bossin’ of God’s creatures outside o’ their
reg’lar lino.
•
Seems as if I could sec Flash a-mopin' along
here now,
A-foelin’ that ho was simply assistant to a
6ow;
But sometimes he'd imagine ho heard the
alarm-bell's din,
An’ jump an' rear for a minute before they
could hold him in;
An' onoe, in spite o’ his master, ho strolled in
'mongst us chaps,
Tv talk with the other horses, of former fln-s,
perhaps;
Whereat the milkman kicked him; whorefor,
us boys to please.
He begged that horse's pardon upon his bended
knees.
But one day, for a big fire ns wo was makin’ a
dash.
Both o’ the horses wo had on somewhat re
semblin’ Flush,
Yellin’ an’ ringin’ an’ rushln’, with excellent
voice an' heart,
We passed the poor old fellow, a-tuggin’ away
at his cart.
If ever I see an old horse grow upwards into a
new.
If eVer t see a driver whose traps boh ind him
flew,
'Twas that old horse, a rompin’ an' rushln’
down the track,
Ati’ thxt r spectablo milkman, a-tryln’ to hold
him back.
Away ho dashed like a cyclone for the head of
No. 8,
Gained the lead, an’ kept it, an’ steered his
journey free;
Dodgin’ the wheels an’ horses, an’ still on the
keenest “silk,"
An’ furnishin’ nil that district with good re
spectable milk.
Crowds n-vollln’ an’ runnin’, an’ vainly holler
’in: “Whoa!”
Milkman bracin’ an’ sawtn’, with never a bit
of show;
Firemen laughin'an' chucklin', an’ hollerin';
“Goodl go In!”
Hoss n-gettin’down to it, an' sweepin' along
like sin.
Finally come whore the fire was, halted with a
"thud,”
Bent the respectable milkman heels over head
in mud:
Watched till ho seo tho engine properly work
in there— ,
After which ho relinquished all interest in tho
affair.
Moped an’ wilted an’ dawdled—faded nway
once more;
Took up his old oco'pation of votin’ life a
bore;
Laid down in his harness, and—sorry I am to
, , say—
The milkman bo had drawod there drew his
dead body away.
That’s the whole o’ my story; I’ve seen, moro'n
once or twice.
That poor dumb animals’ actions are full of
human advice;
An'Af you ask what Flash taught, I simply an-
Wfsgyou. then,
Tha**fk><w old horse was a symbol of some in
teilUrsmt mon.
* . j
WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO.
ery few of the thousands who enter
and leave New York through the broad
portals of the Grand Central Depot
know that the arrival anil departure of
all trains are regulated by the pressure
of a linger upon electric buttons, ar
ranged in three rows on a key-board
less thaii three feet square.
’ That Lay-board is in a little glass ob
servatory which hangs forty feet above
the outer entrance-gates of the building,
and which is about tne size of an aver
age bay-window, having just standing
room for three persons. The northern
Outlook commands a bird’s-eye view of
the net-work of tracks forming what is
known as the yard, and from the south
ern side one is able, at a glance, to take
in the depot.
“First of all, ’’ says Mr. Disbrow, the
depot-master, pointing to a clock having
the portrait of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt, “I suppose you would like
to know how we keep time up here. It
is done by an electric wire which is con
trolled by the clock in tho Superintend
ent’s office.
“When the hands of that are moved
forward or back, the hands of this go
the same way. The Superintendent’s
clock, in turn,’ is regulated by the West
ern Union Telegraph Company’s time,
and that is kept straight by observations
at Washington, Cambridge and Alle
gheny.”
During this explanation, Mr. Vandorn,
the traiu-despatcher, was noting on a
time-bill the arrival of one train, and
giving the signal for the departure of
another, running his fingers over the
key-board with something of the grace
of an accomplished pianist. He stood
at his work-table, having an ordinary
telegraph apparatus at his right hand,
and the electric buttons to his left. The
clock hung upon the wall in front of
him, and at either side of it were tell
tale electric bells and indicators.
“Now,” continued Mr. Disbrow, “he
will show you what one man can do in
controlling five and a half miles of rail
road tracks.”
“Well,” said Mr. Vandorn, as he
pressed an electric button to call a
switch-engine to duty in some part ot
the yard, “1 will begin by telling you
that 1 am tn telegraphic connection with
the station at Spuyten Duvvil, twelve
miles distant. The arrival there of
every New York bound train is notified
to me by telegraph, but my duty proper
does not begin until a train arrives at
Mott Haven Junction. That is five and
a half miles from where we stand, and
every train, inward and outward, on
the New York Central, the New Haven
and the Harlem Road passes it.
“There are thirteen tracks in the
yard, and from Fifty-Third street to
One Hundred and Thirty-First street
there are four tracks. Hundreds of
trains come in and go out every day,
and from this little box of mine I can
control each one. I know exactly where
each one is at a given minute. 1 can
stop it or start it by a touch on this key
board of mine.
“Here, for instance,” he continued,
“is a button marked ‘ln-Track.’ A
slight pressure upon that notifies the
switchman at Forty-Sixth street what
track to use for an in-coming train.
Upon this time-bill of mine I see now all
the tracks are occupied, and act accord
ingly. Immediately on getting infor
mation from Mott Haven, I signal the
switchman, and the train arrives at tho
depot thirteen minutes after. Phis
switchman has charge of all the depot
switches, and knows by the number of
strokes on the electric bell in his house
which track is meant
“The next button is marked ‘switch
engine.’ It controls the engines working
about the yard, being in connection with
agongover the depot gate-way. The en
gineers hear and know every sound of
that. One strofce means to stop; two
strokes to go ahead: and three to back
up. Yard or switch-engines are used
for making up trains, and getting them
ready to be dispatched. The engines
that are employed for traffic purposes
are switched off when thev enter tho
yard and go to the round-Tiouse to be
cleaned.
“The third button is in connection
with the waiting-room of passengers
intending to leave by trains on tho flar
lem Railroad. Twenty minutes before
I start a train, I press upon this button
and it rings a bell twice. This is the
doorman's intimation to allow passen
gers to enter tne uepot and take their
seats in the ears.
“ Five minutes before the start I ring
the same bell three times, and the door
man thereupon informs tho passengers
that they have only five minutes more.
When the advertised time is up, I ring the
bell once, which means that the door of
the waiting-room is to be closed. (>no
minute is then allowed for passengers
to get to the ears and take their seats.
“The fourth button is connected
with the Harlem Railroad baggage
room. Five minutes before a train
starts I press upon this three times, and
the baggage-master understands that he
is to take no more baggage, and that
he is to send down to the cars all he
has in hand.
“The fifth button is in connection
with one of three bells situated one over
each of the three tracks entering the
depot—the New York Central and Hud
son River, the New York A Harlem, and
the New York & New Haven. They
are called the back-in bells. In order
to prevent smoko and noise in the depot
the engines stand in the yard, one hun
dred and twenty-five feet from the en
trance. Two minutes before the train
starts I ring a bell to notify the engineer
to back down. At the same time I give
a signal for a brakeman of the train to
couple the engine.
“The sixth button is marked ‘X
start,’ and is used for giving the Harlem
Road conductors the signal to go ahead.
“The next button,” continued Mr.
Vandorn, “is in connection with the
switch-cabin in Fifty-third Street. The
man in charge there is responsible for
tho working of fourteen interlocking
lever switches and signals, all of which
work by the same power. By this but
ton ho is informed of my wishes as to
the tracks which trains are to pass
over.
“The eighth button is connected with
the fly-up danger signal at Forty-ninth
St reet, on tho main track coming in, and
works it by electricity. That signal
has two sides, one red and the
other white. The red side it pre
sents to all incoming trains, and
the rule is that it must not be passed
until 1 change it to white. Tho yard
begins at that point. T here is a tell
tale wire attached to tho signal, which
rings the bell (pointing to one beside
the clock). When it does not do it, I
know there is something wrong, and
immediately signal the emergency elec
trician in tho depot to go and set it right
This button is also used to tell the
switchman at Forty-seventh street to
make tho flying-switch, which means
that when the engine is disconnected
and running ahead of tho train, he
switches it off to a siding, and allows
the train to go to tho depot of its own
momentum.
“The ninth button is used to change
ba k the signal from white to red, in
case of necessity; as for instance, if a
yard-engine should get in the way of an
in-coming train. By reversing the sig
nal a collision may be prevented.”
“ Have you had to make this rever
sion very often?” the writer inquired.
“Not once since 1875. It wfil pre
vent trains from colliding until they get
within about two hundred yards of each
other. For the better protection against
such accidents there is a switchman sta
tioned at Forty-sixth street. He is also
in communication with me, and after
hearing my signal, permits no engine to
po upon an in-coming track until the
due train has passed in safety.
“The other buttons have similar
uses, and with them 1 can communicate
instantly, not only with all parts of tho
vast depot, but. also with the switch
tenders and signal men between here
and the Mott Ila ven Junction. In brief,
as 1 have said, by silently touching
them I can completely control all the
trans ot three of the most important
railways entering New York. 1 can
communicate as plainly as by speech
with the engineers of'trains that are
making thirty miles an hour.”
A bell opposite to him suddenly
rang. *• lhere.” he said, “a train
passing Sixty-fourth street announces
itself to me by touching an electric
communicator on the track which
sounds the bell: and here.” he added,
pointing to an instrument on the wall,
“is an indicator for ‘blocking.’ which
meins setting a signal behind trains
half a mile apart between here and Mott
Haven. There is a man stationed at
every half-mile, so as to prevent one
train from entering a section before
the other has passed out. This makes
it impossible for trains to get into col
lision upon the five and a half miles of
roads.”
“How many hours a dav does this
work continue?”
'•Nineteen. I run half of it, and mv
associate, Mr. Fitzgerald, the other
half.
“ In case of illness, what then?”
“We have a substitute, but we never
nave been ill since 1871.”
“If one of you should get ill, or go
to sleep on duty, what difference would
that make?”
“It would be known at my office in
side of a minute,” interrupted Mr. Dis
brow. “We take no chances upon this
system. I think it is perfection itself.”
' And after witnessing it in operation
for nearly two hours 1 was obliged to
admit that I thought so too — Geo. IL
Bassett, in Youth's Companion.
New Arithmetical Problems.
The length of a certain bean blower
is one-third the length of a boy who is
four feet high when he stands on a block
five inches thick. What is the length of
the blower?
A human body weighing ICO pounds
falls fifty-five feet per second. How long
will it take a baby Weighing thirteen
pounds to fall down a pair of stairs four
teen feet high?
six men put in their capita! to start
a co-operative store. What was left
a ter the manager got into Canada was
valued at ¥250, and this represented
• >u.--fifth of what each man put in.
lbw much did the manager get away
with?
The average cost of curing a sore
throat is thirty-seven cents, and the
number of sore throats in this country
averages 21,000,000 per year. How
much could America spend for going
to the circus if our throats were brass
lined ?
There are twenty-four newspaper re
port rs in Louisville, and each one kills
an average of 150 cockroaches per day.
How many victims would they number
in 365 days?
A young man about to be marr ed
figures that ¥8 per week will suppor
the family in luxury and erect a livet
story building out of the savings of
three years. How many days after h s
marriage before he will tumble to bean
soup?
It costs a pol tical candidate $25 per
head to retain th rty loafers to slugh m
through a convention and $l5O for inci
dental expenses. How much is he out
altogether, and in case he is left how
long will it take him to make him elf
good by hoeing corn at *1 per day?
In a particular field are ninety-seven
watermelons, and it issoftly approached
by five colored men in search of a Wood
chuck. How many times does ninety
seven go into five?
James and Henry go fishing and agree
to divide. James has two nibbles and
a bite from a dog, and Henry gets two
duckings and loses a twelve shilling hat.
Wiiat is the -hare of each?
One person out of every live in the
United States has one or more corns,
and the cost, of effecting a cure is
¥1.30. What is the number of corn
victims, and what would be the cost
of placing every person on a sound
footing?
Every man who has arrived at the ago
of forty years has lost at least ten um
brellas worth $1 each. Estimating the
number of losers at 11,000,00 >, and
granting that one third of them have
stolen seven umbrellas worth ten sh 1-
lings each, what do you make the total
loss? — Detroit Free Press
American Incomes.
Tin re is no table of the average dura
tion of fortunes; but the statistics of
business failures in the country since
1866 show that the average yearly fail
ures ranged from 1 in 163 in the year
1871 to 1 in 75 in 1876. How many busi
ness men in a thousand fail, once or
more, during their business lifetime, I
cannot learn. The proportion used to
be estimated for New England at 97 per
cent. That is probably tin) high a fig
ure for the business of to-day, conduct
ed, as it is, upon much shorter credits
than formerly. But the proportion of
traders who fail is probably not lower
than 75 per cent, of the whole number.
How many of our people live upon
their invested means ? In 1866 our in
come-tax returns showed 771,060 in
comes of SSOO per year and over, and
6,(M>0,000 incomes of less than SSOO. But
these were not incomes from capital;
they were mostly earnings or wages.
Probably not one in a hundred of these
smaller incomes, andnot over 10 per cent,
of the incomes over SSOO, represented
the interest upon investments. In
France, ten years later, the census re
turned no less than 2,000,000’ people,
rentiers, who live entirely upon their
invested means. In 1877 7,500,000 of
people, one-fifth of the population, were
enrolled as rentes-iiolders or savings
banks depositors ; but it must be added
that the savings banks do not often fail
in France, and that sooner or later they
are apt to fail with us. Most of these
deposits are small ones. But no less
than 2,000,000 of the French can sav
with Petrarch, J'arva sed apta mihi~:
“It is little enough, but it will do for
mo.”
Thus, in spite of the resources of the
country, in spite of the almost universal
search for wealth, and in spite of the
fact that we have a great many rich
men at any given time, we still do
j not have a large class of permanently
rich men; we do not even have, like the
French, a large class of persons who
j have a permanent though small com
petence. The rich American’s wealth
is extremely volatile ; in nine cases out
of ten it is “fairy gold.” The old
land-owners form ' the chief exception
to the rule; especially in our large cit
ies, where the increase of values has
I been great.
But if our class of permanently
wealthy people is small, so also is our
class of destitute people. We are fortu
nate in having no such immense and ■
i harmful inequality of fortunes as we see
• in modern England. Our ill fortune is
this, that our class of moderate compe
< tonces is also small, that so few of us,
in spite of our opportunities and our la
bors, have seized the good of even a
small assured competence. The land is
full of people who have not, on the other I
hand, and who are not likely to have,
any assured competence, however
moderate, but who have nothing to ex- i
pect but labor to the end. This is, in- I
deed, the appointed human lot for the
majority in any community ; but need it
be, in a country of resources like this,
so nearly the universal lot? Might not
many of us avoid it by a greater care for I
a moderate competence, a lessened am
bition for fortunes ? T. M. Coan, in
Harper's Magazine,
—A St. Louis man who hail a suit ot
clothes stolen thirteen yearn ago identi
ged them on the street the other day
and had the wearer arrested. St. Louis
clothes must be made of sheet-iron.■
A Terrapin Farm.
Leaving the beach and the sand dunes
upon which Atlantic City rests, the eye
greets the great salt marshes of the Jer
sey coast, which stretch back until the
level plain of coarse sedgy grass meets
the horizon’s edge. Dank and dark the
slimy morass, home of the crawling
reptiles and succeeding billions of mos
quitoes, which have remained undis
turbed through countless ages of time,
until lo! hush! Some wide-awake Jer
gevtnen have laid the hand of industly
upon the muddy water, and a so-called
“terrapin farm” is the result. While it
has been nroved by actual experiment
that terrapin cau be raised on a small
scale, it remains for the iuP lre to disclose
whether the Jersey farms will n& able to
furnish our great cities with this mosv
delectable dish, as pronounced by the
highest order of epicurean talent. For
many years terrapin have been found in
abundance in this locality, but the in
creasing demand of the New York and
Philadelphia markets has drained the
resources of the whole Jersey coast, and
it is only a question of time near at hand
when terrapin in its native wilds will
become nearly, if not quite, extinct. Jo
overcome this fearful famine a limited
number of Jerseymen have made this
delicious reptile a study, and the knowl
edge secured resulted in the farm,which
bids fair to rank among Atlantic City’s
rarest attractions. So far not much
beauty has been evolved, but Cape May
has been beaten, and this alone is suffi
cient to bring a profitable return for the
outlay.
When State Senator Gardiner began
his searching explorations into terrapin
lore, he found that scientists had sadly
heglected to inform themselves about
the domestic life of the Jersey “diamond
back.” Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian
sepulture at Washington, was ap
proached on the subject, but he proud
ly pointed to his fossil remains of the
“diamond backs’’ of the saurian age,
and proved that the turtles of that day
were abundantly able to get along with
out the aid of a prying Jerseyman. In
order to overcome the lack of scientific
information a small family of terrapins
were collected a few years ago, and it
has proved a most interesting study to
learn the taste, inclinations, length of
life, as well as the time it takes to reach
its greatest perfection. The “diamond
back” terrapin never leaves its home by
the sea, while nearly every moment of
its life is spent burrowing in the salt
water mud. where it lies torpid for more
than six months of the year, losing noth
ing, however, but apparently drawing
sustenance from the mud where it is
buried. As thousands of dollars have
been already invested in this new in
dustry, the importance of the subject is
readily brought to mind. After five
years of existence a well-behaved terra
pin leaves the bottom ot the muddy salt
pond, crawls to tne eage ot tne aajoin
ing warm sand in the balmy month of
June, and deposits from fourteen to
twenty eggs, which she carefully con
ceals in the warm sand. After this per
formance Mme. Terrapin goes back to
her boudoir of mud with all the calm
indifference of modern motherhood.
But a foe of the most relentless kind is
at hand in the shape of a bird called the
crow, which speedily unearths the ter
rapin eggs, and they are dispatched at
one solitary banquet. Senator Gardiner
believes that the crow has more to do
with the extinction of the terrapin than
the hunter who makes it his business to
furnish the markets. It is known that
the young terrapin sleeps during the
first year of existence, never leaving t he
spot where the egg is deposited, freez
ing and thawing within the bosom of
mother earth and growing like the roots
that surround them. It is believed by
some of the investigating Jerseymen
that two years of terrapin life are spent
in this torpid state, without movement
or scarce any changes. From the sec
ond to its fifth year the terrapin lead< a
kind of vagrant life, and is let alone be
cause of no market value. It finds
safety from voracious crabs and fish,
because it continually burrows in the
soft mud, never venturing any distance
out to sea. Hence its name “terra,”
which means earth, and “pin,” because
it sticks so close to it. Sometimes the
little reptile burrows three feet down in
the soft mud. During this period of
youthful growth it feeds on the refuse of
clam, oyster, and other little shell-like
creations with which salt water so
abundantly abounds; but when permit
ted to choose its own food, as it is al
lowed to do when undergoing educa
tion at the hands of a Jerseyinan, it is
known to pass by all its old sea food and
sea-t on dried beef—in other word*,
when Senator Gardiner placed a bill of
fare before his terrapin, oyster, clam,
and other delicacies were examined and
rejected, while dried beef was found to
be exactly what was wanted. The ex
periment was tried so often there can
be no doubt about a terrapin’s taste.
When the reptile is five years old it
measures nearly six inches across its
diamond armor. It is now ready for
the market, though it has not reached
perfect maturity. When it has attained
its seventh year its romantic flavor as
sumes its highest perfection, and a
morsel has been found fit for the palate
of the gods.
Senator Gardiner’s terrapin farm be
gins within a few feet of his garden and
only a little way from the rear cottage
j door. Let the reader imagine a strip of
• narrow, dry earth joining to the gre.it
salt marsh which stretches to the “Inlet, ”
covering acres in extent. To the ri-ht
a large shallow pond has been exca
vated, which is filled afresh twice a day
l>y fne salt water pushed in bv the tide<.
Winding here and there through the
sedgy plain are the narrow canals which
lead to the pond and terminate at the
inlet, and only the wind-mills are neees
sary to complete a Holland landscape.
At intervals a rude construction of tim
i ber js noticed, which is placed to govern
the inflowing waters as well as to ward
off the deleterious consequences of frost
and ice. A fence surrounds the pond,
which has been sunk three feet in the
mud, as this depth has been found
necessary to keep the terrapin from
crawling away. A brilliant panorama
appears before the vision of Atlantic
Citv's “terranin farmer.” In his de
clining years ini sits in his cottage by
the sea. At his feet spread out his
financial possession* which he has I
wrested from the savage morass. Be
yond lie the placid waters of the inlet,
gemmed with the fishing yachts which
carry his diamond-back 'treasures be
yond the sea.— Philadelphia Times.
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Tlie ZDalton. Argus,
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News Paper in Northwest Georgia,
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Mechanics, Merehants, Mill Men and People of this section.
H. A. WRENCH, Publisher.
—The leprous Celestials of China
town, San Francisco, recently celebrated
their yearly rites intended to chase from
their midst all evil spirits who are
thought to molest the Chinese in theii
journey through this vale of tears. \
procession, consisting of the High Priest
eight assistants and a full brass band’
marched through the streets, preceded
by a broad-backed Mongolian bearing a
‘josh hideous enough to frighten the
devil himself from the sulphurous pre
cincts of his satauic home. Other Chi
namen lighted innumerable small fires
in the streets, and burued pink and
scented paper. During the ceremony
the houses all Chinatown were re
hgionsly depopulated.—Nan Francisco
Lnroniclt.
- I'liere is a theory advanced by scien
ibts that if you whisper in the ear of a
.cepuig man the impression of your
," or<ls will be conveyed to his mind as
u o| l ♦*'' a n‘ We re< ; entl y experimented
with this theory and found it worked
'ery satisfactorily. A noted Western
s'out who boasted of having slain 200
Lmh ms Wft s stopping at the hotel where
ap reside We entered his room and
whispered in his ear: “We are attacked
Indians! Ihe red devils are upon us|”
<1 he spring up, grab for a knife and
bhndl> rush forward for a fray? He did
S/u m T * i And
iml rit. .There can be no doubt that
the theory is correct.-Boston p otL
—A marriage engagement between a
Jew and a Christian girl in Cincinnati
was broken through the persistent efforts
of the man’s mother, whose objection
was solely that of religious difference
but she relented after the girl had
almost died of poison.
Overfed Pigs.
When young pigs are sick it may be
pretty certainly understood that they
have been overfed. The general treat
ment of pigs seems to be based upon the
i idea that they are naturally greedy and
gluttonous animals, and that this habit
should be encouraged as much as pos
sible. Hence all the diseases which so
frequently affect pigs. When young a
pig is a tender animal, with a stomach
not much larger than that of a human,
infant about as old, and yet people will
cram the little creafure with sour slop,
grease, milk, and corn meal until it can
swallow no more. And when the pig i 3
sick one wonders what is the matter.
We do not feed lambs or calves, or
colts, in that fashion, hence these are
rarely diseased. Cough and difficulty
of breathing is caused by indigestion,
and the common disease of which par
tial paralysis of the hind parts is the
chief sympton, and which is cerebro
spinal meningitis, is caused by indiges
tion and malnutrition, which cause dis
turbance of the circulation and conges
tion of the brain and spinal marrow,
with loss of nervous power. The treat
ment is to give a dose of salts and one
scruple of saltpeter daily afterward, and
feed very sparingly.— Dublin Farmer's
Gazette.
—No more touching compliment
could be paid than that of the child
who had overheard a conversation at
the table on the qualities of a wife.
he stooped over to kiss his mother he
remarked: “Mamma, when 1 get big
r m going to marry a lady just ’zactiy
hke you?’—W. Y Herald.