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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. WM. A. MILLER, (j. T CARGILL MILLER & CARGILL, WHOLESALE Q U E’E NS', WA R E No. 184 Maiket Street, CHATTANOOGA. TZEZtSTTST. Refined Petroleum and Lubricating Oils |sepß 6m | THE “WHITE” SEWING MACHINE, The Ladies’ Favorite! BECAUSE TIS THE LIGHTEST running 0 1 e most quiet; makes the prettiest B litch ; and has more convenience* than \ a Bl any other. Machine. ia BTraaßa * 8 warran^ five years and i* the easiest to sell, and gives the best sati*- IP “I faction of any Machine on the market V _ Intending purchasers are solicited t s examine it before buying. 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Advertisers can find no Better Medium through which to Meet the Farmer*. 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.