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VOLUME IV. Hail-roads. Chickasaw Route, MEMPHIS & GHARU3TO.iI R. #. TWO PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY TO MEM HA IS, TENN. PASS. Ex> Lv Chattanooga 830 a m 810 pp, Stevenson 10 00 am 945 pm Scottsboro 1035a m 10 22 > m , £ unt f sv 'l |e 1205 pm 1155 pm " eMtnr 125 pm 100 am <™" c 12 00 n’n 2 10am „ N olin j h T 5 31pm 521 am Are m! Junction,... 727 p m 725 a m Arr Memphis 9 30pm 945 am Close contortion is made at Memphis' with D ie Memphis & Little Rock Railroad (or all points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. The time by thi line 'rom Chattanoo ca to Memphis, Little Rock, and points beyond, is five hoars quicker than by any other line. 1 hrousili Passenger Coaches and Baggage Cars from 'CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROOK Without Change. y ° Other lAne Offers these -A (Ivantrtffes. EMIGRANT tickets now selling at the lowest rates. For further information rail on or •write to J. M. SUTTON. Passencer Act., Chickasaw Route, P O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Term. AMaaiaGreat ISriTj HTime Card, Taking effect, January 15th, 1882. SOUTH BOUND No. 1 , : , ' I,K n Arrive. Depart. o 1 s 41 Morgnnville 879 do 900 Trenton ..9 '6 do 917 Rising Fawn ... 937 do 938 Attalla 12 20 do 12 35 Birmingham 255 do 301 Tuscaloosa 523 do 527 Meridian 10 00 do Charles B. Wallace, B. Cot i.bran. ■Superintendent,. Gen’l Pass. Act. Myille. Chattels & St, Louis F’y. AHEAP OK ALL COMPETITORS. fSKS? REMEMBER ft A *t Ro,i<to Cincinnati. Tndi • anapolis, Chicago, anil llie North, is via lY**!,. villa. The !'•-* it <•..!<> to S. Louis anil the West is via MeKensia. Tho Re.i U 4, n'e to West Temi ft eseo amt Kor • tnekv. Mlnsis.ipi, Arkansas anil Teirs lointsi . via HeKessla. DON’T FOKGBT IT. —By thi? Line you secure the— MAXIMUM Comfor, Sntisfartion UIMIUIIM of Expense. Anxiety. 5711 !11 m U Rolher, Falisrne. Bo sure to buy your Detects over me N. C. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV* ELER need not go amiss; few changes a*-e necessary, and such as ate unavoida ble are made in Union Depots. Through Sleepers —BETWEEN — Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou Isville., Nashville and Sr. Louip, via Co lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louis, Union C y and St. Lou??, McKenzie and Little Rick, where connection is made with Through Sleepers to all Texas pionts. Call on or address A. B. Wrenn, Atlanta, Ga. J, H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenr. W. I'. Rogers, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenn. W. L. Dani.ey, G. P. and T. A., Nashville, Tenn. Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets first and third Saturday nights of each month. .7. W. Russey, W. M, S. H. Thurman, Sec’ty. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a a month cn Friday night, on or be’ore the full moon. W. U. Jacoway, W. M. G. M. Crabtree, Sec’ty. Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M., meets on the third Wednesday night of each month, M. A. B. Tatum, H. P. W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty. Court of Ordinary meets on first Mon day of each month. G. M. CpABTREE Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk B. P- Majors, Sheriff, Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver, D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector, Jo?t ph K er, Corv.ner, Wm. Morrison, Surveyor. RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, ISS-2. TOPICS OF THE D.U. And finally the Prince of Wales is afflicted with gout. The Pacific coast is filling up with Italian immigrants. October sis the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of President Arthur. Tiie Star Route trial occupied 103 days, and cost something like $200,000. It is stated that a German has in vented a gunpowder that water will not affect. Ben, r amin H. Hill expects to publish his father’s speeches and letters, togeth er with a biographical sketch, shortly. The New Orleans Times-Democrat says the South will pay the West $100,000,- 0 )0 less this year for food than in 1881. An Indiana solioolma’am says it is not only less trouble to rule the boys by love but she thus manages to get the best ap ples and nicest bonnets. A St. Louis paper remarks that the finances of Canada must be in good con dition if the royal party can afford to visit Niagara Falls and Chicago in close succession. The war in Egypt virtually ended when the British took possession of Cairo. England has wanted Egypt for a century” and the coveted land has fallen into her hands like a ripe apple. George Francis Twain still lives, which we learn by the statement that seventeen boys were recently arrested in New York for tormenting him while sit ting in the park of evenings. Lord Dufferin, Admiral Seymour, Sir Garnet Wolseley aw l Beres tord, who have ff Languished themselves in the 15WP aan campaign, are all Kelts, cuus England is under renewed obliga tions to Ireland. A gentleman writing from Georgia to a friend in Washington, says that Gov ernor Colquitt will probably succeed the late Senator Hill to the United States The election ox* will take place at the next session of the .Legislature to be held this fall. A Massachusetts law makes the owner of a house liable for treble any loss that may bo sustained by gambling therein with his consent. A saloon-keeper at Lowell has just been compelled to pay SI,BOO, the uionqy going to a man who had lost only S6OO in playing poker on the premises. There is authority for each of the fol lowing methods of spelling and pronun ciation : Mo-Aawm-ed (short a,) Ma hom-et (long a,) J/a-hom-et (short a.) Properly speaking, Mahomet is the name of the prophet, and Mohammed that of liis successors, and therefore the faith should only be known as Mahometanism. Mb. Lot, wlio accompanies Herbert Spencer on his visit to this country, told a Buffalo Courier reporter that instead of getting better Mr. Spencer has grown worse. His trouble is in the nature of insomnia. He is not able to sleep ex cept by fits and starts. Night after night he tosses about, and the day comes only to find him more fatigued than he retired. Judge Hilton, who refused Banker Seiglman entertainment at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, because the lat ter was an Israelite, now offers to give SIO,OOO to exiles fund for the benefit of Russian Hebrew refugees. Several gifts and subscriptions offered by Judge Hilton to different Jewish charities have already been refused. Dr. Brown, of the Jewish Herald, thinks that the so ciety for the relief of Hebrew exiles should accept the gift. New York Herald: Cetewayo, says London Truth, objects to the barbarism of taking different kinds of food on the same plate, and insists upon having his vegetables served separately. What would he think of a beauty at a cele brated watering place hotel, who had on her plate a roast, two entrees, mashed potatoes, succotash, and several sauces and juices, and then, pointing her jew eled finger at a dish of wine jelly, said to the waiter, “Bring me some of that liver?” A North Carolina correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes : “1 sup pose Morehead City is the only city iu the world without a wheel in it. Ido not think there is a wagon or a buggy horse in the town, and very few in the county. Everything is done in boats. There is not a house in the county that a boat can no? get within a mile of. Not a doctor or a lawyer in the county owns a horse—they practice in boats. The people go to funerals in boats, and when they arrest a man they carry him to jail in a boat,” “Faithfal to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.” Mrs. Stowe, of San Francisco, ap peared in trousers before the Social Sci ence Sisterhood the other dag. The Call says : “Her hair was cut short and bound up with a narrow blue ribbon. She wore a black velvet coat-tailed basque and a short black silk plaited skirt. The ‘ line of beauty ’ was ooucealed by black cassimere trousers covering the instep. Her gaiters were of cloth, and on her breast was a red silk badge stamped ‘S. S. S.,’ and fastened with a diamond pin and two artificial roses. She carried a fan. ‘I have a double flannel on under my dress and no corsets,’ she explained. ‘I never wore corsets in my life. ’ ” A war which has probably cost Egypt the agricultural production of one year, and hundreds of millions besides, and has put Great Britain to enormous ex pense to send 30,000 men to Egypt, and to gather transportaion from all the world for their campaign, ended at the first real touch of arms, with a victory in which the heroic victorious army lost thirty killed and 120 wounded. Eng land will make much of it. And poor- Egypt must pay for the destruction of Alexandria, which was British work, and for her conquest by the British; all this out of her destroyed crops, and her poor agricultural laborers. With the mili tary prestige gained by this war, will not Great Britain be looking about for other countries to conquer? Will she not be arrogant and dangerous? But Great Britain has had military success in several wars, in her recent pursuit of an imperial policy, which has not been profitable in the outcome, and it may be so in this instance. After all this mili tary glory, the thing passes to the realm of diplomacy, and the other powers will claim to have a finger in the pie of Egypt. The outcome may be a sort of joint arrangement which will be humil iation to the conqueror, and will be worse in the matters of national and commercial security than that which ex isted before the British destroyed it by making war. Old Strawberry Beds. Strawberry vines that have been per mitted to cover the ground and have borne one good crop of fruit, will not pay the labor of wewvtfugyout, ana rule should be plowed under us soon as lhe crop has been gathered; but if oue has neglected to set anew bed the past spring, and desires to grow enough for family use, two or three rods of the old bed may be saved, and made to furnish another year what fruit is wanted for home use. One of the easiest and perhaps the best way to clean out an old bed, is to spade in the vines, leaving rows about a foot in width and four feet apart. A good dressing of manure should be spaded in with the vines; and the rows of vines left standing should he well cleaned out, leaving neither weeds or grass. Some believe it best to mow oft the tops of the old vines, but as we have never tried this method we cannot speak of its advantage from experience; but if the vines do just as well by so do ing, it would be an improvement, be cause it would lessen the labor of weed ing out, which is the one great draw back on continuing an old bed; not only is it a very tedious task to weed it out in the first place, but the weeding must continue until cold weather, or the grass will become so thick that it will greatly lessen the crop the next season. If the land be in good condi tion, the space spaded up will be well covered with vines before cold weather sets in; if so, then next spring the old vines may be spaded in to make paths to stand in wjiile picking the fruit. If one lias a strawberry bed away from the garden, and it has been kept clean of grass and weeds, it may be left over another season without cleaning out; and it will perhaps furnish half a crop another season without expense, except the use of the land; but if in the garden, this should never be done, as it tills the ground with weed seeds, which will take many years to get out. A strawberry bed in the garden should under no circumstances be per mitted to stand over the second year without being kept as clean of weeds as it is the first year. We know that the temptation is great to let it stand, hoping to have time to clean it out, which in many eases uever comes. The decision should be made within two weeks after the crop is gathered; and if it is decided to let it stand another year the work of cleaning out should be commenced at once. Massachusetts Ploughman. A Hardshell Parable. There are other kinds of liquors than those drank at bars, as an old Hardshell minister once alluded to in this manner: “There’s the likker of mallis that mauy of you drinks to the drugs, but you’re sure to sweeten it with the sugar of self justification. There’s the likker of avris that some keeps behind the curtain for constant use, but they always has it well mixt with the sweeten’ uv prudence and ekonimy. There’s the likker of self-1 uv that sum men drink by the gallon, but they always puts in lots of the shugar of take-keer-of-number-one. An’ lastly, there’s the likker uv extorshun, which man sweetins according to circum stances.” —“ Souring on the temperance law” is what the lowa brewers call it when they turn a brewery into a vinegar fac tory.—Chicago Journal. Prairie “Signs.” About two miles from town he sud denly checked his horse, gazed intently on the ground and said: “ Some fellow has lost his saddle-horse here this morn ing.” There was no advertisement on any of the trees offering a reward for a lost horse, and as there was no lost horse in sight we were at a loss to understand how, if a horso was lost, our friend could know so much about it. Th' doctor inquired; “How do you know that a horse has been lost?” “I see his tracks.” “Are there not hundreds of horses pasturing on the prairies, and how do you know that this is not the track of one of them?” “Because he is shod, and the horses herding on the prairies do not wear shoes.” “llow do you know that he is a saddle-horse and lost?” “ I see a rope track alongside his trail; the horse has a saddle on, and the rope hangs from the horn of the saddle.” “But*why may he not be a horse that seme one has ridden over this way this morning, and ? >vliy do you insist that it is lost?” “ Because, if a man had been on his back he would have ridden him on a straight v , course, but this horse has moved from side to side of the road as he strolled along, and that is a plain sign that he grazed as he went and that lie had no rider.” “After that it would not surprise me,” Said the doctor, “if you were to tell us the age of the horse, and the name of the owner.” “Well, that would not be very hard to do. There are signs that have told me the owner’s name, yud there are other signs that, if i had time to exam ine, would tell me his age. I know he is one of old man Pendegrast’s horses. Pendegrast has a large bunch of horses down in the bottom, and an old nigger down there does all his shoeing, and shoes no other horses except his. So we know h : s shoe track just the same as we know his brand.” After this conviction on circumstan tial evidence it would not have seemed extraordinary if the Remnant had given us his opinion of the life and character of our great-grandmothers, drawing his conclusions from an examination ot' some of our physical peculiarities. It is wonderful how expert these men become in reading what they call “signs” on the prairie or in the woods. No sigh escapes their practiced* eye; all tvapka. trails and marks are t * 1 hem'data on which conclu sions. The peculiar r^rec ment of an animal will indicate *4ne presence of some other animal in the neighbor hood. A broken limb of a tree, a crushed weed, the debris around a camp-fires the flight of a buzzard, and olher such signs are to the cow-boy and the frontiersman what the sign-boards and advertisements are to people who live in cities. 'Texas SifUnat. Tlie Channel Tunnel. Some interesting observations on the Channel Tunnel have been communi cated to lie French Academy of Sci ences by M. Daubree. After referring to the three stages of the work, the sci entific researches, the preparatory op erations, and the execution of the pro ject, he points out that while the Rouen chalk is water-bearing in its upper strata it is only slightly so in its lower beds. The French Association have dug two wells at Sangatte, ea h about nine ty-five yards deep, and have begun to run two galleries from them toward Shakespeare’s Cliff under the sea. In one of these galleries, at a depth of sixty seven-tenths yards below the French hydrographic bench mark, the Beaumont perforator will be at work, and in the other the ma chine of Mr. Brunton will be employed. On the English side the under-channel gallery begins at a depth of about thir ty-two yards below the French hydro graphic bench-mark, thanks to the drier nature of the chalk near the surfa e, and runs under the sea at a descending slope of one in eighty. This gallery is now nearly a mile long under high water mark, and no water has entered it as yet. The mass of the rock through which the tunnel is bored •is quite dry, but from time to time little tunnels of water are met with issuing from cracks in the rock. The cylindrical form of bore adopted by Colonel Beaumont has an advantage under these circumstan ces, as it allows of the gallery being in sulated from these tricklings by means o*' an iron lining formed of rings having a diameter equal to that of the gallery. These rings are in live segments, bound together by ribs, through which j ass bolts which connect the segments to- f ether, and each ring to the next ones. /hen a water fissure is encountered, one or more of these rings are plaoed over it so as to m isk it completely. At first four segments are put into position and then the lifth or key is added. The last joint is tightened by a band of thin sheet iron inserted into it. When the spring from the rock is tolerably strong it is luted with a cement containing red lead before the rings are placed over it If the fissure is oblique a sort of tube has to be built up of the rings until it is masked, but half an hour serves to place a ring into position. Owing to the slope of the gallery the borers recently at tained a depth of fifty-six yards below the French bench-mark. At this point the depth of low water is five and one half yards, so that the thickness of strata between the tunnel and the sea botto m was there about fifty yards. Scientific American. —There are four nickel mines in the I nited States, all of which are exceed ingly profitable. TERMS—SI.OO par Annum btrictly in Advance. Why a Kerosene Lamp Bursts. Girls, as well as boys, need to under stand about kerosene explosions. A great many fatal accidents happen from trying to pour a little kerosene on the fire to make it kindle better, also by pouring oil into a lamp while it is light ed. Most persons suppose that it is the kerosene itself which explodes, and that if they are very careful to keep the oil itself from being touched by the fire or the light there will be no danger. But this is not so. If a can or a lamp is left about half full of kerosene oil the oil will dry up—that is, “evaporate”—a little and will form, by mingling with the air in the upper part, a very explo sive gas. \ r ou cannot see this gas any more than you can see air. But if it is disturbed and driven out, and a blaze reaches it, there will be a terrible explo sion, although the blaze did not touch the oil. There are several other liquids used in houses and workshops which will produce an explosive vapor in this way. Benzine is oue; burning fluid is another; and naphtha, alcohol, ether, chloroform mav do the same thing. In a New York workshop lately, thcr3 was a can of benzine, or gasoline, stand ing on the lloor. A boy sixteen years old lighted a cigarette, and threw the burning match on the floor close to the can. He did not dream there was any danger, because the liquid was corked up in the can. But there was a great explosion, and he was badly hurt. This seems very mysterious. The probabil ity is that the can had been standing there a good while and a good deal of vapor had formed, some of which had leaked out around the stopper and was hanging in a sort of invisible cloud over and around the can; and this cloud, when the match struck it, exploded. Suppose a girl tries to fill a kerosene lamp without first blowing it out. Of course the lamp is nearly empty' or she would not care to fill it This empty space is filled with a cloud of explosive vapor arising from the oil in the lamp. When she pushes the nozzle of the can into the lamp at the top, and begins to pour, the oil, running* into the lamp, tills the empty spaee_and pushes the cloud of explosive vapor the vapor is obliged to pour out over the edges of the lamp, at the top, into the room out side. Of course it strikes against the blazing wick which the girl is holding down by one side. The blaze of the wick sets the invisible cloud of vapor afire, and there is an explosion which ignites the oil and scatters it over her clothes and over the furniture of the room. This is the way in which a ker o-sene lamp bursts. The same thing may happen when a girl pours the on ovur the fire in the range or stove, if there is a cloud of explosive vapor in the upper part of the can, or if the stove is hot enough to vaporize quickly some of the oil as it falls. Remember that it is not the oil but the invisible vapor which explodes. Taking care of oil will not protect you. There is no safety ex cept in the rule: Never pour oil on a lighted fire or into a lighted lamp.— CJirislia?i Union. Tiie Oldest inhabitant. Willirm Bassett, an aged negro living in Camden, N. J., last May celebrated his 126th birthday, and is without doubt the “oldest inhabitant” of the new world. Bassett was born in Delaware in 1755, where his parents were slaves, for many years owned by the Bayard family. During the Revolution Bassett, then a young man of tw r entv-one or twenty-two, was working for a farmer by the name of Wilson. While there he married, and became the father of a large family, each member of whom he has outlived. Upon the death of his wife Bassett married again. When the war broke out in 1812 he became a body servant to Col. Morris, of Jackson’s army, whom he accompanied to the front at New Orleans. He married his thiid wife upon his return from the South, and had byHher (mite a numerous family, all but one of Wnom died prior to the civil war. For the last eighteen years he has been taken cartt of by his children and grandchildren, spending the time between Camden and Moores town, to and from which places he has traveled on foot many a time. The last trip was made early in the fall of 1881. His death is now looked for daily. Chinese as Printers. A Chinaman offers his services to the publisher of a monthly paper in this city, to set up all the forms of bis paper, send him proofs of each article, and make the corrections marked in the proofs when returned, and convey the forms to and from the press-room for seventy-five cents a column. There are forty-eight columns in the paper, each column twenty and one half inches long by two and one-quarter inches wide. The offer was declined, whereupon the Cliinaman said he was doing the same work for two other periodical in the city. They learned the business in Hong Kong and Canton, papers are published in the English tongue, and where China men are drilled into the work on account of the scarcity of white labor.— Fan F'rancisco Bulletin. —A correspondent says Mr. G. N. Boyer, a Carillon tradesman, was going to bathe in the Ottawa, near the old canal, on Wednesday morning, and just as he entered the water a huge fish seized his foot. The water was red deneil with blood, but with the assist ance of bystanders the fish was made to let go, and Mr. Boyer was, with some difficulty, able to go home. In the even ing the monster was caught with a less interesting bait, and turns out, says the correspondent, to be a muskaflonge, weighing 47 1-2 younds. —Montreal Wit ness. NUMBER. 41. WIT AND WISDOM. —Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.— Dry den. —The proper way to check slander is to despise it; attempt to overtake and refute it, and it wi j outrun you. — George Eliot. —A thick com-husk is not a sign of a hard winter, as some folks think. It makes no difference to corn-husks what the weather is. — Detroit Free. Press. —A man lias been arrested in New York for counterfeiting theater tickets. His villainy has put him in “a box,” but he sighs for the family circle. --Steuben ville Herald. —lt is said that the debt of the world is over $23,000,000, but so long as it is not in shape of a contested will the law yers may gnash their teeth in vain.— ■ Detroit Free Press. —“Yes, sir,” says the oldest resident, “ the first trip I made from Lowell to Boston was over the old canal, and I worked my passage on the canal heat.” “Worked your passage? How?” in quired his audience. “I led the horse.” solemnly remarked the ancient mariner. —Fogg has got an idea at last, and he says there’s millions in it, as it meets a long-felt want. Iff is nothing less than a revolving house, which is to turn upon a pivot, so that the best rooms shall al ways face the sun in winter and be in the shade in summer Fogg has a great head. — New Haven Register. —A student of human nature was the Yankee schoolin'am who undertook the care of a school out West, where her predecessor, a man, had been tossed through the window by the rebellious pupils. She got along splendidly; and, when asked how she managed it. re plied: “ Oh, easily enough. I thrashed the little boys and mashed the big ones.” A coachman calls upon the doctor to ask what can be the matter with him. “My good man,” said the prince of science, “ you’ve got dropsy—that’’ what ails you.” “Dropsy ! Whai s that?” “ It’s a morbid collection of lluid in the serous cavities within the body—in your case, I take it hydroperi toneum caused by cirrhosis of the liver, but curable by paracentesis.” “ I know, but what is it in English?" “You are all full of water inside.” “Water? Oh, that’s nonsense.” (Re flects a moment.) “That scoundrel of a saloon-keeper must have watered his liquor, and yet he swore to me he did n’t. ’’ Chicago Tunes. Making Fees. A case was before the English law courts a few days ago which recalls. Fanny Kemble’s experience with the young lawyer who persisted in calling upon her ami boring her ’o death for no object that she could see until he sent in his bill, charging for each visit as a consultation; in fact, it was rather worse than her case, since there does not seem to have been any plea made that the offender was about to get mar ried and found furnishing a house very expensive. The case was that of Warn er vs. Boole, where the defendant, a trustee and a solicitor, had been ordered in the usual way to file an affidavit of such documents as were in liis posses sion affect'.ng the litigation. Acting up on this order he made an immense affi davit, which contained among other things about sixty-six pages describing 2,275 letters that had passed between the same parties, setting each one sepa rately. The cost of preparing and copy ing this immense affidavit was some thing substantial so the plaintiff moved that it should be taken oil'the tile as being unnecessarily prolix and expensive. Mr. Justice Kay, before whom the ease was heard, decided that the affidavit could only be looked upon as an attempt to make costs, the long-es tablished practice being to refer to the letters in bundles and not set them out separately, and so ordered the affidavit to be taken off the file, and with it all its surrounding costs out of the cause, while the denfeilant, trustee and solicit or was ordered to pay the costs of the application personally, whereupon the discomfited limb of the law retired in disgust, doubtless recalling regretfully the good old chancery days. —London Laver. Honest, But not Reliable. Not long since a lady called on Mose Schaumburg, to find out if a colored woman, who had formerly been a servant at his house, was honeßt, she having given him as a reference. “She vas honest, too honest to suit - me, put she vas not reliable. ” “ How in the world can that be?” “Yell, vou day I leaves a five tollar pill on de floor, and I dells Matildy to sweep dot room out. I shoost vant to see if she keep dot pill.” “ Well, did she keep the bill?” “No, she brings me dot pill pack.” “That looks very much as if she reliable. ” “No she vas not reliable, for dot pill vast counterfeit. I vas in hope she dakes dot pill, and den I would never have paid her dot twenty dollars I owed her; put she’s fooled me py bringing me dot pad pill pack, so I cannot say she vas reliable, but maybe she vas honest." —Texas Siftingst Echoes of the dog show: “Isn’t he just sweet?” “Oh, you dear, black nosed old fellow, you.” “ Was its little popsy wopsy hungry, was it?” “It was a good little darling, then, so it was.” Who wouldn’t be a dog? —New York Commercial-Advertiser.