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MUZZLE ON MAIL CLERKS. (From Ridgway’s.) Here is an illuminating little tale concerning our government. In July last, there was a wreck on the Great Northern Railroad near Diamond Lake, in the state of Washington, that cost six lives. Exposed to death in the wreck were two railway mail clerks, William Donaghy and P. Van lippoley by name. Various versions, official and otherwise, were given as to the cause of the accident, and finally the mail clerks wrote letters to Spo kane newspapers telling what they knew about it. Donaghy in his letter had the tem erity to tackle James J. Hill, presi dent of the Great Northern Railroad. He declared that the roadbed was de fective, that trains were run at dan gerously high speed, and that upon no system over which he had run in a lifetime devoted to the railway and railway mail service had he seen life held so cheap. Here is a frag ment of Donaghy’s letter that is liter ary: “Then why this suicidal speed? Be cause the schedule calls for it, and engine drivers are expected to make it. Not only are they expected to make it, but they are continually and eternally pounded on the back until they do make it or go in the ditch. “Occasionally an engine driver, through regard for his own and other human lives, refuses to take such des perate chances. What is the result? He is called up ‘on the carpet’ and not very politely informed that unless he can make the time a man will be found who will. “The man has spent the best years of his life working up to a position which enables him to begin to clothe and feed his family, and cannot af ford to begin life anew. He becomes desperate. He says to himself, ‘I will make the time or die trying.’ He tries —and his last run, the fire man’s last run, the postal clerk’s last run, the messenger’s last run, and, incidentally, the last ride of a few pas sengers ends in Diamond Lake.’’ For thus speaking their minds the two postal employes were promptly fined S3O apiece, and each was sus pended from his run for ten days by the great government of the United States, and that no other postal em ploye should ever fall into their dis graceful error, W. S. Shallenberger, second assistant postmaster general, issued the following muzzling order: “It is deemed essential to the proper administration of public business that officers and employes of this office shall maintain respectful official rela tions with railroad companies and oth er carrying companies, as well as with their superior officers. Railway postal clerks must not engage in controver sies with or criticism of railroad offi cials involving the administration of the postal service by furnishing infor mation to the newspapers or public ly discussing or denouncing the acts or omissions of such officials as affecting the postal service. Clerks violating this instruction will be subject to dis cipline and possible removal from the service. “All information, criticism, or com plaint which clerks or officials can give from personal knowledge or obtain from credible sources looking to the betterment of the postal service and the comfort ar d safety of their persons while official.y employed, should be forwarded through their superior offi cers In order that prompt investigation and proper action may be taken.” This od)jus order is still operative, and the t ict that an anonymous pro test from a party of mail clerks comes to Ridgv ay’s shows how badly bull dozed arc the men affected by it. That they feared to sign their names tn the <xnnrounh».tlon In pitiable Peculiarly exposed to the villainous ly bad management of American rail roads are the railway mail clerks. Their cars are nearly always carried near the engines, and there is scarce ly a mail train wreck in which one or more of them is not killed or maimed. Before the Shallenberger ukase was issued they were the only men in the train crews with souls free from con trol, but now they, too, are ironed and the public may get their testimony only through the censors at Washing ton. Mr. Shallenberger may be a pure, kindly soul, untouched by the influence of the railroads, but it would be inter esting to know. His sense of humor is surely deficient. Can you hear a mangled postal clerk saying to a rail way official, “Please, kind sir, it was good of you to kill me, but won’t you notify my wife?” or, “Please, good sir, when you get time won’t you lift your box car off me and pull your coupling pin out of my chest?” It * * TAKE IT. By Janies Walker Heatherly. If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five fold for an ox and four fold for a sheep.—Exodus 22:1. If John D. wants to give back the mon ey, Take it. We’ve all robbed bees of their honey. Take it. If he wants to turn it loose, Don’t stand there like a goose. Grab it and put it in use. Take it. “Tainted!” What of that? Take it. Rush in with your hat, Take it. In this old world below Os sorrow, sin and woe Money makes the mare go, Take it. No matter how he got it, Take it. Put it to a good use, and unspot it, You burn his oil at night Take his (?) money, wouldn’t be right? Difference, None, It’s all right. Take it. If he writes you out a check. Take it. Lay your arms around his neck, Take it. Don’t refuse his (?) yellow stuff. American dollars ain’t no bluff, John has had it long enough, Take it. * h n CARNEGIE AND ROCKEFELLER’S GIFTS. Carnegie founded his libraries upon steel company stocks. When the great properties were taken over and the billion dollar company formed Mr. Car negie got all his properties were worth in first mortgage bonds, and the many millions of stock which he got besides was “velvet.” The high financiers put on the market more than the mar ket would digest. Old Russell Sage suspected they were indigestible, and they proved to be. Then Carnegie took some of his velvet and went to founding libraries. When he laid the foundation of a library It was in steel company stock, and there was a pro viso with the gift that the stock should never be sold below par. -Banks all over the country took the stocks as collateral. Some loaned 90 per cent on it. Every Carnegie library Is an auxiliary bull for the steel company stock. The bottom went out, however, but under the fostering care of the tariff this billion dollar financial in fant is recuperating. Now, Rockefeller hap caught on THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. The $32,000,000 he has given to the general educational fund is in stocks of railroad companies and other com panies he and the Standard pirates control. Thirty-two millions Is not over 5 per cent of the water alone there is in stocks of railroads like the M., K. & T., which Rockefeller owns. By scattering this very slight mois ture from his enormous supply he will enlist the whole educational interest and enterprise of this country to pro tect and keep at par the enormous bur den of fictitious wealth upon which we must be taxed. For this little sop thrown to the “educational interests” he has welded his fetters and secured the aid of thousands to help him reap for many, many years what others will sow. WM. C. PLUMB. Paw Paw, Mich. R * R THE TEAR. (From an Exchange.) Oh, Sonny Boy, what will you do With the careless glee of boyhood through? The gleam of laughter, the ripple of fun, The throb and thrill of childhood done? The tender plant of a love that grew Where only self and mother knew. Must the sap be chilled in its fragile life, By the brazen glare of stress and strife? The tear that left its grimy trace O’er gentle Shame of a slight disgrace; Ah! boy. will the well from which it sprung. Fresh and pure when life was young, Grow hard and frozen in wintry cold. With boyhood gone, and manhood old? The feet that, unshod, trod the hill; The whistle that echoed the woodbird thrill, The shout of joy. the wild hurray, They only last-through boyhood’s day. But. ah. that tear the well of h*fe, Keep it. bov. through storm and strife; For the rainbow gleams that hold it fast Will light your way to the very last, it a* te A LETTER OP REMONSTRANCE. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, I have been informed that you are opposed to immigration from Furnpe. on the grounds that hordes of foreign ers. less desirable as citizens than the negroes are would be landed on our shores. With all respect for vour broad-mindedness and sunerior intel lect I beg to differ with vou. With all of our boasted freedom the women of the southern states are slaves to fear: no woman can f°el safe tn her own home when her hus band is absent: the unmentionable crimes recorded In the daily papers, keen her in agonizing snsnmise. lest a similar fate should befall her or pos°lblv a n r ecious daughter at any unguarded moment. Our country c c n no longer he called “The Home of the Free and the Land of the ouake with deadly horror of the hlack demon who stalks at will—a continual menace to their holnlessness. Ts this black shadow, which has rohhed country women of all that is worth living for. were I’fted. thousands who go about their d»Hv tasks with heavy hearts, would feel that the gates of Parad’se had b°en onened unto them. Oh! Mr. Watson, vou who have such wide Influence, whose opinion carries such weight, weigh well the imnort of your words, on so vital a suhlect. Surelv the In*ux of a people of our own color would be a protection. We not only need them to cultivate the soil, but we need them to h«ln us so far outnumber the tracks that we need no longer live in daily dread of the horrible Crimea they commit. M R M "So Easy to Fix” Pumps 4 For Wei s J any depth DUNN MACHINERY CO. 54 Mar etta Street ATLA\TA, GA. REAL ESTATE. Those desiring to move to South Georgia, the most prosperous section of the state, can secure bargains in city property, farm lands su»w mill or terpentine sites, by writing to C. C. TYLER, Box 272, Moultrie, Ga Davison and Fargo COTTON FACTORS AUGUSTA, GA. 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