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THE CONCORD WEEKIY TIMES. The most, widely circulated paper over published in Cabarrus, Richmond 1 6 Wiui, Montgomery, Davidsorl, Randolph, ' Si. Anson and I . " U-nian Counties. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING. OP ALIi Executed in the Best Style AT LITOO PBICE8- 1 Our Job Printing Department, with every necessary equipment j is prepared to turn out every va ,riety of Printing in first-class style. No botch-work turned out from this office.; ; We dupli- cate the prices of any legitimate establishment. . J Volume XV. VIATIC IpDEliATE CONCORD, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1898. Number 39. THE CONG0RD :TIiilE&: JOHN B. SHERRILL, Editor. - . ' "BE TTJBT FEB NOT." j ,,.00 . W, in t-riencis may smjle Jlut that tired feeling ( M. r.ns danger. It 1; .indicates impoverished And impure blood. .Tl:- " ulition may '" . " , '.:.:: t serious illness.: ". Ii ::)uld' be promptly -. , .Overcprae by taking . I J ( oil's S arsaparilla. " 'a purities and . 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"You have been ri.t in every in stance," I "aiis,verci . )vThe inspector here quite agrees witjjj me that yloii should be a tietective. -Yvhcro are your prisoners?" ; ; "No, no I Not prispners, " replied Merrick, shocked at the wefd. "They are ruy guests, traveling companions -what you will, but not prisoners. 'V-' "Still I.see my detective atleuds on them both," said I jis Stront and Rose Gem on came along the; platform. It is well to tako nl 1 precautions. How is Francis Briariieid?" . "Rather downcast, jllo is afraid of being arrested for the murder. " No 'fear of that, " answered Merrick, casting a glance at Strent ' "This gen tleman's evidence will exonerate him fully." j Strent, smooth and tinctuous as ever, rubbed his hands and i Iww'ed; but Rose GeruQn turned Iier b;ck on him with: a gesture of disgust. Evidently she had not forgiven his hurried departufo f rom the inn. 'What are we waiting for?" slie said sharply. "Let us go on to the inquest I wish to gdt it over as soon as possiblo and rctura to-town. We took tho hint and walked along to a room adjoining tlrv nioraue, where tho inqneit was being lield. , 1 intro duced M rriek to the inspector, and after a short conversation they went into the niorpruo to examine tho body. Not caring to see so ghastly. a sight, rdmained ouisiik wfth Frangis. In : iquarter of an hour the doctor and the inspector returned, the former rubbing his hands with a well pleased expres sion, tho latter looking somewhat 'as tonished. "What had passed in. .tho morguo I know not, as Merrick refused to gratify my Curiosity. Wait till you hear tho evidence of Strent, .'he said significantly. The jury was made np of well to do Marshmihster tradesmen, who took profound interest in the proceedings, aa tho dead man was the brother cf Miss Bellin's future husband. The 'Bellina werp the great people of the neighbor hood, and the tradesmen hoped to serve tho hall when Mr. And Mrs.. Brairfield settled there. Tkey yrt re, therefore, ex cessively polite toi. Frstocis, but their frequent nirks of attention only drew from him a bitter smile ""Woald they trop.t me in this way they knev.- all?" he v.-hispert-d to ma "They will nevta- know all, " Ian swered in tho Enme tone. " I had spoken ta tiio inspector, and ho in his turn had talked seriously with tho coroner. The Jattor had been told tho wholo story,' aitd though, astonished at the folly of Francis yet found it in his heart to be sorry for .the yonhgman. He said ho would not question Franci more than .wife uebtssary,' aiid we hoped to carry thronprh the inquest . without exposing the underlying romance. - Tho first witness called was a local doctor, who deposed to having examin ed tho body of Fells. He gave it as his opinion that tho-young man had died of poison and explained tho state of the blood with a lot of medical techincalitiea which none of the-jury understood, ft was, said the doctor, a case of blood poisoning, and the deceasetKliad been wounded in the h.nd by some sharp in strument which was steeped in poison. I came, next and narrated how I had staid at tho Fen iim cn that night and had met tliere Francis Briarfield,, who was waiting thfcie for his brother. Then I told of the discovery of the corpse and the finding of the arrowhead in the fire place. I said' nothing about my tracking the trail to the pool; and if possiblo we wished that portion of tho evidence to Jje, passed over in silence. Fortunately the jury were a dull headed lot; and submitted quietly to the guidance of the coroner. . He only asked questions pertinent to tho death without going too .deeply into tho subject At this point I produced tho arrowheacl. Francis explained that he had arriv ed from Chile on tho Gth cf Juno; and had gone at once to the Feii inn at the request pf his, brother Felix. His broth er had not arrived on that night, ana he had gone to becL Ha was unable to sav hov his brother had come to his tragic end. Then camo tho critical point which wo wished passed oyer in silence. ' . y - - . - "Did you sxs your brother at the Fen inn, Air. Eriarfifcld?" asked tho coroner. I did not sesmv brother alive, was the evasive answer. "Perhaps tho body had been put in the nool bv the : murderer," said one of tho jurymen, ' 'iri which case Mr. Briar field would not see, him. " "I did not go to the pool on that night, ".replied-; Francis, adroitly evad ina th remark; - "It was later on that 1 learned my brother's body was fhore and at once gavo instructions that tno pool was to be dragged. At this poiniilr. Eriarfield was ask ed to stand, down, and the .inspector's evidence was taken. Ho deposed to tho fact that Mr. Eriarfield had instructed him to drag the pool for tho body, and that it was found there. -' This piece of evidence quite put the jury off the scont, as, " Francis naa da -ed tho body in the pool, he would nor. have told the inspector whereto find it The critical point was thus elided cently aver, and tho coroner call ed Rose Gcrnoii; i Once tho jury knew how the crime Ead been committed, and they would forget all about the hiding of the body in the pool, so that the folly of Francis would not bo made public. I must say that" Rose Gernon gavo her elearlv. She said she was an intimate friend of Felix Briar field, statement which rather shocked the moral tradesmen of Marshrmnster. Felix asked her to co down to the inn, as ho had urepared it for his brother nnA wished to see him there about a family matter. .' "Bnt the inn was a ruin," interrupt ed a juryman. Miss Gernon said that was very true.'' Still it was habitable. and Mr. Felix Eriarfield had sent on fuel and provisions. As the former pro prietor had left all the furniture, "the rooms were fairlv comfortable She' could not say why Felix did all this unless it was that he wanted to see his brother privately. Such talk was very weak, and the jurymen looked significantly at one an other. They knew ' the Fen inn and could not conceive that any one could bo so mad as to dwell in it even for a night It was said to be haunted, and, though sucn a superstition might be scoffed at, yet not one of those present would have passed 12 hours of darkness in that ill omened place. Were you not afraid when you saw tho lone" inn, " asked a juryman. Roso shrugged her shoulders and laughed contemptuously. I am afraid of nothing, " she said coolly. "There are no snch things as ghosts. Besides I had my brother with me." ' "Your brother!". .- "Yes, Edward Strent " The inspector gave a low whistle, and catching my eye nodded significant ly. He remembered what I had said on the previous night, and now agreed with my theory that the secret of tho committal of the crime lay in tho rela tionship existing between Roso and Strent. They were, it appeared, brother and sister. I saw all kinds of possibili ties now that such a tie was made clear Meanwhile Rose proceeded with her evidence. Mr. Felix Brairfield came to: the inn, she said, "after his brother had gone to rjest I saw and spoke with Mm and afterward 'wont to bed myself. I understood that ho was going to stay all night and. see his brother in the morning. " '.'Was he alone-in tho room when you leftliim?" "No. He was with Strent An hour or so after I retired Strent came to my door and asked me to go down stairs. did so and found Felix lying dead on the floor. My brother had left the room, and on going out at . tho back of the house I found him mounting the horse of Mr. Francis Briarfieid. I asked him what had happened, and- he just said Felix was dead . and advised me to fly lest 1 should be accused of the murder "That, I suppose, was also the reason of his flight?" bo he told me when I saw him in London, l t he then declared, himself innocent of the crime 1 was afraid would bo accused of tho crime, so took the horse and gig in which wo had como to tie Fen inn and drove to Marshminster. From there I returned to London. " "Why did you not givo the alarm? ''I was afraid of being accused of the murder,". Hero thd inspector whispered some- thins in the ear of the coroner. He nodded and again spoke to Rose Gernon. "Why did you not tell Mr. Denham where to find Strent when ho was ap parently guilty?' "Strent is my brother," said Rose quietly, "aiid as ho told me bo was in nocent I die? not wish him to bo arrest ed for the evimo. But that he visited me yesterday and was seen by the men set to watch mo he would never have been caught " . Her examination lasted some' consid erablo time, but the coroner did not succeed in eliciting anything new.t'rom .her.' She persistently held to the suine story,, so in despair the ' examiner de sisted, and she was told to stand down, In her place Edward Strent was called. and then for mo begau the most inter esting part of the case. I knew all that had been -said hitherto, butI did not know how the crime had been commit ted and waited to hear what Strent- had to say. I quite believed him to be guilty, vet hardly thought ho would accuse himself of the crime. He first corroborated the story of Rose as to going to the inn and narrated all that had occurred up to the time when he was left alone in the room with - iS- lix. 'When 1 found myself alone with BriaTfield, " he proceeded, "1 had quarrel.with him. " "About -what?" ; "About my sister. " He had promised to marry her, yet, as I well knew, was paying attentions to Miss Bellin. " But Miss Bellin was engaged to uis brother, " remarked a juryman: I know that It was about Miss Bel lin ho wished to seo his brother I in sisted that he should marry my sistsr, and he refused. We had hot words He wason one side of the table, 1 on the other. Between us lay the arrowhead which he had brought in his pocket " Why had he brought the arrowhe ad there?" I don't know, " replied Strent, ly ing with thej utmost promptitude. "He took the arrowhead out of his pocKet, said it was, poisoned and laid it down on the table, ". Do you think he intended to kill his brother because he, stood m nis way with Miss Bellin?" askod an inquisitive juryman of a romantic turn of mind. "I really don't know, sir, replied Strent, looking the juryman straight in the face. "Ho said nothing to ma We wero quarreling over tho shabby way in which he had treated n-y sister, ana the arrowhead was ch the table between us. " What was the position of the arrow head?' asked the coronet prompted by Merrick. ' "It was leaning against a book which was on the table, and the point was up permost I said to Mr. Briarfield, 'Will you marry my sister?' and he said: 'No. I'm if I will. ' Wbilo saying this he brought down the open palni of his hand on tho arrowhead and gavo a. cry of pain. When he lifted his hand, it had a ragged wound across it from tlys thumb to the little fincrer. I wished to bind it up, but he pushed ma away, crying out liewa a dead mau. In three minutes he was lying dead on the fi wr I threw the arrowhead into tho firo place and tried to revive him, tut it was cf no use. He was dead. " "And you?" " "I was afraid I would bo accused of the death, aa Mr.; Denham or Mr. Fran cis might have heard us quarreling to gether. . I lost my head altogether and onlv thought of flight. I ran up to uy Rister's room' and tald her Felix was dead. Then I saddled tho horse When she came to the door, I was mounting , I told her to take the gig and fly to Marshminster, and that I would explain; all in London. " "You fled like a coward. " . ? 1 "I suppose I did. " said the mau sul- lOTlllT "hnt I TOtta KaailA MMilf rjl-V. terror.; I rode to Starby and gave the horse back to the livery stable keeper. Then I went to London and saw my sister. She agreed with me that it was best to keep quiet so I did ' not 'come forward to give evidence Had it not been for that detective who watched my sister, I should not be here now. ." This -evidence practically ended the inquest Merrick was called to "prove that the wound in the hand was . such a. one as might have been made by the downward stroke of the hand on a sharp point This evidence was substantiated by the local practitioner, who had ex amined the body with Dr. Merrick. There was no doubt that the affair had happene'd as Strent said. Felix Briar4 field had slapped his open hand on the table to emphasize his refusal to marry Rose Gernon. Unfortunately it came in contact with the poisoned , arrowhead. The flint had an edge like a razor, and being steeped in virulent poison acted like a snake bite on the unfortunate young man. Felix had not been mur dered, but died by misadventure That was the verdict brought in by the jury, and so tho whole of this strange affair came to. an end. . Thanks to tho astuteness of the inspector and the del icacy of the coroner, the jury were quite unaware of what had happened between the death of Felix and tho in quest . The reporters of the Marshmin- ster Gazette merely put in a short stato- ment of the affair, and in a few days people ceased to tako any interest in tho Fen inn crime It was a lucky escape for Francis, but I don't think the lesson was thrown away on him. Roso Gernon and her brother went back to town the same evening. I never saw Strent again, but frequently had the pleasure of seeing his sister perform ing on the stage She is now engaged to be married, but with the knowledge of her actions at the Fen inn I cannot say I envy the bridegroom. After the burial of Felix I went abroad with Francis, whose health was quite broken down by the strain put on it during the last few weeks. He re turned in six months and married Oliv ia, bhe was told all that had taken place in the loho inn, but kept "the in formation to herself. Mrs. Bellin never knew that Felix had substituted him 6elf for Francis. I was best man at the wedding by particular request and saw the happy pair start for their honey saw hupjiy jHiir start their hoiicyinnoii. -moon. I hope they will be happy and am sure they deserve to bo, seeing through what .tribulations they have .passed. ; ' "What has become of tho Fen inn?" asked Dr. Merrick one day when we were talking over the case "Oh, the Fen inn is pulled down, I believe!" was my reply. " "There will be no more iragrdies there " r "A fit i-iid for such a shambles," said Mervit-k, and I think he was about right t::k -icxr Separate Coachrs In Tennessee. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decided that the State law requiring rail road companies to provide separate coaches for white and colored passan gers was constitutional. ,iDe casein which the opinion was delivered was ot Smith vs. Stale. " I Smith, who was a conductor on the Louisville and Nashville, was indicted for allowing negroes to ride io a coach with the whites. The lower court de cided against Smith, and an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, with the result as stated. . i i The court held that the separate coach law was a wise and fair police regula tion, and, therefore, not repuguant to the federal constitution. The court fur ther held .that; persons coming from other States, must, upon entering this State, observe the law. existing in the State. '."'.-' . ' , j ' :" On the morning of Feb. 20, 1895, j I was sick with rheumatism, and lay !n bed until May 21st, when I got a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The first application of it relieved nie almost en tirely from the pain ".nd the scond af forded complete relief. In a short tiine I was able to be up and about agijin.J A. T. Mobeaux, Luverne, Minn. - Sold by M. L. Marsh, & Co. Check for 8288,000 Sent to Nashville,. - i Washington, March 21. The treas ury department has forwarded, to the Methodist Publishing liouse at jNasn ville a warrant for $288,000, the amount allowed that institution for damages done it .during the war by Federal troone. : I . Thus closes the transaction and ebds one of the loDgest legislative fights: in the history of Congress. The fight jfor this appropriation covers a period of nearly thirty years. Representatives from all over the country vied with esjicb other to pay this just claim. The only opposition to the claim came from New England. '".; ' ; ' -'-' ; - .. j A man stands no chance of being elected to the mayorship of a city unless he enjoys the confidence and esteem of his neighbors. Geo. W. Humphrey is the popular mayor of Swanton, Ohio, and under date of Jan. 17, 189G, he writes as follows: "This is tp certify to our appreciation of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. My family and neigh bors have tested it, and we know jjt is an excellend remedy for coughs !and colds. ---George W. Humphrey." Sold by M. .L. Marsh & Co. j BILIT AKP'S 3LETTEK. Sic utre tuo ut alieutn non toedas," which meanB if your chickens get jn your nabor's garden he must sic the dog on 'em, or worda to that effect. xesterday I received a kind letter from some unknown friend saying that our peafowl i were annoying the neighbor ing; gardens and if they were not put up they would be killed. I was ruminat ing about this anonymous letter and my opinion is that this is not the best way to make a complaint. Our nabors are: all good and kind to us and I sup pose it was the Jear of giving offense that kept the ' writer's name from the letter, but I really would havfelt better if the writer had told me face to face about the peafowls. As it is, I am afraid several nabors have been feeling unkind and JLdonit know who to "apolo gize to. My wife lias told me several times that Bhe feared the peafowls were tre8pa88ng and that we had better get rid of them, j Well, we have had four or: five every year for twelve years and they neyer did any Berious harm to our own garden not half as much as some of our nabors chickens and dogs have done, but folks are folks about such things and nobody likes to have other folks' b ipeds or quadrupeds prowling around, lhe peafowl is such a nice. pretty, aristocratic bird that we thought the 'nabors would like to see them oc casionally, and if they behaved badly a few stones and clods and sticks and womanly "shoes" would drive them away for good, for they are timid and easily insulted. As for putting them up, we can't do it, for we can't catch them and they roost so high we can't reach them. A colored Methodist preacher couldn't.' And so when I got the anonymous 1 engaged a friend to come and shoot them in the treetope, but they had flown away before he got here. We then baited- them . into the workshop and finally caught them and have Bent them to the country where uabors are hot so near Or so anonv- mous. j The peafowl is a historic bird. Solo mon sent his ships to Tarehieh and brought back ivory and gold . and pea cocks. And tne Lord said unto Job: ? 'Who gave to the peacock his goodly wings. It is said to be the tnoet mag bincent of all birds; its form is elegant its movements graceful; its plumage re splendent with tints of green, golden, bronze ana blue; its long bushy tail is beautiful beyond description with its iridescent hues, velvet centers and bril liant eye spots. In their incomparable robe we find all that glistens in. the rainbow and eparkles in the mine the azure tints of heaven and the emerald of the fields. Now lsent it a pity to kill a bird like that? And yet the an cient Romans killed them for their brains and tongues and it took 1,000 to furnish onough for a great entertain ment ! The peafowl is a eallnaceous bird but hot graminiferous. How's that. It belongs to the polyplectron genera of the sub-family of pavonine. Just think of it The bill is moderate with the base of the culmen elevated, the apical half arched and vaulted; tarsi long and strong, ' spurs conical, anterior toea united at the base and the tarsi in the females tuberculate. Mirable dictu ! Some people don' know all that. Maybe my anonymous friend didn't know it or he would have had more consideration for the bird Their food is grain, seed and insects but they 1 are non-scratchibus. They can't scratch for their legs are not built that way.; They sing but one sobg and that eone has but one short strain of two notes that sounds like "paon," and that word is its French name. There is not much melody in this song, espe cially when oft' in the stilly, night tries t' play upon its grammaphone and begins and -finishes with a wild Comauchee screech. Like some chi dren, they are to be seen and not heard But I have long wonaered why the male was made so much more beautiful than the female. This peculiar distinc tion eeeiiis to mark the males of all gal Iinaceous birds and , makes them arro gant and vain. "As vain as a pea cock" is one of the oldest proverbs When one is in full array he will sit upon the belustrade for an hour and survey himself in the half reflecting window glass. What he would do be fore a large elate mirror I do know, but 1 . 1 . . I I . i-iouna put long ago mat me uesi way to steal your neighbor s pigeons was to set up small pieceB of looking glass on the shelf of the dove cote. But in mankind 'and most all quad rupeds the male is coarse, domineering and unadorned. In fact, most all men are positively ugly and uuaUractive and woman weds him only because" she can't do anv better. It is woman who wears the ornaments of nature, an "when unadorned is adorned the most." ' Stranee to say, she wants more tharr the Creator gave her, and delights to array herself in beautiful fabrics and to wear jeals and diamonds anit other jewelry. This is her nature land ehe cannot help it. She loves the beautiful and would lie miserable m room without a mirror, though I have 8n some who never had but one ad mirer. I I wonder who were- those sous I t God who taw that -the daughters of men were fair and took wives from among! them and raised up giants and mighty men of renown. I wonderi if the women , of that day were so beautiful that the angels came down to mate with them. There is ho telling what men or angels will do for a beautiful woman. I have never ceased to be sorry for Jacob, who worked seven long years for Rachel and then had to- take her homely sister, and had to work Beven years more- to get the girl of hts choice. But the sacred his torian 'says these seven years "seemed to him but a few days for the love he had tcl her." Was ever love like that? Not in these days. Men must have been scarce in that country or Rachel wouldn't have waited that long for Jacob. Old Laban was a sheep raiser, and I reckon his nearest nabor was an other about fifty miles away, and those poor girls never saw a young man nce a year. Rachel let Jacob- kiss her on eight before she knew his name or where he came from, and that histoic kiss has come down to us through all the corridors of time for 4,000 years. I remember that away back in the 40s when I was youDg and fairly handsome I I , my father sent mejon business 'tj Mis- sissippi and as there were no railroads I Dougnt a horse in Mobile and rode across me country io vicKSburg. vme lght I found comjfortable lodging jwith Dig cotton grower on the Chicasaha river. He had eqirgrated from South than machinists, 20,000 telegraph opera Carolina many yeafcs before with his wife tors and their helpers, 45,00(f switchmen, ana mue cnuaren ana anout zuui ne- groes. His name waA Calhoun, and he was a cousin ob John C. Calhoun There he lived outside of civilization: not a school nor a church within miles of him and he kebt putting off moving of the population of. the country is de Iris family to whefe there were some." pendent directly for its prosperity upon His oldest daughter, a lass of eighteen, the prosperity of the railroad co-pora-wasatshy of ma as a fawn, but she tion. There is a moral in these facts brushed her hair and washed her facel and changed her press ana shoes and gazed ana lingered on the sly long and weetly. I made advances to her! that night in the parlor and pleased' her father and motbeirand bewildered! her,! tor i Boon lounu out . that ene was a flower born to bluh unseen. When I left the next morning the old gentle man followed me to the gate and begged me to come back that way. "Maybe you and Sally mij ;ht fix up things to your notion;" said Le, "and if you do I can spare you 200 or 300 acres qf the C A 1 " 1 nnesi lanu in Mississippi ana as many niggers as you walnt to tend it," and he laughed in ; were no fourteen joking way. There (years about that, but I never saw Sally any more. Poor girl, I have often wondered what became of her. She was bf good old Carolina stock, but was smothered in the woods. I rso companions, jno books or .newspa pers, no nothingibut-niggera and cotton much like Rachel, I reckon, who saw nothing but sheep and longed for a nice young man. , 1 . remember that two negro boys held torches j for ua to eat our supper by arjd everything else was of the same primitive Btyle; But what has this little episode of mine to no with peafowls and anony mous letters? I don't know how my thouglits drifted that way, but they will wick has completed his mortuary report, drift. To go back to them, I will say which Bhows that 257 men and 2 officers that a woman d d not write the v letter, perished in the catastrophe,6 succumbed for Bhe ia too f jnd of the beatiful to to their injuries in the Sanambros Hos want to kill a peafowl. And if the pi'al here, one died on the Spanish trans- man who wrote it had have known j port Colon; 171 bodies have been recov their ancient, historic renown he would I ered from the wreck, of which 61 have have taken off nis hat to that beautiful I bird aud said: "Good morning,; sir, I hope you are well ?" Bill Arp.- P. S. Some Georgians in Texas and Indian Territory have Bent me some I It is probable that many more identifica-mule-eared rabbit feet and rabbit ears, tions will be established when the en- They write thauthe feet are for Colonel Candler when tie is "hard run." My daughters are wearing the ears on their hats and I will keep the feet till later, B. A. The Railrcjadg and the People. Charlotte Observer. I , , One vould not think that there could be any good in railroads at all, judging by the tendenc r in recent years to load them down with oppressive legislation, but viewed in the light of a distributor of money amoig the people, , one must admit that the railroad is a desireable institution, Tae railroads daily distrib ute money, dir sctly in most cases and indirectly in soi ne, to all classes of peo ple. The New York bun Bays that "the railroads of the Uuited States expend in a year aflura more than $100,000,000 in excess of the total expenditures of the Unites States gsvernment and this com putation does i rot. include nearly $250, 000,000 paid in the form of interest upon railroad b Dnds on guaranteed stock, and from $80,000,000 to $100,000,000 paid in the for n of dividends to stock holders. The railroads, indeed aie the great di6bursin j agencies of the country, handling rievei less than a billion dol lars in a year arad disbursing it all, or practically all; Ifor railroads, as a rule, do not keep large bank accounts and do practically a cash business,! turning monev over rabidly." ! For crossties, Bleepers and rails,, the roads last yearfcpent $15,000,000, all the money for the two hMt named, items go ing, of course, to the land owners.' The expenses whi :h the railroad have to meet are mau y and varied. The col lective tax pai l by them last year was $40,000,000. They can't keep from kill ing Jersey cows and have to fceep law yers continual I v employed to argiie with the jury that every cow killed on the railroad ia not a Jersey. The services of the lawyers cost the railroad last year $10,000,000. The settlement for dam age suits is abjout $5,000000 a year. It is, however, in the disbursement of money to wag 3 earners that the raslroads prove of great est benefit to all Jcommuni ties. The ros da of this country pay out Fiity Years Ago President Po: k in the White House chair. While in I,ow ell was Doctor Ayer ; Both were 1 us'y for human weal One to gove rn and one to heal. And, as a president's power of will Sometimes depends on a liver-pill. Mr. Polk tobk Aycfs Pills I trow For his liver, .50 year ago, , Ayer's Cathartic Pills were designed to supply a model pupgative to people who had so long injured themselves with gripjing medicines. Being carefully prepared and their in gredients adjusted to the exact necessities of the bowels and liver, thir popularity: was in Btantanepus. That this popu larity h4s been maintained is well marked in the medal awarded) these, pills at the World's Fair 1893. , f 50 Years of Cures. $2,000,000 a day in wages vdiich Igoes to 800,000 railroad employes, 100,000 station men, 35,000 engineers, (40,000 1 nremen ana helpers, Uo.UUU conductors and dispatchmen, 65,000 trainmen j 30, uuu machinists, 100,000 shopmen other nagmen and watchmen and J.75,000 trackmen. : If--. These facta enow that there is (some good in railroads and a little cbnsider- ation will show how treat a orooortion and figures which the averatre railroad legislator would do well to reflect upon. A Matter of Buslnens, "John," said the mayor of iTurnip town to the marshal, "the city; treasury is entirely empty, and I need a new shirt; Am t there anybody Ion the street you can make a case against ?' ' "Deadest time I ever sawi ! Not a soul on the street except old Bill Collins an he a leamn back against his store door sound asleep." "Is he snoring ?" 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March 31, 1898, edition 1
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