The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-10-23
VOLUME . XII.
shouldn't have. "the cholera" unless he
broke through his resolution.
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About q wear after that, in the dead
a severe winter, the superintendent W;
coming through Crosby street int
| Blocker and he'met Johnny Mas. TIL
fellow was dressed in IA thin, bonn bazin
coat. lie was collarless, and his fee
were out, and he looked hungry, pinche
and wretched.
Johnny. But it's going pretty hard wit
you, suppose, to he honest?'
=" Awful hard, sir" said Johnny " bu
told her would, and did"
That's right Don't you go back G
your word. Stick it out. You'll hav
better times by-and-by"
"Do you see that bank over there :?
said the young man, pointing to tn
marble building in Bleecker street
"Well, there amt money enough in tina
| place to make me go back I'd rattle
go cold and hungry and not be hunted
so | would"
| The next summer one of the hotel pro
prietors at Long Branch sent up to til,
Superintendent for q man to keep an ey,
on the thieves that hang around Il water
ing-place. 90 can get you a man, sale
the Superintendent, thinking of Johnny
''irIt I'm bound to tell you he's been I;
| thief"
"Then l don't want him."
| Then the superintendent told the story
| have told, only he told it better
| "Send him down." said the landlord
"A chap that'll do that ought to be
| helped"
1t was S25 week TO Johnny, and il
made man of him.
During that season there wasn't a
robbery committed at the Branch
Johnny stationed himself at the railroad
| depot, and when he saw former pal he
warned him off cts no use," he would
say, az don't want to pipe none o. you
boys, and l amt goin' to do it if you
stay away. If YOU come here it'll be
awful rough on both of u.s."
And to their credit it ought to be said
that they always went back
A. Half Century of Railroads.
Railroad Gazette.
Fifty years ago the first steam railroad
in the world was opened. Then for the
first time it was proved that a steam en-
CINE could draw a heavy load over a
smooth track at a speed of ten or twelve
miles an hour, at the town of Darlington,
in the north of England, where the Stock
ton apd darlington railroad was then
opened amid public rejoicings. Last Mon
day this event, really one of the greatest
eras in the history of civilization, was to
be commemorateda at Darlington Under the
auspices of the Northeastern railway COM
pany, which now owns the Stockton and
Darlington road. At that time statue
of Joseph Pease, perhaps the most effect
i've promoter of this earliest of railroads,
the first treasurer of the Stockton and
Darlington company, was to be unveiled,
a portrait of the same gentleman pre-
sented to the Council Chamber of the
town, an exhibition of locomotives and
other railroad appliances made, a grand
banquet given to more than thousand
invited guests, and excursions made to
places whose industries have been largely
created by this pioneer of England's and
the worlds railroad-system.
Men who had fairly Begun their life's
work then still live around us; and have
not all retired from active business, 50
that the entire railroad systenl-of the
world as it exists to-day hashad its growth
from its birth up not only within single
lifetime, but within the adult period of a
single lifetime. Men since arriving at
full maturity have witnessed its entire
Developments and been able to bear fresh
in memory every step in its progress.
What that progress has been, counted
in miles of track, is hard to say, there are
now something more than 10000 miles
of railroad in the world. But what it has
been, counted in the growth of traffic, the
qfindnstries, the opening tie
settlement of districts hitherto counted
inaccessible, the increase and cheapening
of those commodities, which, at our grade
of civfGza tion, men most desire, cannot
be accurately measured, can be estimated
only after profound study of the resour-
ces of the world now and before the rail
road era, though it evidently is enormous
Probably in most partsof the world the |
period of very rapid construction of rail
roadsof the type now prevailing is passed. |
Civilized countries are how pretty. well
supplied with. great traffic routes. There |
seems good reason to think, however, that |
very light and cheap railroads may take |
the place ofOrdinary highways to great |
extent. If made so that the freight cars |
of the heavy roads can pass over them Gas |
they have been sometimes, and always |
can be-, and limited to the very low
speed at which alone very thin |
traffic can be economically conducted,
they might very well within moderate |
period, rival in extent the principal |
lines; but of heavy railroads, intended for |
fast trains, the world has probably built |
many more within the past fifty years
than it will in the coming fifty years.
Fhis is a great advantage. A large pro- |
portion of the accumulated capital of the |
world has of late been invested in this
cOstly,machine for facilitatingex
10 far;as it is nowsupplied with railroads,
the accommodating capital is left free for
other useful purposes. And the energy |
and talent heretofore largely expended in
heir construction, may expect hereafter
10 be directed to largely improving them
md working them more effectually and
Special applications of rail
roads, such as their use for city and sub
Urban traffic, may receive more atten-
ion; and it is reasonable to suppose that
We will be able to reap greater and greater
advantages from this comparative newin-
trument.
-FINGER NAIIs.-The nails of the hui
nan hand have q language of their own,
md the manner of Keeping them is. elo.
luent. Some keep them long and point
I'd, like the "reminiscences of claws 9TH
srs bite theirs close to the quick; some.
pare andstrim and serape and polish up
to the highest point of artificial beauty;
and Others, carrying out the doctrine of
nature to the outside limit, let them
grow wild, with jagged edges, broken
tracts, and agnails, or " black friend" as
The agonizing consequences. Sometimes
YOU .see the most beautiful nails. pink.
transparent, filbert-shaped, with the dell,
cate; filmy ,EittleE half-moons' indicated
1t The base-all the conditional of beauty
;afried to perfection, but all rendered of
soayail by dirt and slovenliness, while
others, thick, .white-ribbed, square, with
10 half moon spOtfed like 40 MANY cir |
:us horses with "gifts" and " friends"
md the ,like-that is, without blemishes
are yet pleasant to look at for the. care
on them, ,their. dainty perfec-
ion of cleanliness being charm in it
elf. Nothing is more disgusting than.
lirty hands and .ncglectettnails, as moth
ng gives one such sense of freshness
md care as the same well Kept.