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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
Railway Tickets.

+ Within living memory railroads were
worked without tickets. In the infancy
of steam traffic passengers paid their
fares to the clerk and walked upon the
station platform with their friends un-
til the train arrived, were then convey
cd to their destinations and left the
railway without giving any proof to
the officials of the station where they
disembarked that they paid their fare
at the point of departure. There was,
therefore, no check upoa the clerk who
received the money and none also upon
the passengers state of things, both
with regard to society, and also with
regard to the size of the rail road
traffic, very different from what it is
now.
1t is now forty years since railway
tickets were printed and issued. The
originator of the idea was a man who
was employed at little wayside sta
ton in the neighborhood of Carlisle,
and those he then used were about the
same size as the ticket now issued.
But his arrangements for printing
them were of the most primitive des-
cription. In fact few types were
fastened together in case about the
size OF a nail brush formed his sole ap.
paratus. The name of the station to
which the passenger was going was
written upon the ticket at the time of
issue. We can realize to ourselves how
thissystem would work now SAY at Clap
ham Junction or at the Underground
stations. But this system, primitive
as it was, grew and flourished, and be-
came the parent of the present one.
The use OF tickets gradually increased,
until at last it's inventor found that it
would be desirable to devote himself
entirely to the development of the new
industry. From that day to this the
printing Of railway tickets has remain
ed in the hands of the same family,
who have pursued it with an amount
Of perseverance and ingenuity perfect
ly marvellous. The railways of nearly
the whole world are supplied with
tickets from the one mandatory.
There may be seen in course of manu-
facture, tickets for English railways,
Swedish, South American, Egyptian,
etc. We saw there on one occasion,
Cairo tickets-to special class--for
'pilgrims going Mecca and others
for fourth class, specially printed for
South America line, for ''slaves
without shoes and stockings"
The first great improvement made in
the tickets was in numbering them.
This was an enormous stride in ad-
vance of the old tickets. Every rail
way passenger has noticed that each
ticket is numbered, and many people
imagine that the number is printed by
the little press in front Of the ticket
clerk when he thrusts the ticket in be-
fore it is issued. But the duty of that
press in reality is to print the date
the numbering being done before the
ticket arrives at the station. A large
proportion of the accuracy Of the &C.
counts of railway companies depends
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17

What does the Indian do in this emer.
gency! With characteristic sagacity
he lifts out the whole scalp and ends
the annoyance and expense. And then
look at the saving from other sources.
Prof. Huxley estimates that 1900
pounds of the food that a man eats in
a year 80 to nourish the hair. Remove
that hair and you save that much food.
If had my way I would have every
baby scalped when it is vaccinatedl as
measure Of political economy. That
would be craftsmanship. have q no.
ton to organize a political party on
the basis Of baby-scalping and to go on
the stump to advocate it. If the PEG.
pie had any sense might run into the
Presidency as a baby.scalper.
And as for the matter of the indians
wearing rings through their noses
don't see why people.complain of that.
Look at the advantage it gives a man
when he wants to hold on to anything.
1t hurricane strikes an Indian all he
does is to hook his nose to a tree, and
there he is, fast and sound. And it
gives him something to rest his pipe
on while he smokes, while, in the case
of a man with plug, the ring helps
to jam down his proboscis, and to make
it a Soman nose. But look at him
from sanitary point Of view. The
Indian suffers from catarrh. Now,
what will cure that disease? Metal in
the nose, in which electricity can be
collected. Prof. Huxley says that the
electricity in a metal ring two inches
in diameter will cure more catarrh
than all the medicines between here
and Kansas. The child of nature, with
wonderful instinct, has perceived this,
and he teaches us a lesson. When we,
with our higher civilization, begin to
throw away finger-rings and earrings,
and to wear rings in our noses, we will
be harder race. am going to di.
rect the attention of Congress to the
matter.
'"Then take the objections that are
urged to the Indian practice of driving
stake through man and building a
bonfire on his stomach. What is their
idea? They want to hold that man
down. If they sit on him they will
obstruct the view of him, and there
he is secured by simple means, and if
it is driven in carefully it may do him
good. Proof. Huxley says that he
once knew man who was cured of
yellow jaundice by falling on pale.
fence, and having sharp.pointed pal.
ing run into him. And the bonfire
may be eqaally healthy. When man s
stomach is out of order you put a
mustard plaster on it. Why! To
warm it. The red man has the same
idea. He takes few faggots, lights
them, and applies them to the abdom.
It is certain cure. Prof. Huxly-''
ooh, dry up about Prof. Huxly y
exclaimed Meigs, the storekecper> at
this juncture.
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"BY THE STILL WATERS


ont YOU hear de hickory cracking?
+ Mutl1ed like, and soft, and low;
! FUNDS just like an army tramping,
Only it's g sign of snow.
. res cinder, smoldering, burning,
)roppin' ashes, powdered fine;
ut be frightened, little missis,
s a coffin-but it's mine.
ne see the balm o. Gilead,
,.vin' by the cabin do,
MT hear it's leaves rustlin'
he spring, my child, no mo-,
e won't hear de blue bird
GIN in de apple trees;
IL hear the angels singin'-
III have sweeter songs than these.
is dat de thunder rolling?
the torked lightning's gleam;
time I've sOOthed my baby
EN- de storm disturbed her dream.
de drum-I hear it beatin',
.ow and solemn-like, tor me;
ybe it's de waves a breakin'
IN de shores of Galilee.
won't Ike dark, de stars am shinin'
Way above de storm and rain;
ere'n be long protracted meetin's
Camping on de heavenly plain;
)ere won't be no wailin', weepin'-
Dere won't be no day to part
Christ will hear ME when I knock dere,
He will bind de broken heart.
Gross old Jordan's troubled waters,
Into Canan's land fly;
Dere de tree of life is bloomin',
All de hosts am passin' by,
Raise me up, hear de rustlin',
Angels at de cabin do;
Don't you weep for poor ole nanny,
She won't never grieve no mo-.
st. Louis Republican.
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smothered me with smoke and ashes,

get mad - and half made IN nv
mind to smash it, for it's aggravating
and insinuating tone; but Ethel hap.
penned to make the same remark, and
as I could not use them both alike
did not proceed to extremities, but
simply kissed her and stopped the
clock. Dbl
But my passion had made the long.
sought solution possible, for seven by
nine, from top and front again, was
loose and easily removed. 1 suppose
had tried and pried that Identical
one fifty times before, jnstigated by
the fact that the mortar between it
and it's neighbors was more deeply
grooved than almost any other in
sight. but, heretofore, it had been
apparently one of the solidest in the
side now it yielded to the slight
est pull. When it came entirely out
I discovered that it was only half a
brick, with an vigorously fitted iron
back, provided with staple in which
a bolt had evidently played. The bolt
dropped when the first brick was loos-
ened, and sprung into the staple when
the connecting rods base was pressed
back by the lower brick and fragments
of mortar knew by the coincidence
of the clew and results that was on the
eve of fortune, but dared not proceed
further alone. There were good and
sufficient reasons enough occurred to
me why further Investigation should
be continued in the presence of spec
tators. 1t was too late to proceed that
night, SO I kept watch and vigil until
the village was astir again.
BY nine o'clock the next morn, the
local lawyer, a mason, carpenter and
constable had answered my summons
and we carefully examined the chin
ney, within and without 1 go
The house had been so cunningly con-
strucred that the chimney apparently
| flush with the main wall, had room
for cavity on the right hand side,
more than foot wider than the wall
was at it's juncture with the wall into
which it ran, and instead of being of a
| single four brick thick, it was double
that, with a space of eight inches be.
tween. We did not stand on coremo.
ny in breaking through the inner wall
and dragging out an iron case eight
inches wide, two feet long, and three
feet deep, supplied on the end next to
the side Of the fireplace, with a slit
like those in the ends of letter boxes.
only considerably larger, which was
exactly opposite to brick number seven
by nine. 1t was the old miser's repos-
tory, constructed on the principle Of
child's bank, to receive all but give
up nothing until broken into by force.
A more careful device could not be
conceived to guard it's contents, for we
had to call in the village blacksmith to
penetrate to it's boarded wealth.. Be-
sides gold bonds and notes, it contain
ed Triptolemus Forbes will, devising
all he died possessed of to Ethel, as
the one reparation in his power to
make for the evil he had exercised to-
wards his father.
In Difference to the opinions of my
neighbors I have caused costly stone
to be erected to the memory of Ethel's
uncle; but in my heart there is a
prouder monument, with a more
greatful inscription, raised to the
honor of that old Dutch clock, for from
it really descended the inheritance we
enjoy.
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Truth Pays.

The other day (says the Detroit Free
Press), when a resident of Cass avenue
hired a boy to carry in a ton of coal, he
forgot to make bargain. and, when
the job had been completed, he in
CURED:
"Well, hub, how much do I owe
you?'
"Oh, 7 Dunno replied the boy.
"Can't you name sum-"
81 could, I suppose said the lad.
but mother said if I left it to you l
would get twice what the job was
worth -
He received enough to convince him
that truth always pays.
Douglas Jerrold worked at 4 desk
without speck upon it, using an ink.
stand in marble shell clear of all lit
ter, his little dog at his feet. If a
comedy was in progress, he would now
and then walk rapidly up and down
the room, talking wildly to himself. If
1T were Punch copy. one heard him
laugh as he hit upon droll bit. And
then out he would 60 to the garden
and plucking a hawthorn leaf, stroll
thinking down the sidewalks then in
again and vehemently at work, unroll-
ing the thought that had come to him
along little blue slips of paper, in let.
ters smaller than the type in which
they were presently to be set.
An imprudenJ adventurer having
married an heiress, a wit remarked
that the bridegroom's brass outshone
the brides tin.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-27
LATEST 4!

By Telegraph OUer the International Line
The strike is assuming a more serious
aspect in Chicago. Thieves and vaga-
bonds are rioting, and the police as
saulted with stones and other missiles.
The business of the Baltimore & Ohio
road is in such condition that thousands
are threatened with starvation, because
there is no work. Car loads of peaches
are rotting in New Jersey for lack of
transportation. The No. Pacific eX-
press leaving New York at z o'clock
last evening, was thrown from the track
near Owego, the mob having removed
a rail. No casualties reported.
From Chicago additional troubles are
reported this morning, with a collision
between the mob and authorities, by
which two persons were killed. A tur-
bulent mob in San Francisco visited the
Chinese quarters and sacked several
houses of the Cinnamon, and engaged
the police. No particulars.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-27

some beer. When he came out he was
slightly astonished to find his horse lying
dead in the gutter, and ball of fire
waltzing up the street. The temper
ance folks will have to restrain their
natural impulse to point moral with
this incident, for it is more than prob
able that going after that beer was all
that saved the mans life.
Speaking of yachts, there is craft of
this kind ON the stocks of Long Island
ship-yard which will be the largest and
most costly schooner yacht ever launch
ed. 1t is being built for one of the
Astors, and will cost close on to a quar-
ter of a million. The next largest one
ever owned in this country was the ill
fated Mohawk which capsized in a
squall exactly one year ago, drowning
its millionaire owner, VIM. T. Garner
and several of his friends. The wreck
of the Mohawk has lately been sold for
500, 900, about One-half what it cost Mr..
Garner originally to fit up the cabin.
RADIX.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-27
Riot and Rapine.

1t is humiliating to read the record of
mob violence in Pittsburgh. The tale
is disgraceful to every section of our
land. Here in the hills of Northern
Vermont we may not fear mob, but
in every section almost, the material
slumbers for just such scenes as have
been enacted the past Sunday in Pitts
burg. The difficulty, to start with,
was the old story of the vain struggle
between labor and capital and the
ranks of the dissatisfied railway en-
plOyees were speedily swelled by the
ever ready cut-thrOats, thieves and
vagabOnds that infest civilization. De-
struction was rampant and all restraint
thrown to the winds. The trivial ques-
ton of wages became sunk in an I'M
reasoning revenge. 1t is needless to
state that the strikers have effectually
laid all feelings of sympathy, on the
part of the people and the railway cor
poratiOns, and not one of them will be
able to get employment, at any price,
on any railway in this country.
The difference between labor and
capital will always be the question of
supply. From California to the Cana
das the supply is greater than the de-
mand and good service is offered at
any price.
The better way on the part of cor
pOration, would be to give with an or
der to decrease pay, the reason for so
doing. Labor has deal of brain with
it's muscle nowadays, and is amenable
to reason at reasonable time. Never
theless we have before us events that
disgrace the laboring classes. They
have shown passions as blind as the
theatrical and farcical French Com
day of rapine and destruction, and
must now submit to the operations of
outraged law, and an indignant coun-
try.
There was lamentable want of fore
thought on the part of the state and
city governments in Pittsburg. The
torch of lawlessness had been lighted
at no distant point, and ordinary sense
would dictate arming for emergency.
They omitted to do it, and millions
of property is laid waste.
Our general government when placed
on it's resources is actually destitute of
men ready for even civil invasion.
We cannot discover 1000 Regulars in
our defenses. A more lamentable ex-
posture than this can not be imagined,
and it is time that the whole country
is reused from the apathy that controls
it. 1t strikes us at the present mo-
ment, that the great American eagle is
an awfully bedraggled bird.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-27

wages are generally better. The fol-
lowing is the pay on three leading roads
in Massachusetts:
New York, New Haven and Hartford
road.-Hartford division: Engineers,
800 per month firemen, $45; freight
brakemen, $40 and S45 daily mileage,
125; six days in the week. New York
division: Engineers, Sl02.50; firemen,
S45; brakemen, S45; daily mileage,
152; five days in the week.
Boston and Acknowledgements, $50 /;
firemen and brakemen, SLIGO to Sl.S0 /;
daily mileage, 100 to Pittsfeld and liz
to Worcester; six days in the week.
Connecticut River.-Engineers $67 so
to $8l firemen and brakemen, $40 to
S45; daily mileage, 100; six days in
the week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-27
The Cause of the Strike.

The cause of the rebellion which has
pervaded several states during the past
week, originated in the action of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad that caused
reduction of ten per cent. in the wages
of all officers and employees of every
grade where the amount received ex-
ceeded one dollar per day. 1t took effect
July 10th over all roads operated by
that corporation. President Garrett, in
announcing the adoption of this resolu-
ton by the directors, said that the three
viously made reductions, and expressed
the conviction that its necessity would
be generally recognized and acquiesced
in by the employees. The locomotive
tiremen were the exception, and under
took the policy of resistance, bloodshed
and incendiarism, which has resulted in
such destruction of life and property
The reduction brought down the wages
of these tiremen and brakemen to S1.50
and SI.35 for first and second-class
hands.
Before these strikers had put them
selves outside of all consideration and
sympathy by their riotous and murder
Gus acts, it must be admitted that they
had strong grounds for complaint; for,
as we understand it, in addition to the
cut-down of wages, their labOrs were
increased, and they were obliged to he
out at one end of their line on their
own expense. By reason of this, the
pay averaged them less than one dollar
per day, on which they were to subsist
with their families. This too was on
the wealthiest railroad in this country
one free from debt, and which pays
its stock holders regularly ten per cent.
would have looked better for the direc-
tors to have cut down the dividends
rather than the wages, under the cir
cumstances. If the road was poor, and
paying no dividends, the case would
look differently. But the management
made the rule, and those employees who
could not submit to the terms should
have cOntented themselves with quit
ting the service and seeking a more
eligible livelihood elsewhere.
The Pennsylvania railroad pays six
per cent. dividends, the New York Cen
trail eight, while the Erie pays nothing.
The Philadelphia and Baltimore road
still declares eight per cent. If the
strike does not bankrupt some of these
roads, it will doubtless stop dividends
for the present, and thus the laborer
will have his sweet revenge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-27
The Present Situation of the Strike.

Elsewhere we give in detail an ac-
count of the strike and mob at Pitts
burg, and summary of the extending
strike and lawlessness which followed
this affair in many of the cities and
towns of the middle and western states.
Fortunately better spirit prevailed,
or there was more wholesome fear of
authority, and murder, incendiarism
and rapine seems to have about ex-
hausted itself in Baltimore and Pitts
burg.
AS reported elsewhere, the strike ex-
tended Monday. At our latest advices
it continues to spread. 1t is now gen
eral as to freight trains along the New
York Central. 1t has been ordered on
all the roads centering at Chicago, and
on the Canada Southern. 1t spread
Tuesday night to the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western, Delaware and
Hudson, Morris and Essex, and Lehigh
and Susquehanna. There was little or
no blOOdshed, however, Tuesday. The
authorities at Albany declare their in
tention to break the blockade on the
Central, at whatever cost to the mob.
Altogether it now seems probable that
the gravest dangers of further general
rioting are passed, but the strike is ex-
tending to st. Louis and California, and
it looks now as though the disorganiza-
ton of business and the decentralization
of labor had by no means reached its
hight. 1t is believed the strike will not
aXtand To Nam Ennlnnd
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-27

and I and F proceeded along Front
street to Baltimore, along which they
wheeled into sight. AS they marched
along Baltimore street, westward by
Frederick, Gay, Holiday. South and
Calvert, the stoning was kept up un-
abated by the crowd, which increased
in numbers, and a number of pistol
shots were fred at the men. The firing
by the companies was recommended
with stray shots, and continued at IN
tervals until they reached Coleman d
Rogers drug store on Baltimore street,
near the head of Light street and OPP
pOsite the Baltimore street entrance of
the CarrOltOn hotel. Along this line
Baltimore street, from the Maryland
institute building to Coleman & Rogers
drug store, nearly all the dead were
killed, the men firing in self-defense.
Companies and F then continued their
march. Col. Peters and Maj. George
had remained at the armory after and
left. Co. B marched into the street
through volley of stones and other
missiles, firing few shots, and by
flank movement marched up Front
street, northward to Gay, and thence
to Baltimore street and Camden station.
The 5th regiment, with $50 muskets,
under command of Capt. Zallinger, left
their armOry over Richmond street
market about Z p. m. They marched
down Eutaw street, but nothing I'M
usual occurred until Lombard street
was reached, when the crowd which
lined the streets began stoning shem.
This continued until the regiment got.
in front of Camden station, when they
turned on the crowd, charged bayOnets
and dispersed it.
During the riot the depot at Camden
station was set on fire. All the Balti-
more and Ohio wires were cut there,
too. During the fire, which nearly con-
sumed the lower end of the depot, the
tiremen were greatly retarded by the
mob, and policemen had to be stationed
at each engine with instructions to
shoot any one who attempted to inter
fere with the firemen in the discharge
of their duties. The crowds were kept
at bay by the military and police. Gov.
Carroll, Mayor Latrobe and Gen. Her.
bert and staff were present at the depot
all the evening. The track along Ohio
avenue was torn up and blocked with
carts, drays, ETC., in several places. At
midnight the 5th regiment and the three
companies of the 9th were still at the
Camden station, and Col. Peters with
100 men of the 9th dt their armory, all
under arms.