The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-08-23
What They Are Doing.
CHAPTER VIII.

CHAGIEh III.
"Surely I am more british than any man, |
and have not the understanding of man.
Prov. S0-2.
These were 'the words of Agur, son of Jakeh,
even the prophecy" If Agur's aim was to
prophesy fitting confession to find place upon |
the lips of the doggery-keepers of the genera |
tions that were to come after him, he certainly |
made a faultless selection of words. Verify, the
doggery- keeper is more british than any man
or any brute. And every one of the imps en- |
gagged in the DEVILS business realizes the appli-
cablity of the above text to his own case. |
There is not one of them who feels easy in his
horrible occupation.
The persons who are, or have been in the
habit of frequenting the saloons, could tell some
ludricous, as we'll as horrible stories if they
would. A few evenings ago company of such
men were on Broadway street, talking of the
doggery- keepers and their horrible work, when
one of them, who thoroughly understood what
he talking about, said: ''Why, it makes one
of the - scoundrels mad if he sees one of us
resting from work for week; and he will sit in
his doggery and talk about us being lazy. He
wants US to keep right on, earning his living
for him."
eyes," chimed in another, an excellent me-
chanic, tsand if man carries sack of flour
past one of their dens, the keeper of the place
will curse him for wasting the money for flour
for his wife and children to eat when he might
spend it for liquor In the doggery,''
And SO the remarks went around. And the
strange part of them was, they were all literally
true. 1t makes a doggery-keeper mad to see a
man spend his money for the support of any
body's family but the doggery- keepers. We
will mention of their fayorite plans for
robbing man of all his money, land we defy
any Devils Agent in Jackson to successfully
contradict this statement which is by the aid
OF the Stree lunch" The DEVILS Agent must
feed the bird whose bones he wishes to pick,
until he is ready for the table, A man goes into
the doggery, and, after numerous ibations, be-
comes intoxicated. He has money in his pock-
Ell; the willy DEVILS Agent knows that the mans
stomach cannot perform its functions for any
great length of time on diet of beer and whis-
ky, and it will not do to allow him to go home
to his family; because the poor, distracted wife
may coax or steal from him enough of his mon
ey to keep herself and children from starving
and that would be robbing the poor DEVILS imp;
and to avoid such a loss to himself the doggery-
keeper manages to keep the man about the dog
geries, and keep him drunk, until the last dime
Is gone, then he is only too willing to kick the
poor, drunken fool out of his "blace of pees-
ness" When the drunken man gels hungry
the imp very obsequiously sets him out lunch
of chopped cabbage, bologna sausage, limberger
cheese, and almost anything that may be about
the den-just SO it stinks and is salty.
The free lunch is always literally sprinkled
with salt, so as to create unnatural thirst in
the Already parched and fevered stomach of the
victim. If decent dog should see some of these
free lunches prepared, he could not be prevailed
upon to touch morsel of one of them. When
the stomach of the victim calls for something
besides drink this sinking mess is set before
him, and in his drunken condition he eats of it
and the more he eats the more he drinks. To
still further accelerate the speed with which the
money drops into his till, the DEVILS imp fire.
quently employs boy, for ten or fifteen cents,
to catch him mud-turtle. He cares not how
SMALL so it is turtle. This he will boil up with
mess of onions, garlic. red-pepper, parsley
and in fact anything handy, that is strong and
sinking, and give ga grand free lunch" This
brings several victims together in the one dog
gery-and there is not much danger any of
them going out with any money, as there is
continual round of treating. grand free lunch
will cost the doggery- keeper not to exceed
twenty cents, and on the strength of it he will
rake in as many dollars. This may serve to
give the reader some idea of the kindness of
heart ofa doggery-keeper. And this is the kind
of a business hets doing right now, in the town
of Jackson. Just take a look at the first saloon
keeper you meet, and see if, in all your exper-
ience with business men, you ever met one SO
apparently devoid of intelligence, or who look
ed SO sneaking. He knows that he cannot con-
tinue in his Internal business and still be
spectacle man, and he trusts that none but the
victims themselves will know of his scoundrelly
conduct behind the screen.
Now, the question presents itself: What Are
We Going TO Do About II? This vampire foists
himself upon the community, and preys upon
mems stomachs. His only hope of pecuniary
profit lies in the diseased stomachs of his fellow
men. His prosperity is based upon the physi-
cal, mental and moral ruin of better men than
mself. Can such a creature be otherwise than
a curse to the community?
We have given some of the methods of the
DEVILS Agents, now let US give specimen or
two of their completed work: On Saturday, the
7th of August 1869, John Neal and William
Night were around the Jackson doggeries,
drank. They loafed around these doggeries
until o'clock, when, after being kindly fur
nished with a little cracker-and-cheese lunch
con, they started up the railroad to their homes.
It was evident from the appearance of things
next morning that they sat down on the track,
in the glare of Star Furnace, on that Saturday
night, to play cards and eat their luncheon.
About midnight train came along, and next
N orning Meals body found lying upon the
track, but head had been severed and had rolled
fifteen feet down the embankment of the rail-
road, where it lay, grinning the ghastly story of
the doggery keepers work. One hundred and
eighty yards further up the track lay the body
of Night. He had at one time been member
of Good Templars' Lodge, but surrendered to
the wiles of the brutal doggery- y-keepers, and
broke his pledge. His brains were knocked out,
and his body horribly bruised and cut. Cards
and crackers were scattered along the track for
long distance. The people looked upon this
piece of the doggery keepers work, then reach
ed right down into their own pockets and paid
the expense of Coroner's Inquest.
Here were two horrible deaths, two souls hus-
tied into eternity without a moments warning,
one family left without protector, and a con-
siderable amount of money paid out by the
taxpayers. But why complain of all this? The
doggery-keeper made little money by the
operation, and ought we not feel proud that,
Just before their death, these men had spent
their money at some of the doggeries of Jack
son?
This is but one specimen. There are more of
them to follow, but we ask our readers to pom
der, carefully this chapter, and after doing SO,
ask yourself, ask your neighbor, ask your God,
how much use a doggery is to community.
NOTES HERE AND THERE.