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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06
WHOLE NO. 1902.

runs the engine. manafes the brakes,
or switches. Each one of you has
just as much property responsibility
as the entire hundred faamers. In
other words, drink in the stomach and
brain of one railroad man may DESTROY
AS much property as it will in the
stomachs and brains of one hundred
farmers or teamsters! The property
committed to your care may be worth
much more or little less than wheat.
Ii yours is a passenger train, the roll
ing stock may be worth much more
than freight train. IF you have but
ten cars. and seventy-ive passengers
in car. you will have seven hundred
and fifty human lives committed to
your care. equal to ninety-three car
rlages with eight persons in each.
Then the responsibility of one railroad
employe, as he stands related to life,
is equal to ninety-three coachmen.
What state of things if all the fam
lilies and friends represented by seven
hundred and fifty persons promiscu-
ously gathered up, as are railroad pas
sangers, should at any hour of day or
night be made to know that their abb
sent and loved ones were just then be-
ing driven by drunken coacbman?
Where the husband, wife, parent or
friend that conld do business. or rest,
overwhelmed by such fear agitated by
nch suspense? 1t would be no less
If they knew that the two or three, or
it NAV he but one railroad employe
who had them in charge, was too
drunk TO remember time Or heed sig
nails! What day in the year that
more or less railroad men do not lose
their position from drink? A short
time since they were safe-then sus-
pirions-now discharged.
Many good railroad men (0nly for
drink have promised themselves, their
EMPLOYERS, their wives, and their God,
that they will not drink while on du-
tv; bnt. as soon as they are off duty,
they fill up before they reach their
families. Such men are not safe. 1t
is only question of time when many
of them, under some emergency, will
break that promise under the infuen-
ces of that ever-growing appetite and
overwhelming will-power. The man
who drinks while off duty is too liable
to be unfit for the responsibilities of
a railroad man when on duty. 1t is
dangerous for any man to undertake
to stand where "A hundred thousand
annually fall. Farmers, mechanics,
and even professional men may fall
alone, or at most may affect but few
but when a railroad man falls it may
1T has sometimes-shocked whole
country. If we have two otherwise
equal trunk lines from New York to
Chicago, and it is universally known
that upon one line every employe is
total ab>tainer, and this pleasant fact
is not known of the other, which road
will do the most business? Upon
which would you have your wives and
children take passage? just in pro-
portion as you are temperance men
will the company and the public have
confidence in you. Ask the president,
general manager, any director or
stakeholder, what they most fear in
their men, and every one will answer
-DRINK.
ALFRED. N Y. November. 1883.
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[American RefOrmer.l
To RAILROAD MEN.
BY REV. H. P. BURDICK, NJ. D.

For several reasons the public has
recently become more than ever inter
ested Ill your welfare; more than ever
anxious that you should be strictly
total abstaiuers from all that intoXi-
Gates.
l. You are an industrious, brave,
liberal, and ind-hearted class of men,
having common Interests with other
men.
g. Your vocation is an absolute ne
oes>lty to keep society aS it now Is, and
to the onward mar> h of human pro-
gress.
3. No millionaire has committed to
his trust such Vast amount of
wealth; none holds i'll his hands SO ma
ny destinies and human lives as each
of you switchmen, hrakemen, engi-
neers, conductors and train Dispatch
erS.
Perhaps the train you are now run
Mug is made up of forty cars of
wheat. Your engine is probably worth
eight thousand dollars, each box-car
four hundred dollars, and with four
hundred bushels of wheat in each Car,
makes your tram worth, at low psti-
mate, forty thousand dollars. Half
or more of this may be lost, to say
nothing of delay and loss of life, by
some traimman drinking ten cents
worth of whisky. 1t Is just like whis-
ky to do it. Ii "a farmer has fifty
bushels Of wheat upon his wagon, the
team, harness, wagon, wheat, all told,
may be worth three hundred dollars,
possibly four hundred; call it that. Il
will take just one hundred outfits like
that of the farmers to be worth AS
much money as yonr train. Now, il
you stand beside the road, see each
train pass you III succession, and eve
ry driver so drunk as to be unable t.
manage his team safely, you'd say
That Is a sad sight, and IA vast amount
of property is in great danger of be
ing destroyed" SO far as property il
concerned, there Is only just the same
amount in danger of being destroyed
that there is on your train when bu
! one man is drunk who conducts it
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The laborious levitv of the Demo

The laborious levity Of the Demo
cratic press, on the subject of the
bloody shirt, puts a severe Strain upon
the able editars.
They encounter very troublesome
tate of facts. There are at least four
and probably six Southern States Re-
publican, if there could be a far
show.
Nothing of the kind is, however,
contemplated by any party. Their
was hope that the majority of thr
people of Virginia might be permitted
TO record themselves against the nem
ocratic party.
The massacre by which the old
State was recently carried for thu
Democracy. dissipated the hope that
there might be fair play in one South
State.
The rebellion of Virginia, led by
MAHoNE, against the Democratic par
ty, has been suppressed in bloodshed
and terror, as if it had been a negro
insurrection in the old slave times.
The restoration of the conquered
Confederate States to political privil-
-ges in the Union, was based npnn
equality Of suffrage between suhjngat-
I'd rebels and pnfranohised negroes.
| That basis is no longer thong ht of
It has been blotted out in blood. The
last vestige disappeared the other day
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06
Oranges and Florida.
Better than Breezes and Blossoms
u nder a New Flag.

Even the balmy air and orange groves of Florida
fail TO keep its people full of happiness and comfort
Art must help nature every wherein the tropics
among the pines of the >orth. "And, chief among
the blessings which adapted all zones' writes
DR.. j. g. Wallace, of Fort Dade. Fla, lis PARKER's
TONIC. II seem 10 have the world for field, and
most of the current diseases yield to its action.
have used 1t in the of delicate and dispeptic
young lady, with the most gratifying results. II
seemed to accomplish with ease what the usual pre-
scriptions and ment for that miserable malady
failed wholly to bring about. am glad to state
that the Tonic has greatly relieved personally m
troublesome atomic condition of the stomach long
standing.'
Messrs. Hiscox & Co call especial attention the
fact that after April l6, 1883, the and style OF
this preparation will hereafter be simply Parker's
Tome. The word "Giug-r'' is dropped, for the
son that unprincped dealers constantly deceiv-
ing their patrons by substituting inferior prepara
tions under the name of Ginger; and ginger is
unimportant favorng ingredient in our Tonic. we
are sure that friends will agree with the
propriety o the change.
There ntH be change, hoerer, in the preparation
ITSELF and all bottles remaining in the hands Of
dealers, wrapped under the of ''Parker's Gin
ger Tonic " contain the genuine medicine If the
signature of HiscOX Co. is at the bottom of the
outside wrapper. 1onovIm-nrm
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06
Second Amendment Recount.

1t is probably not generally known
that the leading friends of the Second
Amendment are quietly but earnestly
At work investig ting the connt of the
vote on the Second amendment all
over the State. Ia this city the work
of investigation has been going on
very quietly but determlnrdly. and it
Is understood has resulted IN the dis
covery of quite number of uncount-
ID votes for the Second Amendment.
The same has been done in Columbus
and very material increase Of the
votes reported. The Second Amend
ment advocate still ''claims with con-
fidence" majority, but just what can
be done under the circumstances is
not known, as the returns have all
h4en sent to the Secretary of State and
the result made known. Some tronhlp
may arise. however. for the next L.g-
stature to settle.-Springfeld Gazette
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CAll the Year Round.1
AIOua.

miss you. my darling. my darling;
The emberS burn low on the heartn;
And srillrd Is the stir of the household,
And hushed is the voice of Its mirth;
The rain FLASHES fast on the terrace,
The winds past the lattices moan;
The midnight chimes out from the minister
And am alone.
want you. nv darling. my darling;
] am tired with care and with fret;
/ would nestle In silence beside you,
And all but your presence forget,
In the hush of the happiness given
To those. who through trusting h~ve grown
To the fulness of love In contentment.
But l am alone.
call you. my darling. my darling.
Nv vnice echoes back on my heart.
I stretch my arms TO you in longing,
And 10! they fall empty. apart.
i whisper the sweet words you taught me,
The words that we only have known.
Till the blank of the dumb air Is bitter,
For am alone.
need yon my darling. my darling,
With its yearning my verv heart aches;
The load that divides US weighs harder;
shrink from the Jar that it makes.
Old sorrow- rise up TO beset me;
Old doubts make nv spirit their own.
oh, come through the darkness, and save me,
For am alone.
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As when She WAS Young.

Il have used Parker's Hair Balsam
and like it better than any similar
preparation know of" writes Mrs.
Ellen Perry, wife of Rev. P. Perry,
of Coldbrook Springs, Mass. My
hair WAS almost entirely gray, but a
dollar bottle of the Balsam has restor-
I'd the softnesS, and the brown color
it had when | was young-not sim
q gray hair left. Since | began ap-
plying the Balsam my hair has stop
ped falling out, and | find that it is
perfectly harmless and agreeable dress
ing"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

If you feel yourself growing weak
-r, your strength falling, the func-
tions Of your body becoming impaired
take warning in time! Your blood i,
~tarving for want of nourishment
DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sar-
Saparilla is food for the blood. Il
purifi+s this strength Of life and
strengthens every part of the body, re-
builds broken down constitution
produces dreamlpss slumber, and re-
stores wasted energies and II shattered
nervous system. A trial bottle will
convince. No other remedy equals it.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

How often do we hear of the sudden
fatal termination Of a case Of Group,
when a young life might have been
saved by the prompt use Of Ayers
Cherry Pectoral! Be wise in time,
and keep bottle of it on hand, ready
for instant use.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

Purge out the lurking dlstemper
that undermines health, and the con-
stitutional vigor will return. Those
who suffer from an enfeebled and dis
ordered state of the system, shonld
take Ayers Sarsaparilla to cleanse
the blood. and restore vitality.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

Why is it that so many neglect
coughs and colds until they get con-
sumption? Why is 1t so many die of
consumption? 1t is because they Will
not come and be healed. Every one
knows sure conquerer Of throat and
lung diseases is DIR. WiStar's Balsam
of Wild Cherry. and that it can be
got Of any druggist,
nOy29-2w.
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Tho Hon. BiIIn Fiimt.

Life Senator of Parliament. B-lleville,
Ontario, Canada, writes: Il tried ST.
Jacobs Oil for ague in my face and
rcothache. 1t acted like Ii charm. A
few times rubbing with it took away
I'll soreness and paini Far better than
having them drawn at the age OF
tWenty-Seven."
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

Lord Dashington Woodenhead lin
reply to enthusiastic remark from
Miss Grace): You Americans say
nice so much. | think nice is mas
ty word Miss Grace: And do you
think nasty Is a nice word 3"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

is you gwine to get an overcoat
this winter?" asked a darky of COM
panion. We'll, | dunno how dat's
gwine to be, was the reply. rs done
got my eye on coat; but de fellah
dat owns it keeps his eye on it, too"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06
MRS. DIR. WALT0N'S
Periodical Tea.

Mother Walton has prescribed this val
liable medicine for a great many years in
her private practice, and it has proved an
unfailing specific in the treatment of the
many disorders to which the female con-
stitution is subject. Mrs. Dr.. w. wishes
to fully impress on the public that the
TEA is not like many nostrums put up
Wy Te viii VII MT mention % tn them h but butts IS 81 simply %
to ALLEVIATE and CURE the many
MONTHLY troubles from which all
women suffer.
Price Sl.00.
For sale by G. w. Miller or mailed to
any address by
CgeveInnd, ohio.
July 26-im.
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noyI5-1nn.

A man who has happened to have
good deal of experience says: Stand
anywhere but four feet to the left OF
IA woman when she throws an old bot
tie at ID hen"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

CalIow Youth (b-fore looking-glass,
stroking chin): SIS, think | must
get me IA razor" Sister: DO, Bob;
IA beard RAISER"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

She: "Thay, Guth. do you per-
thrive that | lithp?" He: "Ther-
tainiy not; You don't lithp any more
than do"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

DR.. l. F. Mundy, Owenton, KY,
says: Il found Browns Iron Bitters
one Of the best tonics and have fire.
quently prescribed it.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06
skin Discusses Cured

skin Diseases Cured
By Dr. Frazier's Magic Ointment
Cures as if by magic: Pimples. Black
Heads or Grubs, Blotches, and Eruptions
ON the Face, leaving the skin clear,
healthy and beautiful. Also cures Itch,
Salt Rheum, Sore Nipples, Sore Lips, Old.
Obstinate Ulcers and Sores, etc.
Sold by all druggists and mailed on
receipt of price, so cents.
r.. Lance g. Co..
Sole Proprietors, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sold by G. w. Miller. 7dec1y.
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oy all! nOvZ9- wv.
Mr. G E. MATTHEWS, of Halle
hurst, Miss, writing November 9 to
the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral. said of the murder Of his brother
at the polls for not voting the Demo-
cratic ticket:
This mob was headed blythe Chair
man of the Democratic Executive
Committee. On Tuesday they came
to the polls with shot-gnns, and when
my brother voted and turned from the
polls he was shot twice with a shot
gun. twenty-four shots taking effect
in his breast, and he died instantly.
Thus you see the effect of Southern
Democracy. And | will further state
that our Congressman. BARKsDALE,
addressed this mob the day before
election and advised them to carry the
election if they had to do it at the
muzzle of their shotguns. And this
is not all of their hellish work. Thev
had before this killed several colorpd
men and one colored lady, and Grip
pied and whipped almost to death a
number of others"
The Vicksbnrg Herald fully indors-
ed the murder Of MATTHEWS. saying:
"a reckless incendiary and firebrand,
he has kept Copiah County in a muss
for dozen years or more. For sever
al wears Sheriff of the county. bv the
votes of the ignorant negroes he band
ed together, hr lorded it over the de-
cent people of the county with unpar-
4ll-led insolence, and in utter disrA-
gard of decency and the rights Of 9th
er people. The killing of MATTHEWS
at anv time in the past dozen years
would have occasioned no surprise and
no regret. Tt is possible that the fate
which has at last overtaken him may
serve as warning to others, who, like
lin, are inclined to unbridle license y
All there is of this is that he did
not submit himself to the Bourbon
Democracy He voted against them
dAfantly at the polls, and was shot
down on the spot. The same red-hand-
cd system prevails throughout the SOL
id South-Commercinl Gnsette
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-12-06

No disease will trouble you if you
keep your blood pure, your kidneys
strong, your bowels regular and your
mind clear by an occasional use of
that great reviver and supporter of
health and strength known as Dr.
Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsapar-
lila. Its praise should be in every
mouth! Its merit should be known
by all! nov29 2w.
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M ptCAL.

Fer Dyspepsia,
G o S tive n e S 8,
sick Headache,
e hronic Diar-
rh1a, J Jaundice,
Irnpurity of the
Eiood, Fever and
Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
caused by De-
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-11
| 4 SACRIFICE:
DOWN
CLOTHING.

re cannotmenton all the reductions we have
--sse IN Mems aud Boys suitS and Overcoats;
~, e it to say they are many.
nave %rked down one lot of Boys Suits
fim $50 TO Sc So
Fhe lot of All.wool suits, ages to IL, have
~ marked down from so TO s.. so
Ss,ge line OF Boys Suits, ages from 4 to 10,
I-rxJplaced on the counter at tho uniform
~ s.; formerly sold at and IS.
>le line OF odd Pants for Men will be sold
20 st half their actual value.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-11
THE LAW MAKING LEGION
Both Houses Are Now Organized, and
Prepared TO Solve All Legisla-
tive Problems, Having
Elected Officials.
In DrawiE,S ~ Terms, Senator
Gibbs S>\/,N Abbreviated
; ~ Stick
House: In % II Chaplain,
Beecher, IngersJil ana Labatt
Receive Ballots.
The Retiring Executives Message He
Reviews His Administration of
-Four Years,
Giving the Unwritten History of Those
PardOnS and Communications.
Incidentally Mentions Frontier PrOtCc.
tiOn aud EXtraditiOns,
Walks Over the WCll.Beatcn School
Question Track,
Depicts the Possibilities of the Emf
bryO University,
Pays a Heartfelt Tribute to His Co.
adjutOrS, and,
Altogether, Furnishes Some Very GOOt
Reading Matter.
Items Cleaned on the Outside


Items Cleaned on the Outside.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-11
Enumeration and Abuse.

The defalcation of Treasurer
Polk has opened the foodgates of
abuse. On the one hand it is said
that official defalcation and per-
sonal rascality are bnt the legiti
mate outcome of repudiating ten
denotes and that this is only one
of Tennessee's chickens coming
home to roost. On the other, it is
asserted that Folks shortage was
known in certain quarters and that
it furnished the means and was the
bone upon which the 60-6 coterie
gnawed. There is no doubt but
that the deplorably unsettled con-
dition of Tennessee finances fur
nished the occasion and the temp
tation for Folks using the public
money, and there is less doubt that
some of the sharper of the Tins
got a slice while the pie was being
served out, but that either faction
is actually responsible or should be
held to account for the act itself is
absurd and should not be asserted.
1t will not do for us to abuse each
other, for we are getting it on all
sides from without. The papers and
public men all over the country are
abusing and yillifying Tennessee.
We who know the facts know how
uninst and unwarranted it is, but
theirs readers and hearers do not
know anything except what is re-
vealed to them in abuse and they |
accent it all. This defalcation, in
our opinion, will cost Tennessee
more than the dollars that Polk got,
and no matter how just our cause
and righteous our intentions, this
act has emphasized what our SLAM
derers say against US, and whatever
settlement this legislature may eff
feet will partake of the odium of
the hour and be criticised as the
fruits or the cause of an immense
steal. There is but one course left
Tennessee, and that is to stand
firm in the determination to do eX-
actly right with respect TO the
lebt. prosecute and ferret this
rreat shame to the bitter end, and
stand together and not call atten-
ion to our deplorable condition by
,husino each other and trying to
lold some party responsible for the
,reat crime of one man that hurts
IS all alike. In our opinion, it was
he strong republican opposition to
he act compelling him to renew
lis bond that made this thing pos
ible. Much of it was done before
hat. but that opposition could not
ave been prompted by anything
,ut a desire to conceal something
nd hey must necessarily nave
,uown there was something to con- i
cal. Democratic dissenslons /
these republicans there to ]
HELD this man at a time when
lost might have been saved, and
ow shall we reopen again the bleed
ng fractional wounds and give them g
mother advantage of us?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-11
Compulsory Voting.

The bill introduced into the legis-
latUre affiXing penalty to a neg
lect to vote strikes at real crime
whether the remedy is proper and
available or not. 1t is undoubtedly
as much a mans duty to vote as it
is to support any other institution
designed for the good of his fellows.
1t is frequently the case that len
of holy calling and men of peculiar
views upon morals hold themselves
aloof from popular contact and re-
fuse to join in to assist in regula-
ting political affairs upon an honest
basis. These men are guilty of the
sin of omission. If they had acted
affirmatively they might have pre-
vented crime in politics or ayerted
an injury to the public, and their
failure to perform their duty in the
premises makes them guilty of the
act themselves. That is sound the
illogical reasoning, is it not? If
you could have prevented and did
not, are you not guilty of the act
itself? You cannot escape by say
ing GuaG your one NOGe OOeS not
amount to enough to change the
result The intent is always the
essence of the act, and while man
is wholly responsible for the effect
of his act upon others, the effect
upon himself resides wholly in the
intent that prompted it and it
makes no difference upon his con-
science whether damage is done or
not. There is more to be accom-
plished by cultiyating and enforc
ing in society proper views and
holding men socially responsible |
for their acts than in trying to en-
force moral duty by law. This
act would perhaps impinge upon a |
constitutional right s, but
the intent is of it is right, and it is
the imperative duty of moral men to |
see that it is made operative wheth-
er it becomes law or not. By this
means government can be made
purer and the people benefited,
and that is one of their avowed
1urp oses in life.