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The Dawson journal., 1885-11-19
Unanswerable Arguments.

The Madison Madisonian, COM
menting an the terrible fate of
Prof Geo. w. Chevcs, whose ter
rible death occurred in felon's
cell, emphasizes the fact that no
man ever began life more auspi-
ciously than he. Of excellent
stock, and endowed with brilliant
talents, the future was bright and
beautiful. But whiskey took hold
of him and dragged him down to
ruin and death, 1t says: He
was not born for murde erer. He
was not malicious, but gentle, low
ing and sympathetic. Let his sad
fate prove warming to every
young man just Begin ming life,
and cause him to shun whiskey as
a viper" This paragraph calls
vividly to mind the recent sad
fate of poor Dick Bass. He, too,
had bright and useful career
before him when the demon of
drink fastened its burning claws
upon his heart and mind and
dragged him down to ruin and
death. There are scores Of SINH
lar wrecks still living and hun
dreds are buried under the silent
sods of cemeteries. All the soph-
istry, fine speeches and Ftbusiness"
arguments of the whiskey seller
and whiskey traffic friends cannot
overcome the dreadful pathos Of
the. unanswerable arguments
against whiskey by the silent
tongues of Cheves and Bass.
The Dawson journal., 1885-11-19
Macon NJ edicine Co. 5,
-MACtIN. GA

Price per Bottle 81 and $I.75.
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Why Grant Was a Great Smoker.

Gen. Grant. like all men of his
temperament, found tobacco compensa.
tion for ervou strain. He obtained
the very best cigars, as his fame adj
vanced in the war, and he smoked in
place of talking. Many Of the gener-
ais had nothing in their mouths, and,
therefore, threw away their fame.
Grant merely lighted another cigar and
pulled. The war itself was provocative
of the smoking habit, as it multiplied
excitement and left hundreds of thou
sands of men in tents waiting for bat
tie, and there they smoked because
they had no other form Of enjoyment.
Gen. Grant was SO much of asmoker
that he was seldom described or repre-
sented after he reached the presidency,
but with a cigar in his mouth. Even
smokers wondered where he drew his
powerful constitution which could re-
sist so much tobacco. At last he seems
to have been affected in the palate, the
organ of taste where the pleasure per-
haps starts and goes to the brain from
smoking. The best cure for both
liquor and tobacco is the open air, and
not the open air Of cities so much as
that of the country. Grant has kept
this open air treatment up nearly all
his life. Either on horseback or in a
carriage he has ridden constantly, and
down to a very late period, and his trip
around the world in steamers, vessels
and vehicles gave him inspiration of the
same sort.-Gath.
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New Caledonia

The temperature Of this island varies
from SIS to 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the
cold season, namely, from April until
September, and from &c to 90 degrees
in the hot season, or from October until
March. The summer heat is tempered
by the sea breeze, but more particularly
by the trade winds blowing a great part
Of the year, rendering the nights and
mornings beautifully cool. In the in
terror the climate is exceedingly healthy.
and notwithstanding large tracks Of
morass and swamp lands, there are no
fevers. Indeed, there was no fever
known until last year, when the
"dengue" ragged, and her that epidemic
only took place in Noumea, where.
during the summer alone, typhoid and
dysentery prevail. One characteristic
Of this island is that within its territory
there are no yenomous insects or rep-
tiles, nor my dangerous wild animals.
The rainfalls are most uncertain. vet IL
been observed that September. o.
tober. and November are generally dry.
and that it rains principally in Deem.
Der and April. Hurricanes are scarce.
but it is noted that cyclones occur every
four years; the most terrible take place
IN January or February, levelling
houses to the ground and doing tremen
dous damage to fields. They are pre-.
ceeded by cloudy weather and close.
oppressive heat.-Melbourne Leader
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GEOGRAPHICALLY.

Thu war-cry thro' the land is stilled,
Inc cannon's sullen lips are dumb;
To-day throughout our land we hear
The solemn beat of mufiled drum.
Inc fiags hang dropping from the staff
The streets are filled with graye-eyed men
Long dormant memories spring to life
We live the dead past DER again.
We see thro' mists of falling tears
The wild, fierce strife of armed bands;
we hear the clash OF hostile steel,
We feel the touch Of vanished hands.
we part, as In the days of yore,
From loved ones long since in the grave;
we hear that mournful sound again,
The clanking letters of tine slave.
We see the lines of Blue and Gray
Massed for the fight, as in the past;
we hear the neighing of the steeds
And waken to ourselves at last.
instead OF strife, the Lutte of peace
Breathes softly DER a grateful land;
instead OF arms the dainty flowers,
Are strewn about on every hand,
The Gray now mingles with the Blue
In hat eternal sleep called death,
Their strife is DER and in the end
We mourn them all with equal breath.
From far-of lands we come to place
Sweet blossoms on the honored tombs
And wonder vaguely willthey see
our offerings from their narrow roomsa
The empty sleeve a Northman bears
is matched by one from Southern lands;
Inc lar May-blossoms they would strew
Find other eager, willing hands.
And as the one-time warriors stand
With tear-dimmed eyes, to lend their aid
Their very actions seem to say
This brotherhood hath all repaid"
Their strife Is DER, their work complete,
And that for which they stroye is done,
we VINO remain can but applaud
a noble battle grandly won.
they bnilded better than they knewn
"A goodly structure-our fair land;
We mourn the dead but gladly see
The Blue and Gray stand hand in hand.
-Edeo q. Wheeler. IN The Current.
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Narcotic Plants,

In Tck's Floral Magaznae we read
OF a flower which creates laughter. 1t
grows in Arabia; the flowers are of a
bright yellow and the seed resembles
small black beans. These are dried
by the natives and pulverized, and it
is said that small doses make q person
behave like a circus clown or a mad
man, for he will dance. sing and laugh
most boisterously, and carry on in a
ridiculous way for about an hour. The
haustion and sleep.
This reminds us OF an experiment
we made many years ago. We had
seen Prof. James r. Buchanan ex-
porimenting with pulverized herbs by
placing them in the palms of the
hands of a class of medical students.
While they sat in a sort of expectant
mood, waiting for something to turn
up and holding various powdered
herbs in closed fists, every now and
then some one of them would tell of
the symptoms which were being pro-
duced upon him. 1t was to us then a
new and surprising revelation that
medicine could thus act without being
taken into the stomach, and we are
not yet fully satisfied as to the way
they do act under such circumstances.
But having seen Prof. Buchanan's ex.
experiments we were led to try it our
selves on a couple of boys about sew
enteen years of age. Powdered Can
nabis Indica from the same plant
which gives hasheesh, a narcotic used
by the natives of India, was placed in
n hand of each of the boys, while
they sat quietly waiting to see what
would turn up. One of them soon COM
menced to litter and then to laugh
boisterously, and soon he became SO
hilarious with excitement that we
thought best to take the drug away
from him. He soon sobered down.
During the period of excitement we
tried to get him to say why he was
carrying on In such a way, but he was
utterly unable to give any explanation
for it other than he felt that way.
The other boy quietly nodded off to
sleep in his chair.
This experiment illustrates two M
p%ortant things; first, that medicine
can exert an action in this curious
manner, and second, that a medicine
will act differently on different per-
sons, according to temperament or
indiosyncracy, or susceptibility, what
ever you choose to call it. Further
more, it may be remarked that both
the exhileratlng and the supplying re-
suits observed in these cases are
known to be the effects of hashees
upon the human system when taken
internally.
The description Of the ..laughine
plant" given by Vck does not CORE
spond with the botanical description
of the Cannabis Indica plant, though
there are some slmilarities, but in eff
fects they are evidently quite alike.
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ssJake's'' Parrot.

San Francisco Alta.
A Bush street barber has recently
added to the interior decorations of his
tonsorial symposium alarge owl whose
Solomonic yiSage assists in wooing
somnolent delights, while the nimble
blade is reaping its hirsute harvest.
Yesterday a callow youth whose eye
brows are much more prolific in their
growth than the hair upon his lip. and
whose intellect is in an inverse ratio to
his knowledge of cheap slang, entered
the shop and spied the apotheosis of
wisdom upon the perch near the chief
chair of torture. Deeming it a rare OPP
| portunity to be funny at the expense
of the proprietor, who has recently
lost his wife, and is subject to fits of
melancholy, the '.fresh'' young man
proceeded to distribute his stock of
chat for the delectation of the oc-
eupants of the neighboring chairs.
Hello, Jake, where did Y ketch the
birdp"
Silence enveloped the shop like a
funeral pail, and the barber went on
shaving. Nothing daunted, Mr.. Fresh
moved a little closer to the perch, and
after a careful survey thus delivered
himself:
why, the mark that stuffed that
chrome couldn't stuff a sausage for
rue. Git onto them eyes; they're a
couple Of glass beads poked in there.
Pipe the position of him. Who ever
seen an owl in that posishp"
He paused for a reply, but the pain
scraping of the steel, and Jake qui-
x31, i. n ~ ~-U,l 4, ~, - ~ s-
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Cron Prospects.

The growing wheat crop having
reached a critical stage and WINTER
wheat having approached a condition
sufficiently ear maturity to approx
mate the acreage and probable yield,
the Farmers ReUieW has followefed up
its usual weekly summary by a com-
plete survey of all the Western and
Southern wheat growing states, re-
ports having been received from over
5000 correspondents, covering every
wheat producing county in Ohio, Michi-
gan. Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Da-
kota, together with a very accurate
and recent summary from the Pacific
coast region made by the associated
press, 1t is believed, makes the most
complete report aver issued. The re-
view has been carefully prepared, and
the information is believed to be most
exhaustive and the latest that has yet
been obtained and foreshadows the
state and government reports. In
summing up it's detailed reports, the
ReuteU says:
The gloomiest views which have
been advanced concerning the winter
wheat outlook for 1885 must now be
accepted as the most accurate. The
promising conditions of 1884 have this
season been completely reversed. The
absolute uniformity OF the returns in
dicate that the wirter-sown wheat this
year is the worst in ten years, and it
may be now set down as positive that
under the most favorable conditions
tho tnfoI ~ipfAr. pnl c,n,;vp ,rhan%
yield is to fall considerably under the
short crop of 1881, when the total pro-
duct was $50, 600, 900 bushels.
With the exception of Michigan and
Oregon and Washington territory on
the Western slope, the causes leading
to a decreased output of winter wheat
are almost Identical. In Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Kansas and Missouri the
ground was bare of snow during the
severely cold weather at the close of
the winter, which was followed by
cold, dry winds later on. There was
also a decreased acreage owing to the
low prices which prevailed for the crop
OF 1854. In California the decreased
acreage was accompanied by a severe
drouth, which has tended to almost
ruin the growing crop. Oregon and
Washington territory were saved by
bountiful showers which came in time
to save the grain. When the states
are considered in detail the situation
can be better appreciated.
Turning to the spring wheat belt the
outlook is altogether more promising.
Full returns from Nebraska show q
slightly enlarged acreage as compared
to last year, while in Iowa, Wisconsin
and Minnesota the decrease in acreage
will be about 10 per cent, while con
dition is about IS per cent. The
acreage of Dakota is about s per cent
less than last year and the conditions
fully equal. though the season is from
ton to twelve days later. The prob
able spring wheat yield based upon
continuing favorable weather will be
$50, 600, 900 bushels. The total wheat
crop of the country, therefore, from
the present outlook, will be from $780,.
600, 900 to $50, 600, 900 bushels, against
and an average yield for the last
five years of 1884, 900, 900 bushels.
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through the dusky twilight, and
thought that honor was sold some
times even cheaper than for dollars
and cents.
stick to Your Bush.
One day when l was a lad, a party
of boys and girls were going to a dis
wanted to go with them, but was fear
full that my father would not let me.
When | told Him what was going On,
he at once gave me permission to go
with them. / could hardly contain
myself for joy, and rushed into the
kitchen and got big basket and asked
mother for a luncheon. I had the
basket on my arm and was just going
out of the gate when my father called
me back.
He took hold of my hand and said
in q very gentle voice:
Joseph, what are you going for
to pick berries or to playg"
TO pick berries" i replied.
aThen, Joseph, ! want to tell you
n thing. 1t is this: When you find
a pretty good bush, do not leave it to
find a better one. The other boys and
girls will run about, picking a little
here and a little there, wasting a great
deal of time, and not getting many
berries. If you do as they do, you will
come home with an empty basket. If
you want berries, stick to your BUSH
went with the party and we had a
capital time. But 1t was just as my
father said.
No Don had one found a good
bush than he called all the rest, and
they left their several places and ran
off to the new found treasure. Not
content more than a minute or two in
one place, they rambled over the whole
pasture, got very tired, and at night
had a very few berries. My fathers
words kept ringing in my ears, and |
"stuck to my bush" When | had
done with one, | found another and
finished that; then ! took another.
When night came l had a large bas-
ketful of nice berries, more than all
the others put together, and was not
half as tired as they Were.
| went home happy; but when l en-
tered found that my father had taken
ill, He looked at my baskettul of ripe
berries and said:
s.Well done, Joseph. Was it not
just as l told youP Always stick to
your bush.''
He died a few days after, and / had
to make my own way in the world as
best / could.
But my fathers words sank deep
into my mind, and ! never forgot the
experience of the whortleberry party;
| stuck to my bush.
When l had a fair place and was do
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The Law Didn't Cover the Case.

Merchant Traveller.
A '.lost. strayed or stolen dude was
arrested in Texas, with a parlor pistol
in his pocket, and taken before the
Judge, a broad-shouldered, bluff sort of
a man, who had roughed it on the plains
before coming to the bench.
Whats the rowp" inquired the
conrt, %glowering on the prisoner, who
shiyered like a man kindling the fire on
a winter morning, and looked like he
wanted to crawl under the table.
May it please the COURT replied
the arresting officer, '.the prisoner
was carrying this pistol" holding up
the weapon.
well, what of that?' changing front
from the prisoner to officer.
"Your homer, the law says that a
man who carries deadly weapons shall
be fined or imprisoned"
MAY be it does. It's none OF my
business to doubt your statement, but
the law don't fit this case"
"Your honor, the prisoner had it in
his pocket"
Il don't care where he had it. As
long as it was in his possession, it
wasn't a deadly weapon; for I'll bet a
drove of steers such a looking bud of
promise as he is couldn't hit a four,
story meeting house, with it, five steps.
Turn him loose and give him his gun;
the peace and safety of the common
wealth will not be disturbed. !"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-03
The Folly of Leaving Great For
tunes to Children.

"
1t is often a question with men of
great wealth what to do with it. If
they leave it for their children, it gen
orally proves their ruin. Here, for in
stance. is a grandson of John J. Phelps
who has just committed suicide. I
remember John J. Phelps as a splendid
business man, who pursued wealth
with III intense greed and left q half
dozen millions. Such instances meet
one at every turn in high life, and wealth
30 often proves only the rapid way to
ruin that the prospect is often painful.
In this connection I may mention that
Fifth avenue now contains two vacant
houses side by side which recall the
history of a distinguished family. One
belongs (by p~urchase) to E. D. Morgan
and the other has recently become his
by Inheritance. 1t was occupied by his
grandfather (the late x-Governor),
and still later by his widow. The
grandson closed up his establish
ment and started on q round-the-
globe voyage in his yacht, accompanied
by his wife and a few friends, and dur.
ing his absence his grandmother died.
AS she had no other descendants, the
house is left in charge Of a housekeep-
er. It is sad to think that SO noble a
pair MS the ex-governor and his wife are
gone never to return, and there is but
little consolation in the prospective use
to which their wealth will be devoted.
With tba pf n fnw lapapias NOT
equal to one-twentieth of the estate, it
all goes to the present E. d. Morgan,
who on his return will find the SPLEEN
did houses awaiting him, and also a few
millions of spending money. Alas, to
think that when a young man is loaded
with money it is almost sure to sink
HIM. While young Ned Morgan has
two elegantly furnished houses in the
center of fashion, there are, on the other
hand IS, 1000 homeless wretches within a
stones throw of them, who are glad to
find lodgings at the station houses.
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Wilkins Star Proverbs.
Give the devil his dude.

Give the devil his dude.
Many a many is fool for revenue
only.
Sunbeams support the floor OF
heaven.
The waste basket is mightier than
the pen.
Silence is the gold plating for a
FOOLS tongue.
The drunkard's thread of life is
wound on reel.
When hope dies the devil adds an.
other scalp to his belt.
Splitting heirs is nothing new
Solomon attempted il.
And he said: "Let there be elite,''
and the ''1irst family" bounded into
the world.
Hope builds a nest in a mans heart
where disappointment matches its
brood.
A little learning in a fool, like
scanty powder in a large gun, will.
sometimes make considerable noise
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What Ruins the Trout Streams.
General R. U. Sherman in the American Ang-
lar

General Ii. U. Sherman in the American Ang-
Ter.
The amendments to the game laws
just passed by the Legislature are to
apply to the trout sections only. They
We're drawn by John D. Collins, OF
Utica, and are valuable. They are de-
signed to cut off the murderous prac-
tice Of catching for number that has so
depleted our trout streams. The bill
forbids the retention of any trout below
six inches, and also the taking of trout
from public waters to stock private
ponds-a practice that has kept the
West Canada from Wilkinson's down
stripped for many years. Public houses
near trout streams are in the habit of
getting up trout suppers" for guests.
Two or three boys are started out in
the morning. They return in the
afternoon with 200 or 800 year or two
years old, which are fried to a crisp,
and each guest eats twenty or thirty,
and thus the stock of the stream is
destroyed in it's infancy. L was told at
a place in Essex County last fall that a
certain great and pious person, whose
name is withheld, came there every
summer, and wanted the first thing a
trout fry. Trout on the ice eight or
nine inches long would not do. He
must go out himself and catch 100 or
more three to five inch fellows and have
them fried. These he gorged, heads,
bones and all, This is the kind of fish
ing that defeats the purpose of artifi-
cial culture. 1t isthe large trout that
should be taken--not the small ones.
When a trout reaches the weight Of
two pounds or over he will destroy more
Of his kind in a year than he can pro-
duce.
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The most popular weights in lawn.tennis
racqnets is fourteen ounces, and the symmet-
rical has taken the place of the pear-shaped in
popular favor. Fancy racquets inlaid with
gold have been sold for 800 apiece.
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~, r,unw AVA, ro,noun.>s.
stunicy IuntiCyS extraordinary
Luck IN n rokCt Gnmc
az Igtsutrth

sell uut his share IN thp baurr
the Tribune was tho ni,t ,,o,,',
in Hi,marck nj tb,u lin, nn.i
~ there WAS q .trnp, rnIu;nat
RIM in tho couut, no I,.u
hopes of di,po.luo of lu. propnrtY tn
the politicians. hut trarino not n,
mighi fail to do .o hn drui,,rd , lin,
10 Major Edward. ..liu, 5iru to Inn,
his pnprr. Major Fd,vurJs had muJc
"a fortune ON. nt hi. own nnunr md -.
hc.,n. ambitions In own MIRO manner.
be- promptly responded by draw inc
5000 from thc bnnk and iahup th1
first train for EismorL Whrn hc
reached thai civ he found thnt tho
trade viii thr nnli,icians was noJn
and iluutlrv Lod como ON, of Lis Jif,
licultics with several hundred dollar.
IN cool cash. IT was several hon. he.
fore tine return train lcft md Gnyino
nothing else tn do. fine Major .uurrst7
cd that they MA, n rnmr of poLGr nj
81 ante.
The majors fame ~ q rnkcr ulay,1
Wn, mo-, confined alone t1 Fnrpo ii,
wa, rc,nuuilrL throuohnu The Terri
tor, As the best plnycr in the north
west. and when It became noise,
about fine TOWN ILni hr nuJ IluntIr,
were to ,lay for lnryr ,taIr. thor,
WAS no saloon i'm the place loro,
enough to accommodate the crow, Il
and tin. Zane WAS moved 10 In, tnvi
h,Ll over thc. ENGINE hnusr
rhr ,,a,u, HOGAN ,t noon snJ ram
! tnurd until O'clock with ynrin,
| .urrc-. Al Inst thn,c w,,s 81 incl no.
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Round AHOIT TOW


Weather Indications
W'snfSoroN. Nugust2, Indications for ,he
west gulf states Ltrh' local rains eas,crly
winds becoming variable. neatly -tatouay
temperature
Chicken feed nj K y Planners
Let Texans Insure IN the T. Il. 4.
The atmosphere will Ice Cooler now
Buy your groccric, AT /. Gaithcr'>
The prices ot Raglands goods deity |
competition from any quarter.
Fresh groceries constantly on hand |
at | Gathers.
Poor men cannot afford to live
without protection. The r. Il. a.
offers the best
Doctor, report " great deal of SICK.
ness.
Another good shower of rain fell
yesterday.
There has been u funeral every day
thi. week, in Waco.
smokers prefer Opera run because
they do not stick to the lips.
Herr is the pcaccmakcr, because lac
sells such good cigars and tobacco.
y fine rain fell all the way between
Brcmond and Waco yesterday
evening.
Rnglsnd has the finest assortment
of icwclry and watches ever brought
to this market
Fathers, insure in the T. T.. \.
Don't go in foreign associations.
If you want something handsome i'll
| table knives, carNrr,, or scissors, call
ON llorstuil y Cameron. New goods
! lust received
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