Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1888-06-28
Rosenhayn Notes.

AllCt1 ciili OOyo wiz ttlC d lOSO llOW
to amuse themselves Lately they
have been shooting at chimney swal-
lows, which fly about just before sun
down in search of insects. OF course
all the young men are not expected to
know the damage they are doing by
killing these birds and setting such an
example for the younger ones to fol
low, but it serves to show how ig-
norant and brutal we are in this ago
of reason after all. With our churches,
schools and newspapers to teach the
rising generation the wickedness of
destroying bird life or any life, we
must confess that the barbarous in
stincts of our race are still strong, for
in every community are men and boys
who take the keenest delight in seeing
the life of birds and animals destroyed,
The simple reason for this seems to be
a lack Of some system of instruction in
eur schools that will teach children to-
love and protect birds and animals,
and thus hold in check the more
brutal instincts of our natures. Wise
men tell us we cannot reach such
high state of civilization until we stop
using flesh as an article of diet, for it
is from animal food we get our savage
habits and thirst for blood. Be this
as it may, with the destruction of our
forests follows the destruction of all
animal life, as we'll as birds, and each
generation of man will see less and
less vegetation grow upon the earth's
surface. until our North American
continent becomes a sun-baked, tree
less region. We need not go back
more than fifty years right here in
Cumberland county to see such results
commencing. At that time two-thirds
of this section was covered with grow.
ing timber, the seasons were well de-
fined, and gentle showers came at
regular intervals; extreme droughts
were not common The woods were
the home of birds and animals, while
those insect enemies of fruit had no
name or existence; but fifty years OF
wasteful habits have destroyed the
forests, the gnnners have driven the
birds to remote regions, and as if the
destruction was not complete enough,
we have imported a bird of prey called
the sparrow, to help us kill off the re.
naming native birds, and we find our
selves already beginning to suffer the
worst that our habits have brought
upon us.
!, A strange accident happened to
dog on the Central R. R., where it
crosses the bridge at Muddy Run
stream, on Saturday week. A man
named Hires. who lives just east Of the
bridge on farm, took his two boys to
the stream to bathe, their dog going
along. The two boys and dog went
down into the stream and began splash
ing and playing, while the father sat
on the bank watching them to see
thatsno accident happened. The father
heard locomotive whistle up the
track, and standing up on the bank,
looked up the-track toward the Rosen-
hayn depot, saw train coming The
dog beard the noise, and, being an
unusually intelligent animal, ran up
on the track to see the train, which
proved to be the pay train which was
running to keep out of the way of the
regular passenger train at rate Of go
miles an hour. When the dog reached
the track the train was upon him like
a flash. He gave two tremendous
bounds to escape, but the engine
caught him. The father and boys saw
the accident, and that is the last ever
seen of the dog. They searched the
track on both sides for his mangled re-
mains. as they were much attached to
him, but not drop OF blood or hair
has been found. The neighbors turned
out and searched, but in vain. The
only way OF accounting for him is that
the train struck him while jumping,
and he was thrown back over the pilot
and smoke stack into the open window
OF the cab. When the train passed the
crowded depot at Rosenhayn, it never
stopped or slackened speed. An old
engineer, who has run fast trains,
watched it go by, and said ne never
saw a train run at such a rate of speed
How it escaped killing some at our de-
pot is miracle, for there were men,
women and children around the depot,
and farmers loading berries. Not a
whistle was blown till it was passing
+rhe station. 1t may seem very nice
and smart for train to get in such
Ia desperate hurry, but the risk OF
one human life in such a mad rush
through such place is without any
excuse, and when the officials of the
toad ind that these men are doing
Iuch running without authority there
viii be stop put to it. 1t was only a
loor dog this time. A word to the
yise,is sufficient.