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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-25
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.

Under the daisies and soft waving grass,
Robing In beauty the place where they lag.
Down in the valley, the long narrow pass
Calmly are resting the blue and the gray.
Sabred TO death in the fierce strife OF war,
Foemen no longer they sleep side by side
Passions wild tumult no longer bar,
Death has united whom life did divide.
Trumpets may blare and the cannon may roar,
Armies may shake the firm earth with their
tread,
Nothing shall mar or disturb evermorc
The peace that is theirs in their lone, silent
bed
Cover with garlands where quiet they lay,
Sunlight fall brightly and breezes soft blow;
Question not whether they wore blue OF slay,
Question not whether they were friend or foe
Life has its errors, as ocean its gales
Tempests Of passion which die while they
live;
Charity pleads that we draw close the veil
Father forgive, as we even forgive.
Softly may summer winds blow DER thcii
grave,
Gently the autumn leaves fall on their sod;
Whether they cover the blue or the gray;
Over both watches the same loving God
gss.yers for the lving-a flower for the dead;
NAarity may not and would not do less
Leave them to rest in their lone, narrow bed;
God knoweth all--in His love may He bless.
| w. G.. Haeselbarth In Christian at Work.
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and similar instances are repeated
every year, on nearly all the roads,
only many of them simply involve the
loss of property and are unnoticed.
The culpabilitv and down light stupid-
ity of the company managers In this
matter are almost phenomenal IRE
spective of all moral considerations,
and simply from a business point, it is
absurd to expect any number of tenn
perate men, engaged in peculiarly
nerve-eXhausting occupation, to abstain
from spirits, especially when exposed
to its free use any time, and under all
circumstances.
Loose gunpowder and sulphur matches
might be carried in pi oximity for some
time without accident. Public places
for the sale of spirits on trains and at
stations, under the control of the COM
pany, may seem to be harmless, but the
quantity of accidents due directly and
indirectly to them is beyond all ques-
ton. 1t Ii an unwritten law of the sa-
loon managers on trains and at sta
tions, that trainmen are to have spirits
itCC az 81 tiibcS, plCbChoC Va
their use ar medicines. 1t is higher
law of nature that the strain of exuct
and perilous duty, day after day, reacts
in states of exhaustion, for which spir-
its bring most rapid temporary relief.
The same great physical laws make
it impossible for men in this condition
to abstain where the means Of relief
are at hand, even thoaEh they be tenn.
porary. No company can depend on
| the best judgment of its trusted train
| men as long as free spirits arc carried
round with them on the train, and are
found at every station. A railroad dis.
| patcher at saloon station, after a
glass of spirits, gave the wrong order.
Ten lives and over million of dollars
| were lost The dispatcher suicided in
| grief at his mistake. The company re-
ceived thousand dollars year for tho
| rent of the saloon at the station. The
| long night runs on through trains FUR"
nish abundant illustration of the peril
| and unknown risks of trains which car
ry travelling saloons. To the compa-
MES it is question of selfish interest
To the travelling public it is question
of personal peril. Every year accidents
occur which are clearly preventable,
and a growing public sentiment de-
mands better and safer means of tran.
sit. TIL, saloon is always a source Of
danger in ways that are most unex-
pected. No one can tell how and when
it may influence the brain capacity Of
the trainmen. Obviously it is the clear
duty of all persons to demand that the
saloons should be dropped from railroad
trains; to demand that trainmen DO
free from exposure and be protected
from every possible danger that will
imperil their work and the lives Of
others. The trainmen themselves de-
mand this protection, and no company
can be free from grave losses due to
this source except by this meana-T
d. Crothers, in Union Signal
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-25
Universal physiC.

The venerable DR.. Stop, of Blank,
town, was doctor of the experimental
and eclectic school of medicine years
ago 1t was rule of the doctors never
to have anything wasted; and there
fore, when any prescription remained
untaken after the patient had died or
recovered, he would empty it in a bot.
tie kept for the purpose, that became
the receptacle of a heterogeneous COM
pound that science could not analyZe.
A younger member of the faculty noted
this as very singular fact, and asked
of him the reason for it. The doctor
hesitated a little, ana then replied that,
though in ordinary cases he knew well
what to do, there were instances when
all his medical skill failed, and he was
fioored with doubt. At such times
it was his custom to resort to the big
bottle. and leave nature and accident tC
accomplish the cure. And will you
believe it." said he, "some of my most
brilliant successes have resulted from
it?"-N. Y. Ledger.
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ing no family of her own, had taken
and cared for Anna for the sake of the
sum derived from the latters sufficient
income in payment for board and neces-
sary care. Love did not enter into the
consideration on the part of either
party, so that while Anna had always
had pleasant home, she had had mo
one to love, none to caress," beyond the
usual friendships of girlhood. Her as
sociation with George Earle had made
new epoch in her life, and gave to all
her plans and purposes higher zest.
Something to live for must come into
each life in some form, ere will be de-
veloped the latent "best there is in us. -
Letters from the front" came often,
to cheer otherwise lonely hours. Work
for the soldiers was entered into with
greater enthusiasm since of 1.-THE sol
diers' her lover was one. And then, as
months rolled by. the time dragged less
heavily, since some hope could be in
dulged that soon the cruel war would
be over, and she began to plan for its
end. and his homecoming. and the we'd
ding Suddenly the letters ceased to
come. Again and again she wrote, but
no reply came back, and now YEARLY,
sadly. she awaited the end of the con.
flict. She scanned carefully the pa
pers that came into her possession, yet
with dread each day that she might
chance to find tidings that disaster had
befallen him. At last the headline o.
an item caught her eye. 1t read:
Marriage of Capt. George Earle ant
Florence Fair, daughter of southern
planter" She read no farther. Sh,
had known of his anticipated promo
ton. so that Capt. George Earle wa:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-25
VARIOUS NOTES.

A TEMPERANCE lecturer was once
asked: what shall we do with the
grain now required for distilling?" The
prompt reply was: Feed the drunk
ards wives with it; they have gone
hungry long enough"
RUSSIA has become infected with
the vice of ether drinking, and tho
pernicious habit has spread so rapidly
that the government has judged it nee
essary to prohibit the free sale of ether
and of certain Of it's compounds, and to
schedule it among the poisons.
THE Christian churches of Great
Britain and Ireland are united in their
determination that the growth, manu-
facture and sale of opium Except for
medicinal purposes) shall be prohibit
ed. AS it is government monopoly, q
single blow will crush the evil traffic
THE society for the abolition OF
strong drink in Holland certifies that
in population of 100000 there are
$4,000 licenses for the sale of liquor au-
nually granted. Computing two-thirds
of the total population to be women
and children. there is saloon to every
thirty-three men; woeful condition.
ACCORDING to the Philadelphia
Record, recent experiments made by
the proprietors of disti!lery of that
city have resulted in the production of
kind of whisky which leaves no sus-
picion of an odor upon tine breath. It
is said of it that the new whisky has
the same effect upon the brain and tho
legs as that now in use, however.
THE people of Surry, Me-, will not
tolerate liquor selling in town if they
can help it, but they are more strongly
opposed to the cigarette. Good Hope
temple, having discovered that some of
its younger members had been indulg-
ing in the penny weeds, voted to buy
and burn all the cigarettes in town, on
condition that the dealers would sell nc
more. The dealers agreed to that, and
there was one big, final cigarette smoke
in the public square,
The principal action of alcohol is
that of a narcotic when taken in full
doses, and of a sedatise in small doses.
This is an important fact, and one that
indicates much danger, in common
with all remedies of this class. As their
action is only palliative, they usually re,
quire repetition, and neurotic patients
who are most in need of such remedies
are least able to bear them. Nervous
diseases and will-power are closely
allied, and the soothing effects pro.
duced by stimulants are so irresistiblu
strong that"a dangerous habit i.
entered upon almost before one is
aware of it.-Journal of Inebriety
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1t was not easy to make ones way
into his house lat Chaillot, Rue dies
Batailles), which was guarded like the
garden of the llespcrides. Two OF
three passwords were necessary, watch
were changed frequently for fear they
should become known. | remember a
few. To the porter, we said: "rhe
plum season has come" on which he at
lowed us to cross the threshold. Tothe
servant who rushed to the staircase
when the bell rang it was necessary tn
murmur: Il bring some Brussels
lace" and if you assured him that
mime. Bertrand was quite we'll" YOU
were admitted forthwith. This non,
sense amused Balzac immensely. and il
was perhaps necessary To keep on
borcs and other visitors still more disa
greH sable. - Theophile Gautier - Mis-:
Ws.;aley', Memoir of Balzac.
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he had been true to her in life. There
is sorrow deeper than that which the
parting by death brings to us. Her
eyes shed the first tears they had known
since she had thought him false.
Then, as her friend-more than half
suspecting-drew little apart, and
joined private groups, Annie knelt be-
side the grass-covered mound, and TAX
ing from her corsage the cluster of
sweet syringas her friend had fastened
there and insisted upon her wearing,
she laid them lovingly above the dead,
STRANGE for all these years since that
night of parting, she had never worn
them till now.
just then a stranger, man with hair
and beard plentifully sprinkled with
gray, came from the opposite side and
not noticing her kneeling form, stopped
and scanned the head-stone. "A strange
mistake" he said, half-aloud. At the
sound of his voice, Anna rose to hel
feet and would have turned away, had
not the stranger spoken.
Pardon the seeming ob:lusivenesso OF
a stranger, but came to rectify mis-
take which, though made years ago, but
lately came to my knowledge. 1t came
about as a hospital case of mistaken
identity. so that the body Inferred here
is presumed to be my own. My frieuC
who lies there-noble fellow-thinkinl
| could not live, arranged to have my
body sent here for burial, He wa
taken SICK himself, soon after writing
home ia that effect, and others, in aim
ing to larry out his wishes, sent th'
body of IA comrade who died. and WHIT
was wrongly reported as being mysel
| -George Earle. But"-he checked hin;
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DRINKING RAILROAD MEN.

A Source of Danger to the Lives Of the
Travelling Public.
The express trains ON many Of the
great trunk lines of railroads carry with
them q literal saloon for the sale of al
coholic drinks. The trainmen are for.
hidden to drink under penalty Of imme-
date discharge, and the bar-keepers
called porters) are required not to sell
or give spirits to any employe in service
on the road. Managers of roads are
aware of the risk and danger of the
service rendered by men who use spirits,
hence stringent rules are laid down,
and efforts made to employ only healthy,
temperate men, especially on trains
and where great responsibility and eX-
act duties are required. While the
vast majority Of trainmen on all rail-
roads are practical abstainers, there Is
! always small number who are con-
cealed drinkers, growing worse stead
lily. The result of their drinking is al
ways some accident and exposure with
discharge. Often the accidents are of
little interest to the public. because
| they are not attended with loss of life.
In some instances the person who made
the mistake is killed and his use of
spirits las the real cause of the acct
dent) is concealed from the public.
Where gross carelessness and stupidity
result in an accident among experienced
trainmen, the use of alcohol is not I'M
| f,apuantly tho raa1 oauSa
| These men are not public drinkers,
and are known as temperate men, but
after accidents it will appear that they
have used spirits and probably carried
it with them. There is another class
of active, responsible trainmen, whose
long-tried services have given them
reputation with the company, who all
unexpectedly make very serious mis-
takes in their ordinary work which
result in great disasters. Alcohol and
its compounds are often at the bottom
of these sudden failures. Want of
ordinary caution, and sudden boldness
in assuming great risk. failure to re-
member orders, and faulty reasoning,
are the usual symptoms. Such men use
alcohol as medicine and tonic, to en-
able them to do their work better. They
fully recognize the danger of large
doses, but are dcluded with the idea
that in certain circumstances small
doses are necessary for their work.
The fact is well known that the contin-
uous strain and irregularity of railroad
work soon wears out the brain and
nervous system, producing states of ex'
haustion for which alcohol in any form
is most seductive tonic. To an over.
worked, tired out trainman, who has
found spirits a perfect relief, no rules
or restrictions can prevent him from
taking spirits from the travelling saloor
on the train, or the saloon at the sta
ton. OF course no one will see him
but his changed spirits and manner vii
tell the story. Those are the men WHIT
make the mistakes from which accident:
come. A tired brakeman took a glass o
spirits and went back to flag an ap
preaching train-fell asleep and {
frightful disaster followed An over
worked engineer, after glass Of spir
It's at the station, failed to see the dan
ger signal few miles farther on, an,
was killed in frightful wreck. Thes
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self as he was about TO say more-"i
am too fast You were placing flowers
there. Perhaps friend of yours lies
kere, and ! am myself in error"
81 thought George Earle-was
buried here" she stammered.
"And you are-oh, you are Anna
Brown-or was" he said, recognizing
now voice and feature for she was not
greatly changed. The same hair, un.
touched by frost. The same eyes, tic
which recent tears had brought back
their wonted softness.
Il am Anna Brown still. And you
are George Earle, | am sure, for you
have his features" and the cid, cold
look came back to her eyes, and the
scorn to her lips, and the hardness to
her heart. George Earle, dead but true
to her till death, was man far differ
ent in her estimation from George Earle,
alive and false. He noted the change.
Have you no welcome, Anna, for one
who has had no aim in life, for the last
twenty years, but to find you?"
lou lorSot you were lalse 10 me
You were married."
Married And not to you? Never
Even had it taken me as many more
years to find YOU"
''But read of the marriage of Capt
George Earle and the daughter of a
southern planter"
'Then l am not the only George
Earle, as | also find you are not the
only Anna Brown, when / try to find
you in country full of people. That
you are true to your soldier lover want
no surer testimony than | find in the
fact that, when you thought me dead,
you were laying my favorite flower on
my supposed grave. We have both been
the sad victims of some of the unavoid-
able mistakes of the war. Let us bury
the past and in the joy of the remain
ing years of our lives, forget its bitter
ness"
They were married before the syrin.
gas were done blooming, and she wore
them for her bridal flowers.-Sylvia Sill
verthorne, in Housekeeper.
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a Ruinous Practice.

1t appears that the habit of paying
workmen and carpenters in hquor-sa-
looms has been adopted by many of the
contractors and bosses in Chicago. At
a recent banquet given by the Carpen-
ters' and Builders association, a veteran
contractor, George Birkhoof, Sr., made
a vigorous protest against this injurious
custom. He said the saloon-keepers
are always anxious to give the contrac-
tors who make their saloons headquar-
tiers all the drinks and cigars they
wished for for nothing, while they got
even on the dozens of workmen who
purchased drinks, to be paid for at their
next pay day." in accordance with a
credit system in vogue among them.
Many families of journeymen carpen-
tiers, it was stated, are rendered miser.
able by this practice. National TEN.
perauce advocate.
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that you love me in return, and promise
me that when-when can claim you,
you will be my wife"
II do love you, George, and will be
your wife whenever you want me. But
something has happened, George, or
something is going to happen, orwell,
do not understand your actions. You
are usually more calm and self
possessed. Do tell me-
MY own darling, | have enlisted,
and in very short time will be on my
way to join the forces already in the
field. There, DO not be so startled,
Anna. | should have been less abrupt,
but it is all SO sudden, to myself even,
that can scarcely realize it,"
but you will not go?" she pleaded,
while shudder shook her frame.
1t was well he could not see the look
of agony on her face, 'he might else
have faltered. Oh the kindness of the
dusk, for even if he would, it was too
late to turn back having "once put his
hand to the p)ow."
You could not love a coward, nor be
the wife of one," and he tried to speak
bravely. But, Anna, sit here on this
arbor-seat, only little while, for my
minutes are numbered, and l will tell
you all. 1t is my duty to go to my
country's aid, yet had not intended to
go till the impulse seized me to-day.
Amid the stirring scenes of the rally
under the magic spell cast over me by
the thrilling strains of martial music,
and with all the while the echo in my
heart: Your country needs YOU | was
impelled onward with the tide, and en-
rolled myself among those who go tc
-, the scene of conflict. Under less agi
tating influences, might have failed OF
courage to take this step, yet knowing
| have done right, do not regret it
Bravery, after all, is but finding ou'
ones duty and doing it,"
And thus they talked on during the
time he dared linger, and all their plans
were for their marriage when the sol
der should ''Come marching home
again." When the time of parting
came, the moon had just crept up from
the horizon, and they might have taker
it's food of light, as it came to then
after the darkness, as an omen of good
but it only served to reveal to each the
white face of the other; showed to eacl
that the eyes of the other were dim will
their fullness of but half-suppresset
tears. knowledge which only gave
added pangs to the parting.
The good-bys came all too soon, for
early in the morning, before you arr
awake, shall be on my way" Georg,
had said. Before she should awake.
When will men learn that woman
with either new great joy or new
deep sorrow, does not sleep? And whel
both lie in her heart, having come t.
her at one birth, then indeed hath sleel
departed from her eyes.
In such partings it may indeed b.
hard for the one who goes, but thinl
the bitterest of the potion is mingled il
the cup of the one who stays; and We
it remained for the after years to shoy
to her that the pangs of parting ar
not the keenest pangs the heart ma,
know.
Anna Brown had been left an orphan
in extreme youth. Her home had sine
been with distant relative, who, hay
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| her lover. 1t could be no other. Fold.
ing the paper, she laid it on the smoul'
dering Goals in the CRATE, took from the
drawer of her desk neat packet o.
| letters-his letters-and added them to
the flame. She also unlocked casket
and was about to added its contents to
the sacrifcial fires, but her courage
failed her, and the shriveled sweet
syringa blooms were the one thing she
spared herself as relic. Those fragrant
blossoms ne had twined in her hair so
| long ago. Not yet two years, but to her
it seemed very long ago.
When the fire had died out, all the
softness had gone out of her heart; her
} eyes had lost their wonted radiance and
a curve of scorn seemed to have nodded
her lips anew. The house that had been
her home was closed its owner having
died, and Anna had boarded since with
strangers. Now she babe adieu to
friends, and went-no one knew width
err, but she went abroad.
Twenty years later and there would
be many changes to note, should we
stop to note them. Anna Brown is visit
ing an old school friend, whom she
found in an unexpected retreat soon
after her return from foreign shores.
Out of courtesy to her friend. she is
among those who have assembled to
decorate the graves of the fallen sol
diers, to lay above their dust the tokens
of grateful people.
But did you notice? While the speak
err dwelt on the bravery and faithful
ness of the sleeping, while he referred
gratefully to their self-sacrificing devo-
ton to their country and their loved
ones, while he paid glowing tribute
to their loyalty, not to country only, but
to parents, wives, sisters and sweet
hearts, till tears came to the eyes OF
many, her eyes were dry and held a
look of skeptical hardness and the de-
risive smile of scorn came again to the
naughty lips. Small wonder to us who
know her past, for do we not all meas
ure all people by our estimate OF those
with whom we have been brought into
personal relations?
Later she accompanied her friend to
their family lot in the cemetery
whittier she carried two beautiful
wreaths, which, she explained to Anna
as they went, were for the graves OF
her brother and a comrade OF his, who
slept beside him. They were devoted
friends, and this one died after a long
illness, and as he had no friends to care
for his body, her brother had requested
it's burial in their lot. ''And in less
time than he dreamed Of" said the sis
ter. she was lying beside him.
"There was pathetic romance abou
this poor fellows death" she continued
| designating the grave Of the stranger
, soldier as she spoke. He had NJ
, friends except his betrothed, and at thu
time of his death, she could not b.
heard from, though efforts were mad'
, to learn of her whereabouts when hi
recovery was despaired Of"
t BY this time they stood by the head
/, stone, and Anna read the name ''Georg
: Earle" and gathered enough additional
= knowledge to bring her full assur
ance that her lover-hers till death
, was the soldier-stranger who slept be
. side his dead comrade. That sdothe
: her sorrow, to know that though dead