Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-12-30


!. aYsi canpot always judge book
by the cover, said Major Tom Speed
wei 1T the Laclede. "If any man
despises dude do. am prejudiced
against any man who uses perfumery,
wears-a silk hat a stand-up collar, or
carries a cane. When / find gman
doing all those ridiculous things at
one and the same time il IS all | eau
do to ref ain from personal violence.
Iyearn to hit him, just on general
principles. Add to these otfenses
against the canons Of horse sense a
button-hole bouquet, curled mus
tache and lisp, and my fingers fair.
" tingle. for a grip of his neck, my
toes for a coup de grace. -
yet l saw just that kind of a
biped perform an act OF heroism that
made me think better of mankind.
Il was walking down Madison
street, Chicago, last summer, when
there was suddenly raised that most
appalling Of all cries OF terror, Mad
dog An old lady and a little girl
weie crossing the street, down the
center OF which a big mastiff was
plung ng, with bloodshot eyes and
.foaning mouth, pursued by couple
Of officers. He made straightfor the
old lady, caught her dress and drag.
-ged her down. He then sprang at her
throat, but before Ae reached 1t a
youngster tricked out in the toggery
i abhor had him by the neck.
."The beast ragged like demon, but
the dude held him fast until an Off
rer came up and put a bullet through
his head. He then picked up his silk
tile, brushed 1t with his elbow, and
said, with an idiotic lisp: Every-dog
in the thty thould be killed; every
body that keepth dog in the thity
'hould be hanged. His philosophy
was sound as his nerve. l went home
and wrote with a piece Of chalk across
the headboard Of my bed; "A man
may dress like cad and look like a
fool, and still have sand and sense to
give away"
Fruga1ism.
Vegetarians are elated by the fact
Mat within the last twenty-five years
the fruit-producing. resources of the
United States have increased just ten
times as fast as the meat-produclng
resources. Apples, oranges and
grapes are getting cheaper from year
TO year, while meat is getting dearer,
thus, as it were, bribing short
sighted generation to relinquish their
iiesh-pots and try the panacea OF DR..
Bronson Alcott. That much desired
contamination could, no doubt, be
greatly promoted by dropping the
name of yegetarianism with its water
crosses and root house suggestiveness.
Out of ten flesh eaters nine could be
persuaded to test the merits of baked
apples for one who would under any
circumstances consent to try the spe-
/ ciflc of King Nebuchadnezzar. And
seriously speaking, there is not YES
| tige of proof that adults of our species
were ever intended to feed on "vege-
tables, in the green grocer's sense Of
the word. If we admit the axiom
that our natural diet should consist
chiefly of substances that can be eat
zen without repugnance in the condi-
tion we receive them from the hands
Of nature, cabbage and spinach are
every whit as Objectionable as pork
sausages. Man, according to all the
evidence of his dentition and the
structure OF his. digestive apparatus,
/ is not an herbiyorous, but frugfvor-
!, Gus; animal, and our dietetic reform.
! ers should adopt the name Of Frugal
/ ists Eeliy / OSWALD