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The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-23
CUTTING DOWN THE SPEED
OF FAST RAILROAD TRAINS.
Vanderbilt Line officials order Less
High Running.

High Running.
New York, Oct. 22.-Some Of the
New York papers asserted in their re-
ports of the recent accident to the EN-
pire State Express, running daily from
New York to Buffalo in record regu-
lar time for so great a distance, that
IL was the second time the train had
run against an obstruction, and that
1t had never before killed a man.
This assertion was incorrect, though
the train has maintained an unusu-
ally clean record despite its great
speed. The recent accident was it's
third. The first Il ever had occurred
near Tivoli, some distance up the Hud-
son from here. in 1898. There had
been q freight wreck. and "the EN-
pire" was obliged to go north for a
little way on the south-bound track
When the train resumed it's own track
there was a collision between Il and
a work train. The Empire states en-
CINE mounted the other. and drove II
against the work train caboose with
great force, killing young man OF
20 who had that day entered the rail-
roads service. He was the son Of the
work trains engine driver, who singu-
larry enough was not hurt IN tho least.
The latter was a sturdy. stooky man
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-23

young man. Am I to stay?" he ask
ed.
Indeed you are" said the young
man heartily. "Tn manage Antonio!"
And he did, and Arturo went to live
with the lovely lady and her tall
young husband; and, best of all, with
Blanche, the great white cat, who
had brought him happiness.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-23

nearly 80, iron-gray of hair and
beard, and grim Of face. He jumped
from his perch in his cab, saw that
his son had been killed and ran to the
cab of the great machine which had
crashed into and was still atop his
own engine. The other engineer
youngster comparatively slight OF hg-
ure and much better "groomed,' so 10
speak, than the bereaved father, still
sat in his cab. The old man had
picked up a murderous looking bar of
iron. and as he stood on the ground.
his eyes flashing fire, he called out
to the younger man:
Come down, you dude, you dandy,
you fly fast runnerl You killed my
boy. you coward! Come down and let
me kill YOU! Come down! Come
DOWN.
The writer CHANGED to be a passen-
ger on the Empire State Express that
day, and with others Of the passengers
and some OF the railroad men who
gathered round, managed, after awhile
to calm the old man. Eventually we
led him away. broken hearted and
sobbing like baby. Beyond a doubt
murder would have been done then and
there had the younger man left the
cab: he was so affected that he had
TO be helped down after the old man
had been taken away. It is only fair
TO say, however, that the younger man
was exonerated from blame officially.
The signal which should have been
set against him, showing red. showed
white. thus indicating that the track
was clear.
But there was no one in the throng
OF railroad men and passengers gath
cred round the broken engines that
day who wondered at the older en-
gineers emotion.
The order given by william X. Van
derbiit 20 slacken the speed OF a spe-
ciai on the "Big Four" out IN Ohio
whore he was inspecting the road with
&c praaldeni. NJ. u. Innalla. the other
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-23

--Sunday-school Teacher. OF couts''
you love the Lord. Willle7
Willie; / dunno as I DO.
sunday-school Teacher; Why, VII
lie. you must love the Lord, because
He made you, and.
Willie. Yes. but you just told Tom.
my Turf that He made him, too. an
I think that was pretty mean JOB.
Philadelphia Press.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-23

The sign outside Of the door read:
ksss%
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
Some Funny Advertisements.

annual sale now going on.
Don't 90 elsewhere to be cheated
come in here
"a lady wants to sell her
piano, as she is going abroad in
a strong iron frame"
"Wanted experienced nurse
for bottled baby"
Furnished apartment suitable
for gentlemen with folding
DOORS"
Wanted a room for two
gentlemestss. mt 80 feet long and
20 feet broad.n
Lost a collie dog by man on
Saturday answering to the name
of jim with a brass collar around
his neck and muzzle."
"Wanted by respectable girl,
her passage to New York, willing
to take care of children and a
good sailor"
Respectable widow wants
washing for Tuesday"
"For Sale--A pianoforte, the
property of a musician with
carved legs"
"Mr. Brown, furrier, begs to
announce that he will make up
gowns, capes, ect., for ladies out
of their own skim. !"
"a boy wanted who can open
oysters with a reference"
Bulldog for sale; will eat
anything; very fond of children"
"Wanted an organist and a
boy to blow the same"
Wanted, a boy to be partly
outside and partly behind the
counter. '-Lyre.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30


was pushing q wheelbarrow i'll
the back yards of one of Car
negie's mills at Braddock. This
was his "pull." He walked
little faster and put on bigger
loads than the men at his elbow
and he was soon made foreman
over them. In other words he
was not afraid to give his EN-
ployer two dollars worth of work
for one dollar, fear that has
taken possession of too many
young men in this community.
When he became foreman it was
noticed that. the men under him
did more work than formerly.
He did not swear at his men.
They never grumbled at their
boss, They respected him and
it was a pleasure to work for
him. Carnegie began promot-
ing Corey and Corey worked
hard. He had only fair COM
mon school education. He
studied at night. He took up a
course in a correspondent school.
He became an expert chemist.
He was soon authority on armour
plate. He knew more about
armour plate than any one in
the mills. He was soon made
superintendent of that depart
ment. He increased the output.
That's all. 'But remember that
this was all the result of wheel
ing more iron ore than the man
at his elbot in a back yard at
Braddock. Too many of our
young men see how small a load
they can wheel. To put in the
hours and draw their pay is the
height of their ambition and
then because they do not prosper
like young Corey they imagine
they have not been given Il fair
chance in life.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

boy stood on the burning deck. +"
Did you ever notice how fine and
elegant these made to order SER
mons are and how little enthusi-
asm they created? Everything
now is made to order friends and
do you know that many sermons
ge to print before they are de-
livered from the pulpit? The
press people geta scoop on every
thing these days and don't hest
tate to give you away either; in
fact the press is good exposer
of hypocracy and rascality and it
trys to keep the people from be-
ing imposed upon but many of
you will suffer yourself to be
humbuged for all that. Now, re-
ligion is plain and simple, SC
plain and simple that your proud
up-to-date ones have none of it
only the poor, humble and con.
trite ones enjoy it; the Others
might but they think it too plain
for them. UNCLE Tom.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

man "is the alliance of two fam
lilies i'll such man ler as to pro-
duce the fewest offspring and
then cut the greatest swath.
Said the psychologist Glove
is that set of sensations which,
finding their way through the
aferent nerves, stimulate certain
glanglionic centers of the occipi-
tai portion of the brain, and ex-
tend upward through the higher
area Of cerebral consciousness.
1t is purely subjective in its ac-
ton, and while it has no regular
synthesis, being extremely di-
verse in all of its aspects, it
seems to be subject to some
higher defnitiye law, as yet I'M
determined"
Said the college graduate :;
Glove is the supreme folly"
Said the octogenarian; Glove
is eternal"
Said the theologian: "Love
is that divine force, co-existent
with Jehovah, that has dwelt in
the hearts of men since the shep-
herds have watched their flocks
and which enables us to force
every one to believe in our own
particular views, even if we have
to do it with the edge of the
sword"
Said the actress: love is an
angel-with plenty of money"
Said the bachelor: "Love is
an amusement"
Said the married manso Glove
is the dearest thing in the world.
It's the only thing that prevents
me from living within my in
come"
Said the widow: Glove is
constant in its change"
Said the dressmaker. with
out love | should 90 out of bust
ness. Love pays all my bills. =
Fayetteville Observer.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
King Alcohol In Anecdote.

In condemning intemperance
Mrs. John A. Logan recently
said to the Cincinnati Enquirer:
"Alcohol SO vitiates the mind
that the degradation it imposes
on its victims hardly seems like
degradation to them, The woes
of these men are changed to
blessings in their besotted brains.
"FOr instance" said Mrs.
Logan, smiling, 'there used to
live in Kentucky an old man
called ,Fawcett Jone. Fawcett
drank to excess, and he used to
declare that whiskey was meat
and drink to him. But one hot
summer night he drank so much
that he fell into puddle on the
way home, and in the puddle
he lay snoring until dawn.
"a clergyman who had risen
early found him with his head
in the mud and his legs and
body in the water, and the good
man woke him up.
All he said, so whiskey is
meat and drink to you, is it,
Fawcett?'
"Fawcett rose to his feet and
began to ring out his clothes.
" 1T certainly is he said, and
washing and lodging, too, SIR y
The man who hurries is fire.
quently only spuring a rocking
horse. -Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
St. Louis World.
365 raik Newspapers for $I.oo
A Daily Newspaper for less than
q cents per week.

THE WORLD is published every day in
the year, including Sundays. 1t is an
eight, twelve, sixteen, twenty and twenty
four page paper.
II is a stalwart Democratic paper and its
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tentiou. 1t is an up-to-dats newspaper in
every sense Of the word.
II makes an especial feature OF the news
Of Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Kansas
Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma and the Great
Southern and South western States, but it
tells ALL THE NEWS OF ALL THE
WORLD and tells il well.
THE WORLD publishes more Worlds
Fair and War News with Illustrations than
any paper in the United States.
The St. Louis World and Mrs. Grundy
for sl75. Mrs. Grundy will keep you
posted on all county, campaign and fruit
news and The St. Louis World will keep
you informed on news OF q general nature.
This gives you for $l.75 all county, state.
national and foreign news.
II you desire to take advantage Of this
offer call at our Office or send us $l.00 for
daily Sl.75 for both papers,
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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
Rat Cunning.

The rat has often demonstrated
his intelligence. Perhaps the
best known instance is that of the
rats which, robbing a poultry
yard, could conceive of no better
way of earring off the eggs than
by getting one of their number to
lie on his back and clasp the eggs
on his stomach. Then several
rats pulled their recumbent bro
theirs tail while others pushed his
shoulders. Thus egg after egg
was safely hidden in their bur-
row.
A rat has been known to cross
a swollen torrent in Scotland
seated on a swans back. Other
rats have made friends with dogs
and fed from the same platter.
When the dogs were absent they
would never feed, knowing that
the presence of their canine
friends meant safety.
Although when driven desper-
ate with hunger they will devour
one another, in times of plenty
their affection is almost human.
A Sussex clergyman has told
how he saw q number of rats
migrating from one district to
another, and in the middle of the
company was an old blind rat
with a twig in his mouth, by
which he was being safely led by
a younger rodent.
Instances of rats leading blind
comrades by the ears to feeding
places and placing food close to
their muzzles have been obsered
more than once. This is more
than many human beings will do
for their weaker brethren.-
Fayetteville Observer.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
Uncle Toms
Chat.

OF all the towns in the state |
think the parents of this town
are the most negligent of their
children and their children's
conduct. | do not mean to i'm
peach all parents but do mean
to say that a great number are
Indifferent about the conduct of
their children, and those children
are never wanted and are actully
nuisances wherever they 60.
There are a lot of 10 or Is year
old boys and girls in town who
are worse than any hoodlums
that ever cursed a community.
They go to church whistling and
singing ditties, congregate on
the back seat and begin to CAB
worse than a lot of black birds in
a corn patch. You can't hear a
thing that is said on account of
their whispering, and just as
soon as a song is started the boy
kids run out to smoke or kiss a
bottle which has been snugly
hidded in a breast-pocket, while
the little misses brace themselves
up as queens of empires do on
state occasions. When services
are over the kids come flocking
in blocking the way, laughing
and knocking each other rudely
and saying disrespectful things
about the ladies as they pass out.
This is a downright shame and it
ought to be stopped. When peo-
pie go to church for the good
there is in it they don't like to
be entertained by a lot of chat
tering, giggling kids. You often
wonder why the prayermeetings
and other night services are not
attended by the older or marie d
people; if some of these Smart
Alex youngsters, who think the
church is only place of amuse-
ment and place where they can
gather and have q good time-if
they were made to behave and
their offices in the church taken
by steady and hard working
christians you might have more
success and am sure you would
have better order. The parents
of these children are somewhat
to blame for I've never seen
them offer to rebuke them in
any way. They have become SC
impudent they want to rule their
parents and dictate who shall be
their teachers and superintend.
ents of the Sabbath schools; old
folks are not wanted and their
advice goes unheeded. l intend
to do my share towards putting
a stop to this kind of conduct
and you should do yours.
UNCLE Tom.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
The l asst Salute.

Yes, the ranks are growing
smaller
With the coming of each day,
And the boards and locks once
raven
Now are mingled thick with
gray;
Soon the hands that strew the
flowers,
Will be folded still and cold,
And our story of devotion
Will forever have been told.
Years and years have passed by,
comrades,
Though it seems but yesterday
Since the blue CARRIED northern
legions,
Marched to meet the southern
gray;
But a day since Massachusetts
Babe her soldier boys goodbye,
But a day since Alabama
Heard her brave sons farewell
cry.
Those are days we all remember,
In our hearts we hold them vet,
And the kiss we got at parting
Who can ever that forget?
And it may have been a mother,
A fond father or a wife,
Or maid whose love was dearer
To the soldiers heart than life.
| Then the silent midnight marches
And the fierce-fought battle roar
And the sailors lonely watches
Gone, please God, forever more;
, Though these ne'er can be for
gotten
While the dew our graves shall
wet,
Yet the color of our jackets,
Let each gallant heart forget.
For the ranks are growing smaller
And tho decked in blue or gray,
Soon both armies will be sleeping
In their shelter tents of clay;
But the loud reverberation
OF the last salute shall be
OFT re-echoed through the ages,
As the tocsin of the free.
For we both but did our duty,
In the great Jehovah's plan,
And the world has learned a
lesson
That all men may read who can;
And when gathered for the
muster,
On the last and dreadful day,
May that God extend his mercy
Sweet, alike to blue and gray.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

My advice to my friends who
are disposed to read nothing but
Uncle Tom is that they add the
Home Circle column. Some of
you remind me of fellow | once
knew who had a very fine hound.
He said his dog wasn't a very
fast dog but he was an everlast-
ing slayer. One night a lot of
hunters got together to have
race and among them was old
Anse and his dog. They soon
made q start and the fox made a
long circle with the hounds in
full cry. One of the hunters
slipped off from the crowd and
went where he knew the fox was
coming out; Anse in the mean
time kept saying "By CAD, listen
at old Brag.' The fellow that
left the crowd caught old Brag
and held him, which nonplussed
Anse. He'd listen and say some
thing was the wrong for he never
knew Brag to quit and by CAD,
something was the matter for
Brag was silent. After the dogs
had gotten nearly out of hearing
Dan turned old Brag loose and
he took up the trail and away he
went, bow-wow every jump.
Anse listened and then wondered
and surmised but he couldn't
unravel Brag's conduct. So it is
friends, you may not unravel
Uncle Toms conduct but just
read the Home Circle in lieu
thereof. Uncle Tom gets blue
sometimes and can't think of any
thing to say.
Now many of you have COM
plimented me personally on my
chat about the old HalIeluah re-
ligion. Well | told you some
thing you knew to he fact, but
| am not able to reform proud,
naughty, heartless church, nei-
ther are you, for our leaders are
in the saddle and we are power
less. You see in this fast age of
progress men have concluded that
their religion must be up-to-date
and their sermons made to order
and they only have to rccite them
as we boys used to recite "The
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

AS the summer approaches
scientists will, of course, offer
the customary reminders that
kissing and ice water are dan
gerous. 1t is safe to say that
ice water will nevertheless re-
ceive appreciative attention, as
usual ashington Star.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
, EDITORS TABLE. &c

\E patience with the preacher who tries to draw morals
and make striking statements by laying such things the
horrible steamboat disaster God We have little enough
respect for the who shifts his responsibility onto another
man. what shall the who tries shift onto God
MANY an individual has been failure life and the progress
christianity and civilization have been much retarded by this
thing this shifting and Sinking of responsibility this habit of
putting long face and winnings "Iuck against me-,
'It seemed to Gods wl There than that
Good helps those who help themselves and might turn the
thing and make equally true to the effect that
"God will let suffer the results of their foy OF course
the suffering often falls upon another and innocent person. but
merely emphasizes the fact that social being that he
his brothers keeper and that he cannot escape the responsibility
which that fact entails.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
Mrs. Grundy only $1.M a year.
Sued by His Doctor.

"a doctor here has sued me
for $3.50, which | claimed was
excessive for a case of cholera
morbus," says r. White, of Goa
chella, Cal. "At the trial he
praised his medical skill and
medicine. | asked him if it was
not Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy he used
as l had good reason to believe it
was, and he would not say under
oath that it was not" No doc
tor could use a better remedy
than this in a case of cholera
morbus, it never fails. Sold by
Doris, Cheek & Co.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

l am all hurrah for tempranse,
but 20 slo on abstinence. Man
kind kan be induced to Civ up a
porshun ov their natral rights,
but when yu ask for the whole,
they are sure to rebel.-Josh
Billings.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
Home
Circle
Column.

A well ordered home, where
the personal rights of the men,
bers of the household are observ-
ed, well governed children, a
Christian home-this is a type
of Heaven.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
What is Love.

"What is love?" was the burn
ing question asked by the COM
pany of Immortals, says Tom
Mason in Life.
Glove )" said the landlady, us
that power so subtle as to defy
analysis; which draws two peo-
pie together who cannot afford
it, and enables me to fill my
tbird-story front"
Love-" said the society wo-
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

We see some families where
each has a part to perform,
where the daughters relieve the
mother of many household duties,
and the division of work makes
it easier; while in others the
mother is a slave and the daugh-
tiers act as if they are boarders.
Why this difference? Who is to
blame? Children who are
taught to work and bear their
share of the burdens love and
respect their parents far more
than others, for it is a fact that
people have very little respect
for a slave, though he or she be
a parent.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

Let us strive to cultivate a
spirit of hopefulness in the home,
in the office, on the street. We
can do no greater service to
humanity than to live and work
always with a great hope, which,
in the very nature of things will
grow more and more into a great
certainty.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

One objection to the "Star-
Spangled Banner" as the ma
tional air is that so many citizens
of the nation never see anything
"by the dawn's early light. -
Kansas City Journal.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

"Some men," said Uncle Eben,
"seem to imagine dey shows DER
superiority to everybody else by
tryin' to act meaner dan anybody
else. n-Washington Star.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

The hero of a new novel is
worth $400,000,000. 1t wouldn't
be safe to bet that the author is
worth more than $500. 9S.-
Boston Globe.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
and DaYid?v

and David?"
Pm up against it," said The
Doctor. "Tell it,"
"Well," said Job, nDavid is "a
manly boy, and | am a boily
man."
This was only another of Jobs
humors.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

SN' somebody ask of the legislative cand
dates what they do at the next session. out of eecng
United have observed, the
of preference for e. about the only which
put candidates. Let hear from of
them about road laws laws regulating the pig traffic by
companies, and forth
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30
One of jobs Humors.

job was waiting patiently for
the doctor. At last he came,
says the Chicago journal.
Doc" said job, "can you tell
me the difference between me
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

IT horrible state of things existing in the mining districts of
Colorado from disregard of the laws and of constituted
authority Both parties the controversy have been guilty and
both parties have suffered Disregard law dangerous thing
and matters not whether nddua corporation State is the
offender.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

the voters remember that county office is county trust
- and county pension Competency should be the
ro There should be compromises upon questions of fitness
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-06-30

The easiest thing in the world
is to find faultin others, but how
difficult to see our own. Let us
be charitable along this line, and
do as great artist did, who
painted picture Of his King,
upon whose brow was a scar.
Let our mantle of charity be
sufficient for others, as well as
ourselves. A gentle word or
tone, even a friendly glance may
touch or soften some sad heart.
Sympathy is a great medicine.
1t often heals a broken heart.
1t has gained an entrance where
gold has failed. We can do
much to gladden. earth and
people heaven. To be sure there
are woes none can reach, and
evils we cannot cure; yet per-
haps we can break the blow
where we cannot avert it, or
mitigate the sorrows we cannot
move. This world would be
most desolate if there were no
such thing as fellow feeling, for
as Shakespeare says, "a fellow
feeling makes us wondrous kind. "