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i-*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAitAA * WHIT^ ? < tLaiuaJ V v &JL.1 A JL# 5> ?? * <1 > lie Telly How H's Con Joe j? ^ Tackled a. Railroad. ^ ? TTVTWVTy VVVT7T7 VTTTV7TT * [?Copyright. 1303. by L. T. P.^bards.] SPJ?\P Vk.->r>T> ,J?^ *he ^oTmnl store at" the tuners" with the I Old po :?i 1 .;-; of Te?m-s-e ! to buy ;s. ?v? n:?J tobacco, ami among the idlers, at- the store was itpert young r.i*u who had a good deal to say about himself. On our way home and after a long period of silence old Zeb suddenly exclaimed: "Drat that young Perkins! He's got the big head the worst way, and I'm hopin' that suthiu' comes along to give him a shock. Most young men seem to want to make fools of themselves." "But they get over it after awhile," I replied. "Ye-es, if they don't die first. I had a powerful pert son who didn't live to git over his braggin' days. Sometimes I feel bad about it, and. agdn, I think it happened for the best." I asked him for the yarn, and after WaiKing ttiOiig lur a quanvi kjl a mi?; be began: "One spring, when my son Joe was eighteen y"ars old, he got the big head i mirhty bad. I seen it com in" on him and knowed tkard be trnbble, and the ole woman sue seen it coniiu' and said to rae: " 'Zeb, otir non Joe Is giftin' ready to make a fule of hisself, and I want you to keep an eye on him. Ke imagines he's as big as a mounting, and he freis that he kin lick ten men all to once.' "When the big head gits hold of a young man it takes a powerful dose of medicine to cure it Joe k^pt growin* wuss and wuss. He got lazy, and he got to braggin' and biowin', and from the way he looked at me now and then outer the corner of his eye I knowed he was achin' to tackle me. Just to let him know * t bis oie pop was on deck I grabbed aim one day and throwed him sky high over the fence, and he was mo' humble arter that. "It didn't cure him, however. He went around rabbin' ag'in folks and step-in' high, and one day he comes home and sez to me: " 'Pop, did yo' ever tackle a railroad?' 44 4Xo, sonny, I never did. I've tackled men and b'ars and wildcats and circuses, but not a railroad.' 44 They've got one over in the valley, and I think I kin whop it In about five minutes.' "Joe had never seen a railroad," explained the oid man. "and they h<:d jest run one down Little Valley, twelve miles away. I told him what it was 4 / / / 4 'k's*' " ,fu > , ' (J >/({(' ""fr ^?z?. , / ;?i.- ' HE STOOD THAE AND JUHPED UP AND DOWN. | like, but he wasn't a bit discouraged. He jest humped up his shouiders and spit on his hands and said: " 'Shuck my hide, but I'm dyin' to whop somebody, and I'll go over toinoirer and tackle that railroad. If nobody around yere has c^er tackled a railroad, then it will be all the more glory tur me.' " 'Joe, don't go and make no fule of j-crself,' sex I. " 'As to how?' he. ""As to tacklin' a railroad, thar are some things as even yer pop can't do, and one of 'em is tacklin* a railroad. Jest yo' go out and find a b'ar and hev some fun with hiai and git over this nonsense.' "He didn't say nuthin* to that but I knowed he wouldn't mind what I said. 4ie went to bed airiy, and jest at daylight I heard him movin' around. I told him If be was bound to go over to Lit T?.I . i :i.u i.: lie vaiie.v iu go iiiong w uu iuili nnt-r v breakfast and see fa'r play, and so he waited. When we sot out, be was in high spirits. He whooped and hollered and pranced, and the road wasn't wide 'nuff for him to walk in. Befo' I left the house the ole woman sez to me: M 4Zeb, are yo' gwine to let our Joe tout a railroad?* " 'That's the idea,' sez I. 44 'Will he git whopped? " 'lie will. He'll git whopped so powerful quick and hard that he'll be as humble as a nursin' babe fur a y'ar to cum.* "We got o^er to th*? valley 'bout 10 o'clock in the mawnin'," continued the oiu man, "and Joe got his fust sigiit of ^ TTA rw< > i I L'?i nr\ Ain f o/l il IJ.C UID?J/^UI.U>U. Thar wasn't nuthin' but the Iron rails to font, and thar was tears In his eyes as he sot down on a stone and sez: " Top, thnr's nuthin' to fout. and we've walk?d twelve miles fur nuthin'. I'm feelin' that this state of Tennessee is ag in rue.' " 'Joe.' sez I arter thinkin' things over, 'thar ain't nuthin' yere to fout, jest as I told yo\ but mobbe it would console yo' to bluff one of thern bullgines.' " 'I can blnff anything from a mounting to a grasshopper! Wliar's yer bullgine?' wrnTTMTBiTMriiiTTi-|iini urn mi HI i f ?? " 'Comin' down the valley witli some kyars behind it. Yo've bin blowin' and braggin' all the spring, and yer jest fooiin' that yo've got to whop sunthin' or die. (Jit down on the track and turn yerself loose.' " 'I'll do it, pop. and if I don't take seven different twists in this ole milroad then I'll never look another woodchuck in the face.' "V,"hat I tiggcrod on." said Zrb as ho heaved a Jong sigh, "was that Joe won!'! h?*v sense 'miff in his head to J^rft c'.C the track when he seen what *' the bullgine was. lie hadn't, though, lie stood thar and jumped up and down and cracked his heels together and whooped, and when I hollered at him he turns to me and sez: " Top. yo' jest watch my smoke and don't loose any of the fun. Yer boy Joe are gwine to pull this railroad up by the roots or p^rkih in the attempt.' " "And he did wait for the engine to strike him?" I asked. "Yes, jest waited right thar. prancln' around and whoopin'," replied Zeb. "I started fur him, but bofo' I got thar the bullgine struck him, and he went sail in' over the bushes. Tea red to me he never would git done snilin', but bimeby he cum down witn a crasu. Wlion I looked him over. I found he was all broke to pieces. I was liftin* him up when he open his eyes and smiles and sez: "'Pop, did T tackle the railroad? 44 'Yo' did, m.y son.' sez I. 44 'And thar was a font?' 44 Thar was.' "'And which got whopped?' "As lie was a-dyin' and I didn't want to hurt his feelin's I told him that he had licked the hull outfit and kivered the fam'ly with glory. He lifted up one hand and tried to whoop, but that whoop was only a whisper, and he died in my arms." "Them he never knew how it was?" "Never knowed it, sah. Jest went to his death thinkin' he had twisted that railroad clean over two mountings and back ag'in and that he weighed a ton or more'n any other critter in Tennessee. "Poor Joe! If I'd a-gone at it and driv' him about two feet into the airth when the cussedness fust got bolt of him. he bin livin' and a humble man. today, but I let him tackle a railroad, and be got busted all to squash." M. QUAD. Interesting to Asthma Suferers. Daniel B*Lte of Otervi'le, Iowa, writes, "I have bad asthma fur three or four jears aud Lave tried abou* I all the cough hdq asthma cures in tbe ojarket aud have received t^ntfrom physio^ ns in N-w York j ai d other citiep, but got very little ben*fir. until I :rjtd Foley'* Hoey and Tar which gave me immediate relief and I will ne/t-r be wirbou1. it in my house. I "iueerely r-commend it to all " The K^nfmann Drug Co. A PINCH OF SALT. Necessary In Onr Dully Life as In Our Dally Food. "Flow could we net on without salt? In our daily food, as in onr daily life, a little of it is necessary, and the absence of it takes away from the flavor of everything we eat. The "salt of life" which we hear about signifies the health, vigor and wit which we find in life. There was a time in countries far from the sea when primitive man never used salt in his food, and it was only when nations advanced in civilization that salt became an absolute necessity. But it was not alone as food that salt was valued. Among the anciei^; a salt spring was regarded as a gift of the gods, and it was believed that any salt fcund In the soil lent it a peculiar sanctity and made It a place where prayers were most readily heard. Every meal that included salt had a certain sacred character, creating a bond of piety and friendship between host and guest; honce the expression, "There is salt between us." meaning friendship, and to be "untnie to salt" means to be disloyal or ungrateful. In the middle ages, when all classes and degrees sat at the same board, tbey were placed according to rank, above*or fceiow the great saltcellar. which always stood in the middle and marked the dividing social line. "Above the salt" meant "of high degree." Below the salt were the yeomanry, serfs and vassals of the feudal days. A good description of this custom may be found in "Ivar.hoe" where Cedric, the Saxon, entertains his vassals and friends. A pinch of salt is always considered lucky In cooking. To take anything "with a pinch of salt" means to excuse - or make allowances for it A "salt" is a sailor. To salt one's conversation means to make it sparkle. Salt is always employed in a sense of benefit or strength. The Bible has many references to salt among them being "Ye are the salt of the earth," Matthew v, 13, and St Paul says, "Let your speech be al* 4-1 \ /ywn aa f ao rwl cnlf M W U,? 5 IV111J j^ldV-C ovaovuiu nnu ouiv. Salt Is used by Catholics in baptism. They consider It a symbol of wisdom and put a few grains in the mouth of the person baptized. "I have be-ii iruutneu for some urn with indigestion and sour etomaca." says Mrs Sarah W. Curtis, of Lee, Mass., "and Pave bteu taking Chamberlain's Srom*ch and Lr-er Tablets whisb have hilped me very much so that now I can eat many tbir gs that before I could nor." If you have any trouble with your stomach why uot 'ake these Tablets and get wel ? 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"It i3 -with pleasure that I tell you what Dr. pieroe's Oroidcu Medical Discovery and 1 Pellets * have done for roe," writes Mrs. T. M. Palmer, of Peede, K&nhrxm Co., Texas. "Two years ago I was taken with stomach and bowel trouble. Everything I ate would put me in distress. I lived"two weeks on rniik and even that gave nic pain. I felt as though I would starve to death. Three doctors attended luc?one said I had dyspepsia, two said catarrh of the stomach and bowels. They attended me (one at a time) for one year. I stopped taking t heir medicine and tried some patent medicine; got no better, iv'd I grew so weak tnd nervous my heart would flutter. I could noc do any kind of work. Now I can do my house ^ ~k very well; am gaining in fiesh and ztrer-g* *. and can eat anything I want." Accept no substitute for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the paoer covered book, or 31 stamps for the cloth bound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. . DON'T GET ANGRY. Fire in the heart sends smoke in the head.?German Proverb. An envious man waxes lean at the fatness of his neighbor.?Socrates. One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self possession.?G. D. Prentice. The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.? Chinese Proverb. The envious man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water and yet thirsty.?T. Adams. An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles.?E. P. Hoed. Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man. ?Plutarch. A man can easily be intoxicated with anger as with wine; both produce a temporary insanity, and during the paroxysm he should be avoided as a madman.?J. Bartlett. NIgrht Air. One of the bugbears of old time peo pie is r.ight air, and there is little exaggeration in saying that the superstition against night air has killed more people than the free circulation of it has ever injured. There is abundance of nroof that nicbt air is injurious to no one. On the contrary, people who sleep outdoors under the mere pro tectum of n tent are the healthiest of all people, and the practice has largely gained in popularity of late years under wider knowledge of hygiene for people in delicate health to go in camping parties and breathe the balsam of the night air. The vigor gained from a few weeks of such an outing is a marked proof that the old prejudice against night air is as foolish as most other old wives' whims.?Exchange. Talent nntl Vocation. Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently Inviting him thither to endless exertion. lie is like a ship in a river. He rims against obstructions on every side but one. On that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over God's depths into an infinite sea. This talent nnd this call depend on his organ Ization or tiro mode in which tho jreneral soul incarnates itself in him.?Emerson. Tea Years in 3e&. R. A Gray, J. ir'., Oakviiie, Ind., w(lLc^, "For leu years I was confined lu lu> bed vviia disease of my kidney*. Io was so severe that I cmiid net move part of the time. { consulted the very best medical tskul avail*hie, bur could ^et no relief uuui Fjiey'o Kidney Cure was recommended to me. It has been a G id s-ei d to me." The K*ufmann Drug Co. In the Wponjf Direction. When my little brother was five years old, he had the mlsrortune to ran from the second story porch of a Hat in which we were living. Our aunt, who is a minister's wife, was calling a few days afterward and in speaking of the accident said: "Weil, Orr, if you had died when you fell the other day you would have gone to heaven, wouldn't you?" Without hesitating, he replied, "Oh. but I didn't fall that way!"?Little Chronicle. Heady For Grace. "Quite a number of the old deacons can now resume the practice of saying grace at mealtime, Willie." "Allow me to inquire why, Sallie." "Why? Why, because they have ceased 'chasing the devil around the 1 stump' and indulging in political fani tasies. A man can't say grace with very good grace If he be graceless, can ,, he?"?Canton Saturday Roller. j Love GrovrJnsr Cold. Mrs. Octopus?I know that von don't care as much for me as you did before we were married. Mr. Octopus?What put that notion in your pretty head, my dear? j Mrs. Octopus?Why. you used to put I a hundred arms around me. and now I it is as much as you can do to use one. ?Philadelphia Telegraph. The HMdon. "Wt did Solomon say all wuz wan'.tv en' wexation er spirit?" "Well, he wuz mightily married, on', 'sides dat, dey didn't grow watermillions in dem days."?Atlanta Constitution. Expert Opinion. Teacher (to little six-year-old)?Now, Freddie, what is a volcano? Freddie (with great confidence)?Oh, I know that. It's a mountain that interrupts all the time.?Life. I Unprofitable CtucHtioninprs. Husband?A penny for your thoughts, Flora. Wife?I was thinking of a fifteen dollar hat.?Detroit Free Press. Difficult. n "PP 'V " f The Friend?Ain't it hard to remera ber all de golf terms? The Caddie?You bet. Doy invents r new cuss word every time dey fozzles ?San Francisco Examiner. Tlie 5IaJn Issue. Now comes the dainty maiden all agog with animation And fairly bubbling over with the coming graduation. But when it comes, oas. we find het knowledge less impresses Than flounces, frills and tucks and things connected with her dresses. ?Baltimore News. Ea&ol (Jives Strength By enabling tbo digestive nrgani to digest, assimilate bod trans-lorn all of the wholesome food that mv be taieo into tee kind of blood tha nourishes the nerves, f-eds the tie sues, hardens the muscles and r^cu peratee the orgaus of the entiri body. K^dcl Dyspepsia Cure curci Indigestion, Dy-pep^a, Catarrh o the S oroach a; d all stomach dis crd rs. bold by all druggists. Yocn,*? men ana tiaiutriin. Life would become intolerable if girl, could not be on frank and uncoquettisl terms with men of their own age oi some years their seniors. The idea tha because two young people may have ; great deal in common they must also b in love is happily dying out No one i hurt no one is compromised, when ; friendship does not lead to marriage.John Oliver Hobbes in Pall Mall Mag aziue. A Sorry Finish. Kndleigh?Your wife is always ou1 spoken, isn't she? Henpeck?Yes. but I try to be tha way, too. sometimes. Kadlelgb?Really? Henpeck?Yes. but whenever I ver ture to be outspoken it ends in my be lng outtalked.?Philadelphia Press. Music beckons the human race oi and is followed by the two great coi umns. the joyous, light hearted am happy and the sorrowful, wretched an despairing. A Biirpntn In Estate. House Hunter?Isn't $3,500 rathe high for that house? Agent?High! Why. friends of min when they heard I was offering tha house for such a low price have askei me if it was haunted.?Brooklyn Life. Not ax Serious as It MIgrht Be. An eastern clergyman solemnly ir forms us that the times are out o joint. It's a good thing the butcher shop are not.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Gnlf. Kate?Is there much difference i their social position? Nell?Oh. yes: her father gets a sn ary and his father gets wages.?Somei ville (Mass.) Journal. An Enrly Start. Pnront?Children, children! What ar you quarreling about? Freddy?We're playing bouse an don't know who's to get the divorce.New York Times. Greenville, Tenn. 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