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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
ITEMS.

The fewer feathers n woman has I'M
her bonnet in this world, the more she
will have on her wings in the next
Philadelphia Sunday Item.
BY a nearly unanimous vote. the
women Of this country have decided
that the two best bands are a husband
and a Observation-Disclosures Chrou-
icle-Herald
An apple tree in the orchard of
William Plymive, Of Washington coun-
ty, Pa, bears nine varieties, some of
which are now ripe, while others will
not ripen until late in the Fall.
The Maryland and Delaware penin-
sula last week furnished 900, 600 bas-
kets of peaches for market. OF these
three-ffths went to New York and tho
remainder to Philadelphia and Balti-
more.
A Cincinnati clergyman recently paid
his affeCtiUuate respects to the class of
men that will spend $50 for carriage
hire at a wife's funeral, and never spend
81 for riding while the poor woman is
alive.
The weak, cracked voice Of the little
old maid up in the gallery is just as
sweet to the One in whose praise the
hymn is raised as the bell-like notes of
the high-priced soprano in the choir
Philadelphia Sunday Item.
The only company in the world that
makes fshhooks by machinery is at
New Haven, Conn, and has a monthly
capacity of 100000 hooks. A New
York house has just given an order tor
1000, 900 hooks and another large order
has recently been shipped to Berlin.
Many a fathers pride is shocked and
many mothers heart bleeds a trihe as
their boy cup at grandpa's' writes his
little scrawl home, "This is the hos plac,
| Xix living hear better than to home"
and they inwardly vow never to be
harsh with the little fellow when he
comes back. Make home the "boss"
place for your children, even if they
seem to be" boss" Of it.-New Haven
Register.
Mark Twain says the only introduce
ton to literary audience that he ever
had that seemed to him the right word
in the right place--a real Inspiration
was as follows: Ladies and gentlemen,
shall not waste any unnecessary time
in the introduction. ! don't know any
thing about this man at least L only
know two things about him-one is
that he has never been in the penitcn-
tiary, and the other is, / can't see
why"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
COTTON IN THE SOUTH.
A Comparison of the Cotton Trade in
the North and South.
New York Times.

New FORK Times.
Everyb body knows that facture of cotton
in the South, where cotton grows, and
where it can be handled with far less ex-
pense than in the remote North, might be
made extremely profitable. 1t will proba-
bly, be made so eventually, though up to
the present the mass of Southerners have
greatly neglected this important branch of
industry There are now 1S9 cotton mills
in that section, with 67S, 223 spindles-
about per cent. of all the spindles in the
republic. The mills are generally small,
only a few, at Augusta and Columbus, Ga
having more than $4,000 spindles each
The machinery is said to be so inferior in
the main as to be hardly worth transporta-
ton. Much of it is second hand, having
been discarded by Northern establishments
The most successful mills there would not,
in consequence of their manifest disadvan-
tages, have made anything had they been
situated in this section. One mill in Geor-
gia declared in ten years-four of them war
years-$l 100000 dividends. This proves
the great benefit il position of the mills,
which can not only buy the raw material
cheaper, and spare freight, but they can
hire labor at lower rates They save the
buyers commission, delivery from ware
house and carriage, sampling, CHASING,
pressing, shipping, discount on bills, loss of
weight In sampllng for mixed packages, hre
insurance before shipping, marine risks, and
freight and carriage to interior towns,
which amounts in all to some 81. bale
The Northern mills also lose from receiving
cotton poorly ginned, containing a good
deal of leaf and sand, which is computed at
per cent. of the entire cotton crop. The
difference between the cost of bale sent to
Fall River, Mass, and bale sent to Co
lumbus, Ga, is IS 06, the former costing
$5I a., and the latter $4S 65 Many of the
Georgia mills have made profits of 10, IL,
and even - per cent under all their disad-
vantages, the profit coming almost wholly
from coarse goods, which experts think to
be their best employment. It is doubtful
whether they will be able, at least for many
years, to compete with the North in fine
cloth, and if they should be able il would
be less remuneratiye to them than coarse
cloth and yarn. The entire spirit and ten
dency of the South is opposed TO the better
and finer kinds of facture, and il seems
next to impossible to have it otherwise.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
FEMALE DOCTORS.
Their Special Field of Usefulness-A Word
i'm Their Favor by the Author of "JOhn
Halifax. Gentleman"

There is one sphere of usefulness, says
Miss Muloch in the Bazaar, open to all
women, so natural, so right, so especial
| ly sacred to women, that | only wonder
that many more do not enter upon, it,
especially those not of the lower but Of
the middle classes, who require to earn
an honorable living. An ordinary sick
nurse must prepare herself to meet
every form of human suffering, but
there is one form of inevitable and hope
full suffering to which women are con-
demned, in which formerly only their
own sex ministered to them. Without
entering upon medical discussion, | wish
to give it as my distinct opinion, in
which numbers more agree, that women
are far the best to attend to women in
their hour of trial, not only as monthly
nurses, but-why shirk the old Bible
word ?-as midwives. We are apt to
forget that childbirth is not disease,
but natural event, in which nature
can generally take care of herself, if
aided by care, caution, experience and,
above all, patience. 1t is this quality
of patience, so much greater in our sex
than the other, which makes it desirable,
art should fall exclusively into the hands
of women-not ignorant, but educated
women-who, at the critical hour, and
afterward, can use their brains as well
as their hearts, their intelligence and
sympathy as well as their practical skill
and experience Those who go much
about the world--I do not mean the
gay, but the Woodworking and much
suffering world-must have noticed how
very many women die in childbirth.
Not so much amid the upper classes or
the lower, who have often none, only
some clever old woman, who, making
up in experience what she lacks in edu
cation, brings safely into existence half
the population of a village, but the in
termediate class, the wives of clerks,
tradesmen or poor gentlemen, who aim
at the dignity of doctor and nurse, but
can only afford them of an inferior kind,
and who often pay with their lives for
the incapacity or carelessness of both.
1t is for these that an educated woman
who would be at once trained midwife
and monthly nurse, might come to
the rescue, lessening rather than in
creasing the heavy expenses which in
many families make the advent of every
child dread and curse rather than
blessing; and lessening still more those
sad fatalities which the stricken house
hold believe to be ''the visitation of
God" but which others know well
would not have happened-did not need
to happen-except through stolid ig-
norance, Indifference or culpable neglect
on the part of those attending the suf-
ferer. It is a hard thing to say, and
say in print, though many a one has
said = in words, looking at some poor
cofined face, taken suddenly away in
the midst of youth and life 'tShe did
not die-she was killed, simply killed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
How to Keep Healthy.

Do not neglect ventilating your bed
rooms when the weather becomes cold.
In the morning hoist the windows, take
off the bedclothes, shake and stir the
ticks, turn the upper one over the foot
roll This will prevent the impure odor
penetrating farther, and they will
escape faster while the bed is warm,
and you will not have to wait for the
beds to air when you are ready to make
them.
In hot weather we sleep with all the
windows open, but do not allow the wind
to blow directly upon Us. In the coolest
nights of Winter we only leave the
doors open connecting with other rooms.
On no account sleep in tight rooms
without at least a crack to admit Of
pure air. Plenty of fresh air gives
health, strength and elasticity to the
lungs and body.
Keep the pores of the skin open, to
let impurities pass out freely, by wash
ing the body once week in Winter
and oftener in Sumner. Have the room
warm, battle quickly, and wipe dry,
and you will not feel chilly if it has
been done properly. If all the clothing
worn by day were aired while we sleep
in other garments, much health and
comfort would be added to life. One
third of our lives is spent in our sleep
ing rooms. DO be particular about
them. Let them be large, dry and
pleasant Germantown Telegraph.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Schools for Instruction in Mechanic
Arts.
BrOadstreets. I

Broadstreets.
While this country is in need of techni
cal schools, modelled after the diverse types
of those which have been established in
Europe, the great need is for public trade
and art schools, at which pupils can acquire
such instruction as will pertain to theiI
daily work, and influence the industrial
condition of society.
The training of multitudes in certain
mechanic arts, in great excess of the de-
mand for employees in particular branches
of employment, would be productive of
little better results than those which ensue
from the present methods of education.
While it is desiIaAle to produce a continu-
Gus supply of good workmen in all the
established industries of the country it is
necessary to diversity industries, to the end
that none shall be much over-crowded and
that employment may be found for the
maximum number. And while it is i'm
possible to govern the diversiication of
teaching in mechanics and the arts so as to
meet exactly the fuctuating demand for
skilled labor, the crudest attempts could not
fail to secure better results than do the
prevailing methods. The examples of
European countries are before us and we
may profit much by them. Professor Thomp-
son, in the September number of the Con
temporary Review, describes the several
types OF schools which have been established
in France, and brief sketch of two of
them will be interesting in this connection
The Ecole Communale, situated in back
slum of Paris, was founded in 1873. The
pupils are not apprentced in the ordinary
sense; there is no contract, and they earn
nothing. Most of them are very young
(many of only eight or nine years,) and
have not completed their elementary sduca~
ton. In the prescribed course of these years
they received as good an elementary school
ing as they could obtain at the ordinary
schools, besides learning drawing, modelling,
and being instructed in some kind of handi-
work. During the first two years they work
in rotation, day at a time, in one or the
other of the shops, learning to work in
wood or metal, at the bench, the forge and
the lathe, under direction of practical
workmen. During the third year each
pupil is confined to some one mechanical
work. The work hours are limited to three
per day, divided between morning and af-
ternoon, the chief part of the day being
devoted to study. Every one is required to
work from his own scale drawings. No
articles are made for sale, but for the special
object of training. The director NJ. Laubier,
believes this to be the type of the elemental
ry school of the future. This school has
already graduated fifty apprentices, and,
has rescued beside, two hundred non-work-
ing children, whom it has had under train
ing on a government grant not exceeding
3 600 per annum
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
. Husband and Wife.

A providence woman who has been
separated from her husband for twenty.
four years is soon to rejoin him at Sagi.
nav, Mich. Each one has believed the
other dead for twentv-four wears. When
they parted they lived in Worcester,
Mass, and when he went TO Boston one
day he heard of an excellent opening at
Saginaw for gunsmith, and as he had
been doing poorly at Worcester, he
thought he would give his wife a pleas
ant surprise /; so he went out to Saginaw
and settled himself in the business. and
wrote to his wife to come out and ioin
hlm. She never got the letter. and as
there had been some difficulty between
her husband and her relatives. thew in
tercepted several other letters which he
wrote asking the cause of her silence.
by and by she began TO think he was
dead, and moved from Worcester to
Providence. He wrote to Worcester
and couldn't learn anything about her
after she had moved away, so he thought
she must be dead, At Providence She
set up as clairvoyant, but no reason
is given for the fact that she WASN'T
smart enough as a clairvoyant to find
out from her second sight where her
husband was, while she pretended to
give just such information to others in
search of it. Recently an English lady
visited Providence and met the clair
voyant, and mentioned that she knew
a family of the same in Birmingham,
Eng. The clairvoyant remembered
that this was the home of her husband
before he came to America. and she
wrote to his Birmingham relations ex-
pressing her belief that he was dead.
She received an answer saying that he
couldn't be dead, as they had very late
ly heard from him at Saginaw Thus
she found him again doing prosperous
business.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Mormon Evangeiists Coming South for
Recruits.
st. Louis Republican,

A band of seventeen elders of the Church
of Latter Day Saints, styled Norm ns, ar
rived in the city yesterday from Utah and
stopping at the St. James. They left
Utah on the 18th inst, and are on the way
to the Southern States to spread their faith.
The names of the elders are J. A. Smith,
Samuel Bills, Samuel Porter, George Pas
sey, W. J. Packer, E. Paxton, Horace FL
ridge, J. NJ. Barlow, John Carter, E.
Stevens, w. III. Adams, Daniel Bacon, A.
Wilcox, ]. McClennanham and John
Robertson. They received notification over
the signature of President Taylor to go on
a mission to the following named States:
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Geor>
gia, Alabama and Mississippi, where they
will remain two years. One of the princi-
pal objects is to secure a Mormon emigra-
ton to Colorado, but they are under instruc>
tions not to make point in hurrying off
the new converts to the new field of Zion,
for the reason that it is desirable to keep
together in as large numbers as possible to
avoid persecution in their respective local
tiles Most of the elders are stout, rugged
looking young men, nearly all of them hav-
ing been born in Utah since its settlement
by Brigham Young.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Il Is the little rifi within tie lgir.
That by-and-by will make tbe music mute.
Aud ever widening. slowly silence alL
The lttle rim within the lovers ,ura
Or little pitted spcck ln rlrnrr,I trtif
That rotuug inward, slowly mullers alI
Alfred Tennyson.
To change and to be better are two
different things
Proud hearts and lofty mountains are
always barren.
Search others for their virtues and
myself for thy viees.-Fuller.
Industry need not wish. and he who
lives upon hope will die fasting.
One cannot always be a hero, but one
may always be a man.-Goethe
An ounce of conviction is worth
pound Of concern. "A. j. Gordon.
Let him who regrets the loss of time
make proper use of that which Is 10
come in the future.
He is not only idle who does nothing.
but he is idle who might he better ems
Ployed.-Socrates.
That was n good prayer of the ola
deacon: Lord make us willing TO
run on little errands for thee
The youth who thinks the world his
oyster, and opens it forthwith, finds mo-
pearls therein. George Macdonald.
Happiness is like a sunbeam. which
the least shadow iutercepts. while add
versity Is often as the rain of Spring.
Chinese Proverb.
Modesty is the appendage of sobrietv.
and is to chastity, as temperance and
to humility, as the fringcs are 20
garment.-Jeremy Taylor
Fashion is gentility running away
from vulgarity, and afraid of being
overtaken by it. 1t is a sign that the
two things are not far asunder.-
We must give according 10 our means
and according to our outlaws upon our
selves! A 25-cent donation by the side
Of s % shawl would present painful
contrast.-Mary Lyon
The damps of Autumn sink into tho
caves and prepare them for the noccs-
iity of their fall and thus iuseusibly
ire we, as years close around us, de-
ached from our tenacity of life bv tho
yentle pressure of recorded sorrow
Landor.
The only way to shine, even I'm this
alse world, is TO be modest and unas-
uming. Falsehood may be q thick
rust but, in the course of time. truth
will find place to break through. Elc-
'ance may not be in the power of us
IL; but simplicity and straightforward
less are.-Bryant
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
The Woman Suffrage Experiment in New
York.
Philadelphia Ledger.1

Women voters in the interior towns and
villages of New York appear to have had a
lively time while voting for School Trustees
for the first time. The novelty of the thing
kept some from voting and, we are sorry to
say, led to some bull doing" on the part
of the men, but time may be expected to
cure all that II it should become cnstoma-
~ for women TO. vote on local questions
closely affecting their interests, their pres
enfe at the polls may be expected to have
rather good effect in securing decent voting
places and better behavior inside and out
side The presence of women in mixed
organizations, where they have full men,
bership, certainly conduces to the mainten-
ance Of order even among men who cannot
be awed by an exhibition of force. Wheth-
er the votes OF women tsnpp0aing them to
be cast with a. much freedom as those of
men) would have any appreciable effect in
improving the character of public officers
chosen BY the popular voice i Of course
open to question. The good and bad Of
both SEXES would be very likely to sspair
or in policies as they do IN social LIE.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03

of formulas, and more faith in practice. Thus
1t - in everything. The processes he
applies to the child he finds that he
can not get any results from when he ap-
plies them TO himself Take base bali,
/ Tor instance. He teaches the child t.
write by putting it in a certain posi-
ton, with pen in its hand, and causing it
TO initiate with up and-down stokes print
ed legend at the head of the page of A
| copy book. This is done three half-hours a
week. Then he himself studies the rules of
base ball, and takes bat in his hand, and
Initiates blows, and runs imaginary bounds,
aud keeps it up painfully and conscientious
! Iy-as good boy writes-three half-hours
a week, for the entire term. And at the
term ne can no more play base ball than the
boy can write. Then he turns to the ex-
animation papers of the Norfolk County
schools in Mr.. Walton's report, and no
longer asks himself Why is this so 1t is
all clear to him now. He has been expect
ing of little children what he could not do
himself. SO he goes back to the beginning,
and, before he undertakes to teach, sits
humbly down, grown man, at Natures
knee, and patiently cons the alphabet of
her methods.
The scientific superintendency is, how
ever, as yet in its first infancy. 1t is who'll
ly unorganized. How completely it is in
its infancy, how wholly it lacks organization,
becomes very apparent when the single
indisputable fact is stated that in this
country the development of the average
human mind is not recognized by our high
est institutions of learning as a scientific
study at all. They pay no attention to it
make no provision for it. They have medi- !
cal schools devoted to the study of mans |
body; they have dental schools devoted to |
the study of his teeth but any who is 1
not a fool, the learned doctors tell US, can |
train the child's mind All there is to /
know on that subject can be told in half an
hour, and learned by practice at older
teachers side in a few weeks. Is not this |
curious? That it is fact is indisputable. |
There is a science of law, and schools and |
professors to teach it. There is a science
Of agriculture, and colleges devoted to its
study There is a science of mining, and /
Institutes of technology in which it is
taught. 1t is even claimed that there is a
science of divinity. But when it comes to
the educational development of those who
are to constitute the future state, though
we spend millions on millions upon it, the
turn their heads away, and class
them something less than the grass of
the field. They grade the child's mind as
lower than its teeth. They assume that
any callow youth, fresh from his graduate
course, and with the ink hardly dry on his
degree, is quite competent to train the first,
though not to take care of the last. We
-hus turn over our children to those whom
we would never dream of intrusting with
)ur potato patch.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-11-03
Mixing the Babies UP,

There are twin brothers living In this
county so much alike that it is hard TO
distinguish one from the other One Of
them tells a laughable incident that oc-
CURED when they first came TO this part
Of Georgia. They stopped in Cuthbert
to make some purchases One of them
walked into a hardware establishment
to buy pots, skillets and other utensils
indispensable in q we'll provided kitchen.
The purchaser walked out, and i'm a few
minutes his brother went to the store To-
make a similar purchase. The clerk poe
litely informed him that had Just made
a purchase of the articles, and they were
then in the store. The second purchas-
or told him he guessed be was mistaken,
as he had never been in the store before.
The clerk was astonished. He thought
his man was simply joking. lie looked
at him in amaZement. But the brother
was in sober earnest, and repeated that
it was his first visit to the store. Seeing
that it was perfectly useless b try to
convince his customer that he had been
in the store before, the clerk dwindled
into silence, aud sold his man the very
same cooking utensils. The goods were
QeIfVefeu, ana some tIiHc dllcA tAS SUI
ond brothers exit the first brother en-
tered the store and asked for she goods
he had bought. The clerk was contound-
ed Stepping from behind the counter
and rolling up his sleeves, he exclaimed
q stranger, / have had enough Of your
COMPOUNDED fOolishDess, and Pm tired of
it. You have made fun at me as long
as / intend to put up with it. You think
you are mighty smart, and if you fool
with me two At this critical moment
the second brother stepped into thestore,
and seeing how matters were, made
hasty explanation, when all three enjoy
ed big laugh.-Cuthbert (Ga.) Appeal.