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The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Contact with woman is good for the life
of any man.
The happiest woman, like the happiest Ma
tions, have no history.-George Eliot.
An American lady is attending the lee
lures of the celebrated physiologist, Profes-
sor Virchow. This is the first female student
in the University of Berlin.
Every healthy girl is tomboy BY instinct.
It is not tillshe learns that men are attracted
by their opposite that she unmans, or rather
untomboys, herself-Boston Transcript.
The Rhode Island records of 1884 show
that white woman was once beld as slave
in that State, a negro woman having been
induced to own her as her child when a
baby. At last she went before the Assem-
bly,, asked an investigation and was set free.
Gardening for ladies: Make up your beds
early in the morning; sew buttons on your
husbands shirts; do not rake up any griev-
anees; protect the young and tender branch
es of your family; plant smile of good
temper in your face; propagate the tea
drills of affection wherever they appear, and
carefully root out all angry feelings, and
expect good crop of happiness.-Woman
at Work.
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Proftin Black walnuts.
TChicago Tribune.l

SAN ANTONIO, June 3.--The smartest
Texan, and in fact, the smartest farmer
have ever met, is old Sim Graves, who lives
on a 900 acre farm west of Waxahatchie
in Central Texas. After Mr.. Graves had
shown me his cattle and cotton, he took me
over to see his woods.
''Well, what of it?" said, as he pointed
to a ten-acre forest.
"'What OF it? Why, them's black wal
nuts sir. Ten acres of EN- Planted 'em
inches through. Good trees, ehg'
And sure enough there were ten acres OF
hand-planted black walnut trees. They
stood about twelve feet apart, 200 to the
acre---in all 1000 trees.
"Well, how did you get your money
back?' asked.
"Black walnuts are worth 50 5Oa bushel,
amt they? I'll get 400 bushels this year.
That's 81, 900. A hundred dollars an acre is
good rent for land worth $40 an acre, amt
it?p
swell, what else?' / inquired, growing
interested.
1.-THE trees" continued Mr.. Graves, ''are
growing an inch a year. When they are
twenty years old they will be nineteen
inches through. A black walnut tree nine
teen inches through is worth $25. NY 1000
trees ten years from now will be worth
$50,0 200. If don't want to cut them all, 1
can cut half of them, and then raises bushel
of walnuts to the tree that is get $500 a
year for the crop. Two hundred and fifty
dollars an acres is q fair rent for SIS land,
amt it?''
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
MANHOOD RESTORED

A victim of early imprudence, causing nervous
debility, premature decay, ETC., having tried ir
vain every known remedy. has discovered q sim
plemeans Of self-cure, which he viii send free to
his fellow-suferers Address ]. II. REEVES, 43
Chatham street, New York.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22

A new wrinkle is to sink pans of earth in
the floor of tiled halls and plant flowers in
the pans.
Cruelty to poets: Farewell is the title
of poem sent in from Ohio yesterday. II
is q good thing that the gifted authores:
said goodbye to the little gem, because she
Will never see it again.
Kissing: An Irish gentleman, with thai
peculiar perspicuity of statement character
istic of his race, says the chief pleasure oi
kissing a pretty girl is when she won't lei
you.-Boston Transcript.
Pomological: 1--WE often heard of the
fruits of marriage" said Rubbles, when in
formed that he was the father of twins
but most solemnly protest against having
those fruits presented to me in the shape ol
pairs. New York Star.
An over fastidious fellew dining at a first
class restaurant was complaining because a
beef-steak was not cooked to suit his taste.
at takes away my appetite" he said. ste
eat it, "Then it must suit you" said a
friend. "Why so?' Because that is what
you are eating it for"
A troupe of neutrality-suspicious. were once
playing before a country hotel. At the end OF
the piece one of the members left the group,
approached the leader of the band and
pulled out a little paper box which he
emptied into his left hand, while the eyes OF
the leader followed every movement Then
he took plate in his right hand and passed
it around. There was large collection, but
everyone wondered what he held in his left
hand. why, it's very simple said the
chief when questioned, Eve are all subject
to temptation but TO be sure of the fidelity
of our collector we oblige him to hold five
flies in his left hand, and we count these first
when he returns so as TO make sure of the
money. French Anecdote.
"Well, my little man, what can we do for
your said we as a young freckle-faced
urchin stepped up to the desk with his hat
in hand. lis this where you put things
in the paperT inquired he, shyly. 'Some-
times we put things in the paper here.
What news have you got?" I'VE fellers
licked the Daisycutters twenty-seven to
fourteen this morning" "What is the name
of your club?' Were the Ninepounders,
we are. VIII you put it in, mister2 and say
that we played agin ten men, mister; the
umpire was awful rank, and If we fellers
ketches him he won't see his way home for
five days" How very much like other
folks boys are, we thought-New Haven
Register.
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ought to give your wife half you receive, to
spend as she likes"
".Humphl She would spend it all if /
did,
"'And what do you do with the money!
Don't you spend it? What else is money tor
you but to spendr answered.
1.-The man looked daggers at me. But /
went off with one satisfaction, at least-I
had put flea in his ear. You may find the
same toiling, unpaid woman in the Rocky
Mountains, and all the way between, and all
round the world. How can you say it is
their own fault that they are not en-
franchisedl Custom and law and prejudice,
lack of education, lack of money, the little
children in their arms, hold them with a
grip which other hands than theirs must
loosen.
There are other fetters for the women of
society, but they are letters all the same,
They bind and blind intellect and conscience
and the soul itself.
'Jove fixed it certain that whatever day
Makes man a slave takes half his worth away"
women of sobriety. and women in the
rank of the toiler, al suffer kind of asphyx-
ia, like men in mines stupefed by gas.
Oh, menl to whom has been given larger
opportunities, better law, and q wider cut
look, do not throw blame on these women,
but put your broader shoulders and stronger
hands to break open apertures to let in light
and air. This is what they need; your
hands should prove help. 1t is you who
should cry in the ears of the women of you
house. thst on one ballot may depend tn
booming of cannon and the rush of armies
that their sons may be taken out t. be shot,
and then the bloody bills will be sent to
them TO pay. 1t is you who should make
them know the helplessness and loss of dis
franchisement. You should show them
also the dignity and the power of the bal
lot. Shake them rudely, if need be, but
rouse them out of that s.upefed condition,
which makes them not care for the rights
of citizenship. 1t is to the discredit of
every man whose wife does not want to vote.
Why has he not so championed her cause,
that her disfranchisement shall seem as de-
plorable to her as his own disfranchisement
would to himf Moreover he should see that
he is sinner, so long as he does not restore
to me my ballot, whether his wife or any
other woman wants hers or not l know my
right to it, and want it, and they are sim
ners who aid and abet the keeping it back.
"Oh, menl yoI whom no price would
tempt to part with your ballot, pray help us
| 10 WIN OURS heip 10 rouse women from TIE
stupor which dulls the sense of loss and
degradation and helplessness which the ar
sence of political rights involves. Young
men should consecrate their youth, and old
men their wisdom, TO the solution and set
tlement of this broadest, grandest, gravest
question of all the ages. Remember tnat
| justice is always safe.
Sand now we will adjourn till next year,
when we may perhaps rejoice in a greater
measure of success in our work"
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
THE TOYS.

Ny little son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes,
And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise,
Having my law the seventh time.disobey'd,
struck him, and dismissed
With harsh words and unkiss'd,
His mother. who was patient, being deao,
Then fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep,
/ visited his bed,
But found him s1umbering deep,
With darkened eyelids, and their lashes yet,
From his late sobbing wet
And i, with moan,
Kissing away his tears left Others OF my own;
For, ON q table drawn beside his head,
He had nut, within his reach,
A box of counters and red-vein'd stone,
piece of glass abraided by the beech
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with bluebells
And two Frech copper coins, ranged there with
careful art.
To comfort his sad heart.
So when that night prayd
To God wept and said:
All, when at lastwe lie with tranced breath,
Not vexing Thee in death
And Thou rememberest of what toys
We made our joys,
How weakly understood,
Thy great commanded good,
Then, fatheriy not less
Than / whom Thou hast nodded from the clay
Thou'lt leave Thy wrath and say
81 will be sorry for their childishness"
Coventry Patmore.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
Pieasantries Concerning Women.

We have heard considerable about the
habit girls have of sitting on one leg. It's
very bad one, particularly if the leg doesnr
belong to the young lady.-Hartford Sun.
day Journal.
Confidence is truly the most beautiful Of
human attributes; yet we never knew a VIC.
man to read the notice of the birth of q
young couples first child without pausing
to ask the date of their marriage.
Business-like mamma, to fashionable west
end hosier: "Now, what would be your
charge for exhibiting couple Of my daugh.
ter's photographs, with her name in full, in
your window for couple of months or SOP
Punch.
Morse. who invented the telegraph, and
Bell, the inventor of the telephone, both had
deaf-mute wives. "Little comment is neces
sary," remarks the Lowell Citizen, but just
see what men can accomplish when every.
thing is quiet"
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Kings bury, of Portage
vile, N. j., has this brilliant idea: She
wants maiden ladies, after they are thirty
to drop the Miss and call themselves Mrs.
and she wants girls to agree not to marry
until they are twenty-five. The suggestion
should be voted upon by Sorosis.
Instead of saying that there Is an exces.
of 10000 women in Massachusetts, we shall
be able to reason more clearly if we simply
say that there are $4,000 unmarried women
in that interesting State. If the facts are
stated in this way, we at once see that, in
stead of troubling ourselves about overpro
duction, we should merely ask, Why are
these women unmarried? The answer is no
difficult to ind. These women are unmar
ried because they are of pattern which ha
Of late years gone out of fashion. About
the same time that the gray trousers of En-.
gland drove out the black broadclott
trousers, which, in connection with the
black satin waistcoat and black dress
coat, formerly constituted the walk
ing costume of the American citizen
then was INTRODUCED the plump English style
of girl. The latter soon became enormously
popular, and the bony and spectacled maid
ems of Massachusetts became a drug in the
market. 1t was still generally conceded
that the Massachusetts, girl knew more
about Emerson's philosophy and Alcott's
Orphic utterances than did her plumper ri
val; but the merits Of the former were nc
longer able to awaken any enthusiasm. The
DOebou poctiChl young uidu no longer WrOIe
sonnets expressing the emotions of the heart
on hearing the bones of his beloved rattle as
she ran to greet him at the gate, and the
Boston youth of fashion no longer proposed
at public dinners the once familiar toast.
Beauty and Bones" in honor of the spare
sex. In fact, spare and angular girls went
entirely out of fashion, and Massachusetts,
men went outside of the boundaries of New
England when they sought for wives.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
Speech of Lncy Stone.


During the recent Boston meeting, Miss
Lucy Stone being called upon to address q
gathering, rather suddenly said:
81 did not expect to speak tonight. The
absence of Senator. Hoar (which none of you
can regret so much as / do), leaves little
space, which will use to express measure
of dissent from those who blame women,
and charge that their own Indifference is the
cause of their disfranchisement. Nobody
doubts that there is great deal of indiffer-
snce, both among men and women, due to
the education of all the ages, which incul-
Gates the inferiority and subjugation of wo-
men. Instead of blame, feel infinite pity
for women. One might as well blame men
who lie in the bottom of mines, supplied by
coal gas. Think for a moment what women
have been taught since the world was made.
Think what they are taught to-day. In
China they are told they have no souls The
Hindoo wife is not fit TO eat with her hus-
band. The Jew thanks God he has not made
him woman. Among the majority of So
called Christian sects, no woman can be or
dained to the ministry.
81 shall never forget my singing sense of
resentment when, as a young Church men,
ber, raised my hand to vote, all ignorant
that it was not lawful, and the clergyman
said, pointing to me, Don't you count her
voteP and in answer to the inquiry, said,
Yes, she is a member, but not voting
member How the hot blood mounted to
my cheeks / was valuable as a member to
raise money for mis- salary, or to cushion his
pulpit. But to vote on appropriations, or
any other question was not fit. Six votes
were taken that afternoon. Six times 1
held up my hand, and six times it was not
counted. All the same l expressed my
opinion. Thanks to the blood of Revolu-
tionary ancestors, could resist and resent.
But the woman upon whom lessons of sub
mission have been inculcated with their
mothers milk, are over5orne by this domi-
mating spirit. False interpretations of
Scripture texts, laws which in all countries,
in all ages, have held women to be unequal,
absence of equal education, poverty of re-
sources, these are among the causes that
have blinded and stupefed and bewildered
women. 1 pity them.
"Under the old Roman law at one time,
when it was desirable to increase the popula-
ton, a married man who had one child, had
certain rights of inheritance. But a married
woman to secure the same rights, must have
three children, and twins could enly
count one child This fact illustrates the
inequality under which women have always
lived, and do still live. have seen man
sit in the cool. breezy front room of res
taurant in the White Mountains, and take
the money for the food which his wife cook
ed over hot stove in the back kitchen with
little children hanging to her skirts. He
thought he supported her, and she thought
she was supported. The law gave her no
penny of what she earned, and her husband
gave her none. Hsmpered by her little
children, harnessed TO ceaseless toll, is she to
blame, because she does not contend for the
bailot7
81 said TO the man when paid him, You
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
In Twilight.

BY sAIIIE JOY WHITE.
'sTrn so big mamma, and the little hand
Marked where her brown head reached against
the wall;
Don't hold me- mamma I don't need your arm
Around me; such large girl can not fall
The twilight shadows gathered o'er the hills,
A childish figure nestled close TO me;
''Pm such little giFiP' she pleading said
please. mamma, take your baby on your
knee"
Flushed warm with youthful hope and pride.
s'The world is ours 20 have and hold. " We cry
wen conquer it alone; no help we need;
Courage like ours fails not of victory -
But when the shadows of declining years
Over our pathway fall. we humbly pray
Dear Father, take us in thy sheltering arms,
We are such children, put us not a" y"
Youths Companion.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
THE HOME.

II is not doubted that men have home in that
place where each has established his hearth and
the Of his possessions ard fortunes; whence he
will not depart IL nothing calls him away; whence II
be has departed he TO be wanderer, and IL he
returns he to wander.-Dehnition from Civil
Law.
ssThen stay at home, my heart, and rest.
The bird 10 safest in It's nest;
Ger all that futter their wings and hy
hawk is lowering in the sky"
-Longfellow.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
Ambitions Women.

It has been said that women have no busi
ness with ambition. Why, even house
maid is worthless unless she is ambitious
and a woman is no housekeeper who is mo-
possessed of a strong desire to excel in thi:
useful at.
Of course. there are false ambitions, a:
there are false things everywhere in life;
but no person will ever truly merit life who
is not possessed of a certain degree of the
right sort of ambition.
1t is said of Mrs. Burnett. who is just now
perhaps, the most popular female writer in
America, that she keeps house quite as
charmingly as she writes books; and have
no doubt, had she been content with being
merely good housekeeper having no am
bition to make the very best use OF her OBJ
vious talents she must to-day have satisfied
herself with that fate, instead of being the
author of some of the most delightful and
readable of books. The same things are
said of Louisa Alcott; and while rejoicing in
her housewifely perfections, where is the
person who can for moment wish she had
been satisfied with that alone, and thus left
the world without "L'ttle w m n" and
The Old Fashioned Girl" ancImany other
books that we love 10 read2 There is the
inimitable Gail Hamilton; we ares told she
can bake and brew. etc. and is an excellent
hous ekeeper. We know she is an excellent
authoress. Hence we see there are many
illus trious women who have attained higher
standards of excellence, and who have not
gone out of that sphere which men so
delight to talk of.
/ believe the woman who is not ambitious
to excel in something besides leading the
fashions in the most inane and stupid Of her
sex, and she, with all around her, must tire
of her very existence. MARY DUNHAM.
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fBy Jimmy Brownl

don't know if you are acquainted with
Johnny McGinnis. Everybody knows his
father, for he's been in Congress, though he
is poor man, and sells hay and potatoes,
and / heard father say that Mr.. McGinnis is
the most remarkable man in the country.
Well, Johnny is Mr.. McGinniss boy, and
and he's about my age, and thinks he's tre-
mendously smart; and used to think SO too,
but now don't think quite so much of him.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1881-06-22
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
The LittIe Peanut Boy.


Such a merry little chap.
Just the boy one likes. you know,
And boasting something of name
In-"PedrO San Antonio"
Ragged jacket, brimless cap.
Boots a-yawning at the toes,
Curly hair and bright black eyes,
And cheeks as red as any rose.
Behind his little peanut stand,
At the corner of the street,
All day long he smiling waits,
In the sunshine, snow or sleet-
Here a pint and there q quart
How the paper bags do fiyi
And how fast in Pedro's box
Pile the nickels high and dry,
''Fiva centa quart" he calls;
But one sorry fact we know
PedrO's quarts are very apt
Into pint bag togo.
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There was a small boy, named Apollo,
Who used to get spunky and "holloi"
When his pa with strap
Would corral the young chap
And a sort O: chorus would follow.
-Burligson Hawkeye
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-10

Nrs,s boomerang.

There are only two or three peo-
pile now living who can successfully
shake hands. THERE'S a good deal
OF hand-shaking done throughout
the country especially at this season
of the year, but only very small
per cent. or the shakers know how
TO do it so as to get the entire
amount of exhileration out of it.
Some grab the hand Of an adverse
~ in quick and nervous manner
that scares the victim nearly to
death, while others slide the cold
clammy paw at you so that you feel
the same as when you drop cold
raw oyster with vinegar on il down
your back. If you are shaking
hands with lady incline the head
forward with soft and graceful yet
half-timid movement, like boy
Ginning barbed-wire fence with a
fifty-pOund watermelon. Look gem
thy in her eyes with kind of plead
ing smile, beam on her features a
bright and winsome beam, say
something that you have heard
some one else say on similar occa-
siOns and i'm a subdued yet vigorous
way, not as though you were trying
to make mash by pulverizing her
hagers nor yet in too conservative
"A manner, allowing her hand to fall
with sickening thud when you
let go. Care should be taken also
not to hang on to the hand more
than half an hour in public, as by
ISLANDERS might max remarks. This
is now considered quite outre and
mandamus. 1
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-10
vaIuabIe Advice TO Farmers.

We import butter, cheese. lard.
bacon, pork, loaf-sugar, dried and
canned fruits of all kinds, rasins,
preserved figs, oranges, lemons, wal
nuts, almonds, tobacco, iute, flax
seed, fish, and many other articles
of daily use in every family, and all
of which we can produce with the
same ease and certainty that we can
cotton; and with much better pros
pect of continued and satisfactory
profits. If individual farmers
would take this subject of a greater
diversity of crops home to them
selves and study it in the light of
the benefits it would bring to their
own households, and act in accord
ance with their own best interests,
we should hear much less complaint
of hard times and the Improbable
ness of farming as an occupation in
our State. Our farmers, as a class
and individuals, trust too much to
the failure or success of single Oper-
ations of single crops.-Bd7lner
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-10


THE magnitude to which the
Seed business has grown in this
country is an indication Of The ex-
tension and cultivation of finer
taste for the useful and the beauti-
full, and an evidence that orr peo-
pie are becoming more appreciative
and intelligent citizens. We cheer
fuiy hail all who further these
most desirable ends. Foremost of
all are the great Seedsmen of De-
troit, Mich, d. M. Ferry g. Co.,
who by untiring energy and a gen
uine zeal in their business have
done more than any other house in
the country to spread the knowl-
edge and cultivate the taste for in
telligent gardening. Send to them
for their Illustrated Seed Annual
for iSS2-sent free TO all who apply
land which none who love the
beautiful should be without.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-10
Good Advice About Dress.
ldrs. T. w. Dewing.

1t is important to know what
point of dress to emphasize. For
instance, one may eXpend large
sum on a gown, and if the shoes are
shabby or i'll made, the gloves worn
and the bonnet lacks style, the gown
is entirely thrown away. But the
gown may be no longer new; it
must now be carefully brushed and
we'll put on, the collars and cuffs, OF
other neck and wrist trimmings,
must be in perfect order, the boots
we'll made and well BACKED, even
if not new, the gloves faultless and
the bonnet neat and stylish. The
effect is a well-dreSsed woman; nc
man, and very few women, perceive
that the dress is not q new one.