The Worthington advance., 1882-03-16

Bremen. The confirmation OF Gen. Rufus H.
ee,is ~ sqnar'ermas6r general Was aec omp:ishel
without seltous OPT osl,ion.
House day was devoted to the private
referred to was adopted
Both housts adjourned rntil MONDAY.
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The Women and Railroads.
Woman appreciate the benefits Of rail-
! roads with keener r3lish than men.
| Railroads have brought to women aud to
| he family blessings ofa peculiar and
'aluable character. Isolation is the dreary
lot and portion Of the rural women OF
America. The lives Of farmers' wives are
dull and fnsipid; they are without recrea-
tlon and amusement: they are distant from
works and displays OF art and science,
their lot and that OF their children il one Of
| loneliness. For this reason farmers wives
suffer from mental and moral WEAKNESS; !;
| life loses-a It's zest and freshness for them,
and their children flock to the cities 70 seei
ne" ways of industry, enter
feel the need OF society more than
men. while they have less opportunities for
social intercourse, and they appreciate il
more because they have less Of it, and have
q sharp sense Of their need In that respect.
They are more esthetic; they covet person.
! al and household adornment, and they have
IN ,nsatiable longing for the means by which
tneir tastes may he gratided. All this
would be more and more as it il, this con-
dition of things would increase and intensi
fy, but for the civilizing and refining intlu
! ences created by railroads, and but for the
means and facilities for culture and social
Improvement which they have created.
The railroads make the city and country
near ne'ghtors. They break up the rustic
and old-fashioned habits uud
ways of life which have
prevailed on the farms and in the remote
villages; they are the direct agencies in ed
ucaticy, refining, polishing and elevatire
the classes OF people who have been in tho
past without the possibilities Of culture and
refinement. The railroads carry books,
| magazines, fresh newspapers, models of
taste and labor. patterns and knowledge
OF art, the results of experiment. and
science, to the most distant communities
| and to the scattered homes and tire-sides
through out the vast areas Of our common
country. They have removed from the
ways Of rural life the curse of isolation.
| and the shackIes which bound men, womtn
| and children to q sanlcness Of scene. ton
| and effort during their lfe-1me, and
from generation to generation.
The railroads have made the country
! cosmopolitan ana they have brought every
body within the ra,lins and influence Of tie
highest sources Of enjoyment. The great
est singer in the world comes to the ,aetro1,-
Oils, and the railroads make 1t practicable
tor thousands from nedr and far to listen tc
the miracles Of her minstrelsy The great
orators, through the facilities created by
| railroads, visit all the people Of the country
az ftnt 1nan
OF the people are enabled to 80 long dis
tances. to listen to their argn1,e ents and e|o-
quenco. Famous men and women in all pro
LESSONS are no longer strangers to the mass
es Of the people. Travel has been cheap
ened and made comfortable and convenien:
bv tho railroads. and it has greatly enlarged
the field OF every ones yision
The women Of to. day are vastly privileged
beyond their mothers. Tho first settlers
IN the West came in OK teams, and were six
and eight weeks, or longer, on the road
"oycr the hills aud far away, and they left
in tho unapproachable distance behind
:hem all that was dear and delightful by
association and memory. The railroad has
opened means OF transit from the past to
the present, from the farthest east to the
ultimate west. and few hours or
day or two by rail will carry the men
and women on the borders Of civil
lzatlon, to the scenes of their
childhood, to the old folks at home." to
the old homestead and lirc- side. Railroads
enable friends and relatives to he set down
at the far distant bedside Of the sick and
dying, and to minister to the cheerless and
forlorn wherever their lot NAV he cast.
Men value railroads because they facili-
tate business, enhance the price Of land
promote speculation. and aid in money get
ting. The dollar mark is the mark OF Il
| mans appreciation OF railroads. Railroads
ara OF inestimable value to women, because
they add so much to the possibilities and
delights OF social intercourse, because
they make rural life pleasant and
diversity it by means OF travel and recrea-
ton and create community Of interest and
association between city and country, ad.
ding to the polish and urbanity Of one the
natural truth and freshness Of the other.
and because they introduce the modes and
fashions OF polite city society to the homes
III the fields and villages remote from the
noisy and busy centers Of population. For
the women, railroads have been an I'M.
mixed bless ng and benefit in all their re-
lationa to the daily life Of the people,
Death From TOOTH.
The death of Miss Kate Stock, OF Toledo
from blood poisoning from an liberated
tooth, already announced in our columns,
was a remarkable though not unpreceden-
ted one. The tooth had been filled with
I'm amalgaln OF me:cnry and tin. which fell
out. She supposed che had caught cold in
the tooth. and that Il wisdom tooth added
to the inflammation; but her face speedily
swelled up TO enormous proportions, the
glands under the jaw ard tongue being in
volyed, and q sac appeared on the side Of
the face opposite tho tooth. This was
opened, the cavity Of the tooth thoroughly
disinfected, and the patient put
on stimulating diet, but all
to no purpose. The poison in.
fected the whole system, and the
bones OF the face became involved as high
up as the forehead, The Aesh disappeared
from one side Of the face, and death final
~ came to the sufferers relief It is cup
posed that her condition must have been
bad previous to the appearance of the acute
SYMPHONIC.
The case is deemedc & very stlapg one, and
it is unusual but some Of cur, readers may
remember the death <:2 Il Mr.. Gardner, Of
brooklyn, n T., ye'r or two ago, under
similar circnmttinces. It was believed by
some that MI arsenlcal application had has
tened his death, bat this theory was after.
wards abandoned, and the result attributed,
| as regarding Miss Stock, to blood poison
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