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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28
where Women Can Vote.
From the Report Of the Bureau of Edu-


From the Report Of the Bureau Of Edu-
cationl
Women may vote at school meetings
in Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Dakota and Wyoming; at
school elections, Colorado and hinneso-
tn; and for members Of school commit
tees in Massachusetts,. They can vote
al school meetings in Michigan and New
York if they are Taxpayers; in Wash
inpton Territory if they are liable TO
taxation. Widows and unmarried wom-
en- may vote as 10 special district taxes
if they hold taxable property. In Ore
gon widows having children and taxable
property may vote at school meetings.
In Indiana a woman mot married nor
minors, who pay taxes and are listed as
parents, guardians or heads Of families,
NAV vote at school meetings" In Ken
tucky any white woman having child
of school age is qualified school voter (;
if she has no child, but is a taxpayer,
she may vote on the question of taxes.
Women are eligible to school Offices gem
orally in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wyoming
to school district Offices in Colorado; 10
any Offices except Superintendent in Wis
consin They may serve on school com
mittees in New Hampshire and Rhode
Island, rs school trustees in New Jersey,
and as school visitors in Connecticut.
Some offices are open to them ia Maine,
and all offices in California, unless spe-
cially forbidden the by Constitution. In
Utah no discrimination on the ground
Of sex is made as to voting in general.
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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28

ChiIdho"a, manhood. ana
claim In unison. J. Rs,, -.,'.'s
queror." 4
DuRIsG a brief visit to the an....
wick, RI, recently, our AGENT sv -. =
the southeastern extremity Il M
about among tie wonderful imp,s, 4 z
have been made in the appeasaliss y,
Neck during a comparatiyely NJ, n;
while conyersing OH this 49, l
BESJAaiIS s. HAZARD. the No. 49, Z.
Of the warwick Neck Hotel. ia i',.'s' Y. e
greater part Of the hanasome ss,r -.
he'd been erected inside Of 4 dozes Z
also learned that Col. Hazard bss9
sufferer from 9 chronic disease + Il,
and Bladder over fifteen years. IS Ne.
form 81 il being a stoppage II 60
urine, which was % rerg severe It
able him for his accustomed Eor s
fine him 70 the bed, when 4 surgeon.
wosld be required to relieve hiin. gss
doetorei 2 large partof the tina
ff7fo pertnanent RELIEF. Attimes his saa.,s
tewi5lo ffela sharp, cutting pans II.
Kidnees aud Bladder; and he hsd NJ
lopg and SO severely that IL hsd
couraged Of getting web again NJ,
the doctor stated that it was doub.lrI \
his age, with such complicated dise,s !
standing, could be cured. Butlast sumas
he was suffering intensely from ope II
tacks, q gentleman whowas boardinrsts
urged and persuaded him to Try a boltsa
Remedy, as he had known Of sore I
cures effected by it.
Mr.. Hazard says lie had no faith IL X
sented reluctantly 10 try 1t; and aftslt
only two days, the intense pairs IA
disappeared, and he commenced Is ns n
rapidly, and in less than week was AZ
his accustomed work, and has never M s
Of the pains. Mr.. Hazard is over seys
of age, and on the 25th Of Eof.. I'LL
agent met him, although 1t was yery 4
clustering day, he was in the fela wlIah
at work pulling ana loading turniTis. VI il
hearty o man as you could wish for. xls.
August he was unable to stand ip q oai
work then going ain this same field.
HUSr's RENEDY had given lin i:s
strength again, and no recommends itql
tiyes and friends, several ef whom Az 1
ing 1t. ashe considers ID niostexeellenIa
ior all diseases az Kidneys 81 bladder
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28
A Northern Mans Exaggerated
View Of the Situation in
Mississippi.

Frank Wilkerson in the N. Y. Sun
Mississippi is the fairost agricultural
land have ever seen. Cotton, hemp,
tobacco, lutte, oats, rye, wheat, corn,
sugar-cane grow, and, with the exception
of the cereals, grow to perfection. All
vegetables flourish. Apples, peaches,
pears, plums, figs, grapes and all other
fruits excepting those of lands without
frost, grow to a perfect maturity. Live
stock does fairly well, fully as well as in
Eastern Texas. 1t is true that the
woods swarm with wood-ticks and red
bugs-th the latter the "jiggers" Of the
Southwest--and that these parasites in
fest the cattle. But this day | have
seen fat beeyes roaming these woods.
As country in which to raise swine, it
il, in my opinion, on a par with the mast
regions of Missouri and Arkansas. IN
this favored land where farmers should
be ia far better circumstances than in
amy Northern state, all are poor, all are
! deeply in debt, and cloud Of despodcn-
Icy opnressos the intelligent cultiyators
OF the soil Added 10 their material
trouble, IL the political one, caused by
1.-The presence Of an inferior and ignorant
race. Would the difficulty be solved by
! educating negroes? fear not Would
their capacity for evil be increased by
education? Hard a. my declaration may
Sound to Northern ears, | honestly be-
/ lieYe that increased capacity for evil
will be the only result Of educating these
| blacks
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28
The Lobby Nuisance at Washington
Correspondence Chicago Journal.


The lobby which the consideration of
the Tariff bill has brought here continues
as audacious as ever. Its men are every
where, in and out of Congress. Under
the rules of the House and Senate eS-
members Of Congress are permitted to
enter the House and Senate during the
hours Of the session and converse with
members, and this fact gives many an
impecnnious eX-Gongressman . job, and
accounts for many curious legislative
feats Thus the lobby not only besicges
/ the doors oil Congress, but actually en-
ters and occupies its seats and influences
! the votes and actions OF members during
the peadency Of legislation. A member
in speech the other day referred to
those ex-membcrs who caAe in the en-
Iploy 81 monopolists as going from seat
to seat in the House to control the tar.f
legislation" 1t IS in the lobby, how
ever, the broad corridors running about
the halls Of House and Senate, that they
are most TO be seen, and here and at the
hotels they reign supreme, One gentle
man who has excellent facilities for oh
serving their movements, remarked L
. your correspondent recently that thu
LOBBY just now was the strongest anC
most vigorous he had ever seen.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28

Delayigue, laughing.
could be old fools a wan
and | say 50 still. Ana PA
mentioned Major Larkiss.
feel myself called upon s 'on
disclaimers, although i
he was engaged 10 HeIeas
only point | gained Va 4
that my niece and ne.l
heartless fortune-seeksrs ssss "a
just as well as if thew : b ess p
selves my heirs, as weIl 8 lss1
ton that Tom Whitwortb l.n g
just because she was Mg.; we
the rich old woman's onlv '.1s
Miss Delayigue mad t.slai
next day, and left all tn IS H
riade and Tom, because 81 n'ssg
her mind at last.
1T was a regular ean.,
said "but it revealed az
what | wanted to know 9
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28
A Widow and Her Sons.

There is widow lady in Floyd coun.
ty, Ga, who has two little sons, aged
respectively ten and twelve years, and
she rented land for them to cultivate
last year, and was furnished supplies by
the landlord to the amount of $75, which
was paid for in extra labor These lit
tie boys and their mother made six
bales Of cotton, half of which was theiI
part, and enough corn to furnish then
in bread this year.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28
The politenass Of Trada.

A gentleman went into little store,
and remarking that he wanted ten cents
worth of tobacco, handed the colored
proprietora twenty-dollar gold-piece.
"Ain't yer got not nothin' smaller den
dis?n
Nothing smaller"
can right, boss" throwing the TWEEN.
ty dollars into the drawer; "I'll let yer
take de terbaeker, bein' as yer look sor-
ter homes, an yer can drap in some
time when yer's passin' an kin git yel
nineteen dollars an ninety centsm
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28
Legislative Supervision.
Enterprise Courier. !

Enterprise NUuIleF.J
tits sheer folly to say that legislative
supervision Of railroad corporations will
hinder or stop the construction Of rail
ro@is within the State Of Mississippi
Other States have tried it, and still rail
roads are being built and are prospecting
in those States. Unwise and hostile leg
islation would cripple the railroads, but
the people do not desire such legislation.
They simply wish the State to be the
master Of the railroads and other corpo-
rations and not their servant. Whether
the corporations commit evil or not
their power to do SO ought to be taken
from them.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28
Why They Can't Hear,
Baltimore American.

The tarifrlobby in Washington is as
thick as swarm Of mosquitoes, and
humming and buzzing So loudly that
members Of Congress fail to hear the
voice Of the country demanding reform
and reduction in taxation.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-28

Life Is made up, not of great sacrifices
or duties, but of little things, Of which
smiles and kindness and small obliga-
tions, given habitually, are what win
and preserve the heart, and secure the
comfort. -Sif Humphrey Davy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-27
Physical Development.

Happening to be in Queenstown, Ire
land, one evening, many years ago,
was invited to attend a grand ball on
the occasion of a famous international
regatta. The number of ladies was
about $50. Thei. dress was like that
of American ladies on similar occasions
only a little more so-sleeves a little
shorter, corsage a little lower. The
ladies were remarkably self-possessed,
quiet, and graceful, and think, on the
whole, averaged prettier than | have
ever seen on another such occasion.
l have written this to introduce the
physical development of Irish ladies.
The Irish girls in America have full
chests, large arms; they are plump and
vital
When an American lady shows me
her arms-candle dips, No. 8, and asks:
''How can | get such arms as Bridg-
et's?" and say, "Work, work as she
does, and you will have her arms. !"
then she says, s'Oh, that is not work,
it is climate! If had been brought up
in Bridget's climate l should have had
ber fine bust; but this terrible dry air
takes all the juice out of US.
My curiosity was on tiptoe to see how
Irish ladies brought up in this moist
even climate, but without work, would
look. | have said that there were 80
ladies present, and that they were very
pretty and graceful, but now, taking
the witness stand, | testify | have new
er in America seen $50 young women
together with arms so small or chests
so fiat and thin. They belonged to the
idle class, and all the world over wo-
men of the idle class have spindle arms
and thin chests, unless they become
merely fat, which, with their weak
muscles, is sad embarrassment
Education, rank, aspiration, prayer
these will not produce strong, full,
muscular body. They are not the ap-
poir led means Exercise, exercise!
work, work!-this produces strong mus
cles, full chests and physical beauty.
Work is the appointed means.-Dio
LeUiS' MO7lthlU
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-27
Hints to Gentlemen.

Don't be untidy in anything. Neat
ness is one of the most important of
minor morals.
Don't wear apparel with decided col
ors or with pronounced patterns. Don't
we address here the male reader, for
whom this brochure is mainly designed
wear anything that is pretty. What
have men to do with pretty things!
Select quiet colors and unobtrusive pat
terms, and adopt no style of cutting
that belittles the figure. 1t is right
enough that mems apparel should be
becoming, that it should be graceful,
and that it should lend dignity to the
figure; but it should never be ornamen-
tai, fanciful, grotesque, odd, capricious
nor pretty.
Don't wear evening dress in the morn
ing, or OH any occasion before 6o'clock
dinner. Don't wear black broadcloth
in the morning, or, at least, don't wear
black broadcloth trousers except for
evening dress.
Don't wear your hat cooked over
your eye, nor thrust back upon your
head. One method is rowdyish, the
other rustic.
Don't wear trinkets, shirt-pins, finger
rings, or anything that is solely orna-
mental. One may wear shirt-studs, a
scarf-pin, watch-chain and seal, be-
cause these articles are useful; but the
palmer they are the better.
Don't clean your ears, or your nose,
or trim and clean your fnger-nails in
public. Cleanliness and neatness in all
things pertaining to the person are in
dispensable, but toilet offices are proper
in the privacy of ones apartment only.
Don't chew or nurse your toothpick
IN public-or anywhere else.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-27
Clara Morris Nerves.

ga friend of mine," said Miss Clara
Morris the other day, remarked once
that | carried my nerves on my sleeve,
so that everything touched. Well, one
cannot treat nerves as if they were gar
ment and hang them up until you need
them again. You must feel, or all the
pretty and pathetic language in the
world won't make other people feel.
One must cry themselves, and tears
alone won't do it. There must, as it
has been prettily said, be tears in ones
voice to bring ones hearers to tears.
Now | never 90 on the stage but what
about o'clock in the afternoon / begin
to suffer. My hands get cold as ice,
my face gets hot, and / am in a nervous
tremor all because | am afraid / won't
cry in the play. / spend an hour or
two with my company, making just as
much fun as | possibly can, so as to
get all the laugh out of me. Then |
shut myself up and get up an artificial
agony. To do this | think of some sad
incident or read sad story. / get the
story fixed in my mind and look at the
most pathetic incident in it until my
feelings are thoroughly aroused, and
then | will cry the bo-hoos and the
whole thing is done. L only have to
look out for the other danger and
keep from being overcome myself,
which is as bad as the other All the
tremolo and false sobs in the world
viii never take the place of real emo
ton. There must be real tears in eyes
and voice. OF course, after such an
effort | cannot throw the whole effect
off, and my poor nerves suffer-"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-27
Looks Like ssSunSet" Cox.

Mr.. Boynton, the agent of the West
ern Associated Press, looks wonderful
" like Sunset Cox, writes a Wash
ington correspondent. He is great
Joker, and none the less effective be-
cause a trifle deaf. The other night
he was sitting in the Riggs House when
a new correspondent for a Western
paper spied him out and went briskly
up to him. ''Good evening, Mr.. Cox, 2"
he began. Boynton didn't quite under
stand him, but answered him cheerily
enough. ''Do you mind giving me a
few minutes of your time?" the re-
porter asked. '.EhP" queried Boyn-
ton. The question was repeated. ''No,
I'l talk he answered, without exact
ly understanding what was wanted.
.'What are you going to advocate in
Congress next Winter?" was the first
question, and when the supposed can
didate had fully got the idea, he began
to see the mistake, and prepared HIM
self. Boynton has some original ideas
on the tariff, the Mormon question,
government telegraph and monopolies.
He expressed them in English easily
understood, but rather fiery. The re-
porter was delighted. He evidently
had the interview of the week, and one
that would surprise people. After
half an hour lecture, Boynton blandly
excused himself and went to his office.
The reporter telegraphed his notes
West They came back in good time,
and Mr.. Cox was not long in seeking
out that correspondent, who sent a
very humble dispatch that night ex-
onerating the New York Congressman.
Now he wants to find out who it was
whom he SO successfully interviewed.
Every one knows it except him.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-27
hn Aged Cigarette Smoker,

The old chapel is still standing in a
fair state of preservation. used for the
daily services of the San Gabriel parish;
and there are in its neighborhood few
crumbling adobe novels left, the only
remains of the once splendid and opu-
lent mission. In one of these lives a
Mexican woman, eighty-two years old,
who for more than half century has
washed and mended the priests laces,
repaired the robes. and remodeled the
vestments of San Gabriel. She is worth
crossing the continent to see; all white
from head to foot, as if bleached by
some strange gramarye; white hair,
white skin, blue eyes faded nearly to
white; Write cotton clothes, ragged
and not over clean, vet not trace of
color in them; white linen handker-
chief, delicately embroidered by her
self, always tied loosely around her
throat She sits on low box, leaning
against the wall, with three white pif-
lows at her back, her feet on cushion
on the ground; in front of her, another
low box, on this lace-maker's pillow.
with knotted fringe stretched on it: at
her left hand a battered copper caldron
holding hot Goals to warm her fingers
and to light her cigarettes. A match
she will never use; and she has seldom
been without cigarette in her mouth
since she was six years old.-"H H.
frg the December Ce7atkru.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-27
WHOLE NO. 1921.
The Old Timer.

The old time political editor who was
once such power in the land is out of
situation. The loss of his power was
not sudden fall, but a gradual vast
ing away. He gave up his place of
Importance reluctantly, for when the
proprietor of the paper went in and told
him that his services were no longer
required, he looked up in dazed sort
of way, as though he did not understand.
You have been with the paper long
time" the proprietor says, ..and have
done much effective work, but your
style OF composition is no longer popu-
lar. You are man of learning,
know, and can sling Latin with a class
ic flourish, and call an opponent out
to fight with graceful translation from
the original Greek, but we don't want
any more of that kind of business. If
any fighting must be done after this,
the horse whip instead of the hair-trig
gered Derringer will be employed.
That young fellow over there will take
your place. | know that he hasn't
much learning and don't believe he
ever had a profound thought, but he
has way of saying things in a pointed
manner. He runs over the news of the
day with lamb-like friskiness and leaves
lively tracks that take with the people
He cannot whip politician into line,
but he can shoot paragraphs at him
until he drops in or out as the case may
be. | hate to see you totter away,
knowing that you came in with such
firm tread, but your style is too anti
quated for newspaper of to-day. You,
although old, are now eminently quail
fed for more serious writing, and | adj
wise you to take charge of the humor-
GUS department of a magazine, There
your time-honored sprightliness and
octogenarian appreciation of joke
will find its merited reward. You have
succeeded for many years in keeping
the young men down, and the public
has assisted you, but some of the young
fellows have started a paper and are
making such inroads on our circulation
and advertising patronage that we are
compelled to adopt their STYLE"
The old fellow makes no reply, but
totters away. He feels that the news
paper world has had its day. He talks
to his old time friends, and they agree
with him, but the paper goes up with
wonderful rapidity after his weight is
taken from it. Poor old fellow. The
magazine is now his only hold.-Arka,s-
sdU Traveller
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-27
Corn Gathering Song.

In general the negroes have greatly changed
since the war, for many of them have gone
10 the cities and towns, or have become small
farmers; but on some of the plantations of
the south, where no social innovations have
been introduced, they are much the same. In
dress and peculiar characteristics, as they
were years age when the tap of the over
seer's bell was an order imperative. These
people preserve their quaint traditions, moral
dialogues between animals iE which the RAD
bit is always the Socrates. They have song
for each kind of work, whose author is I'M
known, but with whose words anu tune all
are familiar. The following is the corn gath
ering song.~It is impossible to give an idea or
the effect with which it is rendered, and the
semi-weird tune, am convinced, could not
be written by the most accomplished COM
poser:
Come er hitch up de wagin an dribe in de
Time fur ter gedder de con;
We'se boun' fer ter hab sum ash-cake meal,
lime fur ter gedder de con;
De yaller man grabs wild mighty light han /,
Time fur ter gedder de con;
But de ole Guinea niger am de bes' IN de
ban,
An er take off de rough shuck, pile up de
con,
Jurangy ho, jis' er talkin' like er doan'
We'se er gwineter hab sum fun heah as sho'
yer am BON,
Jurangy no, SO early in de day.
De mules bites de CON as we dribe er long de
rows,
Time fer ter gedder de con;
How much da ken eat nobody nebber knows,
Time fur ter gedder de con;
De young houn pup snufs de ar as we pass,
Time fer ter gedder de con;
An he barks at de rabbit what hides in de
grass,
Time fer ter gedder de con.
An er dribe ter de con crib an open up
de do,
Jurangy no, jis' er talkin' like er doan'
keer;
We'se got ter git dun fore de coP wins
blow,
Jurangy no, so early in de day.
-Opie P. Read in n. Y. Mercury.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-27
A Battle With Bears.

Frank Webb, the hunter, came to
town on Saturday. His face is torn
and he can hardly hobble along. To
reporter he said: Il was hunting be-
tween the Michigan and the Canadian,
in the North Park, and had two part
ners. We were camped in little park
and were killing elk. On the morning
of the 1st of November l got up early
and left the boys sleeping in the tent.
| had travelled probably half mile
and was keeping good lookout for
game, when, to my eternal amazement
found myself within sixty yards of
three bears. | fired at the she bear,
and as the bullet struck her she sprang
to the side of her cub, as if to protect
it. and then gave me one glance and
started. My next shot was the supreme
effort of my life. See here, the bullet
cut the left jugular and passed in be-
tween the shoulder and the body. This
shot caused her to stop and turn, and
by the time she got to rights l was
ready again. She came on slowly and
when within twenty feet of me / broke
her neck.
81 had no time to Congratulate my
self, for behind her and not more than
forty yards from me came that black
bear and the cub. Ny first shot at the
cinnamon or black bear struck him be-
tween the eyes and glanced upwards.
My next shot split his brisket and
touched the point of his heart, but the
way that beast stayed would have done
honor to ward politician. He came
toward me with eyes like Goals, mouth
wide open, blood streaming from both
nostrils and his large body coming
through the air like solid shot. [
knew that | had but one more chance
for stopping him ''in three rounds and
as in other cases, | tried to break his
neck. The ball passed through his neck
but failed to touch the spine.
Il dropped my gun as l rose and
drew my knife at the instant he struck
me. The shock was terrible. / must
have turned several back handsprings,
but was on my feet in an instant. As
he arose on his hind legs. | saw how
terrible was my antagonist. His hot
blood seemed to burn my skin and to
nerve me for the encounter. | clutched
his right front leg with my left hand
and plunged my knife to the handle in
his huge body. The next moment l
was in his deadly embrace. | felt his
sharp claws pass through my clothing
and enter the muscles of my back.
tried to use my right arm but | could
not even breathe Just as | had given
up all hopes his powerful arms relaxed
and he fell dead
land the cub?''
"Oh, | settled the cub and crawled
to camp. ."-DenUer Republican.