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society that the advance forces OF prog
ress are correcting-surely, even II
slowly. Co-education is the great lew
erage which will establish intellectual
community and companionship be-
tween men and women.
The political enfranchisement OF
woman will give her mental breadth
and depth hitherto unknown. Positi-
cal science is a vast and wonderful
world of itself 1t is entering into liy-
ing history the forces that shape
the destiny of individuals and of ma
tions, and that predetermine the gem
eral trend of progress. AS women come
more and more into the world of af-
fairs and enter into the larger and no.
bier interests, companionship between
men and women grows more fine and
more universal. Yet it may be ques-
toned if there is not already more of
this perfect harmony of comradeship-
or friendship, as quite distinct from
love and romance-tha Mr. Browne
believes; but in whatever degree
whether more or less-it occurs, it
surely registers the advance of civili-
zation. - Lillian Whiting, IN Boston
Traveller.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
AMONG CROCODiLES.
The Frightful Experience of an English
Hunter In India.

The Frightful Experience of an English
Hunter In India.
On one occasion was ascending the
Little Rangoon river with three natives
and the mail-bags, when we were
hailed from shore by an English hun
ter who had been camping out among
the fierce wild animals and poisonous
serpents for seventy days. He was en-
tirely alone, and he had killed five
leopards, three tigers. six or eight
large serpents and much other game.
He had several fresh scars to prove a
hand-to-hand conflict with a wounded
tiger, and the bare fact of his being
alone in that country, exposed almost
to every danger one could dream of,
was proof that he was brave man.
He had raft at the bank and was
about to cross the stream. After a
visit of a quarter of an hour we took
him in tow and dropped him down
about a mile. We had just headed for
the other bank. when l saw large
crocodile rise to the surface Just be-
hind the hunters raft The man had
not entered the boat with us, but was
sitting on his traps on the raft
called to him TO shoot the reptile. and
he rose and made as pretty a shot as
one ever saw. striking the ssurian in
the eve and killing him at once. We
were applauding the shot when doz-
en- Of the monsters broke water al
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
AN ARMY OF TWO.
A New England Incident In the Anglo
American War of 1912.


American War of 1919.
A correspondent asks for a brief ac-
count of the "British Scare" when
two little girls, daughters of the
lighthouse keeper at Scituate, Mass,
drove away two of the enemy's barges.
The girls, who ever afterward called
themselves 1.-The American Army of
Two in the War of 1872" were Re-
becca and Abbie Bates, aged at the
time of the incident respectively fifteen
and eleven years.
When the war broke out the harbor
of Scituate was the scene of many a
sea skirmish. Shortly after the Brit
ish burned large number of vessels
which lay in Scituate harb1r, after
which the town was garrisoned.
About September 1, 1914. British
bark was sighted directly off Cedar
Point from which two barges were
lowered and were bearing down upon
the harbor, with the intention of sack
ing and destroying two large flour
laden vessels. The mother of Rebecca
becoming somewhat alarmed. the men
being away on an expedition, appealed
to her daughter for advice, whereupon
Rebecca with fife and her sister
Abbie with drum concealed them
selves behind the house and struck up
National air. The effect was magical.
The careless, swinging stroke of the
hargemen's oars ceased and across
the water to their listening ears came
the roll-call of the formidable and
much-dreaded Yankees. They hesi-
tated moment and then. just as the
bark few her signal of danger. they
downed oars and with most unman-
of-war-like stroke exerted themselves
to reach their vessel 1t was but the
silence of a moment when the sails
filled. and with Yankee Doodle ringing
in their imaginative ears the Britisher
squared away to sea- 7. Voice.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
PARSEE FUNERALS.
Curious Ceremonials Performed Before
and After Death.

and After Death.
When Parsee is about to die lie is
taken to the ground floor of the house,
washed in consecrated water, anointed
with holy oil and placed on an oblong
stone. Small earthen lamps lighted
from the sacred fire are placed around
his stony bed, and the fire priests stand
near and chant doleful dirge. The
most extraordinary part of it all is that
the moment life becomes extinct the
house dog is brought in and taken up
to him. If the dog licks his masters
face and hands it is considered most
fortunate omen of the departed spirits
ready admittance into Paradise. The
uneducated and ignorant Parsees be-
lieve that every dog has an angel spirit
residing in some star when it issues to
conduct the souls of the righteous dead
into heaven.
Next morning number of priests
robed in pure white carry the body on
an open bier to the Dohkma or Tower
of Silence. This curious national tomb
is huge roundtower, situated in some
remote or lonely spot and surrounded
by great branching trees; it is open to
the sky and reaches far down into the
depths of the earth, and is furnished
with number of iron-grated floors.
When they reach the Tower of Silence,
the relatives and friends stand praying
while the fire-pri' SITS place the body on
a long slide or kind of see-saw plank
held down by ropes.
This done the ropes are loosened, the
plank rebounds and the lifeless form
slips on to one of the iron-grated floors
of this strange tomb, and is left for the
birds of the air. For their Offices
toward the dead the Parsees look upon
all birds as peculiarly sacred.
But this strange mode of sepulture
exposes the Parsea to no end of insults
from both the Hindoos and Moham.
medans, who take every opportunity
to jccr at them, calling out: "Kaw
Kaw, Kakhana Dinner for erows!" "
Wide AlUake.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
A WOMAN WHO GROWS ORCHIDS

Another Instance OF What Feminine
Pluck AM Determination Can DO.
One of the most successful orchid
growers in the neighborhood of New
York is woman. She is graduate
of the public schools, wlo began to
teach at twenty. She worked her way
through grade after grade of the city
classes, until at twenty-seven she was
a splendid specimen of womanhood,
healthy, rosy, pleasant to look upon, in
receipt of one thousand dollars salary,
and engaged. She married at the end of
school year, went upon summer brid-
al tour, and came home in September
q widow. Her husband had died of a
sudden fever, and her place was filled.
There was no vacancy that would give
her above half the wages she had re-
signed in June. Her father had left
her a little scrubby pine land in Jersey,
and she had not spent quite all her
savings on her trousseau. She thought
out the situation, and went into floricult-
urc. Her greenhouses were small at
the start, but she built up a reputation
for rare flowers, and for bringing
them into the city done up in dainty
ways. There is nobody who orgini-
ates more quaint conceits in orchid
baskets or rose lunches, or who seems
more thoroughly at home and content
in her work. She has taken two
younger sisters into partnership. and
on her frequent trips to the city is one
of the ple;s .ntest figures to meet on
the street. -Eliza Putnam Heat0n
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
THE WlFE'S PROPERTY.
A Wrong Once Established Is, as q Rule,
OF Long Endurance.

n
of Long Endurance.
The old law which gave every hus-
band the right to the actual ownership
of all his wife's personal property and
the use of all her real estate, made the
possession of wife's property seem so
much matter of course that it is not
easy even for otherwise decent and ex-
cellent men to accept the new order of
things. Some men do so cheerfully,
and gladly accede to it; Others, who
appear respectable to the world, make
the home wretched when wife de-
clines to surrender her property.
Among the more brutal classes it often
comes to downright violence. The
Chicago daily papers record the follow
ing:
"Mrs Matthias Busch was murdered
tonight by her husband, a saloon
keeper. The deed was done at their
home, in the presence of their child
and the aunt of the victim. Busch
was arrested. knife in hand. He had
been foiled in his desire to control ten
thousand dollars in real estate. that
had been willed his wife by her
father"
Brutal cases like these are frequent
ly reported. But there are more cases
where husband endeavors to secure
by intimidation or slow torment
what the law has taken out of his
hands 1t takes long to uproot the
strength of an old law or custom, and
to outgrow prejudice. But, in this
case, it would promote respect for a
wife's legal property rights, if honor
able men, who have come into posses
sion of their wife's property, under
the law. OF in any other way, would
make legal return of it to the wife.
Such action would help to set need
ed example. The fact that the wife is
now entitled to her own property
would be noted-and, by and by, il
will be seen to be as dishonorable and
wrong for a man to keep property O
his wife's as to keep that of any on,
else. A gain greater than the money
itself will be the increased respec
which a wife can feel for her husband
when he deals honorably and honestl,
with her. Homdn'S Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. j. ELLEN FOSTER is lecturing
in Iowa, on the Irish question, to large
audiences.
FRANCES Z. WILLARD has gone to
Washington in 'leinterests of pending
bills to secure better protection for
women, and the prohibition of liquor
in the District of Columbia.
Miss HANNAH TAGGART, of North
umberland, Pa, with her mothers as
sstance, dragged her unconscious
father from burning room, when a
few seconds delay would have been
fatal
Mrs. SARAH X. BOLTON is engaged
upon new volume, to be entitled
Famous American Statesmen" 1t
will give short biographies of men who
have been prominent in the history of
this country.
Mrs. JEANETTE THURBER, who pa
triotically sunk so much money in the
American Opera, has given musical
education to numbers of poor girls in
New York, and sent them to Europe
to complete their studies.
REV. FLORENCE E. KoLLoCK, pastor
of Englewood Qll) Universalist
Church, lately commemorated the
twelfth anniversary of her entrance
upon the ministry. During her pas
torate, the society has increased from
fifteen members to two hundred.
Miss FLORENCE MENKMEYER, the
young pianist and composer over
whom musical circles at Vienna are
going into raptures, is grandniece of
Rubinstein, and pupil of Liszt. Her
playing is said to be wonderful, and
she has already composed an opera.
She is only eighteen.
Miss MARY l.. BooTH has translated
more than fifty works from the French.
She earns S., 900 year by her transla-
tons, in addition to her salary of
IS, 200 as editor Of Harper's Bazaar. 1t
Is related that once, when Scribner was
in great hurry for Angenor de Gas
parin's Uprising of II Great People,"
Miss Booth translated the whole book
in five days.
Mrs. CHRISTINA f. HALEY, of New
York, has made a comfortable fortune
in business rather unusual for a
woman-the examination of inventions
and patent claims. She is described as
very quiet and retiring, and is said not
to look nearly old enough to be the
mother of two grown sons. She is
chairman of one of the committees of
Sorosis.
LADY MACKENZIE has opened bon
net shop in London. The family
property is in the Highlands, where
: estates no longer pay the old-time
! rents. "It is no USE" says Lady
) Mackenzie, in lately published in
, terview. trying to shut out the truth
Socialism is making enormous
e strides, unpleasant though it may bt
e to have to face it." Commenting OF
, this the Christian Union says: 81
0 Socialism means such changes in con
d ditions that men and women who uset
;; to live off other peoples industry mus
h now go to work and live off their own
e it Is only another name fordemocracy
Is or rather let Us say tor organic Chris
n tianity.'
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
HUMOROUS.

Wife" George, do the American
Indians always travel in single fileP"
Husband never saw but one, and
he did. ."--Harper's Bazar.
In the theater -"But why do you
weepp The acting is certainly not SO
touching" "Excuse me, am bewail-
ing the money paid to come in
Fliegende Blatter.
Prof. Proctor writes in the Boston
Globe on "How to Lift 1000 Pounds. "
Most men who know how to "lift"
fl, 900 don't have much to say about
it.-Oa City Blizzard.
When Jones came in the room un-
expectedly. Mrs. Jones gave scream
and exclaimed "You frightened me
half to death. "Did IP" was the un-
feeling reply. Suppose l try it over
again.
-"My dear fellow, you ought to go
to Europe. You don't know how much
change and rest the trip affords. "
"Oh, yes, l do. l know that the hotel
porters get the change, and the land
lords the rest"
Customer (to coal dealer)-"I
want to get ton of coal. !" Dealer
"Yes, sir; what size?" Customer
(timidly)-"Well, if it isn't asking too
much, sir, Iwould like atwo-thousand-
pound ton. IN y Sun.
Although woman can't throw a
stone, or sharpen pencil, or climb a
tree, she can sit on her feet in cold
weather, and that's something man
can't do to save his blessed supercilious
soul. Burlington Free Press.
Good Citizen" Are all the doors
and windows locked?" Wife" Yes,
my dear" And the burglar alarm
set?" 1t looks all right" "And
the dog untied9" eyes lis my
Winchester under the bolster and re
volver under each pillow7" 20
course, my dear" LET us pray"
Amateur Archeologist (hunting il
the corn-field for film is "" Say
Uncle Abner, l believe this is a par
of the Uranium of an Indian. Did you
ever hear that the sAborigines had I
burial ground here' This fragment
is very badly disintegrated. but Their
can hardly be any doubt " Uncl,
Abner-"Le's see; that airs piece o
a shell O. one O. last years punkins.
Counsel =" Now, then. sir, di'
you. or did you not. threaten to xii
the plaintiff ?" Witness did "
Counsel" That will do. The jur,
will notice the admission" Witness
"B But haven't finished. was abou
to say that Ibid ~ Counsel-"Quit
right to confess it. You may ste
down. Witness" Your Honor,
insist upon my right to finish the sen
tence." Judge" Welll " Witnes
-"I did-nnt n-Galeutta Times,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
HEALTH OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
The Probable Effects of Suffrage Upon
WomaL's Physical Condition Discussed.

Inc Probable ELECTS OF NuuraSe upon
woma.'s Physical Condition Discussed.
The exercise of the suffrage would
presumably tend to improve, rather
than to impair, the health of the aver
age woman.
There is nothing dangerous to
health in reading political articles in
the daily papers, in discussing political
questions with relations or friends, or
in walking the distance of few hun
dred yards and depositing piece of
paper in box. Many women now do
all these things without any suffering
in consequence. On the contrary the
reasonable exercise of any faculty, and
of all the faculties, of mind and body,
is positively beneficial to man or
woman. Nervous energy run to'
waste" is the secret of much of the las
situde and sickness prevalent among
American women.
"For my own part" says Sir Spen-
Ger Wells, one of the greatest liv-
ing physicians, IL think women
capable of a great deal more than
they have been accustomed to in
times past. If overwork sometimes
leads to disease, it is morally more
wholesome to work into it than to
lounge into it, and if some medical
practitioners have observed cases
where mental overstrain has led to dis
ease, can not deny that also have
at long intervals seen such cases. But
for every such example feel sure that
] have seen at least twenty where
evils equally to be deplored are
caused in young women by want OF
mental occupation, by deficientsexer-
else, too luxurious living. and too
much amusement" This is true of
the unmarried and the young; but it
is no less true of the married and the
middle-aged. Nervous diseases of
every kind are most often caused by
confinement to narrow circle of
thoughts and duties.
A brisk conversation about politics
is stimulating and healthy in itself, but
is especially valuable in distracting the
attention from the petty, harassing de-
tails of daily life. There is no more
certain cure for nervousness and its
baleful attendants, hypochondria and
dyspepsia, than the excitement of in
terests broader and more impersonal
than the interests of the kitchen and
the nursery, than the brooding over
ones own or ones husbands emo ions,
ill-tempcr or wrong-doing To enable
women TO be efficiently interested in
as many things as possible, is to give
them a tonic better than any medi-
cine; to compel them to be interested
IN few things only, is to poison the
whole atmosphere of their intellectual
life" - George Petlew, LII. d., IN
"Woman and The Commonwealth. "
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
THE COUNTER-MARCH.

Tramp tramp, trampl
With the morning clocks at ten,
She skinned the street with footsteps fleet
And hustled the timid men;
Tramp, tramp, trampl
She entered the dry-goods store
And with echoing tread the dance she led
All over the crowded floor.
She charged the throng where the bargains
were
And everybody made way for her;
Wherever she saw painted sign
She made for that spot prompt bee line;
Whatever was old or whatever was new
She had II down and she looked 1t through;
Whatever II was that caught her eye
Shed stop, and price, and pretend TO buy.
But twas either too bad, too common, or good,
So she dld, and she wouldn't, and didn't and
would,
And round the counters and up the stairs,
In attic and basement and every where's;
The statesmen tainted and cash boys dropped,
But still she shopped, and shopped, and shopped
And round, and round, and round and round,
Like winding toy with key that's wound,
Shed weave and wriggle and twist about,
One way In and the other way out,
Till men grew gddy to see her go.
And by and by, when the sun was low,
Homeward she dragged her weary way
And had sent home the spoils OF the day
spool OF silk and hank Of thread
Eight hours-ten cents-and dame half dead
--R. j. Burdefte. In brooklyn Eagle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Robert Bonner published "Hunted
Down" the only story Charles Dickens
ever wrote for an American publisher,
and he paid him five thousand dollars
for it.
Mr.. Rufus c. Hartranft, of Phila-
delphia, has one of the largest and
most complete collections of old Amer
lean plays in existence. There are
more than twenty thousand distinct
titles in his catalogue.
MIR. Caleb Foote, of the Salem
(Mass.) Gazette, may justly lay claim to
the title of veteran editor. He is
and has been in the service of the
paper for seventy years, and has had
editorial charge of it since 1925.
-Emin Pacha before going to the
Soudan became master Of German,
English. French, Italian and several
Russian dialects, Turkish, Arabic and
Persian; and he is now probably fa-
miliar with half the tongues of Central
Africa.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, Of
Mobile, is an enthusiastic lover of ge-
raniums, and her collection is pro-
nounced by botanists to be the most
complete in the world. Readers Of
fiction will remember Mrs. Evans as
the authoress of the novel recently
published entitled "At the Mercy Of
Tiberius.
Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emerson and
her daughter Ellen still live in the old
homestead at Concord, where Miss
Ellen is the Lady Bountiful of the
district. The other daughter, Edith,
is married to Mr.. Forbes, of Boston,
who owns an island in Buzzard's $ bay.
where he has a summer home that falls
little short of fairyland. Edward
Emerson, it is said. intends to give up
the study of medicine and devote him.
self entirely to art
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes has
been obliged to give up Ills old habit
of answering personally all letters ad.
dressed to him. A printed note which
opens as follows is now frequently
received by his correspondents: "Dr
Holmes regrets that impaired eyesight
and the large demands made upon his
time by distant and unknown friends
oblige him to contract his hitherto ex'
tended correspondence and to avail
himself of an assist ant in writing"
Darwin. who is so generally sup
posed to have been an intdel, states in
his autobiography that when he was {
boy at boarding-school, Ire used to &c
home. mile distant, after schoo
hours, and then hasten back to get into
his quarters before locking-up time
He says: "I often had to run yer,
quickly to be in time, and, from being
a fleet runner, was generally success
} full but, when in doubt, Iprayed ear
nestly to God to help me, and l wei
remember that attributed my success
to my prayers and not to my quicl
running, and marveled how general!
/ was aided" Only those who kne,
, this great scientist intimately woul,
have expected to see such a statemen
from his pen.
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SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1888.

about the raft. We lad tow rope
about forty feet long, and were its full
length ahead of the raft. None of the
reptiles paid the least attention to the
boat, but seemed determined to make
a closer acquaintance with the raft.
The hunter had a repeating rifle, and
he stood on his feet and banged away
right and left as coolly as you please.
/ ordered the men to cease rowing and
got out my rifle, but before l had fired
single shot monster crocodile
climbed upon the side of the light bam-
boo raft and upset it. We backed
water very rapidly, and it was not over
thirty seconds before the boat and raft
had bumped. At the same instant the
hunter rose beside the boat and one OF
the natives pulled him in. While he
lay on the bottom of the boat we rowed
about and picked up such of his traps
as were afloat. 1t was very little we
saved, as his firearms and pelts had
been swiftly devoured by the croco-
diles.
When came to offer the man some
spirits his looks had changed so that l
could scarcely believe he was the same
man. No one standing on the gallows-
trap could have been more broken up.
He had scarcely swallowed the whisky
when he began to cry, and he insisted
that we cover him up in the bottom Of
the boat. 1t was whole fortnight be-
fore the man recovered his composure.
while his nerve was gone forever. He
who had stood with knife drawn,
awaiting the rush of tiger, and who
carried marks to prove his bravery and
his victory, had been totally broken up
by an experience of less than two min
utes in the water with a dozen croco-
diles. 1t was the feeling that he was
helpless that took his courage away.
In the case of the tiger he felt that he
had some little show. When he was
flung into the water he realized that he
had none. Indian Mail
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
WOMEN AS COMRADES.
Men Love Women, Esteem Them as
Friends, But DO Not Want Them for
Comrades.


Friends. But DO Not Want Them for
Comrades.
In the current number of the Cosni0-
politan, Mr.. Junius Henri Browne dis
cusses the question: Are Women
Companionable to Men?" and argues
that they are not. He regards women
as made to charm, to fascinate. but
rarely for cdmaraderie. A man will be
willing to die for a woman whom he
would find it hard to live with, hesays,
and thus condenses his argument into
a sentence. He reasons that men and
women lack community Of interests;
that the man has world into which
woman can not enter. And in the
great majority of cases Mr.. Browne is
right It is Just this grave defect in
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12

Mr. Tslmsge. it is said. dictates
his sermons to a shorthand secretary
at the rate of $50 words 3 minute,