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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20

Combining a class to one little read
ing book makes it no easy matter to
keep up lively interest. five stop
to think aboutit, the ordinary school
reader, below the t9urth, contains less
reading matter, counted word for
word, than the Saturday edition of
any good daily paper, as the Chicago
Tribune, New York World, or Boston
Herald. That is to say, a book on
which the pupil is to be confined for
at least one school-year, actually con-
tains fewer words than the morning
paper, or even the weekly newspaper,
the child's father dispatches in twenty
minutes And yet we expect our
little wriggling, emotional, capricious
young American to be interested in
his reader not twenty minutes or even
twenty days, but whole year,
The pater familias is much more
capable of restriction to one copy of
his favorite weekly Or daily than his
child is to one little book, and yet he
tires of his paper, at the outside, in
less than half a dozen hours. There
is world of suggestion in these facts.
They point the way to the cause of so
much parrot-like reading.
The cure is greater quantity and
greater variety of matter for all read
ing pupils who are not engaged in
learning words preparatory to read
ing. Nowadays youths and chill
dren's magazines are plentiful and
cheap IS. s. Parr.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20
Prevention of Crime.

The code of criminal law in every
well regulated state should be founded
on one principle, namely, the preven-
ton of crime; that all offense should
be explicitly and clearly defined, in
language generally understood; that
punishments should be proportioned
to offenses that tie rules of evidence
should be ascertained as applicable to
each offense; that the mode of pro-
cedure should be simple and the duty
of magistrates, executive officers and
individuals assisting them, should be
pointed out by law, and as little left
to judicial construction as possible.
The great mass of our legislators
have restricted all of their efforts in
the protection of society, to waiting,
watching for, and Furnishing crime.
Its prevention is something beyond
their comprehension. Narrow minded
Legislators are willing to appropriate
millions to erect and maintain peni-
tentiaries and state prisons, while not
q dollar can be obtained to establish
industrial schools for the helpless,
homeless, unfortunate waits of society
who are running wild in our streets
and growing up to manhood and
womanhood stepped and educated in
crime, ready to enter and graduate at
our penitentiaries as fast as they are
built.
The true system of all penal laws
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20

should be comprehensive in its nature
and should deal with the prevention
as well as the punishment of crime.
They should treat the whole subject
in it's widest sweep and should have
general control over the whole fabric
of society from top to bottom-from
turret to foundation, so far as the
same relates to the prevention of
crime and its punishment. There
should be first, the. school of people,
the common school; second, the
school of reform and manual training;
third, the house of refuge and indus
try; fourth, the house of detention;
fifth, the bridewell; sixth, the peni-
Tertiary.
We believe in education of the head
and heart, the hands and feet, the
mind and body. We believe in teach
ing our children that labor, industry
and economy are necessary to success
in life, and that plodding industry
and contentment, with perseverance
and steady push, are better than the
eternal scheming of demagogues
whose constant endeavor seems to be
to avoid work, or work just as little
as possible and receive the same pay
as the most skilled and most indus
trious portion of mankind Judge
Elliott Anthony, in the Chicago Law
Times.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20
An Easy Way to OBJ
tain a Watch :!

There is no excuse for any person in Arkan-
sas to be without watch. Mr.. Louis G. Ber-
nays, manufacturing jeweler, ll6 Main street,
Little Rock, Ark, has devised plan by which
the best time pieces now in the market can be
secured on terms that prohibits the purchaser
missing the money he expends for one of
them.
The plan is simple and will meet with the
endorsement of all who really desire watch.
The watches Mr.. Bernays proposes to sell
can be selected from his stock, which Is COM
plete in every respect. He has just received
large assortment of anti magnetic, H.kt.,
gold-filed cases, for open face and hunting
case movements, warranted for twenty years.
They are especially adapted for railroad peo-
pie and parties working around dynamos and
other electric appliances. The purchaser Is
only required to pay two dollars down as the
purchase money for one of the watches, Civ
ing every week thereafter one dollar until the
watch is paid for. No interest is charged, and
the same charge is made for the watch as
would be required to purchase one at other
establishments for cash. 1t Is the simplest
and easiest plan ever suggested to enable
man or woman to own an excellent gold watch
without missing the money required to pur-
chase one.
For further particulars call or write.
LOUIS G. BERNAYS, Agent,
Manufacturing JeWeIer,
116 Main st., Little Rock, Ark.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20
w. ct. u. Notes.
BY MRS. T. A. DUNLAP.

The following Unions have paid the
S. asked for state work: Fort Smith,
Eureka Springs, Searcy, Van Buren,,
Little Rock, Russellville, Hazen,
Batesville, Morrilton, Malvern, Wash
ington, Fayetteville, Hope.
Hazen Union with its twenty-four
live active members, sends in Sc dues
for the half year (they having raised
to the dollar plan), SIS state work, S.
on shares and 50 for minutes, making
$l8 in all. Every Union in the state
should invest some money in state
work. We are coming to believe that
little money invested in anything
helps our interest in that special thing.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20
w. Cullen Bryant.

$50 live that, when thy summons come to join
The innumerabe caravan that moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall
take
His chamber In the silent halls of death,
Thou go not like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and
soothed
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant Dreams"
bryant. Page 2, vol. l.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20

If you are longtime married man
and the whole affair has become
somewhat stupid and monotonous,
make it point to sheer at every re-
mark and opinion of your wife.
There is mild and gentle sheer full
of playfulness, but still very effective.
Or you can deliver the sneer or sar-
casm point blank and loaded to kill.
Both methods in time, if persisted
will convince your helpmate that she
is not capable of an opinion worth
any serious masculine consideration,
and reduce her to a mental inanity-
a mere mental and physical skeleton,
giving evidence of being the remains
of what was once a woman.
Joseph White, of New Jersey, slept
for five days and nights, and then
jawed his wife for waking him up.
He said she was always picking on
him when she saw him taking his
comfort.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20
General.

Through the efforts of a w. G. 7.
U. woman an Industrial House for
Girls will be opened in Chillicothe,
Mo-, this fall.
A monthly temperance paper is
about to be published in Christiana,
Norway. A page will be devoted to
"Woman's Work for Temperance in
Home and Abroad"
At special meeting of the Toxic
w. G. I. u, a committee of twelve
was appointed to make arrangements
for the reception of Pundita Ramabai
when she reaches Japan.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Iowa will present to
the National Convention to meet in
New York, October 1928, a memo
rial praying it to recede from the ac-
ton taken in 1884 in regard to polit-
ical parties.
Earn Harris, of Port Jervis, IN.
~, bootblack and evidently a gen.
tleman, has inscribed on his box:
"No ungentlemanly, drunken or dis
orderly PERSONS boots or shoes will
be polished. Earn Harris.
Miss Charlotte A. Gray, W. G. Z.
U. organizing secretary for Europe,
attended the meeting of the Fedora
ton for Public Morality, lately held
in Copenhagen, and occupied the
place in the program which was to
have been filled by Mrs. Hannah
Whltall Smith, who could not be
present. She spoke of the work done
in behalf of purity by the W. c. T.
U. workers and others in America.
Miss Gray gave seven addresses in
the two weeks spent in Denmark, and
prepared the way for the organization
of W. G. T. u, which she thinks
will shortly be completed.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20
Educational and General.

Ger hayward childhood wouldst thou hold
firm rule
And sun thee in the light of happy faces;
Love, Hope and Patience--these must be thy
graces,
And in thine own heart let them first keep
school. : Coleridge.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20
ARKANSAS
COLLEGE.
The Only College in Arkansas Exc|u-
siveIy for Young Ladies

Located in the pleasantest poItlon
of the City of Little Rock, this Insti-
tuition offers superior advantages to
both day pupils and boarders.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-20
LITTLE ROCK
UNIVE RSITY.

College, Academy, Normal School, Art
School, Music School, Law School,
English School.
The schools of Little Rock University com
menced their fall terms on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 26, 1888, with full Boards of Instruction,
and will continue their sessions until June 6,
1889.
This Institution has now pursued its work
in Arkansas so long as to cease to be an cX.
pertinent. With unriyalled beauty and health
fulness of location, with splendid facilities for
instruction, with Il successful career of half a
dozen years, the future of the University is
full of hope.
Little Rock University only announces what
ii is ready to do, and reports what 1t has actu
ally accomplished 1t offers to the young
people of the Southwest the very best instruc
ton for the very lowest price, and challenges
fair comparison with any school in the land.
Special care OF lady students Low rates of
tuition and board. Address
REV. ALFRED NOON, A. M,
President.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

The leaders OF the DemoS ~,
pnrty IN Indiana are satlsnee
the HOOsier State can Oe
counted 10 the administrators
umn In 1883.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

AN ANTI SLANG SOCIETY. A
large number OF Chinago girls mel
one evening last week tor tue
purpose Of organizing u ''Ladies'
Auti Slang Society" The meeting
was call to order aud Miss Sadie de
Pork elected president. Before
taking her seat she said in a clear,
calm, wel!.mOdulated voice:
"Really, girls, Pm too badly rat
tied by the honor conferred upon
me TO give you much of my Cuff
It's the first time | ever tumbled to
anything of this sort, and | hardly
know Just how to catch on. How
ever, III try to he sufficiently up to
SNUFF not to let any flies light on
me while doing the President-of-Ihe
society act. Pm with you in this
move aud don't any of you forget
it. All over our land slang words
aud phrases are multiplying like
flies in sorghum time, and it is our
to help knock this crping evil
as silly as pOssible. Let our motto
ne Shoot the SlangiSt."
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

It Is The Journal that Hss -,
started TO fll a long felt van
usually ellis il the quickest
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27


THE WIDOW DECEIVED Him.
"Your children all turned out well,
l reckon I" said "a man addressing
an old acquaintance he rad not seen
for many years.
"Well, yes, all but Bill, poor fel.
ler."
"Drunk Ticker, I reckon ~
ooh, no, never drunk no Ticker,
but hain't amounted to nothin,.
Bill WI deceived an' it ruint him.
"Love affair 7"
eyes, an a mighty bad one"
"She married some other fellow,
ell ~
ooh, no, she married him. She
WIZ Il widder, an let on that she
wuz well of, but she wasn't. WY,
she wasn't able to get Bill a decent
suit O. clothes the week arter they
wuz married. Yes, the poor fellow
has lost confidence" - ArkanSaW
IraUeler.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

CURE FOR DYsPEPsIA-os. 20
hungry dog q piece Of me1i
chase bin I'LL he drops u.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27
Imperfect Sympathy.

There are people who kill ont all
enthusiasm. To them a beautifu'
woman is "lovely, but did you no.
lice q squint in her left eye 1" A
nne sermon is "eloquent indeed.
but l have seen those very ideas
somewhere. l don't remember ex.
actly, but l know / have heard il
befOre.n A man gives to a charita-
bic purpose, aud it was every good
OF him, but he was able to do more
A physician brings a patient
through a bad spell of sickness, and
"no doubt be is q good doctor, but
1t does seem as If be had that case
on baud a long time.n A farmer
has "made a good crop, but be could
have made two or three more bales
OF cotton IL he had worked like he
ought to-" A newspaper chad one
good editorial in il; but a gener.
al thing, it was rather trashy.n I'll
. merchant gives q good bargain.
:! certainly appreciated it, but be
wiz make 1t up on somebody else.D
II q man at the risk of bis life.
anatched a child from the path OF 4
rushing engine, the imperfect sym.
pathlzer would say : avery heroic
OuI ne ought to have caught the
Guild BY the right arm instead of
the left" Ask abOat the creation.
ana this lett.haRded eulOglst will
say, "Itis a beautiful world. bat
rather hastily flushed. Indeed ;
Tod ought TO have taken q least
fourteen days aud made a better
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

God judges our actions by our
motives; men judge our motives
by our actions.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27


SENATOR GEoRGE's WATCH
Senator George, OF Mississippi IS
no dude. He does not cultivate lhs
art OF personal adornments, Bf
does DO seek to excel in the grares
OF polite society. His clothing Is
rough aud out of fashion, generally
rough and sOiled, AMI bis linen IS
not always as chaste as snow. But
the most characteristic portion o.
his equipment is an old open faced
silver watch, about as big rs . ln
dipper, which he carries IN BIZ
breeches pocket, hung upon ies
end of a shoeStriug. When Dc
takes out tlil autiquaied timeplee'
the seuatoIs all wink at each Otbei'
and the roeuisb little pages Of 1ee
Senate are in the habit OF going 70
the Senator from Mississippi ~
times and asking him the TINS
and asking him the time simply u
order to get a sight OF the carlos'l
aud the shoestring by which u"
aDchured.-Chicd0O NeNS.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

The wealth Of y soul . me.
by how much Il can lerii
IS by hoa little.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27
FERNAND S. FREDERIC,
Partisan Dyer,
% s.. Franeis st....-MoBnE. LA

Ladies. Gents and Children's Clothes
cleaned By the Chemical Dry Process with
ont taking 10 pieces, and warranted not
to shrink Feathers Bleached, Dyed and
Curled. Parasols Cleaned and Dye
Silks, Yelvets, Fine Laces. Laco Curtains,
Cashmeress Blankets etc. Gloves cleaned.
DYES WARRANTED FAST.
TAI country work entrusted 70 me
win receive careful and prompt attention.
September 2, les7. 2s-6m
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

young woman in an Ohio town
nas married her brothers vife's
A.1er aud ct last accounts had
neaIly goue crazy trying to figure
= snether she was Der brothers
nnolherin-law or her hnsbsua,s
oaaghterin-law, Or her own moth.
ef-lo law, or her siater.in-laesa
noteerinlaW, or al tour, II 90 What
relation hsr childreu would be ia
her husband.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27
CeneraII
Merchandise
Usually kept in a first, class store,
Furniture and Housekeeping Goods CT al
Kinds A SpeniaItv.

Furniture and Housekeeping Goods CT all
Kinds a Speciality.
STOVES are sold lower than New Or
leans or Mobile prices, as l buy them for
spot cash direct from the manufacturers.
STEAM GRIST MILL-Fresh Neal, Grits,
Hominy, Chops, Cracked Corn and Feed
of all kinds sold at lowest market prices,
and delivered free of charge within city
limits. Buying feed in large quantities
enables me to get the benefit of wholesale
prices, and can therefore sell as cheap as
The cheapest.
CUSTOM SHOE DEPARTMENT where
a person can get the best Shoes fer the
least money. No paper soles, paste-board
counters or wooden heeels are used in
myShoe FactOry-none but genuine oak
tanned leather, and l defy competition as
to prices and qualify.
Also, ha 20 always on hand first-class
handmade Shingles for sale at reasonable
prices.
Thanking customers tor past patronage
invite a continuance of same.
Respectfully, A. BLUMER.
Goods Delivered Free of Charge.
October 2. 1887. Billy
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27
GM8 em0rrat st..
IT is GOING
Disappearance ot the Wan.
Southern Lady q H. aFet

A lady of tile @6a o..
Ell cultared and beaolitSi"S sin;
other day 10 IA writer Tor h. he
vile American : "TLr Nv. Y Naak.
ern gltI is almost sStinst, O1sIl
she ~ have Travelled er,. BALI
IN the North aud in The Sos' as's'
l and our girls are plaoins s..i aad
upon conversation, iress ~ sSesals
nei that Is entirely out u E.a uai'
WIN nc expectations Of IossIsal
who look for the dignity. e,.,sI
bearing Of the Southern s sass aud
IIleratule.' " our
10 what do You attdbu,. \.
was asked her. ina
"Mainly to the false n.
sacrificing parents, whosa ,sa. se''.
fortune curtnlled their nrnsOl
ta'lolls and gave them drtssass's
Ton 10 make ever, thing bas% lh'
the one idea: My daugS,' n.y. ~. .
nave SoOu ulIlp.'V
1here. was much truth /. a..
1t SETS Que thinking. "A s oal,
time" nowadays seems to =, sO0O
yearly the whole social cress ' Tap
reserve, dignity, modesty s.,, .as
NAL OF some OF tue doinps Of ao"l
social life that formerlv s"vu
Southern girl an mdIyidu,l w
oOliterated. 1t need not be rorso,
ten the evil effect Of this s,.;',
SclilSm has not yet made iIs a.
rearallce because this generate"
are sons ai'd daughters Of i1s
mothers who were girls OF tLe . olS
school," These have trained ,h.;s
sous to cLivalric sentiments. ,Iss
make ready excuses, which nil
come without effort to cover mi.
faults. This but deepens tbe con'
vlctlon that cliivalry must have d.
SEPARATION in the Dependence 0f
lrustful womanhood.
But If girls may go here and
there without chaperoaage, Il health
and comfort are easily set aside "a
compass some silly whim Of going
somewhere, it there he a lestlsss
pm poscleSs chase for tphemer.l
excitement, where can 4 true bsatt
rest, or a reasonable hone for
home existf There is at this mo.
ineht Il gathering CONVICTION that
we have accepted a great deal Of
6osh as gossip on the snhiect Of
rights and woman's educa.
ton. Give her love, aud she has
the first ; time, and she will cot the
second.
OF cOuis SO, she has The tight to
sell her claim TO tender ~considpn.
ion ii she wishes. But, he il clear
y understood, having done so, she
has not the right to claim or hope
a continuance Of teudcr cOuEle.
~.
There is now unlimited prosper
Y in the SOuth once more. lth
Tot too late to reconstruct or estab.
ish much that Was torn away that
vas good. All honor to those Who
make a commeudable effort 10 keep
live the sacred flame. Whera shall
We hide the glaring evidence that
lie handspring of chivalry bas been
damaged by the Carslsa
Glance aud recklPssness that fO.
us to this fOre2one shanelacsd
OnfeSSlOn.
Our Southern girl proper Is
cry queen. She is delicate in oil
.er conceptions of right and wong
pyal to principle and friends; con-
tant in affection, gifted wuh we'll
reserved beauty aud form, crown
Il with sensitive, dignifed modes
y, an ideal OF wOmanhood; tho
ouclIer for the truth of the state
tent Southern chivalry mnstliSe'
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

Feelings come and go Ike ~
troops following the victory o. =.
present; but principals, ike ifOsrJ Y,
OF the line, are undisiuI6ed ''-
stand fast.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

Speaker Carlisle was a country
school teacher.
Judge Kelly, father OF the house.
was a jeweler.
Senator Pasco was a school teach
or at $40 a mouth.
Tom Reed, of Maine, was II pay
master in the navy.
UOugherty, of Florida, was n
sailOr before the mast.
Anderson, of Kansas, was u Pres.
byterian clergyman.
Judge Chapman, of Michigan,
was a mine prOspector.
Leland Stamford was a country
lawyer in Wisconsin.
Senator Kenna was once y coal
miner at &l.2O u day.
Senator Dawes was a school
teacher and country editor.
Ben B~utterwOrth used to be u
plaptatiOu boss in Virginia.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, kept
a country grocery store.
Delegate Caine, of Utah, was
many years a theatre manager.
Taulbee, the tall Kentucky mem.
Der, was q divinity student.
Robertson, the new Louisiana
member, is "a college professor.
James Il. White, OF Indiana, was
Q calico printer aud tailor.
congressman Outerwaite was
principal Of a city school Eve years.
Civil Service Commissioner Oh.
erly was a Chicago Times reporter.
Judge Tarsney, Il Michigan con-.
grcSsmcn, was "a steamboat engin-
Ger.
Justice Blatchford was Governor
w. ii. Stewards private secretary.
Senator Plumb was u ty pesetter.
Hit, OF Illinois, was a stenograph.
er.
Senator Sawyer "bought his
time" when eighteen years old and
ran a saw mill.
Senator Stewart, OF Nevada, min
ed with "a pick aud shovel in Cali.
fOrnia.
Senator Cullom was famous as a
corn husker in early days in Illinois.
W. Ii. L. Lee, son of Robert E.
Lee, and now "a congressman, is a
farmer.
Darlington, a Pennsylvania mem.
Der, was a reporter Oh Philadelphia
dailies.
Clifton r. Breckenridge, of the
ways aud means committee, was a
bOokkeeper.
Boutellc, OF Maine, was a sea cap
tam. Plumb, of Illinois, was a gro.
Gerry clerk.
Senator Allison was an abstract
clerk. Guenther, OF Wisconsin,
was a druggist.
RomeiS, Of Ohio, was a baggage
master. Deacon White, OF New
York, was a miller.
Secretary Bayard was clerk in
New York. PidcOck, of New Jcr-
sey, was a civil engineer. b,
John McShanP, the millionaire I
Omaha congressman, was "a COWBOY ]
without cent in 1871.
FELTON,, the California multi.mil
llonaire, was a chore boy on a farm
In Erie county, N. Y.
Bancroft, the historian, once
thought of entering the ministry,
and preached several sermons.
Solicitor General jerks used 10
be a surveyor. Pennington, OF
was a school teacher.
Samuel j. Randall, whom nobody
supposed had a war record, was a ,
III a company of cavalry.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, was q
gold prOspector in California in '49,
md Sheriff of Tuolumne county
ater.
Silas Hare, a Texas, member, was Z
Jayhawker chief justice of New
dexlcO under the Confederate gov
irnment.
congressman Farquhar was a
ypeSetter, aud the first president
i the first typographical union ia
he United States.
Justice Bradley taught a district !.
choOl every winter trom his 10th i
o his 2lst year aud was for some
lme a surveyor, :
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

Every genuine work OF art ~.
as much reason for being - y.
earth and tue sun. The eays~
charm of beauty has a roo. " Wv
constitution of things.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-01-27

Time never works; it eats, y.
uudermiDes, aud rots, ana TO-
and destroys. But il never 49, y
it only gives MS an o~pporlpn'9
work.