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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-27

Each square in this diagram represents $4,000.
The forty squares around the two in the center
represent $500 000 the annual receipts of our city
saloons. The two squares in the center represent
the $40, 900 license fees collected from these sa-
looms by the city government. In other words, in
order to collect $40, 900 to pave our streets and
light our electric lights we license our saloons to
collect $400,0 with which to pave hell and light
up its lurid glare. If this be shrewd business or
smart politics, great God deliver us! Who doesn't
know that if the $500, 900, worse than wasted in
these saloons, were turned into legitimate channels
of industry and trade, it would give us a business
prosperity and wealth hitherto unknown, and so
furnish an easy basis for a lawful and righteous
revenue? But the saloons are here, and they hood
wink the politicians and the politicians hoodwink
the people, and so the robbery and crime 60 cease
lessly on. Men who see this and protest against
it, and demand the repeal of license laws, are
charged with being chimerical and impractical.
They (the potcians) entrench the saloon and rivet
it upon society by license laws, making the fight
inevitably political and legal, and then they de-
mand that you shall employ only moral and edu-
cational instrumentalities against it, For first
class "cbimerical and impractical fanatics COM
mend me to this class of reasoners. But readers
and citizens, this is your question to solve, and not
that of the politicians. So long as you listen to
their decisions and are governed by their sophis-
tries so long will you vote away 100000 of the
workingmen's money that the saloon-keeper may
pay $4,000 to pave your streets and light your
lights, and furnish policemen to pick you up when
drunk and make you pay $40 and costs.
90, fools and blind!'
30, that men should put the enemy into their
mouths Cor into society ether,) "to steal away
their brains" BAKER,
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-27
Heavy Business Politics.

EDITOR OF WoMAN's CHRONICLE: AS an excuse for
continuing the license sytem, we are very gravely
assured by some of "Little Rocks best citizens
(politicans) that if we Danish the saloon we shall
have to put out our electric lights call off our po-
lice force and cease improving our streets, etc.
Indeed, groan of distress went up from many a
heart Cor lp) when it was currently reported just
after our recent election that the county had gone
dry. 1t was Immediately predicted by some of
these same chest citizens" that if the report was
true our city would at once be struck with the dry
rot. (By the way, not bad kind of rot to have,
at least in one respect.) But seriously, all such
statements or predictions are ludicrous in the ex-
IRENE, or would be, were they not so solemnly an
nounced. Incomprehensible though it be, yet the
gravity with which these statements are made leads
us to think there may possibly be some who believe
them. To all such we commend careful study of
the following diagram:
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-27

came convinced that Ozark lacks that push and
energy which characterzes the other towns on this
road.
Van Buren, is the one point that boasts of two
roads. Here the Frisco crossing from Missouri to
the Indian Territory will soon reach the Panhandle
of Texas. The w. G. L. U. at Van Buren, is
good organization.
Fort Smith is the most promising frontier town
in the southern country; she is growing rapidly
and is destined, at no distant day, to be large
city, but, for want of space, a description of it
some other time
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-27

"WoMAN, woman, woman Woman's this, and
womans that till Pm sick of the very sound of
the world" said woman to me only the other
day-a pretty, little, plump woman she was, too,
with iaunty bonnet on her head, over the softest
of rings of curling hair that framed her brow The
top knot of feathers nodded in saucy emphasis to
to her words, and felt like responding, eyes, it
is woman, woman, woman! 1T used to be man,
man, man the world was for man, and religion
was for man, and eyes and ears were for man, and
newspapers were for man, and woman was for man,
and now let's have change. The greatest dis
covery of the nineteenth century is woman, and
woman was the discoyerer
Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity long
ago. but he never dreamed of the ideas brought
out by Edison in the last decade
So it is with woman. Man in his worship and
approval of her never did for her what she is now
going to do for herself She is to be the deliverer
of her own sex the deliyerer of the little woman
with the topknot ON her bonnet as we'll as the rest
The deverer of the woman with the brave, stout
ly shod man to protect her. as well as the delverer
of the woman with no man to buy new ribbons and
top-knots when the old ones have become shabby
II. H.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-27
Suffrage neus.

This column open for the discussion of suffrage pro and
The CHRONICLE socts contributions from its readers
on the subject.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-27

GIRLS, let us be up and doing. Let us at leas
experiment. Let us venture to hop to the edge Of
the home nest and peep out and stretch our wings
little and | think there is no doubt but we will
find that we can chirp as loud and fly as far and as
high and as rapidly and ''cut as many curly-cues'
and geometrical figures in the moral, mental and
physical atmosphere-with the same amount of
practice-as the most enterprsing of the protect
ing sect."-[A W. p, in Wilman's Express
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-27


The following items are clipped from the Wom-
ans Journal
The archbishop of York at the recent Church
Congress put himself on record as believer in the
political equalization of the sexes. He is thus re-
ported:
''With respect now to the equal rights of woman
we have been very long in finding that out but we
are finding it out; and twenty years hence, when
some other archbishop shall have the pleasure of
addressing them, he will have working-men and
working women all together before him. and he
ventured to think there would be no privilege which
the intelligent woman should not have that men
enjoyed now He would say there was nothing
that stood between them and the happiness and
progress which God would give them except the
evil will of man."
Rev. M. L. Streator of the Christian church at
Bozeman, Montana, addressed the annual meeting
of the W. C. r. U. on the "Scriptural Status of
Woman" and strongly advocated woman's equal
ty in church and state. Mr.. Streator was en-
phatic in his declaration that there should be no
distinction made on account of sex, especially in
the church. Women might be preachers, presiding
elders or bishops, in accordance with their natural
gifts and educational advantages. In like manner
their political privileges should be the same as those
now almost exclusively enjoyed by men, They
could vote, fill city or county offices, be members
of the state and national legislatures, or occupy
Judicial positions.
For the third time in its history, woman has
been admitted to practice before the United States
supreme court-Nrs Ada NJ Bttenbender, of
Lincoln, Neb. the superintendent of legislation of
the National Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. She is in partnership with her husband in
the practice of law in Lincoln The two ladies who
have been previously admitted are Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood, and Mrs Laura De Force Gordon, OF
California
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS.

It is said that the two pet alligators that were presented to Mrs. Cleveland during her Florida tour are to be kept in the reception room at the White House, and trained to shake hands with visiting statesmen.
 Millions of jack rabbits migrated from Ore gon to Idaho during the recent cold spell in the far northwest. They crossed the frozen waters of the Snake river in hordes, and pre- sented a wonderful spectacle to the people who saw them.
 A New Bedford man has cat with re- markable fondne for sliding on the ice. When it finds likely bit of ice it runs to get a good start, and then, throwing itself on it's belly with fore and hind legs extended for ward and backward, slides daily again and again until surfeited with the fun.
 A Louisiana negro, near Bayou Goula, saw a bear in his turnip patch and tried to drive him out. The bear resented the insult, drove the negro out, and chased him up the railroad track. The darkey stepped aside to let all express train pass and the bear didn't. After the train passed the negro took 8 lot of bear meat home for supper.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Farmers wives on Long Island get 8 cents a pair for making boys trousers.
 The empress of Austria has tried cocaine as remedy for seasickness and found it wanting
 When Patti said farewell to the queen re- gent of Spain recently, she told her majesty that this is absolutely her final tour of the world.
 Mrs. c, H, Moore, of Philadelphia, wears tho most costly diar.onds of all the society women of the Quaker City. Her jewels are said to be worth about S60,00O.
 Mrs. John W. Mackay has been having a grand round of entertainments in the form of dinner parties at her residence in Bucking- ham Gate. Her visiting list grows steadily bigger and better.
 Some one who has been making up the records of the 2,e19 female graduates of American colleges, says that 998 are married, 94o are teachers, 133 arc in other occupations, and 5a9 are not engaged in zeznlnfsstive work.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20

SLAVERY has always had an enemy i1s the Catholic church, and Pope Leo XIII, true to his mission, is doing what he can to free the slaves in Brazil. Says the Con- necticut Catholic: i've are informed that, in obedience to an intimation from the Vatican, several Brazilian bishops, and notably those of Goyez and St Paul, are devoting their entire energies to the aboli- tion of the slave system in the empire; and the results of their good work are most satisfactory. Leo XIII is just now pre- pairing an encyclical letter to be addressed to the episcopaey of Brazil, in which the total abolition of slavery within the con fines of the empire will be ably and elo- quently advocated. It is anticipated tha' the solemn pronouncement of the Hol, Father, made in the interests of freedom and civilization, will aid in crowning witt success the efforts of the hierarchy in tn. dispctiou"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
NINE SENSIBLE SAYINGS,

Curses are like processions; they return to the place whence they came.
 The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels following.
 What we believe is right is more often so because it grinds our ax than otherwise.
 Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again with more en- joyment.
 There is nothing like settling with our selves, as there is deal we must do without III this life.
 To smile at the jest which plants thorn in another's breast is to become 6 principal in the mischief.
 Nothing is so contagious as example; we are never either much good or much evil without imitators.
 Wickedness may prosper for a while; but, in the long run, he who sets all knaves at work will pay them.
 The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wan ders, are the harbingers of victory.-New York Mail and Express.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20

THE termination of the Atchison strike reduces the contest between the Weste1 Il railroad system and the locomotive en- ployes to its original proportions of the difficulty on the Burlington route. It never should have extended, and the Brotherhood of Engineers are disinclined to officially accept the responsibility ot having extended it. The notion of crip- bling all lines operated and controlled by the same financial interests as the Burling- ton was too costly piece of generalship. It lost to the men the sympathy due, and freely accorded, by the public against a company in whose service there was a sub stantial grievance. The merely sympa
 thetic strike has broken down, as such movements always should. The substan- tial contest over real issue continues.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
N. H. < H. Railroad Time Table.

Trains Leave Waterbury as Funsxs: New YoTk-5,S0. s.a6. IO.5s m: ass -aunr sunday. i.l5 D. m. f -A' Return ,, ., d m: ]. l. 5.S5 D m New llaven-5.5O. s.sG I05I a. m: e4 -gr nm Return, G.l5 a.5a a. m-, l, 23O. ;. so !, ',,, n Br1dgeport-5S0 s.s6, IO.54 a. nl: l.. ;.31. sun day, I. l5 p. m. ~'A Return 7.l5 9.jG a. ,n.: 2Sl sr - es r ,, Sunday. 7-iC d. m- F. '-' Ansonia-5-3o s.a6. Io.5s a. m 2 sa sr n IT, Sunday. i.l5 D. m. f' -' Return. 15i. lo.S3 a. m.: 30s G s5 sIsn m sunday, ssC a. m -' "atertown.0.o s.i3. il.2s a. ni.: L I0 (. 10. 7xn m: Saiurday. 9.I5 T m. P' Return 6.'SO. 7..S5. 10 10 a. Ia.: 30 5gs Rza D. m Satmday, aog p. TA. Ihomasion-sls. HE a. m.: 3..7. lO r. rra. sup day. s.l0 a. m- ' NA Return, 7-5s iOs7 a. m.: s.ls. ss, n m sunday, $50 p. m. f -''' Torringion-s4S. Il.l7 a. m; az. 7Io T.. m: sur Return, 7.3l. Io.Os a. m. I4a. 83s b. m. sunday, S-a6 p. m.
 wnstcd-S4S HE a- m.; ss7. 2. 10 p. 5,,.: Sunday 9.lD a. m. ' As Return, IS, aao a. m. 1..o. GIG 9. m: Sun. day. S.O0 D. m-
 O. M. SHEPARD. General supt.
 IT HAMPSTEAD. Gen, ral Pass. Agent.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
PLAYS AND ACTORS.

Willie Edouin is running the Strand theatre in London.
 Creston Clarke is going is going to star as Hamlet ill the American provinces
 It is rumored that Mary Anderson is en- gagged, this time to Edwin A. Abbey, the artist and illustrator.
 Next season Manager Mack will inaugu- rate new idea and has secured four stars to support Robert Downing
 Sol Smith Russell has decided not to retire from the stage to be plumber He will sacrifice wealth to art.
 Little Lausanne, on Lake Geneva, has one of the largest schools of music ill Europe. It has 313 pupils this term.
 Louis Aldrich sails for Europe April 21. He will join his family at Paris, France, and return to this country in July.
 George Fawcett Rowe, the dram atist and great "Micawber" of the stage, is slightly lamed by recent touch of paralysis.
 Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" has been set to music by Goddard and will be sung ill Paris at the Opera Comique
 The Booth-Barrett company recently Jumped" from San Antonio to Fl Paso, 71O miles, ill fourteen hours by special train.
 Louis Aldrich opens the fall season of the new Broadway theatre, New York city, Sept. 5, with his new play, ''The Kaffir Dia- mond."
 The dramatization of A. c. Gunther's novel, "Mr. Barnes of New York;" was re- gently performed for copyright purposes in London.
 Louis Aldrich, of My Partner' fame, is going to visit Paris this spring; Minnie Palmer will go to London, and the usual crowd of actors will spend their vacations on the other side.
 Another new theatre, devoted to English opera, is to be built in London. MT. w. s. Gilbert is also going to have another theatre, probably near Charing Cross.
 Marie Roze, the sometime lovely, though portly, prima donna, will begin her Ameri- can tour in New York in the fall. After singing in San Francisco she will return to England by way of Australia.
 ''Around the World in Eighty Days," has been revived at Chicago by Bolossy Kiralfy. A feature of the production is an automatic ballet, wherein Henry Irving, Mrs. Langtry, Henry Dixey and Sara Bernhardt are repre- sents1 ill character.
 Helen Barry will produce her new play, ''Held Asunder," at the Prince of Wales, London, April g. The piece will be presented with the same cast that is to be seen at the opening of Miss Barry's American engage ment next September
 Lilli Lehmann of Wagner opera fame, has worn blonde wigs so continuously on the stage that two-third of her admirers think she is a blonde, but she is an uncommonly dark brunette, with hair turning becomingly and prematurely gray.
 Mr. Wilson Barrett is going to revive that picturesque old play, 'Belphegor, the Moun- tebank," at the Globe theatre in London. He has had the play revised and altered somewhat. He will act as Belphegor and Miss Eastlake will be the Mountebanl1s wife
 Sol Smith Russell will not retire from the stage, as has been reported. His season closes at Erie, Pa, March IS, and if suitable arrangements can be made he will play a Pacific slope engagement in the spring Next season he will have new comedy by B. E. Kidder.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
LAUNCHED AND AFLOAT.

The oldest convention on record will undoubtedly be that of the life prisoners in the Ohio penitentiary, which IS to be held shortly. There will be no going out between the sessions for refreshments and no trouble about arranging excursion rates on the different railroads.
 There is very little nonsense about Hes ter Morris of Wyoming territory. She IS the first woman appointed Justice of the Peace in the United States. Justice Nor ris has square jaw and determined phiz. When she gives decision there IS no appeal, and anybody who kicks is at once med S20 for contempt.
 John Farrell had courted an Illinois woman for eighteen years. When he fin ally decided that the time had come for them to part, she flung the swil pail after him and broke his hip, and the jury who tired the case returned a verdict of "not gulIty' without leaving their seats.
 In the pocket of man found frozen to death ill the last Dakota blizzard, was all article cut from d newspaper, signed by the dead mans own name, glvlng five in fallible indications that the winter would be warm and open, with not enough snow ill Dakota to cover the wheat.
 Mlcrophones are made so powerful now that they cause the footsteps of a fly to sound like the heavy tramp of Texas congressman. John Sherman, who keeps one slapped against hls ear, says he can almost near hls presidential boom grow.
 They are going to have an election soon in Little Rock, Ark, and local paper tersely Senses the situation as follows : ''tuur intelligent, honest men WHO can keep sober, are wanteu as aldermen."
 The special messenger boys formed d ''trust' Ill New IOrk uurllg the stOin, and had no use tor a customer uuieSS 50 a trip Was la4u them.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
NY. .&N.E. Railroad Time Table,

Trains Leave Waterbury as Follows: Boston-7.S 90 m, l. 340pm
 Return s.3O m. 3 3pm. Proyidence-7.3O n m: loo asopm
 Return. g i5 a. m.; 3 90 E. lT. New IOrk-s00 a. m.: l55pm m
 Return, s5i a. m.; 3.SS D. m. Worcester-7.sO a- m.: 100 D. m.
 Return. 645 s.3O a. In Norwich-..90 n. n: LOO sS0pm m
 Return sS5, l0.4s a. m.; S.sS D. m Kew L"ndon-?.3o a. m: loo. 3.lopm
 Return, '.'0, loo5 a m-; s-co ?. m. Putnam-7.3O a. m.: loo 3sOp.m.
 Return. sl5 l0.s a m Willimantic-7.3O a. m: Loo 3aonm
 Return 9lo l1-ss a. m; 5,s5 p. n Springheld-7 90 300 a. m: $40 pm.
 Return 7.30 a. m: 3. % D. m New liaven-Nia Plainville 7sO n .Inon M
 Return, il-0i a. m, zoo P. m. Hartford-7.SO, goo a m: 100 g. 10. soDnm
 return o'SS, io3o a. m-: 1885 4I.. GAO D. m Kew BIitainI:-so Britain 90 goo a m; loo. s.4o 500 D. m
 heturil. 6-ao. ll-o5 a. m: I@. S3 sss 65s nm Plainville-7.sO. 800 a. m: loo. I .o surn
 helurn' '.o'' li-iS a. m; l.0s. s.5. EOS p. m Forcsivillc-7.S0, 800 a. m: 3.4O soon m
 Return 7is, H. a. m; fl .d5. I.5s f7la pm. bristol.a:So am VI. a. m: loo s.lc. sooI. m.
 Return 7ls, ll-s6 a. m: I.l4. 50. .rs ID m Terryyle-7.SU 500 a. m: loo. 2. 10. s.,on.m
 Return. 1-So, liS7 a. m.; l.25 5.lI. 7-as D. m "ateryiile-7.So a. m: $40. 500 Op m.
 Return ''4s' li-s' a. m-' , z 7.s5 3. m Union City-fs.o0 a. m.: fa.0s. C53spu9
 Return, fs.I2 a. m; fla To- f. ls p n Towantic-fS.o0 a. m: f2. .05. f5ss pm.
 Return, fsSs, fll-52 a. m; f7.3s p. m. Southford-s0O a. m.: I.55. s.05 5.ss pm
 Return. s-2S. n-50 a m.: r. 26. .:sl D. m Hawleyville-S0O a. m-; i.s5. s05 53s m
 Return. 7.5i. 9.55. ll.59 a. m: 7.oi D m. Danbury-So0 a. m.; l.55. a05 5as pu
 Return, 40. s.i0. II .i5 a. m; 6.5O D. m Brewsters-soo a. m.; 155. 205 p.m.
 Return, 6.i5, I1.s5 a. n.: 6.sO p m Fishki on Hudson-S.OO a. m.: I55rrn.
 Return, l005 a. m: sos D. m
 A c. KENDALL. Genl Pass Agent Boston. c. H. PLATT, supf. Hartford.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
to Contractors .-SeWerS.

SEALED PROPOSALS for the construction of R seWe", and apRurtenances in Burnham, River streets will be received at the office of the board of sewer commissioners of the city of Waterbury, March, 1888, at which hour the bids will be pub licly opened and read:
 Each proposal shall be signed by the bidder, and accompanied by bond of S3OOOo condl- toned for the execution of the contract within the time specified in this notice i" case the bid be accepted. The sureties of the bond, both for the proposal and the contract, must be satisfactory to the board of sewer commissioners No bio will be considered which has not responsible SuretieS upon its accompanying bond certified check for ~3OO. % or it's equivalent ill value payable to the order of the city of Water bond if the W certiicate and bond for that case ar properly filled out Blank forms for the purpOS, will be furnished on application to the city engi- neer.
 The person or persons to whom the contracts may be awarded will be required to attend at this office with the s"reties offered by him or them, and execute the contracts within five days iron. the date of the award, and in case of failure ol neglect so to do he or they will be considered t. have abandoned it, and as in default to the city of Waterbury,
 The right to decline any or all proposals is re- served, if deemed for the interests of the city. The engineers estimate of work and materials, by which the bids will be tested, is as follows, viz:
 CONTRACT NO i. 200 :: '' sft in, xa ft Gin, 50 '' '' 1 it 10 7 It Tn, $40 :. ' IS inch vitritied pipe sewer. 1000 '' u 8 " 13 ManhOles.
 2 Catch Basins.
 3 2Receiving Basins.
 CONTRACT NO 2.
 Adams, Hawkins and Naples streets. APO lineal feet of inch vitrited pipe sewer
 Manholes.
 These quantities are to be considered as only approximate and given merely as basis of com pariSon The board expressly reserves the right of increasing or diminishing the same as may b, deemed necessary by the engineer.
 The proposals must be made upon blanks fur sdered as informal, which are not in all respects in conformity with this notice . , forms of proposal and all information may be ob- tained at office of city engineer.
 By order of the Board of Sewer Commissioners,
 F. FLOYD WELD,
 City Engineer.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-20
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1888.
National Democratic Convention.

The national democratic committee hay ing met in the city of Washington on the 22d day of February, 1888, has appointed Tuesday, the 9th day of June next at noon as the time chosen and the city of St Louis as the place of holding the national demo- cratic convention.
 Each state is entitled to representation therein equal to double the number of it's senators and representatives in the con gress of the United States. The Demo- crats of each organized territory and the District of Columbia are invited to send two delegates, subject to the decision of the convention as to their admission. All Democratic conservative citizens of the United States, irrespective of past political associations and differences, who can unite with us in the effort for a pure, economi- cal and constitutional government, are cor dially invited to join in sending delegates to the convention.
 WILLIAM H. BARNUM
 FREDERICK o. PIERCE, Secretary