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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25
The Father and His Sons.

A father whose three sons we're re-
.nowned for their piety, virtue, truth
fulness and brotherly love was one day
boasting to an old man of his pride,
when the latter said:
You have not yet tempted them"
"Howpn tstl SOD
"Your property has not been di-
vided."
"Oh, as to that, we shall soon see."
He called in his boys and said that
he proposed to divide his estate into
three equal shares, and he knew that
all would be pleased.
"But as l am the eldest | should
have more than a thirdr' exclaimed
the first.
"And as cared for you in sickness
my share should be increasedw ex-
claimed the second.
"And I'll raise a row if Ihave got to
share up with these two chumpsr'
shouted the third. and in the riot which
ensued the old man was knocked out
by foul.
MoRAL-Nothing tries character like
someone else's money,-Detroit Free
Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Viscount Cranbrook, lord presi.
dent of the English Council, prides
himself on never having through his
long life read novel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is doctor
of medicine, and has made more money
out of the practice of that profession
than he has by the sale of his numer-
GUS and popular books.
The popular writer for the juve.
nile magazines whom the little folks
love as Margaret Sidney" is known
outside of literature as Mrs. Daniel
Lothrop, wife of the Boston publisher.
Mrs. Margaret j. Sangster, the
poet and reader for the Harpers, is a
woman above medium height, gentle
hammered, smooth -browed, unruffied,
very pleasant to look upon. You
would call her at first glance well-bal-
anced, and repeat the phrase when you
knew her better. .4
Mr.. Whittier has recently said to
a friend that there were drawbacks to
his enjoyment of the scenes he so hap
PLY described in "Snowbound. They
recall to him his sufferings from cold,
the snow beating through the crevices
Of his fathers house and falling on his
head. His lack of robust health he
attributes to the privations of those
days.
One OF the bright women of this
country is Miss Cora Benneson, OF
Quincy, Ill. She was graduated with
high honors at the University Of Mich
igan, and afterward received the de-
gree of LII. b. Gun, laude from the same
institution. She has been around the
world, most of the way alone, and has
spent some time roughing it in the
Rocky Mountains. She now holds a
fellowship in Byrn Mawr College,
Pennsylvania. g4},<A~
The well-known poem, "Curfew
Shall Not Ring Tonight" was COM
posed by Rose Hartwick, of Litchfield,
Mich, at the age of sixteen. After
arranging and altering several times
she finally threw it aside as unsatis-
factory. Three years afterwards, be-
ing i'll and pressed for "copy" by the
Detroit Commercial AdUertiser, she
sent the cast-off "Curfew," with an
apology for its inferiority. 1t immedi-
ately became famous, greatly to her
surprise, but not one cent to her Pc
cuniary advantage.
AT the age of thirteen Bryant had
become somewhat famous as poet,
and when between the ages of four
teen and fifteen he wrote the we'll
known Embargo" he was recog-
nized as something extraordinary, and
people were fain to doubt its author.
ship. Aided by the beauty of the
scenery surrounding his home, his
poetical genius grew rapidly, and
soon the Berkshire hills were immor-
talized in "Thanatopsis," "as rock.
ribbed and ancient as the sum-" This
poem, written when the poet was but
nineteen, was, like the Embargo" :"
seemingly so far beyond his years.
that it was sometimes credited to the
poets father, DR.. Bryant.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25
A wOMAN'S FIRST VOTE.


The Sensations Experienced by Lady
Who for the First Time Exercised Her
, Rights at the Polls. 4
1. ! have just enjoyed a new experience
--an old one to many of my readers,
have no doubt but an entirely new one
to me, writes Miss Jeanette Glider,
editor of the Critic, in the SATURDAY
Gazette. A few days since | cast my
first vote! My sensations were peculiar
on this momentous occasion, and |
could not tell exactly whether felt as
though suffrage had at last been ex-
tended to women, or whether had
just come OF age.
The way ofit was this: In the suburb
where | sleep at night and eat my
breakfast in the morning, l am mod
est property owner, and property own
ers in this district, regardless of race,
color or sex, are allowed to cast vote
at the election of school trustees. On
this generous law | made my debut as
voter. The occasion was an exciting
one, for there were two regular tickets,
and a third made up by some disaffected
parties. 1u
Usually, it is merely the more intelli-
gent candidates against the less enlight-
ened, or, to put it in another form, those
who have had the advantage of school
ing against those who have not. But
on this occasion there was division in
the former camp, and the ticket was
split, the name Of one man being sub
stituted for that of another, the rest
being the same. OF course. more of
the property owners from my end Of
the township were going ovote the lat
ter ticket So the question with us was
to keep solid on the regular ticket, for
fear split would give the unsch ooled a
chance. Feeling ran high, and the vote
was just double that polled last year. !
never felt my own Importance more
than when the friends of both parties
began paying me attention. For the
time being ! felt quite a belle. Two
carriages were at my service to be
driven to the poles, and for while ]
experienced all the sensations of a boo
die anlerman-minus the Doodle.
The polling was to take place at a
school house mile and half away,
] went over in stage chartered for the
purpose, half of whose passengers were
property owning ladies' each with her
ballot clasped tightly in her hand. As
we went about picking up dilatory vot
ers. we arrived at the school house af
ter the proceedings had begun. The
place was packed, aud the atmosphere
something like. imagine. that of the
black hole of Calcutta mixed with the
odors OF kerosene oil and bad whisky
The kid-gloved element was well up Il
the front, while the horny handed som
of toll hung about the back door
There was beer saloon at the foot 0
the school yard.) There was SOM
little disorder during the meeting. bu
considering the character of part of tn
free and Independent voters. and tn,
violence of their feelings in the matter
they behaved very well.
When the bslloting began there wa
rush for the ballot-box, but the chair
man of the meeting was a man of dc
cided character, and he would not to-
crate much roughness. When he sue
gested that it would be more courteou
to make room for the ladies to pass u
to the box, every man there drew bac
at once, and the ladies marched bold
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25
NOTES ON VOTING.

r THERE are those who doubt the expe-
diency of allowing females to vote, but
very few who question the justice of it.
Elihu D. Hayes.
As men often declare that women are
the "salt of the EARTH" the quicker
some of this preserving element is used
to purify politics the better. Geo. r.
Scott.
FOURTEEN ladies of Scio, n Y, pub
lished card in the Wellsville Reporter,
to the effect that having read an article
in that paper wherein the question is
raised whether or not the women of the
country wish to vote. 1--WE, the UNDER
signed, with great deal of pleasure and
emphasis reply, most assuredly we do"
My belief in the right of women to
the exercise of the elective franchise
grows with the growth of my study
and experience. l did not join the
suffragists under the impulse of easy
good-nature or mistaken ambition, but
from conviction of duty which | have
never seen the smallest reason to
abandon or regret Julia Ward
Hosce.
JUSTICE requires that women should
vote, in "a government of the people,
by the people. and for the people" de-
irving its just powers from the ''con-
sent OF the governed" One half of the
people can not justly deprive the other
half of suffrage, and at the same time
tax them. Taxation without represen-
tation is anti-American and unjust
Judge James Baker.
WHILE mothers give the hey-day of
their lives to bring up sons for the
State, surely fathers should make it
their duty to see that our towns and cit
les are safe for them to live in. guarded
by wise laws from the present Dangers
and temptations II they have not the
power to do this. then place the ballot
in the handso of women. the reserve force
in society, ever ready to unite with good
men to enforce Law and order Eilza-
beth Cads Stanton.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25
SCHOOL. AND CHURCH.

In the Austral Islands, in admin
istering the Lords Supper, the mis-
sionaries use bread-fruit, steamed and
cut up into cubes, and for the wine,
fresh orange juice.
Tobacco is to be shut out at the
Chambersburg Pa. J Academy. No boy
will be admitted who uses it in any
way. Boarding and day pupils will
be treated alike. The ground taken is
that tobacco produces baneful effects
on the minds and health of the stu
dents.
Small Western colleges often have
difficulties in their career One col
lege in Indiana has had various trials.
Its entire faculty has been arrested and
convicted of malicious trespass some
of its faculty have INDUCED in libel
cases, and now its furniture has been
seized by local creditors.
There are forty-three summer as
semblies modelled after the original
one at Chautauqua, NY. Of these
assemblies forty-one are located in
twenty-one different States, one in Can
ada, and one in England. All follow
the Chautauqua outline of study.
Ohio. and Michigan are better pro-
vided with public-school libraries than
any other States. The former has 19l
and the latter l54 volumes for every 100
pupils in average attendance. In the
Southern States no public-school librar-
les of any consequence are reported.
The new Catholic university at
Washington has 100000 in funds,
with 100000 more subscribed; 65S
acres of property paid for; the divinity
building-$175,0 ,000-ready to be paid
for as the contracts call for payment;
chapel and library provided for by a
donor, and eight divinity chairs en-
dowed in perpetuity. a a4
AS an illustration of the fact that
school attendance during epidemics
largely contribute to the spread of in
fectious diseases, it is stated that dur
ing the late serious outbreaks of diph-
iberia in the ironstone villages OF
England the closing Of school proved
in every instance an effective means
of bringing each local epidemic to an
end. altstf
The growing cosmopoitanism Of
Boston University is strikingly shown
in the fact that its seven hundred and
seventy-fve matriculants last yeal
came from nineteen foreign and from
thirty American States and Terri
tories. Among them were bearers o.
university degrees from no less thar
seventy-one American and foreign
universities, colleges and professional
schools. The instruction was giver
by one hundred and twenty professors
and lecturers.
"A little box came into missionary
collection inscribed with the singular
words: "'Tis But" 1t was from /;
lady who had never felt that she coul(
do much for missions. But she hat
been accustomed to buy agood man.
things for herself which she did no
absolutely need, saying: "'Tis but
dollar or "'1is but trihe." Thi
year she determined, when so tempted
to put her "'tis butts" into the mis-
sionary box; and it surprised her t.
find that they amounted to one hun
dred and fifty dollars.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
SHALL WOMEN vOTE2

Tell us, honored prilgrlm fathers,
Who through stormy days and nights
Sought our shores In frost and winter
In the quest OF human rights;
Had you then no pilgrim mothers,
Seeking here for freed ON dearl
Was it only for your brothers
And your sons you labored here?
Men of Concord Boston Harbor,
Lexington and Bunker heights,
Were you for your sex contendng?
Was 1t not for human rightss
Was your blood thought any richer
Where the fearful work was done
Than the blood OF Molly Pitcher
On the field OF Bennington
Did the founders of our Nation
Shirk our patriot mothers cause,
When they claimed for all creation
Equal rights before the laws?
When they claimed that paying taxes
Gave the taxed the right to vote,
Did they mean should be included
Only those who wear coaty
II King George were such tyrant,
AaAihB tiOli thCth NAiAt
Then to tax defenseless women
Made them greater tyrants still.
To affirm this is to SANDER
Men whose memory should be bright;
Sauce is for both goose and gander;
Right to them was hu,naa right.
Do we not expect her service?
Must she not obey the lawss
Must she serve, and not her ballot
Be allowed to plead her cause!
Slaves are those who toll for others
And can not express their will;
Shall we on our wives and mothers
Practice human slavery still?
Galley slaves, II true and faithful,
Were allowed 10 guide the boat;
Has not woman's faithful service
Fairly earned the guiding voter
Must She now submit in silence
While the ship of State goes down?
II she comes not to the rescue,
VIII she wear themartyr's crown?
Demagogues invite destruction.
Ruin follows on our track,
Right ignored and justice tramped,
Vengeance standing at our back
Wrongs in finance. wrongs in morals,
Politics buzZard's nest,
Doodle jobs and base corrupt II,
Form muddy pool at best.
What we need for purifying
Is saving moral sense;
Vital TO our Nation dying
Is the power to call it hence.
Woman from her lowly station
Can undo our sorry fix;
From its wicked desperation
She can bring out politics.
No more revenue from SHINING,
Licensed sin Nations shame!
Virtues known at our beginning
Seem TO linger round her name.
Woman comes; raise up the scuttle,
Let her help to steer the boat,
Give our deck moral scrubbingl
This we get In woman's vote.
H. d. Whitcomb, IN lP0man's JoMR,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25
A SHATTERED ILLUSION.

know not II 'twere chance or fate
That brought the maid and me together;
Attdtted hots one night at eight
Our talk began about the weather Nsa
We had no introduction-no; aAA
But this displays no lack OF breeding,
Our seats were next each other, so
II was natural proceeding.
she dressed 10 stunning English style;
Her hair was neatly coiled and braided.
"Ah' blessed" thought 'is Brtain's isle
II home for eyes SO softly shadedm
Our rambling chat that waxed apace
Was interspersed with frequent '.fdhacys.
III not deny the fetching grace
Of readily slipped betwixt her glances.
still something nameless made me doubt
Her being truly, bluely Briton,
Yet when one little phrase slipped out,
With horror was my bosom smitten
II guess" She could not call It back,
And laughed to hide her sweet confusion.
On, lovely Anglo-man
10 shatter thus my fond illusion
-BisseH Clinton, In HarDsf's Magazine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25

Gates is sleepin' in the Palmyry
buryin' ground; likely as not the baby
has growed up-leastwise the Han'b bal
md St. 10 has; every think is differ
ent now-every think has changed
every think except human natur, md
that is the same it allus has been,
and it allus will be, i reckon. Chi
cnoo Nefrs
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-25

Historian Bancroft visited Mrs
Polk at Nashville, Tenn, not long ago
and borrowed the late Presidents state
papers. He returned them to her few
days ago with note in which he said:
81 hope my life will be spared to COM
plete my history to the close of your
husbands Administration. That will
close my life work. | am engaged
with corps of type-writers and clerks.
and beliela- win be able 10 accom-
ulish the task."
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-07-31

Sergeant Frank Farley of the Dayton
Soldiers Home is visiting friends in
this city.
The work of laying the new floor in
Second street market was comp leted
this afternoon.
A Jackson Lime and Coal Compauy's
wagon broke down at 9th and Orange
SITS. this afternoon.
The street railway extension in the
Ninth Ward has been paved as far as
18th st. on Claymont.
Day and Thompson will be Smyrna's
battery to-day at Dover. Dover's
battery is Hodson and McGee.
The wawasettGun Club will have its
regular monthly shoot next Saturday,
at the range, beyond 18th st. bridge.
The plate glass for the large window
of Crosby q Hills new store arrived
this afternoon and will be put in place
tomorrow morning,
The Delaware Fire Company's horse,
which was injured on July 4, is grow
ing better. It will probably be in SER
vice ia a few days.
There were II members of the Will
mingtonWheel Club at Chester Heights
on Sunday. The IA miles were ridden
in about one hour and 10 minutes.
Mundorf's Senate Base Ball Club will
play the Newark team at Newark next
Saturday. The Mundorf battery will
be Chapel, late Of Buffalo, N. Y, and
Hanly.
Henry NJ. Barlow's commission az
collector Of the port of Wilmington,
was a long time coming, it having
been sent to Wilmington, Illinois, by
mistake.
A horse attached to a farm wagon
belonging to Charles Jones of PencadeI
hundred ran away this morning, on
Lancaster avenue, breaking off the left
front wheel before it was stopped.
The butchers of the north side OF
Second street markat won a game OF
base ball from the south side butchers
yesterday afternoon by score of % Ia
S. Miller and Geary were the north
side battery and Croven and Reed the
south side.
The premium list and rules and
regulations Of the 18th grand exposi-
ton of the Agricultural Society OF
Delaware, printed in a small pamphlet
can be obtained at the Journal Office
The fair will be held at Dover, Del.
September "a, 25, 26, q, 2S and 80.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-07-31
IN TIE scALnINa vArs


tho air, tail foremost The hog does not un-
derstand It, never did and never will,
but perhaps tho reader would like TO know
that here begins the series of wonderful pro-
cesses by which steam is set TO numbering
living things and cutting up their carcasses.
Chicago could never do her butchering in the
old fashioned way, and so she has brought
machinery to her aid. The chain about the
leg of this porker whose fate has enlisted our
interest runs overhead about a pulley con-
nected with a steam shaft, and man stand
ing up there on a platform moves lever and
the chain begins winding round the pulley.
As the animal rises and the weight Of his
overfed self causes the steel TO cut into his
flesh, O series Of squeals issue from his throat,
but his cries are unheeded. In a trice tho
chain is taken from his foot, and he hangs
upon hook which slides along an iron bar.
This bar is inclined downward from the pen,
and as the porker slides along he finds he has
company in his misery, if that is any salts
faction TO him. Three or four of his fellows
hang there with their heads downward, and
from the throat Of the one farthsst along the
red blood is flowing in a great stream. Here,
too, stands the sticker in his glory, his long
knife in his hand and his clothing as red as
n rose. His feet arc ankle deep in blood,
and his ears are continually assailed
by the death cries of his victims,
but 10 falters not No man more calm or
methodical than he. Count three and his
arm has made quick, firm motion, a leisurely
lunge, and then from the fat throat Of a hog
he draws his blade, the blood hotly following
it. Count three more, and his arm is in
motion again. His left hand grasps tho ear
Of another pig, and his right never stops with
the knife The victims are absolutely help
less, and they slide down one after another
with their huge threats exposed in as fair a
mark as sticker ever wanted. About as fast
as an athlete puts up a heavy dumb bell the
killer moves his knife forward and back,
each movement costing a life and adding a
score or SO Of dollars to the wealth Of the
country.
OF course it is a horrible scene, when you
first look at it You want to get away as
soon as possible, there is so much blood, and
the beasts squeal so pitifully, and escaping
steam makes the whole place misty and
gloomy. But on Jour second visit you find
de- scene rather attractive It becomes posi-
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-07-31
[special Correspondence
addressed

"Well," said Senator Hiscock, 'that which
has made the most lasting impression on my
mind is the manner in which you Chicago
people kill your hogs have Just returned
from visit TO tho stock yards, and it is the
most wonderful thing l ever saw.
Chicago is indeed proud Of her hog killers.
She has the champion pig sticker Of the
world, man Of the name Of Murphy. If
you have never seen Murphy at his work you
have missed one Of the soul stirring scenes
with which cultured Chicago abounds He
is not big man, this pig killer and he
doesn't look so very wicked, but he is brave
and bloody, and his courage is always
screwed to the sticking point. The farms Of
the northwest furnish him victims; thou
sands Of men are busily engaged bringing
the sacrifices to his slaughter; many thou
sands more care for his CHASTITY slain. His
keen knife is the dividing line between agri-
culture and commerce 1t sends dollars
rolling in golden streams back to tho farms.
and starts train loads and ship loads Of food
on their way TO the worlds hungry.
am going to write a letter about pig kill
ing. II certainly is an honest and useful if
not proud calling. No man has done moro
to build up Chicago or 70 bring prosperity
TO the farmers Of the country, than this man
Murphy, modest ana lnuuslriOus man, VINO
has killed his 5000 or 4,COO hogs a day for the
last fifteen years.
When the victims come from the country
in railway cars and they do come at the rate
of 80, 900 or 10000 a day in the season, they
are first driven into the pens of tho great
stock yards, and there the buyers for the
packing houses, as abattoirs are called in
Chicago take look at them and finally buy
them Of the drover or his commission agent.
cannot stop TO talk about these yards,
which cover a square mile Of ground and
have cost to date more than 5000 000-we
must follow the hog. His new owner drives
him and his fellows over an elevated road
from the yards to the pens attached to the
slaughter houses, down into the valley of the
shadow of death. Tho victims 60 from pen to
pen, urged on by small boys with sharp sticks,
until they reach pen in which two OF three
brawny men stand. Here the bloody work
hegins. These men have in their hands
chains at the ends Of which are slip loops
They grab hog by one Of his hind legs, and
before the animal has any notion of his
danger the cold steel is fast about his foot
In another second he finds himself rising in