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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
TRUE LOVE.

A poor little stranger. feeble and slight,
l came TO them one oventful night
They took me and kept me with tenderest
care;
They loved me and kissed me and called me
fair;
Tney never questioned, nor paused to weigh
Iheir precious favors from day to day;
But with humble service that never tired
All things were given and naught required.
Many song and sonnet
I'd since have written upon it,
with wonder great at my happy fate,
II any one else had done it,
But Pa and Ma Could baby guess
That pas and mas would ever do lessf
In the restless years that since have flown
They have made my hopes and joys their own; !;
With gentle words they have stiled my grief
AND sent my sorrow sweet relief
They claim as little and give as free
AS when leaned on my mothers knee,
For though past all words they hold me dear
They ask not even to have me near.
Many song and sonnet
Would have written upon 1t
In the melting mood of gratitude
II any one else had done 1t.
But Pa and Ma. Why, the truth to say,
I'm still their baby at this late day.
An, well, III Td been q lone little waif
With none TO kiss me and keep me safe,
And any one then had stopped to take
And feed and clothe me for charity's sake,
To polish my manners and send me to school,
And ira me in all things by compass and
rule,
To blame what was foolish and praise what
was good
And love me little as well as they could
II any one thus had done 1t,
might have sung In sonnet
Some goodly share of the tender care
Which they would have spent upon it
But Pa and Ma Does any one think
could gauge their love with pen and ink,
-Eudora s. Bumstead, In Youths Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
A Saving Measure.

It will hardly be claimed that law can
do nothing toward discouraging vice or
encouraging virtue. This being the
case, it is not wonderful that women
who find the law exerting a direct in
fluence for harm upon their children
should wish they had the power them
selves to exert direct influence upon
the law. 1t is possible to strain legis-
lation too far in the effort to check
vice, and 1t is probable that women, If
the making of the laws were committed
entirely to them, would err in that di-
rection. In the matter of discouraging
immortality by law, the tendency of
women is too severe, as that of men is
to be too lax. By letting them both
vote, we should be likely to arrive at
the golden mean.-Alice Stone Black
oUell, IN Christian Union.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
WONDERFUL THINGS.

A Russian Peasants Ridiculously- -Primi-
tive idea of Railroads.
When the railway was first operated
between Moscow and st. Petersburg
it was an object of great terror to the
superstitious peasantry of Northern
Russia, who thought there must GER
tainly be some witchcraft or magic
in an invention which could make
train of heavy cars run along without
horses at the rate of twenty miles an
hour, when the best speed of wagons to
which they were accustomed was
only three miles an hour, or four at
the very outside.
Some of them would not even go
within sight of train, and made the
sign of the cross whenever they heard
one rattle past Others peeped timidly
over the palisade of the railway sta
ton to catch a glimpse of the fearful
smoke-breathing, creature, which they
believed to be living monster, and
when the steam-whistle sounded they
cried out: "Hear him screaming! He's
hungry and wants to eat somebody!"'
and took to their heels at once.
But little by little this terror began to
wear away. The village priests were
seen to go to and fro by train, and the
simple country folks thought that what
they did could not be wrong BY de-
grees the peasants themselves began
to try the " smoke wagons" too, and
one day an old man named Ivan Petro-
witch Masloff, who had never been out
of his own village till then, made up
his mind to go and have look at
"Mother Moscow" which all Russian
peasants reverence as the finest city in
the world, and the real capital of Rus
sia.
Now it happened that the down ex-
press and the up express met each
other at the station of Bologoe (mid-
way between Moscow and st. Peters.
burg), where the passengers of both
trains stopped for half an hour to have
supper. Among the crowd of people
that go out of the other train Ivan sud
denly recognized an old friend. The
two went into the refreshment-room
together, had chat over their steam
ing tumblers of tea and lemon juice
and then Ivan, without thinking Of
what he was doing, got into his friends
train instead of his own, and was soor
travelling back toward the spot whenc,
he had started.
| Their talk went on merrily fol
awhile, for Ivan's friend never thought
of asking the old man which way ht
was going. But presently Ivan begal
to grow silent and grave, as if ponder
ing something which puzzled him yer.
much; and at length, after sitting fo1
nearly five minutes without uttering |
word, he suddenly broke out:
"Ah, Pavel Yurievitch " paul, sol
of George), "what wonderful thin.
these railroads are, to be sure! Her
am / going to Moscow, and here ar
you going to st. Petersburg, and We
we're both travelling in the same carl
-DaUid Ker, in Harper's Magazine.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
A MONUMENT TO ADAM.
The Good and Bad Traits of the Father
of Mankind Carefully Scrutinized.

of Mankind Carefully Scrutinized.
Some Congressman has announced
his intention to introduce bill provid-
ing for the erection of a monument to
Adam. 1t will be a sad day for Adam
when this scheme is accomplished.
Respect for the father of the human
race has heretofore prevented any
very close scrutiny of the life and
character of Adam, but an effort to
build monument to his memory will
be likely to set Investigations on foot
that may result in placing that gentle
mans reputation in very unfavora-
BILE light
One might think that after lapse
of so many years the vail of charity
might well be thrown over one who,
however much he may have erred,
might truthfully claim that he had no
human precedents to guide him, and
that all would cheerfully concur in a
movement to perpetuate the memory,
through lasting marble or enduring
bronze, of the first man of his time, OF
any other time that we have any rec
ord of. But such is likely not to be
the fact. Adam must take his chances
with all other men to whom monu.
ments are erected.
How much this is due to cankering
envy and how much to an honest desire
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
Oh, the pity of it!' said Hester. Mrs.
l.. B. Bacon, in Ohio Farmer.
A BUSINESS WOMAN.
An 0dd Industry and the Reward of Fore
thought and Enterprise.


An 0dd Industry and the Reward of Fore
thought and Enterprise.
Some thirty years ago a young girl
was working in factory in Connecu-
cut. 1t was just before the tide of for
eign immigration had set in to the fac
tories, and she was one of very nice
circle of American girls, who had a
pleasant life among themselves and a
very friendly relation with their en-
ployers.
She went away, however, and finally
married shoe manufacturer in Lynn.
Her husband was of an inventive turn
of mind, and made many improvements
in machinery for making shoes. One
day, when in toy store, Mrs. IS at
tention was drawn to some dolls shoes.
She examined them carefully, and said:
Il think / could make those" She
bought a pair, took them home, and
consulted with her husband. He thought
he could adapt his improved machinery
to the tiny workmanship, and accord
ingly set about it, The result was sue
cessful. For some reason, they went to
New Jersey to set up their factory. The
wife took the entire charge of the busi-
ness Of the concern, and made it very
profitable Her husband died some
years ago, and she has carried it on
alone, with increasing success. She is
now possessed of handsome fortune,
and, as she is growing old, she feels that
she must soon give up the business, but
would like to put it in the hands OF some
other woman, who will learn the work
thoroughly and be equally faithful
to it.
This is small industry seemingly,
but as every child must have adolf, and
as every doll must be in the fashion and
have pair of shoes, it is evident that
our big country requires large num-
Der in one year. The amount she
makes is fifty thousand pair in a year.
She makes all varieties-slippers, boots,
walking-boo with heels and without,
and the sizes are regularly graduated
as in ladies' shoes. She has had the
field nearly to herself, but there is be-
ginning to be some competition from
France, so that, although she has never
been pronounced suffragist, she will
probably feel as If she would like to
have a vote ON the question of the
tariff.
Why will so many intelligent wcmen
waste strength and time in complaining
of low wages, instead OF looking around
diligently to see what the world wants
to have done, and doing it with all their
might? Many woman would have
dressed her own children's dolls; she
saw what other people wanted, which
is the way to make fortune. = Woman'S S
Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
HUMOROUS.

---Blugs says the "honest farmer :"
displays chicanery when he feeds his
summer boarders on tough chickens.
-" Were you troubled with ennui
while at sea?" he asked, airily.
"Well," said the Chicago girl, Il was
at first, but cracked ice relieved me
very much. y Ocean.
= Rev. DIR. Hall said every blade OF
grass was a sermon. The next day he
was amusing himself by clipping his
lawn, when parishoner said: That's
right, doctor, cut your sermons short. "
Collector ION his tenth visiD-
".Look-a-here; how many more times
do you want me to call with this little
account" Bill Overdue" Why, man,
l don't care if you never call again. y
Life.
-"Onions split in halves will Absorb
smell of fresh paint" says an ex.
change. So will a bull fiddle drown
the sound of fageolette; but a mar
must have custard brains to like the
remedy.-New HaUea Netos.
Illus band" I've some bad news
my dear; that old bachelor brother oi
mine has failed; lost his entire fort
une." Wife-"Oh, John, how dread
full! and just as we had named the baby
after him. Poor little fellowl'-Har
per's Bazar.
Prince Pumpernickle: "Darline
Mees Elsie, / loaf you. Pemine. / an
not Won uf Shermany's richest princes
put haf four tousand thalers a year.
Miss Elsie: "Why, pa gives $1,000 I
year to our cook" Prince P: "Vell
marry me und l will do de cooking.
-7osoa Topics.
! -Algernon (waiting) g)-"Aw, say
Bobby, what does you'ah sistah thinl
of me anyway" Bobby" She say
she thinks you're just too nice to live
and - "Algernon (highly elated
"Yaasr' Bobby" An she can't Sc
why the authorities out of mercy don
have you shot. Judge.
Benevolent dame( Ito tramp)-"An
so you are always moving from on
section of the country to another?
should think home ties would ofte
make you halt" Tramp-"I'm ofte
lame an halt, mum, but it amt tn
home ties that does it; it's the railroa
ties. philadelphia Record.
-" Remember, Bridget" said Mis-
Clara, THAT | am out to every bod
but Mr.. Sampson. A little late
Bridget answered a ring at the doOl
"Who was it, Bridget" asked Mi:
Clara. Young Misther Beaunecaml
mum" Z" And did you say that wa
outa" "Yis; | sed yez were out
Iverv body but Misther Sampson
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
WOMEN OF WORTH.

Mrs. MATILDA b. CARsE has been
elected member of the Board of Edu-
cation of Cook County, ILL.,, I'D which
Chicago is situated.
Miss MARY A. RICE, graduate OF
the Kansas State University, is said to
be the first woman in that State to re-
ceive license as pharmacist.
Mrs. ORMIsToN CHANT, the little
English lady whose addresses on re-
formatory topics have stirred up so
much enthusiasm in this country, comes
honestly by her eloquence. She is a
great grand-niece of Edmund Burke.
MILE. ELISE LUQUIN has organized
in Lyons, France, classes for the COM
mercial and technical teaching of
young girls. These classes meet with
great success, and have had already
over five thousand two hundred pupils.
Mrs. ELIZA RUDoFF, of New Orleans,
has been for years the secretary of the
Louisiana State Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation. Her husband was q druggist,
and since his deaih she has carried on
the business successfully.
| DIR. MARY WILLIS has been admitted
to membership in the Philadelphia
Medical Society. The voting was done
quietly, but when the result was made
known, it is said that the physicians
present broke into loud and enthusi-
astic cheers over the success of their
sister in medicine.
ELLEN RUSSELL EMERSON, author of
"Indian Myths is said to be the first
woman chosen member of the Societe
de France, which includes in its men,
bership the most distinguished archa-
ologists in Europe. Mrs. Emerson is
now in Paris studying her speciality, the
Mexicans Indians, in the libraries and
museums.
/ Mrs. ELIZA r. SUNDERLAND, the
wife of Rev. ]. I. Sunderland, of Ann
Arbor, Mich. has preached occasional
ly for several years. During the past
season she has spoken in her husbands s
pulpit regularly every other Sunday
evening. giving series OF lectures on
the Bible. remarkable both for their ex-
tent OF Biblical learning and their
grasp Of the subject treated.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
Nothing Extraordinary.

This, ladies an gents" vocifer-
ated a menagerie orator in a small
town in Kentucky, " is the great Arab
ian dromedary, with two humps upon
his back instead of one, but the extra
hump will cost you nothing, He is
the Arabs beast Of burden. He fetches
and carries, while the Arab sits idly in
the sand, and Gmpressively). he can
go eight days without waterr'
"Only eight dsys!' was the general
exclamation, and then the crowd moved
on in search of something interesting.
NJ Y. World.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


George w. Childs has an extreme
" rare and valuable collection of man.
lscripts. One of the most interesting
IS that of Edgar Allan Poe's, "The
Murder in the Rue. Morgue.
In literature quotation is good
,nly when the writer whom follow
goes my way, and, being better mount
ID than |, gives me a cast, as we say;
out if l like the gay equipage SO well
rs to go out Of my road, had better
have gone afoot. Emerson.
Mrs. Lippincott, better known to
The world as Grace Greenwood, says
she never was out-and-Out woman
suffragist because she was afraid of
being called upon to make off-hand
speeches. "Then, again." she said the
other day, 81 had always so many
irons in the fire | burned my fingers
with many of them"
Isaac Henderson, author of "Aga-
tina Page" has an ideal home for a
literary man. 1t is in 1.-The Bottoms"
London park, in which no business
man can buy a foot of ground. By the
terms of the estate no person in vo-
cation which would invite intrusion,
as doctor, or dentist, or lawyer, can
secure residence in the park.
Mrs. Rives-Chandler is of very
indolent turn, and when she is not
hard at work at her writing-desk is
generally lolling in bed. Some guests
invited to visit at Castle Hill were
quite disappointed at discovering the
young genius in bed with novel SO
entertaining that she could scarcely be
persuaded to leave it. Her usual out
door dress in the country is Tam
O'Shanter cap, blue shirt laced up
the front, a very short corduroy skirt
and heavy boots. She is short but
pretty.
Among the rarities in Dr. Will
Jams library in Grafton street, Lon
don, is a tiny shorthand Bible, ex
quisitely written, which is said to have
belonged to an apprentice, who
suspicious of James IFS intention:
regarding Professionalism, wrote the
whole for himself, fearing that he
might be deprived of his printed copy
In addition, there are fourteen manu-
script volumes relating to Richard
Baxter, and a little volume of Georg,
Herbert's, part of which is in thu
poets handwriting, and which is be
lieved to be the copy he sent to Nicho
las Ferrar.
George Eliot's first arrangement
with the publisher of "Romola wa
for no less a sum, it is said, than tel
thousand guineas. ''As that is so yer,
large a figure" he said, - mus
run it through fifteen numbers o
the COrnhiH." "No." she said, 81
must finish in twelve numbers o
the artistic effect of the stor,
will be lost. quite understand tn
necessities for its prolongation from
commercial point of view, so we'll sa
seven thousand guineas instead of te
!, thousand" And seven thousan
guineas were accordingly paid TO
the copyright. Three thousand guinea
seems large sum to give up for a
artistic scruple or even grain; bu
she did it.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20
SAVANNAH TENNESSEE, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 90 1888.

that men rendered monumentally con-
.spicuous should stand upon their own
merits as well as upon a pedestal it
difficult to determine, but we are sat-
ished the former sentiment is largely
responsible for it.
There are plenty Of. men so blown
up with self-pride, so permeated with
a sense of their own Importance and
superiority, that they think the race
ought by good right to date from their
nativity, that they sneer at a monu-,
ment of Adam or any one else but
themselves. They. demand to know
what Adam did to merit a monument,
aside from catching a unanimous vote
for himself for all the offices in Eden,
and laying the foundation for race
of beings who can never cease to re-
gret that such man named Adam
was ever born.
Men who have always charged their
own mistakes to their wives, openly
taunt Adam with his cowardice in lay
ing that little transaction in fall apples
to Eve and trying to sneak out of all
responsibility himself We are far
from attempting an entire exculpation
of Adam in this notorious affair, but
perhaps there were extenuating cir
stances of which we know nothing.
Perhaps Adam was passionately fond
of mince pies, yet felt that one ingre-
dent was wanting, and the apple sup
piled it. Not to mince matters, Adam
was taken on his weak side-the one
that was a rib short, probably-and
was justified in claiming that Eve
tempted him, for what man who loved
pies wouldn't weldome any improve
ment in them, particularly when made
by young wifeP
But detractors of Adam do not stoI
with the apple. They charge him
with being poor provider in his fam
lily, treating his wife shamefully, par.
ticularly in the matter of clothes. He
scrimped her in fig leaves, only allow
ing her to buy the smallest and mos
inexpensive patterns. He never bought
! her new bonnet in his life, and dur
ing the whole course of their connu
bal career, which lasted some min,
hundred years, he never took her to
lecture, theater, circus, or even ;
concert. - IeIaS SifttnQS.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-09-20

Country Minister (to boy fishing)
-"What viii your father say, little
boy, when he discovers that you have
been fishing Sunday?n Boy dun
no, sir; it depends on how many fish
ketch IN T. Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11

Ii is now nearly two years since we
first located at 3l3 South 10th street, ,and
during that time we have built up
trade that is highly aattering to us.
This is due to the fact that our facilities
for making up fine suits is unsurpassed,
and that we guarantee satisfaction in
every case. Having such large num-
ber OF branch houses all over the United
States, we are enabled to buy cloth at
such ruinous discounts direct from the
mills that competition with us is we'll
nigh impossible. One of the members
of the firm is located in London, Eng
land, where he purchases all goods from
the leading looms abroad, buying direct
ly from first hands, thereby saving The
jobbers profits. and giving it to the be-
nefit OF our customers. All work done
by us is under our personal supervision
and done on the premises SO that there
is no Unnecessary delay in having gar
ment made speedily and in the latest
and most approved style, With all our
facilities for tailor-made garments we
pnhesitatingly claim that We can and do
nndersell all other houses. If you do
not care TO purchase come in and see us
anyway as you will find gentlemanly
galesmen for whom il is no trouble to
bhow our goods.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11
Electrical Brevities.

Mr.. Force Balm, of Topeka, Kan, has
Just completed cloth cutting machine
Of very novel design. The knife is OPP
Grated by a small motor attached and it
is estimated that it Will cut forty or
fifty suits at one time.
After years of study on the question of
devising electric measuring instruments
which shall be permanent in their char
acter Sir VIM. Thomson has at last de-
termined on the oft-presented plan OF
opposing the action of the electrical
current by gravity, so that all the errors
due to the employment of permanent
magnets, iron, springs, etc. ARE avoided.
The monks of st. Bernard, famous for
their rescues of lost travellers in the
snow have lately added to their faithful
dogs more modern assistant. We now
read that the telephone is made use of
by the brotherhood and that the Hos
pice is in communication with the vii
fage of ST. Pierre on the northern side,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11
EDUCATIONAL.

Twenty eight women are studying at Col
umbia college.
A woman's college with teachers from
England has been established at Toxic III
Japan.
Edmund Gosse is lecturng at Trinity col
lege, Cambridge, Mass, on Literary Criti-
cism of the Age of Queen Anne.' Thack.
cray was the great authority in literature of
that age.
Dr. d. G. ComstoclS, secretary of the
Faculty of the New York College of Vet
erinary Surgeons, is one of the best authori-
ties in America on the mental attributes of
tho horse.
Prof. Greenough White, of the University
of the South, Sewanee, Tenn, has resigned
his position as professor of belles-lettres in
that institution, and is now at his home in
Cambridge, Mass.
The people of this country go to Europe to
Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11
THOMPSON, BELDEH & CO.; 1919 Farnam Street.
and with the nearest village on the Ital.

and with the nearest village on the Ital-
ian side also.
A French inventor has applied the
miniature electric incandescent lamp to
watch dials; the current being supplied
by small pocket battery, The dial is
of ground glass and the lamp behind it
lights 1T up, the effect being enhanced
by a fiat protector. A key is included in
the circuit to close the current when the
light is required. 1t is obvious that
there are circumstances in which such
q device will be useful, and where it is
inexpedient to strike light to see the
time-such places as mines or in mill
tary operations. The apparatus is
equally applicable to clocks.