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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
THE STUDY OF POLITICS.

A Branch OF Learning in Which Women
Are Sadly Defic,ent-The Proper Educa-
tion OF Voters.
There is one branch of higher edu-
cation, says Mary A. Livermore. in
Union Signal. in which American wom-
en- have little instruction, and. conse-
quently, little interest They are
taught little concerning their own
country-what are its immense re-
sources, what its marvellous history,
wherein its Government and civiliza-
tion differ from those OF European ma
tions, what are the perils of the Re-
public. and what the great issues
pending at the time. Indeed, there
are many men and women who con-
slider this ignorance creditable; and /
have heard women boast of it, as II 1t
glorified, rather than stultlfied them.
Their reading of newspapers is mainly
confined TO those journals which treat
OF fashion, dress. household affairs and
polite society almost exclusively.
1t is otherwise In England. The in
tclligent women OF the middle class in
England-the class with which Amer
leans are chiefly brought in contact
take a very lively interest In politics.
know what are the public questions OF
the day, and are accurately informed
concerning them. They are ready
with defense OF Gladstones course in
dealing with the Irish question, or, IL
they think it defective, they will tell
you where and why. Since church and
State are one in England, they are
versed in the affairs of the English
Church, even when they are non-con-
formists. They are familiar with colo
NAL affairs, and have an opinion OF
their own concerning the wisdom or
unwisdom, justice or injustice, OF
English management in India And
all the while they are never unwoman-
ly and one is held entranced by tho
charm OF their intelligent sre ,ch.
1t is surprising that the great body
of American women can rest contented
in utter ignorance Of the affairs of their
country. Women are already voting in
more than dozen States on school
matters and 1t is only a matter of time
when they will be invested with full
suffrage. And II women were never to
vote in America, they will always be
the mothers OF voters. For mothers to
abjectly renounce all hold upon their
sons when they arrive at the voting
age, and 10 scornfully refuse to acquire
the information that would enable them
wisely to advise them at critical perl
DDS, is to win the contempt of the young
men. For women to be Indifferent and
ignorant when their own affairs are the
subject of legislation, and laws are be-
ing formulated concerning their prop
erty and their children, their advice in
the matter not asked. nor their approx
al sought, is to justify the category in
which women are frequently men,
tioned-"women, children and idiots"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
HUMOROUS.

-"Gimme ten cents wuff O. flesh
cullud court plaster, boss" white
or blackP' "Look heah, honey, Is a
gen'l'man OBJ color an rs aware oh de
fac. but dom you 60 rubbin' it in."-
Time.
-Singley-"How much you resem-
BILE your sister, Miss Bjones. / would
take you for her." Miss Bjones--
"W-wel, Mr. Singley, this so sudden;
but you may ask pa. Lawrence
American.
been saving wood" inquired
the caller. ''Worse than that"
painted the bank president, wiping the
perspiration from his brow and throw
ing himself exhausted into chair.
II have been talking to a lady de-
positor. Whewr'-Chicago Tribune
"A woman who gave her husband
some zephyr to get matched two days
ago on his way homo in the evening
has not seen him since. AS there are
only forty Ave stores In town where
zephyr is sold, she thinks 1t is about
time he returned home. -Norristown
Herald.
"A good invention. Edison has q
new invention whereby you can see a
mans face miles away" said Smith.
Mrs. Smith-"Oh, how nice. James,
you will buy one, won't you? You
can then stay in at nights and still see
the man." American Commercial
Traveller.
Single Gentleman - "Have you
any manageable daughtersp" Land.
lady-"Two lovely creatures - one
lovely blonde and" Single Gentle.
man-"Excuse me, madam, make il
rule never to board in a house un.
less the landlady's daughters are mar.
ried. Good morning."-Texas Sift.
ings.
ibid you use your French while
you were in PARISH" asked young
woman of friend who had Just re
turned from a European tour. "Onct
or twice-but it was embarrassing. ,
"Why" 1--WE nearly always had tC
tell what we wanted in English before
we could get any one to understand
us Merchant Traveller.
Boy (hurriedly) Gimme bottle
of DIR. Quacker's cough strip. Mr.
Squills" Squills-"A dollar and 1
quarter, please" Boy (reproachfully,
Say! This amt for customer; i'll
for Mr.. Menthol, on the corner. Tn
the boy in his drug store" Squills-
"Oh. excuse mel l thought you wer,
the public. Thirty-five cents, please.
Lowell Citizen.
Mrs. Jason-'It really is pit,
that the papers have to devote S,
much space to scandal" NJ. Jason
at is, indeed. By the way, did yol
see any thing in the paper abou
Wickwire leaving town the other da,
with married woman?" Mrs. JasoI
MOI Tell me about it, quick WI,
was she?" Mr.. Jason-'His wife,
Terre Hsute Express
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28

shaky, and sometimes they drop their
tools. It's dizzy work under all cir
cumstances. But when tho nerves are
affected and a man is dizzy, too, the
combination is more than he can stand.
Some companies will not engage a
man unless he has had experience.
Others take them from the ground
men. The men who repair wires and
look after all the forms OF trouble into
which the wires get are often re-
cruited from the construction gangs.
They may work ON the poles and wires
for ten years, but it is unusual. Either
they are promoted to other sorts of
electrical work or they find the ex-
posture and danger too much for them
and quit the telegraph, telephone and
light companies altogether. Linemen
get from fifty to sixty-fve dollars a
month. If they are sent out of town
their railroad fares, meals and lodg-
ings are paid, but in town the only ex-
penses they can charge are car fares.
Tools and climbers are furnished them.
Frequently linemen are sick. Colds
and affections resulting from ex-
posture are their chief ailments. Often
in winter they have to toll all day
under all the disagreeable conditions
that follow a sleet storm. Snow is
not so bad for wires as sleet, nor as
unpleasant for the trouble men. But
when there are wind and sleet to-
gether, then the hardship is greatest.
The first thing a lineman thinks OF
when he wakes up mornings is the
weather. Often, according to the men,
they will be reused at night by the
bowling of q storm. They know then
that work will be hard on the morrow.
1t is rather rough labor to have to GO
up pole slippery with melting ice.
Often it doesn't pay TO wait for the
sun to dissolve the frozen lump that
fastens the wires, the insulating glass
and the cross-piece in one mass, as il
some evil genius had soldored them.
At these times it's cold and dangerous
to cling to pole with ones legs and
gently cut and pry away the ice so as
to prevent tho electric current from
being diverted and running down tc
the ground. 1t is tough, also, TO have
to grasp sleet-covered wires and pull
them through ones hands until slack
stretch is taut again. But the mer
work without much complaint, and
say they will put up with all these
hardships if only they can be spared
the fearful risk of touching a death
deolino wire. IN. Y. Sun.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Observation-Disclosures, with TWEEN
ty-one letters, is said tc be the longest
English word
The printers employed in the es-
adjustment where Theodore Roose-
velt's last book was published struck
on his copy, and he had to have it
typewriter.
Walter Scott was the peculiar OBJ
ject of the late Wilkie Collins wor-
ship, and he probably never passed
day without taking up one of the
Waverley novels.
Queen olga, of Greece, is particu-
larly fond OF American literature. She
is constant reader of the principal
American magazines and newspapers.
Her favorite OF all authors is Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
1t is not generally known that
there are in existence some very spir-
tied ballads by Lord Macaulay, which,
in accordance with the authors wish,
have never been published. The best
OF them relates the story OF Bosworth
field.
George W. Cable made himself SO
unpopular by his creole caricatures
that the French children of New Or
leans used to boot at him on the streets
and pelt him with stones. He was
finally compelled TO leave the city to
escape this intolerable annoyance.
AS regards the origin of the char
acters in that famous book. Tom
Browns Schooldays," this letter of
MIR. Hughes, just come to light, is in
teresting: November 20. 1873 AS to
the characters, they were none OF
them taken as portraits. though hope
they are something like living folk.
/ could not tell you what you ask if
wished. but | could name dozens OF
boys / know whom | had more or less
in mind and tried to boil down for the
book"
The cost OF the new catalogue Of
the Astor library, which has been in
preparation for six or seven years, has
amounted to about $4,000. 1t is in
four volumes of one thousand pages
each, and is in all respects one of the
finest catalogues ever made, embody-
ing, as it does, all the newest and best
ideas of the foremost librarians
Copies of it have been sent gratuitous
ly to all the large libraries in this
country and Europe, and are also Of
fered for sale at the library at $50 the
set
Miss Juliet Corson is a remarka
BILE woman. The victim OF an incura
BILE disease, given over by her ply
sicians, OUTLYING the limits of lif'
which they have from time to time
prescribed, she keeps up her literar.
work, turning out certain amour
Of copy each week, and has recent,
undertaken the editorship of a house
hold journal. In addition to thes,
labors she has constantly an ear TO
the philanthropic projects which toucl
upon her specialty-cooking.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

1t is proposed in Fremont, O., to
establish school in honor OF the late
Mrs. Hayes, wife OF Ex-fresident
Hayes. The school is to DO given the
name Lucy Webb Hayes Seminary.
"A preacher recently came all the
way from Wisconsin to Leetonia, o.,
to take charge Of a church there. Tho
church was English and the preacher
German, and he returned disconsolate.
Out of $50 school boards in Scot
land 119 have expressed themselves in
favor of free education, some even
advocating the defraying of the cost
of books an stationery out of the pub
lie funds.
DIR. Morgan Dix, rector OF Trim
ity Church, New York, is accustomed
to work sixteen hours day. He
boasts that Trinity Church has not
had its doors closed once in twenty
years. not even during the great
blizzard of March, 1888.
The movement to have the Amer
lean flag displayed or public and
school buildings is growing in favor.
In Newburgh, N. Y, it is proposed to
have the flag hoisted every school day
in the year, and color guard to at
tend to it, selected each month from
the best scholars.
The students of Johns Hopkins
University have adopted tho Oxford
cap and gown, but it is not likely that
they will retain the costume for any
great length of time. There is hardly
a college in the country which has
not at some period been afflicted with
the cap-and- gown craze and has given
it up.
Archbishop Potter, Bishop Of
Bombay, whose death was lately an
nounccd, was a Jesuit father and a
great linguist, as he wrote and spoke
seven European languages and over a
dozen of the native tongues of India
and Asia. Hs was an inveterate chess
player, and on one occasion he was
known to have forgotten his vesper
service while absorbed in the game.
For this his sslf-in flicted punishment
was no chess for two months, to him
a most severe punishment.
The Salt Lake Tribune says the
Scandinavians are rapidly leaving the
Mormon church. The Scandinavian
Methodists aud Lutherans are the
cause of it. For two years or SC
they have worked quietly, but most
effectually, among the Scandinavian
saints, and have cut swath after swath
in the ranks OF the church. At the
rate they have been holding revivals
and gathering in the harvest from the
Mormon fields there will only be a
corporal's guard of Scandin avians left
in Salt Lake Israel by another year
They are being converted faster tc
Christianity than the elders can send
over fresh supplies, and when once
converted from Mormonism make ex
cellent citizens.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
GOOD WORDS FOR WOMEN.

SENATOR SUMNER once wrote Of
Clara Barton: "She has the talent OF
statesman, the command OF gen.
eral, and the heart and hand Of q wom-
an"
in WYOMING, after twenty years ex-
perience, full woman suffrage is incor-
porated in the State Constitution by a
five-sixths majority, and expressly
guaranteed in the bill OF rights by
unanimous vote.
WITH the education and privileges
that have come to American girls of to-
day, there is scarcely large enter
prise OF any kind that has not in 1t as
nm active force some bright, clear
minded young woman, who acts as a
magnetic wheel that attracts and CON-
pels constant progress Oak and Ivy
Leaf
1T is no argument against woman
suffrage TO say that women do not de-
sire to vote. because We do not give
men the suffrage because it is always
desired. neither do we deny 1t TO those
men who do not exercise it The argu-
ment that women are weaker than men
also lacks force in its application, be-
cause we do not deny it to men who
are weaker than the average woman.
-Elihu B. Hayes
WHEN men and women are made
equals in the eye Of the law. and not
before. shall we complete the founda-
tions Of just commonwealth. which
were laid by the Puritans, and
strengthened by the Declaration OF In
dependence. Then we may hope, by
the united action Of both sexes, 10 re-
generate the Republic. and make it an
example for the world and future ages
The experiment Of a republic based on
equal rights can never be fairly tried
while one-half of the adult population
remains an inferior caste. with no voice
In the government Hon. Samuel L.
Sewall
ELECTIONS are going on in more
than one constituency, and the assist
ance OF women is eagerly sought by
candidates OF both parties 1t is hoped
that ladies who are working on either
side in these elections viii press on the
attention OF the candidates on who's,
behalf they are exerting themselves
the justice and expediency OF theil
claim TO the suffrage. It is difficult I,
see how any candidate can consistent,
avail himself of the assistance and in
auence of women in securing his cleo
ton. and deny to women the right Il
exercise influence in direct and con
stitutionsl manner through the ballot
boz" English Womens Suffrag
Journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
REWARDS OF FIDELITY.
Senator Farwell Tells the Secret OF Max.
Ing Success i'm Life.


ing u Success in Life.
Few men in the United States have
been more successful in business than
United States Senator Farwcll, who,
in addition to his important political
place, is the head of one of the great
commercial firms OF the country.
II am sometimes asked" he said,
"what is the secret of success. re-
member some years ago man came
to our house for employment. He
seemed to be in earnest, and told
him we would give him trial. He
told me he was ambitious to rise and
asked me If there was any rule by
which man who was in earnest in
his calling could succeed. / told him
yes. said to him substantially this:
am in business myself. want some
one to look after matter for me-say
a lawsuit. go to Lyman Trumbull,
or Judge Drummond, or any lawyer
of repute and tell him what want
| agree to pay him for the service. ]
| employ him. pay him for the serv.
ice 4 expect him to do what l pay
him for. He carries out my wishes.
You come here to work for us. We
employ you for a certain sum to do
certain work. Your time is ours. We
expect you to carry out our wishes
No matter what you may think about
them you are to carry them out or
quit. If you start in with this idea,
all other things being equal, you are
bound to succeed. Obedience to the
wishes and demands of your employ.
CIR is the foundation of success. His
business is your business.
"Two young men came into our en-
ploy about twenty years ago. They
began at the bottom round. You ask
me what that is in this business. The
beginner goes to the top story of the
house with a basket and card. On
this card are the numbers of the
various articles of merchandise which
he has to pick up in the building.
This familiarizes him with the goods
in stock. By and by he is promoted
to some department in the house, and
from that he is pushed forward just
as his ability warrants or as vacancy
may occur. The two young men Of
whom l just spoke began in that way.
To-day one OF them is worth 500, 900,
and the other is almost as we'll fixed.
and each has an income of SIS, 900
The trouble with most beginners is
that they want a big salary at the
start Or If they begin at the bottom
they want a raise in twelve months.
II they don't get il they begin to look
around and finally go elsewhere for a
small advance. There they want
another advance, and so they keep on
rowing around until they are old, and
they are not particularly valuable
anywhere or to any body. Their OPP
portunities are CONS and nobody
wants them. They get dyspeptic, and
then you have tie crank. They are
the men who are always croaking at
other peoples success. Chicago
Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
MIsNoMERED MAIpENs.

A sojourn in New England has convinced me Of
the fact
That female nomenclature there is very inexoot.
The girls met and fiirted with had certainIy ~
claims
To all the gifts and graccs indicated by their
names.
Faith johnson was the first met; tboueb+
her name so sweet
And she was very beautiful, accomplished. and
so neat;
But Faith proved faithless unto me-she was
gay deceiver-
And in religious matters, too, she was an upbe.
lever
] found Hope Smith darling girl and wonder
fully WISE
And yet could not understand her hopeless
kind Of signs,
For she was given to despond, and said. when.
e'er chaffed her,
She had no hope of happiness in this world or
hereafter.
Then later, Charity De Kalb ensnared my youth.
full heart,
She had graceful figure and manner very
Yet in her disposition envy was the reigninr
feature,
And Charity turned out to be sordid, selfish
creature.
The next met was Prudence Jones, girl Of
eighteen springs,
But she was gay and giddy and too fond Of cost
ly things;
Extravaganza in dress no doubt was her beset.
ting sin;
God help the man whose cruel luck that damsel
dear shall win!
Ihad an introduction to Humility Burdette.
Whose vanity and self -conceit never can forget
Distinguished DER her sisters for insufferable
pride,
Humility was just the gift which she had been
denied!
then made the acquaintance of Peace Robin.
son, of Maine,
A fiery girl whose temper mortal never could
restrain.
She used to get quite violent and tear her hair
and NINE
So marriage with that maiden Of course had
to decline.
The next of the New England girls met was
Patience Brown,
The daughter of banker in o Massachusetts
town;
Her irritable nature, and the way she'd fume
and fret,
Induced me to bid her goodbye without the
least regret.
The last met was Wealthy Green, and was
rather rash,
For proposed and married her, depending on
her cash;
But after we were welded had reason to re.
pent
For very soon discovered Wealthy wasn't
worth a cent!
John S. Grey, in Texas Siftings
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
LINEMEN.
After Storm Their Tasks Are
Hard and Perilous
Men Drift Into tho Trade Naturally
Their Work and How 1t Is Paid
They Dread Storms More Than
SailOrmen DO.

It is in the room where the linemen
meet to find out where there are wires
in trouble that they will have to fix.
just which one of the companies it
may be, never mind. for the COM
panies do not like to have their line
men talk of the hardships and dangers
of the work and the little pay given
for their services, and if the linemen
were discovered telling the secrets Of
their work it might go hard with
them. 1t is Monday morning and the
inemen have come from their homes
to report to their foremen for duty.
Sunday was bad day. There was a
cyclone down off the coast, and through
the night it blew briskly over Man
hattan's housetops. Wires got crossed,
insulation sheaths became abraded,
long stretches OF lines were swayed by
the wind till they grew slack, and all
through Sunday night there was diff
Guilty in sending messages either by
telephone or telegraph. And now this
Monday morning is even worse than
was Sunday. There is fog, there is
rain, and once in awhile there are
swift gusts OF wind. 1t will be what
the men call q trouble day. and there
will be moro than a plenty OF work
for them to do. Already the districts
throughout the city have reported to
headquarters the trouble in this street
and that street. The foremen OF the
various gangs of linemen have re-
ceived tables showing where the
breaks, the crosses and the other
faults are, and now, at little after
eight o'clock this Monday morning,
the foreman and his gang go out In
the rain and wind to make the wires
serviceable.
1t is familiar sight to New York
ers, these groups of three. four or
more sturdy men in rough clothes
walking smartly along, tools for liking
wires in their hands, and the straps
and spurs of their climbers" hanging
over their shoulders. They are all
men with courage written on theil
faces and agile strength shown IN
their bodies, arms and legs. On and
on they walk, with their eyes, IRON
force of habit, glancing up toward the
wires reaching from pole to pole anc
extending across house roofs. Pres
emily the foreman halts. and the others
stop behind him. Here is the hrs
place of trouble in the district which
this gang is covering. The foreman
gives his instructions and the meI
prepare for work. First they oin'
around their legs the spurs, and theI
taking one comprehensive survey o
the wires aloft they see that thei
tools are all right in their pockets
Now the climbing begins One man
at this pole, another is at the nextone
and another somewhere else along TN
street. The tall sticks OF timber ar
sixty or seventy feet high. In jim.
the linemen are up among the cross
pieces. Often there are loiterers VIII
linger on the curbstoues to watch m
work. But it is difficult to tell Jus
what the laborers are doing away u
there in the air. 1t isn't pleasant I
turn up ones face to the falling ram
drops. and besides. the maze oil wire
hinders close observation. ana Tn
most careful Of onlookers finds himsel
unable to see fully the operations
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
One Dollar Per Year.

all over the country. 1t has enabled
them to be at once radical ind conserv-
ative; 1t has placed them where, di-
rectly or indirectly. they bring the
most helpful influences to bear upon
the national character. There Is
nothing in the organic forces OF Amer
lean society to-day which is more close
ly connected with the happiness OF the
people. Boston Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-28
In WOMAN'S BEHALF.
MERCY AT THE POLLS

n we would have all men kind and true,
And doing to others as they should do,
1t is not enough TO pray in tho night,
We must strike by day for charter right.
To save poor human bodies and souls
We must carry our mercy to the polls.
Women, WELL women can always pray"
And go about in quiet way;
But we, who need brave votes at the polls
To save the human bodies and souls,
Must clear the path for woman's grace,
Inhe mercy's way to the polling place.
We bind her feet and she can not come;
We close her lips and our own are dumb.
Then spare us the folly that may be done
In setting up screens to the rising sun;
For wisdom and mercy in minds and souls
Must carry that mercy to the polls
-Chas. II. Fitch, in Dawn