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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07
Pushing the Comparison Too Far,

1t was late, but the young man still
sat uneasily on the edge of his chair
trying to summon courage to say the
words the young woman was waiting
to hear.
With mighty CONFUSION he swal-
lowed something like an ostrich egg
that had risen unexpectedly in his
throat.
"Felisty," he faltered, II never
could say what / wanted to say as
other people can. / always was an
unlucky dog, anyhow"
you're not good for hunting pur.
poses, Cephas," murmured Felisty.
"You are too long in coming to a
point.
"Well, | won't be setter any
longer, Mss McGinnis! Not in this
houser' Numbered the young man, as
he grabbed his hat and left her pres
ence forever Miss Felisty McGinnis
had carried his figure of speech little
too tar. Chicago Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07
NEW SUFFRAGE NOTES.


SUSAN b. ANTHONY declares that 49,
600 names have been added to the
cause of woman suffrage in Nebraska
ANOTHER woman has become Con-
gregational pastor. Mrs. Abby p Hinck-
ley, OF Racine. Wis, accepts call to
Forest City, la.
THERE were thirty-four girl students
in the laboratory classes at the Insti-
tu.e of Technology last year, and this
looks as if the higher education OF
woman" was in flourishing condition,
in one direction at least.
A WoMAN's League has been formed
in New Orleans. One OF its objects is
to look in a large and practical way
after the interests of Women-as to how
they are treated in asylums, prisons,
stores, station houses, etc.
Mrs. MARY j. CoGGEsHALL, de-
voted woman-sufTragist, has invented
what is called 'mite-pocket," which
she proposes shall receive II penny
day for six months to help the woman
suffrage cause in Iowa The pockets
are being sent for from all over the
State.
The Wyoming Constitutional Conven-
ton has declared itself in favor OF
woman suffrage by three-fourths vote.
and has incorporated woman suffrage
clause in tho constitution. Womea
have been voting in Wyoming for the
last twenty years, and the men seem 10
like it
The Illinois Woman's Alliance OF
Chicago. to promote the enactment and
enforcement Of laws relating to women
and children, and to further the general
interests of women, has been incorpor-
ated by Caroline A. Huling. Jennie r.
Howison, Ada NJ. Frederiksen, Louise
Pearson and others.
In this country men and women come
into life with equal, inalienable rights
to life and liberty and the pursuit Of
happiness. To obtain that liberty and
enjoy the pursuit OF happiness, this
equal and inalienable right must be
preserved by the ballot, any law that
denies or infringes this right is, OF nc
cessity, an unrighteous law. Chris
tian Advocate
MARION HARLAND. in speaking OF the
various phases of woman's philanthropy.
ic activity. beautifully says: Under
, whatever name we may be working.
our end is the same 1t needs only
that good women and true look inie
each others faces and talk together Il
make sure Of this. THE way is mar
: row, can we then. far separate, reacl
/ our heavenly homeP"
: SEVERAL women are members OF III,
! Louisville (Ky) Board of Trade, b,
t virtue Of their being in partnership Il
, business with men. But at least on,
D woman has been a member in her oai
right She is Mrs. William Sowdcrs
e and formerly conducted fish and gam
q business in that city. The directors o
d the Louisville Commercial club are con
{ sidering the advisabilily Of admiltin.
r women &c that o@ganization. and Ii
3 chances for q favorable reeort ar
good
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

james Russell Lowell was recent
ly placed by friend in possession of
the manuscript of an early poem
written by himself, which, it seems,
he had utterly forgotten.
Cardinal Gibbons is slender and
delicate in personal appearance and
his features are clear cut. His kindly
manner makes friends for him
wherever he goes. He ranks as
very able writer
The first book printed with Italic
type was an edition of Virgil, by
Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1901.
This letter was said to have been made
in imitation of the handwriting OF Pc
trarch. book Lover.
Mr.. Venables, of the London
Saturday Review, was the boy who
broke Thackeray's nose at school AS
a man he was proud of just one feat
he was able to write the summaries OF
the year in the Saturday Review en-
tirely from memory.
-Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress"
has been translated recently into the
Chinese dialect of Annoy. Among the
eighty three distinctive dialects of the
world in which this famous book has
appeared are the Gaelic. the Mala-
gasy, the Maori. the Oriya. the
Rarotongan, the Romaic, the Servian
| and the Welsh.
That the works of Chinese authors
often run to scores of volumes is a
well-known fact, but that q single
work should fill 6,109 volumes is
scarcely credible. And yet such a
specimen of the printers art is in ex-
istence in Pekin. 1t is cyclopedia
of ancient and modern literature, and
was begun in 1862. American Book
maker.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps spent two
years in writing GATES Affair."" and
two years more in finding publisher
for it. Frances Hodgson Burnett
was country school-teacher on q
small salary when she began writing
stories, and rumor has it that the
stamps with which her first contri
button was sent away were bought
with money obtained from picking
berries.
The Russian press lately lost its
most venerable journalist and editor
NJ. Andre Alexandrovitch Kraietsky
who died recently, aged seventy-ninc
years, at his house near ST. Peters
burg. He was the founder, pro
prietor and chief director OF the nov
defunct Golos, which formerly en-
joyed a European reputation and in
fuence. He was also at one time tn
editor of another famous Russian
journal, the Annals of the Father
land. For more than half centur,
he had been prominent figure in tn
intellectual life of Russia.
Louisa M. Knapp, editress of tn
Ladies' Home Journal, claims to re
ceive the largest salary of an
; woman in America. She is paid $40
600 a year for conducting the pape
under her charge, which is a pull
LEGATION not much over ten years c
age, and has circulation of owe
100000, result due entirely to tn
ability of its talented editress. Mis-
Knapp, now Mrs. Curtis, is woma
,, of medium height, slender and wit
a face rather interesting than pretty
She is said to be noted housewife
= and manages her handsome home q
successfully as she manages her jouI
= nal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07
He Was Going Far Away.

Goodbye, Miss Gillyhower, | am
going far away-I will not return"
"But you will write to me often,
won't you. Mr.. Mushy?"
20, may II did not dare to ask
q. Miss Gillyhowerl Your feelings
toward me must have changed that
you permit itr'
30. no You see some of us girls
are to have hundred dollars for the
Patagonians if we collect a million
postage stamps, and every one will
help. y u know. Life
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The new freshman class at Prince
ton is the largest that ever entered
that college. 1t numbers 200.
-Congregationalism has ten church.
ss in Denver, Col, and another is in
process of formation. colored church.
Mr.. Francis Darwin, a son of the
late Charles Darwin, has been elected
University Reader in Botany at Cam
bridge, Eng.
When the present church edifice
Of St. Pauls parish. Boston, was built
in 1920, Daniel Webster was member
Of the building committee.
Nearly one-third of the population
Of Wales is gathered in the Sunday
schools. In England and Wales to-
gether 1888, 1926 scholars are taught
in the Sunday-school. OF these, 2,555,-
399 scholars are in Church of England
Sunday schools.
In England the Baptists are di-
vided into two sects, known as the
General and Particular Baptists. These
two were once wide apart, but for
years they have been drawing closer
together, insomuch that movement is
now on foot to unite them.
There were added on profession OF
faith nearly 1000 souls week, on an
average. during the year ending May
l last to the churches connected with
the Presbyterian General Assembly
North. The total number added on
examination is given at 5l,062.
One hundred thousand volumes
were last year added to seventy-fve
college libraries in the United States
The largest accession was that o
10000 volumes to the Harvard
library. The libraries of Columbia
Cornell, Boston University, Yale ant
Princeton also received large ad
hitions
Like the air, the church mus
press equally on ali the surfaces o
society; like the sea, flow into ever,
nook of the shore limo of humanity
and, like the sun, shine on things fou
and low as we'll as fair and high, 70
she was organized, commissioned an,
equipped for the moral renovation 0
the world. Bishop Simpsca.
Speaking of London Carolina
Manning says; There are 100000
of living and dying and dead souls
And ifevery church or chapel or plac
of worship OF every sort and kin
were filled three times to the full OF
every Lords day, they could not cor
tain more than about /, 500,0 00 Their
must be, therefore, 2,5000 900 VIII
never can physically set their feet i
any place of Divine worship or an
place where the name and existenc
OF God are recognized.
The Christian Observer draw
from study of the Southern Gener'
Assembly two encouraging fact
lone is that the growth in member
) ship is much larger than usual. II
average increase, from year to yea
; is about 5000 per annum; this year
is 7,105. This reveals the activit
and earnestness of both ministers an
> members last year, and Gods blessir
Z on their efforts. But while the i
crease in membership is about seve
l per cent. the increase in bcnevolel
Q contributions is from 81, 463, 478 to 81
| 6l2, S65 an increase of ten per cent.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07
AN AUTUMN lDYl.
A Dramatic Love Story Which Needs N
Frills Nor Padding.

Goodbye, darling"
Goodbye, my angel. will write
to you tomorrow.
To the casual observer it was only
parting between young man and IL
summer girl. But to the principal
actor in this affecting scene. the part
ing was fraught with real woe, and yet
with real happiness curiously inter-
mingled. even as the bitter and sweet
are commixed in the seductive cock
tail.
For he had plighted his troth, never
to recall it.
He had also plighted his ovcrcoat
for sufficient cash to take this trip to
the sea-shore which had been so full
of fate. And there was the difference
between his troth and his coat. He
meant to recall the coat some day.
IL
In a lonely room young man sat
gazing at letter with set teeth.
The young man had the set teeth.
not the letter. That is to say, the
young man had the letter, and he also
had the set teeth. | hope | make
myself clear. And this is what he
read:
Dear Friend if you only new how
loanly l am without you here alone
and there is something must tell you
/ could not get up the nurve to say ii
while looking into you're pretty eyes
/ am not the dauter of a ritch
murchant as l told you once befoar /
Termed to cair for you For | am only
a poor water CURL in a restrout But
no that while you maye be Angry A
little at my deseat Still you will not
desert me and love you just the
same ever
Minnie
To Mr.. Gorge wigstaff
George Wigstaff. drunk and disor
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07

The use OF tobacco at Yale is de-
creasing each year. owing to the ex-
ample set by the athletic associations,
which do not allow their members to
smoke or chew. Gymnasiums have a
wide influence over the health of col
legiateS
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Z,

Rso,cei That the club mousse be Hunt.
mated the night OF the funeral, and be draped in
white for thirty days in honor OF this happy
event.
Resoirei. That this truthful tribute to the
memory OF our deceased brother be published
IN the Screamer the Spouter and the Soarer
To say there was an uproar in the
club the next morning, as these reso-
lutions were read, would be to convey
a very faint idea of the case. In the
midst of it, when it was at its height,
entered Upandownjohn, tleanly
shaved, and as serene as June
morning
"Did you write and publish this
miserable mess-this CHASTITY concoc-
ton of infernalism?" demanded q
score of indignant men.
'Did / write those resolutions, you
mean? | did. | was appointed u
committee to embalm the memory of
the late Ranter in the daily papers. l
did it. Do you find any thing objec-
tionable in themP"
why, you assert tnat he was u
sponger' exclaimed one.
"Unhappily it is the truth. l have
myself paid for gallons of liquor for
him."
you said he was bad actor"
"The worst l ever suffered under. -"
"What will his wife think of what
you said of himp"
"She will recognize the portrait,
and with us thank Heaven for her re-
| lease.
You give it as the sense of the
club that he was"
Every thing that was bad, mean
and disreputable. Very good. 1t is
true, every word of it. He owes me
thirty-seven dollars, sixty-three cents
and q third, which he has owed Gil
was borrowed) since July 8. 1871, al
twenty-seven minutes past ten clock
in the evening. And every man O
you is also his creditor. If there is {
mean thing that he has not done i
has escaped my notice"
BY this time Mr.. Upandownjohn saw
that his fellow-members were angry
and he at once lost his balance and be
came angry, too.
Brandishing his umbrella Gt wa
not raining, but, as it was the time o
the month when it should have rained
he carried it) he exclaimed:
Gentlemen, you have had one Sc
of resolutions written which containe,
nothing but the truth. not the who
truth, for my time was limited, and i
was impossible TO get in all that
could have said, and besides desire,
to be as lenient as possible. Having
written nothing but the truth, you ar
offended. 1t is well. | will hav
nothing whatever to do with a clu'
where the truth can not be told
Truth, if not the immediate jewel Of m
: soul, is very close to it. Gentlemen
adieu. You have seen the last of job
Upandownjohn, Should l stay,
might be called upon to resolve owe
some of your remains, and as ca
not tell lie, it would be unpleasant.
And that afternoon the directory re
ceived his resignation, and he wa
seen there no more.
l There is no moral TO this. There III
very few men in the world of whom
, would be pleasant, as the world mo-
goes, to tell the truth. Therefore, a
| who read these lines live, as does b
1 who writes them. so that when Azrat
waves his dark pinions over then
g they may lie down and die, feelin
t certain that the committee on resol,
S tions, though they may be as truthf'
g as Upandownjohn, will say nothin
s that will call a spirit blush to the
i cheeks in the hereafter.-The Late i
1 II
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07
HOW MANY9 HOW LITTLE7

How many dear hearts are breaking,
Though smile is bravely worn;
How often we find the weakest
Are the bravest to meet the storm;
How often we are discouraged
Ger clouds that need not last,
While the gems OF the present are hidden
BY failures and grefs OF the past
How often dear hearts are hungering
For words that never are told;
How little we prize our darlings
Till their baby lips are cold;
How often we let the moments
Unladen with good pass by,
And put of the spring-tme sowing
Till the harvest-time draws nigh
Bertha Packard Englet, in Good Housekcep
ing.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-11-07

George Wigstaff. drunk and disor.
derby, $11. 95.-Terre Haute Express.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-03-22

70 l pssp : IL. sss,1 seis Is sss1 1sss 81 ao sl = x sas Dc
being called upon t0seaySpreQuelt and *
brilliant bills for medicalE ADVICE and e.
'e nqns' sio. a., 80
though expensive vlsitant Of the family
remedies-like Warnor's Safe CureEEept
On hand atess use when required will be
hold in the land. q ~
Sickness is'onc ofthe legncias Of lite, aud
yet every lill that hesh III hete to has an
Mntldote IN tho laboratory d nature.
Hon.. II. II. Warner. Of Rochester. N. Y.
President OF tho Chamber OF Commerce
With kidney disease. which tho physicians
declared incueable. In this extremity.
a friend RECOMMENDED % him : vegetable
preparation now known throughout
tho civilized world as Warmers Safe Cure.
he tried 1t, and was quickly restored to
perfect health. The incident led him to
begin the manufacture Of the wonderful
preparation. and to make its merits
known In all tongues and among all peo.
pie. = -
He has now laboratories and warehouses
In the United States. not only. but in Cam
nda. England. Germany, Austria, Aus.
traha. and Burmah. His preparations
meet tho requirements n effect the euro
OF a variety Of Diseases. and are all com.
pounded from medicinal plants of tho
highest virtue.
Mr. Warner ia q man OF affairs, Of
wealth. culture and tho highest standing
In his city and throughout the State.
HIS character Is the best guarantee OF the
purity and excellence Of his renowned
Remedies. which may be found In every
iirst-clsas drug store OF Europe and Amer.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-03-22
The Office Of President.

That the actual power of the Presi-
dent exceeds that of some of the
crowned dignitaries of earth is uni
versally conceded. The Constitution
did not intend that he should he q mere
%figurehead, or ornamental cupola," to
the government. 1t not only confided
to him the execution of the laws but it
armed him with a power over tho
making of laws which he might deem
improper. By this we mean the pro-
vision that every measure passed by
Congress shall be presented to him for
his approval and signature; and that,
if disapproved by him, he may return
it with his objections; in which case it
shall not become law unless again
passed by the vote OF two-thirds (in-
stead of q majority, as in the first in
stance) of each house of Congress.
Whether this power was given to him
solely as q weapon to defend his own
Office o the integrity of the Constitu-
tion itself from attack by Congress, or
whether the Constitution designed that
he should i'll this way have a voice in
the making of all laws, of whatever
nature. is of the questions still UNI
settled. The weight of opinion and
the practice at the beginning of the
government seem to sustain the former
view: the strict language of the Con-
~stitution is in favor Of the latter. The
frequent exercise of the power in re-
cent years, in marked contrast with its
rare s by earlier Presidents, has
aroused harsh feeling on the part of
Congress and some very sober thinking
on the part of philosophers. II is
plain, however, that the present Ex-
ecutive has no doubt upon the subject.
Tho power is certainly monarchical in
its nature, and at first sight appears
out Of place in a Republic where the
will Of tho people, as expressed by
their representatives, should be the
law. But here comes in the deliber-
alive device of the Constitution. The
executive branch of the government
was purposely SO shaped MS to act as o
check against rash behavior by the
Legislative branch. The President is
not the arm of Congress; hc does not
owe his Office to that body, nor is he
directly responsible to it for his ac-
tions. He is elected, as is Congress.
by the people; and, like Congress-, he
is chosen not by tho people of q rar-
ticular State or district, but by the
people of oil the States. He is, there.
fore, Us an individual. the only repre-
sentative Of all the people; and ii, in
their Constitution, they saw fit to give
to him, rs their great national repre-
sentative, this great influence over na-
tionnl legislation-an influence equal
to the votes of one-sixth of all the
members of Congress-there is moth
ing in it contrary TO the principles of
republican government. -ENmund Al
ton, IN ST. Nicholas.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-03-22
Ono Rainy Day.

Drip! drip! drip! The clouds were
black in the sky and the rain would not
stop. although Haddy and Ray stood
by the window wishing for the bright
sunshine to dry the grass SO that they
could run over to auntie'sto see Oracle.
Mamma was nearly beside herself
with their noise and teasing. She had
tried every way to quiet them, and she
was so tired.
The door opened and Aunt Lefty
came in, wet and dripping. "Why,
what's the matter with my boys?" she
asked.
Tho story was soon told, and she
said, "Is that all? I thought the OK
press train was smashed up, or the
rocking-horse had his leg broken.
Well soon have the sun shining, in the
house, at least"
Then she begged some old newspa-
pers OF mamma, and taking a pair of
scissors sat down by the fire with o boy
in a little armchair on each side.
Such wonderful things as those sharp
scissors cut from those Id papers!
There were team-horses and trotting-
horses and saddle-horses with men on
their backs, and horses that could only
stand still. There we're cows. and
pigs, and dogs, and cats, and-and-
everything!
Haddy and Ray shouted for joy and
forgot all about the rainy day, and
when at last Aunt Lefty said she must
go, mamma babe her good-by with a
rested look in her poor tired face and
said she was q sunbeam.
And the boys had paper animals
enough to last them a week.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-03-22

SWELL, III tell you Swhat-I belong
to q library, and Il yon like. III give
you q ticket Of admission to & for six
months, and then you can read as much
az you please. Here's my address, and
you can>come fort the ticket asioons a.
you like"
And the stranger, chuckling over this
queer adventure, went briskly on, lit
tie thinking that he would live to SEQ
that 10y honored by all England as
ono of her greatest poets, and. would
tell with pride to all his friends how he
had once done a kindness to Samuel
Taylor Observation-Disclosures Young
People.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-03-22
The Preiudiccd Juryn,a,,.

In New York Doodle aldermen have
q healthy dread of almost any kind Of
q jury. In Austin, Tex, o colored de.
linquent had o somewhat similar expe.
rience. He was defended by a very
youthful lawyer. tho prisoner being
too poor to hire counsel.
After the jury was in the box the
young lawyer challenged several jury.
men, who his client said had o " pref
erdiss agin" him.
,. Are g ahs;sd any M, more ius n. ne who
pered the young lawyer.
mo, boss. but I wants yer ter chal.
lenge the Jedge. Use been tried by
him befoah, and sorter s'pects dat lie
has q preierdiss agin me-"
The young lawyer being a graduate
Of the law department. Of the Univer-
sity of Texas, didn't know any better,
and actually requested his Honor to
step aside.-Teras SiJtinga.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-03-22
Home. Sweet Home.

The western farmer, with his hun
drods of acres of new and fertile soil,
looks with contempt upon the soil and
often sterile farms that ore to be found
in some parts of New England.
The owner of the western farm of
acres, nearly all of it under cultivation,
who was visiting in Maine, sent a let
ter home, i'll which he expressed his
mind freely as follows:
Here in this country they call two
acres of ground, six hens and IN old
rooster q farm, and half the time one
acre of the ground is graveyard. Give
me old Kansas every ime."-Youth's
Companion.