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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
WHAT is WANTED.

WHAT Is WANTED.
Resolutions Adopted by the American wo.
man Suffrage Association Mt Its Twen-
tieth Annual Meeting. Held Recently in
Cincinnati.
The American Woman's Suffrage As
ISOLATION, at its twentieth annual meet
ing, affirms that the establishment of a
representative government, based upon
the equal suffrage of men and women,
is superior to all other political issues;
therefore, it declares itself non-parti-
san; it appeals to the good men of all
parties to do justice to women, and it
urges the friends of suffrage to work
and vote for the election of Legislators
who will work and vote for woman suf-
frage.
We rejoice in the steady growth Of
public opinion during the past year in
favor of womans equality, legal and
political; in the good results of suffrage
in Kansas and Wyoming, in the public
spirit of twenty-five thousand Boston
women who have just paid voluntary
tax to vote for school committee and
in the more active participation OF wO-
men than ever before in the Presiden-
tial election.
Whereas by acts OF Legislature twelve States
have already extended suffrage to women In
school elections, two States on liquor licenses
and the State OF Kansas on municipal elections
| therefore
Resolcsd, That in every State the Legislature
should be asked as first step, to extend suf
| frage to women in municipal elections
And whereas it is expressly declared in Art. 2
| Sec. 1. Par. g OF the u. S. Constitution, that
leach State shall appoint in such manner as the
Legislature thereof may direct the Prcsiden
| tial electors, therefore
| ResOlUed, That in every State the Legislature
| should be asked TO extend suffrage to women I
| Presidential elections
Rtsoiced, That we call upon Congress to sub
init TO the States sixteenth amendment to the
Federal Constitution, prohibiting disfrancnise
ment on account Of sex.
ResoLsed, That the action Of the Supreme
| Court of Washington Territory in declaring wo
man suffrage unconstitutional is both unsourt
in law and an outrage upon justice.
| WHEREAS onehalf the citizens of Ohio, 20
mature age and sound mind. not convicted o
crimc," are taxed without representation ant
| governed without their consent, in vioat on o
| the principles of the Declaration Of Independ
ence and Of representative government;
| And WHEREAS the Legislature OF Ohio has up
pointed a commission to decide whether thu
State Constitution needs any revision and /
| So what amendments ore desirable; therefore
| ReSO.Ded, That the American Woman's SUI
| frage Association urgently represents that nj
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02
FUMES OF TOBACCO.
The Degree to Which They Are Dlsin'
fecting in Their Action.


fecting in Their Action.
II has long been u cherished theory.
at least Of smokers. that the fumes OF
tobacco were to q certain degree dis
injecting in their action. TO put this
theory to y test, DIR. Vincenzo Tessa-
rini. OF the University of Pisa, has re-
Gently conducted an investigation into
the action of tobacco smoke upon
micro-organisms. lie devised an APP.
paratus consisting of two tunnels
placed with their mouths opposed, and
sealed with paraffine To each small
end Of the tunnels tubes were attached.
suitably arranged so that cigar could
be placed in one end. while the bac-
THEOLOGICAL smoker inspired at the
other. The smoke was thus drawn
into the large space made by the fun
nels, in which was a plate with various
cultures of heterogeneous; control
cultures we're also used. The microbes
were subjected to the smoke for from
thirty to thiry-five minutes, during
which time from three and half to
four and half grams of tobacco We're
used. lie heterogeneous tested
were the spirillum cholera Asiatica,
spiriiium Finkler and Prior, bacillus
anthracis, bacillus typhi abdominalis,
bacillus pneumonia, staphylococcus
pyOgeneus aureus, and bacillus pro.
digiosus. The kinds of tobacco used
were the large Virginia cigars, the
large Cavour cigars. the small Cavour
cigars. the best cigarette tobacco.
The results show that tobacco-smoke
has the effect of preventing the de-
velopment of some heterogeneous
entirely, and OF retarding that of
others. The Virginia cigars seemed
to have the most powerful effect, while
cigarette-smoke had only a rctarding
influence. and did not entirely check
the growth Of any form. By first
drawing the tobacco-smoke through
water. it was found to have lost its
cermicidsl properties, Science.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

In Russia last year eighty thousand
dram shops were done away with by
law.
In the grounds OF the Irish Exhibi-
ton, London, no Intoxicating liquors
are sold. while the facilities for OBJ
tanning Temperance refreshments are
ample.
1T is said that in each street in
Paris, out of fifty shops thirty are de.
voted to the sale OF wine and alcohol.
1t would really appear that in France
at least, one-half Of the population
has for its business the giving of drink
to the other half.
IT appears that intemperance is not
uncommon among Austrian school
children, and the Vienna school board
have asked for government interven-
ton. A bill for prohibiting the sale
of intoxicating liquor t. children
under fifteen years is 70 be introduced
into Parliament.
The Philadelphia kews says of
"treating:" 1.-The treating habit
causes three-four;hs o: tbs drunken.
ness in this country, and II would not
exist were it not for the saloons. They
are hot-beds OF vice, promoters of
crime; they break up thousands of
homes each year. and drag thousands
ofmen and women to the depths of pow
erty, degradation and disease"
A TEMPERANCE society has just been
formed in st. Petersburg. city which
consumes daily 10000 glasses of
vodka. 10000 bottles OF wine, $780,
900 pints of beer. without mentioning
the various other forms of alcohol.
The new society was formed by shoe
makers, has already 100 members,
and is increasing at the rate of $50 new
members q week. This movement,
il successful, will mark an era in Rus
sian history.
Mr. GEORGE KENKAH says in his
articles on Siberia. In the Century.
There are thirty rum-sAops to every
school throughout Western Siberia,
and thirty-five um-shCs TO every
school throughout Eastern Siberia.
and in country whcre there exists
such disproportion between the facil-
tiles for education and the facilities for
intoxication. one can not reasonably ex.
pect to find clean. oCisrV o. prosper
Gus villages"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02
"AuNr FANNY"
A Loving Tribute to . Departed Leader
In the Cause Of Woman Suffrage.

A Loving Tribute to Departed Leader
In the Cause Of Woman Suffrage.
In letter lately written to Mrs. Lucy
Stone, Clara Barton says
ut gives me pain TO be compelled to
decline your generous invitation to at
tend your annual meeting Of the Wo-
man Suffrage Association at Cincin-
natl; but there is deep pleasure in
the thought that you remembered and
desired me to be with you. Nowhere
would | so gladly speak my little word
for woman, her rights, her needs, her
privileges delayed and debarred-to-
gether with the grand advance of the
last thirty years, the budding and bios
soming of the seed sown in darkness,
doubt and humiliation, scattered by the
winds of conscious superiority and
power, and the whirlwinds of opposing
wrath-as on the green, native soil, the
home of the early labors OF its sainted
citizen, Frances ID. Gage.
Dear, noble, precious Aunt Fanny,
with the soul so pure and white, the
heart so warm, the sympathies SO quick
and ready, the sensitive, shrinking
modesty of self, the courage that scoffed
at fear when the needs of others were
pied; the friend of the bondman and
oppressed, who knew no sect, Sex, race
or color, but toiled on for freedom and
humanity till the glorious summons
came!
"If only five minutes of her clarion
voice could ring out in that meeting
! McGregor on his native heath Twere
worth a thousand men,
II pray you, dear friend, whose voice
will reach and be heard, try to point
out to the younger and later workers O
the grand old State, the broad stubble
swarth Of the scythe, and the deer
blazing of the sturdy axe of this glorious
pioneer of theirs-the grandest of then
all-whose sleeping dust is an honor tc
Ohio.
at is nothing that l am not there
but you, who carry back the memories
of your girlhood, your school life, YOU
earliest labors, to lay them on thi
freely proffered altar, where then ther,
was no room for the tired foot, no
scarce safety for the head, it is much
and it points with unerring finger Il
the hands on the dial Of thirty years il
the future. We need not see it then
for it is given us to fOresee it now.
Goods blessing on this work and Of
the meeting, and on all who may com
pose it."
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02
WHAT IT COSTS.

A Traffic without One Redeeming Feat
ure--An Ulcer Eating Out the Vitals of
the National Burden on Every Leglti-
mate Occupation.
OF course the moral aspect OF the
rum traffic needs exemplitication, but
it by no means follows that all other
aspects of the matter shall be neg
lected. We believe that there should
be more attention given it from the
side Of political economy. Startling
as the proposition may be, we think
the facts will bear US out in the state
ment that there is expended every year
in the United States more than enough
labor to produce an abundance of food,
clothing, and of every necessary and
even luxury of ordinary life for every
human being within the Nations
limits. The trouble is, the money
representing the labor necessary to
produce this is spent in wrong chan
nels; and the chief of these is the ex-
penditure for rum in all its forms.
Several years ago newspaper in a
live, rapidly-growing Western city, in
a mining district, took the pains to
collect the data upon which it calcu-
lated the relative total expenditures
for rum, tobacco and the necessaries of
life. 1t found that in tho one year the
total amount received in that city for
the sale of clothing, boots and shoes,
coal and the products of the bakeries
was 1855. 900. The amount spent
for rum was $2,OO0,0OO; that for
meats, game, live stock, hay, carpets,
crockery and glassware and books and
stationery was $2,075. 000 Add this
and the 81, 1915, 900 above, and the nec-
essaries Of life cost that city $3, $50, OOO
Tobacco and cigars were sold to the
amount of 81, 225,000. Add the sales
of rum and we have -, 225, 600. Sub.
tract the total spent for the necessaries
of life and the sales of rum and tobacco
were in excess by $4,000.
Suppose that the sums spent for rum
had been added to those spent for the
necessaries of life, increasing the total
from 50, $50, 900 to s., $50, 900; does it
not seem probable that every inhabit-
ant of that city would have been well
clothed, well fed and warmed and well
housed? Yet all that was needed to
produce that result was that the money
each individual spent for rum had been
spent for the things that were needed
to make him and his comfortable and
physically happy. But you may say
that a Western mining town is ex-
ceptional in the number of people who
use rum, and that it will not do to
judge the Nation by that one place.
There is some truth in this; vet il was
calculated few years ago. taking the
figures of the United States census OF
1880 as a basis, that the annual ex.
penditures of the entire United States,
in round numbers, were as follows for
these items:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02
TIME WAS PRECIOUS.
4 Possum Ridge Courtship and Its HAP
py Termination.

4 Possum Ridge Courtship and Its HAP
py Termination.
Old Hobson's fourth wife had been
dead month. when one morning he
caught up his horse. saddled him with
a old sheepskin furnished with rope
stirrups. and mounting rode of down
the "hog path" leading to Squire
Beeson's In the interior OF Missouri.
Hobson was in hurry. but the old
horse wasn't aud went on at leisure
gait
'.Drat SIGH er jokin' sritter," old
Sim unused as he kicked and thumped
his heels against the old plugs bony
sides. If er feller's in er Murray he'd
best walk"
He thumped and kicked till at last
the "critter" broke into jogging
tret, which he held for dozen yards,
then relapsed again into his natural
gait, q sort Of cross between a walk
and crawl.
Riding up to Beeson's front gate Sim
Hobson .helloed" two or three times,
and then grizzled. gray, unshorn
head was thrust out at the slightly
opened door and voice exclaimed:
''How'dy. Hobson! Git down, sit
down"
.'Hain't time. reckon. Squire"
"Summat OF or hurry, ehP"
~Yas. I'm goin' ter git married, an
want yer ter 60 long an jine u.s."
who yer goin' ter marry, Sim?"
"Dunno fer shore yit, but l ruther
'spect I'll jine onter old Miss Skaggs."
Spoke to 'er erbout it, l reckon?"
mo, not yit l amt. but reckon
It'll be all right with her. II 1t hain't
wen go on down to Miss ThompsOn's.
know she'll be willin'. Thought I'd
take yer long SOS to make one trip do
"a hev it over. 'Tain't no use ter be
foelin' erwsy two days or gettin' mar
xied. when Their crop is in ther grass,
AN asides, marryin' or wife hain't nc
nore'n buyin' of sr hoss."
Eyer sensible thar. Sim," the
Squire said as he led forth his horse
and he and Hobson rode away to Widow
Skaggs' dOmicile.
When they rode up the widow wa;
cut in the back yard boiling soap. She
knew old Hobson's errand as quick a;
che noted the fact that he was wearing
a white shirt and that his shoes ha(
been freshly dressed with coat o
cold tallow.
"Gevenin'. Miss Skaggs," Sim said
"Howdy. Hobson," she replied.
"Tve tuck or notion ter marry
ergin," Hobson went on. IAN me an
the Squirrels come ter of yel
Willin' ter iine me-"
"Whene"
Fright now. o. case. l fotch thel
Squire erlong for that purpose
oval. haiu't thought much OF it.
but bein' as you've gone ter the trouble
o briugin' Their Squire, l reckon
nout as we'll marry YER"
"Drive ahead then. Squire" Hob
con said; "we're ready"
Hitch yer fists" the Squire com
manded. San legs git through, fer
go.ter tote er turn o corn ter mill.
"Im ready the widow said taking
cid Hobson's hand. "but hurry up
fer that fetched soaps goin' ter bile
ever"
The Squire went through the cere
mony in short order, while the widow
kept her eye on the soap kettle t.
see that it did not bile over. -Detroi
Free Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02
TEMPERANCE READING.
A COMMENTED "cRANK."

- SSsNs ~
Tn but simple working
labor hard all day,
And try as hard IS Ger eau
To tread the narrow way.
always pay my debts, and I
On Sundays 20 to church,
And hope that may when die
Leave Satan in the lurch. -.
My wife no kinder wife than She
My children-nearly grown
Contentedly do dwell with me.
Our home is all our own.
] rse at six and breakfast, and
Then kissing wife goodbye,
With battered dinner pail in hand,
Away to labor HE.
Not "high-toned" is my daily work
To tote the hod's" my trade.
I know not what it is to shirk.
AlthO but poorly paid.
Sometimes II seems TO me that life
Is rather dull and gray,
But when think OF home and wife
The shadows fade away.
And all again is bright and fair,
And life to me is sweet;
My heart once more is light as air,
And light my broganed feet
At six o'clock I'm free again,
And homeward weary pl0d
Along with other working-men
Who also tote the hod."
And, as We trudge along the street,
often hear them say:
bob tom or Dick), it is your treat
1t did not rain to-day
| 1t is their custom oft to bet
The whisky or the beer
| As to the weather, whether wet.
| Or cloudy, dry or clear,
| At the saloon they all will stop
The while the losers pay.
| They ask me, too. to take drop
| But I'm not built that way.
Full often, with dinner pail,
When lunch is o er at noon,
Some one Of them will go for alo
| Or beer to the saloon.
Their money seems to not go far
They throw it round like dust
| But when it's gone, behind the bar
They find these words: NO Trust"
Sometimes, before the week is DER,
And ere they pay day see.
These fellows, with parched throats, and sore
Would borrow cash Of me.
They dwell in little hired rooms, where
Reign dirt, and filth, and SIM
Where foul and noisome is the air
With fumes of beer and gin.
Because water drink they cry:
"You Prohibition crank"
But I've o little home, and
Have money in the bank.
Each day when it is six o'clock,
With mortar bedaubed faces,
| They skurry to the nearest block
Where there are drink ng places.
As soon as my days work is done
l hurry to my cot,
And there remain till rise OF sun,
The outside world forgot.
Their wives and children ragged so,
They sickly are, and pale,
They're greeted oft with oath or blow
That comes from cheerful ale''
My wife and children neatly Dress"
Tho not extensively.
, II I'm crank" must confess,
A crank's life just suits me-
Thomas Burke, in Akansaw Trdrtler.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02

WHAT else is it save prejudice that
applauds woman dancing ballet or
performing an opera, but shrinks with
disgust from one delivering an Grafton.
preaching a sermon or casting n yotess
Why is it less womanly to prescribe as
physician than to tend as nurse?-
.digcr.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02
RENDERING LARD.

How to Obtain . Prime. Odoriess and
Sweet Article.
A prominent Chicago packer gives
the following directions for rendering
lard so it will be nice and white. He
says he has lard on hand rendered by
this method six years ago. which is
still sweet and good His directions are:
Grind the fat or chop it as you would
sausage meat. where you have but a
small quantity. using the chopping
bowl and potato mashes. The object
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02

Judge" Prisoner at the bar. have
you any thing to say why sentence Of
death should not be passed upon you'"
Prisoner am member of the
Society for the Abolition of Capital
Punishment
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02

One of the saddest sights in this
world of ups and downs is to see an
al Know My Redeemer Liveth" motto
exposed for sale in a pawnbrotsr's
window.-7srre Haute Express.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-02

Carpet dealers use composition
called camphorine Tor keeping rugs
free from vermiu. Housekespiao.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-27
To Learn That the Deputy
Marshals Are to Be In
IS vestigated.
Land Seekers Still Pouring
, Into the Tract on Every
l. Train.
One Disappointed Man Goes
, Crazy Over His Bad =
Luck.
Several Deaths From Bullets,
Sickness, Exposure and
Want.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, April ga Jour
naFs special from Guthrie says: The
dispatches from Washington indicating
that Secretary Noble would investigate
the action of United States officials who
claimed property Monday forenoon, has
created great CONSERVATION among that
class, and has filled the claim jumpers
with joy. The many deputy marshals
who resigned just before noon of the
22nd, are uneasy, as there are those who
were commissioned but never sworn in.
United States Attorney Waldon, when
shown the dispatch. said: mo overt act
of violation was committed by these
nent improvements. They have not ac-
quired any title to the lots upon which
they have Squatted, and any man can go
upon them and, by making permanent
improvements, acquire title. do not
know that they have violated their Off
cial Oaths even in going upon the lots
before the hour of noon. Town lots do
not come under the provisions of the
presidents proclamation. This order
of Secretary Noble does say so, but
then these officers entering the terri
tory in the line of duty had to pitch
their tents somewhere. do not know
their intention in bringing in extra
tents and deputies, but clearly in
my opinion they have not violated
their oaths." The gamblers are here in
full force and are paying tribute to the
provisional local government. They
realize that they must 60 sooner or later
and they are accordingly making hay
while the sun shines. In spite of the
exodus north, south to the Chcasaw ma
ton and west to the Texas Panhandle,
the land office is kept busy. There were
527 men in line at the opening this
morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-27
CORPSES AND MANIACS.
Sanguine Boomers Who Could
Not Stand the Strain.


OKLAHOMA CITY, Ind. Ter, April &c.
Five men in their coffins and maniac
in irons were carried north from this
infant city yesterday. The dead men
had died natural deaths: that is to say,
nature had given way under the hard
ships encountered, and none of the five
deaths were directly at the hands of
fellow men. The madman. John
Evans, left his family in Eldorade,
KAN, few days ago, and was appar-
emily in the best of health. He came
to Oklahoma City on the first
train Monday, found the city
in possession OF United States
deputy marshals and bushmen, and was
unable to realize his expectations. A
claim which he finally secured was
jumped by professionals, and revolver
demonstrated. Evans had little money,
and his subsequent trials robbed him of
his reason. As he lay on the platform
to-day, waiting for the train. he talked
incOherently of claims and town lots,
and implored those near him not to rob
him of his little piece of ground. The
sight was pitiful one. Evans was
taken to Winfield and placed in hos
pitai for the insane. Another man
went crazy the previous night. and was
placed on north-bound train. At tAlfred
he broke away and tried to assault
Lieut.. Waite, of the infantry COM
pany stationed there, but was over
powered. II want a claim. l want a
claim,'' was his incessant cry. He was
put aboard the train again and will
probably be treated in the Winfield hos
pital. A Kansan named Stevens was
shot and killed in the presence of his
wife and four little children by two men
on a claim near Alfred Wednesday.
The murdererS fled and the unfortunate
widow walked to Alfred with the news.
The dead man was buried by the set
tiers. and small subscription was
raised to send the family home. The
rude funeral was in progress as the
train passed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-27
COMING EASIER.

Four Interesting Pension Decis-
ions by Bussey.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-Assistant
Secretary Bussey to-day rendered a
number of pension decisions. of which
four are of general importance. In the
case of William Evans, late of Company
H, Fifty-fourth Ohio volunteers, the
former action of the commissioner of
pensions is reversed and claimant al
lowed pension. 1t appears from the
testimony in the case that one of Evans
comrades while playing threw piece
of iron, which struck him Oh the leg,
causing compound fracture, which has
remained running sore ever since.
The former action was taken on the
ground that the injury was not received
while in line of duty. In the case of
William Jones, late of Company q, Nine
was taken. Jones, while in Camp
Chase, Ohio, in 1865, was precipitated
upon balustrade by some comrades
who were scuffiing, receiving an injury
which resulted in scrOtal hernia. Alex
ender Mank, late of Company E. Twen-
ty-seventh Pennsylvania volunteers,
was similarly injured by comrade
jumping upon his back. Mank is
granted pension. In the case of
John W. Jones, late of Company A,
Fifth West Virginia volunteers, the
evidence shows that the claimant had
his leg broken above the ankle by a SOL
dier coming up behind him and throw
ing his whole weight upon his leg.
crushing the bone. About six months
later he accidentally fell while carrying
pail of water from stream and broke
his leg again. The claim was rejected
by the pension Office on the ground that
the first injury was not received in line
duty, and that the second injury was
attributable to the first. Assistant Sec
retary Bussey reverses this decision and
directs that the soldier be given PEN