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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
OHsetting Ideas.

The English anti-suffrage women
have done a good service by calling out
much comment. The Salem Observer
says: I'm England the cause of woman
suffrage has in some respects made
greater advances than in this country.
Its opponents are in their last ditch, so
to speak, and the contest for impartial
privileges is we'll on towards success"
The opponents say: Suffrage should
not be forced upon women" To this
very proper sentiment nearly every
body will agree. We certainly do not
know OF any advocate of woman suf-
frage who could dissent from it, Suf-
frage should not be forced upon women.
neither should it be forced upon men.
In this respect there should be equality
of exemption as between the sexes.
Suffrage should not be forced upon
women who do not want it. Good.
Now, again. suffrage should not be
withheld from women who do want it
Good also. One idea is as good as the
other. and both almost exhaust the
subject But not quite. for. after all.
there are political duties as we'll az
rights; and every man ought to be
willing to help good government by
casting his vote for good men, SO won.
en- should be expected to take their
share Of their great responsibility. One
OF these days they will see it in this
light. -Woman's journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

few years ago of importing half dozen
long -limbed, fresh-complexioned British
damsels, with the laudable intention Of hav-
ing O genuine British "pub" for the benefit
Of Anglomaniacal New Workers.. But the
scheme did not work. The average Amer
lean freQuenter of bar-rooms has not cult.
waited the same kind of idiocy affected by
his British prototype. In an American bar
room the patrons swear and tell objection.
able stories between drinks, while in En-.
gland the British youth occupy the inter-
walls in the process OF getting fuddled In
staring fatuously at the BARNARD. The i'm
ported bar-maids interfered with the COM
fort of the patrons of the place, for man
has to get pretty low down in the scale be-
fore he can take any comfort in swearing
in the presence Of woman, and then the
bar maid can't mix drinks. Her vast and
comprehensive ignorance Of the composition
of 'cocktails," 'fizzes," punches and
other palate soothing but misunderstanding
connections of the American liquor juggler
would do credit to the president Of ut. A.
b. lodge. As q consequence there Is little
or no temptation to drink to excess.
There are many points where we in New
York might to advantage initiate London
fashions and methods. We might, for ex-
ample, introduce decent cab system. In
London one can catch hanson on any cor
ner and ride two miles for quarter In
New York the chances are that you will
have to walk several blocks to find a cab
and then walk several miles in order to
earn money enough to pay for it. But why
go into comparisons? Our Anglomanlacs
have heretofore initiated English foibles
and, as might be expected in the case OF
creatures of their shallow mentality, have
ignored the valuable lessons which we might
learn from our British cousins. This sea-
son England has been visited, en- route to
Paris, by a greater number of really sensi'
bic Americans than ever before, and the
fact that they are thinking about what they
have seen, and that it forms subject for
conversation, proves that the seeds of a
more useful Anglomania have taken root
We are young country as yet, and in
many things England has an advantage
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

two years. for extravagant purchases
by his wife. he was so deeply mortified
that he requested the reporter to print
a fictitious name in place OF his own in
tn volume containing the report OF the
case. =
This rule OF necessaries applies also
to suits against fathers for purchases
made by their minor children. Thus.
in England. a lingering and q gold
watch and chain were considered nec-
essary for the son Of a nobleman in col
lege, bot wine supper was not
thought to be necessary for any youth
whatever. Ii
1t will be seen that II there be injus-
tice to women in this particular matter
Of necessaries. it is not so much the
law itself as the Interpretation of it in
given case by the jury. 1t is the jury
tho twelve men who theoretically
represent the average sentiment OF the
community-who have the power to
say what is necessary for wife to
have and to wear The community Is
supposed to voice itself through a jury
chosen from among the community.
\ But; how can twelve men represent the
sentiment OF a community composed of
men and women, especially in a matter
where woman's proper clothing and
maintenance are in question: Would
not the presence of six women on the
hurry insure more intelligent verdict
| in such casep
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
on THE RAILWAY.

over us which only years can give. A gen.
tleman once asked Prof. Goodwin Smith:
"Why can not we have as beautiful lawns
in America as you have in England"
"You can, but you must treat them as we
have done in England" was the professors
prompt reply.
"How is that!"
"Prepare your ground, seed it with lawn
grass, sprinkle it, roll it and NOW it-for
three hundred years." answered the pro-
fessor.
But the Americans are rapid people,
and they show considerable alacrity in
following out the injunction of the apostle
to 'Try all things" If they will only re-
member, at the same time, the latter part
Of the advice, land hold fast to that which
is good" this Anglomann may amount to
something after all ALLAN FoRMAN.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

swell tailors In London and In New York
use the same goods, have the same ut and
Charge about the same prices, but tho great
majority Of men do not ge to the swell
tailors, either in London or here. il New
York the average cost Of a'good suit, made
b. good tailor, is fifty dollars; in london
it is twenty -fve-or about cne-half. Collars,
cuffs and neckwear run in about the same
proportion, and, curiously enough, the
bowling atrocities Of pattern and color
which we see in the shops here marked,
--latest English STYLE" we don't see in
London at all.
The prevalent American idea Of English
styles seems to be something calculated to
knock the eyes out OF the beholder. The
louder the suit the more English" it is con-
sdered. see young fellows on Broadway
every day dressed in q fashion which would
constitute q show on Regent street, and yet
their Irish or German tailor assures them
that they are arrayed in the latest English
fashion. The fact is that the average young
Englishman has q sense of the eternal
fitness of things not exhibited by his cis-at3
lantic imitator. The three-inch checks in
colors so loud that they would discount
Uldoo Uduu oIC ICSSlNCu IVA SouhNy VI oSo
side wear. In the city the dark sack or cut
away trock with light trousers is the rule,
and plain white silk four-in-hand is the cor
rect thing in neckwear. The only men who
sport loud suits IN London are the "'Arrys,"
the grocers' clerks and Diapers assistants,
and they only exhibit their wondrous finery
on Sunday or "bank Holiday at Apply Am
stead" The ambition Of seven out of every
ten of our young New Workers seems to be
to initiate the English, and their method OF
accomplishing that purpose Is by making
themselves look as much like fools as pos
sible. Nature having given them good
start in that direction they are sometimes
surprisingly successful.
The British bar-maid, by the way, is an
institution which has never taken root in
our American SOIL An enterprising En-
glishman who kept a bar-room under
Wallack's Theater tried the experiment a
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

Canism Is by no means creditable to us as
nation. This very sense of our apparent in
feriority impels the best of us to unseemly
Dragging. We tell the foreigner that the
finest hotels in the world are in Flagler's
famous group of palaces at ST. Augustine,
in Florida; that there is not business
building in all Europe which can compare
to those in New York, Chicago or even in
the smaller American cities. He looks at
the evidences before him and draws his
own conclusions.
l do not think l ever witnessed a
more painful sight than one day in
the train going from Nice to Monte Carlo.
There We're an American and an English
man in the compartment with me and they
were discussing the Samoan question. The
American was explaining how we should
'sinsist' upon Germany doing this, that
and the other. just then we passed the
harbor of Vile Franche, where the squad.
ron of the Mediterranean is conferred,
There were about twenty men-of-war there
French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, En-.
glish and German. They were all fine
ships, mounting great guns in iron turrets;
the three German vessels were simply
floating fortresses of steel. l never saw
any thing on the water which conveyed a
greater idea of strength and possible de-
structive power. OFF at one side was dis
sipated- looking old tub-the Enterprise, ]
think-flying the American flag. The En-
glishman just cast his eye over the group
and murmured INSISTS" The contrast was
too apparent and my fellow-countryman
collapsed like pricked balloon. 81 did not
feel bit good when saw the stars and
stripes" he confided to me as we climbed
the terrace up from the railway station
eff they will insist upon flying our flag in
foreign waters l wish to goodness they'd
put something under it so that we wouldn't
look like nation of darned FOOLS"
But to skip back from Europe to New
York The tide of travel is setting home
wards, and New York has broken out in al
eruption of English clothes. There Is httl'
difficulty in spotting an English suit OF
sight. As a rule, it is made Of better ma
terials and does not itso well as the home
made articles. That 1t is cheaper goes with
out saying. Imean the average suit. Tn
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
Alcohol and Apoplexy.

Tho Irish World presents to its
readers the following wholesome les
son concerning alcohol and apoplexy:
1T is the essential nature of all
wines and spirits to send an increased
amount of blood to the brain. The
first effect of taking glass of wine or
stronger form of alcohol is to send the
blood there faster than common.
Hence the circulation that gives tho
red face. 1t increases the activity Of
the brain and it works faster. and so
does the tongue. but as the blood goes
faster than common to the brain it re-
turns faster and no immediate harm
may result. But suppose a man keeps
on drinking; the blood is sent to the
brain so fast in large quantities that
in order to make room for it the AFTER
les have to charge themselves. They
increase in size. and in doing so they
press against the more yielding, flaccid
veins which carry the blood out of the
brain and diminish the size of the
pores. the result being that the blood
is not only carried to the arteries of
the brain faster than is natural or
healthful but is prevented from leav-
ing it as fast as usual. Hence double
set of causes of death are in operation.
Hence man may drink enough bran
dy or other spirits in few hours. or
even minutes, to bring on a fatal at
tack of apoplexy. This is being liter
ally dead drunk"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

The London Lancet recently gave u
series of tables, showing the death
rate, between the ages Of 25 and Is. Of
men engaged in occupations that put
before them constant temptation to
drink, and those who were not thus
exposed. These showed that for
every 1877 deaths from liver diseases
in the former class, there were but SO
in the latter; and that to 1872 deaths
from kidney diseases among the
former, there were but 107 among the
latter And in the cases of deaths
from diseases of the heart and of the
circulatory system, All died OF the
former class to 250 of the latter. That
is, the death rate from diseases OF
these three great organs is more than
twice as great among the classes ex-
posed to the temptation of drink as
among those not so exposed
There is long train of other
troubles due also to the liquor habit.
Inflammation of the lining membrane
OF the stomach. resulting in dyspepsia
IN its most distressing forms; various
nervous affections, due to the in
furious effect of alcohol upon the deli
cate structures OF the brain and
nerves, and many minor evils, which
we lack space to describe fully.
Enough has been shown, however, to
convince any thinking man that aloo-
hol in any form is simply a poison.
and that indulgence in it, in any way,
largely increases the liability to the
gravest disorders. Nor will it escape
the attention of the observant reader
that the diseases Of the three great
organs of the body, enumerated above,
resulting from the use OF intoxicants.
are all Of them of a most dangerous.
and often Of q necessarily fatal, char.
acter.
The law lays it heavy hand upon the
sale of all other poisons, and hedges
1t about with the utmost precautions;
but the sale Of alcohol, in its myriad
seductive forms, is unrestricted in any
such way. Yet more men die OF this
poison per annum than of the aggre.
gate Of all others for score of years
This is fact that is we'll worth the
attention of every friend of Temper
ance. Why this broad distinction ir
favor of one poisonP Simply because
there is an enormous profit in its sale
The rum power battles against al
legislation aimed at putting this sale
under proper surveillance from the
purely selfish motive of sordid gain. =
Toledo Blade.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
SUFFRAGE GLEANlNGS.

Mrs. ALLEN HAMILTON, a sister oil
Congressman Holman, Of Indiana, who
died recently at Fort Wayne. be.
queathed $1,000 to the cause OF woman
suffrage. the money to be held in trust
by Mrs. Lucy Stone and Susan B.
Anthony.
The Woman's Medical College o!
Chicago, celebrated the opening of its
twentieth year of instruction. recently
Over one hundred students have been
enrolled for the present year, and q
large, new college building is nearly
completed, which will be used for oper
ations and lectures.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY mas written tt
Mayor Grace, Of New York, suggesting
that one of the permanent buildings Of
the Worlds Fair be set aside to women,
for an exhibit Of their work. "While
the men of the country" she says,
shall rear temples in honor Of Colum.
bus, it will surely be most fitting for
the women to celebrate the virtues Of
Queen Isabella"
WOMEN as Inspectors Of Custom in
New York. have proved success.
Their employment in the ex.
animation Of the baggage and
persons Of women passengers is very
appropriate, and they have displayed
much detective skill. The names Of
fifty-two candidates for positions as In
spectors have been published by the
Custom House authorities. They have
all passed the Civil Service examina.
ton.
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE does no& lose in
the new State constitut cns. In North
and South Dakota. Washington and
Idaho school suffrage is accorded to
women; and in Montana, upon all ques-
tions submitted to the vote OF tax-pay-
ers women taxpayers can vote. In
South Dakota and Washington it is pro-
vided that the question of giving women
full suffrage shall be referred to a spe-
cial vote of the people. and women
uOW NO.cTS Cttl NOto vi Jllc uucStlOI.
There is q real advance along the
whole line. N. Y. Independent. e
SWEDEN would seem to be country
after the heart OF the most pronounced
advocate of woman's rights. Women
are there employed in all the vocations
which ordinarily are conceded to be
the peculiar property of mankind. Ev.
cry Swedish girl not born to wealth is
taught trade of some kind. and it is
now triumphantly announced that
Swedish women will shortly receive
equal political rights with their hus.
bands and other male relatives.
The Nation, in an article on The
Politics OF English Women" calls at.
! tention to the fact that while English
women Of the highest social standing
take great deal more interest In poll
, tics than American women do. many Of
them are opposed to woman suffrage
, The reason is easily arrived at Should
/ the suffrage be extended so rs to in
clude women As a class. these high
0 bred ladies would lose their influences
I in politics and count less than many
. women OF the best character with whom
t they have not the least sympathy. =
q Central Christian Advocate.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

(atheromatous) degeneration OF the
walls Of the arteries, q weakening Of
the coats OF the capillaries, causing
their permanent distension (the cause
Of the chronic redness OF the nose and
face from drink; and these largely in
crease the liability to apoplexy, which
is simply the rupture Of blood-vessel
in the brain.
As an index of the fatal effects, OF
the drink habit, we quote the follow
ing tabular statement, taken from
Prussian statistics, giving the proba-
BILE duration Of life-the number OF
years man at that age may be ex-
pected to live yet-of drinking and
non-drinking men:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

THE International Royal Templar
relates an incident concerning a Lon
don drayman that illustrates the real
value Of a beer drinkers health. This
man was in the habit of showing his
greatstrength by taking full barrel of
beer. raising it and depositiag it gent
ly on the dray. One day while per
forming this feat he received Sigh
scratch on his hand. So thoroughly
poisoned by beer was his sy stem that
in spite of every effort to save his life
he died in three days.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
LOOK MOTT TASTE MOTT

Look not upon the wine,
Though rich its crimson be-!
IT'S but the fatal sign
OF shame and misery. -
Taste not ito tempting flow.
Sweet though the draft may seem,
Reason twill overthrow,
Death turks beneath the stream.
In Araby twas told
A fisherman one day
Brought up casket old
And moved the lid away.
When from its depths arose
A demon. fierce and tall.
That ever. larger grows,
In strength o'ernhastering all.
So will this tempter grow,
II thou its power free,
.. And thou q bondage know,
~ From which thou canst not fee.
Well doth the Scripture say:
Strong drink but evil brings,
IT'S like q serpent in the way,
And like an adder stings!
w. w. Caldwell
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
Simply Brutal.

Mabel Meadowsweet-So you refused
him. What did the poor fellow say!
Laura Layoverem-He said he knew CIR
who would marry him and be glad to.
Mabel wonder whom he meant.
Laura-I wondered, too. 90 asked him.
MabelEWho was It'll
Laura-You.-Life.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

tion thi summ er at
least ninety thousand are boilingly in
dignant concerning the showing made
there by the United States. The other
ten thousand are dudes who are rather
pleased than otherwise that England,
Denmark, Algiers, Cape Colony, Patagonia
and other powers of more or less Importance
should completely overshadow the United
States. We have the satisfaction OF know
ing that this National disgrace is our own
fault, and we are obliged to find what solace
we can in blowing about what we will do in
1892 That is pretty cold comfort, however,
to my notion. The stay-at-home foreigner
has made his comparisons of the industries
of the United States and other countries as
they are represented at Paris, and he is not
intending to be present at our exhibition in
1892 in any large way.
We have in Paris the most representative
and complete exhibit of patent hair re-
storers, pills, liniments and corn eradi-
Gators ever laid eyes on. Outside Of
patent medicines the United States section
resembles nothing so much as the fve-cent
notion counter of cross roads country
store. With such an exhibit of our National
industries, we can hardly blame the for
eigner who cherishes the idea that Brother
Jonathan is whiting individual much
afflicted with biliousness and kindred COM
plants. The electrical exhibit, which is al
most the only creditable thing we have
over there, is of in department by itself
and consequently does not reflect any direct
credit upon the United States.
1t is not pleasant to feel that we have
sent one hundred thousand Of our people to
the other side of the water this summer, and
that they have left on an average one
thousand dollars apiece in good United
States money over there, and that we are
thought nation of petty, money-grubbing
wind-bags for our pains. We can hardly
make Europeans, with the intense pride OF
country, understand that nationally we do
not take much interest in any thing unless
there is grab in it. That our practical
politics are not conducted with any special
idea Of lettering the country, but that
''patronage' Is the main feature OF our
political system. 1t Is useless to attempt to
give the Englishman whose longest rail
way journey has been from London to
Glasgow, matter of eight or nine hours,
conception of the immense resources of q
country so broad that it takes six days to
cross it by rail.
On the other hand, the chances are that
the Englishman finds out that London has q
population equal to the entire State Of New
York, and he gauges his notion of the area
of the Empire State onthat basis. We may
assure the Frenchman that If our State of
Texas was lake and his beloved France an
island in the middle of it he would not be
able to see the main land from any point on
his shore. He would probably retort that
he had no desire to see land whose only
industries were the manufacture Of patent
medicines, knickknacks and Boosters,
And after all we can't blame the stay-at-
home foreigner for the estimate he forms
of us. We do not show at our best on the
other side of the water. That contingent OF
American travellers who parade their Ameri
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

AN English guide. while showing
the beauties of the little town Saltaire.
where no liquor is allowed to be sold,
explained that the "rate of morality"
was remarkably high while that of
mortality was very low. being about
thirteen to the thousand.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

THERE is rot single whisky shop
in Tyrroll County, n. c.. and the law.
yers a e getting to be so lean that they
can crawl through picket fences.
Burlington Free Press. -.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16

TIE reason that some men can't
make both ends meet is because they
are too b,sily engaged in making one
end drink. baltimore American.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
NEW YORK LETTER.
An Americans Notes at the Paris
Exposition.

scter and Some Reflections Thereon
Our Navy in Foreign Waters = Anglo
mania Growing Disease - Some Fool
Dudes and Their Fool Actions.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-16
Especial Correspondent

you m eet on
- Broad way has
just returned
rr from Europe.
I''7-7-'-' "When did you
get backF" seems to be
the question of the hour,
and then conversation
naturally drifts in the
direction Of the Paris
Exposition. Out OF the
one hundred thousand
Americans who have
visited the Paris EXPOSE
y