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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
PERSIA AND RUSSIA.
The Inevitable Fate of the Shah and Its
Fertile DOminlOns.

The Inevitable Fate of the Shah and Its
Fertile Dominlons.
II may be that the time has not yet
come for the absorption of Persia by
Russia, but there is no earthly power
that can long postpone it. Unless the
land of Iran goes down beneath the
sea, it will surely become Russian by
the mere force of gravitation. Moth
ing can long hold back the increasing
weight of the great empire pressing
towards the Persian Gulf and the
Arabian Sea. Since Peter the Great
first displayed the Russian flag on the
Caspian Sea, in 1922, the advance has
been incessant around its shores, I'M
til to-day only the southern coast is
Persian, and not Persian vessel floats
on the sea. The nominal independ-
ence of the Shah is alternate subjec-
ton to England or to Russia, according
to the ability or the incapacity of the
Envoy from the one or the other of the
two Powers. At the present time En-
gland seems to possess a temporary
superiority, her Envoy, Sir Drummond
Wolff, having succeeded in installing an
English commercial agent at Meshed,
the capital of the northeastern prov
ince, Khorassan, and in persuading the
Shah to refuse the same privilege to
Russia. Meshed is less than one hun
dred and fifty miles from Merry, now
Russian fortified city, to which arms
and men and munitions of war can be
sent III any quantity and in perfect
safety over Russian territory. If the
Shah calls on England for military
support against Russia, the advance
of the English must be made across
the doubtful and more than half hos
tile Afghan country, without any base
of supplies nearer than the Arabian
Sea or the Himalayas. Russia has the
game in her own hands in Persia, and
nothing but the fear of complications
in Europe can restrain her from work.
ing her will in Asia.
In general European war, where
her navy could make itself felt En-
gland would fight with equal chances;
but some such diversion is absolutely
necessary to save her from irremedia-
bic defeat in Persia; nor could even a
successful coalition against Russia do
more than prolong the agony of the
Shah. He is doomed, either himself
TO be vassal of the Gar. or to leave
the actual submission to his successor;
and England must stand by and see all
her plans and her intrlgues come to
naught -Leslie's illustrated Weekly,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
Give Her a Voice.

To-day woman may circumnavigate
the globe alone and yet be unmolested.
Twenty years ago, when | was travel
ing in Palestine, lady of wealth made
the trip,tenting by herself and escorted
only by dragoman, as was our own
party of ten men and three women.
recent book, the name of which have
forgotten, gives a piquant account OF
the journey made by party OF Amer
lean ladies, think in Africa, and moth
ing is more common than the European
rambles of newly tiedged collegians OF
the gentler sex. Our marriage laws
and customs are changing to meet these
new conditions 1t will not do to give
the husband of the modern woman
power to whip his wife, provided that
the stick he uses must not be larger
than his finger; to give him the
right to will away her unborn
child; to have control over her
property; and in the State to make
all the laws under which she is to live,
adjudicate all her penalties, try her be-
fore juries of men, conduct her to prison
under the care of men; cast the bal
lot for her; and in general hold her in
the estate of perpetual minor. twill
not do to let the modern man determine
the "age Of consent" settle the penal
ties that men shall suffer whose indlg-
mites toward women are worse than
death, and by his exclusive power to
make all laws and choose all officers,
judicial and executive, to have his own
case wholly in his own hands. Tocon
tinue this method is to make it as hard
It's possible for men to do right, and as
easy as possible for them to do wrong,
the magnificent possibilities of manly
character being best prophesied from
the fact that under such system 50
many men are so gracious and SO good.
Frances e. Willard.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
One Dollar Per Year.

Louis, Mo-, she was for rnree years IN
structor in French and German in
well-known female academy. Mrs.
Dow has been twice married. and is the
mother of three children. Before her
marriage, she was correspondent Tor
lveral newspapers, among them the
Boston Journal and 1raceller, New
Hampshire Statesman, Dover Enquirer,
and some Southern papers. The Street
Railtoay Gazette, from which we have
taken most of the foregoing particulars
of really remarkable career, says in
conclusion: ''Mrs. Dow stands very
high in the estimation of her neighbors
and wide circle of friends. Her reputa-
ton is the best all round. And her
character is, like that of Caesars wife,
above suspicion. 1t would be well for
many larger street railway system II
it was under the supervision OF such
president as Mrs. NJ. E. II. G. Dow. y
WonaaR'S Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
FOR WOMAN SuFFRAGlSTS.

AWoNAN's LEAGUE has been formed
in New Orleans. One of its objects is
to look in large and practical way
after the interests of women-as to
how they are treated in asylums, pris-
ons, stores, station-houses, etc.
PHLANTHRoPIc women in Hartford,
CT, have arranged classes IN dress
making and commercial arithmetic to
aid young women in earning living.
A skillful instructor in dressmaking is
employed, and the course includes thir.
teen lessons of two hours each.
SUFFRAGE associations are daily be.
coming less an exception and moro the
rule. II is safe to predict that within
few years every town of any dimen.
sions will boast of band of earnest wo-
men pledged to labor in the cause oil
equal rights" - Arkdnsas Woman's
Chronicle.
Rev. ANToNETTE Brown BLACK.
WELL, in paper on the work OF wo-
men. read at the Woman's Congress re
Gently held in Detroit said: "Forty
years ago none but a few women
thought of having any non-domestie
work, while now 100000 women are
classified in work. There are $4,000 ac-
countants, clerks and saleswomen, 275
clergymen, and IS lawyers in this num-
/ ber.'-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
VICTORIES FOR PASTEUR.
The Famous French Physicians Well
Founded Claims to Fame

The Famous French Physicians Well
Founded Claims to Fame.
1t is not generally known in this
country that Pasteur's claim to fame
rests upon more substantial founda-
ton than the discovery of the method
of preventing hydrophobia by innocu-
lation. IF it had not been for Pas
teur," said a well-known physician
who recently met Pasteur in his labora-
tory, 1--WE would not be drinking the
sparkling wines of France, and the
wine-making industry would have been
ruined. A blight had come upon the
wine. Some insidious agent that could
not be detected was at work in the wine
and affected it so that it would not
keep. The exported wine became acid
and bitter, and the domestic lost its
flavor and value. The large wine
makers were in despair and knew that
if something was not done their bust
ness would come to an end, and this
meant restitution to thousands of hap
py French homes that depended upon
this industry for support. Pasteur at
tackled the evil. He found that the de-
teriorations in the wines were caused
by organic germs, which could be de-
stroyed by degree of heat, without
affecting the quality of the wine. The
remedy was applied Immediately on a
large scale to all the wines which had
undergone acid fermentation, and they
were made sweet and pure. Another
industry was also paralyzed. Il. was
silk culture. A plague called pebrine
attacked the silk-worms, inflicting a
loss of twenty million dollars in one
year. Myriads of worms were de-
stroyed, and those that were left only
turned out a small quantity of silk.
Pasteur traced the disease to its origin
and found it to be the work of living
organism or parasite. The germ was
picked up by the worm from the leaf
on which 1t fed and speedily got into
the sack which contained the material
from which the worm spun its cocoon,
and increased so rapidly that the worm
was killed, or its silk-producing power
was destroyed Pasteur discovered the
time when the poisonous germ could
be killed and the method of doing it,
and again saved the commercial pros
perity of the French. This investiga.
ton took many years, during which
Pasteur was profoundly abused by men
of science, but they all were silenced
when he finally killed the bugs. IN
Y T'rihnne
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Elijah II. Halford, who is to be
President Harrisons private secre-
tary, is printer by trade and a jour
nalist by profession.
The author of Robert Elsmere''
is an American. She was born in
louisiana when her father held an
educational position there.
Mark Twain, who owns nine.
tenths of the stock in the house that
published General Grants memoirs,
says that Mrs Grant will shortly re-
ceive over $250,000 as the profits thus
far from the sale of her husbands
book.
Miss Jane Harrison, noted as
Hellenic scholar and as lecturer on
Greek art, is candidate for the chair
of archaeology in London University,
made vacant by the retirement OF Sir
Charles Newton. This is the first time
any woman ever sought chair in this
institution.
Miss Wheelock, of Milwaukee,
founder of the first purchasing agency
of the West, is among the busiest OF
women. For now her business is such
that each day she and her agents buy
and ship tons of goods, and in addition
she teaches whist class, and has had
in two years or less 1919 pupils.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana began his
journalistic career as editor of lit
erary weekly, of which five hundred
copies were worked off on hand
press in the course of day. There is
contrast between this old fashioned
printing and the modern presses used
in the Sun office, which run off an edi-
ton at the rate of "a mile minute"
The wife Of Talleyrand's private
secretary Nine. Colmache, is an En-
glish woman by birth and author of
no mean repute. She has a number
of Talleyrand's papers and is per-
fectly familiar with the state secrets of
his time. She is said to be now writ
ing her memoirs, which will contain a
series of pen pictures, faithful like
nesses of the men and women of that
day.
Rider Haggard is hearty lover
of field sports. So is that most sue
cessful modern writer of sporting
novels, Captain Hawley Smart. The
latter, however, is so weak in health
that he is unable to take any share in
the scenes he describes. He lives in
Cheltenham, and is great favorite in
society, although for months at time
it is impossible for him to leave the
house
The five houses in which Haw-
thorne lived in Salem are still stand
ing and are said by one who has re-
Gently visited them to be in a good
state of preservation. The one which
is of greatest interest TO visitors is, of
course, the romancer's birthplace,
which is sought out by hundreds of
people every year. 1t is occupied by
the family of a mechanic, who, being
New England mechanic, is probably
well read in Hawthorne's writings.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
HUMOROUS.

-Aunt-"It seems you visit me
only when you want money" Nephew
but, my dear aunt, | surely
couldn't call more frequently"
-Citizen-"You bill is outrageous
for mending one leak" Plumber
"But, my friend, do you know how
long was in making out the billP"
Cleveland private secretary is
named Daniel and Harrison's was
christened Elijah. There appears to
be more or less prophet in the private
secretary business. -Norristotoa Her.
aid.
Guest (who has ordered cold roast
duck and is out of patience)-" Wait
err, how long must waltz" Waiter
"If you will kindly have patience, the
duck is not yet quite cold. "-F2iegende
Btactter.
When the small boy stands in
front of a store, meditatively gazing
on sign which reads, "Slippers
Cheap" his puerile mind instinctively
grasps the scope and purport of boy
colt. Puck.
-Dealer-"Well, sir, of course you
must take the 'oss or leave i'm. There
e is, with all lis imperfections on is
cad, as the poet says!" Prosaic Gus
tomer-"Ah, your friend, the poet,
l,,a lo1lyod ~ he 1arc ~
-Bartender-"Se Seems to me you are
pouring out pretty big drink for that
dime" Tramp drink, sir, be-
cause the weather is cold. | want to
get warm, and you know it is we'll
ascertained scientific fact that one
swallow does not make a summer. y
N. y Weekly.
--"Well, William" said Mr.. Hard
head to his new confidential clerk,
"you are in first-class position now
at good salary. / shall expect you
to be faithful and diligent; in fact, to
make all my interests your own. 1t
won't be necessary, however, for you
to make love to the typewriter. I'll
attend to her myself. Isrre Hdate
Express.
in Kentucky First Citizen =
"No, sir; we can not account for. the
sudden death of Colonel Gore" Sec
ond Citizen" Had he been drinking
any thing?" First Citizen" Nothing
to hurt Let's see! l believe he did
take glass of milk yesterday" Sec.
ond Citizen" That explains it! The
water in it killed him. "-Draks'S Maya.
zine.
--Policeman-'sCOme, young wom-
an, you must not loiter here after the
audience has dispersed" Young
Woman-.'Please, sir, | have business
here" Policeman = well, what i:
it?n Young Woman (blushing}-"l
am the-the young lady that's en-
gagged to the automaton chess-player,
and I'm waiting for him to take NE
lhome. "-.AHerica.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

One out of every five school chill
dren in Philadelphia is obliged to
wear glasses, and the proportion is
rapidly increasing.
The girls in the university at
Minneapolis are to be drilled in reg
ular soldier fashion and to carry real
guns. A company of one hundred has
been organized.
William and Mary College, the al
ma mater OF Presidents Jefferson and
Monroe and Chief Justice Marshall, is
to be reopened after long term of in
activity. 1t is the oldest college in Vir-
ginia, and one of the Oldest in the Union.
The Presbyterian missionaries in
the City of Mexico have recently To-
Gated seven preaching stations in the
outlying wards and districts. In this
way they touch the people who could
not be brought into any thing known
as church edifce. Lay talent is
utilized, one-half of these services be-
ing sustained by native elders.
One of the finest organizations OF
women in the country is the New
York League of Unitarian Women"
which was formed to promote closer
fellowship among its members, and
for awakening and sustaining "a real
interest in religious worship, ethics
and philanthropy, and of securing CO.
operation in the advancement of Uni
tartan Christianity.
Rev. Bradford P. Raymond, who
has just been elected president of Wes-
leyan University, has been president
of Lawrence University, Wisconsin,
for some years. He studied theology
at Leipsic and Gottingen, Germany.
He is man of broad mind, great cult
ure and much personal magnetism.
As an orator he is impressive, and has
been considered the most effective
preacher in Wisconsin.
The young women who attend the
new college in Baltimore ought to be-
come robust and well developed, for
the facilities offered for physical train
ing are said TO be superior to any other
woman's college in the world. The
gymnasium is a three-story structure,
covering 1000 square feet. 1t has a
large swimming pool, bowling alley,
walking track, bath rooms and consid-
cradle apparatus designed especially
for women.
An Illinois notion for making
church sociables pleasant is to give
each person card on which a dozen
names are written, and the recipient
OF the card must talk five minutes to
each one whose name is on the card.
At the end of each five minutes a bell
sounds and conversation must cease
and new partners be found. This
scheme is said to be death to wall
flowers and cliques, and of great ad.
vantage to the social success of the en-.
tertainment.
The overseers of Harvard College
have decided that committee for the
regulation of athletic sports shall here.
after be annually appointed and chosen
as follows: Three members of the
college faculty, and three graduates o.
the college, these six to be appointed
by the corporation with the consent Of
the overseers, and also three under.
graduates to be chosen during the frs
week of the college year by the ma
jority vote of the students represent
ing the various sporting associations
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21

are the Government police, and do
only court duty in Paris, but the or
ganization furnishes the patrolmen all
over the country outside of the capital.
The arms of the police of Berlin, St.
Petersburg and Vienna do not differ
materially from those used In Paris.
The members OF the forces car
ry swords and revolvers. Berlin,
before the organization Of the German
Empire, had but eleven hundred day
patrolmen, and at night there were
only watchmen, who had too many
private duties to perform to attend TO
the security of the Streets but now it
has an excellent department
In St Petersburg the police are very
numerous on the streets, and their
movements partake of the mystery
that surrounds all government mat
tiers in Russia. A traveller who was in
st. Petersburg some time ago tells of
peculiar sight that he witnessed one
day. He was walking up the Newsky
Prospect, when he saw a small squad
of police, or gorsdovei, as they are
called in Russia, come out of build
ing and march up the street. As they
moved along, the men, one by one,
fell out of the line and took stations
along the roadway. Soon another
squad came out of the same building
and went through the same strange
maneuver, and then another and an
other, until the Newsky Pros
pect was thickly lined from end
to end with policemen. About the
time the arrangement was completed
carriage came into sight and
dashed at breakneck speed up the
avenue. II contained the Emperor,
on his way to his palace, and the po-
lice had been posted in this quiet way
to guard him from assassination.
This will give an idea of one of the
principal duties of Russian police
man. The great work of the Vienna
police is to preserve order, and they
have their hands full; for this city is
one of the most turbulent capitals in
the world. B oston Herald.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
Injustice of Newspapers.


The press is always turning up the
whites of its hundred eyes in sorrow
and amazement at the frailty of women,
the littleness OF their thoughts and
aims, the usefulness of what they read
and write and do. Yet what sort of
pattern does the press hold up for wo-
mems emulationp The woman who is
pretty and vain, or notorious and
vicious in an interesting way, may
quickly rise to some kind of celebrity,
for journalists build newspaper columns
beneath her, and raise her on a shaky
pedestal of glory. But the good wo-
men who win fame, win it more slowly,
and without assistance from the fourth
estate The women who inaugurate,
manage and support hundred schemes
of charity and good, win the reward of
their own consciences merely. The
voice of the world says nothing TO them
in commentator or encouragement.
The noble deeds that are done by wo-
men, are done in silence and obscurity.
How many works which need publicity
to secure success can get gratiitonsly
so much as a cold notice in small type
in any dailyp Think of the wasted
time of the reporters, correspondents
and coinpositors, the expense of cable
grams and especial wires" to register
the latest freak of vanity, the skillful
accomplishment of something evil, or
evidence of some terrible crime! Would
they but spend the same time and mon
ey, and give the same publicity to the
worthy deeds of good women, tho
world, in face of so much recorded
nobeness, might in time see fit to
raise somewhat its standard Of thought
and action Sydney (Australia) Da,cn
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.


1t is coming, coming surely,
We can trace its golden CLEAN;
Der the world it falls as purely
AS a glad, prophetic dream.
Lo intemperance before 1t
Shall forever disappear,
And the light that hovers o'erit
Shall make truth and justice clear.
Iii coming, and its glory
Soon shall fill the world with grace
Till the fields with carriage CORY
In its glow shall have no place;
Till no Jail shall be erected
And no gallows builded high,
With its shadow dark reflected
'Gainst the bright, effulgent sky.
II is coming, and its beauty
Reaching to the vile and low,
Shall awaken them to duty,
Aiding all that's good to grow.
With the power of concentration
WIN its day be ushered in,
Til In city. State and Nation
There shall be no licensed sin.
1t is coming; let us hail it
With a welcome warm and true!
Vainly shall the wrong assail it,
Ignorance its ways pursue.
Bright with holy, high endeavor,
IT'S the ensign OF the good
Held within the hand forever
OF a nations womanhood.
It is coming. coming freighted
With right divinely grand.
Soon shall be emancipated
Every slave o'er freedoms land.
Hail II, sisters hail 1t, brothers.
Only bigots on it frown;
Hail it, fathers hail it, mothers
1t shall be the futures crown.
Emma Train, in Ivoman's Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21

I'm travelling man, and away
from home a good deal of the time,
and l tell you l appreciate the COM
forts of home when l strike them on
the road" he said to the hotel pro-
prietor. "If you will step back with
me I'll take great pleasure in intro
ducing you to my wife and her mother.
My wife wants a seal-skin sacque, the
house papered, new set of furs for
her mother and pug dog" was the
response. "Ah, this is a country of
happy homes" he replied. as he fol
lowed the hotel man.-Judge.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21
He Stuck to the Bargain.

''If you want meal you must saw
that wood said the housewife to the
tramp.
"Sartin, ma am" was the answer.
When the meal was ready he ate
heartily, and was just getting through
the gate when the good woman called
after him:
Here, you, come back! You prom
ised to saw that woodr'
"Yessum, an / went right out an
saw it. l never goes back on bar
gain. "-Detroit Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-02-21

-"Our rudder is broken, sir" said
the first mate to the captain. mon
sense! That's only imagination"
beg your pardon. sir, but it's stern
reality"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-19
PERSONAL MENTION.

DR.. d. B. Collins, of St. Peter, was in
the city for a few hours on Thursday.
NJ. Mullen spent the early portion of
the week ut st. Paul.
Lyman Fuller, of Lamberton, was
about town Friday.
Ms. G. III. Ross IS visiting relatives
at Columbus, Wisconsin.
Miss Ella Stuebe has returned from
her two months visit at Chicago.
John Kennedy, of Nicollet, was in
the city, Saturday.
S. D. Peterson was at Mankato Fri
day.
Mrs. A. w. Bingham left Friday
morning for Winona to visit relatives.
Mrs Setter, Of Tracy, is the guest Of
friends in this vicinity.
Miss Gertie Baasen returned last
evening from her st. Paul visit.
Miss and Mr.. Hack, of Beecher, ILL.,,
are the guests of their sister Mrs. No
bis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Berg are spend
ing their honey moon with relatives at
Owatonna and Mankato.
H. S. Kennedy and E. G.. PAIL were
at St Paul, Wednesday and Thursday Of
last week.
Miss Mary Pietrus is the guest of her
sister. Mrs. A. j. Eckstein. She will
remain here for couple Of weeks.
Mrs. VIM. Yoerg and son, of St. Paul,
are visiting her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
August Schell.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-19
National Educational Association.

For the next meeting of the National
Educational association, the Chicago &
North Western Railway Company will
sell tickets to Nashville, Ten, and re-.
turn, good going from July 1st to July
18th, and good returning from July Is
to September 10th, at rate of one lowest
limited first. class fare for the round
trip, with $500 additional for Associa-
ton membership fee.
For tickets and detailed information,
apply to any agent of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway Company, or
address f. 2. WILSON, General Passen-
ger Agent, Chicago.