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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-22
VOLUME NO. g.

This number closes Volume No. z, OF WOMANs
CHRONICLE, and in looking backward we recall
many pleasant hours that we have enjoyed with
our readers many that we trust they have en-
joyed with US. Although our views may not on
all subjects have accorded with theirs, they will
bear witness to the fact that we have always had
the courage of our convictions. On some points,
as our range of vision has increased our horizon
enlarged we find that we have radically changed.
Nor are we alone this. The mails bring us daily
words of good cheer from those who, although
personally unknown, we count as dear friends,
from the chord Of sympathy that draws them to
us in the bond of fellowship.
Thanking all for past favors, we sincerely hope
that Volume may be in every respect-quality
and quantity-vastly superior to Volumes and 2.
To accomplish this we shall relax no effort, spare
no pains and may we not hope that our many
patrons will aid us in making the year 1890 men,
orabe in the history Of the success achieved by
The CHRONICLE
Iowa has fourteen county school superintend-
ents who are women, most of whom are elected
for term which does not expire until 1892.
DURING the time the grip was at its height IN
Brooklyn, substitute schoolteachers were so scarce
that senior grade pupils were in number of cases
called on to fill vacancies.
Mrs. ELIZA CoNNINE, writing from Travers City,
Mich, says, ~ attended a meeting OF the W. Z.
r. U. of this place, and l asked them to give an
EXPRESSION of their ideas concerning suffrage as an
aid to temperance work. They all voted in favor
except one."
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-02-22

Iowa has fourteen county school superintend-
ents who are women, most OF whom are elected
for term which does not expire until 1892.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

In this I was meeting with decided
success, and was making money at a
rate had not, in my widest dreams,
anticipated.
was a widower, and, as viii readily
be believed, was devotedly attached to
my only child, an active ind unusually
bright boy of eight years. A father
particularly a dOting one, as l admit
myself to have been-is apt to eXag-
gerate the abilities and attainments of
his children, and 1 well know that the
first branch of my statement Will be
given greater credence than the last.
I Will not stop to argue the matter
with the incredulOus reader, but pro
coed to relate the story upon which I
have already made q beginning, conf
dent that it viii convince the most
skeptical Of the quick wit and nerve of
ray little Robbie.
had brought him with me to Mich
igan, and left him at school in East
Saginaw while 1 conducted my profit
eble canvass among the pineries. Late
IN November the friend with whom I
had left him wrote me that he had be-
come exceedingly lonesome, and could
not apply himself to his studies.
1t required no great evidence to con-
vince me of the truth of the report,
for a months separation from my boy
had brought me to q similar state of
mind. The letter decided me upon q
course that for some days 1 had been
considering "a foolish course any man
in full possession Of his faculties would
have said. 1 directed that Robbie be
sent forward to me in the vast pine
woods.
Three days later he joined me, hav-
ing been placed in charge of a kind
hearted lumberman, who delivered him
safe enough, though with but little APP
petite for the sweetmeats 1 had pro
yided In honor Of his advent.
But the ripened harvest of dollars
awaited my sickle, and not even the
pleasure of playing with my boy could
detain me from business.
I had worked all the camps in that
section, and decided to start the ne.,t
morning for a point on the river, some
twenty miles away, where I was conf
dent Of Opposing of a number of ma
chimes
I was to make the journey on horse
back, Robbie riding behind me. We
had mounted, said gOod-by to our new
but none the less warm friends, when
an old skidder came running toward
us.
Don't start to-day" cried he, when
within speaking distance.
why not?' I asked.
Cause We're gOin' to have q storm,
an it's long an lonely stretch you've
got before you"
Il see no indications of it"
you would, if you'd been waitin'
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
Soon Over.

A sudden thaw in spring IS a com
mon enough cause of the swelling and
overflow of rivers, but few people have
experience Of what might be called
magic rivers, which disappear almost
as suddenly as they are born One such,
however, is described by ". Fl. AallOck
in his account of Cyprus, entitled "In
an Enchanted Island"
On a certain evening there was a
succession of thunder showers, and
then, all the night, heavy and cease
less dOwnpour, 'This," said my host,
in the morning, Sought to bring down
the river" I asked what he meant by
this, and he answered that the river
below us was rarely anything more
than dry bed of pebbles, just as it was
now.
But generally Once-sometimes three
times-in the year, it would suddenly
fill with water, flow for an hour or two,
and again become dry and silent. [ felt
that the sight must be curious, and
wished that 1 might be able to Wit
ness it.
About four o'clock in the afternoon a
servant came to my bedroom, and asked
me go into the garden. There 1 found
my host with an opera glass, standing
on the bank.
"Look!" exclaimed he, pointing; at
is coming. Listen! you can hear it. ;"
I FASTENED and looked. 1 at last
caught a sound, faint and uncertain, as
leaves rustling in a dream. Then, sud
denly, far away on the plain, I saw
something fash, like the head Of a
pointed spear. Gradually this pro-
Ionged itself into a slim, shining line,
which presently took a curve. For a
time its course was straight; then 1t
curved again.
In ten minutes, over the brown sur
face of the fields the water had stretch
ed itself ike q long silvery snake, and
the sound I had heard, growing every
instant more distinct, explained itself to
the ear as the voice of the stirred peb-
bIes. The river channel skirted the
bottom Of the garden, and thus, as the
food went by, we had every OppOrtu-
nifty of observing it. 1t pushed itself
forward, headed by q mass Of bubbles
and scum; It split itself into fierce rlvu-
lets, which, a moment later, were
drowned in the body Of Che stream; 1t
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
The Commas.

The compass needle points to the
north because practically the earth is
magnet. not differing essentially in its
magnetic properties from q bar of mag
netized steel it has two poles Of
greatest intensity, and, Ike most Large
steel magnets, there are several sup
Elemental poles Of lesser intensity.
just as the pole of one bar magnet at
tracts the end of another, so the mag
netlc poles OF the earth behave toward
poles Of the compass needle, unlike
poles attracting and like poles TepelGBg
each other.
1t is well to modify the statement
that the needle points north and south.
As matter Of fact, there are but Few
localities on the earth where it does
point due north and south, and these
are constantly changing. An irregular
line drawn from the mouth OF the
OrlnOcO River, through the east coast
of Hayd, Charleston, S. c., and De
troit, Mich, represents very nearly the
line in which there is no variation at
the present time. In all the places
east Of this line the north end of the
needle swings slightly to the west
ward; in all places west of it. to the
eastward At the north of the Column
IN River the variation of the compass
Is about twenty-five degrees east in
Alaska it IS from forty to sixty dee ~ees
east; midway between New York and
Liverpool it IS about thirty-five degrees
west.
The reason is that the compass
needle points, not to the geographical
but to the magnetic poles, and these
do not coincide in position. The mag
netic north pole Is at present on or
near the southwestern shore of Boothia
Peninsula, in the northern part of North
/ America.
It's position is constantly changing,
! and in the last five hundred years 1t
has moved about half the distance
round the geographical pole During
/ the three hundred years in which OBJ
servations have been carefully made
/ at the Magnetic Observatory in Paris,
the variations have changed from eleven
/ degrees twenty minutes east of north to
! twenty-five degrees ten minutes west
In the United States the rate of the
| change in variation differs much In diff
/ ferent parts of the country. In Wash
/ ingtOn State 1t changes at the rate Of
! about seven minutes a year; in Arizona
/ and New Mexico it is stationary; in the
/ New England States it is from one tc
three minutes per year.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
Co1.nlfeId PhiIosonIlv.

The burnt child fears the fire, and
so he viii try to find some method of
playing with it without getting
burned.
A drunkard can preach good sermon
on the evils of incompetence. He
knows whereof he speaks.
Kindness is the grease that makes
the world run smoothly.
The faster q man runs the farther he
viii go in a certain time and the sooner
he viii be tired.
The poison you put out for youl
neighbOr's dog viii kill your own canine
if he eats it.
A sheep cannot climb a fence as
readily as a goat can, and he is not so
self-conceited, but he produces more
wool.
A big head is no more a sign that its
possessor has lots of brains than a
large smOkehOuse indicates that its
owner has plenty of meat. Both may
be empty,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

from the log buildings that oonsti-
tuted the camp.
For some miles there was a fair bridle-
path through a wilderness of stumps
and underbrush, and we made good
progress. At length we reached a
point where we were obliged to make
a turn, and strike into the heavy tim
Der, through which the remainder Of
our journey lay,
A railroad line had been projected
here some years before, and abandoned,
after the timber on the course had
been felled, telegraph line con
strHcted and some little grading, done.
[ well knew that it was but a poor
apology for road, and had only
adopted it because it shortened the
distance by more than one half, from
that Of the regular wagon road.
We were, as nearly as 1 could esti-
mate, within five or six miles of our
destination when, to my Consideration,
I saw that the representation of the
old skidder was about to be verified.
The sky had become overcast with
clouds, the tall pines were rocking in
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

81 telegraphed for them, cried Rob
bic. IS he turned a eart-wheeI in the
snow.
That's about the size of it, said
one Of the men. The lines wouldn't
work this morning, aud we were sent
out to locate and repair the breaks"
the deiisBted tea I bo1 WBsn 5ga e Elm sd'a
pole last night and sawed the whole
six wires in two with nv knife. I
had an instrument and knew how To
use it"
Who viii say that increasing years
has added foOlishness to my fOndness,
and that the handsome young man who
sits beside me and makes disparaging
remarks as I write. ives not bright
and nerVy boy?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

ness to a minimum in any country. 1t
has been ascertained by careful Obser-
vations and experiments in the bar
racks of Russia and Germany that
three cases of sickness occurred on the
sides where there was no sunshine to
every case where there was sunshine.
In these experiments the size of apart
ments, ventilation. etc, were all equal,
so that there could be no doubt that
the difference, enormous as 1t was, was
attributable to the sunshine. And.
further, it was noticed that of the sick
ness occurring where there was no sun
shine, the mortality was as nine to two
compared to that where the sun was
admitted. The experiments were rough
on those who were given the shady
side, but 1t was scientific, and resulted
in great saving Of health and life to
those who came after. So. let in tbs
sunshine, and food all your house vita
Especially those parts where yOu
live most; and, go out in it as often as
possible. A sun bash beats the Turk
ish or the Russian bath, and costs
nothing. Chicago Ledger.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
Jem Brownies Stratagem.

For several years before his death
frequent draughts Of sherry became a
necessity with Jem Browne. Owing to
poverty, however, he was i'll able to
provide it. Attracted by the announce
ment funerals supplied. " Browne one
day, when fatigued in his rambles,
waited upon an undertaken, his face
buried in a handkerchief, his voice in
audible from emotion. The man ran
for a decanter Of wine; Browne drank
and was relieved. He asked several
questions about scarfs and hat bands,
collins, hearses, mutes and coaches.
The undertaken assured him that he
would provide all. Browne at last
stood up to leave.
"But you have not told me where I
am to find the remains, remarked the
undertaken.
"You said you would find everything
find the body" exclaimed Browne,
as he left the house and rapidly turned
the corner.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
Fvtfnruished by Bees.

Two or three years ago, as Queen
Victoria was journeying from BaImoral
to Windsor, the royal train was stopped
by something, the like of which had
never before happened in any railroad
mans experience.
The signalman at a certain junction
had lighted his lamps, and everything
apparently was safe for the passage of
the royal train. AS the train ap-
preached, however, the engineer
noticed that one of the signal lights
had been extinguisbed, and instantly
brought the engine and cars to a stand
still
On inspecting the lamp it was found
to contain q swarm Of bees, so numer-
GUS that they had put out the light, by
which they had evidently been at
tracted.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

tears from Bowery tough, he talked
to them of their misdeeds, when he
was interrupted by each youthful
scion declaring enthusiastically that
the other fellow struck the first bow.
Here was another iniquity, whose
enormity overshadowed the first, for
one boy must be telling an ant th,
and another dissertation on lying fol-
lowed that would have melted the ODE
hsk, despite its parafIine coating.
Then, thinking he had deeply i'm
pressed them and wrought sufficiently
upon their innocent, sensitive natures,
he appealed to them to tell him what
to do about it, whereupon the younger,
aged z, said eheerfuIIy: "I'lI tell you
what to do, papa You just take a
10-cent piece and shake it up in your
hand this way, throw it down on the
table, and if it comes heads I told the
lie. If it's tails the other fellow told
it, and, if you amt satisfied with that,
why, you can just call that told it
any way, and never mind" And the
other boy nOnchalantIy remarked, Il
told you it was him ali the time, as
the lecture was brought to an abrupt
termination.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04


De Quincy, IN his Literary Remin-
iscences, gives a beautiful aneedote,
Illustrative Of the nobility of q generous
heart
An officer IN the army one day struck
q common soldier. lie. was young and
hOt-tempered and he forgot the re-
spect due to himself, and the duty he
owed his peighbOr. The soldier whom
he struck was a young man too, and
noted for his courage; he felt the
insult deeply.
Military diseipliGa forbade that he
should return the blow; he could only
use words. Perhaps he was hot-tem-
pered, also; for he said to the officer:
VIII make you repent 1T"
So they were i'll friends.
One day, in the heat Of a furious en-
gagement, the young soldier saw an
officer who was wounded, and separated
from his company, gallantly striving
to force his way through the enemies
who surrounded him. He recognized
his insulter, and without a second
thought rushed to his assistance. Sup
porting the wounded man with his arm.
together they fought their way through
to their own lines Trembling with
emotion, the officer grasped the hand
of the soldier, and stammered his graft
tude:
"NOble mani" he said, "what a re
turn for an inult SO wantonIy given !"
The young man pressed his hand in
turn, and with a smile said gently:
Il told you / would make you re
pent it.
From that time they were brothers,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

as 1 have, a fortnight for snow to start
the sleds, so that you could earn the
grub you was a-eatin'. Wen have a
storm, and a big one at that, afore
dark"
"But I've lots of time. It's only a
few hours ride.
ct hope so, for I sees you's bound to
20. Well, hustle along, an don't waste
time a-tallzin' to me.
The old man had judged me rightly;
I did design to go, seeing nothing por-
tentous of evil. Accordingly, I acted
upon his suggestion, and rode away
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
WHAT WORD4
BY XII coURTnAND.

What was the word you said to me
In the CLEAN OF the sunset glow?
When the mOss-rOse pressed her scarlet lips
On the Iily's cheek of snow.
All poets and snges their lives viii spend
And the tides VIII ebb and flow,
But only the roses can tell, good friend
And only the lilies know.
But what was the word said TO you,
In the heart of the ruby glare?
The passion flower swung high the cross,
The pausies were all at prayer.
An poets and sages their lives viii spend
And the tides viii ebb and 1Ow,
But only the roses can tell, good friend,
And only tho lilies know.
PESDLETON, S. c.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
Fine Snge.

MetaphoricaI language is sometimes
misleading. When one begins to cali
names, even in a complimentary fash
ion, there is a chance that some literal
person Will wonder what he means. A
gentleman visiting a little town "DOwn
Eas5, says:
I called on business at the house of
an old lady, and entertained myself in
looking over her library.
We fell to discussing books, and,
thinking of Emerson, I asked her if she
knew much about the Sage Of Con
cord.
Concord, where ?" she asked.
Concord, Massachusetts,, I an
swered.
@Is it any better'n any other sage? p"
she innocent1y inquired.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
THIS HEART or NINE
BY ANrDA.

This heart of mine is sadly human,
And passion sweeps it OftentImes;
Shall ear thIy pleasures never huit?
Or do long for things sublime?
1t futters restless in my bosom,
AS If ii pinned sad and alone.
Is it the poets soul within me
That makes my spirit weep and moan2
My heart is empty of all pleasure
Such pleasure as the world can give;
Ny path is shrouded stiu IN DARKNESS,
i've ltved-and still-On hope live.
NY heart is tired with Hopes beguiling,
And Faith drOops low with weary wing
How long can Patience bear her burdenst
When shall these lips in rapture sing2
BEUESE, Ark
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

I, an ho fit an bled for his kintry in
my name, an / jest CESS I've a right to
d pansion, ses he.
Well, mebby you kin git 1t, ses I,
kindly dubersOme.
"Of corse I kin, Hester Ann. 7
wush YOU wOOdn't always be a tryin to
throw q wet blanket on to all my AK
piratiOHs.
I haint THROWN no wet blankets.
nor a-hOldin on to no brindle CATS tale,
neether," ses>T hOtly.
mo, you haint timber enuff, " ses he,
an the wilder she jest hollered an
LATED
What is a pansion, granpaw ?" asts
little william Henery.
"a pansiOn Is mummy the GuYament
gives to sojers fur ftin fur thare kin
5ry."
can did you ite fur your kintry?"
"NO-nOt axactly," ses VIM. Henery,
kindly slow; "but I sent a man to fite.''
AN is thet the way Grant an Sher-
man an Sheridan dun, an is tibet why
the Guvament gives thare widders
pansions ?" SEES johnny.
90, you mustn't arsk so menny ques-
tiOns, Johnny; little boys shud be sean
not heerd, ses William Henery, a
wrigglin aroun in the cheer like it WIS
sum uncomfortable.
"Now 1 know all about gettin pan
sion" ses the wilder, eur No. 2
drawed q pansiOn."
She always spoke of. her husbans es
No. 2 or 3 or which ever it WIS.
"Well, an how did he git it?" ses
Joshua's wife.
"He went to a nifty sharp lawyer
fust an tOIe him he'd give him 90
dOllers to git his pansiOn, an he dun
it. o, it's Jest lovely to be a sOjer's
wilder an draw a pansiOn. Mis-
Scooper, eff I wus you I'd hev
William Henery draw a pansiOn by all
means.
"He baint never ben a sojer," ses I,
an he hainb no rite to q pansiOn /;
thare is nanny a pore sOjer thet fit
an bled fur his kintry tibet needs one,
but he don't need )" ses I furmIy.
"WelI," ses JOshua's wife, 81 shud
think it I'D be kindly nice to be a sOjer's
wife an live in to tent an hev gilt
braid down yure husban's pants an see
him carry nice shiny gun"
Mice fddIe-sticRs, ses I, purity
short; Gan what I'D you do when it
rained an when thare WIS war an he
he'd to go an be shot at like a beat
critter, an the brade on to his pants
got faded an his clase got .frozzly an
his gun old ?"
90, well, thay don't hev thet kind 0
sojers row. Thay air put on to a back
shelf, an these brite, new militia min
takes their place" ses she.
"Well, what I wunt to no" ses VIII
am Henery, "is how I'm q gOin to git
pansiOn."
40, 1 think an ossifer is list to love
" fur ennything," ses the wilder.
"Onct thare wuz one kim to see No. 2,
an purity neer fell in love with him. ;"
"Was yur husban a priyit ?" arsk
Joshua's wife.
Law, no" ses the wilder, reel hot
ty, che driv suffers wargin. herd
say No. want no common sOjer, an
she shifted.
Give got itnow," ses William Henery,
a iumpin up like he wus shot.
"Got 1ybQt," ses 7.
"Why, how to git q pansiOn, fur I
sole a yoke 0 stears to the army Onct,
an I'll git a suffers pansion."
Do you think he kin, Mister Editur ?
He haint got it yit. Yourn, anxiously,
HESTER ANN SCOOPER.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

A large yellOw-and-white cat started
to cross Broadway, nearly opposite
Park TOW one afternoon recently when
traffic was at its greatest. Where she
came from was known only to herself,
but that she was making for the friend
ly shelter afforded by the rails of st.
Pauls churchyard was apparent to all.
Her chances Of getting across the street
safely did not seem to be good, as she
shrank back terrified from a passenger
car, lodged under the wheels of an ex-
press wagon, and escaped being run over
by one of Uncle Sans small vans by
less than half the length of her tail.
Two We1I-dressed men from Phila-
delphia stopped IN the middle Of the
thOrOughfare to watch her.
"Bet you she is crushed" said one
Take you, replied the other.
Just then the pole of q double truck
struck the 18th rib of the man who
had offered the bet, knocked his hat
off. and nearly threw him down
"Hi!" rOared the driver. "Hain't you
got no eyes
At the same moment the man who
had taken the bet received a blow on
the back of the neck from the off horses
head that nearly dislocated something
spinal.
"Ho!" roared the driver. care you
as1eep?"
The men escaped to the sidewalk.
Where's the cat 2" asked one.
How the devil do I know ?" replied
the other
And as the venturesome creature was
not visible, dead or alive, the bet was
ordered off.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
Let in the Sunshfne.

IS so
life giving as the
sun. Open the
windows and let
in the sunshine.
Tt not only ilIumi-
mates your house
and makes all
bright and cheer
full, bat it foods
the soul and body
with a golden tide
of health a n d
warmth. It viii
7 g d u C q h e
chances of sick
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04

gurgled against banks; It c1rc1ed 1Rso
transitory whirlpoOls.
Gradually, as we watched, its volume
seemed to diminish, and in an hours
time there was oaly a trickling rilf,
over which child i've years old Tnlght
have stepped.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-04-04
LITTLE ROBBIE'S NERVE
BY DWIGHT BALDWIN.


~ -
my business call
ed me into the
jpine regions of
the S TIA t e Of
Michigan. L had
recently secured
a patent of great
value in the fell
ing Of heavy tim
Der, and was in
trodu Gin g it
among the log
ging camps and
saw mills.