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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
From Sulphur Rock.
SULPHUR Rock, ARK, March

SULPHUR Rock, ARK, March 10, 1890.
Editor of Woman's Chronicle:
The Young Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of this place has
enjoyed such a rare intellectual treat
since last Friday, that we are anxious
to "Tell it out among the nations"
that our sister US may know that we
are still alive and working
"For the future in the distance,
And the good that we can"
Our Great was given us by Mrs.
Lydia M. Chace, who lectured to us
on Friday and Saturday evenings,
and also instructed the ladies, alone,
upon the workings of the W. G. 7. U.
and its auxiliaries on Saturday after
noon.
Her audiences were good and her
lectures much appreciated. We
learned many valuable things in re-
gard to the work, that we never
knew before.
Mrs. Chace also spoke Sunday, at
II am, in her gentle, winning and
impressive manner to an attentive
congregation. Her work among us
closed with a most pleasing talk at 3
PM, to the children, in which she
proposed Band of Hope, and we
trust we will have this when she next
visits us. L. r. +.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15

WILL not the friends of WoMAN's CHRONICLE
throughout this and other States send us the
names and address of ten or twelve of their
lady friends2 This would enable us by means
of sample copies to extend our circulation,
make new friends, and greatly broaden our
field of usefulness. We shall be most CRATE
full to all those who will be so kind as to com.
ply with this request, as it will aid us in our
work, and only cost those kindly disposed
little trouble and a postal card Please give
us this much aid.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
Bread Instead of Drink.

For many years the Arensdorf
Brewery, of Sioux City, Iowa, sent
forth stream Of polluted drink, car
rying hunger, misery, and death to
thousands. The State law closed the
brewery as such, and now the build
ing has been turned into an oatmeal
factory. This is blessed change
from drink to food. But it will take
the output of many year to make
up for the hunger the brewery caused.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
Shopping by Mail.
W0MAN'S CHR0NICAL PURCHAS-
ING AGENCY.

Ladies throughout the State will
find it to their interest to purchase
through this agency, as the best Of
goods will be furnished at the lowest
market prices.
Samples furnished upon application
with stamp.
Goods not obtainable at Little
Rock will be supplied through our
New York agent.
Patterns furnished at liberal rates
Address,
WoMAN's CHRONICLE PURCHASING AG'Y
COR. SHCOND AND LOUISIANA SITS,
Little Rock, Arkansas.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
Something New.

The celebrated Plummer Reclining,
Hammock and Invalid chair can be
found at No. 211 West Markham
street, three doors east of the Capital
theater. Come and examine them.
H. 0. MEIGs, General Agent.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
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From Okolona.

OKoLoNA, ARR, March Il, 1890.
Editor Women's Chronicle:
An appeal for reports issued from
headquarters recently. I notice they
come in occasionally only, yet are SO
helpful and bring us so much more
into loving union as one body.
This appeal further says, if there
is no report to be made, then tell of
work that you would to be done.
Under the last head Okolona Union
could write pages, but for practical
truth, we have accomplished little,
except the organization of Baby
Band of thirty-six members, conse-
quently have sent $500 to the Tenn
perance temple.
Our little ones are being taught
some of the many beautiful lights of
"Our Temperance Work. Since it
seems impossible to have L. I. L.,
we put the white ribbon on the access
sible, and individually teach what
should be done collectively. Yet the
circle broadens. Who shall say
where the end may be? Perhaps these
may do what we would like so much
TO be done.
Victor Hugo says: cit is beauti-
full thing to model a statue and give
it life; to mould an intelligence and
instil truth therein, is still more beau
tiful." Therefore, as teachers of
children we should be encouraged.
"The W. G. 7. U. is booming" SO
says late Little Rock paper. Good
news.
Miss Willard writes that when she
"fnds sick or dying W. G. T. U. it
is usually dying of one meeting
month. Unless the executive com
mittee meets weekly, there is very
little hope for their longevity, to say
nothing about their usefulness"
The Union Signal wisely adds that
any local union whose members do
not read their own paper, is dead al
ready.
At this postoflice only two copies
of The CHRONICLE come, and one of
the Union Signal. Have sent ten
names for the five weeks Signal at
ten cents apiece. Hope thus to Sc
cure some interest, for zeal without
interest fourished but for a season,
then withereth away. Few could be
Indifferent if they only knew what
great things were being accomplished.
ERvIE ETHRIDGE.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15

We condemn the system of High
License as immoral and as without a
value as temperance measure; and
we declare that high license, COM
bined with an arbitrary limitation in
the number of licensed saloons, gives
q dangerous political power to IL
censing boards. R. l. State Con-
vention of the Union Party.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
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National Pledge .

.! solemnly promise, God helping me- to alb
stain from all distilled fermented and malt
liquors, including wine and cider, and to en-
of and traffic in the same"
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15

Every tissue of the body, every bone, mus
Gle and organ, is made stronger and more
heathful by use of Hoods Sarsaparlla.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15

The wife of the new governor of
Mississippi is an earnest W, c. l. U.
woman. Will not have wine at her
entertainment, and always wears the
white ribbon.
Biddy says to Mike: "Men act
just as if whisky was a curse and
they'd loike to kill it but hadn't the
spunk to do it. Jist as if you'd see
a rattlesnake, Mike, an yez wouldn't
kill it, but jist cut off its rattle and
let the rist 60. Ye'd stop the noise,
Mike, but it would bite all the same
Yez see, Mike, the pizen is in the
head of the snake, not in its tall
A. B. Richmond.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15

Miss Lura E. Brown is the poet
laureate of the Arkansas Press AS
ISOLATION.
Mary L. French edits the new Star
in the East, at Aubrn, Maine.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15

The Importance Of purifying the blood can
not be oyerestimated, for without pure
blood you cannot enjoy good health.
AT this season nearly every one needs
good medicine to purify, yitalize, and enrich
the blood, and Hoods sarsaparilla Is worthy
your confidence. 1t is peculiar In that 1t
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an appetite, and tones the digestion, while
1t eradicates disease. Give 1t trial.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by G. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15
DIRECTORY OF STATE OFFICERS.

DIRECTORY OF STATE OFFICERS.
LYDIA M. CHAcE, State President, Little
Rock.
MRS. SARA K. HART, Corresponding secre-
tary, Little Rock.
MRS. JULIA A. CLARK. Recording Secretary,
Beebe.
Mrs. j. M. JOHNSON, Treasurer, Little Rock.
The W. G. T. U. meets every Thursday at
p. m., at headquarters, McDiarmid block,
315l2 W. Markham street.
The US meet every Monday at 4 p.m,, at the
same place.
The morning call., 1890-12-07
HEIGHT OF WAVES.
Some Interesting Data Concern.
ing "Waters Mountain High"

Ii Is not uncommon in prose works to read
OF mountainous waves. Exact measure
ments seldom confirm first impressions.
Scoresby found that 40 feet was the height
from the trough to crest of the largest waves
measured by him in the North Atlantic and
in cyclonic storm, when bound for Aus
tralia in the Royal Charter. This has long
been accepted aS the extreme limit of wave
height. Captain Riddle, a well-known and
experienced navigator, has, however, en-
countered waves at sea which were 20 feet
high. The late Admiral FitZroy had pre-
v1ously observed waves as high and some OBJ
servatioDs made at A cension in 1886 support
these authorities. In 1884 her Majesty's
ship 1neonstant was scudding with her stern
upon the crest and her bow in the depres-
SION between two successive waves, and
the wave ahead was observed exactly level
with her foretopsail yard, just n feet above
the water line.
On On the 9th Of July, 1888, the Cunarder
Umbrla was struck by wave not less than
fifty feet high, which did much damage.
Two days before the Wilson liner Martello
had a similar experience. An enormous
solitary wave struck her, completely sub
merging the decks. The Martelo was much
smaller and more deeply laden than the
queenly Umbria. No connection could be
traced between these waves which were
referred to in the dailes as tidal waves,
although Of altogether different origin. In
October. 1881, the Italian bark Rcsina
had all hands, except one man who was i'll
in his bunk, swept off her decks by
wave which broke on board rs they
were shortening sail during a heavy
squall in mid-Atlantic. The British bark
Undlne had one watch washed overheard
and her captain killed under similar circum-
stances. 1t is said that the massive bell of
the Bishop Rock was wrenched from its
fastenings by the momentum of diving
seas in gale of wind, and the gallery con-
tanning 1t thiekly strewn with sand, al
though 100 feet above high-water mark.
Scoresby gave 600 feet as the maximum
length of sea waves, but there are many
longer. MIR. Douglas, when building light
houses on the coast of Cornwall, noticed
waves 1900 feet long from crest to CREST
Chambers journal
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splendid size for modern portico. There
are two courts. The first one is not now
colonnaded, though it was SO enbelisfled
originally. Crossing the first courtyard,
another pylon is reached, on either SIDE OF
which a colossal statue is seated at the foot
OF flight Of steps.
After ascending these steps the level of
the grand hall ii Karnak is reached, and
picture very different from the quiet
looking, cleared, first court is presented.
There clustered together as closely as they
could be crowded are the ruins of four
Splendid 0belisks, two sanctuaries and two
pillared halls. OF these last one is the
largest of the kind. 1t covers more space
than the cathedral at Cologne and has wall
capacity sufficient to surround Notre Dame
OF Paris. The central avenue of the hall is
supported by twelve massive columns
nearly so feet high and sc feet in circumfer-
ence. They sustain the tremendous slabs of
stone, which once formed the roof A few
steps further is perfect Mariposa of col
umns Besides the twelve which support
the central avenue there are 10 others Of
nearly the same proportions, all covered
with heroglyphic sculpture from base to
capital. Tine eye is bewildered by the sur
rounding objects so splendid in their ruin.
The vista beyond the great hall embraces
view OF two lofty obelisks in a field of ruins
scattered over with the remains Of colossi,
obelisks, columns and propyla. This grand
collection reaches to the sanctuary of the
temple. There were the once solid pylons
rivcn in twain by earthquake or by the
setting of the ground; polished obelisks
which had been snapped like reeds by
some unknown power; columns whose
thick. broad assiZes had been sent flying
one after the other. across the courts; ar
chitraves wrenched from beneath the great
weight of the ceiling which had rested upon
them. twisted askew, and then dropped
across the aisle and held dependent there
by other masses of masonry; capitals
on edge half buried in the debris, re-
minding one of the uppervades, and
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STRAY LEAVES.
Between sohooI-Room and Altar.

When the girl enters the world after her
education is finished" she does not always
find it what she expected. The school-room
is one thing, the world another.
She may have been popular with her
teachers because she was a diligent scholar
and carried off the hrnors of the school, But
she finds that book knowledge does not make
her popular or successful socially.
Some OF the most intellectual people have
known have been among the most disagree
able. A woman whose intellect is aggressive,
who parade5 her knowledge before those of
inferior intellect or education, is an object
to be dreaded.
Mere learning in woman is never attrac-
tive. 1t Is, on the contrary, offensive, I'M
less coupled with femeEinc graces. School
learning should sink into the character and
deD0rtment, and only exhibit Itself as the
perfume OF flower Is exhibited-in a
subtle, nameless and unobtrusive manner.
woman's knowledge of grammar should
not make her talk like an orator in daily
life-it should simply make her conversation
gracious and agreeable.
Mathematics should render her mind
clear, and her judgments true; her geo.
graphical studies should teach her that the
world is too small for falseness to find o.
hiding place; and history should impress
her that life Is too short for unworthy ambi-
tons.
The time between the scbool-room and
the altar, writes Ella Wheeler Wilcox to
the aides Home Journal, should be not a
mere haryesttlme of pleasure but n sowing
time for all the seeds of kindness and self
sacrifice for others, and OF unselfsbness
and benevolence, which alone can make her
successful wife and mother.
The morning call., 1890-12-07
NO KNIGHTS
AMONG THEM.
Coming Convention Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
Based on Trade-Union Principles It Cannot
Harmonizs With Powder;ys Order.
The Eight-Hour Contest.

MyEAEW YORK, Dec. 2, 1S9o.-Labor or
HANK ders of many kinds exist and -four
XASAlS ish in the United States to-day. Two
greater than all the others combined have,
on widely divergent lines, grown into pro-
portions of such magnitude as to extend
their influence into every town and hamlet of
the country. Each is in existence for the
sole purpose of establishing and protecting
the rights of organized labor, yet so radi-
cally opposed is the one to the other in its
view of the means to be adopted to that end
that all hope of uniting the two orders in
harmonious action on any great problem af-
fecting wage-workers has long since been
abandoned, and it seems to be recognized
now that the permanent supremacy Of the
one in the labor world means the gradual
extinction of the other-one would obliterate
trade distinction in its work for the good of
the entire order; the other based entirely on
the trade-union principle, declaring that no
other principle can be of permanent value.
Hence il is that all who take time to con-
slider seriously the vital issues of the day ara
watching with the keeneSt interest the
The morning call., 1890-12-07

and thirty grand divisions arranged either
as clustered courts or as pillared halls, fol-
lowed by an assemblage of sOmbeT cham
bers, in the midst of which was the mys-
FERROUS adytum or shrine. In front of the
first court was the pylon. 1t consisted of
two broad, towering masses of masonry
connected with a single gateway. These
announce the temple long before it is
reached. The first division Of the structure
IS almost always cOlonnaded quadrangle.
This is sometimes followed by second
court; sometimes by spacious hall OF
columns. a central succession of doorways
sanctuary. Thus the range of the halls and
quadrangles, with their obelisks, colossi and
rellvos, was partly disclosed to the wor-
shippers as they passed the grand portal
A bewlldering sense of masnificence and
extent was presented to the devOtee, as
screen alter screen was passed, mystery
after mystery revealed and the graded en-
richment Of the sublime apartment was ex-
hibited
The great works of the second period in
cluded the erection Of the pyramids. The
third period covered the regns of the Ptule-
mics aud of the earlier Caesars. Under them
Egyptian architecture seemed 10 be born
again. All the splendid characteristics of
the Theban age We're revived, though the
editices erected now gave evidence of Gre
elan influence. The temple of the first or
Pharaonlc period consisted of a range of
courts and halls, with small secluded
sanctuary in the rear. IL the Ptoemaic
temple there Is first an outer court, from
which one passes through a portico, open in
front, to tile body of the temple. That con-
tains an assemhlaee Of small chambers, one
OF which is the adytum. a lofty pylon in-
The morning call., 1890-12-07

few weeks $500 men secured the eight
hour day and 10000 more secured a reduc-
ton of from ten to nine hours, while the
trades generally felt the beneficial effect of
the victory thus speedily gained. 1t is the
intention of the federation to place one
trade after another into the van of the con-
flict until all shall have obtained the long
President Gompers, 6" is our watchword for
to-day. 1t viii be fewer hours Of labor if
need be, tomorrow. They portend higher
wages. steadIcr employment, and work for
thousands who are now unemployed"
Samuel Gompers, who was born in Lon
don. England. in 1850, was compelled,
through the poverty of his parents, to leave
school and work in factory before he was
II years old. He con tinued his studies in
nlght-schCol, however, ana when he left
stood highest in his class. He left the fac
afterward apprenticed to a cigar-maker.
Wien, in 1868, lie came to this country a
boy OF thirteen he was already Il skilled
1ourneyman. and, as there were nc age re-
StrictiUns then, he joined a cigar-makers'
union which had just been organized, and he
has been ever since union workingman
He declined the presidency of the Cigar
makers International Union in 1877, and
has since d. clined to run for political Office
He was the First Vice President o: the fed
Grafton in 1851, and at the second convention
was elected its President, position he has
held ever since. During the first six years he
served without salary or any other emolu-
ment although the period Included the time
of the great eight-hOur movement of 1885,
For years he has been the champion of the
trade unionlSts, and, as rditor of the Picket,
fought the Knights of Labor, almost un-
aided, at time when that order threatened
The morning call., 1890-12-07

closes the court and forms the grand facade
OF the temple. Opposite, within, is the por-
tico, which rises above and extends beyond
the sides of the third or inner division of the
structure.
The temples erected under the Roman
rule are even more like the Greek model.
and often consist merely of naos or cell.
surrounded by peristyle of columns or
square piers. The detached pylon was one
OF the features of this age. 1t was located
in advance of the edifice, and at the small
temple of Dendoor.
The large temple at Denderad. although
about the last erected of its class. is the
hrst one at whce the modern traveller balts
Only about one-half of its height appears
above the ground or surrounding debris.
Until about fifteen years ago it was filed in
and covered ever by the houses of a Coptic
village. When these were partially re-
moved the wondr0us beauties OF the strnc-
ture were revealed. Thanks to those same
Coptic houses, the ancient monument was
found IN a capital state of preservation.
Its foundations were laid under PtoIemy
Al, It's construction was finished under
Ilberus, and its decorations under Nero.
Jesus Christ was living at Jerusalem when
the building OF this temple was in progress.
AT karDak Is rnin giving a comprehen-
slve idea OF the inner details of an Egyptian
temple. The grand edifce extends 1900
1eet from northwest to southeast and $40
feet IN the opposite direction. The right
hand corridor OF the entrance-court is in
terrupted by an annexed sanctuary sup
posed to have been placed there by Rameses
IL as an improvement. Altogether the area
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great battle with that object in view was
loiners Of the country as the attacking
force, and speedy and pronounced victory
was the result. That battle. however, was
not made without long PREPARATION. After
the great financial convulsi0n of 1878, trade
GnioDism in the United States seemed for a
long time doomed. Even with the resump-
ton of work and wages it was found I'M
possible TO establish a general trade-union
organization, embracing the whole body of
wage workers. Labor leaders with other
views were recognizing the workiDgmen.
They held that trade unions had proven a
failure, and that some new method of bind
ing the labor element iuto an effective, ag-
gressive force must be adopted. Hence the
Knights of Labor. Samuel Gompers says
that the period which marked the slumber
and apparent delay of trade unionism was
"a long ard dark night of anarchy in the
domain of industrial organization"
If that be so the dawn appeared on No
vember 10. 1881. when 1O7 delegates, repre-
seEting nearly 250,0G0 workers, met i'll con-
vention in Pittsburg, Pa, and established
the Federation of Organized Trade and
Labor Unions of the United States and
Canada" At the second convention, held
in Cleveland, Ohio, on November q, 1882,
the federation issued document urging.
not political. but industrial unity as the
prime object to be aimed at. mot" was
added in the document, "by prescribing a
stereotyped, uniform pl,n of organization
for all, regardless of their experience or
necessities, Bor by antagonizing or aiming to