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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.


ROCKFORD, ILL.,, has two women sta.
tion agents who, by their courtesy and
pleasant ways, are winning many
friends, both in a business and person.
al way.
THE other day, when directors for the
coming year were chosen by the com.
mittee appointed to select governing
board for the Unitarian Church in New
Orleans, four of the eight names read
out from the pulpit were women.
Mrs. E. c. PATTERSON, editor of the
woman's department of the Chicago Elk.
press, union-labor organ, says: "Wom.
an is slowly but surely coming to be
needed as q factor, as potency in the
councils of men, church and State"
DIR. ELIZABETH THALBERG has within
the past year been appointed resident
physician at Vassao, with a handsome
salary. In spite of her German name,
DIR. Thalberg is an American. She was
Miss Burr, of Brewer, Me-, and mar.
ried German physician, DIR. Thalberg,
of New York.
HE Niby tOuuOAi Va NhtCdSO ldtcil
authorized the Commissioner of health
to employ five women as sanitary police,
to inspect factories and tenements. The
Illinois Woman's Alliance has worked
hard for this ordinance, and by dint Of
much patience, and persistence succeed.
ed in having 1t passed, Ss to 1.
OF the United States sculptors whe
exhibited at the Paris Exposition. only
three received honorable mention, and
of this number Miss Theo. A. Ruggles
was one. Miss Ruggles' exhibit was
the figure of nude child reclining on a
river bank. The judges were all French.
men. and the award was therefore all
the more emphatic as an indication OF
real merit.
BUFFALO, n. Y, now boasts OF three
women architects. OF their skill and
taste in Office work there is no question:
but when they come to the practical SUI
perintendence Of the execution Of then
own designs. they are sure to find griev-
Gus incompatibility between petticoats
and nail-kegs, kid shoes and mortar,
snugly fitting bodices and ladders. The
workincwoman's world waits for beauty
and utility to meet and kiss each other
in feminine costume which shall be
at the same time becoming and con
! venient-Union Signal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30
A TOUCH OF NATURE.
rhe Presence of Charity Recognized by
an Enraged Chinese Mob.

rhe Presence of Charity Recognized by
an Enraged Chinese Mob.
Many persons who can not clearly dis
cern the spiritual aspect of creed,
however true, or mark its function as a
mold of conduct, can fairly gauge its
practical result Its nearest human in
terest consists in what it can do for the
individual. Does it help, relieve or
cheer him; does it, in a word, exert
kindly influence upon him, or the re-
verse? According to its human
lily it evokes that quality of mercy
or sympathy which somewhere lives
in every human mind, and is its es-
sential means of intercourse with other
minds, even without the aid of articu-
late language. 1t is this quality which
forms the very soul and character of
true religion, which constitutes at once
its brightest attraction, its wisest re-
source and its most powerful aid in
times of perplexity and danger. 1t was,
therefore, shrewd as we'll as benign
intention which first associated with
missionary enterprise the sensible bless
ing of medical skill. There can be no
doubt that the influence which has been
exercised in later times by the former
agency has been greatly aided by this
beneficent connection, and there is evi.
dence, also, to show that it has gained
from the same union means of appeal
which has availed it in times of popular
n rnn1 not haaly to ha
Pauline era for illustrations. Such re-
cent experience as that of a Chinese
mission will suffice for our present pur.
pose. 1t is reported that during the late
disturbances in Southern China conse-
ouent upon the French expedition to
Tonquin small Wesleyan mission sta
tion at Fatshan was at tho mercy Of a
riotous mob The chapel was wrecked.
The hospital for days was menaced and
was hourly expected to fall, but here,
for the first time, the rioters appeared
to hesitate. Some of the sick were re.
moved before their eyes, others, they
knew, could not leave the building.
They constantly threatened the assault,
yet the blow never came, and amid their
angry menaces the doctor was allowed
to pass freely to and from the hospital.
A finer touch than that which compelled
a kindred feeling between this rabble
and its foreign benefactors does not
exist in nature. The Chinese mob prob
ably did not include many acute con-
troversialists in theology, but it did, as
a whole, recognize the presence of that
charity which is rightly regarded as the
essence of religion.-London Lancet
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30
WHAT is WANTED.
A Demand by Women for Equal Pay for
Equal Work.

Equal WORK.
Said Susan b. Anthony in a recent
speech: "What we want in the world OF
work is not that women be allowed to
do this or to do that, but that they may
get the same pay that men get for doing
the same work. The trades and profess
sions are practically open to women
now. Medicine and law both have wom'
en- practitioners. Elizabeth Blackwell
was the first woman doctor in this coun'
try. She graduated at the head OF her
class in Geneva College, yet on the day
after her graduation the faculty voted
to admit no more women. Now, all oveI
the country women are practicing medi'
cine and doing the work of killing OF
curing, as the case may be. There has
been the same change in the trades, IN
official employment, and in the depart
ments at Washington. But as a rule
women receive only two-thirds OF mems
salaries. When | was in Kansas found
a woman superintendent of schools with
man assistant. The woman received
81, 1000 and the man 5000. wept for Joy.
But that was rare exception.
"When men elect women superintend'
ents of schools, as the law allows them
to do, they do so because by electing
women they can get better talent foi
less money. And in all the States,
much of the old injustice of the common
law is still in force. Everywhere hus'
band and wife are one, and that one the
husband. But there has been progress.
Forty years ago woman could not sue
or go into court to testify. In Illinois
knew a married woman who had set OF
false teeth made. The dentist declared
them a fit, but the woman said they
were not fit, but on the contrary IL
gave her fits to wear them. Well, the
husband went into court about it. The
lawyer tried to have the woman testify,
but the judge said no. A married
woman, he ruled, could not testify in
matters of joint interest to herself and
husband. OF course it is very different
now, but women have no idea how bar
barous even the present laws are. l
sometimes wish that every husband
would persecute his wife just as far as
the law allows him in order that married
women might know how few rights they
have. If they do not know, they may
charge it to the indulgence Of man
| kind"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30
10 LITERARY

DcRer, OF Andover, limits the
h thinkers OF America to three
mes: Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin
Franklin and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
One of the leading hymn-writers OF
the country is Fannie j. Crosby, of New
York, author of the popular hymn
"Sweet Hour of Prayer" Miss Crosby
Is an invalid and has been blind from
birth.
DIR. Murray, the English encyclops-
dist has come to the conclusion that the
famous manuscript narrative of the
death of John Hampden is not the ac-
count of an eye witness, but forgery
of the present century.
ALFRED East celebrated artist, has
returned to England after trip around
the world. He states that in Hasa,
Japan, he saw native poet reading
Tennyson's ''In Memoriam," which had
been done up in the tongue of Satsuma.
Maurice, the lately deceased son Of
George Sand, is said to have almost
lived at times in a puppet theater, for
which he not only wrote several pieces,
but for which he made and dressed the
puppets, painted the scenery, and played
the parts.
The memorial of the late J. T. Bot
tomley Firth is to take the form of a
'Book Fund" to be devoted to the dis
| tribution of works on social economics
and similar topics throughout the vari-
Gus public, workmen's and school Ii
braries of London.
Prof. HuberL IIerkomer is painter,
etcher, engraver wood-carver, iron
smith, founder of great art school, a
civil engineer, an architect and decora-
tor, magazine contributor, play.
wright, a musical composer, singer,
actor, scenic painter and stage manager.
1t is further fact that what he does he
does we'll.
The late King of Portugal was very
friendly to all literary men, and took
much pride in his own literary work,
especially in his translations from
Shakespeare. He received the delegates
of the international Literary Congress
when they went to Lisbon some years
since, and entertained them very hand
somely.
Edward Bellamy, author of ''Look-
ing BackwardH and founder of the Ma.
tionalist party, is described as wiry-
looking man still in his thirties. There
are a few strands Of silver in his
dark hair, and his face is illumined by a
pair of brown eyes. Mr.. Bellamy was
born in the little village of Chicopee
Falls. Mas, where he still lives.
Charles Reade attributed his con-
version to the effect produced upon his
mind by reading the Bible in the way
that Matthew Arnold recommended to
be read, as literature" He had no
proceeded far until he found himself
wonderfully impressed and moved t.
emotion by certaiu literary qualities il
the Scriptures which seemed to hin
inexplicable on the theory that they
were merely human compositions.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30
SCHOOL, AND CHURCH.

bishop Lightfoot, the greatest giver
rs we'll as the greatest scholar on the
English bench, has contributed $50, 600
toward church extension since his ap-
pointment to the diocese of Durham.
Evangelical churchmen in England
are terribly alarmed at the prospect of
revival of the monastic system in the
Anglican church. The subject will be
discussed at the next session of convo-
cation.
The oldest as we'll as the youngest
college feels the necessity Of constant
and great development. Yale has just
established new professorship of in
struction in the English Bible and Har-
ward one of physiology.
The one hundred and twenty-third
anniversary of the founding of Method
ism in America was celebrated lately
at the John Street Methodist Episcopal
church in New York, which stands on
the ground occupied by the first
Methodist church on this side of the At
lantic.
The contributions Of Northern Pres
byterians for benevolent and missionary
causes averaged $3.50 per member in
1879, and in 1889 $5. Sc, or 64 per cent.
increase. The entire gifts, including
church expenses, have advanced 2319
per cent, from S14.37 per member in
1879 to SIT. rs in 1889.
The Presbyterian church in Iowa
has never before had such a prosperous
year as last. measured by increase OF
numbers. Three thousand and fifty
persons were received by confession,
and the net increase was 1856. In 1883
the net increase was thirteen only; and
the increase of the five years--1S79 tc
1883, was not half the increase of the
year just closed.
in description of the new and
stately edifice of the First Presbyterian
church of st: Louis, the Globe-Democrat
says: "The main auditorium is flanked
by cozy retreats opening on and within
sight of and hearing of the pulpit, de
signed as resting-place for the aged
infirm and sick who are in need of ad
ditional comforts to those provided fol
the other members of the congregation.
Mr.. w. H. Smith, the leader of thu
British House of Commons, recently
built new church at Portsea at a cos
of more than $4,000. He has no in
terest in the place whatever; but hap
pening to visit it for day on Govern
ment business, he noticed that it great.
needed new church. Forthwith h,
sent for the vicar and set the work il
progress, and until a few days ago III
one but the vicar knew where all tn
money came from
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30
Death Gave a Day Of Grace.

A sad story comes from New York.
Two sisters-one aged and an invalid
and the other working-girl who sup
ported the two on small earnings as a
book-folder-occupied room in a tene-
ment house. The sisters scanty earn
ings were not enough to pay for food,
rent and medicine, and the rent fell be-
hind. The landlord told them they must
leave within certain number of days
not many. The sick sister got worse,
and with the words: "How many more
days have we got?' fell back on the bed.
They thought she was asleep, but she
had gone to the land where tenement
houses and rent and heartless landlords
are unknown. The time was up next
morning, but death had given her one
days grace.-Pittsburgh Telegraph.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30

women grJ
made new
ors, in 1877, the
young women deteffo!5oI
university; they were deeply inn
ed with the appearance Of ill-healtlA1(
which, in their opinion, was caused by
undue mental strain.
The discussion of the subject brought
out the fact that the record of excuses
kept by the president showed that the
number of absences on account OF ILL
health was relatively greater among the
young men than among the young wom'
en-; and more than this, it was shown
that the absence of the young women
were almost exclusively in the lower
classes, while those of the young men
were evenly distributed through the en-
tire cOurSe
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30

-Dr. Daniel Ayres, of Brooklyn, has
given S250,OO0 as an endowment TOR
Wesleyan University.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30

Rt Episcopal conven.
in New York rejected
be changes proposed
wheh provides for
ice at funerals and
of prayer so as ap
PIE the conservation
Elements
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
Large Sums That Stil Lie Hidden in
Placer Mines.

Largo Sums That Stili Lie Hidden in
Placer Mines.
For years the feasibility of fluming
and washing the beds of the creeks near
Idaho City, believed to be rich with the
tailings of the placer mining of the early
days, has been the theme of discussion
in every mining camp in Idaho. At
length company of able and courage
GUS men have taken the enterprise in
hand. George Ainslie, well known
throughout the Territory, is one of the
company. At the time of the discovery
of the placers on Elk creek idaho City,
in 1868, the bed of the creek, also Of
Moore's creek, was thirty feet below the
level of the town.
Now, owing to the amount of tailings
| deposited in the creek from the numer-
GUS placers around, the bed has gradu-
ally risen until it is level with the town,
indeed, little higher on the west side,
for a levee has been built to prevent the
water encroaching on the town limits.
Now, when it is recollected that these
tailings were mainly deposited there in
the balmy days of placer mining in this
camp, and at - nwhen no gold-saving
LGr11R6 tut the primitive
|dices, and that
pay from seven to
the man were either
hiced of to get better
der how many tons OF
erried of and which
fifth the larger gold
can be no wonder to
eem extrayagant to
Ire now millions of
and quicksilver
the Moore and Elk
Eatch with much in
this grand enter
letest success we
LBoise City States
pit Episcopal conven.
in New York rejected
Pc changes proposed
whish provides for
2ce at funerals and
of prayer so as ap
ize the conservation
nlements
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-01-30

But hotnihg hold can affor u.&he pleasure
The first pair Of boots thaS 4 wore when a boy
The copper-toed beauties, the bright red-topped
beauties
The first pair OF boots that wore when boy.
Chicago Herald.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-31

dying. The step beyond this life
seems so mysterious you dread the
taking OF it, Why, who taught you
this lesson Of horrors? Heavens door
is wide open, and you step out of
you sick room into those pnrtals.
Not Is long us II minute will elupSe
between your departure and your ar
rival there. Not hale so long as the
twinlling of an eye. Not the mil
honth part Of an instant. There is
no stumbling into darkness There
is no plunging down into mysterious
depths. The door is open. This in
slant you are here, and the next you
are there. When vessel struck the
rocks of thu French coast, while the
crew were clambering up the beach,
cage of birds III the ships cabin
awakened, began to sing most sweet
ly, and W. N the last man left the
vessel thev were singing yet. Even
SO in the l. it hour of our dissolution
when driven on the coast of the other
world may our Decentralization from
this rough, tossing life be amid the
eternal singing Of q thousand promi-
ses of dellveranco and victory!
For all repenting and believing
souls the door OF heaven is now wide
open, the door of mercy, the door of
comfort, for the poorest us well Us the
wealthiest, for the outlaw as well as
the moralist, for Chinese coolie as
well rs his emperor, for the Russian
Eoor as well as the czar, for the Turk
as we'll as the sultan. Richer than
all W Alth, more refreshing than all
fOunt,sins, deeper than all depths,
higher than all nights, and broader
than all breadths is the salvation of
Jesus Christ which l press upon your
consideration Come all ye travellers
of the desert under these palm trees
Oh, if [ could gather before you that
tremendous future upon which you
are invited to enter-dnminions and
principalities, day without night,
martyrs under the throne and four
and twenty elders falling before it,
stretching off in great distances the
hundred and forty and four thousand,
and thousands of thousands, host be-
side host, rank beyond rank, in inf
mite distance, nations of the saved
beyond nations Of the saved, until
angelic vision cease to catch anything
more than the faint outline of whole
empires, yet outstretching beyond the
caplcity of any vision save the eye of
God Almighty. Then, after [ had
finished the sketch, [ would like to
ask you If that place is not grand
enough, and high enough, and ifany-
thing could be added, any purity to
the witnesses Of the robes, any power
to the acclaiming thunders of it's
worship. And all that may by yours.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-31
A Candidate SfcnS Down.

The Rev. DR.. D. G.. Kelley, who re
Gently accepted the Prohibition nom
inrtion for Governor Of Tennessee
and entorcd upon an active canvass
has withdrawn from the race. This
action is the outcome ola correspond
ence with Bishop Kecner, Of the NJ
T.. Church, South. DIR. Kelley wa,
the pastor of a church of that donomi
nation at Gallatin, Tenn, and propos
od to retain the pastorate willis
stumping in favor Of prohibition, bu
it is understood Bishop Keener oh
iected to this, and SO MIR, Kelley con
cluded to withdraw, allow the Prohi
bition party to name another candi
date and devote his time to the duties
of his pastoratc.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-31
An Alliance Victory In Tennessee

The result of the Democratic Con
vention at Nashville was triumph
for the Farmers Alliance. Mr..
Buchanan, the nominee Of the con
Vcntlon, IS a Rutherford county far,
mcr, q member Of the Alliance and
received the support of that organiza
ton III his candidacy for the nomina-
ton. If the majority rule had OBJ
tanned in the Tennessee Convention,
Mr. Buchanan would have been an
easy winner at the outset, practically
overriding the opposition, and even
under the two-thirds regulation his
following was so much greater than
that Of any other candidate that his
nomination was inevitable. But there
was no fight made against Mr.. Buch-
anan on account of his convictions.
He was in fact less antagonized than
any candidate in the field, except
Taylor. The fight was chiefly be
tween Patterson and Baxter, aud
each OF these candidates made it q
point not to offend Buchanan, hopin g
to secure his influence should ne fail
Of the nomination.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-31
Pianos and NrCN rs.

n. ". TRUMP, 13l Mann Street, Go
lumbia, S. c., sells Pianos and Organs,
direct from factory. Nc agents com
missions. The celebrated Chicken
ing Piano. NI0thushck Piano, cclobrat-
ed for its clcalneSs of tone, ightncss
OF touch and lasting qualities. Ma
son Il Hamlin Upright Piano. Ster-
ling Upright Pianos, from S22 up.
Arion Pianos, from 5000 up. Mason
" Hamln Organs, surpassed by none.
Sterling Organs, $50 up. Every III
strument guaranteed for six years
Fifteen days trial, expenses both
ways, if not satisfactory. Sold on In
stalmentS.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-31
A Suicide OF Sixteen

GREENv1LLE, S. c., July 22.-Luth-
er Hightower, sixteen years old, son
Of Danial Hightower, was found
hanging by the neck in O. house on
his fathers place, near Lima, Sun
day about noon. The rope with
which the young man committed
suicide was twisted to joist and
then wrapped tight around the
boy 8 neck. The indications were
that Hightower had climbed to the
joist and after fixing the rope to suit
himself, had rolled off. His neck
was broken, but there were no other
bruises about his body. No reason
is assigned for the boys rash act.
He had been well treated at home
and seemed to be in good spirits. It
is reported, however, that he had
been rejected by young lady to
whom he had been attentive.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-07-31
The Power Of Money.

What an influence for good CT evil
is cXertCd by the proper or improper
use Of money. IT seems to be the
first essential Of modern life. Sad
indeed is the lot of that man or that
woman without money and without
friends. Especially in cases of sick
ness is the need of money felt most
pressingly and yet even the rich with
all their money fall into a state of
poor health and die, whereas if their
money was rightly expended and the
proper remedies applied they might
regain health and strength.
Il. a. Clark, Atlanta, Ga, SAYS: II
spent four hundred and eighty dol
lars in gold to cure me of terrible
blood poison that affected my limbs
and nose and body, with running
ulcers. One months treatment OF
B. B. b. healed the ulcers, restored
my appetite, strengthened my kidneys
and added 81 pounds to weight"
Still, i'll spite of this and much
other testimony there are many who
refuse to try the remedy, seeming tC
prefer to pay large fees to physicians
| or visit distant springs in vain hopes
of recovery. The great truth how.
ever, ever shines brightly and that is
that no one who ever gave Is. b. b
! Botanic Blood Balm) q trial even
found disappointment therein.
0. H. Rudolph, Talladega, Fla.
writes; Il had blood disease for siH
years, but nothing benefited me
although / paid two hundred an6
fifty dollars for treatment. At last
tried d. l}. B. and found it II quick
i,nd cheap blood purifier.