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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
DO FISHES SUFFER PAIN?
An Expert Says They Are Not as Sensi-
tive as Warm Blooded Animals.

An Expert Says They Are Not as Sensi-
tive rs Warm Blooded Animals.
l have read many articles on the SUBJ
ject of whether fish, when caught on the
hook, feel any pain, or whether their
struggles were merely the result of find
ing themselves fast fish great deal
in the summer months for trout, bass
and pickerel, and have done so for many
years. / have studied the matter very
carefully, and have made up my mind,
from various incidents that have come
under my observation, that fish are not
sensitive to pain as are warm-blooded
animals. will cite two instances that
show to me plainly that must be right
in my conclusions on this subject.
Last October, while fishing for pick
erel on Lake Cary, Wyoming County,
Pa, in company with companion,
among other fish that we caught was
pickerel that would weigh nearly, if not
quite, three pounds. My friend pulled
it up, and as it came on to the top l
saw about twelve feet Of a very coarse
brown line hanging to it. Upon in
speeding it more closely found that the
fish had in its side "a very strong and
coarse hook, to which the piece of line
was ATTACHED. The wound must have
been made very short time previous
to our catching the fish, for it was
bleeding quite freely and looked very
fresh, and if the fish could.feel, it would
certainly have deferred it from TAX
ing our hook so soon after such an
injury. There was only one other party
fishing on the lake that day, as it was
cold and windy, and that pickerel must
have received his injury from them and
have come nearly across the lake to us,
dragging that piece of heavy line with
him.
The other instance occurred in this
way: / was fishing for pickerel with a
skipping bait'-most of your readers
know what that is-a piece of pork rind
or pickerel belly, and had with me a
| friend who, though he could handle a
brigade under heavy fire, was not up
to the trick of catching fish that way. l
was having fairly good sport, but he got
impatient and finally, when he had a
good strike, he jerked SO hard as to
break his line, and away went the fish.
and he at once proposed to go home; but
told him in joke if he would wait five
or ten minutes / would catch that fish
and get back his hook. So we sat down
and had short smoke. | soon COM
menced to cast my hook near where he
lost his fish. had strike and to our
mutual surprise out came the Generals
fish, with his hook we'll fastened in its
mouth. Now, l don't think the fish
would have taken the bait so soon again
had it been in any pain from the hook
Forest and Stream.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
HUMOROUS.


Belle (suddenly)-'I'm afraid all
this talk about students is rather frivol-
Gus for Sunday" May (easily)-"0h,
but they're all theological students, you
know. "-Harper's Bazaar.
-Hackman-'Is the doctor at home?"
Bridget-"Yes, sir, he's out in the back
yard killing chicken" Hickman
Call i'm in, I've got bigger game."-
Puck.
Benevolent Old Gentleman-"My
good man, how came you to adopt beg
cling as a trade? Or would you call it
profession?" Beggar-"It is neither,
sir. 1t is an art. "-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
-Merchant-"Mr. Canesucker, can
you pay this little bill to-day?" Dude
iy Canesucker-''Not to-day; some other
day." at occurs to me that you should
try and save up, so as to meet your OBJ
legations" "Thats what I'm doing;
haven't used any money to pay debts in
more than year now. Texas Siftings.
-Epicure-"Waiter, this steak is pos
itively bad. 1t must be three weeks
DID," WATERFALL, pardon, monsieur!
| have made re meestake, and have
brought you re venison." Epicure-
"Venison? Oh, yes! Then you may
leave it. (Tastes it). All! to be sure,
it is venison; and very nice, too--very
nice, indeed"
PA" said the editors son, "what is
the meaning of the phrase, Amenities
of Journalism?" at is" promptly re-
piled the parent, calling brother
editor an esteemed contemporary in one
column, and referring to him in another
as "a lying whelp who hasn't intelli-
gence to clerk on a canal boat. '"-Ex-
change.
M (hic) dear" said Mr. Lushly,
as he stood on the steps, will you open
the door?" "Did you hear the elock?"
was the question which came from the
upper window. "Yesh, m dear. 1t
struck three" swell, three strikes is
out" and she slammed the shutters,
while Lushly sat down on the doorsteps
Washington Post
Mrs. Brown-"These men think we
women can't keep secret but they're
greatly mistaken, know L can" Mrs.
Green-"Indeed, can too. Now Mrs.
Parks was in here yesterday and told
me in solemn confidence that Mrs. Smith
intended getting divorce from her
husband, and l haven't told living soul
about it and don't intend to-" Mrs.
Brown-"No; wouldn't if were you. "
Light.
Matilda Greenfield-'T ca a do yo'
washin no mo- arfter to-day, ma'am,
kase Use gwine ter be mahied." Mrs.
Mildly-"Indeed, Matilda, am really
very glad of it on your account But
hope you have given the matter careful
consideration, Matilda. and that you
fllly realize the importance Of the ster
ron are about to take" Matilda
"Deed does ma'am, deed Idoes: kase
been mshied four times already, an
realizes Jess how csr'ful puscn has u
be about dis marryia' business DE
troit Free Press
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
Growing In Power.

The work of the women in the church
is becoming more marked, its necessity,
also more plain, and there is a growing
pleasure in looking over the statistics
which tell what they are doing. 1t is
often argued that they carry into the
active church life kind of devotion
an emotional earnestness that men can
not command, and that in this, to a
great extent, lies their usefulness.
However this may be, it seems to con-
fiict with the other theory that religion
heretofore has been too much religion
OF feeling, the result being that men,
not because they are more intellectual,
but because they are less emotional,
have been taught a distsste for it. II
is not possible that the women, retain
ing all their sensitiveness, are growing
in the practical power which is needed
by the problems of the day, and for the
solution Of which The combined talents
of men and women are called into sxsr
siss -unitsa Presbyterian
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05

nothing but rest. II can only get
such home as I wish my literary work
need not be entirely sacrificed. ] want
temporary home till my pet career
can be fairly started
" Well, can't you find odd jobs to do
for the papers and magazines, as Mrs.
Clinton did? She came to New York
stranger, visited the publishers, and got
as much work as she could do"
THAT was chance in a thousand,
auntie. Mrs. Clinton has energy and
push beyond the ordinary She gets
audience of all these people and finds
out just what they want She has the
genius for fitting into places. She is
the one lucky person who trips up the
stairs of the Brooklyn bridge at tie
very last minute, and quietly makes
bee line for the choice seat in the car,
when hundred others, who have been
jostling and crowding for ten minutes,
still have to scramble for the gates.
She has done just that. She managed
to fill the only gap there was at the
time. With my Southern training I
could never bolt ahead like that; must
look about me accordingly"
II see you have made up your mind,
child. I would save you from such
fate, If / could"
Don't worry, auntie, dear; / shall
come out all right. Only let me get a
start. 1t would not be fair to depend
upon you, even if you could take care of
me. Only consent to recognize your
poor relation when she has an evening
out. That is all ask"
Thus Nettie Cabell, the educated,
gifted daughter of once wealthy
Southern family, forgot the exactions
of vaunted "blue blood" and went
bravely to work in the despised line of
| domestic service. With one of her last
| precious half-dollars she advertised for
place as nursery governess, where the
duties are more mental than those of
| the mere teacher
In due course an answer came that
seemed the right one. Two children to
be cared for whose parents were
wealthy. The little girl was bloom
ing specimen of petted childhood; the
boy, delicate, sensitive child lame
since his third year. The mother fully
appreciated Nettie's story, and ere long
began to realize that she had found a
| treasure.
When handsome sum was paid over
by her publishers for the two novels
her friends urged her to stop her mas.
querading and come home. But Nettie
Cabell was made Of better stuff than
selfish aims. and her heart went out to
the boy who now chung to her with a
child's grateful devotion. She would
not desert him.
An arrangement was made by whit h
she could employ portion of each day
in literary work. A separate governess
was engaged for the little girl, and
Nettie had no cause to regret the STEP
she had taken. Eventually there were
advantages both substantial and heart
satisfying growing out of her under
taking, but from the first she was in the
full reward Of good conscience.-Eu'
genia Dunlap, in N Y. Observer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
WOMAN SUFFRAGE NOTES.


Miss FLORA WOODWARD TIBBITs, OF
Ann Arbor, is the first woman in Mich
igan to apply for admission to the bar of
the Supreme Court.
THE Grouse Memorial College for
women, new institution at Syracuse,
n. Y, gives promise of great success
1t has very fine buildings.
A NUMBER of Chicago "lady medicals"
for the purpose of securing an inter-
national congress Of women physicians
in 1892.
THE women of Greece have submitted
to the Government petition asking
that as good educational opportunities
be given to the girls of the nation as to
the boys.
THE women Of the country are to be
represented on the board of managers OF
the World Fair. 1t could scarcely be
success without their cooperation
Western Rural.
THE movement for appointing women
Poor Law Guardians gains ground
yearly in England. Candidates have
been nominated recently in London,
Bath, Bromley, Kensington Marylebone
and Plymouth.
Mrs. LIDE MERRIwETnER, of Tennes-
see, says that Southern men are not so
apt to favor woman suffrage as the men
of the North and West, but that when
they do favor it, they surpass all other
men in the chivalrous ardor with which
they take up the idea.
A WOMAN suffrage club, with forty
charter members, was lately organized
by Mrs. Helen M. Cougar, at Warren,
Ill. Officers are: Mrs. Alice Ely, presi-
dent; Mrs. S. +. Kersler, vice-presi-
dent; Miss Ella Walton, secretary, and
Miss Florence Spofford, treasurer.
THE New York Association of Work
ing Girls is composed of eighteen clubs,
with total membership of 2,6s5. The
association has rented 10 whole houses
and 10 rooms. 1t has 1872 classes in
dressmaking. sewing, cooking, ETC., %
libraries, music clubs, IL provident
and benefit schemes, and ~ resolve
clubs.
The New York Legislature has passed
law requiring saloon-keepers to secure
an affirmative vote by petition in writ
ing, ''of majority of the residents OF
said block, all women over twenty-onc
being entitled to vote the same as men,
in any city or village, in favor of the
permission of such liquor traffic in their
neighborhood.
Mis-. MARY F. SEYMOUR, Of New York,
, editor of the Business Woman's Journal,
says: in the city jails, station-houses
and insane ssylums, men only are at
present employed. I have always ar
/ gued that women prisoners should be at
: tended by their own sex. IL women were
? allowed to vote and have voice in poll.
j tics, you would see . much-needed re-
E form in such matters. and in all ques
5 lions thst concern women. You will
: find their suggestions and helD invslg
shle"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
LAURA BRIDGMAN'S BRAIN.
1t Differs But Little from the Brains of
Ordinary Women.

Ordinary Women.
For months past DIR. Donaldson, of
Clark University, Worcester, has been
engaged in studying the brain of the
late Laura Bridgman, the deaf, dumb
and blind pupil of DR.. Howe, who
learned to read and write and con-
verse intelligently, in spite of her nat
ural defects.
Dr. Donaldson is now preparing an
exhaustive report upon the results of
his Investigations, which he will read
before several learned societies, and
later on publish in the scientific jour
nails. The examination has been
the most thorough ever under
taken by any medical expert,
and though the results obtained
have not been conclusive, they will
go far toward substantiating several
theories which medical experts have
advanced about the functions of the
brain as an organ of thought, as well as
placing several new nd startling theo-
ries before the world.
Though the facts are not ready to be
made public, yet it is said that the brain
of Miss Bridgman shows that it is an
infallible index of the sensations con-
veyed to it through all the senses; in
short the brain is nothing but an intri.
cate photograph and photograph COM
bined, which registers all that the sight,
hearing, taste, smell and feeling bring
to it.
OF course the report when made will
be couched in many scientific terms, but
when Invested of these meshes it will
hold much that must be of lasting in
terest to every person who thinks or has
brain capable of thought. Boston
G1Aho
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The cost OF holding chapel services
at Harvard last year was 1858.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been re-
elected president of the Wells College
Alumne Association.
MIR. w. w. Astor is to give bronze
doors to Trinity Church, New York,
which will cost 500, 900, in memory of
his father.
The Chicago Home Missionary and
Church Extension Society has bdilt five
new churches'during the past year.
"A Norristown clergyman gave his
congregation surprise on recent Sun
day. Instead of prosy sermon he read
rhymed discourse in 119 stanzas
The Plymouth Church (BrooklYn)
membership has been reduced 729 the
past year by revision of the rolls.
The receipts for the year were S44, 0s2.
Sir Peter Coats, who died the other
day full of years and honor, was an
earnest Presbyterian and built several
churches at his own expense. He also
gave complete public library to his
native town of Paisley. His winter
home was in Algeria, where he had
fine chateau.
The immigration of Jews into Pales.
tine is steadily increasing, and the
moneyed men of Europe begin to take
an interest in the migration by buying
up land and building blocks of houses,
founding schools and hospitals. 1t is
said of the Jewish population of Pales-
tine that they are tolerant toward peo-
pie of other faiths.
"A minister, belonging to one of
those denominations where the Cos
pei malady prevails in comparatively
mild form, confessed to friend: 81
am at my wits end and haven't come in
sight of good text yet The truth is
that preached about Holsters last Sun
day, and shall have to exchange to-
morrow or shut up shop!"
The number of Christian churches
in Constantinople is very large, namely,
145. Fourteen of sthese are Protes-
tant, so Greek Orthodox, 80 Armenian
Orthodox, 26 Roman, Greek-Roman,
IL American-Roman, Bulgarian. -Four
Patriarchs of Oriental churches and a
Roman Archbishop are residing in the
capital of Mohammed's successor.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
South, according to statistics just gath
cred and published, has 1862 itincrant
preachers; $500 local preachers; 1,16l,-
666 members (white), an increase of
8s, 16S; $40 colored members, a decrease
of 1875, and 1888 Indian members, a de-
crease of 1,125. The total of preachers
and members LIT, $50, showing total
net increase of 37,053. The number of
infants baptized last year was "a, 1913, an
increase of 1861. The value of church
edifices is reported at nearly ST., 900, 900
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
SOCIAL SAFETY.
The World Needs the Votes Of Educated
Women.

Women.
In a recent address on Education as
a Factor in Civilization" Miss Caroline
b. lie Row, of Brooklyn, said
in an age when man lived In castles
with walls three feet thick, judiciously
and tastefully surrounded by moat and
ditch, drawbridge and portcullis, spend
ing most of his not particularly valuable
time in shooting arrows and pouring hot
oil from the tops of his towers upon the
heads Of his enemies-no one will deny
that during these little neighborhood
excitements, SO far as woman was con-
cerned, home was the best place for her.
Later, when with axe and gun he clear
ed the forest, and protected his cabin
from wild beasts while seeking food and
fuel for its inmates, it was quite accord
ing to the fitness of things that the
feminine portion OF the family should
stay indoors to keep the fire and to cook
the food. But social safety and comfort
are no longer secured by arrow, axe and
gun, but by money made in bust
ness, and votes cast into ballot-box.
of bears and barbarians Homemakers
the world Is sustained by them, and
their Office is one of the noblest on earth;
but the appliances which have lightened
the labor of the outside world are repre-
sented in the household also. Home
will always be good place for woman.
as for man; but it is not always the best
place, nor by any means the only place.
Perhaps it has been necessary for wom-
ans education to wait until the worlds
material interests were in large meas
ure provided for. But physical force has
successfully done its work, while the
world has gradually been growing into
realization of the fact that for its
mental and moral upbuilding the power
of only one-half of the human race IS
only half sufficient"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
Change and MonotonY.

While some will never submit to any
monotony, but live in a continual rush
of change, thereby bunting the power
for good of any change, others are so
concentrated in their thoughts and feel
ings that they find it impossible to d.
rect them into any unaccustomed chan
mel when the proper time comes. They
have by constant habit become so
welded to monotony that they have
lost the power to appreciate the nat
ural and legitimate delights of change.
Wherever they go they carry their bur-
dens and cares with them. In the
midst OF all natures charms they have
neither eye Tor her beauties nor ear for
her harmonies; they arc living over and
over again their business details, re-
GREETING past mistakes, making new
plans-living. in fact the same monot-
onous life they did all the preceding
months. Their vacation is mere
hyphen-nothing in itself, and only
used to connect what has been with
what will ben. Y. Ledger.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05

MY LADYS POCkET.BOOK,
1t Was Nothing Less Than a Curiosity
Shop in Close Quarters.

Shop in Close Quarters.
81 read in to-day's paper that a
pocket-book had been left here by some
one who found it, and l called to ask
about it; / have lost mine,n said New
York woman in newspaper office the
other day.
Eyes, ma'am," replied the clerk in
attendance. Will you please describe
the contents of the pocket-book you
lost?"
"Well, now-let me see. / think |
can name every thing that was in my
purse. There was dollar-bill, two
ten-cent pieces, one or two nickles, two
or three coppers, some postage stamps,
some silk samples, a small sample of
yellow floss, a pearl-handled glove but
toner, little poem entitled 'Baby's
Bath a recipe for sweet pickles, lock
of bady's hair, car ticket, sample of
torchon lace, a memorandum of things
j wanted to get a row Of pins, funny
little joke cut from newspaper, small
pearl button, brass tag, several ad-
dresses, tiny lead pencil, a Canadian
dime with a hole in it a small rubber
eraser, railroad time card, an adver-
tisement of bargain sale of handker r
chiefs, pressed violet in bit of tissue
paper, sample of dress braid, and five
or six other little things that can't
Oh, thank you'll yes, that's my pocket
book"
And the pocket-book he handed her
was just three and half inches long by
two and a half wide, and half an inch
thick.-Puck.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-05
QUEER MARRIAGES.
A Congregational Pastor Gives Some
His ExperienceS.

A Congregational Pastor Gives Some OF
His Experiences.
Rev. w. G. Wade, Congregational
pastor in Western Maine, has been tell
ing some stories about queer marriages.
He says: 81 once married a couple
where the young man seemed good and
honest, but not very quick-witted. The
girl was bright and smart, but proved
tickle and false, for she soon tired OF
her husband, who came back to know II
l could unmarry him. OF another
couple that was called upon to unite a
few years ago the groom was seventy
four and the bride nineteen. He had
given her $40, 600 before he became her
consort His children (middle-aged
people, and neighbors showed their dis.
approval of the matter by indulging in
serenade of such gigantic proportions
that the din caused people miles away to
think that the world was coming to an
end. Twelve horse fiddles with cannon
and tin fish-horns, seemed to shake the
earth. One couple presented them
selves to be married, and, in answer to
the question: Do you take this woman
to be your lawful welded wife?' he
would break in with: why, of course;'
/ would proceed; 10 care for in sickness
and in health?' when the groom would
answer again: 'Sartin, sartin; I'm all
right. I'll doctor her up if she gets
sick The bride nudged him to keep
quiet, when he turned to her with the
question: Hey, Polly, what you want%
When finally got them married, the
fellow said: We'll, parson, what's the
damages?' and learning that it lay with
him to fix the Price, he rewarded me
with seventy-five cents and the promise
of bag of potatoes in the fall. l still
have the promise. Boston Herald.