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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
HUMOROUS.

-Patrick-'Its mighty quare how
things do run in a family sometimes,
Mike" Michael-"Yis, it's so Pat.
Now, there's Mrs. Clonakilty--she has
no childer-an' if / remember right, it
was just the same with her MOTHER
Light.
--"How do you read minds?" inquired
dude of mind reader. "Well," he
responded, with great deliberation, 81
first get the mind"-then he stopped for
breath, and the dude for some reason
slipped out. Washington Star.
-Editor-"You said in your report
that 1.-The table groaned under the weight
of the edibles." Is that word groaned
used advisedly?" Peporter-"Yes, sir
the young wife had just placed a plate
of her first biscuits on the table,
Yonkers Statesman.
Have you waited on great many
sick people?" asked a gentleman of
professional nurse. ''Oh, yes" ''Will
you give me the address of some OF
them for references" 81 can't do it.
They are all dead. l don't know where
they live now."-TeXas Siftings.
Shoe Dealer flor the sake of adding
the strength of another favorable opin,
ion)-"Ah, madam, but Othat shoe is
simply perfection upon your foot
James, how do you think Mrs. Dehoofs
foot looks in that shoe?' New Clerk
(anxious not to fall short in his
enthusiasm = Immense" - Harper's
Bazaar.
-Johnny-"My book, pa, says tina,
honesty is the best policy. Is that true,
pap" Munnibaggs-"Yes, my son; il
there hadn't been honest people in tn e
world, how do you suppose should ever
have been able to get ahead as l have?
Yes, my son, honesty is great help tc
a man, a great lp."-Boston Tran.
script.
Man with blank book Ito large,
cross-eyed woman at the door, "-I am
the census taker. l wish to see the
head of the family" Voice from in.
side the room-"H'm, HIM, Aheml''
Large, cross-eyed woman (peremptori.
ly, to owner of voice) keep that
cradle going, james," ITO census taker)
-''Go ahead with your questions, sir. I"
Chicago Tribune.r
Family Nothing more can
be done for you, sir. have exhausted
my resources and advise you to make
your will" Patient-"But have been
told that DR.. Blank says he can cure
me-" Family Doctor-"Huhl I'd just
like to see him try it. I'd have him
elected from the society for breach Of
etiquette. Jury.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A Woolsey professorship Of Blbli-
cal literature has been established al
Yale.
Princeton was the outgrowth of the
Log College of Rev. William Tenant.
ST. Bartholomew Protestant Epis-
copal Church of New York city has a
Chinese club of over 200 members.
The Presbytery of Oregon has finally
decided that all candidates for license
to preach must abandon the use of to-
bacco in all forms.
The president of Presbyterian
college for freedman in South Carolina
informs the church, through the annual
catalogue, that among the pupils are
121 Presby terians and 1873 Christians.
The Peters pence for 1889 yielded
to the Pope thirty thousand dollars less
than in 1888. The legacies bequeathed
to the Pope during the year amount to
seven hundred thousand dollars,
"A permanent scholarship of 81, 600 is
being raised wholly among the colored
people of Alabama for the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute. A
good proportion has already been paid
in cash.
On the west coast of Africa there
are now 200 churches, SO, 600 converts,
100, 900 adherents, 1880 schools and 3d.
600 pupils. Religious books have been
translated into IS dialects of the section.
The destruction by fire of the Uni
versity of Toronto removes perhaps the
finest educational institution in Canada.
Its libraries and museums were very
fully equipped, and its buildings the
best of the kind in the Dominion.
The cornerstone of new college
for women was laid recently at Mont
clair, few miles out of Denver, Col.
The building will cost about $500, 900,
and the cottage plan, instead of dormi-
tories, will be adopted for boarding ar
rangements. 1t is a Baptist institu-
ton, and is designed to be for the West
what Vassar is to the East.
DIR. Amelia b. Edwards is reported
to have said respecting her impressions
of America: "That which most sur
prises and impresses me is the number,
size and Importance of woman's col
leges, the enormous forward movement
for education for every body, and the
universally and activity of women's
clubs"
Tho library of Cornell University
possesses an Oriental manuscript writ
ten on palm leaves, consisting of 1875
strips or leaves, each seven by one and
q quarter inches, fastened together by a
cord passing through hole in the center
of each leaf The writing is done on
each side of the leaves by etching the
characters with sharp instrument on
the palm leaves, which have been after.
ward rubbed over with black pigment
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
TIE WAY TO WIN.
What Working Women Could Accomplish
With the Ballot.

What Working Women Could Accomplish
With the Ballot.
The Boston Globe says, discussing
woman suffrage:
''In trenchant letter on this subject,
Joe Howard recently pointed out that
our working women are at disadvan-
tage in the struggle for livelihood, be-
cause they have no political weight or
power. Surely this will not be denied.
Let the men engaged in any industry
unite to ask for any reasonable legisla-
ton to improve their condition, and both
parties are at once respectfully atten-
tive. But whore is the practical poll
tician who cares whether thousand or
two of working women are satisfied or
dissatisfied with the conditions of their
employment? The philanthropist, the
humanitarian, the practical Christian
cares, but the practical politician simply
says to himself that only votes count,
and that when it comes to votes women
are not in it. And from this point Of
view the practical politician is right.
"How long will it take the multitude
of working women, competing Afor q
share of the worlds work and wages I'M
der these unequal conditions, to realize
that the ballot is the only key that will
ever unlock the door for their advance
ment? That, with votes in their hands
to give or to withhold, they and their
interests will at once become objects of
political concern and legislative atten-
ton?
''The cause of woman suffrage will be
quickly won when the hosts of labor
take it up in dead earnest as their own.
Not only would the ballot help the
working women to larger consideration
and higher compensation for their labor;
it would improve the condition of work,
ing men also. Equal pay for equal la
Dor, equal hours, equal conditions all
round for both sexes would be the sure
fruit of their equality before the law
and at the polls"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
Weighing of silk.

The process of weighing silk by tin
salts has been recently described, but
this is from another source: The BIZ
chloride is reduced by water to 80 de-
grees B., which is the strongest solu-
ton thatcan be employed with safety,
stronger would be likely to injure the
fiber; at 81 degrees b. silk becomes
rough and valueless, at 40 degrees B.
the fiber is dissolved. The silk is well
worked in the solution until perfectly
saturated, left two hours in the liquor,
taken out and washed. One dip adds
about eight per cent to the weight, three
treatments give an increase of about IS
per cent. Bare hands must not be used
in working The goods in bichloride of
tin at so degrees b; it acts injuriously
upon the skin from its strong acidity.
The silk must be very well washed be-
7re it is soaped; any of the tin solution
in would deconpose the soap.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
THE TIME NOT YET.
The Invention Faculty in Woman Not
Fully DeycIoped,

Fully Developed.
An editorial in the Providence Jour
nal recently, on en- alleged inferiority
of the inventive faculty in women,
seemed to one reader very inconclusive'
because it failed to take account of the
most serious facts in the case. A very
little more reflection, says a writer in
Woman's Journal would convince the
writer of the injustice, of pronouncing
thus definitely upon the inventive
power of one-half the race when, from
the creation down to period of con-
siderable less than generation, there
was little to call forth this faculty in
woman or to stimulate to its exercise.
In the case of man it has been far other
wise. From the creator he was forced
under God to become a creator. The
necessities of existence demanded this.
He had no choice but to use all the
power he had, outward and inward
alike, for the support of his life. From
the first moment of his conscious life on
earth, his work was to cope with nature
and draw to the utmost from her hidden
resources.
Very different on the other hand was
the case of woman Instead of the ne
cessity of finding out any power in her
self, her part without question was as
sumed to be to the will of man, and in
all outward things to have no will of her
owe And so it has been with little
change through all the centuries down
70 the exceptional time in which We
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
WONDERFUL PUPPETS.
rhey Are so Jointed as to Execute tho
Most Surprising Movements.

They Are so Jolnted as to Execute the
Most Surprising Movements.
M. George Bertrand, a talented paint
er, a pupil of M. Bonnat, who some
years ago exhibited large picture
called "Patrie," which had great sue
cess, has given up painting in order to
devote his attention exclusively to the
construction of life-size puppets, which
are so jointed rs to execute movements
of the most surprising kind. The Figaro
newspaper, which has taken the inven.
tion under its patronage, brought to-
gether yesterday an influential audi
ence to see and hear the first represen.
tation. The figures produce striking
effect on the spectator, who might imag-
inc them to be the characters in tale
of Hoffman, taking form and life.
A violoncellist plays an air full!
of sentimsnt and spirit; four dancers,
carefully dressed after the fashion Of
the opera, execute ballet A clown
plays with artistic skill on the violin,
and Spanish couple-the male dancer
with tambourine, and his partner with
castane ts-go through the most varied
Spanish dances to the tune of the
Espana of Chabrier.
The movements, the gestures, even
the expression of the faces, are marvel
ously life-like. The exhibition was
most successful. 1t was unanimously
applauded by those present. Curiously
enough, | have never heard the
pictures of NJ. bertrand SO much spoken
of as l have since he took to maxi
ing puppets. / may add that NJ. Jules
Simon, who was present at the enter
tainment received quite an ovation in
recognition of his personal success at
Berlin.-London Times Paris Core.
spondent.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Professor Hialmar Hjorth Boyesen
says he believes all that Mr.. KEENAN,
has said of Siberian prisons, because he
has heard so many stories OF similar
purport from reliable Russian gentle
men.
Verdi, the composer, has secured
from the Italian Minister of Public In
struction an edict forbidding the owners
of hand-organs to play fragments from
his operas in public since they pay him
no copyright.
Mrs. Sallie Joy White, president Of
the New England Women's Press Asso-
citation, has been in the newspaper
business twenty-one years. She is the
first woman who secured a position on
a Boston journal
AT recent autograph sale in Lon
don the signature of Voltaire brought
only two guineas, while that of Isaac
Watts sold for three; and while ten
pounds were given for Boswell letter,
one by johnson brought nine.
Dom Pedro and George w. Childs, OF
the Philadelphia Ledger, are warm per-
sonal friends and frequently exchange
letters. When the Emperor used to
visit this country he always made it a
point to be the guest of the wealthy
editor.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is the
owner of an interesting relic in the
shape of silver teapot that has de-
scended to him by collateral line from
Tutor Flynt, of Harvard College, whose
term of service extended from 1854 to
1899.
The Archaeological Institute that
purposes to explore and excavate the
site of ancient Delphi, has associated
with the names of the most distinguished
historians and scholars among men,
Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth G. Agassiz
and Alice Freeman Palmer.
William 7. Adams, better known to
his many youthful admirers and read
ers as "Oliver Optic" is nearly sixty,
but in vigorous health. He has made a
small fortune by his books, and in
dulges in yacht during summer time.
Mr.. Adams started in life as a hotel
clerk and bartender.
Able Desgodins, Vicar Apostolic of
Theibet, who has been missionary in
the Chinese borders of that country for
thirty-fve years, and whose name &C.
ours in every modern book of travellers
in that region, has lately returned to
France with the manuscript of a
dictionary of the Thibetan language on
which he has labored for quarter of a
century, and which he is DESTROYS Of
having published in Europe. twill be
in Latin, French and English.
An example of the high cost of book
making 500 years ago is furnished by a
bill for designing and writing manu-
script in the year 1902 which was
recently found. At the charges made
in this bill the parchment, writing, the
miniatures, gold-plated and enameled
silver nails ink figures, seventy smaller
gold-plated nails, gold-plated silver
clasp, sky blue satin and binding would
amount according to present value $1S6,
the miniatures themselves going at $50.
American Bookmaker.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
VOTING A DUTY.
The Privilege of the Ballot Not Only
Question of Right.


The Privilege of the Ballot Not Only
Question of Right
1t is sometimes asked if women have
right to vote. The question shouldrather
be, have they right not to vote? Take
the matter Of schools. Let us suppose,
writes Mrs. A. M. Diaz, in the House
keeper, there are half dozen families
living together in a retired location.
They desire school for their children.
A site is to be chosen, building put
up, a teacher selected, and the course of
studies made out. Other matters are to
be Observation-Disclosures, size and de-
sign of the building, seats, desks,
length of sessions, and whether two or
one. Would the six mothers naturally
say: "This is a matter to be left entire
ly to the fathers of our children. 1t is
not our place to interfere; we are not
sufficiently we'll informed; neither could
it make any difference, as we should
think exactly as our husbands think; or
if we differed, we should quarrel. Home
is our only sphere" Or would the six
ldbuClo says III w buC oOnOOls ulldu
the whole matter should be settled with
out any suggestions from the mothers?
Every one knows there would be mutual
consultation and expression of opinion.
This would not be asked as right or
granted as right. 1t would be consid-
cred matter of course. And not only
so, but mother who should hold back
and say she had neither time nor inclin-
alton to attend to such things would be
thought strangely Indifferent to her
children S welfare and neglectful of her
duty.
Now what is true of six mothers is
true of sixty, of six hundred, of six
thousand, of sixty thousand of six hun
bred thousand. Numbers can not lessen
the individual motherly responsibility.
The very fact that home is woman's
sphere makes it her duty to see that the
children of that home are trained under
the best possible influences. When the
neighborhood becomes a city, and the
dividual attention, this management is
left to representatives, and one queer
thing about the matter is that these rep
resentatives are in almost all cases men.
They are chosen to do exactly what the
united fathers and mothers of the neigh
borhood did; yet they are chiefly men,
in most cases wholly so, and are chosen
by men in nearly ever instance. In the
neighborhood the school affairs con.
cernod every individual. In the city,
they are called public, but they are
private inst the same, and concern every
individual Public affairs are only pri,
vate affairs bundled together because
they can not be handled separately.
At present, mothers rear their chill.
dren with care, watch anxiously over
them until they reach the school age
five or six years-then turn them en-
tirely over to tie management of mer
selected and chosen by men, and otter
the whole matter is settled by personal
or worse, by political considerations. Il
is not right that women should shirl
their duty in this way. The duty should
be "thrust upon them" They should
take time and seek opportunities fol
forming an opinion, and should expires.
it by ballot. Voting is only another
name for expressing opinion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
ONLY A WOMAN.

Only a woman, no power hath shc
TO grasp the lawss deep mystery.
Only woman, she can not feel
The public pulse of woe or veal.
Only q woman, devoid OF mind,
Weak, feeble, scnseless, halting, blind
Mothers and teachers, pride of our schools,
Rank them aliens, criminals, fools;
Send them back to the harem's vail
The lands too free when votes prevail.
Only woman, she holds no land,
She pays no tax, she takes no stand
For schools and bonds; she can not wake
To mighty matters now at stake.
Hers it is to sweetly trust
That only man is wise and just;
Her own God-given right to think
Is but a snare on ruins brink;
Casting ballots is dangerous sport;
The ship OF State might fail of port
II wives and mothers had a say
On schools and bonds election day.
Those working womenf who should heed
The tiresome call OF squalid need?
Let them work or let them wed,
Let them look to men for bread.
Wages? A pretty pass when women try
TO Join the laborer hue and cry.
Why, let them stay at home and wait
Till men can settle this debate.
Schools? Our schools are well enough;
Those women-boards are bosh and stuff.
What right have they to have a say
About teacher and his payG
SaloonsY Why, they bring trade TO town.
And women folks would vote 1t down.
They're awful narrow in their views
And bound the ballot to abuse.
Only woman, tired and faint,
BE she beggar or be she saint,
Let her go home and scrub and sew,
And ask her Lord what she would know.
Make way for men, good, bad, black, white
But keep the women out OF sight,
Eva Emery Dye, in Union Signal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
INTERRUPTED MEMORY.
Two Remarkable Cases Recorded by His
torical Authorities.


From an article entitled "a Study OF
Consciousness" by Professor X. S.
Wood, in the Century, we quote as fol-
lows: During the Centennial Exhibit
ton a;big, burly Scotchman was brought
to the hospital unconscious from sun
stroke. l plunged him intol a mass
of slush and water and piled great
masses of ice upon his head. As he
gradually struggled back to conscious
ness, his first sensation was that he was
packed away in an ice-box and doomed.
When he came more fully to himself his
first inquiry was: Who am I?' / said:
who are you? This he could not
answer. For four days thatmanlay in the
hospital, apparently perfectly rational,
wondering who he was. During all this
time his friends were searching, and
detectives looking for him all through
Philadelphia. At last his recollection
came back, and he was able to give his
name.
Some years ago in ono Of our South
ern cities man was seized by the POI
lice and taken to a hospital, where he
told the following story: 4 know moth.
ing who am or where 1 came from. All
/ know is that found myself on the
railroad platform short time ago.
then drifted into hall and heard a
temperance lecture; goaded into fury by
the eloquence of the speaker, l rushed
out and began to smash the windows of
a neighboring drinking-saloon; a con-
sequent attack on me by the roughs led
to my arrest by the police and my being
brought to the hospital. This is all ]
know; who anu l can not tell At the
time of the publication of the report of
this case the hospital authorities had
not found out who the man was"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
TOO LATE.

What silence we keep year after year,
With those who are most near to US and dear;
We live beside each other day by day
And speak OF myriad things, but seldom say
The full, sweet word that lies just in our
REACH
Beneath tho commonplace of common speech.
Then out Of sight and out Of reach they go
These close, familiar friends who loved us so;
And sitting in the shadow they have left,
Alone with loneliness and sore bereft,
We think with vain regret OF some fond word
That once we might have said and they have
heard.
For weak and poor the love that We expressed
Now seems beside the vast sweet unconfessed;
And slight the deeds we did to those undone,
And small the service spent to treasure won,
And undeservcd the praise for word and deed,
That sho I'D have overlooked the simple need
This Is the cruel cross of life to be
Full-vistoncd only when the ministry
or death has been fulfilled, and in the place
or some dear presence is but empty space.
What recollectod services can then
Give consolation for the might have beenr'
The Housekeeper.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
Good for the Intellect.

Young Woman-I think journalism is
q grand calling, Mr.. Verbose. Are you
the editor of the paper?
Young Man-N--no, not exactly. I'm
Q writer on space.
Young Woman with fine enthusiasm
On Space! can imagine that it must
be very enrolling to the mind, Mr.. Yer.
bose, to know all about astronomy
Puck.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12
a PENURiOus BANKER.
An Amusing Anecdote Illustrating His
Remarkable "Nearness."

An Amusing Anecdote Illustrating His
Remarkable "Nearness."
On April 81, 1886, James Wood, one
of the wealthiest private bankers in
England, was buried. He was noted
for his penuriousness, and good story
illustrating this trait in his character is
told. One Sunday before going to
church he gave little boy, who acted
as his servant, a chicken to be roasted
for dinner. The cooking process began,
and as the bird was turned and basted
the savory steam which arose whetted
the boys appetite and he ventured to
rub his finger on the breast, which was
being gradually Drowned, and apply the
finger to his mouth. The taste was de.
holder, and picked away NOR
sci of the chickens breast then
another and another, and before
he realized what he was doing the
whole bird had disappeared. His hun
ger being appeased, he saw his fault,
and, trembling at the prospect of meet
ing his master, he thought of hiding.
On entering a closet adjoining the room
he saw small bottle with the awful
label "Poison" upon it. He feared
death much, but his master more, and
he resolved to end his days then and
there. He drained the bottle, and
thought he was safe from his masters
rage. In short time the old banker
returned, ready to enjoy the chicken
and his glass of brandy and water.
Great was his surprise when he saw
that both the chicken and boy had dis
appeared. On making search he found
the youthful cook lying on the pantry
floor with the empty bottle by his side.
The mystery was solved. The boy was
drunk, for the bottle had contained
Woods brandy, and he had labeled it
Poison" to prevent the servants from
drinking the liquor. What he did with
the boy is not recorded. Chicago News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12

"Snukes an embezzleP? What was
the extent of his operations"
''Only about twenty dollar"
is that all? The miserable thief
Chicago Tribune
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-12

William D. Howells recently re-
marked to friend that he considered
foreign travel detrimental 70 the career
of an American novelist