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DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The late John Crerar, OF Chicago,
who left S2,5OO,0OO to found public
library thOre, stipulated that French
novels and works of immoral character
should be excluded.
Only three copies of the daily paper
read by the Emperor of Austria are
made. Instead of being printed it is
written, and it preparation costs about
200, 600 gilders year.
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes recent
ly told Philadelphia woman that every
body in the United States writes poetry
Every mail brings him volumes of verse
which he is expected to read and ac-
knowledge. ---..-s-- d
bishop Lightfoot's literary remains
are extensive He has left an unfinished
work on the Northumbrian Saints, q
series OF elaborate notes on the epistles
of Paul. and sufficient number of man
uscript sermons to fill several volumes.
Anna Katharine Green, the novelist,
early developed capacity as a story
writer. When she was ten years old,
she and her playmates published a
pamphlet written under her direction
and the little book was passed from one
to another at five cents read"
The WilEie Collins memorial, for
which something over 1900 has been
raised, will take the form of small
library of works of fiction presented to
the London Peoples Palace. Applica-
tion was made for permission to erect a
memorial in st. Pauls Cathedral, but
the Dean and Chapter reported adverse
ly. "Other considerations than Mr..
Collins's literary excellence" they
said, had to be taken into account.
-Alphonse Daudet, whom Henry
James and other critics consider the
greatest living author, is still a young
man. He has not reached his fiftieth
year. He went to Paris in 1857 without
money or friends. His success is of his
own making. Personally he is very
delightful man, genial conversational
ist and delightful host. His family
consists of clever wife, two sons and
daughter. His eldest son is twenty
one years of age.
"A society has been started in Ger
many to provide sound, cheap literature
for the masses. 1t is proposed to issue,
at nominal price, millions of small
volumes of light, entertaining matter
at first, to be followed gradually by in
structive reading matter on subjects of
useful knowledge Of every kind. Street
automatons, placed in crowded thorough
fares and near big workshops, will, in
return for a copper, provide good book
instead Of sweets or cigarettes.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

The laws of Wyoming require equal
pay for equal work to men and women
as school teachers.
-Ihe Methodists have boughta site
near Washington City, where they pur-
pose establishing a university which,
while representing the denomination,
shall also include whatever is hest in
the line of facilities for advanced educa-
tion.
There were 22,76O white and 13,oo4
colored children enrolled in the public
schools in the city Of Washington for
the year 1889. There were 235 colored
and 45S white teachers, and the total
cost OF instruction was S4S7, 1850.
-Newnham College has formed the
nucleus OF portrait gallery of it's found
ers and benefactors by Richmond's por-
traits of Miss Clough and Miss Helen
Gladstone, and Shannon's portrait of
Mrs. Sedgwick. Each portrait will bear
a Latin inscription, and beneath it the
name and date
The Methodist Episcopal Church OF
Canada reported for its eleven confer
ences, for 1889, membership of 22S, 959,
and 2l7,73 Sunday-school scholars. 1t
raised for missions S2l5, 1855, and has 4S9
missionaries 596 paid agents, with re-
turns from its missions of 1894 mem
bers. 1t has Indian, French and do
nestle missions, Chinese work in
British Columbia, and foreign mission
in Japan.
The various schools under the pat
ronage of the American Baptist Home
Mission Society are generally in a
healthy and promising condition. Dr.
Morehouse gives very interesting de.
tails in the Home Mission Monthly,
from his recent visit South, concerning
Shaw University, Benedict Institute,
the Atlanta Seminary, Leland Uni
versity, Bishop College and other in
stitutions.
There is in London a school Of med
icine for women which seems to be in
very satisfactory and fourishing condi-
ton. At a recent examination of tho
University of London one of the fair
medical students passed in all her sub
jects in the first division. The socie-
ties for the discussion of topics relating
to the professions of medicine and
surgery which are usually found in
medical schools are not absent from the
School of Medicine for Women, nor dc
they show any lack of thoughtful re-
search or able understanding of the
ubiects discussed.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
SUFFRAGE SELECTIONS.

FOURTEEN women are elected county
uperintendents in Iowa for 1S00-02
-Four of these have served before.
A PREACHER said he did not think he
should vote at all on one occasion, but
his friends prevailed on him by saying:
Come, we want good votes" Why not
say the same to women?-MIrs. Elizabeth
L. Fry.
THE average woman is in every way
as competent, and is as entitled by
every consideration of fair play to ex-
ercise the right of suffrage as the aver
age man. by all means let them vote.
-Haverhill Gazette.
CANON WILBERFORcE, in a great
speech at Calcutta, said; AT the bot
tom of almost every great movement l
see loving self-sacrifcing, God-fear-
ing woman, pulling the strings and sot-
ting every one right"
THE women voters of Wyoming have
been modest, capable and wise in cXor-
cising their right OF suffrage If we
can't get into the union with female
suffrage, let us stay out until reason re.
turns to Congress. Hon. H. V, S,
Groesbeck.
WOMEN who have entered the field of
journalism generally succeed. A num-
Der of our daily papers employ women
reporters and their work invariably
gives satisfaction. Mrs. Frank Leslie
is an example of what women can do
when she determines to succeed an&
gives her energies t" her labGrS
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
OLE BULLS MANHOOD.
How He Asserted 1t in the Presence OF
Pompous Court Official.

How He Asserted 1t in the Presence of q
Pompous Court Ofcial. ..
The late Ole Bull, the well-known Wis
olinist was perfectly fearless of conse
ouences when his self-respect was
touched. AS an example of this: The
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg gave the
m musician letter of commendation tc
her father, then King of Prussia, after
wards the Emperor William. With this
he went to Berlin, where, as directed,
he called first on the superintendent OF
the Royal Opera House, to whom he
stated his mission. That gentleman
was so patronizing that Bull could hard
ly stand it; but eventually an hour was
fixed on the following day for another
call at the opera-house. The violinist,
with his usual punctuality, presented
himself at the hour, determined to stand
no nonsense. where is your violin"
demanded the superintendent "ln
the case" responded Ole Bull, coolly.
"And where is the case?" cat the
hotel" ''But did not tell you to play
for me?" "Excuse me, sir" was the
answer; II did not think you were in
earnest; play either for money or for
honor, and in this case neither is In
question:, The manager was piqued
and he replied, sharply: ~ can not pre-
sent YOU to His Majesty without hav-
ing heard YOU" 'If the request OF the
Grand Duchess is not a sufficient recon-
to His Majesty, her father, l
am content to leave the city;' which he
did that day.--Chambers Journal
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
THE IRISH BANSHEE.
A Superstition Which Prevails in All Part
of the Emerald Isle.

A Superstition Which Prevails in All Parts
of the Emerald Isle.
A generation or more ago certain
doctor, who practiced in County Mayo,
had been sitting up one night with a
gentleman who was dangerously i'll.
After some hours the crisis seemed over;
the patient fell into quiet sleep, and
the doctor retired into another room to
get little rest.
He had not been there long when a
servant rushed into the room, crying
and wringing her hands, and eXclaim
ing:
"Och, the poor masther-tho poor
mastherI"
"Hold your tongue" said the doctor;
"the masters better, and will be doing
we'll enough if you don't wake him with
your keening."
"Och, doctor dear, don't ye hear the
Banshee?" said tho girl, who was evil
IDENTIFY half scared out of her wits.
"'Banshee, indeedw replied the doc
tor; ''it's yo2c own fancy and nothing
else."
But the girl would not be satisfied
until the doctor accompanied her back
into the room where the master lay,
and there, sure enough, he heard a
faint, mournful sound borne upon the
wind.
He went to the window and looked
out. Before the house, and stretching
for considerable distance, was a great
lawn, bright with the moonlight and
with not a tree or shrub to afford shell.
ter to any living thing; and from out OF
the midst of the moonlight could be
heard wild. plaintive note, rising and
sinking, and rising again. = aF
Startled out of his skepticism, the
doctor rushed to his patients bedside
and found him at his last gasp.
Unlike most most sprites and phan-
toms, the Banshee is attached, not to
places, but to persons, and will follow
member of the family to which she be-
longs across the sea to warn him of the
approaching doom of himself or of his
kinsfolk No family save those de-
scended from the ancient Irish chiefs
can boast of Banshee. A certain
amount of ignorance seems to prevail
upon. this head; there are many families
Of Norman or Saxon descent in
Ireland, as in most countries who, be.
ing possessed of some eath-boding ap.
doubt highly respectable
phantom in its way--dignify it with
the name of Banshee, title to which,
as we have seen, it has no valid claim
National Review ~
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
Courtship In the Ukraine.

When spinster among Ukraine Cos.
sacks feels fancy for certain youth
in the tribe, she is encouraged by tribal
custom to declare her passion. If her
love is. reciprocated, all right; If it is
not, the maiden sits down in the youths
cabin and proclaims an intention OF re.
naming until he realizes the error OF
his ways. The young man is in bad
straits, as the damsePs family would re-
sent any incivility on his part. His
only recourse is to take up his blanket
and his whisky and find new abiding
place. The spinster may then know
that he really does not care to we'd
N. Y. Ledger.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
Smokers and Nom Smokers.

W. D. Howells never uses tobacco,
except in very rare self-defensive
cigarette, where great many other
people are smoking" Gladstone de-
tests smoking. and so does John Ruskin.
Neither Thomas Hardy, nor Louis
Blanc, nor George w. Childs, nor Thom-
as Wentworth Higginson, nor John G.
Whittier, nor John Wanamaker has
ever used the weed. Lyman Abbot
opinion is adverse to its use by a
healthy man. Heber Newton deems
smoking habit incongruous for "a
man Of the Spirit" But Robert Collyer
smokes whenever he wants to, and
thinks it nobody's business except his
own, and the venerable William IL. Fur
ness, of Philadelphia, has been armoller
from hisyouth up. Mr.. Spurgeon isone
of the most inveterate smokers in En-.
g'and. IN. Y. Star.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
A SERIOUS MISTAKE.
The Native American Cheats Himself by
Depriying Women of the Right to Vote.

The Native American Cheats Himself by
Deprlving Women of the Right to Vote.
1t is said to be a mistake to have in
yited foreigners here as we have done;
to have all the people of the world COM
ing here and sharing our inheritance.
What could we have done, asked Rev.
Olympia Brown in recent speech be-
fore the National American Woman
Suffrage Convention at Washington,
without these foreigners? The Irish
men have tunneled our mountains and
drained our marshes and built our rail
roads; the Germans have cultivated our
broad fields, and made the desert bios
som as the rose; the Welshmen have
filled the land with melody, as they
sang their sweet songs and lifted up
their voices in devotion. Every nation
ality has done something. We have
learned something from them all. and
all have contributed to the strength and
the glory Of our great country. They
have helped us to subdue and to extend
our dominion from ocean to ocean. 1t
is not mistake to have invited them
here. Had we pursued a narrow, eXclu-
sive policy We might have to-day been
little, conCeitcd, bigOted, narrow
minded band Of colonies. crawling along
the shores of the Atlantic, instead
of this great people, reaching from
ocean to ocean, and possessing the
entire continent They have all done
their part. Where, then, is the mistake?
For everybody says there is a mistake,
and evidently there is Ouc-for have We
not dissatisfaction on every side; have
we not contention and q great gulf
yaWning between capital and labor-On0
class arrayed against another class: and
have we not in our cities the danger pre-
sented to US that the red flag of anarchy
and revolution will be raised in our
midst; and have we not tconlinual reports
that there is deceit and bulldozing and
bribery and riots and even murder on
every side? There is a mistalle-a seri-
Gus mistake. Whore is it? There is u
mistake always when any man cheats
his ncighbor, and greater mistake
when he cheats himself The man who
cheats his neighbor is guilty Of dishon-
esty and folly; but the man who cheats
himself is as dishonest as one who
cheats his noighbor, and a hundrcdfold
more stupid.
Now, the native American man is all
the time cheating himself, He cheats
himself when he takes away the ballot
from his wife and mother and sister, and
at the same time riyos if 70 cvorv man
that lands on onr sboro rrbntbor bn bo
manner. tramn, or dr,lnl,ard. or what not.
bo cboo+a birooo1f v.ho,, bo ,rivos +I,o
ballot to foroirn nnon1o and dfsf-an.
chisns those of bis ou.n family.
Mr. Inpo11e said !, bie recnn+ sroocb
that "thcra is nothinr so rnnroital7o
"a ipirs+ico - and 7 tbiTl, tho sentiment
is trne What can ha mora rnnroftobIn
TO the men Of this nation than to cheat
tboir wives ont of 4hn ballot and fms
o1,ow +bornsa1vos 70 ho rovnrrn5 Nv ,
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22

Gentlemen OF the committee save ns
from the reproach-' Massachusetts,, God
forgive her, she's a-kneelin' with the
rest Help her to her feet and to her
sense of justice, now smothered in her
prejudice of sex"
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-22
GOLDENHEAD.

Bhs as the June skies
Were her wondering eyes;
And her laugh was as glad and tree
ho the south wind on the sea-
summer, ahl summer is fed,
And with it Goldenhead.
Dear little Goldenhead-
How sweet must her laughter be,
Happy her childish glee,
Now that her feet are led
Where the shining pathways rise
Through Paradise. rt .s
Summers gone, but she is not dead,
Our little Goldenhead. 80
William Sharp, in N. Y. Independent.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30
Novelties in JeweIry.

NOScttlcS III ucWclTy.
From the jewelers. Weekly.
A unique necklace is spray of smilaX in dia-
monds fixed to velvet band.
har-p pin has for q head large pearl about
which is coiled a serpent set with white and col
ored diamonds.
A table lamp on shaft and pedestal of cut
glass, ornamented with applied silver, is being
shown. Decanters, claret jugs, and other goods
are ornamented in the same way.
An elaborate chatelaine watch is in the form
of rosebud of spinel ruby, with diamond
centre, hanging from spray of leaves set with
diamonds and entwined with ribbon of white
enamel.
The prevailing style in cane and umbrella
handles is ivory wood partially covered with
silver. Watches are still set in them. not in the
top, as formerly, but in the stick, about six or
eight inches from the end.
A small lamp, called the Princess in glass or
silver plate, is made to fit in any candlestick.
perforated shade in sterling silver, to which any
delabra.
A neat ring in silver is a horseshoe nail bent to
a circle, with moonstone set in the head. An
other, in gold. has an oddly shaped sapphire,
rather long and pointed, and above it coronet
set with diamonds.
A complete lady's toilet set of twenty four
on each piece shows several cupids in various
positions holding an ornamental shield, on which
may be engraved a crest or monogram.
A breast-pin is chrysanthemum of rubies,
with yellow diamond for centre. Another is
a heart-shaped miniature of the Empress Jose
phine, with festoons of diamonds and sapphires
and surmounted by coronet of the same stones.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30
CENSUS OFFICE.
Refrain of the Second Division.
BY ONE OF EN-.

by ONE OF 'EM.
AIR: WEARING OF THE GREEN"
In the Interocean Building clerks are working
with will,
For the Census Mans accounts are in, likewise
his little bi;"
Our Uncle Samuel's ready, but declines the bills
to pay,
Till vouchers true are made in duplicate and
slowed away.
There are schedules" by the thousand there
are time sheets" thousands more;
Supervisors letters summaries" and Jack
cts" by the score;
All have to be examined and clerks compelled to
see,
That names most rare with schemes" compare
and vouchers" all agree.
Around the walls on every hand we'll filled
"portfolos' say
To Uncle Sam, THE works been done and now
we want our pay"
Behold the accounts" come pouring in upon
"Division Two;"
They tell the way enumerators worked the coun-
try through.
Passed" are some, the vouchers made and
mailed to get the ''sig."
OF the enumerator; but, If he finds they are not
big
Enough, he "blank" returns them both and
promptly asks for more;
But blanks unsigned are not the kind our Uncle"
wants in store.
Accounts suspended" agriculture" give notice
plain and clear,
Farmers crops and cattle horses pigs, in detail
must appear.
suspended" some mortality" remind us all. in
name,
That they who've died are not denied record
"all the same.''
Jackets" frescoed with "suspensions," mild
"requests' in black and red,
Overwhelm the chiefs of section, fill the clerks
with silent dread.
All the 'slips' must be examined, lest perchance
may slip through,
With name misspeled, or list withheld, or q
statement that's untrue.
Accounts" too large. accounts too small,
mo OATH" mo rate" the name
A puzzle to both sight and brain for those who
play the game
OF making vouchers" Here's especial" to be
pushed along,
A Supplemental" incidental, joins the moving
throng.
What wonder. when clerks contemplate this
strange and puzzling group,
The voucher made with careful hand still
lands them "n the SOUP
With the supervisors letter, counts first and
second, too.
On "a" ana "B'' do not agree; what wonder we
are blue
In the Interocean Building we are working
with a will
We are working, making vouchers" to receipt
that little bill''
| OF the enumerator. He comes, sixty thousand
strong.
Vouchers send them. Comprehend them? Can
you count the mighty throng?
"Schedules,'' letters" summarizes "sus
PENDED" special" and released
Changed addresses" oath mislaid," the 'com
pensation rate increased.
There's no wonder Uncle Samuel says receipts
must be in hand
| Duplicate ones, small and great ones, ere tht
payment he'll command.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30
Gen. Raum,s Forces.

Gen. Raum has Issued pamphlet entitled "Bu-
reau of Pensions; Its Officers and Their Duties;
The Manner in Which the Work of Adjudicating
Claims is Performed" The book shows that
there are 1000 employees in the Pension Office
proper, eighteen pension agents for paying pen
sions in different cities, who employ 419 per-
sons. There are l. OPS boards of examining sur
geons, of three persons each, and 3S3 single
surgeons, in all 3,467 The total number CON
nected with the Pension Office is sob.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30
HOUSES FOR RENT.

In sums to suit at per cent.
The above is only portion of the property on
my books. For full list call at Office for bulletin,
issued on the 1st and 18th.
fel7-ly Y. z. WAGGAMAN.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30
For the NJ ost Popular Boy or Girl

who obtains the largest number of votes in a
contest which begins to-day Read the full par
ticulars of it on the eleventh page of to-day's
HERALD
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30

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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-30
Oonsumntion Surely Cured.

To the Editor: Please inform your readers that
have positive remedy for consumption. By
its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have
been permanently cured. shall be glad TO send
two bottles of nay remedy FREE to any of your
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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-11
Lei MS Cherish svmpathy.

By attention and exercise, it may be
improved in every man. 1t prepares the
mind for receiving the impressions of
virtue; and without it there can be no
true politeness. Nothing is more Odious
than that insensibility which wraps
man up in himself and his own con-
Germs, and prevents his being moved
with either the joys or the sorrows of
another. This inhuman temper, how
ever common, seems not to be natural
to the soul of man, but to derive itself
from the evil habits of levity, selfshness
or pride; and will, therefore, be easily
avoided by those who cultivated the
opposite habits of generosity, humanity
and good-nature. Of these amiable af-
fections, the forms of common civility
and the language of polite conversation
are remarkably expressive; proof that
good breeding is founded in virtue and
good sense, and that kind and honest
heart is the first requisite to an engag-
ing deportment.--N. Y. Ledger.