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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

George Bancroft, who is now eighty
hine years old, says he still remembers
his early literary days, when he received
two dollars for long article, and was
very glad to get it.
The collection of Corean books late
ly acquired by the British Museum pos
sesses considerable interest and impor-
tance. 1t consists of Corean editions OF
the Chinese classics, of native historical
works and of novels.
The name of Pushkin is exceeding
lv popular throughout Russia. Every
anniversary of the death of the poet, who
fell in an unfair duel fifty years ago, is
religiously observed, while the name of
his murderer is abhorred.
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett
wrote her four stories-'"That Lass o
Lowrie's, THE Fire at Grantley Mills"
"Pretty Polly Pemberton," and ''The
Fortunes of Philippa Fairfax"-all
within less than year and four months.
Paul Du Chaillu, the author and
traveller, is small, round-shouldered
man, about fifty-two years old. He is
far from good-looking, but has a viyaci-
ty of manner and brightness in his con-
versation which make the listener for
get his want of good looks.
Marshall P. Wilder learns from his
London publishers that the copy OF his
book, People I've Smiled WITH" which
was presented to the Prince of Wales,
was bound in morocco and had the title
and presentation engraved in silver.
The cover tips were also silver. Mr..
Wilder and the Prince are great friends.
John G. Nicolay, one of the writer's
of the Century life Of Lincoln, is the
son of German peasants and began his
career as boy in country store at
four dollars month; he regarded him.
self lucky when he was promoted from
that position to be printers devil in the
office of the Pike County Free Press,
and gradually worked himself up to be
editor and proprietor; he is now Mar
shall of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
Anna Pratt, we'll known as one of
the earliest women botanists, is still
living at eighty-two Her greatest
work, "Flowering Plants and Ferns of
Great Dritain," was begun in 1S49, and
on its appearance took rank with stand
ard authorities. She revised it in 1880,
her seventy-three years not disqualify-
ing her for literary work. In later life
she was happily married to Mr.. John
Fearless, but she will be best remem-
bered as Anna Pratt.
"A London gossip gives the follow
ing story as illustrative of Lord Tenny'
sons peculiar manners in society" In
his early days, when he had no greater
horror than that of being lionized, g
great lady wished to introduce TO the
laureate a musician who had set some
of his songs to music A party was
given for The occasion. The laureate
appeared, and the musician sang hi
songs to him with every power of ex
preston that he knew how to produce
At the end of the performance ever!
body waited the word of the poet
There was blank silence. The hostess
feared that the songs had not produced
good impression. The silence becam
agonizing. At length, from the corne
where Tennyson sat came voice chok
ing with emotion: "Do you not see tina
, | am weeping?"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
A Condensed History of the Adoption oi
the Stars and Stripes.


the Stars and Stripes.
The recent discussions concerning the
alteration of the United States flag, in
recognition of the admission of the new
States into the Union, naturally pro-
voked a certain amount of inquiry into
the history of the stars and stripes The
general facts in regard to the adoption
of the National flag are more or less
we'll known including the much-debated
question as to whether or not the en-
blem owes its present form to the fact
that the family arms of George Wash
ington included the stars and stripes
that are now so familiar. However this
may be, it is certain that the flag was by
act of Congress passed June IA, TIT,
establ ished as having thirteen red and
white stripes and a union of thirteen
white stars in blue field, and the stars,
instead of being the six-pointed stars
of heraldry, as they are on our coins,
are, and always have been, the five.
pointed stars of Washing tons coat-of-
arms, known in he raldry as 'mullets." "
The flag was, January 13, 1894, decreed
by act of Congress to have the number
of both stars and stripes changed to
fifteen, and this was the flag that flew
at the battles of Fort McHenry and
New Orleans in the war of 1872 and
which was sung of for the first time as
the "Star-Spangled Banner" By an act
of Congress passed April 4, 1918, the
flag was again changed finally, and it
was resolved that the stripes should be
thirteen in number and that the blue
field should contain as many stars as
there might be States in the Union.
This much is generally known, but only
a few perhaps are aware that the flag as
it is now was designed by Captain
Samuel c. Reid, and that the one made
by his wife, sillSen ensign of the pres
ent form, flew at the masthead of the
brig General Armstrong when 1t was
destroyed by the British squadron in
the port of Fayal in 1914. Congress
passed a resolution of thanks to Captain
Reid in 1859, and he died shortly after
in New York.
1t was the claim of his son, Colone
Samuel G. Reid, now living and practic
ing as lawyer in Washington, for the
value of the ship thus destroyed in {
neutral port-a claim which fingered
for years and years before Congress
- which gave to the late Davit
d. Lloyd the groundwork of thu
story of "The Senator" Will,
old Colonel Reid himself, to who's,
stubborn perseverance the passag
of the claim was due, formed the orig
inal model for Mr. Cranes character o
Silas Denman in the comedy. Colone
Samuel c. Reid is said to be somewha
of character in his way, and it is cer
tain that he never tires of recountin
the details of the action in which hi
fathers ship was lost, and in which it i
claimed the English lost over thre
hundred men and officers, while tn
American loss was only two killed an
seven wounded. The General Armstron
+ was finally scuttled near the beach, an
! subsequently fired and blown up by tn
enemy.-N. Y. Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
TO TRY MEMS SOULS.
How Mrs. Fussbudgs Bade Farewell t,
Her Loving Spouse.

How Mrs. Fussbudge Badc Farewell to
Her Loving Spouse.
Mrs. James Fussbudge (about to leave
home for week, and saying goodbye to
James at the railroad depot)-Let me
see, only three minutes until train time.
l was so afraid we'd be left. Now, let
me see, have l told you about every
thing? You'll not forget to close the
pantry window every night?
Mr.. James Fussbudge (anxious for
train to arrive)-Yes, dear.
"And put it up every day"
"Yes, yes"
"And don't forget about watering my
plants"
"No, l won't"
"And you'll look after Dicky and cover
his cage cold nights?"
"Oh, yes, of course. There's the train.
Goodbye"
Goodbye, dear-remember about
locking the basement door at night
Don't trust it to Bridget"
"No-good-bye."
Goodbye, dear; write every day, and
oh, don't forget to turn off the water
at night if it should turn real cold"
"No, no; I'll not forget Goodbye" a"
Goodbye. You know you forgot it
one cold night last winter-good-bye,
dear-and the plumbers bill-good-bye
was so big, and-good-bye."
Goodbye, Mary"
| Goodbye, dear, remember tr-"
"Yes, yes"
Don't forget"
"No, no--I must hurry off to the
train, the last bell has rung and-good-
bye"
Goodbye; mind what said about
"Yes, yes"
"About the-good-bye."
Goodbye"
James" Through the window IRE.
member about"
"Yes, yes"
about the-oh - goodbye
dear"
Frantic futtering OF handkerchief:
and bobbing of heads, and final shriel
on part of Mrs. T, who says:
"Re-mem-ber-go-o-d-by-e T-Oe
troit Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
BlxBY GOES TO MARKET.
A Domestic Experiment Fraught with
Disastrous Results.

N DOultbtiC Wth
Disastrous Results.
The Bixbys live in suburb within
ten miles of New York, and they have
always had their Saturday marketing
sent out by the local express wagon,
but the other Saturday morning when
Mrs. Bixby gave Mr.. b, her usual list
of things he said:
''See here, Mandy, just don't think
I'll have our things sent out by express
hereafter. 1t costs twenty-five cents
ev'ry time, and hanged If l amt going
to just smother my pride and bring
them out myself and save my quarter.
| saw Brown on the train yesterday
loaded with bundles, and Jones had
half dozen last night, and if they and
other men know can carry bundles,
guess can, too"
''Of course you can," said Mrs. Bixby,
encouragingly. 'Pve thought so my
self, but hated to ask you to do it"
"Well, I'm just going to do it here
after and save dollar or so month.
Give me your list"
Mr.. Bixby reached home that night
half an hour late. Then he burst into
his wife's presence, saying hotly:
snow, see here, Mandy Bixby, l just
want it distinctly and eternally under
stood that this is the last time l bring
marketing home! I'll break up house
keeping and GO into fifth-rate board
/ ing house first! A lovely time I've had
and beautiful exhibition I've made o.
myself on the streetsI"
"Why, Elijahr'
''Oh, I'd say Elijah il l were you
You'd said it in earnest if you'd heard
me swear when the bag of oranges wa
carrying burst and away they rolled
under the horse cars and let 'em rol
and got home with just one out of ffty
cents worth of 'eml Then the fool VIII,
sold me the chicken bought didn't pu
paper enough around it, and first thing
knew there we're the chickens bar,
legs sticking out, and its blamed necl
poking out the other end of the paper
and, of course, met every woman an,
man l knew in this ethyl The strinI
came off my bundle of celery, and away
went the paper from it and my bag o
bananas sprung leak and droppe,
one every ten steps, and l let the ba,
of cranberries fall and away the in
ternal things went and the crow
walked all over me while l was trYinl
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.


THE suffrage section of the Wyoming
constitution requires electors to read
English, and permits women to vote.
LADILLA AMBROSE, librarian of the
Northwestern University, is the first
woman who has held that position. She
has just completed her second year of
service.
Mrs. CATHERINE i. WORDING, who
did much for Colby University during
her life, has left bequest to erect a
building for the young ladies of the
university.
THE women of Boston have named
committee of fifty to carry out the plans
for taking the city schools out of politics
and sectarian interference and manag-
ing them for the public interest alone.
Miss KATE COREY, M. D., graduate
of the University of Michigan, has re-
Gently been admitted to honorary men,
bership in the Indiana Medical Society,
the first time, it is stated, this recogni-
tion has been extended there to a woman.
DR.. JENNIE MCGOWAN, of Davenport,
Iowa, practicing physician, member
of the various medical societies, and
practical friend to the working girls of
her city, has been elected president of
the Davenport Academy of Natural
Science.
SENTIMENT in favor of woman suffrage
is growing at the South. Mrs. Joseph
inc X. Henry says in the Southern
Journal: Southern women are rapidly
learning the influence, power and
weight of slip of white paper, cast into
the scale of public opinion
MISS PnGBE CoUzINs, of st. Louis,
Mo-, has been appointed as special agent
of the eleventh census for the collection
of statistics OF recorded Indebtedness
for the city of st. Louis. This is proba-
bly, the first instance of a woman's being
appointed to such position.
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD has
established at Gloucester, Mass, a
"Fisherman's Reading-room," with
newspapers and games. She has also
founded several coffee-rooms. She is
said to be much beloved by the people
of the city where she has made her sum-
mer nome lot SO many years.
Mrs. LENoRA M. BARRY, organizer
for the Knights of Labor, has instituted
the Working-Womens National Benef-
cial Fund, which gives to women in sick
ness not less than s3, nor more than S.
per week, and in case of death, not less
than SIS, nor more than S100.-Indian.
apolis Sentinel.
, Az Incorporated Stock Company. com.
posed entirely of women, has been form.
ed for the purpose of opening resort
in Diana Park, about forty miles south
of Denver, Col. 1t is intended to be es
pecially for the comfort and pleasure o.
women, children and families, and it i:
said to be a veritable paradise for chill
/ dren.
1T has been proved beforesthe Guber
/ material Contest Committee of the Wes
| Virginia Legislature that twenty pau
: pers and idiots, inmates of the Kanawh;
T County Infrmary, were voted at tn,
{ last election. Probably every one Of tn
politicians who voted these pauper
$ and idiots, would declare that intelli
l gent. tax-paying women are not fit +
: yote.-Woman's Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
THE BABY'S WRITING.


The baby's writing-oh who shall say
Those pencil marks in their tangled skein
Which the baby made in his aimless play
Were not put there for some human gain'
The babys writing-a funny scrawl,
'Tis just purposeless maze of lines
Yet out Of the maze sweet voices call
And the steady light of q pure love shines.
The babys writing-it calls to mind
The child that is or the child that was,
Now gone the way Of all humankind,
Or grown in accordance with natures laws.
A smile half blooms on the mothers face
And lump creeps into the tender throat
AS she finds in those lines all void OF grace
Some memory Of what her baby wrote.
The baby's writing-how like is this
To the mark Of the aged dying mani
Yet between them lie all grief and bliss
That are crowded into life's brief span.
Columbus Dispatch.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
IN W0MAN'S BEHALF.
A TOAST TO WoMAN's RIGHTS.


Fill up your glasses to the brim,
And in this toast combine.
'Twere better drank with water clear
Than with the choicest wine.
1t is not female loveliness,"
In which the eye delights,
But what concerns the sex far more
l give you "Woman's Rights"
Not the vain wish that human souls
On Fl9ttcry's husk may feed
Yet starve for that essential food
Which human beings need;
The sentiments that fancy brings
To stir mans delight,
May mean repression to his mate,
Who needs but "woman's rights"
Let others weave IL tuneful verse
The praise Of womans eyes,
Mine withhold until the day
They open with surprise.
And see how Custom keeps in chains
Souls that sheuld seek the heights;
Wait, Beauty till your fetters break
We drink to "womans rights"
The poet may write in ecstacy
or woman's rosy lips,
And paint her as child OF ease
On luxury who sips;
Mere outward grace will not suffice,
II with it Reason fights;
Ipraise the lips that speak with faith
For truth and ''woman's rights
Let Amarylis keep her shade,
And her complexion fair,
And foolish men sport with the soft
Neera's tangled hair;
Give me companion dear,
A soul who freely plights
Her love, exacting, in her turn,
Respect for ''woman's right"
The right to hold an equal place
Beside an equal mate,
The right to follow Natures lines,
And march abreast to fate
The right to enter every sphere
Her common genius lights;
Then man and woman both shall join,
And drink to Human Rights"
-Wnmanis Iourn Al
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
USING THE TEETH.
Neglect of Mastlcation Makes Them
Tender and Softens tho Enamel.

Neglect of Mastication Makes Them
Tender and Softens tho Enamel.
The law of deterioration from disuse
obtains with the teeth as we'll as with
other things. The constant and regular
use of them in masticating hard food
tends to make them continually grow
harder and stronger and better able to
resist vhe influences that make for de-
cay, while on the other hand, living on
soft food and neglect of mastication
makes them tender, softens the enamel,
and renders them easily susceptible to
corroding effects. This is sometimes
especially shown in the case of people
after long illness, who find their teeth
tender and sore when they begin to re-
turn to a diet of solid, hard food. A
dentist speaking on the subject, says:
''Some men have healthy teeth all their
lives because they were given hard
food during infancy. That is the period
to begin to save the teeth. Mothers and
nurses give children soft food, utterly
ignorant in many cases of the result.
Crusts and hard stuffs should be given
to them as soon as they can eat them.
In this way the teeth begin to grow
healthy, and gradually harden with
time and use. The chewing-gum girl
gives her molars plenty of wholesome
and unwholesome exercise. But chew
ing gum is not especially healthy, be.
cause only part of the teeth are used.
1t is jaw exercise more than any thing
else. But in eating hard, wholesome
food all the teeth come in contact with
the substance. Tobacco-chewing is not
healthy for the teeth, because the tobac.
co is generally placed in one location,
like chewing-gum, and there remains
until thrown out The Southern ne
groes have better teeth than most any
race, because they use them from child
hood mp in masticating hard food. y
Goea Housekeeping
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20

Robert Christy, of Washington, an
able lawyer, formerly of Ohio. has pub
lished book entitled Proverbs and
Phrases of All Ages" The work is the
outcome of twenty years of effort and
study on the part of Mr.. Christy. He is
an accomplished linguist and has done
. vast amount of reading. He has como
to the conclusion that it is practically
impossible to trace proverb back to its
origin. The birth of nearly every pop
ular saying took place in prehistoric
times, so far as scholarly research can
discover. Mr.. Christy's studies have
given to his conversation and speeches .
striking epigrammstie brilliaacy.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20

to scrape 'em up in my handkerchief, and
lost my hat and missed my train and
broke that cursed bottle of salad oil in
my new overcoat pocket and the stuff
leaked through in stream all the way
home, and I'll be divorced from this
family and clear out for Montana be.
fore I'll undertake to carry another Sun
day dinner home in my arms-now you
mind Mat"-Time.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
One Dollar Per Year.

than marking and depositing ballot.
1t takes no longer to go to the polls than
it takes to visit the bank or the post
office. In town meetings, the legislative
business requires more time, but usually
not much more than matinee, Chau-
tauqua circle, or high tea. Everyone
will admit, think, that II this is all,
the hardship will not be great enough
to justify longer withholding the priv
ilege.
But, say our friends of the opposition,
it is not voting alone that will burden
women; it is giving general attention to
politics. Let us examine this little.
Women hear politics discussed, and they
read newspapers. In presidential, and Of
ten in other campaigns, they attend poll
tical meetings. In many cases they even
form political clubs. They understand
the issues as well as the men do, and
they take as much interest in the result.
Indeed, they pass through the campaign
| side by side with their husbands and
brothers, and rejoice or condole with
them after the election, not from SYM
pathy with them, but from interest in
the cause. / have heard no one say that
this interest is unwomanly. The ex-
preston, Ladies' cordially invited" >" is
given full-faced type on every handbill.
They are invited to pass through all the
excitement, hear every drum-beat, suf-
fer in every crowded assembly, share ev-
cry thing pertaining to the election ex-
cept the one quiet, sovereign, dignified
and decisive act of dropping a piece of
paper into box. Gentlemen, if you
think interest in politics would burden
women, has not your practice answered
| your objection?
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
nlaring hilliardsl "You

nlaying billiards) -"You
sNseen my game seven or
ago, Sherman, when | was
tice. l could knock the spots of
ing this side of New York. |
much now Sherman
act Hall, you don't play much
.ae now" Hall sharply
that? If you've got any money
can't beat you I'll make you
e."-Epoch.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20

George Alfred Townsend)
aave received his nickname
.e niece that lisped-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-03-20
Another View.

Suppose, now, that instead of living
for all these centuries under a system
of male suffrage, says Hon. John d.
Long, of Massachusetts, we had been
living under system exclusively of fe-
male suffrage. Suppose no man had
ever voted; suppose all this time that
women had had the exclusive right Of
suffrage; and suppose it should at last
dawn upon the men that they were de-
prived Of both the election of their Gov
ernors and the making of the laws; and
suppose they should assert their right
to cast ballot, and suppose the women
having that right should use against
them exactly the arguments which they
to-day use against the women. Suppose
it should be said that the business of a
man is to buy and sell, to run railroads,
to keep store, and engage in the out
door transactions of life; that men are
not fitted for this matter of voting; that
their business is to supply bread and
butter for the family. How long do you
suppose they would stand any nonsense
of that kind? Can not you hear how
loud they would roar at you the truths
of the Declaration of Independence, that
all men are created free and equal that
government derives its powers only from
the consent of the governed, and that to
exclude them was outrage, injustice and
Enthusiastically as it is outrage, in
Justice and barbarism to exclude women
who have equal intelligence and an
equal interest at stse, from the exer-
else of suffrage in the election of their
rulers and in the making of their laws.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-27
Steinkirks.

Lace neck cloths, carefully arrang-
ed were worn by men of fashion up
to 1892. In the continental war
against Louis XIV, the style altered in
a curious way. At the battle of Stein
kirk, when the brigade of Bourbonais
was flying before the onset of the al
lies, there was no time for foppery and
the finest gentlemen of the court came
squirting to the front with their rich
cravats in utter disorder. It became,
therefore, the fashion of the swells of
Paris to wear around their necks kerr
chiefs of fine lace, studiously disar-
ranged. The collars were called
''Steinkirizs" and remained long the
mode.-Chicago Times.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-27
The Dime Museum Lecturer.

A New York dime museum possess
es a lecturer who sings oratory at the
audience in this fashion:
This, ladies and gentlemen, is Gin
galee, the sword and spike walker.
She is a native of Lucknow, India,
and walks with her bare, naked and
tender flesh upon the glistening, keen
cutting, bristfing, incisive, penetrate
ing, needle like, horrible edges of quiv-
ering, wavering, trembling swords,
and the jagged, pointed, tearing, terri
Gle, prosecuting, fearful, frightful.
horrifying, spearrifed, tripointed,
gashing, deep sinking, death wound
ing, feet running spikes, dancing and
rolling on bed of bare and pointed
carpet tacks, and running a race on
glistening cimeters."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-27
The Latest New York Story.

The latest beggarly vagary comes
from New York, of course, where a
party coming from tho theatre was
stopped by ragged individual with
a small kitten in his arms. He opened
the conversation Immediately and
said:
Scents, maybe you think am go
ing to spar you for money, but l amt.
l am not hungry or thirsty and have Q
place to sleep, but l have no cash. l
want few pennies, not for myself,
but to buy some milk for this poor lit
tie starving cat, which l found crying
in this park"
The party was for a moment stun
ned, but amid roars of laughter q
purse of nearly dollar was collected
and given to the guardian of the kit
ten