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DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06

ana have concluded that this road can
ulspenSe with your services"
AT this my heart went down into m v
oootS' for | can tell you it isn't an easy
Ihing to get new job when you can't
OFImg recommend from your last place.
linen he went on to say:
nave letter here from the supar-
lntendent of the Chicago and Western,
asking me il | can recommend to them
an engineer who has sharp eye and
cool head, to run their new fast night
express have written in reply that
can recommend such man, one James
Martin, who will report for service Sep
tember first. The pay will be one hun
dred dollars month. Imay add to
you privately that shall never apply
to you for the position Of fireman
Good-day, sir"
That's all there is to my story. Molly
and | were married, and went to Chicago
TO i've. | took the new train, and have
brought her in on time every trip I've
run; so you can see I've pretty good
record with the company. I've never
seen Billy since, and | don't believe he
wants to see me; for Bob told me tho
last time saw him that they all called
the old man Martins Fireman;" that
he knew it, and naturally didn't like it.
There's my mate signalling for me now.
sir, and l must go.-Arthur Dodge, in
n. Y. Ledger
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06
ST. DISTAFF'S DAY.
A Thread 115 Miles in Length Spun From
One Pound of Cotton.


The 7th of January is day in which
the elderly maidens, who are sometimes
called spinsters, should take peculiar
interest. In old times it was known
and observed as St. DistailS day, be.
cause it was generally then that the
women resumed, after all Christmas
holidays, the distatf and spindle. When
the spinning-wheel was invented, along
in 1888, those ladies who used it began
to be called spinsters. This, afterward,
in legal terminology, came to be applied
to all unmarried women, but the name
was an honored one until the employ
ment of spinning was considered too
mcnial for women Of rank. Then it was
used contemptuously, and gradually it
came to signify, more particularly, sim
gle ladies of mature years. Before the
spinning-wheel was relegated to the
garret some extraordinary feats were
accomplished, or, as people nowadays
would say. records were made, by those
EXPERT in its use. In the year 1745 q
woman at East Dereham, in Norfolk,
spun single pound of wool into a
thread OF $4,000 yards in length, wanting
only eighty yards of forty-eight miles.
This, at the time, was considered per-
formance of sufficient Importance to
merit place in the proceedings of the
Royal Society''-a very high honor, in
deed. Afterward, this feat was eclipsed
by another English lady, living at Nor
wich, who spun pound of combed wool
into a thread of 16s, 900 yards: and she
actually produced from the same weight
of cotton a thread of 203,O 900 yards, equal
to about 115 miles. This last thread, if
woven, would produce about twenty
yards Of yard-wide muslin.-Chicago
News
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06
IN WOMAN'S WORLD.

N,-,--,.-,,, L.Ir-f ~ my a0c+ors ~
NEAhLf o"e-'I"'' VI VIZ, w. ''00 WIS
boston hl'eFSI'' are "o''I''l' ,.,.
a llPE-W1tER ) mon HAS I|''I'
been organized among women III LOU
don' TO prevent 'Ao towering VI " ayes,
THE croWnlng glory Oh Ihe gains "l
1889 is, that Wyoming mas f"tln'u IIef
Woman Suffrage state Non'I'uIlo" O5
vote OF eight to one
II'E hentucNy OhlVcrSlty' aC HeAL''E'
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06
IN PURSUIT OF SNAKES.
a Collectors Hunt After a Rather Ugly.
Looking Reptile.

Looking Reptile.
There is a popular prejudice against
even the most harmless snakes, and few
people would carry the collectors rage
SO lar as to attempt the capture of an
ugly-looking reptile with the bare
hands. But the born naturalist, like
the born sportsman. does not mind any
slight risk when his blood is up. In
sherman i. Dentons "Incidents of a
Collectors Rambles," is the following
account of an incident belonging to his
stay in Australia:
Snakes were rather numerous, and one
lay, while walking in the thick scrub, |
came across a large, light brown one,
coiled upon the ground. He was by far
the largest specimen l had ever seen at
large, and was probably ten Or twelve
feet long, and as thick as mans leg at
the knee.
| thought at first would shoot him in
the head with light charge of shot,
and carry home his skin. Then con-
sldercd that, il taken alive, he would be
worth five times as much.
Feeling about in my pocket and game
bag, | at last found leather strap with
a buckle drew the strap through the
buckle, making moose, and thus armed,
started cautiously toward his snakeship,
intending to put the moose over his
head.
AS soon as came near, he partly un-
coiled, opened his mouth very wide,
thereby disclosing his sharp teeth, and
Kissing spitefully, struck at me. lodged
behind small tree, and, leaning out as
far as | dared, tried several times to
moose him. He was very savage, and
looked powerful enough to crush me in
his folds. At this juncture my courage
was at rather low obb.
After had teased him for some time,
he suddenly decided to leave my com
pany, and started off at full speed. |
caught up with my gun and went after
him, and, by hard running through tho
scrub, managed to head him off. He
stopped, coiled up again, and again |
VI ltb VIC ubOHt' llt W dS tUudl W IIb
occasion, putting his head under his
coils in very sulky manner; but as
soon as | reached ont, and caught him
by the tail he pulled away with great
force and started off once more.
This timo he took refuge under a
fallen tree; and before | could head him
off, he was gliding down the hole Of
some wild beast, which was partly con-
CuaIcu W ono ueau UranCneS. l reaCncu
the spot just as the last two or three feet
were going down; and scizing his tail
with both hands, ! hung on desper'
ately.
With my feet bracod against limb Of
a tree, pulled till the tail cracked and
snapped, as if it would break asunder.
Sometimes he pulled me within a few
inches of the hole, and then | would
brace up on tho limb, and drag him half
way out.
At last grew 50 tired that I had to
let go my hold, and, with many regrets,
| saw the last few inches of the tail dis
appear beneath the ground.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.

was in Wyoming only little over a
year ago, writes Lilly DevereauX Blake,
in Woman's Journal, and met during my
stay in Laramie and Cheyenne many of
the loading women Of these places.
can, of my own personal knowledge, tes-
tify to the falsity of these allegations.
That woman influence at the polls
should be less important than mans is
not surprising when it is remembered
that the men OutnUmber the women
seven to one. OF course. as men cast
seven times as many votes as women,
they are seven times as important in cf-
fecting the results. Men naturally
form large proportion of the audiences
at all public meetings; but to declare
that women feel no interest in politics
and would submit to disfranchisemcnt
with Indifference, is wholly incorrect.
All the women with whom | conycrscd
expressed great interest in politics, and
showed an intelligence in regard to
local affairs and officials which have
never met among women Who did not
vote. They were eagerly interested in
the hope for Statehood, and their many
meetings held this summer to enforce
their demand for the guarantee Of their
freedom in the new constitution is proof
Of their Jealous caro- of their own in
terests.
Other statements are that women as
jurors were unsatisfactory. Whereas
Irdrroc II,v+ L-iD0,,,ar and 0tErr inv.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06

First paterfamilias--Beg pardon for
intruding, but the fact is your son has
proposed for the hand OF my daughter;
and as the two families are almost
strangers, you knowing nothing of my
daughter and / nothing of your son, |
thought it would be sensible thing to
come around and compare notes.
Second Observation-Disclosures idea.
Has your daughter always had every
thing she wanted-dresses, jewels, wait
inr-maids, and so on?
"No. She had to help her mother.
How old was yourboy before youstopped
thrashing him?"
"Well, l thrashed him pretty regu-
larly until he was nearly grown up"
81 am satisfied"
$50 am In. Y. Weekly.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06
MANIFEST MALICE.


Measurements uiuc concerning "ohihh
Suffrage In Wyoming.
Now that there is every prospect that
Wyoming will shortly be admitted as
State, with it's women exercising full
citizenship, the papers in New York and
other Eastern cities are beginning to
print letters, ostensibly from the Terri
tory, which contains statements going
to prove that woman suffrage is failure
there. The n. Y. Sun recently con-
tained such an article. The first state
ment is that:
Notwithstanding her right to vote,
woman's influence is of little weight at
the polls. Men go to the primaries,
make up the tickets, and furnish the
ballots to the women voters, who go to
the polls in cabs, deposit their votes,
and are quietly driven home again.
After the first excitement and novelty
were over, women manifested little in
terest in voting, and their disfranchisc-
ment would be met with passiyity and
little or no opposition on their part"
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06
TIME AND NUMBER

,t the gate in the pale moonlight
wv ~, there we're none,
i.Si' ii.ss aer hand and said; GOOD night"
4 sSsi. "Kate, just one"
,re~ she said, in assumed surprise
oas' N. dropped her lashes then
|p,.sned ,.s ned he bright, 10y lOys,Doaming ?, 'Ses
|.n i should say just ten
s+r,be cried, with rapturous loos.
m NOT q moment wait,
Wv her to him and ten he took
.be could expostulate.
.rsd for breath as she fixed her hat
'SG, bInshes came and went,
y, rn,nrmured: You know didn't mean
bat; ..,
Boston Courier.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-06

"A Hartford, Van Buren, County,
Mich, man, who went West some years
apo cot into trouble and the California
nenitentiary at the same time, and to
save his family the disgrace caused
somebody to write to Michigan that he
had been shot and scalped by Indians.
This would have made it all right II he
had stayed dead, but short time ago,
while his widow was getting her trous-
seau ready to marry decent man, the
yillain spoiled every thing by getting
ont of prison and writing home to ask
for his family.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-02

The democratic vote from 1850 TO 1865
shows lat there had been great war. a t
the 1858 elections there were more republi-
can voters than in 1869, but $40, 900 demo-
cratic votes were missing. They were dead
or fighting in the iield. They were not all
dead, for 300, 900 returned in 1866. TIE re-
publicans dlu not gain vote by the dis
bandnent of the u ion armies; they act
ually lost. The republican of 1860 was not
IN ell cases fighter. He stayed at home in
many cases to vote, to make money by
army contracts. and to milaign democra s.
Look AGAIN: In 1860 Mr.. Lincoln received
1857, $40 votes for President Douglas,
Breckenridge aid Bell receive at the same
election al agg egate Of 2, S04, $50 votes, or
936, 800 more than Lincoln.
Inc number of men called for by the
President and furnished by and credited to
the states d territories during the war
was 1859 1872. But of these 1866 wer.
| colored, leaving of white soldiers 2, 1868 903,
| or o07, 2a' more than Iincoln's vote in 1860.
Nearly 100000 III excess Of the republicans
who voted for Lincoln. Who and what
were this approximate ], 900, 600? Whatever
they were they we're not republicans. That
| is certain.
1t is said the soothsayers of Rome never
met without looking into each others faces
| and laughing No doubt our republican
leaders who, for party purposes and to de-
| ceive Ignorant people, brag aud boast that
| they suppressed the rebellion and saved the
union, and that the De uocratic party was G
party of rebels and traitors who deserved
the gibbet and the halter, never meet each
other alone without INDUCING a demagogi
cal leer of the eye and a horse laugh.
| NoTE-For the accuracy of those statistics
| see Pnisterer's statistical Record of tins
Armies of the United States,' PIP. 10 and II
and Tribune Almanac. 1851. p. Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-02
PARIS TO LIVE IN.
A Town OF Middle Clsss People-Renus
for Dwellings.

for Dwellings.
From, the Ne,c York Times
The number of private hotels and resi-
Dental premises in Paris of a rental Of over
81, 900 year is surprisingly small. consider
ing the reputation for wealth that ths
French capital has required. remarks the
Pail Mall Gazette. ''There are in this cap
ital altogether 81, 291 hjuses, divided into
l,14l ,955 tenancies, of which Is, l59 are
workshops and manufactures, sos, 32S ara
shous aud places of bust ess, and $40. 46S are
appointments or hotels for human habita-
ton. Half of these dppartementS or fats do
not bring in q higher rental than el2 per
annum. That is the average sum which
workman will have to pay for two diminu-
tive rooms on the fifth, sixth or seventh
story OF a crowded tenement, where the
oaly advantage altitude gives is the chance
of breathing some of the fresh air of
heaven. OF flats ranging in rent from $40
TO $50 a year there are 32.974; from SEQ to
el60 renal, 39175; from $3.50 to 600
rental, Il. 222; from 94O0 to eS00 a year,
1880; while Of inhabited houses with a
rental over $500 there are only 40. Shop
rents in the busy parts OF the town are
enormously dear.
1T will thus be seen that, with peohaps
the exception of the districts of the Eau
bourg SaiDt-Germain, the Champs Elysees.
and the Pare Monceau, Paris, is essentially
e city OF middle-class people and workmen,
who, in the matter of rent, taxes and octroi
have to pay pretty stiffiy for the privilege
of living in it. Large blocks of bull iiugs
belong, not to private individuals, but Co
insurance companies and banking establish
ments, who charge what they like, and DO
not care much whether a shop or an
dppGrtement stands on their books empty
for a time because an applicant refuses to
pay an excessive rent, feeling sure that
soon they will be able to extort their own
terms. 1t is estimated that the gross
rental of Paris reaches the respect
bic total of e30,000,0o0 a wear. while
the value OF the whole of the property in
the French capital, dwelling houses. shops
d manufac cries, is put down at e440,-
000,0O0. A. the present moment there are
nearly 1900 places Of business or flats
vacant. or alb ut 1000 more than at is
time two years ago. Taking into consid-
GRAFTON the convenience given in exchange
for the rental, the average London resident.
with his compact house and lit le bit of
garden, has much more e1jovment for his
money, the Daily Telegraph thinks, than
the Frenchman la a similar social position
in France, packed no in a small fat on the
fifth floor If a tenement for " icn be pays
from ESQ to elo0 year Much f the
Parisians' love of cafes and open-air cafe
concerts is due t. the cribbed and confined
apartments in which they have to m Ike
their homes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-02
WHO Fouaa7 TEE WAR;
Few Figures brought to Bear on an
Ancient { epublicsn Ce.umny.
Flon "a CoIunabIa lMo.l statesmea.

Ancient eDubEcsn Oe-umny.
From the Columbia MOI StaiesmGa-
TIE statistical d historical caiumny
that tie republicans fought he war sup
pressed the re elhon, and in doing 50
/ fought and suppressed the democrats. il
still On It's travels, and we suppose Will hob
Bile along on its equity feet till the American
| people Cvervhelm and forever drive from
power the party whose organs and ora tors
induigein such literature.
Who fought the war OF the rebellion
Was il q party warl While IL was in ex-
istence, either az its inception. elimination
or close, was it at any tine claimed 10 be a
republican or de .nocratic war; Or, rather,
was it not insisted. as it was, fact. al IN
fortunate conflict hetween two adverse
theories OF government, and prosecuted on
the part OF the union forces without regard
70 the then existing political distinctionsl
No sane man will contend that IL during
the war republican leaders he'd claimed u
was party war, or in other words war
by the Repu lican party tor the mairten-
ance Of the union ana against the Demo
cratic party, that the rebellion ever would
have bee suppressed. For it is historically
and atisticallv true there were il the
union army during the war more democrats
than republicans.
And ye, republican leaders are not now
wanting, in congress and out OF ngresS, in
editorial chairs aud on tae hustiugs, wh)
with an air of luIicr0us self-in portance
roach back their brlstling hair and roll up
taeir hypocrtical eyes and boast that I'VE"
suppressed the great rebellion, that 1--WE"
saved the union, that ''wep alone are en-
titled to the gratitude of our cluntrymen
and the plaudits OF pcaterity. Whereas they
ought TO know, and some of them do know,
that had il not been for tine sarvices and
co. g. l. - 4
of democrats on the field of battle the con-
federates would have whipped them out
of their boots and established the southern
co1federacY
What are the facts-ths facts Of history9
A few must suffice
In 1860 Mr.. Lincoln received in Missouri
17.O23 votes But Missouri furnished l09,-
Ill white soldiers for the union army. Did
these II, 900 republicans multiply themselves
i'll four years to the number of l09 .0OJ7
In 1860 there were 1864 votes cast for
Lincoln in Kentucky, aud Kentucky sent
I5, 100 white soldiers TO the front for the
union. Who were theya By what sort of
hocus pocus could 1900 Kentucky repub-
licans multiply themselves in four years
into more ths $4,000?
Illinois in 1861 gave Lincoln 172, 161 votes
and furnished during the war 259. 092 SOL
diers, or nearly 1900 more soldiers than
there we're republicans in the state. Who
were thevi
Mary AID in 1850, for Lincoln 2,294 votes.
Soldiers, 1858. VINO were theyl
Take an Their view: Thomas Edgar Will
son OF New York. in the August number Of
Be!fords Magazine. CO .cIusively shows
that republican President fought the war
with democratic generals Here is the table
that will show which party in the twenty
two loyal states fought the war for the
union:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-02
a GIRLS TBRRIBL 6 EXPERIENCE
Thrown Before an Express Train After
Frustrating an Assault.
From the PHILADELPHIA Pres

CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-Pretty Frances Du-
chalk, aged II years, had a terrible expe i
ence yesterday. AT 0 o'clock, while coming
nome from church, accompa ned by her
younger sister, she was seized by an un-
known man at the corner of Wright and
Seventy-nlnth st eets aud thro gn violently
to the ground. The girl successfully resis ed
him aud, with the aid of her sister, struy-
gled to her feet.
The assault happened near the railroad
track, and tue felln mad tened at being
frustrated in his desig1, s lzed the girl and
threw her on the track just as an express
train came thu .deriag along. H 70 niger
sister puliei her almost from u der the
wheels and saved her lie. The lice were
notified, but the unknown villain made
good his escape.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-02


D. D. Withers, the well known breeder
and owner Of thoroughbreds, Is one Of the
most imperturbable men y no frequent a
race track. He never sends any money
i to the ring and only races his horses for
glory At he same time he is very much
chag ined when anything goes wrong, but
he was never known TO vest his disap point
nent upon any one in bis employ until TIE
OF er day, when Jockey Simms got a severe
raking over from the sage Of Brookdae. 1t
appears that Mr.. Withers had a filly en-
tered in q two-year-old stake on one OF
the last days of tho Morris Park NEST
ing. He bad come all the way that
morning from Long Branch to ZEE the
youngste. s performance. With a power
ful fed glass he watched the start, and
although his representative was no; esps-
cially favored sne got of well in the ruck
The contestants had not run hundred
yards, however, before the FLY got p OK
eteo. With feeling of disgust he lowered
his field glass and allowed his neighbJ r to
describe the race 10 him. IL turned out
that tie youngster was pocketed no less
than four tunes and then flushed third.
Young Simms was summoned before the
Sese Of BrooKdale and given a severe lee
ture.
''How was it, Simmsf' said Mr.. Withers.
81 was pocketed." replied the jockey.
e'Of course; know that calculated his
employer. land even four times at that"
BEG your ardon, sir; only three" re-
spondei Simms, for after | saw had 10
c ance TO win l pulled up the FLY, and
what you took for another pocket was only
my XII ID ess 70 the animal"
POUNDS, boy" roared Mr.. Withers, II
came from Brookdale t. see my horses win
and not = have them petted; you are dis
charged
Young Slmms will never ride another
r &C for Mr.. Withers. tut the Iatter's ILL
luck has stuck to him and he has since sold
the FLY that causei him t. lose his temper
for the first ime in his life.
THE INCREASE IN ToRNADoEs.
Lieut.. John P. Finley Of the signal SER
vice has just compiled statement regard
ing he increase in tornadoes in America
during tae last seventeen years. While in
1910 there were only niue, The number has
increa el annually, the year 1886 being
Ct edited with 2SJ. Since that time there
has Teen gradual decrease in the
number, only rty-two having been re-
corded in 1882 So far 1890 has a clean
record. The Lieutenant estimates that in
1889 over $50, 0O0,O worth Of property was
destroyed by these tornadoes and 200 lives
lost.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-02
Two Modern Dromios.
From Public ODin ion.

An amusing case came Def re the Dover
mag strates on Moad iy. in which a private
in the Highland Light Infantry, stationed
at Dover. was charged felony. In the
course of the hearing the case sudde ily
broke down in a very extraordi larry man
ner. 1t transDi ed tina the p is ,ner had
twin brother in the same company of the
regiment, both being s. exactly similar in
appearance that tbs prosecution could not
solve hicn vas the right man. The Incl
deaf caused considerable am lsement in
court. The prisoner, who was i'm nediatelv
reieased, said this was the third tiule he
had been mistaken for his brother in SINH
lar matters.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-02

success and viii soon be adopted by the
other hospitals WniIe at the recent me heal
C ngress in Berlin, the doctor hste lei
with Interest 70 the ex sndsf disc ions
on the assistance Rendered BY electricity 10
surgical operations Since -heI be has ex-
perimented to some extent, and recently re-
moved q stone firm e b q ldsr o. one ~
his patients By an aDplicad n Of this q aid
through r wet sponge. he is very sangaine
about the good re uils obtalnails IA Cases of
spinal disease by this means, but as yet has
not exper imeuted