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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
INFLUENCE ON SOCIAL LIFE.
The Good Sweet Minded Woman May
Do for Those Around Her.

The Good a Sweet-Minded Woman May
DO for Those Around Her.
Men, as a rule, are easily attracted
by beautiful face, but still it is
is an internal beauty of character by
which a woman can exert the greatest
amount of influence. true-minded
man, though at first enamored by the
glare of personal beauty, will soon feel
the hollowness of its charms when he
discovers the lack of beauty in the
mind Inestimably great is the infiu-
| ence sweet-minded woman may WELD
over those around her. 1t is to her that
her friends would come in seasons of
sorrow and sickness for help and sup.
port. One soothing touch of her kindly
hand would work wonders on the fever.
ish child; few words let fall from her
lips in the ear of Borrowing sister
would do much to raise the load of grief
which was bowling its victim down to
the dust in anguish. The husband
comes home worn out with the pressure
of business, and feeling irritable with
the world in general; but when he Ell
tiers the cosy sitting-room and sees the
blaze of the bright fire, his slippers
placed by loving hands in readiness
and meets his wife's smiling face, he
succumbs in moment to the soothing
influences, which as the balm of Gilead
on his wounded spirits that are wearied
with com batting with the stern realities
of life. The rough school boy flies in "a
rage from the taunts of his companions
to find solace in his mothers smile; the
little one, full of grief with its own
large trouble, finds haven oe rest on
it's mothers breast; and so one might
go on with instance after instance of the
influence sweet-minded woman has in
the social life with which she is con-
nected. Household Monthly.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25

out the South, died at his home il
MemphiA leaving widow with two
sons and three daughters to mourn his
loss For number OF years before his
death fortune had not been kind to Mr..
Cunningham. Reverses beset him on
every side, and he found himself when
he came to die several thousand dollars
in debt Being man of m 1ch pride
and of honest principles, Ne chafed
under this Indebtedness. 1t seemed the
strongest regret of his deathbed that he
should leave his finances in such an en-
barrassing condition His last request
was that his eldest unmarried daughter,
Frances, should clear his name from
debt. Strange that the father should
have faith that one of his children, and
that, too, daughter who had had no
training whatever for business, might
be able to do what he had not done,
that she could lift an Indebtedness
which he could not avoid contracting,
but he did have such faith, and, on the
promise of Frances that she would de-
vote her life to clearing her fathers
name from the stain of debt, he died
contented The widow, as the daughter
expresses it. did not know the least
thing about business" The boys were
yet too young to be depended upon.
At the time of the fathers death the
creditors wished to take the wagon
shop and business for what it was
worth, feeling sure that they could
hope for nothing beyond that The
friends of the family urged them to let it
so, as there was none of them who
knew anything about the business or
could make anything out of it if they
did. The mother willingly yielded to
their persuations, but Frances, against
the will of her mother and the opposi-
ton of all her friends, steadily refused
to give up the business, stoutly main
tanning that she could run it and she
would. She had promised her father
that she would pay off his debts and
she meant to do it. And she did it.
Her fathers faith has been rewarded,
and every dollar of the debt which he
left his family as an heritage has been
paid.
Miss Cunningham has made herself
SO familiar with all the details Of the
business that she has won the esteem
and confidence of the entire community
in which she lives. She is not afraid to
lift up horses foot and nail on shoe,
and there is nothing connected with the
mechanism of awagon that she is not
familiar with. She does all her own
buying, and selects the various kinds
and qualities Of iron and steel and
wood used in the business with as
much skill and wisdom as man.-Chi-
| capo Tribune,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
"RAM'S HORN" WISDOM.

Real love never works for pay.
Sorrow is Gods cure for selfishness
Whatever we owe to man belongs to
God.
To become wise is to find out how
little you know.
Self-conceit is rope that the devil
never lets go of.
The trial that you bear patiently is
the one that helps you.
Christ is always on trial in the Chris.
tian's life to some one.
Preaching that is aimed at the head
hardly ever strikes the heart.
Seeking happiness simply to have it
is very bad kind of selfishness.
When life is the darkest it is time to
remember that God is lore.
The man who can rejoice in the midst
of his trials can rejoice everywhere.
If you love your enemies you can de-
pend upon it that the devil hates you.
You never please the devil any better
than when you begin to admire your
self.
There is no bigger coward anywhere
in the world than the man who is afraid
to do right
Yielding to temptation to-day is in
viting the devil to come back and see US
again tomorrow.
1t may be that dark days are given to
show us how well God can sustain us in
the hour of death.
The devil will have to fight hard be-
fore he can get hold of the man who is
doing his best for God.
1t is hard to find people in misfortune
who will not tell you that somebody
else was to blame for it.
II we could know people as God knows
them, perhaps it wouldn't be so hard to
love some of them.
Pinching your minister down to a
starvation salary Is a poor way to show
God that you love Him with all your
heart.
A little child can tell us a thousand
times more about the heart of God than
We can find out from mountain rang.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
HEAVENLY WISDOM.
1t Is q Priceless Treasure, for 1t Teaches
Us All things We Should Know.

1t IL q Priceless Treasure, for 1t Teaches
Us All Things We should Know.
Heavenly wisdom will not make any
body cunning or selfish.
Heavenly wisdom will tell us the
truth about God and about ourselves
Heavenly wisdom will teach MS that
God is always near us when we need
Him.
Heavenly wisdom will teach us that
God can not forgive us while we are un-
forgiving.
Heavenly wisdom will teach us that
the way to do good is first to be good.
Heavenly wisdom will teach us that
sin the way of righteousness is life,
and in the pathway thereof there is no
death"
Heavenly wisdom will teach us that
if we love God it will be our joy to keep
His commandments
Heavenly wisdom will teach us that
all Gods promises are meant for u.s.
Rams Horn.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
COULD / BUT CHOOSE.

Could but choose my Ii fe anew
wnat power to bless,
What chance to mend each sad mistake.
should possess!
With pleasant pat" ~ays for my feet,
And boundless wealth
OF faithful friends and cultured ease,
Wise books and health;
With travel in far lands, DER SEAS
All rare delight!
Nay more-bid pain and sorrow cease,
All lives grow bright.
Might not grow in love with earth,
And so refuse
Gods wiser lot-forgetting Heaven?-
How dare choose
Another life my hand might mar,
AS well as mine,
How can our narrow vision be
Like eye divine?
Mistakes, misfortunes, aye! and sin
Might grow to be
A sadder failure, Lord, than now
Choose Thou mel
Blind and astray, can but cling
Fast to Thy hand,
To guide me, though can not sec
Nor understand.
Reveal Thy Will,
But mine to do "the nearest thing"
And trust Thee still.
Margaret Stewart Sibley, in Springfield
(Nlass.) Republican
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
GOSSIP FOR THE WOMEN.

REV. FLORENCE KoLLoCK, of Illinois,
has not been absent from her pulpit,
on account OF sickness, for sixteen
years.
ANNA M. RorHEsT, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, has been granted patent for an
upper-case treadle- attachment for type.
writing machines.
ENGLAND has more women workers
in proportion to population than any
other country; twelve per cent. of the
Industrial classes are women.
MARY A. AHasNs was the only WON.
an who qualified to practice in the new
court of appeals recently formed in
Chicago. She thus comes nearest to
admission to the supreme court of any
Chicago woman.
AN old maids assurance company for
women has been opened in Denmark.
Spinsters can assure themselves by
small sum on reaching the age of thir-
teen, and if still unmarried at forty
are entitled to regular allowance. II
they marry, however, they forfeit all
claim.
THE Rainy Day club, which the
women of Tacoma organized recently
with the object of encouraging the
wearing of ankle-high dresses in wet
weather, in the interest of comfort and
cleanliness, is finding imitators in
various cities of that region. There is
a Wet Weather Club of women in
Olympia. and another is being formed
in Aberdeen.
MRS REBEcCA BOUTWELL, supports
herself by tending tank for the East
Tennessee railroad. She fires up and
runs the engine. When it is out of
order she repairs it. Previous to her
engagement on the railroad this woman
took charge Of the sawdust at mill l,
had been found impossible for any man
to keep the sawdust rolled away. She
not only kept the sawdust down, but
knitted a pair OF socks every day be
Sides
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WHAT SHOULD A WOMAN BE7

We would have her gracious and gentle,
With kindness to walk side by side
With sympathy's smile for the sunny,
With sympathy's tear for the tried.
We would have her tender and truthful;
voice with sinceritys sound,
And. above every Act OF her earth-life.
These virtues to ever abound.
With the air OF the earnest and thoughtful,
Which can merge into merrier words,
And win with her warmth and her wisdom,
All persons her presence includes.
With spark OF the fire of the fearless,
That can frankly and firmly defend
The right in its hours Of oppression,
And steadily stand by friend.
With conscience SO carefully cultered,
And OF such delicate mold,
That naught OF doubt-tainted nature
This crystalline chalice could hold
We would have her womanlv always,
With tn coyness that close to her clings;
For to be womanly woman,
Is the crown Of all womanly things
We would wish her fervent and faithful
Faithful and fond TO the end;
And strange tho 1t seem, I have found these
Aye, all OF these-in a friend.
Josie Frazee Cappleman, in Detroit Free
Press
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
A FARRlER LASS is SHE.

The Unusual But Profitable Trade Fol-
lowed by Young Tennessee Girl.
When Amelia Rives was doing some
good work which gave promise of some
thing better than has yet been fulfilled
for her she gave to the world of fiction
rather strong and interesting char
ncter in THAT Farrier Lass o Piping
Pebworth," character which one will
remember and might think of along in
the same day with THAT Lass o Low
rie's" and Blanch Towards "Guenn."
A unique feature of the Farrier Lass
was that 'she could shoe a horse as
well as any man" A girl blacksmith,
even in these days of advanced woman
hood. was something not vet reckoned
of in social philosophy, and many peo-
pie, while conceding that the "Farrier
Lass o Piping Pebworth" was good
and well-written story, yet criticised
the fair young authoress for straining
after unknown conditions and striking
effects. Whether or not this farrier
lass was purely a creation of Miss
Rives' fancy the fiction is now justified
by fact in the person of Miss Frances
Cunningham, of Memphis, Tenn.
Miss Cunningham owns and manages
smithy and wagon manufacturing and
repair shop She can do anything from
lifting up horses foot and mailing on
a shoe to putting together the newly
manufactured parts of carriage, road
cart or wagon. The history of this
young woman is an interesting one. and
one which should stimulate the courage
of many another poor girl who finds
herself suddenly left on the world, ho'
only dependent upon her own resource.
for self-support, but with family de
pending upon her for all the necessarie.
and comforts of life.
Five or six years ago Miss Cunning
ham father, manufacturer of the "Cun
pingharA wagons" much used through
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
no FOR A SMILE.

When the morning Is chilly and misty,
And clouds are gloomy and gray;
Then, hey for smile!
And no for a smile!
To brighten rainy day.
When the morning Is balmy and sunny,
And fields and gardens are gay;
Then, hey for SMILE
And no for a smile
To gladden. pleasant day.
And II 1t brings cares and vexations,
And you would charm them away;
Then, hey for smile
And no for Il smile!
To make 1t happy day.
Anna NJ. Pratt, in Golden Days.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
AN UNJUST APPEAL.
Tho Continual Cry from Women That
Justice BE Done Them by Men.

Tho Continual Cry from women That
Justice BE Done Them by Men.
There is a continual appeal from
women that justice be done them by
men, and a corresponding overlooking
of the fact that it is from among the
ranks of women that their most bitter
opponents are too often to be found.
Men have an inherent respect and ap-
probation for honest work, both mental
tad physical, and will not deny the re-
suits of it, no matter whose work it is;
but with women there is wide differ
ence. With them there is an entire
lack of appreciation of labor as labor
The reason for this is good: Women
have rarely worked or lived collectively
as men have; consequently their life
has always been an individual one, and
peculiarly so as far as their work is
concerned. They may do the same
work that their mothers have done be-
fore them, but at the same time it is
purely personal, where their surround
ings are more or less what they make
them
to them where they are not surrounded
on all sides by co-workers, striving for
the same goal, with whom they mist
match their best powers of body and
mind All the while the men watch
each other closely, so that If one is sue
cessful they may initiate his methods,
and if unfortunate avoid his stumbling
blocks. Thus they do their work un-
der the eyes of their fellows subjected
to their criticisms at every turn.
All this is absolutely foreign to wom-
ems experience, for hitherto they have
| worked as the individual not as the
class
1t is always difficult to see both sides
of question, but what women most
need is the impartial judgment of their
| work, as work done, not as "women's
work"
There is no possible doubt that WON.
en- will have to learn to accept GER
tain amount of loss of consideration
which has heretofore been shown to
their personality, and assume at the
same time responsibility of mistakes
which it must be feared they are sure
to make while in the act of adjusting
their lives to the changed conditions in
which they have elected to place them
selves.
The fact can not be ignored that there
is deplorable lack of sympathy be.
tween the women who work and those
who do not. For as women are more
emotional and sympathetic than men,
they are also more prone to intoler'
ance where they are not in accord.
Among men there has ever been GER
tain community of interests; politics
for example, where they meet on com
mon ground, and where they learn &c
measure their power as fractions Of a
unit. Women have not yet become &C
customed to being part rather than a
whole, for while they may, each one,
be the slave of some one man, it has
been as an individual and not as frac
ton. So their position has Away:
been positive, never negative, no mat
ter how sharply the limitation of theil
free agency was marked, or how con
tracted the area allowed compared with
that which is now conceded. Anna w
Reading, in Chautauquan.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25
care would have shed blaze Of light

care would have shed . blaze OF light
upon the world.
What shall we do under these circum'
stances; sit down, and pine, and fret,
that we have not the power to trans
form human nature. and bring others
into harmony with our own lofty views
OF life? That were indeed an impossi-
BILE task, equal to new creation. We
must accept people just as they are.
We may exert some influence over them
to transform them in some slight meas
ure, but we can not really change
a nature that is developed. We
must go on patiently loving them, and
perhaps the very faults which so fret
our spirits will call for greater tender.
ness and forbearance on our part. Our
lives are linked with theirs, and ii they
were taken from us, we would be left
desolate and bereaved But these very
faults which aggravated us may become
a means of grace by making us more
gentle and patient.
If we can not find our highest com
partnership with those to whom our lives
are bound in the Providence of God, let
us seek for it in some other channel.
We will always find those, they may be
very few, who can understand us, and en-.
ter into sympathy with our highest
aspirations. And in books, we will
ever find thoughts that will electrify
us, and become an incentive to nobler
deeds And if we soar aloft on the
wings of fancy, and live in the airy re-
lind few congenial spirits in the poets
those sweet singers along the dusty
highway of life, whose heart-songs, like
the birds and flowers, have lightened
the worlds burdens.
The daily friction of contact with
faulty human nature, in showing us the
evil of those faults that we may avoid
them, will make us more noble and
perfect, until some day, by making this
constant, prayerful effort, VIC will at
tain lofty ideal of character, like unto
the Son of God, which will be bless
ing to the world. and a holy inspiration
| to other lives.
| No life
Can be pure In its purpose, and strong 1t its
| strife,
And all life not be purer and stronger there.
| by.
Our fields are covered with grass, and
weeds, and the sweet, beautiful flow-
ers are rare; yet is these messengers
of Gods love that gladden. human hearts
by loneliness and fragrance. And so,
human nature, so faulty and imperfect,
is. like the weeds and stubble of the
fields; while those who rise up above
the common level and develop a grand
and noble character, full of love, char
ity and sweetness, breathing out sweet
odors to bless other lives, are Gods
messengers of mercy in this desert
world-sent to bless and comfort us in
our pilgrimage heavenward.
A beautiful character which reflects
our Lords pure, sweet image, is the
truest, best wealth. Moth and rust
can not corrupt it; thieves can not steal
it. 1t is the only possession that will
stand the crucial test of trial and sor
row, the fires of affi lotion, and come
forth as "silver seven times refined.
1t is the only treasure which we car
carry with us, through the colder
gates, into the pure sunlight of thu
eternal world. United Presbyterian.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-11-25

"A small boy recently made so much
noise around the place that his mother
brought him a drum to keep him quiet
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18
Prayer and Law,

To say that l can make use of the
forces of nature, each acting according
TO invariable law, and that God, IL e
maker and sustainer of al, cannot, is
philosophical absurdity - nay, NOR
blasphemy. If The argume emf unfold d
is sound, the fact that results ar,
always accomplished in the universe
by forces perfectly under the rule If
law is no evidence whatsoever Il a
such results are not the response of It e
divine free will 20 The prayer of a
needy nan. And, more than this, not
'nly is natural law no obstacle to the
carrying out of the will of divine fir e
agent, but there is a strong presump-
ton that if God were to answer
prayer, he would do so in precisely this
way-by the use of the forces of the
universe each completely domina,ed
by law. The only logical escape from
these conclusions is he denial Of free
will.-E. S. Parsons IN Neoo Highlander.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18
The Transformation.

| was reading of a wife whose hus
band had been overthrown by strong
drink, and she went to the saloon VIII, r.
he was ruined, and said: "Give me
back my husband" And the bar.
tender, pointing to a maudlin and bat
tered man browsing in the corner OF
the bar-room, said: There he is. jim
wake up; here is your wife, come f,r
you" And the woman said. 4" Do Y u
call hat my husband? What have ', u
been doing with him? Is that the
ma y brow? Is that the clear eye? l
that the noble heart that | married?
What vile drug have you given him
that has turned him into fiend? Take
your tiger claws off him. Uncoil those
serpent folds of evil habits that are
crushing him. Give me back my hus-
band, the one with whom l stood at the
altar ten years ago. Give him back to
me. DR.. Talmdge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18

DOES protec ion protect? Certainly,
in one instance, it does. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla is the great protection againsI
the dangers of impure blood, and it
will cure or prevent all diseases of this
class. 1t has well won its name of the
best blood purifier by its many remark
able cures,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18
The Book of Books.

Young man, do not prone unce
AGAINST nor condemn the Bible until
you have, for six months at leasr
studied it as carefully ard as honestly
as you study your algebra and your
Latin and your Gre elk. Unfortunatel,
for them, these of your age who are
most pror ounced in their disbelief of
the Book of hooks are those who never
read it honestly and ihoughtfullv.
Thomas Paine said, " keep no Bible, )"
and David Hume once acknowledge d
10 the Bishop of Durham that he had
never exam ned the New. TIE lament
with care. And yet he was an out
spoken opponent of Christianity. Was
his course wise? Was it reasonabl, ?
A fact so evident and so great as Chris
tianity, and book that is so widely
circulated as is the Bible, is certainly
worthy the thoughtful consideration OF
all; and to condemn such book with
out carefully examining it, and TO ex-
press our isbelief of Christianity be.
fore we have acquainted ourselves with
its claims and lis merits, are acts
wholly unbecoming the progressive
thought of the closing nineteenth cen
tury.-ReligiouS Telescope.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18
The Sunday Newspaper.

Talk about newspapers. l dissected
one of the New York Sunday papers
the other day and found it was mad
up as follows: 1t contained 252 col.
umns. Advertise ents, 1876; local poll
tics, eight; shopping news, six; stories,
six; aihl tics, SIX; foreign news, six;
Mrs. Cleveland's baby, two; short
editorials, six; dramatic news, six; I'll
sorts, sixty five. Total, 252 columns.
| was unable, after a careful search, to
find out whore the Sunday part of The
paper was. Now, reading at an ordin-
airy gait, it took me seven minutes to
read one column of the said paper.
Seven minutes to one column means
just twenty-nine hours and twenty-four
minutes to 252 columns. Now deduct
twenty nine hours and half from Sur
day and it does not leave much
time in which to read your Bible, to 90
to church, get acquainted with you
family, visit the sick and get TIE eating
and sleeping belonging to the day done
with. -Baltimorean.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18

LOVE can hope where reason would
despair. Longfsllo,o.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18

CARELESS seems the great Avenger; history pages
but record
One death.grapple in the darkness 'twixt old sys-
tens and the Word
Truth forever on the scaffod Wrong forever on
the THRONE
Yet that scaffOd sways the future, and behind the
dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch
above his own.
-LoweVs -" The Present Crisis"