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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Harvard is to have recognized and
appointed professor in rowing.
There are but seven Presbyterian
churches in the State of Connecticut
All have pastors.
DR.. Scott, the newly-elected presi-
dent of Rutgers College, is only thirty
nine years of age.
The church-going people of the
United States represent one hundred
and forty different creeds,
Rev j. D. Kinsburg, of Bradford,
Mass, has been twenty-five years pas
tor Of the Congregational Church there.
By the bequest of Mathew Thoms,
over $3.50, 900 has been left to the Uni
versity of Cincinnati, subject to an an
nuity of 1000 for ten years.
Near Lancaster, Pa, part of a
Mennonite congregation destroyed the
pulpit in new church, holding it to be
an invention of the devil. They insist
on table instead.
The Brooklyn Sunday-school Union
Association reports 296 schools, 1880
officers and teachers, S9,125 scholars
under twentyrone years of age and 10,-
l76 adults; total, 1O9,949.
Rev. John b. Cough Pidge, Bap-
fist clergyman of Philadelphia, takes a
long spin into the country twice week
on bicycle given to him as Christmas
present by his congregation, and he
thinks he breaches all the better for the
exercise.
1T is said that during the past 1916
years the average daily accessions of the
Baptist churches equals 10 for every
day of the entire period; and for the
past ten years the reported baptisms
amount to 1,256, 375-an average Of 344
for every day of the ten years.
The Prussian Government is ex-
ceedingly liberal to its universities.
These all possess rich endowments, yet
each year the government grants then
large sums for running expenses. The
budget for 1S9O-91 contains the follow.
ing items for new buildings alone: Ko-
nigsburg, 119, 1874 marks; Berlin, 537, 500;
Greifswald 159, 500; Breslau, 926, 416;
Halle, $4,000; Kiel, $4,000; Gottingen,
$50, $780, Marburg, 175, $50; Bonn, 1856, $50.
When news was received, January
%, at Wahpeton, N. d., that the North
Dakota University of the Methodist
church had been located there, the peo-
pie had jubilee with firing of anvils,
waving of flags and ringing of all the
bells, Washpeton, whose bid for the
location of that school was S2S, 200 cash
and some valuable tracts of land, is as
sisted in this movement by j. Q. Adams
a wealthy Christian gentleman of Chi
cago, who writes that 1t is his inten
ton to assist the school literally in the
| futura
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
A MYSTERY OF HISTORY.
The Dreadful Doom of the Man In the
the Iron Mask.

the Iron Mask.
The Man with the Iron Mask was a
mysterious prisoner whom Louis XIV.
kept in close confinement for twenty
four years, first at 'Pignerol, then at the
Isle of Ste. Marguerite, and then in the
Bastile, where he died November 10,
1908, He was never seen without the
famous mask which was not really
made of iron, however, but of black
velvet, furnished with steel springs, to
allow for the motion of the face in eat
ing. 1t is not likely that the secret
will ever be satisfactorily solved.
After the destruction of the Bas-
tile the register of the prison
was searched in vain for some
thing that would throw light on the
mystery Napoleon himself made an
unsuccessful attempt to investigate it.
Numerous conjectures have from time
to time been made and have obtained
more or less credence. The IronMask
has variously been supposed to be Fon-
quet, the disgraced Minister of FL
hdlNCs iIOulos NOhiiO vi viz
illegitimate son of Louis XIV, punished
in this manner for having struck the
Dauphin; the turbulent Due de Beau
fort commonly known as 'the King of
the markets." the schismatic Armenian
patriarch, ArwcdieclSs, noted for his
hostility to the Catholics of the East;
and the Duke of Monmouth, illegiti-
mate brother of James H., although
the fate of all these personages has been
otherwise chronicled by history. A more
widely-accepted story, which originated
with Voltaire, made him an lille
gitimate son of Anne of Aus
tria, Louis XIV.'s mother, by either
Cardinal Mazarin or the Duck of Buck
ingham. The Able Soulaire, in 1870,
made the Iron Mask twin brother of
Louis XIV, A prophecy having fore
told disaster to the royal family from
double birth, Louis KILL had caused
up in secret Louis XIV. learned of his
twin brothers existence only after
Mazarin's death, and the brother, hav-
ing discovered the secret of his birth by
means of portrait, was condemned to
perpetual imprisonment.
In the present day the generally ac.
copied theory, and one which seems tc
fit all the known facts of the case, is
that which identifies the prisoner with
Count Ercolo Antonio Matthioli, Sen
ator of Mantua, and private agent o.
the Duke, who suffered this long ant
strange imprisonment for having de
ceived and disappointed the King o.
France in a secret treaty for the pur
chase of the fortress Casal, the key O
Italy, the agents of Spain and Austri;
having offered him higher bribe.-
| Illustrated American.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
TFNN THT Ma 69o1

forget the evenings spent in the big
front room before the open fireplace
when was Ben Whites hired man
Zen and Martha, and Kitty and |, l
used to crack hickory nuts and butter
nuts on an old fiat iron, and Kitty
popped corn, while the winter wind
was whistling outside.
lin summer Kitty and | used to go
fishing. Sometimes we would go up
the pond in the boat, and sometimes
when the mill was not running we'd so
down there and get inside the big
wheel and fish in the deep hole.
There's where we generally got the
finest fish. One day we had just got
our fishing tackle out of the mill, and
was hesitating whether to go up the
pond or down in the wheel, when a
neighbor came over and asked us to
lend him the boat, He took it, and we
, went down in the wheel. We'd been
fishing probably an hour, and caught
some fine ones, when, all of sudden,
down poured the water from the flood
gate above, and the wheel commenced
turning. The sudden start threw MS
both down. Igot on my feet in an in
slant and helped Kitty up, and we
commenced to tramp in the direction
opposite to the way the wheel was
moving. We had to in order to keep
our feet. was calling as loud as l
could, but it was of no use. The noise
made by the falling water, the revolv-
ing wheel and the grinding mill
drowned my voice. We couldn't get
out. The plank from the mill had
fallen in the water when the wheel
started, and gone floating down the
stream. The water poured through
the cracks in the old wheel all over us.
The deep hole was full now. There
was two feet of water in the bottom OF
the wheel. Tramp, tramp, tramp
through two now three feet of water.
l held Kitty by the hand,
and we kept on our tramp.
was praying it might be a small
grist. Neighbors often brought a
two bushel bag of corn to be ground
in hurry. thought if that was the
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN.
The Best Way to Overcome a ChIld's
Tendency for Evil.


Tendency for Evil.
fyou would see woman or child
graceful, beautiful and charming you
must find one that is loved. The child
that breads to be corrected or criticised
for every word or movement never has
of charm. Fill your child's soul with
an ideal of good manners, of benevo-
lence and beauty; teach it abstractedly
to dislike vulgarity, selfshness, rude.
ness and to feel that you love and ad-
mire it, and expect charming manners,
and the work is accomplished.
1t is impossible for a slave to have
any style. If you would have your
child dignified you must treat it with
dignity
1t S wrong to correct child in pub
lic Any proud child feels degraded by
it. 1t should be case of dire necessity
when you find fault with "a child before
strangers, and to destroy child's pride
is to do him au irreparable injury.
Take advantage of some intimate hour
when parent and child are alone to-
gether, and then let the parent tender
ly explain how the child has behaved i'll
the day before or that morning, and
why the childs conduct was wrong and
how it should have behaved, and show
the child that the parent respects it and
loves it and believes in it's capacity to
do all good things. This will have
ten times the effect of punishment
when the child is in a state of
excitement and the parent usually an
CRY. Get in the habit of explaining the
reason Of things to your child. Let there
be as little confusion in it's mind as pos
sible. Above all, keep the fact of your
love uppermost in the childs mind, and
let it understand that you have no wish
to domineer over it, only that being
older and wiser, and loving the child SO
much, you would save it from it's mex.
perience, that this is your duty, that
you are teaching it to be its own master.
If your child is cross do not punish
him, but distract his mind from the sub
ject that annoys him. If he continues
to be cross suspect his stomach, >and as
sure yourself that this is in perfect
order; troubled digestion is the root
of bad manner.-Harper's Bazaar.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
HUMOROUS.

-Namby-"She is very rich. Do you
suppose he had tender feeling for
her?" Hooks-"Of course, of course
a legal-tender feeling."-N. Y. Herald.
Our astronomers claim to know to
a certainty that there is no water on
the moon, and so the rest of us might
as well take it for granted that there is
no soap.-Rams Horn.
81 think the wine is too dear" "Too
dear?" answered the host. "Do you
know what calculate each bottle at?"
mo; but should calculate about half
ter."-Fliegende Batter
Mr.. Schoolmaster, l hope you will
treat this little boy of mine exactly as
if he were your own SON." "Oh, yes,
certainly; will give him a whipping
every day since you desire it."-Flie-
gende Batter.
-Misinterpreted.- MIA chere," whis
pered the suave Frenchman TO the pretty
country lass. 'l'm not your share,
either" she snapped; I'm Timothy
Hayseed's, and don't you forget it,
Washington Star
Applied Somnambulism.- Ben
lix-"Yes, my husband is a somnam-
bulist." Mrs. Kawler-'How dreadful"
Not at all. You see, when he gets up
IN the night and walks the floor put
The baby into his arms, and he never
knows it"
He (just introduced what
lu hot
the piano is, Mrs. Hopson." She-"Isn't
he ? That is Mr.. Hopson." He Equal
to the OCCASION indeed! How
true it is, Mrs. Hopson, that the home
ly men always get the prettiest wives"
Youth in New Suit to Evident Tail
or.-"Tell you what, I'll give you
fifty-dollar watch and we'll call II
square" Evident Tailor-"Let me
have it." Youth-"Well, you'll have to
wait till the close of the fair-but it's
all right-here's my ticket for the
chance-prettiest watch you ever saw p
Philadelphia Record.
No Use for Any.-The Government
inspector looked with somewhat crit
ical eye at the little post-office parti-
toned off in one corner of the millinery
store. you don't seem to have much
room here" he said. "How do You dis.
pose of your surplus mail?" 81 have
none, sir" replied the rural postmis-
tress, Indignantly. 81 have been a
widow for six years. Chicago Trib-
une.
The Way of the Transgressor.
Prominent Citizen lin Oklahoma you
ort to have been to meetin' yesterday.
Ike" Alkali Ike-"Yaum! Good meet.
in ?" Prominent Citizen--"You bet!
Went off as smooth as velvet till
Preacher Buckskin, bein' told that some
Teller had jest jumped his claim down
by the creek, stopped the sermon while
he went down an sorto moved him off.
He came back in u little while an fin.
ished the discourse with unusual fire an
tervor. Tip-top meetin! You ort to
have been thar" Alkali Ike (sadly)---
''Wisht had I'm the teller ha sol to
moved off,"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY

The widow of Mark Lemon, once
editor of the London Punch, has just
died, having survived her husband for
twenty years.
BY the will of the late DIR. Alvar
1alcott, of Guilford, Conn, Yale Col
lege will receive $4,000 and valuable
medical library.
Henry Casper, of Michigan City,
Ind, is an enterprising youth. He is
only sixteen years old, yet he confesses
to ten burglaries and has stolen $1,000
worth of property.
Mrs. j. Wells Champney, author OF
"Vassar Girls Abroad" produces three
books each year. With her artist hus-
band she has visited every nook and
corner of both Europe and America.
Mrs. Lila Cabot Perry, whose
poem, A Plea of Truth, appears in the
current Atlantic, is the author of the
volume, The Heart of the Weed, which
was published anonymously, and has
reached third edition.
American Horse, the Ogallala chief,
is known as the Daniel Dougherty of the
Sioux tribes. He is the most eloquent
silver-tongued aborigine on the conti-
nent. He is naturally man of great
influence among the Indians
Miss Frances Power Cobbe, author
of many books and one of the ablest
of literary women, is, at the age OF
seventy, hard at work as writer and re-
former; she is full of health and vigor,
which she attributes to her simple diet
and regular habits, and gives much
time to the Antivivisection Society in
London, of which she is president.
Captain Schley commanding the
cruiser Baltimore, the vessel that bore
Ericsson's remains to Sweden-says the
fine ship made foreign navy officers
open their eyes. The enthusiastic Cap
tain, who came home to attend his
daughters wedding, says he could
catch any ship of the French, German,
or English navies, without eXerting the
Baltimore at all.
The venerable David Dudley Field
attributes his prolonged activity OF
mind and body, it is said, to his habit of
taking a short nap Of twenty to. thirty
minutes after dinner. He awakes re-
freshed and strengthened and ready to
spend the evening in reading or CONVEX
sation without fatigue. The same rest
full habit is recorded of Prof. Delitzsch,
the eminent biblical commentator.
Prince Zatcharsly, otherwise known
as Milton Nakaritschey, who was ar
rested recently in Constantinople in
company with Lieutenant Lutzky, is
said to be guilty of causing the disas-
ter at Borki, two years ago, when the
Car narrowly escaped meeting his
death. The Russian Government has
long been on the hunt for the Prince,
who has spent the greater part of his
time since the disaster in Sophia.
The mother of Robert Louis Ste
venson, it is recorded, keeps mighty
scrap book, in which she has gathered
every thing that has been written con-
corning her son. On the title-page of
the scrap-bools these lines are inscribed:
"Speak weel O. my love, Speak i'll o. my
love, But aye be speaking O. him."
Mrs. Stevenson is an agreeable Scotch
lady, and the author of Treasure
Island" is her only son. She is about
to Join her son and his wife in Samoa.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
CLEARLY CAUGHT.
How Too-smart Young Man Was Taken
Down.

Down.
Perhaps we are all familiar with the
man "who knows more than the Cap
tain" as the saying goes. We meet him
on the railway and hear him tell the
conductor that the train is behind time.
He finds fault with workmen who are
doing street job, and in a general way
he informs the world that he can do any
thing better and knows more than any
one else.
One of these conceited fellows was
exhibiting his superior knowledge in a
Cincinnati cotton warehouse recently.
He was nephew of the junior partner
of the firm.
A consignment of cotton had arrived
that morning, each bale marked: "From
Jerome Lavalle, Ouachita, La" 1t hap
pened that Mr.. Lavalle arrived with the
cotton, and was close at hand, but the
young man did not know that.
"Ah," he said, airily, to clerk who
was weighing the bales: Here's some
cotton from Jeremy Lavalle, of Oochi-
ia"
"Ouachita, young man." said Mr.
Lavalle, with smile giving the word
its proper pronunciation of Washstaw.
You're mistaken" returned the
youth, coolly.
II think not" said Mr. Lavalle. 81
was born and raised there"
WELL" retorted the other, club
bornly, Jeremy Lavalle doesn't call it
that"
MAY be not, but Jerome Lavalle does.
| am jerome Lavalle."
At this point the youth should have
sunk through the floor in confusion,
but he didn't. Are you?" be said,
lightly. Il guess it's been long time
since you went to school and studied
geography. Youths Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26

extent of the grist we might stand it.
We kept up our march till Kitty gave
out. The water and the tramp, tramp,
had numbed her limbs. Her lips
moved, but | could hear nothing she
said. / only knew that she was sink
ing down in the water. | picked her
up in my arms, with one hand put her
arms around my neck and resumed
my tramp in the middle of the wheel.
believe | felt happier than had ever
felt in my life. held Kitty in my
arms. Her arms were around my
neck though l did put them there. 1
could feel her breath on my cheek. 1
could walk now easier than before, but
even with Kitty in my arms l began to
tire. My footsteps were more uncer-
tain. My limbs began to feel numb.
At least l could die with Kitty. 1
looked at her face. Her eyes were
closed. Had she tainted? / put my
lips close to her ear They touched her
face. Kitty! Kitty Her eyes opened.
Our lips met. Her arms drew tighter
around my neck. My brain whirled.
Was l becoming unconscious? could
feel that was reeling as walked. The
water from above ceased to fall. The
wheel stopped. Some one ieaped in. L
knew no more.
"When / came to was lying in bed
Kitty was sitting by my side, my hand
in hers. | had been delirious for a
week As my eyes met hers she said:
Alex, dear Alex and she stopped and
kissed me. That kiss brought back TO
my bewildered brain the events that
led to it. did not regret them.
"Uncle Ben had come down to the
mill, and not seeing the boat thought,
of course, we had gone up the pond.
He lifted the fool-gate, and started the
mill to grind a small grist. Finally he
CHANGED to see the boat with the neigh
Dor in it out in the pond. He knew
that we sometimes fished from the
wheel, and with trembling hands closed
the gate, rushed down and into the
wheel, to find me Keeling and stagger-
| ing like drunken man IN the water
with Kitty in my arms. He got us out,
but fell unconscious.
1.-THE next spring a freshet carried
the old dam away, and new mills hav-
ing been built in Jonesboro we re-
claimed the land where the pond had
been, and the old mill has gone to
decay. Kitty and were married that
fall. Father and mother lived to see
our children playing round the ruins of
the old mill, and died within month OF
each other.
Now, I've told you the story of the
old mill, and if you'll come up to the
house and have a cup of coffee before
you go back to town I'll show you the
wife / won in the old mill wheel; and
when you take a look at my daughter
Kitty you'll see my wife as she was
when we entered it that day. Two
years after we were married an uncle
of mine died and left me farm up in
Knox County, where we spend part OF
our time; but there's no place so dear
to Kitty and me as the farm on Cedar
creek, for its soil covers the remains Of
dear old Ben and Martha, and here, be.
sides, are the ruins of the old mill -
III. Z. Scott, in Chicago News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
HE DIED JUST IN TIME.
If He Had Not, His Fate Would Have Beei
Worse Than Death.

Worse Than Death.
There were six Of them, all at the
head of their profession, and each with
his hobby, and they consulted together
over the case Of the great man in the
next room.
Said Or. Pompom: "He should be
trephined."
Said DR.. Quackquack "And the dis
eased brain replaced with the brain of a
guinea-pig."
Said DIR. Oldenough: ellis blood is
vitiated and should be let and the blood
of a jack-rabbit injected into his veins"
Said DIR. Newt found: HE has a mir
crobe in his liver; it should be looked
into"
Said DR.. Dubious: Let us diagnos
his case with DIR. Chowchow's I'm
perial extract. If he dies we shall
know"
Gentlemen" said the nurse, poking
her head into the door, ''your patient
is dead"
Sand we not there!" exclaimed one.
"Ah!" said DR.. Pompom, "what a
chance for beautiful operation is lost!r'
"And the Imperial extract untried!"
shrieked DIR. Dubious.
"Poor man. said the nurse, as she
closed the staring eyes. Poor mani
He does not know what lucky escap
hs has had, Chicago Times-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26
HOME IRON SCHOOL.

The frost Of age was on his locks
That rlvalC once the ravens wing,
The voice, In youth so clear and strong,
Through age and pain had lost its ring;
The brilliance OF his LIES long day
Was fading fast TO twilight gray.
Beside his couch in patience sat
His bride Of many summers past,
And down her bloomless. withered checks,
The silent tears were falling fast
When turning meekly on his bed,
He grasped her hand aud feebly said:
Are the boys home from SCHOOL,
She gently pressed the withered hand
That through the years had been her guide
AS at his words she saw again
Her children gathered at her side;
She saw each childish happy face;
Once more she felt their warm embrace.
She saw the havoc OF the years
Each one had left vacant chair
And then again the falling tears
Believed the old mans silvery hair,
As bending DER him with q sigh
In tender voice she made reply:
- The boys are home from school"
Edwin Ralph Collins, in Texas Siftings
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-26

thrifty farmer of forty-fve. | had
taken a walk before breakfast one
morning as an appetizer, out from
Jonesboro, where | was attending
court, and was standing by the runs of
the old mill when he came up The
roof had fallen in, windows and doors
disappeared. The old water-wheel had
crumbled to decay and green ivy COW
cred the ruins. The dam was now
leveled to road, and cabbage patch
had taken the place of the mill-pond.
We took seat on a moss-grown log
by the side of the ruin, and he contin-
ued:
81 was with Stonewall during the
war, and had some pretty tough times,
some narrow escapes and some hard
tramps, but the close call and hard
tramp that this old mill once caused me
made all of my war experience seem, at
least for time, like a pleasure trip.
This was the first mill built on Cedar
creek, and was built many years ago by
old man Ben White, who lies up yonder
on the hill.
After the surrender our army was
disbanded, and the most on us was pretty
close run. We had nothing and no way
to get any thing. ! was only about
twenty-one then. ] was strolling round
looking for something to do, and hap
pened' along this road one morning.
Well, that morning the wheel was in
action. The gate was histed and the
water was skurrying through. Old Ben
White was standing in the door. | says:
Morning, sir. Can get job hereY
He took off his spectacles, wiped 'em,
put 'em back on and looked at me.
d" 'Soldier?' says he.
" i was, says |, till the surrender
'Luckier than my boys, says he,
One of them staid behind down at
Stone river. The others lying up there
on the hill-shot in front of Richmond
and come home to die, and the old man
took out his handkerchief and wiped his
eyes. Did you ever work in mill?'
Ono
"'Well, that don't make much differ
ence, said he; business is picking up,
and you can stay. I'm getting old. I'll
pay you what can afford to. We can
tell better in a week or two. Have you
been to breakfast?'
4 have not, said
"'Well, go to the house, said he. Tell
Kitty that's my daughter, the only one
the Yanks didn't kiln to give you
breakfast; and come back, you can
work on the dam to-day. There's some
leaks that need stopping
$50 went over the hill to the house.
/ still had my Confederate uniform on,
and Mrs. White met me on the piazza.
/ saw tears on her cheeks, and sup
pose the uniform reminded her of her
own boys. told her was going to