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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-08-13

The safest and best of all Gods creatures
is the woman who is happily married.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-08-13

This life viii mean more when we realize
that it Is the pathway to the next.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-08-13

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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
A BuAY. Noble Life.

Mrs. Aletha Coffin, of Hadley, Ind,
is pioneer of that state, whose ninety
three years are full of honor. Left
widow sixty-three years ago in North
Carolina with three small children to
support, she managed by hard labor
and economy to save hundred dollars
in six years. Leaving her children, she
rode on horseback to Hendricks county,
Ind, distance of seven hundred and
fifty miles, through sparsely settled
country, and across mountain ranges.
She selected eighty acres, and then
rode to the land Office at Charlottesville,
nearly thirty miles distant, and entered
her land with her hundred dollars.
After resting few days she returned
for her children She gave them an un-
usually good education for that day,
earning the means by tending her farm
with her own hands. The land makes
her pleasant home in her old age, and
is the only piece of real estate in the
county that has never changed hands.
Mrs. Coffin was for many years matron
of Guilford college, N. c., and later
held the same position in Earlham col
lege at Richmond, Ind. She has filed
many important positions in the work
of her church and locality. She is well
informed, and her memory remains
good. -Woman's Column.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24

II was short trip, b IT ne is tine bet
ter for it. He has been rinde to see
things as he never would without. As
he Is tucked into bed that night he
Sings down and is thankful from the
bottom of his heart that he turned back.
If had hundred boys I'd let each
and every one OF them ''cut sticks" at
his own sweet will, and if one of them
held out for week or a month he'd
be all the better for it when he did re-
turn. A little rubbing against the
sharp corners and biting edges of the
outside world makes great change
in boys ideas.-M. Quad, in N. Y.
World.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
MIRROR OF GODS LOVE.

Walking homeward In the twilight
OF duh and weary day,
Half disheartened by the burden
And harassment OF life's way,
Looked forth on all around me
For some Sign of rest or Joy.
Tree or blossoms gave no token
OF relief from my annoy.
"Sunset tints may bring the solace,"
Whispered Hope within my ear,
"For al sh!s calm, holy hour
Peace and rest have oft drawn near"
All! in all the western cleaning
Not one CLEAN of evening red
All as gray as midnight hearthstone
When the warmth and light have fed.
Shall / stay my quest for succor?
Have all the prospect scanned?
Still the patient, gentle pleading:
"Look where southern hills do stand"
Oh! the wondrous transformation
Wrought by that swift, passing glance
Troubled thoughts gave place to calmness
Bright, warm hues the eye entrance.
Clouds OF red and pearly whiteness
Told Gods power so strong and high;
Told, when seemingly fOrsaken,
He in love was drawing nigh
For on all our gloom and sorrow
His own love and peace shall shine,
Till robed in His spotless pureness,
We reflect His form Divine.
Mary G. Caldwell, in Waterman.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
SEVEN LITTLE TRUANTS.

What Told Uncle Ned That Robbie Was
Staying Away from School.
Robbie was down by the willow-tree
fishing for minnows.
1t seemed to him q shame to be in
school when the robins were singing
and the old apple trees in the orchard
were covered with beautiful white bios
SONS.
He asked robin If it would not be
good plan to go fishing. ''Chee, chez"
sang the robin.
THAT means yes, yes" said Rob-
bic; SO he hid his bag under bush, and
promised himself good time.
By and by he heard short, cropping
noise close behind him, and turning he
beheld sight which caused him to
say "Oh, my!' in very dismayed tone.
There were grandpa's six Attorney
calves standing at respectful distance
from him, and saying as plainly as
calves can say: Were playing truant
too, Robbie. Isn't it fun%
"To think l forgot to put up the bars"
cried Robbie.
Then he made dash and the calves
made spring, all at once. But the
bossies had each four long legs, and
Robbie only two short ones.
81 guess those calves have come to
stay!" he sighed, after he had chased
them for half an hour.
Not a calf would go near the bars.
Clearly they thought grandpa's orchard
as nice a. Mace as he did
But help came to him at last in the
form of his dog, Shep.
'Dear Shepr he cried, heartily.
"Good doggie! Help me drive these
calves home!"
Shep understood, and started after
the calves with suchffrmness and method
that every bessie went baa, baaing over
the rails in considerably less than five
minutes.
splendid fellowr' declared Robbie,
as he put up the bars.
"Ah, but a very naughty boy!" said .
familiar voice from the wagon-house.
you've had fine holiday with the
calves, my laddie, and now you must 80
70 school"
"Oh, Uncle Ned!' cried Robbie, hang.
ing his head. while Shops tail dropped
in sympathy.
But there was no help for 1t, as Rob
bic very well knew. Uncle Ned popped
him into the spring-wagon without an
other word, and started directly for
J school.
"Who told you was there Uncle
Ned?" he asked, very soberly.
"Baa-baas and bow-wows" replied
Uncle Ned, with twinkle in his eyes.
''Ohw said Robbie.
That entrance into the busy school
room at half-past ten, and the ache in
his poor, tired, little legs cured Robbie
of truancy. The bossies never had such
good chance again.-Lillian L. Price,
in Youths Companion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
FRESH AND INTERESTING.

THE Montreal general hospital re.
fused to admit female students to the
privileges of the institution.
The Bombay Sorosis club is the first
literary society ever formed in India
for native women. There are now 200
members, including Mohammedans,
Hindus, rarsis, Eurasians and Anglo
Indians. They have circulating liz
brary.
THE house in which Moltke was born
in Parchim had been devoted to an edu-
cational institution for girls for many
years past. 1t has now been purchased
by society which is to start a museum
therein, and to preserve relics of the
battle-thinker.
WoMEN's clubs are among the best
educational institutions of the time
They train women in parliamentary
usage, in the ability to think while on
their feet, and they supplant frivolity
and gossip with deep thinking and
earnest purpose.-Wives and Daugh-
ters-
HEINRICH SCHNILINsKY, q wealthy
and distinguished citizen of Hamburg
recently deceased, has bequeathed sew
eral millions of marks in his will To
found Hamburg asylum for unmarried
women teachers who have outlived
their ability to earn a living at that
calling.
Mrs. BRANDER, who is inspectress OF
the girls schools in Madras, India,
which $4,000 children attend, says in
her tenth annual report to the national
association that nan improvement in
female education is necessary before
any of the great reforms, such as the
abolition of infant marriage and child
| widowhood, can be effected"
Miss GENEVA ARMSTRONG, young
lady who owns farm in Western
New York, has invented machine for
feeding cattle on trains She recently
addressed meeting of railroad men,
before whom she had placed the inven-
ton. 1t is patented, and she hopes to
have it adopted for use during the
transportation of live stock.
CIVIL engineering is the only profes
sion in which women have not as ye'
figured conspicuously, but it is known
that for some years the sisters of. Ed
gar Thomson, the railroad magnate
have worked with their brother in tn,
fathers office at civil engineering. And
in the office of the surveyor-general a
Denver women are employed, and have
with the exception of the heads of tw'
departments, filled as high places a
any of the employees Of the office.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
A WOMAN OF THE WORLD.


What Is Meant by This Unusual Term
the COmmendable Traits She Possesses.
A woman said to man the other day,
"Mrs. White is woman Of the world to
her finger tips" and the man said,
THANK goodness, she is. wish we
had few more like her."
And then he added: do you know
anything Of the virtues of woman of
the world-that is, the true woman OF
the world? She is the woman who
makes life perfectly smooth and de-
lghtful She does not say disagree
able things She makes her likes felt
and her dislikes are so well concealed
that her enemies are ignorant, when
they get blow as to where it comes
from. Don't imagine by this that
mean that she is the woman who does
the cat act, and is given to smiling and
grinning at everybody. Oh, no, she has
too much sense for that. She has the
art of making people appear at their
best, and she knows how to be agree
able alike to old and young. Her hus-
band respects her; her children love
her; her servants fear her, and conse-
quently they obey her orders. If she finds
it necessary to mark either man or
q woman as detrimental, she can usual
ly give reason for it, as she does not
60 out of her way to make enemies
''She would not forgive bad manners
in a genius, for she very properly con-
cludes that genius has,no more right
to be bad hammered than more ordi-
nary man. She regrets that genius and
gentleman are not always synonymous,
but until they are she doesn't desire the
acquaintance of the genius. She is an
earnest believer in the bond of mar
rage, and thinks it quite as unnecessa-
ry to uphold it as it is to refuse to dis.
cuss scandals in regard to failure in
it. She does not ask that she shall have
love, but she does insist that she shall
have respect She is not one of the
women who make their husbands un-
happy, for she is not inquisitive. She
ignores many things because it Is moi
good form for her to see them, covering
HI WILD way WIN hAuheAO Va Shah y
the half-concealed offenses of hel
friends.
1.-THE man married to a woman Of the
world has much happier life than does
the one married to the ingenue; she i.
disappointed because he isn't her ideal
and he is made wretched because of thu
tears and means that pervade thu
household If had son should pre-
fer he would marry a woman Of tn
world-remember, l am using the
phrase in it's best and truest sense, ant
had l to choose husband for m,
daughter it should be . man who hat
known other women, who had seel
their faults and their virtues, and VIII
knew how to take young and innocen
girl by the hand and lead her CAREFUL,
and considerably into the state of mat
rimony until she herself became tn,
monarch thereof" And the woman Il
whom this little sermon was preached
began to think that after all there wer,
different kinds of women of the world
IN, Y, Sun.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
A NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT.
Miss Mary ii. KrOut's Remarkable Succesa
In tho Newspaper World.

NAIoo NuhTy hrOut ttumIAhIu0 6oVCUA
In the Newspaper World.
Mrs. Antoinette Van Hoosen Wake
man, of the Illinois Press association,
said at the Woman's council:
SIN no line is woman less trammeled
than in newspaper work A notable
illustration of this occurred in connec-
ton with Miss Mary H. Krout, OF the
Chicago Inter Ocean, during the cam
paign that resulted in the election Of
President Harrison. At that time she
was on the reportorial force of the pa
per. However, the managing editor
had discovered that she was not only
able and reliable, but was possessed OF
better knowledge of Indiana politics
and politicians than any member OF the
staff. After consulting with her, it was
decided that she should conduct the
campaign for the Inter Ocean in 1ndi-
ana. Miss Krout is by no means a
strong woman, but for one hundred
and eight consecutive days she sent
from one to two columns of matter each
day to her paper. Besides this, she sent
numerous kilograms and private letters
from which the editorial policy of the
paper was shaped.
"The longest telegram sent by Miss
Krout was speech of Gen. Lew Wal
lace of between two and three columns.
1t was delivered at Whitlock, Ind, ten
miles from railway station. Her
Judgment was that it was great
speech, and she fastened in a carriage
to the nearest telegraph office and sent
it to her paper. The result confirmed
her Judgment, for the edition of the
Inter Ocean containing the speech was
soon exhausted, and to meet the demand
thirty thousand copies were printed
and sent to Indianapolis by special
train. The papers of indianapolis
were obliged to copy it from the Inter
Ocean, and it was used as campaign
document.
"The day of the election Miss Krout
sent all the specials for the Office bull
letins, and worked without leaving her
desk from nine o'clock one morning until
two o'clock the next, making seventeen
hours of consecutive work. She says,
in speaking of it, that she was the soil
tary woman at the Press headquarters,
but was not reminded of the fact, save
by the special courtesy of the state. Of
ficials. When Miss Krout returned she
was made one of the editors of the In
ter Ocean, which position she still holds
No more arduous and brilliant piece Of
newspaper work has been done by any
woman in America than this"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
"A REAL LADY,"
Qualifications Necessary to Produce the
Genuine Article.

s..~
Genuine Article.
We hear the phrase so often, and how
hard it is to define its exact meaning.
We all know the lady when we meet
her, and yet her charm is as indscrib-
able as the scent of a rose or the tints
of the sunset sky 1t might be said to
lie in her utter lack of positiveness and
best painted in negatives. She is not
obtrusive in appearance or dress; she
does not claim your attention by any
effort to attract it, nor does she seem
conscious of your admiration if you
evince it. She is never known to speak
harshly, maliciously or loudly to supe-
rior, equal or inferior. She does not
laugh at anything that could by any
possibility wound another, nor seek to
introduce into the conversation any
topic she has reason to think may prove
disagreeable or embarrassing, but
rather closes her eyes to whatever her
keen tact tells her you desire to remain
unnoticed. In her judgments she does
not seek to impress you with her in
fallibleness, but is quick to add the
saving clause. She does not envy or
scorn another's possessions, and wonld
not point out the crumbled rose leaf for
the world. She makes no boast of any
thing, but does not decry herself in any
way, so that her sweet pride is humility,
and her sweet humility the truest pride.
She is no gossip, though she is not
above taking an interest in the lowliest
that cross her path, and has womanly
sympathy for every sick and suffering
thing She takes up no fad or hobby to
the exclusion of other duties, but is con-
sistent in all things, and without being
foolishly conventional, does not neglect
to fulfill the least demand of her posi-
ton. She is not religious fanatic,
and has no hell of accommodation for
those not of her way of thinking, but is
in the truest and best sense noble
hearted, Christian woman, than which
there is no better definition of lady,
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
CHOICE SELECTIONS.

For insult given, the noblest ven
gence is forgetfulness forever.-Flor-
ian.
Patience is the gold we get by go.
ing through the fire of trial. Chicago
Standard.
"A false report does not last long,
and the life one leads is always the best
apology of that which one has led.-St.
Jerome.
The only joy we have on earth is to
love God and to know that God loves
us. Oh! when l think that there are
some who will die without having tast-
ed even for an hour the happiness of
loving God!-Vianney.
Lowell says: "God is the only be-
ing who has time enough, but a prud-
ent man, who knows how to seize occa.
sion, commonly make shift to find as
much as he needs" To know chow to
seize occasion" will lengthen a mans
hours and multiply his usefulness
United Presbyterian.
The severest trial to which you can
subject Christian man is to kill him,
and that is glory. In other words, the
worst thing that can happen to child
of God is Heaven. The body is only
the old slippers that he throwssaside
just before putting on the sandals of
light. His soul, you can not hurt it.
No floods can drown it. No devil can
capture it.-Talmage, in N. Y. Oh,
server.
We are called to consider the
lilies, how they grow" If we do con-
slider them we shall find that they are
always tending to maturity. They rest
not till they are completely developed.
A Christian should realize that constant
growth is to mark his religious life.
We are to grow up into Christ In all
things. We most truly honor Him as
we bear His likeness. -Christian In
Quirer,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
CHILDREN'S WISE SAYINGS.

-"If anybody wants some of this
jelly let them speak now, or forever
be at peace" is what little girl said
after she had been to wedding for the
first time.-Youth's Companion.
-Teacher-''Tommy, if had twenty
FIVE dollars, and should pay ten dollars
for -four and three dollars for apples,
how much would have left?" Tommy
Don't you think. Miss Trimmer, it's
in bad taste always to be talking about
vulgar money questions"--Boston
Transcript.
Charley was complaining for two or
three days. Mamma" he said, II
guess I've get that new-what do you
call it. Influenza" suggested mamma.
''Oh, no, dear. 1t is simply lassitude."
"Lassie-tuder cried Charley. "Why, a
boy can't have that, can he? More like
ly I've got laddie-tuder' Fields
Washington.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
TEDDY.
In the Winter He Would Lose His Pretty
WAYS and Sleep Until Spring.

In the Winter He Would Lose His Pretty
Ways and Sleep Until Spring.
Teddy wasn't boy; he was a dear
little striped squirrel. Some people
call them chipmunks, and suppose
that is their real name.
Our cat brought him in one morning
as breakfast for her three baby kit.
tens, but Ray found him too soon for
him to be used in that way.
He wasn't hurt much, and in a few
days was as brisk and cunning as ever.
We made an old bird-cage into quite
a nice house for him, with chamber
above and dining-room below.
We put some batting into the little
dining-room, hut he carried it all up
stairs, and made just the cutest little
nest for himself.
He was such little miser that he
would carry all the nuts that he did not
want to eat up into his chamber, and
carefully hide them in his bed!
He grew quite tame, and we would
sometimes let him out into the room for
a frolic; but we did not leave him out
alone, for he would take everything
that he could carry into his little cham
Der.
When cold weather came, he began
to lose his pretty, frislSy ways, and
would lie curled up in his warm bed
until he gave up going down to his din
ing-room altogether.
He would eat from his hoard of nuts,
but was dumpish and blind until the
warm, spring sunshine came to melt
away the great snowdrifts. Then, when
he knew the cold winter was indeed
gone, he walked up from his long sleep,
and was a cunning pet once more.
But, alas! affection had no place in
his little heart, in spite of all our efforts
to win it, for he pushed the door open
one night, when we left the cage out on
the veranda roof. and we never saw him
again.-Youth's Companion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
i'd does not grow in gardens. Flowers

fluid does not grow in gardens. Flowers
ar&symbols of innocency,o of affection. Of
IN hnselfish interest. They are given
10 make others happier. In sick rooms
and in rooms where there is terfect
health, their presence simply means
enjoy us.
shall take the rake and the spade
and be the obedient husband, as ever
have been; and as walk through our
little city, and look on big sun-bonnets
bending over the flower beds, and
gloved hands nursing the tender plants,
] shall think kindly of their owners as
Gods co-workers in making the earth
beautiful Geo. A. Little, in In
terror,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
AN oLO.TlMe DOLLY.

And were you really Grandmamma's dollf
You queer, old fashioned little stranger,
With your big black eyes both open wide
As II you saw some dreadful danger,
And your painted car!s a! parted neatly.
And your little red mouth that SMILES SO
sweetlyl
Did Grandmamma use to play with you,
You dear old fashioned, old.time dollyf
Did she use to kiss you as kiss mine?
(My Dolls names Blanche, and your
names PollyO
Oh, dearle me! it seems so queer
To hold you, Polly, beside me here!
For Grandmamma says you're ever so old
Grandmamma says you're sixty-threei
Why, Blanche is only two and half,
But just as cunning as she can be.
1t seems so queer that you're so old,
And look so young! did Grandmamma scold
When you fell out of the chair one day
And broke your nose?-or did she cryf
Or did she cuddle you up and say:
'Oh, never mind, Polly, by and by
Your little nosey will be all well?"
Oh, dolly If only you could tell
Grandmamma says for twenty years
You lay in her lower bureau drawer,
Until one day-do you remember?
She took you out-do you know what for'
She took you out for her little girl
A dear little girl-her name was Pearl.
And that little girl was my own mother
Just think of it now, you dear old Dolly!
My own girl mamma-how queer 1t seems!-
Oh. can't you tell me about her, Polly?
How did she look? Was she always good?
wish you could tell mel cish'you could!
And now I're got you, you dear old doll!
And Grandmamma smiles, and mamma
| does too,
When l take you out in the park with
Blanche,
And the little girls stop me to look at you
It's just as funny as 1t can be
That you look SO young at sixty three!
Harriet Francene Crocker, In Our Little
| Men and Women.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24
Women as Detectives.

An old detective announces as the re-
suit of long experience that women
possess qualifications that fit them
specially for detective work. 'Men as
q rule are not as close observers, and
do not give what l cali detective de-
scriptions of people. l remember try
ing to catch woman counterfeiter
once who had been described to me by
several men. 1 found half a dozen
women who would answer to her de-
scription. Finally a woman who had
seen her gave me a description with
one strong detective point-the way she
did up her hair-and on that descrip-
ton l very soon arrested the right wom-
en-. Women have peculiar observation
in details, and are sure to notice and re-
member some small but definite point
that men would overlook. Itisn.t pleas
ant work for woman, but she has de-
tective instincts"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-06-24

In the list of late patents are one for
a propeller and brake cork-packed bicy-
Gle, another for improvement in the
construction of tires for bicycles, others
for improvements in the running gear
of road vehicles, and all invented by
womer