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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
A VERY HUMBLE DESPERATE.
when the Right Person Spoke to Him All
Others Were Safe.

Others Were Safe.
/ don't know who it was in the crowd
on the railway platform that started
the report that the man sitting ON the
baggage truck with his hat pulled
down over his eyes and briar-root
pipe in his mouth was desperate. But
it wasn't five minutes after the term
had been applied to him that found
lots of information at hand. One man
took me aside and said:
"I'll tell we what I'm knowing my.
self. He killed five revenue officers in
South Carolina in one year. He's the
gamest man in the country, and can
shoot both-handed."
A second man came up and added:
''It's mighty lucky he's feeling good
natured to-day. I'm told that he killed
seven men in Kentucky one Sunday
forenoon because he happened to have
headache.
A third man knew where the des.
perado had wiped out family, and q
fourth and fifth related other instances
of cold-blooded murder. The man
didn't seem to know that he was being
watched and lionized. He sat with the
sun at his back, and by and by we saw
him begin to nod, and his pipe fell al
his feet.
'sThe tiger sleeps!" whispered little
man with mutton-chop whiskers. "He
sleeps now, but beware when he
awakes. He was no doubt the man
who killed eight negroes just north OF
me on the cross-road."
was wondering why the village con-
stable didn't arrest the bad, bad man.
when tall and slatternly woman
about forty years of age opened the
door Of mean-looking shanty opposite
the depot and looked up and down the
one long street. Then she looked
across at us and shaded her eyes with
her hand. She made out the blood
thirsty desperate on the truck and came
straight across to him. The truck wal
close to the edge of the platform, ant
she grabbed the mans leg and shool
him awake.
"Wha-what's the matter?" HI
growled, as he looked around.
"You, thar'-ax-woodpile-gitl" re
piled the woman, as she pointed acros
the street.
The man got down in shamblinl
way, shuffled across the road after her
and minute later was working witt
the AK at an old knot before the door.
The man with the mutton-chops wa
the only one who kept his presence o
mind when the climax came. He calm
ly lit fresh cigar, tossed the stub o
the old one away, and, speaking to tn
score of us, said:
Gentlemen, it's my opinion that al
immediate danger has passed, aud tia
It will be quite safe for any Of US to 9
around the corner of the freight she
and take drink"-Detroit Free Pres,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
EVEN WITH THE WORLD.
How One Man Figured Himself Out OF
Financial Difficulties.

How One Man Figured Himself Out of
Financial Difficulties.
He was the picture of content as he
drifted into the Office, dropped into a
chair, crossed his legs and puffed q
cigar. He looked bit shabby, but was
evidently satisfied with himself and the
world.
Had pretty good dinner" he said
ut last.
"Yes?" said the man at the desk
"Yes. Went to dinner with Brown.
This is one of his cigars"
"Yes?"
"Yes He smokes good cigar, too
A man sort of forgets his troubles when
he gets good cigar after a square meal.
Then find that am in fair financial
condition"
"That must be novelty to YOU"
at is, it is" he said. dreamily. "But
I've worked pretty hard of late, and to-
day when / figured the matter out l
was glad to find was just about even
with the world"
even with the worldr' exclaimed
the man at the desk "Why, you quint-
essence of laziness, you owe me fifty dol
lars now"
"Quite right, quite right" said the
shabby man softly. II owe good
many people. In fact figure that l
now owe as many people as | don't owe.
See?"
Then he sauntered lazily out.---Chica.
go Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
Accumulated Mrs. Tel SOno.

Mrs. Tel Sono is bright little Jap
anese lady who has won considerable
distinction as a temperance lecturer,
lawyer and missionary worker. She
belongs to high-caste family in Toxic,
where she was educated and studied
law, being the first Japanese woman to
ever take up that profession. Being so
unfortunate as to have drunken hus-
band, Mrs. Tel Sono resolved to get rid
of him by coming to America, which
she did, making her first appearance in
this country at the annual convention
of the Worlds Woman's c. 7. U. in
Boston last autumn, where she entered
the field of temperance workers. She
is now travelling and lecturing on tenn
perance and recently spoke in Wash
ington city. 1t is said OF her that she is
really an interesting speaker, and while
her English is bit choppy, her quaint
expressions increase rather than de-
tract from her lectures Besides being
an enthusiastic temperance worker she
is an ardent Christian and good ex-
horter. When lady was presented
whose friend she knew she kissed her
and said: praise the Lord" When
she was through her lecture she held
a regular reception, when all had a
chance to greet her. She is an amiable
and intelligent little lady, and evidently
is very much in earnest in her temper
| ance work
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
They Sell Houses and Lots.

Mrs NJ. E. Clarke, of Buffalo, has
been engaged in the real estate and
building business for several years in
that city with great success She has
planned and built eleven houses since
last March. All who have nearly lost
their,lives in the worry and care en-
tailed by the building and overseeing
of one house will appreciate what a
vast amount of work Mrs. Clarke has
been able to accomplish. She has
looked after every detail, bought the
lumber, hired the men and directed the
work.
Another Buffalo woman who is maxi
ing money in the real estate business is
Mrs. James Mentally. Mrs McNally
has been interested in real estate for
several years, going into that business
before her husband took 1t up AT
present she is doing considerable build
ing at Kenmore, one Of Buffalo's pleas.
ant little resident suburbs
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
NOT AS 1T WAS.
Note the Change of Things in the House.
hold In the Past Few Years.

Note the Change of Things in the House.
hold in the Past Few Years.
The woman's question is the para
mount question of the day, and in its
varied inter pretations is as interesting
now as in the days when Dr. j. G. Hol-
land included the theme among his
lectures After his woman lecture in
New England town, where emanci-
patton had been embraced to consid-
erable extent, young lady who was
engaged in the study of medicine said
to him: doctor, what you say is very
good for women who have husbands
and children, but what do you say to
those of us who have none?"
II say get them" answered the doc
tor.
Apropos of this woman question it
may be pertinent to ask why, in the
name of all that is reasonable, is it any
more dangerous to society for woman
to neglect certain wifely duties once in
cluded in her sphere of action than for
man to shirk all home responsibilities
except that of growing about the
things the woman leaves undone? Now
in the humble homes which the man
writer and lecturer extols so eloquent
ly, where the ideal wife looks well to
the WAYS of her household the hus-
band kindles the fires sweeps the
walks, splits the kindlings, brings up
the coal, does the marketing, and lends
hand on Mondays.
Who kindles the fires in the city
household?
The maid servant
Who scrubs the stoop and pavement?
The man servant.
Who mends the broken lock or re-
duces the refractory hinges?
The locksmith.
Who does the marketing and settles
the bills and hears the growing be-
cause they are larger than they were
last week?
The wife.
What particular use is the city hus.
band in the household anyway?
'Just to pay for things and find
fault" one exasperated wife says
And why is it so much more to be de-
plored that the wife doesn't do her OWE
cooking if she can earn more money al
something else than that the mar
should not make his own trousers anc
split the kindlings evening instead ol
going to his club?-N. Y. Sun.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
NNAH HARDIN COUNTY, TENNESSEE THURSDAY MARCH 81 1892
PlTH AND POINT.

The brilliant mischief OF ones own
shildren is outright crime in the chill
hren of the neighbors. - Galveston
News
--of Course She Was 0ne!-Populai
Novelist-T only know two women
who are absolutely perfect" Her
friend-"Who is the other one?"
-Cumso-"Old Soak seems to be try,
ing to fill drunkards grave as fast as
he cam Bumso-"Well, you bet If he
has the job the grave will be full. IN.
Y. Herald
-Eb Johnson-'Lucindy, darlin',
would die TO your Lucinda-"Bettah
lib TO- me, Mr.. Johnsing, of yo' 'spects
to hab err chance to pay nah grocery
bills!"-Truth.
The Great MISUNDERSTANDING
seems TO take a good deal of foolish
pride out of man, the same as it takes
the Independent own-the-earth look out
of girl. l.-Atchison Globe.
1t is very wrong, of course, to be
inquisitive, but if there were not some
inquisitive people in the world what
lot of interesting gossip other people
would have to miss.-Somerville Jour
nal.
Young Nicely-"Oh, think that
Chawlie Awmstong is pehfect bwute;
out his hands are as big as q labowing
mans" Young Sapley-"Oh,I l detetht
him; he ith tho unladylike. boston
| Courier.
Rapid Growth.-"This town seems
to be making great progress" said
visitor to resident of Boomville.
Okla. "You are jist right, stranger.
Why, we've had to enlarge the jail
twice. Epoch.
Dubious. -'Ts.it considered an honor
to be sent out as missionary?' "Yes.
Why?" 81 was only wondering" said
Mrs. Vealy; my husbands congrega-
tion are unanimously desirous that he
shall go."-Comic.
First He-"Stella de Billion did not
appear tonight" Second He-"That
was because of the accident A moth
got into her dressing-room this after
noon and ate up the two costumes she
wears in the first act. t."-Picls-M -Me-Tp.
She (from Chicago how do
love these great mountains Chicago,
you know, is only few feet above the
level of the lake" He (from st. Louis)
Il know, but then remember that
Chicago feet are SO much more porten-
tous than feet elsewhere. "-Boston
Transit.
Valuable. le.-Citizen-"We are get
ting up petition to the mayor to allow
sick babies to shoot squirrels in
Prospect park. May we have your
nameP" Fashionable Hatter-"It's a
laudable object, and you can have my
name for dollar and a half-twenty-
five per cent of the regular price, y
Street, Gray & Co.'S Monthly.
-"Some years ago." said he, "when
l was teaching school in Leadville,
Col, was the only Mr.. Smith in that
city Don't laugh-hear me out And
when had been there a month there
wasn't Mr.. Smith in Leadville." The
Boston man looked mystified and be-
gan to intimate that this couldn't be
quite true. mot so fast" answered
Mr.. Smith, 81 will explain. There
were Col. Smiths, Judge Smiths, Gen.
Smiths in Leadville, to be sure, but moi
one Mr.. Smith until came, / was 9
school teacher, as / said, and within 9
month Mr.. Smith became Prof. Smith.
Boston Globe.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
One Dollar Per Year.
WHAT is WANTED.
A Demand for Bachelor Apartments for
Women In the Large Cities.


Women In the Large Cities.
The demand for bachelor apartments
for women in New York city is grow
ing more and more urgent every year,
rs the great metropolis attracts TO her
self steadily increasing corps of singlc
self-supportng women. Back hall bed
rooms and the grim, dreary boarding
house parlor used in the early days of
feminine independence to suffice, since
pioneers in worthy cause can put up
with many inconvenience posterity
will not tolerate.
When women began life at first alone
and in city, the salaries were small
and the earners thereof clung to the
respectable but shabby boarding-house,
fearful to take bolder step Now,
however, we have changed all that.
The young woman, Immediately she
can earn more than will pay for one
room back, begins to dream of certain
privileges and possessions that can
never be hers in the boarding-house.
In the attempt to make the dream
reality she falls into the habit of ex-
amining small flats, floors for rent etc,
but nothing so fulflls her ideal as the
bachelor apartments-those especially
built for the unmarried man. There
she sees space sufficient, yet never too
great, and all so well arraigned. There
are all the foundation comforts of
home, with never a responsibility, and
the price not out of her reach.
But this elysium is set apart for mas
culine use and pleasure alone, and who
will build such castle of delight for
women? If a lodging-house is prepared
for women it is hedged about with a
barrier of rules and regulations that no
self-respecting, independent female
would or could submit to. One had
rather suffer the little back room than
endure restrictions suitable, perhaps,
for an old. fashioned girls boarding
school
1t would seem, however, that the
time had arrived for prejudice and sus'
picion to be laid aside, and an apart
ment house arranged for feminine occu-
pants Whoever may undertake such
an investment will do well to profit by
foregoing examples, and let the pretty
suites of rooms to women on very
nearly the same terms that hold good
with the bachelor housekeepers. The
lady managers of the New Orleans
Woman's club some years ago inaugu-
rated the unheard-of plan of letting
the unused rooms OF the club house to
working women, on truly masculine
terms To the astonishment of the in
credulous, and the delight of the mana
gers, the scheme worked like charm.
Every room is filled with desirable ten
ants, who, triumphing in their dignified
freedom, in their latch keys, and the
confidence of others, prove the right of
the 'spinster to enjoy equal privileges
with the bachelor. ILLUSTRATED Amer
lean.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
A False Verdict.

1t Is said that men love women for
their failings, their pretty weaknesses.
and falser verdict was never uttered.
Some men love weak women in spite OF
their weakness, but none love them for
it. They love the possibilities, unful-
filled though they may always remain;
love from habit of sympathetic associa-
tion, but respect only the women
whose principles are lofty, and who
scorn the managing" of their bus-
bands, to which women whose lives are
filled with selfish motives descend.
There is no law which can be applied
to the honorable, righteous, courteous
and absolute right" dealing between
men in the world that can not be
brought into married life, the relation
of man to woman, and applied with
equal justice, and with an added beauty
drawn from their tender and holy re-
lation, their pledged faith and friend
ship, and their mutual interests. Chi
cago Graphic.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
INTERESTING NOTES.

THERE is woman in Oregon who
has worked twenty years at stonecut-
ting,
The first woman doctor of Portugal
is Amelia Cardia. She dedicated her
graduating thesis TO the queen.
Miss MAY L. DESMOND, Boston pub
lie school-teacher, has been appointed
confidential clerk to the commissioner
of Indian affairs at Washington.
Miss MABEL DUNLAP, graduate of
the Philadelphia School of Design, has
been appointed one of the five ladies to
decorate palace car interiors at vii.
mington, Del.
The London School of Medicine Of
Women attracts students not only from
India, but from European countries,
where women have fewer facilities for
the study of medicine
ANNE R. CRITTENoEN, OF Osceola,
Ia, has patented road-cart which is
designed to support the weight Of the
occupants on the axle, relieving the
animal Of all strain and obviating the
disagreeable jar frequently found in
carts as now constructed
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
In WOMAN'S BEHALF.
MUSIC HER FORTE.
The Work of Miss Maude Valerie white, an
English Lady,

The Work of Miss Maude Valerie white, an
English Lady.
Miss Maude Valerie White whose vo-
cal composition have brought her into
prominence as possessing musical tai
ents of high order, was born ut
Dieppe June 23, 1885, Her parents
were English and lived at Valparaiso
where her father was in business as a
merchant Miss White has seen great
deal of the world, for, though born in
France, she subsequently passed many
of the early years of her life in Chilli,
whittier, by the by, she has recently
gone on an extended visit to her two
married sisters; she was for two years
at Heidelberg, and it was not until she
was well advanced in her teens that she
took up her residence in England,
where she first received instruction in
music from w. S. Rockstro, and after
ward at Queens college, from
Olive May, to whose assiduous care and
classic taste she attributes much of her
ultimate success. In 1876 she entered
the Royal Academy of Music as stu
dent studying compositions under the
late Sir G.. A. Macfarren and piano
forte playing under his brother, Walter
Macfarren; in 1879 she gained the Men
delsshon scholarship, the committee OF
which decided she should continue her
studies at the royal academy with
these professors and Il. w. Davenport
1t was Charles Sanity to whom the
credit belonged of having first revealed
to the public Miss Whites very remark
able talents, for, having one day at the
academy been prevailed on to try over
her setting of "Montrose's Love Song, "
he was so impressed with the beauty
and originality of that composition
that he went through it again and
again, and afterward made its success
with the public by his splendid singing
of the song all over the country. To
this great vocalist the musical world also
owes its acquaintance with her beau
tiful songs absent Yet Present, "The
Devout Lover" and her characteristic
setting of Heine's poem "Ein Jungling
liebt Elm Madchen." Failing health
necessitated the retirement of Miss
White from the academy in 1881, when
she was created an associate; but be-
fore leaving she produced at one of the
public concerts of the institution mass
for solo and chorus, with orchestra
Two years sojourn in the genial cli-
mate of Chilli restored her to health and
musical activity, and, after studying
for short time in Vienna, she took ur
her residence again in London, which
she has since made her headquarters.
Miss White is highly accomplished
linguist and speaks and writes perfect
ly in French, German, Italian anc
Spanish, besides English, and this cir
cumstance may account for her having
set to music so many German ant
French lyrics and for the singular pro
priety with which has observed thu
accent and meter of verses in these anC
her own mother tongue.-Chicago Post
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
A PILOTS LIFE.
u Is One OF Continual Danger ard Re-
sponsibllity.


Passing down New York bay on
torrid midsummer afternoon the super
heated traveller may notice a trim
schooner bearing upon her sail large
figure, and envy the open-air life of a
pilot; but in winter it is quite different
The life of freedom may be an enviable
one for six months in the year, but in
winter the perils of pilot more than
offset any advantages that may be
thought to be his. The life of PILOTS
one of continual danger and RESPONSE
bility. He has no choice in the matter,
but must ride out storm and gale, and
be on the alert night and day. His ap-
premiership is long and hard, and he
must prove himself capable and efficient
before he receives his license; and after
that must be ever watchful, for sim
gle mistake may undo the work OF
years.
These stanch little pilot-boats go out
beyond Sandy Hook for a hundred miles
or more to intercept the incoming
steamers. When steamer is sighted,
these boats bear down upon it and
make their presence known. In day
time signals are easily exchanged, and
the steamer may have picked up
pilot further out, in which case the
schooner goes on her way again, cruis.
ing around in the track of the great
steamship lines. At night the pilot
burns torch--a wick ball which has
been dipped in turpentine and is held
in netting. BY answering lights the
pilot understands that he is wanted,
and then the dory is lowered, and the
pilot makes his way to the steamer,
where he is hauled on deck. 1t is no
small matter sometimes to go upon the
rough sea in a row-boat, and very often
the pitching and tossing of the steamer
make it difficult for the pilot to ap-
proach. When the pilot is at length
hoisted on deck, he assumes charge of
the wheel, and upon his knowledge de-
pends the safety of the vessel and her
passengers or freight. As he draws
near to the land he must know the
lights that shine forth here and there,
and be familiar with the buoys that
mark the different channels at the en-
trance to the Narrows. He must know
just where to stop off Quarantine and
await the coming of the doctor-and
everything, in fact depends upon him.
Oftentimes the steamers have to lay to
in rough weather in order to wait q
moment of calm, when the pilot may
board the ship with safety; and
it has happened on several occa-
sions that the pilot of an outgoing
steamer has been carried across the
ocean, because the steamer could not
afford to wait until the elements would
permit of his regaining his boat in wait
ing
Sometimes pilot-boat has to put out
to sea in the height of gale; and
sometimes, as happened during the
great blizzard few years ago, the
boat and all on board are never-agaiu
spoken. Be the weather mild or rough
the veteran of many storms must be or
hand, and the dangers of his calling are
never ending. A pilot must be. Injured
to hardship, and all Of his crew able
seamen, and the schooners that pass
to and fro through the Narrows beai
complement of brave men and sailors
--Harper's Weekly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-31
A WARMING TO MOTHERS.
Too Much Unselfshness Likely to Make
Your Children Selfish.

Too Much UnselHshness Likely to Make
Your Children Selfish.
There is too much Of her in the house.
She may be the patient, self-sacrifcing
mother who gets overtired that others
may 60 free; she may be an elder sister
who has sacrificed all the graces and
gifts of individual life to family of
younger brothers and sisters.
Perhaps she is maiden aunt who
smoothes the way with anxious ca ger
ness for everybody's feet but her own,
or grandmother whose burdens multi
ply with the coming of the second gen.
GRAFTON, because the young mother has
not learned the secret of living her life
Independently.
Whatever emergency of life may have
called out her unselfishness, there 1t is,
and, as said before, there is altogether
too much of 1t.
Why? Because there is such thing
as an unselfishness that passes beyond
its proper bounds and becomes mean
spirited.
1t lays aside that proper recognition
of self which commands respect, and
which is wholly necessary for individual
well being. That the mother should be
the head, the brains of her family, what
is more fitting? That she should be
hands and feet, that she should serve
before them like hired assistant, q
thousand times no!
Tlo,o ,,.eoIc.l ,,o--o- tl>osu
anxiety to exemplify the golden rule,
quite forget that self, after all, under
lies its measure of values. If great
many women treated their neighbors
no better than they treated themselves
| this would be a sad world for neigh
| borliness.
And this unselfishness is sure to worl,
mischief in family, too For unselfish.
ness is unlike most other virtues, in
that it breeds its opposites, not its own
kind.
In a family where the wife, or the
mother, or the elder daughter, is
anxiously unselfsh; where she watches
every opportunity to do for the other
members of the family what there i:
every good reason they should do fol
themselves, these others learn quickly
enough first to accept it, then to as
sumo it, and finally to demand it.
And so there comes out of the home
of the unseltish woman flock of care
less, self-seeking children, intent on
themselves, criminally needless o.
everybody else, trampling on the right.
of others, and having to unlearn, per
haps late in life, the selfish lesson,
they learned at their unselfish mother
knee.
Rarely is it that the lesson is learned
as il should be, and so is kept up the
army of selfish men and women who
make half the burden and unhappines
of living Chicago Herald.