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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs Charles Kingsley's death haa
grieved those who had felt after read.
ing her biography of her husband, al.
most as though they knew her person.
ally. She was daughter of Pascoe
Grcnfell, and was an invalid for great
part of her life.
Cardinal Manning is said to have
been so careless in his dress as to be
positively shabby in appearance at
times. They even relate that on one
occasion when he took drunkard's
bottle away on the street the wretch
gazed at him moment and then ejac-
ulated: Take it, poor fellow, take it;
ye need it more than / do"
Among the European princes who
are now in active naval service are
Prince Henry of Prussia, Archduke
Charles Stephan of Austria, Arch6uke
Leopold of Tuscany, Prince Waldemar
of Denmark, Prince George of Greece,
Grand Duke Alexis, Grand Duke Con-
stantine and Grand Duke George of
Russia, Prince Oscar of Sweden, the
duke of Genoa, Prince Louis of Savoy
and Prince George of Wales.
-Ex-Judge DAILY, of New York, has
long been interested in that fascinating
study, geography and early in life he
began to collect newspaper clippings on
geographical matters, which he ar
ranged topically in scrap-boolss. Now
he has turned his entire collection of
700 volumes over to the American Geo
graphical society, of which he is presi-
dent The gift is both valuable and
unique. OF course, in these books there
is a vast fund of information which can
be procured from no other source.
There is a scar on Gov. Hills neck
that will recall to him to his dying day
the narrow escape he had from assas-
sination when he was young lawyer
but recently admitted to the bar He
was counsel for woman named MINER,
who had brought suit against her hus-
band to replevin some furniture. and at
the announcement of the verdict the
enraged defendant drew his pocket
knife and plunged the blade into the
young attorneys neck. The knife just
missed the jugular vein, and the result
ing wound, though painful, was not
serious.
Our beautiful national hymn, Amer.
lea, was written by Rev. Samuel +.
Smith in 1882, while he was q student
at Andover, without any idea that il
would ever become famous. 1t was
first sung in public at childrens cele.
bration in Park Street church, Boston,
July. 4, 1882. Its popularity was as
sured from that time. DR.. Smith, who
was eighty-three years old the 21st OF
last October, lives in pleasant home
at Newton, Mass, whose piazzas and
bay windows look toward the sun. II
will be remembered that DR.. Holmes
at the annual reunion of the class oil
1929 held in 1859, wrote thus of DR.
Smith:
And there's nice youngster Of excellent pith
Fate tried TO conceal MIN by naming him Smith
But he shouted a song for the brave and the free
Just read on his medal: my County, of Thee.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
LIFE'S FITFUL FEVER.
Too Much Hurry and Worry In This
Progressive Age.

We of to-day live in perfect frenzy
of hurry; we can never go quickly
enough we are forever discovering
short cuts to reform, imprt -ement and
happiness in general, and straightway
pl,mging headlong into them, and when
one after another proves to be an i'm
passe, we hastily turn aside and look
for new one. There is poverty in the
land; quick we rush to discover means
of making all men rich. Somebody or
other offers to do it for us, il we will
give him so many thousands of pounds
and our full confidence. Quick, give
him the money" is the cry, and a howl
of Indignation is raised against those
who beg us to stay our hand
and reflect. There is drunkenness,
and we clamor to close all the public
houses. We are far too impatient to
live the life ourselves, and watch the
gradual improvement of our race; we
long to push them from behind to goad
them on in the path of virtue with acts
of parliament.
And the same with our expressions of
opinion; we rush in the widest haste to
deliver them, to administer praise or
blame. If any man be accused, he is
hoisted into the pillory and pelted long
before he has time to utter word OF
defense; If anyone pleases us, he is
hailed as u hero, and loaded with hon.
ors and adulations even before we
know exactly what it is that he has
done, the result being that we are con
stantly making ourselves ridicu-
lous; result that matters the
less in that we never really leave
ourselves time to contemplate the
ludcrous figure that we cut In our
private life we are in no way better.
We have never time to enjoy to-day,
because we are always living in to-mor-
row; and when tomorrow comes ii
after. Too soon we rejoice; too soon
we despond; and we are forever either
in one extreme or the other Too soon
we pour out ourcomplaints in the news.
papers; too soon we bring accusations
against our neighbors; too soon we try
to push ourselves into the front ranks,
even too soon do we wish to enjoy the
fruits of the earth. The forced straw
berry and the too early asparagus are
typical of our hurrying appetite. How
much more comfortable a place the
world would be if we were only con-
tent to hurry less and enjoy more
! Spectator.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
OWE 1T TO INVENTIONS.
Mechanical Appliances Have Placed q
High Value Upon Woman's Work.

Mechanical Appliances Have Placed
High Value Upon Woman's Work.
A very respectable but very square
jawed set of people still shake their
heads and knot their brows over wom-
ans alleged breaking away from the
halter to jump the hedge into the wide,
wide world. "She should stay at home
and take care of her children" is their
stern utterance. Probably it would be
useless to assure these determined ones
that it is an incident in the evolution
of the race that there are startling
numbers OF single women upon whom
business opportunities are thrust, also
that those who take care of children
may do more than that as we'll as their
grandmothers did Sixteen hours day
are required by an intelligent woman
to attend to the proper bringing up of
her family.
The fact is yet to dawn upon many
that woman's time has or should
have value which if not measured in
dollars and cents is felt in the educa-
tional impulse impaired to her sons and
daughters resulting from her wise use
of it.
Gainful occupations for women, as
consequence of the adoption of me-
chanical inventions, are placing a value
upon her work, which without these,
would require untold ages to accord
Margaret N. Wishard, in Chautauquan.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
WOMEN IN THE WORLDS WORK.

THE progress of women in India is
shown by the fact that there are forty
women doctors Iow practicing there.
Miss Soaring. of New Orleans, who
is described as a young and charming
woman, is conductor of large or
chestra.
THE prize for the design for seal
for the board of managers of the Colum.
bian exposition has been awarded to
Miss Sarah Eodtker.
THE Worlds fair interest is being
actively looked after in Oregon by one
of the women appointed on the board
of lady" managers. She has been ex-
tended the courtesy of the Southern Pa
cific railroad. In one of her tours in
Southern Oregon, she found woman
who has been stone-cutter for twenty
years.
MISS GRACE noDGE, who includes
herself in the term I'VE girls Of the
club" dresses in the simplest manner
At her regular receptions during the
last two months she has invariably
worn the same dress-a dark green
cashmere, velvet-trimmed, with white
vest in the waist, any assistant in
a dressmaking establishment could du-
plicate for Sl2
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
NOT SO TERRIBLE.
A Supposed Heavy Villain Proves to BE
Quite Harmless.

A Supposed Heavy Villain Proves to BE
Quite Harmless.
A lady who has be en- travelling
abroad, relates an adventure which be-
fell her in Italy, in railway train.
Her husband put her into compart-
ment alone, and went to attend to the
luggage. After he had gone, villain
ous-looking fellow got in, and present.
ly the train started off, the husband
not appearing. The lady was natural
ly good deal disturbed, and the way
in which the stranger looked at her did
not tend to diminish her agitation.
Suddenly, still with his eyes fixed upon
her, the man took from his pocket a
large clasp-knife and opened it. Then
be rose, and deliberately cut from the
window blinds their cords and began to
knot them together. The lady was
terrified almost 10 death. She expect
ed to be strangled on the spot, and be-
gan appealing to the stranger to spare
her. He only laughed brutally, an
swering her in Italian, of which she
did not understand word Then he
pulled off his coat and waistcoat, and
just as the terrified woman was almost
prepared to fling herself out of the
compartment of the swiftly moving
train, he knotted the cords so as to
piece out broken suspender, put on
his coat and waistcoat, and sat quietly
down in corner, where he went
quickly to sleep. The husband, who
had by mistake got into wrong COM
partment just as the train was start
ing, and who joined his wife at the
next station, found her on the verge of
mysteries from the effects of the fright
she had undergone.-San Francisco
Argonaut
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Oberliu college recently received a
bequest of SOL, 900 from the late William
b, Spooner
The Moscow missionary society
numbers $4,000 members and receives
H50,000 annually.
The stock dividend of twenty per
cent, recently declared by the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Co will net to
the johns Hopkins university about
$4,000.
The extensive collection of mani
kins, skeletons and models of COM
parative anatomy, valued at $4,000,
belonging to the late DR.. J. NJ. Wieting,
of Syracuse, N. Y, was presented to
the college of medicine of Syracuse
university
-Whittaker's protestant Episcopal
Almanac" for 1892 reports member
ship in the Episcopal church in the
United States of $50, 2sS. The clergy
number 4, lGs; parishes and missions,
$685., and for the last year the contri-
buttons were $13, AIS, O53.34.
The infirmary building soon to be
erected at Princeton college will be
named for the wife of DIR. McCosh,
whose kindly attentions to such stu
dents as have been taken ill at Prince
ton won her high place in their re-
gard. -IIarpers Bazaar.
Statistics published by the French
minister of public instruction show that
there are in France 525 learned socie-
ties, of which 1876 have been officially
recognized as of rational Importance.
OF these 1915 societies, 95 are historical
and social, 95 agricultural and horti-
cultural, 57medicnl and pharmaceutical,
40 scientific, 81 geographical, and the
rest miscellaneous including photo
graphic, statistical and ballooning as.
sociations.
The distinctive feature of Christian
Endeavor movement in the Christian
church is loyalty to Jesus Christ. There
have been great missionary movements;
there have been widespread temper.
ance revivals; there have been times of
large accessions to the churches-this
is something different. 1t is move
ment among the young people. All
great movements are wont to start
with the young. 1t has spread with
great rapidity. 1t is martial and en-
thusiastic in it's tread. IL is personal
and special in its touch. 1t knows but
one Master-the Divine Jesus! It's creed
is simple-to do as He did
The plans for the projected Pro-
testant Episcopal cathedral of St. John
the Divine have finally been adopted.
The cathedral will be built in the form
of a cross. The total external breadth
will be $50 feet The width across the
front, 100 feet; width across the tran
septs, 200 feet; height of central spire.
425 feet; from floor of cathedral, from
level of city, 525 feet. The width of
front towers will be 81 feet, and their
height 240 feet. Width of four thanking
towers, 43 feet; height, 100 feet; total
exterior diameter of central tower, lie
feet; interior diameter. 9S feet; height
of vaulting, $50 feet; depth of chancel,
120 feet, with width of nave and chan
Gel to centers of piers, 60 feet; length
of nave, 1870 feet; width from vestibule,
81 feet; height of nave vaults, los feet;
height of chancel vaults, lis feet
height of front gables, 155 feet The
cathedral will stand On the highest, or
nearly the highest ground in Manhat
tan island, and its first floor will be
fully 100 feet above the level of the
| city
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
One Dollar Per Year.
MISS FLORENCE Rou1. EDGE.
The Able Secretary of the woman's Trade
Inlnn Lcacne. of london.

The Able Secretary of the Woman's Trade
Union League, of London.
Miss Florence Routledge, daughter OF
the late George Routlegde, the we'll
known publisher, has for two years
ably filled the post of honorable secre-
tary to the Woman's Trade Union League
OF London. In this capacity she has
worked faithfully in organizing meet
ings and unions and in acquainting her
self with the various conditions OF
woman's employment, until she has be-
come authority on the subject Miss
Routledge has travelled extensively,
and only recently delivered an explain
atory lecture on the work of the Eng
fish league before the Societe d'Etudes
Sociales ct Politiques at Brussels In
this talk she simply astounded the Bel
gians, who had not yet learned that
there were such things as women's
trade unions and that societies existed
for their promotion. They were still
further surprised, too, to learn that
there should be a lady capable of elab-
Grating the most advanced theories on
the subject and, most astounding of
all that she should be prepared to face
the perils of solitary journey from
England via Brussels to Brindisi in or
der to tell them what her country
women were doing. If any pioneer
woman who stanchly believes in ''thc
cause" wishes just for once to see her.
sa1f from n foraipn noiut of view she
can not do better than read the descrip-
ton of Miss Routledge and her paper
given in Independence Beige. The
writer is gallant, respectful, admiring,
but his principal emotion is one of blank
establishment Even her quiet dress
and demeanor made him marvel; he APP
parently expected her to wear n cap OF
liberty and brandish tricolor flag, at
the least!-Chicago Post
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
HUMOROUS.

He There is one fatal ailment
you women are not subject to-" She
-"What is that?" He--"Old age."-N.
Y. Herald.
Mrs. S.-"They say a man never
marries his first love" Her Hubby
HE can't. 1t would be polygamy."-
Funny Folks.
-Editor-''I am sorry, but can not
talk to anyone to-day" Author-''Oh,
that's no matter. will do all the talk
ing myself. Comic
Even Tempered Day-"Joblot is
a very even-tempered man." Weeks
-"How is that?" Day-"He is mad
all the time. IN. Y. Herald.
-Charles-'I am trying as hard as
can, darling, to get ahead" Clara
"Well, the Lord knows, Charles, you
need one badly enough. IN. Y. Herald.
-Pat-"Suer, sorr, the Goals come"
Employer-"Well, what of it." Pat
"Oi doan't know what to do with it.
TIL furnace amt big enough to hould
more thin hof av it.. "-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
of No Use. -Canvasser-"C / sell
you a bottle of my famous complexion
wash, ma'am?" Fair Maiden-"Oh,
no. 1t doesn't matter about my COM
plexion. I'm already engaged. "-Phar-
maceutical Era.
But what is this?" asked young
Nilcash, as Miss Dingbatts pressed a
check for one hundred and fifty dollars
into his hand, after saying Eyes" to
his proposal of marriage. That's to
buy the engagement ring with, love-
Harper's Bazaar.
-Seeker-"So your friend, Dumble-
ton, has written a novel, eh?" Sage
MANTLE has, for fact" Seeker
what is his plot?" Sageman-"His
plot seems to have been to inveigle the
public into buying book that isn't
worth reading. Boston Courier.
1t Would Drive Him Away. -Wife
'But suppose burglar should try to
come in while you are away, George,
what would / do?" Husband-"Why,
Just imagine he is your husband coming
home late from the lodge, and give him
piece of your mind. Yankee Blade.
-Schoolma' am BOSTON, 81 am told
that Willie Brown used improper Ian
guage on the Fairgrounds He may
come forward" Willie Brown-"1
didn't say no bad wor ds." School
ma'am = ''Siffce Willie owns up SC
readily will excuse him this time
Kate Fields Washington.
That was delightfully."- shrewd an
swer of the good wife of Prof. Robson
who disliked the cant expressions o.
the religious tongue of that day. Sh,
had invited gentleman to dinner, ant
he had accepted with the reservation
IF ! am spared" "Weel, weel," sait
Mrs. Robson, ''if ye're dead I'll ma ex
pect ye."
Human Nature?-"I thought 70,
had your heart set upon going to Flor
ida for the cold season." well, SO
did, but l changed my mind" Why
was that?" why, l mentioned tn,
subject to my husband and" 81,
was opposedm mo, he wasn't. II,
said at once that we would go If careC
about it, and asked me to decide. H,
didn't give me an opportunity to pro
duce my arguments and forgot why
wanted to 60"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
In W0MAN'S BEHALF.
woMAN's PLACE IN NATURE.
Her First Duty Is to Get n Living and Then
Use 1t Well.

Her First Duty Is to Get n Living and Then
Use 1t We'll.
The sooner women realize the truth
If their position as theory and bodily
act upon it, the better it will be for
them. They do indeed act upon it, and
have always been obliged to do so, ma
ture being quite sexual tyrant and
giving no heed to trivial differences.
Natural laws starve women as indiffer-
emily as they do men, and find it no
more harm The recognition of wom-
ans place in nature as being primarily
that of a female animal, whose first
business it is to get n living, and whose
second to get a good living, would do
much to sweep off the cobwebs of bar
rem sentiment and unproductive rhetoric
which pass current for reasoning on
their social status.
When women at large are aroused to
the fact that this is their actual status
in nature-the mere hard unquestiona'
BILE fact of existence, the alienation of
their lot in general will become rapid.
Industrial emancipation is in truth the
only emancipation there is for either
man or woman, since the development
of such industries as make living easier
and fuller produces the only relief from
degraded poverty or continuous toll
which the nature of things permits us
to find. We may call it coarse neces-
sity-a wretched condition, hard
drudging tyranny, but with all our rail-
ing we can not rail it out of existence
since it is of nature, which is
deaf and blind, to praise and
blame alike. No individual, no
class, no nation has ever risen
in the world except it first succeeded
in wrestling the assurance of good
regular living from nature, and none
ever will. Those who apply to society
for it will not get it. Society has no
surplus large enough to provide them
with it, even if it would. Nature alone
has the resources sufficient And the
application to nature must be made
through work Work is the only prayer
she needs. When, then, all women
come to that, as some are now doing,
their position in the world will be no
more in question than is mans position
at the present moment The position
of independence is always beyond ques-
ton everywhere, and earning ones
own living is position of independence
compared with getting it by depend
ence, from somewhere else.
1t is curious example of the dimness
with which one sees through a social
environment, that women are always
discussed, as if for them at least it were
better to get no living and so perish
rather than to ''unsex themselves" as
the cant goes, by working for living
AS if no existence were preferable tc
one with some draw backs to maintain
it. The position is quite absurd; as or
that basis, man might also reject life
because of its tolls. First get living
then use it well, is the true principle
Social Economist.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
BAsY's LETTER.


Only make-believe letter,
Pencil marks, crooked and queer,
oroll curlycucs, and fantastic
Ligzags, mixed up, out Of gear
twisted up tumble of puzzle
The Old Nick himself couldn't read,
But there's laughter and tears,
Hopes, yearning and fears,
For some loving heart in the screed
Each quaint line OF rubbishy nothing,
Jagged and all turned awry,
Tells to tho eye Of some mother
tale for laugh or cry.
Each cute little upstroke or downstroko,
That dot, and this dash over here,
Bent this way and that
Eiake some heart pit-a-pat
With the thrill Of smile or tear.
Beneath tho blue sky OF heaven,
No science, religion or art,
NO poet, no painter or preacher,
Can thrill the love strings OF the neart,
like the pencil marks criss-crossed and
crooked,
Some upright and others that nod,
Sweet babyhoods scrawl,
Meaning nothing at all
But containing letter from God
All Cougar, In Peoria Qll) Transcript.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17

Mr.. Sweet did the one on the water
tank, knowing that could reach him
with bullet the minute he undertook
to make himself scarce. From his
actions / judged that the bear was
angry about something, but / couldn't
see what he was dancing around, and
/ kept my rife aimed at him, so as to
fire the instant saw that he was go.
ing to leave the open for the brush.
The bear kept hopping in a circle,
quickly jumped to one side every little
while and appeared to be getting
madden and madden. All Of sudden
the bear waddled away few yards.
had bead on him, and | was almost
ready to pull the trigger, when the
bear stopped. WANTED to see what he
WIS goicg TO do next, and so ! didn't
shoot lie paved in the dirt a spell
aud then he picked up round stone
bigger than his head. He took the
stone in his paws, Rugged it to his
brisket and walked on his hind feet
toward the spot where I'd first seen
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
A New Benefit Club.

That Denver, COL, is not far behind
in practical social science, is shown by
it's recent organization of 'Girls'
Mutual Benefit club" which all girls
are invited to join. The rooms are
open every evening and teachers have
volunteered to give instructions in
plain and fancy cooking, dressmaking,
stenography and music. The charge
of five cents per week is SO low as not
to exclude anyone really DESTROYS of be.
ing helped
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17

New Waitress lat Mrs. Slimdiet's
boarding house)-Tenderloin steak
lambchopsvealcutlets pork chops eggs
friederpoachedbo ilederdropped, boiled
chicken, brook trout, game
Old Boarder (wildly)-What?
New Waitress-Beg pardon, forgot
used to be in an order restaurant.
Lemme see, what it is here? OH Fried
liver, stewed liver, or boiled. 81 y
Old Boarder (weakly)-Say-that-res-
taurant-bill of fare-over-please and-say
it-slow. e-where-I-fall. Jury.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
An Enrlishm an,s Views.

The duke of Marlborough is like
Max O'Rell, great admirer of the
American women, and says that ''she
has natural quickness for appreciat-
ing the characters of the men around
her, and she takes infinitely more pains,
and in some respects greater trouble
all around, than the English woman
displays After marriage the bright,
cherry girl remains the gay, carefully
dressed married woman who is always
trying to show herself off quietly to the
best advantage, and she understands
the art perfectly among all classes of
peoDlen
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-03-17
A Rapid Worker.

Miss Ada NJ. Crawford, forewoman
of the directory publishing firm OF
Howe, in Philadelphia, holds the world
championship for rapidity in address
ing, sealing and stamping envelopes.
She can stamp 5000 letters an hour,
and moistens each stamp with her
tongue. Using a sponge, she can only
stamp 1900 an hour.