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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
YOSEMITE VALLEY IN WINTER.

1t Presents Picture of Scenic Grandeur.
Snow-storm follows snow-storm.
Winter has spread his icy mantle over
the Yosemite. The mighty cliffs and
domes look down upon the valley as in
the summer months, but it is with for
bidding stateliness and with threaten
ing aspect. How changed the scene
and different the attractions! The
smiling vale is no longer gay with gor-
geous bowers and bright with green
meadowlands; no longer is it resonant
with the hum of busy insects, the mur-
muring lullabies of slumbering streams
and the joyous songs of summer birds;
zephyr no longer whispers to the pine
fronds as he floats softly through the
forest; and echo no longer repeats the
EXPLANATIONS of glad visitors. The
MERGED rolls its swollen current impet-
uously through the valley, flooding
many an acre of the meadowland-for
rain as well as snow has fallen; the
| woods are hoarse with protesting
against the ferceness of the storm
blasts; .he snow-slide holds the beholder
in awe as it races with the waterfall in
its downward plunge, and slabs of talus
and unshapely chunks of rock loosen
their hold of their parent cliff as water
and weather do their work and are
washed with din and headlong speed
down into the valley. 1t is true that
such terrifying storms do not occur
with frequency, but one such was wit
nessed.by Mr.. Hutchings and his family
during the winter of 1867, when they
were the only residents in the valley.
On that exceptional occasion the rain
poured down necessarily for ten sue
cessive days; all the meadowland was
covered with a surging flood; large
trees were swept over the ridge of the
Upper Yosemite and shivered into frag
men:s on the granite rocks, and pines
and cedars were blown down and piled
in confusion upon each other by the
wind-storm that followed the rain.
Californian.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
WOMAN'S WORK AND WAYS.

FEMALE stenographers are to serve
the parliaments of Norway and Sweden.
AT Lexington, Miss, the postoffice
and telegraph Office are in charge OF
a woman; the chief express agent is .
woman, and her two assistants are
women.
LADY HENRY SOMERSET is to visit
India as delegate to the Worlds
Women Christian Temperance Union,
and she will teach total abstinence to
the native and foreign residents of that
country
MADAME DIAz, the wife of the Next
can president, will, at her own expense,
send to the Worlds fair next year
woman's band of forty-fv musicians.
1t will comprise the most expert musi-
clans in Mexico.
FROM St Petersburg comes the sur.
prising information that women may
be employed upon the state railways in
the future to the proportion of 20 per
cent. The nature of the work they are
to do is not specified and probably will
be clerical The concession is q re-
markable one for the cars dominion.
The Elizabeth Gamble Deacop2ess
Home in Cincinnati, which was oedi-
Gated four years ago, now has thirty
three deaconnesses who give their lives
TO benevolent work, without salary,
and who accomplish great good by Wis.
iting prisons, the poor and suffering,
and by conducting special mission work
among the children.
WOMEN are more ardent globe trct-
tiers than men when once the craze as
serts itself Elizabeth Taylor started
alone from Winnipeg early last summer,
made the trip alone as far as tie most
northern posts of the Hudson lay Co,
and stands on record as the first won.
an explorer to venture into the Polar
regions on her own account And now
zoologist and his wife, an accom-.
plished taxidermist, have started out to
explore Melanesia in the interest Of
science
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
HE WENT ALONE.
lie Could Not Take His Wife Along Of.
His Last Mission.

lie Could Not Take His Wife Along 81.
His Last Mission.
1t all happened in one of oceans
caves, where the star-fshes love to lin
ger and sea weeds cling effectionately
to the insensible rock.
An oyster rushed wildly into the
humble home his industry and frugali.
ty had provided. lie was very much
agitated.
"Oyster alive" she gaspcd, what has
happeued?"
my darling" he impressively ex-
claimed, good-by!"
She sank into seat with low moan.
A terrible fear gnawed at her breast.
Are you called to the upper world?"
Her voice died on her lips She read
in his face that her worst fears were
confirmed
"Mcrciful Heavenw
Burying her face in her hands she
wept copiously. Hastily gathering to-
gether a change Of undertaking, the
oyster stood at the door and cast about
him one last glance at the beloved
place he would see no more.
Suddenly his wife sprang to her feet.
"My life" she cried, 81 will go with
you"
He shook his head.
No." he groaned, 81 must go alone
am wanted for church sociable,"
Dashing tear from his eye he kiss &c
her cheek and was gone.-Chicago Trib
me.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
TWO BUSINESS WOMEN.
One Runs a Coasting Schooner, the Othcr
Carries on Mandatory.

One Runs a Coasting Schooner, the Othcr
Carries on a Mandatory.
One Of the many great schooners ply
ing between San Francisco and tho
ports on the opposite side of the bay is
owned and managed by woman. Some
years ago Mrs. Sims father became an
invalid and was obliged to put his ship
ping business in the hands of an agent.
Through the dishonesty and careless
ness of agents the business had ceased
to be profitable, when Mrs. Sims deter
mined to go on deck herself, and since
then has personally superintendent the
stevedores and truckmen, bossed the
gang of sailors, given orders to the cap
tain, and managed the entire business
to keeping tally of the raw hides that
not infrequently form part of the cargo,
negotiating for the tugboats and super
intending repairs at drydocks. SYRIA
cuse has another successful business
woman, in rather different line. Sew
eral years ago this woman's husband
| failed in business, and on account OF
poor health was unable to support his
family. Assuming the burden of the
family, she began in a small way to
knit goods for the wholesale trade, and
is to-day, through good management, a
prosperous manufacturer, employing
1000 women at work which may IN
most cases be done at home.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
THE SUNDAY SIDE.

ma
nc wo''a mas many q Joy to give,
Msoy token Of balm and bliss,
~, eiugo and rest for the troubled breast
We blindly miss.
ara IN darkness and dullncss we cropc alone
-, Lamcniing ever tho light denied,
Ara' would soon shine In did we once begin
10 walk through life on the Sunday side
me weekday tronhle and weekday toll,
Like dark miasma obscure the way
ana the gods we love. as we daily prove
Are gods OF clay.
nus potter things VIC may hope 10 reach,
\ we follow the steps OF better guide
por inc life Is vain that does not contain
little bit Of the Sunday side
Inc houses we build may far excel
The costly palaces OF the east
ana Jewels most rare and blossoms fair
May grace the feast
ant II is not home In tho sweetest sense,
III the doors and windows so long and wide
anu the hearts that within their fancies spin,
open not out on the Sunday side
FOR It's all folly and all waste
10 spend our lives, as It were, for naught
INC good TO shun, and TO have not one
Uplifting thought
Anu wherc'er In the world It's our lot to dwell
In rustic cottage, or halls OF pride,
inerc's chance I'm sure, for us all to secur,
little bit OF tho Sunday side
Josephine Pollard, in Ladies' Home Journal
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
IN CHICAGO SCHOOLS.
Women Figure Prominently as Teachers
in All Departments.

Women Figure Prominently as Teachers
In All Departments.
A Chicago school-teacher wrote to the
Nation, complaining that SO many of
the teachers and principals of the Chi
cago public schools are women. He
conceded the fitness of women to teach
"six-year-olds how to spell cat" but
that large schools of thousand or
more pupils should not be managed by
women entirely, many of whom he pro-
nounced elderly nervous, and desti-
tute of broad IDEAS" and he thought
this accounted for the small proportion
of boys remaining in the schools until
completing the course. A reply to this
letter brings out the following facts:
Chicago has 106 grammar school prin-
cipals; Al are women, 60 are men. From
those schools in charge of what "E. L..
M" speaks of as college-bred, men of
broad ideas, working for small pay and
small appreciation Save in their own
inner conscience), So per cent. of the
graduates last year were boys, while
those in charge OF fussy, fgety, elderly,
nervous, unliterary, unscientifc old
women, destitute of culture or broad
ideas, but with good political pull, A
per cent. of the graduates were boys
The IL largest grammar schools of Chi
cago have an attendance of 1880 pupil:
and upward; six of these have man al
helm, IS 1-2 per cent. of whose gradu
ates were boys, while the other six
towed along by these same old women
enfeebled bodies and uncultured minds
graduated classes of which IS per cent
were boys. In 10 grammar schools mor'
boys than girls completed the course
six Of these were in charge Of women
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
The Greenhouse Trade.

How many women are studying the
greenhouse trade in this country
None, so far as we know; yet what
peaceful and happy, as we'll as profita-
BILE field it is! 1t is one which is spec
tally adapted to women, also, as the
large feminine correspondence OF horti-
culture journals shows. There is a la.
dies horticultural college at Swanley,
England, where a few students are
taking careful course in this work;
but they are so few that several recent
applications for ladies to take the en-
tire charge of greenhouses, lighthouses
and flower gardens could not be enter
tanned. N Y, Tribune
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


Mrs McCanty-"An ye've raised
quote big family, Mrs. Murphy%
Mrs Murphy with pride)-"Seven po-
lacemin. Mrs, McCanty. It'll Bits.
Something Important on Hand. -
IIe-"You seem to be very happy. Any
thing on hand?" She--"Don't you see
that ring?'- Brooklyn Life.
-Wilkins-"Mr, Swelup looks upon
himself as great man since he was
elected" Bilkins--"lle must wear
powerful glasses!"-optician.
--Kate-'I really couldn't have re-
fused Jackie proposed so gracefully"
May-"No wonder! He has had lots of
practice, you know."-Smith, Gray &
Co Monthly.
AT Dinner. las the first
course comes on)-"By the way, how is
the course of true love served?' Dron-
ker Scoring one)-"With a spoon, of
course. "-Des Moines Argonaut.
Fin dc Steele Justly Irate Party
Robert, You are naughty boy. You
want jolly good hiding" Robert
Pardon me, father. may need chas'
tisement, but ! do not want it."-Judy.
20" said Johnny Boauchamp
To little Sadie Grosvenor,
"When grow up I'll teach EN-
I'm goin' to be guvnor -
Chicago News.
-Myrtle-'Don't you think Mr. Boil
ston has improved very much since his
trip" Mayo, my, yes, Why, last
night he was able to wear two chrysan-
| themums in his buttonhole. Inter
| Ocean.
FEATHER" said the bankers daugh-
| ter, 81 want you to bring me a large
bunch of violets from the florists"
Cant afford it, my dear How would a
nice diamond ring do instead?"-Bu
falo Express.
More Noise to It.-Cumso Qaying
down fashion magazine)-"So wo-
mans dress is to be louder than ever. "
Mrs Cumso-''How SOP Cumso-"l
understand the bell skirt is giving place
to the cornet skirt Detroit Free Press.
-Husband-"M Mercy! what have you
got the gas turned on full force for?'
Wife-"As a matter of economy, John.
| want to consume a. thousand dollars
worth this year SOS to get the discount
of ten cents thousand. boston Tran
script.
1T is always best to be earnest,
said the man who loves to lecture. al
you do anything do it in italics" 'Yes,
replied the youth, 81 have several times
seen man fail because he went into
business with small capital. Wash
ington Star
The Clock Struck One. knowles
"For what peculiar reasons are some
divorces granted! An actor has beer
granted one because his wife caused
her clock to strike Bowlcs-"That'
trivial enough reason" Knowles
"Well, not exactly so. You see the
clock struck his head. "-Je elcrs' Cir
cular
WHATS the matter, Bill?' said one
representative of the crooked gentry t
another. Wasn't business good il
Chicago?' TOO good. No soone
would | get through sandbagging ;
man than some Teller 'ud come along
and sandbag me. Washington Star.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
THE PHoNoPHoRE.
The Sending of Simultaneous MessaEeI
on One Wire.


on One Wire.
To be told that telegraph wire
which is busily transmitting d long
message can at the same time be made
to convey half dozen other messages
in opposite directions sounds like n
fairy tale, but that the thing has been
done and is daily being done is attested
upon the most respectable authority.
The discovery which renders these as
tonishing results possible is due to C.
Langdon- Davies, who has for some
years been engaged in rendering it
practically workable and in adapting
1t alike to telephone and telgraphie
use.
1t is difficult to convey to the lay
mind an accurate comprehension of n
process so exceedingly technical; but it
may briefly be said that Langdon- Da-
vies in the "phonophore" utilities not
the electric current but the
noise'caused by induction. The signals
are transmitted by series of induced
electric impulse, and the success of the
system is found in the ability of the in
ductive force to pass through insula-
tions which electric curren is can not
penetrate. A wire may be blown down
and in contact with the earth, yet so
long as it is not broken it will carry a
phonophoric message.
BY means of the phonophore mes
sages can be transmitted with extraor.
binary rapidity, and there is practical
ly no limit TO the number of messages
that can be sent simultaneously upon
the same wire, And. as we limited, Mr..
Langdon. Davies system is as useful
telephonically as 1t is geographically.
A wire which is conveying electric sig.
nails can at the same time be used for
telephone conversation without either
the message or the conversation suffer
ing in the least.
For some considerable time past ex.
periments in both directions have been
proceeding with most gratifying re-
suits, which are vouched for by such
high authorities as Prof. Sylvanus
| Thompson, Conrad Cooke and Latimer
i
Clark. Three of the principal railway
companies have already adopted the
phonophore, and it must be obvious,
even to the unscientific mind that
phonophoric telegraphy and telephony,
which so vastly increased the cleo
trician's power over the wires, has be-
| fore it very great future.
The phonophore, indeed, increases
almost to infinity the number of words
that can be transmitted in given time.
1t is obvious, therefore, that it opens
great possibilities in the way of cheap
ening the cost of kilograms. So long
as the number of words that could be
carried by a wire in an hour was rigid
ly limited it was hopeless to look fol
any substantial reduction in the cost
of telegraphing, but the phonophore al
once increases the capacity and speed
of every wire to which it may be fitted
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
One Dollar Per Year,

four of men The school which gradu'
ated the largest percentage of boys, 60
per cent, was in charge OF o woman.
The schools presided over by the gentle
man whom the democrats honored with
the nomination for county superintend-
ent and who stands admittedly high in
his profession, graduated one boy and
10 girls. Springfield Mass Republic
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

Price He Paid for Peace.

Husband (impatiently)-ls it posi-.
BILE, my dear, that you can not keep
those children quiet for moment?,
Wife (soothingly)-Now, John, don't
be harsh with the poor little innocent
things; it is natural for them to be full
OF spirits, and they're doing the best
they can.
Husband-Well, if 1 could have a
moments peace / would sit down and
write that check you've been bothering
me for.
Wife (sternlyl-Children, upstairs at
once! If ! hear another word from y on
tonight I'll punish you severely.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
Nutmegs as a soporiiic.

Nutmegs have strong narcotic prop.
critics. A drink that used to be made
by our grand mothers was nutmeg tea.
One or two nutmegs would make pint
or pint and half of tea, and the in
valid would drink it, producing sleep
of many hours duration. The symp.
toms would be about the same as opium.
Nutmeg in the quantity of two or three
drachms will cause both stupor and de-
lirium. Chicago Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

The following pretty experiment Is
suggested by Charles Wetterer in the
American Machinist: If iron or steel
filings be corroded in a damp atmos.
phere, and this rust added little at a
time to a jar of diluted sulphuric acid,
the crystalline carbon particles that
existed in the metal unite to form
large crystals; these same will be Of
the hard diamond form.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
A Wet Moon.

Lawrence-I heard you say that there
was wet moon last month.
Farmer Cropsey-Yes; that's what !
did say.
Lawrence-And now that see the
moon in the middle of the day, l sup
pose that it has been hung out to dry,
hasn't it?-Harper's Young People.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16

SIS that Ralph Hownow, who was
mentioned in his late uncle's will?"
Yes; one million dollars went to
charity. and what was left of the estate
went TO Ralph"
Indeed; and what sas left2"
"Ralph."
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
Fog and rain have given a boom t,

UR anu IdIH IdVC given q UUUIH %
London electric lighting companies re
Gently. Forty miles OF wire for incan.
descent electric lights have been run Ia
Smithfield markets and the current
was turned on for the first time not
long ago. The lord mayor was pres
ent, and the inaugural ceremony was
quite imposing
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-02-16
TantaliZlnY.

Hell beg your pardon-might | ask
your name?
She--Smith.
He-Would not you like to change iti
She-Yes; what is yours?
He-Smith.
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-10-18
Continued from third page


not even tngboat to bear her
company. came along to the
second mark
She took in her jib topsail be-
fore rounding. and after roundin &
set similar one. The gain of
the Nigilant on the second leg
was minutes and II seconds,
which added to her gain in the
first leg made her entire gain up
to the second mark s minutes
and 81 seconds.
The wind, which has been In
creasing all the time, was blow
ing twenty-five miles an hour
when the yachts rounded the
second mark. As they got In
toward the lightship they found
still more wind and put their lee
sails awash.
The Vigilant took in her bal
loon stay-sail and set her work
ing staysail. No one who did
not see her can have any idea
how she few along
All about her, but keeping at a
reasonable distance. the attend
ant fleet of excursion steamers
sped along. and way back. with
hull down and the towering line
of her sails against the sky,
came after her the Valkyrie.
The wind increased to twenty
nine miles az hour before the
lightship was reached, and at
the finish it was blowing thirty
miles.
Finally, but now with rush
and plunge and with no tapping
of giant canvas, but easily, grace
fully sliding over the waves as if
they were hers and slaves to do
her bidding the flying Vigilant
went In between the red-hulled
liehtships and the black hulied
May, and all the glory of the day
was hers.
Long. long after her came the
yalkyrie, and the race was over.
and not only was the race over,
but the outcome of the inter-
national races for this year was
settled.
The result was surprise, even
to the most enthusiastic OF the
Yigllant'sa dmirers. They had
expected that the Vigilant would
beat the valkyrie, but had not
been prepared for anything like
this.
The victory was grand one
and long shall the name of the
Yigilant live in the history of the
seas. The gain of the yigilant
on the third leg was two minutes
90 second making her total gain
II minutes % seconds.
Deducing the time allowance
of / minute and As seconds this
makes the Vigilant the winner
by 10 minutes and 80 seconds.
Both boats were sailed by such
competent men that it would
have been idle for an amateur
to criticize.
The next race viii be sailed
over a thirty-mile
course. fifteen miles to sea from
Sandy Hoax lightship and return.
New York, Oct. AN Asso-
ciated Press reporter saw Captain
Cranfield Of the yalkyrie after
The finish and asked him as to
the race.
The captain said: II must say
We were very much disappointed
| knew after Saturdays race that
We had bard nut to crack. bat l
could not believe we could have
been so we'll beaten as we were"
Has not your knowledge Of
,entre- board yachts as compared
With keel-boats convinced you
hat the American -blan is the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
A High-Caste Brahmin Coming

NEW YORK, July 21.-William
Q. Judge, general secretary of the
American section of the TheosOph-
ical society, who is in London at
tending the convention Of the
European section of the society,
sends word that Professor Ganen-
dra Nath Chakravarti, of Alfalfa
bad, India, will attend the TheO-
sophical convention at the Worlds
Fair Congress of Religions. Profess
sor Ganendra Nath Chakravarti is a
high caste Brahmin and ranks
high as Sanskrit scholar. He
leaves Bombay today, and will
come to New York with Mrs. An
ME Besant, meeting her in Lon
don. Prot. Chakravarti will be one
of very few high-caste Brahmins
who have ever been in this coun-
try. a high Brahmin cannot cross
the seas away from his country
without sacrificing his rank, which
is as unsOught a sacrifice as
it is for Duke to relinquish his
right to his title. But Prof. Chalk
ravarti cares more for TheOsOphy
than for his rank, and when Col.
OlcOtt issued call for Indian
TheOsophists to attend the Con-
gress of Religions the professor
said that he would go. Another
prominent Theosophist, who will
bs at the congress is NJ. Dharma-
pala, who is to represent the South
Crn Buddhist church.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-21
POUND NOTICE.

Taken up and ia city pound, on Monte
rev street, on or about the 18th day of July,
1898.
One black spotted Bull. branded AR
with line over; no ear mark.
One Bay Mare and Colt, branded H4
connected, with half circle over.
One yellow Cow. Spanish brand, ear
mark upper bit in the right and upper
half crop in the left.
. One yellow. Cow, branded thus VI con-
nected, ear mark split in the right and
smooth crop In the left.
One brown steer, branded FS with line
below, ear mark swallow fork 10 the right
upperbit and underbit in the left.
Which will, If not redeemed before sale,
be sold at public auction, to the highest
bidder, for cash, at said pound, at the
hour of II O'Clock, a. m, on the oath day
of July, 1898.
7 lS5t w. ID. nRUsE, Marshal.