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and irritable, showing that the ad-! THE REAL INCONSISTENCY The Farmer's Wife. A a Hisioiy. In the Opposition to the Woman Suffrage Movement. vantages have been all on one side. It is better to accustom a child to a simple sprinyless cot bed, his exclusive property, than to oblige him to occupy the most luxurious couch shared with another person.

MRS. EMMA D. PACK, Ed. HE TEERIBLE EXPERIENCE THAT BEFELL KANSAS. TOFEKA, BY MRS.

J. K. HUDSON. Few people today doubt that woman JOHN W.THOMAS OF TEETA, TENNESSEE. will sooner or later secure the right of A CURIOUS TRADE.

Afflicted with a Peculiar Disease. Hli uffrage, and many foresee the time rawing nearer and nearer when the Men Who Exterminate Ants for a Llvell- granting of this right by men will Body Covered with Lumps. Could uot eat and Thought he was going to dry up. His Recovery the Marvel of Tennessee. become a partisan issue.

In the meantime a most paradoxical sentiment prevails regarding that old and formerly circumscribed, but now rapidly expanding area called woman's (From the Nashville, Banner.) Mr. John Thomos. of Theta. The fierceness and strength of the ants in warm countries make them truly formidable enemies and when they found direct! under the houses of human beings every means has to be used to drive them away. This necessity has created the ant-man.

His stock in trade is an enormous bellows, and a load of a certain kind of wood found in the neighboring torests. After sto; ng up all phere. is a man with a most interesting his The newest and strongest active force woman's world is the business woman. tory. At present he is interested in blooded horses for which Maury county is famous.

She came uninvited, succeeded, aud Dew people, 1 take it," said Mr. Thomas will stay. Everybody accepts and re to a reporter who had asked hirn for the sto ry of his life, "have passed through as re spects her. Mothers, wives and daughters, home-bodies who do not want to vote, markable a chain of events as I have and remained alive to tell the story. women who in conviction and sentiment.

Fog and Mentality in London. On nearly all sides there isevidence of a gradually-diminish ng mortality among the causes of the London death rates, and nothing is more certain than the fact than this satisfactory state of things is the direct outcome of the beneficent, practical, and expedient health laws by which the public health is controlled. In the midst, however, of the gradual elimination ot the cause which tend to destroy life in London, the fogs remain, constituting always a certain menace, always claiming a high ratio of victims, and always indirectly perpetrating an inconceivable amount of harm. That the death rate for London would show a mu -h better record were fogs to be banished from our midst is indisputable. Let the black pall settic for two or three days over the metropolitan area, and the following issue of the eistrar General's returns would emphatically tell the tale of its death-dealing presence.

Any scheme, of course, which would be designated to deal with the devil would necessarily be one of a gigantic nature. But was not the inception of the scheme for the main drainage of London a gigantic one, or in prejudice and ignorance, generally "It was along in when I was work ers and fathers of today, must consider 1 in the new adjustment of affairs. How, it woman is to exercise all the privileges and share the labor of business and be permitted to compete with men, can she consistently be denied the ballot? How can a Conation people permit a woman to put her life in jeopardy in the great battle for bread and grant her no tools, no weapons, no laws, but those that men give her? It is inconsistent from every point of view that woman should be encouraged to do all the things she is doing in business, in publio and intellectual life, and yet be denied a voice in making the laws of the land. None is quite do inconsistent as the business woman herself, when she does not want to vote. She wants to do business with all the privileges thtt the laws of commerce and finance allow to but she does not want to know what those laws are nor to be able to defend herself.

It she is cheated men are to blame under existing conditions. But if she is the most inconsistent opponent of woman suffrage, the unkindest one, because the most thoughtless, is the happy wife whose husband is lover, protector, and provider. If the knows nothing of the struggle of the working thousands, of the lives of women who make calico wrappers for twelve and a half cents and hickory snirts tor eight cents apiece, then her ignorance excuses her if ignorance is ever now accepted as an excuse from women. But if 6he knows anything about how the other halt of the world-of-women lives, if she knows that the whisky sellers and the whisky drinkers control the electionsof the largest cities in the United States, if she has inherited the high sense of duty and responsibility to her children, and through them to her country, that her mother and her mother's mother nursed from the pioneer mothers of America, she will rebel against the false position into which modern conditions have forced woman compelling her to support herself and pay her own taxes; holding her amenable to laws she has no voice in; educating her as highly as man ing in the silver mines of New Mexico, that combat the idea of, voting, all lend a helping hand to the busicess woman. Men in every walk of life encourage and aid her, ana no man is brave enough to my troubles began; at hrst I suffered with indigestion, and so acute did the pains become that I weut to California for my health, but the trip did mo little good, and fully impressed with the idta that my last day had nearly dawned upon me, I hurried ay that she is out of her sphere.

-Indeed, men no longer seem back here to my old home to die. simple indigestion my malady de veloped into a chronic inability to take any substantial food, I was barely able to creep about and at times I was prostrated by spells to doubt the appropriateness of women in business. They have opened every door to her, have taught her the tricks of every trade, and given her the privilege of competing with them in every profession. Nor have they done this grudgingly, since the early martyrs paved the way, and today any woman ot heart palpitation, ihis condition continued until one year ago. Un the 11th of April, 1893, 1 suddenly col lapsed, and for days I was unconscious, in can go, respected and protected if she but walks uprightly, where Lucy btone fact 1 was not fully myself until July.

My condition on September 1st, was simply horrible, I weighed but seventy pounds whereas my normal weight is 165 pounds. All over my body there were lumps from the size of a grape to the 6ize of a walnut, my once met jeers and abuse and threats. Nor is thiB all. Women are not only and, looking at it now, do it not tolerated, not only welcomed and fairly appear to be a monument of engineering skill and a triumph and victory over difficulties which seemed treated in the money-making world today, but they are placed there by public opinion and self respect. An unmarried or a widowed woman can no longer re lingers were cramped so that 1 could not more than half straighten them.

I had entirely lost control ot my lower limbs and my hand trembled so that 1 could not drink without spilling the liquid. Nothing would remain on my stomach, and it seemed that I to be almost insurmountable! Let the same enterprise whkh called into main idle and dependent upon relatives as she was formerly often compelled to existence the organization of this, perhaps thej most indispensable at must dry up before many more days had do. It she has not been taught some passed. tribute lo the maintenance of the money-earning, bread-winning skill in the days of her youth and health of London, be now turned in while holding her on a political level "I made another round ot the physicians, calling in one after the other, and by the aid of morphine and other medicines they gave me, I managed to live though barely through the fall." the direction of solving the problem with criminals and imbeciles, and great must lenrn it in the days of her adversity days ever come to her that is all. Nothing else will be ac of the fogs.

nineteenth Century. est outrage of all, demanding of her that Here Mr. Thomas displayed his arms, and cepted of her by Booietv in its present he maintain her womanhood pure and potless, knowing that Bhe muet be Cheese ltich. just above the el bow of each there was a state of(enlighentment and re-formation. the openings leading under the house, except a central one, he enlarges that and forms it into a furnace that will admit the pipe of the bellows Then he lights a Are, and with the aid of the great bellows forces the smoke into the ant citadels urderthe surface of the ground.

Of course, these are very porous, and when the smoke passos through them, it goes out into the house above. Then the ant-man leaves an assistant to work the bellows, and going the house stops up every crack that he can find. Meanwhile there is a wild commotion among those doomed insects whose home is being bombarded with smoke. They understand their danger with the very first puff that reaches them and know that the only hope is in flight They all hasten to the central chamber, wheie their precious eggs are stored. At a given signal from their chief each one seizes an egg, then all turn in haste into the subterranean passages that lead into the garden, deserting their homes and carefully stored stock of provisions, but holding fast to the treasured eggs.

But there, before them, are the cruel wreaths of blue smoke. They turn and rush to another passage. The same thing there. As a forlorn hope the poor ants run into the old deserted galleries, or set to work to make new ones, hoping the enemy will not find them there at least. But the ant-man is patrolling the grounds around the house.

As the old or new galleries are cleared out by the brave little ants the smoke penetrates them and comes to the surface in a thin wreath. They are thus betrayed as well as smothered, and a stroke of the spade ends their frantic efforts at escape. All this time fresh quantities of the hot smoke are being forced through their highways and byways, and the frail bodi of theformigaare shrivelling and dropping along their line of attempting retreat. Soon they cease to struggle. They can not breathe the rarifled, smoke-laden air.

The next day, when the soil has cooled off, they are found calcined in their once busy galleries, their roasted eggs at their side. Poor little creatures! But their human victims call the ant-man a bless ng. pushed clear over the brink into ever large irregular stain as large as the palm ol the hand and of a purple color, the space This condition being a fact, albeit has lasting discrace if she fall, while there grown upon us unawares, what, then, is covered by the mark was sunken nearly to JSations which use little or no money must make something else their standard of richer In partri-archal times wealth was estimated is no law, legal or moral, that will bear hard equally upon man. the bone, "ihat," said Mr. 1 nomas, "is what the doctors did by putting morphine into me.

the foundation, the reason, for the yet widespread opposition to the granting of suffrage to women? How has it come about that women have been given all these business rights and The ballot in woman's hands would by the number of sheep and cattle. 'On the 11th of December, 1893, just strengthen her moral power quite as eight months after I took permanently to much as it would her political power, Among the Indians a man is quoted "worth" so many ponies; among the Laps so many reindeer: among the and no one questions that her vote would bed 1 shall never lorget the date my cousin, Joe Foster of Carter's Creek, called on me and cave me a box of Dr. Williams': are yet denied political enfranchisement? It is manifestly unjust that a tend toward better politics. Ice lower political elements concede that much by Africans so many w.ves, eta woman shall be taxed to supriort a gov Pink Pills for Pale People, saying they had In Valois, hwitzerland, a man's ernment in which she hns no voice; it is opposing woman sun race, and the cured him of partial paralysis, with which knew ho had all but died. I followed his di manifestly unjust that an intelligent riches are estimated according to the purest and wisest statesmen of the time number of cheeses he owns.

By a "cheese-rich man" is meant one as concede it openly and proudly by espousing it. It is the glaring and unjust woman shall be held amenable to the laws of a repubiio in which she has no vote, and yet we are not ready to give even the business woman the franchise. nconsistencv of the times that woman is acuepted in business, in the pulpit, in wealthy as Co isus. t-aia one Valois boy to a com panion: rections and began taking the medicine, as a result I stand before you to-day the most surprised man on earth. Look at my hand, it is as steady as yours; my face has a healthy look about it I have been attending to my duties for a month.

Since I began taking the pills I have gained 30 pounds, and I am still gaining. All the knots have disappeared from uiy body except this little kernel here in my palm. I have a good appetite and I am almost as strong as I ever the college, id the counsel and adminis Why? Not because we are afraid to trust her to use it conscientiously and intelli tration of laws that she cannot help to gently. No. We trust her with every "My father is a 'cheese-rich "How many cheeses has he?" said make and yet must obey, on the rostrum, as physician, private secretary, advisor.

thing else, we could with that. the other. Is it not true, that, proud as we are drudge and nurse, and not only upheld of the busines woman, her oareer has "Oh, at least so many, for we have was. in these positions, but compelled to oc-oupy them by the sentiment of the age, demonstrated to us some things that to 'Yesterday I rode thirty-seven miles on be sure have always been true, but to horseback, I feel tired to-day but not sick. and yet denied the ballot.

Good men just made a lot." "Nonsense!" said the others, smiling contemptiously; "my father ha which the wholesome growth of Ameri I used to have from two to four spells ot very generally see the necessity of giv heart palpitation every night, since I began leg women the suffrage; good women that number the ar round, and are slow to realize the neccessity of it. the use of the pills 1 have had but tour spells altogether. some or ours are a hundred years can family life during many generations had blinded us? We had never learned that men and women are men and women in the office as well as in the home. From a conservative woman's point of view, it is not Dearly so (important that "I know positively that 1 was cured oy Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I believe firmly that it is the most wonderful remedy in old." When a child is born it is the cus torn to make a cheese, leaving it un women ue given me or mat puo We had forgotten that the history of no sentiment debar them tor their own existence to-day, and every fact I have presented to you is known to my neighbors as the world reveals the story that wher touched during its limeMme, cutting sakes from holding some positions they ever the barriers of reserve between men it first at.its funeral feast and women have been broken down by now honorably occupy, as it will when the natural, human, inevitable reaction sets in against a too great change in Population of the Ocean.

constant intimacy there the family deteriorates, whether it is in the profligate courts of royalty, in crowded city tenements, in slavery or in idle luxury. A striking proof of the vastness and woman sphere. But that woman is in the wage-earning and glory-winning world for all time thut the present civ variety of the population of the sea has recently been furnished by the he hideous jests comio pa llization can (foresee is plain, and this results of explorations made by per in the land concerning the young being true she needs the ballot for pro well as to myself, and they will certify to the truth of my remarkable cure." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are not a patent niedicine in the sense that name implies. They were first compounded as a prescription and used as such in general practice by an eminent physician.

So great was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach of all. They are now manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold in thid shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company.

girl typewriter 6hould make every tection. She is entitled to it for what committee of the Zoological Department of the British Association in mothers heart turn cold with the she has done and for what she must suffer, for "men must work and women knowledge that she has been accessory Purifying Air by Charcoal. Chas. Toope, who has taken a prominent part in the attempts to abate the smoke and fog nuisance in England, suggests the application of charcoal for purifying the air of the houses located in infected districts all air admitted to be passed through thin canvas bags containing crushed charcoal. He holds that were such precautions taken, many regions now fatal to Europeans could be dwelt in that part of the Irish Sea surround to such a condition.

must weep" to the end of time. No mat ing the Isle of Man. Out of one thousand species of ma And today, speaking tor but one ter how much both men and women woman, though I sincerely believe from may learn, how much achieve, nor how rine animals collected, 224 had never the hearts ot many, 1 consider it is a greatly the proportion of the burdens before been found in that region, false loyalty to women and a cowardly hesitation in the face of a mother's may be changed, the preponderance of work will Bti'l belong to man and of thirty-eight were previously unknown as inhabitants of British waters, and highest duty, if we longer re suffering to woman, und suffering is not "I'll see you again," said a man to a 30-day note he had just signed. always the easier part. In woman new seventeen were entirely new to science; indeed, they were animals field she meets more dangers and has train from saying that there are some positions in the business world that women can not safely and must not fill.

No observer of the tendencies of modern life can fail to see that this must fewer defenses. whose existence had never been sus Sliiloh CoaHumptlon Cure Is sold on a puarantw. It cures Incipient Consume tion. It Is the best Couch Cure. 25.cts.,50cta.

S1.0Q, As for women it remains for but pected. few more men of learning aud ability to If such discoveries reward a few inevitably be said sooner or later, and it 'if you had a "Wish I had try to logically oppose equal suffrage, "Plunkitt," said Docketts, million what would you do?" another," replied Plunkitt. weeks of searching in so minute a speck of the sea, how many volumes and the sisters will all be converted. A will be to the everlasting shame of American women if thev leave it for recent notable instance of this kind, on would be required to contain a list of the still undiscovered inhabitants the part of a man who has done more than anv other American to open the men to say. Men have been besieged to give clerical employment to women; good men aud bad men alike have been ie with Glycerine.

genuine. Cures Chapped Hancia of the great book ot knowledge to women, set scores Trie original auuumy pru and Face. Cold Sores, The original and only asked to grant positions to young girls of people to thinking who never before that the bravest and strongest ot ma Sugar Tongs. thought of suffrage for women at all, tured women should hesitate to till and The use or tongs ror taking up It is not easy to elevate the turf business while so many horses are out lowering the record. From a high conscientious regard for women he opposed equal suffrage from that an angel could not enter.

All men know that when a young, inexperienced, heated metals or small lumps of any thing was nown to the Anglo-Sax the pulpit. It is safe to say that a hun with impun.ty. Mr. Toope is by no means the first to call attention to the remarkable absorbent properties charcoal. Forty years ago the chemist Stenhoase described and illustrated the capabilities of charcoal as an absorbent and oxidizer of the products of decomposition of organic matter.

He tells how the carcasses of dogs were kept covered with a th liyer of powdered charcoal but otherwise exposed without any nuisance arisiug therefrom. He adds that he has devised a respirator on this principle, to be used in districts smitten with cholera or yellow fever, lie found, further, that with such a respirator he could breathe with impunity air containing large amounts of ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen and other hurtful gases. Stenhouse goes on to show how charcoal can be "platinized," or combined with minutely divided platinum. Charcoal containing even two per cent, of platinum causes a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen to combine perfectly in about a quarter of an hour, and this strength of platinized charcoal is stated to be well adapted for charcoal disinfectant respirators. -Pharmaceutical Era.

innocent girl takes a place id a man's private ofhee to read and write at his dred persons oast up their mental ac ons ttange), so were probably in togue as soon as the use of "lump" sugar Hanion'i Magic Corn Slv. Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask your drug gist for it. Price 15 cents. counts to see where they stood on the dictation day in and day out, to spend question after bearing that sermon, hours alone with him for a continuou became common.

Forks were Intro du ed into England by Thomas Cor and ten to one they came out on the It has period of weeks and months, she steps to the brink of the deepest depths a woman side of suffrage. There is nothing so Get out your snows hoes, chappies, been snowing in England. certain in fact to make a suffragist of a yat in 1608, having seen them in Italy, first known there at the end ever looks into. Do women, wives, woman as to bear a man oppose it mothers of daughters, need to be told There is no logical reason against it, and this by men? CONDUCTOR E. D.

LOOMIS, Detroit, says: "The effect of Hall's Catarrh Cure is, wonderful." Write him about it. Sold by Druggists 75c. of course it is because women are so lo of the fifteenth century; and silver forks were introduced about the year lsuj-'but two-pronged steel ones were manufactu ed at Sheffield soon It is a beautiful truth in nature that nothing but time teaches distrust to gical that they are so quick to deteot this defect. 'J he mere fact of a man youth. Trust in all things of Beeming fairness; belief in its own strength, faith opposition has nothing whatever to do after Coryat employed one himself.

with it! But I would not slander our In the time of Queen Elizabeth sisterhood. in the happy visions of the future, make up the season of beatitude we call youth the time that no rann would eliminate of Fyness Moryson describes the use There is a sentimental reason for op a fork, as he observed it at Venice A. Bullion thinks a good deal of his home and grounds and is fond of showing them off. B. (in love with Bullion's daughter, sadly): Yes, he showed me off the grounds last evening.

Befcham's Pills have a pleasant coating disguising the taste of the pill, without impairing its efficacy, 25 cents a box. posing woman suffrage, and woe will till from another's life if he him in his Itinerary. the day when either men or women for self hoped for heaven. But what are mothers for if not A Shower of Feathers. get or ignore it, but it will not stand alone against the woman in business.

If to guard this period of trustfulness? Can we longer nut our daughters into The emintent surgeon Sir Astley she must work she shot-J vote, and it is greatly to the modern woman's oredit Cooper was fond of a practical joke, the most trying position ever yet ao On one occasion he ascended the that she is so often heard to say that, corded to women in the history or civilization and demand of them that they whether she wants to vote or not, if th church tower of a village in Nnr ballot were put into her hand she would folk, taking with him one of his consider it a duty to oast it mother's and finding the win maintain themselves in every respect as it they were at borne, surrounded by all the safeguards of the household? Not that all women are weak, nor that all conscientiously nnd intelligently. This is the spirit that the country needs on below directly to the next town, he let oft handfuls of leathers, until he had emptied the pillow. The local men are wicked far from it but the the part of both men and women. On Sleeping Together. Two children, even if both are healthy, should not be required to sleep together, says Childhood.

They are apt In their sleep to turn their lace? toward each other, and thus mingle the.r bieaths. One ruay be uncomfortable under the anient of covering Leeded by the other; one 1 may like the sensation of the fresh night air on his chest and hands, and the other be sensitive to the cold. "Very rarely are the necessities of two temperaments perfectly ad.usted to each other. And Ire uently one child awakens refreshed and the other tired to be wiiiinsr ror any Kind or a sin to stay in your heart, is to he willing for the devil to own the earth. Job was the richest man in all his country, and yet he was far richer in Heaven than he was on earth.

God would have his children to still be rich when moth and rust and robbers have taken all they can take. WiiENBVEit an oath falls from the lips it is an evidence that the devil Is still hav.ng things his own way in the heart truth remains that the nature of men proud thing that women would do papers reported this "remarkable and women is the same it has been since they were given the franchise, would be to teach good men to value it and honor shower" of leathers, and offend var time began, notwithstanding all our ad vanced ideas concerning woman's capa ous conjectures to ac ount for It, and it by using it. bilities and rights and the broadening The granting to women the right to the account was copied into other papers, and was probably received us of her sphere, ihis is the world-old vote would not usher in the millennia) fact that we muBt not lose sight of and but it would be justice. No higher plea can be made for it than that. a perfectly natural occurrence Notes and Queries.

that mature men and women, the moth.