Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 August 1885 — Page 5

IDA A. HARPER.

Married Teachers.

The action of

the

school board exclud­

ing married women from the list of teachers is the subject of much discussion, and there seems to be a number of arguments on both sides. The general impression is that the board were impelled to make this rule because of late years several of the young lady teachers have married men who had no special business and were well known to bo hardly able to take care of themselves. In such cases, of course, the wife must have expected to support her husband out of her salary. But if she does her work in a satisfactory manner and earns her money it certainly is nobody's business how she spends it. Logically, why is it any worse for a woman to support her husband out of the school fund (if she is foolish enough to do.it) than it is for a man to support his wife in the same manner? If the restriction is intended to prevent girls who are earning a comfortable salary from marrying trifling and worthless men, then perhaps it is a good thing. The statutes of Indiana are so jealous of the good morals of the people that "a bequest to a wife with a condition in restraint of marriage shall be void."

Another argument against employing married women in the schools is that they have children and homes to look after, which divide their time and distract their attention. And yet in the face of all these facts it must be admitted that among the most competent teachers we have in this city are the married women. So far as I am able to learn from inquiry we have eight married women teachers one of these teaches mu sic, one teaches German, one is principal of the High school, two are principals of 'the ward schools, These five arcf among the very best teachers on the force. The other three are in the diflerent grades and are excellent teachers. Out of these eight, six have no children and two l«ave grown children who are either self- sporting or preparing to support themselves, so that they cannot interfere with the school work of the mother: Of the husbands six at least are in good business, and not at all dependent upon the wives' labor.

We have often been told that the rea­

son

the Qermans and the French thrive

so*..J1

is because the wives help make

the living, and yet, when American women try to do the same thing, some progressive school board sits down on them with the command that they shall not support their husbands. If this argument is good in the case of school teachers, *hy is it not good in all other kinds of employment? And by the same logic, why should not married women be barred out from all salaried positions lest "they may support lazy husbands? The question should be decided by the efficiency of the teacher and not by the inefficiency of the husband.

If a married woman has no children and wisnes to employ her time and talents in earning something to add to the general household fund or to help pay tor a home or to purchase for herself such coveted articles as the ^husband can not afford, what right lias any body of men to tell her to •stay at home and attend to her business there, and accept thankfully whatever her husband sees fit to allow her Or if a. woman has children for whom she is ambitious, and knows that by taking up or continuing her old profession of teaching she can clothe and educate and bring these children up to a standard that the father alone is unable to dd, are we to understand that a transient and accidental board of managers can say to her) "By marrying you have lost all right to perform any labor except that of housekeeping." Is not this rather poor encouragement for women to become wives and mothers?

If there is any special fault to be found with our teachers as a class, it is that they are too young and inexperienced. The wisdom and judgment that are absolutely necessary to an efficient teacher can only come with age and experience, but as our teachers grow older they are apt to marry. Must they then be immediately turned out, just when they have become most capable, and must the ranks be forever kept filled with new and incompetent recruits? There is not mother but would rather place her little ones in chargo of a teacher who had herself known the love and responsibility of motherhood. There area thousand little attentions, mental, moral and physical which children need that young teachers cannot comprehend and therefore do not bestow. And is it not time that our boys and girls in the upper grades need an influence which it is only possible for mature and motherly woman to exercise?

There is another argument in favor of married women who teach—they do not look upon their profession as merely a temporary employment. Ninety-nine of all the girls who teach expect some day to marry, and they hope the day is not vyery distant. For this reason they have no particular ambition to improve. They know that a profound and learned school board is likely at any moment to "turn the married women out," and as they fully intend to marry they do not think it worth while to strive for any particular prominence in profession, which they will have to aban don as soon as married. Consequently they simply go through a certain routine which will enable them to draw their salaries, and they expect to drop their work at the first opportunity in the shape of a man. Cjp the contrary a married woman who 'tikes up teaching makes business of it She strives for promotion and increase of salary. She attends in stitutes, studies new methods and strives in every way to make herself proficient in what she considers her life work.

Therefore, as a ule, you find the married teachers occupying the most responsible positions and giving the best satisfaction.

Eut here is a question which a number of women are asking themselves: What right have

men alone

to decide all these

questions pertaining to the schools, and especially to women in the schools? Why mist the women of this state pay their I tMfrv Vv'

proportion of the school taxes, just as men do, and yet have no voije in regard to the school system? The majority of men, if asked, could not tell in what grade their children were, who was their teacher or what text books they were studying. They leave everything connected with school study and discipline to their wives. From the time children enter school at the age of six {Until they leave at the age of eighteen, their (education is almost entirely under the supervision of the mothers. And yet these women have no voice in the selection of teachers, the election of trustees, the management of the school fund or the general system of public instructions, although no one doubts their ability to handle these'subjects quite as intelligently as men.

Why are the women of Indiana not permitted to vole on all school questions This privilege has already been granted in twelve states, and the results are satisfactory. Why may not the women of this state have the school franchise? No other state has a* larger proportion of lady teachers, and no other state has a urger proportion of educated and progressive women. Will our next legislature make it possible for tliese. women to exercise school •age? And why may we not haveone woman on our board of school trustees? There is nothing in our statutes to prevent it. We have a number of ladies fully competent to fill such a position. We need their influence in the management of our schools. When the time arrives for another election will not the people, through the conncil, put one lady member upon that board?

The most conservative woman cannot resist the influence of the age. She may scorn suffrage, she may consider the lecturer's desk, the rostrum, as little fit for feminine occupation as the bar-room orthe gambling hell. She may be willing to give precedence to ''the gentlemen" in law, and even in religion and medicine but if she has any mental insight, if she isn't hopelessly blind, she must see that the day for the moral and intellectual insubordination of women is passing, has passed. In the magazines, and in every field of literature, women are toiling side by side with men, and giving to the world work good enough to be mistaken for virile production. In art there are others Vesides Rosa Bonheur and Elizabeth hompson now to be cited as painting with masculine patience and vigor. One of the very first pictures sold in the Paris Salon just closed was a group of dogs, by Miss Elizabeth Strong, said to be better than anything of Tracey's, equal to Landseer's famous canine portraitures. In other arts and in many sciences, we see women working successfully against _all disadvantages, with small compensation and no especial training. But the century that frees its slaves and liberates its serfs is also emancipating its women.

About two years ago at a public meeting in Martinsville, Ind., the question of woman suffrage was broached, and was bitterly opposed by a prominent attorney, who, imagining that he was fully informed, emphatically declared that women had no desire to vote, that there were not more than two or three women in the place who would use the ballot, if allowed. This misrepresentation so aroused the indignation of some of the ladies that a canvass was quietly msde to sound the views of women on the subject with the result that all the women in the place except six or seven signed a declaration that they wanted to vote and would vote if. they could. The. matter was published in the local press at the time to the discomfiture of the man who presumed to voice the views of the townswomen.

Senator Edmunds says, in a letter addressed to an Indian graduate of the Carlisle school: "I shall be glad, at the next session, to do anything in my power to make a general provision that any Indian who chooses voluntarily and in some formal way to renounce hid allegiance to his tribe and assert his desire to become a citizen of the United States, with all its rights and responsibilities, may do so.' But Senator Edmunds refuses to do anything in his power" to securing a general provision to enable a woman to become a citizen by voluntarily arid for mally asserting her desire to do so. He is kinder to the Indian man than to the white woman.—[New Northwest.

When the young women graduates of the University of Minnesota took their degrees at the late commencement, with scholarship fully equal to that of the young men, the Temperance Review of Minneapolis in righteous wrath noting the fact, said: "Such women are denied a vote. Think of it, voters especially when you get into line, on election day, to vote, with a tramp in front of you and a loafer back of you, each, with a ballot in his hand, panting to discharge the high duty of a freeman, with never cent of taxes to pay 1"

A lady traveler in Washington Territory has been watching the gentlemen of the territory to see if they are as gallant as is the manly wont to women as voters. She says that a more courteous class of men does not existt and gentlemen tell her that the more power and independence the ladies possess the more honored they are by the opposite sex, who feel the need of gaining and

respect and good will.—Yakima (W. 1.) Farmer. The condition of -women in any age affords the best type of its true civilization! Uniformly, in the same ratio as education, commence, and peace have enlarged the views, liberalized the temper, ana humanized the spirit of the age, has the condition of woman improved, and we shall hail it as a symbol of a progressive civilization whenever the legal fetters in which the powers of- women are now cramped, shall be stricken awav and she stands on a platform of equal rights with man.—[W. Story. "Indeed the cure for all the radical evils that pertain to American politics appeal* to us to lie in the enfranchisement

mi 1 -.f nm\«a 4i ntt

of women. Their real sphere of operation is the home and women may always be trusted to vote for the preservation of the home and the happiness and welfare of the family. Give American women the franchise, and the huge political blunder of the naturalization law as an incentive to universal immigration will be offset effectually .-[Daily Advertiser, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.

The women of Ottumwa, Iowa, pre sented to the city government a petition bearing 792 names of women asking the enforcement of the dramshop laws. The coHncil passed a resolution that the prayer of the petitioners be complied with. But the mayor declared, in a written speech, that it was not his

duty..

Woman is rapidly trenching upon the domain of man, and the time

occupations.

tion of the Indian brave, and have nothing to do but look handsome and keep the tfomen at work. The lot of the coming man will be a happy one.—[Chicago Inter Ocean.

[Written for the Express.] ~A WATERING PLACE.

C?trrw|

It is something in the nature of a discovery to the unprejudiced person who has taken one or many dips into the water at Coney Island, Rockaway Beach, Atlantic City, etc, etc., to find, after a swim at Indian Ripple and a half hour's cogitation on the immediate surroundings and a half hour of bathing-place reminiscense, that our own Indian Ripple compares very favorably, with the ^^ign and over pretentious resorts. .-•? VThe great objection to sea bathing is j^w the water is too cold for most people, to really enjoy a swim in it. The water of the Wabash is always pleasantly warm after the 1st of June. And then as to the matter of purity, the Wabash is infinitely superior to any sea, ocean or lake.

The velocity of the current of the Wa­

bash

at Indian Ripple is little short of eight miles per hour, at ordinary stages. This great velocity of the current introduces a security for instantaneous change of the bath and consequent freedom from possibility of pollution from any source, not attainable at any lake side nor seaboard bathing place.

The relative invigorating properties of any lake or sea-side bathing place and the water at Indian Ripple, is a matter for personal experiment and decision, only. But remembering the depression that accompanies the primary shock of such cold bathing as the seaDfcth, and reflecting that such primary shock is not experienced in the water of the Wabash we may fairly argue the greater efficacy of the water of Indian Ripple over that of the great pondsfresh or salt. As a matter of fact the writer can positively testify to the noticeable superiority of our indigenous watering place.

He who has the pluck, or the love of the water, or the hydrogenoid instinct, strong enough to enable him to walk through the light, unstable, yellow sand, from a point half way between the upper railroad bridge and Indian Ripple, on up to the latter legendary locality, every afternoon of the week, and after disrobing and wading out through a gradually deepening water, until at 200 feet from the* shore the pellucid, rushing, rippling stream is beginning to make liim hold up his chin a little— will find the attractions of the spot so many and so powerful as to bring him back again and again in this pleasant search for comfort which gives not only the primary object, but in addition better health even to the robust and vastly better health to the invalid and the half invalid who is in the habit of punishing his stomach with the nauseous waters of the various springs, and crucifying his sense of vision with the unsightly surroundings of many of these alleged health resorts.

The city ought to purchase the Wabash bottom, to the extent of a couple of hundred acres, including the vicinity of Indian Ripple, and after constructing a good drive around this park, erect a number of floating or floatable bath houses, for the free UEe of all citizens and all comers. This would be the very best measure of sanitation that could be adopted, since constant daily swimming (not mere bathing) is one of the greatest promoters of good health giving fat to bony frames and taking adipose tissue away from the grossly obese.

I speak of swimming in contradistinction to mere bathing. The two things are about as different in their results as smelling a roast would differ from the effect of eating it, for the purposes of tissue repair. He who would find health in water must not merely lie in it like a clam. He must dart about in it—plunge and plash and swim, swimIf he can't swim now, let him go and learn, and thus remedy the defective education of his boyhood.

A dude objected to Indian Ripple that it "would sun-burn a fellah!" Let it! Its good for him. A good, healthy sunburn is the best of all safeguards against a sun

-stroke.

soleil.

keeping

their

me admonish swim.

The women

were not voters.—[Manistee Standard, The statue of Liberty will look down on the long ranks of. women, u,LIions upon millions, a subject cla&s, ni-i «ne them having a jury trial by 1 peers, not one of .them allowed to have particle of power to make the laws that control their rights and interests, and those of their children. Why should this country add a fresh mockery to women by setting up any statue of liberty

will

no

doubt f-onn come when she .will have monopolized all the trades, professions and

When that happy day

comes, will occupy the proud poea-

Old Sol prob­

ably slaps the umbrella-shaded individual hard with sunstroke because the umbrageous personage refuses the gentler caress of the sunburn. However that may be, there is no doubt that the pigmentation of the skin resulting from a good red sunburn is the best of all protections against the supreme COM®

kSnttZ. W NO. V. While loyal men

dc

Wollesley's soldiers in the Sou-

dan recogn^e that fact, and have discarded all clothing. So don't be afraid of sunburn. Rather court it.

It is fashionable to go into etymological, convulsions over the beautiful scenery of the exogenous and foreign watering place. But for a picture of pastoral beauty give me Indian Ripple. There, on a quiet evening, you may see some of the most wonderfully beautiful sunsets—having their varied gorgeousness doubled by the reflection in the placid water. The long

and-drooping

line of feathery green wil­

lows, here and there Iging down to the water in a fleecy strip of sun-touched yellow, and away up the river, the dark, deep, purplish blue walls of the distant wooded hills, with here and there a jet black stem of along dead tree, standing straight and* trim, as the mast of a stranded brigantine, and—but hold. Let me catch my breath ant save this glowing description for a new novel. But let orlmnnicVt you to go and see—and

H. W. TAYLOR.

and Cool Costs'.

Hot Waves

Baltimore News. People sometimes foolishly wonder why heaven sends hot waves, It is neither impious nor inexcusable for one to be mystified as to why a mosquito or a book agent was created, but not to see the purpose for which the dog days were created ifi to be blind indeed. It is clearly manifest that they are intended to make men come out of their coats and show up in their true colors. Anybody tan assume dignity and reserve in a wellpadded Prince Albert and pretend to be anything he pleases, but who could ever hide his true self behind the meshes of a qtiarter-of-a-dollar coat. For nine months a year a man mau carry his chin at an unnatural angle of pride and pretension, but after the thermometer rises above ninety, all his haughtiness and contempt disappears and he changes his coat. That is what a hot wave is in tended for.

India-Rubber for Ship Armor. The English war-ship Resistance is to be coated with India-rubber to a considerable thickness, to see how that material will repel projectiles.

THE EXPRESS, TEKRE HAUTE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2,1885*

'LET US HAVE PEACE,

His name was as a sword and shield, His words were armed men, He-mowed his foemen as afield

Of wheat is mowed—and then

Sethis strong hand to make the shomoartn smile again.

Not in the whirlwind of his fight, The unbroken line of war, Did he beet battle for the right—

His victory was more—

Peace was his triumph, greater far than all before.

Who is the spirit of love and peace Takes sadly up the blade, Makes war on war, that war may cease-

He etriveth undismayed.

And in the eternal strength his mortal strength is stayed.

Peace, that he conquered for.ourjako— This is his honor, dead. We saw the clouds of battle break

To glory o'er his head—

But brighter shone the light about his dying twd. .--.j: Dead is thy warrior, Kimt of Life,

Take thou his spirit flown, The prayer of them that knew his strife Goes upward to the thronePeace be to him who fought—end fought for peaee alone. .,*7^ —[H. C. B. in Puck.

YIGO IN WAR TIMES.

A Series of Articles on Vigo County in the War. -I

'T&j.

were

bending all their

energies during the months of June and July to the enlistment of recruits, and making every preparation possible to put down the rebellion, awing of the democratic party was doing all in its power to discourage them. This wing was assisted and encouraged in its efforts by such papers as the St. Louis Republican, the Indianapolis Sentinel,the Louisville-Courier Journal, and here at home hy the Terre Haute Journal and the Sullivan Democrat. The New York Day Book, a rank anti-Lincoln sheet, secured a large circulation in this county, as also did Pomeroy's Democrat. Meetings were held throughout the counties of Vigo and Sullivan, long resolutions were adopted denouncing the course of the government in what was termed "this unholy war." When the report of rebel victories were received, these men would appear ou the streets,* and argue that it was useless to attempt to whip the southerners. When the reports of cruelties to northern prisoners by the rebels reached the north, these newspapers were always ready with apologies.

On the 17th of August the democrats held what they termed a "county convention" in a grove north of town. Long resolutions were adopted. They filled several columns of the Daily Journal, and were filled with denunciations administration. Speeches ade by the Hon. John G. Davis and the Hon. D. W. Voorhees. Mr. Davis' speech was filled with democratic ideas, prevalent at that time. He held that the republican party was responsible for the war. He denied the right of secession, but justified what he termed revolution. He spoke for nearly thre£ hours. His strongest point was that he would not go to fight in any other state. When Mr. Voorhees was called for he said he was sick, but but notwithstanding his physical condition he spoke for some time. He declared his sympathies were with the democratic party, and while a portion of the audience cheered the speakers a portion groaned. The speeches worked so strongly on the sentiments of the democrats ip attendance that for the first time yells were heard on the streets (during the evening) for Jeff Davis. Twenty or tbirty of the democrats got drunk and walked the streets, taking in the town. They attacked a crowd of union men, among whom was a returned soldier named John Perry, who was so badly beaten that he died a few days after. The union men were reinforced, and the band democrats forced to retreat. Warrants were 'issued for twelve of them. They were arrested and taken before Peppers who held them in bonds varying from $500 to $1,000 each. The end of this Perry case is

agai. were

Bhrouded

On the evening of Saturday, July 27th, a meeting was held at the court house to make preparations for receiving the Eleventh Indiana, which would be home Tuesday morning. At 10:15 the train arrived, bearing that portion of the Eleventh that was nearest to the hearts of the people of Terre Haute, the noble Vigo and Fort Harrison Guards. They were met at the depot by several thousand, and were given a royal reception. The companies were escorted to the court house square by a band, an artillery company, German home guard and other military companies, citizens on foot and in carriages. As the train approached the city, a signal gun was fired, and then all the bells in the city were rung. On the arrival of the train a national salute was fired by the Holmes and Grover batteries. Mr. Wm. H. Stewart was the marshal of the day. The assistant marshals were John

D. Bell, G. W. Haberly and John Hanley Artillerymen: C. A. Goodwin, Wm.Ernsminger, Geo. W. Gringthv and Mr. Burrowes. When- the soldiers reached the square refreshments were served. Col. W..E. McLean delivered an afldress from the corner of Third and Main streets. He commended them for their bravery, and extended to them the gratitude and most cordial welcome of the citizens. After the address three rousing cheers were

given

for the soldiers, three by them for the citizens and three for the orator. When the Eleventh reached Indianapolis on Monday the men were fairly feasted and toasted. The welcoming speech was delivered by the Hon. Benjamin F. Harrison. Dr. Fry, surgeon of the regiment, responded. The doctor said

that

most of the regiment would return to the scene of action and would cajiy again

without

mounted the stand. "Indiana ifl proud of her volunteers. They have honored their state," said the governor. "We are now but on the threshold of this dreadful war. They know the bravery and experience of the Eleventh will be much in our favor if they should return to the field of action. It will give our arms a prestige that will greatly strengthen them. Would the Eleventh preserve its organization, adhere to its colors, and make a name in history? Shall the experiment of a free government fail? We are fighting for the government. Washington, Jefferson and Taylor have passed away, but the government they administered remains. It becomes every man to assist the government in this, its hour of trial and-dan-ger. The Eleventh has 'Remembered Buena Vista.' The imputed stain npon the honor of Indiana has been wiped out, and will be remembered no more forever."

The Express, August 3—Our fellow citizens W. B. McKeen, W. H. Buckingham, J. B. Hager and W. B. Tuell returned home yesterday in good health, after their visit to Washinton, the Seat of War and New York .city.

The disunion speeches that were being made throughout this district by men who have Since courted the friendship of the soldiers, seems to have had but little effect on Union men. At the time the demonstration meeting was held in the grove north of this city, Vigo had sent three companies of infantry, one of cavalry, besides furnishing a large number of volunteers for other companies. Vermillion, Clay and Sullivan had each sent two companies. Owen had sent three, Parke two, Putnam three and Greene one, making nearly two regiments. Several companies were organized in this city, and were awaiting the word to come. Among these was a company recruiteS by Captain J. S. Welch, who took the name of "Terre Haute Tigers." Captain Jeremiah Mewhinney raised a company in Riley township. The captain had been in the Mexican war, and was considered an experienced soldier. On the 13th of. August a picnic was given the company. There was a tt-~ wd of 1,500 present. Speeches were by Colonel Edwards, C. E. Hosford, John P. Baird, Chas. Cruft and Ralph Wilson.

The following was among the-first items that began to attract attention to the nation's greatest soldier, now lying cold in death at Mount McGregor:

Express, August 16: By the Missouri Democrat of yesterday we learn that the report that Colonel Grant has been attaoked by General Hardee, and bridges burned on the Iron Mountain railroad, is untrue. All was quiet at Pilot Knob on Wednesday afternoon. Hardee is said to be at Greenville, Mo., dispirited, and out of concert with the war.

BATTLE OF SHILOH ON CAN-

SHILOH VAS.

A Striking: Representation of Grant's Great'Battle at the New Panorama. Chicago Herald.

The new panorama of the "Battle of Shiloh" was exhibited between the hours of 4 and 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon to a large number of invited guests and war veterans. It is located in anew building, of great similarity to the buildings at Panorama place, and perhaps a trifle smaller than either the "Siege of Paris" or the "Battle-of Gettysburg," on the west side of Michigan avenue, between Madison and Monroe streets, directly opposite the armories in which the Theodore Thomas concerts are being given. The first thiBg that strikes the spectator as this panorama first breaks upon his vision is its entire dissimilarity to either of the two panoramas already on exhibition in this city. The scene is a grove of light timber, with rolling prairie stretching away to the other groves in the distance. The view is from the roof of a barn on a little knoli—one can readily imagine it a tree-top—in the very center of this grove, and directly between the Union and confederate lines. The Grays are there in great numbers, and the time is just after they had forced the Union lines to give way in a number of laces and just before they made their

Sesperate

in mystery.

It was probably allowed to die and on account of the bitter feeling that was grow-ing-up between the union men and the wing of the democratic party that was now becoming known as "Butternuts" and "Copperheads." The democrats denied that their meeting was responsible for the death of John Perry, and expressed regret and shed a great many crocodile teare.

I aces ana jusi Deiore uiey uinuc onslaught to break the lines altogether. There they stand, hundreds of them within short, very short range of each other, taking deliberate aim at each other, with here and there a shell bui sting within reach of a dozen or more men. The desperate characterof the conflict is everywhere apparent the battle is not yet at its height, and men dying and wounded are scattered here and there throughout the wood. The likeness of General Grant is most striking. He is on horse, and, with right arm extended, is giving an order to General McPherson. In the same group appears Adjutant General Rawlins, afterward secretary of war, and Colonel T. Lyle Dickey, whom the state mourns to-day as one of its supreme court justices. Other faces in the same group of officers are readily recognized in fact, the panorama is remarkable for the number of distinguished officers oi the war it brings into view. Among those who participated in the battle, who were present yesterday and testified in short speeches tofthe correctness of the picture, were General A. L. Chetlain, Captain Andreas, president of the "Shiloh Panorama association," General M. R. M. Wallace, and several others. To day the panorama will be open to the public.

A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.

A Fall Through a Railroad Bridge on the Logan Road. Chailey Garen, who drives Hunter's laundry wagon, fell though the bridge on the Logan road over Sugar creek, above Rockville, yesterday morning. He is member of viie McKeen Rifles and was going with company to Maxinkuckee to go intocam He was standing on the plat form of thy baggag8 car, the other mem bers of the iRifles being on the inside. It is supposed that Garen leaned from the platform and struck his head against one of the :jn girders, -which knocked hL from the car, falling to theiKS. of the creek below. Wo one on the trim saw the accident, but some men in afield near by discovered

Garen

dishonor, the flags.they had re­

lumed with. The soltliers gave cheer cheer when Governor, Morton

upon

lying partially in the water. Just how long he had lain there is not known The regular train for the south arrived soon after, and Garen was placed in one of the two private cars in which were Mr. Mffi&een's family returning from Maxinkuckee. ^ots were prepared for him and Annie McKeen and Mrs. McKeen took the best of care of him on the down trip. He was conscious irat a short time, and suffered a great deal. On arrival in the city at noo? was conveyed to his homey 1413 Ck-.etnut. There is a bad cut over one of his eyes, probably leceived when the iron girder struck him. The doctor does not think he is fatally injured, but there is danger of inllamation of the brain. £-V

ALLIGATOR HUNT.

Profo«Kr Jenkins' Graphic Description of a Night In the North Carolina Swamps and Forests.

The following is part of a letter to his wife from Mr. O. P. Jenkins, of the state Normal. Mr. Jenkins is spending the summer studying in the John Hopkins' Marine Laboratory of Beaufort, on the coast of North Carolina:

Our alligator tripVas a

long and hard one. We, six of us, started from here on Friday morning in a small sail boat. As the wind and tide were against us, we proceeded very slowly, getting only about twenty miles the first day. Our course on this part of the trip was in what is known as Bogue Sound.

We staid all night- with a farmer, where we also got our breakfast. Everything in ihia country is done in the most primitive fashion. Very few people in the country have cook stoves. Indeed, not more *®-'^than one-half of the people '5* in Beaufort have cook stove, but cook in a fire-place. Our breakfast was very plain—no milk nor butter nor sugar. For sugar we had honey. Saturday morning we started out again. We still had the wind directly against us, and as we had a great part of the distance\o work our way among sandbars and m4rshes, it was .very tedious going. We finally came to Whi?.e Oak river or rather to the broad arm of the sea into which it runs. The scenery up the river was very beautiful and the sailing very easy. Some miles up, the river narrowed into something more like a river. We continued sailing up this until about half-past 2 Saturday afternoon. Here we came to a bridge, a store, two or three dwellings and a saw-mill. We landed and bought and ate as many melons as we could, and then made inquiries of the people about the alligators. We found that they are very abundant in all the creeks of that place. We had butafewhoure remaining of Saturday. The next day was Sunday, and we did not wish to hunt otf Sunday, and besides it is against the law here. None of us felt that we could spare the time to wait till Monday, so we concluded to spend the few hours we had (two or three) in hunting, get supper and start home that night, go part of the way, camp out, and finish our journey the next morning.

I hired a negro and a skiff to take me and another man up one of the creeks where everyone said alligators were abundant and large. We went a long way up the creek saw many places where the 'gators, as they call them, had crawled in and out of the marsh. At one time the negro saw a 'gator swimming ahead of us a short distance but by the time he had pointed him out, he had sunk, and all that I saw were the waves that he made.

So short was the time, greatly to my disappointment, that we had to stop hunting at that time. The scenery up this creek was very beautiful, and new to my eyes. The creek was bordered partly by marshes in which grew a very tall kind of rushes and cane-like grass for part of the way, then by pine forests, with trees coming up to the water's edge, covered with a tangled mass of vine, and many southern plants, once in a while also a tree covered with hanging moss. It was a slimy sort of stream, and looked in every way alligatory.

There are certainly very many alligators in this region. The people see them constantly, Often they shoot or catch them on hooks. We- bought one about five feet long which had been caught alive a few days before. He is very lively and flops about and acts quite savagely. We also got a skeleton. They are found in that region fifteen feet long sometimes At the place we landed we got our supper, a very excellent one.

Just as we were about to start off, I made a banter that I could walk home before the others could get there by sailing. After some talk, I started out to make the trip on foot. I was told that the distance was thirty-three miles. My intention was to walk a few miles up in the country, camp out and finish the walk the next day. It was about 9 o!clock at night when I started. The moon was very bright, being nearly full, the sky clear in short, a beautiful night.

In a few steps my road ran into a woods and there remained almost the whole of t&e way. It was a solemn, romantic kind of scenery that I passed. I soon found the mosquitoes veiy bad, a great cloud following me all the time. Every second I wiped them off my face, neck and hands, If I stopped a minute tbey crowded on me faster than I could keep them off. Sleeping under such conditions I saw to be impossible, so I made up my mind to put in the night walking, and so I did. I walked all night, taking but few and very short rests, and also walked straight into the next day till 1 o'clock p. m.

It was a curious experience. As I said, the road was through the woods, The woods seemed to be all of one piece, the only fences being' those of the very few small fenced areas belonging to the very few houses which I passed. For the

first few miles I saw fenced areas and somehonses after tfr|jyt long stretches, one of not less than fii#en miles without the sign of a house or of civilization. I am told that in these wood are plenty of deer and some bears. But I saw neither. Part of the road was very

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applied for something to drink, when they invited me .to breakfast. I accepted the invitation gladly. But was a very poor breaBaet. The only things on the table were coffee, hoecake ana honey. The coffee was black, muddy and bitter no milk, butter or sugar. I gave the woman 25 cents although she did not chargo me anything. Twice on my way I got lost as far as my road was" concerned, it being not much more than a path, it was hard at times to distinguish it after night for occasional other ones which ran into it. By this means I lost some two hours and worse, walked about five miles more than necessary. I finally struck the railroad which runs into Mooiehead city, the town just across the harbor from Beaufort/ I walked down the railroad and soon came to a mile post which said, "eight smiles to moorhead. I got along verv well t'll within six or seven mile of Moorhead when my legs in a particular spot on the thigh got very sore, and walking after 'that became very painful and slow, and beside, the sun now was jip, and on the railroad, not being shaded, it was extremely hot. But finally all the mile posts went by, and I found myself hardly able to budge. At Moorehead I got a man and boat, and soon was in my room here. The walk was, if I had not lost my way, thirtythree miles. I am sure I made it about thirty-eight miles. I got in "two hours ahead of the fellows in the boat. They had camped out, but got no sleep on acconnt of mosquitoes, and then sailed down leisurely, not thinking to see me till Tuesday.

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consequently very difficult to walk in. As I said, it was a solemn old walk throughout the whole night, through this North Carolina forest, a thousand miles from home, and" seemingly a thousand miles from anyone. I was armed but had no adventure. Occasionally a crushing in the bushes off in the dark woods caused me to draw my revolver, and once suddenly there stood out in the moon light in the middle of my road a very large dog which at first seemed as if he would dispute the passage with me, but on a near approach he gave a sudden leap into the "brush and disappeared into the darkness, Frequently a night hawk would swoop down over my head and make a wierd noise. So wore the night awajr. I was very hot and suffered much with thirst. I did not get any water until about four o'clock the next morning when I quenched my thirst in a rather black pool, but of very good (apparently) water. On the whole trip I saw no vehicle or hone on the road. The lunch which I carried had through my carelessness got mixed with sand, which made it impossible to eat it. But early in the morning I passed a house where I saw the family at breakfast I

I got here just as dinner was ready. Wawed and dressed, and went to dinner. About 4 o'clock Sunday evening I lay down on my bed with my clothes on, and did net wake up till after 6 this (Monday) morning, not waking up for. supper nor to undress. This morning I am all right, with the exception of being somewhat sore and a severe headache, which is now passing away.

'[Written for the Express.] HATTIE.

Angels make rare visits to earth. They don't often deign to stay with us, but sometimes we meet them, and how refreshed we are in this world of shame, and deception, and fraud, when w^meet a soul that is pure and noble and womanly. I. am to write of angels among women—there may be some found among men, but, heaven knows, they are scarce enough among women. There are so many devotees of fashion, of wealth, of caste, and so many who entertain ambitious desires for worldly pleasure, that to the seeker after a

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I know one, however. I meet her the other evening. is Hattie. More than a year ago her mother died, leaving a family of five children, one a babe, to the care of Hattie, then only about 15 years of age, a mere child herself, craving a mother's love and a mother's counsel. But she took her place cheerfully, and for the past twelve months has acted the part of a mother in that little household. I wish you could- have seen her, as I saw her, with two of her little brood lovingly nestling under her tender caresses the other evening. I wish you could have seen her when bed-time came and she called the little ones around her and kissed them and tucked them all in their beds and could have seen the look she gave them when their eyelids closed, and childhood's joys in dream-smiles closed each other over their chubby cheeks. Oh, how she kissed them aga?- and again, praying^ that the Father w«v

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and keep them. Do you wonder that they do as she bids them? Do you wonder that they areas clay in her hands to be molded as she wills? Do you wonder that I call her an angel? Do you wonder that I was strengthened and refreshed when I saw her? Humble, simple minded, womanly Hattie, in this world there are few like you. When I think of you, feelings sweep over me perfumed as from Eden's flowers before its doom. Once, late in the fall among the withered leaves of a forest, my eyes rested upon a beautiful flower at my feet, that poured rich odor, scented with essences gathered from the dews of heaven, as far spread as its tiny powers permitted, stinting not, knowing only it was doing its mission, and happy in the thodght. I call Hattie such flower in womanly dress, living in a forest of human trees, withered and dying, breathing the breath of life into tliem, sending hope through every fibre of their bodies, wherever she goes, because she knows naught else.

To you, peevish, dissatisfied, and covetous girls, who are continually crying out for something to do, and yet doing noth ing, I would say there is a large field for labor opened before you. Never imagine your work is a thousand miles away from you, and that you shall never be able to reach it There is much of sadness you can remove in the homes around you, and have joy to reign instead. Never complain that there is no grand or noble deed for you to perform, it is the little act3 that count so much to make life worth the living. The average American-born girl seems to have-an indistinct, fanciful notion of what she was made for, but that is all. She is continually worrying herself, and fretting for the time to come when she can ful fill her mission in life. I would whisper in her ear, were I permitted do so, that her noblest work lies in the duties of home. It is within the power of every girl who is blessed with a mother's love to so mold anil train him as to add a man to the wealth of the world. What more exalted work than that! Other girls dissatisfied with their lot are crying out for ease, for wealth, for pleasure. God pity the young girl, full of health, and love, and affection^ who thus wastes away her youdg life. Develop yourself by pouring that hidden current of love you possess upon some other soul,

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