FRIDAY-
.APRIL 12; 1S7S.
XOTICK.
AgeuU will tlea lake notice that It Is a
real tax opou n to pay expreM charges upon
small sums, and they will confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money order or
ncMmd letters.
WE WANT MOHETj, HOT PEOMISES
Tiie financial problem, or, rattier, tbe
dlseussion 01 11, sun continues, one
statement usually sounding fair until a
counter statement Is made. Inamultl
tude of counselors we are told there Is
safety, but when no two of this multi
tude agree upon any important point, it
is extremely difficult to fiud from their
counsels just where the road to financial
safety His. A writer in the Seattle In
telttgmecr makes a very plain and fair
showing in favor of paper currency in
tbe following words:
A ekl dollar la worth a dollar to tbe bolder.
not because It la (Old, hot because the govern
ment places Its stamp upon Hand Rives It a
statutory enactment of legal tender for all
does or purchases. The silver dollar, rem 00
etlzed. Is the same, and the greenback, were It
endorsed with fall legal tender power, without
a redeeming clause, would be tbe same, be
cause It would be the mandatory expression of
tbe government the sovereign will, supported
and upheld by all tbe properties of the nation.
It would be retsed above distrust by Its lnter-
ehangeabillty lor gold and silver, and eon vert'
lbillty into the Interest bearing bonds of tbe
nation. Once Ox In mind that It Is tbe stat
utory enactments, the mandatory expression,
the sovereign will of the government, that
gives 10 any substance, be it gold, silver, or
paper, the power of money and not tbe sub
stance llself.aad we have gained a very Ira'
portent step In the solution of this monetary
question.
Tbe Oregonian quotes and comments
on this in these words:
This would be very lmportant,lf true. But 11
so happens that It Is not tbe wverelgn will of
Ike government that gives value either to gold,
silver, or paper. Gold and silver have value,
whether backed by statutory enactments or
not: and paper has value only as It Is to be re-
tawned In gold, silver, or something else of
known value. Gold and silver, whether coined
or not, will buy anything for sale In any coun
try. As lor paper currency. It isnt the
"mandatory expression'' of government that
gives it value, bat the prospector Its redemp
tion. If statutory enactments could do so
mocb, why were our greenbacks at one time
worth less than forty cents on the dollar?
They were backed by the "mandatory ex pres
rkm" of tbe government then, the same as
now. But because peoplecouldnt be confident
they would be redeemed with actual money,
their depredation was great. At the present
time there are manifest signs of the ability and
wUllngnees of tbe country to redeem them;
and tbts process is expected to begin shortly.
Hence they are quoted nearly up to tbe value
ef gold.
True, gold and silver have value in
certain ways, whether backed by stat
utory enactments or not, and so has
iron and other metals, but paper that Is
by statutory enactment made money of
the government, and not a promise to
pay, would answer all purposes of me'
talilc money certainly. "Because the
people could not be confident green'
baoks would be redeemed" we are told
was the reason that at one time they
were worth less than forty cents on tbe
dollar. But suppose they had been con
sidered and denominated "money of the
United States," and not promises to
pay, why would not every dollar have
been worth its face? We want a paper
currency that the will and stamp of the
government gives a specific value,
without prospect, mention, or intention
of redemption in metallic money, and
this currency will to all intents and
purposes, and for all uses, be money,
light, transmissable, convenient, and
valid, a full legal tender for all debts,
contracts, and obligations, instead of, as
now, demonetized by bearing upon its
face the promise to pay which carries
with it always an uncertainty which is
weakened or strengthened by local or
national causes, an uncertainty often
developed into a panic by the tricks
and devices of money brokers ami batik
manipulators.
"VITAL
SPARK OP
FLAME."
HEAVENLY
The soul of old John Brown still "goes
raareliing on," to the obvious diseom
fiture of Southern Democratic Repre
sentatives. A report that the State of
Kansas will present to Congress a statue
of him, to be placed in tbe national art
gallery, has been sufficient to throw
men who are engaged in making laws
for a country they once sought to de
stroy into a fever of excitement. The
vital spark Is still aglow, and tbe ghost
of old John Brown still haunts those
who erewhile batched treason and still
chafe because their hopes of establfsh
lisbing a government whose corner
stone should be human slavery met
with
" Kepalse repeated, and indecent overthrow."
Strange that men will not see the fu
tility of attempting to exfend their op
position to human freedom to that realm
" Where Sold feet through paths by man un
tied Ruaon strange errands for Almighty God."
"IHNOOENTTABMEBS."
The Standard dubs two of the Repub
lican nominees for representatives from
Claokamas county as""Iunocent farmers
who are unfit to sit in the legislative
balls at Salem." The sturdy yeomanry
of Gtaekaiuas, by whom the candidates
of either party will l,e elected, will
doubtless appreciate this slur upon the
ignorance and verdancy of farmers. The
jieujne are uutopuisiloaled enough to
think that it will be more credit to the
State and benefit to all concerned to
elect "innocent" and honest farmers to
the legislature than to send again a feet
of political and moral tricksters, who
haggle concerning the price of Sena
torial votes about the saloons of tbe
capital at hours when men of integrity
are asleep.
The Phrenologioal Journal for April
is as full of philosophy, common sense,
and interest as any of Its predecessors,
which is according to It the highest
meed of praise.
THE IGNOBAHTLAW-MAKEB.
The editor of the SlaaU ZeUung, of
this city, like all the other journalists
wiio nave from time to time watched
the defeat of their own futile attempts
to array themselves against the Woman
bullrage movement, rushes boldly to
the front, in imaginary defense of the
absurd fallacy of masculine supremacy
As we watch his awkward flounderings
in the ruuddy waters of bigotry and is'
uorance into which be lias voluntarily
plunged, our sympathy almost gets the
better of our judgmeut, aud it is with
difficulty that we refraiu from lending
him an alphabetical oar with which to
paddle himself to the shores of political
terra firma. We quote:
The women's rights representatives have
asked Congress for an amendment 10 the Con
stitution, to demand of the several (States not
to oppose the women suffrage. J Hi we need an
additional proof of tbe entire ignorance of tbe
women and their advisers who have, as yet,
not learned the political alphabet? The cen
tral (Federal) government has no right at all
to exercise an hegemony over all the Stales
and tbe latter would, of course, not submit to
It. Should even Congress, out of gallantry
toward the women, be induced to demand
such Imputations from the single Stales, they
would not be permitted lo give way to their
wishes bat by tbe public voice, by the vote of
the whole people. And what tbe people's
opinions of It are, that is, of those of the heads
of Um Hies, who as yet are the only voters, the
women are well aware of, knowing from expe
rience tbe views of men in this respect
throughout tbe country. The women, there
fore, must take another course in order to get
tbe men under a petticoat government,
namely, they must become true and faithful to
their good lords (husbands). We do not mean
drunkards and good -for-nothings, against
whom the law affords them full protection.
It Is deserving of notice that not one German
woman has been taken with the before-mentioned
foolish notion, and that, rather, the
mostintelllgent and prominent German wom
en do pronounce the Woman Suffrage agita
tion as a farce.
Where could our brother German
have been hiding himself during the
past twenty years of Rip Van Winkle
sleep, from which be Is just awakening?
Surely he lias not been blessed with tbe
enlightened society of tbe American
women over whom he would exercise
"an hegemony," else he would know
that tbe Federal government is tbe
primal source from which all the States
receive the right to exist as such, lie
would also know that this right of suf
frage, for which tho women are peti
tioning Cougress, is the same right
which was originally conferred by that
body on the German, French, Irish,
Italian, Russian, Prussian, and African
men. Did he know the alphabet of
American politics, be would be aware
that "th.e vote of the whole people," in
stead of that of an aristocracy of sex,
was tbe central idea of the founders of
that alphabet. He would know that
we, the people," does not, ethically or
morally, mean "we, the men." And he
would further know that every restric
tion which holds the motherhood of
America in political subjugation to
men, whether they be Germans, negroes,
or native born Chinamen, is in direct
violation of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, upon which the Federal gov
ernment is founded.
He says "(he people are the heads of
families, who as yet are the only vnt'
ers." Surely the Doctor did not even
dream while he was sleeping, else be
would by this time know that to be a
husband and father is not, under the
present maladministration, required of
any voter. It is ouly considered neces
sary that he be a man, thus placing sex
above principle, above intellect, integ
rity, and soul.
Tbe women are well aware that all of
the leading brain power among men In
America Is already on their side in ac
knowledging their inalienable right to
a voice In the government for which
their foremothers suffered untold priva
tions at the hands of hired Germans who
were employed by George III. lo subju
gate them during the revolutionary war.
Surely the Doctor would not have us
believe that his personal experience
with wives has been such as to justify
him In saying, even by Implication,
that women want men to be subjected to
a feminine government? Or, shall we
understand him to Imply that women
who seek their Inalienable rights, which
men like himself have wrested from
them, are not "true and faithful to their
good lords?" What does he mean by
saying that "the law aflortls full protec
tion to women against drunkards ami
rrood-for-nothlugs?" Are not these
same fellows voters andlaw-tna
And does not tlie Doctor declare himself
satisfied that their wives and daughters
shall be in subjection to them, lest the
protected creatures fall under his mas
culine displeasure?
But tho crowning finish to the Doc
tor's unconscious exhibition of igno
rance is his closing paragraph. Were
he at all up in his "alphabet," he would
know that Mathilde F. Weudt, of New
England, a famous author and lecturer,
who is a German lady of ability, before
whose talent such as Ills would pale into
nothingness, is president of a large and
nourishing Woman Sufirage Associa
tion of Germans in Boston, and that
Mrs. Clara Neyman, of New York, an
other lecturer and authorof equal merit,
whose acquaintance we have made in
person, is president of the German
Woman Suffrage Association of New
York City, where she is ably assisted by
Mrs. Lillienthal, another Woman Suf
frage lecturer, also a native of Germany,
and, like tbe other ladles named, a re
spectable, loyal wife and mother, who
has sufficient political ""Racily to see
and proclaim, Doctor Volkman to the
contrary notwlinsiantnng, mat uuu
Knew what be was about wuen tie saw
and said that it was not good for man to
ne alone.
Tbe deplorable political botch-work
of masculine aristocrats who vainly at
tempt to "put asunder that which God
hath joined together" is tho direct con
sequence of men's violation of the eter
nal law that gave to humanity, whom
God created male and female, that "do
minion over all the earth" without
whioh there can be neither perfect
homes nor perfect governments. How
long, O, Lord, bow long are sensible
women to remain In political subjection
to the bigoted usurpations of Ignorant
and despotic law-makers?
ODE COUNTY SCHOOLS.
The published report of J. J. Browne,
superintendent of schools for Multno
mah, county, shows an advancement In
THEBE IS HO EXCUSE.
Persons have no right to nssume
parental duties and obligations who are
incapable of fulfilling them, pecuuiarny
the Interestof education during the past j m, (llherwise ln a way tliatwill Rive
year that is a source of pride and grati
fication. The report shows 5,595 chil
dren of school age in the county, un ox
cess of 607 over those reported last year.
Of these, 3,S03, or nearly seventy per
cent., have been enrolled on the public
school records. Comparing statistics, it
is found that this is an increase In en
rollment of nearly twenty per cent, in
four years, while the average attendance
during the same period has risen from
1,070 to 2.4SS. The number not attend
ing any school Is seventeen and one
fifth per cent, lens than four years ago.
For tbe year ending on the first Mon
day in March, $40,791 were paid as
teachers' wages. This amount has, as
usual, been very unequally divided be
tween the men and women teachers, the
former receiving an average of $71 95,
and the latter $65 42 per runutli.
It seems in this matter a matter of
such simple justice that the veriest
child recognizes It that progress makes
haste slowly. Turning to a book which
gives faithful record of the struggles of
some of the noted "women of the cen
tury," we find that just about the Mine
difference ns that shown above was
made In the wages of men and women
teachers In New York Stote forty years
ago. It is recorded of that time that
Sn?an B. Anthony, though being ac
corded by tliesuperlntendeiitsof schools
in various counties where she taught
credit for the most thoroughly taught
and best disciplined scholars, yet re
ceived for her services as teacher but
eight dollars, while men received from
twenty-four to thirty dollars per month.
Small wonder that when, after fifteen
years of faithful lubor and close econ
omy, she had succeeded in saving but
$900, she should have been taught a
long lesson and a strong one on equal
rights.
While the rapid growth and present
popularity of our public schools is a
matter of personal pride, a state of pub
Ho opinion or an Inflexible injustice
that holds to the old idea of paying
teachers according to pex, Instead of
merit and conscientious discharge of
duty, is a shame which our more en
lightened and educated people at least
should strongly discouutenanco and
earnestly strive to correct, not because
it is a question of "woman's rights," so
called, but because it is a plain state
ment of justice, to Iguore which Is to be
too narrow aud illiberal to be fitly called
an educator.
But to return to our report. The
superintendent calls attention to some
Imperfections in the school law, which
It will be wise for our coming legisla
tors to heed. Chief among the anieud
ments mentioned as advisable, not to
say necessary, is a provision lor a sys
tem of graded schools. We are sure
that all thoughtful persons will agree
with Mr. Browne In the statement that
upon a matter of so murli importance
lo the educational interests of tbe State
as graded school, without which there
con be no such thing as system, tbe law
should not he silent or merely passive,
but should spenk out In unmistakable
terms. This law," he says, "should
authorize the directors to determine the
qualifications for admission to sucl
schools, aud to "prescribe courses o
study, text books for the useof schools,'
etc All very well; but we Imagine we
see some of tbe "good deestrict fathers'
In the "rooral deestricts" such an one.
for instance, as caused a placard to bo
placed upon the door of the school
house under his supervision (jointly
with two others of like mental calibre
and scholarly attainments), "No gurl
need apply for this skule" examiuiug
pupils for the different departments
Tbe suggestion is a good one, however,
as it will, if carried out, cause these in
sufierable old fossils who boast of uever
having had "book Iarnln,'" yet Imag'
I ne the affairs of the district canuot'be
properly managed without their advice
and authority to grumble and growl un
officially, while more enlightened men
or women, fill n place which requires
knowledge, activity, and perception to
fill properly. A school law that shall
meet the requirements of our growing
civilization must admit women tu tbe
position of school directors aud superin
tendcnls, or in some localities it will be
Illy administered. This, however, Isleav
ing the question of justice and talking
expediency, a tiling which we do not
desire lo do; but rather as a matter of
simple justice to the noble array of
women educators of ourcommonwealth
we Insist that a law opening all educa
tlonal offices to them on full equality
with men is a necessity. A free aud
untrammeied useof the best available
material for .educational purposes
equal pay for equal work justice aud
expediency alike demand.
"HEBE'S PBESHNESS."
The Standard says of Captain Apper-
son, Ropubllcau nominee for State Sen
ator for Clackamas: "His name Is actu
ally wearisome." Possibly to his po
litical opponents. But for something
to give charming freshness to tiiel
ticKet, ttie uetnocrats invariably trot
out Johu Myers. We learn that this
latter gentleman serioufelyTonlempIated
introducing into tbe last legislature
bill declaring tbe position fur which
Captain Apperson Is candidate heredi
tary in Clackamas county, but allowed
himself to be dissuaded from his pur
pose by pretended friends who assured
him he would have "a life lease of the
place anyhow." Nothing "wearisome"
about thai to him.
their children a fair start in tbo great
race of life. If this declaration be rad
ical, "make tbe most of It."
Wm linvn nil lipnril IhrlftlcSS do-
naughts utter this lame and altogether
contemptible excuse for briuglug up
their children in ignorance, "I can't
afford lo educate them. Eveu if schools
are free, there are books to bo bought;
besides, I must have their help at home."
Tbe young America of to-day quickly
responds, "Why, then, am I here?"
And paler familial, nonplussed and
irate, lights his pipe anil groans over the
degeueracy of tho times, and relates
stories of the days when he was a boy
anil "three months' schoolln' was cou
Mdered enough, and children weren't
allowed to ask Impertinent questions,
either." Alt of this has very little to
with the question, which, though
mpertinent perhaps, is still pertinent,
and waiting to be solved.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her ad
mirable story, "Pink and While Tyr
anny," speaking of the disposition 10
throw off matrimonial boutls when a
man discovers lie bus drawn a blank in
the great lottery, says : "Let them re
flect before marriage; that is the only
proper time for reflection." So we say
those who seek pretext to shirk
parental duties; let them consider these
In tics, their vast importance and heavy
responsibility, before they are volunta
rily assumed, and be not guilty of the
awful sin of making existence a curse to
auy human creature. Tobringchildren
nasked of themselves or tbe world Into
life, knowing their Inability as parents
to provide pleasant homes, comfortable
raiment, and fair educational advan
tages for them is totally Inexcusable in
any one, and such parents have no right
to expect their children to "rise up and
call them blessed." Tbe offspring, not
of reason and love, but of blind ml
chance, or worse; deprived of an equal
start in life, their undoubted birthright
pinched by penury; the sport and prey
of ignorance, tho lives of thousands are
foredoomed failure, and the pitiful plea
of parental inability is the only one of
fered to a defrauded humanity.
There is but oue place for her to go,'
Is the significant whisper, as the story
is rehearsed of an unsophisticated coun
try girl who came to the city to earn her
living, and falling to do so, was cast
moneyless and friendless into the street.
We tried, notwithstanding the signifi
cant tone, to hojie for sweet charity'i
sake that this place was her father'
house. What man has a right to be a
father who would permit a girl of six
teen to attempt to earn her own living
in a strange city, and that without a
trade, or preparation of any sort? Lu
nacy or paralysis aro tbe only excuses.
Children have a right to a borne and
care and food and clothing until able to
take care of themselves; and In return
for the discharge of these voluntarily
assumed obligations to children and to
the world, parents have a right to ex
pect obedience aud filial regard from
their children during minority, and
care and kindness when age overtakes
them. A father who allows "his young
daughter, all unused to the wiles and
ways of tbe wicked, to drift helplessly
into a city in search of work to enable
her to keep "life afoot," is guilty of a1
crime against the peace and dignity of
the commonwealth fur which there Is
absolutely no defense.
"MEDDLING WOMEN."
"Meddling women," not those who
help meddling men to rehearse and
scatter village gossip, but those who, in
spite of custom, have persisted in "med
dliug" in science, poetry, art, litera
ture, philosophy, politics, government,
and war, formed a subject for a very at
tractive lecture by Mrs. Ada C. Bowles,
of Philadelphia, recently. The old-fash
ioned "meddling woman," she who
wondered, as she sipped her tea, how
Mrs. A. could afford to "keep a girl," or
how Mr. B. put up with his wife's ex
travagance In dress, or spied out the
tiny garments on her neighbor's clothes
line and gave detailed description of
each particular piece, has always been
spokeu of by men with contempt, even
while they were unwilling that wom
an's sphere should outgrow such narrow
bounds. But theso women meddlers of
the new school command the respect of
men, however grudgiugly praise may
be accorded to them. A man or woman
however narrow-minded would scarcely
hazard the opinion that the class of
women meddlers developed by the ad
vancing civilization of the nineteenth
century are not n vast improvement
upon the type that they have ridiculed
from babyhood, even though they feel
ln duty bound to denounce the former
as wide wanderers from their sphere, i
Or if perchance auy one fancies he pre
fers one of the old school meddlers, let
him leave the society of the others fur a
wlille, aud going Into a country neigh
borhood where the NbwNoutiiwest is
ostracised, and fashion books and books
of fiction deemed unfit to enter a family;
where women with broken or destroyed
teeth think it flying in the face of Prov
idence to call upon a dentist; where
they distort their spines and ruin their
eyea by interminable patch-work, as
they rock or spank the ubiquitous nurs
ling, aud listening patiently to these
sphere-keepers, in their favorite char
acter of meddlers, for a month, let him
come back to confessional. Our word
for It, he will expunge the phrase
"woman's sphere" from his vocabulary,
and uever again quote even so remark'
able a personage as "my grandmother'
when telling what women should and
should not do.
WORKERS IN WASHINGTON
BIT0BY NOT IDLE.
TEB-
Dulegatcs from the various counties
in Washington Territory will convene
at Walla Walla in June to frame a
constitution for the future State of
Washington. The womeu of the Terri
tory, mindful of their opportunity, and
recognizing tiie fact that It is easier to
prevent error than to correct It, are on
the alert to prevent tho Insertion of the
word "male" In that instrument as a
necessary qualification for voters.
Mary OIney Brown, whose able arti
cles on the "Equality of Citizenship"
appeared in these columns a few weeks
since articles, by the way, which
we hope every man and woman in the
Territory will read writes: "We have
got up a petition to tbe coming conven
tion, asking that tho word mate be left
out, and that all citizens, irrespective
of sex, be allowed to exercise the priv
ilege of the franchise. We would be
glad lo have you call the attention of
your readers lo the fact that this peti
tion is being circulated and has been
signed so far almost universally wher
ever presented. We desire to send cop
ies to every town in the Territory, and
if we cau ouly get them into the hands
of efficient canvassers, we are confident
that at least two-thirds of tbe entire
population will affix their signatures to
them." We hope thatbelloversin equal
rights men and women of Washingtou
Territory as well will Bee to this mat
ter at once.
GLIMPSES 0PTHE PUTUBE.
Speaking of the distinguished ability
displayed by educated women in the
medical profession, the Voice of Truth
says: "It is partly in consequence of
tbo demonstrated fact that one of the
learned professions can be filled by
womeu that other learned professions
are now invitingly open to them; and
step by step tbe higher walks of science
and of learning are becoming peopled
and brightened by those who were once
considered only tbe beautiful butterflies
of tbe social world."
Reason for congratulation aud thank
fulness have earnest women workers
iu this great reform, as they look abroad
over tho vast field of human usefulness
and human needs, and fiud the one
peopled by n busy efficient throng of
women workers, while the other is
gently ministered unto by this enlarge
ment of woman's sphere. Those who
have worked for a quarter or a third of
a century, aud working, have grown old
in tha service, may not live to see the
holy fanes ot ejual law take the place
of the present temples of injustice, yet
rising by tilings that their indomitable
courage has placed beneath their feet,
they have reached the pinnacle of a
Pisgah from which "beyond the bigots
narrow bound" they catch mauy beau
teous visions of the great to be. Women
by hundreds have proved in the face of
giant obstacles that the sphereof woman
Is not necessarily a subordinate and
narrow oue. By energy and persist
ence, and above all by example, they
can and will prove that her sphere
should only bo limited by her individ
ual capacity, and that of this each one
is her own best judge.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson's munifi
cent gift to the nation of Carpenter's
great painting of the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation has awak
ened great interest in artistic circles.
The picture was presented, with .appro
priate ceremonies, on the 12th of February.
Dr. Chance, who has heretofore been
an uncompromising opponent of equal
rights, publicly proclaimed himself on
the progresive platform at Odd Fel
lows' Temple on Monday eveulng by
expressing his opinion that tiie ladles
and gentlemen should sit aud stand
"turn and turn about," as there were
not chairs euougli to accommodate all
at once. The selfish side of the equal
rights question always strikes a man
first; the magnanimous features soou
follow.
C. H. Tuttle, a young man formerly
of Portland, committed suicide at Peoa
wawa, Washington Territory, a short
time since. Cause, brooding over Ill
health. If women allowed themselves
to brood over like misfortune with like
result, tbe meu would soou have the
world to themselves while it lasted.
F0BEIGN NEWS,
The German iron-clad fleet will pro
ceed east in the beginning of May.
There is a rumor at Athens that Eng
land will occupy the island of Crete.
Mobilization lias been ordered in the
four remaining Russian military dis
tricts. Russians are desperately urging the
Sultan to surrender his iron-Claris and
positions on the Bosphorus.
Russia Is pushing forward 011 both
sides of the Danube. She Is secretly
negotiating for a large loan.
It is stated that Russia has officially
oUered to quit the neighborhood of Cou
stoutiuople if the British fleet with
draw.
Russia has requested Montenegro to
prepare for a renewal of hostilities.
Prince Nikita Is taking measures ac
cordingly.
The Russians have renewed the con
tracts for supplies aud transportation
which were cancelled after the signa
ture of the treaty.
Russia offers to send an ambassador
to the Vatican at once on the Pope's ac
cepting the condition of the church in
the Russian Empire.
Movements of Russians on the Dan
ube and in Roumanla Indicate a deter
mination to prepare thoroughly against
the contingency of au Austrian attack
in the rear. All passes over the Car
pathians practicable for artillery and
trains are covered by positions which
the Russians have just occupied. Rus
sian troops are constantly moving from
Bulgaria lntu Roumauia.
The question concerning the position
of Roumania is becoming more and
more embarrassing. It is said Austria
has intimated her desire that the au
thority of Russia should be limited as
much as possible during the passage of
troops through the principality, and
that everything should be avoided
which might give the character of Rus
sian occupation to tbe temporary pres
ence of the imperial troops.
"DUTIES OP WIYES."
"The whole comfort of the household
depends upon trifles more immediately
under the jurisdiction of the wife. By
her management of small sums her hus
band's respectability and credit are cre
ated or destroyed. Pennies Inpercept
ibly sliding away does the mischief;
and this alone the wife can slop, for it
doea not come within a man's province.
A woman may love her husband de
votedly, may sacrifice friends, fortune,
family, country for him. She may
have the genius of a Sappho, but, melan
choly fact, if she falls to make his home
comfortable, his heart will immediately
escape her. Bettersubmit then to house
hold tasks, however repugnant they
may be to your tastes, than doom your
self to a loveless home. Women of the
higher order of mind will not run this
risk; they know that their domestic
duties are their first ones."
I have copied a portion of one of the
numerous articles of the kind that flood
the newspapers of to-day. Now, Mrs,
Editor, tiiat all sounds very fine, most
people will read it and say, "very sensi
ble article that;" and we listeners echo
very. The first assertion is, "that the
whole comfort of tbe household depends
upon the wife." Note the inconsistency.
A wife who, according to the supposed
rules and regulations of the fatuity holds
an inferior position, lias to suouiuer
the burdens that are or ought to be
borne by the superior or head, tbe hus
band. She should no more be expected
to do so than a corporal should be ex
pected to assume the responsibility of
looking after the whole comfort of the
regiment. Next, "she stands alone in
saving or destroying her husband's re
spectability or credit, and that is to be
done by the saving or wasting of small
sums." He never wastes anything, of
course. The wife, according to this
standard, has to stand alone and battle
witii the world, for does not this oracle
say, "she alone can avert the mis
chief? Small things being not in
man's province?" Let a woman buy
a ribbon, ring, or any other ornament
to please the eye and thereby increase
the allections of their lords, and the cry
is, "ecouomize, save the pennies and
small sums. That Is your province.'
Why not tell men that their province
is to do without tobacco, cigars, beer,
whisky, wines, canl playing, etc., etc.
We could mention meu who spend
many dollars In playing social games
which end in paying fur the drinks, if
nothing more. Why not advise them
to give up spending these little sums,
the spending of which establishes a dis
gustlng habit, If it does not positively
Injure tbe health and bralu ? Why not
advise them to save their own "respect
ability and credit" by hoarding these
small sums?
Agaiu we read, "a woman may lov
her husband devotedly, she may sacrf
fice fortune, friends, family, aud coun
try for him. She may have genius and
be encbantingiy beautiful, yet after all
his heart will inevitably escape .her
she does not complete tbe sacrifice by
doing all kinds of house-work, however
repugnant to her tastes, in order to cater
lo his whims. Either tills or a loveless
home. But the stratigest information
is that women of the higher order of
mind will not run such a risk. They
know that their feminine and their do
mestic duties are their first ones."
So it seems that when a woman Is
married her individuality Is gone, the
duties to self must be laid aside; no
more thoughts of self-culture, for that
might interfere with her husband's
dinner. Her chief duties and chiefest
attraction now must be to go smilingly
luto household drudgery, however re
pugnant to the taste, and practice small
economies that she may retain his love.
Is it not about time that husbands
should be read a lesson upon their du
ties? Or that they should, at least, be
exhorted to beware lest the "primal sin
of selfishness" swallow up their regard
for the vows "to love, to honor, and to
cherish?"
We have read countless numbers of
articles wherein benevolent Individuals
have labored to lead women in the
paths of duty, but we never have as yet
found but one who was bold enough to
give advice to husbands, and have never
heard from that one since. We believe
that death ensued from fright, the con
sequence of such temerity. And if you
never hear from us again, you may con
clude the same silent messenger has
knocked at our door and found us at
home. C. O.
Canyon City, April 2, 1S7S.
EE0ENTEVENT3.
Tlie postal commission say the postal
card Is now a necessity for public busi
ness and generally demanded, even at a
greater cost than now.
Tbe Steuben county poor-house near
Bath, Maine, was burned on the night
the Cth, fifteen inmates perishing.
An Insane pauper fired the building.
The Oregon Steamship Company has
pencil a freight office iu New York
City, and are prepared to give through
bills of loading by either of the three
routes.
Among the items iu the river ami
harbor improvement bill is the follow-
ng: For improvement of the Missouri,
above tbe mouth of tbe Yellowstone,
$30,000.
The Senate committee on appropria
tions inserted in the deficiency bill an
ifem of $15,000 for contingent expenses
f the San Francisco mint during the
remainder of the current year.
A trapeze performer at Mozart's Gar-
deu, Brooklyn, allowed an apple placed
upon her head to be shot at by another
woman. Tbe apple was not hit; the
performer's foretiead was, and the tra
peze will know her no more forever. -
The steamship "Canada," of the
French line, which left for Havre re
cently, carried out eight hundred tons
of exhibits for tbe Pari3 Exposition.
These have been sent on from all por
tions of tbe country, some of them com
ing from Oregon,
Tlie Senate committee on military af
fairs agreed to recommend the passage
of Spencer's bill appropriating $30,000
for a military telegraph from Deadwood
to Fort Ellis, Montana, embracing a
line of military posts on tbe Yellowstone
and Big Horn Rivers.
Tbe House of Representative?, on tbe
4th, by a vote of -139 to SO, declared the
office of door-keeper vacant. It eulwe-
quently refused, by a vote of 1SS to 59,
to accept as a substitute for the report
of tlie committee on civil service reform
a resolution of censure of door-keeper
Polk.
Hon. William M. Evarts, Secretary
of State, accompanied by his family,
arrived in Omaha by a special car, on
the Stb, the cause of tbe journey being
the serious illness of his son, William,
who had been for several years in China,
and had reached the city named on his
return.
Tlie revenue steamer "Thomas Qor
wln," stationed at Astoria, Oregon, has
by the Secretary of the Treasury been
temporarily assigned to assist Captain
Merrlman, inspector of the government
thirteenth light-house district, in mak
ing surveys and replacing buoys at the
mouth of the Columbia River.
The New England Methodist Confer
ence, at Westfield, adopted resolutions
declaring it the duty of citizens, espe
cially Christians, to prevent the eleva
tion of bad men to civil offices, deplor
ing the corruption in society and prev
alence of the communist and infidel
sentiment, and declaring the course of
the government toward the African, In
dian, aud Chinese, to be full of injus
tice, bad faitb, aud cruelty.
Betterjor It.
A lady residing in Dallas sends us the
subjoined poem, with the following
note: "I Inclose a little gem, which I
think not only a good woman's rights
nroduction. but a-c6ori argument for
equal rigiits. I found it iu an old mag
azine, and would be pleased to know (he
name of the author, If you can supply
It." This we are unable to do, but con
cur in our frieud's opinion of tlie poem,
and gladly republish it:
If men eared less lor wealth and fame.
And lew for battle-fields and glory;
If writ in human hearts a name
Seemed better than a song and storjr;
If men. Instead of nursing pride.
Would learn to hale It and abhor It;
If more relied on lore to guide.
The world would be the better for It.
If men dealt lew in slocks and lands.
And more In bonds and deeds fraternal;
If love's work had mofo willing bands
To link llls world to the supernal;
If man stored up love's oil and wine.
And on bruised human hearts would pour It;
If "thine" and "mine" would once combine,
The world would be tbe better for it.
If more would act tbe play of life.
And fewer spoil It in rebearoal ;
If bigotry would sheathe Its knlie
Till good became more universal ;
If custom, gray with ages grown.
Had fewer blind men to adore It;
If talent shone for truth alone,
Tbe world would be the better for It.
If men were wise In little tblnzs.
Affecting less ln all their dealings;
It hearts had fewer rusted strings
To isolate their kindly feellnas;
If men. when wrong beats down I he right,
Would strike together and restore It;
If might made right In every fight.
The world would be the better for It.
The President has nominated James
C.Tolman surveyor-general for Oregon.
NEWSJTEMS.
STATE AND TnUUTORIAL.
The new census of Tacoma gives it
population of 700.
There is a scarcity of sailors for deep
water ships on Puget Sound.
Coos county's apportionment of tiie
school fund amounts to $2,785 this year.
Jesse Shepherd has been displaying
his wonderful musical powers in AlbuBy.
Junction, not to be outdone by other
villages, proposes to start a newspaper.
Philomath, Benton county, is Improv
ing rapidly, a result probably of its ex
cellent schools.
Miss Mary McCabe is canvassing
Jackson county for subscribers to tbe
Ashland lutings.
Average amount of salary paid men
teaebers per month in Lion county,
$44 61; women, $32 50.
The Jacksonville Sentinel speaks for
Southern Oregon by suggesting Edward
F. Lewjs for State printer.
A new poet office has been established
at Stafford, Clackamas couuty, 'with
Mrs. Sallie S. Henry as postmistress.
The Sisters of Charity will shortly
erect a school building in Seattle, a site
for the same having been purchased.
Tlie iron works at New Tacoma re
cently turned out a cylinder weighing
one ton for a 160 horse-power engine.
non. Frank Clark is having a band
some residence built In New Taeoma,
and will soon remove to that plaee from
Steilacoom.
Edward Casey has sold the liemizer
and hopes now to be able occasionally
to handle a little silver as a salaried ed
itor of the same.
Jesse Shepherd was fined ten dollars
at Eugene City last week for giving an
entertainment without paying the city
liceuse for so deing.
The contract for completing the spire
andotherwisefiiilshingtheM.E.Chur8h
iu Salem has been awarded to Mr. Den
ham, who will at once commence oper
atious. Four years ago there were but three
settled ministers of the Unitarian de
nomination on the Pacific Coast. There
are now nine, and they talk of organiz
ing a conference.
The Ilemizer endeavors to reassure
the citizens of Polk county by stating,
011 authority of Mr. Kohler, that the
west side railroad will surely be ex
tended south as far as Dixie in tlm
course of a year.
Tlie tenth plank in tlie greenback
platform is as follows: "We demand of
our next legislature the repeal of tbe
law creating ineotnceortlieStateprinter
of Oregon, and that the public print-'
Ing be let tiie lowest responsible bidder."
W. P. Jackson, one of tbe "city fath
ers" of Hillsboro, was recently arrested
for disturbing a religious meeting in
that embryo city. Anexamplecertainly
should be made of men who deport
themselves iu a way that Is reprehensi
ble in the most ill-mannered boys.
As an illustration of what Washing
ton Territory grass can do, the Van
couver Independent gives the followiug:
"Joe Burke butchered a grass-fed bul
look this week that dressed, weighed
eight hundred nd twenty Rounds.
and which showed two streaks of fat for
every streak of lean. Washington grass
will put tbe fat on, equally as well ad
Illinois corn." '