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CHAPTER XII.
The toil rial who visits Ban Francisco
at the present time, with the glare and
glitter of its million illumination
greeting him by night, and its countless
attractions of architecture, trade, and
elegance displayed by day on every
band, can form but a very faint idea of
the old Mission that first greeted my
eyes, when, after rounding the promon
tory and entering the Golden Gate in
the never-to-be-forgotten sotamn of M9,
we beheld a forbidding succession of
bUlowy sand bills, covered here and
there In the distance with groves of live
oak, and occasionally frowning above
the water's edge in wind-worn, caetle-
ated bluffs, against whose precipitous
sides the wild waves beat a mournful
reville, with never a fog whistle by day
nor a revolving light by night to guard
the adventurous mariner from the dan
gers that would even yet beset his way
but for these modern innovations upon
the ocean's ere while unbroken solitude.
The discovery of gold in California
bad but then become of world-wide in
terest, and the influx of immigrants
from all parts of the world began but a
few days after our arrival.
The commodities and comforts of
modern civilization were almost wholly
unobtainable, and the few articles of
necessity which immigrants were able
to purchase commanded fabulous prices.
r or several aays my nosoaml wan
dered about, looking in vain for employ
ment. Like everybody else who beheld
the nuggets of virgin ore brought in
daily by the miners upon whom the
fickle god of Fortune smiled, he became
badly smitten with the gold fever; and
I confess that I was just about as eager
for the vicissitudes of a miner's life as he.
Thanks to ray good constitution,
elastic spirits, and the invigorating in
fluence of the California climate, my
bealth was again excellent. I was
even stronger than when, in my child
hood's days, I bad made bay in sight of
Botbwiek woods, or digged peat in the
edge of the bog overlooked by Botbwiek
turrets.
In a few days our last doHar was gone,
and my husband, realizing the hopeless
ness of the situation, gave way to in
toxication, and felt himself justified.
What would have become of our chil
dren If I had done likewise? And yet
women are called the weaker vessel.
Ah, me !
There's many an anomaly in this
world, and woman's imaginary depend
ence and incapability are not the least
of them.
For several days my husband lounged
about our boarding-house, incapable,
owing to his frequent potations, of doing
anything, or even of talking intelligibly.
The hotel, so-called, where we had
token lodgings, was a canvas tent, or,
rather, a aacceMion of tents, with the
most primitive possible accommoda
tions, and help of every class was as
scarce as ooaruers and lodgers were
plenty.
Oar landlord was a busy, florid, and
fussy Herman, with just enough of
knowledge of English language and
American manners to count currency
by (old dust standards, calculate his
profits, and make his charges according
to the quality of his guests. As we were
without money, we were soon without
hotel accommodations of any sort, and.
slight as our protection from the winds
of the bay had been in the tent, we
found, when adrift in the open street,
that a canvas covering was better for
our needs than nothing.
I think my bun baud realised some
thing of my distress when, with our
little all stowed away in a couple of
trunks, we sat down together upon a
hillock of sand, the wind blowing a
gale, and driving the fine, flinty gravel
into our faces, while poor disfigured
baby Gerald cried wildly with hunger
and pain.
"I can't see you and the kids suffer,
little woman: and it's out of my power
to aid you while I stay here. Guess I'll
go gold bunting," said my husband,
desperately.
"And will you take us t" I answered,
my heart fairly in my throat.
"Are you an idiot, little wife?"
The look 01 scoru ne gave me was
even more cutti ng than the question.
I hung my bead in confusion, and
really felt guilty of having said some
thing exceedingly foolish.
"If I go to the digging;! afoot and
empty banded, it will be as much as I
ean do to get along alone!" he added,
doggedly.
I began to weep silently.
"None of that!" be exclaimed, an
grily. "If I was only alone In the
world I'd have no trouble to get a liv
ing. You know well enough that I was
comfortably situated wheu I married
you. I was in favor with Her Majesty,
and was a visitor at the homes of lords
and duke."
"VOIT73in3 -VII.
"And I was a young maiden, care
free ami without children," I could not
help reply log.
Perhaps the remark was an Inju
dicious one, seel ni; I was wholly In his
power; but was he not the aggressor?
He looked at me with a furious glare,
as a maniac or a wild beast might. I
remembered that be was half crazed
with drink, and it was no wonder that I
was frightened.
"I beg your pardon, Gerald," I said,
shrinking baok to avoid a blow; and,
still fearing the glare of his eye, I gath
ered both children in my arms and
started toward the Inu from which we
had just been ejected.
I expected he would follow me, but
hedid not. I wandered aimlessly around
for an hour, not knowing whither to
turn, with baity Ethel in my arms, and
leading baby Gerald most of the time by
the band. Then I ventured back to the
spot wliere our truuks were left, and
found a note beside them, couched in
bitter language, informing me that I
was henceforth to go my own wild way
without my husband. I did not think I
had ever been wild, or that I deserved
to be thus accused. And I now know
that I did not deserve sueli treatment.
Hut I then Imagined myself guilty of
some very grave misdemeanor, I really
could not dearly imagine what.
For a time I sat as one turned to
stone. The very agony of Getbeemene
was upon me. Gerald, my husband,
had abandooed me; Gerald, my baby,
was crying for food, and tiny Ethel was
gazing wonderiugly at me with her
great frightened eyes, as though she
dimly comprehended the fact that there
was no place In the wide world for her.
I shut ray eyes to hide myself from
my children, and lo! and behold!
Ilothwlek castle, with its moat and
drawbridge, and Lord i Jot h wick and
Ethel Graeme pasted before me in a
panorama like unto that which I bad
sometimes seen before, while overhead
there glared upon me, in a fury of ma
licious rage, a pair of lustrous eyes. Oh,
those eyes .' What could they mean by
gazing at me thus? And why did I
sometimes free Ilothwlek castle witli my
own eyes shut ?
I wonder if, there are ministering an
gels. I have heard a great deal about
them during these later years, so much,
indeed, that I have almost lost faith In
them. But there were uo Spiritual
mouotebaokH in those early days of my
life, and I never doubted enough to even
raise a question as to the genuineness of
my own mental visions until latterly.
Then, too, I once implicitly believed
that I could hear angels' voices. Some
times I doubt the evidence of my own
inner senses now, Itecause I have so
often been deceived by those who, pro'
fessing the same or parallel experiences
to mine, have proven themselves char
latans and deceivers of the worst order.
But all that Is neither here nor there.
Let the phenomena I saw and felt and
heart 1 come from what source they may,
tbey have never failed me in the hours
of my sorest need; and though it is now
a number of years since I have been
bier t od with frequent second sight hal
lucinations, if such they he, yet I love
to remember the many 1 1. lies when
some sudden, unseen aid has come to
me, lifting the clouds from my path,
awl permitting the rays of heaven's
light to illume my path, erewhlle
blockaded with the densest gloom.
The voice I beard was so still and
small and strange, and yet so powerful,
that It seemed impossible that It should
be inaudible to the physical ear; and
yet it was so, the voice that I heard
while yet it seemed that I could hear
not. And it said suddeuly and authori
tatively :
"Keep a boarding-house ."'
"Pit do U I cried aloud, as I rose lo
my feet and started toward the hotel
from which we bad been ejected In the
morning, still clasping tiny Ethel to
my bosom, and leading baby Gerald by
the hand.
"'Oo'il do 'hat, mamma?" asked
baby Gerald, springing forward as
though lie, too, felt the inspiration of a
new, mysterious Impulse.
"Keep a boarding-bouse, dearie. And
you shall help mamma, and be her man,
and her darling, won't you?" I an
swered, not knowing what else to say.
"'Es, mamma. An' maybe Got I'll
send me another good eye In n'aee of
my bad one, an make my back sCong,"
tbe darling replied.
Ah, me!
In a little while I paused, panting and
flurried, in tbe presence of the landlord,
who was busily encaged In welchlm:
gold dust in exchange for tlte primitive
dinners and more primitive lodgings
witli whieli he entertained his guests.
" What now" lie asked, pausing for
an instant to gaze at me and the little
ones, and taming again as quickly to
bis uleely-balaneed scales, as though
not ex peeti tig a reply.
"I want to go into business, Mr.
Lillienthal, and I waut you for a part
ner," I exelaimed, soareely knowing
wbat I said, or why I had the temerity
to say it, yet feeling brave from very
desperation.
"Ah, indeed?" he replied, shaking
the gold dust he had weighed from the
deerskin purse in his hands into a glass
jar on tbe counter.
"Yes, Mr. Lillienthal. My husband
has abandoned me, and I'm left wholly
dependent upon my own exertions for a
livelihood, and I want you to take me
POTiTIVIfD,
Into business with you as a partner."
"Any money?" was the laconic query.
"Not yet; but I will make money.
How much Is your establishment
worth?" I replied, looking around me
in a business-like way, while baby Ger
ald begged softly for bread.
"I refused ten thousand dollars for it
a while ago, ma'am; but if you want a
partnership, and really mean business,
I'll sell yon the half for five."
"And what ohance will you give me
to make payments?"
"The best in the concern. You can
come right in and take possession, with
your two kittens, and get a young squaw
to take care of 'em; and you can take
cA.gv -jf ljf lwd. .eh rnhftrs and
linen closets, and oversee the washing,
ami keep a geueral eye on things, and
I'll allow you half that's made, your
board and the keeping of the kittensde
dueted, till I've had my five thousand.
After that we'll divide profits, ami share
and share alike. But, mind you, that
drunken lout of a husband don't get any
show here."
Of course I fully interpret his words
for you, kind reader. They wereepoken
to me in a mixed German and English
jargon, whieli a less anxious person
than myself might have failed to fully
comprehend.
"My husband has gone to the dig
gings, sir, and left me to my fate. You
needn't be at all afraid of him."
"All right, then. Begin at once.
And you'd better see if the dlning
room's all right before you go to your
own room."
"I'll begin my work as soon as I have
fed my children," I auswered, cheer
fully. And in a little while my work was
running along as smoothly a9 though I
bail been trained for It through a decade
of years.
The property, for one-half of which I
bad agreed to pay five thousand dollars,
consisted of a succession of tents of vari
ous sizes and descriptions, containing
camp bedsteads and primitive furniture,
the ground about them covered with
sugar mats from the Sandwich Islands,
in lieu of floors, and the walls adorned
by tiny mirrors pinned against the can
vas. The entire property cost, In New
York, not to exceed two hundred dol
lars, including dining-room furniture
and office register. But California was
tlie land of gold, and everything bore
inflated prices.
Ordinary conversation could be over
heard from one end of the hotel to the
other, tbe cloth partitions acting rather
as a conductor of sound than an obstacle
to its transmission.
My first half-day's work wa9 done,
and I had retired with my little ones to
my private apartment, when I over
heard the following conversation In the
dining-room :
"Lillienthal, you're an Idiot."
"Maybe so," was the quiet answer.
"There was no kind of need of your
selling a half Interest to that woman.
Why didn't you just keep her as a
chambermaid ?"
"I wanted to give her value received,"
answered my benefactor.
"So you could, if you'd held on to
your property," was the deep-voiced re
joinder. And then suddenly I remembered the
voice. It was that of Elder Chalmers.
"I'm not asking your advice," said
Mr. Lillienthal.
"Well, friend, it isn't best to give
women too much power. I know that
little madcap well. She drove as good a
husband as ever blest a woman to the
lowest depths of Intemperance by her
villainy. You'd do well to watch her."
"Aud you'd do better to your own af
fairs," was the grutl reply.
Tbe reader may imagine my feelings.
Young, care-burdened, inexperienced,
and alone, witli the only man near me
to whom I might have reasonably hoped
to look for at least a kindly word,
boarding and lodging in my own house,
anil trying to prejudice my partner
against me in the outset.
Oh, how I did wish Mr. Motley could
see fit to give up his ideas about carry
ing the gospel to sin-benighted Indians,
while he. might look a little more care
fully after my rum-cursed, child-ham
pered self.
"My new partner will draw custom
and double the popularity of my enter
prise," said Mr. Lillienthal. "She'll
take half the burden off my shoulders,
too, and make the guests feel at home.
Tho crylugof her babies will be a for
tune, of lteelf."
"Have it your own way," said the
deep-voiced Elder. "But don't forget
the innate wickedness of woman. 11
was Eve that caused the fall of mau,
you know."
What the final effect of .bluer Cbalm
s' evil speeoh might he I could not
guess; hut my fitful sleep was filled with
dread forebodings, and it seemed that
day would never come.
Morning at last found me suffering
with a fearful headache, and I moved
from room to room, or, rather, from
tent to tent, with my bead bandaged in
a wet towel, my temples throbbing, and
my pulse feverish. But my duties,
though constant, were not hard. My
partner had conjectured rightly that the
presence of a woman and children in tbe
house would double tbecustom, and be
fore night we had planned to double the
lodging capacity of the house, I to do
tbe sewing, and he to furnish tbe ma
terial for making tbe canvas rooms.
Free Speech", Free Press, Free People.
OREGON, JTRIDVY, jVPRXL. 19, 1878.
Evidently the pious Elder bad not
succeeded In prejudicing tho mind of
my new friend against me, and, saving
the one day's headache he cost me, I did
not feel the evil cflect of his Insidious
malice for many monthB to come. And
through all that time, while I was at
the hotel with my ohlldren, I can
proudly say that all men, the Elder ex
cepted, treated me with chivalrous
courtesy. No one, not even my partner
in business, ever approached mo with
aught but the most profound and defer
ential air of respect; aud It Is a libel
upon manhood to say that even a
moiety of men are had.
We called our hotel tho "Azara
House," and we prospered finely. Had
my husband remained away for a half
dozen years, or had ho been compelled
by the law to permit me, even when he
was at home, to carry out my plans, I
could to-day be the business peer of a
Jones, Sharon, or a Lick.
To be continued.
The Unsympathetic Fair, or, Enthusiasm
asd Dullness.
Our readers have noticed, of course, a
woman of entbusiam joined to a mau of
none at all a mere stupidc, as the
French say. We saw such a pair a little
while ago. They stood before a win
dow looking out upon the wintry day.
The cheerful fire on the hearth sent Its
ruddy glow Into the room. They were
man and wife. Said she, with enthu
siasm :
"Is it not a grand sight ?"
"What?" auswered he.
"Why, this glorious tlmeof the year!"
she sulci.
"Pshaw ! I thought you referred to
that old gentleman who fell on the side
walk just uow. Let's go near the fire;
I'm chilly."
"Dear " said she.
"Well," abruptly returned he, poking
the glowing embers vigorously.
"Don't you think that winter is mon
arch of tho seasons?" she asked.
I "
"Let the poets," she said, "rave about
spring, with her violet-sandalled feet
all wet with dew. About summer, in
her wheaten garlands hound. Of au
tumn, stained with juice of purple
grape. . Do tbey half compare with icy
crowned winter? But what Is your
opinion of this beautiful day ?"
"I think"
"This day," she continued, "when
nature, draped in her snowy mantle,
presents a perfect portraiture of chastity.
See how the sun sports among the
drifts, causing them to scintillate like
diamonds ! Is not this the chosen pe
riod of the year7"
"I thluk that"
"Oh!" said she, "it Is superb! No
wonder Shakespeare has said, 'Bo thou
as pure arstww.' Look how tbe play
ful wind circles the downy fleece! Come,
dear, to the window."
He came reluctantly.
"Now, what doyou thinkof thisday?"
she said, rapturously.
"I think It would be a splendid day
to track rabbits!"
Both were mute for an hour and a
half.
Do Tjiey eveu Gkt Mad? She Is a
sweet, mild-looking little woman, with
dark eyes and nut brown hair, that
helps us to get up the good recipes for
our household department every week,
aud it was like a ray of snnshlno wheu
she stepped into our office a few morn
ings ago. Our smile, "so child-like and
blunt!." faded into a stcRiy gnu. How
ever, when rising to greet her, we notioed
a peculiar glitter about her eyes. Not
heeding our profound bow, she said, in
a sharp tone, that there was no mis
taking: "Are you the gentleman that tends to
having the recipes published t"
We took in tbe situation at a cJancc,
and, as our senior was absent, we gently
insinuated that he waa the man.
"Very well, sir, then say to him, that
when he learns to make tin cakes by
the recipe I gave last week to make tea
cakes, I should like lo know it. See
here, sir," she said, reaching out (we
instinctively dodged), and taking from
the desk a copy of last week's Sun, she
pointed to the household recipes, and
showed us where the typo had made
her reoipe for tea cakes read tin cakes.
"Stop my paper," she added, "and
get some one more familiar with the
tin business togetyourbouseholdreclpes
lierealter."
Fairly bounding with indignation,
she made the old door rattle as she went
out, and far down the street we could
hear her boot heels popping on the
pavement like fire-crackers on tbe
Fourth of July. Itural Sun.
Teachers. We want tho ablest and
best men aud women In the community
to engage In the vocation of teaching.
To reduce thelrcompensatlon will cause
many or tuts class to resort to other oc
cupations, and will prevent many of
them from devoting themselves to the
Instruction of our youth. In this way
It will cause the degeneracy of our
school system and have a most luluri
ous effect upon the generation which Is
lo taxeourpiaceupontneeartb. Again,
tho poorer class the class for which
our public school system is mainly
adapted have n deep Interest in this
matter. It is important for them that
the teachers should be of that class who
are the most skillful in communicating
Knowledge and training to their pupils,
as wen as uaoiM ot oruer and diligence.
This cutting down of tbe salaries will
causo many of the best teachers to open
private schools, and thus put them over
to tlie richer class, depriving the body
of the people of the advantages which
tbe law was supposed to have provided
for tuem. n imam uuitcn Jiryant.
A Danbury man recently went to see
a friend In an insane retreat. He stood
a moment before a fine-looking man be
had seen before at the Institution, and
inquired his name. "Julius Ciesar, sir,"
said the lunatic. "Why, you were Al
exander when I was here before, were
you not?" "Oh, why yes, but that was
by a former wife," said tho crazy man,
not at ail disconcerted.
"That's all right," remarked the gro
cer, reassuringly, as he chased tbe piece
of cheese back into the customer's bas
ket, whence it was endeavoring to es
cape. "Yes," replied tbe customer, du
biously, "I know it must be, for mite is
right."
OUB WASHINGTON LETTER.
To the Editor of tue Sew Southwest :
The second trial of Cephas Jones, col
ored, for outraging tbe person of Miss
Smith last fall, is now in progress, and
promises another disagreeing jury,
though ber identification of him was
perfect. Cephas and bis brother bear
strong resemblance to each other, and
tbe defense put the two In the box ask
ing her to identify her assailant. This
she did unhesitatingly, though the dis
trict attorney himself was deceived and
believed she had erred. Her correct
ness of judgment and clear straightfor
ward testimony Is convincing to the
mass, but tho trumped-up evidence,
which always appears at a second trial
of criminals, will override her state
ments M.'ure iue jnrv. One most pain
ful feature In our criminal 'system iy
pears in this trial, and should be reme
died. Why must a young girl, who
has suffered the foulest outrage and
narrowly escaped death through the in
juries received at the time, be subjected
to the insults and sneers of a brutal
cross examination In tbe presence of a
court-room crowded with loafers who
roll every taunt and filthy allusion as a
sweet morsel under their tongues ? Kus
sta arrests every person found near the
spot where murder is committed, and
tbe world raises Its hands in holy hor
ror, and yet Is it worse than our prac
tice of compelling a witness to give
bail for his appearance in court, a course
which has In New York City often in
carcerated the victim of robbery for
months In prison, while the thief gets
oil scot free on straw-leg bail, aud which
subjects every witness to the ignominy
of testifying In open court?
Tbe Interesting question before us
now Is, who holds tbe title to Arling
ton? The United States has held the
property since 1H, buying it then at a
direct tax sale, under a bid of about
S2S.000. The amount of taxes assessed
upon the property was $9S 00, and tbe
excess of the bid over this sum was
turned into tbe United States Treasury
for the former owners. A deed In due
form was given the United States by
the tax commissioners, and, as the prop
erty has been In possession of the gov
ernment ever since that date, it would
seem its title was sound. But the courts
have, in every instance where suits of
ejectment have been brought by the
original owners of other tracts sold un
der the "district tax" sales, ousted the
purchasers; the government's title Is
thus narrowed down to tbe mere pos
sessory one of might, not right. If the
citizen cannot retain his purchase, of
course the government must hold its
by exercise of power alone. Judge
Hughes, of tbe United States District
Court of Virginia, decides adversely to
the government, and if the Supreme
Court affirms his decision under the
appeal which has been taken, Congress
must restore the estate to tbe Custer's
heirs, or repurchase. Tho heirs would
prefer tbe latter course at least they so
express themselves and as there are
30,000 Union soldiers buried in its ceme
tery, we presume the government will
buy rather than remove the dead. Ar
lington Is naturally n grand old estate.
We have never seen one that seemed
more nearly a home for a king. It con
tains 1,100 acres of land of sufficient fer
tility to support a family in splendor,
while its natural beauty and contiguity
to the city will necessarily render it an
object of Interest aud attraction as long
as Washington is the capital of our na
tion. In tho center of the tract is about
100 acres of woods, composed nearly of
original oak trees the only grovo left
standing in tbe county by our troops
during the war and in this Is the cem
etery, which is enclosed with a high
stone wall. Tho old family mansion
stands in the center, and, with its huge
pillared portico, which is distinctly
seen from the river and city, is of course
noted by all visitors. Outside of the
cemetery the land lies in commons, or
is worked in patches by the freedmen,
who still live in tbe score of bouses re
maining on tbe site of Mr. Stanton's
freedman's village. Of course under
tbe skimming, shiftless farming of these
improvident ignorant freedmen, tbe
land has become impoverished and des
olato In its appearance, yet, under
proper care, the whole farm would soon
be, as it was before the war, one of the
grandest rural homes ever seen. If
Congress retains It, as It undoubtedly
will, then tbe whole tract should be
laid out In a great national park.
Secretary Thompson rules again that
the navy yard employes must work ten
hours for a day's labor, at which there
Is muoh grumbling, though no strike as
yet. Times are too bard here to permit
any eenslble man to stop work because
of this two hours' exaction, but we an
ticipate trouble In the future. Experl
ence under the eight and ten hours' la
bor regulation in our navy yard here
shows conclusively that Its laborers ac
compllsh as much in one hour of tbe
longer day as of the shorter, thus en
tailing two hours' absolute loss in re
sults under the eight-hour system. It
Is no wonder Secretary Thompson ad
he res to his ten-hour rule.
The number of cities applying to have
mints for coinageof sllverestablished In
tbem is rather surprising. Indianapolis
has had a delegation before the Senate
finance committee urging its peculiar ad
vantages for such purpose, and a dozen
other cities have done the same thing.
NUMBER 31.
But It is unlikely that more will be done
In that direction than to repair and re
store the mint at New Orleans, though
great weight is given the claims urged
in behalf of Denver.
The Sovereigns of Industry have held
their national convention here, and af
ter adjournment the delegates called on
tho President to pay their respects.
They also vlsiled Mount Vernon and
other places of interest in and around
the capital. We have been delighted
with tbe proceedings of this convention,
as, for a wonder, the delegates Ignored
politics and appealed to the intelligence
of the people as tbe means of accom
plishing their ends, rather than to hur
rahing for followers at tbe ballot-box.
Tbe unceasing cry for votes by national
conventions held here grows wearisome
to us. who enjoy the comfort of a good
city governnieo without the aid of leg
islators sent up by our slums and hells,
and it is refreshing to hear such an In
tellectual body of meu as these Sover
eigns were, discuss reform from another
standpoint than that of suffrage.
Flans for the new building of the bu
reau of engraving and printing are pre
pared, and we hope another year will
find the structure completed. It bos
been evident for years that the Treas
ury was unfit for printing purposes, and
that tbe bureau should be in a detached
building. Tho one proposed will be in
the vacant space south of tbe Treasury,
and, by the plaus, promises to be of
finest architecture, proportions, and ap
pearance. It will be large enough to do
all tho government money priuting,
short of Confederate Inflation times.
Feux.
Washington, D. C, March 22, 1S7S.
Going Timouorr College. Theo
dore Farker never received a diploma,
though lie pursued the full college course
at Harvard. Nor did be ever recite a
single line to a professor. His father
was poor, and could not afford to pay
the college expenses; but Theodore was
bound to have a liberal education. One
evening besaid :
"Father, I have entered Harvard Col
lege." "How did you prepare?" asked tbe
astonished parent.
"I studied by myself evenings, after
the day's work was done, aud mornings
before work." He was then assisting
his father on the farm.
"But I cannot pay your expenses in
college."
"I know that; I mean to stay at home
and keep up with my class."
And he did more than keen un with
the class; part of tbe time he worked
for his father at home, aud part of the
time he taught school, paying his father
eleven dollars a month to hire another
hand in his place. He passed tbe ex
amination successfully, but was not
given a degree because he had been a
non-resident, nnd had paid no fees.
Subsequently a degree was offered him,
on condition of paying the customary
fees; but money was scarce, though en
ergy and scholarship were ample, and
be was obliged to decline it.
What a reproach is his examnle to
those who, having everything to help
them In a college-course, waste time
and advantages I Youth's Companion.
The Deacon Answered. "Ud in
New Hampshire, where I lived when a
boy," says Governor oye. "there was
an old deacon who was a great deal more
pious than liouest. lie was an old hyp
ocrite, aud wheu be had done any par
ticularly mean thing, ne eased his con
science by going out iuto a field along
side of which was a stone wall, aud,
kneeling beside it, praying tbe Lord to
topple itoveron him if be had done any
thing offensive to bim or offensive in
his sight. Well, we boys fouud it out,
and one day when we saw the deacon
making for the wall, we got on tbe
other side and waited. He knelt down,
according to Ids usual custom, and went
through his usual formula, elosiug with
the petition to have the wall topple over
if lie had done anything wrong. We
toppled it. Jumping out from under
the stones, the old man cried in tones or
mingled disgust and alarm, 'Good gra
cious! Can't you tell when a man is
joking?"
A writer In the Canada Utrmer says:
"Four years ago my barn was regularly
infested by rats; they were so numerous
that I had great fears of my whole grain
being destroyed by them, after it was
boused; but having two acres or wild
peppermint that grew in a field of wheat,
after the wheat was harvested, the mint
was cut and bound with it, and drove
tbe rats from my premises. I have not
been troubled with oue since, nor am I
at present, while my neighbors have
any quantity of them. I feel confident
that any one who is troubled with these
pests could easily get rid of them by
gathering a good supply of mint aud
placing it around the walls or base or
their barns."
.life. we talk or human lire as a
journey, but how variously is that jour
ney periormeu. lucre are those wuo
come forth girt and shod aud mantled,
to walk on velvet lawns and smooth ter
races, where every gale is arrested, and
every beam Is tempered. Itiere are
others who walk on the Alpine paths of
lire, against driving misery, and tnrougti
stormy sorrows, over sharp afilictions;
walk with bare feet and naked Irea9t.
jaded, mangled, and chilled. Sidney
omttt.
A boy in Sunday school proposed a
question to oe answered tne bunday fof
owing: -now many letters does the
Bible contain?" Tbe answer was three
million live hundred and thirty thous
and three hundred and thirty-three
The superintendent says to James, "Is
that right?" "No, sir." was the prompt
reply. "Will you please tell us how
many there are, then?" "Twenty-slx,
oil.
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tu uucieui, tiays tne precept was.
uvnow tnyseir." In modern times It
has been supplanted by the far more
fashionable maxim, "Know thy nelgh-
uu ccrjiuiug auout mm.
In the long run, says Cbannlng, truth
Is aided by nothing so much as opposition.
A Journal for tbe Teople.
Devoted to the Interests of Humanity,
ladependeat In Polities and Religion.
Mlve to all TJve Iteaes, and Thoroughly
KadlcsllnOpposlnKaodExpoaingthe WroatgS
ot tbe Masses.
CorrenpoadentawTitlng over assumed s
torn most make known their names to ta
Editor, or no attention will be glren to I
communications.
Women at Physicians.
Dr. Gaines thinks that women physi
cians "lower their character ai ladUa
by medical surgical operations." Work
ing In blood, aud diseased, f,er, pUtnd
flesh, is not very agreeable to the aver
age woman, or man either. But how
about the women nurses of our hospitals"
How about our army hospitals, where
women in time or war are and must be
employed? Do none of them work in
human blood, diseased flesh, and still
more disgusting substances ? Are none
of them ladies i Wbat about Florence
Nightingale and many others from the
so-called bigherrauksof society, who
have cheerfully devoted themselves to
the alleviation of human suffering
among the sick and wounded? What
about tlie Sisters of Charity both
Protestant and Catholic who spend
their lives as nurses, aud never hesitate
at the most appalling spectacles of hu
man misery and suttering. We well re
member the scenes we witnessed during
tlie late war, when the most wealthy,
beautiful, and delicate young ladies
and c.:' ones, too did not shrink from
menial, and what would, under oil er
circumstances, been considered disgu-fc-
ing services for our poor boys in gray.
We saw on one occasion a beautiful girl
of eighteen, wealthy and admired, tlie
belle or her native town, go down on
her knees aud takeoff the filthiest socks
we ever saw from tlie filthier feet of a
Confederate soldier, who was lying on a
filthy floor and slowly dying, not from
wounds, but from pure exhaustion and
neglect. She bathed his ley cold feet
with her own beautiful bands till some
warmth was restored to tbem; she gave
him nourishing wine, and fed bim on
nice warm soup made with ber own
hands, till she saw that he was reviving
under her life-giving care; in short, she
saved his life, and sent him forth, anew
man, to fight again for tbe beautiful
Southern laud she loved so well. Was
she less ladylike when on her knees,
performing so grandly her labor ol love,
than when arrayed In her gossamer
robes of beauty, she seemed the undis
puted queen of the ball-room ? No; her
face and form to us seemed glorified; she
was at that moment one of dott's
blessed angels for there are angels in
mortal form. Away with such a stupid
reason why women should not enter the
medical ranks, as that offered by the
un progressive aud uuprogressed Ken
tucky doctor.
On this subject the editor of the Lou
isville Commercial says: "No male doe
tors hold that it uusexes and debases
women to be nurses; and yet female
nurses nurse male patients, and some of
them see more horrible and disgusting
things, encounter more obscenity in
word and deed, than any male doctor
does. If any low-minded surgeon in
tlie Crimea bad said anything deroga
tory of Florence Nightingale aud her
companions, or, ou either side of our
late civil war, of noble women who
went to nurse in army hospitals, his fellow-surgeons
would have sent him to
Coventry; would have tabooed bim for
life, if they hadu't devoted bim to par
tial dissection on the spot. We would
not care to be tbe man who, in a meet
ing of Louisville physicians, should
make a sweeping assault on the charac
ter of the good women who do the w.r
ing in the charitable ami religion in
stitutions of this city. If the man es
caped alive, or without being crippled
for life, he would soon rind that the air
of this city had become permanently
unwholesome for bim." That editor is
not totally depraved, or, rather he is
less totally so than some other pe- pv.
"Women," says Mrs. Dr. Cuttei :r t'.r
and beautifully, "never do barm i y i -
tering any sphere. In the eh u reh and
in the parlor, in the sick chamber ami
in the hospital, they bring Keutleness,
refinement, and charity. They have
even carried honesty into Washington
city, and into the Treasury Department,
where they count the money. If they
ruled tbe world in some things, the
world would be the better for it."
W e are well aware that in advocating
a scientific medical education for wom
en we are in a very decided minority.
uui even nere mere is progress, and
very rapid progress, too. Lnfortunately,
women themselves present perhaps the
most formidable barrier to their own
advancement,. Educated, as for the
most part they have hitherto been, in
tbe most superficial and unscientific
manner, they are frightened at the new
truths and ideas which are crowding in
upon them, and still wish to adhere to
customs which have held tbem down lo
mental slavery and social bondage
customs which, blessed be God, are last
passing away. Woman is rapidly as
serting her mental and social independ
ence, anu tauing no mean place both in
science and the arts. And the sphere of
woman, both in art and science, will be
a practical one; for, as science, aud es
pecially physical science, has been en
gaged in battering down old systems
and undermining false foundations,
woman, the producer, the repleuisher of
tbe ranks of humanity, will,, working
iu harmony with man, the positive ele
meut iu human nature, give him effect
ual aid In building up new and beauti
ful structures which shall endure for
ever. As, without both tbe positive aud
negative forces iu nature nothing can tie
perfect, so man needs the aid of gentle
fello w-workers to smoothe and beautify,
as well as to strengthen all the works of
science or art to which be is devoted.
"It is not good for man to lie alone."
Mrs. Shindler, in Voice of Tntth.
The Christian Life, a Unitarian news-
paperof Loudon, pleasantly notices the
fact that Mrs. Utter and Mrs. Hale have
been preaching here durinc the aWnoo
of the pastor, and remarks that such
instances are not unknown among Eng
lish Unitarians. All of which shows
that we are on the advance guard on
the question of the proper sphere of
woman, as well as on other questions
involving tbe reformation of nhl hn.
Unitarian A dvocate.
Saves at the Spigot. "We have
to practice rigid economy these hard
times, when grain is liable to come
down to fifty cents," remarked a man to
a crowd on the sidewalk the other day.
"I have slopped all my papers; can't,
stand It; times are bard. Come in,
boys, and take a drink !"
Men are frequently like tea the real
strength and goodness are not properly
drawn out until they have been In hot
water.
"If there is no hell," asks an Ameri
can paragrapher of the period, "how
could an Englishman spell 'London?'"