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tions, or from women whose leal in the cause of prohibition and woman suf
frage outruns their judgment ; but to hear a man who has just compassed a
political triumph express himself in this manner is something new under the
sun. Ortgonian.
The time is very near when men will have to express themselves in this
manner to get a seat in the United States senate. Advanct Thought.
FOOLISH CONSISTENCY.
Emerson tells us that there is no particular virtue in consistency. How
stupid a man must be, he says in effect, who is not wiser to-day than yester
day, and who does not accordingly have to change some of his opinions.
A man will never change his mind who has no mind to change," says
Archlishop Whately, and Farady expresses the same idea when he charges
us to emeinber that " in knowledge that man only is to be despised who b
not in i state of transition."
Tlert is a medium between what a wroth old gentleman calls "whiffin'
about Ike a weathercock " and remaining rigidly in one rut of belief. Most
of us kow instances of men who can not bring themselves to say anything
which w)uld contradict what they uttered last week or last year.
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about leaving her darling in this little sanitarium while she spend a few hours
at marketing. There is certainly no need of presenting the senium ntal or pa
thetic side of such a charity as this."
The papers contain accounts of the wonderful powers of a little girl at
Livina, Tenn. She is only thirteen years old. For several months past she
has been punling her friends and relatives by her electrical powers. Her
relatives first noted her habit of wandering off from the house and staying
alone for hours at a time, but being a child no particular attention was paid to
her habit until it began to be noticed that lucks, keys, metal spoons and knivet
would cling to her hands and have to be shaken off. At the table, when she
touched her plate, that dish would dance about until she removed her hands,
and even the table shook when she pressed upon it. Chairs which she touched
would rock about. Finally the family physician was called in to examine her.
He could give no explanation of the matter. Her forte, however, is her
spiritualistic communications. She calls up the spirits of the dead, and com
munes with them as with other mortals. Whenever any one in the commu
nity dies, the relatives come to the little girl to find out the condition of the
deceased. She finds where the shade is wandering, whether it is happy, and
if the unknown is not to be more desired than the known. Other experimcnti
SCKNE FROM SHACO KCK'K, ON THK OKKliON COAST.-Sm I'jptiji.
A certain Irjiman once declared that he had owned a horse which was
fifteen feet high, ft few days after he referred to the same animal as having
been fifteen handliigh.
" But," said listener, " you gave it the other day as fifteen feet."
" Did I, thm- said Patrick. " Well, 111 stick to it He was fifteen
feet high." YoutkCompanw.
Many of the llling labor journals of the country are praising the good
work of the Woml's Charily club, of Denver. This organiiation takes
charge of children ling the day whose fathers and mothtrs are both com
pelled to work, andje for that or any other reason, unable to give them any
attention. This insqtion is known as the day nursery, or little folks' home.
In writing wmethinglout this wonderful aid to the laboring men and women
of Denver, Hortensel jller, in a letter to the Unilti Lator, has this to say :
- Early any momingt most destitute and forlorn mother in Denver can en
ter this beautiful homjeaving her baby, and hasten to her place of toil for
the long day, the onlyLdition being that the child be thoroughly clean i at
night she leaves a dinVor its care and food if she is able to do so. The
next caller may be a Uer with a tin bucket of luncheon on hit way to hit
day't work. He lumsW to the matron a queer looking bundle of shawls
as he lays : " My wifeL poorly to-day ( I tried to give the baby its bath,
but my big hands worriWm both to much 1 thought perhapt you'd do it
thit mornin'. " Such cat are the inly and rare exceptioni to perfect cleanli
nest in the newly arrivedhild. So, alto, the well-to-do mother has no fears
equally wonderful are easily performed by her in this line. Those who at
first ridiculed the klea ol her being' possetsed of extraordinary powert art now
among her strongest friends, and to deny her wonderful feats it to insult her
friends.
Recently two thousand working girls of New York City and vicinity, rep
resenting twenty clubs, gave a ball at the Madison Square gardrn. Many
spectators were present and the whole number in the hall exceeded ten thou
sand, three of whom only were men, and they were (here to assist in the direc
tion of the entertainment. The merry maident danced without the aid of
male partners, going through the usual drills and quadrilles, reels and other
dancet and escorted one another to supper. The New York Sun asks,
" Why were men excluded from the hall ? " The Chicago AVri answers the
question thus : '-The reason that men were not invited to this ball, which it
now threatened with a sunstroke, is because the girls didn't want them, and
when a woman wills she won't. The wise lassies who filled Madison Square
garden read the Sun and were cogniiant of the fad thai at another ball in
that city tome of those brave, gallant, chivalrout young men, for whose wel
fare Mr. Dana it to solicitous, exercised their pugilistic abilities, and one of
these knightly youths chased a dancing girl with uplifted fist and wralhy
oaths. The working girls know the young men of New York, and with
wisdom beyond their yean did the proper thing and barred them out Bright
girlt I " But thit impliel i reflection on the young men of New York which
it altogether too tweeping.