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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1871)
r FRIDAY.... AUGUST 11, 1871. THE "WE8T'SIDZ"SBEAZETH. By dintof In$S3&rks ana the aid 01 sharp cygq!gHt 3rul a J goou constitution; we nave been ena&led tmST from many sources and todedpheracolmmi&j of-ilriecUfble llMbrcnt quartcre of the Union, liaA.btlRtvMpMflie hcMi asfTe-mls the Republican and West-Side , a 3J1SL3BKSl the two great j- lllasUBiAlgQijstarl at present exist- but which, lnrilkc, o. -aJf, has failed to , jn , Jr country, and the principal improve its qpport- l jufllclently to, , beiweeji ,Which seems to be what present age' -----a, r. . '"- of journalistic pror--- -wou. This TT8t-aciWft -htwti pai)cr, but it-alwajHdJw mud-bc-sp&ttered; mfttal04w useful family newspiflKir It fjflll be CGr,j essary ipx.utfl. jsrawuitir .fafift,rnoiHm I man's rlglitali m il xuw iouroajy.prais ot ute 'sMHM.fy gro lriirhcnsely rich on meagor sal whims" 0f women, .io, alone of es- legislators frequently go nv i BtiianrMfPiciiir Tfi'ii Knrnvp tiii , 0 r :i a class of humanity? and bv thus nrat-J mg evinces clearly that it knows about as much concerning the woman move ment as a parrot knows of political.ccon omy. "Dabbling in politics," of which the 1Vcgl-Sidc so contemptuously speaks, is a libel upon manhood. Who made pol ities a "filthy pool?" Why is it that men "fall from their high moral stand-point upon entering the arena of National politics?" Why cannot iKiliticians "resist the hand of the tempter" when once inside the pale of politics? Hold on, Rro. West-Side. ' Scratch the mud from your journalistic eyes and look us squarely in the face while we tell you why our politicians fall, and why politics to-day reeks as a "iiltliy pool." It is because the virtuous, the refined, the sensible, tiie noble mother?, wive and daughters of this nation do not as sist in the national house-keeping. Women are not "just as likely to fall into the same snare as men if they mix in politics." Women are the conserva tors of public and private morals. Where there is one bad -woman there arc at least twenty bad men; and where good women meet men on -a. plane of social equality the morals "of each are uneontaminated ty the vices into which either will nat urally fall if left without the harmoniz ing elements which are necessary to the proper developments and restraining of both. We have "thousands of ruined men and played out politicians" simply be cause men alone are unable to resist such temptations as are sure to exist in a one-sexed and unnatural state of soei eiy. Women alone would do no better than meu have done, but the efforts of both lncifhnd women -would soon cleanse the Augean'.s&bMPund which has collect ex tfiefilthy pool" in which politicians ssaelfeTitfe 'gabble." . jr. Mr8.1Stvens, whom our sago West' ' ' K5erarto",mercHcsslv over the knuck- , fjkljhi iiHfeusatioii that she is never , pausiicti unless "engaged in doingsome 'tiling unlady-like and absurd," can bear, we trust, -with our garrulous con temporary, especially as he says "she bears a. good moral reputation, which cannot 'be said of all their leaders." E0w, we courteously ask this would-be $ir Oracle if it is any more a matter of 1 rwoodor that some leaders of the woman ''ittovement have false stories circulated 'against their reputation than it is to bo wondered .at that many leaders in the men movement have true stories in cir ' culation against their public and private character, which cannot be gainsayed ? Emily Pitts Stevens' name will be re membered and lauded in the annals of history long after those of the narrow minded men, who seek to impeach her womanly motives, will have rotted in oblivion. The allur'on of our friend to the "com ing reign of Petticoats" leaves us to fear that at home he is sadly hen-pecked. Such, men naturally fear the increase of womaaV political influence. If "God placed, woman just where he meant to &eep her," why need our brother worry But He will succeed? And why does mah' legislate to enforce His decrees? Ah! Bro.- West-Side, wo pity you in your sore dilemma I Let us weep ! N. B. A lady visiting our office, whose attention we have directed to the Wet-Stde?t article, begs leave, through the columns of the Xew Xoktiiwest, to conjure the writer of the same to in sure his life. She says he surely can't live long after evincing such an aston ishing degree of acute perception as characterizes his closing paragraph re lating to the decrees of God. IT'S NONE 0P0UE PTOEEAL. In the spring of 1SC5 Henry Winter Davis, of Baltimore, in an elaborate let ter to one of the leading Republican pa pers, .said that the Republican party must of necessity accede to the negro the right of suflrage or die a political death. This was said before one man in fifty in the party ranks had for a mo ment admitted the probability of enfran chising the negro, but subsequent events proved that Mr. Davis knew whereof he spoke. Nothing but the enfranclUsement of the negro insured the last Republican victory, and nothing but enfranchise ment of women will ensure theneitone. But Republican man's rights doctrine dies so liard that, waiStroncly suspect f ilieaMJblf idt -ilntarirSlbmaviidalSn l.v ''Hrfth SbJiBtrcali rver of cagjatjonajjlberiieg. eT"m , ,In ths meantime wo. sue JIKSTmIip' S?!:F,'.rUj " utWWMlIU 4UU k T Will fight: "We never did seo a tight before hut we cared which, whipped." , nuuvuci UU3UZIHU auu BjiM&rJwmu iu a ' thaUtlUproIoag'thes'trUggic-tlll tho; ji 4;ifidnSLWIW9lft?)!feI4iation, COBBUPTIONIN POLITICS. The long continuance in power of any political power particularly in local ities, where liti members form a large prerderancc" of, the voting popula tionnaturally and almost inevitably tend in eorrunlion in office. This fact K iMIMpntiMt, nf abundant proof, which -v fitteAj'aWre shall devour the u- ' ' avetfKil'UislieB''of- public emolument -4ftfcfrt lot! ntl3 rn:rV' Members of Congress no w-.edbw-easa ' ZYasulngton penniless, ZllQdnfal 'fo a'l i?. . ln n .a41o .li.Mtnmiiin' urillpfM. mill Jive in a -jstylc bifcominsr princes, and n irn'tWUheir tax-burdened conslit ,,..ia w?WJirHrV m-irnrrn wraith. thousands uen! ifordnUrttnCoyernors ot stales suiiuen """i" jlheir homes rich from the cap- 4tabwhence they started poor; even 'Jiiges'bn the bench have been known to rise from poverty to sudden opu lence, while receiving salaries barely adequate to defray the expenses of their sumptuous style of living. And thus might we go on enumerating almost indefinitely. Hie present Administration came into power with the promise of inaug urating a system of rigid economy, in tegrity and honcnty. A few usoIum clerks were turned out of office in the Departments at Washington, and some gratifying progress has been made in reducing the public debt. So far, good. But corruption still stalks through every avenue of our Government, and its demoralizing influence, sent forth from the headquarters of the nation, is felt throughout the length and breadth of the land. That President Grant is particularly dishonest we do not believe; but we do think it was a sad mistake which our Republican friends made when they took a good General from his legitimate sphere of duty and made of him but an indifferent Exec utive. To an impartial observer of af fairs, it would seem a very poor way of instituting retrenchment and reform to accept large and valuable presents from political eormptionists, who expect in return and, we doubt not, often re ceive substantial favors ami political preferment at the hands of our worthy President. But the latest and perhaps grandest revelation of fraud yet discovered is now being brought to light in New York city. The New York Time, one of the leading newspapers of that city, has published statements of secret ac counts kept by the Controller, in which damaging disclosures arc made against the "Tammany Ring," the virtual head and front of the Democratic party in these United States. The statements show that Mayor Hall and Controller Couolly signed fraudulent warrants during the years 1S69 and 1S70 to the amount of near $10,000,000, ostensibly lor repairing and furnishing the new court-house! In support of these charges the Time gives dates and fig ures from the Controller's own books. It defies successful contradiction, ar raigns tne Jiayor and Controller as public thieves and dares them to take the matter into the court". So far the city officials have declined to do so, and have made no explanation that tends in the least to their exculpation. We nave no desire to enlarge upon this disgusting transaction. That such gigantic frauds can be perpetrated in our country is at once surprising and alarming. It calls for a remedy a rad ical and effective remedy which shall hurl from power the vampires and leeches of both parties who are now sapping the very foundation of our na tional existence. To neither of the great political par ties of the day can this work be en trusted. The necessity Is urgent for a new party, composed of the good and true of all political organizations who really desire the welfare of our common country. Let that party, whenever it shall arise, inscribe upon Its banner, Universal Suffrage, Universal Justice and Universal Honesty, and its success will be assured. THE NEXT GBEAT POLITICAL IS SUE. Vallnndigham, the great Mogul of the Democratic party, tried three hours to prevail upon his friends In political cau cus to insert a woman suffrage plank in the "new departure" platform, and, we doubt not, would have succeeded had it not been that the party is so "eminently conservative that it has to be whipped into recognition of all progressive ideas." Now, if that party Is so "eminently con servative" that It must needs fight all vital issues until some other party has, despite its opposition, mailo those issues a living law, which law, after years of unavailable protest it nt last uncondi tionally accepts, what Is it good for as a party except to endorse the measures of its political opponents? Cannot the Democratic party sec that by taking the lead note in the greatest political reform of tills or any other age It can have op portunity to vindicate its record? Again, tho Republican party, which accepted the vote of tho negro through a political necessity, which swallowed the bitter pill at the time when Northern Democrats and Southern Rebels would else have strangled it, learns no lesson from its past extremities, hut, like the Democratic party, waits, trembles, hes itates and procrastinates, intending af ter n while to endorse woman suflrage, provided It can no longer succeed as a political organization without it. JU:iuroisuuvl1 leauiers wcignt wmx the scale against Expediency. Theonlv Justice is but a feather's weight with . . ill. a i issue at present between the two great ; parties is the spoils of office. They arc , engaged in a. great national lawsuit bribery, corruption, 'fraudnd' intrigue being the order of the day. Justice may cry out for shame, while Virtue weeps and Liberty bewalls the departed glory of national honor. How long, as a nation, are we to en dure all this? Ccrtainlv the timett nr.. rife for a new political organization; one which shall be established on a basis of the fundamental principles of equality. justice and fraternity, which shall ig nore alike the aristocracy of sex, the corruption of political Intrigues and the demoralizing influence of corrupt cor porations. MUTUAL EELIEP ASSOCIATION. The time has gone by when persons of ordinary business sagacity cavil against the benefits of life insurance. It is equally obligatory upon the husband and the wife to make provision during life for the family that Is liable at any moment to be deprived of one of the main stays of the household. The father who is left at home with a family of lit tle children is in reality left in a far more helpless condition than the mother who is so bereaved. Therefore it is nec essary that the mother, as well as the father, have a life assurance policy, or, what is equivalent, an interest in a mu tual relief association, which, by the payment of an inconsiderable sum year ly, secures to the heirs of the assured a sum of ready money, at the time when, of all other times, such sum is most need ed. In these mutual relief associations no one ever receives a benefit beyond that received by every individual mem ber. The plan is cheap and safe, and insures to people of moderate means an oppor tunity to secure benefits while the more expensive modes of life asssurance are beyond their reach. Under the mutual relief association plan any person over eighteen and un der sixty may become a member. The annual payments range from three to nine dollars, according to the age of the member at the time of joining the society. Thus: Persons under SO years at the time or joining pay a fee of $3 00, and an annual payment of $3 00 each year thereafter ; over SO and under 35, $4 00; over 3-3 and under 40, $5 00; and so on. These annual payments are not rai:ed above the first payment made when joining. Upon the death of nny member of a class each survivor pays the sum of $1 00 to the heirs of the de ceased. MBS. LAUEA EePOEOE GORDON. The lectures of this gifted, logical and womanly woman, at Oro Fino Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings, were at tended by small but intelligent and ap preciative audiences the very brains of the city, masculine and feminine, being assembled each evening and, notwith standing the excessive and very unusual heat, the utmost attention was mani fested through the -whole of the pro tracted argument. Mrs. Gordon takes to the rostrum as though indeed to the manor born, and as wo listened to the unanswerable logic, elegant diction and eloquent utterances of this feminine Pat rick Henry, we were rejoiced beyond measure at our excellent fortune in thus having found such an able ally in our la bors in tliis quarter of the political vine yard. The Independent Political party of San Joaquin county, California, having nominated this popular champion of Woman Suffrage for the State Senate from that county, are calling upon her to return; hence her sojourn with us must be brief. She designs, however, to return overland, and will lecture at places along the route if the friends will address her without delay, care of this office. Mrs. Gordon will lecture Olym pia, W. T., Saturday evening, August 12th; from there she will go to Seattle, returning to Portland in about ten days, She will probably lecture hereonhcrrc- tura. ance and Humanity, comes to us regu larly. It is ably conducted bv Mrs. A j. Jmmway, editor and proprietor. It is a first class family paper, and should rcceivo a liberal support and And a place In every family on the coast. Its senti ments we luuy endorse, and as a co-laborer in the great moral reform move ment we give it a cordial welcome. The above is clipped from the columns of the Weekly EcJt0, a lively temperance paper, published at Olympin, W. T. We are happy to he able to fully return tne compliments of our editor brother. MBS. GOBDON'S LETTER OP AC CEPTATION. To the Officers and Members of the San Joaquin Co. W.JS. Association, Stock ton, C(il.J-rieiuUi The letter of your worthy Secretary t .1 - . ... L-uiuuiiiing me iniormaiion mat you would be pleased to honor me witli the nomination for State Senator fur San Joaquin county is received. I should indeed be unworthy your expressed con fidence, and the high compliment paid me by the proffered nomination, were I to decline accepting It, though I cannot but regret that at this time your choice has not fallen upon another than my self. But I have learned from years of warfare, waged against the wrongs of politics anil the vices of society, that personal Inclination and individual in terests should lie held in abeyance to sense of duty, and this motive prompts my acceptance. For the information of those who do not understand my views upon the lead ing questions of the day, that legislation .ri t ..-.tit . . i . 1111 tiiivi, i in M.ue iiiai, w line ciecei- tion and Intrigue are practiced by polit ical leaders, aud unjust and unchristian laws are permitted to rest upon ourstat uto books, with scarcely an effort made by our masculine law-makers to removo them; while the penalties for evil doing . fall heavily upon the poor and obscure,1 and fall Jightly, if at all, upon the rich The New Nokthwest, a paper pub lished in Portland, Oregon, devoted to Woman's Rights. Education. Tmnnor- and influential; while our homes are impoverished and made desolate by the curse of intemperance that stalks, almost unchecked through our land ; while the sacred ordinance of marriage is desecrat ed by wanton Infidelity and licentious ness, followed by indiscriminate homi cide or suicide, or both ; while land mo nopolies check the development of agrir cultural resources aud industrial enter prises, and threaten to centralize power, by a vast accumulation of wealth in the hands of the fete, leaving poverty and want the inheritance of the many; while ignorauco is allowed to Increase despite our free schools; while an unjust dis crimination on acconnt of sex is made In remunerating labor, even by the Gov ernment, doling out to the faithful and efficient woman the inferior salary, and to the often less competent man the largersum; while the fundamental prin ciples of our Government are ignored by the system of claex legislation which prevails; while all these and similar wrongs exist, there is need of counter iction to correct them. And should circumstances ever place me in a posi tion to oppose them by the direct power of legislation, you can rely upon my certain and unequivocal adherence to sucli measures as would tend to right tlieni. lours for Eoual Rights. Lauka DeFoiice Gomox. LETTER FROM REV. JOHN SPENCER, JOHXSTOWX, Pa., July 27, 1871. Dear Editor: When about to leave for the Atlantic States you requested me to write a little for you. I thought to do so, but somehow till now T hav failed to make a beginning. hmce leaving home my wife and I have had nothing in our experience much out of tho common order some sca-ickness, considerable railroad fa tigue, and a moderate degree of health. We have had some happy reunions and pleasant memories. But we arc sad denetl everywhere with reports of the death of old friends. We are hen? too late for a pleasant visit. I was pre pared for something of the kind, but not near so much. What havoc deatli can make in two score years! How important to work while it is day ! In some places considerable is said about Temperance. In several towns the hotels do not sell intoxicatiii; drinks. The quiet and order are quite apparent. What an insult to sense and delicacy the whole license system must ever be! License to sell drunkard- making beverages is simply authority to poison the citizens. Then the guards inieiKieii 10 control me business arc mostly to be managed by those who have no special interest in putting down the abomination. Ohio is an ex ception. Two features in the Ohio law are pe culiarly appropriate. One is, the suf ferers are to apply the remedy. The wife who is damaged by the poisoning of her husband can prosecute the pois oner. Tho other is tills: The nest of the viper is liable to share in tho pun ishment of tho reptile. If the one who deals out the poison is unable to make good the damage, the property on which he docs his work is held account able. That is as it oughtlo be. These two points arc essential to effi ciency : All who sustain damage should be able to recover damage, aiid all property devoted to vile uses ought to be bound for the consequences. These points are plain. Their constitution ality is not to he questioned. I think it would be well to say noth ing about a prohibitory liquor law at present, and with one united nnd ear nest effort go for something Jike the Ohio law. I trust the peoplo would sustain the latter, though I fear they would not properly? back up the former. Legislation, when in advance of the IMJople, is useless. To do Us work it must be the voice of the people. I am pleased with Oregon better than ever. It improves by contrast. The hills here look higher and more repul sive than formerly. The roads are bad. Much of the cultivated land is hill-side some of it very steep. It rains every day or two more or less. My wife thinks the weather much like our rainy season. I confess It appears much so to me. It Is certainly far from suitable for harvest labor. The hay and oats look much bleached. Tho wheat crop is good in most places. The same is true of oats. Thecorn looks well. Apples arc scarce, many and great trees being without fruit. But withal I must say the improve ments of the past twenty years arc wonderful. Joitx Si'EXcek. A St. Landry Hanciie. The fol lowing is from the Opclousas Journal: "It is said that Mr. Lastitc Dupre, of tills parish, owns about 20,000 head of cattle, ranging over the greater part of South-western Louisiana, from Bayou Tcchc on the cast to the Sabine river 011 the west, and from Bayou Chicot on the north to tho Gulf on the south. His principal vachene Is on the Bayou 1CS.1U. 0Z1)i(lUe. about tliirtv or mnn mllu worth about fifteen thousand dollars, made In Mr. Dupro's service. From this stock of cattle between two and tliriHi tllolluillfl filvrw fim l,iii.l.ul .... three thousand calves are branded n- year. The stock-keeier is compcnstitcil for Ids sen-ices at tho rate of fifty cents in silver for each calf branded, and this Is the greatest or only expense incurred in raising the cattle. The entire stock are not wortlt less than $200,000. The ' . , " ......... . uiuiiiimiviui iii3. westofOiielousas, on the line between! Again snys I kindly, but firmly, this liarish and Calcasieu. His agent or ! "What is the matter, Betsey ?" stock-Keeper, residing at this vacherie, I "I had a dream last night, Josiah Al ls a colored man, who has been in his len's wife," says she mournfully, employ for many years, and in whose I "What was it?" says I, ln a sympa honesty and ability he lias implicit con-1 thizing accent, for she did look niekut micnce. the colored man is said In n i-lmiv mi ...uu.ii iL-iciiuc uenveii ironi tne yeanv : alpaca lap. Increase cannot be less than 13,00, cieaV 1 "Bid vou dream who you was married or all extienses it Is probably much to?" says I. more. Mr. Dupre, like many others, "I dreamed his name was Mr. Slimp lost a large fortune by the war, in otlier ! sey," says she, in the same aonizim: i-ui-viij, uui mis mock oi came nas in- pi mil cpt him rich. And no man better ilo. serves his good fortune, which is simply the result of his industry and good man- geiiteni, tiian ue; tor no man is more T.oli jew us Kinu-iieancu, t-nan- .u.c-iiimuKio relieve inesuiiering, as .nr. Lastito Dupre. n . The Jew Northwest is $3 00 per yar- . Original. Mjr Mother Grave. , A FRAGMENT. TIs my mother's grave. Since when a child, With childish fenrund grief, I saw tier laid Within the damp, cold ground, nnd beard the clods Of earth, with rattling and discordant sounds, Which seemed to harrow up my Brief afresh, Enclose the sacred, dust of her to whom I owe the gin ofllfe, I have not seen This spot. To other scenes my early life Was drawn, mld them to iend the fleeting yean Of childhood and of youth. My manhood's day At length has dawned, and In Its early mom I long to wander back tot.ee the dear old spot, And there to think of thee, my mother dear, And 'hove thy grave to shed the filial tears Of nurtured love. The thronging thoughts of days Agone their dreamy spell around me weave. The pearly gate that leads to memory's store Of lewcls treasured In the passing years Is opened wide. 9fM. Again methlnks I seo " My mother's loving face; again I rest My head upon her breast, ln childish love And Joy, and listen to her lullaby, So sweet, so soft, so low, and yet so clear It seemed nn angel sung In seraph strains The sweetest song of Heaven, and built again The dreamy path alongwhase guttering course Tne feet of childhood pass from wakeful hours To find repose amid the flowery realms Of balmy, ienceful sleeji. And passing o'er The Intervening time, so thickly strewn With memories fond that trance my soul nnd cling Within my Inmost heart, I seem to stand Again beside this open grave, mid gaze On thy sweet face, ko beautiful and pale With death'D cold touch, and press thy marble brow And pallid Hps with earth's Ia.it kiss of love. They told me thou wcrt dead. Jlut death to me Was then a won! whose very name was naught Hut mystery. I thought thee in a sleep A strange nnd deep and dreadful sleep from which Cotild'st thou le waked they might not bury thee; And so I called and called again thy name; From thoc mute lips of thine no answer came To my appealing cries; and us they heaved Tho mhI above thy form my gr!crbunt forth In floods of tears nnd paxsloned word", until In mydcspalrthey led me from the place whore she was burled that I loved. Oh! mother mine. Thy Ixiy would fain come back to lay his bead Upon thy bn.t aud hear thy song once more. Alas, the mxI of many yearx, grown thick With grass nnd blooming flowers, between us lies, While miles of dreary distance Intervene; Yet In my fancy now I rest my weary head, Which aches uud throbs for mother's soothln; hand. Upon this green and narrow mound. Above thy loved remains. And yet. w hue here In thought I linger, lone and fad. Methlnks, although I sec thee not, nnd though o word of thine comes ringing to my car, That thou are here. The air around me seems All freighted with thy presence and thy love. MyJoy-onniptured Mul enveloped Is With bliss ecstatic nnd with peace profound. Ah, yes! I know that thou art here! "Women's Spear. 1IY JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE. If any body had told me when I was nrst born tnat L would marrv a whlew or, I would have been provoked at 'em. But, ns I remarked to Betsey Bobbet yesterday, "wo ought to try to be re signed to the state we are called to live in." Betsey ain't marrried and she Ion't seem to bo resigned to it. Betsev in awful opposed to wemcn's rights. biic thinks wemen's only spear is to marry. I was jest a read in' 11 piece of her jwetry in the Jamcsville Gimlet as site coine mi. It run as follers: WEMENW SPEAK; OR, WIIISI'EIUNGS OF NATUKE. TO 11ETVEV BODUCT. L.it nlgnt as I meandered out. To meditate apart' Secluded In my parasol Deep subject shook my heart. The earth, the skies, the pmteting brooks, All thundered in my ear, "Tis matrimony 'tis matrimony ! That Is a wemen's spear." Day, wllh n red shirred Ism net on. Had down lor China started: Its yellow ribbings fluttered o'er Her head as she departed. She seemed to wink her eye to me As she did dlsapear. And say, "Tis matrimony, Betsey, That Is a wemen's spear." I saw two lovely ncs. Like wedded pardners grow. Sharp thorns did pave their mortal path. Yet sweetly did they blqw. They seemed to blow these glorious words Into my willing car. "It Ilobbct, It Is matrimony. That is n wemcn's spear." Tiro gentle sheep upon the hills. How sweet the twain did run, As I meandered gently on, And sot down on a stun. They scorned (o murmer sheepishly. "Oh ! Ilctsey Ilobhct, dear, ' 'Tis matrimony, 'tis matrimony, That Is a wemcn's spear." A rustle had broke down his team. I mused almost to tears. How can a yoke !e borne along Ity half a pair of steers? Even thus ln wrath did Nature speak, "Hear I Itctsey Ilobbct ! hear ! 'TKMnatrlmony ! 'tis matrimony ! That Is a wemcn's spear !" Sweet was the honeysuckle's breath Upun the ambient air. Sweet was the tender coos of doves Yet sweeter husbancs are. All natures voices poured these words ini my wining ear, 'II. ltobtwt. It Is matrimony. That Is a wemcn's spear." As I said, I had just finished these verses as she come in. She is a plain looking woman of some 4-3 summers and winters. Time has seen fit to deprive her of her hair and teeth, but her large nose he has kindly sullered her to keep. But she has the best ivery teeth money will buy, and has 2 long curls fustenetl behind each ear, and If sho wasn't so bald, and if the curls was the color of her hair, thev ivntilil look wpll. as sue come in, sliesunk into a chair, , w - . . - . and says she, "I feel awful depressed to day." "What is the matter?" says I, in a cheerful toue. "I f,l Iiinidv." WlVd lihr." "ninr.. t.w. i I.- n.... i i..-.. c,- ...... w. it "I dreamed I was married," savs she, , in a heart-broken toue, "aud I tell you. Josiah AHoh'k wife," and she laid her I 1 , i ft .. i breun cotton fliiser on my arm In her deep emotion "I tell you it was hard, 1 for years in a room full of cambric nee atter dieamlng that to wake up again to ' dies and tatting shettles, and you can't the cold realities and carc.i of this life. I get him to do anything but roar at 'cm; It was hard," she repeattd, in heart-! it hain't a lion's nature to do flue sew brokcu accents, and a tear gently Jug!" Again Betsey a milled, and I ' lloweil down, and sadly dripped Into her accent: "it wasn't noootiy i ever see.1 1 "Did vou dream von Invnl I. un I band, Betsey ?" savs I, fixing my keen gray eye upon her keenly. j Jo," says she. "ou know my mind concerning wemeira spcur. I believe it is ncr spear to marry; that Is the imnor- taut thing:; as for love, and respect, and uiceiciy, i consider them miners, as it were." ' "Miners" says I, in a tone of deep in-. dignaty. "Miners, Betsey Bobbet," savs J, waving my right Hand in a elo quent wave. uTheru haint a more beauttiui signt on carm uuia 10 seo human souls, out of puro love to each otlier as if they must, and at least all their hopes ana tnougiui aim nuecuons running together so you can't separate 'em nohow, jest like 2 drops of rain wa ter in a morning gtory ui , uj eo 'em nestlin' there not caring for nobody outside the blow, contented and bound up In each other, till the sun evaparates 'cm, as it were, and draws 'em up to- ill s..i . - 1 .......... crnririfl lm geuier 11110 vue anncus, .r, . 11 i l up there. Why thai is asigut ini u men and angels good to look at. But whenawemen sells herself, swaps her purity and self respect, her truth and her soul for barter of any kind, such as being called a married wemen, a house and Tot, a few thousand dollars, a horse and buggy, a certificit with a man's name on it, and etceetery what if she does have a minister for salcman, my contempt for that female is unmitiga Jde." "We diner from, each otlier in our views, Josiah Allen's wife you believe wemen ought to have rights I don't. I believe wemen's spear ii.' "Shet up about your spcars,Uvfeay3 f getting wore out. "If ltlislt wemen's spear to marry, the Lord will provide her with a man it stands to reason He will," says I, with a cutting look onto Betsey. "I have seen wemen that was willing to mam-, but the man wasn't forthcoming. What are they to do?" says I, growing eloquent 4' my deep principal. "Are men to be pursued like stricken dears by a mad mob of humble wemen ? Is a wemen going out into the streets and coller a man and order him to marrv her?" "I telf you," says Betsey, waving off the subject, which was, lor reasons 1 won't hint at, odious to her, "wemen hadn't ought to vote, for it would de vour too much of their precious time a studyin' the laws of their country-" "J'rccious time!" says I, in a tone of withering scorn; "wemen spend more time a-frizzin' their front hair than it would take to learn the whole statue book by heart. And if they get a new drcs-s, they find plenty of time to cut it all up into strips, jest to pucker it up and set it on airain: but when it comes to a job about as long as putting a letter into the post-ollico, they are urcatnui short on it for time. Wemen find time enough to read ail the novels they can get hold of why, let one of these, very5, wemen that think lh I'rfe-Ident'tf bureau is a ehe.-t draw where he? keeps his fine shirtanri the tariff is a wild horse the Senators keen to ride -t keep to rule --i t on let one of these wemen iezt in.d of one volume of a nosl, wliatdoea h care about timo tUThc re ' 'ae other four? and how she wi'.' luy awake nights worrvin' about the hero? Betsey Bob bet," says I, in a itnpressvic tone, "if there hau been a wemen nut on tne Island of Patnios, and Paul's letters to the churches had been love letters to her, Bibles wouldn't be so lonesome as they arejiow. Wemen," I continued, "find time enough for balls, and theatres, add parties, and to cover their faces with their fans, aud giggle, and abuse the neighboring wemen. Why," says I, growing eloquent again, "the very rea son that men's talk is nobler than wem en's is because their minds are filled with biztrer thoughts. Betsey Bobbet, when did you ever know a passel of men to set down and spend a whole evening talking about each others vests, ana mistrustin' such a feller painted? Fill a women's mind with bis thoughts, and she won't talk sueh little back-biting gossip as she does now." "But the delicacy of voting," says Bet sey; "the shock to our wemenly modesty, of going amongst strange men to vote." "It hain't no shock to wemenly mod esty to dance all night with a dress on indecently low in the neck, and a strange man's arm around your waist, is it? I am for wemen's rights, and I say it boldly; but thicr hain't a minister, or a presiding elder, or a old deacon in the Methodist church that could get me to waltz with 'em; but these wemen tha arc too modest to vote, don't make nothing of being jest introduced to a man, who may be a retired pirate, and let him walk up and hug them by the hour to the music of a fiddle and a base violin. I don't want to hear one more word about wemenlv modesty !" aud 1 paused, rod in the face with my scornful and lofty emotions. "I think your views are uronious," says Betsey; "there is a inherient difi'er- ence between the two sects, as I remarked to the editor of tho U unlet last night, a eominsr out of meetinc: the frinceof mv shawl ketched on to one the buttons of Ins vest, ami we -was obleeeed to walk cloe together clear through the meeting-house. I says to him, after I had enquired all about his sweet motherless twins, says I, 'iou don't believe in wemen's rights, do you? Don't you' believe n is wemen's nature naturally to be cllnuinir?' " 'I do,' says lie; 'heaven knows I do!' 1 and he was so earnest agreeing with me; that he give a real wrench at the button that tore the fringe right out of my shawl. That is the way men are more ...... 1 1 .7 .. .. , 1 ..Ow l. .. . It . .... 1 ............ t'tuuu unit uiiisii, nn lit nun, iiiiu l Cllieil are clinging in their natures, like a vine to a stately tree." "I never was much of a dinger mv self; still, if wemen want to cling, I hain't no objection to it. But sunnosin' a viuo hain't no tree convenient to cling to? bupjMjsin' the tree she happens to cling to lulls through Inherient rotten ness at tne core, minuter ana iignimng, and oteetery what is to become of the creeper if it can't do nothin' butcreep? As long as a womaii has a rich home and loving friends, it hain't much mat ter to Iter whether poor wemen get the samo pay for doing tho same work that men do or not, but let her lose her home anu inends, and it makes considerable difference to her." Betsey quailed so that I continued in more soft ami rea sonable accents. "As you nay, Betsey; I 1 . . . . 1 "inini that wemen have a natural h.-.nkerin-r after the irood opinion of the other sect; but they can do without that admiration better than vittles. Givo a woman as many fields to work ln as men have, and as good wages, and that is enough. It riles me to hear folks talk about wemen's wanting to wear the breeches! They don't want to; they like muslin and calico better than tlioy do broadcloth. This talk about Its making wemen coarse, nnd making men wash dishes, Is all shear nonsense ! "You can't change nature. You may tie mi an old lien as lontr as as vou i mg to make a nest and scratch for her ... 1 . , . . . i. chicken;-; and you may shut tin a lion proceeded: "ion may want a green shade onto the front side of your house, and to that end and effect you may t riant a acorn and set out a rose-bush, ut all tho legeslatures in creation can't make that rosgjbush stand up straight as a giant, or .tuar acorn tree blow out full groundi.vd watereG"' .u r T .'u'de i watorhrf yv, iluii alter tun nature. I turn:. C v .ill bat!, h Adfct tie whrd6? tint .! il i- tii , -ft ur. whifclf - nerenf. Mid Men suit ii.ti- en, vott aiter tl singing side ' j ht'i rn f . woe d ni. ir . would one will sing base air as lontr as "the world si- Jest at this minute we se tne uimlct coming 'wavd Mim u norse anil buggyfa saui at. once she must be "SSI .... ..UK", ue werryinir "And," she added, "I brouKtii of poetry that I wrote this -. iiT i" J "ream. The turn . ' ,"." jiw""1 now.' 1 wfc- rn rrsfl if t7raitit 1...1 r .. ... in a few daysff shouldn't b 1 1 1 1 r-r-- ....... 1 1" a . . .. ii, ji-h, wasn't Tor werryinc so after mo " 3'? h as she hurryed to th. "Mebby you will get a ridetB ' Oh. no: I hail ivn 1 L- T ii . " , iu uie mussels." As I see he didn't ask h8i am glad she felt so. Tome J. L .. 41. 1 . . " Vj" tj rid 1 AS A Good Joke. A Stmi of those fellows who go abS trj advertising "Actio Kl riers' Friend." "Unf Wi specifics on bridges, fences, h and every object animate and perpetrated a ioke on a fan Eugene City. The aforesaid .. constructed a magnificent midstiOfWu tlitnlilivlnwii, steneil.artigavpjit for thatgafl eraliy c'ovHW iLwith advert "1 he owner boiled over with midst of the fence lie coull temptation. "But," saids "there was a bietrer trato ir round the corner; why didhli that?" The artist was dumlj he felt as if he had let a bf couldn't rest that nitrht. At dawn lfo arose, got out his team, went back four miles and looked lor that gate. To his chargin, there was no gate there. He sat on his wagon-box while he cursed things blue. But while indulging in sad rumination on the wickedness of man kind in general, and the owner of the Kate in particular, he espied four white horses standing inside the farmer's fence. He became inspired! ho caught the animals and took his stencil plates and went to work. When ho got through, the horses were peripatetic ad vertisements of Loryea's remedy. ''UDk" appeared Uatyyeen their p-"i w.ti" over theiroqg3f-tj63F -ills, and "Vvk. totf;tSiompL Hon of JU work thajt artist gin w up In toiw and loft. But , tVtv hours aftvr thl jarmcr madehisnn- im-.i.t.c- t.i .tuiKenc Oty. maklntr anx ious inquiries for that stencil man. lie wanted to put a head on him. Jaateon villc T.mcv. Don't go to "work" to win the affec tions of a woman; it can't bo dono in that way. The more you go to work the more she won't like you. Push her into a tiuck pond and pull her out by the hair. If you are afraid to do this jump in yourself and let her pull you out. Lend her money, borrow some from her. Make her believe she has deeply wronged you, and then forgive her. Deeply wrong her, and don't ask to be forgiven. In short, contrive either to lay her under a lasting obligation to you, or lay yourself under a lasting obliga tion to her. It does not make the dif ference of a headless pin which, so far as concerns the result. Laramie Sen tinel. The name of the Turkish wnn'a paper, Euridiki, is in English, l '.vrydiet. It is so called in in memory of tUc'SkW of Orpheus, whom lie brought y 'k, or tried to from the realm of da Its aim is to call women to a higher life, and witli this view a series of lives of women distinguished in art, science and literature are being published in its pages. A Mrs. Johnson, of Leavenworth', was sued by a lawyer for $60. He did a lot of talking to the jury; but all she said was, "I leave mjgeoiwith tho greatest cont'''""" in il!P.)u)JW&f n-h ' good look ; ;ii 2m Tttsi ".!' a ve dict aa -?UrmiW Jh.ifiWavir. Si: tf 7 xa it! ,i WILLIAM OytOI Heal KHtate" orriC3 Wo. fc Proat T)K.r tft.vrt. xyrui- ..Tr't JLV I: -" w ini.- -i-. consii -k ui.OT-.il U.ru llocs Hi HAV lai.i We et S ' ' ' i "Huh lt ;.!( PERIOD iii7TEr8 toPiirat - it HnlKCtJ f' And J1 tate Bns nr.- -ii -.1 LCGAl.jAfJPi 1 r.. jr. v nl 'tr! . IV ill .A. 7 W nl i', Jt mrmm, BW6or foundeu; rdcoHho . Als.. 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