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VOLUME IX.
T" OT TIISD , OREGON, I"K H A.Y, JULY i, 1873.
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Written for Ihe New NorthwwM.
The rulurf tire.
The future life O, what can It le
To those .who have passed the ihore,
And floated awy wtth the boatman death,
Aye, gone to return no more.
O, what mut It be tose tlie ones
That were laid k cold ami white,
'Neath the riods of the valley to moulder
away.
Transformed to spirits of light.
O, what must It be rf mulc rolls
From the Hps of angel bands,
And echoes along with rapturing eong
Through bright and glfetous lands.
O, what must It be where the perfume of
nowem
Forever float in the air.
Where the mm I i filled with happlne till
There's no creTlee for grlrf orcare;
If eye has not seen, or ear ever heard.
Or mind conceived of the bliss
That the rather of love ha prepared above
For the children he tuke; from this.
Then let us with patience watch and wait.
For there's Joy in believing tho story
That the crucified one will sorely come
And take us with him to that slory.
Mas. K. II. Taylor.
ELLEN DOWD, THEFABMEE'S WIPE.
PART SECOND.
Entered according to the Act of Congress In
the year lS7by Mrs. A. J. Dunlway, In the of
fice of the Librarian of Onngrexs at Washington
City.
CHAPTER L
It has already been said that Ellen
gradually recovered from her severe In
disposition and resumed her accustomed
duties. But she did not regain her for
mer elasticity or strength. Her first
day of convalescence was spent over the
wash-tub, from force of habit as well as
necessity. This of course brought on a
new attack of physical and mental pros
tration, followed in a few days by an
other attempt at overwork ; and these
alternatives of toiljmd prostration con
tinued until one day the rupture of a
blood vessel aroused her husband and
Ziek Hamilton to a realization of the
fact that, let the expense lie what it she couldn't stoop to command you, and
might, aid for the worn-out woman in jyou took advantage of the fact to ovcr
the labors of the household had become I ride her strongest and truest sentiment1),
imperative. jlfad Death but claimed her ere the
A rough, stout girl from the neighbor-1 opening of the second part of this story,
ing village was employed in the wretch- Po"y Jones could have married you,
ed home and installed in the low ,' anl doubtless would, in conformity to
kitchen as mistress. But one day of the j existing mortal laws, and I might have
constant toil that Ellen had borno for . been sPared the further recital of poor
years sufficed for the woman who i Ellen's checkered life. But death, like
worked for pay. Had she been wife in- ; ,ife '9 capricious, and was not ready for
stead of servant she could have had no ' 1,ls victim yet. God had work for her
choice In the matter, but, as it was, she to do
was free to choose, and therefore depart- Tne new" l"se was built as Polly
ed for more endurable quarters. An-;Jones demanded. As her Ideal was ex
other and yet another woman was em- ' cesslvely commonplace, the edifice was
ployed with like results, until Peter not an expensive one, yet when finished
found it impossible to retain the men in 1 5t was commodious enough and com
hls employ, who were engaged In fenc-! fortable, A had Ellen had It years be-
ing and otherwise improving his last
new farm, unless he should become cook
himself.
Ellen would notice the children some
times, and In a feeble, listless way do
what she could for their comfort, but
she grew weaker continually. until by
the autumn time she was seldom able
to leave her bed.
Dr. GofT, who had paid little heed to
the coarse insults of Peter Dowd when
on a former occasion he had striven to
arouse him to a sense of his duty
towards his wife, had been Ellen's at
tendant physician all through the sum
mer, and now, seeing the impossibility
of making her comfortable in the
wretched cabin of the rich land-owner,
he suggested to uncle Jacob Graham the
necessity of removing her to his house.
To this all parties readily assented, and
the world-weary wife, with a tearful
good-bye to her troop of noisy, Inhar
monious little ones, and a stolid glance
of contempt at the man who had blight
ed her life through a blasphemy of what
tho world, in its ignorance, sometimes
calls marriage, gave a sigh of relief as
the wagon rolled away from the door,
taking her, as she hoped, forever from
the scene of so much personal wretch
edness. Katie, the child of Zlek and Sarah
Hamilton, was now house-keeper in
Jacob Graham's house, and with much
zest and good will did she enter upon
the task of nursing back to life the pale,
wrecked sufferer, who would He listess-
ly for hours upon the loungo beneath
the window where morning glories were
giving way to chrysanthemums, and
the maple leaves were donning their
richest coats of amber, gold and brown.
For the fourth time Peter Dowd se
cured a house-keeper. The new recruit
was a large-framed, brawny-handed
-woman, with fiery black eyes, coarse
hair, and rather regular features, fine
teeth and prominent nose. Her first
glance at the cabin and its surroundings
was one of mingled surprise and con
tempt. She had heard that Peter Dowd
was rich, aud had expected to see a sub
stantial frame or brick farmhouse, and
other evidences of comfort, if not of lux
ury. Peter, poor fellow, had become some
what humbled by the necessities of his
situation as house-keeper, therefore he
would listen now to insinuations in re
gard to his surroundings from fear of
being left alone, such as had Ellen dared
to make as his wife, he would have per
emptorily silenced.
"I should like to know," said Polly
Jones, the new recruit, brandishing a
great home-made broom as she spoke
and sending a cloud of ashes from the
dry eartheu hearth over the slab man
tel, surmounted by a gun renting on
aeew norns; "i snouia like to know,
Mr. Dowd, Where's the use o' lieing rich I
if this is the way you've got to live. If
I stay here anil Keep nouse lor you and
this troop of young oues, you've got to
build a new house this very fall. That's
flat!" bringing down the broom with a
sudden thud, and blowing vigorously at
the settling ashes on the mantelpiece
and gun.
Had Ellen dared to thus insult her
liege, that amiable consort would have
been too badly outraged .to expostulate
or apologize, but now, the prosppct of
retaining a house-keeper and cook must
not be lost sight of, and the man became
humble enough.
"I meant to build last fall," he said,
apologetically, "but I had a chance to
get two hundred acres of Improved bot
tom land, joining this, at a bargain, and
I couldn't afford to miss the opportun
ity." "How did your wife like such a state
of- things?" queried Polly, still bus
ily adjusting the disordered room.
"O, she fretted at first "Women will
do that, you know, but when she saw
my heart was set on it she didn't return
another word."
Standing with both hands clasping
the broom handle, and a look of quiet
determination flashing from her great
black eyes, the woman answered :
"You can suit yourself, sir. Build a
house and I will stay a year or two with
you. But I won't live in this old hog
pen only just long enough for you to get
a house built"
"It'll run me very hard to raise the
money," soliloqulzingly, "but I guess
I'll have to do it. "What sort of a house
must it be?"
Ah, Peter, what a helpless creature
a man becomes when he finds himself
in the power of a woman who is stronger
willed than he. If Ellen had been cre
ated on your plane, mentally and phys
ically, you'd have been one of the tam
est and most tractable men alive. But
fore, in lieu of a thousand dollar horse
her husband had fancied, or one of the
dozen farms they had purchased with
the proceeds of their united toll, much
of my tale that is to follow would not
have to be recorded; for the overbur
dened wife would have lived in compar
ative comfort, and her health and
strength endured for years. Then, too,
were this story written merely to please
the fancy of the multitude, or to cater
to the morbid taste of tho romance-loving
reader, it would be eminently
proper that my heroine should here lay
down her life, and leave Peter Dowd,
who has evidently found his match iu
will and work,.to become his legal wife,
after a few short months of mourning; j
but this story is not all a story and
poor Ellen did not die. She ouly lin
gered on for months and months, tak
ing little interest in passing events, aud
seeming thoroughly coutented to be
free from care. Sometimes her chil
dren would be sent for to visit her, but
nothing could induce her to receive her
husband's calls.
I do not say that Ellen's conduct was
right. It may bo better to endure and
die than throw away tho bands that
bind us, but my heroine was not an an
gel, as I have before .explained, and I
do not care to picture her as such. But
I do emphatically declare that many
and indeed most, If not all, of the bad
acts of men and women are the direct
result of mental and physical disease.
And rather than severely censure Ellen
Dowd for openly -acting in accordance
with her long-cherished secret thoughts,
let mo say to you, good reader, who
stand serenely upon proud heights of
fancied purity, neither you nor I know
that we should act differently under
like provocation. "Judge not that ye
be not judged." Dear friendi, do we
obey this admonition? Let us try.
Peter Dowd's family, consisting of
himself and children, the house-keener
and hired man. were comfortably in
stalled in their new quarters long before
the bitter storms of winter howled
through the denuded trees.
Every day the strong-willed, hard
handed house-keeper acquired new
power over the poor slave to lands and
gold, who was the legal husband of
Ellen Dowd. Tho woman was as shrewd
as unscrupulous. She managed by ask-
iDg indirect questions to gain a pretty
correct knowledge of the business affairs
of her employer, and also jsought, in
every, way, to gain his favor and stir up
animosity against his wife.
Had such a woman crossed his path
before ho had so far deteriorated In his
pursuit of great possessions as to lose all
sense of refinement, I have no doubt but
he would have spurned her; but the
downward road o'ncOjCntered upon, to
retrace one's steps is hard indeed, while
to continue in the path an'd growworse
and worse seems a comparatively easy
task
One day, after the twain had held a
long private consultation, this woman
prevailed upon Peter Dowd to seek an
interview with Ellen at the residence of
Jacob Graham.
"I can't tell bow I'll manage It,
though," he said, deprecatlngly. 'Tve
tried a dozen times to see her, and she
always locks me out."
"Pshaw!" was the contemptuous an
swer, "I never saw a man yet that knew
how to manage anything. I'll dress up
little Bob arid you may carry him over
to sec her." 'Then pressing her hands
to her head, slio said wildly, "I'd meet
hell Uself to see my boy!". ...
"What did you say?" asked Peter
Dowd.
"Nothing," was the nervous answer.
"I hail a boy once, but he's dead. Yes,"
she continued, as she watched the de
lighted child, as borne upon his father's
shoulder through the deep snow they
sought the adjacent highway, "my
little boy Is dead, dead, dead! Oh,
Ellen Dowd, another woman stole Into
my home, and now I shall retaliate.
Her stupid husband thinks I am des
perately in love with him. I'm In love
with his property, I'll admit, and if that
wife doesn't come to her senses her
cake's dough, that's all!"
Little Bobby reached forth his fingers
for the dancing snow-flakes as they flit
ted by, and called aloud to winter robins
through an old brown veil that attract
ed a frosty coat of respiration in the
sharp, crisp air.
Peter stalked onward with his head
down.
"I might have known it," he solilo
quized. "Ellen never loved me, and I
haven't been the best husband in the
world that's a fact. I might have
built her a house, and hired help, and
! done manv f hint's T havHii'f ilnno lint
! after all that don't excuse her for leav- i
i inc mv bed and board and tnklmr im i
but flops I shan't accuse her yet!"
Ellen was sitting before a roaring lire
of maplo logs engaged In knittlngstock
ings for her children. Katie was read
Ing aloud, and uncle Jacob Graham was " " er.net. y u.e peace
busv shMlW com. hnn Pfr .ni ful movementaof the nations of our day.
.1.: ., " V '
me uiMji uiiceiuiiiuii.uu.Njy anu, entering
suddenly, seated the little one In Its
mother's lap. Clasping the child to her
bosom, tho mother kissed it tenderly
and asked in tearful accents for its twin
companion.
"Will you go home and do your duty
as a wife and mother, Ellen?"
The question was asked with stern se- !
verity, and in such a manner as no man
would dream of accosting a woman not 1
his wife.
"That's a mighty poor way to wiu
tint K ti n 1 - Tn fnr It cnld TTti rtl r TnnMi I
ingly.
The husband lost all control of both
temper and reason. He bitterly accused
the poor, weak wife of infidelity and Ja
cob Graham of crime.
Ellen fainted from fright and surprise,
and her aged protector aud friend,
roused to fury by the horrid accusation,
ordered him to leave the house. .
Peter Dowd strode out of the 'house,
aud making his way to the village,
sought the residence of a magistrate.
Three hours later, and a petition for di
vorce was served upon the unhappy
woman for the high crime of matrimo
nial infidelity.
The next issue of the county newspa
per contained the following advertise
ment: "Whekeas, my wife, Ellen Dowd,
has been unfaithful to her marriage
vows and left my bed and board with
out cause or provocation from me, I
hereby warn all persons not to harbor
her on my account, as I will pay no
debts of her contracting from and after
this date."
To be continued.)
Witt Conquers Poverty. I have
been far oftener surprised to see' how
the will to work triumphs over obstacles
than I have to see how obstacles tri
umph over the will to work. Bight
and left arc women with Infant chil
dren, aud incapable, invalid, or dissi
pated husbands, surmounting hin
drances, and earning not only a living,
but a competence, by sheer pluck, or If
that Is not an admissible worn, will, l
see men with lndlflcrent ticaitu, nut
sturdy self-reliance and creditable pride,
by steady Industry, buyingand building
houses, lifting mortgages, growlnggrad
ually and surely Into prominent and
permanent respectability; while others,
who started with apparently equal or
superior advantages, falter and fall
! sImP1y from Indolence or feebleness of
purpose. Wo pity them: but we also
tiespise them. Every healthy mind
must despise that trait which permits
a man or a woman to prefer Ignoble
ease to a dignified though hardly-earned
independence; which permits the day
laborer to live bountifully on to-day's
wages, without laying by any store for
the morrow, on which he cannot work.
Gail Hamilton.
Two New England women are making
money as Inventors with delightful
rapidity. One invented a machine for
making paper bags with a satchel bot
tom, and has refused $50,000 for the pat
ent. The other has a patent for a self
fastening .button, which needs no button-bole.
Mark Twain, a few mouth3 after his
first baby was born, was holding it on
his knee. His wife said, "Now, confess,
Samuel, that you love the child!" "I
cau'.t do that," replied tho humorist,
"but. I'm willing to admit I respect the.
little thing for Its father's .sake."
ESTHER.
SEKXON DEMVEnED nr'THE REV. J. D. T-ATOX
IS TUB FIRST CONOREOATIOXAI. CltritCK OS
SUNDAY, JVJiK laTIt.
tIn that day hall there bo upon, (he bells or
the hones, Holiness unlo the Lord." Zech.
H20.
The scene of the slory Is laid almost on
the site of the old Garden of Eden; that
Is, near the junction of the rivers Tigris
and Euphrates, on the borders of the
modern "Turkey in Asia" and Persia.
The researches In Palestine have so
deeply engaged our attention, that we
have thought little, perhaps, of dis
coveries In other places. But In the
vicinity of old Babylon the archcologist
finds rich reward for his pains. "With
in a few years some English commis
sioners, while engaged in a survey of
that country, came upon the remains of
the ancient palace of Shushan, men
tioned in the books of Esther and
Daniel. Tho locality answers to the re
ceived tradition of its position; and the
Internal evidence, arising from its corres
pondence with tiiedescrlptionof the pal
ace recorded in sacred history, amounts
almost to a demonstration. If you will
turn to Eslher 1:0 you will read of a pave
ment of red and blue aud white and black
marble In that palace. That pavement
still exists and, as described by the
chief officer, Col. 'Williams, cor
responds to tho description in Scrip
ture. Aud in the marble columns, the
dilapidated ruins, the sculpture, and
the remaining marks of greatness and
glory that are scattered around, the com
missioners read tho exact truth of the
record made by the sacred penman."
Not far from the palace stands a tomb.
On it is sculptured the figure of a man
bound hand aud foot, with a huge lion
in the act of springing upon him. No
history could relate more graphically
the story of "Daniel in the lions' den."
Tho Persian arrow-heads were found
upon the palace and the tomb. Glass
bottles, elegant as thoso placed upon the
to,,et tab,esof theladiesof ourday, have.
upen covcrci, Willi oilier mrxlltlca
tlons of art and refinement, which bear
out the statements of the Bible. Thus
over 2,000 years after the historians of
Esther and Daniel made their records,
1. ! T - - 1 .
The
time of the occurrence of the
events beforo us was between -100 and
WW years before the time of our Savior,
which puts tho book of Esther among
1 the very latest contributions lo tho Old
I Testament, and not nearly so early as
'some might unthinkingly infer from its
j position before the Pjytlmsand Proverbs
! and earlier prophets.
I Tho principal persons are few In num
ber. There Is Ahauerus, the King, who
is supposed to be the great Xerxes of
ancient history, both from resemblances
of the character and from coincidences
of time. Herodotus tells us that in the
third year of the reign of Xerxes was held
an assembly to plan the Grecian war.
Iu the third year of Ahasuerus was held a
great feast aud assembly iu Shushau, the
palace. Iu the seventh year of his reign
Xerxes returned defeated from Greece
and consoled himself by the pleasures
of the harem, as Herodotus informs us.
In theseveuth year of the reiguof Ahasu
erus fair young virgins were sought for
him, and he replaced Vashli by marry
ing Esther. The tribute he laid "upon
tho land and upon the Isles of the sea"
may have been the result of the expend
iture and ruin of the Grecian expedi
tion. As Xerxes scourged the sea with
chains iu his unreasoning rage, aud put
to death the engineers of his bridge
over the straits of Dardanelles, because
their .work was injured by a storm, so
Ahasuerus repudiated his Queen Vashti
because the would not violate tho de
corum of her sex, and ordered a massacre-
of the whole Jewish people to grat
ify the malice of Hainan.
Esther attracts us by her beauty,
of soul and of face and form. That she
had a comely face and flguro we know
by the people's sending her to the palace
and by the King's choice of her. Her
beauty of soul wo percclvo from all her
bearing. "She appears a3 a woman of
deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism
and caution, combined witli resolution,
a dutiful daughter to her acting father,
docllo and obedient to his counsels aud
anxious to share the King's favor with
him for the good of the Jewish people.
That she was a virtuous woman and, as
far as her situation made it possible, a
good wife to the King, her continued hi'
fluence overhlm forso long a time war
rants u to Infer." There must have
been a singular charm aud grace In her
aspect and manner, since she "obtained
favor in the sight of all that looked
upon her."
Mordecal's sterling qualities appear
iu his refusing to make what seemed to
him an idolatrous obeisance to the
Prince Haman, in his fidelity in expos
ing the conspiracy against the King,
and in his wise planning to save his
nation. He is probably tho author of
the book. For as Ezra, Isehemlah and
Daniel arc appointed to record the acta
in which they look a prominent part,
many of which occurred in this same
palace of Shushan, so, in accordance
with tradition, it Is likely that Morde
cat was left to write this history, a
great part of which he was,
The unscrupulous characterof Haman,
the urauu vizier of the Persian mon
arch, comes out in the strongest light.
Vanity and jealousy have complete
sway over him; but his pride overleaps
itself. It la said that the Book or Esther
is read through by the Jews at the feast
of Purim, and it is still the custom in
some synagogues, at the mention of
Hainan's name, to hiss and stamp and
clench the fist and cry: "Let his name
be blotted out; may the name of the
wicked rot." It is said, also, that the
names of Haman's ten sons arc read in
one breath lo signify that they all ex
pired at the same instant of time. Even
in writing the names of Haman's sons
in the seventh, eight and ninth verses of
the ninth chapter, we are told, that the
scribes have contrived to express their
abhorrence of the race of Hamnn, for
these ten names are written in three
perpendicular columns of 2, and 4, as
If they were hanging upon three parallel
cords one above the other to represent
the hanging of Haman'a sons.
One whose name is dear to the church,
and who has departed to sing with the
choir of heaven, the echo of whose mel
ody he seemed to have caught and en
chained hero below Win. B. Bradbury
has put this Blblestory Into song; and
they tell me that some of you propose to
slug that song this week in tho ears of
the people of this city. If you will sing
It as I once heard it sung, I say for one,
I am glad of 1L The songs of Deborah,
of Miriam, and of the Virgin Mary, of
David anil of Solomon, are among the
most beautiful aud affective portions of
Scripture. The truth sung has often a
power to which the truth said cannot
attain. Some one has made a remark
like this: "Let me have the making of
the ballads of a nation and I care not
who makes her laws." You can sing
into the character of the people the
fidelity, the patriotism and the piety
which you cannot legitlate into them.
Who will say how much the singing of
our national songs has had to do with
preserving us from the necessity of sta
tioning a string of Custom House offi
cers along Mason and Dixon's Hue, and
from having to build forts on the crest
of the Rocky Mountains?
When Luther was sent to the Francis
can school at 'Magdeburg, he used to
sing in the streets for Ills bread, as his
father was unable lo support him. A
year after he removed to a better school
at Eisenach, where ho had relative?,
but they, too, neglected him. Here it
was that Ursula, the wife of Conrad
Cotea, took compassion on the singing
boy, receiving him into her house,
where for years he had all the comforts
of a home. In that hospital. le house
young Martin greatly extended his
knowledge and laid broader the founda
tion for his subsequent great love of
music and song. Luther was never
ashamed to speak of the deep poverty of
his youth! when at the light of his
greatness he would recall the fact. Yes!
the same voice whose tones had shaken
tho empire of the world, had once in
song melted the hearts of the humble
burghers of Eiseuach and won from
them his morsel of bread.
After Christine Nillson had sung in
the Oratorio of the Messiah In Chicago,
Prof. Saml. C. Bartlett.oue of the stout
est defenders of sound doctrine, wrote to
the N. Y. Indcjicndent how rejoiced he
was to hear the good Gospel of Christ
preached so effectively by a sweet-voiced
womau, who moved iu an atmosphere
of applause, winning the homage of all
hearts; preached, too, to ungodly men
who would neverset foot within a church
door. In tho same way have I heard
good sermons in the Music Hall in Bos
ton when Christine Nillson and others
like her, have sung the stories told In
the Messiah, Elijah and the Creation.
Therefore I say, Tarn glad you are going
to sing it here, and I hope It will he
sung with that same earnestness of
spirit and fidelity to tho truth which
drew forth such praises from the Chi
cago Professor. Sing with the spirit
which ought to animate the preacher;
slug to make men receive- the truth;
sing to make men better; Ring in the
manner of a high and holy preaching-
only in higher and more moving meas
ures and with the help of "stringed in
struments and organs." To sing at all
you cannot indulge a pettish and fault
finding spirit; for you have doubtless
tried the experiment of singing when
you felt unlovely, and found It Impossi
ble. To sing better, you must banish
all hatred of men from your hearts. To
sing best of all, you must have the
spirit of the Master which would go
forth to seek and to save that which is
lost If you make prayer a prelude to
the song, and go to the concert hall
from the closet, the highest success of
your singing Is assured. Lowell Mason
used to open his choir meetings with
prayei, and you will not cast a reflec
tion upon the high success to which
Lowell Mason attained.
How about the rest of us, who maybe
permitted to hear the singers? You
will hear some of the truest words ever
ottered, and bo swayed by some of the
noblest emotions and aspirations that
ever stirred human breast You will
hear some of the most effective 3ermons
to which you ever listened. There will
be the bacchanalian song of the King
and Haman: "A song of Joy; let naught
alloy the zest of royal fare; then, while
w mar. enlov to-day, nor dream of
grief nor care," followed by the warning
voice of the prophet, "Loj over tue
wicked in hours that seem -highest,-
doom like the shadow of death-is im
pending."
You will hear Esther's 'exhortation to
prayer and fasting, 'followed' by that
most touching and fervent petition of
the Jews iu the attitude ofthe-suppll
cant: "To Thee, CLonf, ve raise our
cries. Our fervent prayer in mercy
hear; for ruin waitotir trenlbliiig soul,
if Thou refuse a gracious ear," along
with the sure promise, "He that goeth
forth and weepeth bearing precious seed,
shall doubtless come again with rejoic
ing, bringing his sheaves with him."
Luther sang, "A strong fortress is our
God," and you will hear Brallbury sing,
."God Is the refuge of his people, a very
present help In trouble," with the ex
hortation to "trust in the Lord forever,
for in the Lord Jehovah Is everlasting
strength," and 'Thou wilt keep him in
perfevt jH-ace whose mind Is stayed on
Tlice."
After the deliverance is accomplished
your hearts will swell with the joy that
inspires the breasU of the Jews, as they
sing, "Where the Lord turned again tho
captivity of JSion, we were like them
that dream; then was our mouth filled
with laughter and our tongue with sing
ing; then said they among the heathen,
The Lord hath done great things for
us, whereof we are glad.' "
Those of you who have heard the
"Hallelujah Chorus" lu the Messiah,
will hear it ringing grandly again in
your ears, as it Is suggested to you by
the triumphant revelling of the doxol
ogy: "Be thou, O God, exalted high,
aud as thy glory fills the sky, so let it
be in earth displayed, till thou art here,
as there, obeyed."
Passing along by the "Court of Death"
In the evening I have sometimes
heard the sound of music ami singing.
If the voice of son and of the stringed
or wind instrument will draw men into
the "Court of Death," why may we not
rescue the music aud singing and tune
It to the voice of tho angelic chimes,
and so draw men Into the "Conit of
Heaven?"
If music fills the floor of the "Ivy
Green Paloon," why may it not bo ued
to attract those wayward feet to the
floor of the hall of the "Oratorio,"
where men may hear the gospel
preached ?
But do you approve of the opera? I
cannot say, just looking at the opera as
it now stands, differing too little from
the average theater. Are you not afraid
that the Oratorio maylide Into the
Opera ? Yes, just as I fear you may
overwork your brain or abuse your
stomach, just as I fear you may use
"author cards" to gamble with. Dan
gers crowd about us on every side, and
it is well to have a wholesome fear of
them. I might wish, therefore, that
the dress and acting were left out of
"Esther," as they are out of the other
Oratorios, as the Messiah and the Crea
tion, and then it would not border so
closely upon the Opera. But it must
be judged upon its own merits, and not
hampered with the weight of abuses,
for which it is not responsible.
The noble sentiments and emotions
are there, aud the noble music to ex
press them is there, and I would that all
the singers and the listeners might be
moved by a noble spirit.
Judge the Oratorio by the same rules
which I laid down iu my sermon of this
morning on "Amusements." Does it
unfit you for your proper work, either
mentally or physically ? Does it disin
cline you to public or private devotion ?
Does it induce in you a a trilling spirit?
Do you come away from the hall over
excited, heated, flushed, sensual? Then
you will join me In the saying it is
wrong for you to go to tho Oratorio of
Esther. How far you can go depends
upon how far you can take God with
you. If you cannot ask his blessing
upon what you are about to do, you are
getting away from blm.
But I believe you can be made better
by going, If you will listen in the right
spirit.
Trouble With the Heks. This is
the season when every owner of hens is
engaged in endeavoring to suppress the
maternal instiilcts in one or more of
them. The man comes home to supper,
aud the wife observes: "That yaller pul
let Is on the nestagaln." Then the man
f oes out to the coop, and says: "What
n thunder is the matter with the beast,
anyway?" aud crawls In under the
roost to the nest aud reaches in and
brings out a handful of feathers. Then
the lien screams and starts for the door,
and the other bens set up a howl, and
likewise depart for that aperture, aud
the man nearly choked by feathers and
blinded by dust falls over the water
trough and skins his ankles on the
boxes, and finally bursts out into the
yard, with a piece of brick In each hand,
and goes after that yellow pullet, with
his face as red as a lobster aud his back
curiously wrought with mosaics from
the floor of that coop. When he catches
the hen be cuffs it over the bead a few
times to show it how he feels, then he
jams it under a barrel, and pours a pall
of water through the cracks, and leaves
It there till morning, when it Is released
and thesamn operations goneover again
In the evening. Figaro.
Franklin said. "When you run In
debt you give another power over your
liberty." Our old friend Franklin was
a practical man and uttered many wise
aud truthful sayings. They were truth
ful and applicable sayings In his day.
and are iust as truthful now. Young
men and young women the golden
rule of life Is "keen out of debt" If von
have not the means to pay for beef,, eat
nlank
your cash, but don't go in debt. This is
now to lie free.
ury oreau-out,uou ilget iu ueot. Jf you
can't pay for a silk dress, don't order it,
but select a calico one and 'nlank down
THE LEAVEKJS W0BKING.
We call the nttention of the BeDubli-
can leaders to the following editorial,
published In the Toledo Sunday Joiir-
ual, a paper which ranks side by side
with theToledo Bladcin its demand for
the enfranchisement of woman:
where we staxd.
It Is well occasionallv that tho Wom
an Suflraglsts should look about them
and take the bearing of things. At the
great National Bepublican Convention,
June 9th, 1S72, when the success of the
Republican party was in Jeopardy, and
a division had occurred in Its rankf
which threatened to be formidabte, this
party, 'ostensibly pursuing a leading
nrinciole which at its formation had
been its corner stone, that of reform.
stamped upon its banner the following
declaration of sentiments: "TheRepub-
to the loyal women of America, for their
noble devotion to the cause of freedom:
their admission to wider fields of use
fulness Is viewed with satisfaction, and
the honest demands of any class of citi
zens for additional rigtits snoulri ix
treated with respectful consideration.?'
On tho 2Sth of August, the old Bay
State, which has always sought to
maintain its rank of precedence where
valor or principle were the issue, went
so far ahead of the National platform, as
to boldly declare: "That we heartily
approve of the recognition of the Mights
of Woman contained in the fourteen
clause of the National Bepublican pla't-
iorm; mat tue icepuuncan party oi Mas
sachusetts, as the representative of lib
erty and progress, is iu favor of extend
ing suffrage on equal terms to all Amer
ican citizens, irrespective of sex, and
will hail the day when thp educated in
tellect aud enlightened conscience of
woman will find direct expression at the
ballot box." So uncompromising a de
claration of sentiments as this of course
drew ail true womanly women, of that
State at least, into the Bepublican ranks,
and all over the country the women ac
cepted the Bepublican recognition, and
liieir lniluence, anu in many cases meir
oratory, was given, and as freely ac
cepted by the party thus courting their
allegiance.
In several of the States eloquent wom
en were employed by Republican' Cen
tral Committees, and did good service.
A Republican woman, employed by the
Ohio Central Committer is said to have
delivered more elfectivc speeches, than
any which were made in the whole
Western States during the campaign.
The party thus offering its support to
the women and supported by them in
return, gained in strength and power;
their candidates were elected; and now
we shall see howtheirpart of the friend
ly league, after the election, was ful
filled. One of those who had most promi
nently aided toward the success of the
cause, in concert with others in all good
faith voted for the candidates whom she
had labored to elect. The first fruits of
this, was the arrest of these women, by
olllcers of thl satnegreat national party
which had acknowledged its obligations
and tendered them respectful consider
ation. The last act iu this same farce,
we find to be, that a trial was refused them
in the county iu which it had been ap
pointed forthereason, forsooth, that the
Republisan V. S. Attorney concluded
that the jurors of that county had be
come too well educated in the principles
of justice and equality. The hunted
woman, stung by the party whom she
had helped to place in power, had spoken
among the people setting forth the true
arguments iu the case and the jury to
be qualified for the important duty,
should beignorantaud unenlightened on
the true priuciplesof thegreatquestionat
issue otherwise the Republican govern
ment regarded them as biased aud unfit
to render impartial judgment.
We turn now to Massachusetts, and
the whole attitude of the Republican
party through its Republicau legisla
ture, ja oaseiy treacnerous toward its
women, insulting them In the halls of
legislation by the language of its mem
bers, and treating them like children,
with violated nromises. Tn our nwn
State we find a Republican Judge eject
ing u woman irom an omce ailoruing
her an honorable livelihood, for thesolo
and ouly reason that she is a woman.
In Illinois, a Judge of the Supreme
Court, sustained by tills same party
wiiicii uau ottered respectful considera
tion to women, refuses to allow a woman
who lias spent time and money in ac
quiring a thorough legal education, to
practice law, in its uouri, tne oiience in
this cose being, also, the circumstance
of sex. Verily, the women, if not ush
ered into political rights, have learned
their first lesson In politics, and their
sad cxperiencee has now become-dis
trust ot parties. Whether a new party
must be formed discarding the rubbish,
gleaning what Is best from the old. and
accepting, as its higher law, the eman
cipation or women, seems as yet dimly
apprehended. Certain It is, however,
toAlay, that women, although gaining
constantly in accessions of the good, null
honorable, and great, still so faras polit
ical aid is concerned, stand alone. But
stand they will, and gather around them
forces which must eveulually sweep the
stakes. The animus of the dominant
party, from the acts for which they are
responsible, cannot be mistaken. Never
before has similar political action, to
ward woman, transpired. Iu tho who'lo
record of our country, no demonstrations
In opposition to woman's rights, similar
to those inaugurated under Republican
rule, have occurred. Thus far, it is sad
to say of that great party, that they
have been trusted, tried, and found want
ing. Hypocrisy in the tlret place, and
cowardice and distrust iu the last place,
seems to have marked their action.
Henceforth, like the man without" a
country, the women can truly be said to
be without a party, until circumstances,
or fate, or Providence, or their own In
trinsic power, shall rally a party around
them, which even now, would seem al
most in its incipient stage. As good
men are ashamed of the shameful frauds
which the last Congress adopted, so
must they be ashamed of the oppression
which' has been developed under the
goyelrnmenf, toward the women. And
if this, is true, they can yet make
amends, by laboring now to place wom
en where they rightly belong; and like
the anti-slavery veterans of former days,
who refused to fraternize with any party
which affiliated with slavery in any
way, no good man should sustain a gov
ernment which turns an IndiiferenOear
to the rightful claims of women.,-, , '.a
, , , : r i looiiad
It is better to gaze upon barewalls.'
than pictures uupaid for.