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POTtTJLA.NX, OREGON, FKIDAY, AUGUST 1873.
IVXnVXIJETt 3.
Fkek Speech, Free Press, Free People.
Mount NIlHhtlU
a pour mams bv joiix hoi.lin niooc js
Heboid Uie dread ML Shasta, where It Mamls
Imperial 'midst tle tescer ltefghts, and, like
Some mighty, unttntlotted mind, eompau
ionlesa And cold. The stonnt of Heaven may beat In
wrath
Against it, but it stands In unpolluted
urandeur still; and from the rolling ihMr U-
neavcs
Its tower of pride -'en purer Mian before.
The wintry shower and white-winged tempest
ieae
Their frozen tributes on IU brow, ami It
Doth make ol t u-m an cverinstlng crown. .
Thus doth it, day by day and am by age,
lefy each stroke of time: still rising higher
Into Heaven!
Aspirins to the eagles' c-loadless height.
No human foot hath stained Its snowy side;
Nor human breath hath dimmed the ley mir
ror winch
It holds unto the moon and stars ami sovrcign
sun.
We may not jrrow familiar with the seereu
Of iU lMHiry top, whereon the Ceuku
Of that mount builds his glorious tlirone!
Far lifted in the boundless blue, he doth
Encircle, with his gaze supreme, the broad
Dominion- of UieAVeat, which lie beneath
His feet, in pictures or sublime repose
No artist ever drew. He sees the tall
Gigantic bills rhe In sHentness
And peare, and In the ton; review of distance
iiange Uiemsclveg In order grand. He sees the
sunlight
Play upon the golden streams tlutt through
the alleys
Glide. He hears the music of the great and
solemn sea.
And overlook the huge old irestern wall
To view the birth-place of undying Melody!
Itself all light, save when some loftiest cloud
Doth for a while embrace It cold. forbWdlnc
Form, that. mmareu mountain casts IU mighty
Shadow down upon tlie crownteMi peaks below,
i nac, iiKe inferior minds to some great
Spirit, stand In strong contrasted littleness!
All through the long and summery montli of
our
Most tranquil year, it point its Icy sliafl
On high, to catch the dazzling beams that fall
In shadows of splendor round that crystal
eoue,
And roll in floods of tar magnifteenee
Away from that lone, vast reflector In
The dome of Heaven.
Still watchful of the fertile
Vale and undulating plains below, lite grass
Grows greener In Its shade, and sweeter bloom
The flowers, strong purlner! From Its snowy
.-line ine Breezes coot are waned to the "peace
ful
Homes of men" who shelter at Its leet, and
love
To gaze upon IU honored form; aye, standing
There the guarantee of health and happiness.
Well might It win communities so blest
To loftier feelings and to nobler tlioughts
The great material symbol or eternal
Things! And well I ween In alter years how
In the middle of his farrowed track the plow
man In some sultry hour will pause, and wiping
From hi browbe dusty sweat, with reverence
Gaze upon that hoary peak. The herdsman
on will rein his charger In the plain ,and drink
Into his Inmost soul the calm sublimity ;
And little children, playing on the green, shall
Cease their aporUaud turning to that mountain
Old, slm 1 1 of their mother ask: "Who made
It?"
And site slial 1 answer: "God !"
And well IbhrOolden State shall thrive, if like
IU own ML Shasta, Sovereign Law shall UR
Itself In purer atmosphere so high
That human feeling, human-passion, at Its
base
Shall lie subdued; e'en pity's tears shall on
its summit freeze; to warm it e'en the sun
light
Of deep sympathy shall fall:
IU pure administration shall be like
The snow immaculate upon the mountain's
brow.
ELLEN DOWD, THE EAEMEE'S WIFE.
PART SECOND.
Entered according to the Act of Congress in
the year 1S71 by Mrs. A. J. Dunl way, in the of
fice of the Librarian of Congress at "Washington
City.
CHAPTER VIII.
As the heroine of our narrative had
become a member of the fashionable
world, her hours of quiet chat with par
ticular friends were liable to constant
interruption.
Before the mystery surrounding Ed
gar Worth had become sufficiently un
raveled to satslfy her intense desire
to hear more, a concourse of other com
puny appeared upon the scene, and her
dark-eyed visitor took his leave, prom
ising to return on tho following after
noon.
It seemed to Ellen that her feet had
found themselves wings. Never boforc
had birds sang so sweetly or the fine
face of Nature looked so serenely bright.
She flitted about among her guests like
one inspired. Her children wondered
at her animation, aud had good reason
to appreciate tho bounteous love be
stowed upon them. j
Another day folded its dead hours out
of sight and crept back forever into the
shades of thoDeparted; and againEIIeu
found herself at her favorite window.
Her invalid charge glided into the room
and silently sat down beside her.
"My poor child," she said feelingly,
"may the God of all justice grant that
your last days may be better than your
first, aud that the darkness which
clouded your bright young life may
only bo remembered in tho days to
come as a disordered dream."
"But I cannot comprehend tho mys
tery that surrounds you. The moro I
think of It the deeper grows my strange
bewilderment."
"Edgar shall help you to unfold the
story. T know my mind is Injured.
Sometimes, as now, I'm sane enough,
but often my ideas wander. Dear-a-
me 1 It's little wonder, though," tappiug
uer foot nervously upon the velvet floor.
Tho appointed hour for Edgar's sec
ond visit had come, aud he was punc
tual to the moment Little by little as
the trio talked was unfolded the life of
each.
During the years that Edgar's parents
were leading their strange .existence on j
the D'Arcy estate, lie hail been away at
school. His mother, bearing her maltlen
name of Brandon, for his sake, and
aided by an uncongenial aversion to
the old man, her husband, suffering the
constant fear that she, though married,
was not a wife, and that her idolized
son, though born in wedlock, was ille
gitimate, Itad yielded to the intense
strain upon her reason, and for years
had been a lunatic But now old man
Worth, alias Killingsworth, was dead.
The valuable D'Arcy homestead, which
his cunning wiles had wrested from the
possession of the weak grandfather whom
political associates had ruined, had long
before been sold, that he might glut his
growing avarice upon tho sight and
sound of gold. lie had immured his
wife within the walls of a private asy
lum during one of her attacks of lunacy,
and through all his remaining life gave
her no opportunity for escape.
The son, long grown to man's estate,
saw his mother but seldom, and never,
while his father lived, except in the
presouco of the matron of the asylum or
her aids. Edgar "Worth was unhappy.
Some dark mystery surrounded his fam
ily. Of that he felt certain, but ho could
get no real clue to it; so, partly to quiet
his constant apprehensions of evil, and
partly to gratify his love for adventure,
he had betaken himself to tho busy
West as soon as his college days were
over, where he first met Ellen Dowd,
and whero he had acted as her juror in
a most revolting case of legal inhuman'
ity. Ho had studied for tho ministry,
and had been for years anuctive, zeal
ous worker iu the Church
During Ellen's stay in her Mississippi
Valley home, after her awful trial had
awakened her to a knowledge of herself,
she had not met liim except upon an
occasion sho longed to forget a dismal
day when he, as clergyman, had joined
in legal marriage the author and abet
ter of so many of her woes with one
who, though an unfortunate sufferer
from tho baso deceits of man, was in
her relations to Peter Dowd as guilty as
himsolf. The ceremony being over, the
dark-eyed stranger clergyman had gone,
and Ellon had almost ceased to think of
him. Life, ns she had found It, had
had too many hard and practical reali
ties to allow her time for romantic rev
erie, and if, in times past, the earnest
eyes that now thrilled her as they gazed
into her own had possessed a hidden
charm, she had as suddenly dispelled it.
The mother of Edgar Worth, of whom
as her governess sho had in early life
been excessively fond, possessed that
peculiar sagacity so common with the
partially deranged. After having told
her story, during the recital of which
Ellen had stood dumb and bewildered,
her wriukled features broke into a
meaning smile, and rising from her
chair she said signficantly:
"Life is before you, children. It is
behind me. You do not need my pres
ence: neither do you desire it, I will
g
"But where will you go, my mother
dear?" said Ellen quickly, while a
bright blush mantled her beaming face.
"You surely do not mean to leave my
roof. Remember that my own mother
died when I was born. I have never
known a mother's love. Will you-let
me love you, aud will you love mo in
return?"
shaking her thin finger at her host
ess, the woman answereti:
'Don't talk of love to me. 'Tis
sweet word, but I've lived three score
years without it. You may love Edgar.
Then I shall be satisfied. I see how
things are going. Don't detain me.
will go!"
But I entreat you not to go," said
Ellen earnestly. "There is room in my
homo and room in my heart. Abldo
with me and I will make your life a
grand porpelual joy if act of mine can
do it"
"Who said that I would Icavo your
house, you silly, addle-brained child?
am only going to my room to give my
son and daughter an opportunity to set
tie their private atlairs. Do you think
I have lost my senses ?" and laughing
immoderately, she left the two alone.
Gaining her chamber she threw herself
upon the bed, and relapsing into silent
reverie, lay quiet till tho shades of even
ing settled over the house; then sinking
into a peaceful slumber, iu which Ellen
many hours after found her serenely
locked, site dreamed away the moments,
while happy smiles played over her fea
turesand settled themselves in radiance
around her firmly-closed mouth. Did
seraphs hover near?
For a few moments after his mother
liad left them, Edgar paced the room
abstractedly, while Ellen sat in silence
at tho open window, gazing out upon
the open lawn. The gorgeous clouds
that had been hanging over the city,
and dipping their dripping fringes into
the shipping and the bay, had rolled
themselves back and away into great
mountains of sapphire, alabaster aud
pearl. The balmy sunshine had dried
the rain drops from the shrubbery aud
lawn, and glistened now upon accacia
blooms, aud now again upon tho foun
tain's silvery spray, around which sing-
ine: birds flitted, and at whoso base
bright gold fish Hashed in beauty.
"Oh!" said Ellen, and her sudden ex
clamation arrested the abstracted walk
of her companion, who turned, and seat
ing himself besido her, said simply
"A penny for your thoughts."
"I was thinking, sir, that even-thing
is happy except humanity. Look at
that glorious landscape how it rolls
away into tho dim distance, a thing of
joy and beauty. Cooling streams flow
from the hill sides ; green trees flourish
at their base; the cattle upon a thous
and distant hills luxuriate in bounty
and blessings; birds sing, flowers bloom,
grasses grow, fruit trees yield their
riches in their season, and amid all Na
ture's works man, only man Is miserable.-
Do you think it was tho design of
tho great Architect of all things to thus
mar the happiness of sentient beings
like ourselves?"
"You ask leading questions, but I
will try to answer them. That' there is
much moro of misery than joy upon tho
earth among men and women I know
to my own sorrow. But I am satisfied
that this condition is nol normal or nec
essary. Humanity chains itself to the
dead customs of tho past, foolishly pre
suming that those who lived before
were wiser than the children of tho
present Society sets itself up as a cen
sor over everybody. Individual freedom
is lost sight of. Everybody attends to
the business affairs of everybody else.
There is no such thing in practice as
personal sovereignty."
"But do you think tho world Is ready
for the idea that each should bo a law
unto himself? I, for one, can testify,
and I believe you can bear me witness,
that in moro than one instanco men
who have acted thus were wholly un
worthy of their power."
"Tho trouble is, my dear Ellen," tak
ing her hand in the most natural way
Imaginable; "the trouble is, that, as our
laws and customs now arc, none but
bad, unscrupulous men aud women will
do exactly as they desire. The censor
ship of society, or tho wish often too
intense to avoid what a morbid, self-
righteous, sln-stecped world calls tho
'appearance of evil,' leads thousands
yearly in tho track which they feel was
never made for them, and while they
secretly long to work out ways for them
selves, dare not do so because they have
not moral courage sufficient to run the
gauntlet of public misrepresentation."
"You are right," said Ellen heartily.
f knew years and years before I left
the roof which my owu toil had helped
to rear to shelter Peter Dowd that God
had never joined us; that our life was a
mockery of the Jioly institution of mar
riage, and that the numerous children
of our unholy union were naturally re
bellious and inharmonious, when they
should have been happy-hearted, phys-
cally strong and mentally gifted; but I
was driven to desperation before I could
gain the moral courage to resolve to bo
just to myself, that I might thus have
power to be just to others."
But you gained the strength at last,
my dear. 'He that rulcth himself is
greater than he that taketh a city.' "
"But, oh! Edgar, consider what an
ordeal I.passed through ! Many a worn
an sinks to utter social rum in such a
whirlpool. I couldn't endure it again."
You had power from above, my dear.
Do you never fancy that tho unseen in
fluences of a belter life God medium
of help to mortals aro near you in
times of trouble?"
"Oh, Edgar, I havo so little faith!
God is a long way off! Tho Crucified
is with us daily, but ho so often comes
in form of crosses that our blistered feet
bear up steep and jagged Calvarys that
cannot contemplate him with any
great emotion of pleasure."
" 'Come unto me all ye that are weary
and heavy laden, and I will give you
rest,' says Jes.us. Ellen, you make great
mistakes when you rely too much upon
your own strength."
"I never relied upon anything else
that helped mo auy!" was the decided
response.
Edgar Worth arose, and throwlug
open tho window, stepped through with
Ellen upon the balcony. Twilight had
yielded to the glowing glory of the
queen of night, as sho moved amid her
fleecy drapery attended by hosts of stars,
Tho city, with its rows of lighted
streets, lay below thorn, and beyond the
white-capped, billowy bay, bearing si
lently its burden of a thousand barks,
was rising aud falling in tho balmy air.
.Vway, away, rolled low, long mountain
ranges, aud in the mooulight at tho feet
of wild, bold breakers guarded the grand
Golden Gate. Lone Mountain sent its
spires heavenward and looked out on
the sea.
"Ellen," the voice of her suitor was
strangely deep and tender now, "in tho
miust or such beauty and crandeuras
this can you doubt tho lovinrr kindness
ot mo great Author of us all?"
"I do not doubt when I am happy, a3
now, tgar; but on, I am so often mis
erable! Why did God give mo a heart
to love with and a deep, constant yearn
ing for the companionship of tho good
and true, and then cast me among those
who crushed my choicest jewels and
robbed my life of its highest Ideals?"
"True gold is all tho better after be
ing tested In the crucible, my dear.
lour past life has been a stormy one.
Will you let me try to make your future
brighter?"
Tho moon quietly veiled her face, and
stars winked slyly at each other as
standing there, under the blue canopy
of God, Edgar Worth and Ellen Dowd
exchanged the pure kiss of bretrothal.
ITo be continued.
"Teach the Women to Save."
nr katk true.
"Probably not one woman in ten knows how
much are the expenditures of herself and Cam-
y. (Exchange.
Good business, Isn't it, but who'll do
the teaching ? As a woman who under
stands tho entire process of saving, with
all its manifold twistings, turnings and
worries, I protest in behalf of my sisters
against this ever recurring text with its
endless sermons. Who ever said,
tcacli a man to save?" Who ever
uestloued a son of Adam about "that
ivo dollar bill iu his pocket book." and
added "how in the world do you get rid
of money so soon ?"
Wouldn't you like to see tne aforesaid
son wlien no replied, especially if no
were about ten minutes pttst his twenty
first year? Tho newspapers keep on it
continually; in the North, South, East
and West, they parade slyl ittlo sermons
on "tho economical housewife" by tho
side of a flaming account of the "great
supper of tho B. B. Club," or an appeal
to tuo ladies rrotn some Young -Men's
Union. Beardless boys talk soberly of
women's extravagance, catching tone
from tho old greybeards who know bet
ter, anu nave stated over and over again
in private, "they would not be worth a
dollar but for their prudent wives." I
don't know how to explain tho conduct
of these men; like the actor who played
lame lor years, tucy liavo acquired a
twist and cannot walk properly; the
limp hangs on. It is an inherited taint,
too; you sec I am determined to say the
best I can for them, aud perhaps the
poor things do try to overcome it and
can't. Adam is to blame; he was tho
first great sneak and gave us tho first il
lustration of tho "protecting power of
man," when no did wrong aud excused
himself by blaming Eve. She took it
meekly no doubt, and that is the troubio
with most of us wo havo taken
lectures on our extravagance so long,
wo havo about decided that every finan
cial crisis is duo entirely to our owning
ono solitary black silk dress, the prico
of which falls far below tho amount
paid for either of tho three overcoats
now hanging in the next room.
in fact, when we gave it the silk, wo
mean its lost refreshing bath of vine-
car and water, and spent an entire week.
with theaid of a cheap dress-maker fora
day iu reconstructing it, we distinctly
remember .now sweetly our "hint"
complimented us on our skill and taste,
and removed from ins precious lips a
iwoniy-nvc cent clear in order to do so.
Wo runner remember the appearance or
when wo suggested to Adolphus that
dog-Keeping was expensive, lie greeted
us witit tho assurauco that "lirown ot
fered fifty for him, but ho gave a trifle
more. You see, my dear, he is tho only
ono o: tho Ktnu in town, a -spicuuiu
hunter, you know."
I could not see wherein wo were to
benefit by these admirable finalities, as
Adoipnus never cares to hunt and l sol
dom leave town, for tho money never
holds out until August, although I have
made over my own stockings for the
girls aud their father's for the boys
every season, to say nothing of tipping
upstdo down aud inside out an old band
box of liuery which I possessed when
was married, aud havo made troiotit on
parade every spring and fall to eke out
tho rainuy millinery aud iiress-maKtug.
To be sure, Adolphus has a spring hat,
a fall hat and a winter hat, as i Know
to my sorrow, ror all or the present sup
ply with a portion ol last years are
pretty sure to be lying about loose, i
think it was onlv hist week he cavo a
'ten dollar soft felt" to Mike who digs
un tho four by five piece of earth we call
our garden. I said something about its
beitnr made over, but Adolphus laughed
at me, so I took down tho old black straw
r . f i r ...
L Iiavu wuru iivu &cusuii, unu unci sui
ting It and pressing it with a llat-lron, I
made it look very well and something
tho shapo of a new ono my old school
friendMary has just brought homo from
Paris. I found some velvet in the old
bandbox, which looked remarkably well
after I steamed and brushed It, and with
a ilower from one of my bridal bonnets,
saved with care, aud a veil from tho
winter one, It really is "quite stylish."
I showed it to Adolphus when he came
in, and told him it had not cost an out
lay of oven one cent: that seemed to
please him, and he showed me a new
pair of slcovc buttons he had bought of
his frlcud Brown. "Ho offered them
less than cost and my old ones are get
ting shabby." They were beauties, and
I said so, aud only fifteen dollars!
I did reel a little sad a lew days alter.
when ono of tho boys said my old hat
was solemn enough for gradma, and
asked mo why I didn't havo pretty new
things like Mary l 1 went down to sco
Mary a little while after, bhe had a
lovely home anil a wealthy husband,
and I enjoyed seeing her in it, for the
school friendship is stronger than over,
sinco babies have come and gone in both
homes.
I found Marv In the nursery playing
with the children, but sho left them and
went with mo to tho library, for she
said in her old kind way, "You need rest
and quiet now, and one House iuu oi lit
tle folks is nuitccnoucn loryou." iuary
was meuuiug a iittio waist ior one oi
...
her children, anil I asked her wonder-
ingly why she did not give that away,
and have her seamstress make new.
It will be ono of my delights in
Heaven." I added, "to be free from
mcndinir."
"You dear child." sue saw, "i must
draw the line somewhere. Since James
retired from business, I know exactly
how much our income is, and if I were
to rush Into the best of everything at all
times, as mcu do. ho would lind himselt
compelled to resume ins work, anu ins
health is not cood. you Know. iou
tho wealthiest must manage
or the principal win ue expenueu
as well as tho interest, and James does
not understand saving; men never uo
thev talk or It. but never practice it, am
thus It comes to pass that my husbaud
cets whatever pleases him whenever ho
likes, and I purchase such things for
myself as I can, after tho children have
been provided for. When the girls have
everything new, I remodel, aud James
never knows anothing about it. When
wo were abroad wo bought many things
remarkably cheap, but I never exceed a
given sum for personal expenditures,
fOr I llOld it in lu 1 fllltv in ntfn no
freely as possiblo to charitable institu
tions."
"Mary," said T, "what do you thinl
about womeu's savings?"
I think," sho answered, "if it were
not ior uio many good saving wives in
America, a few vain women and manv
proud men would ruin us. if a man
loves his wife, ho wishes her to make a
good appearance, and half the women
of our acquaintance who dress richly
do so to please their husbands."
"I know," said I, "when I am shop
ping with any of our friends, we gener
ally purchase durable and good articles,
and after wo grow weary we usually
lunch as cheaply as possiuie, out wnou
Adolphus or ono of the boys goes with
me. thevturn un theirnoses at the ouiet
dining room aud insist on the best of
everything atl'arker's. It is very pleas
ant aud nice, or course, uut somehow 1
think part of the money spent in tho
dinner would do more good in a nice
book for tho children, or help to pay for
Sue's music lessons."
Mary proposed our going to call upon
an old friend, and just as we were put
ting on our things, James came In.
"Do you mean to say you have not seen
ray improvements?" he said to mo after
our first greeting.
"wmo up.staiis at once."
Wo obeyed, and soon looked upon a
sulto of rooms fit for a king. A luxu
rious study, a sleeping room opening
from It, a largo, airy dressing room, and
most complete natn-room beyond, ivu
the modern appliances wero there, from
the costly lounging cliair and cabinet to
tho latest dentifrice and perfumery.
Mirrors of all shapes and sizes; coats of
many colors; an array of neckties large
enough for a first class bow window;
boots and suppers in wonderful order;
fishing tackle, guns and amunition on a
quaint looking sporting table, brushes
of all sorts, aud gloves enough for a
lifetime. I think I never saw so odd
an expression on a man's faco as my
friend's wore, when I asked hint a sim-
ie questiou alter our survey. io had
ust shown mo his privato sideboard and
an elegant liquor case, also so mo boxes
oi cigars and sundry other kiuck-knacks
and as he stood leaning carelessly on
his mantel with a satisfied expression
upon his face, he said with his old-time
confidence:
"And now, what think you these
rooms havo cost me ?"
I was silent.
"Just five thousand dollars," ho said,
"and tho fitting up has been the best
part of it,"
"These rooms ore all for you," I said;
"where, pray, is Mary's five thousand
dollars' worth of creature comforts?
3'ott can shut yousolf up here away from
care or noise, but whero is tho quiet
resting-place for tho wifo and mother?"
After a pause, he gave the usual man
Ish reply, "All I havo is hers, you
know."
"Tho cigars, brandy, smoking coats
aud the 'change of raiment fino aud
fair?' " I asked with a smile.
And now what think you "truthful
James" did? He walked across the
elegant room, aud put his arm tenderly
about his wife. "Mollie, dear," said he,
"If you have not everything in tho
world you want, say tho word: all the
traps on earth would be useless without
you."
Of courso sho smiled and thanked
him, and would cut out her tongue
sooner than tell him she would bo com
pelled to use some self-denial in order
to make the live thousand dollars come
easy.
She only smiled and re-trimmed her
velvet cloak, and decided quite suddenly
not logo again to i-.tirupe when her boy
went out to school. Some trifling ex
cuse about tho children satisfied him,
as well as the little world around them,
and the rich woman saved. Who taught
her?
Well, Mary and I called on our friend
and on our way there sho said to me,
"Yoti see how it is, ho worships me, and
I, although fully conscious that it is
not quite right or just for one partner
iu the matrimonial firm to use so much
wealth for individual pleasure, do not
liko to disturb tho harmony of home by
my fear or fancies. I do haye some
scruples about tho equality where my
boys are concerned, and i sometimes
fear I am lcttlntr present ouiet stltlo
duty. Hero is Blake, our old friend,
Lucy's husband; he docs the same thing
In a smaller way. Days In Boston
days! hours, I mean, from nino until
three, then home to a nice dinner or her
preparing, although he has doubtless
dined with friends in tho city, n short
drive with his family and 'don't sit up
for me, dear,' and away ho goes to tho
Club and plays billiards. Why, my
doar, sho twists and turns to keep up a
decent appearance, aud ho spends more
in one week on sell in eating, drinking,
and dress, than sho does for ono entire
year. iSow, my dear, what are such
women to do V"
"Save," said I.
"Save!" she exclaimed, with a toss of
her uandsomo head. "I grow vexed
whon I hear it. Do you suppose a wom
an witii ordinary intelligence cannot
feel and seo these things ? With n Aim
of her own, as you say, and three or four
brothers, can sue go uirougn ine
blind?"
"Love is blind," I said, "you know,
dear."
'Somo -moro of their foolish non
sense," she replied. "Do you believe
it? No, nor any other sensible woman.
There aro reveallngs and revealings my
dear, in this lire, auuwucn bmitu Jones
tells the men at the corner grocery mat
"his wifo was dead drunk last night,"
what is it but his sneaking inheritance
that leads him to tell it, and forget tho
times without number when she has
drawn him ouictlv in. and removed his
clothinrr without help "for fear the
nplplibors miirbt Itnu out." inu now
long would Senator live with his
wife, if she came homo intoxicated Ave
nights out of seven as he has done, I
ask?"
"Yes, and who 'saved' I wonder, when
you and 1 lounu Jirs. ceuuiur
hard at work upon her party dress ono
nn moriiin in Washington, because
it cost so much to hire it done, and the
Senator 'felt obliged to gi vo an expenstvo
reception from timo to time which re
quired his wife's income as well as his
own.' I have respected that woman
i.-or si nop. and as to him well hero
wo aro at Lucy's."
nnri nnHnnL savlnc Mrs. Blake,
t n inxiirinns homo, and wed to
tmint. selfish man. At his
oMrroutinn linr money went into
nlco snug investment," so snug it never
came out and never will, and he expects
lO 110 as BOUioui "'
...i. it,. ii. tim interest of their mouey.
rvthinc but health
andstrcngth In thcstruggle s of "keeping
up for Ned's sake." Ned ? well ho is
one of your "real good fellows, jolly,
good-natured, fond of good dinners, and
fust as ready to spend his wife's money
as his own." Mary and I have heard
something about two many bouquets,
nhilooena presents, tickets to the tliea-
tor. ami lramo suppers. Wo women
" I n - -
"kuow, you know," and the old Solo
mon who wrote the sermon from which
we quote must not provoKe us, or wo
mav be tempted to mention a few of tho
saving men of our acquaintance. Oh,
ves. have the women save byall means,
but don't mention it to thd men! If
John James asks his wife, Susan, where
that ten dollar bill has gone he gave her
lost week, and sho falls to mention the
twenty she knows he cave fora turn
out to go out with some friends, she is a
good woman, a saving woman; sue saves
her breath, and my opinion is, after
studying my sex Xrom Maine to Califor
nia, tno women nave uoimug cisu to
save, for all their arts are exhausted.
You see, Mr. Revere has an undoubted
right to keep a fifteen hundred dollar
racer with a special groom at an enor
mous salary, a carriage and robes for
his particular use, and naif a dozen dogs,
with a meat bill for them per mouth
which exceeds tho amount paid for his
family; add Mr. Revere has also a per
fect right to give suppers at first-class
hotels to as many hundreds as he
chooses to invite, also to order from
abroad auy thing and everything bis
fancy may suggest.
But Mrs. Revere, imagine that
woman issuing cards for a party of two
or threo hundred at the Clarendon or
Tremout! Bless me! All tho editorial
columns would be filled with it for
months, and the sermons on extrava
gance would bo multiplied, era nauseam
Mrs. Revere saves, and turns her car-
fiets once more, "for a man iu public
ife, you know, must attend to such
things." But if man and wife are otic,
how about the saving ?
Now, my dear brethren and beloved
Solomons, ponder theso things, ere you
preach again. Where you hnd one "ex
travagant woman, unconcerned as to
the expenditures of her family," you
will find ten over-anxious, self-denying,
"saving" women.
we havo dined luxuriously on i-itth
Avenue, and wearily in a Sioux en
campment, and in both we found wom
en bearing burdens.
Tho saving qualities or my lonely
friends, being only the more civilized
submission of tho squaw who takes
meekly the cast oft blanket of her lord.
Mr. and Mrs. Shoddy, who go abroad
to display diamonds and vulgarity, may
take witu them a tew snowy, extrava
gant women, but looking up and down
the laud, aud looking into the many
homes wo wot or, where wealth or a
fair fortune have made pleasant places.
and looking again Into the more modest
dwellings, we cannot find, with one or
two absurd exceptions, any woman, be
she wife or daughier, who has not al
ready learned her first lesson iu self
denial. Men spend freely out of hand, women
look forwanl intuitively to the reckon
ing day. And when the reckoning day
comes, and my Adolphus finds himself
cramped or vexed, why should he show
mo the large bill for cigars which I
never smoked, or talk of paying the
piper when I never danced ? Adolphus
knows this, and yet he too will take up
the old Adamitish song, aud prate of
woman's extravagance.
I dare say my theology is mixed, and
my faith in forefathers adulterated, but
I never yet could understand how the
"weaker vessel" so overcame the
stronger, nor how a "strong mau" could
submit to the influence of an "inferior."
I hope Eve wasasaving wife; she is not
mentioned as tryS to justily hersoir.
With what divine contempt she must
have looked upon her "protector" about
that time! Poor old Eve some of vour
children "know, you know." But keep
on, my gdod sisters, scrub floors, clean
paint, rip up old dresses, make over
pants for the boys, lift all you can to
save hiring, aud don't feel hurt if you
cannot find ten cents in your pocket to
buy a paper of tacks with. Put on your
wraps and go down to the olllce, you
will And him there; he could not lift
down the pictures, you know, for lie was
"terribly busy just now," so run in and
ask, like tho poor little pauper you arei
ior ten cents, ine oiucc may tie tun oi
men, but never mind; playing cards?
Oh, yes, well no matter. Smoking a
costly cigar? Well, well, he sa.'d "fcr
rlbly busy," that's it, you know; and
now go out again with a smile on your
race, and arier you buy the tacks, trudge
home with them, and put down-the car
pet yourself, for a man costs three dol
lars per day, and what will he do for a
cigar, and masonic roes, and O. O. I".
entertainments, and a thousand other
things, if you arc extravagant ? Now I
tnink oi it, can't you cut up two or
threo of those lovely fino night robes of
yours for baby dresses v "Your mother
brought them from Paris ?" "Well, sup
pose she did, you siuy child v low can
John have a new dressing gown, if you
don't do something, and what are wom
en good for, but to mako baby clothes.
and "save for tho men ?" Salem Ob
server. Miss Abbe Cleaves, of Davenport, has
been appointed Assistaut Physician of
the Iowa Hospital ror tho insane at
Mount Pleasant Miss Cleaves is a
graduate of tho Medical Department of
the State University, and was first in
class. Tho wisdom of tho selection of
an able, educated and refined woman
for this position willat once be conceded.
Sho has mado the mental and physical
diseases of woman a specialty in her
studies, and enters upon the discharge
of her duties with a full knowledge of
its needs and responsibilities.
Mis3 Anny R. G. Nichols, who crad
uated from the Salem Normal School
in tho class of Jauuary, 'G9, has been
appointed Third Assistant Examiner in
tho TJ. S. Patent Office on a salary of
91,400 per annum. This is the nrst and
ouly such appointment over given to a
lauy, and is one or the results oi a com
petitivo examination in which thirty
cicht men and seven women took part.
But fivo of thomen nassed the examina
tionwhich was of a general scientific
a it t r t . -v-r -i. T ..
nature ua wen us -uisa xiicuuia.
Battle Creek. Mich., can boast of two
damsels, the Misses Elizabeth and Ly
diaTavlor. who havo for five years been
employed as compositors in the olllce of
The Journal, of that place. They have
made from eight to twenty dollars per
week, nave supporteu a wiuoweu mother,
have kept houso handsomely, have
brought a piano, have taken music les
sons, havo given $100 to tho Baptist
uuurcn, anu nave saveu i,TA).
Witty sayings are as easily lost as the
pearls slipping off a broken string; but
a word or kindness is seldom snob on in
vain. It is a seed which, even dropped
iy vuumc, Simula up iuio a iiower.
A Common-Place Murder.
The murder in Broomo street was one
of a kind too common to excite general
attention and sympathy. Francis
Gillen, steam-fitter and rowdy by trade,
murdered his wife, a milliner, aged 18,
on the a side-walk as sho was going
home to her father's house. The mau
was in a blind fury of passion, for he
stabbed the poor young woman six
times, aud indicted no less than four
mortal wounds. Ho had no cause of
quarrel with her, except that he bad
treated her so badly that she could not
live with him, and so was earning her
own livelihood under her father's pro
tection. The case affords no material
for public excitement or comment. It
will not be discussed at tea-tables, nor
in tho columns of newspapers. It is
common-placo and unheroic. The par
ties arc all mechanics; the poor victim
will be missed from her shop until her'
place is filled; tho murderer "will be
missed from no place we can decently
mention, and tho heart-broken father
will drlvo his cart as usual to gain his
daily bread, as ho belong to a class that
cannot afford the luxury of sentimental,
sorrow. It is an item of polico news of
no general interest.
Yet this case contains witnin lisen
the whole question of domestic, author
ity. A pretty and willful girl, ouly 1C,
with bluo eyes and blonde hair, two
vcars atro attracted the attention oi a
profligate young fellow, who found her
i pleasant relief from the worse women
he generally associated with, and won
her fancy. This is an easy thing fora
dissolute youth to do. These flashy,
idle, rowdyish boys, whose vices give
them leisure, are creatures of romance
to a certain cIas3of working girls. If
they know how worthless tho boy is, It
makes no difference. An innocent
woman never admits, even to herself,
the existence of the worst iorms oi
wickedness. "A little wild" is tho
vatm formula that covers the most
groveling infamies, and the prospect of
reforming the rascmaung truant irom
tho paths of vice, presents an irresistible
allurement. Pareutal opposition only
adds fuel to the flame. No girl iu love,
or what she calls by that name, is capa
ble of thinking that her father can tell
her anything worth knowing about the
object of her fancy. The father of this
unfortunate woman found out tKIa as
soon as ho warned her against her dis
solute admirer. After infinite trouble
and wrangling, he had her consigned to
tho Houso of the Good Shepherd,
whence she was released, aud imme
diately made a clandestine marriage
with Gillen. Her honeymoon turned
quickly to gall. She found she was but ,
one among the many indulgences. And
her position was worse than his most
'depraved companions, for she belonged
to him by law, and was the helpless
victim of his cruelties. After a few
weeks of this frightful punishment, she '
went home to her father again, and by
his help obtained a respectable means of
earning her living.
But this brutal ruffian, though ho
recognized no obligations resting upon
himself from the marriage tie, consld--..
ered himself grossly wronged that his
wife should renounce her allegiance to
him. He looked upon her as a run
away skive, and meeting her the other
night upon the street, ho ordered her to
go home witii him, and when she re
fused, ho stabbed her to death in the
open thorouehfare. He probably had '
no more sense of responsibility in this r'
than an angry teamster who beat his ,,
horse. Ho considered himself thor
oughly in tho right, and when he was
arrested, and the policeman asked him
why he committed tne crime, ue saia:
"You would have done the same if your
wife refused to live with you." He evi
dently saw no other courso open to a
man or spirit. He might abuse, outrage
and trample upon her; he might make
uo secret of the vices with which he
daily dishonored the marriage cove
naut; ho might spend all his earnings
and hers In his own debaucheries, and
yet the idea never seemed to occur to
him that she had any right to escape
from this torture. May not a man do
what he will with his own? was the '
only shape in which auy question of
duty presented itself to him. This idea
of marital right is not confined to men
like Gillen alone. The policeman who
saw him just before the murder, is said
to have acknowledged that ho leared
some trouble, but did not like to inter
fere between man and wile, mis man,
Gillen, it is reported, has long been
known to the police as a dangerous char
acter. Yet the law, which muzzles
harmless dogs under the superstition
that they may go mad, does nothing to
prevent this wild beast from stealinrr a
young girl from her fatfier, marrying,
maltreating and killing her not an at
once, but diffusing the crime over two
years. Wo need not draw a moral,
which would be as common-place as tho
murder, and would touch upon two
common-place and evident faults of tho
time the claim oi children that tueir
parents have no right to interfere. with
the bestowal of their affections, aud tho
claim of husbands that their wives are
their property. jV. Y. Tribune.
One afternoon durinfc tho late unpleas
antness, a long, guant civilian, wearing
garments of rusty black and a stove
pipe hat, walking up in tuo rear ui
head-quarters, was accosted by a host
ler. Hostler. "Keep out or here."
Visitor. "Isn't this General Grant's
tent?"
Hostler. "Yes."
Visitor. "Well, I reckon he will let
me inside."
Hostler. "You will soon hnd out."
As he entered the tent a guard mis
took him fora member of the Sanitary
or Christian Commission.
Guard. "No Sanitary folks allowed
inside."
Visitor. "I guess General Grant will
see me."
Guard. "I can't let vou pass, but TM1
send htm your name. What is it ?"
v isttor. "Abraham Lincoln."
The ladies of Goose fMt Desprfc) Cnvn
Sewing Circle are to build a hall this
season a large two-story one with all
t r L-i it ,
me wiitim-uTO tur uuiuiug meeiiugs,
fairs, levees, &c ,
Mrs. Almira H." French, of South
Royalston, Mass., has been elected mem
ber of the Superintending School Com
mittee. '
Miss Delia Heed is the enrolling clerk
of the Idaho Legislature.
Agnes Ethel, tho actress, has an 18r
000 wardrobe.