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CHAPTER X.
IJIIHAS- AFFAIRS tit ARIZONA.
Fort Kellogg, in Arizona, is not In a
peculiarly JnvlUngsltuatlon, occupying,
as It does, a bleak and barren plain,
witlmothlng-tn view, even in the dis
tance, except some low, reddish mounds
of earth, which look as though they
mlghtbedlssolved brick-kilns. Between
these flow, in the rainy 6eason, turbu
Ieut streams of muddy water which find
their way through a still lower country
to the Gila, But It is summer now, and
everywhere the earth is baked with
drought, except in the small stream
which runs close by the fort.
The air is so still and breathless that
the heat, as of a furnace, makes wavering
lines through the atmosphere, sugges
tive of evaporation, though there can
not be anything, apparently, to evapo
rate. The low adobe walls Inclosing
the garrison, and the low adobe houses
Inside the walls seem to radiate heat.
In the corral the mules and horses
crowd into any bit of shadow they can
find. The sentinels at their posts are
provided with shelter from the sun, and
nobody else of the garrison seems to bo
living or moving; for it is but little past
mid-day yet, and the imitates will not
' venture out before four o'clock.
And yet out there in the bh.zing sun
some object is moving is creeping
slowly along toward the Fort. One
drowsy sentinel after another sees it,
and word goe3 to tho officer in com
mand. Reluctantly Colonel Kellogg
arouses himself from his siesta, aud
giving a field-glass to a subordinate, or
ders an examination of the strange ob
ject. Directly he Is Informed that a
man, apparently an American, alone
and on foot, aud probably either sick or
wounded, is making his way toward the
Fort.
"Been another massacre, I suppose.
Dn the Apaches! Send a detachment
of six men and bring him in," was the
growling response.
A detachment was accordingly sent,
and the man brought in. By evening
It was known to all the inmates of the
garrison that there had been a massacro
within a few miles of the Fort, in which
a considerable parly of Texan emigrants
had been killed and captured, and their
property appropriated by the Indians.
The sufferer who arrived at the Fort was
a young man, whose desperate courage
and determination had enabled him to
drag himself from tho sceno of the
murders where he had been left for dead,
to a spot within sight of succor, but un
happily, too late. That night mortifi
cation set in, aud in the morning he was
dead. On the wooden tablet placed at
his head was inscribed, "Boone Miles,
Aged 20."
It appea'red -from the information
young Miles had given, that the Indians
were not In very great force, but had
surprised the emigrants at Eupper and
thus overcame them without much re
sistance; aud it was thought that they
might be overtaken by good cavalry,
as they were encumbered with stock and
the plunder of the wagons. A com
mand was therefore sent out to follow
on their trail as soon after the informa
tion was recoived as the troops could be
mounted and equipped, which was not
until thirty-six hours had elapsed after
the massacre, for all of which loss of!
time nobody was to blame.
During the absence of the troops, who
were under Major Floyd's command,
there was a good deal of excitement
among those remaiuing iu the Fort, first,
because any event furnished excitement!
In that dreary desert; second, because
somebody might get killed iu the expe
dition, and lastly because the Fort was
left in rather a defenceless condition by
the absence of so many troops.
Mrs. Kellogg, wife of tho Colonel, and
Mrs. Stewart, wife of the Surgeon, the
only ladies at Fort Kellogg, spent the
day together conversing from their
hammocks, and alternately denloritur
w t
the state 01 ttie inerraomeier anu tuo.
stale of the country.
"Only think of it!" said Mrs. Kel-
logg; "there were women and children
IU Hie iraiu, jiiiu juuiij, s"-i
tff he carried into captivity like that
Oatman girl. The horrible, disgusting
wretches!"
"It is dreadful," relumed Mrs. Stew
art. "I do hope they were all killed; it
would he so much more merciful to the
poor things. J do wonder If the Gov
ernment "will ever furnish meu enough
to fight the Iudiaus with."
"Well, It is quite certain it never has.
It Is all a farce, our staying hero iu this
abominable desert with only a handful of
men who can do nothing but 'take the
trail' after the Indians have got out of
reach. I do not suppose that Major
Floyd will ever see one ot those crea
tures unless when they come about tho
Fort playing 'good Indian' aud wanting
ammunition, and it would never do to
kill them then! It would not be hu
mane." Mrs. Stewart sighed, aud. let her fau
drop a momeut. She was not of a sar
castic turn of mind, and could not rid
berielf of diiagreeabla or painful emo-
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VOLTOIE III.
tlons by opening her batteries of irony,
as tho Colonel's' wife could.. She was 1 are on the war-path killingand destroy
thlnkiugat that moment or friends at Mug everything aud everybody In tho
home In an Eastern State, and how
much she should rejoice to see them,
and how much she dreaded the long,
perilous march which laid between them
and this out-of-the-way post. But di
rectly her thoughts reverted to the topic
in hand.
"The doctor says the young man who
was burled this morning was a remark
ably fine-looking, bright young fellow
Southern by his speech. He was going
to California, where he had friends.
When asked If he wanted letters writ
ten, he said, 'No, it was no uso to set
them fretting lie was ouo Mlle3 the
less, that was all.' That is so like a
high-spirited boy; he never reflected on
the uucertaiuty worse than death that
cousumes the hearts of those waiting
for news at home,"
"How many of all tho men scattered i
through the mountains and deserts ever
write home?" returned Mrs. Kellogg.
"Even husbands aud fathers cease to bo ;
held by domestic ties when they have
once tasted the sweetness of freedom
from all restraints. I believe Darwin Is
right, and that man sprang from some
ranger of tho woods and fields. You
don't think I'd trust the Colonel out
here in the Territories without me ?"
"I don't know about that," returned
Irs. Stewart, smiling. "It never oc
curred to me not to trust the Doctor;
but I know I always stick to him,
wherever he goes. I supposo absenro
and absorbtlon in other ideas docs
weaken the home affections. For my
part, I don't believe in families sepa
rating, even for a short time, if it can be
avoided."
"Oh, as to that, I thluk'au occasional
change refreshing. One likes tho ex
citement of farewells and meeting; and
the letters arc so much more devoted
than the man," laughed tho Colonel's
lady, with a bitter merriment. "Did
yor ever observe how different tho let
ters are apt to be from tho writers? I
have known more than a few cases, es
pecially in the army, where so much of
tho courting has to be done by mail, in
which girls were insanely in love witli
young officers who had a talent for
composition; hut who had not another
quality to recommend them, and about
whom they knew absolutely nothing.
It was an infatuation with them cacoc
thte scribendi by proxy."
"Well," confessed the Doctor's wife,
"used to think a person must resem
ble his or her writings, but I find that
it is not true always. Very few letters
ever passed between the Doctor and me,
and those fewwere very brief and to the
point. I dpn't think cither of us have
n talent for belle lettrc."
"I used to have several hundred of
them," murmured Madame the Colonel,
with a sigh which explained her little
thesis on love-letters. "By the way,
did you never think there was some
thing odd about our Major?" Mrs.
Kellogg did dot describe the kind or pe
culiarites noticeable In that officer. She
left It to Mrs. Stewart to do so a cuu
nlng way of making another responsible
for our own ideas.
"How, odd ?" Mrs. Stowart asked, in
nocont of being too sharp to be caught
starting a chain of gossip.
"Oh, silent, unsocial, sarcastic Dear
me! was there ever as hot a place as this
Gila Valley? Oh, for a breath of pure
White Mountain air," and Mrs. Kel
logg settled herself anew in her ham
mock, seeming to have forgotten all
about Major Floyd.
1 never wonder at such peculiarities
as those when the officer had been a
long time on tho frontier, without a
family. Either they will take to drink,
or grow unsocial : I suppose it is the
tendency of their circumstances."
"The Major never speaks of himself or
his friends r ho writes few letters ; he
seldom drinks; sleeps little for this
climate; and the Lord knows how he
does get rid of his time. He certainly
does not bestow any of it on us ladies."
The yawn which Mrs. Kellogg made so
ostentatious, hardly conceded to dissat
isfaction couched in that laststatcment.
"Well," laughed the Doctor's wife
pleasantly: "wo can endure that, if he
can. But I did sav to the Doctor the,
other day, that I feared tlio -r-itnr R,
unkappy;-for I could not believe so
gentlemanly aud agreeable an officer
kept to himself on accouut of auv Miv-
iiessur uispqsiuon."
" What did the Doctor say?"
"O, he smiled qulzlcally, and told mo
I was alwaysseeiug a misery somewhere j "Why, I've done it at Saratoga. It
that I was anxious to alleviate ; and he ! wold be better, if wo only thought so,
hoped I wouldn't takoto pitying good-; t,ian lounging about getting the. blues,
looking army-officers, whose wives or iTu Mexicans dance, you know, a great
sweet-hearts wero two or three tlious- ! 'cal. It would be a good Idea, wouldn't
aud miles away. It would be taking an j il. to s.end out a party to capture an cm
unfair advantage of the sweet-hearts." j 'Brant train and bring In all tho pretty
Mrs. Kellogg smiled archly, and a lit-. Blrls - By Jove! it would. Wish I had
tlo mysteriously. It was plain there told tlle Major to go on a scout aftcrem
waa nothing to bo learned from Mrs.1 grants instead of Indians," at which
Stewart, and she had nothing to im- j celt Colonel laughed humor-
part.
So tho two ladies having ex -
haustcd the only subject they could
think of for that time, dozed for fifteen
miuutcs simply to rid themselves of that
quarter of an hour. .
'Directly, however, the Colonel made
his appearance, and the conversation
started in afresh.
"Well, now, here's a mess," ho began,
throwing himself at length upon a very
comfortable" extension chair. "Here's a
letter from the Governor with more In-
3?OXtX3L.TSTO, OREGON, ITKirVY, PEBRUAKY O, l&T-l .
j diatt news in it. -He says tho
pachcs
Territory, and the while settlers are go
lug to be exterminated. He wants us
to arm the volunteers, who, ho claims,
can fight the Indians more successfully
than the regulars, being ready to strike
the moment of an attack. By Jove!
that's a pretty demand to make. Tho
arms at this post aro supposed to bo for
the use of the army. The business of
tho army officers aud soldiers la pre
sumed to be that of managing the mili
tary affairs of tho Territory. And here
comes along a request Its a wonder
it 1 isn't an order for us to turn
our fighting tools over to the set
tlers. These civilians have the impu
dence of the Devil !"
"If tho settlers want to do their own
Indian-fighting they ought to have the
privilege, I'm sure," returned the Col
onel's wife. "I don't see that the regu
lars cither prevent massacres or punish
the savages. Do you supposo the troops
that aro out will catch or punish those
savages? Not a bit of it! About to
morrow they will come in, having ex
hausted their animals, with neither a
scalp nor a prisoner."
"You'ro a capital army-woman, Ali
cia!" was the Colonel's comment on his
wife's viow of the case. Ho was of
fended by her want of esprit du cortis,
and maintained a frowninc silence for
several minutes. But the whole budget
of news was not yet unfolded, and until
it was, the Coloucl could not turn his
back upon the most civilian of wives.
"I have learned, besides, that a Terri
torial delegation goes on to Washington
in a few weeks to see what they can do
with the general Government. A highly
Lsatlsfnctory state of a Ha I re It will be
when the Indians aud settlers get to
shooting each other at sight."
"Quite as satisfactory, I should think,
as where only one side is allowed that
privilege. Come, Mrs. Stewart, why
don't you express an opinion? Aro
you so good an army-woman that you
want white folks to be massacred to
sustain the dignity of the military?"
"I should hope that was not tho object
of the opposition to volunteer move
mcnts which our officers always seem to
feel," answered tho Doctor's wife.
"They hellevo that a certain amount of
discipline is necessary to prevent armed
men from being simply marauders; and
they think, too, with great justice, that
since their business is fighting, they
ought to be furnished with an army and i
sent into the field, not shut up by com-1
panics in forts. Is it not so, Colonel ?"
"Now there's a woman who ought to
be ageueral's wifo instead of not having
any chance of promotion. Why cannot
you see things in that liglit, Alicia ? Of
course that Is the right of it, aud I can
not understand why you never see it."
"Because I happeu to see some things
which upset much of that plausible the
ory; because I think that arms aud
ammunition had better bo tiven to tho
settlers than told to the Indians."
'That depends on the character of the
Indians and the settlers. Docs not the
Government furnish theso things to
friendly Indians ? Is it desirable to set
a lot of white desperadoes to killing in
offensive savages? These volunteers
never discriminate they go In for kill
ing every Indian they meet."
Mrs. Kellogg turned her face away, on
which scorn and unbelief were only too
legibly written. She was dono with tho
subject. The Colonel might talk to Mrs.
Stewart, who was fool enough to- be
humbugged, was what her action said.
And the Colonel availed himself of the
ungracious permission.
"This is not the sort of life we had
during the war, down on the South Caro
llnacoast. Gay timesyou ladieshad,with
horse-back ridingand plenty of gallants.
I hope wo havo not three years to spend
in this placo, for your sakes. Two la
dies in an Arlzoua fort Jove! The Ma
jor ought to bring a lady out here that's
what I tell him."
"And add another sufferer to the list?
No; if he has no wife already, he ought
not to marry until he is ordered to a
plcasanter post,"
"Well, ho is a very pleasant fellow, is
the Major, and I hope he will not be or
dered oft while I'm in command. I've
got a very agreeable lot of officers. All
that's needed is that they should be
married. Such a thing as a hop, now,
isn't possible, is" It?"
"A hop!" cried Mrs. Stewart, laugh-
ing. "Fancy our dancing with the mcr-
' cur-V at 105!"
1 ou'-'
" Whcu do you expect him in ?'
"Impossible tosay. Ho had orders if he
got on a fresh trail to follow It until he
came up with the Indians, or until ho
found they had escaped to the moun
tains. I hope ho will be able to make
a few of them bite tho dust. The Gov
ernor and ray wife will bo moro sarcas
tic than ever If wo do not kill a few."
Mrs. Kellogg made an impatient ges
ture, but vouchsafed no other reply.
Free Hvkvcu, Fkkk Press, Fkee People. " '
I Pleasant little Mrs. Stewart herself felt
wmi someiiiiug cisc more suitable to tho
timo might have been said. She was
ouo of thoso prudent, mild, womanly
women who hare been held up as models
for their sex. And certainly her affairs
moved along more smoothly than those
of her less cautious and moro impulsive
sisters. Amiable women arc favorites
with men, and terriblo bores to the
more spirited of their sex, who feel that
there Is a leaven of selfishness at the
bottom of their complacency which
they would bo ashamed to possess. Not
that Mrs. Stewart was so extremely
amiable as to deserve censure for It, but
sho had a way of managing people
which showed at least a proper appreci
ation of self.
There was one other person who was
admitted to the benefits of this pruden
tial talent of Mrs. Stewart, and that
other person was the Doctor. Advanc
ing tho Doctor's interests was ad vancinjr
her own wlthoutsecmlug to be thinking
of herself, and It obtalnd for her the rep-
utatlon from others of being a most do- j
voted aud self-abnegating wife, while it
made the Doctor reckon her "the dearest
little woman in tho world." Who shall
say that Mrs. Dr. Stewart was not wise
and right?
We fear the Colonel's wife must be
confessed to bo pretty much the opposite
of all this. She was not known for her
personal devotion to the Colonel, though
it must be admitted she once entertained
high notions of wifely love. It was a
good while ago, while she was under the
influence of those "several hundred"
extremely well-written epistles which
had constitute!! her courtship. But if:
her own faith was severely shaken In
things slue once believed iu, it was still
a trail of her remnant of renialninsr
loyalty to an idea, that no-one could
presume to reflect upon her husband,
except herself.
Perhaps the Colonel was right iu
thinking lie was badly used by-hlswife,
who no longer attempted to couceal her
disgust of certain traits, mental and per
sonal; for tho man could not help his
nature, and probably was as much mis
taken about himself when ho wrote those
deceiving epistles, as his wife had been
about him when she read aud believed
in them. When they were stationed
near a large town or iu a settled country
it was not so bad, for there a man could
fiud relief iu society; butasarcastle wife
in a broiling hot desert that was an
other matter, as ho now and theu re
minded her.
"Well, Colonel," returned Mrs. Stew
art, after a thoughtful pause, "what do
you say it to be done about tlje affairs"
of this Territory ? There must be some
truth lit what the Tuscoti papers saj
about the Impossibility of developing
the mines or settling up the farming
lands."
'I suppo.se there is. But it is greatly
the fault of the whites. You heard
what the Commodore said about 'Mau-
gus Colorado' old Bloody Sleeves?
The Commodore had sometime done I
him a favor. Well, when his party were
camped in an arroya cookitig supper,
along comes 'Mangus Colorado' with
his baud and discovers the whites. He
peeps cautiously over the edge of the
cation, thinking, no doubt, here was a
good chance to take a few scalps, but
recognizing the Commodore, withstood I
the temptation, and signed to the band
to move 'on. The chief told the story to
tho Commodore afterwards when they
met In some Mexican town, and proved
it by tho circumstance of the Commo
dore's teaching a man how to turn slap
jacks by tossing up the skillet."
"But then," suggested Mrs. Stewart,
"it Is not every one who is so fortunate
as to secure the friendship of the chiefs
even one of them. How would It have
fared with the Commodore if some other
chief had been iu the place of this one ?"
"You know quite well, Lawrence,
that tho Commodoro has had to aban
don his mine, which ho considers worth
a million, more or less," Mrs. Kellogg
could not help saying.
"I'll admit it. But if other men had
acted like him he would not have been
driven out of the country; that's what I
contend."
"But there is nothing to prove it. I
suppose a great Apache chief may in
dulge himself by taking a. fancy to" a
singlo white man, either on account of
his bravery or for somo other reason;
but as loug as he goes on 'murdering
other white men, just as good, who have
never done him an injury, I don't think
his whims benefit any but the one man,
and only then whcirunder his immedi
ate protection."
"You should have been a lawyer, Ali
cia. You never leave a holo for your oppo
nent to creep out of, nor even a paper
screen for him to intrench himself be
hind," returned the Colcuel, fanning
himself with his hat-brim
"If my opponent is right ho will not
need or desire them," retorted his wife,
"I should scorn cither to crcen or to
hide."
"Shade or Xautippc!" cried the Colo
ucl, fanning himself still more vigor
ously. ."You do make it confoutided
hot here, Alicia. Do you ever nagg the
the Doctor that way, Mrs. Stewart?"
"O, I administer a diilc Colorado oc
casionally, when I judgo it good for
him," replied the Doctor's wife, smiling
indulgcully.
"Which Is not often, I know; ho looks
'such a
happy man.
tMlcia. I have a
letter from the boys."
"And you uever mentioned it before!"
she cried sharply, and stretched nut her
hand eagerly to take the letter which
her husband indolently searched his
pockets to find.
"What's tjie use of hurry? I believe
I left tho letter In the office. It was
from Fred. Dick has been ill, it ap
pears." "Agaiu! And you kept It from tneall
this time?" The reproof of her voice
was enough without further words.
"Why should I want to distress you?
and for nothing. Dick is better by this
time. It is only one of Ills frequent at
tacks, and did not last long, I dare say."
"I don't know how you dare say it,"
returned Mrs. Kellogg, all the mother
love in her nature feeling outraged.
"Theso frequent attacks are rapidly un
dermining Ids constitution. It will not
surprise me to hear that he is prostrated
at any time. O, my
poor Dick; you
Heed your mother!"
"Well, then, Alicia, why don'tyou go ?
Though what the devil I'm to do all
alone, I don't know. There cannot bo
any immediate danger. He has tho
best of advice, and his grandparents to
look after him. Besides, it is not safe
for you to travel while the Apache
raiding is going on, is it," inquired tho
Colonel.
"If tho next letter Is not moro favor
able, I shall risk it," returned Mrs.
Kellogg, with a dellberateness that
meant she was iu earnest.
To be continued.
AN
OPEN LETTER TO THE COM
MONWEALTH OF BOSTON.
in MKs. r. r. irron.
nUAll AT THE "cnSTKNMAI. TOAST AND TEA
rAirrv,' bt miss. a. j. ucsiway.
Dear Athenians: It is but fitting
that, upon au anniversary like this,
your most distant relations should cel
ebrate with you the first dawn of real
freedom for the world.
When your dozen brave citizens, dis
guised as red men, destroyed tho tea
cargo In Boston narbor, and your peo
ple generally made it a religious duty
to abstain from tho "cup that cheers,
but not inebriates" rather than submit
to "taxation without representation,
you set an example of self-government
to tho world that will continue to be
quoted while the English language is a
part of iii literature.
A hundred years ago! Why, a hun
dred years ago, Oregon was a terra in
co'jnita. To be sure, there wasa Boston
ship reported to have sailed far past the
mouth of the Columbia, aud to have
entered the Stickeeii river, longer ago
than that, but the rumor must be taken
with some grains of allowance. We
aro aware that your Boston merchants
sometimes sent out vessels to California,
carrying Indian goods to the converts of
the Jesuit Missions that flourished there
a hundred and fifty years agp, taking iu
exchange tallow and hides, the spoils of
the countless herds that roamed tlie yel
low plains of that sunny laud. Aud wo
arc awaro that after the Revolutionary
war had left you poor, and your conti
nental scrip was good for Iittla or noth
ing, you still dispatched occasional car
goes of Indian trinkets to tho North
west coast, aud picking up by this
means furs from Oregon, ablone shells
from California, and sandal-wood from
the Sandwich Islands, completed the
venture by exchanging these assorted
freights for tea in Canton, aud that so,
in the course of two years you were able
to convert "Yankee notions" into gold,
at a very fair rate of profit.
Permit us to remind you that It was
one of these same venturcsomo Boston
trading vessels that first entered the
Columbia River giving it the name It
bears, and selling to the native Orego
nlans the first goods over furnished to
Indians iu tho interior, so that to this
day the Oregon Indiau's name for a
white American is Boston.
You will perceive therefore that, al
though wo are a long way off, and per
haps little known or understood at the
"Hub," we are yet closely related to
yourselves. Iudeexl, we Portlanders just
escaped being called Bostonians by the
flip of apeunyVtails up" decided in fa
vor of Portland.
The history of our State is not unlike
that of your own. Our pioneers did not
come out in the "Mayflower," but they
came across three thousand miles of
wilderness country, with ox-teams, to
lay the foundation of a Western Repub
lic Like you they struggled against a
monopoly; like you they defended them
selves against a savago foe, and their
militiamen were as notable as your own
"Miles Standish." They, too, were neg
lected by the homo government a gov
ernment, however, to which they clung
with heroic patriotism, because they be
lieved it to be a good, and true, and free
Government, the same which you in
great part founded. These Oregon Pi-
ouecrs remembering your Boston Tea-1
party, and Buuker Hill, and the rest,
fought King George hero In Oregon, in
1813, as persistently as you fought him
in Massachusetts In 1773. They, (and
this wo say with all deference to your
high character), rivaled in good deeds
the heroes of '70 for they conceived,
framed, aud nurtured asovereiguSlate,
on the shores of the 'Pacific, thbusauds
or miles from the United States frontier,
and havlug given it laws, morals and re
ligion, and something lik a commerce,
presenU-d It ready-made to the Federal
Tnion which j-ou helped to found, thus
linking the Atlantic to the Pacific by an
indissoluble chain, aud fairly forcing
into the grasp of the Tniled States Gov
ernment all the territory lying between.
Nor was this all. wiiue tuese men
were laboring to extend tho empire of
freedom, tlwy were at the samo time
working to secure the trade of the
Orient, and importuning Congress for a
Pacific Railroad that they might 7:eep
IJoitor - ".d trith the finest quali
ties nf t: .
Thus It is, Dear Athenians, that you
see us doubly bound to you while cele
brating, ceutennlally, your masquerade
tea-party. The tea and the principles
you planted in Boston Harbor, have
taken root and grown, until from one
seaboard to the other every freeman's
family' may partake of the refreshing
draught you once denied yourselves; the
lax upon it going to support a govern
ment that governs you only by your own
consent. (Somebody suggests here, that
one half of each freeman's family and
that half the greatest tea-drinkers, are
governed without their consent being
asked upon the principle probably that
"what is sauce for the gander i- sauce
for the goose.")
Having shown you, dear Athenians,
the bond of kinship which exists be
tween Portland and Boston, we herewith
tender our congratulations upon a
marked eveut In your history, and close
with the expression of a hope that a
hundred years from now, you may Join
us in a National jubilee upon these Pa
cific shores, at which the finest Pekoe
leas shall bo furnished ad adjinilum by
us to every delegate from your glorious
commonwealth; and the loatts by the
finests classicists of old Harvard of the'
"Hub," wliose health we are about to
drink in aromatic Oolong.
A Word to Wives.
How often do wc see bright homes
darkened, prospects blighted, aspirations
crusiicu t Ann witu curiosity natural
to mortal we wonder what evil spirit
presides over the destiny of man, to
cause so much discord and misery. But
wc do not think (as a general thing)
that the evil could be avoided with but
little inconvenience to ourselves. Of
course wc all believe that the fault is
ours, my sisters. It is because we fail
in the performance of our duties as
wives, and cousenuently our home?, in
stead of being the .abodv of peace aud i
harmony, are filled with discord aud
contention. And from experience I will
tell you wherein we fail. Because wo
sometimes allow a cloud to rest upon
our faces, sometimes allow our feelings
to come to the surface. It matters not,
my sisters, thousli your heart be heavy
as lead, when you hear the footsteps of
your joru aim master approacntng, you
must summon to your face a bright
smile. It matters not though you may
be, comparatively speaking, "literally
crushed beneath your-load of cares and
sorrows, you must always meet your
husband with bright smiles and a cheer
ful voice. For perhaps he has spent the
day in his dull, dreary, and lonesome
otlice, sitting with his feet elevated at
au angel of forty-five degrees, smoking
choice cigars and drinking ale with
his boon companions, and of course after
a day thus spent in attending to his bus
iness, when he returns home he desires
to fiud that house cheerful and pleas
ant, ami yourselt neatly attire!. It
wash-tub or attending to sick children,
.... ... . . ' !
bestowed upon you tlie great honor of
ills name, ami given to you tue protec
tion of his home. For of course you
wero homeless, friendless, and penniless
when ho condescended to employ you,
at reduced rates, as his house-keeper,
laundress, dairy-uiaid, seamstress, nurse
and coo' s after yotr have made
him co. ie in dn-ssiug-gown, slip-
tiers and iwiu-chair, with x table beside
him covered witli books, smokiug para
phernalia, and newspajvers, lest the fret
ting of your. sick child should disturb
him in his reading, you must steal
away to some remote part of the house.
and there with your lullaby soothe your
moaning child to rest. "When you won
your husband, the roses of health were
blooming on your cheeks, the light of a
new joy sparkled iu your eyes, your
mind, tpo, was stored witli useful knowl
edge, and you must not forget as you
pass along to devote the requisite
amouut of time to tho preserving and
cultivating those charms which first at
tracted him, lest when tho beauty fades
from your face it may bloom for him
upon another. And now, my sisters, be
entreated by one who feels an interest
in your welfare, to remember at all
times aud under all circumstances to
meet your husband with a smile. IKE.
J1, in Sin'ccland Jtcjiorlcr.
How Sou. was Made. The late Prof.
Agasslz claimed that all the materials
ou which agricultural progress depends
are decomposed rocks, and not so much
those that underlie the soil, but those
on the surface, and ground to powder by
the glaciers. Ice all over th6 continent
is the agent that has ground out more
soil than all otheragenclesput together.
The penetration of water into tho rocks,
forests, running water and baking suus
have done something, but tho glaciers
more. In a former ago the whole
United States was covered with ice sev
eral thousand feet thick, and the ice
moving from uorth to south by the at
traction of the tropical warmth of press
ing weight of tho snow and ice behind,
grouud the rocks over which was called
soil These masses of ico can be tracked
by the hunter. Professor Agassiz made
a study in this country as far south as
Alabama, and had observed tho same
phenomenon In Europe, particularly Iu
Italy, where, among the Alps, glaciers
are now iu urufuos. nv oiuun auu
rocks grouud aud polished by the gla
ciers can easily be distiuguished from
those scratched by runnlug water. The
augular bouHers found iu meadows and
the terraces of rivers not reached by
waters can bo accounted for only iu this
way.
yourself sick, it is all tlie same; remem- "' l,"uf?i jou ",,u " "oiuone wen, anu,
her your first thought, your chief duty, ; soj injured. It seems to be the
is to sea to the comforts of him who has Plal f Providence that all great inter-
A Journal forln&People.,
Mytt&eita the Intcrptiof.Hunianlty.
Independent In Politics aniRellglon.
llv to all Live IWues, and, TfioVbaghly
Radical In Oppnslns and Exposing tfie 'Wrons
ol tlie Masses. "
Conwpondenti -wrRlnsr over a-isameJ signa
tures muit make known their namei to-the
Mltor.or no attention will be elven to tnelr
communications. , '
How to Become Distinguialed.
As a general rule, the best placo for
young man to begin life is right where
ne is. He need not go a hundred, or
three hundred, or a thousand miles
away from home to trv the world; that
particular spot where lie lives Is a part
ot the world, and just as good a place.to
try as soma other particular spot three
hundred miles off. In tho Eastern
btates, where society is settled, and
things change but little, where business
Is held In fixed channels, and certain
families have a nreserintlv rlwlit tn'ttn
everything that is done, there is not
mucu inducement for a young man to
rrmain at home unless he nossesses thi
genius and enterprise to break through
the traditions and regulations that
hamper him, but no such coudition of
things exist out West, there everything
is n-- v, fresh and plastic; and a youug
man may do ids part in moulding
thing - to his purpose.
It : a very common mistake for
yottn. ters, wna have not butted their
tendei leads against the hard angles of
of the world, to imagine they possess
supericr talent, If they only had an op
nortun 'y to exhibit it. If they live on .
a farm, hero is no chance there to show
tueirgeutus. it tneylive in a country
town, it is entirely too small to spread
their wlusrs In. They vearn foracreat
city, where talents are appreciated, and
imagine, tuat there is tue lieiu lor tnem
to rise to eminence and wealth, and yet
they had better stay right where they
are, and make their beginning In tlie
locality where they were raised. If
they really possess sreniu3 or special
aptitudes they may first develop them
and test tlie metal they are made of in
the limited sphere of their native place',
and, if the experiment proves satis-
lactory, aiterwarus transier tuem to a
wider sphere of action. Thousands of
young men who go to great cities to try
tue world, linu tlie world in sucn cities
too much for them, aud they learn too
late that it would have been better lor
them to make their trial Iu a humbler
and safer sphere.
The Noisi: of CiiiLDitEN. There .is
too much fussing about the noise of
children, consequent upon too little
knowledge or the requirements or youtu
iu Its effervescing state. If growth and
health are considered in their true bear
ings, children contiot make too much
noise. Mne scliool-mistress wuo en
forces silence on her pupils is commit
iug, unintentionally, of course, an of
fense against reason, worthy ouly of a
convent. Every burst of laughter,
every shout, ttay, every moderate fit of
crying conduces to health, by rapidly
filling and emptying the lungs and
changing the blood rapidly from black
to red that Is, from death to life. An
drew Combo is a great authority on
suclt matters, and lie tells a story of a
great charity school, where the pupils
were forced to be so silent that a largo
portion leu ill. Witnot doubt tnis
one good reason wny cuiidren or
delicate cousllutiotis caunot co through
our public schools without breaking
down. They are kept too still. Often
too teachers are disposed to insist on a
posture so erect as to be absolutely In-,
jurious; for the body has more parts
thatijone, and while to sit so upright is
good for the chest, It is, if long con
tinued, au intense strain on tho spine.
The truth is, children should not bo
subjected to monotony of any kind.
They should speak and be silent, sit
erect aud loll, very much as nature, in
clines grown people to do. It la time
that more atteution is paid to the Kin
dergarten system In schools, and less to
the State's prison. one so generally la
vogue.
Demandino Woman Soffbaqe. I
come to ask something of woman. I
don't ask that she may vote, but de
mand that she shall vote. I say. let us
summon to the craud struirirle of th
i aso all the moral forces we can. Whpr-
ever in history wo see one sex attempt
n 1. In ...... ft 1 t A. A .1 1 1
eats shall be undertaken bv both sex.
Take literature. You can't read
Chaucer and Shakspeare to your fam
ilies without expurgating, but you can
Dickens anil Tennyson. Chaucer wroto
for men; Dickens for the race. So with
art; the statuary of the Greeks was for
men for a male civilization. In so-
ct ,'ly we find the arena where men and
women meet together on enual trround.
Society in its keen respect for woman,
is aiiead or pontics, bociety would
send a woman to convehtry for the very
tiling mat makes a man a jno. i in tne
cam, j . Now, I want to lift that caucur
to tli level of society. God seemed to
mean hat together we should work but
theso problems. Let women help us
make he great experiment of tho peo
ple's . .vcr successful. Wendell Phillipt.
Tun Fiitsr Element of a Home.
I never nu a garment too fine for man
or mai ; there never was a chair too
good for a cobbler or cooper to sit in;
never a house too lino to shelter the hu
man head. Theso elements about us,
tho gorgeous sky, tho Imperial sun, are
not too ood for the human race. Ele
gance fits man. But do we not value
these tools of house-keeping a little more
than they are worth, and sometlmos
mortgage homo for the mahogany wo
can bring into it? I would rather eat
my dinner off the head of a barrel, or
dress after the fashion of John tho Bap
tist in the wilderness, or sit on a block
all my life, than consume all myself be
fore I get home, and take so much pains
with the outsido that the Inside was as
hollow as an empty nut. Beauty is a
great thing, but beauty of garments,
house and furniture is. a very tawdry
ornament with domestic love. All the
elegance In the world will not mako a
ho.m. , and I would give more for a
spoonful ofhearty love than for whole
shiploads of furniture, and all tho up
holsterers of the world could gather to
gether. Theodore rarher.
Gail Hamilton on a Man in Dove.
Gail Hamilton is not always sensible, or
even as truthful as sbo should be, when
she talks about meu, matrimony and
woman suffrage; but sho did say this
truthful and beautiful thing: "There Is
no slavery so abject as tho woman he
loves. Abject, becauso.it goes behind
his will aud possesses tho whole man.
ana tue more lie is, tuo more
bright and free, the more tho" 5
his thrallmcnt. Woe to such a one i ir
he fall into the hands of a weak, a friv
olous, or an unworthy wnr" i?
him If his proprietor be
woman; for then Jji9,c?PfSm-'
la most exalted and dlvino freedorflj .