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loui ilf' 1PU MM. A. fc-BDxiWAT; lauor end lToprlrtor' La Jonrnjrftrtoe9pie. ..TAT 1 l k uVt voted to the ItjfergU of.IInmanltyiw . ! v. f3 OFMCK-Cor. Tront nnd Stork SlrVcts.4 ,i IndependenUn-Politlcsrand Religion. .Mive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly ' Radical Inppposlns and IsinSjtheJ&rons ot the Masses., , , . i.aiiuoo.iK . . : 1 ' I. 5013 vl ;cm i:i . .',); Lite taa odw Correspondents writing-.pver, assumed lgna tures must make tnow'ri thejr names to"t"he ' -Editor, or no attention will 'be given "fo7tnelr,at'i 11 communications. ' - ' it Ihijs r.'.., 4 tkrms, ix Otif year- Three iftenfliRu "" ADVANCE: -S3 00 .. 1 To ..100 Fkee Speech, FREE Pons, Fiiee People. TRTISRrnXTSInsprted on Reasonable VOLUME III. P OTtTI, jVIVD , OREGON, FKIDAY, 3XA.KCII S7, 197-1. JUDITH MILES; OR be Done with AVUut Shall ilerT itv s. r. v. wnR. EntrW, aeMMh Is the Act of Congm. In tiie J-er by Mr. P. F. Victor, n the offloe of thf UDnrten of Oonerp,at Waxlilnc- lon t.uy.j CHAPTER XVir. SEEKINn II Rn LEVEL Judith had not walked far on her re turn when she onme face to face with major Floyd. In her then present state or trtltiu nothing could have happened pleasanter. The serious, palo despond ency of her face gave way at once to smiles and bloom. "I was coming to call on you," said the Major; "having just reported at Head-quarters. What kind of a journey mu you nave? ou are looking radl ant, from which I infer you have found an agreeable home and kind friends. "Will you not tell me about it?" he asked, walking along with her. Nothing loth, Judith related her ex periences by the way, and her reception nt mo urazee's. "That is all very good," said the Ma jor; "too good, by half. Shall I confess to you I hoped you might get into a lit tle trouble pome way, or somewhere, in order to punish you for your unkind be- navior In deserting my company? Well, I hope it is too last, thou. Is it?" "Where diI you Ieavo Mrs. Kellogg?" asked Judith, irrelevantly. "She left me, or rather tho city, this morning, by tho eight-o'clock train, for tuo iiast. blie found a telegram here Informing her that her son was not ex pected to live. Poor woman! she was In great trouble. But you are not sorry for her, now, arc you ? You women are such spiteful creatures." "Am I spiteful? I hate Mrs. Kellogg for meaning to injure me, when I was injured enough already, and my friends, through me. Certainly I could not be expected to love her ?" "You must love your enemies, tho Bible says; but I'll own to you, Miss Miles, that I am like Dr. Johnson, and love a good hater. I've twice the confi dence in a man who hates well, that I have in a mildly forgiving man. But j when a lady says she hates, I do not know what to think;" and the Major smiled down upon his companion a quizzing sort of smile. "That Is," returned Judith, "you think a lady should not say what she thinks, but a gentleman may." "Not quite my thought; guess again," still smiling teazingly. "Then you ask yourself whether it is character or bad manners tho lady ex presses, whon she owns her hatred; is that it?" " asked Judith, blushing brightly. Her companion laughei heartily. "We'll not quarrel about Mrs. Kellogg," he said. "I am not fond of her, either. But she is so unhappy that I really feel compassion for her. Kellogg has sunk into a mere sot; but she will die before she will give him up, or confess her mistake to the world, by a separation. Much can be pardoned to a woman in her situation; do you not think so?" "Misery does make us bad, I believe, and know. I'll forgive Mrs. Kellogg, since you think it more lady-like," she answered, gaily. "Everything about you makes mo think your lines have fallen in pleasant places," said tho Major, regarding her bright looks and fashionable appear ance. "Are you not going to tell me anything about yourself? It seems to me that you have taken to city habits very quickiy morning shopping, for instance. I'll lay a wager you have spent all your money?" and he watched , her tell-tale face for confirmation, look lug gravely upon the blushing, and the affectation of resentment. "I guessed it, did I not?" "It was my own money," said Judith, with a charming pout. "Tell me how you spent it what you bought this morning. Come, I know a littlo about ladles' dresses." "I was not buying," returned Judith, avoiding his eyes. "Just looking?" he inquired, with his cynical smile. "A regular metropolitan already!" "Neitbor!" cried Judith, desperately; "I was seeking employment," 'The Major's cynical smile vanished instantly, and an expression of great gravity replaced it. "Did you find what you sought?" he inquired, gently. "No, I did not. I shall never find it in those places," and the anxious look she had worn when they met returned. "Perhaps that is not so great a mis fortune as you seni to regard it. But tell mo why you think you shall fail." "Because I am so ignorant," returned Judith, looking up at him with one quick glance of sorrowful defiance of cousequences. "I find that I know nothing nothing in the world! I had no idea how ignorant I was until Mrs. Brazee questioned me." "So Mrs. Brazee has questioned you as to your capacity for work, and you have discovered that there is nothing you can do positively nothing? How deplorable!" cried the Major, making light of the situation. "Oj.yes," said Judith, recovering her self a little, "I can take care of chil dren at least It is presumed that I cau since that occupation does not pre-'sup-pose a knowledge of figures," she added, laughlug. 1 "Did Mrs. Brazee propose that to yon as a calling?" asked the Major. "Tell me what you and she did say. I am curious to know how ladies set about business." With Increasing courage, "and some sallies of gaiety, Judith recounted the morning's conversation. "But it is quite serious," she added, at the last, "becaftseMrs. Brazee Is going away In a week or two, nnd I must find something to do before that time." "I am curious to know Mrs. Brazee," was the only reply to this revelation-. "Come in and bo introduced, for here we are at the house." Mrs. Brazee had just come in, and re ceived tho Major Impressively, having a great respect for military men. She laughingly reproved Judith for going out alone with so little knowledge of the city, though to be sure, she said in conclusion, "You may as well learn to go about alouc; and your not belug afraid Is a good thing." "But I was horribly afraid, at first," returned Judith, smiling at her hostess, aud running up stairs to put away her things. Mrs. Brazee seized the opportunity to say a word behind her baik. "I wonder," she said, "if Mrs. Stewart knew what kind of agirl she was throw ing upon my hands ?" "I beg your pardon," returned the Major, waiting to be further enlight ened. "I mean how helpless and deplorably ignorant. Positively, there is uo situa tion she can fill that I know of ex cept that of a child's nurse. She would do very well for a princess, with her beauty and her style; but for a ser vant! " shrugging her shoulders. "I could not imagine Miss Miles in that capacity," returned the Major, smiling, "except as Cinderella." 'Really, however, she is not fitted for anything else; and she is forced to earn her living. It ia a great pity, is it not, that a girl should have grown up with out any sort of useful knowledge?" and Mrs. Brazee looked intelligently shocked. j "She can become fitted for something, j no doubt," replied the Major, ignoring , the question. "Should you not say she , has rather unusual intelligence? And ! certainly it could be put to some use, nnd made to furnish her with a respect able living?" "But who is to do it, Major Floyd ?" elevating her eye-brows. " cannot. In a few days my house will be shut up, and I a couple of hundred miles away from here." "Sho has letters to Mrs. General Cool, and to Mrs. Levison, both ladies of high position, so Mrs. Stewart told me. Will not these ladies do anything to give Miss Miles a start in life ? It seems tol me they might." Mrs. Brazeo reflected. She had a slight acquaintance with Mrs. Levison, but none with Mrs. General Cool. Here was an opportunity to make tho ac quaintance of the latter lady, to whose receptions she would then be invited. She might owe something to Judith after all an entree to tho military set, which had long been her secret ambi tion. "I was not aware," she said, "that Miss Miles had such letters; though there is a reference to Mrs. Cool in Mrs. Stewart's letter to me. Perhaps one of these ladies may be ablo to suggest something. I'm very glad you men tioned it, becauso it really would have distressed mo to have had to go away and leave tho dear girl unprovided for. Do you know," lowering her voice mys teriously, "the Judge, Mr. Brazee, wished to adopt Miss Miles. He is quite taken with her grace and talent." The wish does credit to his taste," returned tho Major. "Docs she knov? It?" I should not fell her unless it was decided upon. But I objected upon the very ground of her attractions, don't you see ? The young men have eyes as well ns the old ones, and wo could not expect to keep her long. Have you a family, Major?" At that moment Judith re-appcared, aud the Major's reply was lost in tho pleasant little commotion of her en trance. She had stopped to brush up her short curls, and place a tiny buttur- fly bow of pink ribbon over her left car; a bit of coquetry that was not unnoticed by her visitor, who observed her closely. btio uau certainly never appeared to greater advantage. This crisis in her life called every faculty nnd feeling into stronger play, aud she was, as he had told her, looking radiant. The very fact of being surrounded by elegauce and beauty made her moro elegant and beautiful, as It docs all sensitively or ganized persons. The delight, the charm,,tho sentiment of such things, were absorbed Into herself, and radiated again through her in every motion, smile, expression. The same effect would have been apparent in the pres ence of striking natural beauty orsub limity. Iteflected in her face would have been the sentiment It inspired. But this absorbent quality of a certain temperament may lead to exactly oppo site results in different Individuals, ac cording to the surroundings,;aud is not altogether an unmixed blessing. "A servant!"' thought the Major. "A woman like that associating with Bridget and Ah Wing!" "You will remain with us to lunch ?" asked Mrs. Brazee, as tho Major rose to lake leave, after a few formal words with Judith. But ho declined. "Then we shall Insist on your coming to lunch with us to-morrow. I will ask Mr. Brazee to come up; or If more con venient for you, come to dinner, when my husband is sure to be at home." The Major promised to come to luncheon, and departed. Thon Mrs. Brazee attacked Judith upon the subject of her letters, repeating what sho had learned from Major Floyd, and playfully reproving her for not hav ing mentioned the matter. "Why should I wish to know Mrs. Cool?" demanded Judith. " 'Why ?' Because bIio is a person of influence whom it is well to know; nnd because she will invite you to her house and give you access to agreeable so ciety." "But I do not wish to be invited," said Judith, reflectively. Then, seeing Mrs. Brazec's look of protest, added with pretty confusion, "It is not, of course, that I object to Mrs. Cool, but that sho may object to me. You know, dear Mrs. Brazee, that I have got my living to earn, and cannot go into the society of fashionable people. I shall have neither the tlmo nor the money," she said, thinking of all her wasted cap ital, "even if they wanted me, which they will not, when I take my proper placo in the world;" nnd in spito of a great effort toseem coolly philosophical the tears rushed to her eyes; for it Is not such an easy thing for youth, beauty and good taste to renounce the pleasant things of life, and play Cinderella in the ashes. "My dear," said Mrs. Brazee, remark ing the tears; "let us go fortify our selves with a cup of tea." Judith did not take tea, but sho im proved the Interval of getting to table in reducing her rebellious disposition to a proper condition of humility. "I fear you are too impetuous in your feelings aud conclusions," Mrs. Brazee began, when she had helped Judith to several delicacies. "I should not say you know yet what is your proper place in tho world. You are a little dlscour- aged now, because we could not fix upon it all at once, and assumo that it Is an inferior one. But you do not know that, and what I propose is to make the most of your opportunities. Major Floyd says he cannot imagine you fill ing such a position as you intimate." He may not have a lively imagina tion," returned Judith, with a sad humorousncss; "but whether ho lias or not, I do not see how that affects the real facts of the case. I have a few days in which to select some occupation by which I cau earn an independent living. If I have not then determined, I shall be forced into the street; and once in the street, who would have mo ? I should do as that young American lady in London did, kill myself; I know I should." "Why, how you shock us, Miss Miles! Do you know it is wrong to talk in that way ? I must have Doctor Flaxman to converses with you." But Judith only laughed a littlo at this threat, thinking Dr. Flaxman was a surgeon, like Doctor Kellogg. "By tho way," said Mrs. Brazee, re minded of her religious views; "do you believe In the doctrine of Election ?" "Of election by ballot?" inquired Judith, innocently, and at a venture, not knowing much about elections of any kind, and still less about the doc trine of election. M Mh. Brazee rang tho bell sharply, and rose from the table. She could not quite make out whether this sharp- witted girl was quizzing her or not, but 6hc thought it safest to quit the subject. "Well, Miss Miles," she said, return ing to tho former topic, "I do not want you to feel, as you say you do, that there aro only so many days to arrange your affairs in. You arc not going into the street, as you pretend with such serious absurdity. To-morrow wo will have tho Major to lunch; aud next day we will call on Mrs. Cool and Mrs. Levison, In the meantime mako yourself conv fortable. By the way, where did you go this morning?" Judith was strongly minded to tell a fib about her morning's excursion, but she remembered that sho had resolved uot to bo ashamed of doing what was necessary to bo done, and frankly con fessed the truth. Sho had this kind of courage, to bo herself, no more, no less, without shame; though the lessons she was receiving were making it all the ume moro difficult to be true to herself. Mrs. Brazee elevated her eye-brows at H.. . i.uu narrative. Tills was rather n stron mmueU young lady after all, and she al lowed Judith to see that sho cH.l .,nf nn. prove of such decided steps-not yet, at .-.i-m. um juuuii, endeavoring to read, kept thinking alt that afternoon how to prevent the frittering away of precious ume; lor tier mind was made up about going into any moro fashlona. blc families as agucst, where site should be continually more and more unfitted for the stem realities of her lot. must not permit myself for one moment to forget what I have to do," sho said to herself. "What siguifies my going to one place or another, except to have my trouble paraded. Work is what I want work, work,'work!" To be continued' ' DEAD IS TIIE STREET. Untlrrthe lamp Ileitis, dead In the street. ucncaie, iair, nnu omj- ik-viii , There she lies. Face to the kle, Starved to death in a eitr of plentv. Spurned bv all that Is pure and Mrect, Passed by busy and careless feet Hundreds bent upon folly and pleasure. Hundreds with plenty, time nnd leisure leisure to specu (,'iini's raminn oeiovr, Tn tearti tho crrlnir nnd raise the lovl v rienty tn charity's name to how inai me nus somciiiiug uivine anu nmy. Boasted charms classical brow. Delicate features look at them now! Iook at her Hps once thoy could smile; Kyes never more shall they bejrnlle; Never more, never more word of hew A blush shall hrlnz to the salntllesl face. She has found, let us hope and trust, reaee in a irtgnernnu oeiier piace. And vet. desnltc of all. still I ween. Joy of some heart she mutt have been. Some fond mother, proud of tho tasb. no sioopeu to linger me uuimy curl; Some proud father ha bowed to aU A messinffior ncr, itiKuariinKciri. Hard to thlnt.os wc look at her there. Of all the tenderness, love and care. Lonely watching and sore bcartachc, All the a;ony, burning; tears, Joys and Kormws, and hopes and fears, Breathed and iulicreil for her .sweet sate. Fancy will picture a home afar, Out where the ilalsc-i aud buttercups are. Out where llfe-glvlns breezes blow. Fur from those sodden M reels foul and low; Funcy will picture a lonely hearth, And nu aged couple dead to mirth Kneeling bcMde a bed to pray; Or tying awake o' nights to hark tor a tiling tuai my come in ine nun or uartf, A noiiow-cyeu woman, wit it weary leet. " Better they never know She whom they cherished fo Lies this night, lone and low. Dead in the shoot. The Lesson of Utah. From the Woman's Journal. The population of Utah is divided into two hostile classes, the Mormons aud Gentiles. The Mormon voters, even without tho women, largely exceed the Gentiles in number. But tills prepon derance is increased by the votes of the women because almost all the women of Utah lianncu to be Mormons. Indeed. almost all the resident population, the farms, the homes of Utah, are composed of Mormons. They are a peaceable, in dustrious people, devoted to their pe culiar observances, with a theology which not only permits, but Inculcates nolvcumy as an article of faith, and arc characterized by the excluslvencss of social feeling, which sectarianism de velops and persecution intensities. 'Hie Uentiies, on tne contrary, are chiefly composed of miners; rough, reckless irontiersmcn, wttiiout. nxeu homes, without wives or female rela tives. This floating population is natu rally jealous of Mormon supremacy and impatient of restraints, whether salu tary or otherwise. When a Gentile sees a Mormon and tne women oi nis familv cast several votes, ho does not stop to consider that he might neutral ize tiiree votes uy mai;inga uomo anu iuvitimr his female relatives to leave tiie East nnd settle witli him in Utah. Nor does he ask himself whether these women have not quite as much right to ote as Hi nisei r, upon questions which equally concern all? He simply sees tho momentary numerical disadvantage, and appeals to the authorities at Wash- melon to striKc down tne women. .iui such men as Senator Frelinghuysen are prompt to do his cowardly bidding. uui, u is satu, incse women ucip sus tain by their votes tho ctnI-barbarous institution or polygamy. Well, suppose tbey do. Anil suppose that this institu tion, for which they plead tho Patri archal sanctions of the Old Testament, Is as unnatural and as Injurious as its bitterest opponents represent it. And sunnose that we concede without nues- tlon tuat forcible tnteriereucc uy retierat i authority Is right aud expedient and nccessary. wiiattnen; win not ineso poor women. tue victims oi a laise me- olocv nnd a mistaken sense of duty, need hereafter every right and privilege of citizenship more than women who are more happily circumstanced? If tlio United States I'ouris are to deprive these women of thclrso-callcd husbands, and declare them unmarried, and pro nounce their children uastarus, and compel them to rely upon their own re sources ior mo luturc support, ot inein- selves and tneir children, ought we not at least to recognize and respect their equal rights of citizenship V Why give , a vote to the man who is a polygnmist and refuse it to the woman? Why In crease the power of tho strong and douhlo the burthcti3 of the weak? If any class of Mormons should be dis franchised, it certainly ought not to be the women, isut "Man to man mi oft unjiut It always io to woman." Tho utter Indiflercnce of Conercss to tho rights of the women of Utait is in singular contrast to its almost morbid sensitiveness in regard to the rights of colored men. hupposc that tlio fceualc Judiciary Committee, in view of tho very "peculiar condition" orboutn Car olina, had quietly reported a Bill, the cllcct of which would be to deprive colored men of suflrage? Wouldaloug debate have taken placo without a slnglo allusion to the proposed "limita tion or suurage" to wnite men : un the contrary, Mr. Sumner would have exhausted the resources of eloquent in vective, and every itcpuuiican senator would liavo denounced tho proposition as a conspiracy against liberty. Jct us nope tuat. mo uay win come when the rights of women will find as many nnd as' earnest defenders Iu the Congress of tho United States as the rights or colored men uud now. nut that day will never dawn until the women of America are armed with tho ballot.". 27. MacJ:wcll. A SdlOOLMASTKlt WHO DKSEKVKD What He Got. Ayoungstudcnt from Wesleyan University, teaching at East Glastonbury, saw one of his pupils, a crlrl about fifteen, writing a note during school hours, a few days ago, aud or dered her to bring it to his desk. She declined, saying that it was not suitable for him to sec, whereupon he told her to leave the school, blie was just starting when ho approached her, and saying,. "You are notsixtscn. and I'll lick you," struck her tlireo blows upon tho nrtn and shoulder with n knotted stick an inch in diameter. As she was starling again, he slezed her by tho hair and gavo her another blow on tho head. Sho wetit home, badly crippled, perhaps tor inc. sue was tue tiaugnteroi a poor widow and was working in a factory to pay for her education. Tiie citizens were very indignant, nnd about flay of them met tho teacher In the street at night and mobbed him, but ho escaped wltlro-rewbrulses.- The nextday he, settled with his pupil by paying $25, and was wanted out oi town on pain of a bran-new coat' of tar and feathers.- i i . , , . v A late Tea Party. It Is a hundred years since the fifty Boston radicals llung into Boston har bor the famous cargo of taxed tea in the name of the rights of man. The other night some hundreds of Boston radicals met at Faneull Halt to pledge, In com fortable, untaxed tea, the rights of womau. Since it was the women mi whom the loss of the colonial invoice bore with special hardship; aud since It was they who urged and accented its destruction, it was quite fitting that the centennial observance of the sacrifice should bo dedicated to their service. And, on the whole, though to some ea ger and impatient spirits the field seemed dlscouragingly wldo and the la borers deplorably few, the tone of the assemblage was jubilant, an well it might be, seeing what tho century lias wrought. It is not many decades since Charles Lamb, that gentle nnd charitable soul, said: "A female poet, or. female author of any kind, ranks below an actress I think." Mrs. Somervllle, Harriet Mar tineati, Mrs. Mill, Frances Power Cobb, Margaret Fuller, Mr?. Howe scores of women of our tlmo arc tho sufficient ref utation of the unworthy sneer. When the brilliant Fox stopped Dr. Aikcu in the fctrcct to praise his volume of essays, and, approving ono after another, was told, "That one my sister wrote," the wit and gallant shifted the subject, not being prepared to concede to a womau any powers of original thinking. But our ablest critic reads Geonro Eliot ' with profound respect, bending tho best powers oi ins mum to comprciienu nor subtle yet bold thinking. Grave theo logians and eminent casuists aro set at naught by tho audacious wit of Gail Hamilton. Aud the Itlturlel's spear of a woman's genius, touching tho hideous wrong of slavery, which was above law, revealed it to its swift destruction. It is uot two generations since the laws of every State in the Union bore most unequally and unjustly upon mar ried women in the mutter of property, of wages, of divorce, of the custody of their children or of the claim to their services. Iu at least nineteen of these States the influence of the agitation about the "woman question" has modi fled the statutes to absolute or approxi mate justice. Moreover, wives them selves have not only obtained admission to the bar, but have even delivered from the bench expositions of that science in who.se own words "the very being and existence of the woman is suspended during the overture (of marriage), or entirely merged and Incorporated In that of the husband." Klizabeth Blackwell took her reputa tion In her hand, when, twenty years ago, sho went to Europe to walk the hospitals. Fashionable women feared to lose caste if they employed her on her return, aud tho college of physicians looked askance at her. But Dr. Mary Putnam comes home from Paris witli a i-.nropean reputation lor sctioiarsnip ; tiiiii .t'.,vt ,J , tint, mum uiiiiui;iii,v, iu- uiiratiun, comietence, and the profes sional cprit ilit corps awaiting her. it is not twi-niy j'ears since Jucretia Molt was refused in-rmisslon to preach In Federal Street Church, Boston. We do not remember how many women 1rcachers to-day have congregations. Jut counting those who speak from that broad Church pulpit, the Lyeenm plat form, the list is not small. When Florence Nightingale wished to take charge of the Female Sanitarium she could find uoopportunlty of instruc tion in J-.ngiand. rsow mere is a model tralniinr school for nurses in Liverpool. wiucu is nut me predecessor oi outers: while our own, though but in their iu- cepiion, give promise oi great usciui- ness. When a school of deshrn for women was proposed in England, :i petition was presented to the authorities praying that women might uot be taught, at the expense of the Government, occupations which would take the bread out of the mouths of tho men already engaged therein. Schools of design give sulli clout employment to many women in J? ranee, Germany, iMigland and Amer ica to-day. Eislity years asro Mary Yv oilstone-. craft published her "Vindication of the Bights of Womau." It was a book laid under ban ns Irreligious nnd immoral. Yet it consists simply of a forcible and logical pica lor tlio higher education oi women, nu exposure or tue taisc senti mentality of ltosscau nnd Gregory, and : a claim that morality should mean the same thing in both sexes. Half of her demand bus been conceded, and tho rest, if still denied, is not denounced. The nuestion of co-cducatiou and of equal education attains more prosperous answers day by day. The question of wider employments is almost lost in concession. The question of wages, though far enough from fair solution, is debated by a whole community instead of by a handful of needy women. Tho question of suffrago alone seems not to command the public thought, and seems only. The Churches pay a modern respect to the capacity, Intelli gence and business aptitude of women unknown befqreourday. The Grangers, Good Templars and other powerful soci eties recoguizo tlio eligibility of woman. CliriMan Union of January lh. Hints for Yoi'XO Mothers. The three requisites for babies nro plenty of sleep, plenty ot ioou, picuiy ot uanuci. The saying that mail is a bundle of hab its Is as true of babies as it is of grown children. If an infant is accustomed from its birth to sleep from six o'clock at night until daylight, the habit of early sleep win oe lormcu, anu mo mother may have all her eveniugs to herself. If the baby sleeps all night, a long morning nap will naturally come about dinner-time, after which the child, except when very young, should ho kent awake until six o'clock. Perse verance in this routine will soon result in securing quiet evenings for both tho child and parent. Some mothers have n loni? season every mornlug and every nlgilt 111 getllllR me uuuj aaieujj. i nej rock them and sing to them till Mor pheus enfolds them. Willi most chil dren this Is etitirely unuecessary. An infant can bo accustomed, by a few days' training, to K 1 s'eep 'tst-lf Tor a morning's nap as well as for the longer rest nt night. Ex. - . . . ii. !...!... .. I rtM . I . It was expceled the other day, when Auna Dickinson rode to the top of Pike's Peak, that she would have made a speech on the occasion; but It seems that, for once, she was willing to let Piko speak alone. - Nothing is goodiwhich'ls not true.'t j "Women Ycrms Praia Shops. xTitrarr talk c-osceexucg tub movement what its orroxnxTS bay aid Ton the ee- SEIQEI) SAIWX-IIBWEES. Cou mbup, Ohio, February loth. Till? talk of ths streets concerning the women's war on whisky is interesting, i as. snowing ineurut oi puuuc sentiment on the subject. There are uot a few per sons in every community who aro hon estly opposed to the now popular method" of killing the liqtior traffic, and there are many more who have serious doubts as to Its practical efficiency, but there is great unanimity In the opinion that the men must support the women to the fullest extent. This is manifested uot only in the large number who attend the preparatory meetings, but in the general closing of places of business whenever it is requested by tho women, in tho oulspokcu voice of the press in: behalf of the reform, in the indignation of tiio men in contrast with the patience and persistence of the women, whenever ! a saioon-Keepcr noius out unreasonably long, and most of all in the largo sums of money raised to carry out the objects of the temperance leagues, and to lit up reading-rooms and other places of inno cent recreation and amusement to sup ply the void made up the disappearance of drinking places. In some places the Women's Execu tive Committees have associated with them advisory committees of men. but so far the women bt-cm to have needed little advice, and to ii.ivc asked less. How some people in the oppoaition look at the matter was shown iu a conversa tion with a citizen of London, ns the train on which I was passenger passed that point to-day. "Aro the women here fighting the whisky dealers ?" wad asked. "Yes," was the short answer. "Well, how are they getting on ?" "Oh, well enough, I suppose; but it Isn't the plan I should have advised." "Will they succeed iu your town ?" "Oh, yes, I .suppose so. They do al most everywhere, and I don't know why this place should be un exception. I guess tfiey will keep at it until they break it up, aud there's uo knowing what they will get at next. Billiards, may be, aud then tobacco, and who knows but that they will boon try to pray down the tea and coffee business Give them success in this nnd thevtwill I Another man thought ho saw iu the t break up any tiling tliey put ineir tntnds : respect, anu you win always nnu iiiui against. The whole business ot a town any rriau, high or low, pure in thought may be destroyed iu this way. It ain't: or thoroughly debased, will not forget . the plan I should have advised." the difference due to a true woman. whole movement adiabolleal conspiracy i familiarity is uo evidence of manly rc to secure for woman the right of sul- gun!, aud the profTereil caress too' often frage. "It's bound to come, sir," said j springs from a motive so base that T he. "It's bound to come, if this thing need not name it. Guanl yourself, then, " goes on much longer." Dio Lewis 1 that when the time dots come in which sometimes tries, no doubt rather im- I you can truly say to any man that lie is prudently, to feel the public pulse as to i more to you than all else, you will have ilia pet plan. With this idea he ap- , uo reluctance to lay before him the his- -' preached a citizen of Springfield, whom tory of your past life, unspotted by the-i lie did not know, and to whom the Bos- j tou apostle of temperance was alike un was alike un-1 known. The stranger looked with , doubt on the movement, and thought it was a fanatical kind of business. His plan was to make Hnuor-"buying a dis- 1 grace and a crime, and to imprison the i buyer in tho work-house or county jail, according to the degree of offense. As to tills woman's movement, he-frankly told the doctor that he thought "that d d fool Dio Lewis had better stay in Massachusetts and close the dram-shops of that rum-ridden State before carrying on a crusade against the comparatively small numberof liquordenlers IitOhio." "No doubt! Xo doubt!" was the re joinder of tho astonished inquirer. As I nreuicieu a lew days ago, tlio wholesale liquor men have thought it worth while to cive serious attention to tho nuestion I of how the movement may be impeded. or its effect counteracted. There is rea son to believe that they have olfercd moral and pecuniary support to several saloon-keepers in the Interior who have shown n disposition to defy tho women. and any man who holds out to the end will have no dilliculty in getting a line, stock in trade without paying a cent for it. If some aid is nut extended to the beselged they will, in many instances, be starved out, for few customers will pass in at their doors jtviiijc.tiiay are guanled by praying women. Cost. A'. Y. Tribune. "An Easy, Gocd-Naiurod Fellow." I have in my mind's oyo one who prides himself upon the above appella tion, and who makes it a point to favor every one for tho solo purpose of Im pressing Ills good-nature. At different periods of his life he has engaged in al most every avocation that can bo men tioned, and each time lias made a sig nal failure simply because he was so "easy. 'umnriniiw lmvinfr t.nnlit bim thnt. '. his reputation foramiability has secured I him against public censure, his reverses have had no serious clfect upon him, but his wife, poor womau, lias been the n 1110 1 martyr. In tho frequent intervals of idleness that were tlio natural results of changes of business, she struggled nobly, en deavoring to make herself equal to the occasion by supporting the family, some times by sewing, sometimes by teach ing, aud occasionally by canvassing for a new publication. These efforts ou her part were accepted by her husband as a matter of course, and if the neighbors indulged in un occasional sneer at the expeuso of Jone-i. it was always molli fied by the apology: "Oh, well, Jones Is such an easy, good natured fellow, he can't get nlong." Finally, after years or patient, unre mitting labor, with lier past utruggles folded away in her mcuiory and the fu- ...- r , III. hetrath fo not rnntinue to love the man sho had i lure bind: anu enceness oeiore nur.w iiu ceacd to respect, she quietly took her children and sought the paternal roof. I ZnXtVSrv went up! What a i howl of persecution followed her! "If there was any difleronce between them It must have been her fault." So the wonun In the community said, for Jones was always so easy and good-na tured. 4 ...t I ,1... n fi w n linen nf Vol r-i If you pass through the village where she j wrouglll. nay aim nignt ior in.- ouik,ii, you will find Jones sustained by tho sympathy of his female friends. If the eircumstance of Mrs. Jones' departure is referred to, you will hear, as other strangers have heanl before you, .that "it could not have been his fault; he was too good-uatured;", that although must have had a furious temper, andfhc was! You ought to have seenhiui was, they had no doubt., entirely, to liliima lt'rtii,7,tQ rmii'imf . . An Open Letter. jjorfsiy. to asy cmr. wno hay claim it. They tell mo you aro what: tho worUUsti.M calls a flirt, that all the little attraqtiotist-.M which nature has given you have,beenT ., subordinated to base uses, and yodWvd "' openly boasted of the conquests:'yottil"'ls have made through the power o'fi co-n e '. ! quetry. Pause, I beg of you; iUisj.noH: yet too late; you cuunot fcnoft-wb'ithcr- " this tendency is leading you cir 'VoiP1 would never have entered the -patH? ' " Ihere are many reasons whyiyousshbald uzd: pause. The fact that you are so dehas-. . . Ing your womanhood proves c'oucliV-v", ' slvely that you never could have known'1 1 the power of a passion that has -Yuany"'0' ' times made nugels of demons. :.. .. ,. ,., Oh! you blush. It is well; it gives, hope for the future it tells that yon, are" ' not dead to reason nnd shame. Shall t ' ' ' tell you why j-ou are on the brink of; terrible danger? Does not your owiii." : heart tell you that some time, as.thcro. ,j, , enters into the heart of every'nia'ti and woman, sooner or later, a love strtuirer'" ' than deatlt aud true as truth, so It must; co mo to you, and in your soul of souls , you must feel that only the man worthy, , tho admiration and love of any woman is one that would not foran instant tritle'" '' with tho affections of another? Do, .&; you think that the true man whonijyou ),, could honor as a husband would care to take to his embrace a wife whose Hps? had been sullied by careless and pro'-'-1'-miscuous contact with ady one who had) .... chanced to be the plaything of the liour.,,, You may plead, in exteuuatidn"..of your fault, that you were engaged to ' those whose caresses you permitted, b'uf in the several instances referred to dis-, re covered before It was too late that you ,j had mistaken a passing fancy for a life-' long aflcction. It is no excuse at'all:' r,i Indeed, it proves j-ou weaker than be-' fore. You have uo right to promiseri! . yourself in marriage to a man wliom4t you are not sure you can love until death'; ' These arc not to be made matters of- haste; and whelfyoTi so far forgeryour womanly dignity as to snap at anyjy chance bait that may bo offered, to film out later that you are mistaken, you must not wonder that your uanitt, is4; v bandied carelessly about among jour masculine acquaintances, and tlfebette"r kind of men begin to shun you. 'in There is adillerence, my youugirieiuii-..u between prudlshness and womanly self,-. You oucht to know Instinctively that breath of suspicion, untarnished bj' , practices not open to tne world; and, when the time does come, as you would ' have true sympathy and happiness in"''-: the future, give each other your: con fi. -, dencc regarding the past; letthere.be no-. ia sealed pages, no forgotten details, whose ghostly presence will haunt you e'ver't- atter, and, ir discovered, case a snadow between you and him who has trusted... Mit. Bkeciibr's IJojrANOE. Tom was a strapping, healthy boy; with a, . . great appetite. Ho lived .up in- the.,, mountains among the charcoal burners'""1' until he was nineteen. Then he went 1 down into the valley nnd hired out to a ' farmer. Tom was a scullion and a drudtrc. and at first the farmer hesitated to trust even the hogs to his care. But there was a glimmering of something in him that showed just a little through his uncouthness. After a year or two lie became a full farm laborer a broad-', ehouldered, deep-chested, powerful fel- ' low, whn made himself clumsily useful. Well, about that time the farmer's ,i daughter came homo from school. What a revelation she was to Tom. He, never Knew until then what it was to'' j 'worship anything, nor how awkward f-' 'and coarse ho was. He would have..-, j given, all lie had, which wasn't mucli, to know how to get into a room without' hitting the door, or what to do with His'"' , hands, or how to sit down right."" Ho""' began to change t is clothes ror belter . ones when he came iu from the day's work, and there was about him a dawn ing of improvement. Finally the "great- ' day came. He" stood trembling before the farmer's daughter, the hard word was spoken, and she didn't repulse him. r . I think there is nothing iu the life of a' matt which so rouses aud stirs liim as ' ' love. Tom went to the wrestling matches, and. what a vim there was in him. He read, ho went to church, ,he wanted to see how people acted. And when, after a good life, he crew to be ah ! old man, and talked in a trembling volco to grandchildren, he used to say,.... "O, what a wife she was to tne., .W.hat- ever i uicnui; nnu iuuie me. ino world is full of just such instances of blessed Influence. ' ..!! rATHTVnVTAT. T VrmTPATTnTT.TTTRS.. A couple are uo sooner married than they fiud that difierences of opinion and' mutual jars ensue, and all is not gold that glistened; and then one or both . straightway imagine that there is.no , remedy but in 'ruthlessly breaking the solemn, sacred tie that binds them.' A ' vague, restless feeling seizes ujon ono or both, producing discontent, engender Ingaccrtain thoughtof present bondage. which exists mostly in fancy, and ere-, nting a feverish desire for other associa- Hons aud spheres which are supposed to w bo more fitted and providentially de-rn. signed for tho mind and heart. .Uo ' escanc. It is a delusion. The marriage" relation, in all Its history, was neverex- . lb 4.3 C4iiVl UUb 111 ,ULWllg lilt pecteu, pernaps, to ne enurety free, from misunderstandings and discords. Fool-,,, ish to think that the whole mutual life'" can now on, I Ko tho earlier stream,"1 school wherein husband and wife are to get rid ot their angularities, harmonize their peculiar characteristics, dud more' and more become one in thought, sym- l, 5 III .. . . . J . ' J - tuiii v nnu uie. rue true uicssedness ot i wedded Souls, is not insured by a sinipla tv.uauai; u piiuieu mini. it. comes through and after many' a self-denial, many a sacrifice of the will, many a scourging of the resentment, anger, pride, vanity and passion of the heart. . "Ia the old 'man any better?'' as9tf a" ithnt.i.tM Ar o Wntvd.nv the other"davv" ... tj.i.t.ti u i lit- f j - . . 1 SHOUHlKsay w lisliiigiug wiStoverfyopd. at, .motner mis -feoffees;'.',, t - -y