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1.. . W Bfyf if Iff - JiUS. A. Jr UUXIXU, tailor and Proprietor. 1ft IJCYQtca to i t(,o,itu ore s or Humanity. Independent th rellttcs unil'lteHsion. Mtve to all IJvo Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposing and Biposlnshe Wron-s o! tho. Masses. t , a woA On'U'K-Cor. lroiit nud fitnrk Street. THUMB, IX .VDVANCE: One year. Three tnouths.... -$3 00 1 7. 100 Fbbb SPEEcnyKr.EE Pjuss, Kkf.e Pr.optB. Correspondents writing oreras3nmedIgna lures must make known their namasp tho Edltor.or no attention will he sIven"to their AIVERTISEMBNT3lHscrtedonJleasonabIe "VOIU3XE III. IOTtTX.AJVr, OKEGON, FRIDAY, IS, 1874- NUMBER t3. communications. ' xennsi. I ffy JW)W WW AWv AMIE AND HENRY LEE; Oil TIio .Silirron T the Nmm. BT MRS. A. J. nCNlVTAY. Enterad, according lo Act nfCoiigreis.ln the year lSTly Mrs. A J. Duulway, lit the o nice of the Librarian at Oosgrec at Washington City. CHAlTEIt III. The jug of tarantula juloe, which be sotted John Lee had hidden among tlio cabbages as he came home from the election, was resorted to so frequently until Its contents wore exhausted, that the head of the family was in no condi tion for a day or two to exercise his au thority over ids eldest sou. True, he sat In the corner giving maudlin orders with the air of a potentate, viciously snapping the tongs at the" limbs of tlio youncer children, who, being on the lookout for attacks of this kind, usually dodged them dextrously; hut the hend of the family was continually running over with ribald rhymo and stale witti cisms, from which all pungency and sparkle had long been extracted by con stant repetition. Molviu Hastings still lingered in the home of the Lees, interesting Aniie with his elegant conversation concern ing the great world, of which she thought so much and knew so little. It was little wonder that she gradually grew to weaving romances of the future, in which he always figured as the prime actor, and herself as a bnlliantsatellitc. The fourth morning of his visit had dawned, and he was helping, as had be come his regular custom, with the morning chores. The last cow was milked, and the two were leaning idly against the burs, watching the playful gambols of the happy calves, when Mr. Hastings suddenly said: "I am going away to-day, Miss Maud." The words fell upon Amie's heart like lead. Site had been so happy for the last few days, and life would be so dreary when ho was gone! With blanching lip she looked into his face, and said, simply, "So soon?" "Yes, my pretty, nciitc pet. Won't you let me be your nobleman, and will you be my Maud ?" "I don't like tho ending of the Maud Muller story at all, Mr. Hastings. You know her lord got vory tired of her. He was ashamed of her among his high bred friends, and she sighed for the old hay-making times at her father's. Kb, my lord, I decline to he auybody'a Mand Muller." Melvin Hastings doubted the evidence of his senses. The Idea that this rustic maiden, whose surroundings were so distasteful that she chafed constantly under the conditions they invoked, should not only not feel flattered by his attentions, but that she should abso lutely refuse them, was to him at once a wonder and disappointment. "Amie," he said, hastily, "I must say that I was hardly prepared for this." "Of course you weren't!" testily. "You imagined, of course, that I would do as they always do in novels, consider myself highly honored by the attentions of a gentleman far above mo in social station, education and culture, and that I should be weak enough to submit to a yoke, which would, in time, become a grievous burden to us both." "Amie, my dear, impetuous little ideal of womanhood, I imagined nothing of the kind. I feel for you a deep attach ment, and I know that culture and re finement will come to you wilii wealth and opportunity. If you won't bo ray Maud, be my Cinderella, I pray, and I ' will be your Prince." "No, Mr. Hasting; I don't bolievo in princos. But I do not wish to pain you. If, in the after years, a time shall come when I can, through my own efforts, arise to such a position in life as I covet, and you shall then desire to live for me as I devoutly wish to sometime live for you, I shall be happy to meet you; but never will I allow any man to say sweet words to me, if lie has to stoop to reach my mental and social level." Melvin Hastings was confounded. In all his wanderings he had never met a displeased as well. What right had he to look for other than a thankful accept ance of his proffers of affection from this rustic, restless girl? The two wended their way in silence toward the house. They were near the corner of. the rough .cottage, when Mr. Hastings sat the pails down quickly, and seizing Amie's hands, said, ten derly: "At least, you will sometimes think of me when 1 am gone, won't you, my woodland sprite ?" "Think of you? O, Mr. Hastings," and two pearly drops trembled on her lashes, and dropped on her hands as he held them. Clasping her for an instant in his arms, he imprinted a rapturous kiss upon her lips, and then released her, trembling with bliss, and shame, and anger, as she felt the impropriety and boldness of the act. Gathering up her pail sue Hurried on, anil was startled by the souud of blows aud hysterical screams proceeding from tlio house. Oponing tho door, a sight met her gaze from which she recoiled In horror. Prom a beam overhead, a kind of tra- pazo hatl been suspended, lo which her brother-Henry was tied by tho arms, and his fedt bound logetherwllh tbougs supporting a huge fence-rail, which had been balanced between his ankles "to stretch him straight," as his father had brutally explained, in making prepara tions for Hogging. Witli no covering upon his quivering body except a hick ory shirt, through which tho blood was oozing at every stroke, tho boy bravely endured tho torture, giving vent to neither tear nor groan. His poor mother lay helplessly upon the bed, screamlngandshrlnkingas though every blow were sinking into lier own quiver ing flesh, while tho younger children huddled tbemeelvea" in the corner, as if seokiug protection from the walls in their terror. "Helloa! What does this mean?" qucriod Mr. Hastings, seizing the great whip, and dealing a naii-uozen vigorous blows 'upon the bacn or uie brutal father. Then, tossing the whip Into the fire, ho snatched a carving Kiino irom the table, cut tho thongs that bound the boy, and released him from captivity. John Lee was taken completely by sur prise. Never before, In his own house, where he was distinctly recognized as the head of tho family, had any one dared to question his authority. Drop ping into a chair, as If overcome by ex haustion, he apologetically explained: 'I was just admlnlsterin' a little needed punishment for tho brat's laziness." "I think a little needed State's prison discipline Is what you need for your brutality," was the quick reply. "I didn't hurt him any lo speak of. If his spirit ain't broke, he'll go to ruin shore. My daddy thrashed me reg'- Iar " "And that's why you're such a pat tern man, eh ?" A feeble remembrance of his own dig nity, and what was due to the head of the family, overcame the submissive awe with which the sudden turn in af fairs had imbued him, and John Lee ordered the "mcddlin' upstart" to "skoedaddlo that minute." "I'm in no hurry, Mr. Lee," was the quiet response. "I shall stay awhile and seo if further brutalities are visited upon this family while you are sobering off." Poor Mrs. Lee lay in her sick-bed, wecplng.silently. Henry had crawled up the ladder to the loft, and was being waited upon by Jim, whose lively recol lections of similar scenes, in which ho had been the passive subject, Imbued him with sentiments of tenderness quite touching to behold. "I tell you, Hen, that city chap's a brick," he 6aid, earnestly. "Yes," said Henry, in a whisper, "and when I run away, I'll sec him in the city, and maybe he can get us both something to do in some place where nobody'Il Hog us." "Do you really mean to run away, Hen?" "Sh-tc! Of course I do! D'ye 'sposo a fellow's got to endure the like o' this forever? John Lee'll never strike me again that's flat!" "Oh, Hen, I cau't bear to have you go off and leave us! What'll besome of poor mother? 'Pears as if her faco gets more pinched and white all tho time. She'd die If you'd run away, Hen." "An' she'll die if she ever has to seo mo flogged again. You won't tell the old man that I'm going to ruu away, will you, Jim ?" "Did you ever ketch mc peaehin' on ye, Hen?" This conversation, which had been carried on in whispers, was interrupted by Amie's call to breakfast. Henry took his usual seat opposite Ids his father, and gazed defiantly into his eyes with a stony stare. His weltering flesh was still smarting with tho cruel pain of his puuishmeut, and in his heart a hatred and contempt for his father rankled, which itwas a pity that father could not sec and understand. Amie waited upon the table, her face crimson with blushesand mortification, and her heart full of a blissful, iuexprcssi bio happiness. Melvin Hastings glanced meaningly at her sornetiraes, but she always avoided his eyes, and while Inwardly thankful for his timely interference in Henry's i behalf, yet she longed for him to go away where ho could Bee no more of the skeleton in the Lee family. When breakfast was over, the head of tho family ordered tho donkey to be saddled, and, wlthoutdclgningto notice tuo sick woman upon the bed, whom he had vowed in his younger days to love nud cherish till death should part them, and with deigning to bestow divers and sundry cuff aud kicks upon the smaller children by way of re-asscrtiug his out raged authority, John Leo started for the nearest village, to bo gone, as his wife supposed, Tor several days. "Mr. Hastings," said Amie, nervous ly, as soon as her father was well out of sight, "I wish you'd go away from here to-day." "Ah, indeed! Why?" "Because father's gone off to swear out a warrant and have you arretted for assaulting him." "What makes vou tuinK so, mile one?" "Oh. bo's got lotso' political chums. and they'll put him up to It. There's a braco of liaif-flcdgod lawyers hanging around Shysterville, always ready for a job, and if you don't leave, they'll give vou a treat deal.o' trouble." "I never ran from justice yet, and dou't propose to -begin jib-day,"; coolly laUhnr front his pocket" a' volu life' of himself down to read. "But you told me this morning you would go to-day ?" "Are you, then, so anxious to got rid of mo ?" Amie's fdee took on a yet deeper hue. j "I cannot tell you all about it liere. We'll take a little walk after tho . work is done, If you are willing, and then I'll fully explain." "Amie, dear." , "What, mother?" "Come to me, won't you, darling ?" Auilo was bending ovor her mother In an Instant. "You don't Intend to leave mo, do you, daughter?" "Mother, what a question ! Why do you ask it?" "Because, last night, I dreamed that when I put my arms out, like this, to clasp you, you vanished, and I could see a pair of blue eyes looking down Into your black ones, and I thought they were serpent's eyes, and that my pet had been charmed away from me." "You don't expect to keop mc always, do you, mother?" "Oh, no!" walled the mother, despair ingly, "bqt I have nothing else to cling to hut you." "Well, cling on, mother, do; I assure you that you're in no danger of losing me. I shall never leave you without your consent." The visitor listened and bit his lip sullenly. "What does that silly woman want to keep that pretty girl hero for?" he queried, inwardly. Ah, Melvin Hastings! for what, In deed, except to save her from a fate akin to her own in bodily aud mental suffering? What wonder that mothers to whom marriage has never been any thing but a curse should shrink with unutterable horror at the thought that their children shall follow in tho same submissive, suffering track ? A mother whoso married life has been woll-mlxed with rays of conjugal sunshine- never has this morbid fear lest her daughters shall walk in her footsteps, Fan and Sue, who had gathered an inkling of a love affair which they wero in no way disposed to countenance, made every pretext possible for detain ing Atnlo in doors, so sho might not have time for the coveted and promised walk. . "If father knew it, he'd baste tho life out o' you," said Sue. "I'm of age, you will please remem her, and if he ever dares to strikb mo again, I'll try what virtue there is in a court of justice," and Amie's black eyes flashed a kecu defiance. The boys had betaken themselves to the woods to brood over their father's cruelty and form plans for thwarting him in the future. "If father would ho steady and do all ho could himself, I wouldn't mlud do ing my best," said Henry. "But he puts tasks upon me that no hired mau that's ever been on thefsrmcouldaccom plish in tho time he gives me to do thorn, and then when I fail curse him ! " I'Srnn. iron." Interrupted Jim. "vou mustn't curse our father. Remember how it would hurt mother. Do you know, I believe mother's going to die." "Then she'd get out o' John Lee's clutches, that's ouo comfort! Every blow ho gave mo to-day hurt her worse than mc, and for her sako I wouldn't a yelled if the old devil had killed mo! es, Jim, I wish she was now a shining angel ! I know she's booked for Heaven, Bure, for she's been a saint and a martyr ail her days. I think Death is splendid when he can cheat adevil like John Lee of a saintlike mother." Amlo's last household duty being over, she gave her mother a parting caress aud started with Mclvlu Hastings for the promised walk. Their path wound down the hill-side and across a rivulet upon whose shaded banks the wild birds cooed and twittered. Seating herself among the tangled ferns by the wayside, Amie said, "I'm too tired to walk, nud I can't leavo 'mother but a Ilttlo while, ho let's talk rapidly." "I hm all attention," dropping on one knee beside her and looking sadly into her face. But Amie did not find It so easy to talk as she had imagined. Dropping her eyes to the ground, as ho knelt there looking into tliem earnestly, she real ized that the situation was a trying one. "I wish you had never como to our house," she said, at last. "I'm sorry that I ever saw you." "That Is a very poor compliment to my mind and manners, Miss Lee. But, may I auk why you aro sorry ?" "Because you belong to the great, outside world which can nevor bo any- tuing to me but a dream." "But I have the power to mako that dream a reality, if you will but let m" "How ?" me question camo so suddeuly be was nonplussed. He did not intend to mako a profler of marriage direct Though deeply Interested in tho girl, her heart was all he wantod; her hand would compromise mm socially, no matter how devoted sho might be as a wife, or how deeply he might love her as such. Tho black eyes looked wonderiugly into his as he hesitated. "Have you tho power to get me a sit uation in the clly whero.I may earn my bread and educate and clothe me, that Holland's poems and settling may mako of myself something be sides an ignorant, rustic drudge?" Melvin Hastings, who had counted his conquests among maidens by the score, had suddenly met a. new experi ence. He fully believed that with honied words and tender glances he could woo this girl and have a "good time" in gratlfylug his vanity by mak ing love. Her direct, practical ques tions disarmed his tougue of Its flattery aud Ira was silent. 'You spoke to me this mornlug of Maud Muller aud matrimony," said the dauutless girl. "You don't reieat that nonsense, now." "Oh, Amie!" said the young man. desperately, "you are so different from any other girl I ever know. You seem to have no heart for love. Everything with you Is as plain and practical "as though you were fifty years old." "And why shouldn't I he, pray ?" "Because you are young aud beautiful and intelligent. Your frame is slight, your natural habits dainty, and you need as much caro aud pelting and love as my sister's canary." "So docs my mother, poor darling, but sho never gets them." "Amie, won't you lovo me, just a little?" The girl was struggling hard to retain full mastery over her own feelings. Love him ! Why, his thought had be come a part of her very existence, and had not her good, native sen.se assured her that she would be no. Jilting com panion for a cultured, wealthy man of the world, in whose presence she should always feel her own dependence and In feriority, provided he would marry her which wasn't at all likely she would have yielded to the sweet allurement of his smiles aud fully acknowledged her heart-cnthrallmcnt. As it was, she evabively answered, "I will love you sometime, maybe; thai is, I will, if ever lean feel myself yourpeerin culture aud refinement. I know I am already that in native mother wit," rising with a light laugh aud shaking back the curls from her faco with n peculiar grace. Melvin Hastings was annoyed. For once lie hail met iiis match in love- making. "And now, sir knight, as I trust we fully understand each other, I hope you will leave Black Stump Farm without any more delay." "Upou my won!, Amie," looking sorely troubled, "this is very sudden. What havo I doue to merit this per emptory dismissal ?" Amie burst Into tears. "ou were kind to my poor brother, sir, but you struck my drunken father. He has gone off to-day after a magistrate, aud I don't want you dragged before our half- drunk Justice of the Peace upon trial for assault." "But I won't run, Amie. That fellow isn't over his spree yet, aud ho might kill somo of you. What should I do if he were to strike my lamb?" catching her passionately in his arms as he spoke. "Release uie, sir! This is not proper," as with faco suflused with blushes she .struggled to he free. "O, Sis!" called a frightened voice, which Amie recognized as Sue's. Stepping out of tho shade of tho bushes, Amie revealed herself to the child, who, armed with tho visitor's guu, begged him to accept it and depart before her father should return witli a warrant for his arrest. "If you love me, you will go!" said Amie. "But I have no notion of running from Justice. I should like an oppor tunity to prove, before a court, thecruel treatment your father visited upon this boy." "It would kill my mother, sir! Take your gun and go.'" "Without one parting word, my dear?" "No; I will say good-bye, aud may God and the angels bless you," frankly extending her baud and looking sorrow fully Into his eyes as she spoke. The presence of Sue fortunately re strained tlio young man and prevented another outburst of passionate tender nesa of which both might live to be ashamed. "For your mother's sake I will go. little one, bat It makes me feci like a culprit to go skulking ofl'liko this." Great was the rage of tho head of Ih Lee family when he found that the man who had dared to Interfere with hi legal rights had given him the dodge, Tho weary woman on the bed of illness was accused at coiuilvauco in his escape, aud all of the household shrank and cowered beforo their legal protector as If ho wero a wild beast in whose lat thev were unwittingly compelled to abide. Henry kept out of sight all day. Jim had managed to scud him a luncheon to the woods, and when night came and the head of the family lay in a drunken sleep upon the bed beldnd his mother, tho boy came in, and stealing up to her, held a long and earnest conversation i a guarded undertone. I will stay if you command me, mother. You have always been kind and geutlc with me, and 1 am so sorry havo ever becrt impatient and cross, but tuat drunken dog" "Stop, darling, or ybu will break my Heart! oi remember the injunction 'Hbuor"ihy fatlicrandhr 'mother' "That applies tSyo'u; in other,' but not lo him. Do you command mo to stoy here whore I cannot help but curse him, or will you let me go away where I may have an opportunity to make a man of myself?" "You might go to ruin, dear." "Which I am doing fast enough here, that's certain. Mother, may I go ?" God bless and guide you, yy precious boy. I cannot say no under the circum stances." "And you won't grieve for me, mother?" "I can't help It, darling. It's only such a little while since you cooed in my nrnis, u bright-eyed baby ! I little thought T was bringing you up for this ! You'll write lo me, sometimes, won't ou?" "Yes, mothcrj if jpu can keep tho old man ignorant of my whereabouts,." "Are your clothes all ready, son ?" "Oh, yes, mother. Never mlud my clothes. Just keep your spirits up aud get well. Remember that whatever be falls me, I'll never have to take another Hoggin'." The suffering mother clasped her boy n a long embrace, mingling her tears i Hi his, and offering to the Mightiest solemn, silent supplication, such as is only wruug from a mother-heart when the lambs of her fold go out Into the world's wide pasture unattended by the maternal-solicitude -that has guarded them from babyhood. !To be continupJ.l t - "YOUES TRULY' ANSWERED. ToTnn KditoeoptiikNew Northwest: I did not expect such a sudden hurst of indignation from the pen of "Yours Truly," over a slight intimation that I inadvertently made, that she might bo an amanuensis. Had I borne in mind the proverbial peculiarity of women generally, to have the first and last ord at all times, aud ou all occasions, might have avoided tho storm of lim- tless verbosity to which I havo unfor tunately exposed myself. I admire the candor, thrilling eloquence, and senti mental truth of the contributions at tributed to "Yours Truly." How strangely different their cheering effect from the effete emanations of the stoic and misanthrope! By intimating that YoursTruly" mlghtbean amanuensis, simply meant that she may have plagiarized to a considerable extent from the romautic eloquence and love- enraptured coruscations of some bril liant and philosophic lover, and being , overwhelmed iy his mogic intuition, and the inspiration of his love, 6ho may, unconscious of the plagiarism she was committing, have moulded hi motive ideas with thoso rounded and elegant periods that come out In origi nal strength and vigorous relief over thenoji lc plume of "Yours Truly" in the columns of the New Northwest. But would it not bo better for her, and more womanly, to be silent and sub missive to slight criticisms upon her style of writing ? It is true that I am a bachelor of some years standing; but docs "Yours Truly" suppose that living a single life renders a man Incapable of comprehending the true status of wom an, since the story of Eve is so widely known? It seems to me that further argument is.useless. E. M. E.vgle. Gervals, March 10, 1874. Origin of the Temperance Crusade. The ladles' temperance movement commenced at Hillsboro, Ohio, by a lady whoso husband aud son nan uiiien victims to the intoxicating cup, and all cnrthlv means of reforming them hav ing failed, her burdened soul cried out to God for help; and she arose in the church aud asked her sisters to meet her In her own parlor to pray. A num ber volunteered. They lield a prayer meeting In her parlor ; tho divine pres ence was with them in power. Deeply Impressed to do so,siieasKcd ner menus to follow her luto the street, aud they to follow her luto the street, aud tiiey all did so, neither she nor any of tne others kuowiug what would be done, or hv what mvsterious influence they were led ; but, single Hie, they passed along the principal street, singing as they went, until tney camo to tuo leaning sa loon; and led by the same unseen hand, they entered it, and plead with tho pro prietor to quit the business; but he said it was his only means of support, aud ids family would suffer and starve if he quit; but ho gave Ihem permission to IlOId a prayer meumiB iu uiu aaiuuu, aud thoy sang and prayed until all the ladies preseut had led In prayer, and there was a wonderful measure of divine power accompanying me exercises. They again entreated tliO saloon-keeper to desist; he said ho would If ho had any other means of support, but he could not as he was situated. In u mo ment the lady asked for a Hhect of pa per, wrote out a subscription, and, in as brief a time as the names could bo writ ten. $1,000 was subscribed by the ladies, tho wives of bankers and merchants. Tho man closed his saloon, and it has never been opened since. Ho is now n..nro. nnil a member of the Church. This was the unpremeditated beginning of this wonuenui niuciuvm. Mixed Schools. The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that col ored children have the right to go to tho public schools in common with white children to those school districts in which no provision has been made for their separate education. The decis fon was rouWedlu by all tho Judges of 1 c SuFeme Court, 'Hils is identica with i indecision of tho Supreme Court ot California. There Is something very sensible in tho full of prelly girls The Great Temperance Movement. For years and years, and weary, suf fering years, multiplied into decades, have the women of America waited to see that traffic destroyed.which annually sends sixty thousand of their sons, brothers, fathers and husbands Into the drunkard's grave. They have becu Impoverished, disgraced, tortured In mind and body, beaten, murdered. Un der the impulse of maddening liquors, the hands that wero pledged ' before Heaven to piovide for aud protect them have withdrawn from them the means or life, or smitten them in the dust. Sons whom they have nursed upon their bosoms with tefiderest love- and count less prayers, have grown into beasts, of wiiom tney are niraiu, or nave sunK Into helpless and pitiful slavery. They havo been compelled to cover their eyes witli shame in the presence of fathers whom it would have been bliss for them to hold in honor. They have been com pelled to bear children to men whose habits had unfilled them for parentage children not only tainted by disease, I tit endowed witli debased appetites. Tiiey have seen themselves and their precious families thrust into social degradation and cut oft forever from all desirable life by the vices of tho men they loved. What the women of this country have suffered from drunkenness, no mind, however sympathetic, can measure, and no pen, however Graphic, can describe. It has been the unfathomable black gulf into which infatuated multitudes of men havo thrown tueir fortunes, tueir health, and their industry, nud out ol whicli have come only in fire and stench dishonor, diseasc,erime, misery, despair and death. It is the abomina tion of abominations, the curse of curses, the hell of hells! For weary, despairing years', they have waited to see the reform that should protect them from further harm. They have listened to lectures, tiiey have signed pledges, they have encour aged Temperance societies, they have asked for and secured legislation, aud all to no practical good cud. .The poli ticians have played them false; the of ficers of the law are Unfaithful; the Gov ernment revenue thrives ou the llirifl incs3 of their curse; multitudes of the clergy aro not only apathetic in their pulpits, but self-indulgent in their hab its; newspapers do not help, but rather hinder them; the liquor interest, armed witli the money that should have bought them prosperity, organizes against them; fashion opposes them; a million fierce appetites are arrayed against them, and, losing all faith in men, what can they do? There is but one thing for them to do. There is but one direction in which they can look, and that is upward ! The Woman's Temperance Movement, begun and car ried on by prayer, is as natural in its birth aud growth as theoak thatspriugs from the acorn. IfGod and theGod-like clement in woman cannot help, there is no help. IT the pulpit, the press, the politicians, the reformers, the law, can not bring reform, who is left to do it but God and tho women ? We bow to this amj ti10 women? movement with revereuce. We do not stop to question methods: we do not pause to query about perma nent results. We simply say to the glorious women engaged in tills mar velous crusade: "May God help and prosper you, and give you the desire .of your Hearts in tne iruit or your labors!" It becomes men to.be either humbly helpful or dumb. We who havo dallied with this question; we who have dis passionately drawn the line between Temperance and total abstinence: we who havo deplored drunkenucsss with wine-classes in our hands; we who have consented to involve a great moral reform with politics; we who have been noliticallv afraid of the power of the brutal clement associated with the li quor traffic; wo who have split bairs in our discussions of public policy; we who have given social sanction to habits that i n the great cities uave maue urunu ards of even the women themselves, and led their sons aud ours into a dissolute life; we who have shown either our un willingness or our Impotence to save the country from the gulf that yawns before it. can onlv stenaside with shame-faced l.nmilltv u-lilln tlio print nrtisada (roes nr lmnrtiK- pi to It nnr nnnroval I anu our ajj. Tujs 3 not a cnisado of professional aciintors. clamorinir for an abstract right, but an enterprise of suffering, pure and devoted women, laboring for the overthrow of a concrete wrong. It is no pleasant holiday business in which these women arc engaged, but one of self-denying hardship, pregnant in every Part with a sense of duty. It Is tho oflsnrinir of a crand rellirioas im pulse whicu gives to our time its one Jupcrb touch of heroism, and redeems lit from the political debasement and Uecra(Jaljon of jti materialism. It is a shame to manhood that It is necessary; it is a glory to womanhood that It Is possible. If the experience or the last century has demonstrated anything, it is that total abstinence is tho only ground on which ony well-wisher of society can stand. The liquor traffic has been bol stered up for many years, and is strong to-day, simply through influence whicli is deemed respectable. Itmtistbomade infamous by the combination of all the respectable elements of society against It. It must cease lo be respectable to driiik at nil. It must cease to be respectable to relit a building in which liquors' are sold. There is no practical middle ground. So long a3 men drink temper ately, men will drink intemperatcly, whether it Ought to be otherwise or not; and it is with reference to tho develop ment of nhealthy public opiuion on this subject, that we particularly rejoice in the woman's crusade. Our own vision Is so blinded and prevented that we can only see tho deformity of the monster which oppresses us through woman's eyes, up lifted iu prayer, fearful in shamp and suffering, or bright in WnmpliM " strongholds of her life-Io g enemy fall before hcr.-Dr. J. O. Holland m 6cri6 ncr' for May. The Paris, Kyi, Gazette congratulates the rebel Geu. Hood upon tho appear ance of his seventh child iu five years. It Is common to hear of people who i..v livml to see their sec6nd- child Hood, but never, until tho rcvplation of tho Uazetic, was tuo sovcuiii over ucaru of. Cnorxvns. Throe table-snbonsful'.of melted butter, six tablespoonsTiirof'sU-J gar, three eggs, tuo wmiesand" yolks I beat separately, and flavor with'nutmeid ..!. t.. -..n,, IU-.. .. - f7H and roll;lhliif 1 " a Closing Scene ,, Of TUETMAI. OP SUSAN B. ASTHOST,'q53T1IK CIlAKliK OV ILI.EOAT. VOTtXO AT ItOCJI BSTKU. S. V., ATTHK rnKS!nENTIALELEOTl6rdpW?i Judge Hunt (Ordering the defendant to stand up), "Has the prisoner any thing to say why sentance shall-not be pronounced ?" Miss Anthony Yes, your honor, I have many things to say; for: in your ordered verdict of guilty, you " have trampled under foot every vital principle of our Government. My natural rights, my civil richts. mv nolftirnl rii'iup ,v judicial rights, aro all alike iiniored. Kobbed of the fundamental privileges of Citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex are, by your honor's ver dict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of govern ment. Judge Hunt The Court 'canpql listen to a rehearsal of arguments the prisoner's counsel has already consumeilMhree hours in presenting. r Miss Anthony May it please, your honor, I am not arguing the question, but simply stating the reasons why sen tence cannot, in justice, be pronounced against me. Yburdenial of my citizen's right to vote, is the denial of"my right of consent as one of the governed,' tile denial of my right of repre sentation as one of the taxed, the denial of my right to a trial by a jury of uy peers as an offender asainst the law; therefore, the denial of my sacred rights to life, liberty, property and Judge Hunt The Court cannot allow the prisoner to go on. , Miss Anthony But your honor will not deny me this one and only poor privilege of protest against tills high handed outrage upon my citizen's rights. May it please the Court to remember that since the day of my arrest last No vember, this is the first time that either myself or any person of ray disfran chised class has been allowed a word of defense before judge or jury .. Judge Hunt The prisoner must sit down the Court cannot allow IU Miss Anthony All of my prosecu tors, .from the 8th ward corner gro cery politician, who entered thecom- plaint, to tne Liuieu amies .warsnai, Commissioner, District Attorney? Dis trict Judge, your honor on the bench, tiot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly yourduty, even then 1 should havo had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, na tive or foreign horn, white or black, rich or poor, sober or drunk, each and every' ma of them wa3 my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer. Even, under such circumstances, a com moner or England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, tried -before a jury of men. Even my counsel, the Hon. Henry It. Sclden, who has ar gued my cause so ably, so unanswerably before your honor, is my political sov ereign. PreIsely as no disfranchised person is entitled to sit upon a jury, and uo woman is entitled to the franchise, so, noue but a regularly admitted lawyer is allowed to practice in the courts, and no woman can gain admission to the bar hence, jury, judge, counsel mustall be of the superior class. Judge Hunt The Court must insist the prisoner has been tried according to tho established forms of law. ' - 1 Miss Anthony Yes, your honor, but by forms of law all made by men,' in terpreted hymen, administered by men, iu favor of men, and against women; and hence your honor's ordered verdict of guilty, against a ITul ted States citizen for the exercise of "Uiat citizen! aright to vote," simply because that citizen was a woman and not a man. But yesterday, the same mau-mado form3 of law, de clared it a crime punishable witli $1,000 flue aud six months' imprisonment, lor you, or ine, or any of us, to give a cup of cold water, a Crust of bread, or a night's shelter to a panting, fugitive- as lie was tracking his way to Canada. And every man or woman in whose veins coursed a drop of human sympa thy, violated tnat wicKcu law, recKiess of consequences, and was justified In so doing. As then, the slaves -who. got their treeuom musnaue n over or un der, or through the unjust forms of law; precisely so, now, must women, to get their right to a voico iu this govern ment, and I have taken mine, and mean to take it at every possible opportunity. Judge Hunt The Court orders the prisoner to sit down. It will not allow another word. , Miss Authony Wheu I was brought before your honor for trial, I hoped for a broad and liberal interpretation brthe Constitution and its recent amendments, that should declare all United States citizens under its protecting regis that ylinnld declare equality of rights the na tional guarantee to all persons born'or naturalized in tho United States. But failing to get this justice failing, even, to get a trial by a jury not of my peers I ask not leniency at your hands but rather the full rigor of the law. Judge Huutr-The Court must insist (Here the prisoner sat down.) -Judge Hunt The prisoner will stand UP(IIere Miss Antliony aro9e agaln.X The sentence of the Court is, that j ou pay a fine of one hundred dollars and Ihe cot of tho Pecut'on. ,n h?5 Sv A lP t stock'tn'tra'do iTss J. 1 f allftWO debt,-incurred by 'fiiaMn mv naper-TAc itatthttfoii was to educate all women to do. pre cisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional f.,.m, of law. that tax, fine, imprison and liang women, while they deny them tlio right of representation iu tue gov ernment; and I shall worlt ou with might and main to pay every uouar oi that honest debt, but not a penny shall go to this unjust claim, Aud-t shall earnestly and persistently, continue to urge all women to the practical rcc1gnt tion tif 'tho old Revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance totyranuy is obedience to God." Judge Hunt Madam, tho Court will not order you committed until1' the Cuo is paid.' - - - .1, -j(. . 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