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- t . A Journal for the People. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity., US. A. J. Ui;IVAT, Editor Dad Proprietor. .IndependenUln-PolIUcs-and.Rcllglon. orriCE Cor. l'ront nnd T Stark .Streets. 4.1lv to all Llvo Issues, andf- Tliorougbly nadical In Opposing and Exposing tbe A rongs TEIUIS, IX ADVANCE: ot the Masses. On? year. Six months Three months. -3 00 - 1 75 - 1 00 Correspondents writing over assumed Islgna- ture3 must make known their names to tho ADVERTISEMBNTS Inserted on Reasonable I'OTiXlL.VJVD, OtKJEGO?S JTISIDW, JULY S-l, Edltor.or no attention will bo given to their communications. 1 ..hi si , ri , m--m m ?8.bi. si . a m mi mm m ir , ran - . m Fuee SrKEOii, Fr.BE rnrss, Fr.r.K People. . " ' - . AMIE AND HENRY LEE; OK The Spheres 'or the Sexes. B.Y MHS. A. J. DCSIWAT. Entered, according to Act ofCongress-ln the yearlSTL by Mns.A.J.Dnnlvay.!n tbeofflceof the Librarian of Cfengrereat Washington Clt-. C1IAITER IX. Henry Lee, by dint of hard study and iauufui attendance upon bis duties around the Hastings' home, had sue ceeded, not oulw in securing for himself a valuable circle of friends in the. family of his employer, but was rapidly becom ing a great favorite with his teachers in tho public school. It is wonderful sometimes to note how -obstacles that rise la tho pa;h of sonie persons but stimlato them to deeds of excellence, ami quicken their intuition and judg ment into vigorous growth. The Hastings family were seated at the breakfast table on the morning fol lowing Aruie's dismissal from the errand saloon, and Henry, who had answered a summons from Melvin In regard to some proposed plan of occupation for the com ing Saturday, had just bowed himself out of the room, when the senior said, eyeing his son sharply: "Henry has a pretty sister, hasn't he, Melvin ?" The son blushed scarlet, aud'answered simply, "I believe so." "I understand that she is very beauti ful," continued the senior. Nobody replied, and Alice secretly nudged her brother under the table, and smiled meaningly at her sister May. "They say she's been employed lately at the 'Walk In eateon." "Wialf" said Alice, in surprise. "Does Henry know ?" "He couldn't help knowing, and couldn't lielp it if he did know. The girl's got to have something to do," said palcr-familiae. "But the idea of that beautiful young girl going to that place is terrible !" cx claimed Melvin. "I guess they'll not spoil her particu larly," said the elder Hastings with a shrug. "'Birds of a feather will Hock to gether.' But I hear that she has an 'uncle,' or a 'cousin,' or a fellow, or something of that sort In town, now, and probably she'll not live common." Melvin junior arose and left the room. ' Ho was heart-sick.- No other woman had every stirred his selfish affections, and awakened the ' fashion-enfeebled better emotions of his soul as had the guileless maiden, Amie Lee. He went to his room, and, throwinghimself upon the bed, buried his face in his hands. "Have I done all I could to save that radiant and guileless creature from des titution? Was it not my duty to visit her, and render what aid I could in her great trials?" he soliloquized, as her tear-stained face haunted him with its expressive, unutterable memories. "If I could have gotten rid of Nettie O'Toodles that day when I met her on tho street," he continued, "but then I hadi;'t the courage to face the world and befriend my darling." "Melvin Hastings, your father's a rich man, and you're a rich pauper. You aro bowing to fate, and allowing your self to be fettered by fashion and cus torn; and you're a coward, or you'd visit Amie Lee, and bo her friend in spite of what the world would think of you," said conscience,' in a still, small voice. A timid rap on the door startled him. "Come in !" was the response and Henry Leo stood before him, shaking from head to foot. "What's the matter now, boy?" "Haven't you heard t" "Heard what?" "TUjit Amie's been and wailed on men in the 'Walk Iu,' and because she wouldn't make men drunk, the proprie tor turned her out of doors ?" "Why did Amie think of engaging in such business? I am overcome with mortification I" said Melvin, with the air of one who had been badly abused. "What else in thunder could she do, I'd like to, have you tell tne?" said the boy, indignantly. "Nobody would era ploy her In their homes, because she had an incumbrance, a baby brother, that pious people couldn't have around 'em. She could 'lend saloon at night, and stay at home daytimes and keep Dick, and so she weut to the saloon." "But such employment, or even the suspicion that a young lady has even entered into such a' place, is ruinous to her reputation." "Yet girls arc there plenty of them!" "I know it," said Melvin, thought fully; "but if I should happen to see Amie there, I should die with mortifica tion." "I don't think you have auy more business there than she lias," said Henry, holly. "She went to the saloon to earn money to help mo to keep our brothers and sisters from starving." "But, Henry, you must remember that it wasn't necessary for her to choose that kind of business." "But I tell you it tvat necessary. You have been kind to me, and I, knowing you loved my sister, hid every reason to believe that you would useyour Influ ence to get her respectable employment I don't like to complain, but it would have been a little thing for you to do to visit her, and you haven't done even that" "Heuo'i njyboy, alt dowu. You aro much younger than T, and our social lives are widely separated; but I must tell you something, because I have no ono else to whom I can tell it. I love your sister fondly, dearly, truly. If I had tho means or tho power, your fam ily should be placed at once above waut, and Amie should have opportunity to Jill a brilliant position in society. But I am less independent to-day than you are." j "I can't make that out, by ginger !" "Well, I'll lielp you. To begin: I have neither (trade nor profession. I can shoot, row, play ball, sing, dance, and,:If necessary, do little jobs around the house, hut I am to-day more Inca pable of doing for myself than your ate tor is. I have no capital upon which to i go.into business, no experience if I had j "How would you liko tochango sltua jcapital, and no taste for business, if I had lions with me, Henry ?" both capital aud experience. My father i and mother have made a bargain with the united O'Toodles' head to couple my fortunes, matrimonially speaking, with the only daughter of the O'Toodles fam ily. The match will join extensive tracts of graziug land, and combine vast mining interests in the hands of Hastings senior and O'Toodles pcre. I liaveu't been consulted any to speak of, but I'm the victim of a matrimonial engagement, and that is why I have not dared to visit Amie Lee." Henry raised his broad, awkward body to its fullest height, and his breath la bored heavily. "Are you a man, when you endure tho liko of this?" ho cried, furiously. "I think you're putting on rather lofty airs," was the faltering reply; "but as I asked you to have this talk with tne, I'll not be too severe. But really, I do despise my situation and myself for accepting it, though I don't see any way to help it." "Will you take a little advice from mo?" "I'll listen." "And you won't complain against me, and get mo thrown out of a place ?" "No." "Well, I'll tell you what I'd do, if there was a prospect of my trying to pull in double harness with that Net O'Toodles. I'd simply say to her, 'I'm not suited with this arrangement, by ginger! an' when I waut to marry, I'll make my own proposals.' " AntLget laughed at for your pains, my boy. Miss O'Toodles belongs to fashionable society, and hearts aren't trumps in her game." Why, you can't even respect her, nor she you." We'll be even then, for I assure you that I don't respect my3elf." And I swear to you, Melvin Hast ings, that I'd rather be the despised or phan of John Lee, tho murderer and drunkard, and be chore-boy in my pres ent place, than bo your father's sou. You "have to-day better cause for run ning away from home than I had.1' "Why?" "I'm astonished at you for asking why. John Leo laid no lashes upou my soul, except those that were felt through sympathy with my lacerated back. Melvin Hastings manacles your spirit, and you tamely submit, aud quietly agree to wear the fetters all your life." Melvin gazed helplessly around the sumptuous apartment for u moment, and then dropped his eyes and gazed upon the floor abashed. Gathering courage from Heury's silence, he said, suddenly: "You take it pretty hard because don't visit your sister." "If Amie knew what you havo just told me, do you suppose she'd look at you ?" Melvin started as if stung by a wasp. The thought that Amie Lee, with her independent, upright nature, her deep intelligence, sweet wealth of affection, and heroic devotion to duty, should, even in her present humiliation, be dis posed to despise him and he did so richly deserve it the " thought that when his secret' soul so urgently went out to her, she wouldn't even loo; at him, was so painfully humiliating, that he cowered before tho honest, indignant gaze of his mother's servant "Amie Lec may be compelled to break cobble stones In the street with ber.baby brother on her back, because there's no other place on the earth for her or him, hut she'd never stoop to look at a man who professes to love her so dearly that he'll be miserable all his life without her, and yet goes off" and engages him self to somebody that he has no regard or even respect for, just to Join men's iutcrests in grazing lands that belong of right to cattle that alone can use them." "Ton my word, you're very plain with me, Henry; but what would you have me do ?" "Do right; that's all." "But what would you do, were you In my place ?" "Do you really want mo to tell you ?" "I do." "Well, I'd go to Net O'Toodles, as I told you before, an' say I wern't suited, bv dinner! and that Vd humbly beg pardon for bavin' conszntcd to the ar range nicnt." ""But remember that would raise a regular society scandal. The bridal trosseau has already been ordered, and public gossip has fixed the wedding day." "Does public gossip own you, that you are compelled to bow down to it Melvin Hastings fwas learning a very useful'less'on. .To See ourselves as some honest spirit sees us, whom wo have been accustomed to patronize In our su perior loftiness of position, is often the most salutary cxperienco of our lives. "But I, haven't told you all I'd do," continued Henry. "I'd say to tho 'gov ernor' that I wouldn't be trammeled. I'd demand a share of my patrimony, so that I might go into business for myself, and be dependent upon nobody." "And get laughed at for your pains, my boy." "Then I'd run away." "Whatt" "I'd run away; and In somo remote place, among strangers, I'd begin my life work, even if I had to be stable boy !" "O'Toodles and all ?" "Yes." "There isn't money enough in the Hastings-O'Toodles bank to make me swap positions." ' "You'ro right,- boy, youtre right!" "I'd shake my shackles off this very day, then, If I were you." But Melvin Hastings found it one thing to make a heroic resolve in the seclusion of his chamber, with a strong youug spirit to urge him on, and pilte another to face his father and the world aud put that resolve In execution. Henry weut to his work and Melvin repaired to his father's office. Thatdigni tary was seated inhiscasychair,with his feet upon the window-sill, lazily puffing great clouds of smoke from a long-used mecrchaum, and gazing dreamily out upon thedistaut landscape. "What now, son?" closing his eyes and puffing a trifle faster than had been his wont "Father, I've come for a little busi ness chat this morning," speaking hur riedly. "Suppose your effects were to be divided equally to-day among your heirs; how much would my share be ?" "That's a leading question," remov ing the pipe aud running his fingers through his iron-grey hair. "But I have good reasons for asking." "Well, I suppose,"a hundred thous and." "Father, will you give me ten thous and now and cut me off without further inheritance ?" "Are you crazy?" "Never was more sane in my life." "Then I answer flatly, io.' I'll keep my property in my own hands as long as I live. You never earned any money, aud you've no Idea of its value. You'd squander ten thousand iu less than a year, and then be a pauper on my hands." "Well, father, I must say that there's nobody but you to blame If I havo no buslnesj sense. You never will trust me with anything." I suppose you'ro not to be trusted with that line mansion on the Avenue, and the best turnout in the city when you get married? You talk as it I wasn't kind to you I" "You mean to be kiud, father, but you treat rac just as you treat tho girls." "Why shouldn't I?" "How would you like-it ?" "Melvin, see hero!" and tho senior displayed his broad and once brawny hands. "When I was of your age I had neither friends nor dollars. Your mother and I began our life together with one cow, two pigs, six chickens, a feather bed and six pewter plates. We've saved an' managed an got rich I don't say I haven't been sharp as well as savin', but I know just how my prop erty came, an' I'll hold onto it while my Jiead's hot," and he leisurely re sumed his pipe. Melvin arose and paced the room ner vously. "Look at your hands," said the senior, with a sneer. "You're no better mus cled than a jaybird, an' couldn't do hard work enough to keep you from starv ing." "You're my sire, sir, and if I'm not as well developed physically as you think I might be, I don't know of anybody who should be more ashamed of tho fact than yourself." "None o' vour sauce, youuc man 1 If I'd a talked that way to my father, he'd a' turned me out o' doors." "I'm ready to be turned out, I assure you," said the son, desperately "What's the matter now?" "Just this, sir. I will not marry Net O'Toodles. I will go into business in some way, for myself, and I'll accept aid from you if I can, but do without it if I must I will not be a child forever. Henry Lee, who is nothing but a stable boy, would scorn ray position of helpless dependence. I never see him at his patient, plodding toil but that I envy the spirit of mauhood that is growing up within him." "Perhaps you envy him his pretty sis ter," with peculiar emphasis accompa nying the sneer with which the word "sister" was uttered. Melvin blushed, aud sought to hide his auger aud confusion by gazlugoutof the window. "She's a deuced pretty girl," contin ued tho senior. "Green, but notawk ward. It would a' been a lucky hit for the 'Walk Iu' if she'd a' stayed." "Why didn't she stay, then ?" Mel vln's voice was constraiUed and husky, "She's got a better thing," replied the father, puffing rapidly as bo spoke. "How ?" "Shfi'H found a fellow. I don't' see why in thunder you didn't' chip in there." "You don't mean to say' that Amie Lee has become an " The word "outcast" died on his Hps. Ho felt that the very thought was sacri lege. "Oh, uo, not exactly that. Iwasinthe saloon last nlght.au'she amused a mat ter of a half-dozen of us till pretty late, aud then got us to buy wine. Demons undoubtedly possessed the girl, for she gave us a lecluro that must have been inspired by furies. Then ono man in onr set it was splendid acting pro fessed to be 'cQiivcrleil,' and went off with her, calling hlniselfher 'uncle.' Tho proprietor protended to discharge her they all understood 11 -a'nT "to night the 'Walk In' willl'SITing busi ness." "Father, how do you know this?" 1'Wasn't I there? an' couldn't I ."ee for myself?" Melvin. left the office aud walked hur pdly down the street Suddenly turn ing a corner, lie stood face to face with Amie Lee. Her baby brother was tod dling by her side, and he had nearly stumbled over him. "I beg your pardon !" said he, courte ously, aud then, remembering, as their eyes met, the dreadful suspicion of his father, he coldly turned away and has tened on. The blood had rushed to Amie's face as they met, and then as suddenly forced itself upon her heart 113 they parted. "God bless and prosper him, and sur round him with every comfort wherever he may go," prayed the unselfish girl. "It can't be possible that father tells the truth alxMit her," said' Melvin, to himself. "But I'll visit the 'Walk In' to-night and watch the denouement of the play myself." Amie made her purchases and went back to her humble home witli a feeling of peace and happiness awakening a si lent song of hope in her soul, nnd cle- atlng her far above her present trials. Melvin, between whoso life and hers there was such a great social gulf fixed, returned to the Hastings mansion, aud seeking his sister Alice, told her of his sorrows. "IIow'11 you cct out of your engagc- mnt. M.i Tiior nn linnnrnhli. r- i cape as I sec. Net doesn't care a cent nnuuici juu iu.u mi ui uui, jus, ou'll marry ner, you Know." "And that is tho very reason why I'll i break thooneairemcnt " urcaK mocuj,.i(,emLiiu "But you jtnow all about it all the time." "A bad promise is better broken thau kept, sister." "Well," said Alice, "I'll stand- by ou, but you may look to 'catch It' from mamma and May,- to say nothing of Net herself." The evening found Melvin an anxioils iumato of the gorgeous apartmeuts of the "Walk In aud Welcome." A dozen girls, attired in the scant cos tume of ballet dancers, wcru whirling in the mazes of the giddy waltz, their part ners being gentlemen, members of fash ionable sociefy and aristocratic churches; many of them married men, with wives and babes at home, In sweet uncon sciousness that other occupations than necessary business or club duties be guiled their lords away in the evenings. Tho senior Hastings sat at a round ta bic, chatting with a woman who was urging him to partake of wine. Why da you so seldom visit us?" asked one of the waiter girls, a3 she of fered Melvin a seat opposite his father. "Because tho governor usually mo nopolizes the business ot pleasure, rather," he replied, as the "governor" thus alluded to filled a goblet for his sou. The evening wore on far Into the night, but Amie did not come. "I think, father, that you drew rather strougiy upon your imagination this morning," said Melvin. "I camo here to be convinced that Henry's sister had become au outcast, aud I find that she Isn't here at all." "She was here last night, and went oil" witli a fellow, just as I told you. Of course she's profligate, or she wouldn't be found in such a place as.this." "And what are we when wo are found here?" "That's a pretty question, boy ! What are tec, indeed, but gentlemen l 1 un derstand all about you, air! You're In love with that girl an' you'vo got some very heroic notions. Do the agreeable with hcrall you can. I've no objection. tll young men In your'posltiou have their favorites." Tho father and son had withdrawn from the table where they had been all the evening occupied withan exciting game of hazard, and were talking to gether within a recess of ono of the arched aud curtained windows, "I must say, father, you're giving me somo very astounding lessons in regard to morals." "Well, son, it's 4lme you had a few lessons. You're to be married soon, an you'll need favorites then, for a wife's very apt to bo a tedious bore." "I have always supposed that that de- ponded somewhat upou the character, culture, affection and attractions of the wjfe." "JSonsense, Mel! Wives aro well enough iu their place. They legalize one's heirs aud sustain fashionable cs tablishraents,sbutI:hope.you dou't Ith- aglno that I could so far forget the necessities of a man's social nature as to desire to keep you away from your favorites after you're once safely mar ried." Seductive as the lesson thus adroitly given might have been under other cir cumstances, its charm was lost upon Melvin In his present state of miud. "Let's get out of this," he whispered, hoarsely. "The very steps take hold on hell !" "I hope we'll often have the pleasure of your company hereafter," said a vo luptuous woman, as she coquettish!)' kjssed his hand at parting. 'T hear," she continued, "that you're to be mar ried soon, and gentlemen need some congenial place to spend theirc'cnings." -"That woman's insinuations aro a libel upon marriage," said Melvin to'hls father, when they reached the street "Marriage Is necessary, and that's all that can be said about It in it favor," said the exemplary parent "Well, depend upon it, father, I'll never marry Net O'Toodles !" "What I" thnn-Iered the father, pas sionately. "I have just been showing you how you can render married life agreeable." "And I decline the conditions." "Then you'll take the consequences, you young scamp! I'll disinherit you!"' "Very well, sir." "You'll leave my roof to-morrow." "All right" "But what will you do ?" "That Is my affair, sir. One thing I will not do. I will not live upou the bounty of my father, when he denies me individual sovereignty aud treats rac as though I were nothing but a woman!" ITo be continued.- Unskilled Feminine Labor. When a woman is thrown on her own resources, sho generally tries one of five pursuits she takes boarders, teaches, sews, washes, or writes. Tho last Is apt to be the resort of all the unprotected females who can spell, and of some who can't. Jt nroves but a It proves but a broKcn reed Those who would fain support them pelves by It, soon fall back upon one of tho four other occupations, all of which aro overstocked. The number of widows engaged in each is largo enough to al most warrant the belief that most of the Iiusbanils In Hie worm nave uieu, 1ro earns 03 cents by twelve nours lauor. Slic Is Fotuctimcs obliged to turmsli Her own thread out or this pittance, iler wages are o iuw on aucmiui. ui u.r cui- ,,,. r-mmvl linn of si.nmstros.ea. TleIr rivalry keeps their wages at the starvation tMfitit, or beUjw it. The same state of thing exists iu England. There is a Bureau of Employment in l'raed street, Iuidon, under the care of Miss Jimlly l-ailiifiill, which tries to provide work for women. Mi. -a Faithful!, in a letter to the Jiiulon Timet, comments sharply ou the "truly feminine notion" that skilled labor can bo done by un skilled hands. Hundreds of women, she says, apply every week at tho Bu reau. When they are asked what tiiey cati do, they cheerfully answer: "Oh, anything." This always turns out to mean anything which requires neither knowledge nor skill to wit: taking boarders, doing plain sewing, washing. The moral Miss Faitlifnll draws is that a girl should be taught some practical pursuit, as her brother is. Then she would not bo utterly helpless when sud den poverty came upon her. Very many applications reach the Bureau from" women who want work at their homes. They cannot leave tho children or the sick who aro dependent upon them. Tills is a second great difficulty. Very few tilings can be well done at Irfme. Authors and artists are the only men who work in their own 1 mines. The women outside of these two classes can not expect to be more fortunate. If they had mastered a trade or a profession, they might cam enough to support their dependents and to provide them with care while they were away. Unskilled labor can never hope for such pay. Lmcago iriounc. The Changes of a Oentury. The nineteenth century has witnessed many and great discoveries. In 1S0S Fulton took out the first pat ent for the invention of a steamboat Tho first steamboats which made rec- ular trips across, the Atlantic Ocean weru ine un-ui wcaiim .nut jiiiu?, iu 18.T0. The first public application to practice tho use of gas for illumination was made In ISOi In 1S13 the streets of London were for the first time lighted with gas. In JS13 there was ouut at waitnam, Mass., a mill believed to have been , thn first in the world, which combined all tho reoulrements for making finished cloth from raw goods. Iu 1790 there were only tweniy-iive post-offices in the whole country, and up to 1837 the rates of postage were 25 cents for a letter seut over four hundred miles. Tn 1S07 wooden clocks commenced to be made by machinery. This ushered iu the era or cheap ciocks. Aboufthe year 1813, the first railroad of any considerable length in the United States was constructed. In 182S the first experiment in pnotog nnliv was made bv Dauuerre- About 1S40 the first express business was established The anthracite coal business may be tin bl In ImvA bccutl ill 1S20. In 1S3G the first patent for the inven tion of matches was granted. In 1345 the first telegram was sent. Steel pcu3 were introduced for use in 1830. The first successful reaper was con-, structed In 1S33. Iu l&JG Elian Howe obtained a patent for the first sewing machlue. Civility is not onlv one of the essen tials of higli succebs, but it is almost a fortune of Itself, and ho who has this quality In perfection, though a block i.a7i u ntntnst sure tn cet on where. without it, even men of high ability fail. Woman Suffrage. Savages belipve that women have no souls. There is no place for them in their happy hunting grounds beyond the grave. Somo men who are in part civil ized hold a lik'c opinion and treat them accordingly as pack-horses. Nay, In the barbarian's heaven, there is a place for his favorite steed, likewise for his dog, but none for his wife. Once granting woman an immortal spirit, man begins to show her deference and respect, and she rapidly grows into her new position. As she is naturally more delicate iu sonslbilitj, she becomes man's superior in culture, taste and re finement But sho always feels neglect and wrong more keenly than he does. An injustice to him is an outrage to Iter. Tho possession of a soul implies ambi tion to riso and a longing for freedom. Man concedes to woman equality in many things aud superiority iu some that is, in , his enlightened state. If .his equal, why not grant her .the same rights? What authority has he for "de nying to her any right? Nay, is not such withholding robbery? In such denial he either intends to do licrau in justice, or he thinks her opinions but uie reticx or ins own. jr tnoiormer be true, he 13 a knave If (he latter, he Is a fool. Not only aro her views often un like his, but she may justly have sepa rate interests. While young and unmarried, woman receives both protection and homage. This is true in general, but even then her rights are not inviolable. Older and still single, she is not only neglected, but held to have few rights that men are bound to respect Married, the law makes-ber the slave of her husband, though he be a very fiend. Widowed, her property is common prey" to every man with whom she bus to do, aud many a knave does his best to despoil her. To offset his robbery, man passes laws for woman's-protection, and pretends to. enforce them. Why not give her a voice in this? Bywhat right does bethink and act for her? How can he be ex pected to care for her interests, when it is to ids disadvantage ? Who 'is a bet ter judge of what is good for her, than herself? She is the interested party, and is supposed to be mo.st alive to danger. It were as just to let one class of men legislate foranothcr capitalists, for instance, in behalf of laborers. The tie between these is naturally as strong as that between the sexes. Tho relation between man and wife may beau exception, but iu not a few instances they become estranged aud havo little interest in common. Woman needs tho elective franchise. then, for all the reasons that demand it for man, aud for all other causes arising from her inferior physical strength and superior delicacy and refinement Jix. "mnVie " The richt of the people ot Massaohu setts to choose their own candidates for office, and after fairly choosing them to sustain them in their position, seems to bea mooted question in Boston. It seems rather strange that the place where free dom first assersed itself against oppres sion, and where tyranny was lirsi em phatically resisted, should struggle the most determinedly and strenuously against the amelioration of the condi tion of woman. Yet so it is. The posi tion of Boston relatively to tiie princi ples which first gave it fame and honor, may be illustrated by an inclined plane, dowu which, instead of occupying its position on the pinnacle of freedom which it once established, it is constant ly sliding. She it was who placed upon her csptitchcon the ineffaceable stain of hunting the fugitive slave.' And uow It is Boston a pi in which resists the. rights of women the small concessions which women have oblained by their election on the School Board. Massa chusetts', in spite of the noble women who are working'with their might in the face of furious conservatism to ob tain a proper recognition of their sex iu government, is nevertheless one of the most conservative of the States, and the more so as she sins against light. No State lias more light thrown upon it No State more obstinately hugs its idols. Tiie subject of permitting women to hold their scats, to which they had i been duly elected, on the School Board, has again been brought before the Courts. Tho matter was once decided in their favor, but stoutly "resisted by members ot the Committee, aud is now carried to the Supremo Court This was argued on the 17th of June; the final decision given leaving the matter optional witli the School Boards them selves to decide on qualifications for membership. A more sneaking and cowardly decision could not have been rendered. The Judge had neither the courage to accord them their rights or to decide against them. They now ap peal to the Slate, and a bill has been engrossed in the House providing that sex shall not constitute any disqualifi cation for service on School Commit tees. Toledo Journal. . Know Yocrt Ciiii.inE.v. Hundreds of men havo no time to get acquainted with theirchlldren." They sec in a ccn- cral way that they aro clean and wholesome-looking; they pay the quarterly sciiooi-uiiis, ami gruuge no expense in the matlerof shoes and overcoats. They dimly remember that thev ouce courted their wives, and said tender things in tueir pariors, where the cheerful gas light shed Its glow, or on moonlight evenings under rustling leaves. The time for that has quite cone bv. aud they would seem as bashful as a school boy reciting a-Tiiece, were they to essay a compliment to the lady at the other end or the tabic. They have rorgotten that home has lit inalienable rights, aud among them, first aud foremost, the richt to their personal presence. Noth- fiir rnl ft mnn nr n u-nmnn vhr lmQ been busy about one set of tilings bet ter than a total change of employment or feeling. A nap on the lounge is all very well, but after a half hour of It, if the most tired man Will shake off dull sleep aud have a romp with the chil dren, or a garuo of bo-peep .with the baby, he will be rested much more thoroughly than if he drowsed away the whole evening, as too many busi ness men do. Hearth and Home. The Kentucky giant is dead. He was seven feet high, two and a half feet across the shoulders, and his feet meas ured fifteen inches. The. dentists aro pulliugHhroUgh hard times remarkably well." " the A Reaction. The crusade against whisky selling that was inaugurated with such vim- in Ohio, and rapidly spread throughout, nearly the whole country, seems to have run Us course, and is now about to quiet down and die out. And in the wake of this crusado comes the reaction. .In somo of the towns in the East, where the-crusaders started in on the two or three saloons, aud for the time being closed them up, now, "Pheonlx like," etc., they have again sprung up, and with them as many more new ones. So that now, instead of having only two or three whisky mills, as there were dur ing the crusade, or none, as there was before the crusade, they have half a dozen in full blast, and all doing a "slashing" business. Are these the re sults of the crusade? They foiloiv it so closely that we should answer in the affirmative, were we not afraid of wounding the feelingsof those who were zealous and enthusiastic in flic temper ance cause, without being guided by prudence and discretion. The crusaders commenced In the wrong place to bring about good. They commenced in the middle, and made war upon the retail dealers, while thev allowed the manu facturers on one sitle; and the consumers, on the other, to go unharmed. Had they commenced on the manufacturers, and then come on down through tho wholesale houses to the retail establish ments, they might have accomplished something, possibly. Or had they gone to work successfully ou the consumers and worked back through the retail and wholesale houses, the manufacturers would lvave needed no crusading in or der to make them shut up shop. If they had done away with the demand by the consumers, the fountains of supply, of themselves, would soon run dry. Or, if they had cut off the supply, there would be none foolish enough to open retail es tablishments for the sale of spirituous liquors. But the whole campaign was illy advised and poorly couducted, and may be set down as worse than a fail ure. Where it has had any effect at all, it iias turned out badly. But this is not the first time, and we presutuo it will not be the last, in which both men and women, having in view the very best motives, have made as great mwiaKes, and brought about as unfortunate re sults as has the late crusade. llrifa Walla Union. "VHiere is the Antarctic Continent? It has long been a disputed question whether the Arctic Ocean was an open, sea, and whether at the So nth Polo there was laud. The late Lieut Maury had an ingenious theory that opposite to land wo would always find water, and hence if there was an ocean about tho North l'ole there must bo a continent at the South Vos. Thisiheory hasseetntd to have been confirmed by many dis coveries of land in the southern hemi sphere, and among others of a stretch of coast line which has long borne the name of tho "Wilkes' Antarctie Conti nent," which Wilkes claimed to have seen m January, ism its existence has often been called into question. The letter which we publish from Lieut. Hynes, of the Challenger, to Dr. Hayes, shows that uo such land exists; that Wilkes saw, in fact, nothing but ice fields and icebergs. Thu3 we see one problem after an other solved with the greater accuracy and perfection of scientific appliances; but it is not often that a whole conti nent is-so suddenly bowled down, as it were but one of a set of ninepins, on the general- plan of progressive science. Notwithstanding, however, that tho Challenger has in point of fact sailed ov'er the land of Wilkes, yet we must believe that land does exist in tho vicinity of the South Pole; for other wise, while whatever ice might he formed upon the sea, icebergs could not be created, inasmuch a.s land is neces sary, the Iceberg beinga fragment of the clacier, which is always of mountain. origin, and, according to thp best ac counts, icebergs are more numerous and larger in the Antarctic than in the Arctic seas. The truth is, we know too little about either of these drearv re gions of tho'carth. -In Uie interests of commerce neither of the pales is likely to prove oi greater value than tor the capture of whales, sea elephants and seals; but to science they are of infinite importance, aud in the new awakening of geographical exploration they cannot much longer be a simple "myth to the ignorant and wonder to the wise." Ar. Y. Herald. "The 2tth of May is the Queen's hi rtli day," is an easy and familiar jingle for the loyal little ones across the water. Queen Victoria was fifty-five years old on that day. She was born in Kensing ton Palace, May 21, 1S19. Her father was the Duke of Kent, fourth son ot George III. Her uncles all died with out surviving legitimate issue, and she ascended the throne on the2Sth of June, 1S3S, when she was but nineteen years of age. Her reign has been a happy one for herself, and a prosperous one for the British people. A large majoritj or the people of Ireland have, with good rea son, complained of oppression and foul dealing, but these arc tiie results of the form of government under which she reigns, and are not attributable, as were most of the oppressions of her ancestors, to the personal character of the ruler. The verdict of history will be very fa vorable to Victoria, not only asa Queen, but as a wife, a mother and a woman. The fact that she Is to be succeeded by her scrape-grace son, the' Prince of Wales, is an additional reason for .wish ing her many moreyearsof life and rule. Marriages of Blood Relations. Statistics presented to the French Acad emy show that the marriages of blood relations form about two per cent of all the marriatrcs In France, and that iho .1 . f .1.. i. r ' ' uL-.n uuu uuuiu misfiring-, at uirttl, ot consanguineous marriages, aro in nro- portion to the deaf and d umh hnrn it. ordiuary wedlock, at Lyous, full twen- ly-nvo per cent.; at least tweuty-five per cent in Paris aud thirty per cent, in Bordeaux the proportions of the deaf and dumb, by birth, increasing witli the degree of blood relationship. The data obtained show that, if tho danger of having a deaf And dumb child in ordinary marriage, represented by by figures, is one, there will bo eight een iu marriages between first cousins, thlrty-seveu in marriages between un cles and nieces, and seventy in mar riages betweeu nephews and aunts; it appears, too.-that tho mosthcaltny par ents,.If related In blood, may have deaf aiid dniriC children."