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BV MR A. J. DTOIWAY.
(Rntered, according to Ad of Coinrre i.. n.
year 1S74, hy Mrs. A.J. Dunlwny, Jn the odleeof
"e 1'1"rran Of cvrngrew at Washington Cit r.
CIIA1TEU XI.
"Mother, llmt girl's a perfect jewel !'
snitl Alice, with enthusiasm, as the rnr.
Hage ddbr closed with a hang-, and they
aeuiwi ineniBelves upon the cushions
ana went bowling lown tho street.
"She's elegant enough lor a Queen's
daughter, so far as outside appearance
goes, but priile anil poverty don't go to-
geuier comfortably," was the maternal
response.
"We've promised Melvin to look after
tier, but I'm sure I can't iinasiue how
we shall le able to do her any good,"
continued the mother in a vexed tone.
".She declined the position I offered her
as though she might be worth a million
I believe her brother's story about the
destitution of the family was nothing
out an excuse for her conduct."
"Well, mother, I'm going to get well
acquainted with her, at any rate. We
can't juttronize her, that's evident. I'll
drop in to uee her frequently, aud when
we get thoroughly sociable, and she
learns to love me, I'll find out all about
her real circumstances."
Jier house is not a proper place for
you to enter at all, except upon errands
or charity, and if she won't receive aid
from us in any way, there is nothing
left for us to do, but to stay away from
her. At all events, my duty has besu
fulfilled. I promised Melvin to visit
her, and I havedone it," said the mother,
with the air of one who had sacrificed
dignity to duty, and become a martyr
to principle.
"I saw nothing improper about her
home. Everything was as clean as the
utmost dogree of good housewifery
could make it. Indeed, I never saw our
cabin on the caltle-rauciie look half so
tidy and comfortable."
"But there is no evidence of absolute
destitution about the house. Henry de
clared Hint starvation was staring them
in the face, or she never would have en
tered the 'Walk in' as a waiter. I'm
afraid your father heard the truth when
he was told that she had found acllote,
and now, come to think of it, it's no
wonder she declined a situation in our
house as chambermaid. That class of
women never will go out to service. I
I'm very sorry that we called upon her.
Mrs. O'Toodles will blazon the fad all
over the city, and our names will be in
everybody's mouth."
"Mrs. O'Toodles can't control me,
mother. And, as to your suspicious,
you wrong Amie and you wrong my
brother hy harboring them for an in
stant. Men can always tell what wom
an may be visited by their mothers and
sisters witli safety, and can as easily
give good advice as to whom they must
not counteuance."
"Thai's true enough concerning men
who arc not in love; but lot a woman
once fascinate a man who has good
sense and average judgment about
everything and everybody else, and
forthwith she becomes ati angel in his
eyes, and he can't be made to see any
thing wrong about her. I am glad
Melvin has left the Slate. He'll get
over his boyish fancy after he sees
brighter faces."
"If your hope is born of the expecta
tion that he'll find a more beautiful or
intelligent girl to whom to transfer his
affections, you might as well abandon it
at once. Amie Lee lacks nothing but a
place to bloom in. Did you note the
fuschia and geranium leaves at her
throat and in her hair?"
"Yes, my child, and I have no doubt
but some masculine admirer presented
them to her. Such flowers are not
found on the common. She couldn't
afford to buy them if as poor as Henry
represents her, and of course she has no
lady associates who would make her
presents. lam not at all jleascd with
her. She assumed an air of equality
with us which was perfectly disgusting.
The more I think of it, the more I am
astonished at Melvin."
"And the more I think of It, the more
deeply do. I realize that you and I are
a precious pair of fools in that we ever
imagined that Amie Lee would come
Into our house as a servant,"
"Her brother Henry is employed in
that capacity."
"But he is not a lover of one of your
daughters. Besides, if he were, there is
no more comparison between the two
than there is between refined gold and
pig-iron."
The carriage halted at this moment
in front of the Hastings mansion, and
Henry, as he opened the door for the
egress of the ladies, heard the mother
say softly, "Be careful, Alice. Women
in the lower walks of life arealmost cer
tain to be loose iti morals."
Henry blushed witli indignation, as
these words burned themselves into his
soul. "But what if the suspicions of
his mistress in regard to Amie were
true?" he suddenly asked himself. The
bare suggestion was so humiliating that
he forgot the honest indignation which
had arisen, and should have remained
within him, to repel tho accusation,
and, tltame upon the boy.' be began to
secretly weigh tho conduct of his sister
In the scales of doubt and prejudice. By
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J Fcer Speech, Fkee I'kess, Far.n Vravvtu
III.
the time he had fed and groomed the
u.va, uc au jjuiiudcu : bus-
picions until ho had made out a formid
able case against her, from which, as a
standard of equity, ho long afterwards
judged all womankind, except his mar
tyred mother, nere, Indeed, was one
bright gem of womanhood, whose lustre
memory never dimmed, a gem whose
bright reflections alone saved him, in
the years of a maturer manhood,
from becoming a total castaway upon
the reefs of his perverted Imagination.
"What Is the reason women are so
easily led astray, I wonder?" mentally
queried the sagacious boy.
And Henry Lee forthwith began the
manufacture of a series of theoretical
laws for the government of women a
code of Ethics which led him, in after
years, wl)en fame and fortune and posi
tion crowned him, to walk the streets of
the greatlcity surrounded by his lordlv
associates, not deigning to notice Amie
Lee, as, with faltering step and wearv
brain, she met blm daily in the street.
after having plied her needle far Into
tho night, for months In succession, for
me possession of a sum not equal to
mat which Her virtuous, woman-nro-
tccting brother would spend in a single
hour of manly recreation at the uotori
ous "Walk In and Welcome."
rorgive! us, reader. We were getting
ahead of our story.
Calmly as Amie bad received her un
expected visitors, so far as outward ap
pearauccs ludicated ber feelings, they
were no sooner gone than ber pent Im
petuosity overleaped Its bounds. Pac
ing the floor, and nervously clasping
the volume of poems Melvin's gift
when last he met ber at the well-remembered
Black Stump Farm the
irl burst into a perfect torrent of tears
"To thihk that Melvin Hastings, for
whom I would have braved ignominy
and destitution aud death, if by the sac
rifice I could have added ought to his
happiness the only man I ever saw
whom I could honor as my second and
better self to think that he should win
my holiest love aud then dash it from
him as not worthy of possession, and
then, to add insult to mortal injury, his
mother aud sister come here, and con
fronting me with my meagre poverty,
offer me a situation as a servant in his
home!"
"But you have sought upon the street
for weeks for just such a position, Amie
Lee," said conscience, reprovingly.
"But not in his home not in his
home ! And oh, it was so cruel for them
to come here and try to humiliate me.
I do wonder if Melvin seut them ? If I
thought he had hut I iron' think so if
I can help it."
Dick was awake now, and Jim, and
Fannie, and Sue, aud the twins, and Tot
would soon be home from school. It
was no light task to keep this family
clean, clothed, and fed, and when Amie
was not out at service, or, as the others
expressed it, "when she was at home all
day, Idle," no help was deemed neces
sary by her ravenous aud noisy brood.
So, stifling the choking grief and indig
nation that for an' hour had held sway
over her, the girl busied herself witli
preparing the evening meal.
While in the midst of ber duties, the
dreaded proprietor of the intelligence
office, who had loaned her the much
needed hundred dollars, suddenly ap
peared upon the scene, and, In peremp
tory tones, demanded his money.
"I can return half of it, now," said
Amie, with quiet dignity. "I did not
suit Hie proprietor of the 'Walk In,' and
he discharged me. I do not know when
I can refund the remainder, sir. I spent
it for provisions and clothes before I
entered the service of the public at the
saloon. I will repay It whenever lean
get employment that will enable me to
do so."
The man gazed at her with a wanton,
audacious, admiring stare, that sent the
hot blood rushing over her temples,
coloring her brow to the roots of her
hair.
Hitching bis chair up close to bcrs, he
said, endeavoring to be extremely agree
able, "You needn't be in any hurry
about tho money. A pretty girl has
need of all she can get."
"Then why did you come here and de
mand it, as you did, ust now ?"
"I wanted to test your mettle, my lit
tle charmer," and he seized her hand
and kissed it passionately.
"Unhand me ! you white-Iiv.ered rif
lainl" screamed tho girl, "iou pro
fessed to be my friend, you dog ! You
loaned me money, because I needed
protection, you said, aud now you come
here proving yourself a low, contempti
ble enemy to truth and honor."
Mr. Green pursed up his mouth, aud
indulged in a saucy whistle. " Ton my
word!" he exclaimed, at length, "you
put on precious airs for a beggar. I'll
have you arrested for obtaining money
under false pretenses."
"Do your worst! I defy you, dog
that you are! Leave my roof this min
ute, or I will summon the police."
"Go slow, little puss," rising and tak
ing a firm position in the open door.
"You couldn't prevail on the police to
trouble mo for any. ordinary offense.
I'm loo valuable an auxiliary in elec
tions. I suppose you understand ?" and
the seusual lips rolled apart and dis
played a vicious row of teeth, deeply
stained with tobacco.
"Who in thunder arc you" bluntly
inquired honest Jim, as ho headed the
PORTLAND,
troop or pupils as they came tramping
nouic through the van!
"i-ni your sister's friend," was the
cool reply. "I loaned ber a hundred
dollars to buy toggery when she went
to the 'Walk In' as a waller, and I've
come to trouble her for the money."
" ou have tho keys, Jim," said Amie;
1 was waiting for you to come so
might open mother's trunk and get fifty
dollars. I haven't any moro money
now."
"ou'U do nothing of the kind," sild
Jim, stoutly. "Old Lager assumed that
debt when he employed you at the sa
loon. I heard the bargain. This rascal
wants to collect tho money from you
and Lager, too, so that ha can make his
hundred per cent."
"But I didn't stay with Mr. Lager ac
cording to contract."
"He turned you off! You didn't leave
him, aud the rascal's got to leave or I'll
make him," and tho impulsive boy
shook his fists and struck a decidedly
belligerent attitude.
Mr. Green, finding himself baflled,
sneakingiy took himself out of the
house.
"Don't obtrude yer Infernal carcass in
this mansion again, old boss, or I'll call
Ihe'iwlice," said Jim, exultantly. '
"I'll have my revenge, young man,"
was the cool reply. "I never undertook
anything yet but I succeeded, and I
dou't propose to be baflled now."
"What have you undertaken, Mr.
Sklntlint?"
"To get my own, you young imp. and
I'll have It If I'm compelled to take it
in satisfaction outof your hide and your
sisters character."
The man of business was making
rapid strides in the direction of his office
as bespoke, and the boy's indignation
ellervesced in impotent rage after ho
was well out of tho way.
"Just let him dare to defame you,
Atne!" said he, witli shrugs aud gri
maces that evidently implied a terrible
threat.
'Jim's always giving you fits him
self, but let anybody else undertake tho
job and they'll catch It!" said Fanny,
with a laugh.
"He's like the man that whipped his
wife, but was determined that nobody
else should," commented Sue.
"Well, one thing is certain," said
Jim, exultantly, "we'ro fifty dollars
better off than we should a' been if I
hadn't come home when I did. Girls
haven't any sense about business mat
tew." "I'd starve before I'd touch a cent of
that money if it wasn't for tho rest of
you," said Amie, through her tears.
"There's no telling what that man may
say about me that is bad and false. I
wish we were all dead !" and the tears
fell in great drops upon her hands as she
spread the cloth aud prepared the frugal
meal.
"Just let him!" exclaimed Jim, again
striking a threatening attitude.
The supper, with its usual accompani
ment of hilarity and nonsense, was over
at last, and the beds arranged for an
other night's repose.
Heury's work and lessons were over
for the day, and for the first lime for
more than a week he sought the bumble
homo of his family to inquire after their
welfare. His manner was constrained
and cold, aud the cloud on his brow
awakened Amle's sisterly apprehension
at once.
"Aren't you well, brother?"
"Yes; well enough in body."
"You haven' t lostyourjifacc, I hope ?' '
and Atuie's heart gave a great thump at
the bare prospect of such a posnlbility.
"Oh, no; not that."
"Then what fj the matter?"
"Melvin Hastings has gone to Cali
fornia." "What
"Just that."
"I thought he was going to be mar
ried." "That was the intention, but he and
Hie old folks didn't pull together, so he
sloped."
"Thank God!"
The ejaculation came from the inner
most depths of Amle's soul, and hut for
the rallying laugh that followed It, she
would have been unconscious of iU ut
terance. "Have you got lime to take a walk
this evening, Ame?"
"Yes, if I can get rid of Dick."
"Let Fan keep him."
"No, let Jim," said Fanny, petu
lantly. "I waut to get my lessons."
"You don't get woman's work outo'
me!" said Jim.
"You've just as good a right to take
care o' Dick as" any of us," retorted
Fanny.
"Don't sec it !" was tho iuiportaut re
joinder. "I'll keep him," said Sue; "if you
won't bf- gone too long."
Another Important personage was to
to be consulted, which was no other than
Dick himself.
But a compromise was soon eftected
with tho refractory child, aud the
brother aud sister sought the street and
wandered forth beyond the crowded
limits of the city into a clearing in the
, deep old woods, over which the nioou
was riding on her chariot of clouds,
throwing the dust-like duskiness of her
shadows over great patches of build
lues, in the foreground, lighting up
the waters of the river beyond with tho
sheen of her shining, and casting a deep
OKEGON, 3jRIIA.Y, AUGUST T, 187-1.
pall of blackness over the distant moun
tains, where the storm clouds lay hi sul-
lenness, awaiting the action of the ocean
breeze.
"How beautiful nature is," said Amie,
fervently. "No matter whether she
mantles herself in winter clouds. or
clothes her visible form in summer rai
ment; no matter whether she weeps
with rain or laughs with , sunshine; no
matter whether she melts with warm
south win Is or freezes witli cold north
easters, her garments are always appro
priate, always becoming, always beauti
ful. If human hearts could thus attune
themselves to harmony under all cir
cumstances, how much happier wo all
might be!"
"I didn't come out here to commune
with nature, Ame," was Heury's
desperate reply. "The fact Is," he con
tinued, after an awkward pause, "I've
been hearing some rattier bad reports
about you lately."
"About me?"
"Thai's what I said."
"Oh, Henry! Did you listen to
them?"
"I couldn't help it."
"I thought it was man's duty to do
all lie could to protect woman, and I had
hoped that you might be relied uion to
eflectually resent any aspersion upon
my character."
"Aud you presumed upon this hope,
and dared to be imprudent."
"How?"
"You refused work when it was of
fered you to-day, as though you were a
lady, born and bred."
"Ain't I?"
"Pshaw ! I don't mean that ! I mean
that you put on airs when Mrs. Hast
ings called. She was very much dis
pleased with the way you treated her."
"Oh! is that all? I was afraid my
character was being assailed."
"Aud so 'tis."
"By whom?"
"Everybody."
"What have I done?"
The moon peejunl forth at this instant
and flooded the girl with a limpid radi
ance which contrasted strangely with
the deep shadow in which Henry stood.
Was it an omen?
"You needn't put on airs, Miss Pert.
You were offered to-day as good a home
as I have, nnd you wouldn't accept It.
Mrs. Hastings says that girls of im
moral character never will go out to
service. There is no excuse for your
conduct aud I have made up my mind j
to aid you no further."
"Henry, my brother, one wonl before
we part forever. You are abou t to leave 1
me, a lono and struggling girl, in a
strange city, with my reputation at
tacked aud my prospects blighted. You
are leaving me with a large and de
pendent family upon my hands to which
you aro morally bound as much as I.
Beforo wc part aud this separation will
bo final unless you ask my pardon for
your present accusations let me say to
you that I look upon Melvin Hastings,
before high Heaven, as my betrothed.
We are not 'engaged,' as men say, but
as God willcth. You say that ho has
broken the O'Toodles engagement, made
for him by his friends. I can't tell you
why I have so much confidence in him
this moment, but lean tell you that I
will starve before I will accept menial
positions in the family of his mother.
I mean, some day, to compel them to be
proud of me. You are making my tasks
hard, Henry, but the strength of a no
ble aim is upon me, and I will not
faller."
"What are you going to do, pray ?"
'That shall be nothing to you hence
forth. I fear nothing but evil tongues,
and since yours is numbered among
them, I want to get as far away from
you as possible."
The brother and sister were pursuing
their homeward way very rapidly as
they spoke, under the high pressure of
excitement, and were Just opposite the
door when Amie dropped that last re
mark.
"Good-night, Mica Lee," said her
brother, coldly.
I keep good-nights for those who
will not slander me," said Amie, as she
shut the door in his face.
"Confound It all ! I didn't mean to
have a row!" ejaculated her brother,
Kotto voce, as he stalked onward in the
shadows. "But I'll never ask her par
don if they all starve!"
Humiliated as Amie was by her
brother's unjust suspicious, the news he
had brought her about the termination
of the Hastlngs-O'Toodles chgagement
sufficed to fill her soul with a sudden
happiness. She did not dare, or even
dosiro to look beyond her present rela
tions with the idol of her affections.
Sho was practical and sensible enough
to keep her natural obligations to her
orphaned brood before her mind con
tinually; and that night, as she lay-
awake, watching the bright moonbeams
as they played through the cracks of
her bumble tenement, tho girl con
ceived a plati by which she hoped to
enter into a business at once profitable
and respectable. As she conned the
fancy over and over In her busy brain
she wondered much at the strange dull
ness that had prevented her frtn think
ing of it before.
ITo bo contlnucd.l
A Sunday School scholar he! lit' nutri-l
what became of men who deceive their
fellowuieu, promptly exclaimed, "They
go lo Europe !" J
An Argument for Woman Suffrage.
When tiie women went to the polls at
Alameda last week, to work for local op
tion, they were driven from (lie streets
by a mob, the members of whieh denied
them the right to be there in such a
cause. They were taunted with their
abseuco from their household alluir.
aud were given to understand, with the
moat brutal plaluncs., that they had no
business In take part in an election
which had to bo determined by the suf
frages of men alone. "(Jo home to your
children," said the enlightened voters;
"Be otT and darn your liutbands stock
ings," shouted the educated and chival
rous citizens, evidently thinking that it
was a most intolerable piece of interfer
ence for women to meddle In an election
of any kind. Yet these women have
reason to interest themselves in the liq
uor question, and the subject, as it pre
sents itself to them, must seem lo justify
the putting forth of all the energies of
which they are capable. Their happi
ness, their liberties; the conditions of
their lives, the future of their children,
are ail intimately concerned in this is
sue, witli which they have nothing
whatever to do. And if under existing
law, they are debarred the effective ex
pression of their opinions upon a ques
tion which undeniably affects the inter
ests of men, the fact must be regarded
as another proof of the Injustice of the
system which condetnustheni to silence,
and which even exposes them to insult
and violence wiien they seek lo employ
ine oniy agencies which are not posi
tively prohibited to them. Xosaucman
can maintain that the women who
strive to protect their homes and fami
lies rroui.theevil iulluencesof the saloon
system, arc less capable of sound judg
ment than the men who assailed them
at Alameda, and between the two few
will hesitate to admit that for all social
interests tho women would constitute
the best class of voters. But supposing
these women had been voters, would
they have been driven from the noils
witli contumely? Would Goldwin
Smith's prediction have been fulfilled,
mat. wnenever a question arises between
voting men and voting women, iu which
the passions of the former are deeply en
listed, they will riseand drive tho weaker
sex Irom the field by sheer force? We do
noi oeneve it. un the contrary, wo be
lieve that if Woman Suffrage had been
in existence when the Alameda election
took place, the rowdy clement would
have been effectively restrained, and the
disgraceful scenes which have moved all
decent men to indignation would never
have occurred. For. after all. it was the
state of the law which encouraged the
ruffians ou that occasion to act as they
did. They were but asserting, in one of
its most odious forms, the barbarous doc
trine of the supremacy of man over
woman. They regarded the women
very much as the poor whites of the
South regarded the negro immediately
after the war. They looked utmn them
as inferior creatures, whose duty it was
to stay at home aud mind household
affairs, meekly aud patiently submitting
to whatever usage the hints of creation
might tec lit to bestow upon them.
Here there was a case in which the In
justice aud abMirdity of the present state
01 sun nine was exhibited in a linrlleii-
larly striking manner; for in this in
stance an exceptionally brutal anil de
graded class of men were enabled to
claim aud exercise supremacy, both po
litical and social, over an exceptionally
Intelligent class of women. The men
were of a class unfitted forparticipation
in governmental a flairs. The women
were of a kind perfectly well fitted to
take their place on an equality with the
most cultured of the opositc sex. Tho
issue was one iu which women have an
equal right to participate. And yet the
law gave the wholo power into the
hands of the men. It appears to us that
this occurrence furnishes a strong argu
ment iu behalf of Woman SuHrage.
Jlccord.
Women as Soldiers.
The ambitious women who are always
striving to enter new fields of labor and
sighing for new worlds to conquer, have
to thank Mr. Justice Xott, of tho Court
of Claims, for au idea. That gentleman,
in a recent opinion delivered upon the
application of Mrs. Lockwood to be ad
mitted to practice as an attorney, said :
"I have been at the bar and iu the mili
tary service, and my experience leads
me to the conclusion that women are as
well fitted for the one as the other."
Modern innovations, according to Jus
tice Xott, have done much to bring
down many occupations heretofore sup
posed to belong exclusively to men
within the reach of women, but in
nothing have they done this so much
as in tho art or war. In the hand-to-;
baud conflicts of antiquity women were !
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physical natures of men, and from ne
cessity were exempt. But hand-to-hand
conflicts arc as obsolete as tho wager of
battle. The light breech-loading car
bincdemandsactivltyas wellasstrength.
Said Sir. Nott, again: "Woman, as a
soldier, would have little lo do besides
marching and shooting, aud being shot.
It is said that a well-bred, intelligent,
honest woman will make a better attor
ney than an ignorant, vicious, unscrupu
lous man. This is true; but it is equal
ly true that a healthy, active woman
will make a better soldier than a de
crepit man. Some considerations of
public policy also intervene in favor of
the latter course."
It Is very likely that the suggestion
embodied herein will be adopted. The
strongest arguments the opponents of
the ballot for women now have in their
quiver is the supposed inability of
woman to bear arms an argument, by
the way, which bases suffrage on brute
strength anil its worst exercise. But
here comes along a soldier and a judge
who testifies that woman can use the
needle-gun as well as the needle, and if
any proof of her physical powers are
needed, surely it is furnished by that
mysterious female who has just tramped
across the continent a feat before which
even a Weston would stand appalled.
Forney's iVcs.
By fioods and the breaking nway of
another reservoir in Hampshire county,
a large section of Massachusetts has
again been inundated, and property of
the value of hundreds of thousands of
dollars destroyed. Fortunately, how
ever, and it would seem at this distance
almost hy a miracle, no lives were lost.
It would be well for the Bay Ktato to
examine into her dam system, aud to
enact more stringent laws for the regu
lation of the parties erecting and own
ing tho numerous water tKiwcrs which
keep Its mill-wheels and spindles in
motion. Fumey's J'rets.
The Leisure Time of Boys.
Wo would suggest, to the many par
ents who are erp!cxed with tho diffi
culty of finding the wherewithal to
amuse and intercut Iheir boys, to give
their lads every possible opportunity of
acquiring a mechanical trade. The in
dustry and ingenuity of a boy of average
ability 111:13 easily be made to furnish
him with a never-failing source of
amusement of the best onier. The boy
who can produce or make something al
ready begins to feel that lie is somebody
In the world, that achievement of a re
sult Is not a rewanl reserved for grown
enpte only. And tho education of
mind, eye aud hand, which the .use of
loots aud mechanical appliances fur
nishes, is of a great and real value, be
yond the good resulting from the occu
pation of leisure time. Having nothing
to do is as great a snare to the young as
it is to tiie full grown; and no greatei
benefits can be conferred on youths
than to teach them lo convert timo now
wasted, and often worse than wasted,
Into pleasant means of recreation and
mental improvement. The boy, whose
time and mind are now occupied with
marbles and kites, may be a Watt, a
Morse, or a Bessemer iu embryo; and it
is certainly au easy matter to turn his
thoughts and musings into a channel
which shall give full scope to their
faculties. Ami to most boys the use of
mechanical tools is the most fascinating
of all occupations. As logic and math
ematics have a value beyond accuracy
In argument and the correct solution of
problems, in that they teach men the
habit of using their reilectin'r powers
systematically, so carjientry, turning
and other arts of lii-'Ii importance.
These occupations teacli boys tothink,
to proceed from iuitial causes to results,
aud not only to understand the nature
and duty or the mechanical powers, but
to observe their effects, and to acquire
knowledge by actual experiment, which
is tho best way of learning anything.
All the theories culled nut of books
leave an impress on the mind aud mem
ory, which is slight compared to that of
the practical experiencu of the true
mechanic. Our advice i.to all who
have the sreat responsibility of the
charge of boys: Give them a lathe, or a
set of carpenter's or even blacksmith's
toots, uive their mind a turn toward
the solid and useful sido of life. You
will soon sec the result in Increased
activity of their thinking capabilities,
and the direction of their ideas toward
practical results; and, still more obvi
ously, iu the avoidance of Idle mischief
aud nonsense (to omit all reference to
absolute wickedness and moral degrada
tion), which are, to too great an extent.
the pastime of the generation which is
to succeed us. icientiju: American.
A Monument to Hew England Mothers,
The Dustnii statue on Contoocook Is
land, near Concord, X. 11., unveiled on
the 17th inst. and presented to the State
of New Hampshire through the Gov
ernor aud his council, is a fitting com
memoration of the bravery of the "New
England Mothers." The statue is of
granite aud the work of Win. Andrews,
of liowcll, Mass. It represents a woman,
the figure being 7 feet high, holding a
tomahawk in one hand, and in the other
the scalps or slam Indians. The statue
costs $0,0001,000 of which arc already
obtained, aud it is expected tiiat the
Massachusetts legislature will vote Sl,
000 towanls it, and that the remaining
S1,000 will be readily raised Iu Xew
Hampshire. The happy thought of ren
dering this enduring tribute to the he
roic act of one of the many heroic women
that the perils and trials of early New
England life developed, originated with
Rev. Dr. Bouton, of Concord, and Mr.
Robert B. Caverly, a lawyer, of Lowell.
Tho facts which history gives relating,
lo the event commemorated arc as fol
lows: On the loth of March,lC97, Mrs. Anna
Dustoii was taken captive at Haverhill,
.Mass., with 1 others, and carried from
there to Contoocook Island, X. 1 1., where
they arrived on the 30th of the same
month. Mrs. Duston, after consultation
with her maid, Mary Nell", and a young
boy named Samuel Leonardson, who
were among the captured, got up in the
night aud killed ten Indians, took their
scalps and brought them to Boston,
where she met Cotton Mather near the
State House, aflrl to whom she exhibited
the 10 scalps, a tomahawk and au In
dian gun which they secured iu their
flight. Tiie General Court at once voted
Mrs. Duston 25 and 12 to her maid,
and a similar amount to the boy. The
Governor of Maryland then sent these
brave women presents, and, In fact, gifts
came pouring in from all parts of the
country. Forty years afterward the
General Court again showed their ap
preciation of the unparalleled act of
bravery, and voted to Mrs. Dustou's de
scendants some farms. Ou the day that
Mrs. Duston was captured, the Indians
killed 27 of the inhabitants of Haver
hill, burned nine dwelling houses, aud
killed Mrs. Dustou's infant against a
tree. This was the time when civiliza
tion quivered in the scale, and when our
ancestors first began to learn that there
were blows to take as well as blows to
give, and that began to turn back the
tide. Mrs. Duston was a daughter of
Massachusetts, and for that reason the
Legislature should give careful consid
eration to the appeal for $1,000 to help
establish this tribute lo the New Eng
land mothers.
Bi'RXixo thk C.vxnr.r. of Like at
Botk Ends. The deadliest foe to man's
longevity Is an unnatural and unreason
able excitement. Every man Is born
with a certain stock of vitality, which
cannot be increased, but which may be
expended rapidly or husbanded, as lie
deems best. Within certain limits lie
has his choice, to live abstemiously or
intensely, to draw his little amount of
life over a large space, orcondense it into
a narrow one; but when his stock is ex
hausted he has 110 more. He who lives
abstemiously, whoavoidsallstimulants,
lakes light exercise, never overtasks
himself, indulges noexhauslingpassion,
feeds his mind and heart on no exciting
material, has no debilitating pleasure,
lets nothing rufllc his temper, keeps his
"account with God and man duly
squared up," is sure, barring accidents,
to spin out his lif 'o the longest limit
which It 13 possible to attain; while he
who intensely feeds on high-seasoned
food, whether material or mental, fa
tigues.hls body or brain at lianl labor
exposed himself to inflammatory dis
ease, seeks continual excitement, gives
loose rein to his passions, freu at
every trouble, and enjoys little repose.
Is burning life's candle atboth ends and
is sure to Mhorteu his days. 1
Ipse ilm iteiiiymst
A Journal nr the People,
llavoted to tiie Interests of Humanity.
Independent in Tolltlcs and Ilallglon.
.UiveJo all Live Issues, anil Thoroughly
Radical In Opposing and Esposlnr the Wrongs
01 ine m
Correspondents writing over anmed signa
tures mnt make known tlteir namos to tlio
K!Hor,or no attention wilt be given- to tlielr
cominun teutons.
Local Option in Monteoito.
Local Option was victorious in :rniiip-
cito, but the vote was close, the majority
consisting of only one. A number of
lames went rrom Santa Barbara to as
sist in the election; and the Santa Bar
bara saloon interests were also repre
sented, a delegation of linuor-dealers
and their supporters going down in the
morning and remaining all day. Denu
jons, stone jugs and bottles were oiien
ly displayed throughout the election,
aud liquor seemed to be freely distrib
uted. The Local Optioniats had a talde
spread under a broad, overshadowing
oak tree, from where they supplied their
hungry and thirsty friends witli tho
better offerings of tea, collee, and a va
riety of edibles.
A few of the ladies labored earnestly;
but most of thcru seemed afraid of the
work they had undertaken. Embracing
our privilege of having one day of free
dom when the bars of society were let
down, anil we were allowed, on account
of tho urgency of-temnerau(a?,h,Kniout
ami talk to our fcllow-mau, indiscrimi
nately, race lo race, we ventured into a
Ijttle earnest talk. This was for what
wo had come. But immediately our
friends were alarmed. One pulled us by
the sleeve, aud another drew us by the
shoulder, and begged us to retire to
among the women under the tree, lest
if wc talked witli these men we should
be insulted. Now, we-don't like peti
tioning men for their votes. In this wc
humble ourself. We are of riclit a citi
zen of the Republic, aud it is not our
place to come in supplication to others
to do for us what wc should do for our
self. But we did like to go out into the
crowd and speak with those who were
upholding aud advancing what we be
lieved t be wrong. Wherever human
ity is there is our place. Wherever
there is work there let us iro. Tho
world is our sphere. The ladies who
went to the polls to gather beneath the
tree, huddled behind the protectinir
shadow of each oilier from contact with
the rude world, did not need. us. They
were exalted beyond our power to im
prove. O women, sisters", we know no
boundaries within whose limits alone
we must lift our voice. In the purlieus
of the city, iu gamblers' hells, iu tho
places 01 drunkenness, in the haunts or
prostitution, wherever man is, wherever
woman is, wherever vice Is to be re
formed, error to be corrected, despair to
bo encouraged, hope lo be inspired, there
is our place, and there would we go,
and there would our voice be heard.
Sunlit liarbara Index.
True Economy of Life.
The true economy of human life looks
at ends rather than incidents, and' ad
justs expenditures to a moral scale of
values. Tho real wastes of life are not
those men who prate about most volu
bly and condemn iu censorious tones.
De Quincy pictures a woman sailing
over the water, but awakening out of
sleep to find her necklace untied and one
end hanging in the stream, while pearl
after pearl drops from the string beyond
; iicrrcncii; wnue sueciiuciies at 0110 just.
, fulling another drops beyond recovery,
j Our days drop one after another by our
! carelessness, like pearls from a string,
as we sail the sea of life. Prudence re
quires a wiso husbanding of lime lo see
that none of these golden coins arespeiit
for nothing. The waste of time is a
more serious loss than the extrava
gances against which there is such loud
acclaim.
Here arc thousands who do nothing
but lounge and carouse from morning
till midnight, the drones in the human
hive, who consume and waste the honey
honest workers wear themselves out in
making, and insult the day bv their
dissipation and debauch. Here are ten
thousand idle, frivolous creatures, who
douotiiing but consume and waste and
wear what honest hinds accumulate,
and entice others to live as useless and
worthless as themselves. Were every
man and woman honest toilers, all
would have an abundance of everything
anil half of every day for recreation and
culture. The expenditure of a few dol
lars for articles of taste is a small m-it-ter
Iu comparison with the wasting of
mouths and years by thousands who
have had every advantage society could
ofTer, and exact every privilege it af
fonis as a right. Iiivcstiyator.
A Hint to Pi:daociues. It will do
teachers no harm to read this paragraph
from the School:
"As an editor of a village paper, I
have had ample opportunity to note
what the public schools are doing in be
half of these few simple, but very im
portant elements of a good English
education orthography, penmanship,
punctuation, and the minor niceties of
Hitler-writing, and iu preparing com
munications for the press. Of my own
three children, respectively twelve, fif
teen aud seventeen years of age, not one
of them has acquired in school a compe
tent knowledge of these things. I re
peatedly inspect lheircompositIous,nud
always fiud them defective in these par
ticulars. After finishing what they
have to say 011 one topic, they are al
most sure to begin another subject ou
the same line, and sometimes witli a
small letter. The fact is, their teacher
himself (and probably those before him),
is ignorant or punctuation, composition
and kindred brandies of a good English
education. This I found by receiving
from him, for publication, a communi
cation of seven foolscap papers in
length, written on both sides, in a
cramped school-boy hand, witli numer
ous errors in orthography and the useof
capitals, and withotita break, paragraph
or punctuation mark from beginning to
end. The communication was to show
the advantages of common schools in
general and of his school iu particular."
Some TEMiT.itAXCEFiGLMtES. A cor
respondent of the Oinyreyalionalht
says: "There are 140.000 saloons iu the
country against 123,000 schools, and only
51,000 churches. Manufacturers and
sellera of strong drink, 050,000 twelve
times the number of clergymen, four
times the teachers, uearly double all the
lawyers, physicians, teachers and min
isters combined. In these saloons there
aro 5,000,000 daily customers, one in
seven of the whole population! Of
iiiese, iw.uuo arc annually imprisoned
r. I 1 AiiA iuin I1A1I
bes;
JCggared widows stretching across tho
State of Massachusetts. A file of men
seventy-live miles in length;; marching
State (
seventy-live nines 111 ienj;l""
steadily down to the grav, tlircetveri
minute through the year."
iui eriiue, at. an expense 01 jw.umvw,
leaving 200,000 beggared orphans. I! rasp
these figures: An army of topers, live
llironut 11m .:i,., :.. 1......1I1 A rank of