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MIIS. A. J. Dl.MiTAT, Edlior and Proprietor. A Journal for the Fcoplc. Devoted to tho Interests of Humanity. Independent in Politics and Religion. . -Ulve to nil Llvo Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposinjand El posing- the Wrongs ori'ICC Cor. Front and Mark Streets. TERMS, IX ADVANCE: of the Masses. One year.. Six months. Three monlbg Correspondents writing over assumed signa tures must make known their names to the Kditnr.or no attention will be given to their communications. AnVEItTISRMKNTS Inserted on Reasonable VOLTJ3IE III. PORTLAND, OREGON, JPJtJJD ATST, -AJCJGrTJST 14, 1874. NTDIBER 52. 58 ion : 1 I Fnxs Spekcw, Fkek Press, Free People. AMI E AND HENRY LEE; on Tlie Sphere or the Sexeo. nv sins. a.j. ncmwAT. lEnierod, according to Aetof Concresji.ln the year 1871, by Sirs. A. J. Danlway, In the offlce of the Librarian of Oonjresa at Washington City. CHAPTER XIL Amic was up long before dawn on tbe morning following tbe qtiarrol with her brother. Arranging tbe preliminaries for breakfast, she left tbe finishing up to -fan ami feue, ana busied herself in uurrieu, abstracted manner with the family washing. All of this work de volved upon her now that her two sis ters attended school. Further opportunities for systematic education than her mother had civen her in their home in the wilderness were heroically self-denied by the consclen tious girl. "It's better that all should have a lit tie learning than that somo should have none at all," she argued to herself, "Be sides, I have already had a good com mon school course. Reading and expe rience must do the rest." She might have also said that some body must provide the creature comforts for her greedy charge, and there was no body but her to do it? but though the thought crossed her mind, it found no audible utterance. "What are you in such a brown study about, Amio?" queried the considerate Jim, as lie helped himself to his break fast, while Atnie rubbed upon the wash' board at the wristbands of his hickory shirt. "I'm trying to solve the problem as to what wc shall eat and drink, and where withal wo shall be clothed," wringing tbe rough garment in her tiuy hands, and hanging it in a twist upon the back of a chair. "You didn't half wring that shirt !" was the brotherly admonition. "Sec! tho wafer drips frdm it like the very mischief." "Wring it yourself, then," was the quick reply. "If you'd done your duty, you'd havo bad half the hard rubbing and wringing done while I was getting breakfast." "I'm not a girl, and I'd have you know that I've no duties in that direc tion." "You know I can't help it if I am a girl. I'm almost ready to vow that I never will do any more washing for you till you get something to do to help sup port this family." "Du (ell! You're puttin' on airs since you went to the 'Walk In.' Now Amie was no saint, and tbe boy's taunt was enough to throw her into a frenzy. "You slian'l talk to me that way, sir!" she cried. "I won't stand id" "Help yourself, little one," he replied, with a laugh, as be addressed himself to a fresh stack of griddlecakes, just baked for his use by Sue. Amie demurely rolled down her sleeves, changed her attire, helped her self to the fifty dollars from tbo trunk that had been her mother's, and taking Dick witli her, left the house without a word. "You've done it, Jim!" said Fannie, in indignant alarm. "Done whati" "Why, driven Amic away from home! A pretty kettle of fish we'll all be in if she treats us as you treat her, and wouldn't blame her if she did." "No danger of that!" said Jim, but somehow his appetite for griddlo cakes was sated, and he left tbe table and sauntered down the street to look after his sister. But his search was fruitless, and with a heavy heart and sad forebod ings, he pursued his way to school." "What if Amie should leave us ?" was his mental query all day long. "Why shouldn't she, when you treat her so badly ?" queried tbe boy's com mon sense. Amie was once more persuaded by tbe force of circumstances to enter an intelligence office; but she was careful now to take a good look at the proprie tor before crossing the threshold. Pass ing by several pretentious establish ments, where pompous young men sat at ease around tables loaded with news papers, awaiting applications for labor from the protected sex, she stopped in front of a modest-looking office, where an elderly gentleman in beaming spec tacles awaited her request. "Can you find me a snug little room upon a business thoroughfare where the rent will be light and the surroundings respectable ?" "Do you wish to rent a store ?" "Yes, if I can get one that will not be too exponsive." "What kind of busiuess do you wish to engage in ?" "I think of opening a millinery store." "Then I guess the place wouldn't suit." "What place?" "A tobacconist has just vacated a very good corner that might suit a dress maker, but I'm afraid it isn't large enough for a greatdisplay of millinery." Amie laughed a musical, rippling laugh, that sounded more like hope than any utterance to which she had given vent for months. "I guess the place will bclarge enough for all the stock I shall have for a while," sho said. "Will you give me the key and let me visit it?" "If you'll deposit two an' a half as a pledge for its safe return." "Certainly." "The room was Indeed small and cozy, but Amie was pleaed with it, and de cided to close tbe bargain at once, at twenty dollars per month. "What a fool I am !" she said to her self, after the month's rent was paid, as she folded the receipt, and taking Dick, now very tired and cross, in her arms, she sought a wholesale dealer with whom she soon contracted upon thrlty days' time for a few hundred dollars worth of such goods as she felt might best suit tho market The dealer was wise enough not to question her too closely. Being a good judge of human nature, he learned at a glance thntho could trust this now cus tomer, and he readily gave her the ben efit of his experience in helping her to such selections as he knew would bring quickest sale. "Won't you step into the nearest res taurant and get a lunch, madam ?" he asked, as the noon hour drew nigh. "No, thank you, I had no Idea it was so late. I must prepare lunch at home for a family of eight, and finish up a large washing." "Are you the sole support of such a large family as that?" "I am, at present, sir." "But you dou't expect to do that house-keeping and carry on a store ?" "I do, sir." "How old are you ?" "Twenty years." uo you see mat boy? He is mv eldest, and one year your senior. He couldn't take care of himself." "That's because ho Isn't a girl," said Amie, as she prepared to carry her bur den of incipient, woman-protecting man hood to her humble home. "Let me sell you a buggy for him to rido in, madam. You can't aflord to waste your strength in that way, if you are going Into business." "I believe you are right, sir; but if I take tbe buggy, I must pay you in monthly installments." Little Dick was delighted with theJ purchase, but not more so than was his sister, as she trundled him with case along tbe ways where sho had so often carried him. "I fear I have committed a very grave act of extravagance, but It goes in a life time," sue said to herself, by way of apology. Jim's fears were quieted by Amie's re turn, and, as he became assured that she would not desert them, he become doubly self-important and overbearing. "You don't know one thing about the millinery business, and you'll make a dead failure," be said, by way of wise encouragement. "Then I'll not call upon you to foot the bills, so don't worry yourself, sir smart ness," was the pert reply. Tbe goods arrived at the store by tbo time Amie's family lunch was over and the washing finished, and for several days tbe girl toiled with closed doors, until she had made up a really fine as sortment of attractive merchandise. Her taste was marvelously good, and the ready tact which was her peculiar gift, took the place of a large experi ence. When all was ready, an odverllso ment, accompan!ed by attractive local puffs, appeared in the papers, and the first day's sales amouted to fifty dollars coin, with orders for quite as much more. The business became very brisk, and, had Amie been alone, tbe accruing profits of her sales would have soon placed her on the road to wealth. One day, soon after opening berbusl ness establishment, she chanced to pick up a stray copy of the Every Morning Gazette, much soiled and crumpled, which had been thrown aside by a cus tomcr who had brought an old bonnet to remodel. While tho customer was "making up her mind" about the "style" that would most likely "become" her faded fea tures, Amie glanced at the dispatches in tho paper, and learned that Melvin Hastings, Jr., formerly of Portsmouth, had been admitted as a pupil in tho Art Academy of New York city. It was her first reliable news of his whereabouts since the well and painfully remembered moment when he had suddenly met her and almost stumbled over her little brother weeks before, upon the streets of Portsmouth. "What is that man and his aflairs to me? Or why does he concern me that I should think about him?" she asked herself, bitterly, as she tossed the paper under the counter, and turned, with au anxious face and supreme effort at self control, to receive a new customer's or ders for an intricate marvel of blonde and orange, blossoms, which was in tended to form a prominent part of a bridal trosseau, that was just now the theme of city small talk among the belles and their mammas. "Let tbe border be of satin piping, with fine gros-graln crossings, puffed full between the meshes with flufllngs of illusion. Let part of the orange wreath trail lightly across tbe front, and another part droop over the lace barbes at the back. Mako the strings of white tulle, edged with blonde lace, and knot them in front with this white rose and these orange buds," said the brido expectant, with a ready business air, which becamo her finely. "And, stay!" she continued, suddeuly, "put a spray of sweet briar over the right ear. Let it be ust as delicate as can be, but don't omit it, remember." "What an odd fancy!" Amie could not help saying, as she addod the spray to tho list of other selected articles, and put them aside to await the earliest op portunity to "put up" the bonnet. "O, yes; rather odd for a bridal bon net; but my affianced is peculiar about these things. Sweet briar is the emblem of our courtship." The gay girl tripped lightly away, and Amie again instinctively sought tbe columns of tbe Gazette. "A cypress vine is the fittest emblem of our wooing," she said, dreamily, as her eager eyes sought the meager tele gram In her anxiety for further light. The letter list attracted her gaze, and conspicuous among tho addresses was her own, which had been advertised for several days. "Some good angel must havo Bent me this Gazette," she murmured; "I mutt take the paper regularly after this." During the long afternoon no oppor tunity for leaving the store to go to tbe post-office was given her. Customers thronged around her, and sales were bo many and profits so good that it was lit tle wonder that sho was prematurely in duced to give up the little store and cheap dwelling for the combined con venicuces and increased expenses of au establishment which the profits of bcr business poorly justified. Moro experienced busiuess minds than hers havo mado greater mistakes. At length, upon the evening to which wo have been referring, after the last customer was gone aud tbe little shop was locked up for tbe night, the anxious girl went around by tbo post-offico and received tbe missive with which the reader was made acquainted in a former chapter. From that day until Henry's increase of fortune came to him, creating within her a spirit of emulation which her many opposing and conflicting cares re pressed into a very natural envy, tho girl was happy as the day. What, henceforth, was toll to her, that she should shrink from It? or pri vation, that she need complain ? A brilliant light beamed in her cyts, her checks grew rosy, yet delicately beautiful, aud, despito the confining toil of her business and tho care and drudg ery necessary to the feeding and main taining of so large a family, her form grew rounded and symmetrical, her stop more and more clastic, bcr laugh more modulated, her voice richer aud full of harmony. To be loved by one who fondly, purely loves you is such a deep, abiding joy. Sometimes, in going to and fro upon tho streets Amio would meet the intelligence-office proprietor, Green, and she never failed to pass him with an invol untary shudder. He always gazed at her as though be were a great night owl, ogling for bis prey, and, though sho always refused to recognize him, yet the sinister leer that invariably lit up bis selfish faco as he passed her told of memory and hate and uot-to-bc-bafficd revenge. The Hastings family nover patronized her store unless, as frequently happened, they could be suited nowhere else. Then Mrs. II. would order the carriage to stop at the door, and demand that such and such articles be carried out for her In spection. Several times, In her dcslro to propi tiate tho mother of her absent Ideal, Amie obeyed such mandates, and served her fastidious and fault-finding cus tomers to their satisfaction, but never once did the grand lady or her airy daughters enter the store, or acknowl edge by word or look of recognition that they had met before. Amic, quite as independent as they, preserved her regal dignity, and served them with the courteous condescension of a queen. 'They always pay good prices, and they can't humiliate me, that's one con solution," she would say to her sisters, who were taken from school and em ployed in the busy seasons, much against their own inclination after the wire edge of novelty had once worn off. ! Mr. Green, the evil genius of Amie Lee;suddenly fell heir to an unexpected fortune, and his augmented wealth soon installed him as a visitor in the Hast ings mansion. Here his dark insinua tions against tho "pretty little milliner" were magnified by the suspicious and proper dowager of the premises Into mountains composed of tbe blackest smoke of defamation. Mrs. Hastings was far loo ladylike to make public goBsIp of these pet sus picions; but, as often happens with mothers who are more "prudent" than conscientious, sho hesitated not to re hash tbe same before her daughters and in her immaculate busbaud's presence on all convenient occasions. Mr. Green became tbe accepted suitor of Miss May Hastings, and as soon as Amie learned the fact, she ceased to wonder that Mclviu's family treated her so coldly. One day, seized by a sudden impulse, she dispatched a note to Alice, warning her against tho visitor, aud begging an interview. "You said that you would be my friend," she wrote, "and now, I want opportunity to prove that I am ready lo be a loving Yrlend to you." For a long time no notice was taken of the note. Amie, seeing that her brother's patrons wero resolved to cut her ac quaintance utterly, paid them no fur ther outward attention, and devoted borself diligently to her business. "With Increased income came aug mented expenses. The III tie tenement was oxchanged for the quite pretentious ono before alluded to, with resldenco above a commodious store at n rental of one hundred and fifty dollars per month. Tho family, being never before accus tomed to the luxuries that money brings, becamo very extravagant in their demands upon the profits of tbe house. Amic would often expostulate, but to little purpose, and slowly, as tbe months rolled on, did she realize the fact that sho was barely able to retain funds enough from current expenses to keep the old stock paid for, while, for the new one, she was always many hundred dollars in debt. Tho knowledge of her hopeless In debtedness told fearfully upon her spirits. It was all in vain that the urged her brother Jim, now quite a tall boy, to find some good situation where he might support himself. Tho boy "had as good a thing as he wanted at home;" besides, he was grow ing Indolent and dissolute in his habits. He bad been expelled from tho public schools for playing truant, and his idle ness gave bis sisters deep concern. Henry never visited tho new estab lishment when Amie was at home. Tho adroit insinuations of Mrs. Hastings against the reputation of his sister, aud her own Indignation when he men tioned his suspicions against her char acter at their last interview, had suf ficed to estrange them utterly. But Henry Lee was no ordinary boy. He Improved diligently every moment of his tlmo at school, and was especially expert In essay-writing. The boy seemed to develop political knowledge by a sort of spontaneous growth, and his literary productions gradually found their way as leaders in the columns of the Every Morning Gazette. The editor of this paper was a fossil of tbo old school, and the public, noting the fresh originality of the new produc tions, made so many favorable com ments that the publisher was induced to mako a liberal ofTerof an editorial place to the chore boy of Hastings senior. The boy unhesitatingly accepted an fi cognilo position at a salary which ena bled bim to obtain board and lodging at nn elegant up-town residence, where he could pursue his studies unmolested, or write up his brilliant editorials at bis leisure The gayest parties, picnics and festi vals in the city delighted now to do him honor. Tho best and broadest oppor tunity for culluro arose aud met bim. No obstacles were In his path hence forth. Header, we beg your pardon there was one serious annoyance that contin ually confronted the mental vision of nenry Lee. People knew that the pretty milliner with the faultless taste, damaged repu tation and dependent family was the sister of the rising politician. To keep this ambitious girl from becoming so conspicuous as to ever render tho public coupling of their names possible was his pet ambition. "Strong-minded women" bad become common in the land, and it had even been hinted that a society of these un sexed monstrosities was about to bo or ganized in Portsmouth. Common 6ense might have turned tbe very young man's solicitude into chan nels of effort to securo honorable em ployment for bis kind and impulsive but iuconsldcrato and Idle brother James; but, it being man's business to 2rolccl woman only, it was not strange that he forgot his brother. "Oh, dear!" said Amie, wearily to herself, as the dreaded "agent" came around for the regular rent, due on the first day of the month, "I do wish Henry would take one or tlie upper rooms and get his board with us. He might just as well share his lot with tho family as not, and the money ho pays for boanl and lodging up town would pay half of our rent." But Henry Leo made no such over ture. Possibly it did not occur to him. Yet ho was kind and pleasant with Fannie and Sue when lie met them, and occasionally sent a paper of sugar plums to Tot. What more could be ex pected of a very young and ambitious man who was striving to get on in the world? (To bo continued:) Navai Statistics. The whole ton- nairo of tbe world couslsts of 57,727 sail vessels, measuring 14,503,839 tons, and 4.333 steamers, measuring 3.GS0.G70 tons. Great Britain stands first, with 1!),172 sail-vessels, of 5,300,327 tons, and 2,333 steamers, of lons- 1 1,8 - niteu States como next, followlnea long way off with 7,0M ships, of 2,272,120 tons, and 420 steamers, of 401,013 tons. Nor way, strango to say, comes next in the list or sail-vessels, una itaiy louows in tho fourth place. Germany comes next. and France still next ; but In tho list of steamers, t ranee Is third anil Germany lounn. A woman who recently died near Ban gor, Maine, was so anxious lest her body should be duir un and dissected bv tbn doctors that she left $G0 to pay a man for waicning tier grave a moutu auersho was burled. Tbo watchmau is at his post every night. THE MODEBNPREAOHEB. the NKWSrArini rutprr so rAssiNO noi-sn TUC BEOOIM1 BOX. BV A. OAVLORD SrALJMXU. It is real handy, isn't it, to put your sermon in printer's Ink, and stand in the Newspaper Pulpit? Figuratively, let it be of rosewood, carved and gilded, fringed and tasseled, fortheworkingmcni the women, tho common people. In tho past It has been different; but, como to think of It, it must prove a very great economy, and why not try it? The au dience is like a banyan tree, spreading round very loose aud unlimited, and not confined to Sunday. This style of preaching takes live hundred per cent less money, and besides, it will go a thousand times as far. Strange, that the ministers do not adopt this much superior method. (By the way, I must secure a copyright of my novel Idea.) It will save the fearful cost of such to tally dead and unproductive property as meeting-houses, and so many sociables, and strawberry, aud oyster, and ice cream festivals to support them, aud the high salaries, and the constant an noyance and burden of passlug round the everlasting begging box so terribly eating on tho pluched, emaciated, hun gry and starved little pocketbooks of working people. The pith and substance of all important essays and discourses should go in the free aud heroic newspa per, making It the cheap organ of civili zation aud salvation, which may be or. dalncd with the marked and significant title of the Modern Preacher, and all newspapers may open a lively competi tion in tho smart preaching busiuess. I therefore hereby nominate and or dain the New Northwest os a Modern Preacher for Humanity, Bcform, and Woman Suflrage. Wou't it be queer a minister in the mail-bags! The ever industrious and patient preacher never stops, but travels quietly on his wear3, winding way, rejoicing and happy, and takes by-roads and cross roads, straight roads and crooked roads, level roads and hilly roads, sandy roads and muddy roads, rocky roads and stumpy roads, snowy roads and Icy roads, jumping, and bumping, and thumping all over the world. From mypreseut point of lone, serene, aud meditative reiKwc, my anxious- heart journeys out on the telegraphic wires of Thought, through the groves, fields, and ranches, and gulches, and diggings of the far-oil Rocky Mountain State of Oregon, peeping into tho hum ble and joyous homes of many hard toil er, tillers of the soil, workers in shops, and iu the mines. They take the inde pendent and progressive newspaper. What reliable women are found In farm ers' and worklugmcn's homes, for wom anly worth and character ! They give a charm and attraction to all that new and wild country, and where the mlllcnium comes, its sweetest bliss and brightest perfection aud glory will be more than half duo to the women workers of tbe world. The modem preaching Is a vast im provement on the old. Its mission is to hanly, honest workiugmcu and women, and its doctriuc, a common brotherhood, sisterhood, and equal rights, with unity and co-operation. These are most wonderful limes. The sceuo is panoramic; aud, as it moves along, now fast, then slow, kaleidoscopic beauties delight tho eye. Beform, Poli tics, Science, Railroads, Monopoly, Ex tortion, Worklngmen, Women, The Comet, Heathen Chinee, Grasshoppers and Potato Bugs are on exhibition. Things are condensed and focalized. Streaks of light appear in the northern horizon. Rainbow splendors stripe tbe dark and boding clouds, and enchant the prophetic beholder. What intellect, skill, breadth and power, distinguish the mighty manipulator! Who is he? Dou't you kuow bim? He is tho pro found, pungent and eloquent Modern Preacher, who casts all old style, old fogy expounders entirely in the shade of humiliation. He speaks to every body once a week, every day and all the time. Listen, O, good people ! Now wo return home. The people's hands are full this year the women's and the men's (except the thousands of unlucky ones just now thrown out of employment). Woman Suflrage shines on the high mountain crest in the dis tance, and tlie beautiful Land of Promise lies In tho rich valley beyond. Cheer up, brothers; cheer, O sister! The good time is close upon us. The ballot, the ballot! wejiotd Incur hand; Tls freedom-Cod-glven-to all; And women should claim it in every land, To raise them from want and from thrall. Champlin, Minn., August, 1874. A Fax-Shaped Citv. Amderstam is a verv strange city, and unlike any other In'Europe. It is In the shape of a lady's fan when open. Five canals en circle the city in parallel curves, and one passes around tho outside. The streets cross the canals by draw-bridges. There are crossing these canals six hund red bridges, and the city is divided Into nincty-Hve islands by cross canals. Houses front on these canals, and often havo a wide quay, but sometimes tbe houses rise from the water's edge. These canals are filled with ships and small boats, and they can pass through the city aud unload at auy part. To deny women the elective franchise because they cannot bear arms would not be one whit more unreasouablethati to deny men the ballot-because they cannot bear children. Grand J'ajuds Evening lisl. Aid for Michigan. The New "i ork Woman Suffrage As sociation Issue the following well-timed circular, which commends itself to all those who desire the success of the greatest movement of the age; and it is to he hoped will stimulate all whom It reaches to effort in tho way of pecuniary aid to the Woman Suflragists of Michi gan: Op.oaxizh ! Ohoaxize! Okciaxize! To the Friends of Civil Equality Everywhere: Men aud women of Amer ica, the battle Is upon us in Michigan. The Importance of canvassing the State thoroughly cannot be over-estimated. Judce Brown confessed before the "Na tional Social Science Association," that more than half of the newspapers of this mate are in ravor or tlio ballot lor women, and that he feared it would carry, though he deprecated the result. Nineteen Senators voted for suffrage for women in the Territories. Congress will remit the sentence of Miss An thony, aud thus practically condemn the judgment. Michigan is alive. At the Lansing Convention $2,000 was sub scribed. "$50 00 and work until elec t!on,"said one woman; "twenty dollars," said another; "here's my watch, worth $100," said a third. Now let us do our tart. Success in Michigan, and the 'nlon is ours. Only men can vote, anil they must be enlightened on the princi ples aud equities of our claims. Speak ers, documents, sympathy and materi als are needed. Shall they have them ? We have a tract ready to print, "The National Justice, Civil Equity and Con stitutional Right of Women to the Bal lot," which should go into the hands of every legal voter in the IT. S. We have speakers who will work for their ex penses, and all tbe conditions of success ready for us. The appeal Is to every non-voting, tax-paying, enslaved woman, and every true man in the whole world. Are you willing to behold this contest without an effort to aid in the achievement of the greatest moral triumph of all the ages? The necessity is pressing, ami wo appeal especially to ourTriends who are blessed witli means. Who will sup twrt one lecturer for one month, or dur ing the campaign ? Tbe abundance of tbe ricii and tho mite of the widow will be acceptable. Cixmknce S. Lozinit, M. D., President. I.II.I.IK DEVEHEUX BtuVKE, Chairman Executive Committee. Address II. M. L. Shcpard, Cor. Sec., 44 Bond Street, N. Y. City. . The doming Woman. Woman seems to be passing a transi tion period, aud the question iu the heart of every man and iu the hearts of some of the women, too, if, what is she coming to? But this question Is asked by diflerent persons with different feel ings. Willi some it is asked with hope aud joy; with others, in fear and alarm; with some, in doubt and unbelief; with others, in faith and confidence. The world move forward with vast strides, nnd carries with It not only art, science, literature, government and society, but even the very construction of the hu man mind seems tobechangcdattlmes. A great overruling pawer seems to be bringing all the human family slowly and surely up to one common level. It is verv plain that women are not to be slaves and drudgis as among uncivil ized nations. Neither are they de signed to be shut up iu the house and veiled from the sight of tbe world as things not to be trusted, but guarded sa credly and kept to minister lo man's pleasure and passions. The periods when they were held in such positions havo passed. Women who yesterday were guarded and shielded for fear the winds of heaven would blow upon then), to-day face, without fear, the tumult of the rabble, speak eloquently in public, aud pray fervently iu the presence of their scornful enemy. What has caused this sudden change, aud are the women less womanly since? Ask their hus bands. No one will detect a waning femininity and a growing masculinity iu a woman so quick as a husband. Or are they less gentle and loving? Ask their sweethearts. Or are they less tender aud kind? Ask their children. No, these women, while they have grown in power, have not lost one womanly feeling or instinct. Tho com ing woman, then, will be no less a woman and no more a man. She will be no less loving and no more bitter; no less lovely and no more hateful. The coming woman will be less trifling, more earnest, less oppressed, down trodden aud abused, more respected by the right and feared by the wrong, less circumscribed in her work and her du ties, aud more powerful to accomplish all tho good that her heart prompts her to attempt. Tho coming woman will be free, under God, to exercise all tho power with which she is so bountifully and so beautifully clothed. This is the coming woman. Leavenworth Daily Commercial. A Statue to Joiix Buxvax. What strange revolutions of opinion time sometimes brings round! Two hund red years ago there arose in England one of tlie truest men of genius on all the long roll of her famous sons. Glori ous fancies filled his soul, aud his pen dropped beauties as it llewalong the page. But it was his unhappy lot to be in ad vance of his times. They were times of levity and frivolity. Men could not un derstand this dreamer, and he was cast Iu tlie common prison on Bedford Bridge, there to tag laces for twelve weary years. But lo ! tbo other day a brilliant company assembles in this same town of Bedford to inaugurate a noble monument, erected by public sub scription, to tho memory of this same John Bunyan. Peers, dignitaries of the church, and municipal magnates are there, vying with each other in speaking his praise, and, amid general i plaudits, the statue of the ouzo despised tinker of Elstow Is unveiled to public view. The seventeenth century Im prisons him the nineteenth raises a monument to him in tho town of his imprisonment. Two hundred years ago no treatment was too severe no pun ishment too ignominious for tho author of the "Pilgrim's Progress." To-day no language is too eulogistic to celebrate his praise. The men who were then honored are now either forgotten or de spised; and John Bunyan, who stead fastly adhered to principle, and served his God according to his conscience at all costs, Is "itl everlasting remem brance." We hope tho meu of to-day will learn the lesson of the caie. It is a most instructive one. Belfast Witness The Opposition Argument. The press of Michigan by a very large mnjorlty favors Woman Suflrage, but among those papers which assail It is tho Grand Rapids Eagle, and its method of attack is in this wise: "But wo are to have more imported orators on this occasion than ever be fore, and there must be a lively canvass. Michigan is tho field of battle for Wom an Sullragists of tho nation this year. Election campaigns mean work, and the most noisy of the 'Reform' parties are not such stolid blockheads as to be ignorant of the fact that they mean money also, and all the arts perthun; to political canvassing, and proiclyting, and even tcirc-pulling. The women, if they are to enter tlie political lists, must be at once put Into regular training. They must not shrink from a little po litical abuse of their favorite candidatps, or of themselves us candidates; indeed, the growing fashion is for the most noisy reformers to assail the chnracter of a public officer aud candidate for pul Ile office with a vehemence just in pro portion to tho victim's innocence, hon esty, and Integrity. All alike must 'catch it,' for such a character is public property aud political game." No con siderations of decency or of honorable disarimination are to be allowed to stand in the way. With rigid impar tiality the charges must be rained thick and fast upon the just aud unjust of die 'awfully corrupt' and dominant party. On second thought, the Missouri women had better send up the bribery we mean the election funds. OurMichigan women should be educated as much as possible for the new work to which the ballot will introduce them. Let the canvass be us lively as the tight times will ad mit." To this the Grand Rapids Evening Host appropriately replies: "Of course he intimates that election campaigns mean not only work, but bribery. That may bo Mr. Baxter's way of doing political work, but it isn't the way Woman Suffragists propose to carry on their campaign. If Mr. Bax ter wisncs merely to intimate mat dol lars and cents arc all that can brim; the Eagle or himself to the support of this question, lie may as well be told at once that lie can't have any of the So.OOO that the Woman Suflragists of Mirxouri are endeavoring to raise to help their friends here to purchase tracts nnd employ sneakers. The Woman Sullragists of this State haven't a dollar with which to buy up either editors, newspapers or voters, so if the Eagle cannot support this question on its merits, it will have to oppose it." The kind of attack of the Grand Rap Ids Eagle may be a safety-valve by way of letting off a large stoekof HI feeling but the argument falls. The cause can never be battered down by a legion of assaults of that character. What Women are Doing. The graduatingclass of thcUnlversity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, contained seventy-four members, six of whom were women. The degree of Pharma ceutical Chemist was conferred upon one young woman, and that of Doctor of Medicine upon oue more. Commence ment dinner followed close upon tho graduating exercises. About 350 per sons, consisting of the officers, alumni, (jULow uj mo i in ui onj , H ere pres ent. The lady members of the graduat ing class attended, aud for the first time the speakers addressed their hearers as "ladies and gentlemen," and spoke to the alumnte and alumni of the Univer sity. There were ladies in tlie classes of 1S72 and 1S73, but they were too few in number to go through tho ordeal of dining among hundreds of the sterner sex. Tho President's reception in the evening closed the exercises of the day. The graduates of Syracuse (N. Y.) University this year number seven three ladies and four gentlemen. Syra cuse University is one of tho institutious that practically believe in tho co-educa-tlon of the sexes, and she has thrown open her doors for the admission of womau, claiming her right to receive at the hands of the Universitv tho education as that ollered to men. That the ladies appreciate this Is evidenced by the alacrity with which they havo hastened to the University halls. Mrs. Oilman, of tho Chelsea Sub Committee, performed tho ceremony of delivering the diplomas to the Shurtleil Grammar School graduates, last Tues day. Mrs. Oilman was the first princi pal oi tuat school ror several years, and her interest in education is unabated. Under the direction and leadership of that lady and Miss Hoyt, tho present principal, the school is believed to be second to none in the State. We nre not able to State how many hundred dollars less in the way of salary Miss Hoyt annually receives than tho male principals with whom she is associated in teaching, but they are considerable. And yet she is their equal in position, amount of work jierformed, responsibil ity and qualification. But the accident of her being a woman defrauds her of her rightful compensation. Woman's Journal. Dead, But Not Bukikd. When a friend dies and Is buried, there's an end of. We miss him for a space out of our dally existence; we mourn for him by degrees that become mercifully less; wo cling to the blessed hope that we shall be united in somo more perfect sphere; but so far as this earth is concerned, there's an end of him. However near and dear he was, the time arrives when he does not form a part of our daily thoughts; he ceases ever to be an at traction. Wecono more with flmvnre and tears into the quiet cemetery: onlv i,.. a auu-iiuiies ian mere; wo leave it for tlie fincer of snrinrr r deck the neglected mound. But when our friend vanishes unac countably iu tho midst of a crowded city, or goes oft" on a sea voyage and is . , . .''"" ,us memory lias a singular tenacity. He may be to all in tents aud purposes dead, but we have not lost him. The ring of tho door-bell at midnight may be his ring; the ap proaching footstep may be his footstep; the unexpected letter with foreign post marks may bo from his hand. Ho haunts us as tbe dead never can. Tho woman whose husbaud died last night may marry again within a lustre of months. Do you suppose n week passes by when the woman whoso husband dis appeared mysteriously ten years ago does not think of him? There are mo ments wheu the opening of a door must startlo her. There is no real absence but death.