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' MBS. A. J. Bl'.MH'AV, Etor and Proprietor. OFFICE Cor. Front and SUrk Streets. TEHMS, IN ADVANCE: A Journal for tho Teople. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity. Independent In Politics and Religion. Uive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs of the Masses. On yoar Six months Tliree months. .$3 00 175 -1 Fuse Speech, Free Tkess, Fkee PEorte. Correspondents writing over assumedslgna tures must make known their names to the Editor.or no attention will be given tothelr communications. ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable VOLUME rv. POKTLAKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1874. mnrBER o. AMI AND HENRY LEE; OB - " Tlio Spherc-s or the Hexes. BY MBS. A. J. DD2CIWAY. Entered, aeeoffttng to Act of Oongress.ln the year g4, by Mrs. A. J. Dam way, 1 n th e office of wie Librarian of Conre at Washington City. CHAPTER XX. Robert Grceu, Esq., the wealthy and enterprisingepeculatorin real estate, who was amply able to 11 vesutnptuousl v unon his private Income, but who cho9e to Continue In business, because of his re markable restlessness of mind and body. sat in the rear window of one of his mag nificent bachelor apartmonts, gazing auniiringly upon the prospect before him. The new mansion, to which he was intending to convey his bride elect. loomed in artistic proportions from a gentle eminence In full view from his position, ami as hclsurveyed the scene with intense satisfaction, he exclaimed audibly, "You're a mighty lucky dog, Bob Green." A soft hand was laid suddenly upon his shoulder, and a gentlo voico whis pered in his ear, "II is I. Do you not know your loving wife ? I believe that I address Aliuison Hastings alias Robert Green." "Clara Morton Hastings, have you risen from the dead?" exclaimed the wretched man, shaking from head to foot, as his wife, divested of every dis guise, stood before him, arrayed in the very drees in which he had last beheld her In their New York home. "And you thought I was dead, did you? Ha, ha, ha I The joke is too rich, husband, best and faithfulest. Lucky dog as yon are, there is a limit to your great good fortune, sir." And the wom an, peerlessly beautiful, in a robe of crimson velvet, trimmed with costliest laces and adorned with fabulously ex pensive jewels, arched her fine neck, waved her soft and shapely hand, and stood before him, the personification of feminine loveliness and strength. "Do Hook like a dead woman?" she queried, laying bare her arm, aud dis playing its plump proportions, while straightening her body to its fullest height. Ah, my truant husband,you little thought the day of triumph would come to me. You little expected, when you tramplod under the ruthless feet of a libertine the holiest affection that a woman can bestow that a day of reck oning was coming. You little knew Clara Morton, sir, or you would never have attempted to circumvent her. Why, man, I have tracked you the wide world over. I have found you in mauy a brothel, where assuming various dis guises, I have captivated you. Yes, sir, under the blushing light of the twink ling night stars in almost every state in this Union, I have fascinated and en trapped you, winning from yon in every case the most extravagant declarations of ever enduring love. You have been more affectionate, if possible, with me, as Madam Rosa De La Vero than in any other role. Ipercievetbatyou are daily increasing your large original stock of honorable admiration for the sex." Robert Green was indeed baffled. Had thin woman had no legal claims upon him he could have spurned her, as bo had done many others when tired of their charms; but, as he looked into her eyes, in which a gleam of fierce, defiant insanity seemed to lurk, and reflected upon his present position, he could sec nothing before him but irretrievable disgrace. "Miss May Hastings is your father's brother's daughter, too. It would be a splendid joke if you could bring bigamy into the family of your blood relations, wouldn't it?" said the woman savagely. The man rallied a little. Overcome by rage, he flew at her and clutched her by the throat For a moment it seemed that murder would bo added to his catalogue of sins. The woman's face grew livid and her eyes seemed starting from their sockets, as with her jeweled fingers, clutching desperately in his hair, she struggled to free herself from his grasp. Gradually she grew unconscious. Great, fiery rings of light divided the black darkness into circles, and sotiioJ dnu-n nr- - iikc a pyrotechnic display. Her tongue protruded from her mouth and purple knots tangled themselves upon her hitherto transpar ent forehead. "Halloa!" exclaimed Henry Lee, who in no very placid frame of mind had sought the abode of his treacherous friend. Comprehending luo situation at a glance, although he did not recognize the wife of Robert Green, except by a sort of instinct, Henry sprang upon tho in furiated woman-protector and compelled him to relax his hold. Still furious with rage the baffled hus band kicked and bruised the prostrate, and now unconscious form, untilHeury, exasperated by his brutal conduct, gave him a violent blow upon the temple, striking him senseless to tho ground. Tho noiso attracted a passing police man, who, upon entering, found Henry, Lee engaged in an unsuccessful attempt to restore the woman to consciousness while the assailant lay quivering beside her, also bereft of sensation. "What's all this row about?" asked the officer. "That's more than I can tell," was Henry's reply. "I camo up here to see Green on a matter of business, and found 1 this woman in his fiendish grip.and I laid him out. He'll come to directly I struck lilm just right; but I'm not so certain about tho woman. Look at these fingermarks on her throat" "The very devil's in the woman, any how."' said the officer, as ho surveyed tho scene. "Hadn't I better fetch the doctor?" That dignitary was soon brought and the proper restoratives applied. "DidlioWKme?" questioned the poor wife wildly, as she arose to a sitting pos ture and looked anxiously around the room. 'fO.myGod! I have killed IrimJ" she shrieked, as she saw the prostrate form of her unconscious lord, as he lay quivering beside her. "O, no. Don't bo alarmed, madam. He'll bcpll right presently," said Henry Lee. "I laid him out on purpose to keep him from killing you." Gradually the womau awoke to com plete consciousness. Though stagger ing beneath the weight of mental and physica injuries, she nevertheless com prehended the situation, and womanlike was ready to act at once. Turning to the officer, she said, "Mr. Green and I will bo imprisoned and fined if the news of this encounter reaches official head quarters. Please say nothing about it, add here's a hundred dollar bill that you can keep for pocket change." "Youforget my official duty, ma'am," was theregretful reply, as the policcmau glanced! wistfully at the crisp-looking greenbacks, and possibly thought of prospective drinks. "No.Idou't," was the quick rejoinder. "If you take us to prisou, neither of us will complain against the other, and you'll have your trouble for your pains. What Is your fee, doctor? Remember, please, to make it large enough to plas teryour conscience sufficiently to enable you to keep your tongue still on tho street" Tho doctor hesitated, and a fresh, crisp nqte, equal to that just received by the policeman, was thrust into his hands. Whether that sum was satisfactory or not, deponent does not undertake to say; but no arrests were made, and the pub lic mind was duly informed of the affray in the columns of the Evening Bugle, in the following reliable squib: A WOMAN IN" THE CASE. This morning as one of our most respecta ble citizen!:, who is shortly to become a Ilene dict.was sitting peaceably In Ills bachelor apart ments, enjoying the prospect of rapidly ap proaching connubial happiness, he was In truded upon and assaulted by a notorious but mysterious hand, who, being Jealous of her fair and legitimate rival, fell upon him llkeatlgress and tore his hair tearfully. The gentleman held her at bay as well as possible until third party camo to his assistance, who booted the frail charmer out ol doors. When women tall they descend so much lower than men can go, that It Is little wonder that the better classes of our citizens lear their ap proaching political equality with themselves. Doubtless the harridan who thus assaulted our estimable friend belongs to the 'strong-minded' class, who are a perpetual libel upon woman- Hood and a lasung disgrace to manhood, be cause they want to vote. We congratulate the respectable ladles of our acquaintance upon their determination, not to mingle with disor derly women jn a demand for privileges which win rorever unsex and disgrace them. It Is feared that our friend Bob will need a wig for a season. The fact was, as the reader perceives, that the policeman and physician were alike mollified by tho hundred dollar conscience piaster, and the reporter of ttie Jiugle was slightly hoaxed by tho civil officer when asked too many ques tions, hence he had the above report The husband and wife and Henry Leo were soon left alone in the bachelor npartments. The formerrecovered from Henry's well-administered blow suffi cientiy to enable him to converse freely, and a long council was held in which it was deemed expedient to transport Robert Green to the Sandwicli Islands, on an outgoing vessel. Henry Lee, seeing that the mystorious woman heldagreat advantage, was con tent to allow her to manage tho denoue ment of the tragedy, and he listened to herwonlsof wisdom in supreme oston ishmcnt. A vessel was to sail that night, hound for Honolulu, and Mrs. Clara Morton Hastings, alias Colonel Jonps of the late C. S. A., alias Madam Rosa De La Vere, iccideu that Robert Green should be come a passenger, and that worthy ac quiesced because he could not heln it. Cowed by her fierce determination and fearing above all things that the knowl edge of her real relations to himself might become known nnd thereby dis grace him in tho estimation of his asso ciates, the poor, baffled victim of worn an's cruel machinations against mascu line honor and privilege was compelled to forego prospective connubial bliss and secrete himself in a little coop of a state room on board the goodshlpSound ing Sea. Amie Leo was devoting much timo to her toilet and much mora to books and pen. For the first time In her life she had found leisure to store her mind with classic lore, and as she delved deeply into jail kinds of grain. Spain, a country of the beautiful mysteries of by-gone! rabbits, orconies. Thiscountry was once eras and drained therefrom delicious if?, Ttt,ItftSsn",ma,f tht ,MIW f nnBito InonlrnMnn mh.l. llshed with the glow of her own wonder ful genius, It seemed that a new world, with Illimitable bounds.andevervorying possibilities of joy and beauty, were sud denly opened before her mental vision, transforming her life's aspirations into newly created genius of untold wealth and unimaginable beauty. She found It Impossible to feel unhappy even though locked in a felon's cell. Strength from a source she knew not, settled around and over her, filling her soul with joy and gladness. Alice Hastings visited her daily, tak ing unusual care to veil her features when upon the street The business of tho fashion emporium was wholly given up to Fanny and Sue, and the impression went forth over tho city that Miss Le Clcrq had gone to Chicago for supplies. This precaution became necessary, because of the desire of Alice to bleach her long dyod com plexion, that fiho might become Alice Hastings in appearanco as well as in reality, when she should make her de but In Portsmouth society upon the evening of May's wedding and Melvin's return from New York. Suddenly, to the surprise and delight of her family and friends, Mrs. Hastings began to recover frcm her long and pain ful illness. Amic Leo's milliner Visited her dally, always demanding a long private interview, which was also always granted. And day by day as tho invalid held the hand of her daughter and gazed with beaming eyes into her thoughtful face, watching tho gradual return of tho old beautiful blonde complexion, and realizing more fully every day the bliss ful fact that the lost was found, the old color camo to her lips, the cough grew less painful and frequent, and the hectic that had burned In a singlo spot upon her pallid cheek, diffused Itself over her face, inspiring her friends with hope, and herself with confidence. Melvin Hastings senior, who had grown gray and old quite rapidly within the past few years, seemed to take little interest in the society of his home. Ho walked to aud fro upon tho streets with an abstracted air, scarcely ever return ing the recognizing nods of friends, and spending much moro tlmo than formerly in tho society of fallen men aud women at the "Walk In and Welcome." After tho departure of Robert Green, the strange brunette was seen no more at tho gorgeous palace of pleasure. But the reader, being wholly in the writer's confidence, is asked to go with us to an upper room in Amic Leo's fashion em porium, the same in which Alice Hast ings was at first given a place of refuge, where, in the agony of an outraged soul, the wronged wife paces restlessly the tufted floor, with her jeweled bands pressed upon her throbbing temples and her soul reaching out in unutterable agony toward tho truant husbaud, to whom in the bright vigor and loveliness of her first budding womanhood, she had yielded unquestioning!-nnd with a sublimlly of trust of which woman only is capable, her life, her fortune and her sacred honor. May Hastings was sitting in her richly furnished boudoir, dreaming of the future, and complacently surveying the new mausion which, from anotherdircc- tion, her expectant lord had lately been vlewiug it, when the almond-eyed por ter brought her a nolo from Mr. Green, explaining that urgent and Important business had called him to a distant city, but that he would surely return by the twentieth, then but eight days off. "I almost wish ho never would como back," she said nervously, as she picked the noto to pieces. "There's more man hood in Henry Lee's little finger than his whole body contains. But then," and the hello sighed heavily, "its no use fora woman to indulge in such a thought Henry Lee wouldn't think of paying mo any attention unless I'd mako the first advances, and what woman would dare do such a thing a3 that? I've fought against my natural love for that boy, ever since I first saw the struggles he made to conquer obscurity and adverse circumstances. I wonder why it Is that women have no right of choice in mat rimony ? Bob Green is selfish and con ceited aud obstinate and homely and dull and overbearing. But then, he's rich and I'll be the most stylish bride in Portsmouth. Though it does make me shudder to think of being Mrs. Green Bah ! what an ugly name !" Ah, May Hastings ! Tho name would have been all right enough, if you had only loved him. Uncle John Ainsleo suddenly! grew very particular about his dress. As the mysteries of a gentleman's toilet are not ours to divulge, you will pluaso excuse us, good reader, for declining to say posl lively that he dyed his hair and whis kers, but from some inexplicable reason, they grew strangely black and brilliant, while a look of quiet happiness beamed i root ilia face as ho walked from ono real estate office to another, looking for the most eligible bargains in tho many elegant edifices that were registered for sale. ITo be continued.! Names of Cor.vnms nimna sig nifies a country of whito complexions ; so named because the inhabitants there were of lighter complexion than those of either Asia or Afrir-n. am .j. i nifies the land of corn, or ears. It was celebrated for itn nhnnHnn. nr i ! J?"' "utu "Blu. ior an army to destroy them. Itulv. aconnirv of pitch ; from its yielding great quan tities of pitch. Gaul, modern France, signifies yellowed-haired ; a3 yellow hair characterized its first inhabitants. Britain, the country of tin, as there wore great quantities of lead and tin found on the adjacent Islands. The Greeks called it Albion, which signifies either whito or high mountains, from tho whiteness of its shores, or the high rocks on tho western shore. Patriotism and Parentage. It has not always been regarded as a thing creditable to woman that she was tho mother of the human race. On the contrary, the fact was often mentioned, in tho middle ages, as a distinct proof of inferiority. The question wasjdiscussed in the mcditeval Council of Mason, and tho position taken that woman was no more entitled to rank as human, because Biie brought forth men. than thecarden- earth could take rank with thofruitand j Uowers it bore. The same view was re vived by a Latin writer of 1505, on tho thesis " Mulicrcs non homines esse," a French translation of which was printed tinder the title of "Faradoxc sur let femmes," in 176G. Napoleon Bonaparte used tue sauio image, carrying it almost as far: "Woman is given to man that she may bear children. Woman is our property ; we are not hers; because she produces children for us; wcdonotyield any to her ; sue is therefore our posses sion, as tho fruit trco is that of the gar dener." Even the fact of parentage, therefore. has been adroitly convorted into n ground of inferiority for women; and this is ostensibly tuo reason why lineage has been reckoned, almost everywhere. through tho male lino only, ignoriugthc female; just as in tracing tho seed of 6omo rare fruit, the gardener takes no T i l ..! i i l geneologIc.il account ofthegarden where It grew. Tho view is now seldom expressed in full force; the remnant of it is to be found in tho lingering expression that, at any rate, a woman who is not a mother is of no account; as worttdess as a fruitless carden or a barren fruit tree. Created only for a certain object, she is of course valueless unless mat object ue luntiied. But the race must have fathers as well as mothers, nnd If we look for the evi dence of public service in great men, it certainly docs not always lie in leaving children '.to the republic. On tho con trary, the rule has .rather seemed to be, that the most eminent men have left their bequest of service in any form rather than in that of a great family. Recent inquiries into the matter have brought out some remarkable facts in this regard. As a rule there exists no living de scendants in the malo line from the great authors, artists, statesmen, sol diers of England. There is not ouo such descendant of Chaucer, Shakspcare, Spenser. Butler, Dry-don, Pope, Cowpcr, Goldsmith, Scott, Byron or Moore; not ono of Drake, Cromwell, Monk, Marl borough, Peterborough, or Nelson ; not one ot btrall.ini, urmoud, or (Jiarenneti; not ono of Addison. Swift or Johnson: 1 not one of Waltiole. I!olin?broke. Chat- I ham. Pitt. Fox. Itnrke. Onittnn or Can- i uing; not one of Bacon, Locke, New- for the berry, which is then ready to such scandal will be multiplied indelin tou or Davy ; not one of Hume, Gibbon I pick. i itely." If the scandal involving Mr. . ' . .. .... .... 1 . ,..!. r i r m:i. i - or .Maucauiay ; not one ot tiogariu on iicyiioius ; not one oi vjarm-K, joiiu ii."fc muies, ucjiuu, mi vui, Kcmblc or Edmund Keun. It would be ' America, prepared for market by a ma easy to make u similar American list, i chine process called pulping and wash beginning with Washington, of whom ( ing, which greatly expedites matters, it was said that "Providence made him land gives a quality of collee much pre- childless that his country might cull him Father." Now, however wo may recret that thfso great men have loft no posterity, or posterity by the female line alone, it does not occur to any ono us affording uny serious drawback iiKn their service to their country. Certainly It does not occur to us tuat tuey wouiu nave oeon mora userul Had tuey lelt children to tue beeu pulped and wasiied, ior me mucn world, but rendered it no other service. 1 agiuous substance which is washed oil Lord Bacon says that "he that hath wife i by the pulping process is absorbed by and children hath given hostages to for- tune: for they are Impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly tlie best works, and ol great- est merit to tlie public, have proceeded fromunmarriedorclilldlessmen; which, both in affection aud means, havo mar- ried and endowed the public." And this Is tlie view generally accepted ; that the public is iu such cases rather the gainer than the loser, and lias no right to com plain. Since, therefore, evory child must have a father aud n mother both, and neither alone suffice, why should we thus heap gratitude on men who, from' prererence or irom necessity, nave re mained childless, and yet habitually treat women as if they could render no service to their country except by giving It children? If it be folly and shame, as I think, to belittle and decry the dig nity and worth of motherhood, assomo are said to do it, is no less folly, and shame quite as great, to deny the grand and patriotic service of many women who have died aud left no children among their mourners. Woman's Jour nal. LvAn-noi'itiATE Mahuiage Ser vices. It is a little singular to reflect upon, that there should not be in exist ence a fully appropriate marriage scr vlco for the uses of cither tho church or the world. The Episcopal service, one most hallowed by churchly associations and most full of excellencies, has yet egregious faults. Bad taste, bad gram mar, and perjury may have their places, but a marriago scrvico would not seem to bo the place for them. "I take thee to my wedded wife (or husband) to have and to hold," is an awkwardness for which only long Incurtated reverence could feel so much rhetorical respect as not to mar a matrimonial ccstacy. "Till death do us part," Is a dislocation in which the most dovout church wom an must feel a pang. Tho inquiry, "Who givcth this woman to bo married to this man ?" is, to say the least of it, an anachronism. "I pronounco you man and wife," flavors somewhat of the tenement-houso patois, as of a couplo henceforth to say, "My man is abroad to-day," or, "My woman is getting din ner." "With all my worldly goods I theo endow," Is a fiction so stupendous as to bo more amusiug than impressive. "Do you promise to obey him and serve him v" Tho woman shall say. "I will." Herein we have the spectacle of a priest at tho altar offering the most solemn and binding of vows tq a woman who has not tho least intention of keeping it; who will not keep it, ir she has; and who ought not to keep it, whether she has or not The church service was tvriitnn in n hv-r?one aire, fora bv-cono typo of society. Its real beauties can-! not save it Intact to the future. The marriago to be, will demand a pledge i ror which this is neiinerspeecn nor lau guage. Elizabeth Stuart Phctps. The Washington Insane Asylum con tains at present fifty patients, nine of whom are females. The rate paid to tho contractor, Mr. Harmon, for their keep ing Is ninety-one cents per day for each patient. This includes board, clothing and washing. Tho Territory pays for medical attention. A Cnp of Coffee. Tbero are about ono hundred millions of peoplo on the face of the globe who would regard the loss of their dally cup of coffee as one of the greatest privations thoy could endure, although it is only for the last two hundred years that coffee has been generally kown to the civil ized world. Coffee is popularly supposed to have boeu first used by the Arabians, but careful research leads us to the knowl edge that the Ethlopiaus and Abyssln lans knew of its strengthening and iu vlgoratlng qualities for many years be fore the natives of Arabia used it. It is said that the savages of higher Ethiopia pounded tho parched bean as they would grain, making a coarse flour from it which they mixed with grease and separated into little balls. Two or three of theso halls would support n man u wholo day, and were, therefore, as they took up little room, In high favor with the warriors while out on marauding ex peditions. . Arabia, however, has tho honor of lilrst introducing it to the civilized world. It was Introduced there by tue Perslaus, who had procured It from the Ethiopians. The city of Aden was the first place where it became popular as a beverage. From there it spread rapidly over Arabia aud Turkey, and led to the establlshmentof thecoffee-houses which . l . j . i t t .. i r arc to be found in almost every part of the world. The coffee plant is an evcrcreen, and if allowed, would grow to a height of sixteen or seventeen reet, but in exten sive plantations it is topped and stunted to about five, so that the berries can be picked with greater convenience. The stem of the tree or shrub is from ten to fifteen inches in circumference, and the bark whitish and somewhat rough, while the leaf is long and graceful, cov ered with a silvery furzo on tho under sido, and resembling in general appear ance that of the citron tree. When full growu it looks like a Bmail apple tree. When tho tree begins to grow old tho lower branches bend aud extend them selves in a round form somewhat like an umbrella. As on the nutmeg tree, blossoms and green aud ripe fruit may be seen on each shrub at any season of the year. when tho blossoms fall off", there springs from under it a small fruit, first green, but becoming red as it ripens. This is very like a cherry, and quite pleasant to eat. The pit of this cherry is the coffee of commerce. We are wrong though in calling it a pit; it is rather a bean inclosed in a thin skin which holds tho two halves together. When the bean is ncrfectlv rine. tho cherry or lleshv outside, which was before rrood to eat. dries and forms a deep brown pod inccoueo uerry, wnen ripe, is, m mc furred by dealers, as It makes a clearer and brighter bean. It is a fact not gen erally known to consumers, however, that the old-fashioned process circuiting, as it is done in Persia and Arabia, is much superior, and the same quantity I of collee that is cured in the pulp by the action or tile sun win produce a mucn . atrougcr uecocuou inuii miui wnien una I the beau wheu cured the other way. . 1 ins gives strengtu to tue prouuci auu , enhances 1U aromatic flavor. Anoiner iuci not generally kiiowu about here is, that the leaves contain i tue same essential priucipic as meuerry, i aud that a beverago made from them . is equal, if not superior, to the infusion oi tno Dcrry itseii. .During a visit to Sumatra, some years since, we bad a hunting expedition into the interior of the island. Whllo stopping at a village we observed a native making an infu- -sion of some dried leaves, and curious to sec what beverage be was concocting, wu tasted it, and found to our surprise that it was most excellent coffee. For a small pieco of tobacco we bought sev eral pounds of the dried leaves, and used them entirely during the remainder of tho expedition, as we found they made much superior coffee to tho beans wo had brought with us, besides being less trouble to prepare. ! Tho consumption of coffeo in tho United States is nearly double that of any country in the world, and tho in creasing consumption throughout the world threatens to mako tho demand more than the present sources of pro duction can supply. For some years past Mexico has exported a small quan tity of a very superior article, and through our wonderful Statn of Califor nia wild coffeo shrubs are plentiful aud pronounced by experts to be capable ol producing undor cultivation a very su perior grade of coffee. Imericrm Grocer. Beams of Gold. What is It that cheers the weary and heavy-laden mother who toils early and late that her llttlo ones may bo fed? The golden beams ofihannv anticipation of a future . when her children arc men and women, able to care for her and themselves. Heaven only knows what she suffers, and how tho mother instinct makes her strong to endure. When the covers are snugly tucked around the dear little bodies, and rosy faces speak the story of gentle sleep, the widow, on bended knee, thauks Heaven for health and strength, and prays that not one of her darlings shall be taken from her care. She will work and slavo for her children, and if at night she can gather them all around her knee, to tell them of their father who lies out in the cold church-yard, and of their Father iu heaven, and tho beautiful world He has given them to enjoy, she will count all privation pleas ure. After years of toil and care, tho golden beams gather to crown the brow of a woman who is faithful to tho last. Her children strew her pathway with roses of love. Or if one, or two, or all are inseuslbloto their obligations to her, and every earthly thing seems fraught with bitterness, beams of gold make hor radiant iu Immortal robes, and Over There angels will gladly nestle iu tho warmth of her great mother's love. Fact. It has been said by political arithmeticians, that if every man would work four long hours iu each day ou something useful, that labor would pro duce sufficient'to procure all the neces saries and comforts of life want and misery would be banished out of tho world, and the rest of the twenty-four j hours might be leisure and pleasure. Franklin, An Untenable Position. A divine of Bay City, Mich., tries to draw the following moral from the Beecher-Tllton scandal : "There is another point which de serves special notice. Mr. Beecher, as well as ins accuser, nas beeu ior twenty five years a Reformer. He Is the man who took up the matter of giving the ballot to women twenty-five years ago, and preached it and lectured upon it. it is certainly signiucant mat two origi nal advocates of this measure should stand before the public in .the attitude they do to-uay. Whatever may come of the trial in progress, it is a fact that this scandal is the logical outgrowth of tho peculiar ideas of theso parties in re gard to women, and of the peculiar as sociations into which they have been led lu consequence. And should we be so unfortunate as to sec the ballot in the hands of women, my belief is, that the occasions of such scandal would be mul tiplied indefinitely." Most unfortunately for the theory of this divine, Mrs. Tiiton, the woman concerned in this scandal, is not, and never has been, so far as we can learn, a Woman Suffragist or Womau'aRighU woman, but was rather shocked at all such ideas. It is true, an effort lias been made to cast reflections on Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, two of the leaders of the Woman Suffrage Move ment, but no fair-minded person who knows the ladies in question, for a mo ment believes they have a shadow of foundation. Tho great mass of Woman Suffragists do not endorso or tolerate any looseness in marital relations. If a few have crept nndcr their banner who would like to hoist the black flag of so cial license and anarchy, It is only what every cause has to contend with the black sheep of the flock even the church is not free from this difficulty, as wo have evidence almost every day. Our good brother should be careful "those who live in glass houses should not throw stones," and the house in which ministers live is exceedingly crystaliuc just now. For the sake of botli men aud women, wo dislike to admit that a clergyman cannot safely call upon his lady parish ioners without one or both having a "body guard;" but no candid persou will deny that the "peculiar associa tions" into which the divine "is led in consequence" of his profession, are far more perilous to his tender emotions than if ho met them in a political cau cus or at the polls with ballots in their hands. We might retort on our pro phetic brother that, "If ministers are to bo allowed to preach line-spun, senti mental sermons, and to call on llieir . lady parishioners when their husband- ! are away from home, the occasions of lraicr aim jus. imuu nun grown nut of their association in political meetings and at voting precincts, there would he some force ami point to the argument of this divine. It is evident that it grew nut of their association as pallor and parishioner, therefore If our cleric il brother is correct in his preoiie either the ministry or imstorul cults ought to be aboli lied. But the truth Is. no state of human society can be all- solntely jitrfect. There will be no luck i of stumbling-Mock and rocks of offence to imperil tlie steus or llie weak and the vicious m any pain oi me mat may ue marked out, but stopping the car of Progress" will not save the victims. When ono is crushed, it matters not to him whether it is by the more modern vehicle or the car of Juggernaut, ami the former may bring "the greatest good to the greatest number," with as little or less sacrifice of tlie minority. Then there is no end to the social sins outside of tho cliurcli'and without tho remotest connection with the Woman Suffrage Movement; and tlie victims are usually those gentle, clinging natures, who have beeu taught that men possess all the wisdom aud mental strength of the human family, and that they must look up to them and rely upon their judgment. If all men were pure and honorable, women might daro to be poetic parasites; but as it is, the sooner they learn to exercise their own judg ment, and to dispassionately "weigh measures and men" for themselves, the better it will be for all concerned. Earlvillc Transcript. The Need of Repose. "Repose," says a writer, "is the secret of power in Cersons, pictures, statutes, architecture, ooks and nature, as if it were a means of retaining as well as disclosing life, and health demands a frequent pause to restore the haianco of the system and keep up perfect circulations. The night, if spent in healthy sleep, after proper evening hours, reduces the world's chaos and wo are new every morning. AVho does not know the magic of a brief pause in the midst of tlie worst confusion? A. calm of five minutes will invito back our vagrant ideas and powers. So the home should be like a hush and a lullaby in this headlong, whirling, noisy, furious, and distracted world of the nineteenth cen turya nook apart from the thorough faresa grot or bower under the sky, where the beautiful spirits of the air will hover and dance. Its atmosphere should bo a little oriental and cheering, as if exhatlcd from poppies and bal sams." Trouble About the Lord's Day. The San Jose Mercury sSys : "Tho Ad- venti8ts have been getting into trouble at banta Clara. A number of the ladies of that little burg have recently been converted to their faith, aud believing Saturday to bo the Sabbath, have re fused to cook for their families on that day. The husbands of these ladies, not relishing this new departure, aud not wishing to have proselytes madeof their wives, complained against the Advent ists, and asked tho Town Trustees to re move them on the ground of being a nuisance. Tho Trustees, It seems, had moro sympathy with tlie persecuted husbands than with the Adventists.and a disagreement at once roso up between them, which resulted in the removal of the tent from tho old grounds to a tract near the flue residenco of Mr. Arguello. Since re-locating they have coutlnued their services with redoubled energy and vigor, and the poor husbands do not seem likely to gaiu anything by the change." Steps have been taken to build a largo and commodious church atBtiena Vista. A good school is kept up at least nine months in the year. The Orders of Grange, Odd Fellows, Good Templars and I. C. R. C, each have a Lotrgo at that place. " Injustice Exemplified. Ellen S. Tupper, of Des Moines, Iowa, is perhaps tho most successful bee-raiser of any person in America; she publishes a periodical devoted to bee culture, and is largely-engaged in the bee business, shipping them successfully to all parts of tho Union. Col. T. W. Higginsou, in an article in the Woman's Journal alluding to this fact, makes the follow ing comments, which are a forcible Il lustration of the inconsistency of de priving women of tho right of suffrage : Hero is Ellen S. Tupper, for instance. Her business is beo-raising. As she lias had "much experience in shipping bees," and advertises in a newspaper so far from her home as Denver, Colorado, it may be inferred that slio has somo business enterprise, and that her circle of customers is widely spread. That Is to say, she has already committed her self to the laws of trade and the princi ples of political economy. Once having done this, she Is liko one that has be come entangled iu the machinery of the mill, and can only get out by"having the machinery stopped. Tho machinery makes little discrimination of sex, and the laws of trade make qui to as little. All the questions of capital and labor, all the points in the relation between debtor and creditor present themselves to Ellen S. Tupper precisely as if she were a man. She must make contracts aud fulfill them, collect debts and dis cbarge tbcm, pay her taxes and seo them spent, entirely apart from all con siderations of sex. If she prospers, sho will probably make further investments; if she fails, she will go into bankruptcy; acting, in each case, as tho laws pre scribe. Up to tills point the laws recog nize, protect, and even encourage her; if she is single, they ask no questious as to sex, as to physiology; she is simply Ellen S. Tupper, lawful trader in bees. Now, if Ellen b. Tupper were a man and a voter, she would attend countless public meetings every year, at which she would be told that the security of every business man must lie largely in his possessing a vote. She would be as sured that every man's Investments were safer, his debts more likely1 to be collected, his wrongs more sure to bo righted, his position in every respect better, for having this priceless treasure of a vote. To havo a voice in making tlie laws that govern him, iu tho dis tribution of tho taxes he pays this, every oue would tell her, is an essential part of a freeman's privilege. .. These things would be suld to her if she were a man and a voter. And though sho happens to be a woman and a non-voter. j that does not invalidate the truth of inese meui. principles, it uiey are true at all. If they are true, and if the ballot is thus reaNOiuibly prized by every Inisi- ness man, that fact may not be alone Millieieiit to demonstrate Woman Sjif i frage. B'.t it ceiluiuly tlinwi either lonethiiigor the ot!u-r; either that the ! community bon!l absolutely pmliihit I Ellen S. Tupper, lieiuira woman, from uoing Into btt--liui!ic--; or u.e that -when ullowiiii: her to do till-, . .-.Inuilil give her tile same advantages in all re spects that it atfxrtls to her n ifihlmrs. It 'she lived in a harem ora nun htv if, in short, she were inunine.1 like a queen bee and fed with honey, the case might be very different. But inasmuch as tho laws Iiave already permitted her to he roine a working-bee, aud even to havo I Had "mncli experience in shipping I bees," she certainly ought to have all tne privileges uemuuded hy other hu man workers, and iu particular to havo the ballot for self-protection. Bobinson Crusoe's Island. Crusoe's Island is to-day a little Para dise. Lord planted there, on oue of his voyages, apples, peaches, grapes, plums. strawberries and several kinds of vege- taoies. me numnor oi tue latter was increased by a Scotchman, David Douglas, who landed on the islaud In 1S2G. He was not a little astonished to find a hermit there, who had been on the island five years. On the second day ho was not a little astonished to see a man suddenly emerge from a clumpof bushes anu approacn nun. tie looked upon himself as Crusoe's successor, although, he did not occupy tho historical cave, having built himself a hut of stones and sods, roofing it with the straw of wild oats. As cooking utensils, he possessed only a single iron pot, the bottom of which, one unfortunate day, had fallen out This damage he had, however, bad tho ingenuity to repair with a wooden bottom ; but now he was compelled to place his pot iu tlie ground and build a lire around it. This man's name was William Clark, aud he camo from Lon don. He had a few books, anil amoug them there was a copy of Robinson Cru soe's adventures, and of Cowper's poems. He called Douglas' attention especially to the well-kuown poem beginning: "I am monarch ofall I survey. My right there Is none to dispute," etc Nevertheless, ho did not seem to be happy. There was one wish, his great est, that he could not gratify he could get no roast beef ! At present, this island is in the pos session of a colony of Germans. Sixty or seventy of our countrymen, under the leadership of an engineer named Robert Welirhahn, settled there In 1SC3. They describe the island as being iu the high est degree salubrious aud fruitful. On their arrival they found largo flocks of goats, about thirty half-wild horses, and some sixty asses. They brought with them cows, hogs, fowls, farming uten sils, small boats, and fishing-tackle. Appleloris Journal. Wife, Mistress axd Lady. Who ever marries for love takes a wife, who marries for fortune takes a mistress, who marries for a position takes a lady. You are loved by your wife, regarded by your mistress, aud tolerated by your lady. You havo a wife for yourself, a mistress for your house and friends, a lady for the world and society. Your wife will agree with you, your mistress will rule you, your lady will manage you. You wife will take care of your household, your mistress of your house, your lady of appearances. If you aro sick, your wife will nurse you, your mlstres3 will visit you, your lady will inquire after your health. You take a walk with your wife, a ride with your mistress, and go to a party with your lady. Your wife will share your grief, your mistress your money, your lady your debts. If you are dead, your wife will weep, your mistress lament, nnd your lady wear mourulng. Which will you have ? w t a mtnKnii nf Alhanv has re- j ceutly been awarded a patent for a clod icrusneroi nisuiveuiiuu.