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A Journal for the People. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity. Independent In Politics and Religion. Alive to all Live Issues, andThoronghly- JIK3. A. J. DEM1VAT, Editor ani Proprietor. OFFICE Cok. Frost & Wasiiixotux .Streets Radical In Opposing and Exposing the "Wrongs of the Masses. TERMS, IN ADVANCE: One year- $3 00 .... 1 75 1 00 Six months Three months....- Free Speech, Feee Press, Free People. Correspondents -writing over assumed signa tures must make known their names to the Editor, or no attention -will bo given to their communications. ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable VOLUME "V. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1870. NTOLBEK 33. Terms. MADGE MORRISON, Tbe Molaila Maid and Matron. Bv Mrs. A. J. DUNIVAY, ATTTHOR OF "JUDITH BETD," "ELLEN MWD," "AMIE AND DKSRT LEE," "THE HAPPY HOME," "OXE WOMAN'S SPHERE," ETC, ETC., ETC Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Mrs. A. J. Dunlway, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at "Washington City. CHAPTER XVIIL The new farm band was assigned to a sleeping place in the barn, which Madge bad found time during the afternoon to fit up for his accommodation; llie elder members of the numerous household were early consigned to their beds, in order to insure perfect quiet in the bouse, while Mrs. Perkins,- obeying Madge's command, dispatched to tbe nearest neighbor's the two younger children, with directions to remain away till she should send for them. Throughout the lonely hours of the silent night she essayed to watch beside her mother, scarce trusting herself to doze lest some change in the patient might pass by unheeded. No sound, save tbe steady breathing of the sluin berer under the influence of a powerful opiate, accompanied the ticking of the little clock that aimlessly dallied with the plodding hours. your custody and services, madaaipand though I detest tbe relic of barbarism that makes a wife the helpless creature of her husband's will, there is another side to the picture. I once loved a woman, madam. She was a perfect Hebe for loveliness of person she proved a very Aspasia in disposition." "Talk good English, please, Mr. Mor rison; your learning mystifies me." "I'll get you books to read," was the amused reply. "A brain like yours should be well stocked with knowl edge." "I wish my brain were stored with understanding," said Madge, dryly. "You don't seem to want me to pro ceed with my story, madam." "Yes, I do; or I should, only I have lost faith in ail men, and I'm afraid necessary legal steps to divorce me from a bad man." "Has he been cro3s to you ?" "No." "Has he deserted you?" "No." "Has he neglected to support you ?" "He never has had the onnortunity to fry." ' "Well, I cannot assist you. I must say, however, that, although you uuk much dexterity Madge moved abqutthe room, warming tne miiK ana jeeaing the little one with a careful tenderness that was just as willingly bestowed as though other than angel witnesses had taken note of her devotion to a labor of duty and love. Then, with the hushed baby in her tired arms, she fell asleep iu her chair and dreamed. She saw herself weighed down with heavy manacles, that galled her flesh "YOUBS TBULY'S" MONTH IS like an oracle on some topics yon act and fretted her spirit, while she toiled like a maniac upon tnis question." ceaselessly in climbing a rocKy acciiv- "Listen to me, Mr. Morrison! If ity, above which, on either side, great George Hanson had proved to me that perpendicular walls frowned at her in he was sincere; had he continued to tue dense gloom of a moonless night, impress me that be was the soul of The journey seemed to be endless, and honor; had lie kept me convinced that the babe she bore on her bosom was so pure, unseinsh love ior me was tue heavy that her arms almost reiuseu. at And such a glorious .freedom month has brought her, Mrs. D. You see, while she had beeu a servant without wages, nobody except dear, good, patient mother had thought of ap preciating her. Indeed, she had long been barely tolerated about the house as an expensive cumberer of the cow-yard, kitchen, piano and parlor; and nothing but her innate self-esteem had sus tained her in her well-earned reputa tion of a wide-awake girl of the pe'rlodr But the story of her wordy altercation. with tbe governor had gone abroad only motive that prompted him to be- vni.rRfnrv'will make mo lose confidence come my husband, 1 would nave died I i - -r t i i. ; r I. . 1 1 it. ior mm : loveu mm iur ukllci mau my own existence, but I can love no iu all women." "You're mistaken, madam. You will find, before vou have seen much more of life, that you have not lost faith in either men orworaen. Sometimes both are bad, but exceptions do not consti tute the rule." "They prove it, though." "You're in a bitter mood, ma'am what did you say your name was ?" "I didn't say." "I beg pardon." "Go on with your story." "The woman I loved became my af fianced. I was wealthy I lavished man after I find that he is not my equal In honor. When I saw my mother throw her life away as a sacrifice upon tbe altar of a man whom she could not honor, I vowed that, come what would, I should be true to my own self. I married George Hanson, believing foolish child that I was ! it's strange how old I've grown since then I mar- times to carry it; but an irresistible tor rent of tangible Impulses, that took on fantastic shapes and bore tho word "duty" in large letters engraved upon wands that they waved about her head incessantly, seemed to nerve her to con tinued strength. After what seemed, in her great sorrow, to be an age of struggling, she saw, just above thesum- mitof the steep ascent, through which she was now wading, ankle deep in muddy water that, strange to say, seemed almost boiling hot just when ried him believing that he loved me, as hope and strength alike seemed ready purely, disinterestedly, devotedly, and honorably as I loved him. The illusion is all dispelled. I repudiate, utterlyand But Madge was occupied with herself farther than I would have trusted my every luxury upon her. I trusted her altogether, every shadow of a claim he and her own perplexities, "Mother will awake all right, I know, for I feel it in my bones," she said to herself; "but will I dare to tell her that I am bound to an ill-starred fate, even as she is ? O, my God, why can these things be ? Surely marriage ought not to be so full of emptiness. All there is of it that ought not to be, exists through one-sided power. I understood it plainly enough when my mother married Jason Andrews. It was only when it came my turn to rush, like a fasciua.ted moth, into the blistering blaze of an imagin ary experience, that I was blinded with the light of love and became a prey to flames that were too powerful that burned where they should only have warmed and comforted me. Wly did George Hanson cross my path, and why did I so dearly love him? As he was to me only three days ago, I remember and love him still. As he has, been since I became his property, I rebel against I loathe him; and that, too, because I cannot help it. But what shall I do? Why have I learned this bitter lesson by personal experience ? Why should not this cup pass from me?" A rap at tho door startled her. "Who's there?" she asked, in terror. Somehow her courage had forsaken her lately. "It is I, Mr. Morrison, your hired man. Can I be of any service to you?" "I haven't asked for any help," an swered Madge, bridling, for she was learning to be suspicious of all men. "I know, madam; but it doesn't seem fair that you should be the only watcher in a room withso sick a patient. How ever, if you prefer to be alone, I have nothing more to say." Madge had opened the door while he was speaking, and had half admitted him before she was aware of it. "It is lonely," shesaid, apologetically. "Pardon mo if I was rude. I am in great trouble." "Can I be of any assistance to you ?" asked the man again, bending over the sleeping patient and listening with sat isfaction to her measured breathing. There was something in tbe air of the stranger, "something in his honest, sym pathetic gaze and pleasant, kindly voice that reassured her. "I see that I can trust you," she said, frankly, "and I want your advice. I've been and acted like a fool." "In trying to cure your mother?" and tbe visitor looked deeply surprised. "No, no. Mother will be all right self. I built my brightest and holiest hopes upon the altar of her affections. She was au orphan. I paid her ex nenses at school. I did not want to lias upon me, just as he would repu diate every claim I might set up to him, were he to learn that before marriage to bim I was a mother, and, instead of the virgin love which I had promised to be- hurry her into matrimony. She loved stow upon him, I bad only a widowed me, as I believed, arid I was content, heart to lay at his feet." What do you think the denouement was?" "She met some brainless bumpkin and married him," said Madge. "These things always turn out this way in real life. Iu novels there are exceptions. Some grand, lordly man, in hovels, af ter much tribulation, becomes tho hus band of some charming divinity in muslin, and all trouble ceases with the marriage ceremony. In real life the trouble begins -where the novel leaves it off." "She became fascinated with a de- "Georgc Hanson did you say ?" gasped the new acquaintance. Iu her excitement Madge had not no ticed the change her vehement speech to desert her, she saw, at tbe top of the mountain, a bright and steadily beam ing star. 'It's been there, shining all the time, but I couldn't see it because of the bluffs," she said, aloud, and she seemed to strugle harder than ever, as, inspired by the new hope, she urged her man gled and manacled body onward. "Did you speak t,o nie,.Madge?" asked Mrs. Perkins, awakened by her excla- mation of delight. But Madge was away in dreamland, and she did not hear. Again she journeyed on. The way had wrought in the face and manner of grew yet more difficult, and the muddy her only auditor. stream through which she ,waded was "Yes, that's his name, sir; and lie has so hot that she could scarcely endure to a moral duty to perform in another di rection. Before God I am not his wife, no matter what tbe laws of man may decree. I should knowingly commit a nameless crime in tbe eyes of God and the angels, if I should submit; but I won't 1" "My poor lady," said Mr. Morrison, walk therein. After a while the walls of her narrow prison grew lower nud broader, and tbe light shone yet more brightly at the top. Rising suddenly to make the last effort to mount the top most steep of the great ascent, she awoke to consciousness, to find her feet almost blistered in tbe hot ashes upon the when she wakes. She was feverish and restless and couldn't sleep. I gave her a powerful vegetable opiate." "What was it?" "That's my secret." "I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to purloin from your profession," and Mr. Morrison smiled meaningly. "But why do you seek my advice ?" "I want to know where to go or what to do to get rid of a matrimonial bar gain that has proved a fraud of the first order." "Matrimonial bargains are for life, my dear madam." "So I thought when I entered the re lation. But I find to my cost that while the bargain is binding in every sense upon me, it is in no sense binding upon my husband. I won't stand it." "I don't see how you are to help your self." "I will help myself." "Poor child ! you little heed what you are saying." Divorces were rare at tbe time of. which we -write, reader. True, the hurry-skurrylng way in which hund reds of young girls had rushed into matrimony while they were yet chil dren, had begun to bring forth discord ant fruits, and occasionally some truant -woman was advertised by her lord, as runaway slaves were advertised in the days of a dispensation now dead; but a divorce was a badge of disgrace, and few women would prefer it to death. "Your husband has a legal right to leaves it at last to wither and blight, so the villain, who was my own sister's son, as soon as he had accomplished her ruin, ran awaj and left her to her fate of disgrace and faithlessness." "That was very sad," said Madge. "It was devilish !" was the excited re joinder. "The mau who will desert bis own offspring, and tbe mother who bears it for him, in time of her trial, is a monster whom it would be base flat tery to call a brute." "iou describe Jason Andrews, my adorable step-father, most faithfully." "I don't care whom I'm describing, but I know I'm speaking the truth." "What became of bet?" asked Madge. "I sent a check to her foster-mother, whom I have never seen, and to whom I did not reveal myself, for I had be come acquainted with my ideal in a distant town, and selling out my posses sions at a sacrifice, I left for California, where I speculated till I became as poor as a church mouse. Men are deceptive when women are not in their power, sometimes, and tyrannical when they have the power, often; but women are tbeir mothers, and under the same li cense, would be as heartless as they." "I hope they will never have the same license, then." "They ought not to have the license, and men ought not to have it, either. My heart's idol is dead to me; but, if I ever set eyes on her betrayer, I'll send a UP. that said Yours Truly. "But I object to be- Too Much of a Good Thing. Ing made the unrenumerated vehicle of Tt iq wrv certain that we cannot have all your generous hospitality. If Phil too little of a bad thing. It Is just as wants a family, let him foot' the bills." true that we may have too much or a ... ... . . I r.n.l ll.Inrr AnvBllhatflnitaWllnA hlirll "Uon't vou love vour brother V" asked S"" """! the governor, in a voice as solemn and reproving as the hoot of an owl. . "I ought to ! I've darned socks, washed shirts, patched pantaloons, hid den old boots', burned fishing-tackle, cooked dinners, washed dishes, scrubbed floors, and made beds enough for bim to endear him to even" a less sisterly' sotil than myself. But I don't go meekly through the same process for his wife An v substance with a high flavor soon palls upon the senses if we , . - . 1. I L 1 - . . n H v e too mucu ui iu xxu uuuiji man would care to alt down to a dinner of confectionery. Books made up of ele gant extracts, or newspaper squibs, or miscellaneous anecdotes, are rather dry reading. There are certain excellent qualities of Character which some peo ple, have in.. excess. We know a few persons whose chronic amiableness is so intense as to make them repulsive. You do not care to see a man's or a woman's face wreathed in perpetual .Others weary you by their se- ! ' . a . i - . I rr rv linn among tue mreu men; it uau spreau - ; .r --- dateneSs-wooden neonle. who mistake from them through the1 neighborhood; memoer, rm iiueiy to marry 8me,m- gravity for virtue. Some talkers offend other girls had caught the infection of provident mortal, ana men, wuat'ii do- you by tner candor and communica- indeneudenpe- Dipk and Phil hail par-h come or tue dear creature a l naven't uveness; oiuers Dy tueir camion ana saved auy money V" What'll you take to stay ?" asked the governor. "That's sense, an' that's business," said Yours Truly. "You were to give me fifty dollars a month, and found, sir. bad a "disturbance in tbeir families," caused by their wives' determination to follow in the steps of Yours Truly, and become entities henceforth; so, almost before she kiiew it, your correspondent was a local heroine who frightened close-fisted old papa-curmudgeons into As I've never graduated as matron in a spasms of economy, and sent them off lying-in hospital, I'll be reasonable In into ecstasies of doleful prophecy that occasioned them great happiness, be cause their prognostications concerning the governor's "failure" would make somebody miserable But, though Yours Truly was earning wages, the sun rose and set as usual; the wind roared around tbe house and whistled in the key-holes, or shrieked" ceived in my own house? through the fret-work in the gables as know myself!" before; the men, for aught Yours Truly could discover, ate roast chicken -and mince pies as heartily as ever,- and the heavens did not fall, though Dick did grumble. my charges with 11111. uuess, seeing it's him, I'll take 'em through for fifty dollars extra." "I'll never stand that!" roared the governor. "You're to charge it to Phil," said Yours Truly. "Charge my own hoys for favors re- Not if I Then you can foot the bills yourself: I'll stay on no other condition." "It beats the very old Nick !" growled the governor. reticence. Tbe man who censures without dis crimination is of course a nuisance; and so is he' who praises without discrimi nation. Even the Bible cautions us against being "righteous overmuch;" and once in a great while .you fall In with a. saintly person, whose interest in the next world makes him oblivious of the duties which pertain to tbe present. There are good people who give too much good advice, and sometimes wear out the patience of saints as well as sin ners. Parents may exercise too much restraint over their children, and teach ers demand too much study of their pu pils. As a general rule, we have too much talk and too little action. Too many speeches are made at public dinners, anniversaries, and meetings of ail sorts. Clergymen are expected to preach too. many sermons, and occa sionally may preach too loug. Law yers are apt to traverse the universe in a case of petty larceny. Physicians, until recently, gave too much medi cine, but they are doing better now. Too many women try to live by needle work, and top many men and women "Can't helD it." said Yours Truly. Afro. T . mil niltrlif fn con f no V-Konrrn HWh.n T rrr. irnl In rllxT inln flio fom. I trV tO eatll Something by their PeP our business relations have wrought in ily business, I'll be willing to foot the tn "aXh.T with ThT 'EM Z tions, only serves to aggravate the the governor. Yours Truly is now an bills.1 sieuimr villain," continued tho narra tor "and even while she was subsisting as be with dithculty restrained his emo- hearth, tue oaue asleep upon her Dosom nnnn mv hnnntv. slip was livinsr in se- tions, "you aud I have henceforth a load and the morning star peeping at her cret and cuilty alliance with a man in of shame and sorrow to endure in com- through a rift in the window curtain whose veins my own kindred blood was mon. That man I somehow suspected "I'llwade through all my troubleand flowinc. The result was as might have it yesterday is the destroyer or my outlive it," sue saiu, as sue ruuoeu ner been expected. As the sun, in kissing youth's dream, the perfidious wrecker smarting toes, "l Know I'll conquer the rosebud, tears open its petals and of my life's happiness." for I feel it in my bones." Was your affianced named Sara Per- pro be continued. kins?" "Yes; but how did you guess it?" A Good Word for the Mother-in- "Her foster-mother is here. She is Law. Some man of sense and feeling the grandmother of Jason Audrews' has written some sensible advice con first set of children, and, of course, his cerning the common treatment of this mother-in-law." much-abused but useful and necessary nau never met ner, or jl suouia part of humanity. His advice is have recognized her yesterday when I summed up this way came to dinner, i. am glad sue did not Treat vour mother-in-law as vou know me. It would have spoiled all. would your own mother; don't let her Let us keep our own counsel, madam We must b9 wise as serpents, but I am by no means certain that it is our duty in this case to be as harmless as doves." "You now think I ought to live with feel that she is a stranger iu her son's house. You ought to love her for the cood husband she has given you. Don't be iealous of the affectionate attention he shows her; remember how well she has earned it. lour husband's heart .it 1 1 1 . 1 Ka o rxnnf nrtntrnAfoff n (to if if mm, u i.yvut uuu meic aa could not find room for wife and mother. in Madge's sarcasm that revealed itself Help him love and cherish her. Think in lipr vninp. of the vacant chairs arouudber hearth "wouldn't live with him if I had to stone-of the voices she misses that I Monrl in mfiL-a molntitr In nop lionrr fr. luiu uuiuei lumuu; wus tue ucuiucu bullet through him quicker than I would shoot a rabid dog." "That is because he interfered with one whom you considered your prospec tive property, sir. If you were indig nant from principle, you would avenge some other woman's injury in just as radical a manner, provided she had been betrayed." "How do you make that out?" "I see the idea is new to you, sir. It is newtoall men. But,yousee,thepriuci pie is the same, no matter wbat woman reply. "There isn't any black cloud floating over you," said Madge, "and I'm not afraid to coufide in you. Here's my baud on a pledge of fidelity and honor, Do you accept the pledge?" 1 do, with gratitude; and I assure you, madam, that it the strongest tests shall prove you unselfish and pure and good, I shall gladly retract my standing declaration, made in agony and anger, that all women are selfish deceivers." 'No more of that, sir. All women are not bad, and all men are not, either. You said so a while ago, remember. Never did a nobler human being live than my poor father was. I believe my brothers are growing up in his footsteps, too. It will take a strongerspecimen of mental and physical manhood than George Hanson such a one as yourself, for instance to cause me to lose faith in human nature." Don't attempt to flatter me, madam I understand the wiles of your sex." 'And what motive, pray, would in duce me to be trying 'wiles' upon you, sir, even if they were in my line? The will be but for a little while; and when her work is accomplished, when her work is over, and the shrivelled hands are folded meekly on that bosom on which your husband has wept out his childish sorrows, comforted by those now silent lips, it will be the sweetest joy to your heart if you can say, "She was to me as JNaomi I was to ner as Ruth." is betrayed, or how, or by whom. If compliment was honestly given, but I see it was out of place, and I beg your pardon." "You're an anomaly." "I know it." "You puzzle me." "I don't care. And now, sir, if our compact is to be kept, we mustn' t indulge in sparring. It is quite time you re tired, sir. You see my mother does not need watchers, and I fear that our talk will disturb her. You will need rest to prepare you for tbe labors of to-mor row." "And you will keep our part of the man -is woman's protecter on general principles, as he claims to be, he should not confine the practice of his theory to such women only as he holds claims upon, whether those claims be present or prospective. He should, rather, hold himself responsible to ber for all the wrongs she may suffer through men, no matter where be may find her, or under what conditions." "I see you have studied this question thoroughly." "No, I haven't, or Ishould know wbat to do. I am resolved upon one thing, Some Important Dates. The reader is constantly meeting with allu- sious to inventions which have pro duced incalculable results in the devel opment of modern civilization, and often finds himself at a loss to recall the date of this or that one. As an assistant in refreshing the memory, the most im portant inventions prior to Vow are given: Bpiuning-wheel invented, 13JU. Paper first made of racs, 1417. Muskets invented aud first used in England in 1421. Pumps invented, 142o. Printing invented, about 1440. Eujrravinc on wood invented, 1423. Post offices established in England, 14G4. Almanacs first published, 1441. Printing introduced into England by Uaxton, 1474. violins invented, int. Roses first planted iu England, 1503. Hatchets first made in loin. Punctuation first used in literature, 1520. object of interest of the dollar and cent kind to him, and the only kind of inter est a man is positively known to appre ciate. Instead of treating heras though she were-a-burden-in his household, (he old gentleman is so desperately afraid that she'll leave him with another job of "nothing to do" upon his hands, that he almost abashes her with his obse quiousness sometimes, though, in truth, it takes a good deal of this last com mod ity to satiate a girl of the period. We came near having a genuine thunder-gust of discord at the end of the month, though, and to tell you of it is the reason why this letter is begun. "My month is up, and here's my bill, governor," demurely remarked Yours Truly, after the said dignitary had finished a hearty supper and was leaning back in his chair, resting from excessive mastication, the only vigor ous exercise he ever indulges in. 'Very well," he said, though he did look annoyed, as though dealing out ducats to his daughter gave him great agony, "very well. I must give you a check on LaH & Tilton. You can get the cash when yo i go to Portland." All right," sa d Yours Truly, "and now, as the hir d men (an put one; are going to take a vacation during the present month, so they can rest a spell, believe I'll not work either. I want to go to town aud make a visit." "Thunder!" shouted the governor. You know, Mrs. D., that he always in vokes the thunder when he's the least bit excited. I don't hear any thunder," inno cently remarked Yours Truly. "You're not going to town," said the governor, decidedly. "Why?" asked Yours Truly. "Because there's nobody here to do tho work. Phil will be at homo this week with his sick wife, as you know, and your mother isn't able to wait on her." "Let Phil do it." "Absurd ! You know he could not do this housework !" Why couldn't he ? He's a supporter and protector of women. Now, gov ernor, see here. There isn't a particle of the work Phil does, such as riding over the fields aud bossing tbe China men, or going to town on the railroad to collect rents from the houses you have given him, but what I could do as easily as he; and some of it a good deal better. I'm going to let him try my work awhile, and see how he likes that." You can't go !" said the governor, peremptorily, stamping his foot. "Indeed !" ejaculated Yours Truly. "I meau what I say," was the stern rejoinder. "Then good-bye, governor," was Yours Truly's meek reply. "You don't intend to leave us in tbe "But my own children must always evils which it seeks to cure; and too hn. nolnnn,. -f nnmo f r. tho nntorhol Tnnf Biahy SOClelleS UO ItlO WOrK WUlCU whenever they feel like it." "Whether tbey work or-not?" "Certainly." "That means me !" said Yours Truly. "But you're a girl! and " the gov ernor didn't finish the sentence. would be better and more cheaply ac complished by a few. If the percentage of receipts required by some of these great institutions in order to keep the machine in motion expended In build ings, salaries, agencies and stationery were generally understood, we are In clined to think that many princely be- Phil came in at this juncture with his quests' now bestowed upon them would n.iIo nnd Interestinir nartner for life he directed to otuer uses, X o x though; I'll not go back to the man who compact?" calls himself my husband." "A Morrison never goes back on a "Then you will act very wickedly." bargain, sir !" "I know better, sir. He stultified "Just so: I beg pardon," aud the himself, and morally nullified our mar- stranger bade ber good-night in a defer- riatre contract in its very inception." ential way that somehow completed the "If your mind is already made np, I good opiuion she had already formed of "e w'S -cm, .rniiaaeiphia. , ,. , , I privilege of active memdershin )Uli UlllJ U1UUO, UiU ujr Uab,iU LUJl ttU' 1 U1UJ. vice." The babe was oy this time astir ana pncation to the Treasurer, and tbe pay iiu, x want iv ua uuviseu oa 10 tuti ciamDnuK lur iw uiiuuiguii iuuu, iiu meui oi uuu uuuiu. The Sevexty-Six Club. There is a woman's club which originated in Phil adelnhla. and has its headquarters there, which is composed entirely or women iournalists. It is called tbe "Seventy-Six Club," aud is composed of women representatives ot tue press irom all parts of the world. Their object is to extend hospitalities during the Centen nial year to ladies connected with tbe press from all parts of tbe world. The editors of papers and magazines, and la dies connected with them in any liter ary capacity, are requested to forward their names at as early a date as possi ble, in order to form lists, which shall eutitle those whose names are inscribed thereon to the privilege of the club. Tbey may address Mrs. E. S.Bladen Fresideut, office of the Philadelphia Sunday Times; juiss Anna McDowell, Treasurer, officeof tbe Sunday Jtenublic. or Mrs. jr. K. .Benedict, secretary, office The privilege of active memdershin in the "Seventy-Six Club" is secured by ap- leaniug languidly upon his arm; and the old gentleman had barely time to say "keep quiet, and you shall have the fifty dollats for waiting upon them," when they appropriated the best parlor, and deprived Yours Truly of a longed for visit to that grand opening at Lewis & Strauss', where all the other girls of tbe period are gettiug tbeir spring out fits. Mrs. D., if you could imagine half the work that looms up before her as she How Prostitutes Are Made. How to put an end to prostiutlon is a problem not easy to solve, but it is not difficult to perceive that its supply de pends largely upon one chief cause, viz.: the barriers placed in the way of poor girls and women to obtain honorable employment. A boy may be a scapegrace, and his parents may have bequeathed himabad character, but he can, as a rule, find work if he is willing to do it. But a girl, under the same circumstances, has literally no cnance. sue is generally writes, yon wouldn't wonder that this quite equal to an emergency, and often letter is so dull as to fail to do full jus tice to the descriptive powers of Yours Trui.y. proves sharper in turning an honest penny than a boy. In Liverpool some of these girls, and even women with families, are known as "basket girls," against whom the The Handkerchief Seventy hands of every man seemed to he raised. Years Ago. The handkerchief, which Recently tho police summoned a num- is now au indispensable appendatre of oeroi tnem ior uusiruuuuu wuu uuur- every lady's and gentleman's costume, ing their wares near the fish niarKet. Ip is oi comparatively modern Intro- is quuo a uummuu wing l uuo iuraD duction. It was, not very many years women, and one of the magistrates ago, deemed a vulgar object, iustead of asked "do the women pay the fines?" a mark of neatness, as now. to which the answer wa3 given : Until the reign of the Empress Jose- "ruey almost an go w gui, on. i phine, a haudkercbief was thought, In the amount is small tbey maKeanenort Krauce, so shocking an object that a to pay, but if large tbey don't." The lady would never dare to use It before cases were meu neuru, uui, muaiui p any one. The word was ever carefully defendants did not appear, and fines of avoided in refined conversation. n actor who would have used a handkerchief on tbe stage, even in the most tearful moments of the play, would liavo been unmercifully hissed; 9a. Ril. nnst were imnosed. One woman. being asked what she bad to say, re plied "that she had five children to sup port, and went out on a Saturday even in with her basket. When the police and it was only in the beginning of the officer came up he kicked the basket, present century that a celebrated upseiuug uibiwukubvuim actress, Mile. Duchesnoise, dared to ap pear with handkerchief in hand. . Hav ing to speak of the handkerchief in the course of tho piece, she never could summon courage to call it by its true name, but referred to It as a light tissue. A few years later, a translation of one of Shakespeare's plays, by Alfred de Vigney, having been acted, the word bandUerchiet was used lor the first time on the stage, amid cries of indignation from the audience, It was very hard upon her," she saij, "for she could not afterward sell the fish, worth 3s., they were so dirtied." Would it be surprising to learn that a woman thus deprived not only of her means of living, but tbe little capital of 3s., which she had possibly temporarily acquired by pawning some article of clothing or bedding, was driven by this policemau's conduct to prostitution-? English Woman's Review. I doubt if to-day " " French elegantes would carry haudker- Make Your Heaven .here.- mere chiefs, if the wife of Napoleon I. had is no royal road or short cut to beaveri. not giveu them the signal for adopting M you waiiu a ueuveu wi juuubi j" ",,d them. The Empress Josephine, though world to come, prepare it for yourself In rpallv IovpIv. bail nirlv tppfh. To pon- tho life that now ceal them, she was iu the habit of carrying small handkerchiefs adorned with costly lace, which she continually raised gracefully to ber lips. Of course all tbe ladies of tbe court followed ber example, aud handkerchiefs have rap idly become an important and costly part or tueieminine toilet; so that the price of a single handkerchief in the trousseau of the Duchess of Edinburgh would make the iortuneof a necessitous family. Phrenological Journal. Her Love Had Waned. They came out of a Michigan avenue grocery, he carrying a big jug, and as they reached the walk, he said: "Now. Doll you carry the jug and lurch just as you get your wages paid give me that quarter of a pound of tea." ,,! ,i,o ntTor,,nr "I'd like to see myself !" she replied. 4 . I I(Ti1I.t An nrt wnnrtncao vnlir- lino. trembled, more in trepidation than in . . old brown , through iltlfTUF I !'' o ... " . . 6 thpprow 'The hired men leave wuen tuey Is. You have no reason to thinK tnat you win enter upon the next life in any wise changed in character from what you are when you leave this. "He that is holy, let him be holy still. He that is unholy, let him be- unholy still." And the character with which you leave this world will, be the, ,slow and natural growth of ' the years of your whole earthly life, and cannot be the result of anything else, the teachings of any the ology or man to the contrary. The true conception of human existence doubt-1 less is as one in this world and the next this is the rill, that the river; this the dawn, that the day; this the bud, that the flower; this the blade, that the full corn in the ear. Heaven Is not some thing to be won, or got, or bought, either by ourselves, or somebody else for us; but it Is something to be grown- into. In the next world you are, choose, sir. You don't consider them under any obligation to remain with you longer than they agree to. j.te- member, our bargain was only for a month. I didn't agree to nurse Phil and his wife and baby through their troubles, in addition to tbe work for this farm, for fifty dollars a month; and I won't agree to it,jeitber, and that's more. It Phil wants tue luxury oi a jging an oid Drown jug tnrougn j , own old 8elf only moved ,-ded s reels of the metropolis- ud moved up. Swedenborg some vant others to see him ?" jj iye9 U3 a rrepreBentation of per- do vou want "Come along with thatjugi" sue lm patiently exclaimed. "Dolly, there's a gallon of molasses In here, and we know it, but everybody else will think it's whisky if I carry it." "Let'em think." "Dolly, if you love me, you will carry the jug." "1 won't carry it!" "Then I won't I I've got twice as mucii character to sustain as you have!" "Sustain it, then," she said, as she sons who bad died, and did not for a considerable time know they were, dead. Their old thoughts and feelings and loves and desires of the earthly life" remained, and the world which they had entered did not at first seem differ ent from the one tbey had left, only it was spiritual instead of physical. Hence, they went on with their old' employments, and ran the rounds ot' their old pleasures. Only by degrees. did they perceive tbeir change or states,. mure, xi j. un wuuia mc miuij ui , , . flra tnev perceive tueir vuuukc ui swko,1 wife and baby, let him foot the bills, or "Sfigfjf80 ITS ?dw' not P tbat lhe themselves became, by , ,. u .n.i-1 Ue cal f "e.r !,uc .8Ue a'u natural nrocesses of trrowth and devel- uo tue worii. uivu. ucvw sum iuuuo. c, answer, wiving tne Dig jug a terrinc -""":; K f Ti.onor apoinir and .t... i f. .imi,. i,r,i t,ih fnr hi rin, into tim nir. ho u hia hni.i. Pment capable of deeper seeing ana Dia.c, wiiiiiu.ii.... YV? :, iTu D i u' hicher Knowledge. uev. j. jl. ounaer-. family when thev came home to and it came down with an awful crash. "'t' er . - I ... I n ..-n to nnr 111 nr. T n rtriT-tmnln III not- swarm." "I can't turn my boys away from home when tbey choose to come, for any purpose," said the governor. "I'm sure that's your business, sir," " 'Lasses is nothing to principle !" he explained to the little crowd, aud then followed on alter uoiiy. Eourmillion acres of Kansas lands are under cultivation. The bones of six savages, with pipes that would hold a: pint of tobacco each, were recently unearthed near Gospost, Ind. One of the skeletons was seven, feet long.