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MBS. A. J. BrXIffAT, Editor and Proprietor. A Journal for the People. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity. Independent In Politics and Religion. Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly OFFICE Con. Fr.osT & TVashiso ros Streets Radical In Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs TERMfc IN ADVANCE: of the Masses. One year RIx months Three months... f3 00 1 75 1 00 Free Speech, Fkee Press, Free PEorr.E. Correspondents writing oyer assumed signa tures must make known their names to the Edltor.or no attention will be given to thel' communications. ADVERTISESIENTSInsertedon Reasonable Terms. V02L.TJ3IE "V. POTtXIVINTD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JXJTSDE O, 187G. NTJMBEB 41. MADGE MORRISON, The Molal a Maid and Matron. BvMKt A.J.DUNIWAY, AUTHOR OP "JUniTH REID," "ELLEN DOWD," "A1IIK AND HENRY LEE," "THE HAPPY HOME," "ONE WOMAN'S SPHERE," ETC, ETC., ETC Entered, according to Act of Congress,ln the year 1875, by Mrs. A. J. Dunlway, In the offlce of the Librarian of Congress at Washington City. CHAPTER XXVI. The work about the new bouse and grounds progressed rapidly. Madge seemed inspired by determination even more firm and unflinching than had characterized her earlier years. Jason Andrews obeyed her behests as though be were her subordinate in all things, Alice, subdued and bumbled by her own sad experiences, was tractable and obliging, and Mrs. Andrews was too happy in enjoying the society of her long-sundered and once more united family to allow herself to fret as she had formerly done concerning her mis- mated situation. The weeks and, months wore on in a busy and yet monotonous and unevent ful way, and when the autumn rains came, with their blessings of verdure and balmy south winds, the new quar ters, unpretentious and plain, but suffi ciently commodious for the large fam ily's most urgent needs, were ready for occupancy. "How much more deeply we appre ciate what we possess when our own hands have made it than when we are compelled to depend upon somebody else for its construction," said Madge, as she eyed the new house with its se verely simple furniture with a look and nod of supreme satisfaction. "Yes," replied Jason Andrews, "and since I've resolved to be a man again, I guess we'll all get along first rate." "You'll succeed in your resolves if you'll stay away from temptation, Ja son. Drunkenness, with you, has long been a disease so long that it has be come chronic. You are sure to fall into a relapse if you give yourself the least opportunity." "No more relapses for me, Madge, I've acted the fool long enough." Madge turned away, glad to look for some excuse to change the conversation; for she saw, intuitively, that though Ja son thought he was standing, he con sidered it no longer necessary to take heed lest be should fall. Considerable grain was yet in store in the barn, and it became necessary to re move it to market without further de lay, owing to the fast-falling rains, which would soon make the roads lead ing to The Falls impassable. It was in vain that Madge urged Ja son to remain at home and permit Sam and Harry to remove the produce. "You'll relapse if you attempt to put yourself in the way of temptation," she argued, earnestly. "Pshaw! Madge! D'ye think I'm a baby?" he asked, petulantly. "You're more helpless in some re spects than if you were a baby," was the smiling rejoinder. "Eemember, I'm your physician now. I've under taken to cure you, but I can't be re sponsible for the consequences if you fail to obey directions." But -Jason was inexorable. Feeling perfectly secure in his own fancied strength, he yoked the oxen, loaded the wagon, and made preparations for his journey. "Mother, you must accompany him to town," said Madge, "it will never do for us to trust him to go alone." "I went with him once, at your sug gestion, daughter, and I don't propose to attempt it again." "Because I wanted you to get off the place for a little relaxation was no rea son why you should make a blockhead of yourself by marrying your teamster!" was tne indignant reply. "liut you needn't be afraid of again committing the folly," she continued, "at least not while Jason Andrews lives and adheres to you more closely than forty leeches." "But I can't go to town, Madge. You'd know I couldn't if you'd only stop to think. The baby, you must re member, is too little to leave at home, and certainly too young to travel with in the autumn rains." ''ih! said Madge, "I forgot the baby. But I'll go to town if you can't. Somebody's got to look after the legal head and support of this family, or he'll get on a spree and sell the team and grain for whisky." "But are you able to go, Madge ?" and her mother gazed anxiously into her careworn face. "Able? certainly. I was never bet ter. If all women had as many irons in the fire as I have, they'd have some thing .to think about to keep themselves healthy. I've been on the verge of an awful illness fifty times this summer. But I obey the laws of nature, keep my brain and body busy, and take care not to overwork, either, so I'm getting along splendidly. Then, too," and Madge blushed with a deep consciousness of the weighty responsibility she was anticl pating, "I'll be owner of my own baby by and by, even as I am now owner of my own body, with no mac ter to molest me or make me afraid." "Madge, you're the strangest girl I don't believe you're a single bit like other women !" said her mother, re provingly. "If yon think I'm happy, you're very badly in error, my mother dear. I'd give the world, to-day, if it were mine to bestow, if only George Hanson had proved the true, loving, and tender hus band that be proclaimed himself to be when I" married bim. That he was weighed in- the balance and found wanting, is no fault of mine." "But you were too young to think of marriage, child." "I know it. And so was Alice when she took the same responsibility. So were you, too, for that matter, judging by the choice you made when you ac cepted your second husband." "I admit, dear Madge, that I was very foolish. But it Is so necessary to a woman's life to have somebody to love her, you know." "The trouble Is, my darling mother, that getting married doesn't always bring somebody to love us. Look at me, for instance." "But people must marry, child." "Then let women have equal or supe rior rights to men under the contract. Women have the hardest and most re sponsible burdens of matrimony to bear, and they should refuse to sanction mar riage contracts unless accorded all nec essary prerogatives for their own and their children's benefit. But here comes Jason with the team. I'm going with him to The Falls." "What!" exclaimed Alice. "You dou't mean to say you're going to town in that old dress ?" "It's all I have !" answered Madge. "Well, I must say, you care less for personal appearance than I do; for, be fore I would go where anybody could see me In such a get-up as that, I'd see every man that needs a woman to watch him to keep him from getting drunk go headlong into the bottomless pit." "I like good apparel just as well as you do, Alice, but I like my duty bet ter. Some day I shall have a good home, happy surroundings, and every thing I long for, to make life wortluthe living. I don't know just how it's all coming, but I see a beacon light at the the top of a deep, dark gorge, and the light grows perceptibly nearer every day. You'll live to be proud of me yet, Alice. See if you don't." "It's a blessing to be born an idiot!" said Alice, aside, to her mother, as Madge hurried away to the wagon, pin ning her shawl and tying her shaker as she ran. 'I should say it was a blessing' to he just such an idiot as she is," replied her mother, with a smile. The journey to The Falls occupied the usual two days, but was unusually long and tedious, owing to the constant fall of rain. 'You go into the hotel an' stop," said Jason, as the three pairs of cattle at last stood panting before the door of the largest hotel in the principal street, glancing furtively, as he spoke, in the direction of a Iitfuor saloon that held forth the usual silent invitation to the unwary to come in and whet their morbid appetites. "I'll not leave you alone, Jason An drews," replied Madge, In a decided way. "I'll stay with you until the cat tle are cared for, and then we'll go to the hotel together." 'All right," was the subdued reply, "I wouldn't once ha' thought It possible that I could ha' minded a woman, but ye seem to throw a spell over me with yer cussed authority, an' I might as well submit." Which shows your good siiisc, my amiable step-father," lauglietl Madge. "I propose to remain with you every minute till you're safely locked in your room at the hotel. Just think how it will please mother if I get- you home safe and sober." And Madge was as good as her word, She went with Jason to place the cattle in pasture, accompanied bim through the rain to the ware-house where the wheat was to be stored, walked with him to the store to purchase winter gro cerles and dry goods, and was so com pletely his shadow that no evil-design ingman had opportunity to tempt him with rum. "Before I'd have my steps dogged by u ivuuiuji, especially sucn a nonieiy. dowdy-looking she-devil as that is, with her lynx eyes and square jaws, staring and grinning defiance at me, I think I'i go aud hangSmyself !" angrily ex claimed the worthy bar-keeper at Hi well-known dead-fall where Jason when on a former spree, had sold hi mare for whisky. "Women are always meddling where they have no business!" ejaculated an other, as he shuffled a deck of greasy cards preparatory to a new deal. "If I had my way," said one sover eign, who was too far gone, under th influence of recent potations, to speak distinctly, though he did ?fot by any means forget his "rights;" "If I.bad my way, I'd keep every woman at home, where she belongs, and keep 'em all busy raising young ones." "If women had no better business than staying at borne to repeat such specimens of mauhood as you, I'd pity them !" was the sarcastic rejoinder. "D'ye mean that as an insult? roared the inebriate, rising to his feet with the swaggering and disgusting at tempt to vindicate bis imaginary dig nlty which always characterizes the man whose brains are befogged by alcohol. "No, I don't mean to insult you, but do mean just what I say. It is wom an's business to keep man in the paths of rectitude, if be isn't strong enough to walk there without her aid. I know that dowdy-looking girl you're speak- ng of so slightingly, and I know she's martyred angel. I harvested in her mother's fields last summer, while " She isn't a girl at all, but a woman.'" broke in a familiar voice. "She was married at ray house, and only lived with her husband a day or two. I'd say she was a Tartar, and the less a man had to do with her the better. But how did yon come to know her?" Madge and her step-father, from their place in the little parlor over the sa- oon, could hear every word of the con versation below, and Madge fairly quaked with indignation as she recog nized the deep-voiced parson who had married her to George Hanson, and who now, as sheriff of the new county, was doing all he could to curry favor with the irresponsible rabble who rule America in every quarter through the power granted them by the elective franchise. "Tartar or no Tartar, she's a brick," replied the other, "and I'm ashamed of my country aud ashamed of my sex when I think upon our shortcomings in ur hollow show of supporting and pro tecting women." "You talk for all the world like that fellow Morrison that's in jail up in Mo lalla for killing George Hanson!" ex claimed a half-intoxicated man. with an unseemly oath. "Morrison, did you say ? What's his other name?" "Morris, I believe." "And is he in jail?" "Yes; and awaits his trial on a very grave charge !" and the double-bass voice of the parson grew deeper than ever. For killing a man t did you say ?" Yes. A very aggravated case. Mor rison was in love with the girl that Hanson married, aud it made trouble, I've no doubt but he's guilty!" "But, my God, man! I've known Morrison for many a year, and I know lie's above everything mean. And, as to murder! bah !" "Thauk God !" exclaimed Madge, in voluntarily. "Sh-se-se!" said Jason Andrews. "It'll go hard with him !" continued the preacher politician. "There's a girl at the widow Perkins' that's been par ticularly fortunate, for there's two of her," attempting to speak facetiously, 'and she will depose, when, the trial comes off, that she's seen Hanson since his disappearance. Not likely, how ever, for a hat and coat he used to wear were found in the creek at the bottom of the gulch. The men were known to be enemies, and that's against Morri son. He made threats, another proof. The girl's unchaste, and of course her testimony won't amount to anything; and, take it all together, he's bouud to nang." "And you, being sheriff, will get the job, I suppose." "I talk of it." "But they say Hanson's wife will testify that she-has seen bim since the alleged murder," said another bar-room lounger, whose voice Madge had not be fore distinguished. And what will that amount to?" asked the sheriff, hotly. "She's Han son's wife, and can't give testimony in court concerning him. Besides, there's a strong suspicion that there's some thing wrong between herand Morrison She can't be chaste, anyway; for she's down here now with old Andrews, run ning about on the streets with him, and doing various things that are so bold that no reputable woman would attempt mem." "Are you aware, sir, that Mrs. Han son could sue you for slander If she should know you were thus traducing her character ?" I know what I'm about, sir per fectly. She swears that her husband is not dead, and so, being a wife by her own confession, she's not an individual and not eligible to sue or be sued. The fact Is, I kuow her to be an unchaste woman." "I can bear no more !" cried Madge, in a frenzy. "Jason Andrews, if there' a spark of manhood in your composi tion, I conjure you to defend me!" Jasnn rose to his feet. "But Blay ! I can't let you go !" sh cried. "I forgot, and I'm sorry. Oo t your room, and I'll defend myself. You're suffering now for liquor, and you shall not be exposed to temptation But, Oh, my God! what am I, that have no rights that men are bound to respect? What have I done, of my own accord, that men should deprive me of the rights of an American citizen ? Can I depend upon them to protect and sus tain me? O, Morris Morrison! True, noble man that you are ! But for you even as you lie in prison to-night, await ing trial and sentence for a crime you never thought of committing but for you, I should curse all men and die !" Madge led her step-father to hiscbahi ber, locked him safely out of liquor' way, put the key in her pocket, re turned to the lonely parlor, and paced the floor excitedly. Then, ringing th bell, she ordered the porter to request the sheriff of Molalla to call upon her, upon special business. He came, with a curious, eager ex pression, which cbnnged to blank dis may when Madge, Inspired by such in dignation as is born of desperation, compelled him, by the sheer moral force of her will, to write and sign a re cantation to the attack upon her char acter, to which she had been an unwill ing listener. To be continued. Odd Popular Superstitions. Whoever reads epitaphs loses his- memory. Yarn spun by a gin miner seven years of ago possesses extraordinary virtues. Linen made ot it lurmshes the best bandages for gouty patients, aud, when wrought in garmentB, forms complete coat of mail, not only against bullet and dagger, but even agaiust the more formidable operations of witchcraft. The very yarn itself can be wound into unerring musket balls. When a mouse gnaws a gown, some misfortune may be apprehended. When a stranger enters a House, lie should be obliged to seat himself, if only for a moment, as he otherwise takes away the children's sleep with him. The crowing of alien indicates some approaching disaster. Whoever sneezes at an early Hour either bears some news, or receives some present the same day. Women who sow flax seed should. during the process, tell some confounded lies, otherwise the yarn will never bleach white. Beggars' bread should be given to children who are slow in learning to speak. When women are stuffing beds, the men should not remain in the house, otherwise the feathers will come through the ticks. To rock a cradle when empty is m- urious to the child. If a child less than twelve months old be brought into a cellar, he becomes fearful. The first tooth cast by the child should be swallowed by the mother, to insure a new growth of teeth. A child grows up proud It stiuered to look into a mirror while less than twelve months old. To eat wuue a bell is tolling for a funeral causes'tootbaehe. The following are omens of death: dog's scratching on the floor, or Howling in a particular manner, and owls hooting in the neighborhood of the house. Buttoning the coat awry, or drawing on a stocking inside out, causes matters to go wrong during the day. White specks on tbe nails are lucky. Inherited Longevity. Evervbodv has noticed that nearly all the members of some families die aged, while those ot others are gone betore what would be called the middle age of the former. It is a common and correct remark that some are as old at forty as others are at sixty ; the latter will, in fact, be more likely to live twenty years than the former. The years a person has lived is oy no means the most important ele ment for judging how mauv he may probably live, nor is present health of mucu more consequence, since it is often the case that families are very vigorous aud healthy while they live, yet are not long-lived. They inherit healthy but snort lives, isotice the Laplanders Observe the citizens of Zurich, Switzer land, very healthy, but seldom reach ing the age of sixty, while members of one Italian family living iu their midst since the sixteenth century reached the age of eighty or ninety. The Welsh arc tne longest-lived people In .Europe. The scotch are longer-lived than tbe.ng nsu, anu tne Irish sborter-lived, yet they are all healthy as a people. On the other hand, some who do not have robust health are noted to live loug. It is saiu mat they attain old age because they take such excellent care of them selves. Yet, though it is not denied that the care is useful, it will be found that they had at least one long-lived parent, and thus inherited longevity irom one side, if not from both; for, tuougu it is oiten the case that those die young who have long-lived ancestry, it is very seldom tuat any person lives to bo a year or two older than any of his ancestors parents, grandparents, etc. "We've plagued 'em almost to death.' the other sister said. "They don' want to take our furniture. They know they have violated their own laws in selling our land when there was other property, mere were seven cows, i had raised them all myself, and It was like taking my life away. We. were told that women could not go to the auction block; but we told 'em we'd go wnerever our property went. The men believed that we thought so much of our cows that we'd pay our taxes. i couici nave prevented the cows from having been driven off, aud given the man a great deal of trouble in taking tiiera, ior tne cows would mind me If 1 spoke to them. But I did not say any thing to them, and let. them go, and they were put in a yard near by, where I could see to them. Eleven acres of our land, which is considered worth $2,000, weresold for $78 35; and another tax bus just come in for $9G. We get, on an average, twenty-four letters a weeic, from persons all overthis country and England, and loo diuerent news papers have been sent to us, proclaim in'', to the shame of the raeu of Glas tonbury, that wo have paid more than any man in town to build a town hall that we are .not allowed to speak in. I guess we can hold out as long as they can." staters snittn, uiastonoury, ot. The forests of Europe, as estimated by Dr. iirown, cover 500,000,000 acres, or nearly 20 per cent, of the surface of tne continent. In isrltisli iNorth Amer lea, 900,000,000 acres. In tbe United States, 560,000,000 acres. In South America, 700,000,000 acres. The total for Europe and America alone is equal to d,ouu,000 geograpuical miles. it is suggested that the churches might effect a saving iu these hard limes oy empioyiug women preacn at about half-price. Being of I weaker sex, they could not expeet more; ami, as lor the difficulty with Paul, that may lie got over by remem uering murium, xeooran, anu oiners. They have fouud a petrified Mormo in Utah, and from the number of dents in his bead, evidently made with poker and flat-iron, it is judged that he had at least thirty-three wives. Hinth Annual Convention of the National "Woman Suffrage Association. The ninth annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association convened in Masonic Hall, New York, on Wednesday, May lotu, at 10:30 a. m., the President, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage, In the chair, whileon the platform were also Mrs. Clemence S. Lozler,. M. D., Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Helen M. SIo cum, Mrs. Sarah Goodyear, Mrs. Helen M. Uooke, Miss Charlotte Gay, and Mrs. Sarah J. Spencer, of Washington. On taking the chair, Mr3. Gage said mat during tne past hundred years man bad had his share of the advantages of the Declaration of Independence, but woman at tbe outset of the secoud cen tury of the Bepublic stood iust where she had in 1776, not having the advan tages whicn the Declaration professed to give. There were, she continued, 20,- 000,000 women iu America who were unable to say who shall rule them; they were governed solely by a sex not their own; they were.taxed without represen tation, and were tried by those who were uot their peers. In the Revolu tionary day women looked forward to the rights of their posterity. Mrs. John Adams, the woman whose name had come down through years, wrote to ber husband that she longed to hear that tbe men had declared a Declaration of Independence, but hoped that in a new code of laws the ladies would be remem bered, and the injustice of their fore fathers no longer perpetuated by the granting of absolute power to tbe hus bands to the subjugation of the wives. The speaker, in concluding, said that if Woman builrage was not recognized by one of the great political parties before July, 1876, its advocate proposed to cel ebrate the Fourth of July by issuing to the world their own Declaration of inde pendence, and added that if the political powers failed so to recognize theirclaim, the coming national celebration would not be a celebration of the independence of the whole, but only half, of the Amer ican people. Mrs. De Zozier wood next made a very brilliant address, iu which, reply ing to tbe argument often advanced, that if women were to secure the right of suffrage they would desert their do mestic relations for politics, sbeclaimed that woman's political life would be governed by the same higherlaw which governed man's, aud which elevates the capable to positions of responsibility and rust, while it drives the incompe tent back to private obscurity. At the conclusion of the address, upon motion of Miss Susan is. Anthony, a committee was appointed to superintend the prepv antion of an historical sketch of the work tlfus far accomplished by the Na tional and State Conventions, the rec ord, when completed, to be forwarded to the President ot tne National con vention at Philadelphia. The nfternoon session was opened by Sarah J. Spencer, who spoke of the en couraging progress of the work of the Convention at Washington, where ten bearings were given to the advocates of Womau Suffrage, three at their own re quest, and seven at the invitation of the committeeappointed to considerthe sub ject. She continued with a graphic de scription ot the euect upon tne commit tee ot tbeseaddressesaudquestionsaskea them, concludiug with several amusing stories illustrating the anomalous post tiou of woman. At this stage of the proceedings the two sisters Smith, of Ulastonbury, Conn., came on the stage, were warmly welcomed by tbe audience, and given seats each side the President. Miss Charlotte Gay, a Eolored lawyer of Washington, next addressed the meeting, speaking of the legal aspects of the present condition of women. The following resolutions were then pre sented by Mrs. Spencer : SELF-GOVERNMENT A NATURAL RIGHT. Whereas, Tbe right of self-govern ment inheres iu the individual before governments are founded, constitutions framed, or courts created ; and, whereas, Uovernments exist to protect people iu the enjoyment of their natural rights, and wlien any govern ment becomes destructive of this end, it is the right of the people to resist and abolish it: and. Whereas, The women of the United States, for one hundred years, have been denied the exercise of their natural right of self-government and self-protection; therefore. Resolved, That it is the natural right aud most sacred duty of tbe women cit izens of these United States to rebel agaiust the injustice, usurpation, aud tyranny of our present government. THE MEN OF 1770 AND THE WOMEN OF 1876. Whereas, The men of 1776 rebelled against a government which did not claim to be of the people, but, on the coutrary, upheld the "divine right of kings:" and. Whereas, The women of tfiis nation to-day, under a government which claims to be based upon individual rights, to be "of the people, by the peo ple, and for the people," iu an infinitely greater degree are suffering all the wrongs which led to the war of the Rev olution: and. Whereas, The oppression is all the more keenly felt because our masters instead of dwelling iu a foreign land are our husbands, ourfatbers, our broth ers, and our sous: tneretore. Resolved, That the women of this na tion, in 1876, have greater cause for dis content, rebellion, aud revolution than our fathers of 17C. ABIGAIL ADAMS IN 1776. Resolved, That with Abigail Adams in 1776, we believe that "the passion for liberty cannot be strong in tne breasts of those who are accustomed to deprive their fellow creatures of liberty;" that, as Abigail Adams predicted, "We are determined to foment a rebellion, aud will not hold ourselves bound by laws in whicli we bave no voice or represen tatiou." OUR GOVERNMENT A MONARCHY. Whereas. A monarchy is a irovern ment based upon force, and a republic isagovernmentoaseu upon consent; anu, Whereas, Consent is given in a re public by and through the ballot alone; and. Whereas, In this country the use of tbe ballot is denied to women; tneretore, Resolved, That the women of this na tion are under a monarchy: and. TiesnlveA. That the men of this nation are political monarchs, while their wives, their sisters, ana ineir uauguiers are subjects. CENTENNIAL PROTEST. Whereas, We believe in the princl pies of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution of the United States, and believe a true republic is the oestiorm oi government in the world: and, Whereas, This government is false to its underlying principles in denying to its women citizens tbe only means of self-government, tbe ballot; and. Whereas, One-half of tbe citizens of this nation, after a century of boasted liberty, are still political slaves; there fore, Resolved, That we, women citizens of this nation, protest against calling the present Centennial celebration a cele bration of the independence of the peo ple of tbe United States. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Resolved, That we call upon tbe wom en of tbe United States to meet in their respective towns and districts on the Fourth of July, and to declare them selves no longer bound to obey laws in whose making they have had no voice. and, in persence of the assembled na tions of tbe world gathered on this soil to celebrate our nation's Centennial, to demand justice for tbe women of this land. PERSONAL LIBERTY. Whereas, The men of this nation bave established for men of all nations, races, and color, on this soil, at tbe cost of countless lives, the proposition (in the language or Jbredenck Douglass) 'that a man's head is its bead: his body is his body, his feet are his feet;" there fore, Resolved, That justice, equity, and chivalry demand that man at once pro ceed to establish for his wife and mother the corresponding proposition that a woman's head is her head, her body is her body, and her feet are her feet, and tbat all ownership and mastery over ber person, property, conscience, aud lib erty of speech and action, are in viola tion of the supreme law of tbe land. THE POLITICAL PARTY FOR WOMEN. Whereas, The political party in the approaching campaign which will pledge itself to remove every obstacle in the way of the exercise of tbe right of suttrage by the women citizens of the United states, by being true to tbe fun dameutal principles of our government. thus becomes tbe true reform party ot the country; tneretore, licsolvca. That the party which so pledges itself will deserve tbe support of tbe women citizens of this nation. Resolved, That we rejoice in the re sistance of Julia and Abby Smith, Abby Iveliy Foster, Sarah IS. Wail, and many other resolute women in various parts of the country, to taxation without rep resentation. JCesolvea, That, the etlorts made in one of the political parties of the coun try to secure a property qualilication for suttrage is an ettort of capital to control labor. A CENTURY OF DEVOTION. Resolved, That In the face of constant tyranny ana injustico toward them on the part of this government, the women of this nation, by a century of toil and struggle, sulienng and sacrifice, by pa tient endurance or wrong, by devotion to the general wellare, by priceless con tributions of children to the State, have proved their patriotism, their fidelity, their high claim to all the rights, privi leges, aud immunities of citizenship. jcesolvca, That the thanks ot tbe JNa tional Woman Suffrage Association are hereby tendered to Hon. A. A. sargent, of California, for his earnest words in behalf of Woman Suffrage on tbe floor of the United States Senate January 1876. Resolved, That the thanks of this As sociation are hereby tendered to the Hon. JN. t . Banks, of Massachusetts, for his appeal in behalf of the Centennial Woman fcjutrrage .Memorial in the United States House of Representatives March 31, 187(5. Resolved, That the money in the Treasury of the United States belongs to the women ot the United states equally with men, and that whether it is recklessly squandered in elevating to ofllce aud strengthening the bands of tbe men who unjustly rule over us, oris meanly boarded to furnish political capital to other men who desire to rule over us, the women or the country are equally wronged and defrauded, while the interests or me wnoie people are wantonly sacrificed to man's love or place aud power. LICENSE FOR SOCIAL VICE, Resolved, That the repeated efforts and the strong tendency of men toward the licensing of the social evil are a practical confession of the weakness profligacy, and general unfitness of such men to legislate for women, and should be regarded with alarm by the women of the country as a proof that their fire sides and the liberties of women are in constant peril while men only make and execute tbe laws of this country. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Whereas, For seventy-six years tbe assembled masculine wisdom of this na tion has been unable to dlvlse a just. economical, and efficient form of gov ernment for the District of Columbia and, Whereas, The management of af fairs in that District has been unjustly attributed by tbe people of the United States to tho people of tbe District; and Whereas, There are 7,000 more women than men in said District, and no form of government for said District has allowed women any voice In mak ing the laws under which they live therefore. Resolved, - That in this Centennial year the Congress of the United States, having exclusive jurisdiction over that territory, should establish a truly Re publican form of government upon tbat national son oy granting equai suurage to the men and women citizeus of the District of Columbia. At the evening session, despite a vlo- Ieut storm, a fair audience collected, consisting largely of gentlemen. Miss Susan B. Anthony read a caretully-pre-pared paper on the legal questions in volved In woman's present demand for the ballot. It contained mauy quota tions from the early declarations of those who were contending for libety one hundred years ago. She told with mucli effect the story of the different manner in which Hiram H. Revels and bis colored friends were treated in 1865, when they called a public meeting in Leavenworth, Kansas, which was not attended by any of tbe public men an nounced, and in 1870, when Hon. Hiram Revels, Senator of the United States, was received with all honor, and these same men were proud to address their "fellow citizens," saying, In conclusion, that the same increase of defforen.ee would be shown to women when they too bad political power. After some remarks by Mrs. Blake, the Convention adjourned. Moving and House-Gleaning. The following extract is from "Rural Hours," a volume written by Susan Fennimore Cooper, a daughter of the American novelist, and published by G. P. Putman's Sons: The great spring house-cleauing is going on in the village just now, and a formidable time it is in most families, second only as regards discomfort to the troubles, of moving. Scarcely an object about a house seems iu its proper place topsy-turvy is the order or the day.. Curtains and carpets are seen hanging out ot doors, windows are sash less, beds are found in passages, chairs are upside down, the ceiling is in pos- session of the whitewash brush, and the mop 'thas the floor," as the reporters say of Hon. M. C's. Meanwhile, the cleaners, as relentless as Furies, pursue tne larany irom room to room, until the last stronghold is invaded, aud the very cats and dogs look wretched. Sin gular as it may appear, there are some active spirits in the country women spirits, of course who enjoy house cleaning who confess they enjoy it. iiut then there are men who enjoy an election, and it was- settled ages ago that there is no arguing upon tastes. Most sensible people would be disposed to look upon both house-cleaning and elections as among the necessary evils of life far enough from its enjoy ments. One would like to know from which ancestral nation the good people of this country inherit this periodical cleaning propensity. Probably it came from tbe Dutch, for they are the most noted scour ers in tbe Old World, though it is difficult to believe that such a sober, quiet race as tho Hollanders could have carried on the work with the same restlessness as our own housewives. We are said to have taken the custom ot moving on May-day from our Dutch forefathers, and I believe there is no doubt of that fact; but then, we may rest assured tbat a whole town would not set about moving the same day in Holland. In that sensible, prudent land, not more. perhaps, than a dozen householders at a time are expected to sacrifice comfort and furniture by such a step. On the Zuyder Zee, it probably takes a family at least a year to make up their minds to move, and a year more to choose a dwelling. But see what this custom has become under the influence of ao- aheadismf May-day, for ages asso ciated with rhymes, sweet blossoms, gayety aud kindly feeling, has become tbe most anti-poetical, dirty, dusty, un- rragrant, worrying, scolding day in the year to the Mauhattanese. So It is with the cleaning process. Most civ ilized people clean their dwellings. Many nations are as neat as ourselves, and some are much neater than we are. But few, indeed, make such a fuss about these necessary labors. They contrive to manage matters more quietly. Eveu among ourselves, some patriotic women, deserving well of their country, have made great efforts to effect a change iu this respect, within their own sphere, at least; but alas ! In each instance they have, we believe, succumbed at general custom, a tyrant that few have the courage to face, even in a good cause. It must be confessed, however, that after the great turmoil is over when the week, or fortnight, or three weeks of scrubbing, scouring, and drenching are passed, there is a moment of de lightful repose In a family; there is a refreshing consciousness that all is sweet and clean from garret to cellar; there is a purity in the household at mosphere which'is very agreeable. As you go about the neighborhood, the same order aud cleanly freshness meet you as you cross every threshold. This is very pleasant, but it is a pity that it should be purchased at tbe cost of so much previous confusion so many petty annoyances. The Source of Love. Swedenborg wrote some coarse things about unfortu nate unions; but few men have written so sweetly and tenderly about conjugal love, and be, among mauy, maintains tbat love always begins from the woman. This, of course, means love as au effluence, or coufessed power In tbe intercourse of a human couple. In other words, it is the woman throwing the lasso of love around the neck of the man. Swedenborg's account of hi vision is very droll: "Tho fact is, nothing of true love originates in man. That it proceeds from woman was clearly shown me iu the spiritual world. I was once con versing there ou the subject, when the men, under tbe secret influence of tbe women, stoutly affirmed tbat they loved, and tbat the women were simply moved by their passion. Iu order to settle the dispute, all the females, mar ried aud unmarried, were completely removed, whereon the men were re duced to a very unusual condition, such as they had never before experienced, and of which they greatly complained. While they were in this state the women were brought back. They addressed tbe men in tBe most tender and fascinating manner; but they were indifferent, turning away, aud saying, 'What is all this fuss? What are all these women after?' Some replied, 'We are your wives,' to which they re joined, 'What is a wife? We do not know you !' whereat the women wept. At this crisis of the experiment, the feminine influence broke through the impervious crust which had been per mitted to enclose the men, when in stantly their behavior changed, and they heartily ackuowledged tbe women. Nevertheless, the women subsequently converted them to their former opinion, admitting that possibly some small spark of love might pass from the. men into their breasts." When an Oshkosb clergyman stops In tbe middle of his sermon to remark, "Dearly beloved, .it's awful dry," a thrill of Christian sympathy pervades the entire congregation, and, in the twinkling of a.n eye, 100 loaded pocket flasks are flashing in tlje air. A man whose Appearance indicated he was staggering from excessive weight of a brick in his hat, being asked if he was a Son of Temperance, replied : "Hie uo; no relation not even an ac quaintance." Before-arithmetic was iuvented,peo ple multiplied on the face of tbe earth.