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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1876)
-t3 r vH ZF . rTSr III HBS. A. J. DisiWAT, Editor and Proprietor. OFFICE Cob. Frost fc "Washisgton Streets TERMS, IH ADVANCE: A Journal for the People. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity. Independent In Politics and Religion. Alive to all Lire Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposing and Exposing the "Wrongs ol the Masses. On year....-. Six months Three months.- J3 00 -175 1 00 Free Speech, Fbee Press, Free People. Corresnondentswrltlnc over assumed 1 1 ten tures must make known their names to the Editor, or no attention will be given to their communications. ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable Terms. VOLTOIE "VI. I?0"BTIL,AJVI, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER lO, 187G. NTOIBEB. O. HO STOEY YET. A letter from Sire. Dunlway, under date of October 21st, informs us that sue mailed the story at that date at New York City, but it bas not yet arrived, and, much to our regret, we are again compelled to go to press without it. The vexatious delay is doubtless owing to the careless handling of the malls. LETTEE IE0M MES. LOUGHAEY. To the Editor op the New Northwest: After some fears and tremblings,' our opponents retire from the conflict satis fied with the defeat of the billaskingfor universal suflrage, assuming the right to "legislate for the womenjaf Oregon in all cases whatsoever" an act which destroys the spirit of true Democracy by refusing the people of Oregon an op portunity to decide a question that properly belongs to tbem. Notwith standing all this, the triends of the cause feel quite jubilaut over our suc cess, as far more was accomplished in the Legislature than the most sanguine suffragists expected. We feel quite safe in saying that if the amount of influence had been used in the Senate that was brought to bear upon the members of tbe House, the bill would have passed. The presence of the women in the as sembly, silent as tbey were compelled to be, proved a power over the feelings and actions of our law-makers, unwill ing as some of them are to acknowledge it. Tbe petitions of so many of'tlie best of Oregon's women, accompanied with such earnest appeals, could not be gain sayed by our most bitter opponents. Mr. Ferguson of Yamhill urged "to submit tbe question to tbe people, thereby settling the question and sup pressing farther agitation." Mr. F. and all other sensible men very well know where the danger is they fear tbe agi tation. They know that tbe agitation of any subject is its life, while stagna tion is death. That member that claimed to "have discovered more advantages in universal suffrage than many conceded" doubtless had felt the effects of this ag itation. Nor do we wonder that the gentleman from Benton felt that he must vote for the measure, when a larger list of petitioners was sent up from hit village and neighborhood than from any other county in the State considering the number of inhabitants. We are informed that the bill wa rushed through the Senate without de bate with closed doors. Why all this, except they feared the agitation of a subject that demanded justice only ? Tbe suppression of agitation of the slavery question was the "sheet anchor" that kept the "peculiar institution" from being dashed to pieces for years, and just in proportion to the effort made to diffuse light and knowledge into tht minds of tbe siavesand the slave-holder did the moorings give way. Let the lessons of tbe past be a new impetus to the women of Oregon. Agi tation is our present pressing want. We have this in our power. Why not wield it to the best of advantage in every available way ? Sustain the New Northwest and keep its pages flutter ing in the breeze. By all means, let us have more organized effort. We have before urged the vice-presidents to or ganize county associations in their re spective counties. Tbe petitions thai were sent into tbe .Legislature were from tbe few counties alone that are or ganized into working order. Several thousands of names could have been easily secured had any system of labor been adopted. Then the oppo9ers could no longer say, "Only a few of the wom en of Oregon are asking for the ballot.' Thousands of our women desire it, and I know whereof I speak. Permit this suggestion the immedi ate. organization of woman's working clubs in every county, town and village in tbe State if possible. This can be done by a few energetic women, and the men, too, are willing to lend a helping hand. We are just approaching an other long Oregon winter, when ample time and opportunity will be afforded for such work. Let the science of gov ernmont be taught, the principles that underlie the American government be discussed. Let it be seen that women are citizens under tbe law just as men are, In spite of Mr. Fidler's "angelic womanhood." Such meetings from week to week, or monthly, even, can be made both pleasant and profitable. H. A. Loughary. Amity, October 30, 1876. The First Aim of Education. I accept without qualification the first principle of our forefathers: that every boy born in the world should be put in tue way or maintaining himself in dependence. No education which does not make this Itsgreataim is worth any tiling at all. There are but three way of living, as some ona bas said by working, oy begging, or by stealing, unose wuo uo not work, disguise it It whatever pretty language we please are doing one of the other two. Tbi practical necessities must take prece dence of the intellectual. A tree must be rooted In the soil before it can bear flowers and fruit. A man must learn to stand upright upon his own feet to re spect Himself, to be Independent cbarlty or accident. It is on this basis only tbat any superstructure of intellec tual cultivation worth having can pos Bioiy ue ouut. jcrouae. They rescued a girl who tried to drown herself in Buffalo the other day, and .then fined her for "disorderly conduct," "ONLY THEEE GEAINS OF 00EN." BY MRS. S. 11EWES, M. D. Through the long and somber vi9la of departed years, up to a receut period, woman hasa held out her hand to man laden with all that her heart and soul possessed as a free will offering physi cal, mental, arid moral worth. She did not presume to ask for equal educa tional advantages; she scarcely dreamed of acquiring the professions. If she be came interested in the political move ments of tbe day, read newspapers, etc, she was called "atroug-miuded." Le gally she bad .not equal ownership with tbe father in that little homestead where all tbe Websters, Clays, Lin- colns, and Sevvards were born, reared, and teuderly cared for during the long twenty-one years of their minority. No, the law did not grant her equal ownership with the father to tbe person of those same boys, whom she gathered so gently about tho maternal hearth stone. Some years since a father In the State of New Jersey deeded his unborn child to a friend; at the proper time thischild was transfered to its legal owner, not withstanding the protests and anguish of the mother's heart. All this was in accordance with the legal enactments of that State. At the death of the father, how many beautiful, happy homes are at once di vided up and legally consumed by the tedious, rambling process called law, that these same fathers helped to enact for the protection of wife and children? Women have previously supplicated imploringly, asking, metaphorically ipeakiug, for "Only three grain ql corn;" modestly asking to be employed as teachers and servants at less wages than their brothers received forlike ser vices performed; geutly knocking at the college doors; timidly creeping in as far as permitted, bearing their manifold burdens bravely; paying taxes without representation to build and support these same colleges whose doors are closed against her. These "three grains of corn" havq sustained her "till tht coming of the morn." The day-god has arisen with a brilliancy and power thai iwakens new thought, and laden with fresh magnetic glory, arouses all tbt proudest conceptions of manhood and womanhood. With commendable zeal woman has nvaded every avenue of labor; by bei continual knocking she has opened mauy college doors, and through hei rowing intelligence she has proven to tbe satisfaction of a majority of noble men and women that she is worthy and competent to assume the burden of re- ponsibility in tbe great political house hold to stand by the side of man equal both in the home interests and the legi slative balls. She truly merits thai which she asks at your bands; and no longer satisfied with "three grains ol corn," she must ere long share equally with yourselves the -whole field. Our Grandmothers' Ball Dresses, A ball-room of the earlv times of tht Regency would look strange to modern eyes. Brummel had introduced tht tillly-starched neckcloth, and. with the itegeut, had held earnest council concerning tbe pattern and form ol clothes. Coats might be auy color tht brightest green, tue fruitiest plum, mul berry, or sky blue, was even perinissi ble and burnished brass buttons were n general wear. -Trowsers did not an pear in the evening until about I81C; the Regent was proud of hiu calves, aud was loin inueeu to conceal tuem uudei broadcloth. But to that measure he had to come at last, upon the peremptory behest of fashion. Every gentleman auu some ladles) took snuff, and af fected pecularity about snuff-boxes, indulging in great variety, and making collections of the same, sometimes ol an extraordinary value. It was a time of rich waistcoats, variegated aud em- oosseu, witii taise collars of suppositious other waistcoats appearing above tbe genuine, so tbat the eveuingdress of the male dancer was of a far more party coioreu cnaracter man in mese days o funereal black clothes and white ties Indeed, there was an abundance of color in tbe ball-rooms of the Recency. The dress of tbe ladies was not remarkable for quantity. The skirts were neither long nor bioad; they clung closely to the limbs, and made -liberal revelation of sandaled feet and silken-stockiuged ankles. Heads were very tall, the hair being piled aloft, and above it soaring feathers and climbing flowers. The arm, clothed in a kid glove long as a stocking, appeared at the end of a short sleeve, purled Into a globular form Waists were as short as could be. It was thus the grandmothers and great grandmothers of the present generation of dancers were equipped when called upon to decide tbe momentous question touching the propriety or impropriety of tbe waltz, and to choose whether they would be prudes or profligates, for mat was tue lavorite way of presenting iue muiier. xiarpers jsazar. Affectation of Suavity. There are some people who affect a want of af fectation, and Matter themselves thai they are above flattery; they are proud of beiug thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of re venge; tney are so sattsned of the suav ity of their own temper that they woui quarrel with their dearest benefactor mily for doubting it. Aud yet so very blind are all their acquaintance to these (heir numerous qualifications aud mer its, that the possessors of them invaria bly discover, when it is too late, that they have lived in the world without single friend, and are about to leave it wituout a single mourner. Bacon. A dog was buried in Greenwood Om etery uot long since with tbe usual cer emonies. Colored people, we believe, are not imerrea mere .yet. Hallie's Hair. BY MADGE CARROL. 'You don't know how clad I was when Mrs. Kepler told me she expects Keep your cousin with her until Christmas. I shall so enjoy knowing her belter. What .beautiful hair she bas." "Beautiful and expensive, too, tbe color is so rare. Dealers say it is almost in possible to get it." Do you mean i should understand that Miss Dewing's hair" "Excuse me, Air. Iraq u air. I see ma has waited up for me, and need not de tain you. Good-night." Seeing her daughter In an unusual state of excitement, Mrs. Dewing ven tured a questlou : "Wbat alls you, Dena? Has ilr. Traquair proposed V" - "Dou't be ridiculous," was tbe sharp reply, aud, flinging her hat one way aud gloves another, Dena retired to her own room. Beginning with a falsehood and end- ug in disrespect, Dena Dewing's intro duction is not a favorable one. It serves, however, to show the girl as she really was, not as Jir. Traquair Knew her when she met him, one year after having fallen in love witli his picture. Hallie's hair again, and Dena gave her own a vicious tug; was it always to beHallie's hair ? Was that golden web be woven across her every path ? fills very night it caught the one pair f eyes in all the world she longed to hold; might not the glittering threads next eutangle the only heart she cared call her own V How vividly she re called the night that brought her or phaned, stranger cousin from tbe far South to their own borne. A home where, up to that fateful day, she ruled lone, an only, inordinately-indulged child. A picture of Hallie, as she stood me moment apart on the crimson hearth-rug, blistered the envious, jeal ous heart that held it. A slight, shy figure some thirteen summers crowned, with a face delicate as a wind flower, nd a wealth of wondrously bright hair flowing to tlie very hem of her mourn- ug dress. Urandina, aunts, uncles and cousins assembled to welcome David's irphaued and only child, held their breaths In something akin to awe. It seemed as though a sprite had leaped from the canuel coat's heart some re-fairy, sable and gold, glitter and loom, that a whisper would wing into tier red courts never to be tempted out gain. Jbor an instant tuts impression prevailed, then grandma inaugurated a rush upon her by crying out: "Come here, little Girl Gold Locks, let me have he lirst kiss and touch that lovely hair make sure It's not wings that'll fly way with you to-morrow." ies, Hallie's hair. Always Hallie's hair! DenaDewiug, failing to grasp tbe real cuarm tier cousin carried witii liei. came to believe thai, like Samson's, her trengtu lay In her locks. Deprived ol hese she was powerless. A whisper vvent the family rounds that Dena had nee attempted to clip, next actually to mini tnose beautllul braids. JNo foun- ation for this rumor was ever dis- overed other than the fact that Hal- ie secured a home in another city, and ler hair for a time lost its burnished evenness. Dear little lambkin," bewailed Grandma Dewing, "she ought never to iave stayed au hour under the same roof with that envious, ill-tempered Dena." However, everybody agreed that since ler eighteenth birthday she was now twenty, six months Hallie's juuior here was a marked change in Dena Dewing. A clever cousin declared her to be cultivating the Christian graces in irder to catch Mr. Traquair. Whatever the cause, the girl with theexception of tier persoual appearance was certainly mproved. With a dead-white complex ou, faded eyes and hair, meally eye' brows and lashes, and more than a sus picion of freckles, the Quaker colore md simplicity she had adopted, in girl parlance, "killed" Dena Dewing. She persisted in tins species of self-destruc- lion, even to the extent of laying aside Heavy braid or ashy red nair and frizzes, then faced a generation of switch burdened women with a coolness and courage as remarkable as it was rare, "Agnes," said Mr. Traquair, prepared, as was his custom, to give an account if ills evening's entertainment to his invalid sister, "I met to-night the first lady that over won upon my soul seemed to draw it out after her as men's souls should go out after the women they marry. I brought what you call my microscopic gaze to bear upon her. and could discover nothing false. Her style of dress, bearing, manner, every tiling ttbout her, challenged unlimited admiration; yet I am obliged to believe tuat, like tue majority of tier sex, sue owes something to art. How much it is impossible to estimate. .Everybody knows my nxed, unalterable opinion o these feminiue devices. One form of deceit is as surely indicative of others. as one uowurignt falsehood is of a pre disposition to lying. I copld no more trust a womau wearing raise hair than I could trust a woman wearing false smiles aud making mock professsions.' "Well, having found your ideal, after thirty years' seeking, In Dena Dewing, by wbat rtgrjt does your soul run ou after auolber woman V" "You mistake, Agnes. I have not found my ideal. Miss Dewing pleases me in that she owes nothing to art, and in little else. I have somehow drifted into near relations with her. She useful to me in the mission school and in other ways; we are co-workers friends, that is all." "I'm glad to hear it, for I don't like her, yet can't tell why. Nor do I Ilk this Mrs. Kepler, at whose house you spent last evening; although 1 never saw her, she impresses me unfavorably, "And me. She ought to have been born in the French court; nothing de lights ber more than plottiug and counterplotting, even in such trivial matters as getting two persons together. or keeping tbem apart. I never feel at ease in ber house." "And yet you seem to be a frequent visitor." "Yes; her husband's one of our most active members, and she herself, a though a woman of the world, gives largely from ber own private fortune, For some reason she generally manages to nave an tue meetings at her house, so you see I'm rather obliged to keep the peace." It was this woman's aid Dena Dewing resolved to seek in her extremity. "Oh, yes, I'll help you out," she re piled, alter bearing tue story. "Hal lie's a good girl, a very good girl. Tom Kelper set such, store by their patched- up relationship, I was obliged to invite her, aud, in fact, am truly glad to have her, but she's not to be allowed to strike the target's center and carry off the mission-school teacuers prize. .Be side " Mrs. Kelper paused, casting a keen, sly glance upou the face before her. "You're not falling in love with Mr. Traquair, are you, Dena?" Dena promptly disclaimed any such idea. 'Your conduct, then, was prompted entirely by the very natural and reason- auie jealousy auy gin wiiu aiinost no hair would feel for one supporting a whole mountain of it." "Yes, you understand me perfectly." There was uo mistake about it, but Mrs. Kelper went on -as though accept- ng tbe declaration as uena meant it. Then I'll go on with wbat I was about to say. I owe tins piece of pomposity a rudge for his high and mighty loftiness toward little mite of a me. We'll pull the wool over his eyes so completely, he'll think it's Hallie's hair. Mean while we must be cautious aud not tell any downright libs. Are those you ave repeated your exact and only ords?" "They are. Mr. Traquair is too much of a geutleman to introduce the subject again." "Assuredly. Then, don't you see, you stated a simple fact, that is ail. Such hair would bring its weight in gold. I'd give my head for it if we could wear hair without heads. The color Is rare. marvelous bleuding of pure fed and yellow gold, neither one, the other, or either, because that doesn't describe It. Almost impossible to get It ? I should think so; did ever another bead wear so beautiful a crown? Ah, here she comes ! Hallie, dear, we were just talk- ng about your hair; everybody raved about it last night." "I'm: sorry I've nothing else to rec ommend me." "Ah, I see; a little sensitive on the subject. Well, let me think; did no body say you were charming? Really 1 don't recollect, because I'm an enthu- iast on the subject of your hair. Even our invulnerable Mr. Traquair expressed his admiration. Almost his first words were, 'What lovely hair she has.' He lways visits alone. Such a pity Mrs. fraquair is so confined lit home witb that daughter. Odd about Agnes, isn't t, Dena V 1 here's a mystery some where." As Mrs. Kepler rattled on a great load fell from Deua Dewing's heart. The womau who could so cleverly make Hallie feel a trifle vexed about ber hair, leave her under the impressiou that the .Mrs. Traquair mentioned was a wife in- lead or a widowed mother, and seal ber lips from inquiry concerning the family health with the hint of a mystery, was certainly the one to conduct her case and bring it to a happy issue. With what cobwebs are our lives en tangled. Here were two people, a man nd a woman, every way calculated to bless, strengthen, and sustain each ther, dimly couscious of it beside, yet kept apart by a word here, a hint there, uterweavings Iran as tbe gossamer lines spun from branch to brauch of. a summer's morning. "She wore a pale blue dress tbat hung about her like a cloud," said Mr. Tra quair, "and when I saw her put a spray of white blossoms iu her hairaud at hei throat, I found myself weakly wonder ing was there any more harm iu a false braid, a tinge of rogue, or a brush ol powder than in those blossoms? It's well she's engaged, Agnes, else I fear I should end in tailing in love with her. 1 don't Know why Jar. Traquair haunts me," mused Hallie, sitting alone iu her bower of hair, thick aud bright as Jenny Wren's. "Plain, grave, punc tilious, he's not in the least like the men I've always faucied. Indeed, he's not like auybody I ever knew. What a restful, sheltered sort of feeling his wife must have. I should like to take a peep iuto that home. I think I see him there as I saw him in the mission school iasl Sabbath. Ordering everything firmly, wisely, kindly. The friendship ol such a mau, were I so happy as to be consul ered worthy of it, would be the joy of a lifetime." The end was nearer thau they thought. One night a variety of circumstances letained several persons under airs Kepler's roof. Mr. Traduair had an en gagement with Tom that would take them oil on the early train, while three or fohr ladies, Dena among them, were indebted to a storm for tbe pretext ol remaining. At midnight a cry of Are aroused the slumbering household Nobody ever discovered how it origi nated. bift the lower apartments were iu flames, and smoke stealing through the cracks of every chamber door. There was little time to lose dressing or la mentlng. To the roof! To the roof! Every one of you I" bawled Tomlvepler. In a tew minutes a pauic-slrlcken group collected thither to meet with double horror. The house at the lowest point stood Ave feet below its neigh bors. It was short, sharp work to save that flock of frightened women. Mr. Traquair above with a hastily-con structed shawl ladder, Tom Kepler be low, labored bravely and rapidly, still It was a question whether all would be saved. Dena Dewing's narrow nature asserted itself for the first time in the presence of the man she loved. Sh falrlystruggled to be foremost; but Tom with stern justice, determined she should be tbe last. So rapid was tbe progress of the flames that sparks were shower ering over tbe roof, smoke swirling black about them, and crimson tongues lapped the cornice before they were ready for Dena. It was an awful thing to have Tom iust then turn whiter thau ever in that red glare, aud cry out that his ams was paralyzed. "Get her u somehow, Herbert. I'll save myself if lean," he whispered, hoarsely. A hurried word to Hallie, who had refused to fly with the rest, aud Mr, Traquair dropped to Dena's side. Eve iu the midst of fire aud smoke, she thrilled beneath his arm's embrace. The moment was worth its terrors could she but be saved. A secoud mishap reuuered ttuountiui n sue ever would be. Raining sparks had gnawed th shawl ladder Hallie held; it parted i Dena's frantic grasp. Before Mr. Traquair could think or act in this new, Inforeseen emergency tbe brave girl above him unbound her hair, and, leaning forward, it bung like a beautiful, savin pinion over her ma ligher's head. There was a momentary recoil from tbat silken life-line. "Take firm hold," said a voice as cold as ice, "and be thankful it's one with tbe dearest head angles ever watched over." Dena did as she was bidden, and was saved, but with an agony at her heart fierce and wild as the flames from hich she escaped. Not the sharp hiss and crackle of the fire-fiend's tongue and teeth, nor the shouts of tbe men who had appeared aud rescued Tom, preveuted her hearing seven short words Mr. Traquair whispered In Hallie's ear: "Urave little woman, you are rightly crowned." There's nothing else-to tell. Any one can guess how it ended. Suicides. Samson, who perished amid the ruins which crushed outrtlie lives of his perse cutors, is the greatest murderer of Holy writ, Saul tell upon his sword in bis last and lost buttle, and the borrld de lalls.of Raziss' suicide lives with every reader of tbe Scriptures. Among the Greeks suicide was common, though usually resorted to for worthier purposes than lead to it to-day. Lycurgus, the framerof the famous Spartan Laws, iu order to secure their observance, made his people promise to Keep them invio late "till his return," and then with- rew to Delphi, where, after a conversa- on with the oracle, he starved himself to death, thus' enforcing the perpetual observance of the uational promise. In spite ot tne prevalence of suicides among tbe ancients, the laws against them were stringent, and the practice ol self-destruction was considered a hein ous crime. It has been reserved for more modern mes, however, to afford the historian f self-murlier real subject for his pen, nd the number on the list of suicides has beeh steadily on the increase since the beginning of the Christian era. It is a noteworthy lact mat the pro portion of male to female "suicides has beeu, and is, anuut three to one, and that among the females married women nd widows seek the last resort more frequently than single ones; the score ol unmarrieu maie suiciues preuomiuaies. Drowning is the method most resorted to iu modern times. Firearms are next u order, and poison falls last. The lat ter two are tbe most common among women. But, most singular of all, it the fact that by accurately compiled tatistics, more cases occur in the month of April than any other season. A Printer's Dream. A printer sat n his office chair, his boots were patch ed and his coat threadbare, and his face looked weary aud worn with care. While sadly thinking of business debt, old Morpheus slowly round him crept, and before he knew it he soundly slept; and sleeping he dreamed that he was lead, from trouble and toil his spirit had fled, and that not even a cow-bell tolled for the peaceful rest of his cow-hide sole. As he wandered among the shades, that smoke and scorch iu lower Hades, he shortly noticed an iron door that creakingly swung on hinges ajar, but the entrance was closed with a red- hot bar, aud Satan himself stood peep- ng out, and watching thereabout, and thus to a passiug printer spoke : "Come in, my dear, it shall cost you nothing, never fear; this is the place t cook the oues who never pay their subscription tutus, for though iu life they may es cape, they will find when they're dead t is ton late ; 1 will show you a place where 1 melt tbem thin with red-hot chains aud scraps of tin, and also where l comb their beads with broken glass and melted lead, aud if of refreshments they only thluk, there's boiling water lor them to drink ; there's the red-hot grindstone to grind down iiis nose, aud red-hot rings to wear in his toes, and il tbey mention they don't like tire, I'll sew up their mouths with a red-hot wire ; aud then, dear sir, you should see them squirm, while I roll them over aud cook to a turn." With these Iasl words the printer awoke, aud thought it all a practical joke, and still at times so real did It seem, that he cannot be lieve it was all a dream; aud often he thinks with a chuckle aud grin, of the fate of those who save up their tin, and uever pay the printer. Colleges for Women. What would "Dorothy Dudley" have said had she beeu entered as a "Freshman" at Wel- lesley College ! That Falrmalden.wliom a hundred summers keep rorever seventeen," Would have told us a very different story of female education from that which can be related by the less myth ical Dorothys aud Dudleys of to-day At tlie time to which the first entry of her "Diary" introduces us, when nine British red-coats stopped at Bradish favern, in Cambridge, for dinner, aud then galloped on toward Lexiugtou with suspected design of seizing John Hancock and Samuel Adams, there was no female semiuary or your youug ladies' boarding-school in all tbe colo nies, aud no college to which a girl might go. Our nineteenth-century Ideas of educatlou were largely nebu lous matter. The now rising project ol the co-education of the sexes was very far below the horizon. Not even at William and Mary College was there auy place escept for the Williams. The .Marys were lett to sunt for themselves. Their facilities for the acquisition of knowledge were few, tbe obstacles in their way were many. A view of such an iustitution as Wellesley College be comes, therefore, an important part of the general inspection we are all now so much interested in making for the measurement of the century's progress Aud it is doubtful if at any point the coutrast between the two extremities of the hundred years be more striking than in this of tbe education of youug women. Edward Abbott, in Jlarper Magazine for August. Recognition. The Illustrated Week lu is responsible for this watering-place legend: "A gentleman at Saratoga, after waving his handkerchiet lor au hour o more at an unknown lady whom lie dis covered at a distant poiut on shore, was encouraged by a warm response to his siguals to approach his charmer. Im agine his feelings when, ou dnwing uearer, he saw that it was his own dear wife, whom he had left on shore but short time before ! 'Why, how remark able that we should have recognized each other at such a distance !' ex claimed tbey both in-a breath and then they changed the sisbject." A nephew of Mr. Bagges, ih explain ing tbe mysteries of a tea kettle, de scribes the benefits of the application of steam to useful purposes. "For all which," remarked .ear. uagges, "we have principally to thank what was his name?" "Watt was bis name, believe, uncle," replied the boy. IJck and His Bequests. " . Many .wh'o read this will remember the small, spare figure of Mr. Lick, at tired iu a suit of black not too often re- ewed consisting of a swallow-tailed coat, pantaloons not of the most fash- onable cut .and a tall collar, supported by a wealth of neckerchief. The style f his garments never changed with the fickle fashions. Quite a number of lergymen of San Francisco, among them the Revs. Williams, Stone, and Stebbins, have been at bis room ou sev eral occasions, but bis conversation at such times has never inclined toward eliglous topics. His views were con fined to that plane of rationalism of which Tom Paiue was tbe best expo nent, and they were thoroughlv in grained in. -Iiis character. A Free thinker closely crowdiug fourscore was hardly as impressible as those gathered within theecclesiastical p'ale in the dew their youth. His talk with the friends admitted to his presence was on the news of the day and-such points as related to his immediate busiuess. The Lick House was beguu in 1858. but asoriginally finished was small aud dingy. It afterward became necessary to extend it, and Mr. Lick determined tbat the new dining-room should be m 11 respects worthy of the hotel. So he sent au agent to examine and report pon thesimilar accommodations of the principal hotels ot Eastern cities, and the result was one of the most elegant dining halls in the country. Failing to ud auy mechanics sufficiently skilled to make the frames of the pictures and mirrors that adorn tbe room, he had them done by his own workmen at San Jose, under bis immediate supervision. the crowning point in air. Lack's life, nd what made his reputation world wide, was the cession of his immense property to seven trustees for benevo lent purposes. The principal objects pecifled were 5700,000 for an immense bservatory; 53UU.U00 to found aud en- low the California School of Mechan ical Arts; $250,000 for a group of bronze tatuary representing the history ol California; $100,000 for au Old Ladies' Home in San Fraucisco; SloO.OOO for uuilding and maintaining free batiis; S150,000 for a bronze monument to Key, author or "The star Spangled Uanner:" $25,000 in gold to tbe Protestant Or- phau Home of San i-rancisco: S2o,000 in gold to found au orphan home iu the city of Sau Jose, and $10,000 to purchase ctentihe and mechanical works fur the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco. flie total value of the trust fund is esti mated at about $5,000,000. JV. Y. Her ald. I Can." Of course you can. You show it in your looks, iu your motion, n your speech, in your everything. "1 caul" A brave, hearty, substantial, soulful, manly, cheering expression. rhere Is character, force, vigor, deter- ninatlon, will, in it. We like it. The words have a spirit, sparkle, pungency, flavor, geuialty, about them which takes one in the very right place. "I can !" There is a word of meaning exprjesed, nailed down, epigramized, rammed into these few letters. Whole sermons of solid-ground virtues. How we more than admire to hear the youug man speak it out bravely, boldly, deter miiiedly; as though it was an out leaiching of his entire nature, a reflec- lion of his inner soul. It tells of some thing that is earnest, sober, serious, ol something that will battle the race, aud tumble with tlie world in a way that will open and brighten and mellow men's eyes. "lean!" What spirit, purpose, iuten sity, reality, power and praise. It is a -ttrong arm, a stout heart, a bold eye, a nriu port and indomitable will. W uever knew a man, possessed of its en ergy, vitality, lire and light, that did not attain eminence bf some sort. It :ould uot be otherwise. Itisin the na ture, constitution, order, necessity, in evitable of events tbat it should be so. "I can !" rightly, truly said, and then clinched and rivited by tbe manly, he roic, determined deed, is the secret solu tion, philosophy of men's lives. They took "lean!" fora motto, and went forth. aud steadily made themselves aud the wold what they pleased. Then, young man, if you would be something besides a common, dusty, prosy, wayfarer iu life, just put these magic words upon your lips, and their musing, hopeful, expanding philosophy in your heart aud arms. Do it and you are made a man. Some terrible disclosures of the want sutfering, aud starvation in New York have been made iu the papers of that city, and have called forth expressions or sympathy and alarm. Tlie Jjiberai Christian thinks it is time "to seek ou the causes of poverty and. incapacity and crime," which is a pregnant sug- gestiou. The same ghastly facts con front us everywhere; and homes of com fort are clouded by thoughts of wide spread distress aud sufleriug. It is a bopetul thing that people cannot be iu different to such agonies; and it would be well if this sympathy should lead to some general movement toward perma nent relief and improvement. Destitu tlon aud starvation are not confined to the incapable and vicious; capacity aud skill will be louud among the victims, It is time to seek for tlie causes; and though they may be traced to methods of busiuess, and of tbe distribution wealth, which we have supported and approved, let the search not be delayed through fear that such a discovery will be made. When there is enough for all in society, there ought to be a system by which all may have a share, or civ ilization is a failure. To seek tbe causes of poverty and crime would be one the most radical investigations e started. New Age. The BeautY and Glory of a Good Life. Sometimes, iu the season drought, you may stand upon a hill-top aud look upon the parched aud yellow fields. Presently you say : "What Is tbe meaning of that ribbon of green that winds dowu the slope through tb meadow till it is lost in the distauce Ah! now I remeber. That is where brook ran ouce. Its , waters have been dried up, but the verdure which thev nourished remains." And so bow often does it happen, after a good man's life has exhaled from earth tbat tbe beauty anu giory oi us oenencence abide: The Dutch have a queer way of cur ing laziness by putting a subject Iu cisteru and turning on a stream of wa ter which runs in at one side as fast as man by steady work can pump it out. mere is noming to ao but pump or die, Superstition. THE THUSDER SPIRIT A TRADITIOJT OP THE SENECA. INDIANS. Herno. the great Thunder Spirit, had his lodge behind the sheet of water that pours down at the Falls of Niagara. For very long time he dwelt there, aston ishing tbe Indiaus with his stunning peals, but never venturing forth to practice bis strange art before their eyes. They could hear him, and Knew he was there, but never, as yet, had be beeu seen nor is it at all likely that he, or the effects of the sun, ever would have beeu seen, but for a little incident, tbe results of which brought him forth. A voung aud beautiful maiden, resid ing at Seileca village, just above the full? had been contracted in marriage by her father, to an old man ofdlsagree- ble manners and hideous person, sane ouce resolved to seek death, rather thau drag out the life of misery which such a uuiou might bring about; and with this object in view, she launched forth from the village in a bark canoe, inging her own death song, until sue took tbe awful leap. But death was uot ready for her. Herno, the Thunder Spirit, happeued to be wide awake, and when he saw her coming down amoug the foaming waters, lie coolly caugut ner in ins blanket, and conveyed her to his home behind the falls. OI course, tbe maiden had romance enough about her to be grateful for ail this,- more especially when she munu she was entirely beyond the reach of the monster her "cruel pa-ri-ant" had se lected to comfort her through life. She fell upon tbe ueck of the Thunderer, and wept sweet tears. The tears soiteueu his stern heart, and led him to smooth back, if not to toy with, her golded resses. In short, to nurry tnrougn a oug story, they got to billing and coo-. ng, they fell in love, they made tne in eresting aflair known to each other, and the wronged, though beautiful maiden, became the wife of Herno, the Thunder Spirit. And, as a matter of course, she was very happy. About this time the beuecas or tne village above the falls were visited with a pestilence, which swept them off by hundreds, aud while some prayed to the Great Spirit for help, others gath ered around the cataract and sent iu their petitions to Herno. Tne taie oi their sufferings moved the Thunderer, aud he sent the maiden forth to tell her people that a monstrous serpent was dwelling belieath their village, just be low the surrace or the grouuu; tuat it was depending upou their bodies for food, aud tbat it came forth at the -end of every moon and poisoned the waters, u order that they might die auu lie buried witbiu its reach. As soou as the Indians learned this. thev nulled up and moved to another lo cality; consequently, when thegreatser- pent poisoned tbe waters as usual, tue earth brought him no food. This was an aflair so strange that he crawled forth to see what it meant, when, to his surprise, he found the village was de serted. With many curses on the head of the Thunderer, as the author of his misfor tune, the serpent took the trail or the retreating Indiaus, aud started away iu hot pursuit. The maiden sun loveu nerpeopie.ana when she saw the serpent moving on to efl'ect their further destruction, she ap pealed to her husband to arrest him. Herno was not deaf to her eutreaties; and so he stepped forth from his hidiug- place aud launched a hissing bolt alter the serpent, which struck him just as he was endeavoring to cross the narrows some distauce above the falls. The wound produced was a fatal one, aud the great monster floated dowu the stream aud lodged upon the verge of tbe cataract, stretching nearly from shore to shore. The swilt waters were Jammed up by the obstruction, but they fiually broke through the rocks be hiud, and thus the whole top of the falls unon which the snake rested was pre cipitated with it into the abyss below, excepting a small portion, wuicu is now known as uoat isianu. It almost entirely rurned the home of tbe Thuuderer for it reduced the great space beliiuu tne waters to a very nar row compass. He sun occupies it as a sleeping apartment, however, aud you may now near mm snoring uuuer mere, if you staud on the shore; but if he would exercise lumselt in ins iavorue pastime of throwing thuuderbolts, be is forced to come forth iuto space less lim ited. Unreasonable as this myth may sound, there can be no doubt but tbat the Senecas believed every word oi it. When they were to be met with in tbe Niagara country, they pointed out a place near the mouth oi uayuga urees, where the banks were shelved out in a semi-circular form, and declared that it had been done by the serpent, in ins deatli throes, after having been wounded by Heruo's thunderbolt. And to this tradition may be attributed tbpir cus tom of putting away their dead upon scaffolds above the ground, instead of buryiug tbem. Wouen and Home. There is a buudle of delight bound up in the -sweet word, home. The word is typical oi comfort, love, sympathy, and all the other qualities that constitute the de lights of social life. Were the everyday employments of many of our intelligent aud affectionate families faithfully por trayed, they would exceed, in moral heroism, interest, and romance most of the productions of tbe pen of fiction. The social well-being of society rests on our home, aud wbat are the foundation stones of our homes but woman's care and devotion? A good mother is worth an army of acquaiutauces, and a true hearted, noble-minded sister is more precious thau tbe "dear five hundred friends." Those who have played arouud the same door-step, basked in the same mother's smile, in whose veins the same blood flows, are bound by a sa cred tie that can never be broken. Dis tances may separate, quarrels may oc cur, but those who have a capacity to love anything must have at times a bubbling up of fond recollections, and a yearning after the joys of by-gone days. Every woman bas a mission on eartb. There is "something to do" for.every one a household to put in order, a child to attend to, some class of unfortu nate, degraded, or homeless humanity to befriend. That .soul is poor iudeed tbat leaves the world without having exerted an influence that will be felt for good after she has passed away. Era. The Rule. We should never re member tbe benefits we have conferred, nor forget tbe favors we have received. 1