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EDNA AND JOHN:
A Komanrc ef Idaho Flat.
Br Mrs. A. J. DUNI WAY,
AUTHOR OP "JUDITH BEID," "ELI EN BOWK,'
"AMIE AND HENRY MSB," "THE HAPrY
HOME," "ONE WOMAN'S SPHERE," ,
"JIADOE JIOBKISON,"
BTa, ETC., ETC
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the
year JS76, by Sirs. A. J. Dunlway, In the office of
the Librarian of Congress at Washington City.
"Woman's degraded, helpless position is the
weak point of our institutions to-day a dis
turbing force everywhere, severing family ties,
filling our asylums with the deal, the dumb,
the blind, our prisons with criminals, bur ciV
ies -with drunkenness and urostltutlon, our
homes with disease and death. National Cen
tennlal Equal Rights Protest.
Fp.ee Speech, Free Press, Free People.
VOLUME VI.,
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 187"?'.
NU3IBER 51.
CHAPTER XII.
"Another family hns come to Idaho
Flat to live, and now you'll have cpuv
pauy," said John Smith, one day, as he
came staggering into the cahiu and de
posited his rickety form upon Aunt
Judy's customary seat, leaving the good
woman to balance her weight as best
she might upon the rheumatic foot that
was less ailing than the other.
"A wife and children, did you mean,
John ?" asked Edna, with a show of in
terest.
"A family generally means wife and
children in my dictionary!" answered
John.
"I wish the woman part of the family
joy.'" said Edna, wilh a sneer.
"None o' your insinuations, Edua!"
exclaimed her husband. "I'll have you
know that your lawful husband is to be
treated with respect in his own house!"
he added, dropping his chin upon his
bosom and falling into a drunken sleep,
while his mouth fell open and his tongue
protruded, and a crystal drop depended
from the end of his nose, and two or
three stray beads of the same clear con
sistency trickled down his rum-Hushed
face.
"Treated with respect in his own
house !" cried Edna, in scorn. "This
house, shabby as it is, belongs tempora
rily to us only because of your industry
and mine, Aunt Judy. And yet he
taunts us with treating him disrespect'
fully in it, and lays claim to the virtua
of pos&sston and ownership!"
"In the eyes of men's law he is right.
Edna."
"What do care for men's law, aun
tie?"
"The law does not care what you
cares may be, child. You are living
under a government made by men and
for men, and you must either obey those
laws and take what comes, or break
them and risk the consequences."
"Then I'll break them, auntie."
"Stop, child; you don't know what
you are saying. Your husband never
maltreats you; that is, I mean, he never
whips or abuses your person, however
much he may choose to bruise your
spirit. There is no law upon the stat
utes of this formative Territory to pro
tect you from even an overt act of vio
lence, provided your husband does not
chastise you with a stick thicker than
his thumb."
"You have missed your vocation,
auntie. You should have been a law
yer. "Where did you get your informa
tion ?
"From John's law books. They con
stitute the .only class of literature we
have out here, except the Bible, and
I'm getting disgusted with that."
"Why, pray ?"
"Because woman is cursed within its
pages for seeking after knowledge. The
motive that possessed our maternal an
cestor was a worthy one. She saw that
the tree was good for food, and to be de
sired to make one wise; hence her de
termination to partake of its fruit."
"What in the name of common sense
are you driving at, auntie ?"
"Just what I'm saying, ehiM. The
Bible says, 'Thj desire shall lie to thy
husband, and he shall rule over thee.'
One look at John Smith in connection
with that command destroys nil my re
spect for the Book."
"The conditions of penalty imposed
upon man for the same tiai sgression
were just as arduous as Hint, auntie,
Man was commanded, or, rather, it was
foretold that lie should eat the herb of
the field; that thorns and thistles should
be brought forth to him, and that he
should till the ground in the sweat o
his face."
"But comparatively few men obey
their curse, Edna."
"Because, being the arbiters of their
own destiny, they are enabled to con
quer the conditions it imposes
Heaven had decreed these unhappy and
insurmountable conditions, no man
would ever have been able to rise above
them."
"Then you don't believe in the justice
xr infallibility rf the text auy more
than I."
- m id sure, auntie, mat I looK upon
man's cune, and woman's also, assim
ply the remarkable foretelling, away
back in the dawn of the Jewish era, of
the very conditions that exist and have
-existed through the succeeding ages,
Originally man was only a tiller of the
soil. In the sweat of his face he ate his
bread. The thorn and thistle, which i
was predicted should grow for him, he
has .looked upon as his enemy his
legitimate prey. Woman, upon the
other hand, has accepted the condition
of her curse as final. Man has so de
creed, and she has blindly submitted.
Now, I know that it is just as much the
duty of woman to conquer and subdue
this condition of evil and nsurpation as
it is the duty of every faithful husband
man to conquer the thorn and thistle,
root and branch."
"But how are you going to begin,
Edna?"
"First of all, auntie, dear, we must
have woman just as free to follow the
promptings of her "own selfhood as man
is."
"And how are you to bring all that
about, when in all this broad America
there is not one court of justice where
she can have any prospect to figure ex
cept as a criminal ?"
Well, auntie, I can't see that we are
to make anything by theorizing here.
My sovereign lord and master, who will
have me to know that he is 'head of the
family' that provides him with food and
shelter, and who robs us daily of a con
siderable sum to keep himself boozy,
will probably sleep for several hours,
and if-you will keep the babies, I will
visit the new family of which his wor
ship benignly cousented to tell me."
'Why, child.' You are not able to
take such a walk ! The road lays across
the gulch, down one great hill and up
another still larger, and you haven't
been out of the house for weeks."
"Never mind, auntie. Any sort of an
adventure will be a change. I'll try
it."
The wonderfully exhilarating air of
Idaho Flat acted upon her being like an
elixir of life. Instead of falling dead on
her little journey, as she had hoped aud
prayed to do, bhe grew suddenly strong
in feeling and purpose. Walking with
a nrm step along tne graue oeiow tne
cabin, she paused, after a while, to
watch the men at work. Some were
wading waist deep in the yellow water
of the rapid creek and upturning the
gravel with long-handled spades, while
with aching limbs they toiled from j
morning till night in preparing for the
coining "clean up," when they hoped to
reap golden rewards for the rheumatic
twinges and tic douloureux contracted
during the season's toil.
"If John would strive like that to
earn his bread, I shouldu't mind my
own toil and suffering," thought Edna;
"and it is plain enough that all men are
notidleordruuken. What a pity itislbnt
a man who is idle or dissipated can ever
be the sole arbiter of the destiny of a
woman whom he holds by virtue, not of
his own good conduct and her desire,
but through a fiction of the law which
compels her, though not a party to the
laws, to obey them in spite of her innate
selfhood. Surely there is a great wrong
somewhere."
Edua louiul the ascent of the oppo
site steep more difficult than she had
supposed. Listening intently forsounds
issuing from her home, she fancied that
she could hear the low wail of her tiniest
babe, and she hastened on, designing to
complete her call and return ere Aunt
Judy's patience should become ex
hausted.
In an erewhile abandoned cabin, seven
feet by nine in area, and perched upon
the very verge of an ovei hanging ledge
of rocks, under which the miners even
now were burrowing, lay a woman in
an evident state of intoxication
"Well," thought Edna, "if this is the
sort of recruits that come, in the shape
of families, to Idaho Flat, I don't want
to remain, even though gold abounded
iko bowlders. And yet, why has not
this woman as good a right to drink as
Jolin V'
Edna had inherited from her mother
all the feminine prejudices against evil
n woman for which womanhood is
everywhere commendable, and the sage
reflection to which she gave utterance
was born only of the force of example
n her husband's home,
"I guess I won't rouse her. Guess I'll
steal back and tell Aunt Judy that I've
found a counterpart for John," she said.
rresolutely
Yet it had been so long since she had
seen the face of any woman except
Aunt Judy, that a curious desire to know
more of this stranger possessed her.
The usual paraphernalia of a mining
camp lay scattered about. There was
no bed, except the roll of gray blankets
upon which the woman lay, and no fire.
or place for any, except upon the rocks
outside.
As Edna stood surveying the wretched
scene, and Minting from the effect of
her up-hill walk, a rolicking yet sad
looking man, in sandy hair and plaid
cassimeres, approached the cabin, car
rying a bag of beans and a flitch of ha
con
A look of annoyance crossed hiscoun
teuance as he met Edna, and his eyes
fell.
"My name is Smith," said Edna,
"and I came to make a formal cull, af
ter the custom in all villages."
"And my name is Young, madam
My that is Mrs. Young is not well to
day."
Edna breathed more freely. Perhaps
she had mistaken the woman's iudtspo
sition for drunkenness.
"Have you been long in the West?
she asked, after a pause.
"Oh, yes; a year or two. It's up-hill
work living in this country,
"I don't think there's any special
need of Its being such, sir. You look
uue a sooer man. I think anv man
industrious can get along here "all
right."
"Would you be willing to live a life
time in such a place as this?" aud the
man fidgeted uueasiiy as he saw a pros
pect that the sleeping woman might
stir.
"Oh, no, sir; but I'd be willing to live
almost any way for a few years, while
we're young and while the children are4
little, if by so doing I could amass a
competency for middle and declining
life."
"Well, madam, if you can have auy
influence over my wife for good, I shall
not regret coming to Idaho Flat."
The woman thus indicated rose sud
denly to a half sitting posture and began
to upbraid her companion, not heeding
Etiua's presence.
""And so you've brought beans and
pork, eh?" she said, speaking with a
thlck-tongtied utterance that confirmed
Edna's first impression.
"It was all I could afford," was the
qiiiet answer.
"Yes; all you could aflord, no doubt!"
was the querulous reply. Then, turn
ing suddenly, she encountered Edna'.s
wondering eyes and dropped her own
for an instant.
JVhere had Edua met that look be
fore. "You promised me, Jim Young, that
if I'd become your wife, you'd be fortu
nate in business and would always keep
me in elegant style! You said I was
too young, too fragile, and too hand
some to keep booaders for a milling
camp; and you managed to get a breath
of suspicion against my good name, and
induced my husband to believe your
villainous lies, and he took all we had
and abandoned me because he deemed
me "liitrue. What could I do, Jim
Youtrg? My bahy, even, was snatched
from my arms because you made him
believe I was guilty, aud I became a
discarded wife and a robbed mother.
I'd kept boarders at Rocky Bar, Jim
kind, and differs from It only, in degree.
She evidently had a good husband, as
men go; that is, he felt that he possessed
personal ownership in her, aud so long
as she remained sound (in his estima
tion) she was entitled to food aud shel
ter at his hands, if she would work for
it; but he had only to be led to believe
that his property was not the genuine
article to cause him to cast it from him.
Had he considered her as an individual,
as well as a wife, her disgrace, whether
merited of not, would have entitled her
to her own earnings, and thus saved her
from degradation. On the other hand,
Johu Smith possesses the absolute power
over your earnings that enables him to
confiscate them for liquor aud gam
bling debts. He does not mean to dis
card you if he can help it, because he
appreciates the fable aloutnha 'golden
egg."
"Aunt Judy, it's all wrong."
"I know it, child. Men would not be
willing to endure the man power for a
single day which they enforce upon
womanhood continually without a
thought that woman, whom they con
sider as property, can be wronged by
their laws."
"Yonder comes your stranger, auntie.
We'll see a perfect match when you and
he are one."
"Nonsense!" replied the good woman,
yet she did not scruple to smooth her
glistening locks aud steal an admiring
glance into the little mirror as the gen
tleman ordered his customary pie.
To bo continued.
If
oung. I'd washed for tne miners, and
iled u hen I wasn't able, and my work,
ore than his, had made the little we
ad; but you got me slandered, and I
is turned out of home, dis-graced,
robbed, and yet innocent!"
"My wife is crazy, madam. It is n
ery unfortunate case," said the host.
"Crazy, indeed!" was the contemptu
ous reply. "Would to Heaven I were
crazy !"
'If you were an innocent woman,
why did you live with this man, even
lien your husband had discarded you?"
asked Edna.
Why does any woman sell her soul
or body?" was the fierce reply. "What
else was left me that I could barter, ex
cept myself? There was no law in all
the land to which I could appeal for
protection in my property rights,
Women shunned and starved, aud men
sought and tempted me at least, this
one did and I fell for food and shelter.
Fell, even while I loathed the man who
wrought my ruin. Ah, madam, the
men say that they protect us aud so
they do! Just like they protect cattle
If we are their property, they'll house
and feed aud provide for us; but if we
are nobody's property, they turn us out
to starve, unless some of them take a
contract to secure a certain amount of
service from us, for which we are in the
end to pay with life and honor."
Mr. Young," cried Edna, flashing
her indignant eyes upon the man, "is
this woman's story true?"
Something in the questioner's man
ner caused him to hesitate and blush.
"No," he at length replied, speaking
with evident reluctance, "the woraau is
as crazy as a loou."
Aud who drove me crazy, Jim
Youug? Who alienated a kind, hard
working husbaud from me by villainous
lies? Who caused me to be robbed of
my baby my precious, precious baby
Who caused me to be driven into the
world penniless aud disgraced? Who,
when the vile work of robbery had been
accomplished, came to me when I was
half sick, half famished, and half frozen
and offered me, with honied words and
promises as false as hell, a grand home
in San Francisco? Who promised to
see that I was legally aud honorably di
vorced? Who promised, if I would but
take the gold myperlshing body needed,
that he would treat me honorably till I
was free, although an innocent outcast,
to became his wife? Ah, Jim Youug!
Of course I'm crazy ! Crazy with gin!
And I intend to remain crazy every
hour that I can find enough of gin to
keep me so. When I'm dead drunk I
can't see my white-faced Alma. When
the stupor is on me I can't hear her cry
for mamma. When I'm mad with
whi8kyl can forget my sorrow in curses
But, oh, the sad awakening that comes
'The wages of sin is death.' If this is to
go on through life, I'll never meet my
darlinc in the land of souls. Eternal
misery! Oh, God!"'
The wretched creature fell prostrate
on the roll of blankets, and Edna, who
had found a case more heart-rending
than her own, hastened to her home
and poured the story into the wonder
ing ears of her sympathetic relative,
"I am growing more and more
strongly convinced," said Aunt Judy
"that the degraded position of woman
is the weak point in our institutions to
day. I see more and more clearly that
it is a disturbing force everywhere; that
it severs family ties and peoples the
world with knaves. The history of that
Ihe Moral Effect of Hurry.
To the thoughtful, the moral conse
quences of tension and hurry are very
saddening; to the physicians their re
sults are a matter of profound concern;
their grave evils come under his daily
observation. No evolution of force can
take place with undue rapidity without
damage to the machine in which the
transformation is effected. Express
railway stock has a much shorter term
of use than that reserved for slower
traffic. The law is inversely propor
tioned. It is therefore no matter of sur
prise that the human nervous system is
no exception to the law. The higher
salubrity of rural over urban life is not
a unftterof fresli air and exercise. Ilural
life Involves leisure and pause in work,
which are very essential to the main
tenance of the nervous system in a state
of due nutrition. Unremitting spasms
soon cease altogether.
The tension of life produces weakness
at the very place where strength is most
needed. The damage done to the health
of the most valuable part of the com
munity, the best trained thinkers, most
useful workers, is incalculable. Work
and worry, though not proportional, are
closely connected, and an excess of the
former soon entails an increase in the
latter beyond the limits which the
nervous system can bear with impunity,
especially the condition under which
the work lias to be done. The machin
ery for organizing the work of a com
munity had to be rigid and inflexible,
and in the strain involved in bringing a
changing orgauism into. harmony with
a machine, the former must inevitably
suffer. London Lancet.
PEE AMBLE AND CONSTITUTION OF
THE 0. SW. S. A.
Article 1. Section 1. This Associa
tion shall be called the Oregon State
Woman Suffrage Association.
Art. -2. Sec. 1. Officers: The officers
of this Association shall consist of a
President, a Recording Secretary, Cor
responding Secretary, Treasurer, and a
Vice-President for each county.
Art. 3. Sec. 1. Membership: This
Association shall be composed of mem
bers who will sign the following Consti
tution :
PREAMBLE.
We, the undersigned, citizens of the
State of Oregon, believing Woman
Suffrage to be the vital issue of the day,
and believing that the ultimate triumph
of our principles to be but a question of
time, which it is our duty as loyal citi
zens of the Republic to hasten by organ
ized effort, do hereby pledge ourselves
to advance these principles by a strict
adherence to the following
constitution.
Art. 1. Sec. 1. We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men and
women are created equal; are endowed
by their Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among these are life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of happiness; that
to secure these rights governments are
instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the gov
erned.
Art. 2. Sec. 1. These truths, so pro
phetic in their import aud fraught with
such vast consequences for the consider
ation of generations yet to be, have been
heretofore theoretical only as far as one-
half the citizens are concerned. And the
object of this Association shall be to com
bine our mutual interests for the pro
motion of equal political rights for
women who are taxed without repre
sentation and governed without consent.
Art. 3. Auy person may become a
member of this Association and he en
titled to a vote in its conventions by
signing this Constitution and paying
into its treasury the sum of one dollar
annually.
amendments.
Art. 1. Sec. 2. Officers shall be
elected at each regular meeting for the
term of one year.
Art. 1. Sec. 3. All officers shall be
elected separately by ballot, after nomi
nations by the Association, and a ma
jority of nil the votes cast shall be
necessary to a choice.
Laboring Glasses.
Physical Training of Women.
In these times of fast living, of ex
cessive nervous action and consequent
exhaustion, there are few subjects which
are so important and so neglected as
those relating to physical health aud
strength. Especially is this subject as
related to women, treated with an indif
ference and a blindness which is exas
perating. It is true that civilization
teaches men to value aud recognize
those qualities of mind and heart gener
ally characterized as feminine, but
probably shipwrecked passengers res
cued by Grace Darling value their pow
ers and nerve more than auy other trait,
nor need such women be auy less gentle
and refined, because they are strong.
If the women passengers of a certain
lost ship had possessed strength aud
nerve and agility, a man standing by,
watching the company of rescued file
past, would not have exclaimed, using
the Divine name, "not a woman among
them all!"
Those who consider the helplessness,
the uselessness, the terrible sufferings,
and the entailed miseries consequent
upon the physical degeneracy of women,
are ready to hail with delight anything
which looks like a reform in this direc
tion. This physical weakness is some
times denied, in view of the numbers of
women who throng everywhere in ap
parent health, and in view of the her
culean domestic labors they perform;
but women know of unspoken ills, ami
of the immense drain upon the wonder
ful elasticity and endurance of their
womanly nature, winch these labors
cost. We do not believe that women
are necessarily weaker than men at
least, they are designed to make up in
endurance what they lack in strength
but uuder the present condition of
things they are immeasurably weaker,
and this, in consequence of a ruinous
mode of dressing and lack of proper
physical exercise.
It is a crying evil that our school girls
receive no such training that tlleir
minds are taxed at the expense and to
the neglect of their bodies, and they are
growing up from pale, delicate, sluggish
children into uervous, invalid women.
Girls need this training more than
boys, because their more passive dispo
sitions, their hampering dress, and
their ideas of young ludyism prevent
the romps and games which boys enjoy.
Only one Who has, in the routine of
public school life! sat six or seven hours
a day at a desk with mind and nerves
taxed to their utmost, even in tiie few
minutes' recess standing stupidly still,
and then spending the hours at home
in close study, can imagine what a per
fect glow of mind and body would have
ensued from a half hour's brisk gym
nastic drill.
Our seminaries and colleges for girls
are no better than our common schools.
Young men have their gymnasiums,
their boat-ruces, their every appliance
and encouragement for physical train
ing. Youug women, who need it much
more, have little or nothing. Christian
Woman.
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Devoted to the Interests of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical In Opposing and Exposing the Wrong
of the Masses.
Correspondents writing over assumed signa
tures must make known their names to tli
Editor, or no attention will be given to the r
communications.
"My son," said a father to his hopeful
son, "you did not saw any wood for the
kitchen stove yesterday, as I told you to;
you left the back gate open and let the
cow get out; you cut off eighteen feet
from the clothes line to make a lasso;
you stoned air. itouinson's pec uog anu
lamed It; you put a hard-shell turtle in
the hired girl's bed; you tied a strange
dog to Mr. Jacobsen's door-bell, and
painted red and green stripes on the legs
of old Mrs. Polaby's white pony, and
hung your sister's bustle out in the
frout wiudow. Now, what can I do for
such conduct?" "Are all the couuties
heard from?" askell the candidate. The
father sternly replied, "No trilling, sir;
no, 1 have yet several reports to receive
from others of the neighbors." "Then,"
replied the boy, "you will not be justi
fied in proceeding to extreme measures
until the ollicial count is in." bhortiy
afterward the election was thrown into
tiie house, aud before hall the votes
were canvaBsed, it was evident, from
the peculiar Intonation ot the applause,
that the boy was badly beaten.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coxeter, who has just
died in England at the age of 102,
heard John Wesley preach in her girl
hood, and married the merchant who
carried out the remarkable feat of man
ufacturing wool into cloth and making
a coat between the hours of sunrise and
sunset. This event occurred at Green-
ham Mills, Newbury, and the achieve
ment was celebrated by rejoicings, in
which 5,000 persons participated. The
old lady retained her mental faculties
until quite recently, and on her 100th
birthday she repeated the Uld .Hund
redth psalm to several members of her
family.
The funny man of the New York
Herald says : "The man has missed a
great treat who has not risen early on
a winter morning, and, turning the
slats, peered out into the pearly twi
light, with Us shadows oi dun blue,
and seen the soft opal of the eastern
sky brightening, and the rose-pink of
sunrise blushing as it Kisses ine snow,
and caught sight of his wife shoveling a
patli out to the miiuraau, and then
hustled back into bed for another nap."
A Chicago woman has been the wife
of four brothers. She began with the
oldest ten years ago, when she was sev
enteen years old, and ho died. She soon
married the next younger, and after
three years got a divorce from him, and
the third was divorced from her after
about the same period of wedded life.
She is now the wife of the fourth, and
they seem to live contentedly, possibly
because there is no fifth brother for her
to capture.
Miss Rose "Goodness! the fire is out.
I thought It was very cold." Beau
"Shall I get my overcoat and put on
you?" Miss Rose "Ob, no; but
(glancing at the clock) hadn't you bet
ter put it on yourself?"
It is absurdly argued by some, that by
communicating knowledge to the labor
ing classes, we teach what is to them of
no use, but tends, on the contrary, to
unfit tliem for the necessary duties of
life. Ignorance and neglect of the laws
of nature, however, occasion suffering
to them as well as to men of superior
rank; and as they, also, have faculties
capable of acquiring knowledge, it is
obvious that those faculties should be
made use of. We may rest assured that
the fulfillment of every necessary .duty
is compatible with mental cultivation
in all the race; because nature caunot
have bestowed upon mankiud capacities
and desires which their inevitable con
dition renders it impossible for them to
cultivate and gratify. There are hum
bler minds fitted to perform and happy
in performing the humbler duties of
life; and no cultivation of which they
are susceptible will probably carry them
beyond this sphere of exertion. In a
thoroughly moral and enlightened com
munity, no useful office will be consid
ered degrading, nor will any be incom
patible with the exercise of the highest
acuities oi man.
The duty of acquiring knowledge im
plies the duty of communicating it to
others, and there is no form in which
the humblest individual may do more
good, or assist more effectually in for
warding the improvement and happi
ness of mankind, than in teaching them
truth and its applications. All knowl
edge concerning natural laws, wjiicli
any one possesses, should be freely im
parted, and if there be instructors of the
people who pronounce this course dan
gerous, it is a sufficient answer that
there is no such thing as a dangerous
truth.
The Affable Man. A mother and
babe were among the passengers wait
ing at the Central depot yesterday. She
had the child carefully wrapped up, aud
this fact perhaps attracted the attention
of a big fellow with a three-story over
coat and a rusty satchel in his hand.
Sitting down beside her he remarked:
"Cold weather for such little people,
isn't it?"
She faintlv nodded.
"Does he seem to feel it much ?" ho
continued.
She shook her head.
"Is it a healthy child?" he asked,
seeminir irreatly interested,
"He was, up to a few moments ago,"
she snapped out, "but I'm afraid he's
smelled so much whiskey that he'll
have the delirium tremens before
nicht!"
The man got up and walked right out
of the room, and was afterwards seen
buying cloves aud cinuamon
who is inclined to be sober, moral, and ' woman's subjugation is like yours in
Nearly one-tenth of the entire popu
lation of Boston are shop girls.
A North Carolina judge tells a good
storv of an unprejudiced juryman re
cently summoned at a county court in
that State. After replying satisfacto
rily to the several questions propounded
bv the solicitor, he was accepted, and
in the usual way commanded to look
upon the prisoner, who was indicted for
murder. Afterscauniugthe man closely,
the unnreiudiced juror turned to the
judge, and in a firm, solemn voice lie
said: "ies, juuge, i minis ne-s guutyi
A Scotch professor in the University
at Edinburgh was experimenting be
fore his pupils with some combustible
substances, when, as he was mixing
them, they exploded, shattering the
vial which he held into fragments. He
held up a small piece of glass, and said
verv uravelv. "Gentlemen, I have mad
this experiment often with this very
same vial, and never knew it to break
in my Hands oetore."
Keeping at It. A mau who inher
its wealth may beginaud worry through
three-score and ten years without any
definite object. In driving, in foreigu
travel, in hunting and fishing, in club
houses and soeiety, he may manage to
pass away his time; but he will hardly
be happy. It seems to be necessary to
health that the powers of a man must be
trained upon some subject aud steadily
held there day after day, year after
year, while vitality lasts. There may
come a time in old age when the fund
of vitality will have sunk so low that
he can follow no consecutive labor with
such a draft upon his forces that sleep
caunot restore them. Then, and not
before, he should stop work. But so
long as a man has vitality to spare
upon work, it must bo used, or it will
become a source of grievous, harrassing
iscoutent. The man will not Know
what to do with himself ; and when he
lias reached such a point as that, he is
unconsciously digging a grave for him
self, and fashioning his own coffin. Life
needs a steady channel to run m regu
lar habits of work and of sleep. It needs
a steady, stimulating aim a tend to
ward something. An aimless lire can
never be happy, or, for a long period,
healthy. Said a rich lady to a gentle
man Btill laboring beyond ins needs:
'Don't stop; keep at it." The wordj
that were in her heart were: "If my
husband had not stopped, he would be
alive to-day." And what she thought
was doubtless true. A greater shock
can hardly befall a man who has been
active than that which he experiences
when, having relinquished his pursuits,
he finds unused time and unused vital
ity hanging upon Ills idle hands and
mind. The curreut of his life is thus
thrown into eddies, or settled into a
sluggish pool, and he begins to die.
"Woman Suffrage in Colorado.
At tiie next Colorado election the ques
tion of Woman fcjuiirage is to ue sub
mitted to a vote of the people, and those
interested are-already beginning to agi
tate the subject, and are marshaling
their forces lor the coming iray.
We are glad to notice that the moro
leading aud influential papers of the
State, notwithstanding their conserva
tive proclivities, are disposed to treat
the subiect witu lairness anu canuor.
Prominent among these Is the Rocky
Mountain JSeivs, the old stand-by pio
neer paper of the Centennial btate,
which gives the ladies the use of one of
its columns, in which to advocate their
own cause.
The Tribune and the Times also show
a liberal spirit on the subject which
does them credit. We are of the opin
ion that if properly presented to tho
people, the Woman Suffrage cause
will triumph in this young State. The
fact is. Western- men are less old fogy
ish and more liberal than the down
easters. The pioneer women, too, are
better nualiUed. as a class, to assist in
narrvinir out the nrincinles of self-gov
ernment, anu tne meu kiiow it uuu
have more confidence in them. Lara
mie Sentinel.
Baby-lifa in China and Hindoostan.
The bare-headed baby of China, not
quite so grave as his Asiatic cousins, is
still a couteuted little traveler, whether
he rides on the back of mamma, or Is
tied on a mat to sleep, or exposed beside
the door in a bamboo cage, or fastened
to his glided baby-chair, to teach him
to sit up. The most important moment
in his youug life is when, at the age ot
one year, he decides his futuredestiny in
a curious way. He is carefully dressed
in new clothes, and seated in the mid
dle of a large sieve, in which are placed
many articles, among which are money-
scales, a brass mirror, writing utensils,
books, silver and gold ornaments, and
fruits, while the anxious parents stand
by to see which object will first attract
Ins sober black eyes. If he takes up a
book or a pencil, he is destined to be
come a scholar; if the glitter of gold or
silver attract him, his fate is to amass
wealth; if fruits suit him best, he will
incline to spurn the rice of his father's
table, aud feast upon delicate puppy
stew, or bird's-nest soup.
At two years of age he will dress like
his grandfather of eighty, and look like
that old gentleman seeu through the
small end of an opera-glass. When he
first enters school, he will bring, not a
spelling-book aud slate, but two can
dles, a few sticks of incense, and a small
quantity of mock money made of pa
per), to be burned before a piece of pa
per having the name of Confucius writ
ten upon it. Thus the little Chinese
traveler is launched on his school-life.
The little traveler on the shore of the
Gauges has a very different life. Bathed
every day in the sacred stream, or in a
Jar of its water; scrubbed with its holy
mud ears, eyes, and mouth; thoroughly
purified from ail sin, as his parents de
voutly believe how can he help being
better than other babies? He is a jolly,
happy baby, bright as. the sunshine of
his native land; not troubled with
clothes if he belongs to the poor classes;
but wrapped in gorgeous silks of scarlet
and blue, loaded with jewels, and
weighed down by ail enormous gold-em-broidored
turban, if ho happens to be a
prince.
This little Hindoo traveler sleeps in a
basket hung from the roof, aud rides
out on mamma's hip; and, what seems
dreadful to us, he learns to smoke be
fore he can walk, his mother often tak
ing a cigar from her own lips, and put
ting it into his. If his life-journey is
cut short, his bodygis carried to the
grave in his basket-cradle, which is
covered with a fringed canopy and hung
from a pole ou the shoulders of men,
aud left ut last upside down on his last
resting-place. St. ATichotas for January.
Good Nature. Men and women re
ceive in this lite much of what tbey de
serve. It is like a looking-glass, this
big world; grin and smile at it, and it
will smile buck; scowl, and it scowls.
It is but a confession of oue's unpleas
antness at homo if we air our griev
auces. The nice people are not "nice"
without a good deal of trouble on their
part. That, pleasant fellow who always
cheers his acquaintances, and who car
ries an atmosphere of good nature about
him, is probably a hero in his way, and
most likely agood-uatured philosopher,
who takes a great deal of trouble to be
what he is. The amiable sister, who
never complains, has shown in little
tilings as much bravery as if she had
won the Victoria cross.
On the other hand, those young per
sous who have always a budget of mis
eries to pour iu the very sympathetic
ears of their friends, and who are totally
if they are to be believed unappre
ciated at home, will be found, if looked
into, not so amiable as they might be.
Mr. Tom Pinch, who had never thought
of himself, found even the gross hypo
crite, Pecksuifl, a good and kindly crea
ture; while Martin Cnuzzlewit, who
tookcare to sit iu the very front of the
tire, aud liked to be read asleep by Tom,
discovered every one to be selfish. De
pend upon it, if we try to think more of
others than we uo oi ourselves, wo suau
seldom have a grievance. We may also
be assured that, if we dwell upon our
own sweet selves and our own merits,
we shall doubtless believe those merits
to be so great we shall find the world
will always supply an jmmense anu
ever-increasing grievanco by being
blind to them.
Bennett-May. From the tele
graphic reports yesterday it appears
that James uoruon xsennetc, jr., anu
voune May fought a duel in nearly ev
erv town of importance in the United
States and the Dominion of Canada. It
also appears that Bennett was shot in
the stomach, or else he wasn't, and May
was dangerously hurt, or perhaps he
might have escaped. On the whole
there is an air of mysterious wholesale
fiction about the business, which seems
to lend a nameless charm to it, and in
spires the pleasing hope that perhaps
iney are now, snot. juurumio utmmct,
What Men Need Wives For.
It is not to sweep the house, and
make the bed, and darn the socks, and
cook the meals, chiefly that a man
wants a wife. If this is ail he needs,
hired help can do it cheaper than a wife.
If this is all, when a young man cans to
see a young lady, seuu mm into tne
pantry to taste the bread and cakes she
has made; send him to iuspect the nee
dle work and bed-making, or put a
broom into her hands and seud him to
witness its use. Such things are im
portant, and the wise young man will
quietly look after them. But what a.
true man most wants oi a true wue ia
her companionship, sympathy, courage
and love. The way of life has many
dreary places in it, and man needs a
companion to go with mm. a man is
sometimes overtaken with misfortune;
lie meets with failure and defeat; trials
and temptations beset him, and he needs
one to stand by and sympathize. .tie
has some stern battles to fight with pov
erty, with enemies and with sin; and
he needs a woman mat, wune ue puis
his arms around her aud feels that he
has somethiug to fight for, will help
him Hirht: that will put her lips to nis
ears aud whisper words of council, and
her hands to his.heart and impart new
inspiration. All through storm and
through suushiue, conflict and victory,
through adverse and favoring winds,
man needs a woman's love. The heart
yearns for it. A sister's or a mother's
love will hardly supply the need.
An old colored preacher of this city
was lecturing a youth of his fold about
the sin of dancing, when the latter pro
tested that the Bible plainly said,
"There Is a time to dance." "Yes, dar
am a time to dance," said the dark di
vine, "and it's when a boy gits a whip
pin' for gwiue to a ball." Atlanta
Times.
They tried to prosecute a Chinaman
for illegal voting at Deer Lodge, Mon
tana, the other day, but failed to make a
case, because the prosecuting attorney
could not prove that the defendant was
a native of China.
"Phat a blessing it is," says a hard
working Chicago Emeralder, "that
night niver comes on till late in the
day, when a man Is tired aud can't
work any more, at all, at all."