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VOLU3IE VI.
POBTLAPa), OREGON, jF'IRIjDA.Y, aJLAJRCH 30, 1877.
:
OUE "WASHINGTON LETTER.
To the Editor or the New Northwest :
Considering the limited notice af
forded the publlo in which to complete
arrangements for the usual patriotic
display which accompanies the Presi
dential inauguration, a very creditable
procession turned out to escort the Cen
tennial President in the grand march
down Pennsylvania Avenue on Monday,
while the bright-colored pennants flut
tered from the houses overhead and the
gazing crowds on the sidewalks below
stimulated by their cheers the enthusi
asm which appeared to flag slightly on
this occasion. Nevertheless, the day so
mucn dreaded by many passed over
tranquilly, and the malcontents them
selves appeared to accept the situation
with the best possible grace. Ohio was
of course prominently represented by
her various clubs and organizations and
a company of cadets from Columbus.
Pennsylvania, also, with a number of
political clubs and several different bat
talions of military, whose splendid
equipments and superb drill and march
ing attracted universal praise, showed
herself not more backward in doing
honor to the new President. Besides
these, the District artillery and United
States troops created quite a military
display, preceding and surrounding as
they did the executive and official car
riages. Behind these came the various
StateBepublican associations, composed
principally of Department clerks and
employees of the government, and last,
but not least, numerically speaking,
came the various colored associations.
Mr. Hayes was taken to the Capitol by
General Grant in the latter's four-in-band,
and rode most of the way bare
headed, acknowledging with repeated
bows the salutes of the thronglug
crowds which lined the streets from the
White House to the Capitol. An im
mense balcony was erected on the east
ern central portico steps, which was oc
cupied by the Senate and other officials.
Though the oath of office had been ad
ministered to Mr. Hayes on Saturday
evening, yet it was again given him by
hlef Justice Waite with all the formal
ity of the great occasiou. The acres in
front of the balcony were filled with au
immense crowd, and probably not a
fiftieth of its thousands heard the im
pressive words of the Inaugural address
wqich Mr. Hayes delivered, after re
ceiving the oath, in the clear and em
phatic tones of an experienced orator.
let an occasional cbeer would sweep
out from all the vast crowd, as if all by
some magnetic influence could appreci
ate the meaning of the speaker. The
torchlight procession of the evenlug
was, however, the great event of the oc
casion. The whole city apparently
turned out, crowding and thronging
Pennsylvania Avenue to see the illumi
nations and fire works so dear to every
American heart. And truly it was a
glorious spectacle. The procession must
have been at least a mile in length,
commencing with the District militia
and Bepublican associations, inter
spersed with bands and exquisite blue,
orange, and rose-colored fire works, and
winding up with the rhythmical tramp
and glowing, dusky faces of the great
unwashed the inevitable "Sambo,"
who seemed to regard the whole affair
as for his especial benefit and as a sign
of his deliverance from bondage forever,
He did the principal cheering, and car
ried nearly all of the ten thousand
torches, and no one equalled him in
rendering due homage to him whom he
regarded as his Moses the Bepublican
President. Theusual numberof drunken
brawls and alcoholic unpleasantnesses
attendant upon public celebrations were
had. Perhaps the arrests slightly out
numbered those of a Fourth of July hol
iday, yet few partisan fights marred the
hilarity, though there was much appre
beusion that serious collisions betweeu
the embittered white and enthused col
ored elements might occur.
THE CABINET.
The nominees for the new Cabinet are
now the all-absorbing theme of public
attention. By the ultra and suspicious
Democrats the Senate's opposition Is
considered another blind in order to se
cure the retention of the old Cabinet
thereby forcing the President from his
plan of civil service reform and liberal
Southern policy advanced in his inaugu
ral address, while by some Bepubli
cans It Is regarded as an extreme meas
ure to conciliate the Democrats, and is
consequently very unpopular with them
though the masses unqualifiedly endorse
the President's selection. Tim Iran.
graphical distribution of Cabinet honors
gives universal satisfaction. Three of
the States represented by the outgoing
members will be still represented
namely, New York, Ohio, and Indiana,
while in addition Massachusetts, Iowa,
Missouri, and Kentucky are proposed,
It Is not likely that any report will be
made before next week from the Senate
committee, to whose consideration the
qualifications and standing of the Cab!
net nominees nave been relegated. An
uuuearu-oi proceeding, but inevitable
under the developed opposition of sev-
eral to whom Messrs. Evarts and Schurz
are distasteful. But no one anticipates
the rejection of either, and the opinion
Is universal that Monday next will see
the Cabinet confirmed just as desired by
WHITE HOUSE GOSSIP.
Mrs. and President Hayes have al
ready received the ladies of the old Cab
lnet and those of the army and navy
stationed here. Besides these engage
ments, their time has been pretty well
filled up with the farewell calls of the
numerous Obioaus and other Western
visitors who accompanied the Presiden
tial party to Washington. Formal re
ceptions have also been granted the Co
lumbus cadets, the Pennsylvania and
other military associations who formed
part of the inaugural procession on Mon
day. Owing to these leavetakings, the
city and hotels In particular have lost
their warlike appearance temporarily
acquired by the presence of so many
uniformed guests. About the social
hospitalities of the present incumbents
of the White House It is noticeable that
a pleasant change has occurred.
Whether derived from inclination or
force of habit, the character of General
Grant's entertainments were often so
entrenched around with military and
executive forms, and so much resembled
affairs of state, that transieut visitors to
the Bepublican court were not always
pleasantly impressed. So rarely did
they witness a cordial reception or gen
ial word or smile that it was a matter
for remembrance or newspaper com
ment when such a happy event occurred.
Now the patriarchal and courteous, fa
miliar ways of "Uncle Abe" seem to
have returned, and whatever of reti
cence or precision that characterized
General Grant's regime now bids fair to
disappear under the winsome smile and
pleasant, affable word and action of both
master aud mistress of the White House.
Both have had their patience and pow
ers of endurance thoroughly tested this
week, for there has been but one contin
ual rouud of receptions since Monday
installed them. Crowds of visitors have
filled the ante-rooms waiting opportu
nities to see them, and their numbers
have been so great as to compel the rule
that the public can only be received in
the afternoon. Lent has not sufficed to
restrain the American citizen from pay
ing bis regards to his Chief Magistrate.
Yesterday was but a sample of the la
bors imposed on Mrs. Hayes. She first
received a large delegation of ladies
from Indiana in the Bed Boom; then a
similar delegation from Pennsylvania;
then proceeding to the East Room, she
and Mr. Hayes bid good-bye to the Co
lumbus cadets, shaking hands with each
and speaking a kind word to some fa
miliar face. Last night a reception was
given the officers of the army, navy,
and marine corps stationed here, Ad
miral Porter acting as master of cere
monies in presenting each one to the
President and Mrs. Hayes and her as
sistants. For elegance of toilet among
the ladies, brilliant uniforms of officers,
and splendor of everything pertaining
to the occasion, this reception has never
been surpassed, and we can easily imag
ine what little difficulty would be expe
rienced In turning a Republican court
into one of the purely aristocratic.
GOSSIP.
Mother Grundy Informs us that Lieu
tenant Hoxie, our city engineer, is soon
to marry our celebrated sculptoress,
Miss Yinnie Beam, and that our belles
and beauties are much disappointed
thereat, since no one dreamed of the
'marble lady" captivating one of the
most desirable "catches" in the city,
Other weddings are to follow as soon as
Lent is over. Felix.
Washington, D. C, March 9, 1877.
Stewart's Hotel for Women.
The bead of the house of A. T. Stewart
& Co. said to us yesterday: "Some
are under the Impression that the work
on our woman's .Hotel lias been sus
pended, but that is a mistake. We
keep the doors and wiudows boarded up
because we do not care to have the
hundreds of workmen who are engaged
in nnisuing ine interior intruded upon
and interrupted. The work goes stead
ily on, and we nope to open the doors
before the close of this year. It will be
as fine aud as commodious and as com
fortable as any hotel in this city as
any in tue worm, -mere will be accom
modations, rooms, and suites, at prices
to suit all guests, from working girls
with small wages to saleswomen, fore-
womeu, and women also engaged in lit
erature ana arc. jsoae will be excluded
who are willing to comply with the
rules of the hotel, which will be similar
to the rules and regulations of all first-
class hotels. We have alreadv ordered
the furniture, aud, indeed, 250 suites are
already completed and stored in our un-
town house. There are 400 suites in the
bands of the manufacturers. There
will be ample parlors and reception
rooms, aud a large restaurant, where
meals can be had at various prices
Meals will also be served in rooms, just
me same as in any omer Hotel, to those
who wish to pay for them." New York
Hutu
A fashionable promenade mantle
called "Le Breton," in navy hlne serge,
wiiu an enormous "piastrou" or breast
piaie, ana opening down tne side,
is
embroidered at the neck, collar, and
cuffs. A curious feature of this article
is a wide stripe of embroidery running
down the back and terminating below
the center of the skirt in a moderate
sized pouffe. The ladies now are all of
one stripe.
The father of eight daughters in
Grand Haven, Michigan, has made
musical band of them, and he has
bought twelve Instruments, because he
expects to add to the membership,
Folly soon wears her shoes out. Sb
dances so fast we are all of us tired,
Golden wires may annoy us as much as
steel bars, if they keep us behind prison
wiuaowB. uw en Meredith.
Mrs. Carr, of Quebec, banged herself
wim uer laise nair recently. The coro
ners verdict was that the Carr was de
moiisned by a misplaced "switch."
AS A WOMAN BEES IT.
To the Editor of the New Northwest :
The Advocate, in a recent number,
speaking of women preaching, says:
'While we confess we have never found
satisfactory evidence of absolute pro
hibition in the Scriptures, yet we are
far from having a clear judgment that
licensing women and regularly placing
tbem in the pastorate will better the
present custom or add to woman's use
fulness." Does licensing men and placing tbem
n the pastorate and giving them fat
salaries advance the cause of our blessed
Bedeemer, who went about doing good,
and "who left the glory behind with the
Father" to save fallen humanity? Or
does it not rather engender and perpetu
ate party strifes, heresies, jealousies,
hatred, murders, and almost everything
else that does not become saints? Many
of the ministers of to-day are building
up their particular organization, instead
of preaching the "Word" as they are
commanded to do. They are like the
Pharisees of old; they take away the
key of knowledge of tbe kingdom of
God and substitute the traditious and
ordinances of men, teachiug them for
doctrine instead of the word of God.
They are giving the people to drink
from the cup filled with all manner of
abominations spoken of by John the
revelator instead of teaching the word
of God, and learning to rightly divide
that "Word."
Farther on he says : "We want wom
en to preach without license."
Now, Mrs. Editor, that is just what
we waut men and women both to do
preach as they only cau, through all the
graces and virtues and talent that God
has given them; preach the truth as it
is in Christ Jesus, having a firm reli
ance on God to help them, not being
bound by any man's opinion, nor by the
edicts of any set of men. Do you sup
pose the men and women who were
members of the church of Jerusalem
waited to be licensed according to any
of the modes in use by the various
churches at the present time before
'they went everywhere preaching the
word" when "tbej were scattered
abroad" by the persecution of Saul? I
think not; nor did Priullla when she
taught Apolls the way of the Lord
more perfectly. Nor did Apolls put on
a pompous air, like I saw a minister do
once, and tell her that bedid not believe
n women aspiring to be teachers; their
place was to listen in silence. There were
several other women who preached and
labored in the Apostle's time without
license.
If it were not necessary then for per
sons to have a license to preach "the
things concerning the kingdom of God
and the name of Jesus Christ," neither
is it now, and all the edicts of popes,
cardinals, bishops, priests, and councils
will not make it necessary.
fhe Lord has gone into a "far conn
try" to "receive for Himself a kingdom
and return;" meanwhile he has given
to his servants talents to occupy till he
comes again, and it Is for us to say
whether we will add to our talents or
hide what we have In the earth, to be
dug out at tbe Lord's coming and
handed back to Him without gain.
Yours for the purity of the Gospel,
and consequently the liberation of worn
an. Ann M. Martin.
Lafayette, March 18, 1877.
The Daily Inter-Ocean of Chicago has
two columns Headed "Woman's King
dom," in which matters concerning
women are iuny treated, in a recent
issue it has the following on "Women
in Journalism :" "At the recent Wom
an's Congress, in her interesting paper
entmeu, - women in journalism,' "Jen
nie June' (airs, uroiy) refers with pride
to the rapid promotion of Eastern wom
en in the profession of journalism i. e.,
Mary a, jjootn, editor Marpers JSazar,
Mary Mapes Dodge, editor St. Nicliolas,
Kate Field, Lucia Gilbert Calhoun.
Louise unanuier Mouiton. Lucv Stone.
editor Woman's Journal, etc. May not
we, as Western women, point with
equal pride to Myra Bradwell, editor
unicago jjcgai jsews, unariotte Smith
editor Inland Monthly, Francis E. Wil
lard, editor Woman's Temperance Un
ion, Mis. S. L. Williams, editor The
&auotJiox,Loieao, Ohio, Mrs.Duniway
editor New Northwest. Portland
Oregon, Mrs. Kate N. Doggett, Miss
Ella Ives, and hosts of others, of whom
we snail nave a word to say in the fu
ture. Twenty woman journalists report
from New York City. Will Chicago
woman journalists please report ? The
first paper In this country, of which any
record is made of ownership or connec
tion on the part of women, was the first
paper printed in Bhode Island, at New
port, 1742. It was published by James
rranKiin, oroiner oi Uenjamln Frank'
lin, and at his death bv his widow, as
sisted by her two dauehtersand a lilrd
girl. The daughters, it is said, did the
type-setting, and the hired girl worked
the press. Their business was printing
auu puuiismug, not writing and edit
ing."
The Baptist and Methodist ministers
of New York, in their weekly meetings.
are still wrestliug with the question of
woman's right to preach. The rock
against which all the surging waves of
debate dash and break, is that old,
worn-out, stupid saying of Paul, that
women must Keep silence in the
church." Strange that the words of a
man who manifestly had no just con
ception of womau's nature words
llmnnpft tven ttinilQanrt ttaoM nm niul
possibly, in a moment of vexation
should be of more weight than all the
dictates of common sense, and all the
best fruits of experience, in this latest
and most enlightened age 1 If auy thing
can be more contemptible than the bio
otry which gives to a musty ancient
text more force than belongs to all the
reason and decency of to-day, we do not
snow wnat it ia.jxew jige.
A Foreign Ghimney-Sweep.
Mr. Crampe was one of those persons
afflicted from birth with a mania for
change and perpetual motion. Every
physical force in nature ana every triv
ial event in life said to him, "Move on."
Accordingly Mr. Urampe bad moved
on for the past ten years at least, and all
his dearest friends said mat tney did
not know how Mrs. Crampe put up with
is vagaries. The way Mrs. Crampe
put up with them was to follow In her
husband's erratic footsteps over tbe face
of the earth, like a dutiful wife, and to
keep a sort of inventory or ner House
hold goods, stored at various bankers', in
a note-book. Melancholy task! When
Mrs. Crampe was In low spirits, she was
IrequeiUly to be seen poring over tuis
note-book, which marked different
stages of development In Mr. Crampe,
with whom all movement was desig
nated as progress aud development.
There were the trunks stored in London
belouging to the auspicious day when
Mr. Crampe tried water-cure at Mal
vern; there Was a wooden box, contain
ing charming pictures and wood-carving,
at Nice, purchased when Mr.
Crampe believed in the" climate of the
Biviera; a whole Turkish and Egyptian
bazar reposing at Florence told of an in
tention to become a permanent Orien
tal; aud the furniture of many cases at
Geneva revealed a reaction of convic
tion, when Mr. Crampe discarded the
softer beauties of the Nile for tbe brac
ing cold of Switzerland. Mrs. Crampe,
during such periods of despondency, of
ten remarked that she only wisbed sue
had the money back which these gini-
cracks necessarily cost, or could always
remember what she actually owned.
Far away in a quiet town of America
was a double house, painted white, with
green window-blinds, and a pleasant
veranda overlooking the main street.
The heart of Mrs. Crampe yearned to
ward this mansion, as she jaunted north
aud south, east and west, in search of a
country suitable to the health of Mr.
Crampe. Such a land had never as yet
been found, but it was a goal toward
which the unflagging feet of her hus
band constantly pressed, his spirit
buoyed up by the stimulus of fresh hope
at eacn experiment. J. lie white bouse
was the personal property of Mrs.
Crampe, and she loved it as home. Now
t was rented to any despoiler with chil
dren who would hire it for the summer,
and trample her best carpets under foot.
The neighbors freely remarked that had
tne nouse belonged to Mr. Urampe in
stead, be would have split it up into
kindling wood long ago, if only to feed
tbe fires of locomotives and steamships
which should bear him farther away
irom America.
Mr. Crampe was a pale and cadaver
ous man, although nobody kuew pre
cisely what ailed him. At one time he
was enthusiastic on the subject of the
circulation; at anotuer, be would as
sure au interested questioner that it had
always been his throat. Learned must
be tbe person who could mention a pat
ent invigorator or an inhalation which
Mr. Crampe had not already tested. He
was a walking advertisement testifying
that drugs are not deleterious uuto
death, for he never read of a new medi
cine without feeling convinced that it
exactly suited the symptoms of "his
case" whatever his case might have
been and tested the remedy with such
interest as a chemist experiments in his
laboratory.
Airs. Crampe bad iontr since ceased to
pine for the oysters, lobsters, and fish
balls of her native land. In the presence
of her husbaud, as such highly improper
longingsoniy led to dissertations on the
digestive apparatus of man, aud its
abuses In the United States. She had
also learned to stifle tbe instincts of her
nature which required a hearth-stone,
the domestic circle of harmless local
gossip, If you choose, and a little inno
cent relaxation In one's own kitchen in
tbe way of cake-making for comnanv.
wun a large calico apron over a tidy
morning dress. Her friends declared
that she did not sufficiently assert her
ngniB, especially the element with
strongly developed views on the subject
of Woman's Suffrage. Undoubtedly
this was true. Mr. Crampe pursued the
will-o'-the-wisp health over hill and
dale, entirely obvious of his wife's re
grets and homesickness, because she
never complained.
It Is even doubtful if the excellent lady
wouiu ever nave asserted herself at all,
had not the dark shadow of a chimney
sweep fallen athwart her path, aud she
lose ner temper.
The change came like a clap of thun-
aer. Mr. urampe bad insisted on cross
ing the Splugen early in the season.
much to his wife's dismay, as the snow
was still deep, and had accordingly rat
tled down into Switzerland among the
first guests of the season. Mr. Crampe
scarcely ever lost faith in the Swiss air
that keen, pure current which comes
to the exhausted frame like a fresh
breath of life.
I wish they had not invited us." so
liloquized Mrs. Crampe, with a flush of
annoyance on her usually placid race.
sue was seated in a small room or
hotel, with a very large trunk open be
fore her, aud she glanced through tbe
window at a pleasant garden extending
to a margin of blue lake, with a sigh of
regret, She had been invited to a din
ner party given by a celebrated physi
cian who dwelt m a villa or tbe neigh
oornood. fcjhe would rather take her
knitting out under tbe trees beside the
lake. Mr. Crampe was pleasurably ex
cited over an invitation which involved
possible medical discussion with the ci
gars. Mrs. Crampe shrank from foreign
society, where she felt ill at ease, aud
did not know what was precisely suit
able to wear on such an occasion as tbe
present one. Women spend precious
hours or lire pondering over this per
plexing and nice adjustment of not be
ing too much or too little dressed. Poor
Mrs. Crampe, shy and nervous among
strangers, bad even leaned on that
broken reed, her husband's opinion, in
tne matter.
"Ob, wear the best gown you hav
got," returned Mr. Crampe, with his
nose in the air.
Mrs. Crampe, thus advised, had just
laid out on the bed her Paris-made
mauve silk, and placed the white Brus
sels lace shawl over it. This lace shawl
delicate as frost-work, was her most
valuable possession. Sue never ap
peared at ease in the costly drapery, but
rather as if the price once paid still
troubled her mind. She sat meditating
on the toilet essential to the dinner
party, when the door was flung open
suddenly, and a demon entered.
He was coal-black, with those curiou
livid shadows about the mouth and
eyes which betray the existence of
white skin beneath this opaque outer
mask, and bis whole aspect was so start
ling not to say unexpected that Mrs.
Crampe sat in her chair as if petrified.
She stared at tbe demon, and the demon
stared back at her fixedly, until a roll
of the eye in tbe direction of a stove
pipe revealed tbe wbite balls in the
midnight or bis countenance in sucb an
alarmiug manner that Mrs. Crampe's
heart began to thump violently, aud
she gave a little jump on her chair.
"who are you i" sne demanded, in
trembling English.
The demon advanced into the room.
and growled some inarticulate response
n an unknown tongue.
"Go away," said Mrs. Crampe, rising,
and pointing to the door, with assumed,
dignity.
The demon glanced back at the door.
shook his head, and even chuckled in a
derisive manner, which was calculated
to chill the stoutest heart.
"Do you hear me ? Leave this room!"
said Mrs. Crampe, with surprising ac
cession of firmness and increasing color.
Whereupon the demon poured forth a
return volley, harsh, guttural, and
wholly unintelligible, raising his voice
to a higher key, as if defying her au
thority, and still looking about tbe
room. To this day Mrs. Cramoe is con
fident that he was swearing at her.
In this truly serious emergency the
lady's spirit emailed within her. and
she backed into a remote corner, behind
an arm-chair. What did he wish ?
What would be do next? Had he come
to rob and murder her?
"He looks wicked enough for any
thing; lam sure that he would wring my
uecK lor a six-pence," she meditated, in
trepidation.
The demon, thus left in possession of
tne neid, sprang on a chair, and
wrenched a long stove-pipe from its fit
ting in the wall. Nor was this the ex
tent of his evil deeds. A cloud of soot
puffed out Into the chamber, whirled
about in eddies, and settled in Mrs.
Crampe's open trunk, and covered, like
a sable vale, the delicate lace shawl and
tbe mauve silk dress on the bed.
When the extent of her misfortune
drawned upon her understanding, such
a shriek escaped from the lips of the in
dignant lady, followed by a riuging of
tue bell, that Mr. Urampe heard it live
doors away, not to mention other af
frighted inmates of the hotel all along
tbe corridor.
Mrs. Crampe, that mild and inoffen
sive woman, transformed into a giantess
of courage and strength by the wrongs
heaped upon her, was discovered strug
gling frantically with the demon over
tbe dismembered stove-pipe, each con
versiug eloquently in a different lan
guage, and unable to make tbe other
out iu the least. To use a familiar term,
she was "beside herself," and was not
fully aware of her own intentions;
whether she desired to take the demon
prisoner, or to rescue the proof of his
guilt, the stove-pipe, to serve as witness
against him, she could not afterward
herself decide. There never was such
an exhibition in that hotel before. Mr.
Crampe, suddenly aroused from testing
his own pulse for the edification of a
nervous invalid in the latter's apart
ment, could not believe his own eves.
His wife was struggling with a sulky
ebimney-sweep, and between them a
stove-pipe swayed wildly to and fro.
"My dear, what are you about?" in
quired Mr. Crampe, bouncing in tbe
door with not unnatural alarm.
"He has spoiled every thing, the
wretch!" gasped Mrs. Urampe.
Indeed, the destruction of her best
clothes had alone nerved her to assault
ing the demon with her own hands,
That dusky intruder, with as much in
dignation as a coal-black countenance
might express, now withdrew, bearing
away the stove-pipe in triumph, and
muttering remarks in which the sanity
of Mrs. Crampe clearly was called into
question.
Jj.very one ran to examine the smutty
dress and blackened lace shawl; tbe
ridges of soot In the open trunk were
delightful to contemplate as well. Of
course no one was to blame for the ca
tastrophe involving the ruin of a Paris
made mauve silk dress. The landlord
accused the secretary of negligence, and
tue secretary laid the charge to the
porter, who in turn scolded the garcon
d'etage, until the whole weight of blame
fell ou tbe shoulders of the femmc de
cliambre, who had told the sweep to
take away tbe pipe or room JNo. 47, then
unoecupied, and he had chosen the
wrong corridor and No. 11 instead. In
a great cnsitt there Is always a scape
goat on whom is wreaked pubiio ven
geance. The poor femme de chambre
wept over her owu confidence iu a blun
dering chimney-sweep, and was dis
missed on the spot. It was quite aston
ishing to ascertain the number or raults
previously perceived in the deliuqueut,
which now came to light against that
murky back-ground, Mrs. Crampe's
demon. The lady opposite had never
quite liked iter expression, which con
veyed repressed insolence; ner unwill
ingness to produce not water at tbe
right moment was also freely discussed;
while the little ooy irom school was
nearly sure that auother boy bad ac
cused her of stealing ten francs the pre
vious year in a neighboring hotel. Mrs,
Crampe gave her a napoleon behind the
door, however, and a neck ribbon res
cued from the sooty depths of the trunk
The chimney-sweep vanished swiftly
amidst the contusion incident to his es
capade. A believer in witchcraft might
readily lancy nim an evil spirit iu dis
guise, who departed subsequently re
joiciug over the mischief be had wrought
among Mrs. urampe's worldly goods.
"You can break every bone in a chim
ney-sweep's body in these foreign lands
I suppose, but tbat will not restore a
soiled silk," observed Mr. urampe, pun
osoohically.
"Or a beautiful lace shawl," added his
wife, sharply. "If I was a man
wouldn't sit still, though."
This contemptuous remark so aston
Isbed Mr. Crampe tbat be could only
gaze siieutly at bis better hair.
"In America all the stove-pipes are
removed and cleaned as early as May,'
sobbed Mrs. Crampe, taking refuge in
Budden tears.
"So they are," asseuted Mr. Crampe,
becoming abstracted again. "Bless me,
Maria, it is nearly five o'clock! Can you
wear a black silk, or something else ?'
Mrs. Crampe withdrew tbe handker
chief from her moist eyes, and confronted
her husband with sucb an expression o
firmness and decision as her mild fea
tures bad never before worn.
"I am not going to tbe dinner party,'
she' said.
"No?"
"No.Mr.Crampe.butlam going home,
"Why, Maria, you forget that I have
never tried the grape cure, nor even the
whey treatment yet," protested Mr.
Crampe. "I have come to the conclu
sion tbat Nature's medicines must be
the best,"
Mrs. Crampe merely slightly com
pressed her lips, as she restored her
smutty shawl to the no less smutty
trunk.
"You may do as you please: I am go
ng home.''
The rude interposition of a chimney
sweep in a chamber already too small
lor herseir and her luggage bad proved
the last straw added to her already over
taxed patience, and Mrs. Crampe as
serted her rights at last.
S elf-Supporting 'Women.
WHAT WOMEN HAVE DONE AND CAN DO.
One of the vital questions confronting
thoughtful men aud women, aye, con
fronting starving, freezing women, with
wailing children clinging about their
knees, with haggard little faces, mutely
asking "Why?" is the practical one,
now can we make a nviug Y"
"All tbe rights I want." haughtily
exclaims the wife or daughter of a mil
lionaire. sutlo! a single revolution of
tne weird wheel or fortune, aud. shorn
of glittering jewels, costly draperies, ele
gant equipage, palatial residence, with
the father and husband resting in the
quiet cemetery, widowed wife aud or
phaned daughter mutely helpless, star-
ng at eacn otuer as they murmur.
'How shall we get bread ?"
Is this a fancy sketch ? Would that it
were, but almost every reader could
supply me with facts stubborn facts,
mat came under your own observation
hence we turn resolutely away from
the beguiling fields of literature and art,
and attempt to collect a few facts In re
gard to what women have done, in hope
of suggesting to some anxious ones
what women can do.
Just here I am reminded of a blessed,
crusty bachelor friend, who is Insisting
that the most thankless office in the
world is that of advising woman for.
says he of little faith: "Rend vour
brains in deciding what they are best
ntieu ior, narrow it down to two things,
advise tbem to take either one and no
matter which horn of the dilemma
they choose, they will always wish they
had takeu the other, and blame you for
your advice." bo we only intimate that
what had been done can be done with
never a thought of advising.
"A young woman recently established
a real estate agency In Chicago and net
ted $500 the first month. On the same
street is the office of Miss Ellen Culver.
for eight years tire Chicago manager of
tne large real estate busiuess done by
the iiultlmo'-e millionaire. Mr. Hull.
Miss Culver has 300 teuants in charge,
and collects her rents promptly."
Miss Ji.nen Xj. 1'letcuer has engaged
in business as watchmaker and jeweler
in Charlestown, N. H. Having learned
her trade by a three years' apprentice
ship, she has pursued it successfully for
tne past nve years.
Miss soyie, or .f ucemxville, Pa., is a
member of tbe firm of Boyle & Penny
packer, dealers in dry goods. They are
aiso managing a restaurant and bakery,
Miss Boyle has acquired such a reputa
tion as a oread maker that she has al
most a monopoly of the trade.
Mrs. L. Harrison, of Peoria, III., has
an apiary, which in four years has
grown from two to forty colonies of
bees, besides selling swarms as she has
opportunity. She does all the work in
cident to the business herself, and says
she bas proved by her experience that
any woman who has a suitable local
ity, observation, perseverance, and pa
tience, can succeed iu this business."
In Cauastota. Madison county. New
iork, Mrs. Hate iSoyd is a painter aud
designer.
Clara H. Boylston is a successful tele
graph operator.
Miss busan Speesbly lias made a suc
cess as a photographer, as has also Miss
Mattie Uallup, of this county.
Emily Buggies, of Beading, Mass.,
has had a retail dry goods establishment
for twenty years and has been eminently
successlul. Wolcotville (Ind.,) Uazelle.
The Editor's Valentine.
We have already received our valen
tine for this year. It is not a very pretty
one, but wiiat it lacks in beauty is made
up in masterly coloring and skillful
handling. The title Is "A Newspaper
Mm," and represents a dropsical-headed
chap with a Uronlu nose, a green coat,
and a red pair of trousers, going through
a piece or ten-cent musliu witbaformid
able pair of shears. You may have no
ticed that all editors wear green coats
and red pantaloons. A quill Inserted
behind a comprehensive ear exhibits
much feeling, and is unlike anything
found In mediaeval art. Very much un
like It. the color In tbe nose is laid on
with a reckless lavishness and a brush
and doesn't suggest the Goittesque style
of painting to any appreciable extent.
Tbe abbreviated coat-tails are remarka
ble for breadth of effect and absence of
feeling, and are painted in a rather low
tone. The pose or the bgure is easy and
graceful, as is natural with editors,
The delicate moulding of ilie feet re
minds one more or a pair or gunboats
than the early Christian frescoes. They
appear to cover the whole ground or
perhaps we should say the whole lloor.
The buttons on tbe coat lack strengtl:
and holes to push the needles through
while the shirt collar is terribly real
and happily conceived. The artist has
thrown considerable soul in the news
paper man's shirt collar. Tbe legs o
the table are patterned after tbe Gothic
style of architecture, and are rather
weak; but tbe paste pot on tbe floor is
full of tenderness and feeling and paste,
The brush which reposes gently in the
pot betrays a master hand aud a handle,
The shears, with which the edito
is supposed to be moulding public opin
ion, are bold, sharp, and vigorous, the
rivet being particularly well painted
and oiled. His bead is so bare tbat it
barely invites criticism. All tbe de
tails of the picture are faithfully worked
out with one exception. There is a
marked absence of a newspaper bore go
ing through the pile of exchanges in
the right hand foreground. With this
defect remedied, the whole picture
would be so real and life-like tbat a
tramp priuter would naturally salute
the counterfeit editor with : "Have
walked from Beading; haven't had a
bite for two days; can't you give an old
typo a little help to go to Philadelphia?'
jxomstown xieraia.
Pay Down is the name of a Western
town, wonder if they live and do bus
Inesa on that basis there.
Tie Truth About George Eliot's Marriage.
For some years George Eliot has been
the legal wife of George Henry Lewes,
the distinguished and versatile author.
aud for a good while previous to their
marriage she was effectually all tbat
she bas been since. The story of their
relation has been so diversely told, and
so often misunderstood, tbat tbe correct
version, as I have reason to believe it,
deserves to be given. Lewes made the
acquaintance of Marian Evans soon
after she had written "Adam Bede,"
and was delighted with her. He bad
tbe same opinion of her tbat Herbert
Spencer bad expressed. It was not long
before be fell iu love with her mind.
They bad much in common; they bad
marked similarity or tastes, views, aud
feelings, and they felt they could be of
great benefit to one another intellectu
ally and spiritually. He wanted her to
be his wire. Hut there was a serious
obstacle in tbe way, which was notbiug
less than that, in the eyes of the law,
he already had a wife. He had entered
nto matrimony ten or twelve years be
fore, and his spouse had run off with an
other man. She repented indueseason,
and appealed to her liege, who most
generously and chivalrously took her
back. .Being of unstable mind and
fickle heart, however, she eloped a sec
ond time, and rendered restoration to
marital favor impossible. At this junct
ure the masculine George met the femi
nine Ueorge. Having condoned his
wife's offence, he could not get a divorce;
he must wait for her death, or continue
in celibacy. He did not wish to wait,
especially as she, having a robust con
stitution, was threatened with fearful
longevity. The Impediment to the
union of the two authors was really
technical, and uuder the circumstances
they took solemn counsel with their
mends, amoug them some ot tbe most
eminent names, as to the expediency of
acting according to the higher law. The
decision was finally rendered in favorof
their doing so, and they were wedded
by the rite of mutual sympathy and
mutual need. After they had lived so
for some years, Mrs. Lewes, the eloper,
was considerate enough to die and fur
nish to Marian .hvans the long-coveted
opportunity to bear legally the name
which the deceased had so greatly dis
honored.
George Eliot, from the moment of
forming the connection, was called and
considered Mrs. Lewes as sincerely and
honestly as if she had been wedded by
the Archbishop of York and all his sub
ordinate prelates. But many of tbe
feminine friends of tbe couple were very
glad when the natural prejudices of so
ciety could be concilitated. Lewes has
bad, or late, a very noticeable influence,
and not a good one either, on tbe style
of his wife. He is very self-sufficient
and egotistic, aud bas imposed upon her
the Idea that bis intellect is ruiiy equal,
if not superior, to hers; but she is the
sole person, save himself, who holds
Buch an opinion. He is very able and
learned, but he is one of many, while
she is the only one. There is rea
son to believe he wrote part of "JJe-
ronda," and caused her to change her
usually simple, terse, idiomatic diction
for one more strained, recondite, and
elaborate, which explains why her last
Is not her best work. He conscientiously
believes hers to be the finest Intellect in
England, with a single exception, which
modesty debars him irom mentioning.
She and her husband reside in a very
pleasant house, full of books, bronzes,
busts, pictures, and bric-a-brac, near
Begent's Park, and their Sunday even-
ing receptions are attended by a number
of the most distinguished people, at
home and from abroad. Uue may see
from time to time Tyndall, Huxley,
Bobert Browning, Dr. Carpenter, Dar
win, Tennyson, Swinburne, William
Morris, the Bosettis, Gladstone, Tom
Hughes, Millais, HolmunHunt,Ruskin,
Wilkie Uolllns, Leslie Stephens, ana
many others, most of tbem as radical in
theology (the Leweses are what might
be called scientific Hegelians, firm be
lievers in evolution) as their host and
hostess, who entertain very rationally
and pleasantly.
The couple nave no cuuaren, ana ieau
in the fullest sense an intellectual life.
She works very hard harder than her
rather delicate health warrants otten
writing as many as seven or eight hours
a day. She bas a very earnest, moral
purpose in her books, in which, indeed,
her whole being and thoughts are con
centrated. Before she begins a novel
she uot only outlines and arranges it,
but so fixes it iu her mind that her Ma.
ia often merely a transcript of her elab
orate mental preparation. "Very far
from handsome, she has an intellectual
and striking face, too long and angular
for symmetry, soft, abundant hair,
streaked with gray, a low, sweet voice,
a remarkably quiet, somewhat pensive,
and decidedly winning manner. Some
persona do not like her at first, though
all her friends, despite her unquestioned
plainness, regard her as a charming
woman. Boston Herald.
Woman's Dress and her Diseases.
In an address before the Pennsylvania
Medical Society, the president, Dr.
Allee, drew attention to tbe bad effects
of the change wrought by absurd fash
ion in the habits and dress of women.
He held that in proportion as women
have departed from simplicity, in that
same proportion have their infirmities
increased. The confined waist and
weighty dress of women were merci
lessly ridiculed. Fashionable women
were compared to pea-fowls strutting
tbe streets and taking a scavenger-like
promenade, gathering filth and exhaust
ing strength. The pernicious effect of
the fashionable shoe was explained.
Nature intended for the heel and sole to
be on a level, but fashion raises the heel
two inches above this level. Woman is
thus walking down bill, and, as far as
health is concerned, may be said to be
going down bill all the time. The fash
ionable woman is a burlesque and car
icature on nature.
"Two young men in Cook county,
Tenn., stole a girl apiece and were leav
ing thB vicinity, when the girl's fathers
came upon them with revolvers and
took their daughters from tbem. The
kidnapers immediately opened fire
upon the parents, who replied in like
manner. Some twenty shots were ex
changed, when the sheriff appeared and
arrested the boys.
A New York policeman shot at a
mad dog and bit a man in tbe neck.
When you see a policeman pointing bis
pistol at you, stand still and smile. If
you duck or dodge the result ia uncertain.