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POBTLAND, OBEGON, FKIDAT, APRIL S7, 1877.
NUMBER 33.
UBS. A. J. DUXIWAY. tditor and Proprietor.
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Free Speech, Fees Press, Free People.
EDNA AND JOHN:
A Romance or Idaho Flat.
Br Mrs. A.J. DUXIWAY,
AUTHOR OF "JUDITH REID," "ELLEN MffD,"
"AMIE AXD HENRY LEE," "THE HAPPY
HOME," "ONE WOMAN'S SPHERE,
"MADGE MORRISON,"
ETC, ETC, ETC
Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the
year 1876, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, In the office ol
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 deat, the dumb,
the blind, our prisons with criminals, our cit
ies with drunkenness and prostitution, our
homes with disease and death. National Cen
tennial Equal Rights Protest.
CHAPTER XIX.
Ten days of weary marching over the
sandy sage plalus, swimming across the
rapid streams, and climbing precipitous
acclivities, and John Smith and Jim
Young, "bankers," had reached Lewis
ton and settled themselves at "busi
ness." Critical reader, we will spare you.
Should we undertake to initiate you
into the mysteries of any of the tricks
of the sporting fraternity, we should
fail, for we could give uo detail from
personal knowledge, and some of you
would be sure to detect the counterfeit.
Again, did we know exactly what these
men were doing, and precisely how
they did it, we should not sully these
pages with a repetition, for no good
would come of it so long as women are
not law-makers.
It your neighbor gets the stnall-poz,
you, as a physician, do not shake his
infected garments in the air and under
the nostrils of your friends; so, when
alluring crimes of any kind are com
mitted, unless by publishing the facts
you are enabled to warn others to keep
away from the scene of dauger, you
should not scatter the details broadcast,
lest bysodoing you make the contagion
general. Suffice it to say that for six
or seven months, during the entire cold
season after their departure from Idaho
Plat, the two adventurers eked out a
precarious existence as professional
gamblers.
Nobody knew that John Smith had a
wife and children, and, in truth, nobody
cared.
"Why, indeed, should the public mind
be interested in such a subject? Were
not women supported and protected by
men ? And wasn't that enough to con
tent the entire sisterhood with their di
vinely appointed sphere? Then, too,
do not many women who happen to be
fortunately situated in spite of the laws
and usages that cousign many others to
lives of poverty and uncongenial toil
others who, but for such laws and
usages, could rise to comfortable cir
cumstances themselves do not mauy
independent or wealthy women forge
the chains of the oppressed through
their own selfishness ?
There is little guessing what the out
come with our adventurers might have
been had not a vigilance committee ap
peared upon the scene and checked the
gambling laws for a season.
John Smith was not sufficiently adept
in Jow cunning to evade the rigor of
border vigilance. Besides, his "luck"
had turned, and he was hungry and
penniless.
"I'd go back to my wife if I v
you," counseled his friend.
"But she will not receive me,"
swered John.
"The dickens she won't!" exclaimed
the other, angrily. "I'd like to know
how she'd help herself! All you've got
to do is to go there and stay, ami if she
kicks up a muss, you can give her a
taste o' jaw bone!"
"What'll you do if I go back ?" asked
John, as he began to comprehend his
advantage over Edna in the new light
in which his associate had placed it.
"I don't know," was the hesitating
answer. "If Sue LaSelle were only my
wife I'd be perfectly independent. But,
bless you, man, as it is the law would
protect her in turning me out o' doors."
"Then why the mischief didn't you
marry her in the first place? You don't
catch me letting the law get such
power over me that a woman I keep can
turn me out if I've a mid to stay."
With Edna and Sue the winter had
been tolerably successful, as far as busi
ness went. The children throve and
grew, and Edna's health gradually im
proved, until, with the return of picas
ant weather, she had great hope of re
suming her public labors to better their
-worldly prospects still further.
"Only let us keep our heads above
water till the weather gets warm," she
-would say to her companion. "We'll
renew our eutertalnments then, and
-we'll soon have money enough to enable
you to go after your child."
"Alas, Edna, you little beed what you
are saying! Kecollect, I am, in' the
eyes of men, an awful sinner. In the
eyes of God and in my own estimation
I am far from being what I ought to be,
but I know I'm as worthy to possess my
baby as Hal is, and certainly as her
mother I have a far better right to her
than be has."
"Well, my dear, there is uo kind of
use in our talkingaboutrififc. Webave
no rights that men are bound to re
spect."
-jjuc, juio&, x nave Known many
women" who have been so petted and
shielded in comfortable homes that they
have never seemed to know a care. My
mother lives like that. You know my
father is a just man. And I am sure
my mother never felt any keen sorrow
till I ran away and left her desolate.
Ah, me! I thought I was abusad in my
father's home! ' My brothers were
thoughtless and selfish, and sometimes
teased me dreadfully. They never cared
whether I had company, when I wanted
to go anywhere, or not, and, being a
girl, I could uot go alone."
"Why couldn't your father accom
pany you?"
"Oh, he never seemed to want to go
anywhere unless mother went along,
and she couldn't go much because she
always had a baby. It was fearfully
lonesome for me at home after my
boarding school days were over."
"And so it was for me," said Edua,
with a bitter laugh. "And yet, when
we got married to escape the home du
ties, didn't we jump from the frying
pan into the fire, though ?"
"What a pity girls cannot be made to
see the evil consequences of these rash
acts before it becomes irretrievably too
late," replied her friend, sadly.
"The trouble is," said Edua, "their
advisers, or the only ones, at least, to
whom they will listen, are girls as silly
as themselves and suitors who are thor
oughly selfish. These last are backed
aud urged to take legal ad vantage of the
verdancy, inexperience, and affections
of girls by 'smart Alecks' arouud town
who couldn't pay for a darkio's break
fast, who are barely out of pinafores
into pantaloons, and who think it a cap
ital joke on the 'old woman' to get
somebody who is wholly unable to care
for the daughter, who has always been
shielded and protected in her mother's
home, to spirit away the child according
to law and leave her to repent ever af
terwards." "Girls ought to know better !" cried
Sue, with a shrug of impatience.
"The laws of the land ought to be bet
ter, aud the law-makers ought to know
better than to recognize as valid any
marriage which contains a flaw, whether
that flaw be in law or ethics," added
Edna, with a spiteful stamp of her tired
foot.
"Who is responsible for law, I won
der?" said Sue, following the interro
gation with a far-away look over the
adjacent mountain-tops.
"Men alone are responsible," was the
sad reply. "If women helped to make
the laws there are a thousand ways in
which both men and women could
make them better."
"Well, there's no kind of use in our
onger theorizing here," said Sue. "We
must begin to lay our plans for a sum
mer campaign. If we could give a cou
ple of entertainments we could get a
thousand dollars ahead, and then we
might get away from Idaho Flat."
And where would we go, pray ?"
asked Edna, quickly.
"Back home!" was the sad reply.
"Back to poverty on my side and to
disgrace on yours, you'd better say, my
dear."
Poor Sue burst into tears. For the
nonce this fact had failed to intrude,
and now Edua had forgotten to let it
leep.
"Beg pardon, my poor darling; I did
not mean to wound you," said Edua,
soothingly.
"No harm is done," replied her friend.
"You spoke truly. Strange that I did
uot remember. But what would you
advise me to do, and what course do you
intend to pursue?"
I don't see that we can do better
than to remain in Idaho Flat. We are
well acquainted here. The mines hold
out reasonably well. Improvements are
goiug on atound us coustantly, aud we
can soou hire quite commodious rooms
on the other side of the gulch. We can
work together and grow up with the
town if we will. I cannot go back to
my mother, much as I long to do so, for,
though I know she is waiting anxiously
to receive me, she is left a widowed,
penniless pensioner upou the bounty of
my eldest brother, and her hands are
tied. I am determined to build mysell
a home, and surround it with every
comfort, and bring, my mother out to
live with me."
"Then what will Jdo?"
"Live with us, of course ! What else
should you do ?"
"And never see my baby?"
"Poor girl ! I know it's hard," said
EeuaJ feelingly. "But I do not see how
we are to make things any better.
When you get plenty of money you can
do as you please, you kuow."
A few weeks later and the two women
were ensconced in their new and com
parativley commodious quarters, which
were furnished after the prevailing fron
tier fashion for eating-houses, with long
tables in a largo dining-room, a mam
moth stove at each end, and a few dozen
roughly-made stools as seats. The bed
room furniture overhead was of the
same primitive pattern, and the bed
ding of gray blankets represented
equally primitive civilization. A stout
and stupid Mongolian was placed in the
kitchen as cook, auother as scullion,
and Edna soon found herself with
growing income and was proportion
ately independent.
"How lucky that first public benefit
was for me," she exclaimed to Mr. Han
del during one of his regular pastoral
visits, after that gentleman had par
taken or a hearty meal.
"But, my dear Mrs. Smith," was the
deeply-intonated rejoinder, "if you bad
not given those entertainments, he
would not have had the means to leave
you, and would not have been tempted
to do so. It is a grave responsibility for
a woman to step out of her sphere and
take upon herself the responsibilities
that rightfully belong to man !"
"And how is a woman to help it, pray,
wheu the man ignores his responsibility
aud leaves her to bear the burdens out
side the home, as well as within, or
starve?"
"She should trust in the Lord, madam,
who has never seen the righteous for
saken or his seed begging for bread."
"But John is not overly righteous, as
you are well aware, and I fail to com
prehend the manner of getting bread
for his 'seed,' uuless somebody else earns
it, for he wcu't."
"This is very unwomanly, my dear
madam, very much so indeed. I some
times fear that you are growing skepti
cal."
"I am not growing but grown skepti
cal concerning many old notions that I
once thought infallible, Mr. Handel. I
kuow that if I should fold my hands
and pray for food till doomsday I should
fail to get it except I was ready and
willing to use these hands to earn it. I
want a little less cant and a little more
righteousness and common sense in my
religion."
"You are bitter, Mrs. Smith."
"Never was sweeter in my life, sir. I
revere the Infinite Presence more than
I can tell you. I revel often in the
realm of the Unseen, and am led by
ways that I know not. But that does
not convince me that all my prayerful
importunities can alter the eternal fiat
of Omnipotence."
"Well, we needn't argue that ques
tion, Mrs. Smith, as it is quite plain we
never should agree. A woman's first
duty is to her husband, always."
"But suppose he deserts her?"
"Then, madam, pardom me, but I
cannot help thinkiug it is mainly her
own fault. Let women live at the feet
of Jesus, as they ought, and their bus-
bauds will uever desert them."
"Then you consider me wholly to
blame about the misconduct of John?"
'I do, madam. If you had curbed
your ambition and been content with
your lot, John would have done passa
bly well, I think."
"You remind me," said Edna, wiping
the suspicious moisture from her eyes
as she spoke iu a voice husky from
wounded feeling, "of a man who was
born blind. Much effort had been made
to teach him the difference between the
various primal colors. Finally bis tu
tor asked him to explain bis idea of
scarlet, and he said it resembled a cart
wheel. Now, sir, with all becoming
deference to your superior piety, allow
me to tell you candidly that you kuow
as much, practically speaking, about
the necessities that drove me into a
sphere you call unwomanly for the
maiuteuance of my family as the blind
man, who bad never seen colors, could
kuow of the difference between color
and diameter. Heaven knows it's hard
enough to bear a woman's trials when
she is encouraged in her endeavors to
gain a livelihood by the intelligent and
better meaning classes of men. But
wheu, added to her sensitive nature, her
pain and weariness and anxiety aud
toil, we bear her reproached and ma
lignad by her best friends for doing the
only things left her to do, we may well
wonder what the world is coming to.'.'
"Edna," cried Mrs. LaSelle, as she
burst into the room with blanched
countenance and fluttering heart, "I do
believe I see John Smith 1"
I shouldn't wonder," said Edna,
compressing her Hps tightly for an in
stant and then relapsing them into a
ghastly smile, "for I dreamed of virmin
last night, and I felt sure I was going to
see trouble."
John was as ragged and dirty as a
Digger Indian. Since his food and
money had disappeared he bad been
compelled to depeud during his journey
from Lewiston npon such provender as
be could steal, which was very little,
owing to the scarcity of settlements in
the mountainous region over which his
route lay.
"I don't believe you're half as glad to
see me as you ought to be," be said,
dropping upou a stool and surveying
his surroundings impudently.
"Where have you spent the winter?"
was Edna's reply, in a tone several de
grees below the freezing point.
"That's my business, Mrs. Smith !
It's enough for you to know that I'm
deuced hungry and am ready to go for
aging for grub."
Edna bustled about and rearranged
one end of one of the long dining table,
trembling in every limb as she did so,
"Where's the cubst" be exclaimed,
authoritatively.
Edna made no answer, aud he re'
peated the question in a louder key.
"Sue has gone out with them, if you
mean the children when you speak of
cubs," said Edna, quietly. "You know
you insulted her by your rudeness when
you were here last, and she has gone
out to avoid you. She was here a few
minutes ago."
"And do you keep that disreputable
womau in the house yet?" asked John,
fastening his watery blue eyes upon her
with an air of stern rebuke.
"Sue is not a disreputable but a re
formed woman, Mr. Smith. When did
you cease to associate with her compan
ion in guilt? And has he ever showed
symptoms of reform?"
"A man's business is his own affair,
madam! I associate with whom I
please."
"There is one person with whom you
will associate no more, Jobu Smith, and
that person is Edna Rutherford, your
former wife!"
John raved aud swore furiously for a'
while and then begged like a child to be
forgiven and reinstated.
"This comes of women imbibing in
dependent notions," said Mr. Handel,
solemnly. "No woman would have
thought of takiug such a stand as this
when I was a boy. I knew a dear
mother in Israel in my childhood who
endured privation, suffering, and even
stripes from a drunken husband for tbe
Lord's sake. But, bless you, she was
none of your strong-minded sort."
'And I knewslaves in my childhood,"
retorted Edna, "who endured toll with
out recompense and stripes without
stint, without a thought but that they
must endure. Their children ran away
and otherwise resisted the injustice,
though, and so will the daughters of
your model, if they should marry
badly."
"Aud so you intend to turn your law
ful husband out o' doors, do you?" asked
John Smith, doggedly.
"I have no husband !" was the decided
reply.
"We'll see about that!" cried John,
with an air of extreme importance, as
he posted off to see a lawyer aud Edua
hurriedly resumed her work.
To be continued.
ADVICE IN REGARD TO THE EYES.
The mure you avoid glaring and glanc
ing lights in the rooms you habitually
sit in, tue belter, Therefore altiiougn
the following advice is certain to meet
with no atteutiou from the great major
ity it is our laughably paiuful duty to
recommend ladies to nave as few mir
rors aud other looking-glasses, gilt picture-frames
aud mouidiugs, bright-col
ored curtains aud highly-polished furni
ture, in their drawing-rooms as possible;
aud what they must have should be so
placed as not to allow bright lights to
ue thrown upou tuem. iiiguiy-coioreu
curtaius are additionally injurious when
the windows are opeu, so mat tue vari
ous brilliant aud dazzliug colors are
flung about the room by tue iucomiug
breeze. A very urigut carpet is an in
jurious thing, and, wheu combined
. i i : i . i . . t ... J : I : j
Willi a nriKutiy-jJaiuieu uemug, uiiiu-
uess. These tilings may ue a merry me
for the eyes, but. thoy are a short oue.
A rich-patterned, sober-toned carpet,
and a soft sky-gcey or stone-colored
ceiling, are my own private fancy. The
almost invariable whitewash of the
British ceiling would be a constant in
jury but for the grave fact that the Brit
ish isles are not overuurueueu witu suu
lieht. But whether reading, writiug,
or working in any other way, it should
always be doue with an oblique light,
aud never with a horizoutal light.
Erasers Magazine.
Woman Suffrage. A bill has been
reported in the Connecticut Legislature
giving a woman who pays taxes and
owns over $300 worth of property tbe
same right to vote as any tramp who
sleeps uuder the hedges and robs the
hen-roost lor a living, aud wears the
same shirt tbirty-six mouths. There is
something indescribably graud and im
pressing in the mighty development of
this aue of progress aud civilization.
Burlington Hawkeye.
It is well the time is coming when
error cannot always rule, neither cau
falsehood be forever triumphant. Dis
like it as the fogies may, tbe time has
come when everybody must be exam
ined. There is nothing that can escape
the closest scrutiny, however old, sa
cred, or firmly rooted it may be; though
its foundations lie deep in the rubbish
of ages, there are those who will dig and
discover whether it rests on sand or
rock; though its head reach the clouds,
there are daring spirits who will mount
as the eagle aud examine its top-stone.
It is well that this scrutinizing spirit
should be abroad. It is time that every
door was opened, not excepting the
church door, and Beason invited to
walk iu. Colfax (Cal.) Enterprise.
A Cash Transaction. A gentleman
living on Dutlield street the other day
hired a boy to walk home beside him
and carry a bundle, having first agreed
to pay the lad fifteen cents. Beaching
tbe house, the man found be had no
smaller change than a quarter, aud be
said :
"If you will call at my office at two
o'clock, I'll have the change."
"But it was to be cash down," pro
tested tue uoy.
"So it was; but I haven't tbe change,
you see. You'll have to call at my
office."
"I'll call," growled tbe boy, as be
turned away, "but I know just how it
will worK. When 1 KnocK on the door,
across-eyed clerk will yank it open, ask
me what I want, and when I tell him
he will yell out, 'That man went into
bankruptcy last September, and now
you git!' That's the way they alius
play it on me, sir, an' I'd lather lose tbe
n I teen cents than to call the clerk a
dodo and have to dodge coal-scuttles all
the way down stairs."
The gentleman walked with him to
the nearest grocery aud made change.
There have been many crises in tbe
silk trade ot Lyons which have caused
as much or more distress than the pres
ent one. Iu 1749, 30,000 hands were
thrown out of work, and the municipal
ity wasobliged todistribute bread gratis
to tiieamountoi three muiiousot francs;
in 1754 a fresh suspension of occupation
necessitated a similar measure of relief:
in 1778, of 14,000 looms, 5,441 were un
employed; iu 1779, the stagnation of
trade further increased the number of
workmen unoccupied, and the king, to
relieve the distress, ordered a quantity
of stufls from tbe Lyons manufacturers,
and forbade any oue to appear before
him not dressed in brocaded silk: in
1787, iu consequence of the high price of
the raw material, tne manufacturers
were compelled to cease working tbe
looms, aud 50,000 persons were left
without the means oi subsistence. (Jom
mercial crises were also experienced in
IBIS, isol, and in lmz.
OUE "WASHINGTON LETTEE.
To the Editor op the New Northwest :
For tbe first time for many months
there id a brief period of political calm.
The settlement of the South Carolina
troubles in such a way as to quiet the
anxieties and soothe tbe passions tbat
have long been excited, has inclined the
public mind to the belief tbat tbe Lou
isiana case will be settled in the same
way. In tbe meantime all hope for tbe
best from tbe commission, and are at
least content to trust that the letter of
instructions from Mr. Hayes, backed up
as it has been by the almost parallel
case of South Carolina, will lead to sat
isfactory results. Thus the most exas
perating issue between the two political
parties is for the moment withdrawn
from the attention of the wearied news
reader, aud tbe great leaders have given
us a rest. Usually the political tempest
assails the country for a few months
once every four years, the interval be
ing occupied by peaceful interests, na
tional iudustries, with an occasional
spurt of party enthusiasm. But the
contest has raged now for over a year,
so much so, that a foreiguer would im
agine that politics formed the central
pivot upou which revolved the whole
civil, social, commercial and domestic
circles in this country hinged. There
fore, after the long strain of battle the
people have passed through, we, the
correspondent and rehearsers of such
events, need not, less than the citizens
at large, give our journalistic stylus a
brief political repose. It has been said
tbat the system aud theory of American
citizenship is a vast mutual admiratiou
society. Yet this time our adulation
comes from abroad, and it is creditable,
indeed, to our countrymen to review
the history of the past year and its tem
perate results. During the fierce heats
of last summer came the couveutions
and the loug, warlike session of Con
gress; then came the bayoueting of cer
tain of the Southern States; then the
rapture of the strife in the campaign;
then the death-grapple of the election,
the short period of uncertainty, the con
flicting returning boards, the electoral-
count contest, the mussing of troops in
Washington, the scepter of civil war
aud the coup'detat, the electoral com
mission, the filibustering, tbe couut,
the inauguration, the wraugle over the
Cabinet, aud tbe Southern policy, with
its doubts and hopes and fears all these
followed each other with swift steps,
and sometimes overlapped, giving two
or more causes for fierce excitement at
the same time. Now, nearly all of
them have passed away, aud our citi
zens, perhaps above all others, may
venture to hope that we are at last en
tering upon a period of political calm
and industrial activity. It is satisfac
tory, indeed, to note that through the
whole of theforegoiug excitement tbe
American citizen never lost his self-
control, and thus avoided precipitating,
by over rash acts, tbe nation into au
other sanguiuary conflict. Afterall, tbe
war taught the people some good lessons.
By it tbe fire-eaters were extinguished,
while the goeen grass on the sodden
graves of our manly soldier dead cried
out with widow's weeds aud orphan's
toil earned couches against the ech
oes of the cannon, the tortures and ruin
of homes, and the hard-breathed mut
ter ings of civil strife.
THE EXTRA SESSION.
As the army appropriation was not
passed, no lawful expedient for main
taining the army seems possible. Mr.
Hayes, appreciating well the danger of
going outside of strict law in this mat
ter, refuses to adopt any other than tbe
regular method. It is possible that this
lull will be of short duration. Iu this
case the old wounds aud sores may have
occasion to bleed afresh. Should the
settlement iu Louisiana be like tbat of
South Carolina, all trouble will be
ended, as the proviso against tbe use of
tbe troop3 in the South, upou which
the House insisted, and which caused
the failure of tbe passage of the bill in
the Senate, will uo Iouger be needed.
After the Speaker is chosen, the sup
plies voted for the army, the civil ser
vice sundry bill amended, and tbe few
new appointments confirmed by tbe
Senate, there will be little or no work
left for the extra session, as it is scarcely
probable tbat Congress will care to leg
islate upon any of the several hundred
untouched bills introduced during the
last sessiou, or that they will trouble
themselves duriug tbe hot weather to
consider conscientiously the vast fields
of "unfinished business" surrounding
them.
HAMPTON'S RECEPTION.
All the South Carolinians that are
able to get away, though but a small
proportion of white men are represented
among the office-holders from that
State, are hastening to witness the evac
uation of Columbia and the wild rejoic
ings consequent upon.Gov. Hampton's
return. Sinister hints are thrown out
by tbe disconsolate ousted politicians,
but amid tbe popular elation but little
atteutiou is paid to their muttering.
Even Senator Patterson, the most pro
nounced opponent of the Hampton re
gime, has madehis peace with the victo
rious Governor, and promised to bury
tbe tomahawk of war. Apart from his
extreme views in politics, Johnny Pat
terson, as be is familiarly called, is a
whole-souled, genial man, and through
the session of Congress borrows much
interest from, tbe ladies, being fre
quently followed around by one of the
brightest, prettiest, red curly-haired,
eight-year-old specimen of an embryo
solon in Washington. Johnny J. Pat
terson, Jr., and John Young Brown,
Jr., divide the interest as beausand gal
lants at the favorite parties in their
small world.
EX-SECRETARY ROBESON
Is kept busy explaining tbe reason of
the apparent deficiency in the books of
the Navy Department. Careful anal
ysis of bis statements will probably
prove them correct.
SECRETARY SHERMAN
Has grasped the financial bull by the
tail aud it threatens to bear him further
from the resumption of specie tbau
was previously anticipated. Secretary
Schurz has, after profound study,
evolved a very plain aud seemingly
practical system of civil service reform
which will not have the effect of mak
ing any radical change, but will chiefly
affect the admission of new employes
in his Department. All the clerks
are on their best behavior, as good
conduct, both private aud official,
is now in general demand, while supe
rior writers aud arithmeticians plume
themselves upon their knowledge of
business and rate their tenure of office
chauces accordingly. The Ottmau $47,
000 Treasury steal is still on the tapis
and will soon be concluded. The round
of Easter receptions has not thoroughly
commenced, although the programme
for concerts and evening entertainments
this week has beeu full to repletiou.
Tbe telephone concert announced for
last night, of which I hoped to render
you a description, has beeu postponed
till Mouday next wheu, it is to be hoped,
Washlugtonian scientists will receive
tbe benefit of the performance. Another
wholesale discharge of Treasury female
clerks will occur, aud 230 of the poorest
uufortunates will then be thrown out
upon their own resources again. They
deserve pity. Felix.
Washington, D. C, April 0, 1877.
Words of Wisdom. The followimr.
clipped from au exebauge, will bear
reauiug anu a cureiui consideration:
Better to wear a calico dress without
trimming, if it be paid for, than to owe
the shop-Keeper lor the most eletrant
silk, cut and trimmed iu the most be
witching manner.
Better to live in a log-cabin all your
own than a browu-stoue mansion be
longing to somebody else.
Better walk forever than run into debt
for a horse aud carriage.
Better to sit by tue pine table for
which you paid three dollars teu vears
ago thau seud home a new extension
black waluut top, aud promise to pay
next week.
Better to use old caue-seated chairs
aud faded two-ply carpet than tremble
at the bills sent home from the uphol
sterer's for the most elegaut parlor set
ever made.
Better to meet your business acauaint-
auce with a free "don't owe you a ceut"
smile thau to dodge around the corner
to escape a dun.
Better to pay the street organ-grinder
two cents for music, if you must have
it, than owe for a graud piano.
Better to eat thin soup from earthen
ware, if you owe your butcher nothing,
thau to diue oft" lamb aud roast IihhI"
aud kuow that it does nut belong to
you.
These fellow mortals, every oue, must
be accepted as they are; you cau neither
straighten their noses, nor brighteu
their wit, nor rectify their dispositions;
and it is these people amouir whom
your life is passed that it is useful you
suouiu tolerate, pity, anu love; it is
these more or less ugly, stupid, incon
sistent people, whose movements of
goodness you should be able to admire,
tor whom you should cherish all possi
ble hopes, all possible patience. And I
would uot, eveu if I had the choice, be
the clever novelist who would create a
world so much better than this in which
we get up in tbe morning to do our
daily work, that you would be likely to
turu a harder, colder eye on the dusty
streets and the common green fields, ou
the real breathing men and women, who
cau be chilled by your indifference or
Injured by your prejudice; who can be
cheered aud helped onward by your fei
low-feeling, your forbearance, your out-
spoKeu urave justice. Ueorge Eliot.
Queen Victoria's elegant graudson,
Priuce William of Prussia, has recentlv
received the highest honor in her power
to bestow upon a foreign prince, in be
ing made Knight of the Garter. Three
members of the German imperial fain
Ily father, son, and graudson now
bear this august decoration. Besides
tbe Crown Priuce of Germany and his
son, two other foreign princes who are
not reigning sovereigns have received
the Order of the Garter Prince Louis of
Hesse aud Priuce Christian of Schles-wig-HoIstein.
The Order of the Garter
consists of the English sovereign aud
iweuiy-iive Kuignts, witn the addition
of princes of the royal family. Special
statutes are passed for the admission of
loreigu sovereigns or princes. A major
ity of reigning sovereigns now wear
ims uecoruuou.
"I should thiuk, your Honor," said
an attorney in judge U's court-roou
the other morning, as he picked up th
water-pitcher which sets on the edge o
the judicial dias, "I should thiuk, you
Houor. that vou'd tret snmphnilu f,
build a fence around this lmrs nili'hpr
or else put your spittoon over on the
other side."
"What's the matter, sir?" inquired
tue v;ourt.
"Matter! Whv th nnfaliln nf
tbe
Ditcher is covered with tnh nppn liifpp
ii
"It's a matter of indifference to m
sir."
e,
"Matter of indifference, your Honor?
Why, it is filthy!"
"I don't care, sir; the court never
drinks water."
Then the attorney sat down and
looked indignant.
Don Piatt has declared that "duelling
ought to be revived."
GLIMPSES OF SOUTHERN TBAVEL.
Our expectations were fully realized
concerning our journey from Charleston
to Savannah, for truly it was tbe hard
est day's travel we have had, as we had
to ride from eight in the morning until
four in the evening in a wretchedly old,
discarded Southern car. But oh, such
warm, balmy air greeted ns that it
rested even such tired travelers as we
were then, and made this beautiful
Southern city, the only one in which in
childhood I had wandered, as lovely as
in memory I had pictured it. Little
parks intersecting nearly all tbe streets,
trees covered with foliage, aud flowers
blooming iu every garden aud filling
the air with such fragrauce that truly it
seemed like "fairy land." Just within
the city limits is a large and very beau
tiful park, and with its magnificent old
trees, exquisite fountains, and superb
bushes beuding beneath their weight of
pink and white japouicas, is truly a
lovely place in which to "while away
many au hour."
Friday we drove to Bonaventure, the
cemetery, and the glorious old oaks,
covered with hanging moss, is really a
strange and wonderful sight. This
moss, so wierd, so curious, is said to be
entirely au air piaut, no connecting
link being found that attaches it to tbe
tree from which it bangs. The broad
avenues were lined each side with im
mense trees, aud the branches meeting
above formed overhead a perfect arch
way, through which we drove. The
place is left almost in its natural rough
ness, but a little speut upon It of north
ern gold, and its beauties would be en
hanced an huudred-fold.
"The Hermitage," the name of what
was once a slave plantation, has a long
aveuue leadiug to the house, bordered
with oaks, forming, as they do iu the
cemetery, a perfect arch, and the pend
ant moas festooning the brauches, hangs
so low as to bo easily plucked from the
carriage wiudows. O'ersbadowed by
the euormous trees were tbe small quar
ters ouce occupied by the negroes, but
uow disappearing beneath the touch of
"decay's etlaciug fingers." They are
little, square buildings, built of brick,
flat-roofed, aud containing apparently
but one room, ouce painted white, aud
with chimneys built on the outside.
The planter's house had been very
very handsome, ouly one story, but
built in such a style as to make It quite
imposing. We were politely shown
through the house, preseuted with some
flowers, aud had most kindly answered
our mauy questions concerning the
days wheu "slavery held dominion o'er
the laud."
Flockiug to this city is a Western
party of some five hundred persons;
some with the intent of "spying out tbe
laud," and by the sudden arrival of so
mauy strangers tbe hotels are crowded
to overflowing. Still the cooking Is
uoue the worse from such au increase of
hungry mortals; it was as bad as could
be before. Not a thing upon the table
reminded us that we wero in the "suuny
South."
'Tis a dreary Suuday; all our lovely
weather has disappeared. Such a change
has come over the scene that we feel as
if iu our dreams we had been transported
back to our barreu winter from which
we had fled. A storm, such as has not
been felt here iu the month of Decem
ber, is dashing iu all its fury over this
beautiful city. Great fires are burning
in all of our rooms, and bales of cotton
have been iu great requisition, for every
crack aud crevice has to be stuffed, for
the wiud seems determined to penetrate
each nook aud corner. When out
breastiug the storm, heavy ulsters and
seal-ski u sacques can hardly keep away
the cold.
We are very anxious to journey on,
and expect within a few days to be ou
our way to Florida, where we fervently
hope to have a little more than a
glimpse of warm weather.
The Excessive Use of Medicine.
It would be utterly impossible to tell
how many constitutions have been im
paired, how mauy digestions ruined,
how many complexious spoiled, and
how mauy purses emptied, through
medicine. What is that you say? that
a stitch iu time saves nine, and that the
right medicine, quickly takeu, averts
dauger? Very likely. We quite be
lieve that. But iu ninety-nine cases out
of a buudred, where is the dauger? aud
what is the emergency of the case?
Medicine is often the precurser of after
misery; and the poorconstitution has to
pay dearly for its medicinal fillip. The
wiser philosopher of the present day is
gradually delivering us from these po
tent perils. Nature has a self-righting
power within her; there is a kind of vis
medicatrixiu tbe physical frame. Treat
the body kiudly; letas much pure aira3
possible get to the lungs, and as much
fresh water as possible be applied to the
flesh, and as much healthy exercise as
duty permits be given to the muscles,
aud early rising as circumstances allow
be afforded for the recruitment of tbe
brain, and theu medicine will be a very
avoidable affair.
This was Robert Stephenson's remark
to the man who used to bother him
about perpetual motion : "If you will
take yourself up by tbe waistband or
your breeches and carry yourself round
the room, I will consider the matter."
People who advertise only once in
three mouths forget that most folks
cau't remember aujthiug longer than
about seven days.
A baby, says a French writer, Is an
augel whose wings decrease as its legs
increase.
Be not apt to relate news.