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w . i A Journal fbr the People. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity: MBS. A. . BtXIWAI, MUor fl Proprietor. OFFIOE-COB.FB035T WASHISOTOSSTEKEtg TERMS, IN ADVANCE : Independent In Politics and Religion. Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposing and Esposing the Wrong I of the Masses. One year. .- Six months Three months.- $.( .. 1 75 1 00 Free Speech, Fbee Pbess, Feee People. Correspondents wrltlngoverassnmed slgna'. Itures must make known their names to the Editor, or no attention will be given to thelx ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable PORTLAND, OKEGON, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1ST"?'. NUMBER 35 . I communications. Terms. z mm twnmzst EDNA AND JOHN: A romance of Idaho Flat. Br Mrs. A. J. DUNIWAY, AUTHOR OF "JUDITH KEID," "ELLEK DOWD," "AMIK AXD HEKBr LEE," "THE HAFPY HOME," "OXE WOMAN'S SPHEEE," "JTADOE MOKRISON," ETC., ETC., ETC Entered, according to Act or Congress, in the year 1ST6, by 3Irs. A. J. Dunlway, 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 dls turblng force everywhere, severing family ties, rilling our asylums with the deaf, the dumb, the blind, our prisons with criminals, our cit ies with drunkenness and prostitution, our homes with disease and death. National Cen tennlal Equal Rights Protest. If the husband is called away by death you ought to be contented. I'm just and being almost Invariably the older about buying the farm In the next town by a term of years, he is apt to die soon- ship that old man Rankin won't stay est he may will away the accumula- on since his wife died. I'll get it at a tions of a lifetime to his sons orsons-in law, and the mother-heart and purse are pleasuring." alike left unto her desolate, while her "Well, my boy, suppose you tions on this side are darkened by the shade of tali trees. The southern front has a deep veranda, out upon which to onen lonir windows encircled bv beautl- bargain, too, and I've no money for spenu tne summer mi ivy. urns ironi, raci u ' ' lit 1 r 1 If 1 TT II nnn In AI r . . i Tiriii .nimnrH' niimt ucai Linn i:ilv. nvr top rno mnar nrrronnva I bltui a i rj ft & kUV tl Vl liad lit may not prove uninteresting at this driveway curves up to the entrance on OUE "WASHINGTON LETTEB. To the Editor op the New Northwest : As President Hayes has decided A Bight of Women. The Question Ee-opened. 'iue Methodist conference or New Jer- w nm wind tn tht. tlm vnin hv sey are again iu grief. BrotberBuokley which Senator Emerson's bill in the ana iue majority who voted with him New York Legislature authorizing hold school offices was de- was reconsidered in the Senate. and the bill passed. The discussion was gallant, rhetorical, and discursive, as ng the city, is 'hoped to settle the question of woman's womeu to live. A broad XiaZh?s ZaJb, rf.fus...tov.,he:lr fea'ed, w HQVi AUU .ux. rnvui. xub uia Ub- tempt at coarse wit has not succeeded CHAPTER XXL Mrs. Rutherford found the home of her daughter-in-law so unlike the home she had so long presided over as the wife of Solon Rutherford that her life in that atmosphere became unendurable. There was scarcely a nook or corner of the great farm-bouse to which sho could retreat and feel herself free from the prying eyes of her son's wife and the mischievous fingers of her many grandchildren. When mothers are young, and have the charge of their own little ones, na ture prepares them for the burden; and the work being a labor of nature, glides along in some way till almost before the mother knows it she finds her children grown and herself arrived at mature womanhood. But there comes a sad experience to many mothers when second growth of yet younger scions comes to them, when already worn out in the battle aud toil of life, they must again take up the treadmill round of re sponsibility aud care for their many grandchildren. The power of exercis ing their own authority is also gone in such a case, thus giving them additional perplexities that, butfor the refining in fluence of long suffering aud bodily en durance, would crush out the life of many a mother-in-law ere the time should come for her hair to be frosted with silvery gray. Men have ridiculed mothers-in-law from time out of mind. Women have snubbed and abused them. The press and even the pulpit has habitually slan dered them; and now the time cometb for the average mother-in-law to have her side of the story unfolded. Behold the young mother with her babe on her bosom. The year of anx iety, suffering, anticipation, love, ap prehension, and solicitude that pre ceded its existence is looked upon like the passing of a pleasant and yet horri ble dream. She did not expect to sur vive the terrible ordeal. But now, as the tender bud of promise looks with wondering eyes into her love-lit face, what dreams she weaves for her dar ling's future ! How her thoughts flash forth to span the coming years, aud how she longs to lift the curtain that merci fully veils the decades that must come! A year or two, and then other bird lings come; added years, and yet others take their places, increasing the moth er's suffering, care and toll; but through it all there is an unwavering solicitude for the eldest born, as though the fust fledgling had touched a tender chord in the mother-heart which none other had been able to reach. Almost before the care-torn and toil- worn mother has been able to think of the possibility of such an experieuce for her tender child as shehas herself strug gled with through all her weary years of "sowing for others to reap," she finds her straying away from her love and confidence. A stranger, one who has no thought or anticipation for her beloved birdliug except a selfish and sordid desire to own and possess her, steps between the mother and the child. He fascinates her; he carries her away captive; he stands ever after between the two who were one hitherto, and with law and custom upon his side, speaks of the mother-in-law with unfeeling coarse ness and sarcasticribaldry. The mother has no alternative but to suffer and en dure. One thing, thank heaven, she is used to suffering, having experienced little else since the honeymoon of her own marriage was over; but she had boped and prayed, ob, so earnestly, that a better and happier lot might be in store for her child, that the awakening comes to her like the living conscious ness of ever-abiding birth pangs. The husband owns the wife, according to men's laws and gospels. Ever after the mother-in-law is an interloper, a super numerary, a melancholy infringement upon the husband's rights. Sometimes, as in the case of Mrs, Rutherford, the mother-in-law is the husband's mother, and the bone of hid den contention. Then the trouble is aggravated, especially If the mother-in law be pecuniarily dependent, as is al most invariably the case; for she has toiled without recompense for half a lifetime; the fruits of her labors have gone into the family fund; her earnings have been appropriated by her children. The long years that she might otherwise have spent in laying up an independ ence for her declining years have been devoted to the work of rearing the chil dren for whose sake she Is now beggared and ridiculed and wounded continually, hard-earned home becomes another's. lived on this place and toiled on it as I "me to give a uriei u"'r" ' norm siue, auu wen wmus away .Burning wuu zeai w save souis, another debates upon such subjects generally Her step is no longer elastic; her have for thirty j ears. Suppose you had most attractive spot, in? origin o. , me through tne intricate par. very vis- . .i .i ..! o- i nT.it ...I, i ,q home is due to Uenerai Dcou, anu uaies ltor to Washington should not fa to r r ., . r j . r, r V auu uu cueu were conclusive as aueugtu buu iSi . r"" wiuun,iu1ul ucu - . , ....... . ... . . ieew uie amy ana claims iue opponu- to the nractical success of the measure. her children are no longer hers, but wild, without a comfort or convenience "k io iue capiuru u. m fiU icw noma m, ou.uieia nity alike with her Husband. Mrs. The great arcumeut against every such somebody's else, and she Is left to the for a home. Suppose you had pade " uy our uuup, huou, .ucuu ul aa- nume. Direci, cure gu mmiu u W1uare m j "' ' """ ' proposition is that It is an innovation io,n!o f iif nf .ionpn.i.n,fi nn.l ,it n,i fnr mnrkpt. nd that Ing the city, General Scott levied on it of its grounds, hence it is easily accessi- minister, conironts uie ureturen oi uie But the great truth of every step of hu u. .v.. ...... . ...w - --j I - i . ... ... conlerence nnu tormblv arcuea thut the m.n i. iii.i i i.. i,...n.,, unwelcome impecunloslty as a cumber- butter and cheese had not belonged to wuu.uuv. uu ulB , ujnm n.u wwer ui mB work of evangelSng the worId doe3 uot To f " - , - - - disease to nrevent some mother-in-law whom "nobody you but to your wife. Suppose that in to relieve the wants of the soldiers, and main building, with one of the soldiers belong exclusively to any sect or sex. takinc another was a monstrous follv. wants around," or to become the second addition to bearing and rearing a large a portion for establishing a secret ser- as guide, and look out upon one of the fahe insists thut she has a duty to per- if ignorance were to be heeded. But ifn nf nmn pMprlw man with ohstren- famiiv mn hn.i Hnnn nil thn work for .a vice fund. The remaincer, a little more craudest Danoranias of our citv which ,u,ul lu- luls'u ""u "u'"s the nrst care of the wise aud tender ....w j j j-.. i - woman, no less Ulan mau. win ba lieu mAtii0ir. nnn.K.n !..f... i .i,. -LIU ... I. i..tn nil 1:1... jt,tn rill. 1... nl1 ,,amA tlifin SI HI.IH ). tVflR tlimeil IDtO LUe ireaS- Ann ha fnnnil lturnra trnn liao Ilia Tanl. .. , - .... i mu.nv.. .w. uci uc.wuiu luiaukia huab eruua cuiiureu, wuu w uuuao iik. iuu. juu , - , I .y. j v. vyr- respoUSlDie lor tne manner in WlllCU ner it shall h vaoclnatpil That wnmpn family whither she would not nave to be old and mnrm, now wouiu you "ry. xi. wus a peu ucut"" toi anu tne wnoie city, anu oeyonu mat guts are employed, it would be dim- whose "sphere" is home etc. who thought of going had she uot been like for your wife to have the power to bcott's to esiaonsn a uome lor oiu anu the broad Potomac with its Alexandria guh- ip pick a uaw in mis argument, n should be, as Mis3 Martineau says that robbed by the laws of men of the right- will the entire property that you had disabled soldiers to render them .ude- anU valley for a score of miles. Grand UhTnowe P"? iui earnings oi uer ioug me ui uueuu0 earneu 10 one oi your cunureu, leaviua r ' ' -- uuujc ui mo to convert men and women, are they take nart in manacinir school afiairs xi t . I . . 1 . J . 1 i an. auro i IS Minor n AIM! rnrv rt sv llini." 1 : 1 . I. . 1 .. 1 nnMnnwn I 1 .. .. .. . .. .. 1 ul! I ... . - - - - . auo lauor. i you a pauper iu your um uuya, ui, ai i ...-."--o - j , jjiwii, jem uura uuu ucuny uuLiipaic i uuu uuut-1 us auuug u murui uuiigaiiuu i seems to tU03e wlio bold ttiis view mucli . I . . i . t i r- i. . r . . . J . ir if I., a I .... . ... ... Mrs. Rutherford had borne the odium most, a nensloner upon the bounty nuu aumonzing meuerai dcuu m uv , expanse and sweep witn mat irom """?" yamr. aiuuujr i as lr it suouid be proposed tnal men u.t.u.v... oco i wear peiiicoaia. 11 is, nowever, not ai mi., n up fr T -vr at.i. I . . 1 ... ' of being a mother-in-law for years, and which your child might see fit to bestow the money from the Treasury to be used the tower of "Soldiers' Home." had almost become accustomed to it, uoon you. leaving you no choice but just as people will get accustomed to submission ?" living with the heart broken; but until her husband's death she had not known what it was to be dependent in auy way unon her married children. Where to go to better her condition she knew not. Her children were all married, and in the home of every oue of them she would be a mother-in-law. But, as we have said, her old home was unendurable. Now, it is strange, but true, that no matter what your trouble may be, there is always some palliating circumstance, or unexpected ray of hope, that beams in upon you when .your hours are darkr est, to light your pathway through the densest places in your way of gloom, It was a scorching summer day. The fervent sun beamed down upon the fer vid earth, and harvest time, in all its onnressive. heated clory, hurried the farming force of the old Rutherford homestead and gathered in the neigh bors to assist in the many fields. Mrs. Rutherford junior was au invalid with a new baby that was, iu time, to grow up and make a despised and un welcome mother-in-law herself; but mercifully for her, the young mother did not consider that. The kitchen la bor of the farm depended wholly upon Mrs. Rutherford senior, who, now that the home was in no sense hers, not even so much as belonging to her by the fic tion of possession as a wife, had as little heart as streugth for her labors. Her step was languid and her health poor. There waswork enough about the house for three strong women, yet the thought of help for her entered not into the cal culations of her sou. But a letter from Edna settled the question. "Dear mother, I am free," she wrote. "I have a home large enough for you, and I am rid of John. Come over to Idaho Flat. You can get in with teams almost any day from Omaha, or what is better, you can come by stage. If you have no money, let me know, and I will forward the necessary amount." "How should I have money, when I've never been allowed to control a cent of my own earnings?" queried Mrs. Rutherford, pausing to think the situation over calmly. 'You will uot be a mother-in-law here, dear mother, for John is gone, and only I and the childreu and Sue Ran dolph are together," wrote Edna. "I pine for you; I long for you ! Do come, and we will make you happy, for you shall have a daughter's love. The words of Edna's letter settled themselves like a song of gladness in the weary mother's heart. But she had no time now to fold her bands and think. It would soon be dinner time, aud the household must be fed. The children were cross and ungov ernable. The baby was fretful aud sick Tne nouse, wuere for so mauy years comparative quiet had reigned, was in a continuous uproar, aud "grandma" was in constant requisition to settle childish quarrels, as best she could without au thority, to give bread and butter here, I can't see that the cases are at all parallel, mother." And I confess I fail to see why they are not so." "Well, mother, there is no use in ar guing the point, for it is plain we uever for the asylum. The act also provides that every soldier of the army shall con tribute twenty-five cents per month from his nay, also that all forfeitures by court martials aud mouey due dead soldiers uuclaimed after three years shall be placed at the credit of the asy lum. The first appropriation by Con- Washington, D. C. Felix. April 20, 1S77. shall agree. You'd just as well make gress is all that has been received from National Woman Suffrage Convention. The Tenth Annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association will be held in Masonic Hall, corner Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third street, JNew York, May 4, 1877. rue nation nas entered upon its sec ond century of existence, leaving one- balf its citizens political slaves. Wbile the form of our government declares woman's demands to be righteous and just, man's legislation still holds her uueutrauculseu. As in law is touud tne security of rights, aud as woman has been denied the constructive rights of the Declaration and Constitution, she must seek recognition in specific law, by an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The great effort of the National Wom an oullrage Association this year will be for a Sixteenth Amendment, which shall specifically declare woman's right to the ballot. The right or petition is woman's only recognized method of in fluencing legislation: a million names to the forty-fifth Congress would have great moral influence upon Congress aud the nation. The United States al ready has three classes of voters, the black mau, naturalized male citizens, and amnestied rebels; eacli of these has right to the ballot under United States authority. Though by decision of the Supreme Court, iu case of Virginia L. Minor, ot Missouri, an womeu were re manded to the States, yet as the na tional government had power to invest with the ballot in the above instances, it has like power to enfranchise woman. .Let us therefore meet anu discuss the best methods of attaining this great ob ject. Matilda JOSI.YN Uaqe, Chairman executive uoinumtee, 1I contributions to this convention olinnlil liu uanf tn lillan O Mnripont 1 733 uaa a view over uimuiuuuB jwiuna ui , Dfj sue3 street, Washington, 1). U. the white front of the home, with its Letters should he addressed to Mrs niiaianinr. imxap Tt sppma npnr. hn I Uage, i! av'ette vi ue, jn e w xorK. the road through the grounds Is so cir- Sufl: ' Soci(Jty (organizea in 18G9,) will cuitousand intricate that it is quite a uold its ana.. Convention iu Masonic Baptist pastor, iu a recent article, is re ported as also maintaining that when a woman attempts to preach, she places herself in a position of war with the di vine appointment. We have not seen together unreasonable to suppose that the sex which furnishes the great mul titude of teachers in the schools might, without shocking any decency or pro priety, have a voice in the management of schools. And when to this innocent that service, aud its only income is from the ranks of the army. Three asylums were established when the act of 1837 was passed, one in Mississippi, one in Kentucky, and the oue iu Washington, but the two first were soon abandoned and the funds expended upon the latter. Any soldier who has served twenty years is entitled to the benefits of the home, and men disabled in the army, though they have not served twenty years, cau gain admittauce. The name "Military Asylum" was uot liked by the soldiers, who called it the "Army Poor-house," and in 1859 the name was ohanged by Congress to the "Soldiers' Home," also the same act made the sol diers of 1872 eligible to admittance, and reduced the monthly tax to twelve and a half cents. The original purchase of ground for the home comprises 200 acres, iucludiugamausion. Thegrouuds were afterwards enlarged, aud now comprise over 500 acres finely cultivated, and containing more than twelve miles of carriage drives. A long line, divided into two driveways by a row of fine maples, and bearing, -the name of "Whitney Aveuue," leads from the public highway to the entrance gate of the grounds, and from this the visitor up your mind to be contented." "My sou," said Mrs. Rutherford, chok ing back her tears with a great effort, "if you will give me five hundred dol lars, I will never trouble you again." And what would you do with five hundred dollars, pray? Tlio very idea is absurd." I could rent Aunt Judy's old cabin, if you would let me have it, and be a great deal more independent there than I am here." What the mischief do you want to be independent for?" "For the same reason that you like it, my son. I have earned my independ ence, aud I propose to enjoy it." Further conversation was interrupted by the appearance of the hired men at dinner, aud Mrs. Rutherford buried her tears by an effort of will and resumed her place for the notice as a protected and supported subordinate. It was three in the afternoon before her work was so far completed that she could get away from the sick-room and kitchen and steal for a little while to the one little, low, unfinished room in the attic that had been left as her realm, and even here she was not safe from in' trusiou. The sun beamed upon the roof till the room was like an oven; but Mrs. Ruth erford was fully aware that it was "bet ter to dwell iu the corner of a house-top than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Throwing herself upon the bed, she Indulged for a long time in an agony of tears that at last soothed her ruffled feelings. She was away from the noise of children, too. Risiug, at length, and opening a little quaint old trunk that bespoke, in its an tique style and diminutive size, of the times long ago, she searched among old keepsakes till she came to an old-fush ioned brooch and ear rings of considera ble value. I intended to keep them till my change should come," she muttered, but fate has willed it otherwise. I took a journey to St. Louis once, and I will go again. Ah, me!" Then for a long time sho lived over the memory of that never-to-be-forgotten time when she had dared to claim some money from the bank wherewith to assist her daughter to remove to the far, far West, "I felt like a culprit then," she solilo quized. "And yet why did I? I had earned the money. By every moral right it belonged to me without my having to steal it. Yet what could 1 .In? T hnrl nn rirrht. in mvnwn pjirnincrs which my husband was bound to re- rom t,le city over tlle dusty roau' aua lue profits, and the division should be spect. Every dollar I had ever earned rrea.ueuu .nco.u j '-v "r,iri i i t i n - i in ri i k n.nr ft mumiHr. uiju iu otvic i - . . oeiougeu 10 mm, anu now, mrougu uih "m ...m ui t.,i-ii rau suited to the old mansion. Well clothe Will, 1U 1-1 lO DUU .UUUItllJ UJJf ittmtl I r, mo fi.pEp iowpi i,ofnr t hopninp n old residents on Fourteenth street re uia pniBr, uuu lumeiuru uuuuui, apea ui assumption is added the lact that in his method of argument. Bnt the con- several States thev do have a voice, to uiuaiun is very wiuo oi iue iruiu. rcoo- the acKnowledged advantage of the ably bt. I'aul is made responsible for schools and of the community the opinions wmcu nave lueir source in me argument Is conclusive. writer's own prejudices and talseconvic- In Illinois, Massachusetts, and Iowa . : Tl... .1 . 1 : 1 1 e . t I .. . . . ' nuns. xui, me seaies win urn irom me tn avstcm or tlin eo-onpratlnn or wnm- eyes of all such. The Methodist confer- en in the management of schools has euce Will not need many more discus- been in oneration for several venrs. and sions to see the truth. The influence of supppsafiillv. Tn Tllinnis in 1R73 thprn Mrs. Wheeler's plea will be felt. "Jfrob- were ten wompn nlpp.tpd to b nountv ably," says the Boston Posiin comment- superintendents of schools. In the lug on this subject, "Miss Ullver would same year five were elected in Iowa. not have established or asserted this Mr. Emerson says that his attention principle any more positively had she was called to the subject by correspond been allowed by the courtesy of the ence with one of these Illinois suuerin- conference to give her views on St. .Paul tendents, "one of the most efficient aud expound the doctrinal points of her school officers in the West." The particular school of theology. The United States Commissioner of Educa- smoothuess of the meeting might have been a little milled by Mrs. Wheeler's remarks, but the roof did not tall nor the floor sink; so when the next confer ence meets the objections to hearing ac tual aud wholesome truths from femi nine lips maybe fewer aud fainter." Woman's Journal. long but not unpleasant drive to the building after entering the grounds. At every turn some new charm of land scape appears, gentle inclines, pleasant glades, shadowy waters, aud verdant lawns, with groves of forest trees dressed in their brightest green, make a scene that tempts one to halt and repose upon one of the many rustic seats in some shadowy nook, and tranquilly contem plate the benificence of nature. Driv ing on, the carriage soon mounts to the lawn that summits the hill on which the home stands, and rolls up to the entrance. C-Dnosite the home is the Hall, May 25th. LILLIE DEVEItETJX J3LAKE, Ch. Ex. Com., N. Y. State Society. All contributions aud correspondence for the State should be addressed to Miss Jenuie MacAdam,23S West Fourteenth street, JNew York City. The Wife's Pin-Money. We do not know if it is possible for a mau to under stand a sensitive, high-spirited woman's reluctance to ask for money, because he can't nut himself iu her place. It would require an impossible stretch of the imagination for him to conceive what his feelings would be if he were compelled to ask somebody when he wanted a new hat, or coat, or pair cl x,i.t..o f r.anCrai Pitoiipr thn Onvpr- shoes. Perhaps he might be able to ap- , . ,. , . ,,, proximate to something near her state nor, and not fifty yards away is the old i . . . . . . . "Rigg's mansion," which was included ror wheu, as a boy, he approached his in the original purcliase, anu uas a.- miner iu crave lue uoou oi u lew exiru 0j abode, aud the Lee family will speed ways been set apart lor tne use oi iue , . T a- li presi- :?. ' rrn : for money next day." Another said "If I were absolute mistress of even the paltry sum of oue hundred dollars a year, so that 1 could spend it without feeling responsible to anybody, l should feel tliat-a great weight had been lifted Pnneral of John D. Lee. The funeral of John D. Lee at Pan guitch was attended by a large number ot people. A new cotlln was obtained, aud the body dressed after the usual manner for burial. Our informant says the whole town turned out. Lee had lived at Puuguitch just previous to his arrest, aud was highly esteemed as a neighbor and a citizen. His disposition was peaceful, and he was uuiformly kind and obliging. Kachel appears to have mistaken the wish of the family in ordering Marshal Nelson to send the remains to Pan guitch. It was the desire of the family and was Lee's desire to have the re mains buried at Harmony, where a number of the family have beeu in' terred. At a family council held on the reception of the body, It was decided to remove the remains to Harmony early next winter. None of Lee's family got a hint about the removal of the prisoner. It was the purpose of a large number of his sous to attend the execution, and not a few ot tile people at I'anguitch and Long Val ley think that Lee helped the United States Marshal plan the escape to tile .Mniiiliiws. tPnriiiir that tils kiwi a wnnlii Mim to the execution and nml; .-i .lis- I spent some time in the churchyard, tnrbanpR. Lee must havp hail snniP spelling out the names of some of the fears of this kind. old inhabitants of our early days, aud ThP fmnilv at Rimiiiipli U.l nnt hp- beholding with pleased surprise, trom lievethat the old man would be exe- the (as usualj truthful epitaphs, that cuted, knowing that he had made a con- ruauy of them were garnished and dec- fessiou. They doubtless thought the oraieu wuu virtues oi wuiuu, wiiue uiey !imp wnnl.l sppurp him a nr.inn lived. 1 had not the smallest suspicion: - 1 I r 1 1 i i :. i: 1 z 1 r . .. The family is sileut with regard to so ariiuny niui virisuau uuiunuj wu- tiio pvppnrinn nn! ntiior mniian Tiiu cealed their excellencies : jfina nru nnnsl.iuriililv ai.iiMproil mill SUDUrsilllou uu luutci ueiliea mo most of them have families demanding dead, but affection laugeiizes tuem their attention, and they have most my part, 1 thiun likely dispersed to their different places tion speaks of these new officers with great commendation. In Massachu setts, ten years ago, a rural town elected a woman upon the school committee. The earth continued, nevertheless, to tevolve upou its axis, aud there are now women upou the school boards of sev enty-five towns in the State. Even in lioston two or three were etected. The school board refused to give a certificate of election. The question was carried to the courts, and the legislature an swered it by passing a law making women eligible. If taking part iu the care of schools "unsexes" women, they are uusexed in Massachusetts by au thority of the Great and General Court. Forty or fifty years ago the city of Bos ton was thought to have tempted rroy- deuce by establishing a high school for girls. The bill now goes to the Assembly, where we hope it will not fail to pass. If it be denounced as an experiment, the reply is that it is au experiment which has beeu tried and which has succeeded. There is no great interest more common to all parents than the welfare of the schools. In rural districts there are no meetings more important or more fully attended than the school meetings. There is no institution iu the manage ment of which maternal knowledge is more indispensable than in the school. We have yet to hear one valid or even plausible argument against the proposi tion of Senator Emerson. Harper's Weekly. The Keligion of Epitaphs. President of the United States; dent Buchanan was the first to spend his summers there. President Lincoln followed his example, and the summers of his administration were spent in the old mansion with the exception of the last, wheu he orcunied the house uow off me." A wife who does her share of used by General Pitcher. Every sum- work for the family, and by careful ., r wp,,t. .., management and contriving add i to the uici uu.uc.o v.-w.f,-- common fund, is entitled to ner snare oi If women were so recognized and trusted, many whose souls are now tor mented about the vexed question of their "rights" would be contented, happy "keepers at home." Toledo Blade. ly go out of sight and lose their news paper notoriety. Beaver Square Dealer. Husband and Wife. The "good old times" wheu a wile was to be a mere echo aud faintly repeat her hus band's latest opinions, have gone. If . i i t . it e . r t I it to live in India rf., .ut" . ' rZtY", ' ', now. And even In India you would . si, ,i.i ,:, m. ITOUOie- 7" .- ,: ftt- ..l,ol.,t. some Miss Britain. Your wife is enti- u.a""u f S V' -' tied to her own individuality to her ""irisllyd to bT-o much wick- For f I were bedaubed aud bedizened with one of the tawdry epi taphs I have sometimes seen iu a coun try churchyard, it would be enough to make me get up iu the uight aud scratch it out. There was our old ac quaintance, Farmer Vessey's fat wife, who resemuieu, as one saiu oi ner ukb, "afllletof vealu pon castors," decked out in a suit of virtues which might not have misbecome a seraph, beveral mend a whip there, tie up a wounded wife or mother, else I would not have member the daily horseback and car- finger In another direction, or feed the them now. Eben savs it will cost three rJaBe ride ot Mr- I'iucoln to his sum fretful baby on catnip tea. h.,rtrpi rfollnrs to Pet m. to Edna's, mer home, guarded- by his orderlies "I have a letter from Edna inviting The jewels are worth twice that, but I Neither Presidents Johnson nor Grant can't Forget Her Dead Boy. I me to join her in Idaho Flat, and I'm don't care. It's all they'll fetch. I'll resided there at any time, but extensive suppose it is ai rigut, uut i must cou- rrnlnir novt wool.- V Mr. Tf ntl.orrr.l ool.l L.n .1 11 I imnrnvpnlpntH were made and the 'ess iu a iiiibeiiuj, piijuuibc, narrow, doubtless, against all leaders lu to her eon, the lawful possessor of her "You must get somebody else to do grounds greatly beautified. The home th(J great Rebellion. When I see them hard-earned domaiu, as he came saun- this work to-morrow, my son," she said, building and residences of the officers placed in offices of trust and honor by tering into the long dining-room to see when he and the men camein toaunner are of white hammered marble, beauti- the government they sought to destroy, if dinner was ready. i.r nm .mint to St. T,onls tn trnnsnPt. ful In design and finish. Here is a little "You must be crazy !" was the quick ilttie business on mvown account. And chapel where Roman Catholic service R?cunl0ud and Andersonville, and the y,ur mo8t!.cuhdAut,L?!!u"8?l.or-J reply- while you are getting heln vou'd iust as I held one part of the day and the Prot- bnr,al trenches of hundreds of battle- Z,XZ .S "If it will console you any to think ,.n mto Mrn,..i pmf estant the other. A large hospital caps helds. lam iiaru, i Know, out wueu x v ve lost my senses, you are welcome to for j am goiDK t0 Idaho." iue ueiusion, my son. jiut 1 am re- It wa3 au in vain that the son de- soiveu 10 go, anu i. want money enough murred. It was all in vain that the to meet the expenses of the journey." daughter-in-law expostulated. It was "Do you think I'm made of money?" eouaiiv in vain that the children cried When they all discovered the futility asked the injured son. "You couldn't the hill that fronts the home. It is considered one of the best hospitals in the country, and is fitted up with all the improvements in science. As many of the soldiers are physical wrecks, a good hosnital is necessary. There are meet a confederate hero aud hear him boast and they all boast of that long, mad struggle against tne union, a white voung face seems to rise from a Iouely grave on the banks of the Missis sippithe face of one of my blood, dear as my very own. 1 see uiviue lorgive- ness look trom tuose oiue eyes, out il is clash sometimes with yours, aud you both ought to know how to strike fire in con versation aud have no explosion. Be cause you are a Democrat is no reason why she should not be a Kepublican; because you are a Uongregatlonalist is no reason why she should not be an Episcopalian. Sbame on the notiou that a wife is only a cipher to stand on the right side of her husband so as to make a unit into teu. A dumb wife is a disgrace to her nusoanu. au inde pendent wife is liia glory. If she never differs from you, it is because she is a serf aud you area despot. She ought to be your best adviser, tone ougut to be The us. There are many husbands that would as soon think of taking advice ot their wives as of their childreu. But it is only the fool who is too wise to seek counsel. Christian Union. Two French ladies were conversing ou the qualities and demerits of their own fair sex. bald in her beautiful knowu but two women who were really iipss under ltl au 11 iuey couiu urn. change places, what a pleasant world it would be! Or, rather, perhaps, we ought to say, "Who can wonder that so much iniquity is leit among tue living, when such car-loads of all the cardinal aud other virtues are thus yearly shov eveled into the earth by the under taker?" Anyway, however, it is a pleasant thing to find our old friends improved by Keeping, anu loosing uei ter in their winding-sheets than they ever did in silks orsatins. 27ie Qreyson Letters. TTmv to Estimate. If you want to estimate any one's mental calibre, you cannot do it better than by observing the ratio of generalities to personalities iu his talk; how far simple trutnsaoout individuals are reDlaced by truths ab stracted from numerous experiences of men and tilings. Herbert bpencer. Number 2, of Woman's Words, will get there short o' three hundred dollars. r ,f iin t,D i, at nresent about five hundred soldiers not imnarted to my heart. lean par- ..... . . . . m men :uu...o ....u . .... ,";...r..ij. I.Mlniht economical as you are, ana x don't pro- keeDe, 8he lleard ber daughter-in-law e home, iney are not requirea to '"', nerfect." "Who was theother 7" asked pose to take that much cash out of my fiav. Datulantiv : work, bnt many do light chores about ""' thaf COnscrinted her companion, . ka nnrrrntr. ri ii ra I ir I pm- one, with a twiuKie "uw'u r-"- -y - eyes, "I have never ence o. Rosier, u ui " i"a Medical uo lege oi sew xorK. wwi with a smile on ber business for anybody's whims." "My son," replied the mother, 8hak ing her head and speaking falteringly, while a tear stole down her furrowed cheek, "do you think I am a pensioner upon your bounty 1" "Not exactly that, mother; but every thing about this place belongs to me, as you know, though you shall have a home as long as I have it. Now, I'm perfectly willing to grant you every needed comfort. You have a good home just as good as my father provided. "Well, I'm glad we're going to get rid of her! I never did fancy such an in cumbrance as a mother-in-law !" the grounds. They are allowed to draw small sums each month, as pocket money, from the home fund. They are that soldier. Grace Washington Letter. Greenwood, in ue, thiu lip. sketch of her life and labors, by Mrs. Helen M. Cooke, the well known poet ess and New York correspondent. The good womamnight have retorted, proud of their home and glad to wel- B to mould into beauty! fore the aerial dancing began, "fun's nt did not. She knew that in the come visitors. The old "Rigg's man- ppy ye gwlll be if you labor through' fun, but PNetak. a nn i' tno ntip ORCuniefi nv tno tTPHi-i Ufa niui appK nn rp.inmnRnBB Have Liiei"&- . . . but event of a family disturbance the luu lUD "v" "J . . .. u DCC,k .,; r . r.7::.i- iust the same mother-in-law would surely get the dent, was, in times gone by, one or the "' "2 t i tt i,.i i. u eranuest resiueucea iu ,nuuA nA inoi,o,i TOi.tio,,f the young Capital. Vines and ivies i.i of o n.n n,,.hrpni, clamber over the broad veranda, cling I Dfiirnin.nmvb' tno 1 1 a n nil To be continued. I . . , ... , m, . TTniimtfoH nnHvitv nf whatoror vinri entrance, with arched doorway, iaces You have plenty to eat and wear, and ' must at last eud in bankruptcy. ' the north, and, the angles and projec .i. . ..t u - tna worK oi nerieuiiug uuuacn- iub nuuuriw m . n,f p.iiv tliat snail ue juur lewuiu. j. i uj. j.-vt.. "RpnrlpmPii " said a Kansas horse- The widow of Daniel weusier is uv- thief to a Vigilance Committee, just be- ing iu New York. She was his seconu lun's wne, anu ner wiwueu , . .iw.tr- erina T.omv. They were married iu 1820. She is represented as tall and queenly iu appearance, and as a woman of unusual intelligence. Error of opinion may be safely toler- Freuchmen are eating more and more i .1 .... I. nil,. i,nHan l...tnlw. ,n Paris opened his shop in I860. Last erated where reason is left free to com- vear 8.000 horses. 613 asses, aud 35 mules bat u.Jejjerson. Adler. t?pit Afra Plimhfi Kanaford. of New Jersey, will open opposition service to I were eaten in France. iLBtata" Carlyle says that love is a discerning center of a solid tree atHkrtw.ll, Ga., ?o Ron tnnmrfl thn warfare. of the infinite in the unite. -euu v-i""" A live bat was found embedded In the