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She itcw iteites 4 v. II US. 1. J. UUMWAI. Editor an4 Proprietor. OFFICE Con. Fitotrr A WAsniNQToi. Stiiebts TEUMS, IX ADVANCE: One year.. -81x months Three months.- ..S3 00 .. 1 75 - 1 00 ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable Terms. MARTHA MARBLEHEAD: The Mali and Matron or Cbebalem. ' By Mas. L.J.DUNIWAY, A.UTHOB OF "JUDl.H REID," "ELLEN DO WD," "AMIE AND HEXEY LEE," "THE HAPPV HOME," "OX- WOMAN'S SPHERE," "MADGE MOBR1SON," ETC, ETC., ETC. Entered, accordl is to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by Sirs. A J. Dunlway, in the office oi the Librarian of Cc -igress at Washington City-. CHAPTER I. Major Marbleliead was the hardest man in Gales town. He was hard in his bargains, hard in his religion, hard in his family, and equally hard upon him self. He was an angular man one of the fast receding race of old-style Purl tans with whom and whose household the Blue Laws were as rigidly enforced as it was possible for the tyranny of a bigot to enforce, when aided by the,'laws of a Commonwealth that places tile sole arbitration of domestic destiny in the legal keeping of the "head of the fam ily," and allows him to be at once the Interpreter and executor of every do mestic regulation in his realm. Major Marbleliead was a conscientious man a religionist of the straight-jacket order, who was as equally determined to compel everybody else to see through his peculiar creedal spectacles as he was rigid in requiring himself to look through no others. Why John Marblehead Tiad earned and carried the sobriquet of Major, no body in Galestown could conjecture. He had been a deacon of tht devoutest order of old-line Baptists for half a cen tury, and so fixed was he in his relig ious tenets that he would not have scru pled to burn a Servetus at the stake for holding a contrary opinion to his own, had the Jaws of the country permitted, any more than he failed to scruple, at every meeting of the board, to sit in judgment upon the real or fancied con version of any and every repentant sinner that offered himself as a candi date for immersion within the pale of the little church of which he was the acknowledged head. There was a revival in Galestown, and its exciting waves had reached the s5ts and rippled in the hearts of all the young people of all the churches. Major Marblehead was fuller than usual of the divine afflatus. He sang, with more than accustomed unction the fear-inspiring words, " Sinner, hell is deep and yawning. Quenchless fires are raging there; Not one beam of hope is dawninjj On those regions of despair. Like some vast, volcanic crater. Burning waves of lava swell, Rage and toss and moan and labor. Such, oh ! sinner, such is hell." . The Major was not an average success In the musical line, and the air, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains," which he attempted to twist into such a shape as to compel it to accommodate itself to the meter of the lines quoted, was so' obstinate as to construe his attempts at harmony into a sort of sonorous failure, which made, the young people titter during service, and caused more than one applicant for salvation to be refused admission to the church because of his levity over so awfully solemn a reality as the good Major's Gehenna, whither, accordiug to his devout understanding, they were all tending, except they should walk the straight and narrow path to which he held the only author ized entrance in Galestown. It was a marvel to some of the more incredulous as to how he could recoucile it to his conscience to condemn so many aspirant to immortality to the"broader road that leads to death," but certain it was that he did thus sit in judgment upon quite a number during the prog. ress of the revival, among theru being a prominent young lawyer of the town, whom everybody suspected of cherish ing matrimonial intentions toward the Major's dignified and intelligent daugh ter. HenryKIngston Greensborough,whom everybody called King, and generally failed to remember that he had another cognomen, was the greatest "catch" in Galestown. He had fallen heir to the Kingston estate upon the death of his maternal grandfather, an estate of broad acres and magnificent elms that skirted the classic village, and overlooked, from Its square, second-story windows, the pretentious country college, of which the great West boasts so many. It had long been shrewdly suspected by the village folk that Kingston Greensbor- ough would marry Martha Marblehead. There seemed to be no reasonable objec tion to the prospective union, and all was going well till the revival came, bringing every young person into seri ous consideration of the means of grace mat everywhere abounded. Conspicuous among the first array of new converts were King and Martha. Both attended regularly upon the min iBtratlonsatMajorMarblehead's cbuich, the latter because she would have con sidered it sacrilege to do otherwise, and the former because his incliuitlou prompted him to go where the latter went Religious fervor was at an unusual height when the young couple received the "blessing." If the joy in heaven over repentant sinners could have been measured by the joy on earth on that occasion, there would have been no lack VOLTOIE VI. of celestial rejoiclug, for everybody had looked upon King Greensborough as an incirrigible unbeliever, until he sud denly became a convert. Latterly he had been going occasionally to the MethodistChurch, where a newpreacher bad been installed, whose eloquence Martha deeply longed to hear, but the stern will of her irou-slded father for bade it, thereby rendering her lonely aud sorrowii g, for Martha was secretly and earnest y in love with King, and she desired most of all to go wliiluerso eve - he went, and that his God might be hers, even as was the God of Boaz the God of Ruth. ItwasSundaj night. The big.church with the new preacher was tilled to overflowing, and Martha sat demurely beside her mother listening nervously to the sonorous inharmony that the Major mistook for singing as it rolled from his rasped and rasping throat, when suddenly the maiden's heart be. gau a wilder beating as she saw her soul's ideal step majestically down the aisle and take his seat among the scat tered audience. "What has brought King over from the big church?" whispered Mrs. Mar blehead,- whereat Martha was taken with a sudden fit of inattention and pretended not to hear. "I thought so sensible a young man would prove to be one of the elect," re sumed the good dame, who spoke in a whisper, for she generally obeyed the injunction of Paul to listen in silence, with all subjection, and if she would learn anything, to ask her husband at home. This implicit reliauce upon her legal head was a source of constant security to Mrs. Marblehead. Not that she was destitute of will power, logic, or intui tion of her own, but she had so long helil these inherent gifts in abeyance to the law of her husband, that both of them would have looked foranitnme- diata opening of the yawning gulf to swallow her into the quenchless fires of eternity if she had dared to use those gifts for an instant, except in conform ity with the expressed injunction of the head of the woman, who (the head) was so much unlike the Prototype that he never once thought of laying aside so much as a pet prejudice to please her. As to laying down his life for her sake nonsense! He never read auy other Scriptures than those suiting his creed, and he did not remember that there were any such allusions in the New Testament. Kingston Greensborough entered one- of the high-backed pews and seated himself where lie could obtain an unin terrupted view of Martha's blushing glances. Love needs no interpreter ex cept its own instinct, and revival meet ings are Cupid's harvest seasons. Now, good orthodox reader, don't get shocked, and refuse to follow this o'er true narrative further because I have dared to assert a philosophical fact. I need not thus admonish you, however, for no matter how much you may ob ject to this plain expression of the truth, away down in your heart of hearts you will assent to jt as fact, aud in assent ing, will unwittingly philosophise. Time was when it was considered blasphemous to account for any of the natural phenomena in auy way con nected with religion upon scientific principles. It is not more than thirty years since my grandmother, a marvel of piety and conscientiousness, took me most severely to task for having learned in school, aud presumed to repeat in her hearing, the fact that the reflection of the sunlight upon the clouds from the falling drops of water formed the rain bow. "God made the rainbow," she said, "and placed it in the heavens as a-sign that there should never beanother flood; and it was not for us to fathom the un knowable by ascertaining how He did it." You may smile at her simplicity, reader, but not more verdant was she than are you if you would make your self believe there is no natural philoso phy in religion or revivals that leads to love and marriages. Very solemn and very exciting had been the protracted services beforeKing Greensborough entered the church, and now it was unfortunate that he should enter and be seated just in time to hear the Major's sonorous jangle, which could not by any stretch of the imagi nation be construed into melody. It was unfortunate, because the young man had only the evening before been the recipient of the change of heart he had been seeking diligently for a week or more, and his object in attending the Baptist Church on the present occasion, aside from seeing Martha, who had ex perienced a change, too, was to offer himself as a candidate for church mem bership, that he might henceforth be considered as one of the elect. I am afraid the young man was actu ated by a motive in joining, or desiring to join this particular church, which Major Marblehead would hardly have considered satisfactory if he had divined it, for. Kingston was very well aware that the old gentlemen could not have been prevailed upon to give his consent to a marriage with Ills daughter to any one outside of the pale of the Lord's anointed, and be was decidedly in favor of winning the daughter. But Kingston did not stop to analyzo his motives very closely. It was enough J?OTfcT3L,A.NT, for him that lie was happy In his uew experience, and that Martha Marble- head's expressive eyes informed him that sho was ha py when he was near her. Majoi Marblelead got through with the first stanza of his hymn with com parative smoothness, considering that the meter aud the tune failed to agree, but he choked on the second stanza, aud then fairly brokt down. It was rude and unbecoming for a young man in love with his daughter to laugh. Of court-j it was. But certainly it was none the less so for Martha to smile in return, and then, covered with confusion, seek to hide her mortification as best sho could behind iter hymn book. Mrs. Marblehead, good soul, was as imperturbable as a discipline of forty years in dissembling could make her. The Major was angry. To look at him when angry, you would have felt an in voluntary uprising of thankfulness that he was not Jehovah, empowered with authority to cast you into the "quench less fires" of which he sang. But the regular exercises were soon over, and "opening the doors of the church" was next in order. Foremost among the candidates for admission were Kingston Greensborough aud Martha Marblehead. It is passing strange to note the great results that sometimes flow from little causes. I wish that young couple had not laughed. Or, if laugh they must, I wish they had not allowed the Major to see and hear them; for he it was upon whose ipse dixit rested the acceptance of every applicant for salvation within the pale of the Galestown Baptist church. The two young converts iguominl- ously failed to give such evidence of a "change" as suited the Major, where upon Kingston Greensborough went off and united with the "Methodess," as they were termed, and Martha would have given her right arm to follow if she had only dared. The young couple had been studiously shy of each other from the moment that each had silently discovered the other's passion, and now that the church line was drawn between them, it was as though an insurmountable avalanche had fallen across their path. Major Marblehead had nothing to do but to be religious. His income from the usury upon a few thousands he had accumulated early in life in a hard bar gain he had driven with a distressed immigrant had more than sufficed to supply his niggardly ideas of necessity, and as for comforts, he was far too as cetic to accept them for himself or allow them in his family. One wight Martha, who seldom slept soundly any more, was startled by the sound of her mother's voice in weeping and entreaty. In all her life before she had never heard her gentle mother offer even so much as a mild dissent from ber father's most absurd propositions, and the present unheard-of entreaty fairly terrified her. She arose from her couch and crept stealthily to the door of her parents' room, for somehow she felt herself to be the theme of the conversation. "I wouldn't make them unhappy, John, If I were you," said her mother, pleadingly. "Let them marry if they like. You know you always desired it till they laughed at your singing. Don't be unreasonable, please." Mattle's heart beat hard. "What can the old folks mean ?" she thought. "Surely King hasn't been ask ing for me, when he's never said a word to me about his love. I've only read it in his eyes." She listened long enough to be satis fied that her father was determined to leave the home of her childhood for the far Pacific, and also to know that he was instigated to the change by a determi nation to prevent her marriage with her ideal King. Morning found her with red eyes and highly-strung nerves. Her mother looked at her appealingly, but Martha glanced furtively away, aud so avoided any Intimation of the knowledge she had gained by eavesdropping, a mode of acquiring information of which, to do her justice, she was heartily ashamed.. "I must meet my King!" she declared to herself, over and over again. But how was she to meet him? Should she dare to risk his contempt by mak ing unmaideniy advances? Remem ber, reader, that he had not spoken to her of love except with his pleading eyes, aud then from across the meeting house. What a shame that the etiquette of human society makes it improper for a woman to make matrimonial overtures. Marriage means a great deal more to woman than to man.. Upon her must test the penalties that maternity im pose; upon her the weightiest responsi bility that marriage brings. She loves more deeply, when mated at all, than man can; she is quicker to discern her proper mate than he. Then why the absurd prejudice against allowing her the initial step in wooing? Let men, who have made woman a dependent creature, personally, legally, ana financially, answer. "I do wonder if I can trust Gus?" thought Martha. "Gus" was her younger brother, a boy about thirteen, whose voice was chang ing, and who delighted in any sort of adventure that would circumvent "the Free Speech, Fbee Peess, Free People. OREGON, FRIDAY, JUKE "O, 1ST"?'. ole man," as he irreverently styled bis father. "Gus, will you do me a favor?" said Martha, suddenly. She was standing by the sideboard, doing gentle battle with the dinner dishes, aud she spoke in a low voice, to preventoverhearingfrom the next room. "What now?" said Gus, grumblingly. "Haven't you enough stove wood?" "Yes, brother. I wasn't thinking of that. But I want I'd like say, Gus, wouldn't you like to do something that father couldn't find out?" "Blamed if I wouldn't!" answered the boy, on the alert in an instant for some kind of intrigue. Good reader, you may try too hard to keep water from running down hill, and it will fiud means to force its way out and up. So you may try too hard to regulate the conduct of jour children to your liking, and they will, for that very reason, become unduly rebellious. Gus Marblehead did not undertake to disobey his father openly. He had tried once, and the marks of a cow-hide would go with him to his grave. But he was ready at anytime to circumvent him by intrigue, and this his sister well knew. "I've been a good sister to you al ways, haven't I, Gus?" "Yes; when you haven't been ugly about my whips and balls and sleds aud kites beiu' underfoot. And then, you plague me very often about stove wood; but takin1 you altogether, you'll do. You've lied for me many a time about the toothache or earache to keep me from goiu' to meetin'. Anything I can do to pay you?" Martha blushed painfully. The re membrance of her former peccadilloes did not add much consolation to her present change of heart. "Well, Gus, I want to send a note to King Greensborough. You won't tell ?" "Of course I won't! And you're just bull." "O, Gus ! Don't talk that way ! Father" "O, yes; I know he'd whip me if lie heard, butyou won't tell, for you daren't else I'll tell something, too. What do you want me to take a note to King, for? Does ho love you ?" "She-se-se!" But it was only the cat. "Father" had stretched himself in the sitting room for his afternoon nap. He never could see why anybody Bhould get tired of protracted meetings. "If people only had the love of God In their hearts," and then he would fall asleep, while his usury' went on, and those who paid it toiled for the money. "You see, Gus," and Martha spoke in a whisper now, "Father intends to go to Oregon as soon as spring opens. I heard him Bay so, last night, though he doesn't mean that you or I shall know it, yet awhile, and what do you think makes him want to go ?" "To get more religion, maybe." "No; it isn't that. Healready thinks he has all there is of religion. You'll have to guess again." "To get away from cold winters and hot summers. That's it, and I'm glad, by golly." "Don't say naughty words, Gus, or I'll be obliged to tell father." "And then I'll tell that you're writin' letters to King Greensborough." Martha felt that Gus held the advan tage. "What shall I do with the letter? I mean, how shall I manage to get it to him so father won't know?" asked the boy. "IH1 leavo that to you, brother. A boy who has managed as many sharp tricks successfully as you have will hardly fail in this one?" "Will you let me see the letter, Sis?" "Yes, Gussie. Go away now, please. I'll have it ready for you by supper time." Once alone, in the seclusion of her ice-cold chamber, Martha's courage well-nigh for3ook her. "What will he think of me? and what will my mother say?" she asked her self over aud over again. "Surely it will not seem bold for me to drop him a note, saying that my father is preparing to leave the coun try," she thought. King Greensborough was pacing the floor of his office in an abstracted study. The wind howled dismally around the corners and sang dirges to his hopes through the key-hole. It was bad enough for a rising young lawyer to have incurred the displeasure of so hard and influential a man as Major Marble head under any circumstances, and doubly dreadful was it when the tender face and beaming eyes of the old man's daughter sent a thrill to his heart to the like of which he had heretofore been a stranger. "I've a letter for you, Mr. King," said Gus Marblehead, cautiously open ing the door and thrusting a soiled en velope, that his sister had given him when snowy white, into the trembling hand of the young attorney. Then, bounding away, uuder cover of the coming darkness, the boy reached the church in time to hear his father's voice in the familiar hymn, " Broad Is the road that leads to death. And thousands walk together there." "We mustn't follow the multitude to do evil," was the Major's opening ex hortation to bis scattered audience, as the crowds, gathered densely at the op position church, as he was pleased to style it, and his pretty daughter looked longingly from the depths of her home made hood at the manly form if her lover as he hurried by the window on his way to church with bis hand in the breastpocket that she knew contained her presumptuous missive. No sooner had her letter gone beyond the possibility of recall than she would have given anything to have lad it back; and its reception must have ..truck King unpleasantly, she thought, else he would not have passed the little meeting-house without so much as a glance at her. The meeting was over at last, and Martha was assisting her mother into the great sleigh when the crowd came pouring forth from the other church, among them Kingston Greensborough, who paused and greeted the women with a pleasant word. Major Marble head would not look at the young man, and he capped the climax of authority by forbidding wife or daughter to ever speak to him again. "How lucky that I'm a post office, Sis," said the precocious Gus, in a tit tering whisper. "He hasn't commauded you not to write, you know." The days and weeks hurried them selves into months, and finally every thing was ready for the. forthcoming journey across the continent. Had the weather been pleasant, the young couple could have had opportu nity to meet in the grove, or by the way side, or in a neighbor's garden; but the rigor of winter kept up its sternest real ities till unusually late, and the break ing up of snow and ice that followed was .even worse than the winter had been. Nowthey were on the eve of depart ure and King was in despair. As he had been forbidden the house, he could not honorably present himself in Martha's presence, and he much dis liked the idea of bringing a neighbor into his confidence. Yeta luckyohauce favored him. A neighbor fell seriously ill, and Martha went to pay her a fare well visit, when whom should she meet but Kiugston Greensborough. "I felt that you must come, for I kuew that I would see you," ho exclaimed, while a subdued sorrow spoke in bis tone, and a suspicious moisture dimmed his eyes. "You'll forget me, King," said Martha, sadly. "Forget you, oh, my Pearl!" he cried, graspiug her band, while the sick neigh bor in the adjoining room coughed loudly to prevent overheariug. "Will you be mine when I come to claim you in your far-off home?" he asked, tremulously. "Forever, my KiDg," sho whispered, half audibly. Leave them alone, reader, if for but a moment. You aud I have no business in their presence now. To bo continued. A Sign of the Times. Among the tokens which denote the progressand foretell the speedy triumph of equal rights Is the following, clipped from the report of the New England Woman Stiflrage Association : Conspicuous among these signs is the effective manner iu which women are assuming their rights wherever it is possible, quietly ignoring the clamor that is raised against them on the one band, while, on the other haud, is the manly recognition of their real achieve ment. Miss Laviua Goodell. of Wis consin, studies law, is admitted to the bar; she has a case which is appealed to the Supreme Court. Miss Goodell asks permission to follow her case into that court. Judge Ryan, of the Supreme uourt, taKes three months to make up his mind, and then renders a decision that a woman cannot practice law in any court in that State. When the next Legislature assembles, a petition is presented, signed by nearly every lawyer of Rock county, asking for the passage of a law by which no person shall be prohibited from the practice of law m any court in that state, on ac count of sex. Judge Ryan was very ill at the time. His friends said the pas-sage-of such a law would kill him. But the law was passed. The good result was, that women now have a legal right to the legal profession in Wisconsin, and the fact served as a tonic to cure Judge Ryan. Minnesota possesses a similar law. Miss Aita Hulett prac ticed law In Chicago, and when she died, the lawyers of that city and county, by a public meeting, recorded ineir esteem lor uer as a woman and as a lawyer, their regret at her early death, and, in a series of resolutions, pub lished their recognition of the woman lawyer. A petition from the women of Louis iana, containing the signatures of one thousaud real estate owners and tax payers, presented in the House of Rep resentatives recently, inaugurates a new movement in Louisiana, viz.: the equality of women before the law. For several weeks a number of the more prominent ladies of the city have been quietly organizing this uew departure, and the leaders allege in their petition that fully one-halt the real estate in Louisiana is owned by women and one half of the revenues are of their contri bution. But for the late hour in which the petition was presented, it was pro posed to submit a bill requesting our Representatives in Congress to advocate a Sixteenth Amendment to the Consti tution for the benefit of women. New Orleans Democrat. Arr American traveler reproved "an Irish cab-driver for belaboring his horse so constantly with the lasb. Patwas very good-natured about the matter. "Why," said the gentleman, "we do not employ whips now-a-adays at all in America." "So I've heard," rejoined the driver, quietly; "ye use revolvers." NUMBER 4Si Personal Glooms and Griefs. A word toIMi vnn ilislino.ionni ri low-worker, upon whom, not unfre quently, drops the black, unwelcome cloud of tired, discouraged mnndci in wl uiuuyuu uiieryourseit unconsciously l that bitter, soul-sick crv of Hamlet: I . : i- .... . . f in U, that this too, too solid flesh, would melt. Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew : Hp ttint Ilia 1 1 . o . , ....... ...V 1 11UU I1UI UXeU His canon. 'gainst selt-slaughter, O God! O How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!" Iu these wrptnlipd. dpqnnlrinfraoaonno if , - f . - llij.iiij, tllPrp lift Jlnvthirifr lit all wnrlti lit, ,n.. and striving for. von fall nlisnlntnlv tn discern it. Just simply to creep out of life and be forever rid of Its burden of perplexities, its torture of hope deferred, Its wearing weariness of unsatisfied longing this, vnn fpl i nil ii- could ask or wish. And while you sit in the vaporing shadow of these evil and unhappy hu mors, it is vain to look for auy philo sophical reflection, or profound utter ance Of Wisdom 1111(1 PTTiflrionna fr, you with any gleam of light or tender in tu oi cuuiinri, not until tne over hanging cloud, rent by force of its own Weight. RP.nttpra tn Mia iinb-nnwn l. o , ' -......null ii icaiuia of darkness whence it came, will you be able to take once more a rational view of lifp. mid rptnm -;M ,-, .,... I ...... .v....... ,..vu V 11 C CU hope and energy to the tasks that had fallen unfinished from your discouraged or impatient hands. .nut, did you never think, when you pass again into the glad, cheerful light flf (Inv. finrt roinina anaw in l ,vnn sciousness of streugth, iu the dlguity of purpose, anu in trie Doiuuess or faitu: ilirl vnn nauap tdtnlr : . ... j xuiun uuw litl lb W US pOS ble to havft nvntiforl ttiof lr.i-A;nt. and waste of vital force which so crip- jjicu jour power, aua impeded the prog ress of vour work ? TIM if ana- . " " ' " - - UV.1.UI tu you that the gloomy influence which always seems to leap upou you from some mysterious outer world of dark ness, iiugiii, pernaps, nave us source in VOUrSttlf ailff hp. tliprpfnro Qnliinnf !. n greater or less degree, to your control? Phrenological Journal. Sucoess Destructive of Self-Sacrifice. Success itself l.q nnn nf flip irnnimit destroyers of self-sacrifice, unless the uiiuu oe uooie anu the heart large; just as wealth often closes its doors to the need of the world. hpinsr tua thoughtless soul has come to be unable to realize in its fulness the need that exists. "I am rinh. mid 1 no If nnnrrlit the distress and misery we hear of must be an idle tale; au overdrawn picture." Thus men cheat' themselves. But, ye rich, believe it not. There is misery and wretchedness enough and to spare, in spite of the purple and flue linen that screens you from it; much that is in your power to lessen. But shillings ujusu not ue given ior pounus, or pouuds where you should give tens and hund reds. Take, for examplerthe collections in our London chnmlipq. nn imimif nf some good and pressing object, as an in- suiuce oi wua i. is ana wnat might be done. But the amount of charity in the world isquite apart from thequestiou of self-sacrifice. Peotile irive out. nf tlipir abundance, and much of it is terribly uiisappneu. xnere is no system in dis tributing. Take Hin irrcnt wnrl.l rf commerce. How many of its members will exercise, in even a small degree, me spirit, oi seu-sacriiiceV "lam able to do this thint' for A. TTp will h 1.000 the richer: T slinll hp inlnm iu 500 it would put into my pocket If I do it ior mysen. a. wants the thousand; the five hundred to me is nothing. But it does not enter into tlin anirit nf him!. ness, and I caunot do it. 2fo, I cannot. it j. uiu ao u, ana the world kuew, it would mock me." So A. does not get his thousaud nounds. ntul R nnpL-ota i,ia five hundred. A. is ruined, perhaps; possibly drags down with him a wife and children; and he never recovers his footing. "Sorry for him," says B., stifling nualm nf nmianiannp mini T couldn't help it, clearly. Business is I ! ,, FT, M uusiuess." me Argosy. A Remedy for Thouble. Work Is your true remedy. If misfortune hits you hard, you hit something else hard; pitcu inio sometuing with a will. There's nothing like good, solid, exhaus tive work to cure trouble. If you have met with losses, you don't want to lie awake and think about them. You wuut sleep--calra, sound sleep and to eat your dinner with an appetite. But you can't unless you work. If you say you don't feel like work and go loafing all day to tell Tom, Dick and Harry the story of your woes, you'll lie awake and keep your wife awake by vour tossing. spoil your temper aud your breakfast next morning, ana begin to-morrow feeling a dozen times worse than vou do to-day. There are some great trou bles that only time can heal, aud per haps some that never can be helped by the great panacea, work. Try it, you who are afflicted. It is not a patent medicine. It has proved its efficiency since first Adam and Eve left behind them, with weening, their beautiful Eden. It is an efficient remedy. All good physicians in regular standing prescribe illn casesof mental and moral disease. It operates kindly as well, leaving no disagreeable effects, and we assure you that we have taken a large quantity of it with the most beneficial results. It will cure more complaints than any nostrum In materia medica, and comes nearer to being a cure-all than any drug or compound of drugs in the market. Aud it will not sicken you if you do not take it sugar-coated. And now the womeu of Louisiana have come to the front in a demaud for suffrage. Jsew Orleans papers state that one thousand real estate owners and tax-payers have petitioned the Legisla ture to that effect. The petitioners are among the most prominent ladles in the city, who affirm that fully one-balf the real estate or Louisiana Is owned by women. It is understood that the Rep resentatives in Congress will be re quested to advocate the Sixteenth Amendment. We congratulate our Southern sisters for rousing themselves in this matter. We hope for their full co-operation. A pretty young Amerlcauess. whose Christian name is Anna, on receiving a cigar from a young, gentleman who had noc piueK enough to say he wished to marry her, twirled it playfully beneath his nose, and looking archly at him, popped the queslion thus, "Have Anna?" Mrs. Partington remarks that but Aw persons now-a-days suffer from sugges tions oi me Drain. A Journal for the People. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity. Independent in Politics and Reunion. llve to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposing and Exposing the Wron g ol the Masses. Correspondents wrltlngover assumed signa tures must make known their names to the Editor, or no attention will be elven to theii communications. Clemence S. Lozier. Mrs. Doctor Clemence S. Lozier's professional reputation is so well estab lished that it almost seems like labor lost to offer a sketch of her professional life to the readers of Woman's Words. and yet few persons who know her In ner prosperity aud success, dream of the long years of steadv effort, toil and study; the burdens, sorrows, and trials this geutle, loving little lady has en dured and suffered to achieve her pres ent position. Losing her parents in pari v rlilldhnnil she was brought into closer" ship with an older brother, who was a uieuicai siuueui. Jtler atlectionate In terest iu him and his studies, with an inquiring mind, an inborn love of her kind, her peculiar svmDathv for nil suf ferers, led her when a child to con sider questions far beyond her years: 1st. What Is disease? 2d. What is its cause? 3d. What is its relief? 4th. What Is its preventative? And it may also be said she has made these ques tions the foundations of a llfp-tim Study. She received a fiGe education at the .Ladies' Semiuarv. at PIainfild. New Jersey, was married at the age of sixteen, and became the mother of seven sons, only one of whom is now living Dr. A. W. Lozier, who is a practicing physician, a gentleman of culture and genius, aud every way worthy so grand a mother. He is the inventor of the improved health lift, which is attract ing so much attention at the present time, and also has a bright record as a surgeon in the late war. They live happily together. At the age of twenty-seven Mrs. Lo zier was a widow, supporting her fam ily by teaching her husband had been an invalid for years and devoting her iue to goou worns. Sne was superin tendent of a Suuday school, tract dis tributor, an abolitlouist, au advocate of equal rights. Associated with Mrs. Margaret f rior In visiting the noor and abandoued of her sex throughout New York City, and in connection with this work she became one of -the founders of the now-called Home for the Friendless, in this city. Lleven years she was Drincinal of a young ladies' seminary, aud it was here, and to her belongs the credit of the first introduction or the study of chemistry, physiology, and anatomv to ladies. Still continuing her own medical studies, she was reiuseu aumission to several col leges of the old school, but subsequently was. admitted to the Eclectic College, of Syracuse, New York, from which she graduated, and established herself with a rapidly growing practice in New York City. In lSGOshe commenced giving a course of free lectures to women, con tinuing mem ior three years, which cul minated in the establishment of tho New York Medical College for women. This college was chartered by the State iu 1000. uirs. -uozier is us JJean, and professor of diseases of women and children. She gives free lectures here once a week, aud her services are gra tuitous, oesiues donating money very liberally. Her income is over S20.000 a year, aud she has a large charity prac tice, xier uome, ner neart anu her purse are ever open to assist those of her sex who are less fortunate and struggling to obtain a medical education. Having been a pioneer in the nrofession. sh realizes how bitter the prejudice is against women, aud how hard the struggle is made for them; and her boundless sympathy has enfolded and comforted many who bless her name. Being broad and liberal in her views, she is consulted by all schools of medi cine, and highly esteemed by some of our best physicians. Sho owns and lives iu an elegant brown-stona house. 238 West Fourteenth street, New York, wiiu uer son, ana uer home gives evi dence of a busy, studious life. Books aud periodicals lie scattered over the tables, piano, and on the sofas: nictures adorn the walls; statuettes, wax flowers and natural flowers, aud articles of virtu are plentiful, and many, many things tell you how this sweet little woman has patronized her sister work ers, and bear testimony to the hosts of friends who bavegratefully remembered her with their little tokens. Calling to see her a few days ago, I found in her parlors eight patients waiting their turn tor treatment; aud in conversation with. one of her students, I learned that she naa otten seen her work all day among her patients, scarcely taking time to eat. her dinuer, aud at night giving awav all she had earned through the day. Mrs. Lozier is small in stature, with a. delicate, handsome face. She is strong; and great in good works, geutle, refined In all womanly qualities. Intellectual cultured aud good. The man who dhovels snow from before her door, or delves In her garbage barrel for rags, aituougn a loreigner, ana unable to read aud write his own name, is allowed to vote, and help to make laws to gov ern her, to regulate her tax paying, while she is not allowed a vote, or a voice in the matter. Is "taxation with out representation tyranny" or not? No wonder Mrs. Dr. C. S. Lozier Is the honored president of the New York Woman butlrage boclety. Helen M. Cooke, in Woman's Words. Why Pbinteks Die Young. A writer fully accounts for the reason why printers die young, and why they are continually tramping from place to place in search or peace anu quietude. tie says that working for forty editors andscoresof authors, every one of whom is as sensitive as a sore thumb, and as lively and interesting as a hornet, no wonder the printersdie young, and only pachydermatous, grizzly, mulish speci mens get their share of life. The writer wishes that he could otter himself as an awful example of the perils which en viron the man who meddles with cold tvne. A thoroughly-trained printer should have a step-mother, and then a step-father, and then have been bound out to a tanuer, and then have married a scolding wife and lived in a smoky bouse, and have had a family of babies who were afflicted with.the'colic. He should have added to all this discipline a thorough knowledge of science and law, languages, theology, history, and biography. If, in addition, he has a vicious-looking countenance and an amiable disnosition. he may stand some chance with these authors aud editors; but the probabilities are, arter all, that they will worry him to death. This picture will have a very depressing ef fect upon ambitious boys who are anx ious to learn the "art preservative of arts." The picture, however, is a toler ably correot one. Elmira Advertiser, A colored postmaster is now called a, black-mailer."