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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1877)
-" IHi s. J. niwil. ur as frsretis- jrriCE V r"T Wuaianu triun " TCIUia. IN ADVAWC! 4 Or year... ..fraa.. MM , auxtiu.. Tirss months. .1 Al)VERTI8EMKNTInsrWoa Raaeouabl fsriaa. MARTHA MARBLEHEAD: TM Maul eat Matrsa af techalea. Z , By MM.A.J(iCMWATV. ' v- SCTBOS or "JCDITH SKID." "BLLBS noVD,1 . 'mB A "riiJrrT .', "K1MI MOBBiaoB-, . T " . ETC., BTC., BTC. ' ;- ,:,iT Entered, according la Art of Coagrsaa.la th year ivn.by Mrs. A. J. Uonlway, la ths sillcs ol Iks Ubrarlea of Congress si Washington City. i . CHAPTER XVII. I Tlrua had rolled bis chariot wheel along ao rapidly,-and man, feverish wttb tha ambition of official desire, had struggled ao hard lo keep pae with tha ruthless monarch, that Oregon, with a population of lea than sixty tbousa. wai admitted Into tbe Union aaarState. Then came an opportonltyfor political prsfsrmsnt bltbsrto uptrbown. -Xlua Marblehedr-ljsd acquitted him aair vallantlvrbth lata Legislature, to wb!eb boad been elected byaetrlct psrjyvote; for It was war time now, sod tba part llnea were elosely drawn that everybody must be known aa ho long log either to tba alda of Uolon or rebellion. ' Oua was conscientiously ds veted to tha eaaae of freedom. Though hie father had always been a Democrat of tha Iron Jacket order, bla mother had been an Inborn Whig; and I have often noticed that boob naturally Inherit the political aa well aa otber Intellectual antecedent bf tbair. mother. Bbow ma a mother, present or prospective, ten year old, or fifty, and I can tell you of tha mental caliber of the anna aba may or baa reared under good eonditlona. . I recollect a lecturer who waa one time descanting upon the deleterious effect of tobacco upon the human eya tem. He claimed that us of tba weed shortened thedaysojUlfJCl r upon a man saog out In the crowd : "My father used tobacco all bla life, and be lived to bo eighty year old." Tba lecturer paueed and gaud ateadily - at tbla "soar f bis father," while bis eye twinkled with merriment, aod tba house looked oa In curious slleoee. Used tobacco all bla life, be eighty, did bet" . - .j'Vee." , 1' ""'ell, who knows but If he'd let to bseeo alooe he'd have lived forever V Tba question, the laugh that followed, - and Implied logic of that. rplyiroade aa Impression on my youthful mind that luckily cornea la here by analogy, . . and causes ma to reason aa follow: Many Intelligent mother bear clever . aooa under the moat unfavorable eoudl - dlttona possible; but wbo knows, If ft had not been for the eonditlona,' but they might have all been Tltanjojo-, ' monitor Shakeepeares ? ' v ; Oua Marblehead'a mother would have developed Into a noble, strong-willed, capable woman bad ab not been over shadowed by ber husband, the Major, - who bad been known through aTl the , .year of their marriage aa the hardest headed man la Gslestowti, ami who, 1 now that tb old wife waa dead and be , waa on with the new one In a far country, waa as craven-hearted aa he had once been fllnty-souled. But Gue mother did not fail lo Impress her son -t wthv the smothered flres-nf her own 7 peut Intellect. And Ous, now that bla awkward boyhood waa wlr outgrown, - stood forth la tbo young State whither hlsfortuoe led him, aa a rising states. ' -- roan and orator, of w hom hla constitu ents were justly proud. During tha cauvase prior to hla elec tion to the Legislature, he bad dumb founded bis adversary, a phlegmstlc po llllcal aspirant of the old school, and hsd rendered bis election certain by hla addiesa and eloquence. But now tbe Htate Constitution called for a govern ment that was not to be longer under the special patronage of tb general government la Ita local affairs, and op ' porta nlty waa not " wanting for " tbe young man to aspire to, aud possibly preach,- a much more, eialted aod re- munerativ position. At th first general convention ealled by bis party for tb purpose of making up a political atate, tba young man re ceived a two-thirds majority of all tb votes east for the highest office, and was declared th onanlmoua nominee. Wby any nomination I thus declared "unanimous," when a minority was known to exist as long aa there was hope of Increasing It to a majority,'! am sur I do not know, but It' th way of polities, and women are not supposed to knew what they cannot know, you know. AVhsa (Jus returned from th coo Tea tion he waa no longer known aa Oua, but "Colon.!" Marblehead. It la aald ther are forty thousand colonels la Ocorgla, How they got tb tltl eeema ,Q b ,.".?bod' boalnesa, but thejWear H gracefully. And tba Aamriaay b aid of hundreds of men la Oregon, though tbe titles ar more varied bare than U the South. . Oae I waaoa tb tre?Coh my way "I amoe, early enough lo tha morn ing to aaeounter a nambsr of gentle- way . but the, aoeoeted each other thus: ,J , '?.,0,' "'T" "teood- ; Colonel Marblehead ha.! Wagly m.t.r, during tb year, of VOLITME'VII. public llf through which bo bad lately paaaad. In fact, public llf la a great potlaher. It burolshee Intellect and an demtandlng, and Is never ao trying upon the eoostltullbn as to cause anybody who neels money, or asplrss to promo tion, tojrolunlarily rellnqolab It for the boe-bandl or wash-tub. There Is rea son for this, too. Tbe poorest orator or statesman geoe rally fares better tbao tb ricbeat agriculturist or laundry man, and I aee no reason wby the rule might not apply to women aa wall. O reader, do yeu ? If you oUset be cause ' women should bemotbera, 1 answer, so sbould raefslathers. But neither aei ahouULaa to tha position of family rejifMVDslbllUy uolesa able to hiok oulofthe society and governmeut undefwbich their children are to live nd grow, and In which they must cer- taluly participate. It la tba fashion to decry. politicians. I demur. The man orwomaowho la not a conscientious. ntelllgeot politician in a country where tb people arc said 16 rule, has no busi ness with offspring. -- It waa Sunday In Cbebalem, and everybody went lo church, eoosplcuoua among the throng being Tbomaa Jones, bla legal wif and tba other woman. each dressed In tb latest agony, and all tbo eynosur of avsr eye. In her father's pew sat Mattle Brown, ber face aglow with honest Indignation. Llk everybody else, she plainly saw tbe humiliation of Mrs. Jonea, wbleh tha poor woman waa ao proudly, though vainly, attempting to conceal. "Poor Una," thought the girl; for no matter how much the world might "Colonel" him, he abould always 4e plain "Ous" to her; "poor Oue; now he ITaofromldsnt, and lias so many public cares. It Is such a pity that h sbould sndure Indignity 11 ks this. I hope he won't come to church, and yet I can't fiajrwlojshjy her I can look at him. I do wonder If I'm wicked In loving him so!" Colonel Marblehead advanced vJown th aisle with a measured tread. Ha knew alt eyes were upon him; but the pride with which h might else hav born tb gaplnga of the multitude, whom knew iai by Dame,- and moat of whom eould remember, him aaa seedy boy. In tb ,MaJor'a cast-off clothing; tb conscious and pardonabl prids with which be might also bav greeted: tbsm all'ebsnged to humllla-' tion that was next to death a b saw and felt tba oplnloq of ibe entire com muulty concerning bla brotber-ln-law and the' atrange woman, of whose real! character hla alster seemed so sublimely n ooonsclous, .- 1 H - Will men never learn lb depth of aabtlety with whlob women cover the; evl'leucesot their mental aufferlag and subjugation front the eyes of the world In order that tbey may deceive the pub lic about the acta orfe,trelee "of tbelr husbands, which, if believed and known,,; as they believe and know them, would cause the, whole eoniinuuity to commis erate tbvlr condition aa wives, bound,, by virtu of their relationship, to sutler a share of I ho. Ignominy which the guilty only deserve T 11 a woman step aald from th path of rectitude, aod straightway will ber husband, her legal I and financial, though by no means responsible- head, spread -tile-grievance upon th docket of tbe district courts,, that all the world may know of hla wife's .aham and bla .own wounded honor. Or, falling In this, publrtropln Ion will Justify him, and the law will acquit him, for shooting bis wife's be trayer dead. Let a man step aside, un der leesor greater aggravating eondl tlone, and tbe wfjrJlleJgfejLejieJf before th world as a root ana oiinu, rather than expose tb father of Ijer children to lb Ignomy.of hla own mis conduct. A glsam of recognition from Mettle's eye waa anawered Intelligently by a silent response from Ous. Tb song ro gation with difficulty rest raided a mur mur of admiration, and tb young maa leaned back In bis seat and gave what seemed undivided need to the sermon, a tedious dissertation upon tb datleeof public o (fleers. But b only seemed to listen. Near him sat hi gentle Mettle, with ber cheeks aglow with mingled happloese and humiliation, .that only reflected bis own turbulent and outraged feelings. 7 What'a tha use of preaching homllle to any one In lovT Tbey may be as brim full of common sense prior t th attack as any blockhead or firty wbJ ba outlived tb memory of any such a visitation In hi own rase, but let tb disease gel bold of blnvwbelber It be th. measles, wbooptng-coogh, or scar let In a pbaeealid good-bye to reason and judgment. Everybody know this to true, and yet vrybody trie tb fruitless experiment of preaching, In public and private, for th benefit of th victim, la whom be fsacle himself interested. , Colonel Marblehead lk4 hopelessly at Mattl one more, a ad agala at bla alster; and then, not daring to glaoc again la tb direction of bis brtbr-la-law and th atrange woman, be walked hurriedly ut of tb church at tb elos of th srrvtc aod sulked rapidly away. "Colonel Marblehead fats 00 airs," said Mr. Brown, t Mattle, wbo waa dumb with dlaappolnlmut and grief. 8b bad ao "lotted" tipoo th distinc tion of shaking hand with bint before tb erowd, In tb boar of bia ! Irt poitxr-AND. oiieoox, fiiiday," octoiieu i, inrr. ' ' " BBB,ttTaa-BBBBBBWi umpb and her own Imaginary ooe. To bo nominated by any dominant party at thatdate was equl valent to an election, ' "Cua won't care about you any more, rdaafcbler," continued her mother, Inju dlclousty. 1 Via the new and popular Hie to which hla high posltloarfll call blm he'll cbooso com etareiy carina ior a mat rather tbso-fuy modest rosebud." Colonel Marblehead was well on his homewsfd wsy beforebe tbougbt serl nuefy of havlug alighted Mattle. In deed, he was too full of mortified Indig nation to think coherently of anything. After a while loud laughter, shrill ajid sllfsry, greeted tils senses, la which a constrained echo, very muclt like a cackle, vainly tried to mingle. It was tha voice. of hie alster, mingling In dis cordant falsetto with th louder merri ment of the siren. . Tb trio, Tbomaa, his wife, and the woman, bad takeu a by-path across lots, aod were coming straight to meet him. Ilewas freoiled."t'omlog up with them, and sosreely knowing what be did1, the Indignant brother felled tb husband of his 'sister to tbo grouoJr where h lay aa oua atone dd. . "Mercy I" screamed the siren. T " "You bav killed him!" cried Mar tha, 1n terror. - 'Glad of It I" was lbs excited reply. : 40, Gua you must fly t " ly for your lfe," said his sister. "Indeed I'll do nothing of tb kind. I did not mean' to kill the skunk, and bop I haven't; but If he never kick again I've don my duty." .'Good riddance to bad rubbish," aald lh siren, socio voce. "Tha fellow had no money worth considering. Tbe property's alFTafiTs wife's name, and tbo spooney bad- no m"nr irnettiarrtoJ fancy ! eared for hm, money or no money. IIow he does quiver." I have told you Mr. Jones nee Mar- I "u" tiqns were estranged from ber. Wby sb did I do not know. " It is on of tba anomalies of th malady In all ita phases, that you never know Just what, sort of Idiosyncrasies Ita vlctlma are to be possessed of. Tbe efforts of tbe wile to restore her recreant lord were fairly frantic Bbelaod I have been aUodisg u poo tbe car ordered ber brother to run to tb house for stimulants, but hs would Oet-frbeyrtioos "I didn't mean to kill blm, Bis; but if I did It accidentally I'm' glad of it," be repetedr-flrioly. - - ---- - -. - ; - "But what will become of jow. Ops? And what of Martha? Do you think she'd notice a murderer t" To this moment the. idea of. tbo legal eonsequeocee of Iris act had not crossed bis braiut.ja. th excitements "True! I forgot," be m uttered. "Guess I'd better see IfJ can getlh7ilogl breathing, though- I'd ratlfrueearlsMhroiigh --whlch- be: passed, and rloo.1 - Suiting th action to tha word, ha be gan chafing tb victim' temples, and by various means Inflated hla lung, which- be had spent by the blow, until algoa of life began to appear. - "There t Bia," be exclaimed, aa soon aa th fellow' breath returned, "I doo't want to wait till he's conscious, or I'ti knock blm down again." With this h turned away, down a faoe leading In tha direction nf the par son's home, where Mattle,' brooding over thecrueT words of Tier" mo'ther7 felt so certain that he would no longer care for her, wa hiding' away In her cham ber, a prey to her own bitter thoughts. Tb parson met and congratulated him, and the good wife waa all gracious nese and smiles. "Where's Mattle?" It "was aa much, a b could do to tr i.. si.. fused was he,' and so anxious. - r- "She retlret to her room, and begged to excused if Colonel Marblehead shnpld call," said Mrs. Brown. - Poor Oust' What war political hon or and emoluments to blm without Mattle? And why had she tbas alighted him ? Piiy he did not then demand the reason. ' But his loterrogatorles were menial ones, and he supplied his own answer. "Howeonld I hav been so blind as not to know that Mattl Brown would never bestow another thought upon the brother-in-law of Tbomaa Jones?" his sollloaar. as li buns bis "head In abasement and abrupt lyhVft th house, while Mattle, wither aching temples bound In ajpsfnapkln, fairly cursed the unlucky' stars that had crowned ber bejoesd with honor such as mak men train glorious, and fill them with the loftiest aspirations, while women, un less already married to tbem.'ar ex- eluded from like opportunities, and, evea If married, can receive n Individ ual distinction except and through re flected glory. , IS wonder Mattl Brow u, modest, sensitive plant that ah was, sbrsbk from tb possibility or Ulng Jilted by Colonel Marblehead. While be was an awkward. Ill-dressed boy. ahs bad felt herself bla equal, and, t com extent bl patron. Now lb condition were changed. "But hb shall never have it to say that be Jilted me," aba thought; "oot If I die for It." . A mar, thoroughly wretched maa thaa Ou. never eutered a wretched horn than as b returned from bis fruitless effort t bia affianced. He avoided meeting any member of lb family, and when morning earn bia de termination waa fully mad to go to " Fsss Brsaca, rasa Pbbsb, r rWrii. Portland aod embark for Africa. Wby babad chosen Africa be did not kjwiw nbr care, but he packed ma troua wnen daylight aBmeandwa on Jjrvjf balling tb stags-coach that regularly passed tbe faruvfcoiire at aa early hour, before the family was astir, when a qui etus wss suddenly put opon bis Inten tlona by a writ from th handa of the sheriff for assault and battery upon tbe person pt Thomas Jonee, "whom he bad Inhumanly attacked while the gentle man was quietly rsturning from church. In company of bis wife sod ejisdy friend." To be eontlnaed.f 0LIUFSE3 OF B0UTHEE5 TE17IL. Wa have lelt our lovely, mountainous country, only catching glimpses of it la th distance, aud ar riding over flat, desolate fields, with scarcely a tree vis ible, 'and no fences, showing still the devaatellon. of the war, for ws are on historic ground. A solitary chimney alooe rem si os of what was one a borne, and nothing but barrenness Is seen. We are passing Culpsppsr, aud tbe little cemetery, with rows and rowa of little wooden boards to mark tb resting-place of "our dad." Ilea 00 tba hill side at our right. It looks neatly kept, abowing their deeds are wot forgotten For mites and mires we are still look ing and riding ovsr ground where bat tle after battle waa fought; 00 wonder tbe fearful ravages then mad ar atill so plainly Visible; ao wonder that aa far as the eye can reach nothing but desolation and waste are seen. The IUppabaunock, but a Tittle stream, yet so noted for the fearful fighting upon Its banks, we have fust crossed, and still tbe desolation continues. .Nothing 1 have ever read 'has given me so tru an Idea of what th war was to the South as baa this barren land, one thickly covered with nobl tree and gone, "without a trace" left behind of what was one their resting-place. W haVs Just passed a field where M-----1 for three days' was encamped. and, though it waa-ia March, be aald tbey had oue of tb moat bitter snow storms, aod, being totally unprepared for It, their sufferings were Intense. He platform looking at the few fortifies atill remaining around in a mass, am!, aloe oomiag la, w have bee riding beside "Bull Run," rather narrow stream runulpg tbrongb adeep ravine, covered with pin tree, and, aa It was nsaring sundown. It made It seem sad and ' gioomy-esd, indeed, when you thought of the lives ao fear fully sacrificed there. M ' has tsken such Interest In this afternoon' ride, for It has recalled ao Vividly to him the sorrows aod suffer- pleasant remembrances, too, or com rades gathered around the tamp-fires, whsn, for a season, the battle was stilled. We are at Alexandria, and bav seen ths "soldiers' rest," where fourteeu or fifteen thousand poor fellows are buried, mostly . those-who, after days,, weeks, and perhaps months of suffering, passed from "death unto life," In the many hospitals around here. They are lighting the lamps, warning me of the departure of daylight, but. not that nlghtUa preparing wlta-"br dark mantle" to cover tbe earth, for tbe moon Is Just making ber appearance, looking ao large, and by no meana ao beautiful as wheri I bade her good-night yeater day e'en, but she, too, adds her warn ing, so I fold up my Jeiter with a bless ing to all. . 8eniibl. I'nder th head of "Chang of Work" we find the following In an exchange. "Straws shew which way the wind blows," but not mors surely than these Ideas set. afloat ber and there, often when one lessj sxpeefs 'to Ses them, show the constant drift of enlightened public opinion to be towerd independ ent, helpful women: That waa a wise father who. on hesr- Ing his little daughter request her brother to drive a few nails In tbe wouil house foC her, aald he wouldneaeb ber how-to dolt herself. Hbe waa apt and rove all the nelle successfully; her suc cess so pleased her that aha would hav aet a double row around the ebed If her father had not concluded tbst these would answer for tbe present. "Tbere, Ihst little lesson helps to mak you in dependent, my girl," be said. "Now, I will teach you to catch and harness up a horse. . You hav already learned to drive a gentl one. licarn to sharpeo your kaife and whittle, too Do not allow tb doors to nreek for wast of an oiled feather, or the little children's boots 'ret herd, la tb winter. fof-tb Want of a little grease." Tske a lesson from this, girls. You don't know where you will be cast away some Urn during your llf. Th moat helpless people I have ever met sre those who can only do on kind of work. Lsara to help yourselves, even if sometimes you treocb upon "boy's work." .. Th number of women studying med 11 ue In BiHMla during a fe.w years past baa bee l; of these, 71 were Jews, It Polish Protests ota, and th rest all be lenged to tb Orthodox Greek Church. They came from all part of th empire, and with very few exception were be tween twenty and tweoty-flv years old. There ar now seventy-eight mar ried womea pursuing this study. A erwaty old fallow one Baked," What la tha reason that grlfflos, dragons, and devils are ladies' favorite subject for embroidered deslgnsT' - MAh, beeaus they ar jrrmtlnnally thinking of tbelr besbaads," era tb lady' quick retort. . - I ti ooa Dead ? It aeema aa certain aa any mattsr not admitting-of actual demonstration can p that the moon Is, to all InUuls and purposes, dead. Ilsr frame la, Indeed, still undergoing processes of mslsrial ohaoge, but these a Hard no mors evi dence of real planetary life titan th changee affecting a dead body are signs or ami nageriug vitality. Again, 11 'seems ear tain that tbe processes through which tbe moon lisAmssed In ber pro ress toward planetary death must "be passed 4 h rough In turu by all the mem bars of tbe aolar system, and dually by tb aun himself. JKvery on or in orb I constantly radiating Ita beat Into pace. not. Indeed, to be actually tost. but still In such sort as to reduce all to Ibe earn dead level of temperature, whereas vitality depend on shtfereocee or temperature, fevery- orb in space, tbeo.is tending steadily ouward toward cos ru leal death. And, so far a our power of understanding or even of conceiving tbe universe Is concerned, it seems aa though this teodsoey of every Individual body In tbe universe toward death Involved the tendency toward death of the universe Itself. It may, indeed, be said that since the universe Is of necessity luflulle, whereas we are finite, we cannot reason lo-thls way from what we can understand or con ceive, to conclusions respecting the uni verse wnicn we cannot even conceive, far less understand. Still It must be admitted that, so far aa our reasoning powers can be relied upon at all, the inference from what we know appears a Just ooe, tbat the life of the uul verse win nave practically departed when tha largest and tnerelore longest-lived or all the orbe peopling space has passed on to the etage of eosnilral death. no far aa- ws know, tbere is but one war of ssosDC from this sesmlnslv dem onstrated, hut lo reality I ucredibfe, con clusion, Msy It not nw thst as men have erred In former times In regarding tbe earth aa tb center of the universe. aa they bave erred In regarding this period of time Utrougb which the earth ta in all time, ao possibly that they may have erred In regarding tb universe we live lo, and can alooe comprehend, a though It were the only universe? Msy there not be a higher order of. universe uch relation aa the either of space bears to the matter or our uul vers 7 And may ther not, above that higher order, be higher aud higher orders nf universe absolutely, without limit? And In like manner, may oot tbe either or space, or which we know only indirectly though very certainly, be tbe material ub static of a universe next below ours, while below that are lower and lower orders of universe, absolutely without limit? And a7. the aeemlnclv wasted etherglee of our universe ar poured Into toe universe, next below ours,, may it oot b, well that our Universe receives the 'Supplies of enersy wasted (in seem ing) from the universe nsxt In ordsr above It? So that, ioatead of the abso lute beginning aod- tbe absolute end which w bad seemed to reeovnise. tbere may be In reality but a continual Intereliauae between tb various orders of universe constituting tbe true uni verse, these orders being Infinite In number, even aa each ooe of them Is In finite In extent. V find ourselves lost, no doubt. -la the contemplation of these multiplied. infinities: out we are equally lost In the contemplation of the unquestioned ta nnines oi space anu.rrrae amidst wnicn our little li ves are east, while th rays- is ry or innnite waste, winch aeema so inscrutabl when we consider ths uni verse as w know it, finds a possltfle In terpretation when we admit the exist ence of other orders nf universe tbao th ortler-to-which our live belong. Thus should we find a new argument for tb teaching of th poet wbo said : " let k nnwledr im from more to mors, . Bui snors-trf rsvereses In us dwell; . That mind and sou I, aennrdme wsll, May make una music as Scfuni, B.t vaster;" - A new significance In th vUion of blm who said 1 ' 7 Hoe all talnss with earta other ble'sdln', Karh to all its belnc l"ndln, All on each In turn d-pentlliif i-C - Meaveirly mlnlaMrs dvarsudias', - And asaln Ut hravsn aptemlitis, -- KloailiK, mln(llli(, lniTvlus, Klslns, sinking and riHrln , Kaon from ni'b, while sali Is slvlng lo earn, and sacli relladiis ' K.arh the palUofaold; the liin t'uriwnt tbmash the air Is heavlns; ' . Rreatlilns blesslns a- them bendins, Itnlaure wonls lni,i rhsnee di-fendtiMr. ueie diniiMU Is lisniiimf nil'. ending.' ICornbJH JiasasXas. . itfacfS-ii Thb DirrxiterfE.fome suppose Ibat every learned man la aa aducated man. Nuch thing. That man la ed ucated wbo knows himself, aud takes accurate common-sense views of men aod things around him. Som vsry learned men ars the greatest fools lu the world; tb reason is, tbey ar not educated men. Learning I only tb means, not the end; Its value consists la giving the msana af acquiring, the use of which, properly managed, n lighten tb mind. - To overdress eehonl-glrle la. In every respect, reprehensible, Nooe but-tlbe wealthy eaa wear expensive atllr without exercising sora ear for lu preservstlon. T do this takes their thoughts from, their studies. Interferes with tbsir enjoyment of j!ay, and In vol vea anxiety, - 7 Wbea people dwell with emphasis upon tbe necessity of educating women to be mothers, and of educating them for very little else. It sometime, occurs toostoask wby so- frtttrt aaTsTkbout educating men to be fathers. Julia Ward Josre. ' . ' ThTmplf Ypssmbol, la Nobis, Is ut out af a ootid ruck, aad ia of vast dt mansions. In It were found four aoloe eal figure t!ty-flv feet high, twenty flv feet across tb shoulders, tb face vn;4t, and the car about a yard. A, dlstlagulshed Japan traveler la tbl ouolry write bomt "Tb chief branch of education of youug men her I rowing. To people have large boat bouse called 'colleges,' and th princi pal of the ar Yal aad Harvard." Tweed'e daughter, who married Ma gtanle In 170, and who wedding pres eau eost f M.OUO, la now living In abso lute poverty, lb bridal present and Onery having all goo to lbs pawn-bops. Maesachusetla, with aa area of lee than two-fifth af Orant eoanty, Ore gon, baa 1,644 pabll llbrarlsa, eootala- log Z,0l0,au voia IVTJMIllCIt 41. Tact About Colorado. W'e goole th following from ' a letter from Colorado written bjTLuey Stboe: 'But tbsrs ti another class or settlers In tbe eoutb of Colorado wbuae customs, habits aud belongings ars as far re moved from ths civilization of this age as though centuries In time and half lb glob In distance separated them from Ih press ut. These are the Mexi cans. They ars mostly farmers. I bey live together In little vlllsges. Ths houses are made of dried clay' ealled "adobe," They ar not more than seven or eight feel high, lve only one room wuen nrsi kuiii. nut room arter room is added aa one daughter after another marries aud lakes possession of the added room. There le never a door from ooe room to another. Tbere are uo board Boors. Tbe family livee on the ground. . Ther ar no table or chair. Tbey Bit on their heels nn sheep skins, aud eat all from on dish, which i put in the 'middle of the floor, lliey sleep ou the ground with blankets, which are rolled up and Isld'sgslnst ths walls of the mom during the day, aud are of fered aa seals to straugers who call. Tbe women go always with loug shawls ever tbelr-Jteed. -They never ent ontlt all the male members or tne family have eaten. They whitewash the In side of theirMiouses, spreading It on lib their hands, or sometimes with sheepskin. They are all Catholics. They bave no free srhools. Not one in ten can -read. They nave no iiiows, but atlr tbe grnuod with a crooked stick In stead. When tbey thresh their grsin, they lay It la a large circle and turn on to it a flock of goata or horses. I have seen them us both. Then two or three men drive the animals round and round aod round till ths wbeat Is trodden nut. Then the strsw Is thrown up with a broom, fork, or stick, and the chart Ja tbua blown away. After this, the wom en wash ths wheat , which Is to he for family use. That which tbey sell goes Itbout washing.- in the presence of the threshing machines this method of K. . I . Ilk. ... Without educstlon. Intellectusl tastes. or resources,' they lead a dull life. The men cart wool and eklns a thousand mile to markst with oxen.' There Is one- driver forthe day-and another fo tne nigut-time: also oxen wuicu waia by the earta la the day, and draw by night, alxty miles being made every twenty-four hours. . lu this primitive ay they go on, year after year,. and tbe eight of tb locomotive and the rapid transit never suggests to an aver age Mexican that a rsilroad would be better for blm tban an ox-cart. - In the towns are well-educated Mexicans, with good houses, magnificent dresses, and all the, appliances) that wealth glvea. But t be great class of Msx leans li ve, in low-walled adobe houses, built nesr soms stream of water, destitute of com fort, convenience, or privacy -They are Ignorant to th last. dgjrCt but every Mexican. man has a vote. . . Tb post offlce official lnthis city do not regard poet si card with: favor. Postmaster James expressed the opinion Ihwolher day thst they were emphatic ally a nuisance, and one of the subordi oat officials asserted that poet al cards eauaed a ialllng oil In th sals of stsmps of $1,000 a day. Th daily sales of cards, hs said, would amount to oO.DOO no an arg7 titt anrae dav ar inaVy aa 100,000 had been sold. There wss a gradual. increase In Ih sals of cards, and tbla had been lh can sines they were first Introduced. Oilier causes be- sld lb demand for postal rants had af fected l lie eale or stsmps, the dully Tail ing off In which amounted to about (2.000. The cause were tbe hard limes aud the sale of si amps by country post- masters, wnicn iiai recently been ex posed. Postal-cards In Ibis country eould not fail to be a loss to tbe govern ment, beeaus they were csrrled so far at a trifling oust. In Knglsnd they had met with mors success on account of the limited territory over which tbey had to b distributed. AT. Y, Trilmnr. An exchange say: Can you prove that It Is right for a man who has got possession of a large amount nf wealth lo buy houses'and let them for reut and lay idle for the rest of his life! As soon a hs doee so, he Is compelling others to or lor him, while he Is consuming; the products of their labor. Is hs not. thsn, compelling others to labor for hla IL m.ral lscaoa. l.a l.nl.l. ih.l .rn7...n, of wealth? And I contend that the principle le wrong, whether th rent be high or low. This I partly theeattse nf xtrem wealth on the one baud, and extreme poverty on the other. A soon money is invested with a view to gala, It becomes Social wealth, aud then must be pieced under collective control. eo as all ittay bave the good of It. "The collective will I th democratic will." Mrs. General Rherman, we ar told, hs started a crusade against "round dancing," and beginning the reform at horn, doe not allow ber daughters to participate lu It. She baa assumed aa aggrosslvs attitude, and says: "Tbe ad vocate of tbla dam hav bad their own way long enoughabsorbing all entertainments sneering upon and rid iculing Itioa who quietly decline to par ticipate. Tbey bav tieen ridiculing and scorning aod allchtln ever mnd. est and Obedient itrt who failed to oar-) 111 pat with them for ths many. years." Th dictum of HL Paul to "l-el vnbr women keep sllentL coming .irom-ai man who probably deemed himself Kir urscie, naa i Ha fore, savs with tboa women who alienee - la the greater wisdom. Any young girl of fair shi 1 1 lie and natural aptitude for a pre fs slou a aludy. literaturev medicine, or law, or any branch of sctencs, wltb ao mora to bar ber progress to success than boy ars called to snsoontsr. All thank to" our brsvs pioneers, to h worn aad mea wbo bav led th way! -A-c , . - Aa Illinois clergyman la reported I haveeald, at tbe laying of th corner st o of a new meet leg-house.:. "If bey a aad glrtedo tbelr aparklng In cherchea, I aay amen to It. I bav a daughter whom I berleh aa tb appi of my eye. When ah la of sultsbls sge, I would ratbr sh should be courted la the bouse of God than la a theater." Aa old lady la th northwester aec tion of the city aay shs would regard a baby ahow at tb Marylaad Intltut,or any br iss In BalUmors, aa a orywig A Journal for tbe Tsople. . "Ifefotsdlolhs Interestsof Puttianlly. Isdrpendsnt la Polltlu sndRrl'rlou. lllve to sll Lies Isaaes, and .Tboroughle Radical la Opposing snd Exposing the Wrong ol ths Masses. - Correspondents writing over anuinrd signs lores mail make known thrlr names to (I, ' ' Editor, nr no attention will be given tolhelr ' eommunlimtkins. Sappsstion. "Ws do not allow our women aud children to look at th revelations of crime In tvsrlety theaters, or to reaif I hem in obscene novels; why, there fore, sbould we thrust upon their nolle -exsggeraled -dramatic stories of seduo lion, murder, and suicide lu the daily , papers, simply because they are true?" Enltanye. There are twoauggestinnslntliealxive that deserve rebuke. We do not allow women ts see r.naadcrtaln revelations of crime. To wbst class do we accord this p reel mi privilege? To our boys nd men r Are we sure that they are less easily soiled than their sisters by witnessing the unclean thlag? My . youug sou Is as pure aud virtuous as my young daughter, with whom hs has grown , up lu close Vompanioushtp. Hhall I say lo him, "You msy witness all Boris of human excesses,'' while 1 shield her carefully from the knowledge sven of anything that Is evil ? Each sex hs undoubtedly its limitations,- simply on account of sex. The limitations. ertaining lo women are quite apparent, and pretty generally en forced. But tlie utmost stupidity pri vsils la regsrd to the amonnt of liberty a young man should be permitted nr si- low himself to take. Koclety takes so much mors csre of the virtue of women then of men that I Hunk he for himself needs to le more csreful than she for herself. I would give him this sa a rule to maintain his purity never to partaks in any way of that which would cause a blush on his cheek ware his young sis ter witness. The sexes must rise nr fall together; 'If the oue Is taught to servs the lnl, and the other lo wor ship st the shrine of .Mammon, the prog ress, of the rare must Indeed be slow, If It hs not hallo) altogether. Agalu, are not women to know of "se duction, murder, aod suicide?" Wom en need to know of these sad realities of llf Just as much as men. Koine wom en; whose lives are exposed, need such knowledge for self-protection , other women whose social snrrnuuillngs pro- tlieiu rrortl'iSbe vruast(.evlla of irfe. need this same knowledge to stimulate -their benevolence, and Induce them to co-operate with those who work for the tempted, tbe criminal, and the aflllcted. More light on the. dark places of th iminwtrrwTer wfifri ririof)k iTr Wouldn't t Pleatod. Home time ago there llved In Edin burgh a well-kuowu grumbler uauted -Handy BTsek, whoa often recurring tits of spleen or Indigestion produced soius amusing scenes of aeuseles Irritability, 1 which were highly relished by all ex cept the. brute's good, patient, llttls wife. ; 1n morning Handy rose, bent on a quarrel. The hadiu .and egg were f acettetil, donelo s turii, and lis'l beenprderetl by himself ths previous eVetilngrand breskfast passed without th looged-for. compliment. - ' ' ' -"What will' you - have for dinner, Kandyri said Mrs. Blsck. "A chicken, madam," said ths hus band. "Boasted or broiled?" . "t'ouCuuod It, madam, If you had been a good ami considerate- wife, you would hays known Jiefors this what I liked,!,' Handy growleiout, and slam ming the diHtr behind him, left-the hoosci - It .was in the spring, and a frietjd who wai present heard th lltthr - wife aay: 'Handy' bent on a disturbance to dayf I shall not please blm; do What I can." . , The linmr-time eam anil Handy -: and his friend sst down to dinner. Th fish were eaten In sljense, and on rais ing the cover of the dish Iw fore him, In - ' a towertng-emwaton he calftdut: "Itolletl dhlcken f I hkte It, oisdani A chicken boiled is a chicken spoXd." - Immedlstely the enter wss rsls from another chicken, rossted to a turn. "Madam, -..won't eat roast chicken," roared Handy; "you know how It abould have been rooked !" At that Instant a broiled clilekeur with muahmona, waa placed nn the table: "Without green pea?" roared the grumbler. , "Her they are, my dear," aald Mrs. Black. "IIow dars you spend my mouey In that way?" "They were a present," said the wife, Interrupting him. froinTiotii77TI7rwedTiy a roar Ol '"'n4'r r:am h1. fr,""U' hs clluchetl bis flat and shouted: "How dare you receive a present with out my leave?" " The home of. Tbomaa Jeflerson at Mnutleello Is falling to decay from lack of care. It Is surrounded by a grove of ancient rs, and th view of the Itlue Kidge peak's, and of the surrounding country, as seen from the doorway of the-house, la very flue. The estate was one owned by Captain Ievy, of the I'nlted Htate Nsvy, and by his will left lo tha government, with an endowment fund for an agricultural school. It waa claimed for soms reason that the will waa void. The case got Into the courts, and a .writ, opartrtton waa granted to the heirs. The eatsts passed Into the hands of commissioners, aud la atill un divided. Ths old grave-yard Is nearby, and a common stone marks the resting- place -of lit author of the Declaration ot eiiepenoeuee; nut 01 me inscription an that can be Clesrly seeu Is, "llorn April 2, 1713, O. 8.; dle.1 July 4, IKM." Iisra ll's epl y 1 srnnisrtc Trmarlr1n"' LtAhnir, "You know who the critic ars the men who have failed lu litera ture and art," may have been an uncon scious plagiarism from lAndor's imagi nary Com vermilion, la tb dislogus be tween Hautboy and Person, the latter says, 'Those whohave failed as painter become pleture-sleaners ( thos wbo bav failed as writers become review ers." tpm Th every-dsy care and duties which men call drudgery ar lh weight and ouBlerpolae of lb clock of'ttm, glv- -log Ita pendulum a true vibration, and Ita hand a regular motion, and wbea tbey cease to bang upon th wheels, the peudulem .no longer swings, the hand no longer move, and tb clock stands, all II. LongtUowt ...... - -.' - . This I tb way th Chicago Tlmrt put It: "Admiral Hem me la dead. II wa a kind besbeud, aa Indulgent permit, atfd au eetlmabl pirate." : . Whea I a tired man Wbti b aeed a-resting, Ilk m tblef? v J '--.X -