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CHAPTER XXIV.
I am well aware that I have reader!
who will call this picture overdrawn.
It is Terr difficult for those who have
bees so fortunate as never to have been
associated, even temporarily, with the
discomforts of a drunkard's borne to
realise tbe privations, crosses, and gen
eral disappointments of a drunkard's
family. Still harder must it be for them
to imagine the terror, drudgery, aud
destitution constantly endured by tbe
drunkard's wife, who, being continually
under tbe sway of a despotism that can
nowhere else be so thorough and com
plete as in l lie relation tuat binds a
helpless woman to the lneaue exaotions
of a husband whose every human faculty
bas been diseased by dissipation, must
constantly endure tbe consequences.
But I also know, and am sad indeed to
know it, that there are many, heaven
pity them and me, who realize to the
bitterest extent the facte that I am here
relating. If my case were only an iso
lated one, its sorrows being over now,
except In my memory, It would not be
worth my while to trouble the public
with tbe history; bat I see that tbe seeds
of tbe curse tbat eansed my poor bus
band's disease and ruin are still being
sown broadcast all over tbe land.
Scarcely a family of my acquaintance
but possesses its "black sheep," or way
ward son, whose blood Is liable to the
infection of drunkenness. And forevery
inebriate's wife there Is a destiny as ter
rible as mine, a fate tbat. If not parallel
to it in many, or even most, things, is
at beat so terrible tbat when they read
this story of my lot tbey will see many
things with which their own experience
shall so nearly tally that tbey will won
der now I came to kuow so much about
their lives of shame and sorrow. Then,
too, there are women by dozens, I know
whereof I speak, who are to-day endur
ing tbe very bonds of Iniquity which so
long oppressed me, and are consequently
drinking hourly of (be gall of blttemeee.
To such I need not say that I am not
overdrawing my picture. Alas for them,
they know tbat I eannot paiut the por
trait with sufficient vividness to portray
a tithe of the blackness of great dark
ness through which I have passed, and
which has left the marks of its terrible
scorching so indelibly upon my brow
aud form tbat every movement of fea
ture and physique attest to tbe analyt
ical observer tbat what I assert is true.
Women suiter their share In tbe
world's erucible of affliction, when un
der proper care and kindly treatment
tbey bring forth children in sorrow and
train them up in pain and weariness.
But when added to tbis comes tbe
double burden of physical toll which
alone would overpower tbe strongest
man; and wbeu, in addition to all, comes
tbe tyranny of a druuken despotism
tbat is not so rare as to be deemed ex
ceptional, it is indeed time for them to
cry out, and demand tbat protection
which men claim to be woman's lot,
but which, alas, tbey so often fall to be
stow upon her that thinking, reflect
ing persons of both sexes are now en
gaged in searching, as never before, for
a removal of the cause of her disabili
ties, that tbe effect may thereby b'e, in
time, outgrown.
But to resume my picture. Tbe fag
gots of pitch-laden fir with which I
kindled my fire biased up cheerily. I
was so nearly benumbed with the cold
that I was long in warming, and when
onee my blood was temporarily deprived
ef Its chill, I grew so stupid that I soon
fell asleep beside my little ones. I must
have slept an hour, judging by the
Height of U(e sun, when I awoke aud
started up, in an alarm far more fcevere
and sodden than that I bad felt on that
never-to-be-forgotten day when I bad
found myself adrift with Gerald upon
the bosom of the tidal river tbat bore
u lowara my terrible destiny. My
first impulse was to look for my chil
dren, but tbey were nowhere to be seen.
I was struck dumb with a nameless
dwad. I looked Tor Gerald, but be too
was missing.
What was I to do ? My bones were
troubling me with rheumatic twinges,
and my blood was agUl lh a thorough
chill. But I forgot my penoi agony
ill my apprehension for tbe safety of mv
darlings, and I sallied (ortb in search of
tbem, not knowing wbitber to turn.
Yht.e Speech, Free Pkess, Free People.
VOLUME VII.
POKTIiAND, OKEGOX, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 187S.
NUMBER 44.
foliage or the mighty forest, that grew j
hard against the blackened tree burn,
rose the long, serrated line or tue cas
cade Mountains, guarded by their one
lose monarch, lHry awl majestic
Hood, whose Icy brow tbe rosy morn
was khetog. Could I find my loved
ones sheuld I wander eastward? But
to my mental query came no answering
response.
To the westward ran a broad and level
prairie, beyond that another wood, and
still beyond tbe winding Willamette
River, coursing ever onward toward the
distant sea. Had ray babies wandered
toward the west ? The morning breetes
answered me never a word.
Toward the south lay a clearing, tbe
home of a neighbor, mere than a mile
away, from whose cabin chimney the
morning smoke was laaily curling.
Should I journey southward? My
heart answered, "Yes. Go auy where to
find a human being with whom you
may take counsel."
Every movement of my aching bones
was torture, but I did not mind it.
What is tbe rack of tbe body to the
agony of the mind when both are tor
turing you at once?
I was afraid that Gerald would destroy
my children. Had be not already crip
pled one of tbem ? And yet I knew he
loved them, for at times be was almost
foolishly fond of them. But, most of
all, I was apprehensive lest he should
remove them forever from ray sight and
protection, and I knew, laying aside my
personal solicitude, that be was wholly
unfit to be trusted in their bringing up.
I reached my neighbor's house in a
state of exeilement of which tbey little
dreamed. Outwardly I was calm, and
certainly I was tearless.
"You are an early riser," said good
Mr. Brown, as he opened tbe door, ex
hibiting a tastefully spread though
primitive table, at which happy Mrs.
Brown and three rosy children sat at
breakfast.
"Have you seen Gerald this morn
ing?" I asked, calmly.
"Your husbaud ?"
"Yes, and my children."
"No."
"O, my God !rI walled, throwing up
my hands in despair.
"What has happened?" asked my
neighbor, feelingly.
"Gerald bas taken tbe babies and
gone!" I cried, for the first time be
traying tbe least agitation.
"Impossible!" said Mrs. Brown, look
ing viigly upon liar own chubby
little ones, as a tear stole down her ebeek.
Every woman in our community bad
struggled to prevent that accursed keg
of ardent spirits from being brought
into their husbands' midst. We had all
felt tbat It boded no good to some of us,
but It seemed too cruel that I should be
singled out by fate to be tbe only suf
ferer in the lot. Not that I would will
ingly inflict anguish upon anybody,
but certainly I had more than my share.
Mr. Brown mounted a pony and soon
aroused the neighborhood. A sys
tematic search was instituted iu all di
rections, and by noon the fugitives were
found behind a mammoth log in the
heart of the forest, the children crying
for food, and their father, crazy from
the eflect of his potations, defending
them with a rifle from tbe approach of
his pursuers.
It was long before he could be induced
to fire, and when he did, thank God, bis
aim was unsuccessful. Then Mr. Brown
rushed upon him before he had time to
reload, others came at onee to the rescue,
and in a few seconds I had clapped my
hungry and shivering babes to my anguish-burdened
bosom, with such a feel
ing of relief as a mother can only expe
rience when she has reseued her little
ones from the jaws of wild beasts that
are ready to devour tbem.
I.watched them while they bound my
husband with thongs, and I listened to
bis unearthly yells, as, struggling with
delirium tremens, he imagined himself
In the grasp of hobgoblins, and my
woman soul rose up in pity and com
passion. As I saw hlra wrestling help
lessly with the thongs that held him, I
no longer felt afraid of bis presence. I
longed to approach' very near to him,
that I might soothe and reassure him,
for I saw that his suffering was real, and
the old love that I had thought was
dead grew warm within me.
"Gerald, darling, It Is I, your own
Ethel. Don't you know me?" I said,
approaching as close to him as my chil
dren, who clung to me, screaming In
their fear of him, would permit.
"Women are dod-dttrned ulioUJ" ex
claimed oqe of tbe men, who had risked
his life to rescue my children.
"I know It," said Mr. Brown. "They
are fools whenever and wherever their
hearts are interested. But that's not
our affair. We didn't make 'em."
By tbis time several women of our
.. - -y -.-.. u community came crowding up
zz ' r . ;.hiv :t,z wr dld't h.ba,dsa
'.rr .r ; .r::.:..:.: :; ..." uai any of them d
serve, ttiev'd li f.
ox. . imuiy, mm one.
will of ber own, and was not afraid or
ashamed to express or enforce It.
"I am sure I don't know what I thall
do. What can I do?" I replied, almost
savagely.
"Sure enough. Poor child, what can
you do ? It seems you can't get rid of
your incubus, for he follows you, no
matter where you go. I believe that
every man whom rum has conquered is
as unfit to run at largo as a raving
maniac."
But there was no insane asyfm In
Oregon Territory then, nor is there now
a rerage in the State for the cure of In
ebriates. Ah, me!
I have never been considered what
tbe world would oall strong-minded.
But I cannot help knowing that if I
were a law-maker, as well as a law-supporter,
I should leave no stoue unturned
till I bad provided an asylum for Ine
briates, ami compelled all sufferers from
the cup to enter It and remain until
cured. But, alas, I am not a law-maker,
aud I sometimes fear that men are so
stolid and so fearful of losing power
over women that I will be too old to do
my country very much public service
before I shall become one.
"Is that you, Ethel?" said Gerald,
making a frantic attempt to reach me
with bis pinioned arms.
"Yes, darling, it is I," I exolalmed,'
again. "Nobody shall hurt you. These
are not hobgoblins, but men, your
friends and neighbors. You won't be
afraid of us, will you ?"
"Hum! for God's sake, give me rum
There are a billion demons in my blood,
and they're all demanding rum ! Give
it tbem, or I shall die!" he cried, his
voice a pitiful wail that fairly frose my
heart's blood. v
"Neighbors, be must have rum !" I
shrieked. "You waked the sleeping
demons in him yesterday when I would
gladly have died to prevent it, and now
you must nurture the fiends of yourown
creating."
Latterly I have learned that my then
newly-discovered or imagined theory is
sometimes authoritatively pronounced
a scientific one. The medical world is
gradually solving tbe problem of tbe
cause of mania jtotu. Aud when the
present researches are crystalfsed into
demonstration, I am sure it will every
where be understood and' acknowledged
that the frantic thlrstof the drunkard is
the Insatiate demand of a billion para'
sites, which are coursing through his
blood during their running season, after
tbe manner of salmon coursing through
c stream.
Let the doctors who deny this propo
sition laugh if tbey will. 'If one of tbem
should live for a third of a century as
the wife of a drunkard, he'd reach the
same conclusion that I did If he'd allow
himself to think and observe at all.
Tbe men were afraid to bring my hus
baud rum, but ono of tbe women ran
with hot haste to tbe bouse of tbe neigh
bor who supplied tbe fluid to wake tbe
demons tbe day before, and she soon re
turned with a sufficient quantity to
stupefy the monsters and reduce them to
docility. Then we led my husband to
our home without difficulty, and sobered
him off by degrees.
My neighbors then entered into a sol
emn compact that they would never
again, under any circumstances, be
guilty of putting the bottle to their
neighbor's lips.
Gerald could not remember that lie
bad driven me out of doors, nor did he
recollect that he bad fled from imag
inary devils to tbe woods with my chil
dren. He only realized that be was
sick and tortured and weak, aud that he
felt like a miserable sinner.
Ah, if I could only have induced him
to remain away from liquor, even after
that! But there was no use in hoping.
Inalittlewhllo the immigration from
all parts of tbe world began to pour Into
tbe Willamette Valley; mines were dis
covered in Southern Oregon that at
tracted vast crowds in that direction;
the community that bad been eo staid
and reliable that I could depend upon It
to protect my husband from bis Infirm
ity, bad no influence over the enterpris
ing but unscrupulous man who opened
a store, hotel, and groggery at tbe new
village, only a mile from our borne,
and mypeaeeof mind was of short dura
tion.
Maternity was again my portion, and
this time I was the mother of twins.
Every one who has observed the phe
nomena that accompanies tbe settling
of new countries has remarked tbe ex
ppssivelucreaseofthesettled population.
r ,ri,re vou will In the new settle
ments, and vou will find that the bur
dens of motherhood are grievous to be
borne. There Is philosophy In this un
conscious effort of the earth to replenish
it sreirse population, but it is exces
sively trying to the health and temper
of pioneer women to enuure u.
To be continued.
that picture of the valley of tbe Sacra
mento of wbleb I before have spoken, I
never can forget iL In one direction
lay a dense fir forest, skirted in the
foreground by a stretch of prairie, in
wblcb my fettered cattle were quietly
grazing. Immediately beyond the
prairie was a belt of charred, denuded
timber, tbe great black leafless tree-
Mn Miy it's oHr ,, , , ..
observed another.
" ' mk Ty. TU8Uaml fer or for
worse!" cried I wag os rJ
auu BUU ""e as any husband
ouruv 10 uv, oui ue is me vletlro of ills,
ease. I pity more than I blame him '
"Do you intend to endure this all your
a., Tiiinni. frpRhrnan has the repu.
ttn nf h.nlnr thus outwitted P
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man "urcourse; iueireuiucu..
n lutio loaniinrr iiprp. and as the seniors
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never take away any, it uaiurany bu-j
cumulates."
Of everv thousand men. twenty die
annually. The population of a olty or
jj"uU1.ry is renewed once in tuiriy yeura.
trunks holding aloft their skeleton arms 1 nie" asseu.a Kiuu-nearted woman,
r. f ... 1 1. n r llacrmrl li - li1ita.frpaAn I frtf .Tin atmnTa MUDnn flint .Via find I . .
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in mute-appeal, or else in mock defiance who was not a favorite among the men, 1 " ,?u myerof old men who die In cold
r . i i i i v.i 1 1 , i i ., v. - I " uiose who die in warm
OUB "WASHINGTON LETTEE.
Totiie Editor or"TUB New Northwest:
The exodus of our solons since tbe ad
journment has been sweeping, and with
tbem has gone much that gave our city
a busluess appearance, the o"Jces and
reading-rooms of our hotels have been
crowded for several weeks with visitors
and lobbyists. Huge piles of trunks
blocked up the passage-ways, street cars
and chariots were packed with those
nassinc and re-passlug to the Capitol,
and on every baud were Indications of
something to be done and doing of In
tense Interest and importance, let to
day nearly all. these havo disappeared,
and we are joeglng along as quietly as
some rural town In harvest time when
Its only vlsltow, the adjacent farmers,
are kept at home by the necessities of
the harvest-field, tor days the Hag
was continually floating over the Capi
tol, and during the succeeding nights
the brllliaut light of the fio!u or lan
tern which surmounts the dome, showed
us that the war of words below was go
ing on; but now both flag and beacon
are gone, and we realize that many of
the disgraceful scenes flowing out from
disordered brains will not be seen here
again till another approaching adjourn
ment forces prolonged sessions, and per
mits drunken aud disorderly members
to exhibit themselves in their maudliu
imlties. The closlug scenes of Congress are al
ways Intensely interesting. In the at
tempt to concentrate into the two or
three days preceding the hour of ad
journment tbe accumulated business of
months, much excitement necessarily
is aroused, not only among the solons,
but In tbe crowded lobbies. Instead of
acting upon the appropriation bill dur
ing the winter and spring, Congress In
variably consumes its time In windy
debate npon collateral and unimportant
issues, leaving undone until the last
moment that which should be done at
first. Millions of dollars are voted away
in the press and confusion, without any
one oa tbe floor of tbe House or Senate
save some interested member who is
acting for tbe lobby, having the slight
est Idea or kuowledge of tbe matter or
the Interests involved. Every conceiv
able form of steal is tacked on to these
appropriation bills, until the riders
amount to more iu amount than tbe
original bilj called for, and tb'cn, under
tbe objection which Is raised to their
consideration, the whole omnibus la re
ferred to a conference committee of six
men, three members from each House,
who aru expected to recoucilo all the
ditfereuces In the space of two or three
hours, and determine what monies the
country needs, inasmuch as the two
Houses cannot of themeeU'es. Sncb
farclal proceedings never lose their nov
elty, to us at least, and, notwithstand
ing we have for many years watched
Congress as it hurriedly prepared for
departure from the Capitol, tbe clash
aud din of factions in tbe House are as
Interesting now as ever in tbe past. On
the night of the 17th, Ben Butler gave
us an exhibition of bis pluck and tenac
ity of purpose. A member moved tbe
passage of tbe fisheries award bill, at
which old Ben bristled up iu bis
fiercest style, and wanted to make a Ave
minutes speech in opposition. But tbe
House would not consent to hear him,
and for live minutes be stood at the
desk with his arms folded, coolly listen
iug to the bowling of a hundred or more
men at him, who, with cries of "sit
down," etc, were drowning the calling
and rappings of the Speaker. Nor
could quiet be restored until the ser-
geant-at-arms, under tbe Speaker's
order, stepped up to Mr. Butler and
caused him to take bis seat. It
Is rarely that the Speaker directs
the sergeant-ot-arms to "do his duty,"
and only once before this session has a
member declined to heed tbe command,
"out of order." Whisky, then, was
the cause, pure obstinacy In tbis In
stance. Tbis award matter is a big
thorn in every members side, and it
will bo made only from a sense of
honor, for we have seen no one who
concedes tbat we owe England even a
million, much less five. Years ago wo
agreed tbat tbe United States should
not arbitrate her differences with Eng
land, Inasmnch as the precede ut she
had herself made would far better buo
sorve our Interests than arbitration;
hence, our acquiescence in tbis award
partakes of the spirit wblcb led Tom
Corwln years ago to mako bis famous"
Mexican war speech.
At last our government Is established,
for the Senate has confirmed tbe Presi
dent's nominations for commissioners
and justices of the peace, though much
opposition was invoked by the disap
pointed applicants. We feel sure that
tbe District of Columbia has the best
municipal government in the United
States, and that its real interests are
better consulted aud cared for by Its
government officials than those of any
other city or district. .More watchful
ets .can be exercised here than else
where; for every citizen can appeal at
once "to Congress for an Investigation
and for redress an appeal wblcb has
far more weight than resort to the bal
lot-box or to a State Legislature.
Washington never looked more beau
tlfol than now. The recent heavy rains
have washed Its concreted streets
clean as a pin," have whitened up tbe
marble fronts of our.publlc buildings,
land covered our many parks with living
green and flowers. On every hand are
evidences of warmth and shower, and
all nature, and art too, is smiling upon
us with voice of gladness and sympathy.
Tbe appropriations made for the Dis
trict by Congress are heavy. Including
the salaries of our officers, the repair of
the pateut office, the completion of the
north wing of the State Department,
and other improvements, the govern
mental expenditure for the next fiscal
year will amount to nearly twenty
million of dollars; hence, with what we
regard as a good city government, our
citizens feel that good times are coming,
aud that, in a year or two at farthest,
we shall be In the full measure of pros
perity. Fklix.
Washington, D. C. June 2S, 1S78.
Hew Wocn Should Be Educated.
Miss Jennie V. Stauton Is lecturing In
the East on subjects connected with the
Intellectual advancement of women.
The New York papers speak in high
terms of her lectures, and from the fol
lowing extract from one of them, en
titled "How Shall Women be Edu
cated," we judge she Is well deserving of
all the praise she is receiving :
Mothers, educate your daughters In
every science that can be utilized to
their benefit. Fathers, let the capabili
ties of your children, and not their sex,
influence your partiality In bestowing
upon them educational advantages.
Never mind if some esteemed friend
or lover is afraid of a girl "making a
man of herself." An educated woman
knows that can never be done. A well
educated woman who is in a normal
condition always wins In the race of
life far health, wealth, excellence or
distinction. Never mind If even the
majority of men superciliously remind
us of our "sphere," or discourse to us of
God's purpose In creating us, the "glory
of motherhood," etc. No man can ever
know half so much about tbe "glory of
motherhood" as even the weakest and
most Ignorant of mothers.
In my eagerness aud anxiety to
have the large majority of women who
are so situated as to be mostly inaccess
ible to culture, who have much poverty
-and prejudice to overcome, I do not for
get that they need a special inspiration
to endeavor in the way of proper com
panionship and proper books, and my
heart goes out to them with a great love
and care.
In conclusion, man represents power,
woman represents the affections. Mau
provides for woman, woman cares for
that provision. 31an dispenses liber
ally, woman economizes and utilizes
the means entrusted to tier Keeping.
Man may lay n broader scientific basis,
but woman will build up higher toward
heaven.
It is Impossible that society should
ever attain to a higher moral condition
without the higher culture or woman.
Society is to be olevated by tbe om
nipotent power of moral education, of
which womau may be the principal
channel.
It is useless to talk about the equality
of the sexes, for tbey are not and never
can be equal.
-Alan is the superior oi woman in iorcc
aud science, but woman is superior to
man iu tbat without which force and
science are worthless, the moral nature,
which bestows happiness here, auu
leads to influitely higher happiness
hereafter. N
I will not omit to thank the noble
men who protect tbe noble women; nor
fonret to thauk the noble women who.
in spite of all binderances, in spite of
uetumat on. anu in me very laceoi mar
tyrdom, are struggling to elevate tbelr
sex, and are urgiug tbem to keep pace
wltb ad vanclug civilization.
"Women as Lawyers.
Like Spiritualism, the question of
woman's rights bas already "passed be
yond ridicule." Exceptingamongafew
remarkably slltl-neckea conservatives,
anil .i fewremarkablvicnorant pretend
ers? It Is now conceded that the tide is
setting Btrongly In favor of woman's
emancipation from the unjust disabili
ties and the absurd prejudices by which
she has so long been fettered, and kept
from entering into the nans oi science,
art aud literature, the doors of which
are now not only ajar, but openiug more
and more widely every nay. .airs.
Barnhurst truly says : "A reform once
inaugurated, ouce organized, canuot go
back, no more than the sun can retrace
his steps through the broad expanse on
high, or the world return to chaos.
What Is done, Is done."
Although the profession of law has
not attracted as many women as tbat of
medicine, to which women seem natu
rally fitted, yet lady candidates for ad
mission to tbe bar are by no means in
frequpnt, and in many States aud Terri
tories such app'llcntlous , are freely
granted. This bas been especially the
case in Iowa, Illinois and Utah, and is
the older and more conservative States
tbe number of such cases is rapidly in
creasing. We are ashamed to confess,
in this connection, tbat in Italy, Swe
den and Holland, the admission of
women into the learned professions has
been more freely granted and more ex
teuslvely taken advantage of than in
the United States.
"The law of Illinois," says Miss Wil
lard,"ailmlttinc women to nracticein the
courts, making tbem eligible as officers
in nil departments of the public schools,
and notably 'the married women's prop
erty mil,' are unexcelled Dy any in the
Union. So far as indicated by this
year's reports, Illinois ranks as the ban
ner Male oi woman's opportunity, If
not of her achievement. The chivalry
of courtesy and compliment is being
slowly replaced by the chivalry of jus
tice. The Imperious 'thus far and no
farther,' that has rung from custom's
lips, checking over-buoyant steps in
other years, is giving way to tbe kindly
'tnus lar aud no larther oi uod, written
not in any statute book nor spoken by
any human voice, no matter how au
gust, but revealed in tbe limitations, as
well as tbe powers of the nature with
which our Heavenly Father has en
dowed us."
"Of lawyers," says the same writer,
"we (in Chicago) have at least three.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell was the first lady
lawyer in our State. She is the editor
of the Chicago Legal JVetos, which is an
authority all over the Northwest. The
beauty of its typographical execution is
a natural result of 'the woman in print
ing, and tbe partnership of Judge and
Mrs. Bradwell in tbe legal profession is
a refutation to some popular objections
of 'woman out of her sphere.' Miss
Alta M. Hulett, of Chicago, who died of
consumption in Ualllorula, wliere slie
went for ber health last year, was a
young lawyer of noble promise. She
was admitted to tbe bar betore she was
nineteen, and at the age of twenty-three
had attained an enviable reputation and
u practice amounting to three thousand
dollars a vear. A number of vouncr
women are studying law, and Misses
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Correspondents writing over assumed slcna
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Editor, or no attention will be given to their
coramanieatione.
An Irish "Woman's "Wit.
A long time ago, when giants were
plenty in Ireland, there lived on tbe
..rr?r?f ll,e,couty Armagh one Bar
uey M'Connell, who lawfully came un
der the above appellation, being seven
feet high, and made in proportion. His
prowess was well known, and acknowl
edged for many a mile round; but there
was one thing that grieved Barney
above a little, namely, tbat he could get
nobody to stand before him in his own
country. Now, report spoke of a certain
giant iu Scotland who was laboring un
der tbe like grief, and for precisely tbe
same cause; therefore, Barney, after
consulting his friends on the subject,
sent a challenge to the Scotch giant, to
"come over to Ireland and get tbe con
cait taken out of himself."
After due time the bearer of the dial
Ienge returned with word that it had
been accepted, and further stated that
he was advised to inform Barney that
be had better make his will, get bis
coffin made, etc., as he that be was
about to encounter never left bis work
half done.
"Did you we him V asked Barney.
"Faith, an' I did," answered themes-
seuger.
"What is he like?" interrogated toe
giant. i-
"Faith, Barney, avic, he's like any-
thing at all but a mortal being."
"How blc is be?" asked Barney,
looking anything but pleased at the de
scription of his rival.
"How big is hp, did you sajj? Faith,
he's as big as the ould tower forninst
the door, an' a bead an shoulders on
him like Father M'Gurney's bull, an'
by all accounts he'll ait you alive."
Barney began to feel rather uncom
fortable at tbe prospect before him, and
straightway went to consult his wife as-
to wnat etioulu be done in tue event oi
his rival proving to be such as bis mes
senger had represented. While they
were thus engaged, one of tbe children
came running in and exclaimed:
"Daddy, come to tbe door and see the
great big man that's corning up the hill."
liarney peeped through the chluss or
tbe door, and to bis great terror saw the
monster. One look was enough to sat
isfy bim tbat his messenger had not ex
aggerated his account of bim, and turn
ing to bis wire, he said:
"Sbela, jewel, I'm ett alive, forsartin!
Here comes tbe Scotch baist to drum
your poor Barney."
wnen biiela nearu oi tue approacu or
the coming foe, and saw ber lord's utter
Inability to wage war with one so far
superior in strength and size, she con
cluded that it was only by some piece
of woman's wit that her husband could
escape from tbe affair without dishonor,
aud accordingly she gently lifted tbe
child out of tbe cradle, and depositing it
on the bed in tbe inner room, made tbe
father get in its place, and covering him
up with a quilt, gently seated herself
and resumed her work. After a few
moments, in walked tne cause of all the
disturbance, and demanded an interview
with tbe giant. Shela, after motioning
with her hand for bim to keep quiet,
walked gently across tbe floor to where
he stood, and In an undertone told him
Barney had goue out to the woods. Tbe
giant informed ber tbat be intended
awaiting his return.
A Correspondent's Testimony.
Mrs. S. L. Knox, of San Jose, a stauch
worker In the cause of equal rights, and
known by name at least to Its many vo
taries on tbe Pacific Coast, receives the
following notice from a correspondent
of tbe Record Union :
Mrs. Knox, whose handsome resi
dence with Its elegant grounds is one of
the first ornoments ot han Jose, has
long been devoted, heart and mind, to
the political emancipation of her sex.
She succumbs to no discouragement,
she acknowledges no defeat. As so
large a property-owner, oue cannot
wonder at her strong feeling on the sub
ject, and yet she works not ror ber own
rights, but for those of others. She, as
well as the rest, asks for a clause which
shall not make us of tbe distinctive
word "sex," but which shall submit to
the people tbe question or educational
qualification In State allalrs, and the
tironertv nuallllcatlon In municipal af
fairs. I followed .one lady Into the
kitchen to hear her comments on Ken
nedav as a delegate. She was making
one-two-tbree-four cake one cup of
butter, two of sugar, three of Hour, four
eggs, half-cup of milk, teaspoonful of
soda, and two of cream tartar. "Ken
nedav. Indeed !" says sue. "l nope
these young men who feel tbat they are
not properly represented without one
from their own ranks, may begin to un
derstand how trodden upon we feel, who
nave never neen representeu.-- o-
withstandlng these seutiments, incom
patible as some think with tbe kitchen
and tbe cook-stove, the cake was a suc
cess, stirred up with Indignation, light
ened wi tli argument and sweetened with
the spirits ot tbe times, tuougn it was.
Tbe old leaven of '76 is working still
you see, aud though a hundred years or
more Have passed, it yet retains enougn
of its insurrectionary virtue to keep
alive in Santa Clara Valley the ringing
revolutionary cry : "iSo taxation witu
out representation !"
Temnerance comet from within, and
not from without: tue man wuo uos 10
be bolstered up with occasionahpledges,
aud keeps sober only while your eye is
upon htm, is scarcely worm tue goou
man's time who has to keep sentinel
over bim. Neither Is it tbe wife's
duty to stay by au intemperate man
and expose her children to tbe dis
advantages of so wretched an example.
Sbeowes to her family something better
than this. Tbe intemperate man Is al
ways a selfish man; the man devoted to
duty and principle cau never become In
temperate. Tben let tbe mothers of our
country raise up their sons to be soldiers
In tbe army of principle.
Ferry and Martin are iu successful prac
tice in Chicago."
Our readers may perhaps remember
that we meutioned Miss Hulett in one
of four early articles. Few men ever
get into legal practice without waiting
patiently for years, but, somehow or
other, the lady lawyers often succeed in
immediately establishing a fine prac
tice. It may be partly owing to the
novelty of the thing for men love nov
elty but we rather think that it isowiug
to the fact thot the euergy and persever
ance required to enable a woman to
choose tbe profession of law and go
steadily forward in the pursuit of her
chosen duty, Is a guarantee of success in
almost auy walk in life. A notable in-
tance or success Is tuat ot iurs. iielva
Lockwood. of Washington City, who
has practiced fouryears and has realized
twenty thousand dollars. How many
young men can say as much? Mrs.
Lockwood is said to be htty years ot
age, so she must have begun the study
rather late In life. We know of cases of
women who, after rearing large fam
ilies, instead of spending their lives in
indolence and in tue endeavor to grow
old before their time, have undertaken
tbe study of some usetul profession, or
have organized some absorbing scheme
of benevoleuce, thus emphatically mau
Ing the hoary head a crown ot glory.
How many aged women we have seen
with minds as active as ever, and bodies
still quite vigorous, who yet were
slowly dying of inanition, both physical
and mental. JJo something, aged smer.
Patchwork quilts are good, but they do
not provide mucu mental or spiritual
aliment; and if you have souls above
patchwork, why, then, In heaven's
name, blaze out foryourself some nobler
path, and snow to the lords oi creation
that women are not merely the pro
ducers of children and the drudges of
the household, but that after forty-live.
when most women have laid aside tbelr
crop of children, they can still work for
humanity, etui lauor in tue ljoru's
great vineyard. This Is the best way to
keep young, dear sisters. ine old
adage : "It is better to wear nut than to
rust out," applies with peculiar force to
tbe aged. The wearing out, it we Keep
at work according to oar ability, will be
so gradual and so gentle tbat we shall
not know we are tailing till we lie down
and sweetly "fall asleep." Mrs. Shin-
dler in l occ of irutii.
Very well,-' said Shela, "only don't
make a word of noise for the life that's
in you; for there's nothing that makes
him more furious than to bear the child
crying when he comes home."
By this time tbe giant bad seated
himself on a bench, and was ouietiv
surveying the apartment; but when bis
eye rested on the cradle, with a look of
unutterable astonishment, be asked
what was In It.
"In it!" cried Shela: "don't you see
it's the child that's Iu it? An' heaven
help you If you wake him. Tbecravtbur
didu't get a wink of sleep last night,
with tbe two back teeth he's cutting."
Tbe giant, with a look of terror and
Uistonishmeut, asked what size the father
was.
"Faith, an' I can't tell you," said
Shela, "'cause I never measured bim;
but tbat gossoon (pointing to tbe cradle)
wnen ine lamer is angry runs and hides
himself in one of his boots."
"Laird save us!" exclaimed tbeclant:
"I winna mind waiting the noo, lassie,
t maun ue gauu; guue morning."
And so saylug be looK to tils heels.
and never thought himself safe until he
got among the hills of bis own country.
What One Woman Can Do. Wash
ington's female lawyer, Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood, who, by her persistent
knocklug at tbe doors of Cougress for
admission to the Supreme Court, has
become somewhat famous, bas two im
portant cases pending before that Court,
which she Is debarred from pleading on
account of her sex. One Is a Cherokee
Indian claim involving $300,000,000.
Mrs. Lockwood Is now iu the fifth year
oi ner practice, auu uas an the busluess
she can attend to. When she began.
her property consisted of a few feet of
real estate in a Cemetery. Now she is
worth $20,000, and her practice brings
ber a yearly income about live times as
large as the salary of a clerk in the
treasury Department. She Is a widow.
ueany uuy years oi age, anu very at
tractive.
A doctor went out for a day's bunt
ing, aud on coming home, complained
that he had not killed anything.
"That's because you didn't attend to
your legitimate business." said bts
wife.
The Duunkard and His Doa. A
crowd was collected oue day near a pile
of stones in Central park, New York,
evidently very intent upon some object
inoi nau urougui logeiner quite a col
lection of policemen. On drawing near
you would have seen nothiugso remark-
aDie; oniy a drunnen man utterly In
sensible, lying ou a pallet of blasted
rocks and stoues. But for all there
were so many officers on hand, tbey
could not take tbe man away.
There he must stay, to all appear
ances, and disfigure the ground, until
he came to himself sufficiently to move
oil on his own hook. He bad a friend,
of whom he was wholly unworthy a
friend who stood by him like a brother,
notwithstanding bis degradation.
A noble Newfoundland dog stood over
bim, looking down into bis face, and
would sutler no one to approach. He
did not like the looks of the policemen,
and tbey did not like his looks. Twenty
feet was the regular distance be bad set
tled upon, and it was at bis- risk tbat
any one came nearer. They brought
several pails of cold water and threw
over the dog, hoping to drive bim away,
but he only drew closer to his unworthy
companion.
"We can't take tbe man unless -wo
shoot the dog," said one, "and he's too
noble an animal to kill."
"Which is the brute ?" asked a nasser.
by, and very appropriately, too.
One of tbe most solemn passages of
hp man knowledge to know tbat even
in this world we, none of us, ever wholly
die; that our acts, our virtues, our fail
ures, our physical conditions, appeti'ea,
passions, pass on to other generations;
tbat the forms we mould ourselves toby
acts original to ourselves pass on to
other generations; tbat habits and pas
sions we 'subdue in ourselves are sub
dued, as far as we aro concernedr in
other generations that spring from us.
It is said that "class ves for horses
are uow so beautifully made tbat they
defy detection." The Imitation must
be wonderful Indeed, for we understand
that tbe horses themselves cannot see
through the deception.
New York bas .twice as many women,
printers as Ave years ago.