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CHAPTER XXV.
Grace met ber anxious father with
enforced compoeare, and disarmed Idm
of bis premeditated tirade against
Alonzo by a firm and tearless smile.
. "And to yon are in trouble, my
daughter?" be said, InoBUtariv.fraiiflj
aaiHjh ti HM WHHPmrQrace, befouled
Jier in hit arm and audtoly thanked
heaven that 8 be was yet spared, to him.
"Then you really love me, father?"
"Love you, cbiid? I'd die for you V
"But, father, I trust that you will
find it more profitable. If not more
pleaeaut, to live for me."
"TelU me all, my ebild. 1 am ready
to hear the want," and the grand old
Captaiu disposed of hie heavy body In a
chair that answered back with ominous
creaks, suggestive of a collapse which
reached a climax when Grace seated
herself upon bis knee, ami all came to
the floor in a heap together.
Tblsdiversion occasioned some timely
merriment, aud happily broke the way
for further conversation without ftirthei
embarrassment. The Captain next seat
ed himself cautiously apon a sofa, which.
though somewhat the worse for wear,
proved sufficiently durable for present
occupancy, and Grace nestled at his feet
upon a stool, and looked into his face
with her great wonder-speaking eyes,
and waited for him to break the silence.
"All concealment mast be over be
tween as, my child. Tell me every
thing," said the Captain, and there were
vOT(nH.M, .mi hkic were i
tears in his voice sod stifling sobs in his I
utterance despite hie endeavor lo enforce !
calmiirsM. '
"Father, there is so me thing terribly
wrong in marriage."
"What is wrong, my child 7"
"I don't know, unless it' in the lew."
"That is only because yoor experience
has been unhappy."
"Father, suppose yon were to enter
into a contract for ea-partoersblf with
some pernon; end suppose you had acted
in perfect good faith, only to find, after
you had confided yoar fortuue ami your
honor to his keeping, that he had be
trayed yoor trust and forfeited your con
fidence. What would you do ?'
"Why, I'd get oat of it a q sickly as
possible, and have nothing more to do
with the rascal. And, If possible, Vd
send him to tbe penitentiary for obtain
ing money under false pretences."
"I'm glad to bear you aay so, father;
for I bad just made Mp my mind to deal
with AIoueo in that very manner."
"But be is your lawfully wedded
husband, child, and it will never do for
yoa to even hint at each a thing."
"Father, do I understand you aright ?
Surely my sense must deceive lie.
Would you have me believe that it Is
right to condone iu my husband, and
the father of my children, a sin which
you would puuish la a busioess eo-part-ner
with the extreme penalty of tbe
law r
Captaiu Emerson was silent. He was
digesting a new idea.
"No wonder tbe world it filled with
criminals," continued Grace. "I bad
expected a different decision from my
father, at least."
"My child, you bear the rascal's name.
You are hie wife. You have taken upon
yourseir a lire-long vow. Should aa
Kmerson go back on her word ? I didn't
want you to marry tbe fellow, God
knows. But you would persist, aad
now, for the sake of repeataMIUy, yotr
must make the very beet that yon ean Of
tbe consequences."
"This is your final decision ?"
"It is."
Xow, leader, I am sorry that I am not
portraying such a character as Madge
Morrison or Mattle Armstrong. Eitlier
of these would have risen in ber maj
esty and defied both law and eotm for
tbe sake of right, But Oraee Emrreou
was not a thorough heroine. Her natu
ral impulses wer all for good, and ber
perceptions of doty were correct in tbe
abstract, bat she lacked tbe metal of
which martyrs are made, and she bowed
her head before what seemed to be ber
destiny, aod burst into tears.
"I am sorry for yon, my poor child,"
said ber father, teuderly. "But I am
ho situated that I cannot afford to have
a domestic scandal in my family. It
would spoil my public prospects. If
everything goes smoothly, I shall get
into tbe United States Seoate before an
other decade rolls around, and I don't
want to see my daughter figuring in the
newspapers as the divorced wife of a re
spectable knave."
Then you'll sacrifice me for the sake
of otHee, will you T"
"No child; it isn't so bad as that.
Alouro has had a good lesion how, aod
, if we'll see him through it and help him
out, I guess he'll be all right in tile
future. At any rate, it's our duty tn
give him a trial."
"But his father is bankrupt, aod he's
the cause of it. Old Sbylock. over hero.
you know him," pointing to the three
VOXTDIE VIII.
golden balls that betokened the broker's
offlee of Jared the Jew, "is acquainted
with enough of the crookedness of which
both father ami mil are guilty to ranee
the Indictment of both of them by the
grand jury. II 3 holds a thousand dol
lar note against tbem now, wijli the
senior 'Rnowdeo's name npon it In the
form of a forgery. A speculator by the
rae see Co! den, I believe
they called him, has possession of my
thousand acre deed -as collateral for a
little matter of eleven thousand, already
secured to keep tbe young hopeful whom
ysw say I cannot discard because lie's
my husband, out of tbe State prison.
On, yes, marriage a holy Institution
under such oireHmstaoees," and Grace
gave vent to a hysterical laugh which
would hae caused ber father serious
,l'ty taisolw)
a menifal delir
ium.
Eet no reader say that Captain Kmer-
Ott was any mora of a coward about
facing the world with an unpopular
matrimonial fact than are thousands of
other fathers. The world is full of such
nnwritten histories. And cemeteries
are filled with the dead bodiesof thwart
ed wives wbo have died rather than
break the ehalus which they assumed
In the blindness of passionate love, aod
tbe ignorance of youthful inexperience.
only to find the bargain a fraud and the
way of escape walled up by an inpeue
treble hedge of family pride. But worse
than tlie martyrdom of misuiated live,
worse by far than the endurance of a
life-long fraud, is the heritage which
the physiologist foresees and which
Grace was gifted with prophetic pre
science to foretell, tbe heritage of dis
honesty, peeolatlon and fraud which is
instilled into tbe very souls of tbe chil
dren who are the bitter fruits of unholy
u aloof, ami wbo famish victim for the
jail and the gibbet, or, escaping these,
accept a higher grade of professional
knavery aud distinguish themselves
as straw contractors. a-nveriiment stih-
...
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v" "- ner sirengui leaving lien
"Father, what would yon have rae to
do 7" she aked, rising to her leet and
bracing herself to stand firmly, though
Ibojaoiesof her feet would hardly ac
knowledge the law of gravitation, not
withstanding in-r eMbrI to compel them.
"I will go with you to see the old
woman, Aloaao's mother; and I'll help
you to settle up all their affair, that Is,
I'll back you and her with the necessary
fund to compromise with their credit
ors, if you'll be a good girl aud stand by
your bad bargain and give np that fool,
ish notion of difgraciug yourself and
family by a tegat separation."
"But, fattier, whatnf Nancy Shad. Ion
and ber baby ?"
"Tut, tut, child; it's no unrtimmoti
thing for fast young men to be guilty of
.mm. ft.ni.. if
7"l . ..
imurr, sou v trace urew up ner
regal form to He
tallest height and
looked at him as a fawn might, when at
bay, "etrppose Nancy Shaddon was your
child aod I was ber father's daughter.
What wmuld yon think then 7"
"I wouldo't think at aH; I'd aet! I'd
kill the infamous scoundrel I"
' Grace smiled bitterly.
"You see, father, it makes adiilereuce,
even with a philanthropist like yourself,
as to whose daughter is tbe victim."
"I confess It, Grace. Iet everybody
take care of their own, is my motto."
"Boa, froppoae they don't? what
then V
"The injured party's onto' lock, that's
all.!'
"Tbeu, father, listen to me. I will
accede to yoor denioods. I will give
Alonao new probatioa, for your sake,
mind, aad for your aake ooly, provided
you will allow me lootipMlate iu regard
lo one condition."
"Name It."
"BTe shall fake bia ejUW ami bring it
up.
"What?" Captain Kmer-on eoold not have been
more deeply astounded bad the heavens
began to fall.
"I mean just what I say, sir. The
poor girl is hopelessly ii.sane. The
phyrielansaey there le no earthly wros-
1 peel for her recovery. Her father cast
the ebild away at the orphanage. Ami
now, so help me Infinite God," awl
Grace raised ber bands in attitude of fer
vent entreaty, and lifted ber eyes to
htavrti as though no human siectator
were iu sight or hearing, "I will never
see Aloaao's face again till he will take
that child to his mother's home aud
humble the pride of bis haughty sisters,
intriguiug father, and his own villainous
and cowardly self by confessing the
whole truth."
"Hut, child, you surely wouldn't have
the scandal published 7"
"It need not be. No one need know
anything about it save tbe Snowdens
anu rmersons and John and
Anders."
-"But why need they know 7"
"Hmilia air T u-ilt 1,
1 "... ik. tji ii i ui mi
shame will humble Alonao Soowden.
He ie devoid of principle, if be Is my
i , i . i .
husband. But. since you elect that, for
yoar position's sake, I must abide
through life by tlie consequences of a
matrimonial fraud, 1 elect that the con
dition I name is the only one upon which
I will content to accept it."
Do you think it can be managed
I without arousing public gossip, Grace 7"
"It must be done. Though, for my
part, I shouldn't oare a farthing who
knew it, if the fact of Us being known
would awaken Alouzn's dormant honor.'
"You're a Strang girl, Grace."
"I know It. Iet us go nt once to the
orphanage and get the child. Then we
.will go to tbe county court and comply
with the requirements of the law to make
it mine,"
'Mint yon cannot aet without the eon
sent of your husband. He is your legal
bend, yon know."
"My legal fiddlesticks ! I'll aet, at all
events. He may afterward demurr if
be dares."
But I os nno t comprehend your mo-
J tive, Grace."
My motive sir, Is to do right. I)o
yon . suppeeenat I whlu iar nv cone.
8WamHaw, Ttvaas iTTe wlfeofa man and
tbe mother of his lawful children,
knowing that he had another, who had
every claim of eonsauguinlty upon him,
whom he aud land the world discarded?
Ee.s order a hack and be oil' directly."
The kind-hearted matron of tbeor
phauage willingly complied with the
legal requisition of Cattain Kmerson
aud yielded up the ohikl, a tiny, wall
ing waif which Grace greased to her
boom with such genuine motherly
tenderness that the good woman more
than half suspected her to be other than
ibi putative mother. But she did not
know, and In her position it was con
venient for her to remain as nearly as
possible, oblivions to a great many of
tlie legitimate, as well as the illegiti
mate facts and fancier that fate, whether
luckless or lucky, was continually bring
ing uuder tier ulMervalfon.
fro be continued.
Testimony of an Eye WitaeM.
Rev. F. J. Pierce, well known through
out Oregon, having lieen pattor of the
Baptist etSiirch in Portland for tbe years
1876-7B, writes as follow to the Den
ver Mirror:
I came from the vicinity of lloton.
arriving. in Iarumie two weeds beore
the first regular election In 1871. J bad
never symitliiaed with the extreme
tbeoriex of the woman' rights platform,
to the ndvoeates ol which I had often
lisleued in 1 to ton. But I list) never
been able to learn Just whv a woman In
naturally excluded from the privilege of 1
franchise, and I bad sometimes argned
in favor in tyeeiini debates. Still the ;
question of her degradation stared me in
the face, and I eame to Wyoming unde
termined iu the matter, determined to
he au impartial judge. I wat early at
the polls, but loo late to wiioe the
polling of tbe firt female vote by
"Grandma" Swain, a much esteemed
Quaker lady of 75 summers, u ho deter
mined by ber word and Influence to
rally her ?x lo defend thecaueeof mor
ality and justice.
I Haw tiie rough mountaineers main
taining tlm mont respectful decorum
I whenever the women approached the
I polls, and heard tbe timely warning of
one of the leading eanvaoters a? lie si
lenced an incipient quarrel with uplifted
fl".l'r.' ""''uk:
"Hist! Be
juiel; a woman is eom-
"
And I was compelled to allow that in
this new con ntry, supinwed (at that ti me)
to be infested by hordes of outtllroate,
gamblers, aud abandoned characters. 1
had witnessed a more quieteleotlou than !
11 na.i neeii my fortune to tee in tlie
quiet towns of Vermont.
I saw ladies attended by their hue
bands, brothers' or eueethenrte, ride to
tbe places of voting, ami alight in the
midst of a ileutciowd,und wm through
an open space lo tiie polle, depsitiug
their vote with no mote exposure to In
sult or Injury than they woukl expect
on visiUuga grocery store or meat mar
ket. Indeed, they we're much safer here,
every man of their party was pledged lo
shield them, while every member of the
other Kirty, whichever lie, feu red the
iudueuee of any signa of dieres)eot.
And the next day I seul my impres
sions to an eastern iper, declaring my
self convinced that woman's presence at
the polls would elevate the tone of pub
lie sentiment in that place, as it does in
churches, the social hull, or any other
public assemblage, while berowu robes
are uiMqmtted by tbe transient associa
tion with evil characters, which she is
daily obliged to meet in the street or dry
goods store. My observations at subte
qttent annual elections ha only con
firmed my opinion in this respect.
Without reference to jmrty issues, I
noticed that a majority of women voted
for men of tlie most temperate habits,
thus Insuring success to the pirty of law
Httd order.
After three years' alence from my
old home, I 0011 III not fail to notice Iu
the elections of 1577 ami 1S7S, that both
parties had been led to nominate men
of better standing iu moral character, In
order to secure the female vote.
I would say that if the question was
ready for action In any State or Territory
where I resirfed at any time. I would
take the stump for Woman Suffrage,
based on my own experience and obser
vations. Grant's GttAN0c1ttT.11. General
Grant has left IWis for his tour In
Ireland. Mrs. Grant awl Mrs. Sar
lorls are stopping at the Hotel Liv
erpool, and will await there the Gener
al's return. Mrs. Sartoris Is looking ex
tremely well, ami Is even prettier than
she was as Nellie Grunt. She is aeeom po
nied by berhubaiidaudehihl,tbe latter
n most lovely boy not quite 2 years old.
He Is a fair, golden-haired little erea-
Lillian , lure W,MI """" u,ue ew. " not in
1 the least shy or spoiled, manifesting a
, very uatural, but rattier un Kugllsh, de
votion In General Grant "c... .
la ... I.. ... I.l....t . I I
, ' - i'iciihj ah "iimiiuu 01 great Im
l"rtne in the young Reiitlemau'seyes.
i,,r?LrU,!i.r.,.l,L'',lds Xo lm "e winter
i 1,1 Borne, with her niother-tu-Iiiw ami
J it is tbeie that the birth if ber exlictill
( lfaut will take place.
National morality can never prevail
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principle.
A volume of Hans Christian Ander
sen's letters has appeared in Denmark.
LETTEE PEOM HEW YQJLE.
To thi Ewtok or tnr. xuw NVurrmsWrt:
The cipher snb-cdmmittco tbss re
turned to Washington, hut the lrtWtlgn
tlon Isuotyetended. Enough ilknown,
however, to enable those who have fol
lowed the testimony to form a very sat
isfactory conclusion as to the effect of a
marvelous testimony that bag been
taken in tuts city, mere is twit one
conclusion in Republican cireTMi here,
which is that nobody believes tire testi
mony of Tildoti or any of the odparcen
ers, who have been so busy In swearing
to eaeh other's ignorance and IniWunco,
while Tilden's defense, that of igsbrance
or mental paralyei, is regnrdeiniB the
meanest of all. Ko one Lollevcn that
the man who foread himseU xhhjn UtasP? t,,,.Ji pSilisoee Ui a very
party, who pnreliased publie sentiment,
,n.
who bought up opposition aud hired ad
vocacy, whose presidential eampaigu
was strictly personal, and who attended
to the minutest details of the eampaigu,
greatly to the disgust of the party man
agers, forgot all his corruptions', craft
aud cunning on the ulght of November
5th, and retired to I1I9 chamber as an in
nocent Imbecile, who knew nothing- nf
tbe campaign of eash awl craft that was
beiug managed by the inmates of hi
own household, w ho had also been his
most potent agents throughout the pres
idential campaign. One of the most
conspicuous and attentive linteuers pres
ent at the investigation Saturtlay was
Whitelnw Reid. He is n tall, dark
skinned, rather large-honed, aud thin
man, without much on lor, but sensibil
ity in every line of his nostrils, concave
contour,- and smouldering ejen. He
looks like one who fell appreciated, re
euted, aud was easily indignant, oven
on impersonal things, hut wus proud of
hie good tinnie, and wished the good
opinion of tlie world, though he would
not ask for It. Tlie path of talent is
lonely, eveu though one has social pro
pensities, as Mr. Jtelil has. In the oare-
less life and hnlltx nf newspipr writers,
few of them pay enough attention to in
door society
Air. Reid always seemed i
to me to divide his time into three purl,
one for writing, one for society, one for
, , , , " . t
business. He therefore grew eqnully-1
not the lagged hack nor the wasteful j
Boheminn nor yet the mere beau of tlie
boudoir, but moderately rich in letters,
in frieud!, njid in allairs. His eye was
single to two things, fiimueiul Independ
ence and career. He has never married,
tbouxh he hits leen a capital son and
brother. Tlie orlgluul elements of hli
character were rather hard ami positive,
but time and satisfaction are softening
them. Most young ,, . the press i ITtimlaw
bold maukiud to too rigid an aeeouiita- j dr some iueapacily. Yet it is an uudis-
bility, and exieoXnn ideal poll ties and no pitted fact thai the number of able ami
public motive lest than hiftv. Happy is I "uccT,ul fe,le sovereign bears a
that ioii-nalbd. who lef inning i i h'"-1'' Breater proportion to the whole
tbat journalist wlio, beginning too high, nHlber o( ,Verelgns than does
falls not Into misanthropy nor abuses l the number of able awl successful
hiaiudependenoe, hut learns at lait that, ' male sovereigns to the whole number of
diamond though he is, the worm will i lne" wlJ l,ave ,r?'Rned. An able, ener-
i , i . ,11 . . . i getlc, virtuous king or emneror is the
polish him or grind him. As tlie imest xet?,,l(m alM ,K(t t7,e rtlle , thfl h,Btorv
relief of the skeptic is tile chnreii, so the of modern Europe. With hardly an ex
knights must yield to a system. 1'arty ' ception tbe female sovereigns or regeuto
life is tlie only true Held of political use.
fulness. Mr. Greeley lived ami wrote
his best, creating the Republican party;
the time lie spent iu destroying It wh
ruinous to his paper, his friends, and his
health of mind. Out of the wreck nf his
great property his young successor has
extracted a popular Republlnaii journal
again, creative in its purposes., enter
prising In the news. Tiie place for In
dependence is within parly, not like a
detached private railing at the Instinct
of organisation Itself.
A New Orleans Sunday In New York
is jnst what the sportively Inclined have
long desired; and the euteriug wedges
having been put lu the shape of "sacred
concerts," behold; Harry Hill, tbe wick
edest man in Gotham, gives a sacred
concert at his dance-house on Sunday
night, in opposition to the one at the
Grand Opera House. While the ctijtu
attiman pealed forth at one, the gay
and seductive music of 'dlleuhach was
fiddled and tooted at the otlier. There
were about four hundred people who
came in by the ladles' entrance, the front
being demurely closed and blinds put up,
with a most Methodlsticai air of Sunday
propriety. Harry himself sat with a glass
of beer in his hand, acigar in his tnouth
and Ids chair tilted back, while the rak
ish set of his stove-pipe hat gave a most
un-Sumlay-lIke look to his "tool-in-semble."
The bearing of tlienudlenee
generally was more quiet and dignified,
but singers ami hearers indulged in a
unanimous wink when a fair sylph an.
swered au encore with a hymn and an
unmistakable sense of a joke on the sa
cred doy, or rather night, pervaded the
assembly. At time's a nice young man
asked the pretty bur-maid If Miss Mollis
... cr , i i i ,
or Miss Sarah had been in, and was an-
swered by an encouraging promle and a
consolatory admoultion, "notto fret." A
colored. troupe of jubilee singers gave a
plantation darkey hymn very melodi
ously, witli the refrain, "Didn't old I'ha
roah get lostln the Red Sear' derisive
ly by tlie chorus, "Didn't old I'haroah get
lost," etc. Aud this was a sacred con
cert. Let us seek a week day and sun
light for something comparatively Sub-bath-like.
As Gotham Improves
tbe divine truth Is dispensed In various
ad va need methods; but the best Is to suit
tiie church to the world, instead of try
ing to sqlt the world to tbe church,
which was the old. way. Give the
righteous such a gay time that the sin
ners will feel left out in tbe cold, andi
alnve all, make n sensation, for that
will do anything with n Gotbnralte,
even reform him, If the reformation
does not iuenr the penalty of honesty
ami virtue. The nanal boatmen, nt the
foot of Fifteenth street, in Jersoy City,
are going it strong In a sort of water
party picnic. Here is tlio style of a
model preacher's diary, in the school of
Talmage: January 1. Last oomic bur
lesque sermon trotted out with brilliant
success, choir san new selection of op
era boufle. Sacred jubilnnto chnrug.
Applause. Requested Deity to put
down self-pride and schism wliejuyer. It
might be found. Hinted ut the JtWtdl
ous wiles and devices useil by the, ad-
1 versary, aud more tliau onoe alluded to
poinieu manner; rre nan a gnou'itmer
and everybody was kept 011 the broad
grin during tbe entire service. Several
of my ministerial brethren assisted."
"January 10. The comic sermons and
eollectious of saered humorous hymns
have steadily drawn the unregenerule to
my church. But I don't allow one nov
elty lo get cold before treating another.
Six months ago we bundled the old-
fashioned pulpit into the lumber-room,
and substituted in lie place a large plalu
platform. Signor Fortissimo, the great
cornet player, has been employed, and
as a novelty will draw." riiis is not
profanity, but horror of professional im
piety and desire for a country meeting
house, where there is some real ami pure
respect for real religion, ACOUST.
New York, February 30, IS78.
Woman's Fitness for GcTernmental Affairs.
The minority report of the committee
on itrlvilegM aud eleetiont, upon the
sixteenth amendment to the constitu
tion make the .following historical state
ment relative to woman's capacity as a
ruler:
Tbe lessons of experienee favor the
conclusion that woman is 111 for a share
In government. It may be true tliat in
certain departments of Intellectual effort
toe greatest achievements Of women
have as yet never eounled the greateit
achievements 01 men. jsut it is tqually
lrue thfl 1,1 t'V'!f.,,"e rrl "eiits
women have exhibited an intellectual
ability very far lieyoml that of most
men who have shown very great politl
cal caacity. But lei the comparison
be made in regard to the very thing with
which we have to deal. Of men who
have swayed ehlef executive power, a
very considerable roportioti have at
tained it by ursiiration or by election,
proeeei which imply extranrdinary
capacity nu their part as compared witli
other men. The women wIhj have held
such po Aer have come lo It as sovereigns
by inheritance, or as regents bv the
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have been wise and popular. Mr. Mill,
who maaes tins point, says:
We know how small a number of
relguiug queens history presents, in com
parison with that of kings. Of this
smaller unmlier, a far larger proortiou
have shown talents for rule, though
many of them have occupied the throne
iu difficult period. When to queens
and empresses we add regents and vice
roys of province-", the list of women
who have been eminent rulers' of man
kind swells lo a great length.
Especially is this true if we take into
consideration Asia as well as Europe.
If a Hindoo principality is strongly,
vigilantly, and economically governed;
If order is preserved without oppression;
li cultivation is extending ami the )eo
pie prosperous, iu three cases out of four
that principality is tinder a woman's
rule. This fact, tn me au entirely unex
pected one, I have colleeled from a long
official knoweledgeof Hindoo govern
ments. On the third of March, proximo, Mrs.
Belva A. Iviakwood was admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court of
the United Slates. Ex-Congressman,
ex-ndvilest, hero of the safe burglary
prosecution, awl present District Attor
ney, Hon. A. G. Riddle, presented her
name. Tbe bill, making woman eligi
ble to i-ractice before the highest and
most august court iu tills hemisphere,
lias been pending In the Senate for three
years, awl its final passage mint not be
credited to any great revolution in pop
ular or Congresiooal sentiment, but to
the indomitable persistence nf Mrs.
Ijockwood, the lawyer. The hill bad to
a I appearances been stilled by two ad-veri-e
rejiortsof the judiciary committee.
It had oeeu voted down ignomiuiously
whenever it dared to show its face in
the Senate. All the great lawyers nf
that ImxIv, Thtiriuau, Edmunds, Conk
liug, were upponed to it. But Mrs. Iock
woud was in favor of il, and her place at
the bar is won. What she knows from
experienee about lobbying would make
a mighty interesting little book. The
Pu,?r Idea of tlie successful female lob
.hyistlsa pretty little woman, half ve
,. half 1'svche. and all brass, or aror.
jgeous, magnetic, voluptuous creature.
like the ideal heroine of the "Glided
Age." Mrs. Eockwood is neither kind
of a woman. She forces rather than
wins tier point, but nover by the dint of
the devil ami dissembling looks.
Tlie elevated railway In New York
carries uearly 100,000 passengers a day,
and the trains run, on an average, 27,
000 miles. The financial showing Is fa
vorable. On May 16, 1S77, it had less
than $10,000 in cash, and owed $278,000.
1
says, pays a tax to tbe city of five per
oent. on its net annual ineome. whleh
tax now amountsto Irom $25,000 to $30,
000 a year, and will of course Increase
with the increased income of tlie road.
No one has ever found fault with a
music-box for putting on airs.
LAME- LA-MAING.
lOTHE KBITfln Of THE NEW Jft
The Chinese restriction Mil - has been
framed, nrgued, passed and vetoed, so
tint it seems now tn be beyond discus
sion; but there was about its provisions,
as about many otlier laws that have been
enaoted amid scenes of stormy debate,
aud then either abrogated by the Su
preme Court or circumvented by tech
nical interpretation, a Ismeness that
would have rendered amendment neces
sary ot,oQce. For instance, it Is said that
lueyjw only restricted the arrival of Chi
nese iuto the territory of tiieUnlled
States by steamer. Now, lu case' this
bill had become a law, would not eva
sion of the "restriction imposed been
easy enough 7 Had Uie Chlnee6 govern
ment deemed It -expedient t tfo' ae I
would it not have been easy to have
landed within a few months half a
million of her subjects on this conti
nent by way of British American and
lies loan ports, and might not these
with no great amount of fatigue or
trouble have made their way across our
borders? This will compare favorably
with a section in "Deady's Code" where
inall eitisens of Oregon over 21 years of
age are declared entitled to the fran
chise, and then when test is made, the
intent is declared to be "male" citizens.
Tiie Supreme Court decided the blaek
mau was not a citizen because he was
uoia voter, and when by constitutional
umemlmentall "persons" wore declared
to be citizens and entitled to the fran
chise, it look this same high tribunal
to again decide that women were not
"persons" iu the intent of the said
amendment, and though a citizen, a
woman had uo right to vote. The black
man could not be a citizen without the
ballot; woman, though a citizen, Is not
entitled to the ballot. Such discrepan
cies are clearly either quibbles to keep
woman In political serfdom, or onr law
makers, from the lack of natural ability,
dojiot themselves know how lo interpret
liielrowu laws, it may not, most prob
ably is not, wi-e to allow our land to be
Hooded witli au Inferior race, yet If this
boasted restriction bill had become a law
which the Supreme Court of the United
States hud fouud without legal Haw, It
would easily and surely have been
evaded by the simple landing or cargoes
of coolies at the foreign ports of tbe
continent, aud then would come our law
expounders with the declaration that
the intent nf the bill was to prevent the
embarkation. of more than 15 Chinamen
on a vessel bound to any American port,
an intent in which liotli the imvem.
ments of China aud Great Britain
would doubtless have acquiesced with
out question. JuttA A. Joh.vs.
Uervais, Oregou, March 5, 1S79.
Loeretia Mott.
Lticretla Mott has lost mwusl her
eiglily-Mxth btrthdav. loved and hon
ored as few people ever are. Her long
puiiiic career shows that a womanly
woman may not be rendered lees so be
cause she takes Into her active interest
awl sympathy questions of the public
wenare.
Mis. Mott was among the verv earli
est of the alolitioiiists. She traveled
far and wi.le to sjieak for the slaves.
She has been a minister of the Society
of Friends sixty-six years; ami is now
presnienl ol the IViinsy Ivauia 1'euce
Society. She has taken an active part
in the Woman Snllruge cause, having
been present at the very first conven
tion ever held in this country in the
special interest of women. Her lius-
UttiHl, dear, good James Mott, weut with
hur hIiiiinI at.ren-li.ri. i i i
rUs Z!k ft. E !
sitle seat, to keep oil tbe bores, who
would have worn nut the life as well as
the lungs of Mrs. Mott, if James Moll
hod not resolutely sal between her and
them.
At her late birthday, ber children,
her grandchildren und her great-grandchildren
gathered with loving rever
ence for this world-renowned woman,
who at eighty-six is a pattern of In
dustry, activity, and freshness of spirit
which cannot grow old. Outside of her
home circle, a stilt larger niimlierof per
sons whose privilege il has been to know
this rare woman will wish her still
"many happy returns of her birthday."
Woman's Journal.
Fkbttisos. One fretter ean destroy
the (leaee of a family, can disturb the
harmony of a neighborhood, can uuet
tle the councils of cities and hinder tbe
legislation of nations. He who frets Is
never tlie one who mends, who heels,
who repairs evils; more, lie discourages,
enfeebles ami too often disables tlwwe
around him, who, but for the gloom ami
depression of his company, would ilo
good work and keep up brave cheer.
The effect upon a seusitive person of the
mere neighborhood of a fretter is inde
scribable. Il is to tlie soul what a cold, I
ley mist is to tlie body more chilling
than the bitterest storm. Aud wh ;n tbe
fretter Is one who is beloved, wbo-e
nearness of relation to us makes Ids fiet
ting at the weatlter seem liken personal
reproach lo us. then the misery of It be
comes Indeed iusiiporlable. Most men
call fretting a minor fault a foible and
not a vice. There Is no vice except
druiikeiiiiesf whleh so utterly destroys
tbe peace, the happiness of a home.
"Are yon sure you are not a newspa
per perugrapher?" said a benevolent
old Philadelphia tjuaker to a tramp who
mm sonciieu nun mr aims, "l never
dhl nntllin' to lie sent to tlie penitenti
ary for in my life," protested tlie tramp
with tears in his eyes; and when the
uaaeruroppeua nan-dollar in his palm
he walked oil with a countenauce as
beaming as a new brass kettle. .dn.
reti'' Bazar.
We don't know exactly how It is, but
there Is usually trouble" where there is a
man in a ugiii place, or a tight man In
Trofessor Wilson Is about to publish a
'journal of his tour In Norway.
Matrimonial Qnarrsk.
It Is very commonly observed that
tlie most smart pangs whleh we meet
w th are iu the liegi lining of wedlock,
which proceed from Ignorance of eacli
other's humor, and want of prudence to
make allowances for a ehange from the
most oarefui respect to the iwK un
bounded fupilllarity. Heuee it arises
that trifles are eommouly occasions of
the greatest anxiety; for contradiction
being a tiling wholly unusual between
a newly-married couple, tlie smallest
instance of It Is taken for the liii-ho-i in
jury; and It very seldom happens that
luo man is stow enougii in aa earning
two uumuuier 01 a nusoanu, or AIW
woman quiak enough In raimleseallfiiiur
to that of a wife. It immedfotsfw lad-
lows that they think they,Jiav9 all tbe
time or tneir conrtslilp been talking in
masks to each other, and therefore be-
giu to act like dlseonohited peonie, Phi-
jPMa'eE.rflpdaJQena Ul-untare In ad im
pertinent, and Delia, rhllanoTer wrly
and inconstant.
I have known a fond couple to quarrel
In the very honey-moon about eutting
up a lart; nay, I could name two wbo,
after liaviug had several children, fell
out and parted beds, upon the boiling of
a leg of mutton. My very next neigh
bors have not spoken to one another
these three days, beeause they differed
In their opinions whether tbe clock
should stand by the window, or over
the chimney. It may seem strange U.
you, who are not a married man, when I
tell you how the least trifie can strike a
woman dumb fora week together. But,
e.er e,,,er '",0 this slate, you
will find that the soft sex as often ex
press their auger by an obstinate si
lence as by an ungovernable clamor.
Those, indeed, wbo begin this course
of life without jars at their setting out,
arrive within a tew months at a pitch of
benevolence and affection, of which the
most perfect friendship is but a faint
resemblance. As in the unfortunate
marriage the most minute arid ind lifer
ent things are the onjeet of the sharo-
est resentment, so in a hanov iu Hue
are the occasion of the most exquisite
satisfaction. For what does not oblige
iu one we love 7 "What does n6l offend
In oue we dislike? i'or these reasons, I
take it for a rule that in marriage tbe
Chief business is lo acquire a preposses
sion iu favor of each other. They should
consider one another's words aud actions
with secret indulgence. There should
tie always an inward fooduess pleading
for each other, such as may add new
beauties to everything that is excellent,
give charms to what is indifferent, and
eover everything that Is defective. For
want of this kiud propensity and bias
miud, the married pair take things ill
of each other which no oue else would
take notice of iu either of them.
But the most unhappy circumstances
of all is where eacli party is always lay
ing up fuel fur dissension, and gathering
together a magazine of provocations, to
exastierate each other with when they
are out of humor. These people, iu
common discourse, make no scruple to
let those who are by kuow they are
quarreling with one another; and think
they are discreet enough if they conceal
from the company tlie matters which
they are hinting at.
Thk Effects of Worry. That tbe
effects of worry are more lo be dreaded
than those of slmole hard work Is vi.
dent from noting the classes of persons
wnosoner mosi irom theelteetsof men
tal overstrain. Tlie case hook of the
physician shows that it is the specu
lator, the betting man, the railway
maimger. the great merchant, the su
perintendent of large manufacturing or
commercial works, who most frequently
exhitiit the symptoms of cerebral ax-
nausiion. .Mental cares accompanied
with suppressed emotion, oceuitious
liable to treat vicissitudes of fnrtiina.
and those which involve the bearing on
the mind of a multiplicity of intricate
details, eventually break down Hie lives
oi tne strongest. In estimating what
may lie called the .staying powers of dif
ferent minds under hard work, it Is al
ways necessary to take early training
into account. A youug mau cast sud
denly into a position involving great
care and responsibility will break down
i cusuimwiKw in wnisn, IIBII as sten
I i? ""l!!
in ciicumslMiicea lu which, had lie been
out difficulty. It is probably for this
reason that the professional classes sren-
erally sutler lees from the elleets of
overstrain than others. They have a
long eoureof preliminary training; ami
their work comes on Ihetn by degrees;
therefore, when it does come in exces
sive quantity, ii rinds them prepared for
it. Those, on tbe other hand, who sud
denly vault into a position requiring se
vere menial toll, generally die beore
their lime, Chambers' Journal.
Cloves are unowned dowers of a small
evergreen tree, that resembles In ap
pearance the laurel or the bay. It is a
native of tbe Molucca or Spice Islands,
but bus been carried to all the warmer
mrts of the world, and is largely culti
vated in the tropical regions of America.
The Mowers are small in size and grow
in large no in hers in clusters at tlie very
end of th j branches. The cloves we use
ar." i be fluwers gathered before tliey are
ojH-iied and whilst they are still green.
After l bey are gathered they aresmoked
l a wood fire ami then .dried in the Sun.
E li coi.a sts of two rirt, a round he-id,
which is the four petals oi leaves of the
flutters rolled up. Inclosing a number of
slocks mih! filaments. The other nart of
die .-love is terminated with four
and is, in fact, the flower cun l .iwl
m.r pe seed vessel. AU these narts mav
hedisUoOtly shown If a W- aniL- o,!
soaked a short time in hot water, wheu
iuv reurn suueu ami unroll.
Happy is that mau who. Hearing the
borders of life's sunset, finds himself In
tlie care aud companionship of a loving
and teuder womuu, whom he regards
and has ever treated as an equal, awl to
whom all his life he has been faithful
and true.
7 "
The most gifted of the young authors
In Holland is a young lady who writes
uwler the pen name of A. S. C. Wallfs.
She has just published an historical
uovel of the days of the Eighty Years'
War.
New South Wales orders ber mowers,
reapers, rukei, hoes, shovels, pltehforka,
spade", aud ehewriug-gum from the
Unite Suites.
Our dead are never dead to ns until -we
have forgotten them. George JJHof.
The total number of prisoners in the,
1 California State prison is 1,539.