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MRS. HARDIN E'S WILL.
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CHAPTER XVL
- OFT PMt THE aaTTIM) SDK.
God rentier, let us pes over the
heart-rending aeene In tlio Ingleton
bo til at awaited tlie revelation of the
imw on-ia-law' latest ileclslon. There
are scenes of sorrow that defy deserlp
tion, because the deep sufferings that
give them visible expression surge be
neath the surface, aod rage and gorge
and sarfeil upon the Innermost agonies
of the human heart.
Mrs. Tuple Ion was not wholly unpre
pared for the blow that was to banish
Iter daogbter from her presence. There
is a subtle sense, peculiar to woman,
that unooBseioualy prepares her before
hand for the worst calamities ; and, but
for this, many a one would never be
able to rebound In spirit from the effect
of her deep disappointments.
'Squire Ingleton hod fully set his
aim! at rest upon the subject of his
contemplated removal, and would not
permit himself to doubt that he was to
go to Oregon with his daughter. Once
(here, entirely away from the scene of
bit former struggles and humiliations,
lie hoped to begin life anew, and recover
somewhat of his old-time vim. Thli
hope bail aseerted Itself with a despera
tion that would brook no denial ; and
when, at last, the fatal adverse decision
muie, and the idolised daughter of his
heart was bound for life to an adverse
interest by a tie, the legal force of which
be had never before comprehended, and
was oo longer his own in any sense save
that of a thwarted but keen affection,
and he realised, at the latest moment,
that this last prop, upon which he had
hoped to lean his declining days, was a
broken reed, a broken faith, ami a
broken moral law, for which no human
restraint had been legally provided, the
poor nan's agony was pitiful. Mrs.
iBgteHta bra sal y choked baek her own
Battering, and half forgot Its keenest
poignancy in her endeavor to solace and
sustain him.
The covered wagon aud Us patieut
team of oxen waited long at the humble
door. Tlrzali moved aimlessly about
the lowly room, her eyes as stony as her
heart was heavy. Old friends and ac
quaintances dropped lu by twos and
threes aud lialf-doaeue, aud lingered
about the yard In the chill Mareh
weather, waiting to give the young
couple their parting blessing. No one
at all that company save 'Lize llardine
was cognizant of the cruel disappoint
ment which gnawed at the heart of the
bride, as she felt herself compelled to
abide by her husband's fiat, and accept
and jostify it by her acts and words,
uvea while in her inner soul she re-
peWed the continuance of the contract
that her husband had the power to en
force, even after he had repudiated its
primal and chief conditions.
"You are young to be learning such a
lessen," said'Lise, who remained at her
side and counseled with her constantly.
"Nobody ought ever to be able to make
a bargain which Is binding upon one
and not upon the other."
Tirsab turned upon her with a pecu
liar stare, as though her wits were in
danger of going daft.
"This world is a hell to married wom
en, and I hale it!" site exclaimed, hotly.
"Sh-h-h-h!" answered 'Use. "The
world Is well enough, aud the people in
it will learn the abstract principle of
right some day. I'll do what I can for
your father aud mother. Do you not
trextt me?"
"Yea till you're married. After that
you'll be like the rest of 'em."
"Don't say that, Tirzah, please. I am
as thoroughly outraged by the action of
my brother as yourself. But I cannot
help It auy more than you."
"Why hasn't some!ody loug ago so
fixed tblogs that such outrages oould
not be?" said Tirzah, wouderingly
"It seems to me that any violation of
the marriage contract, in any of Its con
Uitiona, should be considered in law as
the meanest crime in the category."
"So It ought to be. Tirzah : but man
mattes law aud construes gospel, eaeh to
suit himself. Woman is not man's
equal under the law. There Is some'
tiling wrong in this, but I can't see that
it will ever be righted until womeu are
consulted about making the laws that
govern them."
"Will that time ever come, 'Llze?"
"I should hope so, sister mine. But
new, let us go to your parents, l'oor
things ! Let them have the little of
yoursoclety that yet remains for them."
In the lowly cabin eat the prematurely
aged pair, the good wife striving with
all her womanly might to cheer her
despondent lord, while groups of neigh
bors were passing In and out, tracking
the soft Spring mud upon the uneven
door.
"Come, wife ! Heady T" shouted the
junior Hardine, as he stood with whip
in hand beside the walling oxeu.
No response.
Tirzah had knelt beside ber parents to
receive their parting blessing, and did
not hear her husband's words.
"You'd better go In and say good-bye
to the old people. John. It'll look bet
ter," said the senior Hardine.
John yielded tbc whip to tils father
and obeyed the suggestion. Tirxali was
kneeling before her parents when he
entered their pretence, the hand of each
upon her low-bowed bead.
"Com, wife! No more nonsense
I've been ready and waltiug for half an
hour!"
The young wife did not answer. She
was hugging the knees of heratherand
inolber, and silently praying forslreogth
to be given them aud herself.
"It would be easier to bear If we'd
talked it over and agreed to it before-
hind," said the 'Squire, in a tone so de
spairing that Tirzah shrieked and fell
prostrate at his feet.
"John," exclaimed Mrs. Ingleton, a
glassy glitter in her eyes and her voice
modulated to a low, inipressivecadence,
"you galued your wife by a lie! Your
whole life has been a falsehood, aud you
have Imposed upon the parents of your
wife the most shameful outrage of which
mortal man is capable."
"Oh, if you're goin' to make such
tarual fuss as this over nothing," said
John, "you'd just as well gather up
your traps and come along. It I'll have
to take you along, I a' pose I must, to
keep peace iu the family; but durn my
skin if I b'lieve iu marry iu' a whole
family !"
"Juhu Harditie," and Mrs. Ingleton
was strangely calm now, "do you sup
pose, after what has happened, that we
would go with you, or become beholden
to you upon auy terms? No, sir! You
have the advantage. Take It, and keep
it, and much good may it do you ! But
oh, I pray you, do not be otherwise
than kind and loving with my poor
child, whom you're going to drag away
into the wilderness alone !"
"You talk as if I was a monster, in
stead of a lawful husband," said John.
"Come, Tirzah," aud he raised her to
her feet and led her away without
parting embrace or look or word. "Get
Into the wagon, quick, aud let's be oil"!
It's high uoou now, ami we ought to
have started two hours ago."
'Llze followed Tirzah to the wagon,
and kissed her lovingly.
"If you see John, give him this," she
whispered, slipping a letter into her
baud and turning away to engage the
attention of her brother while Tirzah
hid the missive in the sleeve of her
dress, and thus practiced her first act of
deception upon her husband.
I shouldn't think you could be to
hard-hearted as to leave your father aud
mother iu their distress ami poverty.
It's a real shame 1" exclaimed the
buxam sister of the junior llardpan, as
she extended her heckled hand for a
parting shake.
Tirzah did not answer. If she had
died for it, she would not have broken
down before that curious crowd of
lookers-on.
More good-byes ami many good
wishes were exchanged, and Captain
Hardine bade a final adieu to his sou
with the characteristic Injunction to
"keep bis eyes peeled aud look sharp for
the main chauce."
The oxen were not accustomed to the
yoke, and, mueh to the relief of the
young wife, who longed to be alone, her
husband was compelled to walk beside
them to keep them In the muddy roads,
while she sat silent lu the wagon.
The day wore along till near nightfall
before the master of the team could ven
ture to climb above the forward wheels
and recruit his tired legs by a little un
easy rest.
Thank God ! The agony's over at
last!" he exclaimed, as he looked hard
at his wife, who sal like a statute, her
face averted.
"The Ingleton family's well oil o' my
bauds, and will be now, for good aud
all," he continued, in au emphatic tone.
Tirzah did uot reply.
Like mauy another husband who has
tried to institute man-made law as a
substitute for human love and human
honor, John Hardine was making a
serious aud unfortunate mistake. But
he was uot content with gaining his
point ; he must needs exult over it.
"The mau that would expect me to
take a responsibility like that upon my
shoulders, -when I'd nothing to gain by
it, and much to lose, don't know the
Hardine family," he said, with em
phasis. "Very true," said Tirzah, a bitter
irony in her tone which would have
stung the sensibilities of a susceptible
man.
"Captain Hardine Is the richest man
In Chincapiu county, aud- you may
mark my word, wife, his son John will
never be outdone by his daddy."
"I believe you."
"Not twenty-one yet," continued the
husband. "Whoa, haw, there, Buck !
gee, Berry! Uot twenty-one yet, aud
the owner of an outfit worth six hun
dred, if a dollar, and a little wife all to
myself, and no poor relations. Don't
you think, my dear, that John Har
dlue'a a lucky dog !"
"Possibly."
"Jssibty, indeed I'm disappointed
in you, Tirzah Hardine I You've got a
good husband, whom all the girls of
Chincapiu were trying to capture.
You've a bright futurebefore you, In
loving aud serving and looking up to
me, What more can any woman ask
for7"
"I asked, or at least I expected, jus
tice and bouor In you, John."
"And I say that you have no right to
Impugn my motives. I defy any lawyer
iu the land, or any court of justice, or
auy jury of men In America, to say that
I have not acted in the strict line of
legal privilege aud legal power. It is
the part of the husband to will; it is the
duty of the wife to fftrec aud obey, even
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him
lord. What more could any woman ask
for?"
Tirzah was slleut. Where, Indeed,
was the argument that could refute the
absolute power Into which she had un
consciously yielded herself? livery
fibre of her inner consciousness rebelled
against It; but what matter? Could
she help herself?
During these later years Hie question
has often been asked, Why was it that
women did uot formerly complain, as
now, of one-sided matrimonial coudl
tions?
To this I answer by another question
Why did not the wife of John Hardine
complain? Cannot the reader answer?
Night fell, and they encamped by the
roadside, prepared their supper, fed
their cattle from the store of a neighbor
ing farmer, pitched their tent, and were
ready for the first outdoor lodging of a
six months' journey.
Tirzah awoke during the night with a
stilliug sensation lu her throat, as
though connection between her nostrils
aud windpipe were severed by some
sharp Instrument.
"John ! Johu!" she screamed, "some
body's cutting my throat!"
For an Instant Johu Hardine was
frightened. He arose and groped about
in search of the supposed intruder, but
finding none, retired grunibllugly to his
couch, aud was soon again In a. heavy
slumber.
But there was no more sleep for Tir
zah. A foreboding of impending evil
overshadowed her spirits, and she felt
that death would be a welcome visitor.
She was naturally timht, ami the
strange sensatlous of the first night of
camping nut with only a canvas wall
for protection, was of itself enough to
arouse her nerves to a high pitch of ex
citement. But when, added to this was
her grief at parting from the loved
see ues of her childhood, and the bitter'
agony of an enforced separation from
her sorrowing parents, whom she would
uot under the circumstances have vol
untarily forsaken for a king's ransom,
it was little wonder that an agnuy akin
to that of Gethsemenc was upon her
soul.
There is a sublimit)' of ogotism In the
masculine idea that the ownership of a
woman by her husband Is her chlefest
joy, no matter whether he may deserve
the homage or not; there Is a loftiness
of self-esteem In this peculiar aud wide
spread conjugal fancy that challenges
aJmiralioii. Aud, were the phantasy
but real, it would, by its persistency,
always succeed iu asserting itself and
satisfying the feminine party to this
man-made condition. But, unfortu
nately for this theory of mau, woman
has a will of her own, and a sense of
justice within herself that no amount of
masculine vanity can eradicate or crush.
There is but one way to destroy the in
dividuality of woman, aud that is by
killing them all oil. But you could no
more impress such au idea or such a
principle upon a self-conceited youth
like John Hardine than you could
puncture the epidermis of a hippopota
mus with peanuts fired from a child's
pop-gun.
Tlie morning star had hung her jew
eled lamp high In the heavens, and It
was time for the wayfarers to be astir.
Johu was accustomed to awakening
with the lark, anil a feeling of supersti
tion akin to dread filled bis heart as he
listened for the song of his favorite bird,
and iustead the croak of a raven smote
his ear. Ho listened Intently as the
ominous croak was repeated. .
"Tirzah !"
No answer.
Could he have known the utter loath
ing with which his wile had learned in
their brief conjugal experience to think
of him; could he, in his intense vaulty,
have dreamed of the change In her feel
ings; could he have deemed It possible
for her to look upon him as he was,
rather than as the lord he fancied him
self to be, the lesson would have been a
salutary one. It was uot then too late
for him to redeem himself iu the esti
mation of his wife. But, alas for him I
be comprehended no other law than
that of power, and recogulzed no other
right but that of might.
The sound of horses' hoofs was heard
upon the road hard by.
"Halloa!"
"I've beard that voice before," said
John.
The halloa was repeated.
"Ay, ay ! What's wanted ?"
The rider was heard to dismount.
"I've bad news from the Ingletons !"
exclaimed the visitor, iu a voice which
Tirzah recognized as Joe Bidgeway's.
"Bad news from the Ingletons, did he
say, Johu? Oh, I knew there would be
trouble !"
"What Is It ?" asked John, his heart
fairly in bis throat, as a seuse of guilt
which be could not stifle filled him with
au Indefinable dread.
" 'Squire Ingleton has cut his throat!"
"I kneta ill O John, I knew It!"
Cried Tirzah. "And It was our fault!
He could uot bear Ibis last cruel disap
pointment. I'll go right baok on Joe's
horse, and you and Joe can come with
the team. I'll be dressed in half a min
ute. Oh, my poor mother! What will
become of heratid tlie ynunger children?
If my brother Johu were only here!"
"Your husband Is here, Mrs. Har
dine !" said John, "and you seem to for
get Aim!"
Again the young wifo was silent.
There seemed to be no danger, as yet, of
her forgetting that her husband was at
hand. 1
She was robed andout inn little while.
"We haven't traveled over a dozen
niile have we, Joe?"
"Not more than ten, I'd reckon."
"Very well ; your horse caii take mo
back without stopping In feed him.
You aud John can come along with the
oxen. I can ride a man's saddle."
With tills she took tlie reins aud pre
pared to spring nimbly Into the saddle,
as sheliad done a thousand times in ber
girlhood's days.
John Hardine took the liorre by the
bits and gave lilm a sudden turn, out of
her reach.
"You forget yourself, Mrs. Hardine!"
"What do you mean 7" she asked, as
every nerve quivered with agony.
"I mean that you're not going back
to Chiticuplu, and that I forbid you to
ride that horse."
"But I teill go, Johu !"
"And I say you tcon'l! What good
would come of our taking the back
track like a pair o' crawfishes? We've
got the news, and that's enough. If a
man wants to cut his throat, I don't
know as there's any law to hinder lilm.
We're much obliged to Joe for bringing
us tlie news, and I'm deuced sorry the
thing happened. But there's no use iu
crying over spilt milk."
Aud you won't let me go to my
mother, John?"
"Indeed I won't !"
"Then I'll go anyhow ! You'll let me
ride your horse, won't you, Joe ?"
"Certainly, If your htifbaud Is will
ing."
"Which he ain't!" eald John.
"But It's my wish!" cried Tirzah.
John has nothing to do with it."
"You Arguing without my consent,
aud you'll see what will come of It!"
said John. "And now for the particu
lars, Did tbe-ola fellow leave any tiiea-'
sages?"
"No. There was a slip of paper found
beside lilm with tlie words, 'My life has
b.eeu a blank.' That was all. It wasn't
found nut till after midnight, though he
must 'u' done It curly iu the night.
There was barrels of blond, and his poor
wife's well nigh crazy."
"It's a bad Job a bad Job!" said John.
"But no good'll come of herncelii' her
mother again," and he nodded signifi
cantly at Tirzah. "I'm glad we got
well on the way before It happened.
We'll, give you some breakfast, aud
then you can go back with our compli
ments and thank 'em for us for sending
the word."
"If It wasn't for meddling where a
man has uo business, I'd insist on your
sending your wife hack, John. It seems
not exactly right," said Joe, aside.
You just try meddling in my aflalrs,
and I'll see what the taw '11 do for me,"
replied the self-conscious husband.
"I know," answered Joe; "but some-
huw it doesu't seem tight."
I To lie ooiiUuued.l
Now She Yotes.
There was a large and fashlonahlft at
tendance at the Equal Itlchts play nt
Music Hall last evening. livery seat in
the hall was occupied, ami all present
exhibited, by frequent outburst) of
laughter anil rounds or applause, tlie
keen appreciation lu which the di def
erent hltuatbius of the play were held.
Tlie dramatization of "Joilali Allen'
Wife" was well lilted with situations.
tableaux, pithy colloquy ami sprightly
dialogue tlie whole arranged with an
eye to keeping the Interest on the qui,
vxvc All who nave read the hook were
prepared In anticipate the progress of
the play. 'Hie great mystery clinging
to "P. A. and I. I." was solved by the
irrepressible Snmaniha Allen (Mrs. L
J. Watkius), who announced ut the
conclusion that she was a delegate from
lie Society oi creation (Searchers to the
Centennial as a "Promiscuous Advisor
and Private Investigator." Mr. 1'edick,
me voter, t-sir. joiiu Cory, "who
couldn't read," delivered a hard blow
when he opiKised Womun Sullrage on
the ground that "they didn't know
enough!" Tim parts were well sus
tained, the principal ones being Mr.
Sebastaili Shaw as "David Doodles"
and "Solomon Cypher,-" Miss Walcb as
"Dolly Doodles" (who, as a wife, and
not a citizen, had all the rights she
wauted), Mr. Harry Mason as "Judge
Snow," John Cory as "Old Mr.Pedick,"
Harry Battsford as "Joslah Allen,"
Mrs. L. J. Watkius as "Samantba Al
len," Frank Watkius as "Thomas Jef
ferson," and Miss Woods as "Betsy
Sllmpsey." The performance closed
with a grand Pinafore chorus by the
entire strength of the cast, Mrs. E. O.
Smith reuderilig the solos lu a clear,
powerful, resouant voice, smooth ami
deep as the tones of a 'cello. Following
is the first stanza of the song :
Now for fair women alt make war '
Mlie's coming with tier suffrage way.
No frown nor fear her rourage daunts ;
Not ben, sol ber tUter', nor tier cousins', nor
her aunts'.
It Is a subject of regret that Mrs.
Knox-Goodrich, who had taken so ac
tive a part In the preparations, was de
tained by sickness from being present.
After this the floor was cleared, mauy
of the audience remaining, and daucing
was tho order of the hour. San Jose
Mercury, Feb. 19.
The first thing a man takes to la life
Is his milk; the last Is bis bier.
LETTEE IE0M HON. J. A. COLLINS
I'.KAI) HF.rOHK TUB OHEOOS WOMAK SUFFRAGE
COJiVBNTION.
San Francisco, February C, 1SS0.
To the President, Offleers ami Members
of the Oregon Stale Woman Suffrage
Association Dear Friends: Were It
practically possible, gladly would I ac
cept your Invitation to be present and
midress your annual gathering on tlie
12th aud 13lh lusts.
This grand movement, which Itns been
championed in the very teeth of indif
ference, ridicule and opposition by the
courageous, heroic and self-denying
labors of some of Freedom's noblest
representatives, has now galued such a
strong hold ou the public mind that uo
human power can materially check Its
progress or defeat its ultimate triumph.
The year past has wilnesed few ex
citing or extraordinary triumphs in auy
particular locality, but It has been, as a
whole, one of unusual growth aud de
cided progress throughout the country.
The central idea of this suffrage reform,
that It is usurpation and tyranny on the
part of men, who dominate the govern
ment, to deny women tlie possession
ami exereisc of the same political rights
they claim for themselves, has by the
more thoughtful, humane and progres
sive wing of society been more boldly
and vigorously set forth and advocated
in pulpits, ecclesiastical conferences,
associations aud synods, In lectures, po
litical conventions, legislatures and the
pret-s, and received less of ridicule aud
distinct opposition, than in any former
year since Its origin, in lSol. This prog
ress may be noted in part by the numer
ous political concessions to women, of
more or leas Importance, by our Na
tional, State and Territorial Legislatures
and executive departments, but more
particularly by her increased and suc
cessful efforts to win an Independent
livelihood by her own personal exer
tious by crowding herself lulo thoe in
dustrial, commercial, mechanical, edu
cational, literary, scientific, artistic and
professional calling, from which she
has Iwn excluded, from titno immemo
rial, on the assumed ground of naturally
physical aud mental Inferiority. The
care, promptness, industry, order, neat
ness, skill and eudurauce she invariably
brings to beardlieetly upon her task In
any and every detriment she enters,
challenges uot only the astonishment,
but the admiration also, of tho-o who
witness her achievements, ami which
demonstrate her capacity to became the
equal and peer of her more ponderous
brother lu tlie numerous civil depart
ment of society into which she enters.
Women clerks in the United States
Treasury Department have demon
strated their capacity and skill in the
numerous ami vat led duties assigned
them. V. S. Treasurer Spinner gave
much credit for his own 'success in tho
Treasury Bureau to the Industry and
faithfulness of the hundreds of women
clerks under bis direction." Iu tlie Gen
eral Post Office Department at Wash
ington, General Burt states that uot one
dollar has ever been embezzled by
women clerks. In all the various cler
ical ami executive departments under
the Government, local, Territorial, State
ami National, In whicli she has offi
ciated, site has been invariably awarded
uustiuted praise for the precision and
artistic character of her work.
For more than three-fourths of a cen
tury, with the strong pressure of hered
itary public sentiment against her,
woman, from the teacher of infants
during the planting and harvesting
mouths of the year, has been quietly
but continuously working her way In
the confidence of the public as an edu
cator, until she has nearly monopolized
the teaching of the public school de
partments of the country, and during
that peilod she lias nearly wrought out
one of the grandest moral revolutions
of tills or any other age in school dis
cipline, in the banishment of tlie roil as
an indispensable auxiliary in school
government; and but for the influence
of the few.high-saluried teachers of the
voting sex, tlie rod as a t-chool discipli
narian would exist to-day only iu his
tory. As mechanic, merchants, farm
ers, artists, authors, journalists, aud In
numerous other minor callings, women
have Invariably exhibited their ready
versatility and fitness for varied pur
suits.
California I by no means an indifferent
spectator of or Inactive worker iu tills
great reformatory enterprise. I know
of no State In the Federal Union in
which women are subjected to less po
litical disabilities than those Iu this
State, aud here they are sufficiently nu
merous to produce great hardships and
to awakeu ami keep alive a wide-spread
spirit of disconteut and ilt-feellug, and,
iu the minds of the enlightened aud
seusitive, envy and jealousy. You may
uot approve of or share these feelings,
but It must be remembered that limes
have greatly chauged within the p;Tst
half-century, In which woman is a
greater auflerer than ber brother. The
rapid Introduction of labor-saving ma
chinery, In the various Industrial de
partments of the country, has banished
from the house the score or more of in
dustries operated by women, affording
constaut employment aud comparatively
an Independent living. Now, each of
these is a specialty, requiring large fac
tories and a great outlay of money to
run them, and allordlng armies of middle-men.
While public sentiment al
lowed man to struggle and wrestle and
jump from one employment to another,
adapting his labor or business to what
ever was best suited to his inclination
or interest, tills privilege was not ac
corded to his sister. She was constitu
tionally and in the order of Divine
Providence a house-plant, ami In tho
house she must remain, and any mate
rial deviation therefrom would be outre
and unwomanly. True, she was not
veiled ami roomed like her Turkish sis
ter, nor were her feet compressed like
those of the womeu of the Celestial Um
pire, but for most practical purposes In
the serious business affairs of life she
was, in the new order if things, nearly
as helpless and dependent. There Is
another fact iu this new order of tilings
worthy of consideration, aud which re
sults greatly to her present advantage,
which is that machinery Is the great
drudge in modem industry. There Is
now but little of laborious and exhaust
ing work iu tbe departments of agricul
ture, aud woman can, therefore, without
sacrificing her health and womauly in
stincts, enter upon almost auy depart
ment or business that It Is proper for
man to prosecute. Seated upon a ma
chine, she can plow and sow, reap aud
mow, and enjoy the exercise and fresh
air at tho same time.
In war and physical strife, woman
can rightfully lay uo claim to equality
with her brother. I feel warranted Iu
predicting that when woman shall be
allowed a voice and vote iu tlie affairs
of state, the array and navy, with whips
aud chains and scaffolds, will iu due
time become relics of the past aud be
known ouly In history. When 6be
shall become an active factor In matters
of business aud Stale, I further predict
that she will turn her attention In the
direction of poverty aud crime, and as
certain, if it be possible so to do, the
causes that enable tlie few to pile up
untold wealth, which can be of no pos
sible service to them, while the great
mass who are so fortuuate as to obtain
employment are forced to struggle con
tinuously to keep tlie wolf from tlie
loor, wlille his wife and cliildreu share
liis hard fate, deprived of the numerous
comforts and luxuries which this beau
tiful earth of ours would joyfully yield,
if properly Interrogated, to a population
fifty times greater thau It has at the
preseut time. I shall greatly mistake
If she will not lu her Investigations
couple poverty or tbe fear of poverty,
which haunts tlie rich as well as the
poor with crime, and in removing the
former eventually displace the latter.
A few words as to what Is being doue
iu California iu behalf of women, and I
will conclude this hastily written epis
tle. In my letter to your previous con
vention, I told you that our Constitution-makers,
then In session, were too
lusiiy engrossed iu questions pertaining
to finance, taxatiou, corporations aud
the "heathen Chinee," to afford the
questioti of human rights, human
needs and humau Improvement much
attention or consideration. The major
ity of that body ignored the claims of
woman, though a large minority fa
vored her political enfranchisement. It
will be a difficult matter to ameud tlm
Constitution, as it requires a vote of
two-thirds of all the members elected to
each House to initiate an amendment,
while It ouly requires a majority of
those votes on the ratification of any
proposed amendment. There are only
eight States iu tbe Union that have this
monstrous provlsiou.
Here women ore eligible to any State
office, while the Oregon Constitution, if
my ruomory serves me correctly, spe
cifically denies the right of auy oue but
an elector to hold any office. Our Con
stitution nowhere denies the right to
confer sullrage on woman for most of
the county, municipal and township
officers. Mrs. Foltz Is Secretary of the
Assembly Judiciary Committee, aud is
doing yeoman's service for her sisters at
the Stale Capital. The Hastings Law
School was forced to succumb and allow
women admission on the same terms as
tbe mouoiioliziog sex. We now have
three women lawyers iu this State, and
several others ore pn paring to enter tbe
profession. There are in this city at
least a dozen women who are ptactlciug
physicians.
Mrs. Senator Sargent resides here, and
is very active In the cause of Woman
Suffrage. A meeting of those friendly
to the movement was held a few days
since, and plans were matured for ex
tensively circulating petitions to tbe
L-gislature for a constitutional ameud
raeiit striklug out the word "male"
from the Buflr3ge article; another, to
confer tlie common property on the
widow, v. ithoul probate, ou tbe death of
the husband ; another, to allow women
to vote for Presidential Electors; aud
auotber, to allow women to vote for all
school officers and on all school matters
uot denied by the Constitution.
I trust you will not forget that to
Wm. Lloyd Garrison, who passed over
to the other side a few months since, is
woman indebted more than to auy man
living (mil in saying this much I am
not unmindful of the great labors and
eloquent etlorts of Wendell Phillips In
her behalf) for his advocacy of her rights
more than forty years sluce, when it re
quired uo little courage to aunounce and
defend her claims.
cause Is moving forward with
rapid strides. Public seutlment Is nearly
ripened luto a coudition to demand
woman's enfranchisement. A few years
FKOM OUR KKGULAU COP.KBSrONIIBNT.
New YoitK, February 14, 1SS0.
lo the KnrroK of the New Nokthwkst:
Have all deaf people beard of the
audlphone, the latest Invention for
making tbe deaf hear through the me
dium of the teeth? Mr. Richard It.
Rhodes, tbe inventor of it, and himself
partially deaf, gave an exhibition
of tbe instrument the other day at
the asylum of tbe deaf and dumb,
where the results were the same as In
otber similar asylums deaf mutes with
good teeth, good brains, and good audi
tory nerves could hear well. Of course,
when these media arc defective, tbe
hearing is modified, as is also the caee
when one uses badly-fitting false teeth.
Mr. Rhodes makes use of two audi
phones, one for conversation and the
otber called tbe "opera audlphone"
for use at concerts, lectures, churches,
etc. The conversational audlnhone Is
made of hard rubber, and fan-like In
shape, being thin enough to be readily
bent. An attachment of silk cord and a
'clutch" are used to bend and hold trie
rubber plate iu a convex shape, the hol
low side being held toward the source of
sound, while the upper end is pressed
against one or more of the teeth, the
eye-tooth being generally tbe best con
ductor. Tbe opera audlphone Is similar,
but two plates or discs are used, and
with this a deaf person cau hear his own
voice. The Idea that the teeth convey
sound is not new, as many persons with
Impaired hearing have observed that
they could bear better by holdiogsome
tbing between the teeth even a lead
pencil. But Mr. Rbodes's Invention is a
practical application of tbe fact, aud
and will uo doubt become generally
used until something still better Is dis
covered, which will in course of time
surely follow. Naturally, the audlphone
improves the health of the person uslug
It, as it relieves the nervous strains all
partially deaf persons sutler in their ef
forts to bear. Tbe audlphone, when not
lu use, may be used as a fan, and one
can readily Imagine bow attractively a
coquettish woman with fine teeth could
make use of one, and perhaps after all
btess ber stars for her deafness.
It Is said, and doubtless truly, that Iu
1S30, a little less than fifty years ago,
ouly one citizen of New York, Johu
Jacob Astor, was worth more than
$1,000,000. Nothing can better illustrate
the growth of wealth in New York than
this fact, which uow seems surprising
enough. Millionaires are very plenty
In these days, so very plenty that they
are hardly taken into account. Every
few days somebody dies, leaving an es
tate valued at over $1,000,000; and yet
the mass of our old inhabitants may not
eveu have heard of bis name. It has
been asserted that there are at present
in the metropolis fully 500 men whose
property is estimated at $1,000,000 and
upward. Half a century has mads
wondrous changes In New York In
other things thau private fortunes.
Then the city had little more than 200,
000 people; now, including adjacent
towns aud the population properly ours,
within a radius of five miles of Union
square, it includes not far from 2,000,000.
Then Chambers street was far up town,
tbe City Hall Park was the principal
park ; we had uo hotels, uewspapers,
libraries, theaters, worthy of the name;
wc had no oceuu-crossitig steamers, no
modern improvements, few foreicu
fashions, no regularly recurring defalca
tions, little official or legislative corrup
tion, no stupendous municipal debt, no
reckless ambitions, no "booming" Wall
street, not many luxuries, but an amaz
ing amount of public and private hon
esty. What revolutions fifty years have
produced ! When we look back through
the light of history, it seems as If 1S30
must have been all of five centuries ago.
The details of domestic exports from
the port of New York for the yearlSTO
are Iu mauy respects of high Interest. I
give below some of the more noticeable
Items. The exports of agricultural Im
plements from this country show to
what an exleut our inventors and man
ufacturers are competing with those of
Europe. In 1879, there were exported
from New York mowers aud reapers,
plows, and other machines and imple
ments used in tilling the ground, to the
value of $2,227,140.' Of food materials
the exhibit Is equally gratifying. In
ioa, mere were exported from New
York hogs, homed cattle, sheeD. and
otljer edible animals to tbe value of
53,344.000. Of the flesh of animals pre
served in various ways, there was ex
ported the value of $62,607,603. The
amount of grain, ground and unground,
sent from other countries to New York
Is euormous, amounting in 1879 to the
value of $110,105,805. Of draft animals
we exported from New York, In 1879,
$1,126,1GG worth. August.
No person is so independent as he
who con find interest iu a bare rock, a
drop of water, the foam of the sea, tbe
spider ou the wall, the flower underfoot,
or tbe stars overhead. And these inter
ests are open to every oue who enters
the fairy laud of science. Mrs. A. 2.
Buckley.