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, , . h l UBXHV.VT FlBUbHIXG CBMPA.vr, Preprints. A Journal tor tbe Feople. Devoted to the Interests or Humanity. Independent In Folates and Kaifglon. Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposing and Ej rosing tbo Wrongs of the Masses. O r ncK Cob. Fbob t A WAiHtKaioKSntErarfi TSRXS. VS ADVANCE : One miL. 4IH BIX HMHUBM- 11 it Tone nosili Fbek SrBECH, Fkee PnEss, Feee People. Correspondents wrttlag over assaaied signa tures mast make known their names to the Editor, or no attention will be given to thei ADVERTISEMENTS insetted on fanoif PORTLAND, onEGON, TIITTK S I AY , OrXJIVE 18SO. ivrraxBEii, 41. communications. MRS. HARDINE'S WILL. Br ABIGAIL SCOTT OOJUWAY, AtmCSK "XTOITK KKIB, EUDI BOWH." "a in am wmr mi mart ' Mmtm,- "XABOB JtOMMaK," "VAOT, TATK AJtB FANCY," RTC, ETC. KTC ( Katei M.neeowlttMc to Act of Coosren, In the ytmr Wit, In Use oOloe or the Librarian of Con gress a WanhlnKUn, I). C CKAPTEB XXXII. OBSTMCraOim VOHANHOOB. Night eame on apeso, bringing with Its shades a lowering storm. Tbe last chHil was snugly stowed away in Its luimbie bed, awl there was do danger titat Peter Tubbe would return for at least a fifty or two, ami 'Ltae was once more alone. An open fire smouldered on tbe blackened hearth, and an omi nous death-watch worked ceaselessly In tbe shattered wall. Site took a candle and went from bed to bed and from room to room to view her sleeping oharges. Without, tbe rain fell in tor rents, and within, the tumult or her feelings was almost overwhelming. She stooped and kissed eaeh sleeper with a mother's passion suoh a passion as tbe despair of death wrings from the lone survivor of a cruel fate. "If I oould only take you with me, darlings mine!" sbe wailed, at length, bs, crouching before tbe trundle bed where the two youngest of her loved and helpless ones were slumbering, she bowed her head before the overshadow ing darkness of an agony that was un utterable. Site tried to pray, but oould not. Sbe was stupefied with- despair. Sbe was dumb before the appalling prospect of separation from the helpless bone of her bone and flesh of her flesh which bad tied her fast by her heart etriugs through all tbe weary years of ber married life to a union that her very eotil continually spurned with loath inc. For a long time sbe knelt thus in speechless agouy. Then sbe arose and arrayed herself with a shabby shawl and battered bonnet, and turned for a last long, lingeriug look at her sleeping children. Agalu &he knelt beside the trundle bed. Again sbe essayed to pray, and again her tongue was powerless to give her longings utterance. .She closed ber eyes and clasped her hands before them. She shuddered convulsively. Her very heart throbs eeased, and she relapsed into unconsciousness. How long she remained in this coodi Uon she did not know ; but u hen she re covered her senses the wild wind and raiu bad eeased, and through a crevice in the outer wall the gibbous moon was shin ing. Tbe caudle had burned to Its socket. The work of the death-watch bad ceased. She was shivering as if from an ague flt. Again she Itowed her bead and essayed to pray. She could not speak, but a strange calm grew sud denly up within iter heart, am! a strange light, that did not seem to come from tbe moon, filled the shabby room with a peculiar crystalline radiaoee. She fixed her eyes upou vacancy, and white sbe gazed the gauzy light took form and substance, and a pair of kindly eyes beamed full upon Iter with a look of radiant peace. "Mother IngleUm .'" site exclaimed, aloud. Ami then it seemed that her great trials all at once grow less, and she weodered much at her sudden hsppi- "Do nothing rashly, precious daugh ter. Wait, wait, wail" exclaimed a voice, which broke upon tbe startled si lence of tbe hour like the near-by crack ef doont. Tbe resolution that Mrs. Tubus bad nursed so strongly for a fortnight for sook her instantly. Sbe leached forth ber bands to clasp the filmy form from which tbe voice had seemed to emanate; but sbe clasped instead the empty air. Tbe dying candle flickered for an In stant and expired, leaving her alone with her children, the impression of tbat mysterious presence, and her own suddenly calm and strangely peaceful thoughts. "What all this waiting is for, I cer tainly know not; bat there Is, there must be, overruling wisdom in It, else it would not be," Bba said, aloud. "I will be obedient to tbe heavenly vision. I wIM do nothing rashly. I will wait, wait, wait!" With this resolve sbe quietly removed her wraps, and, undressing, crept shiver ing Into tbe trundle bed between her steepiug little ones, and listened tbauk fully to the slghlng.wail of the dying night wind, into which she bad so nearly ventured, a childless, homeless wan derer. . . In her dreams tbat nigbt sbe sUue- gled painfully in climbing a long ami steep and rugged mountain. But, no matter how precipitous the way ; no matter if huge bowlders overhung the path, or wild beasts-growled defiance at ber approach ; no matter If the thunders . rolled or ligbtuings flashed, or her haBds grew tired or her feet weary, eer and always, as she elambored upward, carrying her children with ber, tbe beaming face of mother Ingieton ap peared in advance of her footsteps, over her head a bow of promise, and beneath her feet the shadows of despair. When Peter Tubus returned to the house after his three days' abseuce on jury duty, be found, instead of the deso late hearthstone to which he bad trem- blingly expected to come, tbat for once bis wife bad overruled her own uesper- ate resolve, and bad gone to work again at her old luaukless task of keeping boarders for him and bis for hire. He surveyed the situation with 111- dfegnlsed satisfaction, but mercifully abstained from open exultation. In a little while he sought his legal adviser, Hard pan. "Come over -and board with us, Judge," he said. "You're welcome to free entertainment In my house as long as Court sits. If it hadn't been for you, elie'd have got away with tbe whole concern." "It's well Indeed for men that there are salutary laws to restrain obstreper ous women," said the Judge, as he ribbed bis bands gleefoliy "Yes, you may well sey it's well for the men,"- replied the not altogether happy husband ; "but, after all, isn't it a little hard on the womeu V 'Don't be a fool, Tubbs. Of course It would be bard on the women If they possessed the self-esteem and firmness tbat naturally belong to men. But with women it's dllle'rent. They are weak-minded and irresolute. You uever siw one of 'em yet that wouldn't squeal when you'd steal her chickens." "I wish I could take the view of mat ters that you do, Judge. But hang me if I believe I've served 'Llze exactly right. In spite of your logic, I can't help thinking tbat I'd feel better if I'd do by her as I'd want her to do by me." "Theu what tbe deuce are you croak- In' about ? You .brag one minute about your luck in bringin' her In terms, and the next you berate yourself like a self condemned pirate over the bole busi ness. I'd be a man or a mouse, if I were you, Pete. A man that can't rule his own household wisely and well oughtn't to have a family." "It seems that you failed once upon a time to rule your household to your lik ing, Judge Hardpan " Peter Tubbs bad trodden purposely upon tbe Judge's leuderest corn. "If I couldn't control, I eonld crush.'" the Judge cried, savagely. "When my" wife grew obstinate, I took a different method to subdue her from that I ad vised for you, beeause the two women were so deueedly different, don't you see ?" Peter Tubbs mutt have "seen," for lie bowed his bead in acquiescence. "My wife," continued tbe Judge, "was a timid, shrinking little thing, and never worth a cent to take her own part excel wheu her temper was up, and then, sometime9, she'd try me dreadfully. But she'd lie gay enough when I wasn't 'roun.l, so I'd hear; aud once, when I'd beeu oil' on a eircult for several mouths, some o' my chum came to me with stories that looked plausible on their faee, which I was obliged to resent, or lose my dignity as a husband. Not that I ever believed any harm of the woman ; but things looked bad. The neighbors were talking about Iter, and I couldn't afford to allow my honor to be doubted. Jtfj wife had to hold herself above suspicion, or abide tlie consequences. I accused ber of mar itnl infidelity. Why. Tubbs, you ought to have seen and heard her. I'd no idee there was so much grit in Iter. You never see a tiger robbed of Iter cubs cut half so many shines. Site vowed that she'd leave me, aud eaid abe'd always hate me, and a great deal more on tbat. strain ; but, blee-i you, she'd never con fees Iter guilt, nor anything bordering on it." "Didn't you say yon didn't believe Iter guilty?" "Yes ; but I didn't admit it to her.' And when she got too sassy over it, in order to vindicate my conjugal honor and set myself right before tjie public, I jost packed her trunk awl traps anil set 'em outdoors, and when the stage came along, I hail 'em put her aboard ami ship her back tn her people." "And the children?" "I kept 'em, you bet!" A more cultivated listener might have beeu disgusted with the Judge's slang. Peter Tubbs was disgusted only with his heart! ess nees. "Didn't she grieve over the separa tion, Judge?" "Oh, yes. That was part of the pro gramme, you see. She hired out at kitchen service here and there for a year or two, and supported herself and sent the children presents once in a while; but I'd never let her set eyes on them, and after a while they forgot her."- "But you're living together now, I bear." "Oh, yes. It's deuced incouveulent, raising your young ones without a mother. Kverybody else tbat does any-1 tiling for them has to be hired, you' know. Besides, I'd already viudieated my h-uior before tbe ptibllc by banish ing ber from hotne. Sbe bad no busi ness, as my wife, to get herself talked about, you see. After I'd let tbe public know that I appreciated my own dig nity, I was willing then to compromise with her." "Was sbe willing to go back to you ?" "No," speaking slowly and with a peculiar emphasis. "But, you see, I knew the woman nature of tbe animal about ber young ones, aud I made the chickens jeep for her. That fetched her. There's nothing humiliating that you can think of that a mother won't do for her children." "I know it, Judge. But I confess that it looks like taking an unfair advantage of a woman, after all, to tie her to you by such a prosess. I half wish I'd let 'Lize go to her mother witli the whole kit of her young ones." "Don't be a ninny, Tttbba. Stand on your dignity as head of the family, and bold up for your rights." "See here, Judge 1 Wasn't theresome sort of a rather Itard story con nected with your history ouce? I mean, didn't you have a hang It! you understand. Didn't you fall in love with a pretty servant girl, and make your wife a good deal of trouble once?" "I won't deny that I fell In love witli tbe girl. How could a warm-hearted man help it, I'd like to know?" "Did the neighbors gossip about it ?" "Oh, yes." "What did your wife say?" "Nothing, particular. She oried aud grew sick, and was as unreasonable aji tlwugh she thought she'd married a saitit, and had a right to expect him to live up to her Ideal. She dismissed tbe servant, ami did her own Washing when she wusu't able, rather than have her 'round. She hadu't cost me a dollar for help for a whole year before I sent her off." "Suppose, now, Judge, that she'd had the power to banish you from home and children, and throw you Into dNgrace, uot because you were guilty, but be cause somebody had told her that you were how would you have liked it?" "Thai's a hos of another color, Peter Tubbs. There's no danger that women will ever get the upper hand of men like that." "But, after all, Judge, It does seem to me as though what's sauce for the gnoee ought also to be sauce for the gander." 'And it's ju9t such admissions as this on the part of. Iamb-hearted men that makes women ready to raise the dick ens nowadays about their rights. You once let your. wife get it into ber head that you have a conscience about such tliiug", and you can no more hope to manage her than if she wai an untamed deer. If you keep women in their proper sphere, you've got to get the m per hand of 'em, and keep It." "But the question Is, how would ice like It if the tables were turned?" "But they're Hot turned, and not likely to be. Suppose we go up to your house. If I'm to board witli you fur u month, I'd like to eeieot my room and get ray valise brought over. You can semi one o' your boys after it." Peter Tubbs hung his head. While It was true that in the lirst flush of vic tory he had invited the Judge to come to his house, his better nature revolted at the insult aud wrong that would thus be heaped upou his wife. "I've some good news for Mrs. Tubbs, Peter. And I'll set her all right by telling ber of it when I go up to the house. You needn't hang your bead ; it's all right?" "What news have you to tell ?" "Wait and see. I'll tell her In your presence." Mrs. Peter Tubbs was busy in the kitchen. Judge Hardpan entered un ceremoniously aud accosted her with a groly familiar "good-morning." Her hands were in the flour, and she was mixing bread. She raised herself to her fullest height audonnfroiited him without speaking. "Judge Haril(KU), 'Ii'za," said her husband, tremuloudy. "I have no desire t renew the ac quaintance," site answered, haughtily. "But I have good news for you, Mrs. Tubbs." Involuntarily her thoughts flashed bac.k to the long ago. Good news, to her mind, had always been associated in some mysterious way with John Ingle ton her John. She blushed deeply, and her eyes grew bright, while her heart beat painfully. "Well ?" she said, pausing with her hand iu the sticky compound. "Will you be civil if I tell you?" "I am always civil, sir." "Will you make mo welcome here for a month If I tell you?" "I am not purchasing information, sir." "Then hang it 1- I'll" tell you any how. Mrs. Hartllue has made ber will." "Well, what of U ?" she asked, nerv ously tugging away at her dough. "What Is that to me?" "I'd say It was a good deal to you, seeing she's willed you the old home stead aud ten thousand dollars In bank stock." "Poor mother!" she ejaculated, fer. vently. "Her heart always was iu the right plaoe." "When are we to take psesiion ?" asked Peter, expectantly. "Xot till after the old lady's death. She's fearful headstrong, aud Is. Sap- pingiou tens me that she'd listen 10 no body's advlee about making her will. John Hardlne's as mad as a March hare over It; swears he'll do desperate thing; says the old woraau's crazy, aud be can prove It. But there's no telling how these' things will turn out." "Who transacted thebusiue's?" asked Mrs. Tubbs. "Is. Sapplnglon aud a lawyer from Chemeketa. The old woman had her eyes peeled. She got medical experts to give her certificates of taulty, and managed It all very shrewdly. Sapp says it's an iron-olad will. I haven't seen It." Mrs. Tubbs had been Inwardly expect ing tbat some such arrangement would bo made by her mother before her death. She knew that If faithful service ever deserved a reward of the kind, the bail earned It. But she would have scorned to ask it; nnd, now that It was given voluntarily, her feelings overcame her, and she fell upon the floor and wept. "It's tbe way with the women;" 6ald the Judge to Teter. "I'd 'a' supposed that Uze Hardiue was proof against that sorto' weakness; but it seems it's In the sex. She'll recover her equanim ity after a while, if you'll let her alone. Now, show me a room, won't you ?" The two men left the kitchen to gether, aud took teats in the dining room. "I say, Judge, do you think lite old lady'll die oil pretty t-oon?" Jui!gplfnriipan laughed immoder ately. "What a pity she Isn't dead already, so you could enter luto possession of your patrimony at ouce. Eh, IViter?" The expectant beneficiary did uot re ply. "I'd say she'd be likely to live half a dozen years or so ; aud if she goes on making money at her present rate, your wife'll be worth fifty thousan' at least by the time the ole woman's through with the farm. But it's a pity women cau't die when the world's dono with em." PeterTubbs also thought it a pity, but Jie could uot bring himself to say o. It was not an easy" thing for liitn tn be wholly unscrupulous and bad. Mrs. Tubbs could not have wept mure convulsively or felt more deeply stirred Iu her finer feelings if the news given had anuouneed her mother's death. It wus with the utmost difllcuity that she schooled herself to her renular toil ; and when the middle of the afternoon had come, and she was ready to sit down and write to tier mother, the flllal gratitude of her heart went out In strains of gush ing tenderness that, strange to say, wore destined to be perverted by the court at last Into evidence that she had used "undue influence" in securing a ill iu her own favor from the hand of a weak minded and eadly-persiiBiled mother, whom she had caused to discriminate unjustly against her brother and slaters and in favor of herself. "My precious mother," she wrote, her heart so full that she forgot to date her missive, "I do so long to be with you aud care for you In jour declining days! I look hack upon the years wheu you were a helpless invalid, ami hud no friend but mp. as the very happiest of my thwarted life. And, if it only could lie so that I might have you with me, that I might brighten your closing years and smooth your pathway to your heavenly mansion, I should so rejoice to minister In you. My precious mother, take care of your health. You are able to live iu aflltiencQ and eae during the remainder of your day. Do not, I pray you, allow any undue regard fur your children to cause you to deny yourself of any luxury that money can bring or desire suggest. Ood bless you, mother! Your daughter's heart is sore, her feet are weary, and her way hedged up. But do not worry about me. I have lived thus long because I could not help it, aud do not duubt that I shall live on for the same reason. Cau't you come aud visit me, mother dear? If I could only pillow my weary head upon your loving breast as I did iu my childhood, it would re$t me so. But do not come unless you are able. I will go to see you whenever I can." Judge Hardpan returned to the dis pensation of Justice on the beuch. Pe terTubbs sat down in the kitchen and speculated upon the new enterprise with whicli he was to astonish the world wheu the "ole woman" should be gath ered to her fathers, and Mrs. Tubbs pur sued the toilsome tenor of her way, while the world wagged on as before. (To be continued. 1 Six young women, armed with shot guns, recently accompanied as many young men on a rabbit hutit iu Georgia. No one was hurt. Why should girls not go a-shooting? Why should they not play ball upou the court-houss square Saturdays the time as boys do? If they are needed at home to help about the work, why do not the boys stay at home and help until the work is doue? Boys can scour knives and wash dishes as well as girls do, if brought up to it. It thedignity of caste were removed, no man or boy need ever become a tramp; aud if public opinion, formed by an uncultivated mob, could be Ignored Iu America, girls and women would take out-of-door exercise 9u in dent to keep them in health. As long as we do just as other people do, our girls will be nervous just as other girls are, and our women will have female com plaints just as other women do, and we shall raise a family of physically worth less men just as other women do. Col orado Antelope. Good Sexsk at Court. Becently one of the children of the Princess Royal of Encland, now tbe wife of the heir of the German Emperor, bad beeu ailing, aud with maternal solicitude the Prlnces personally supplied the little Invalid with many of Its requirements. This innovation on German court eti quette produced utter dismay, and was brought to the notice of the Emprets, iu answer to whoso expostulation the Princess replied, "If my mother, the Queen of England and Empress of India, can carry milk In to oue of her children, who likes It so much more because given by ber, I think I may do so with out forgetting my position." George Washington uecer told a He, but then his wife never skirmished in his pockets and Insisted on knowiug all about letters written Iu a feminine band. EUSSIAN WOMENBEVOLTJTIOHISTS It is asserted by the JVaffonaf Citizen that Russia is to-day the country in which woman is most persecuted for political opinions. Since the time of the second Catherine, Russia lias boasted feminine revolutionists. Catherine her self overthrew tbe Roraanoll dynasty and seated herself a native of Prussian Pomeraula on the throne, where ber descendants, now, rule. The Countess DascbkofI, ber confidant and assistant, rode at that time in male attire at the head of the famous Preobrajenski regi ment, with pistols at her saddle-bow; auJ, though this woman general was then but eighteen years of age, to her tactics the success of that bloodless rev olution was largely attributable. The object of those women was to establish another line of aristocracy ; but to-day a revolution of a different character Is in existence ; its uiut'.o, My Country and Liberty. What grander battle-cry for freedom than this? "Country aud Liberty." Thousands of people slghiug for liberty have torn themselves from their native laud and come to the United States in its search. But liberty here Is not so great a liberty for women as some monaruhlal countries allow. Even in Russia woman holds her own property uncontrolled, and under certain circum stances casts a vote in its management. But the progressive women of Russia are not satisfied with this. They de maud wider freedom of self-government. They ask land for the landless; freedom of the press; free speech ; trial by Jury; religious liberty and elected representa tives. Women of the highest rank take part in these demands, aud with many of them the bullet is used, because the ballot cannot be. Vera Sassulitch, who sholTrepofl, the obnoxious Chief of Police, ami whose whereabouts were for a long time un known, made goou her escape from Russia, and is now oue of the active directors or the revolution, from its headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland. Vera's act was not oue of private ven geance; she was tbe agent of the cen tral body, the choice falling upon her by tot. - 0!ga Golireslawska, a young girl of Moscow, whose house was under sur veillance, escaped -by means of a bal loon, descending iu a field half a mile from the city, whence all trace of her was lost. At an outbreak in Keifl, three youug ladies of high birth took a lending part, a ball from the revolver of Olea RufTaw ska killing a policeman duriug the me lee. Of the two preliminary meetings held before'thls outbreak, one was com posed entirely of women, among whom was the daughter ol General Gerslifleld, belonging to the. highest ofllcial class of the empire. Another participant was the Countess Pauim, a student of the University, equally renowned for her studious habits, her remarkable beauty, ami her republican ideas. Praskowin Katsehka, a girl of nine teen, handsome, preposseailng, and a member of a well-known noble family in the Wiltia District, shot a young no bleman in his own dining saloon. Like Vera Sassulitch, she was doubtless act ing under orders, as tills young noble man bad shortly before received a threatening letter from the Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Soci ety. This organization isa the mot complex, secret and complete revolu tionary society ever known. Its mem bers, men and womeu, do not hesitate to sacrifice themseJves in any way or dered, locating iu remote parts of the Empire, taking upon themselves all manner of privations in order to propa-1 gate their idea", or hazarding their lives with the coolness seen Iu ca-e of these youug girls. Russia has for ages been a land of atrocities, until now a general insurrec tion prevails. Fearful crimes have brought forth fearful retribution ; even the Winter Palace of the Czar was the scene recently of an attempt to desttoy tbe whole imperial family. The licen tiousness of this Court lias usually equalled that nf a Turkish seraglio. Tlio present Czar is ruled by a Priticess Dolgoronky, of whom he became enam ored several years sluce, thereby causing a rupture with his family. The ill- health and death of the Emprsss are traceable to this period of domestic trouble, for so infatuated was the Czar be wanted to bring up the child of him self aud this woman in his own family, treating It as though the Empress was its mother. Could be have divorced the Empress, he would have married the Princess; but this could not be done without abdicating his throne. He fell Into parozysms of fury when he found he could not take this step without loslne hls crown. Tbe Countess Hern- dikofl, wife of one of the Maslersr of Ceremony of that Court, was recently baulehed for saying that In case of the death of the Empress, sbe doubted not the Czsr would marry the Priucess, whose wonderful control over him seemed to increase after his rupture with his family. It remains to be seen If the predictlou was correct. While the Czarowltch inclined toward govern mental reforms, the Princess Dolgo-ronky-opposes them, and through her influence, it Is said, the Czar has been luduced to refrain from the promulga tion of tlie new constitution, which was expected several months ago. Those who fear and bate the revolu tionists call them "Nihilists," as a term of reproach that is, believers In noth ing. They themselves have adopted the name of the "Russian National Secret Society." The Countess Paull, lady In waiting to tbe Czarina, was banished to Archangel In February, being charged with Nihilism. Women revolutionists aro shown no more mercy than men by tbe Government. Tbe knout, the gib bet, tbe still more horrible banishment to the mines of Siberia, fall to their lot. Women have died from the floggings inflicted upon them by the terrible knout. In a Government attack upou a secret printing office, four young girls were killed, and Nathalie Gortschskofl, niece to tbe Chancellor of tbe Empire, was first publicly knoutcd and then glb- blted. Many have been banished to hard labor In the mines, which means confinement far under ground In a place of damp, fetid atmosphere, where not a ray of sunlight ever enters, and whose barred doors are uuder charge of Cos sacks, not speaking Russian. No day of rest ever comes in this horrid prison- house, but twelve hours' labor with a pick is each day demanded. Sunday is uiiknown, and only upon Easter and the Czar's birthday Is a moment's cessation given while life lasts. And yet, so dear is liberty to tbe heart of woman, that thousands of high-born, wealthy and noble young ladies, those of the fairest prospects, hazard suoh re sults as these to obtain freedom. That Russian womeu should die that liberty may come to their couutry, is the more remarkable because of tbe utter con tempt In which women of the Sclavlc races are held. "God remembers all the world but the Sclavouian woman," is a womanjs proverb. "A woman has no more sVuse than a hen has teeth," is a proverb applied to them. Until the time of Peter, women were held to pos sess no souls, and were not counted Iu the population of the Empire. The an cient Sclavs considered woman a malign being, an incarnation ol evil. The Tar tars look upon her but as an iustrument of their pleasure, "made for them," as our Christian brethren express the same Idea. Left to fight their own battles, thee Sclavic and Tartar womeu are fighting them well, even their worst oppressors seeking their aid-in gaining freedom for themselves. "Country and Liberty," means to the Russiau woman freedom for her sex equally as well as for man, aud to that end she gives her own liberty, her life, ami all she holds moit dear. The world has seen no more noble devotion to liberty than that of the Russian women of to day. LETTER TEOM HEW YORK. FKOM OUR HKarjLAU COKKBSrOXDBNT New York, May 31, 1SS0. To TUB Kditok (IPTHK 2CKW -VoHTinVHMT : Notwithstanding the social interreg num of this period of the year, we have had one or two mild seusatious. Rob't G. Iugersoll delivered a tremendous t rade against the C?iritian religion a lecture at Booth's Theater on Sunday last- His subject was "The Gotls " ILs arguments were old, but iiis laugunite and method of delivery were taking so much so that some well-intentioned person set a man at the door to distrib ute New Testaments gratis to the audi ence as thy came out, with some geutle notion of counteracting the dire - fleets of the lecture. Tlio despised tool of the Society for the Prevention of Crime has caused a gentle ripple by Ids notification to book sellers In the city that the very wretched translation of Zola's "Naua" must no longer be oflered for sale. It Is an ad mirable advertisement of a very dis gusting book, of which about 40,000 had been sold before Comstock's interfer ence. Had lie let it alone, the sale would soon have ceased at any rate, for it is the most wearisome tilth that can be imagined. The long-list of suicides contiuues iu the most unaccountable manner, and the methods of sbuflliug oil this mortal coll are as varied as tbe alleged causes which lead to the act. If good, vigorous punlshmetits were imposed upon the nuisances who thus uudertake to shock the nerves of the community, and are not successful, one of two things would happen either they would kill them selves dead or the number of suicides would materially diminish. That highly aristocratic iustitutloD, the Uuion Club, held Its annual meet ing on Wednesday night for the election of governors and the transaction of other business. For the first time in its history, no meeting could be held for want of a quorum. A special meet ing will be called. Tbe club is prosper ous financially, and has a tremeudous list of candidates waiting for vacancies. The gross Income last year was about $230,000. Another prosperous club Is the new University Club, which sprang into existence last year, and already numbers nearly 700 members. These geutlemen, In tbe intervals between quoting the classics to each other and working out problems in conic sectlous, appear to have a very pleasant time, to judge by tbe snug little sum disbursed, according to their annual statement, for the b r. Another Jiighly aristocratic Institution is the Coaching Club, which is to have its annual parade on Saturday next. The turnout of coaches Is to be larger than usual, aud tbe amateur coachmen are brushing up their absu.d bottle-green unlforms.which make them look like their own footmen. The loss of Ufa and nrnnprlr nt tlm late terrible accident at Madison Square uaruen Is likely to be compensated for without any appeal to the courts. It is understood that a settlement for thi pictures destroyed has already been made, but whether thn h and survivors have yet been settled with IS not Known. Atmttsrr. Charity for the Eallen. "Neither do I condemn thee: o-o nn.i in n moie." How forcibly do these simnle wnrilanf Jesus portray his charity for a fallen woman; out now dlllerent the oharity of men and womeu professing the same re ligion! Whenawomau falls a victim to mau's evil persuasions, it is the cus tom of all Christian people to look upon her as a thing beneath their notice, ex cept it be to point the finger of scorn at and call vile names: and yet. if we nos- sessed one spark of the charity of Jesus, the worst accusation that we would feel justified in making is that she was very wean; anu iu many instances, could wo know all the circumstances aud realize tbe power of the tempter, and tlie arts aud devices used to deceive and lead astray, and how long and cunningly the betrayer has pursued bis victim, our censure might be turned to admiration for the strength tbat resisted so long. But we only see the fall; God aloue sees the conflict, aud He only Is competent to judge; He aloue knows how to draw the line between willful sin and the temptations too strong for our resist ance. Were we permitted to read one chapter in the pre-natal existence of many persons, and know the traits of character bequeatiied to them by their pareuts; uow ttiey were endowed witli propensities that were so indelibly stamped Into their existence that they cannot be eradicated by any teaching aud Influence in after years, together wiiu weaRuess and indecision ttiat were never taught to how in submission to principle, we would pity tile poor help less creatures thus born with no armor of protection, for they are destined to necome an easy prey to the flattery and temptation of unprincipled men. . Parents, if you have an erring daugh ter that you would turu from the pro tection of your home aud love, look back to the time before that child was cast upon the great eea of human trial, and see if a remembrance of your former selves cannot arouse within you feelings of charity and pity for one jou sent into the world to battle with its temptations with no shield, and then perhaps you may be able to say, "Neither do I con demn thee; go, and sin no more." I know thutsuch arguments and such charity as I would urge in behalf of a sister who-has stepped from the pleas ant path of virtue would be met by many with the tauntlnir reply that "vou are as bad as she, or you would uot have so much charity." Yet who would think of casting reproaches upon the purity of Jesus beeause of his charity? The virtuous may abhor sin, yet pity tlie sinner; and it is their love of virtue that would prompt them to reclaim with kiiidnes- those who have forsaken its path. I micht plead the same excuse for men tlilit I have for women, did thy not already claim too mucli sympathy from society ; but I plead for helpless womn, who are siin-d against su much more than they sin. Soc-iety supports ami smiles upon man whil lie injures woman, who can claim no mlreis, no -y.npatliy from tbe same source that "liields him The ii-kc"loi--i of a man who pursues a in in ! her ruin is only w;nk-l at ! -Moiety, while the unman may plead lor mere may nli nut her sm by night with hitter tears of repeiituuee, ami wnlk the earth hy day beneath the crushing sense of shame and humiliation; but that will avail nuthlmr. bociety does tint' speak the words of Jesus; It only turtm re proachfully aud says, "You have sinned once, that Is sufficient; there is no help tor you uow, no nope, only m go down to deeper degradation and eternal mis ery." But who is iiiHch to hlatue f-r this slate nf things? Woman herself. Woman, remember that you are a pjrt of that society that would senrn you should you fall. Be not you the one to crush your fallen ulster; do not draw your untarnished garmeuts around you with such an air of superiority, but ever think, "You might have fallen as low a she, had you beeu tempted equally." And you may yet see the time whn you can say, "She has but stumbled in the path that 1 in weakness trod." .No human being can be frozen back to a life of virtue more ellectively than they can be drawn back by kindness and true charity. Few hearts are so innately bad that they cannot be reformed by the power of love. Olive Branch, in Wom an's Exponent. Miss Florence Doty, a banker's daugh ter In Buflalo, recently had a thrilling adventure. She was walking along Delaware avenue about 11 o'clock, and when uearTupper street noticed a well dressed and spruce-looking young man coming toward her. As he approached bo gradually swerved from a straight Hue, until their meeting and passing would naturally bring them close to gether. She carried In her hand an ele gant velvet purse trimmed with silver and surmounted by a haudle. As the two met, the man suddenly seized hold of her purse and made a violent effort to wrest it from her. The bold thief seemed determined to get the money at all hazards, and continued to null and jerk tbe purse. But Miss Doty showed no signs oi abandoning the contest. Sbo grasped the purse with a firmness irt'l coolness remarkable under the ci.-un -stances. At last tlje purse flew op. n and bank-notes and coin fell upon 'ie sidewalk. At this the bold operator Id go, darted up Tupper street and was soon lost to view. Miss Doty watched btm until ne got out ol sight; the she picked up her money and went l.ome. This is the second adventure of this son which she has bad. Queen Victoria is a good anas' -ur draughtsman, and reproductions of some of her sketches will soon appear. They will be accompanied by reproduc tions of some of Prince Albert's "picto rial expressions." Wliymper, the Alpine climber, has reached the summit of Cbimborazo, tLa first man to so honor the peak. "A good girl to cook," Is still adver tised for.