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Lost Lilly
uVc will have it out, iww, if
Vou please, madam ?" said Mark
ArkwrsM to his wife, Augusta.
Ami they did have it out with f.
vengeance. Both were high-tempered7;
neither had learned self
control ; and before the scene be
tween them was ended, both had
pnokeit such words as no t wo people
who loyc each other should ever
speak. If two indifferent persons
quarrel, it does wot amount to much
generally, but when two who love
each other indulge in the fatal pas
time, it is frequently fatal to hap
piness. They had been mairied but a
year, and the sweet glamour of
romance had haidly worn oft".
This was their fust disagreemeent,
and it began in a secret. Perhaps
Mr. Arkwright had amp'e cause to
lie angry with his wife. I am sure
that every man will think so, though
woniaiiVjiidgment might be d lifer
ent On the afternoon of the quarrel
lie had asked his wife to drive
with him, and she bad declined on
.,.. M i-U-.n Ik? headache. He
had pitied and petted her, and kiss
ed her hot forehead, and smoothed
her soft blonde hair, and establish
ed heron the lounge in her room,
with a pillow under her head and
a shawl over her feet, before he
went out for his afternoon drive.
Two hours later, he had occasion
to cross Hyde Park, and there,
walking down one of the most se
cluded "paths, he saw a purple vel
vet skirt, beside a black coat.
Augusta had a purple velvet skirt,
aud looked like an angel, her hus
biin'iStVequently told her, all un
mindful of the historical fact that
angtds universally wear white,
are supposed to be above the
weakness of purple velvet skirts.
The airs and manners of the man
were decidedly foreign; he was
handsome, and had an uneasy ap
pearance generally -indeed he
eem-d to be constantly looking
over his shoulder.
Arkwright paused in the shadow
of a clump of trees, and watched
the pair. I suppose ''watched" is
ill,. 1 though Arkwright
J., ..v . V , ,
prided himself on being an ex
trcmcly honorable man, and w ould
i..iilit1ess liiv knocked aiivbodv
down who had insinuated anything
to the contrary.
There was no mistaking the
grace of the lady, the wave of her
golden hair, the turn ot her snowy
neck yes, the very wreath of pur
pie pansies on her hat all were
Augustas: and in a moment more
her husband heard her voice.
"Dear Arthur" she was saying,
"every moment for you here is
fraught with Lose no time
in getting out of London."
"J Jut, darling." returned the man
"nothing save mv love for vou has
brought me here; and it is hard i
I cannot have just this little com
Joit."
They moved down the walk
. and Arkwright heard no more
, I ut he had heard quite enough
He was in a white heat of passion
Jle dared not follow them am
trust himself to speak. There was
murder in his heart: He must
wait a little till his to inner cooled
He went to a stable, hired a fast
horse, and lode him till the animal
was ready to drop. Then he went
home and accused his wife. No
matter in what words they were
harsh and bitter enough, heaven
knows; and the vile epithets he ap
plied to her at the outset roused all
her haughty pride and resistance
to arms.
She had heard him through.
She attempted no defence; she
made no denial: but when he unus
ed from sheer want of breath, she
cursed the hour in which she had
married him Then she left the
room. He had all night to sub
due himself, and if she had come
to him with any reasonable expla
nation, lie would have listened to
her. But she did not come,
After a while, he sought her in
her room; but she had gone. She
had taken with her only a bare
change of raiment, and left no mes
sage to tell whither she was going.
"Fled with her paramour!" Ark
wright said, bitterly; and then and
there he vowed to give himself no
rest until he had, found and killed
them both. He tried hard to put
his vow into execution. For-three
years he was a wandeier seeking
always his wife and her seducer
and finding them never.
At last he quit wandering, and
went home. He was a verv
wealthy man now. Lands that he
had owned had increased pro
digiously in value, and there was
no'rie'cd tf bis applying himself to
business. He built a mansion and
lived alone in it, with his books
and thoughts for company. He
had a retinue of servants to antici
pate every wish ; he sat at a costly
table, and drank wine as old as the
hills. lie drove horses worth a for
tune; he had everything that
wealth could purchase, and yet he
was never at peace. Though, for
the world, he would not have own
ed to anything of the kind.
One day he was riding in the sub
urbs of London and came upon a
little child sitting by the wayside,
sobbing bitterly. She had her
apivm full of primroses and violets,
and a black and white kitten was
cuddled up in her arms. Moved
by some impulse which he could
not have explaned, Arkwright
stopped his horse, and accosted
her. She sobbed out her little
story with all a child's ingenuous
ness. Her mamma had gone some
where to can y work, and she and
Spot had gone to walk by them
selves, and they had wrlked, oh,
so far! and now thev were lost.
Her name was Li)ly,and the kitten's
name was Spottie, and that was all
she could tell to prove her identity.
Surprised at himself for doing so,
Arkwright took her into the car
riage kitten and all and carried
her to his own home.
1L advertised 'or, and for the
first two or three days made some
.effort to discover her relatives.
After that, he di 1 not want to dis
cover them. Into his cold, closed
heart Lilly had crept, and inr.de
ler horn ; there; and the desolate,
vnical man found himself loving
ler as a little whi! 'before he never
Learned of loving anything again.
1 got so nervous that he started
at every sound of the bell feat Jul
that some one was coming to chum
ier.
She and the kitten had it all
theirown way :n Arkw. ight Hous
rhey strayed in th library, and
unset U"
l.h" ,Aka ,I papers to their
mutual - U -.ctio-i.
Lilly p. it on
t. :; deal of
1 ei elf with
h's b.air into
shakos; nn.;
rk wrigbt'- k a
the tit i , anu
braid i"g v d eu
r.tg
que
.mi'
the most r-.ie
Snot, with feli'M'
;w.,f
l , i o i : i
ed on hi shoulder a:
d l.i'dded i:
TOp OI MS pv Oi'
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mqei -
ltive 1 it 1 1
nose :?uo ni sce
all
unrebiiked.
But one dav just as Arkwright
was beginning to fori sure of the
child, a ladv ea1'! for her. This
lady was tall and cli'ht, and wore
black, and had her face coveid y
a thick veil. Something in Inf
low, sweet voice stined the i.u- v
most depths of Mark Arkwiigh:'s
nature, but a fierce pang shot
through, him when ho saw with
what eagerness Lilly ilew towards
her.
"Mamma! darling mamma!" she
cried, covering her with kis-es. "I
so dad 'oo turn! Now oo and I
and Spot, aud papa are all toged-
der."
Arkwright reddened. He had
been wak enough to teach his
child to call him papa. He won
dered what the ia.ly thou :,htof h;s
presumption; but she eued will
ing .o linge'-. She thanked him
for the care he1 ad given LiJl, of
fered to pay lii for his trouble
from a very lender looki t pui-":
and being in lig"r."tly itmus !, de
tur ted to go. Lilly -.;a i-. 1. Pl
anus. Arkv.Tight took a step
towards them, rr-d Lilly throtf- pn
arm around his neck, drawing him
up close, and face to face with the
lady. Through the thick folds of
the veil their eyes met. He stall
ed back, pallid and trembling.
"Augusta!" he faltered, in a
choked voice.
"Mr. Arkwright !"
She was the. calmer of the two.
-V woman always is in cases of
emergency All the old love, fierce
and ungovernable rose up within
him.
'This child! Who is it? he asked.
Mine and ???" she answered
onietlv. "She was born four
months after our separation
wish vou good morning."
I To naught her arm m an iron
grasp.
"Stop! Jft child! J?e! he cried
dreaming, as if it were an effort for
wrn to realize it.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY,
O not Voiira nrv " stif
steadily, "You forfeited the light
to claim her when you drove her
mother from her home. Mark, at
this time the last time I shall see
you in this world I will tell you
the truth. You were jealous of
my brother !"
"Your brother! I never knew
that you had one!"
"That was where f erred. Ar
thur was two years my junior, and
a cruel misfortune placed him in a
position where he was suspected
of forgery. He was unable to
prove his innocence, and he fled
from mistaken justice. I was too
proud to tell you that I was the
sister of one whom the world looked
upon as a felon. In that I sinned.
I had a seeaet from you, and upon
that rock our happiness was wieck
ed. Thank ILaven! Arthur b free
now the guilty party has con
fessed, and my brother is a man
once m .re."
Arkwright snatchod her to hi
breast, and would not let her go.
She tried her best to escape, but
he held her fast. I suppose he
won her pardon come way, for she
remained at Arkwright House, and
Lilly and Spot remained likewise.
Go there to-day, aud you will see
the happiest fr.mily this side of
Paradise
What Gov- Walker Says.
fFiom (he San Francisco Examiner.
Governor Walker, of Virginia,
in his message to the Legislature,
is reported by telegraph as "eulo
gizing universal suffrage and
equality before the law as having
proved conducive to the prosperity
and stable rebuilding of the State."
The Governor says "that under
them Virginia has enjoyed a de
gree of peace and good order ex
celled by none of her sister States."
To attribute this condition of
things in Virginia to negro suf
frage equality for that is what
universal suffrage and equality' be
fore the law means is the height
of absurdity. That Virginia has
lately enjoyed a degree of peace
and good order unexcelled by anyr
of the Northern States, we believe
is true Since the carpet-baggers
and scalawags were defeated and
driven from office, despite the
active backing given th m by the
Washington Administration, the
worst enemies of the South have
sought in vain for points of attack
against her people. This, however,
is all owing to the fact that the
conservative native white element
prevails over the worthless 'in
ported adventures, the scalawags
and negroes combined. Suppose
the old Underwood, mongrel re
gime, superseded in the election of
Gov. Walker, had continued in
power does any7 one believe for a
moment that the same tribute
could be truthfully paid Virginia?
If "universal suffrage and equal
ity before the law" produced these
things there, why have not they
produced them in other Southern
States? Why not in North Caro
lina and South Carolina? The
same equality exists all over the
Union, and y-et we find, in the
states nameu. t ie most luiamous
frauds ami robberies characterizing
Radical rule in each. We find
their neoide driven to the dire al
ternative of repudiation or bank
ruptcy. Universal suffrage and equality
are good things where the people
are educated and the better ele
mento of society' in ascendancy.
Where, however, these are in the
minority, no greater curse could be
inflicted upon a community. This
has been clearly p'oved since the
extension of the ballot to negroes.
There never were worse govern
ments than in those Southern
States where the negro party,
backed by Federal bayonets, have
had control of the helm of State.
If the old, rotten Radical adminis
trations have been superseded by
honest ones, as in the case of Vir
ginia, Tennesse, North Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama, it was not
the result of negro sutliage, but in
spite of it. In South Carolina and
Louisiana, where the negro ele
ment predominates, we hud a very
different condition of things. Even
in these, if left alone by the Fed
or:
nl Government, the better eie-
ments of soeicty, although in the
minority, could"' assert themselves
over the ignorant and vicious; but
t h i s nnt ollowf'd l hem. cor-
runt National administration hesi
tates not to crush out the prospei-
lty and well-beinr of States to
subserve the ends ot personal
greed and ambition. Until mis
recreant and corrupt rule is broken,
T , ... .1
we may look in vain for the per
manent prosperity of those South
ern States where the negroes excel
or nearly balance the whites.
lhe World makes mention of
"Colfax, the great American smil-
er," who gets up every monin to
"retire irom politics," as some men
take a cocktail before breckfast, in
t r i .
order to pirepare him for having no
opinions during the day.
Grace Greenwood Among the Polgy
amists. Grace Greenwood, in one of her
letters from Salt Lake City to the
New York Times, discusses the
effect of the sudden breaking up
of the pet institution of "Latter
Day Saints," and finds her sympa
thies awakened for the women
children, whom the punishment of
tne much married must effect seri
ously. She savs :
THE HARDEST CONSEQUENCES
of the sudden and forcible break
ing up of the system of polygamy
would be visited on the ones who
sutler most every where, in social
convulsions and ovei turnings, and
are everywhere the least guilty
women ana children. It would
take from hundred of Mm mnn
wives the little tith- to the world's
tolerance they now possess, de
stroy their self-respect, and drive
them from their from the places
they call home. They have most
ly entered on the relation in good
faith, in a blind belief that it was
of Divine annointment. Even
A I
when convinced of their error.
dishonor and want have barred
their way of escape, and children's
arms have held them back. Aside
from their own interests or belief,
they oppose a measure which
would scatter and bastardize their
children. For these reasons the
women of Utah, though in full
possession of the ballot have failed
to tulhll the nronhecv of Miss
Dickinson, to "vote themselves
fiee and virtuous." You are
struck by the great number of
children everywhere here. Some
houses absolutely overflow with
them ; some tables are embowered
with "olive branches." The differ-.
ent sets tret alomr verv well to
gether generally, but that is little
wonder, after the miracle of agree-
merit between the mothers. Po
lygamy does not seem to spare
women the cares of matrimonv.
I KNOW A MORMON HOUSEHOLD
11. 1 1 -1
in which two middle-aged wives
count about two dozen children
between them. I took two little
fair-haired irirls for twins, and
they were a sort of polygamic
twins, born almost at the same
time in the same house, of differ
ent mothers. It seems to me that
children here do not look as happy
and bright as in our towns. I
fancy that the little girls at least
have something of the subdued re
pressed look of their mothers.
But some few of them are pretty,
and nearly all of them comfortably
and neatly dressed. I hear that
they7 have very good schools, and
are under good discipline at home,
answering to the roll-call at night,
and Ink7 honoring'1' their fathers
and mothers.
MANY MORMON WIVES
are sisters, and it is said they get
along quite harmoniously. The
very nature of women seems to be
changed here, and turned upside
down and inside out. An intelli
gent "first wife" told a Gentih
neighbor that the only wicked
feeling she had about her hus
band taking a second wife was
that he did not take her sister,
who wanted him, or rather a
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share in mm. ne wouiu nave
iked to have the property kept in
the family. I saw the other day,
a
pair of young wives,
sisters,
walking
hand-iu-hand.
d ressed
alike in every particular, of the
same height and complexion, and
of the same apparent age indeed
Iooknur so exactly alike that it
was almost a case of mitigated
bigamy. It must seem queer
even to them, to say "our husband.1
They7 used to say7 "our piano."
THE MOST SINGULAR AND UN-
NATUAL
marriages here are those of men
with their wives' mothers. These
are not untrcouent. it strikes me
y W . 1
this is a seditious plot against im
x
memorial domestic authority, the
most ancient court of feminine ap
peal that it is an attempt to do
i "1 1 r
away with mothers-in-law. w hen
vounir wives are taken, the three
or four or five do not always be
come one flesh- There is some
times rebellion and even hostility
on the part of the old wife. Oc
casionauy7 a nusoanti oojecis to
having even a second wife im
posed on him. I heard of one the
other day, who, though ho finally
submitted to the command of the
imperial Brigham that he should
take and provide for a certain
poor women "a lone, lorn cretin"
declared that he couldn't "a bear
her." and at once put her away on
a ranch forty miles from town
pensioned and pastured her out.
This system has its serious and
perplexing aspect it is a fearful
problem, "which like the riddle of
the sphynx, may prove the de
struction of those who attempt
rashly to solve it and fail; but it
has also its ludicrous, its grotesque
aspects, and thev always strike me
first, though the laugh they pro
voke is quickly succeeded by a sad
realization, sweeping over me like
I r.nTTPTSY OF BANCROFT
DECEMBER 22,
a great bitter wave, of all there
is in it of error, of suffering, and
of peril.
Plain Truths.
We have a feeling of profound
disgust when we read the vile slan
ders which are daily propagated
against the South. A brutal man
commits some outrage, bad in it
self, condemned by the v. hole com
munity, but, after all, not half as
bad as aie many which are daily
committed in metropolitan New
York, pious Connecticut, or self
satisfied Puritanical old Boston,
and straight-way the Radical pa
pers of the counti y cryT out that a
Ku-klux outrage lias been com
mitted ; that all Southern me i are
Ku-klu.v, ad, therefore, that the
whole South is responsible. We
comess t'ac we cannot, ;,ee any
that we cannot
fairness in this reasoning. It is
based on fils' piinoiplcs, a-d has
in x'vw th higli object of ccebng
popular indignation pgaiust the
South, and, by so doing, to enable
the l'resi
. 1 T 1
ident of the United States
to cany out his designs
the liberties of the count;
ted State Senators are
a'.i t
?eiH as '
itinerant mission.' -i -o through the
country to manui'.vel ire. 'ot only
popular opinion, but al Cicls, for
the ui pose of ke ping alive ex
citement and preventing the truth
from being known. Low tricks
and filthy devices are used by
those, who p'oitr s to act i;om the
highest moral standpoint, and the
Piesident of the United States
amuses himself grimly by waLcb
ing the manner in which his tools,
and would-be livals, aie aiding in
the accomplishment of his obieets.
lie strengthens them, because they7
strengthen him, by lending die aid
of the Courts to the propagation
of the most unfounded calumny
that has ever been utte.ed fiom
hitrh places. In Xoith Carolina a
number of lawless me l were con
victed for immoral and outrageous
conduct, under a law which we be-
ieve to be unccn? titutianal oy tne
United Stales Ciicuit Coiut, and
while we have been glad to see
1 1 1
every violator oi ire pe.iCo cnu
good older of .society7 coi . icted
vnd punished oy the pio ter tiibe-
n;
ds, and while we nave no sym-
athy with those who hrve offend
eu against tne laws ot o.ucr vr
morals or of society, we must pro
test, and earnestly piotest, against
the effort to hold the people of a
State, or section of a State, respon-
ible for the evil deeds of a few
criminals. When Mrs. Fair shot
Mr. Crittenden in the very arms of
his own lawful wife, and attempted
to defend herself on the ground
that Crittenden was morally her
husband, it would have been
laughed at as ridiculous folly if
any7 man had el i ned that all of the
women on the J ache coast were
responsible for her conduct. hen
Mrs. Mcfarland Richardson
caused her husband in law and in
morals to kill her imaginary hus
band, it would have been absurd
to hold all the women and men of
York and New England re-
11 f -1 "1
sponsible lor tne vne nicotics
which produced the tragedy. W hen
Ruloff was convicted of crime, no
one claimed to attribute his sin to
every philologist in his section of
the country. YY hen the Avondak
tragedy took place no one dared
assert chat all the mine owmeis of
Pennsylvania were responsible for
the fact that mine lacked sufficient
ventilation and means of escape.
When a Western father roasted and
beat his son to death his conduct
was not proclaimed to the country
as the model by which Western
men v. ere guided. When Grant,
as President, degraded his office
by7 receiving gills as a compensa
tion for past or future services, the
majority of the people of the Uni
ted States would haye indignantly
protested had they been held
bound to father his conduct. If
this is true with regard to matters
which have occurred at the North
it is equally true with regard to
crimes or misdemeanors which
have been committed in the South.
We can readily7 understand tho de
sire of the Radicals to make it ap
pear that a people is guilty of the
sins of individuals, but we cannot
see how any sensible man. who
has watched the recent trials in
North Carolina, and has seen that
with an army of spies, with the
military, and ith the Courts, all
anxious to discover criminals and
i
brinr them to punishment, no
prominent or leading man was con
victed, can, for a moment, believe
that the people of the State were,
in any sense, responsible for the
conduct of criminals. Charleston
Courier.
Big Enough.
'Ella, my child,
said a prudish old maid to a pretty
niece, w ho would curl her hair in
pretty ringlets, "if the Lord had
intended your hair to be curled, he
would have done it himself. "So
he did, aunty, when I was a baby;
but he thinks I am
i
big
enougn
i
now to do it myself."
LIBRARY,
1871
The Evil and The Kemedy
From the Washington Patriot.
The condition of South Carolina,
after six years of carpet-bag gov
ernment, is, indeed, truly deplora
ble. Its history, since the war,
displays what Radicalism, pure
and simple, is, and can be. In
that afflicted State the Administra
tion has had complete control, and
without let or hindrance, has work-
ed out the problem of Radical rule I
aud reconstruction to its Wh imnto i
and reconstruction to its legitimate
and logical sequence.
South Carolina to-day is an ex
emplification of what Radicalism
means, and is; there is no shifting
the responsibility nor evading the
consequences tnat have resulted
from an exclusive "Republican"
manipulation of the State. Swin
dled by7 the carpet-baggers, which
the military power has saddled up
on the State as office-holders
bankrupt by the corruption and
thievery of political sharks, who,
undercolor of "loyalty" and in the
name of "freedom" have subsidiz
ed the ignorant negroes and elect
ed themselves to oiftce; depi ived of
they are turned over to the tender
mercies of a military satrap; denied
the privilege of habeas corpus and
and trial by jury, her citizens are
arrested without wan-ant and con
demned without trial. Men and
women, black and white, crowded
in loathsome jails, without knowl
edge or notice of the charges alleg
ed against them, by the hireling
spies in the pay of the Admmi?tia-
tion or from any otlu r s uircc!
This is the enertainment to
which the people of these States
are invited. AVhat has been done
in South Carolina may bo done
elsewhere. The act of Congress
under which the President subverts
civil law in South Carolina applies
to all the States. His organs here
have given us to understand that
Texas and Georgia will be selected
next, and then we may7 expect it
in North Carolina, and Maryland,
and West Virginia, and Kentucky,
and Alabama, and wherever else,
in the opinion of the President, it
may7 be necessary7 to carry the
State at the election of 1872.
That the President has deter
mined to reelect himself no intelli
gent man now questions; that the
Kuklux. bill wasconceived and per
fected with that intent is manifest,
and that the President will not
hesitate to avail himself of its fa
cilities is already7 demonstrated.
We may7 as well look this ques
tion squarely in the face. Where
Radical ballots are few, Federal
bayonets will be plenty, aud the
votes of the Southern States will
be counted by provost marshals,
and results certified by subalterns
of the army7. There is, in our judg
ment, but one hope of escape, one
chance y7et afforded by which this
existing and still more fatal pros
pective despotism may7 be over
thrown and the freedom ot the
people more established, and that
hope is in a fraternal and heartfelt
union ot the good men ot all par
ties, uniting upon a candidate
whose record, life, and character
are pure, and who can rally to his
support the Democrats, Conserva
tives, disaffected Republicans who
e opposed to the coruption and
despotism of the present Adminis
tration. Against such a candidate,
supported by the millions of honest
men that would rally to his stand
ard, there need be no - apprehension
of bayonets or military proclama
tions.
He Knew Them. Not many
vears ago a prominent citizen ot
iVmcnca was in Europe. He met
Thomas Carlyle, that wise and
clear-headed old Scotchman, who
watches the two kinds of Govern
ment as anxiously as a school-boy
watches for the hour of recess.
At this time the Republican
party was in its glory, Carlyle
said :
"As sure as the Lord reigns, you
are rushing down to hell with
desperate velocity. The scum of
the world has got possession of
your country and nothing can save
you from the devil's clutches. A
wide, weltering chaos of corrup
tion will be your doom.
The thousand and one Radical
defalcations that are bursting forth
upon the gaze of the world every
hour verifies the statement of the
old Scotch sage. One item-
twentv-one millions of defalcations
by officials, and not a single one o
them brought to trial, fco says
an exchange.
His Amen. A minister maJo
an interim a vie call upon a lady
of his acquaintance. Her little
daughter, vho was present grew
very weary of his conversation,
and as. lat whi-oeie l in an audible
key, "Didn't -he I
with him, rapine ?"
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bring nit
Unsafe.' Fifty young wiuou
reside in the small town of Centre
ville, Ind., and it is unsafe for an
unprotected man to pass through
there v
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NO. 7.
A Woman's Defense of Dress
For myself I should bg thankful
to return to the habits of our
grandmothers buy a . bonnet
which would do to wear ten years;
have three dresses, two for every
day and one "nice," and wear them
year after year till they wear out,
without alteration, als$ twist up
my hair in the plain wad at the
back of my. head. I should then
"..V" i "-yung ami
ftu1 an? me money to spendin
have more time for reading nnd
books and traveling, to say nothing
of the unlimited time and money,
for doing good. And I know of
very7 many wronien who would be
only to happy to throw7 aside the
wearisome shackles of fashion.
But what would bo the result ?
With the maiden no more beajx ;
with the wife a cessation of devo
tion on the part of her husband
results too direful to contemplate
for a moment. I Speak what I
know, and testify to what I have
seen. I have been myself to par
ties economically clad, and I was
despised and rejected of cmen ;
again I have been when more fash
ionably7 and expensively attired,
and I had more beaux than I knew
what to do with. By the way,
why don't some of the wise ad.
sensible bachelors court and mar
ry7 among the vast army of work
ing girls ? They7 are dressed sim
ply, and accustomed to habits of
economy. J hey would be glad to
have homes, and would make ex
cellent wives. They are personally
attractive, and I doubt not are
quite as refined and intelligent
as the average of fashionable
women. Why is there not a great
er demand for them as wives, and
w hy are not the Flora McFlimseys
a drug in the market. Let the
facts speak for themselves. Be not
deceived. O, my brethern. With
you lies the fault ; from you must
come the remedy refuse to pay
court to silks, panniers, frills and
chignons, and we should go over
to calico in battallions.
Alexisiana.
Courier-Journal
The Louisville
gets off the fol
lowing :
The Russians have a very high
opinion of the enterprise of the
American people. As evidence of
the fact, it is understood that the
real object of the Grand Duke'so
visit to this country is to induco
General Grant to go to Russia at
the expiration of his term of
office and establish a graneL con-
solidatcd livery-stable and tan
yard at St. Petersburg.
The Mayor of Duval's Bluff has
gone to the expense of sending a
telegraphic dispatch to the Rus
sian Grand Duke, inviting him to
visit that citv. In view of this
ml
fact and we ask in the name of
American hospitality where is the
Mayor of Shirt-tail Bend ?
The Grand Duke Alexis speaks'
English fluently and correctly.
He must have been greatly sur
prised to find the President of the
United States has never acquired
the same accomplishment.
Alexis found mucfi republican
simplicity prevailing at Washing
ton. He met no Grand Dukes
there. He must have been intro-
luced, however, to any number of
Grand Rascals.
Business is Business. A nice
young girl at Green Bay7, Wis.,
was being courted by a nice young
man. lie was generously inclined
and made her presents of hair oil,
which he purchased from the store
of the father of his adored. After
giving her some twenty bottles of
the oleaginous fluid, he discovered
he was working in a circle as fast
as he presented them, she returned
them to the store, thus dutifully
making trade for ber father. No
cards.
It ca.- ot be said hereafter that
the Japanese have no national hu
mor. rihe latest Oriental practical
joke is the appointment of Gen. G.
1. Williams ot Indiana, to go to1
Japan and introduce to that once
happy country7 the system of taxa
tion in vogue in America. The
fortunate General's salary is to be
suOjOOO per annum, free of income
tax, which is to be his leading
financial plank.
Polygamy Doomed. -A girl of
the period" comments tbusly on
polygamy : "How absurd ; four or
live" wives for one man, when the
fact is each woman af these times o
on-lit to have four or five has
bands. , It would take about that
number to support me decent Jv.
There is more in this view ot the
oueftion than one might suppose.
There is no educated woman m
America but what can spend all
the loose money that any one hon
est man can scrape together.
His Detef.min atin. An Irish-
man,
vriting from Philadelphia
the other day to his friend in the
old country7, concludoel his letter
thus: "If iver it's me forchune to
live till I dy and God nose wheth
er it is so, or no I'll visit ould Ire
land afore I leave Pbilamed el phy"-
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