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l.ll - , .ill. j II. HUS. A. J. UU.MWAT, tailor and ITaprlflor Orri CK-ror. 1'ront and Slnrk MrirlC A Journal for the People. le"Vrty to tlie'IntereStSoriTUinTTnTtyT : Indeiiendent In Politics iitiJiIteffglon.O Mlve to all I.lve'lssuos nnd Thoroughly Itadlcal In Opposing and Kxposlngthe Wrongi ot the Slaves. . .. . TBKM8, IK jAD VANCE: . sTfe- y -?g Correspondents writing overnnsnmeil iKghg t II res num make known their names to the Kilitor.or no attention will be given to thefr I'TivntVitrnnirrMiM.. . ... ihu is in vnoa on ueamnnbie rOUTJOA-INX), OK12GON. 11 i II) .V A'. JULY JfeJ, lteri$. communication-. I Fnr.E SiT.ncit, l-nnr. ri:i, utr.i I'rartB j A TUVX feTORV. One night, alter tea, Master Johnny and Sac Sat down at the table their problem to do. Their task tn In Rnclkl.and Juit about where J he eirele they wlhcd t'tnicrlbe In a square. Both eager Ixan tle two line to draw: And i?hen the whole thing Hide Sue thought "My hiring in a knot!" baby erfe with a slKJMU "Quick, Stwte.mydnrllmr.liclpel ear UU snarU Said the mother1 kind voice; s what could she do. cat leave malhematlex, nml eo wllh the shoe. One moment, no mwel Thou, baek to her bOOk, O'er the h4hU om all, again must she too. MenMme,Hintert,l, her dar brother John, Theillmtprc.Mnin.flHWbdnoiher-iifidfMlde)! OU. Quick an D'mIi SMkle utwked; the clrele In serine; And stnrcely the new proposition had tried, W hen again spoke the mother: "It corner to my mind That Johnnie's Mac coat wants a button be hind. "Ho an't go to school without It, you know; Oome,Sule, my dear, let the book go! " Twill take bat a ond, with Angers so uliu bin; ThenJnjnp up, my child, get your scissors and thimble. "There, tliats a bright girl and now run along! But first, be qulto sure you fasten Itntrouj." ThU one she made f ; but, alas! for the thread Jutlolnherbook,lt had slipped trom her head. Again the reviewed; worked rapkl mid well. Though oftenlled away; Indeed, I can't tell The number of tlmeii that this siter .Sue "Was summoned by all, "iltllo nothings" to do. While, uninterrupted, Johuny sat, teellng sad Tliuta sister so earotem, of study he had. Till, his laxnons all IeHriied,he sprang Irom the table, Wllhtn air lliat Mnored ol-We boys are able." Kow.llie home Mug HI, and the hour being late, sHe studies, rtHiteiilwl that sneh hi her fate. When the dor ojes quick, her father steps in: "Howeould I let Sue these branehes begin! "John's work Is aeeompll-hed, and he gone to bed; But you can't give a girl a boyM clearer head!', Hue'heard the remark, and stie thought a re ply. Hut couldn't quite make It, and good reason wtiy. fne thottfht If be queried why John didn't stay, And sew on the buttons burst olTiu his play, d Or why baby tangles he couldn't clear out. Or help, now and then, In the running about In shart, If she raid all the tilings she could say, Woman's rights there would be, If no other, to pay. But, next day, at school, at the head of her Ahead oftiach boy, and ahead of each lass Up stood little Se, and her points proved as dear. As though she had studied for many a year. Both shoulders Johnnie shrugged, aud said with a grin: 'Vet girts are no students; they glance and take In The whole of a theme, ere the great minds' be gin." Mas. Ajax, ELLEN DOWD, THE FARMER'S WIFE. I'AKT SECOND. (Entered aeeordlug to the Act of Congress In the year lS7i by Mrs. A. J. Duulway, In the of fice of the I Jbrarian of Congress at Washington city.) CHAPTER hi. Ellen was too deeply injured for an ger or resentment now. Gathering her shawl about her staggering form, she shiveringly retraced her steps across the frozen stream, with her senses stunned into semi-unconsciousness. The resolves and deeds of which she had given such sudden promise seemed to have met tlteir death blow, and the same state of apathetic indiirerence that had marked her actions during the few months preceding the commencement of her husband's action at law again possessed her. The days lengthened into weeks, and the weeks rolled themselves into months. Winter yielded up his icy claims to the more genial spring-time, and the "Circuit Court," that wonder ful reality in rural county towns, con vened itself in pompous legal dignity. Nobody expected that Ellen Dowd would appear against her husband in tho suit for divorce. Even Dr. GoiT had failed for many weeks to arouse a spark of seeming interest in her mind relative to the proceedings. He had urged her to retain counsel to no pur pose, and his heart sank within him as the time for trial came. Peter Dowd was sitting in the court room when the case was called, with an air of calm, decided triumph in his face that spoke volumes in his behalf. Nig gardly as he had grown, this matter was of sufUcient moment to loosen his purse strings, and two distinguished lawyers besides the Prosecuting Attor ney were ready to protect him in his matrimonial rights and defend him in his possible pecuniary wroujrs. To the surprise of the Court, the Idle spectators aud Peter Dowd, Ellen, hi wife, appeared in iter own defence, and demanded trial by jury. Everybody's j - rr-if-y. r.'.v-f gazed, their amazed eyes encftuntejreliEi thin-lipped, anxious-visa geti, 'i nervous woman, her body wasted to aSkfoleton, with traces of former beauty heightened! to a strange degree by a vivid hectic that burned upon her check. The house of Judgment fjrew hushed as death. Advancing to tlte frout, and confronting the dignified Court, whose spectacles were poised within a quarter of an inch of the bridge of his no.-e, ien Dowd spoke: 'Way it please your judgment, Sir, to grant me a personal hearing? Tills is all I ask." 'Put her out!" yelled somebody ou the back benches. Uproarious stamping followed this coarse outburst, aud the Judge with dif ficulty restored order. Leaning forward, as though listening for a cry df.dibtress, he said in a tender voice: "What docs the lady desire?" Ellen started up as if possessed. In vain did Dr. Gofr essay to warn her against rashness. "I repeat the question, Sir. May I be heard?" "Of course, madam, If you have no counsel, you may bo heard at the proper uiue, out tue irtai musi proceed in tlte regular form," was the suave reply. "I demand a trial by a jury of my peers, remember," continued Ellon. Xo objection was urged, but to lind a jury who had heard nothing about the case, and therefore formed no opinion, was a tedious task; and when at last they were impaneled, but one pair of in A ..II! A lemgens eyes were to bo seen among them, and they were jwssessed by a dark-eyed stranger of commanding ap pearance, who looked pityiugly upon the defendant from the box, while all the others seemed to enjoy the prospect of a prurient feast upon the details of a wretched scandal. The trial proceeded. The principal witness against the defendant was tlte doughty magistrate who had served the writ upon her. He testified that de fendant had confessed to hint that she had never meant to speak, but the truth was being wrung from her: that he had warned her against criminating herself, because he had felt it was his duty to let her know that she was so doing. But her conversation aud hints, and above all her manner, had cou- j vi need htm that all was not right, so ho had watched the house of Jacob Graham on the night after the old man's burial, and had satisfied himself that Jacob Graham had not been her only favorite. Great sympathy was manifested for Ioor, dishonored Peter Dowd. The wife listened In silence while he gave his testimony, a deeper hectic burning on her check. One by ouo the various circumstances against her were brought forward and substantiated until the witnesses for the prosecution were through. There appeared to be nothing to offer for the defense. Dr. GofT, being among the accused, was denied the privilege of giving testimony, and the rase looked hopeless enough. At last opportunity was given for Ellen Dowd to say why sentence for di vorcc should not be pronounced against her. The verdict of Judge aud jury was plainly reflected in the faces of the as sembled multitude, and it seemed little else than downright madness in her to attempt to say a word. Arising witlt a calmness in her manner that astonished the gaping crowd, aud turning to the jury, in whose determined, stolid faces she could detect but thconepairof kind ly gleaming eyes, she began: "I have indeed much to say to you, O men, my brothers, who sit to-day between me and the children for whom I have given my life, my anguish, my toil, until I stand before you upon what should be the sunny side of thirty years, with my health destroyed, my character maligned, my hopes blasted, my property rights jeopardized" Down came tho Judge's gavel. "The defendant will limit her remarks to the case in point. Proceed." "I beg pardon, sir. But if your honor will have the magnanimity to place yourself for a brief season in my posi tion, i intnK you will agree with me that the case In point includes every thing that I have mentioned, and, in deed, much more. I further beg, that as I have been unable to procure such counsel as I desired, and am therefore the only one to be heard in my own de fense, that your honor will grant mo as much time as I shall need in which to state my case and argue my defense." To this request the foreman of the jury, from whose kindly eyes Elleu gathered renewed confidence, added the wish of his colleagues, aud the defend ant proceed ed: "Gentlemen of the jury, I do not ap pear in this trial to avoid a divorce. To be released from a legal alliance with a man who took advantage of my lonely childhood to make me his wife against my expressed abhorrence of the con tract, is a boon which, did it come to mo under different circumstances, I should prize "above everything. It is not the divorce, but the grounds upon which it is sought, to which I object. I am accused of matrimonial infidelity. This r most decidedly deny, and I charge the perjured villains who have thus ac cused me" Down again came tltc gavel, tliis time yii5uu; uiu, e defendant will not be permitted o'inuuice In personalities." said tue Judge. "Go on." ' "I bog your pardon, as In duty bound," was the quick reply. "But I have heard very plain personalities from witnesses all morning. I did not know that defendants were denied tlte same privileges." "You are to bo lined ten dollars for contempt of court," said the Judge, an grily. Ellen bowed in acquiescence, and turning to the jury, resumed her de fense: "I requested a trial by a jury of my peers. I find no fault with you, my brothers, for being men, but I do feel deeply aggrieved that you, being men, are not my peers. Men have sued for this divorce ; men have boeii witnesses, Judge and jury, and yet there is much, indeed overytl'iug, at stake necessary to establish my innocence, which X can not state to a jury of men, and could not, even if I were the brazen outcast which men have charged that I am. You have seen that my principal wit ness, Dr. GofT, who was my mother's physician at my birth, has been accused or complicity in the crime of which I stand charged. His testimony In my behalf has been ruled out of court, and yet he Is the only living man besides my legal persecutor who knows that my bodily infirmities are such as render indulgence in the crime of which I stand accused a horror that in itself drove mo from the home I had earned and the presence of the children I love, anil would live for, to seek refuge under the roof of the only friend r hail. Jacob Graham was to me as a father. Dr. Gofi, as my physician, protector and friend, called upon me In my desolation and sjK)ke hearty words of cheer. This is tlte head and front of his offending." Turning, with her checks aflame and eyes flashing wllh indignation, with her linger pointing scornfully at the man of the law, who had watched the windows where she lived "from a sense of duly," Ellen continued: "The only man besides my legal mas ter who ever ofleretl me a word or look that was not fit to hear or see, sits be fore you, gentlemen of the jury. Look at him! I drove him from mv nresence with an Iron poker! I only regretted that it was not red hot!" The magistrate dropped his 'head and trembled. His agitation betrayed htm, and the jury looked each other signifi cantly in tlte eyes. "I have here," continued Ellen Dowd, "a package given to tue on the last night of his life by Uncle Jacob Grah am. Tho seal has not been broken. I am unacquainted with its contents." The package proved to be, as Dr. GolV had hinted, the will of the old man, and drawn and legally executed in favor of Ellen Dowd. "While tho will was being read, loud whispers of "I told you so," were heard on every hand. Tlte conviction of the defendant's guilt became fixed in the minds of the lookers-on, and the jury, with the one exception of the stranger with the beaming eyes, showed their adverse verdict in their faces. The first page of the document had been finished, and the clerk was oikmi iug it to read on, when a loose paper fell to the floor. Ellen stooped to reach for it, when Peter snatched it from her hand aud tore it into strips. Down came tlte Judge's gavel with a vengeance, and the pieces were rescued in time to save them from the fire by Ellen's sudden movements. With much care the torn fragments were replaced, and were found to contain Jacob Grah am's dental, before a notary public, of all the charges against himself and Ellen Dowd, and a declaration to defend her honor with his means aud influence to tiie bitter end. This aflirmalioti was further made, in consideration of the uncertainty of humnu life and the great need that Ellen Dowd should have his testimony In case of his death. The charge of the Judge to the jury was brief aud simple. The suit fur di vorce had been brought ou a charge of adultery, which not having been proven, the cause for divorce did not exist, and was therefore null aud void. To be continued. Twk. A writer in the JlcUffio-Piil-otophicul Journal uses the following forcible language, founded in verity: "Long years have I felt that there was one crime for which tlte law pro vides no redress. The midnight mur derer, incendiary and assassin Is hunted as a human fiend, till the strong walls of the prison or the rope of the hang man cms snort nts mail career or crime; but tho slanderer the incendiary, the burglar and assassin of character (or reputation) fires the home, breaks the sacred locks of domestic security, and stabs to the heart 'old friends and true,' digging away where the little trickling rills of luharmony have worn a tiny channel, until at last a surging, angry flood tears away all foundations, and leaves a great ragged wreck as a monu ment of his or her unholy work." Mr. Frederick Lockyer, of Loudon, Is the author of this little verse, which contains a deal of truth: They rat aud drink and scheme and plod, And ko to church ou Sunday; And many are afraid of Uod, And more of Mrs. Grundy." "Tell your sister," writes Smith of Troy, "that there is a book forthcoming entitled, 'The Gilded Life,' by theattthor of 'My Summer in a Garden.' hi other words, Mark the Twain and Warn her." Nasuy on tlte Elevation of T7oman. Hannah Jane, said tlte preacher, was a girl of seventeen, that age at which so many maidens remain so many years. Beauty is nothing as T know from ex perience! But Hannah Jane was a glo rious creature, of medium height, plump but not gross, Grecian nose, a ktssable mouth, tailor fingers, hazel eyes, pure, red and white complexion, tho figure of a Venus, as graceful In movement as a panther, etc., etc. Site was a girl for whom a warm man would forsake not only his father and 'mother, but his grandfather aud grandmother, and even accept a mother-in-law, provided she was old and subject to climatic influ ences! Then, too, slio was genuine, no whalebone or paint alxiul Iter. All the young men admired her, while the young ladies haled her with a perfect hatred; they were really to tear her to pieces. .They said site was pretty, but she stooped, and it was a pity she squinted, and her hair was of a fiery red, and her teeth artificial. In fact, they made her out ainlracle of ugliness, whereas she was a miracle of loveli ness. They couldn't see what there was about her to Infatuate the young men. Yet she was their matrimonial salva tion, for her beauty lighted up allatnu of love In the hearts or the young men which nothing could extinguish save matrimony, and that does it pretty ef fectually sometimes. As they couldn't all marry her, they must marry some body else, and even Jotham lViullutown .-"until, who was so ugly that his looks were improved by his being kicked in the face by a mule, when he had pro posed aud been laughed at by Hannah Jane, went and marriedagusliingereat urc who had seen twenty-seven or thirty years, who had cross eyes, wore number eight shoes, was thin where she should be thick, aud whoso mouth was so large that she couldn't talk without her teeth dropping out. Hannah June was not only beautiful but good. I will not say slio was free from feminine faults. Xo one could rush to the window with greater alacrity than she, to sec the latest new bonnet go by, abttso the style, and then go aud buy one just like it. She would not have been a woman if site didn't do that. Slio was accom plished in nothing; but she had great possibilities. Her brothers got all the education; her beauty would securo her a husband, and that was all slio needed. She could read but indillorentiy, she spelled kiss with one s, aud her reading was limited to tlte newspapers, of which she preferred tho Now York Independ ent to all others, because it only took live copies of it to make a sizeable bus tle. Abel Merrlwethcr was a young law student, who, having nothing to support one, undertook to provide for two. He wooed aud won Hannah Jane, and mar ried heron the maxim, that It costs no more to sttppott two titan one. Horri ble fallacy! You might aswell say that two pounds of beef costs no more than one, a proposition which any ri-spocta-blc butcher would reject with loalhliig and scorn. There is nothing in love which Is opposed to roast beef. Yet marriage is an estimable institution; I would not have it die out, though that might save us from such productions as George Francis Train and Sylvanus Colli). Abel married Hannah Jane, and their friends came out strong ou wedding gifts, sending no less than nineteen cake baskets, and a ureat va riety of other silver they had no use for, all of which Hannah Jane traded oirfor a kitchen stove nnd a sewing machine. At this time Abel was in the hair-oil period of life, when the state of his shirt front preyed upon his mind. Ho culti vated the wavy masses of his hair, and if ho had taken to literature might have made another Theodore Tiitoti! Han nah Jane had native intelligence, but she read nothing and knew nothing. Site lived in a perpetual state of admir ation of her husband. Stie believed lie had a great future before him, and she was bent ou helping him to reach it. All her n little patrimony went to stock their cottage, aud sho slaved, that he might have leisure to develop his great jwiwers. He accepted the sacrifice, ly ing on the sofa of an evening, aud smok ing his cigar, while she tool; in sewing to supply their needs. When at last he tired of her company aud absented him self evenings, sho accepted his pretense of "business" witli undottbtiug confi dence, ami when he sometimes came home a little unsteady, sho grew fondly alarmed, and begged "he would let busi ness go, before he completely exhausted himself. Titus he continued lo receive, and site to give; he advancing, she standing still, because he did not try lo develop her, until lie began to feel her Inferiority. At last business came; Abel got a murder ease. Tho mistress of a man who had forsaken her, went for him witlt a romantic little pistol, aud Abel got her clear, on the plea of emotional insanity. He got little money though he took all slio hail hut he got reputation, and he followed it up, went into politics, got elected to tho legislature, and then to Congress. All this time, Hannah Jano was mak ing constant sacri liccs to hel p him along, cutting up her cloak to make him a coat, that he might make a good appear ance at the Convention. CIosj confine ment to household duties made havoc with her beauty, hut she was happy in the thought that it was all for his' ad vancement. He went on enlarging his opportunities', whileshc went on rocking the cradle. A change came stealing over her, for hard labor had stolen her beauty, aud many cares had given her an anxious look. Abel, meantime, kepton advanc ing. At forty, he was a judge, anil had achieved a national reputation. He was constantly "putting himself In tlte hands or Ins irteniN," and had made money in Congress, though rail roads didn't then pay a third as much for votes as they do now. He was bril liant and ambitious, and had developed much, while Hannah Jane had neither improved nor developed. The events of the dav were not familiar to her. She didn't'know Mrs. Woodhull, and if she had known that an attempt had been made last fall to beat General Grant, she would have supposed it was in earn est Instead of being a stupendous joke; of the horse epidemic, George Francis Train, aud other horrors, site knew not. And, after all, I am not certain if she was not the better for it; a deaf man es capes many disagreeable noises, aud a man with a wooden leg has diminished chances of suffering from cold feet. Hannah Jane was intellectually deaf, blind and halt. In Washington her in uocence stood out in l-old relief. She Went to sleep while her husband was making his great speech on the Ala hanlai Claims, and that vexed him. If she had slept while Jones was speaking, he could have understood it. But what did she know of the Alabama Claim? AbeJ, meantime, grew daily; his facul ties were open to receive impressions; lie becamo a favorito witli brilliant women who were a match for himself; he forgot his wife's sacrifices; lie only saw in her a worn woman of forty, lack ing in culture; Iter love grew stale, and he neglected her. She little thought, while sho was making sacrifices for him, that she was putting him farther from her. His disgust grew at last to hatred. He sent her home, and plunged into tlte delights of sociely. He associated witli brilliant women, with whom he dis coursed on the deficiencies of his wife, and received tlteir pity and condolence. Hannah Jane, meantime, accepted his excuses, and was happy in the thought that he was still climbing upwards. She had wiiied herself out of the world, she was all absorbed in him, and was only sorry her sacrifice could not have been greater. She joyed to think j-lie was the step on which he had mounted. And ho was not altogether hearth-; sometimes he felt a twinge of remorse, but it didn't last long. Once, in a mo ment of tenderness, arter looking at her portrait as she was in youth, he sent her a cheap ring ho couldn't send her a more valuable irift because he had just made a present of a set of brilliants to an actress witli whom lie was just then in love. At last, his wife discov ered the truth. Abel had Tost all love for her, aud did not care to conceal St. He deserted her, and gave her to un derstand that her death would be an ac commodation to him: Too old to bend, she broke and died, at the age of forty two. She had a splendid funeral, at which Abel appeared as chief mourner. Of course, he married again, and this time lie chose a woman of culture, who understood tho "divino natural," and had cravings after the infinite, but who, also, had longing after Parisian millin ery, and who did not know how to make sacrifices. She wanted a dress from Paris, aud Abel sold a cadclship to get it. Tills got him into trouble with his constituency, and lie Io;t his seat iu Congress. Mrs. M. revolted at the idea of taking care of herself. They quar reled, she left him, aud he became a broken, dispirited man, with no other resources than to turn life insurance agent. Thus was Hannah Jane avenged! I fear my comedy has turned out a tragedy. I would make it a plea for larger opportunities for woman to im prove herself in all things womanly. I would not have her a slave or a toy, but the educated equal of her husband. I would give iter a broader education, closer contact with life, make her equal, in all conditions of life, with her hus band, aud thus secure her respect aud love. I would strengthen her hands by strengthening her mind, making Iter self-reliant andjible to advance step by step, witli her husband. Tho first step in tiie regeneration of our race, and the perfection of humanity, is to I ring woman nearer to (iixl, by afcordiii-r to her two altribntt. of Deity intelligence and will. Wbat I Thiuk of tie Prospect. I1T I'lUM'K I. ilM.V. IllVnliiin CkllfriMirrni. n1uiil nl.i , l.rilliill f O ilifuil , Iff., JM II l , Isn't it?." So said a flippant young gentleman, as he threaded with long white slender fingers through his once carroty beard, now turned marvelously brown all of a sudden. "I think not," was my reply. "There may boa little lull in the rolling of the wave of progress, these days, as there Is always after the intense excitement of a rrcddcutial campaign. "More especially is it the case at pres entamongtheearncst talking advocates of reform, who perhaps somewhat ex hausted their strength last fall, for a po litical party. The said party lias treated them very much as politicians have in all times past treated voters very blandly before-hand when they needed belli very roughly afterwards when their own halter is made fastiu the stall of the public crib. But Woman's Bights and Woman Suffrage were never before as prosperous as now." "I should like to know what proof you have of that? Your Convention in New York this mouth showed a beggarly ar ray of empty benches. The speeches were the same old story varied only by eulogies of certain bodies who listened to the blowing of their own trumpet, as if tlte sound was 'meat aud drink, and pretty good clothes to wear to meet ing. " "That's so," responded a half dozen ladies, who knew as little about the sub ject as they did of the affairs of tlte planet Jupiter. Thus called upon for my proof, I felt bound to give an outline of the basis of my opinion. I find my proof In the improved tone of public opinion. And this I gather as I sit iu my arm-chair shut out by in validism from the great, seething, boil ing cauldron of the world'scontention. by reading the daily and weekly reports of men aud tilings. Columns of sermons are printed weekly in the New York papers, and nearly half of those who preach them, and who, ten years ago, would have been shocked at the sound of their own voices had they uttered the opinions boldly expressed to-day and thrown broadcast to the people, are advocating woman's highest education and broadest liberty and olten asserting "that only in her entire emancipation can she exert her whole power and usefulness as wife, mother, sister and friend." Will their readers and admirers fail to see what this all means? So with our public lectures on litera ture, science, art and trade. There Is scarce one of them who docs not let down some bar that has hitherto de barred women from "field and pastures fair" where they themselves have rev eled in the past, "Oh! But that's nolsuffrage. I'll go as far as anyone for the elc-ation of womau. But not for her leaving her home, deserting her children and hus band, or setting him to rocking the cradle while she runs for President!" said mv masculine friend. "Where do you find such advocates for suffrage ?" was my reply. "Did you ever hear any woman claim the privil eges you mention? Think hard, and see if you can name more than one, or even one, who approximates your description. -"Suffrage is the legal ex pression of opinion; nothing more." What says liislion Simpson ? "That it is useless even to struggle for n temperance reiorm, until woman suaI Kit witli the power of the ballot in Iter hands to the polls to protect her own household." Perhaps no one in the United States ran sway a greater number of minds can lead and inlluetuv other minds more than Bishop Himp-oii. Other Bishops, too, are sowing the good seed in tlieirwideand well lilouuhed Held. Leading educators are rapidly recog nizing the power and rapacity of girls as students, and doors are beginning to stand ajar in all directions. Even when the doors are locked, the keys grow rusty and begin to rattle. Tiie winds of discussion and expediency are shaking the old-fashioned hinges m Iuh tily. Many of the most widely circulated and influential weeklies of the country, those that carry their educating force into farm-house and medicine shop, school-room and club and sewing circle, such papers as the JTitrpcr'x, fndrprnd rnt, ChrMUm Union and others, are firm ami bold in their advocacy of Woman Suffrage. Think yoH, the millions who read will fail to understand aud come to the standard of right and justice when the day aud hour come? Women physicians, wltoare amassing fortunes through their successful and popular practice, are already saying: "Give us the ballot, that we may do our work, despite the law of man, iu our public hospitals, aud among the poor and needy who are suported by the taxes we pay as well as others." Women lawyers demand the ballot that they may command the right be fore the law to plead the cause of a suf ferin;r sister or brother who needs the sympathy and gentleness of woman iu tiie Hours ot trying need. Woman is claiming the pulpit, and witli it, the ballot to sustain iter iu her mission of love lo her land. Women merchants arc learning that business and labor demand c)ii;il rights iu trade aud speculation, and that the ballot alone ran secure these to any class of people. Our army of workers and lady hoard ing house keepers find thai all women have rights which men must be made to feel they are bound to respect. Thus through every ramification of our social organism there is growing a more liberal feeling and a truer recogni tion of the positive need of woman in ail the "feat Interests of the nation, as a power (as well as a persuasion), to bring tlte world to a higher plane of morals and of duty. This on-rolling tidal wave will receive no stay in its progress, but, gathering force as it goes, will sweep away all the crumbling sand banks whicli are being tilled up to retard its force, until it will roll from the At lantic to the Pacific And then, as it was after slavery was alolished, no men or women will be found willing to admit that they ever stood as advocates of this stupoiiduous .wrung of woman's disfranchisement. Mr. "White Loud bade me good even iuf withouta reply, and MNs Furbelow. hoiiiiiLr she mi"lit never live to see women at the elections witli tiie rowdies and drunkard.-, sailed out of the room. her head high with false hair, swinging ner nait-yani train oi iiouuees and lace with righteous indignation asshe disap peared. The Battle of Wincbeater. DnringGen. Sheridan's stay allndian-aj-olis he was conversing with a few friends touching his military experi ences and campaigns, when he said: "There is a mighty sight of romance and a great many interesting episodes connected witli the war that the histo rians never cot hold of. For instance. there has been a great deal said about the battle of Winchester, a little allair iu which I had a hand. Well, it was a pretty square light, but do you know that battle was fought ou the strength of information which T obtained from a young lady in the town of Winchester, and if the rebels had known she was giving it to me they would have hung tier iu a minute? I was very anxious to get information of the rebel strength and movements, so as to know just when and where to strike them, but I did not know liov to get it. Finally, I heard of a Union lady in Winchester who could be relied iiH)u if I could get word to her. Her name was Miss Wright. I think she is in tlte Treasurv Department at Washington now. But the trouble was to communicate with iter. One day I heard of an old colored man, living outside of my lines, who had a pass to go into Winchester to sell vegetables. I sent for the old man, ami on talking with him found him loyal, as all the colored folks were, you know. Finding he could keep a secret, I asked him if he would undertake to deliver a letter to a young lady iu "Winchester. The old fellowsaid lie would; so I wrote a letter on nun tissue paper, and rolled it up in tin foil. It made a ball about as big as the end of your thumb, and I told the old man to put it iu his month and deliver it to Miss Wrieht in Win chester, lie went off", and in about two tiays came uacn with an answer rolled up in tlte same piece of tin foil. I found I had struck a miclitv erood lead. and I followed It carefully till I got all the information I wanted. The girl gave me more important information than I got from all other sources, and I planned the battle of Wincliesteralmost entirely ou what I got from her. She was a nice girl, and true as steel." In dianapolis Journal. Ccm: of Di.vr.miKA. Stop eating solid food. When the bowels from any cause or causes, are forced to extreme action, it is their right to be relieved from ordinary dutv. This they cannot' secure, if food, especially solid food, is introduced into tiie stomach, unco solid food is in that organ, it must go into the bowels if it is to be made into blood, and whatever indigestible mate rial it contains must go through the whole intestinal canal, for expulsion. As iu diarrhea, however, the bowels are always indisposed to exercise their or dinary functions, while they are com pelled to lane on extraordinary ones, the taking of solid food is likelv so ( aggravate them as to make a simple . I 1 . t i. ..... ... mariuca uecumc ;i wen UCIIUCI! IJySetl- icry. A small bov in Xew H sensation for a short time bv nuiptlv transferring a card bearing the words "Take one" from a lot of handbills in front of a store to a basket of oranges. Children's Aid Society. Miss Marv Carnenter. tho well known English philanthropist, who is now vis iting this country, has devoted much of her time since her arrival to a thorough inspection of our prisons, hospitals. State aud private charities, aud other institutions of a benevolent and -refor matory character. Accompanied bv Mr. Charles Brace. she gave much time to the inspection of tue various institutions connected Willi tiie Children's Aid Societv, of whicli Mr. Brace is the Secretary; and they received her special commendation, es pecially the Kiviugtnn street Lodging House for newsboys, which she pro nounced a model of its kind as a home and school. Miss Carpenter was also much delighted with the beautiful plants and flowers in the conservatory and school-rooms, and with the beauti ful inspiration of giving to tile poor children attending theday school weekly prizes or pots or plants that Lro home to glorify some dingy tenement room or garret Willi tiie rragranee or its green eaves and the beauty' of"itr-blossoms In Dr. Bellow's church. Miss f'anieii- ter one eveuinsr delivered a most inter esting lecture upon the great reform in prison discipline in siieaking of which she remarked: "But with all this," hu man treatment as compared witli the tortures not so long since in vogue, how few criminals there are that re turn to society any better than they left it for captivity." This sentence was a part of her texts, and it should be the text of many se rious discussions as to how the restraint of prison life may be made not merely a punishment fur the crimes committed iu tiie past, but. a means or reiorm ami strengthening against the temptations of tiie future. Miss Carpenter spoke wisely reKardiiis Mi., tiitiii'iirmiiniif nf Mio imiiTmr I'liililriiii on ItandaTl's Island. She was shocked is she may well have been, and sur prised that these poor little creatures to a large number, were entrusted to the charge and tuition of some sixty or more pauper assistants and officials, an 1 stated that it was the experience of Fnglish expel ts that the care of young children was not a matter that could be safely trusted to public authorities; the practice being in England to give the care of vagrant and the reformation of semi-criminal children, to little asso ciations of individuals, whose expenses are paid by the State. Iu another lecture given in Brooklyn, Miss Carpenter's subject was Female Education in India. She gave much of her experience in India and provided a pleasant evening for her audience; hue although the matter of Woman's Edu cation is always full of interest, her previous address dwelt upon tilings which are nearer to our needs. In these latter days our Foundlings have had their innings. The Sisters of Charity who forswear the world and its delights, and most of the ineffable joys of home, cannot extinguish tlteir human hearts, and put off" their womanliness, when they put on their sombre habit and black veil. Women must needs be helpful to some one, and they not having the special some one to aid nnd encourage, nurse the sick. In eveiy womanly woman.s nature there is an inexhaustible reser voir of tenderness aud love for little children, and in the Sisters, the natu ral outletsof the reservoir beingciioked, it brims and overflows, but still does not run to waste. Talk not of wasted affection, the poet tells us, and goes on to show that it never 's wasted; nor is that of the kindly, affectionate Sisters, who have comforted their hearts with electintrto care for the abandoned little waifs who shall never, like themselves, know father or mother, or home. Nnirit nf the Timet!. As an illustration of the quickness of the eye and delicacy of touch whicli woman undoubtedly possesses in a supe rior degree to man, we take the follow ing from a Washington paper, merely adding, that as a result or numerous ex periments woman experts are exclu sively employed in this department or the Government otliecs: "Miss Patter son, of tlte United States Treasurer's office, with two female assistants, has bean at work every bright day for two weeks past in overhauling, for the pur pose ot identification, the packages of bank notes and securities whicli were so llnllt. litllMA.I 111. A lilj.lK;m ,1m .....j uui m-vi uj ...,i...-wi(, li iu III9.UIU cashier of Lamberton's bank, at Frank 1 in, Pennsylvania, about a month since. Many of these papers were almost wholly destroyed, in fact, in some in stances bills and other papers were com pletely consumed, nothing remaining but small portions of the ashy fabric, which a breath of air would have broken into minute particles. Notwithstanding this, so delicately and carefully have these vague vestiges of what was once money been manipulated by the experts that almost all the notes and securities have been identified, and those issued by the Government will be redeemed by Uncle Sam. The railroad and other corporation bonds will doubtless be re deemed by the companies issuing them. Ex-Representative UlllfiIIan,soii-in-lav of Mr. Lamberton, the president of tlte hank, and who has been In Washington for several weeks watching the process of identification, is greatly pleased witli the result, and speaks in high terms of the skill of General Spinner's experts." Exponent. Cari: ok Tin: Teeth, Itosseau said that no woman with fine teeth could be ugly. Any mouth witli a good set of. teeth is kissable. The too early loss of the first teeth has an unfavorable influ ence upon tiie beauty and durability of the second. The young should accord- ingiy be made to take care of them. All that is necessary is to brush them sev eral times a day with a little soap and water, or magnesia and water. After eating, the particles of food should be carefully removed from the teeth by means oi a tooiu-picK oi quill or wood, but never of metal. No one, young or old, should turn their jaws into nut crackers, and It is even dangerous to bite oil' thread, as women often do when sewing. It is not safe to bring very hot food or drink in contact with the teeth, especially If followed by anything cold. Camphorated and acid tooth powders are injurious, and if used every particle should be removed from the gums by carefully rinsing. The habit whicli some ladies have of using a bit or lemon, though it may whiten the teeth aud give a temporary ""fi"-1"' lo the gums, is fatal lo the enamel aa are all antds, , - '; ,