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I. i ma MM i , . . , . v I , 1 HK3. x. J. UHMvr.1T. Editor and rrijilctor OFriCE-Cor. Tront and Stark Slrret. TERMS, IN ADVANCE : Oneyear. Six months Thren"monihs. fS 00 -ITS I 00 ADVRUTIfSnMKNTSInkertKlonnwtonRl.Ic jenns. Inconstancy. BY FLORENCE MUICV. Against the ourtnlned )anc, beloved, Tlie snow bents thlek anil fa; The wild wlFidtefrorrrnvful refrain Is telllnjofthe Iai-t. And In tbeold fnnilltiirrlialr, JVsWe the Irenrth-flrr stow, I sit and King the tender air You loved m long ago. Ah, often Mnee, tin- spiring, beloved, link bloomed alxve jour rest, I breathe the vrer-t old Mttig, that Siuj- IUell within my brel Ak elittdren, In tlie elerls days "When Winter darkly lower-, Itetrnoe the grdeu' sodden waya, And talk of lafct year"a flowers. It never seemed to you, lielovej, When we walked ltand In luinj, Amid the mnOilne and the dew. Of youth enehanted land It never teemed to you or me That I ctMiM nius ur ) tulle. If you were lying olrcntly , Within your grave the while. We thought we could not lire, beloved. If we -were torn aart That earth would have no more to give To either stricken heart: Alas! the cliaivtte that time has wrought ! Yourgrave lias held you king. And In n home when you are not I sing the dear old sonc! Io you look back to me, Ieloved, Krora out yimr hapriy pliere. And deem me false, that I con be Alive, and you not here; Death does not slwayx bring Its balm To every aching 111 IJfe may imthud It denrect charm. And heart-break does not kill. It would have been the Mime, beloved. Had I been first to die Another love had worn your name. More dear, erchanee, than I; Ah, after all these weary yir.. Would you more constant be ? And would you drop these bitter tears And sing the "one for me 7 -(.Vldlue. n wti r if inn miir era r ri im KltK PPEWIt, FflEE I'Kr., FKF.lt "EOPI.E. "VOITJirE II. rOTCTJVNT), OREGON, IRXTA.Y,' .TXJLY 11, 1873. ivrnvxiiici?. .40. ELLEN DOWD, THEFABMER'S WIFE. I'AItT SECOND. Entered aeeordlng to the Act of Congrats In the year 1672 by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, In the of fice of the Librarian of Congress ill Washington City. CHAITKK II. Jacob Grahnm, the husband of dear Aunt Retsey, had become an old man, infirm in mind and body. As the hus band or her more than mother, who now lay quietly sleeping under the snow-drifts in the village grave-yard, poor Ellen loved and reverenced him. The horrid imputations of guilt, which he and she were not only compelled to endure in private from the angry lips of Iter husband, ami -which shocked her senses till her poor enfeebled brain reeled for a season under the cruel blow, had now become public, and the revela tion stung the hitherto apathetic woman into sudden resolves and deed., so un like the lethargy of many previous months that she wa3 herself astonished. She received the "writing of divorce ment" with a hard, cold smile. As the magistrate, at her request, read the con tents aloud, she betrayed emotion by a nervous tremor of her eyelids, while her heart gave n great thump, and then stood still. Monotonously the man of law read on : "And the plaintiff further prays that the custody of the children be granted him as a natural right, that they may be kept entirely free from the rnntaminatimr influence of such a mother. He also prays" "My God!" shrieked Ellen, starting up. "He don't mean that I'm a vile, wicked thinn not fit to see my own children! The law cannot, it surely will not take advantage of a poor, weak woman! I'd have left the monster Jong ago if it hadn't been for my children! And now he must not, shall not teach them to despise me!" Believing his plethoric jaws of an e:o tra load of tobacco juice, the magistrate answered : "You see, the crime you are charged with is a very grave one. You have forfeited all right to your husband's property or children." Ellen did not scream or faint. Rising slowly and confronting the stolid fea tnres of the man, she stood before him with haughty dignity. Until then she had not fully comprehended the awful humiliation of her position. "Tell Peter Dowd that I despise and defy him! He knows I am not guilty of this sin. lie knows me too well to imagine such a horrible thing." "Appearances aro all against you, madam. A woman would hardly leave one man's house and go to another's without something was wrong with her and the other man." Ellen grasped a great iron poker that stood, as it had for many years, against the old jamb-stone, and sprang at the fellow with tho malignity of a tigress robbed of her whelps. "I left Peter Dowd'a house and mine because something was wrong with mm," site said earnestly. "I never meant to speak, but the truth is being wrung from me" "Don't tell me any more, woman," was tlie quick admonition. "You aro not required to criminate yourself." and the look given her was half suspicious and half amatory, causing a burning Indignant blush to mantle her cheeks like a name. "Leave the house at once, you das tardly, vile, abominable wretch!" she exciaimeu, ueiwcen iter tightly set gums. . "j,iy naning, you'll spoil your pretty teethj" ue repneu Willi a coarse laugh. backing out oi tne nouse as lie spoke. As soon ai he had gone, Ellen's thin lips grew relaxed and white, ami tho transparent fingers mechanically clapped themselves across her aching eyes. She now fully reanr.eu me lact that she must meet sucit an orticai as would to heaven never came to any other woman than Ellen Dowd. "Dlssraced! Ituined! Robbed!" she moaned, and when Uncle Jacob entered tho house, stomping the snow from his boots as ho came, he found her seated upon the floor, repeating over and over the tlreadful words. Tlie blight of a keen disgrace settled itself tqyin "the kind, good heart of Un cle Jacob like a funeral pall. He had no courage to resist the accusation after he had fully comprehended its import. With his chin buried in his breast, as though guilty of deeds from which his inmoit soul shrank Insthictlvcly, he murmured, "Jfy heart is broken, Ret- sev. 1 snail go to you. iou win not believe mo guilty. Here is something for you, poor child. I've been to town and fixed it," tossing Ellen a package. When the rosy-hued sun of the morn ing crept over the snow-wrapped ma ples, while yet fitful wind gusts howled down the chimney and through the rus tic gables of the old log house, Katie Hamilton went to his room to call the old man to his breakfast As she opened tho door a startled scream es caped her, which drew Ellen to the door. Stark and etifT upon the bed he lay, his hands folded peacefully above his breast, his eyes half closed, and a sweet, radiant smile upon his face that was in itself a refutation of guilt. Gossip in tho neighborhood was at its height. A few, rough, honest-hearted friends assembled in response to Jakio Hamilton's hurried alarm, but not one woman in tho vicinity could be induced to enter the house. "He's a judgment of the Iord for his wickedness," said one. "Xo wonder he died," commented an other. "I always did think he had a suspicious way." "I'm sure I've thought for a long time that something wrong was going on in that. house," said a third, with a look that meant volumes, while a fourth, who dared to hint that the whole story might be faNe, was most scornfully rebuked by tho pious tattlers. Ellen moved about the house with a quick, nervous step during the prepara tions for the burial. Her hand shaped the elegant little ornaments with which the plain, maple coffin was adorned, and which gave to the pure, white locks upon which they rested around the smiling, wrinkled face an air of added rest and comfort. These little acts of human kindness were inlcrpreled as fresh evidence of guilt by the jaundice eyed neighbors, who felt that their own purity would be enhanced by deep anathemas against the dead. Every innocent and natural act of the poor, hunted woman was magnified by the spectacles through which these people looked into some demonstration of utv vlnoa nviir flu. front it-inlii -urn lipfinl. ! "" """" aecomimnied by the sound of snapping twig. Presently a dark shadow flitted past the window, and the Doctor, hur rying to the door, saw the retreating form of the magistrate who had served reter Dnwd's summons upon Ellen, his wife, as the sneaking poltroon climbed the fence and skulked along tho way. "That devil's after no good, I'll war rant," said Dr. Goll. "Ellen, my poor child, it will not do for you to remain here." "Rut I trifZ remain here, sir! I cau defend myself, with Uncle Jacob's gun. r will nptiSf hounded from this home." "It is not your home, my poor child." Suddenly reminded of the package that had been given her by Uncle Jacob as the last act of his life, she nervously searched and found it, but when about to break the seal, Dr. Go IT restrained her. "If it should be a will, my dear child, and you should tamper with it without due form of law, you might invalidate your claim." "True. I did not think of that. I think the angels must have sent you here, for I should have opened the pack age if you had not come." While they were considering the snp- i i i .. r . I . 1 . 1 Jakie Hamilton came in. "I thought, Aunt Ellen," he said, cheerfully, "that I'd come and stay with you to-night Father said there would be nothing Improper in it, but why it is right for wc and wrong for Katie I'm sure I don't see." "Yon don't believe I'm wicked, do you, Jakie?" "Xo, but but" "You mean to say your father doeV interrupted Ellen. "Yes, but he'll soon change his mind. I'll be of age soon, and then I'll take you out of this accursed neighborhood," said the boy, protectingly. Dr. Gofl soon left them to their soli tary surroundings, musing as ho went. He had grown old in the service of hu manity in his limited sphere, and was more philanthropic, because of his pro fession and the insight it had given him into the needs of men and women, than were his less fortunate associates. Enterin Address of Mary E. Eastman. Dr.t.tvrnEn iieporf; the stw r.xot.ANn wosi-l AN SrFKKACIK ASSOCIATION IN DOSTO-V, MJI1 INO ANNIVKKSAKY WEEK. A piquant writer says "To stay in one place among people who are per fectly used to you, and hammer away at the same old sins, with the same old truths, and yet strike fire that is work." My friends, we have work to do. I am humiliated to stand before an intelligent audience almost a hundred years after the Declaration of Inde pendence, to feel the need of aruuintr. I'trst, mat an itiimuu ueuiga are uorn free and equal. Secondly, That women arc human beings. Thirdly, 'mat principles reany appiy to women. And yet, to litis complexion has it come at last. Our movement has passed through various stages and we have had a scoro of reason.", so-called, first and last, against our demand for equal richts. which wo tnlcht classify as did Charles Sumner the apologies for the crime against Kansas, as "tne reason tyrannical, the reason Imbecile, the rea son absurd, and the reason Infamous." A careful consideration of opposition arguments from the pulpit, the press, and lasllv from tho Massachusetts lecls- laturo, has failed to furnish one which mount be Included under these heads. One Hon. gentleman in the House of Representatives, during the lale dis cussion on Woman SuIfraKC, confessed that the phrase, "Taxation without rep resentation is tyranny," had an ugly found; but by a delicate piece of soph istry, ho put the ugliness out of sight, by claiming that the principle was really limited in its application. Ho explained that with resiK-ct to men the connection between the ballot and taxation lias only to do with the poll tax. Only with the tax on heads! Did yon ever notice how modestly gentlemen sometimes refer to the trilling matter of heads? Considering that the exes dillered morally and intellectually as well as nhvsicallv. the question to be considered seems to be this: How can woman best exert iter Influence on man ? With the clinching argument that if women vote it would be necessary to enlarge town houses, (and by the way his town had just built a new one) the great principle set down by tho fathers had been dis posed of. Another, a Rev. gentleman, argued that the admission of women to legisla tion would tiracticallv nullify tho repre sentation of men. since no man, of whatever rdnss. would onnose a woman. even in debate. I thought the gentle- In 1774. by Lord George Germain, in a 1 for its accon)plihmqnUrlf -sa dis- '"."."'"J.':. ... I ..t-:... t.uc.t line rmriMisi'fca rtrufeuse. debate in Parliament, on a motion to alter the charter of Massachusetts. "I cannot think (lie saiu) tne nonie Lord," (referring to Lord ortli the Premier) "will do a better thing than to put au end to the town-meetings in the colony of Massachusetts. I would not have men of a mercantile cast, every day, collecting themselves together and debating about political matters. 1 would nave mem tunuw mur wcujia tions as merchants, and not consider themselves as ministers of that country. They have, sir, no government. 'I heir proceedings are tuuse m a lumuiiuuus and riotous rabble, who ought, if they had tlie least prudence, to follow their mercantile employment, and not trouble themselves with polities and govern ments, which they do not understand." ..t:. tiuci tipr.YiiiriMise is'a'nrefense. The contrast we 'find- fietweon the .,!,it niin I;iu and the 'nrfiUjstations of speech reminds. tnetitTthc Md-.trick of Oiaticers tux. . - "Jitfr cf hoinuuifoiiji'SfOr1 ( Om an Is man's perplexity.) . . -M.ulame, the t.eHteneetiHhelrttlii Is Woman I- m.iniu ' Joy and umiiueS blisn." I believe that the claims ve make are within our grasp when women will it. Men want the respect and approval of women; but they will win them at the cheapest market-rate. If they c-.tu deny to woman's skilled labor the compensa tion which would enable the worker to keep her carriage, and then soothe their souls by olfering her, so long as she is nrettv "nnd well dressed, a seat in a , hote-car if they can so regulate laws A Journal for the People. lwvote.1 to the Interests or Iumsnlty. Independent In Politics and Religion. Mlve to all IJve Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposinc nnd Exposing the Wrongs ol the Manses. Correspondents writing overnwumed flns tures must make known their names to the Editor, or no attention will be Klven to their communications. ..... ' ...i . i..t,.iu that tliov absorb into tiieir possession this arcument doesn't sound a hundred the results of her labors and cares in the vears old. Rut we will remember that , home, front t he day of marriage, anil se the colonists did not therefore leave the i cure her smiles by doling it oid- to her town-meetings, and go back to their as the price of winning arts, and well cornfields and their counters! Xordoes! timed persuasions when she wants a it accord with tho Christian idea of , new bonnet, or a trip to the sea-side. If oct- .vim iw.nr.fit tlioUhev can shut the doors of Harvard, State will receive from making us eitl- ( with its capital of live millions, inelud- zens? lug libraries, gymnasiums, museums tml coat iv apparatus, anil yet win me I-rotlilng iam, in nis-Jtise ot tne - . , . ; . ..j- - .omen tne ... . . -.. . . . -. . tho vlllniro bolfl. ho oneniin- i man nittot live above the sphere of the tercd the magistrate upon the doorstep ny'Xrl whom he had recognized under Ellen's ,he ,i10:kjn, account of a police- window early in the evening, btemiy : man, who assailed his wire with blows, t lm nt.i mnn enllnl tlii siimklmr dntr to returning nine times to the attack; yet an account for his act. The man of the law shrugged his shoulders, looked wise and suspicious, and said "it was his duly to collect what evidenco ho could by the time the trial for divorce should come round." that nolicetnan was one of the zrnanliatis of the public peaceln thecllyof Lowell; a man who, if sickness or death made it necessary for one of our lady physicians to pass through that city in the night, was her officially appointed protector. I wondered by what exception to the rule tho Hon. irentleman who offered the "Have you been to Peter Dowd's to argument himself, stood there opposing spy into tho windows there, you sneak ; a petition signed and argued by women. .: ,. , , .i t . ! I do not propose to consider the argu- thlef?" asked the Doctor in a rage. j mclt to wU,ch we rccenliy listened in Tlie cowani raiscu nis cane to sirtue iic House of Representatives, some oi him, but encountering tlie steady gaze of the grand old man for an Instant, he quailed and walked away, muttering, "I'll get even, old man." which were doubtless offered In sin cerity, nor the cruder words of taunt and insult which I do not like to recall. Rut those arguments answered conclu sively the ntiestions asked there and if women want tne holy passion, and when the simple burial rites were over, and Llleu aud her niece retraced their steps to the lonely cabin home, they were met at the door bv Ziek Hamilton, who, to add to the poor creature's persecution, took Katie away "lest she should be disgraced by contact with a fallen woman." Ellen Dowd had suffered so much that she could scarcely feel tho weight of an additional sting, yet when Katie, in tears, gathered up her clothing and the simple keepsakes that the loving hands now cold In death had given her, and as she started away in the gloam- ing,.not daring to look in the eyes of her poor, persecuted aunt, tne lonely creature locked and barred the doors, nt down before the blazing lire of loss and wept in silent bitterness. . . - !.-? c t-i.t : 1. - iitvri... Anritirr minor tiiiviitr intiii jiimk ituii i t'lsi'ivuiiL'. ivii. the Doctor, Ellen Dowd dech.ed I not to I SiZ: open I tide Jacob's will until the time . t wJiat a fearful cost wc were using for the trial for divorce should come. cvea the right of petition, since, though Relwem tho three the existence or the jour country boasts no more honored i. r ii t..i.i.n, i names than were sinned to that aniK-ai, WIIMl.un (,ared that th(.y--wh0 and a new gossip, in which the Doctor's asked for thlg rJf;ht were n01y tIle name and Ellen's figured, became the mentally and morally poor." I did not all-aborbing theme. wonder, wuen we wno were strangers to Pniitr Tones vis very bu.v iii the i our opponents were made to feel so IoII Jones t.as yrj busy in me kcclIj tho opprobrium they keep for home of Peter Dowd. Her strength or women wi,0 presume to ask to be men's body equaled her jwwer of will, and she peers, that women to whom these men nubile " ably traces the chance in ideal of social order, from the time it rested on the assumed inequality of man when the Individual was valued only as he was of service to tlie State. This was the pagan idea and gave way only when Christianity came, witti its central idea that man was created in the divine image and that in the eye of God all tnsn were equal, which led to the in ference that man is superior to tne otaie, which ought to be fashioned for his use. It was not till after the Reformation that there arose a clas of thinkers who grasped the idea that the State ought to exist for the individual. Xor is justice done in the asMirance Hint the ballot will be accorded us when all women ask it . . There were, In some or the colonies, laws Imposiug penalties on absentees front elections, showing a conviction that It is the duty of all citizens to share In public affairs. There are those who favor such regulations now, as one means of averting the peril in which our nation stands. Moreover, since fnrtv iut rent, of the men did not vote at the last Presidential election, what tvmiM lier-mnn. of the ritrht of those who did not if it were forfeited on as slight grounds as ours is denied? Yet women can only be charged with lacking the spirit to claim opportunity, in the face of bitter opposition, while two-firths or the men are guilty of neg wiiiir. in us,, the ontMirtunlty their futhers bequeathed them at the price of blood nnd treasure. Rul, earnestly as I would appeal to men, yet more earnestly and inipres nlvi.lv would I nnneal to women! It U to our demand that thU concession will be made and to it alone. I do not forget the difficulty or the task before us. Rut, remembering that a hundred vears ngo this day, the men of Roston were pushing their iwililieal action to the Issue or independence, at tlie mouths or hostile cannon, I tni't that, In the same great caiiM-, and with the same noble spirit, we nro ready to push ours, even under the cannonade or hostile mouths. Upon the frecf, happiest, most for tunate woman before me, I call; upon those whose well-being makes it espe cially Incumbent upon them to ri-e to broader considerations titan "What shall I eat, what shall I drink, and wherewithal shall I bo clothed?" Let us not forget that there are thousands who staud where the temptation is to preservo domestic peace, to keep their only chance of bread-winning even to retain possession of thelrchildren seals their lips, aye, acts like an opiate upon brain ami conscience, jwt i caruvsuj as will pledco themselves to make re turn ill leacuinjJi uy Kv,"i; "aas1" opportunities of a Xormal School, they will give her nothing more, j visneti a Xormal School last summer, and I think tlie small case of philosophical appar atus which I saw was its all, while its art gallery and cabinet of natural his tory consisted of a plaster Clyte on a shelf in one corner, balanced by a hor net's nest on a corresponiiing shell m another. If man can soothe woman by lauding with his lips the divine inllti ence of motherhood while he abuses his power to defraud herof the ownership or the past that such will be the price ot exchange m me ititure. There are Indications that woman's regard is not to be so lightly purchased. Ignorance and prejudice are the strong hold or the present condition otatlairs. As rapidly as intelligence and thought fulness spread, a feeling of revolt springs up In women against such Injustice. Hitherto women have learned the laws nflectintr them only when some hour of bitter trial has revealed to them, as in a lightning Hash, nt once their misery and their nowerlessness. It Is time that something beside the desperate emergencies of life developed women. I ask no surer way to bring about nubile sentiment which will eive repre sentation to women within a decade of years, than to make the general laws which oner personal property mm po litical interests a study in our High and Xormal Schools. Let it take rankwirh the study of the crust or the earth, the motions of the planets or the form, structure and habits of the lower orders of animals. 1 should like to see the logical acumen, and keenness or pene tration which one may witness, any day, in our Girls' Xormal Schools, broucht to bear on this subject Re sure, the facts would be seed-grains of thought, which would hot perish in mental soil so rich. When I listened, last summer, to re marks or prominent gentlemen to Xor mal School graduates, I wondered at the little credit for thoughtfulness they gave to pupils so well trained. When one spoke, with a significant and gra cious shake of the head, of tlie danger lest women should quite crowd men oil tlie educational track, since, already, there were seven ladies tt-acliing in Massachusetts to one man, did lie con sider that his listeners were saying to themselves: "Yes, but these protected seven must serve you for the compensation of three .linen." They forget that to them was open the report of the Rurcau or Statis- hardly right to ratify my friend's senti ment at the expense of justice. Our great national experiment stands to-day in peril. Every heart must sink at the frequent manifestations of cor ruption in high places as well as low. In our largest commercial city, in our halls of Congress, proof piles on proof that there is rottenness at the core. I sec but one hope. Before it is too late we must learn our errors. We must be what we are vainly striving to seem. I believe in a Republic, but not in a name whicli is a lie. We are false, when wc call this Government by so grand a name, aud it is a falsity which is eating away ourXationol life. We need to ponder well Cicero's noble words, "Sine sutnma iustitia remnublicam geri a nullo modo posse." Without the high 's ' est justice a republic can in no way be carried on.j The pressing necessity of our cause is not only the work or the platform, but of tlie homes. Xot only shpuld we ue logic, or write essays; all (hat has been done and done again. What tlo we learn Jiy it? tli.it women have brains? Men knew that before. What is needed is a race of women who are willing lo testify that they don't like slavery, who find in their souls some thing which rebels against mastership enforced by law. We want souls at white heat with this love of liberty. Such souls alone worthily praise God for the Imon of existence. Women have been falsely trained to consider that their duties aud their in terests ended with the care of the family and the culture or self. From this we aro gradually recovering. Tlie appeal to woman now is, not to hold her best powers out of the reach or humanity. It is not enough to lift the heart in as piration. The helping hand must be readied down to the humblest it is tho lnrv of our Aire that more than any other, it is seeking to lay all that i- high anil nouie at tne ieei. oi Hu manity. This is the very spirit or Christ, who did not cherish his virtues aloot but showed them to us under a erown ot thorns, who were then not as a kingly robe, but made them the sinning drapery or the cross. With His purpose may we take up our work. Into His spirit may we be bap tized. won gradually upon the weak nature of stood m tne relation oi uusuanu, miner, the legal husband of poor, disgraced El- j 'ef- wSm'ub wilil leu until he became her slave as truly I Krter ami shame. to as he was a slave hinds gold appeal to women njioir whom t he iieeti , is7--whlch, after not- of daily bread doe? ; not press so heawlj, . , rrihtfully small earnings of to women whose "' vo.neu in variousi departments of in- above the plane at law, so that thought j malhmta mmer the head or and nctlon are as free as if no unjust , .,-, Ioiiai:ti She was more thrifty aud tidy than El len had been for years, because her vig orous strength enabled her to endure tho toil. Tho children of the household re spected whilo they feared her, aud the hired man voted her a success as cook. irrief t i ir we could trust protestations, were certainly entitled to expect a more favorable action from tlie Republican party than wc received. Yet I was per sonally much less disapiKilnted than many of our friends. Legislators are exponents of an average public senti ment. Onlv now and then a Slltlllieror a Wilson is strong enough to be a leader Sometimes Ellen would wrap herself , or jt. r ,j0 ,10t thiiik Unit Woman Suf- Rlessed tears ! 'lhey come to mortals ctosejy to protect her shivering frame frage is tho seutimeiit of the body of the oft when but tor them the o er-tneu ; from ti,e chilling winds, and wandering peopie io-uay. me uuttimaui-u brain would lose its balance, and the n.ro.mh the snow to the banks of the 'A1 rPr&"' sufferer become a raving subject of dis jointed dreams. A loud rap at the door terrified her. Starting up, she examined the locks to see that all were fast, and sat down panting in her chair. Louder grew the raps, and soon the well-remembered voice of Dr. GofT, who, having been ab sent on professional business, had failed to return in time for the burial, was heard in hearty tones entreating her to let him enter. With sudden hope she undid the fastenings, and the good old Doctor, witii sadness in his face nnd voice, began to denounce the poor suf ferer's defamers. "You are the first person who has said one word in my favor or given me one spark of encouragement," said she, mournfully. "It's the way of the world," he said, bitterly. "Men nnd women are con- thoughtless aud the seekers for popu larity, are all ngalnst it I think It Is Mackinaw, would take shelter behind a friendly tree where she could hear the children's voices. One day, ns she was listening thus, she saw little Rob, her pet, go toddling up the Icy steps, nnd while she gazed, with her heart in her throat and tho yearning mother-agony of her whole belnc reachlntr out for him, tho little fellow fell. His sharp, quick scream , adverse action or the Legislature! If was followed by the MentoJ me uoor, wncn me iiouse-Keeiier, wmi TWrli-tir.iw dixirraccd our statue-books. Tlie world would persuade us that the question of rights is superfluous to woman, that wo have attained to some thing beyond that, to protection. If this were true, is it houorable, under any circumstances save invalidism or imbecility, for an adult class to be con tent with the positiou tr a protected and governed chissv for one, i oeiicic in no one's rights in another's keeping. As the Colonists claimed liberties that were beyond the domain or king or Par liament, so we claim liberties beyond the ilnmriins of Legislatures. ir a right to the unrestricted use or our f-ipiiltli'M be not such, what is? If the right to the ownership or our earnings bo tint such, what is? If tlie mother's right to the child she has borne be not siir-li. what is? I do not hesitate to say that the man or woman who does tmt want liberty, has no high hieai, tor sucu mi ideal ojinnot be worked out in bonds. As well, with fettered limbs, might tlie to-day the sentiment of the leaders or mettled horse try to run the race, or the the people anil is rapuuy becoming mat gnnaui " " "; , - ; of the intelligent classes. With the We are constantly told that won oman, people then, Is our work, not with the byticrioity mora ui w.u legislators. If we want a good picture cacy of her perceptions, is man s savior, reflected, we do not go behind the mir- Men tell us this ami prove their con- ror to produce it, but to tlie subject be- viction by depriving her, as far as tlie "' i.' ' J e dn so bv fes slatlon. of every oppor- 1U1U L 1 1 IT IIItlLlT. I the everlasting broom in her hand, stood over the screaming child and struck him violently, scolding like the terma gant that she was. Blood was oozing from the nostrils of tho child, while from a deep gash in ids fore-head the crimson How came in a steady stream. All the mother-heart or Ellen Dowd was roused. Like an enraged lioness she crossed the Mackinaw upon the ice scious or so many sins of their own that i jn icss time than it takes to tell It, and they are ever ready to accuse oiners to springing to the side ot her prostrate cover up their own evil deeds. What child, caught him In her nrm and do you intend to do?" straiued him to her heart Ellen looked np dreamily. Reader mine, I could not sully these "Ihavcn't thought or doing anything, ' columnswithtliefrIghtriiltiradcofabu.se lt us not take too much to heart the In f tract entitled "The Christian Common wealth" on account or its republican sentiments. In 1873, It rehises to apply tlie republican sentiments which it pro fesHes. The principles it disclaimed in 1C01 it fought for in 1770. The refusal to nnnlv the nrlnclnles It professes In 1873, It will blush for before the end of the century. Itttri..- .:!! II. a Wnmon difPrnrrlttta "- ..- ....... , 1"--, .i, .!, rnr do now?" said a prominent lioslon strange inversion, dally, when on r motion was lost in the stronger sex palliates moral wcauness, Legislature. Do now? Why prlnci- while that for the weaker sex demands iii.ntv- n make her iiifiuenco effective. They exhaust language In lauding her augeiio iiiicuus ui ...... ...... their sincerity by making her the help less victim of tho worst passions with which the most brutish man may be cursed. They call woman man's pre server, and the common speech In the tintrit nf A dam. finds some woman guilty whenever man Is weak. Rut we live in a society, which, though it bc itnva In one God. and reads one Rible, keeps two codes or morals, one for man, and another wr women, tei uy a .imimn invorsion. the code for the legislature. a , ' " "..V' n for both. To e not cnaiiaen. vine woiuu sun- morni Miciigm ...- - ..... ... . i . . i nmiirn nf mniipv tile pose we I nu niliicrio povesseu me oai- man it gives m , ' ', " iii' ,ir "In manv places the wajres or teach ers are no larger than, aud sometimes not so large, as those or other worK women, but the condition or their em ployment is vastly different from that of the workers in the shops and manu factories or our iargectlies. in most in stances teachers have relatives or friends, witii whom they cau spend their vacations withoutexpeuse, so their yearly earnlugs, though small, repre sent a mticu ueiicrcoiiuuiou oi me tuan that of the needle woman or machine operator, whose wages may reach a higher figure." So, it seems, that Massachusetts has not only au iguorant and thriftless pauper class in her alms-house but an industrious, educated, half-pauper class in her school houses; the lady teachers of the State, who, for three months in the year, must eke out their scanty earnings by the favor or friends. j As one who has belonged to that body, I protest, not merely against so dispar aging a classification, uut against the conditions which make such a classifi cation possible. I pray to be spared the humiliation of ever hearing a lady teacher falter in obedience to custom, "I have all the rights I want." The woman who came to us for a day's work last week, the temperate, hard working mother of five children, told me that she never failed to be at work before 5 o'clock in the morning and worked steadily till 10 o'clock at night Xevcr an hour to herself. Sventeen hours, you perceive. She said that she could come to us only when her hus band was away from home, for he wanted her to work on their land when her house-work was done. "Hut that gives me no money," she said, "and the chllders want so many things." Hor seventeen hours a day did not as sure her a dollar, except as she stole her time from iter master. -iu iue iruiis ui their market produce were his, to dole out to her, or to Keep, as ue enoosu. My ....... - M ... . t m .... ... ,n Iia. In T.inr nl lH P lot and had lost it. Uh, no! e have . support ami uu oro '-" friMn,i. . nrofWssor of theolozy, told me a ..t n ii a niirsi iiiiiiiiiiiciinit .- --- i i - - . . . in iiiiirsLitT nu -- i i ,i sir. This whole trouble tias taiien upon me like an avalanche. I left the house of reter Dowd, which by all moral richt is mine as much as his, to protect myself In my feeble health lrom connti- , screaming child from blal oppression that I was not able to ' arms, nnd dealing her endure. Peter knew all about it, aud swore that ho would be avenged. Faith fully has he kept his vow." A rustling in the denuded, Ice-laden that that coarse woman heaped upon poor Ellen Dowd at the threshold of her own hard-earned home. Peter Dowd rushed upon the scene, caught the its mothers a staggering blow, entered the house and slammed the door, bidding her, the vile , to be gone about her business. (To be continued. t .i. ..i. i il in the uaminc-house or . a wniie ago, '"u.". V."" t, imnn lt denies I have the law t ie oi-s"j,. , .. j..como of the favor o tne ,, j-- . - - . . ,f ,tw only submitted the Intelligence nnd the justice or the representatives of Massa chusetts to the test; if they failed to bear it, we must go on with renewed .i a iin,u . n.ti. Hie mlMitieMt ouiicatlous Ul'Clll'I ICI VUI H HCII rlfcJ VH raL'i Mini I III P . ntliup the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." . upon her, it Interpose the willofanoi ner Wo have a strong appeal to make to between her and freedom. It rivets ner men, on the ground of justice. They! chains by adroit appeals to vanity, her hold tlie power, and it is not in accord- love or ease, her affections nnti then, anccwlth the Republican idea of gov-1 In ecstney or admiration, it bids her ne ernment that they should argue, in the man's guide and his strength, and asks spirit or an aristocracy, thatvomen arc if that Is not enough to satisfy her hicii- uo t fitted lorme ballot, and should go I est ambition; about our household duties, and leave affairs of State to them. Tlie arcument was as fairly put against the Colonists l UlllVfl.lu. . . , 1 Viiiuv Hint sho who seriously under takes a great work, must hnvc corres pondingly great room ami wuji.h.im..j how sorry he should be to recoznize that one-halt ot the family belonged to i ould establish such a tniuc and thine relation." It evidently seemed to him, somehow, more Iiarmoulous, less of the earth earthy, that he could say, "all mine, my love," nnd that she could sweetly respond, "all thine, dearest." Rut since, in their happy union, they could live, as far as any, superior to the law, It seemed to me, wheu I saw in what an uubappy"'pbsitlon it placed this poor Irish woman, as it does thousands in a i belter social condition, that it was The Past Young Man. There has been so much said about the fast young lady, that It is time the fast young man took his share of the blessings (?) Go where you will, you will see a specimen or fast Young America. Ride in tlie eat or stage, and at the most fashionable street corner, our fast young man will get in, and finding the most comfortable seat, ensconce himself therein, and then look around to see if Ills appearance has produced the awe he expected. If a fashionably dressed young lady enters, howquick lie springs up, at the risk of ripping his trous O! I meant to say pantaloons, to offer her a seat Rut let a poorly dressed woman get In and he' is very intent on watching something out of tlie window, and, of course, does not see her; while IT in. woulil always be jionte to rtcn ami poor, old anil young, he might some times have a fortune left him by some poorly dressed man or woman,' as that seems to be the way most fortunes aro left now-a-day in the newspapers. Walk in the street and on every cor ner, holding np the buildings and lump posts, you will see quite a number of the gents "fast young men;" some smok ing, others making remarks about every lady that passes by. "What a beauty." "Isn't that a bully girl?" "I think she's some." These and similar expres sions may be heard at any time, and ut tered by respectable young men they call themselves. Go to the theater, and in the gallery, and even in the opera-box you will find him. He is here, there, and every where. Xow daintily holding his opera glass, he looks around the house, if he sees any modest, shy-looking girl, stares her out of countenance, lie is on fa miliar terms with the actresses and bal let girls, and even boasts or his intimacy with them. After the play is over, he lounges around town, stopping hero and there, aud finally brings up at home about "five o'clock in the morning," and sometimes too gloriously drunk to find his own room, and at others, "only drunk enough to make me jolly, upon honor." He sleeps next morning until nearly noon, and then after freshly perfuming his hair, brushing his somewhat seedy hat, and giving a somewhat peculiar twist to his new necktie, sullies out to repeat the performance of the day be fore, only varied by attending a race or a church now and then. After a while when his landlady be comes impatient for her rent, due six months or so, and when creditors como thick and fast upon him, lie looks around in search of a wife. Re she young or old, homely or handsome, it makes no thllercnce to mm, il sue has abundance of tho needful cash. It is not for love he wants her, hut to pay his wine, carriage, and other bills. He proposes in tho latest style. Papa consents. A rich trousseau is ordered from Paris, nnd they are married in style, in a fashionable church, without any love-making on his part, and on her side, she does not care for any. After marriage, he goes his way, she goes licr's, and no questions are asked on either side, ire hns some one to pay his bills, and she a husband to redeem her from the odium of being called an old maid. After a year or two, they disagree, find out their "incompatibility or tem per," and in nine cases out or ten they get a divorce; she goes back to papa, and he goes in search or new fields to conquer, or perhaps, to break some poor girl's heart, and then say, "Poorthiug, I really couldu't help it How can a Tellow help being good looking." Xo wonder that divorces aro so frequent, witii such ni-assorteu marriages. Such ts a fashionable marriase, Tticy are 'well-mated in life; She's got a fool for a timLand, lie's got a fool for a wife. Judge Smith, after he was seventy, married a wife considerably his juuior. One day, soon after the ceremony, he was riding with her, and, on coming to n hill, she bautered him with tbo re mark: "Judge, my father always used to walk up hill." "So did my first wire," replied the Judge. Five young misses in their teens from a joint stock dairy farm of 320 acres m Kansas. r II