Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1874, Page 7

i L e i e e e e e e S - Seminoles, . have often. been. the field in which amen.and THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE : SUNDAY. APRIL 5; 1874. kg HUNTING. [amling Animals, and Hunting Men—Hunt- iog for Blood, and Hunting for Fun. An 0l3-Time Hunt in the Streets of Chicago. Hunting Fugitive Slaves, and Hunting Fugitive Masters. How Dr. Dyer Got His Gold- Headed Cane, Honting hes, in every age and nation, beens favorite amusement. The -Bible tells us of imrod, the great bunter. I suppose from thab 2y to this there have been grest men who have distinguished themselves in following after this grest master and £5pe of the eporteman. What 1o hunted, and hov he hunted it, are loft much toconjecture, At all events, he must have beon | in & big and rerpectable business in that % Jine; for it is recorded of bum that hewas & wmighty hunter before the Lord ;" aad he made a8 Eucoess of it that he could found s King- 2om, notwithstanding that Kingdom's name was Babel. Perhaps it might not bo amies for eome of the learned and talented clorgymen who fill so admirably the maoy pul- pits of Chicago on Sunday, and then again 811, to such edification of the public, Ta= Sorpat TLIBUNE with their brilliant elacidations of theology, morals, or manners of. the present, and the customs and tho hiddon meaning of gymbols-of past ages,—like the saline qualities of Lot's wife,—~to toll us something abon this uating business, and ita typical gignificance to the state of affairs in Chicago ; 5o that, a8 the Dutchman ssy8, We way know s-ll a-b-o-u-t jt" PatImust passon to events nearer the | time of my own recollection. I think L will 0% “ pass,” however, until Itake & refreshing view of HUNTING IN GENERAL. Fuoting seems Lo be & normal condition of primitivo life. Where man does not properly oceupy the earth, and make it bring forth seed d fruit for his own sustenance as it ought, then brute animals are prone to come in and poscess it, and prove tust theyare the more vorthy occupants; for to thewild belongs the earth in its wild state. Alan then finds his occa- pation 88 planter gone, asd takes ap the hunting business to kil off the animaln that he may maka ¢hemnto food. The.lion docs mnch the same {hing; he buxts the llams, or would takea eheep oramenif hecould get either, and slay them forfocd. So the Indian hunts the deer or the Yufislo, 10 slay them for food. But to hunt for 1mere sport,—10 kill beasts. or birds, or what not, funof it,—that to the Indian is an n: for that reason ho holds the whito racein: grest abhorrence, 88 saveges aud men cruelin their natures, because they kill the buf- faloes of the plainsg in mcre wapion sport, and Joave their carcasses for the buzzards,or to rot upon the earth, In that way the issuo is mado up between the red-skinned savage aud tho white-skinned savage. Hunting seem to be & fsvorite employment, if not an amusement, of both the savage and tho civilized state of life. The moro civilized, the more fan does bumanity seem to extract from that business which mede Nimrod such & mighsy man. THE ENGLISE may be sllowed to o an eminently cisilized poo- ple, Hunting is great sport in that Kingdom, xnd, wheu we consider under what ciroumstance the pursuit has to be followed, we may well be- Yiove it to be s Etrong passion for they must preserve and nourish, with the care of a tropical plant, every ferocious apimal they would hunt to the death, or every shy fox or timid doer. Phink of the rofined civilization that will hedgo in & deer in 3 grend eld park, or Leep s fox in a covert, thes they may be let Jooge, or brought out in due time, and left to fly for desrlife over vast fields, and hills, and dales, followed by gentlemen and lndies, horses an: hounds, riding and baying an the track,—sll in the highest glee and-exhilaration tobe in at the desth. And 6o the ladies ride the trained bunters, and leap their lithe steeds over hedgo or stream; and men follow after,—sometimes, ko Jack and Gill, tumbling down the Lill ; and, tho while, the fox is like the bird upon the wiog, and the traiued pacls of hounds is let loose upon his rear. Up through the woody valley of the Nyo or the Severn, you may bear the howl and ing chorus of deep-mouthed yells, bayin on the track of the fugitive. We would thiu Sun under ench contracted facilities, wita ictims kept for the sacrifics, would be like tho thrilling expectancy of hooking the tromt from beneaths grassy banks, from Dave Hammoud's artificial pond at Eigin, where he Lesps them by {he thousands in & single pool. But fon is fun, md&wpl« will have it, even at “sliding on the icoall on a sumuper-day.” : BUT " NO PENT-UP UTICA” » circameeribes (he powers of this hunting passion of tae English or sny other civilized hunting people; for the boundless continents are theira Jor their hazardons sports. Thus, to the jungles of Todia they go to shoot the tiger and the leop- ard; tothe wilds of Africa, for the lioa 2nd the elephant. Fastupon the heels of the groat ex- lorers Stanley snd Livingstone is fonad the ‘nglish lion-lunter, nith his double-shooters, his negro arms-bearers, and his ‘ Mackintosh ™ +zod “Havolock.” And on the plains of Col- orado, and in the forests of the Northwest, the | s3me roving, venturesome secker after sport is onthetrack of onr buffaloes and beaxs; and the cosseless crack of his rifiotells that his vo- cationis yet promising. High authority tells us of fishermen who not only spresd their vets in Galilee, 20d would have teken trout or perch {rom Jordan—if thera were any there—with the | hook, bui who were salso to be fishers of men. Bo also we know that the world has lion-hunters end fox-hunters, and, in our country, we hava hunters of Jower degree, of birds, squirrels, and chickens. We have also had OUR HUNTERS OF MEN. In1837, or thercabouts, Theodore D. Weld— -one of the foremost, a8 Le was one of the most logical and eloquent, of tho carliest of tho Abo- litionists—wrote oue of the most remarkable of books ever issued Zrom theegma! in advocacy of myreform. It was entitled ‘BSlaveryasItls: The Testimony of a Thousand Witnosses.” And be bronght up & thousand witnesses, mostly elavebolders themsclves, and those who looked not zlways most unfavorably upon that system, 1o ewear against themselves that Slavery was the most iniquitous crime ever perpetrated ; in fact, the sum of all villainies.” "All this he made eopear by the most inflexible logic, and tlen bronaht his witnesses toswear, against their own will, that it was as true a3 Holy Writ. One of the great facts ho revealed in his book was the practice of hunting men. It covered the ground of hunting men to capture them, which | %8s generally the object; aod huniing men to kil them, asmen hunt the wolf : and hunting them for sport, s Evglishmon buat the fox or sz, Also, that they were huated with dogs ‘guns, gangs of men on horses following the hounds on the track, asthe profeesional hunts- mea follows the deer on tha chase. Surely, hunt~ ing hss takon u broad range, and has become tho ssion of mankind, from Nimrod to John RBail apd Je#f Davis! The hunting of the Indians in the evarglades of Florida, to exterminate tho at the demand of the slaveholders, glv. the United States Army, with the nse of loodhotmda imported from Gubs, whero thoy teen more thoroughly trained to follow the track and seize the negro, is s matter of mnoto- Tious history. Aud Joshus E. Giddings meant tomske the fuct stick a3 a plasier of Spanish Hleson the page of history, till it had drawn ers on tho conscience of the nation. Yark how rapidly time fiies, and how sud- denly facts change! Wbat Fousg ‘person, under the ago of 20, ever thioks- that tho bunting of inep, in this conntry, ince his birth, was A COMMON PRACTICE, 20d & vocation with some,—much more than the hunting of buffalo on the Plains, or lions in the laresis of Africa? But history—modera history —is no bad study for the young generation. And then what would the youthful student think of the assertion of slave-hunting all over +he prairies of the West, and in the streets of #very prominent citv,—even under the shadow > Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Chicago? What would he think at hearing the cry of the fasitive, fiying for some shelter, anynhere for ) Ta:d o evon. ‘08 hounds xre ba} on my track _ Curiatian, will 5-0‘:’::‘_\“4 e Yook ! In tinies past, from 1840 till the election of . &braba Lincoln, Ti® STREETS OF CHICAGO | half across the room. women have beenhunted. Beasts are hunted in their lnirs, or in dens and forests, or where thoy* rosmed on broad plaing, sccording 0 ' the na~ ture of the beast"; butmen are hunted where they most do congregate, and thig is through streots and alleys of towns. Theso hunts were not generally successfal ; the prey usually mada its escape, in ways most unaccountable to the henchmen of tbo chase. Thu first important hunt was aboat 1840, whon Nicholas Jones and Lis wife were captured, and she carried to the lantation, to some person who had a stronger— if not a better—right than a man had to his own wife. As it did not zppear that apy person had a better right to bim than himself, Nicholas was set free (after Liaving baen carried from Chicago to Ottawn) by Sheriff Redick. Thers hasband and wife wero parted; the hunt had been suc- cessful; nud Nicholas came back to Chicago to continue bere & mourning vagrant for many vears. *‘The Tale of Nicholas Jonea and His Lost Wife” deserves to be written up in the chronicled of the fugitives. TAC LAST GRAND HUNT was conducted not long befors Fort Sumter first trembled under theshock of Rebel guns; and the wildgrave-huntsman was 2r. J. Buasell Jones, late of Galena, Who gaily blew his bugle-horn, And trainod his pzck for eager phase. A woman and a child or two wera captured on Clark stract, and eight car-loads of victims des- tined for the sport fled froin the shelter of tho Eagle's wing to the protection of zhe par of ihe British Lion, on the shoresof Canada. The first aud the lsst wore s success,—the immortal i “Jones family ” being the prominent characters t the head aud thetail. The intermediate sum- monings of the packs resulted generally in mors sport to the hunted than the hunters. We can hardly remember a case, since the ‘s Jones' wifo,” wherd a capture was successfully thado and thie prey fully delivered into the juws of the yora- cions cannibal of the plantation. *‘Something Would generally happen” somowhero, and the prey would bo back again in Chicago in o few daye,waiting for apother raid of thoso who de- lighted to “prey " in that peculiar style. The Underground Rairoad, with its mein lines and sundry branches, fram Quincy and Al- tou to, Chicag, being in full operation, there vwas always plonty of gamo under cover. And I think that it was in tho year 1846 that & young, dark-calored, but not _inteusely-hlack fellow from tho South appeared in Chicago. Whence hecame, or where he designed to go, none seemed.to know or care. Ho had a disposition to be uselul, 2nd so Dr. Dyer employed him as an under-servant abont his house. Necessery clothing and board in abundance were the com- pensation until he could do bettor- Ard he was eujoined to do be:ter as soon as possible. Just st this time thore were Some sigus of & GATHERING FOR BPORT in the city. I'wo young men with the cut of spurlsmen, withswaggering airs, and with propen- sitics to slip their hands into tho side-pockets of their coats, appeared in Chicago, and would stop now and thon at the sundry taverns, which oould now be called hotols, without putting up. Thoy were scen to go in and out of Justice Kercheval's oflice, and also to bo in earnest con- sultation with Henry Rhines, a famous Constable, who was specially commissioned to run in Kercheval's Cowrt. On a certain morning,—8. very pleasant one on which to be oat early to enjog the breeze from the lake,—a vory respect- able, and indeed ugh-class, influential citizen * who camo here many years before from Kentucky, was scen to- be ont early with one of these Eporting young men from tho South, prowling about the ailey in tha resr of the Tremont House, and near the tenement- bonses of Dr. Dyer, carrying in his hands a rope thot would bave served well for a bed-cord. This gentlemanly old sottler of Chicago hsd been sensibly impressed with the necessity of obedience to law; and there wero laws, many, that no negro should escape jfrom his maater; aud, if he did escapo, ho. should not be 'harbored by the people of the Stato of Illinois ; if barbored, be should be captured aud sent back to his master, and those guilty of hurboring &nd_socreting shonld be_punished. This he thought to be wholesomo law for the regulation of soviety as 1t is fouud constitated. A wholesale violation of this law ho deemed in- jurious and demoralizing, makinz a precodent Tor the violation of otlier Jaws, snd men seiting themselves up to bo judges 2nd a lawunto them- selves. Theman was Lonost in his convictions, thereis no doubt, and he bad also much logic and reason on his eide, though lacking some- what in humarity and sense of moral obligation. He was also s taorough convert to the doctrine of which Grant should not have all the credit, viz: that the best way to get mid of an unjust law i6 Lo rigidly enforce it,—as_the Sauborn law and the Jayne law of Butler's have been rigidly enforeed. So our venerable Chicago citizen want out that pleasant summer moruitg, with rope in hand, RIGIDLY TO ENFORCE THE LAW for the arrest of fugitive slayes who came un- constitutionally on to the muddy streets of Chi- cago. "About that time, Dr. Dyer bethought himself of his bree!dfast, and that it wonld bo a pleasant thing, and very much strengthcn the physical man. to Lave a fine slice of peofstosk. The Doc- for at that time was a practicing physician, and Lnow what was good for msn, both a8 food aud medicine; and that steak was the prescription of Chicago, he should make that morning for himself. And | he called for Lis faithful man-servant to go on to Lake strect, between Dearborn and State, ot tho most-market, and get the reguired proscrip- fion. . The Doetor sat Limself down to reads copy of the Daily Journal, which bad been wait- ing for some days ; and ho read more than was coromon for bim on such _occasions, for he evi- dently read to occupy time, and seemed 2o be Waiting for his breakfast to como. Just tben in ruabed s boy in ot huste: * Doctor, they have CAUGHT YOUR NIGGER. “Caught, my nigger! where? I sha'w’t el- low anybody to steal my niggers; it's against thelaw." *They have got Lim over to the Exchange, and Bridgeb saya you havo got to come quick, or they will get him ofl.” The Doctor seized his rosewood cane and proceeded directly to the Merchants’ Exchange, on Lake streot, between Dearborn and State, to look after 'his nigger,—saying that he sionld not permit the servants of us house to be inter- fTered with in all the lawful avocations of oboy~ ing his_directions, ‘[here wa3 & big crowd Sround the door and blocking up the way to the upper rooms, The Doctor found &n easy pas- gage through the crowd on the ‘main foor in the bar-room, and st the din- ingroom in tho resr ho met tho ook, who told him thoy hud got his “nigger.” and bound him in the front room sbove, and gave ‘him her carving-knife to cat his way throngh to the preseuce of the enforcera of tho law. The door was bolted, but ho demanded gdmittance in such patbetic terms that bolts acd Tocks immediately gave back, and he entered. cane in his left band, carving-knifein tho right. nd there was the * nigger,” and no mistake, bound hand and foot ; and bound was he with the same cord that had been seen but a short fime Dbeforo in the hands of our moat respact- able citizen. There were some knives and pisols lying around loose on the tablo; Ena the two young sporting men from Kentucky Fere present, and another person with them, to giva thom conntenance, if not aid and comfort. T'he Doctor immedintely rebuked his servant, as good masters should do, for mot bringing the steak, aud also for being caught evidontly in bad company ; and, with Bndget’s carving-kuife, immedistely cut the cords, and ordered him to goLienco on his_busiuess. The negro obeyed B th alacrity. The gangway was blocked by & crowd, which became rather boisterous, and seomed to have a relish for fan, The Doc- tor ordered the crowa to moke waj. The otber party—who msy have been a Coustsble or may not, ordered the rabble to Closeup. They obeyed both. First, thoy mado way to let the negro pass, who soon got upon hisfect in the street and deperted; the Doctor came struggling on, often making very slow ‘Drogress aguinst the crowd blocking up the way nd cnger to see what was going on; and then the other command was considorably obeyed in | closing up. o thut tho representatives of the law had qute s timein gesting down into the bar-room below. But WIUELE WAS THE NIGGEB ? 1t ia vorily believed that he was never scen sgain by the captarer, or the deliverer the Doc- tor bad no steak for breakfast, and the negro no appetite for steak. The gentlemen from Keu- tucky met the Doctor on the bar-room floor mi- nus the “nigzer.” And thoy gavo him somoe tremendous talk. They zccused bim of steaiing their niggor. He sccused thom of stealing bis. They tbréatened to prosecute him for harboring and secreting. He threatened to prosecute them for attempting to kidnap. They said that the Avolitionists wero stealing tho niggers of tho Somth. He said they bad mnothing else down there worth stealing. They said the North' wero interfering with the domestic institutions of tho South. He said they bad been moddling with his domestic affairs, and_that ho had meant to have had stesk for breakfast, and they had meddled with his Kitchen-arrangements. High words seemed o Lo culminating to some bigh piteh Of sotion. Some thooght it meant blows or Llood - Oncof tio young men looked @sggers, while bo thrust his hand into his pocket, where gomething more than a dnfigu Tight have been. Just then the Dootor hap pened to whirl his cane rather vigorously, snd it nappened to hit the young sporiemsn on the temple, and, Dre;fldgg pl:; tdfimn,flcll :zpaq the while the blood spirted, as from & 8yringe, TP Diood had st lsst boon drasn from cne of iho sprigs. ef the. CLayalry. What will come of it ? Thiscame of it. Like the vent to a barral of newl&eidex, it let the gas off,—and THE BABREL DID NOT BURST. The wounded_gentleman vary manfally ex- pressed his opinion of the peopls of Clycago, that they were & neat of damned Abolitiomsts, and that thelife of s Southerner was no wey cortain in Chicago. The Doctor eaid that lLite and niggers were alwaya very uncertain ; and that, 88 he was a sargeon, he would dross tho wound frn_tmmuuly. "The-conrteons Kentuckian thanked him ; went to the public wash-bowl, and freed hm;sulf_ fiom the uuplessant stains; brushed his hair with the public brush; and im-. mediately packed up his pistols and knives, and proceeded somowhere elsc. L The * nigger” was gdne, and none knew whero; the elave-bunters were gone, and none knew where. The transaction was_doou noised all over town. Then it was said that the slave- catchers knew a thing or two, and had departed in their wagon up State street, on their way South,—having caught the “nigger” on the way, and wore takiog him off. Others said that tho slave had been sceu to cross the bridge and {;0 to tho North Side, where & Constable was fol- owing him in the resr. It was said that a com- ‘biuation of law-abiding people was making up to take the “nigger” and send bim back, and let our Bouthern Urethren kaow they bad friends in Chicago. aud ehould be treated like brothers whenever thoy cawma to Chicago, even if they did 1 come for their slaves. - Then there wass rallying of the “faithful fow,” like the clans to Wethachy Hall, to see the bunt fairly ont. Tirst thoy bunted for the ne- gro,—those who wanted to buve him, aud those who wanted him not. And they.hunted for the fugitive slave-catchers, and wanted to know whether it was they or the negro that was rimn- ning sway. Tothe hunt came Dan Davidson and Joe Smith,—the two most_jolly young men on_the side ot Liberty, ready for a frolic, ora fight, or & rescue, and forever bearing such tes- timony a8 best fitted the commenta on tho street~ corners. _ And thare were in the hunt the ever- ready Doliver Walker, who had a good span of horses to tucn into the service; the sober Dea- cons Carpenter and Johnston ; the enthusiastic Dr. W. H. Kennicott; _the pnrseverin&v lawyers Freer and DeWolt; J. H. Colling, bidding “the hunters godspeed, and masuriug them that ho Wonld see them safely through at the end. And scores more, whose names do not occur equaliy well, turned out to hunt that day,— » THE BIGUEST KUNT Chicago ever knew in its early days. They were hunting both the slave and hus masters, for they had evidently become fugitives. Thoy, Luuted till night, all through thoe soutb, almast to the Caluniot swamps ;. but no elave nor master was seen; but, toward the close of tho day, the; learned thot tho fugitive hunters were beyon their jurisdiction, making rapid tracks for Ken- tucky. and flinging curses bohind, but with no negro in therrgrip. A part of the gang hunted on the North Side, some on the West; yet, till close of day, no nogro was found, in the fenco , or outof it. Four days after, he was diecovered in the Wwoods on the North Brauch, and takon by 8 friend immediately to a steamer about to sail for Detroit, put on board, and Dr. Dyer never more eaw him after ho had delivered him from the bondage of the bed-cord, ‘I'he rescue waos the talk of the town for some days. Thers waa then stopping at the City Ho- tel~tho public houso thst si00d upoa tho ground and procoded the Sherman Houso—a gentlemaa from Virginis, who said he was & slaveholder. He had been making a tour of the Lakes, and had cut at Mackinaw » heavy hickory cudgel, an inch to an inch and a fourth in diameter, “ with which he intended, ou his return, to wake him— self a cane a8 & memorial of the Upper Lakes. It wes but roughly trimmed,—knots protruding whers the limbs had beon shiced off by the jack- knife, and tho bark on. Ho was told of the as- sanlt upon the slave-catcher, tho letting out of blood, and the breaking of the Doctor's cane. “Sorved him right ;" said ho. * Let them keop their niggers at home ; if they can’c do_it, the moro foois they for following them to Chicago. If you cateh my niggors hate, koep them, if you cen. Hero, __ GIVE TIIS HMICKORT TO TIE DOCTOR, with my compliments, and. tell him it is 8 pres- out from o Virgivis slaveholder. If he uses it on another head, I warrant the stick.” Some tima after, the friends of * the Doctor— mostly his “fellow comploxioners,” as he called his colored brethren—took the maiter of the hickory stick into consideration. Dan Davidson and Joo Smith, sasisted by Suth Painc, were the principal engincers of the enterprise. It was resolved to raiso means by small contributions, from colored people mainly, to mount tho cana with gold, aud make bim o gft of it ina public meeting. Ninety dollars was the cost of the monnting, with the proper inscriptions; aud it bores upon it Virginia’s groat motto: * Sic sem~ per tyrannis "'— 50 ALWAYS TO TYRANTS! Thers was then in Chicago a sort of stage- struck tadlor, who could do you, upon order, in clegant atyle, a fashionablo coat, or an act OF & whola plsy of Shakspeare, * a4 yon liked it,” by | the name of E.G.Ryer. It was this mao of words that was pitched upon to make the public presentazion of the mounted cane to the Doctor. And ho did it in eleguut style, befitting the oo« casion, eliciting a most resdy reply iu the char- acteristic wit and tersencss of the resipient of the honor. And that is the way Dr. €, V. Dyer came by his gold-mounted cane. Z., LASTAAX, BRAHMA'S ANSWER. ©Once, when the days woroages, And the old Earth was YOURg, The high gods and tho sages rom Wuture's golduu payes open secrets wrang § Each questioned sach to know Whenee cama the Heavens above, aad whencs s ‘Eurth balow. s p Indrs, the endlees g Of every gracious thing The gods to Lim deliver, - Whoee bounty is the river Of which thoy are the spring— Indrs, with snxious heart, Ventures with Vivochunu where Bralma 1a sparf “ Brabma ! Supremest Being | - By whom the worlds are made, Where weare blind, all-seciug, Btable, where we are fleeing, Of Life and Death atraid: Instruct us, for manl What is the body, Brabmal O, mind 2”7 kiud, Brahma] what the ‘Hearjng as though he heard not, 80 purfect was Lia roat, 8o vaut the Soul that erred not, 8o wise the lips that stirred nob— ‘His bund upon his brosst e Jaid, whereat bis fuca Was mirrored in the river that girt that holy Place, They questioned cach the other What Brabma's snswer meant, Baid Vivochunu, * Brother, Through Brabmsa the great Mother ‘Hatls spokon ber intent: Man cuds as bo began— The shadow on the water is all thero is of Man[® 4 Tho Earth with woe is cumbsred, And no man understands 3 They sce their duys are numbered By one that never slumbered Nor stayed his dreadful hands, T seo with Brahma's eyes— The.body is the shudow that on the Water Liea,” Thus Indrs, looking decper, Withs Bralima’s boif poesessod, o dry tume eyes, thou weeper | And fisc again, thou siecper | “The hand on Brahma's breast Is bis divine assent, Covering the soul that dies not. This is what Brahma meant. —R. H. Stoddard 1n Harper's Magazine. A Superstitious Usage. The London Echo saya: *‘The students of folk-lore will bear us out in the assertion that the recovery of drowned bodies was formerly mado the oceasion of a varioty of superatitions practices, rauging from the horriblo to the Erotesque.. Had soy enthnsisstic colloctor of such waifs from the ebbing flood of past folly been standing on tho bridgo of Namur a fow days since, ho might havo witnessed a spectacle, doubtless commeéh enough in the middle sges, but extremely rare in ourown. Four individu- als, sitting on s trough, dnfted down the Sambre between the bridge and the lock. Three of them held boat-hooks, ths fourth read aloud some formula out of a book, and 3 lighted candle, stuck in & washer-womaa's tub, fionted by the side of the trough, These per- sous were looking for a drowned man ; the read- er was evoking the deceased by moans of sacred Fords, while the candle wasexpected to stop and o out 88 soun 88 it &tood over-the spot whore the corpse lsy. The party did not, indeed,, wholly trust to their medunval recipe, but sup- plemanted it by sounding the bed of the mver with their palos, vet thero was, it must be owned, enough in their conduct to suggest to the Organe de Namur the indignant query, ‘Is it possible that, in tho year of grace 1674, adalt and vac- cinated citizens know 1o betier than thia 7' " e . A Cunning Bit for Trotters. From the Louisrille Courier-Jouraal. 7. H. Wilson, & well-known horse trainer of Cynthians, has invented a very ingenious bit, ta be used on ho trotting-horse, 8o neatly ar- ranged that s dniver can give his horse liguid Domishment during & heat without changing his position. A rubber tube runs from_ the bit to Tho meat of the sulky, where thera is attached a rubber bag for water or spirit, from which tho lightning trotter can drink refreshment on his Siory frack without pausing. . ORGANIZED CO-OPERATION. Some of the Benofits Resulting from -It. How Money Is Saved by the s Advocates of Justice.” Having studied the work aud the wants of the ‘women who are compelled 2 labor for s liviog, aud having become improssed with theidea that, in the presont condition of the labor-market, they can make no chango,—that is, they cannot, by any means in their powor, raise their wages, but are compellod, by the fores of circumstances, to accept whatever their employers mayeee fit to pay them, even though that little is barely sufficient to sustain life,—yat, notwithstanding their case appears so helpless, it is nevertholess, 23 trne here s elsewhere, that TIE LORD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSZLVES, and it is of nouse tryiog to belp those who will not help themselves. It is actually spending time and labor for nothing, which no ons who realizes their value foels inclined to do. No utopian dreams of &n earthly Eiysium will ever make the desired change in the condition of working men and women; no fancifaltheories will ever bring it about ; but the ove great fact to be borne in mind is, that we Iive in a Lusy, prac- tical world, whero labor is conqueror, while dreaming and talking nover accomplish anything. Tt is useless to sit down and wait for the turn of the wheel of Fortune ; while we are idly wait~ ing, somebody wide awake to the realities of life is turning it, and it rolls remorsotessly over us, crushing us in its revolution, and render- ing us more helbless ‘than before. If we want tho wheol of Fortuno te make a revolution ju onr favor, we must take hold of it and tnrnitonrselves. If ittake alla person can earn mergly to exist, and no control can be ob- tained of the labor-market,—the consequence of wkich is to reduce the lsborers constantly to want, and_ thus eompol them to work for what- ever their omployers will pay, if it is only just enough to keep sonl end body together,—then the first.step towards bettering their condition must ecesarrily be in the reduced price of those things necessary to maintain life ; and the next congideration will be the means necessary to secure this end. : Societios baye been formed among all classes of men for their protoction against the more powerfal oligarchy of money, and, in many in- stances, these associations have been attended with marked success ; but, until recently, women bave been excluded from these organizations. 1t is anly within tho last few years that the so- knowledgoment has been made that WOREING-WOMEN HAD ANY RIGHTS which the men were bonud to respact. The Pa- trons of Hrabandry sdmitted them into their organization on oqual torms; and it is well to consider whether woman's co-operation has not aided them in obtaining the power and the influ- euce that they are now wielding in the nation. But this organization is confined oxclusively to farmers, and ell the rest of maunkind are shus out from its powers and privileges. p The industrisl population of this country feels the need of such an organization guitc as much as did the farmers ; and by the industrial popu- Iation is meant all those who are dependent upon their Iabor for s livelihood, whother it be the labor of brain or muscle. Expression has boen given to this want in tho formation of an organization known as the Order of TIIE ADVOCATES OF JUSTICE. This Gociety would not be true to its name if it did not tako some steps to afford justice to woman a8 wetl 28 toman; and, in order to de- serve the title in ita widest scose, it has placed woman on n equality with ber brother, msn. The initiation-fees 2ro placed at £2 for a man and 81 fora woman. At the firet glance, this ! looks like making a distinction; but it is really | placing them on s perfect equality. As man's | labor commands twico ay much pay as does | woman's, it is only equalizing the thing to say , that man shall poy twico a8 much as does woman | towards defraying tho oxpcuses of carrying on | the organizaton to perfect success. | The first and most esscntisl feature in this | Orderis co-operation in buying, by which the 1 members are enabled to procure tho nocessaries | and luxories of life.at one-third less than the ! price they havo beea sccustomed to pay for ! them. Some articlos can be obtained at a still lower price. This organization, although yet in its infaner, is alroady supplvingits members with goods + directly from the manufacturer aud importer, at VELY NEARLY TUE COST PRICE. ! Men or wouen initiated into the Order ean, the very next day, porchase. goods atthe reduced ratos, in any quautity they plesse, and thus havo their initiation-fees roturned to them Coubly or trebly, according -to the amount of poods they buy. It will bo understood that the Pusiness 18 strictly a cash business. No goods of sny kind arosold to the Order on credit ; and that ! i one reason we obtain them at such Jow prices. | Ko member is compelled to pay more for goods in order to compensate the seller for the bad dobta of other members, as no individual be- longing to any Lodze can obtain goods on cred- it. A few of the articles in general nso at retail | prices. srd the prices at which thoy are farnish- ! 8@ in any quantity to the Advocates of Justice, | will show tho amount of money eaved to the Usdar 1 i To the Advo- Retail cates of | price. Justice. | Fxtra C sugor. Ssa 0% | Lctra A sugar, U} | Granulated_sugs a3 a0y ‘ Rio coffee, No. 1 .85 W31 | Rossted or groun O Young Hyson tea, good. W 4o Young Hyson tea,t superior. 1m0 as Young Hyson tea, fincat.. 150 100 Gunpowder tea, oo 0 40 | Gunpowier tea, superio ] | Gunpowdor tes, finest. i1 100 Other kinds at corr I s 2 160 12 2 oy Finest Zante currants, new. s 2 08 Bost Carolina rico... 357 ey These articles will give an idea of THS IMMENSE BAVING that will ‘be made to the Order; aa dry goods, boots and shoes, tobacco, snd all other things, can be purchased st the eame rates. Three kinds of sewing-machines, the retsil price of wwhich is £75, can be purchased for §45. A knit- ting-machine, retail price €30, to the Advocates 316, Parlor-organs can bo obtained at one-balf thio rotail price, .and parties desiring 8 musical inetrumant can 80on_save enough out of their grocery-bills to enable them to purchase theso organs with which to render home hacmonious. Anothor of the objects of this Order is to protect its members in all the different avo- ¢atious of lifo, whether they labor with Lesd or hand,—recoguizing the dignity of labor, in whatever department of ILfe it may be, that is honestly performed. To this end, ‘measures will be taken to bring employers and employes in communication with each otker. Auy man or woman neoding help of any kind or uality makes his or her wants known st his adz6; and any person needing work Of any Kind or quality—work to which ha or she s espc- cially adapted, whether with the needle, the pen, the 'ax, or the anvil—will also make lus or her wants known; and the Lodge or Lodges with which these persons are connected are pledged to Bee, as far a8 possible, that no injustice is dope to either parties, but that the rights of all, both employars and employes, shall be respected. Anothor feature of this inatitution is ite SOCIAL ADVANTAGES. The Lodge-room affords & place where all meet on common ground, where all distinctions of olasses are forgotten, and where tho members bave ane common interest. The working mun and working woman, who cannot afford fo at- tend the lectures and concerts which are fre- quented by the more favored classes, often foel keenly the want of some place where they can enjoy a season of recreation at little cost.. The Lodge-room will afford this one evening in the week, as the socicty contemplates food for the sozial and intellectual wants of men and women, 28 well 28 to minister to their physical neced- sitica. Here, then, is the wheel of Fortune Teady to tarn in {avor of those who will take Lold of it, give it push, snd send it rolling uatil it ocomés with the bright gide up. In TaE Ciicaco TRIDUNE of April 2 was s_re- port of the Ladies’ Boresu of Hpecial Relief, Started during the winter, on the Bouth Side, which contains many things worthy of more then a paseivg notice. ~ The sufferng it rey als among the neody poor when work is scarce is s old wuud oft-repested story, and it loses nons of its pathos and sadvess by its repetition; but, a3 ihe world grows into a higher civilization, it be- comes oach_year moro touching, and strikes Goeper into tho Learts of & Cristian people. THE SADDEST FEATCRE about it is, that so many are driven into vice aod crime fzom long days, and weeks, and months of suffering,—#0 Wany, Who might have grows up but I bave seen no other practical issue to tho into good men and women, driven by the demon Want into the haunts which lead down to death; while the heroism of thoso who have suffered on, and still preserved their humanity in all its integrity. has reached the height of maral sub- limity. ~The past winter, when the hnsband aud father has been unable to obtain emplorment, the wife and mother has sought " work, and done what she could for the support of the family ; and it is probable that there never waa a ti when 80 many families were dependent upon woman's labor as there have been this winter. Woman has, therefore, learned that she needs the benefit of co-operative societies s well a8 man ; more cepecially doea she need the co-operation of labor. in order that she may not be depondent upon charity, but that she may always be fully posted in the lahor-market, and Lo able to take the advantage of her knowledge in obtaining employment at the most remune- Tativo rates, In s largo cif like Chicago, where Lodzes are rapidly organizing, they will soon be established in every portion of the city, whore it will be the duty of the members to LOOK AFTER EACH OTNER'S WELFARE. It & person resides in ong partion where no work is to be found, he can visit the Lodgea in other portions of the’ city, and thus obtain reports from different Lodgos, Those iu want of work- ing men or working women will bave the same facilities for obtaining them. Other cities will purcue the same course, and, 88 the organization spreads and gains strongth, it is oxpected that ono city will commumcate with another, and furnish_labor-statistics, by which all can be guided in sosrch of omploy- ment. The same rales will nE oly all over the country, as fast as it is possil @ to bring them into practical operation.. ‘When belp of any kind is needed, the prefer- ence will always be given to members of the Order; and this help, it is hoped, will pravent such destitution over sgain occurring a8 has been witnessed in this land during the past win- ter. For theso reasons, we urge the advantages offered by the Advocates of Justice upon tae at- toution of those who are compelled to labor for 8 liviog in any of the different pursuits of life. Mns. AL D. WxxNcoor. MISS DICKINSON’S LECTURE. Some Criticisms Upon ft. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sin: As & literary effort, Miss Dickinson's “Social Evil” locture was a failure. As g moral effort, 1t was a still greater failure. Tn its literary aspect, it wag - INCONSEQUEST AND ILLOGICAL. Tt led its hearers up to heights of sympathetio feeling ; of great pity, and almost love, for the unfortunates ; of high indignationa gainet their wrongers; and there, on those heights, itleft them,—offering no strong ground to stand on, no work to do, no road leading away to practical results,—nothing but a barren prospect of horror, and an nnwilling retarn to the ordinary levor, with naught but & little weary excitemsnt to show far their toil. A further literary fault was this: that the speaker allowed herself to go into Tepulsive pie- tures, revolting statistics, and DISGUSTING DETATLS, which did pot in the least sssist in the de- velopment of the subject,—details that made overy woman Llushand every men afraid to glance a¢ his neighbor, but which added nothing to the reprehension all feel for the evils in ques- tion. I1f Misw Dickinson bad been srguing against something that half ber audience was disposed to defend, and the otber lrif wasin doubt about, then the production of dirty details to convince, and convict, and convert,might have been justitiable, or at least excusable. But, asit was, 10 ono maintaming or disposed to maintain, tho opposite, theso unblushing, blush-produc- ing particulats were uncalled for,—were lugged in by the head and shoulders. Intelloctually, it was_ delivering blows agamst pothing ; it was kicking the air,~which we all know to be a use- less and nogradeful exercise. In & literary point of viow, it was an examplo of that gross” error, » strained effort without a resalt. Now, regarding the locture as an effort in the interests of morality, what was the upshot of it ? Here wos & girl, or nt least an_inexperienced woman, talling to 8 great mixed audience ona subject of which nearly overy man within the sound of her voice knew more than she did. How could she LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT IT 2 She could oniy learn what is reported by police- authoritica, what 'is_published in statistics, and ‘what is told her by the untortunates themselves. Letting the first two sources of information go, 78 being cqually open to us all, lot us look u the Jast. What can Miss Dickinson learn by visit- ing thoso houses? The women like end admire her; who conld help doing so? Her visit smuses and flatters them. Thoy havo evorsthing to gain, and nothing to lose, by actiug a part be- fore her; and they act their part, with more or less success. Their dreadful trade makes them aciresses, even i thov had mot been wo by na- ture. The poor girls, dying of ennui, gather around their unsccustomed visitor; admire her beauty and strength; eavy hor Iaces and jewel- ry; recognize in ber a greater sciress thaa them- aclves; think that, 1f they wore liko her, how ensy it would be to bo good, being so well paid for it; clasp hor band, kiss hor, sud cry over ber, if they ara allowed ; ‘and, after bidding ber good- by forover, mafe ber visit tho subject of talk with all théir friends, male and femaie, for days, weeks, or months. Miss Dickinson goes away (forever) from this strange, dreadful, dangerously-exciting inter- viow, with overwrought feelings, uubalanced judgment, snd TTTERLY FICTITIOUS VIEWS : of what she has seen. Theso views her strong imagination dresses in _burning colors, and Ler vivid language conveye afterivard to an audi- ence almost 88 ignoranf, excited, and unbalanced a8 herself. Now, I must say some hard words; bub re- member that, in theso days, words ate judged by their truth, not by their hardnoss, softness, sweatness, bitterness. Suppose Miss Dickinson, or any otlier woman, would take one of the av- erage of these nnfortunates into her kitchen or her laundry, give her the nsual rogular wages for regular work, the usual dull routme by which most men and women bave always lived, and always must live,—how many of them would then and thenceforth desert and keep clear of tha life the lecturcss 8o graphically described,—the path that leadeth to hell? Allof them? Half of them? Oneinten? No, NOR ONE IN A HUNDRED! 1f Miss Dickinson were a8 luiic:ll a9 she is alo- quent, she would znswer, unasked. the question that rises in all our minds, namely : In oppos- ing tho passago of what is called the inspection or liconse aw, what do theso ferce denuncisiors proposc » The answer, s far as I bave scen theur violont appeals, is this : _ Thoreehall be no such law enncted ; there shall be no law enact- od; the social-avil as now existing shall not be interfered with 1 This 18 & reductio ad absurdum; Qintribes. Of course, Miss Diciuson's Bugges- tions that those who cause the ruin sball be Bub- jected to capital punishment, and that money stolen by female outcastd shall not betaken away from thom, need not be seriously consid- erod. Neithor need the suggestion that Magda- lon Asylums and Reformatories sball be made into delightiul residences of ease and elegance, FAR MORE ENJOYABLE than the homes which the majority of honest smen snd women can earn by Lonest Iabor. Thus dismissing two of the main suggestions which T gatbered from Miss Dickinson's lecture, lot me 00 if there were any others,that sedm ‘more worthy of serions thoaght. Yes, there are some: the better edncation of girls; the equal- izing the blame thrown on womaa the betrased and man the betrayer; the giving of better op- portanities for giris a0d_women “to esm _their subsistence,—these ara the worthier, though not the most prominent and forcible, points made during that fiery barangue. N, ———— . UNENDING. There 15 an end to ksses and to eighs, There is =n eud to laughter and to tears ; An end to fair thioga that delight our eyes, ‘An end to pleasaut sounds that charm olr ears ‘An end to enmity’s foul Lineling, And to the gracious praise of tender friends; There 8 an end t2 all but one eweet thing— To love there ia no end. That warrior carved an empire with his sword ; The empire now is but like him—s name ; Tiat statesman upoke, aud by a burning word Kindled a nation's heart into 3 flame; Now naught is left but ashes, and we bring Our homage 10 pew men, t0 them we ben There is an end to all but one sweet thing. %0 love there 13 R0 end. All besuty fades away, ot else, alaa ! Men's eyes grow dim and they no beauty eee: Thie giorioas shows of Nature piss and pass, Quickly they come, a8 quickly do they flee; And hie who bears the ¥oied of welcoming Heara next the alow, sad farewell of bis friend ; Thereis an end to all but one sweet thing— To love thero s 00 end. And for ourselves—our father, whero is he? Gone, and a memary alone remains ; + Thers i8 o refuge on 3 mother’s kue For an, brown, old, and e3d with cares and pains ; ‘Brotherless, sisterless, our way we wand To Death's dark house, from which wo shall nok rove; And so wecesse ; yet one thing hath 10 end— l Thero is no end o Love. —AU the Year Jounds “AMONG THE SEWING-WOHEN Replies to Mrs. Wynkoop’s Arti= cles. Why Sewing ks 111-Palid-==Some Sug- gestions to Working-Women. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sir: Mra. Wynkoop, in herlato articles in Tre Trinesz, entitled * Among the Sewing-Women," has simply caught up the burden of that sad “Song of the Shirt"” variously uttered from Hood's time down to the year of grace 1574. Few readers of Tne TRINUNE can remember when it was not the altogether orthodox &nd Christisn thiog to do, to deplore the woes of the sewing-women. The litile drams has been ro- cited over and over again. The dramatis per- sonm aro alwaysthe samo : & poor woman, poorly but neatly dressed, pale and thin, hanging, trembling, on the words of a sleck, vuigar fellow behind the counter, who looks over her work with & Bcowling face, discovers some trifling omission, and makes it the pretense for doduct- ing something from tho miserable pittance she has earned. The poor woman goes away weep- ing; and, when the curtain rises again, it dis- closes a room, *small but neat,” with numerous children, who cannot have any milk with their bread, becanse the wicked man, etc., etc., etc. Now, all this is pathetic enough. It has no doubt its prototype in real life. God forbid that 1should make it the subject of purposelesa satire. Tow our tender. childish hearts bled, how hot our indiguation grow, over the story. Since wo Jieard it, however, some of ns have come to ma~ ture vears. We hope our heerts are mot less teunder, and that our heads are wiser. Aud, through observation and the exercise of somecommon-sense, ¥ \WE NAVE FOUND THAT employers do not, as a rals, oppress their em- Bipyes out of pue diabolism. hat it is necessary to do business upon busi- ness principles. 'L‘blnt the supply of sn)g kind ;\!fl labor always rogulates, and mast porforce regulate, tho prica D for that lsbor, - s ‘That no man will pay.$2 for a piece of work he can get dove for $1. “That, when a supertinity of labor exists in any department, the wages for that particular kind of wark will be low. That this law is 04 inevitably operative as the law that water will rise to its level, and mo higher. . That, in spite of the wretched wages paid to women' who sew for the shops, more_than onough women can alwdys be found to do the work at the prices paid. : ‘That now, for yesrs and years, women have persisted, and do stil persist, in crowding this one avenue to a liveliliood, in face of the fact that there is a demand for labor in many otler departments which the supply does not equsl. When this sarrgyful story of the sewing- womsn is told, thefe is always an intimation that somebody is to blame. The inference is, that Society aud the employer are conjointly xe- sponsible. Nor, Socioty has plenty of sins to answor for. Indirectly, in several ways, it is respeasibla for tho present status of things ; per exzmple : So- ciety is responsiblo for the notion thatitis s more refined and_ladylike employment to ran a sewing-machino than to make a bed, or cook a dinner, or grow strawberries. Bat WE MUET NOT MAKE SOCIETY TILE SCAPEGOAT of our individual shortcominga. Moroover, it is the part of common sense—which in these mat- tors is far more serviceable than sentimentalism io take things ns_thoy are. Ifsowingis ill- paid, do something elso besides sow. If T Lad Mrs. Virginia Pennys book at hand, I could tell you how many avocations are actually pursued by women. They count up to the bundreds. Bat, without the figures, one can see how numerous they sre. I don't’ propose house-service. That question hos been canvass- ed cnongh the past winter. One or more of the girls bove told s frankly that they prefer to spend the long, ill-psid, weary hours in eowing to working in anybody’s kifchen. The chief reason, I have observed, is, that the sewing-girl 16 free on Sunday and in the evening. Ergo, it 18 better, to work *ten long, weary bours for £ cents st hour !—six dsys, for téb Dbours a day,” ecarning - $2.40, out of which she must psy ber Dbosrd!—-than to serub, and wash, and cook, for ©4'a woek, and threo comfortable meals a day thifown in,—for tho sake of Sunday and an hour ortwo in tho evening! Iwill motstayto de- monstrate what I believe to be the fact, that the average house-servant has 23 many leisure hours in the week as the avorage sewing-voman, We will lo it pass that it is s GREAT DEAL MORE GENTEEL to starve on 37 cents a day thau to fare sumptu- ously as 8 **menial” What I want to sugrest is, that there aro somo other things to be done in the world besides sewing. There are children to be taken care of ; there are sick peoplo to be nursed; there s fino Jaundry-work to bo done 5 thers are shops to be tendcd, schools to be taught, types to be sat, nowspaper to be folded, photographs to bo colored. There is hardly ans- thing manufactured or putup for the market which does not require at some stage woman's band. Some of these things are, unfortunately, also “menial.” Mauy of them are, Idare say, overcrowded. Dut some of them dffer are- munerative field to the willing worker. How ard it is to find a gond nurso ; and, when found, does she not charge 315 & wook for her services? Clear-starching may not be geuteel, but it pays. 1 know a woman who does the housework for & Tamily of five, and earns from 3 to £12 & week at laundry-work. Fhero is tho neglacted, ' ALMOST VACANT, FIELD OF HORTICGLTURBE. Women can do most of the work in o green- house, or & garder. Lot me alto suggest that cabbages pay; that tomatoes, and cucumbors, and radishes, and string-beans’ do Dot 'go beg- ging in the market. To be suro, ono caunot bo ¥gcnteel.” The chignon and train must be sac- l'ificad.[leumel-fi put off, and a gymnastic sait on. One's hands are liable to get dirty, and one might get sun-barned. But, it is nowhere, exceptin Fonsational novels, that men admiro thin, white fugors, pole complesions, and slender Sgurcs. Plumphess, roundness, embonpoind, the hue of perfect health, carry off the palm the world over. But ali this1s vain. If s woman sews for a Jivelibood, depend upon it it i because shohasa reason, or fancies she has one, for preferring it. T.ct any lady talk with one of these overworked, poorly-fod girls ; let her suggost auy ono of & bundred alternatives which oceur to her,—and she will either be told honestly, ““Ilike best to run g sewing-machine,” or some resson will be given why the porson in question cannot do any Gue of tuo other things suggested.” “But, ‘suppose one profers to sew, 18 IT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY that she shonld scw for ashop? 1f a girl can et and maico 3 wrapper ; if she can Iuke an alpaca suit, with its ruffles end otheradorn- ments,—cannot she it °_common pnnt- dresses snd make under-clothes? Or, at least, csn't she learn to do this? A good dressmzker is always engaged fathoms decp at her own price. A good eeamatress asks from £4 to 87 a week and her board. Will any of the shop-girls go out sewing for £3or 837 Aro there not hundreds of cure-worn house- mothers in Chicago, who can afford to puy 2, bat not &4, who wonld most gladly Lire them ? Wy is the practice of_buying readymado gar- monts growing in favor? Because seamstresees are 80 searce, €0 many of them are incompetent, 2nd the fow good ones chargo 80 bigh a prico for their work, that it is easier aad cheaper to go to tho large houses, who have metbods of compel- ling careless girls to do their work well. The sewing-gitla are making waterproofs for 40 cents, the wearer is payiug €1.50, and the mid- dleman is pocketing the difference, botause saw- ing-girla deglin to make them for ¥1. i Tt women would secure all the avails of their Isbor, let them BID THEMSELVES OF THE CANT of that maudin sentimentalism which teaches thomhat Society is, in some vague and unde- finoa way, responsible for their position ; that anybody i specially bound to hoip“them; and that they have any pecalist claim to indalgence because they are womeit. It may bo that, in an el state of sociesy, e duty of bread-winning would not fall to womeun; but it ia not an ideal state of society which we haveto deal with, bat the very actual,—tbe now aud here. 1f women would sacceed, they must do a8 successful men do, They must learn business methods, be ex- act, prompt, thorough, and putting dainty tastes aside to wait for s better time, do the work that pays besl,—practico self-denial now for futare good. For tho fact remains, unimpaired by any line theo- Ties of the relations between Capital and Labor, that Capital will fall into the hands which are competent to acquire it ; that intelligencs, in- dustry, and educated skill, excepl in cases of extraordinary ill-luck, are sare toget on” in tho world. ‘[hat man or woman, who with fair Licaleh and no paywical drawbacks, works for in- adequate wages, 2nd remains permaneatly poor, | "y that fact confeases to ignorance oy wmcompe- | tency. Mrs. Wynkoop urges ladics to seck out’ the sewing-women and pay tie profits of the man: facturer directly into their hands. { hazard the prophecy that, except in a fow rare cases, IT WILL NEVEE BE DONE, even to gain the crown with the conditions of whosa bestowal Mrs. W. seems s0 familior. The seltish and indolent will not do it; and the women who have brains to think, and hearts to feel, and handa to work, find full scope for them al! without entering upon eo doubtful an under- taking. If a sewing-girl nceds work, it s &3 casy for her to seck it at private houses as o factories. There isno such thing as effectual help for thosa who will not help themselves. The work- ing men and women of to-day have tho eamo chances of becoming capitalists that the present capitalists had in their time. They rose {rom the ranks by virtue of the same qualities which will alwas raise mon and women. Not from without; but from within, must come the only effect=ai help. Assiz M. The Sewing-Tachine Not a Curse, but - o DBlessing, To the Editor of The Chicago Pribune Stz : Mrs. Wynkoop, in her letters in your paper, exerts a great influence among & larga class of working people, and I do not believe sho would wish that influence to be other than good; yet, by giving vent to hastily-formed conclusions, at variance with known facts, we aro apt to injure the causo we strivo for, by di- recting the gaze fromthe real te an imaginary canse of our trouble. In ber article of the 29th ult., she asseris that multiplied sewing-machines have reduced tho ay for sewing, and that sowing-machinos have ecome curse. T apprehend that a close study of facts wauld show that the earnings of sowing women have been affected, if at all, not so maca by machinzs as other causes. The increase in the amount of sewing dono is almost, if not quite, equs! to tho increased facilities for doing it; sud thouswnds of stitches, per capita, are taken to-day whore there was but ono prior to the adven: of ma- chines; and thers appears to be no greater cnt- cry mow about the emall sfiy of gewing womon _than in tho deys of hand-2ewing. Nor does it appear that wages were any largor when Tom 0od wroto those immortal lines : With fingers weary aud worn, With Felids hesvy and red, A woman sai, in unwomanly Fagy, Plyiug her needla and thread— And what are its wages ? A Ved of straw, A crust of bresd—and rags! . An old Jady at my elbow, who was left a pon- niless widow in 1836, with peven childien, the oldest being but 12 years of age, tells mo that the pay for sewing to-day is not a whit less than when she was & voung woman, and *stitched, stitched, stitched,” for eight months; that, if thero ia any differenco, it is in favor of the pres- T nssure you, sho knows whereof #ae eut; speaks. Compars the figures: Flannel shirts, 5 cents: check shirts, G conts; overalls, 6 cents; and for a double-breasted overcoat, with body and gkirts lined and wadded, taking two to thres days to mako, tho enormous sum ol 75 cents. These were .the prices which prevailed twonty to forty years 6go; and anyold lady who has survived the needle-raill can vouch for their correctness. It is hard to see whera sewing-machines bave played the hovoc. Tho fact is, the price of ncedlework has been down to starvation-paint 8o long that * the momory of man ranneth not to the contrary ;" and those Who labor in that ficld, having little time to effects to thoir causes, are liikce- ly to_ make mistakes; but ontsuders, not ground down in that mill, who risa to teach, should be extra-careful, that the word they speak sball ba the bread of life. The sew- ing-machine has been a blossing. That the blessing bas not been greater, is owing, 0o ta the machino, but rather to clements in sccicty which tend to the abuse of all good things; thxl element which panders to false pride; that 18 ever reaching for tho showy and ornaxentnl, ta the oxclusion of the real and nsefal; that lures the young of both sexes from tho farm and workishop, to get their living-in light and gentcel employments, finally to bring up in, and_ swell, the already-overfowing ranks of unskilled labor. Add to these the oppression of concentrated Ccapital, that makes a monopoly of everything it can grasp, and you have some of the causes which keep tho sewing-womau's noeo to tha | grindstone. i Sowing machines a curge!” Then is the spinning-jenny, the power-loom, the steame engine, the cylinder printing-press ! g 5 AAC GANNETT. trace APRIL. Nursling of Mother Nature ! just becsuss “Thou art a tender babe, whoso rvady tesrs, With rnadier smiles, and ever-present fenrs, And transicnt hopes, are truo unto the 11we Thut circle babyhood, affection draws Our souls to watch the promise that sppears Tn thy soft tints and gentls-rounding spheres 0Of vital joyousncas ; and this wo povse, Deliglited with thy gamo of hido-and-soek | Rogwsh thou lift'st a rampied pinafore Of clouds, to vell the quick-returuing store Of dewy sunshine, tiil bright colors speak A conscious cestasy in peeping flowers, Held =5 a trophy of the sun and showers, —Mary B. Dodac in Lippincott's Magazine, ——————— Curious Wills. The'author of * Flemish Interiors " contributes the following to the Iilustrated London News: Will of M. Helloin, Juge De Paix. gentleman, well known a8 5 magistrate, aud re- siding on bis own landed properiy, close to Caen, in Normandy, died in_tbe monti of June, 1323 To was of eccentric habits, and of the calmest and most placid disposition. Nothing was eves kuoown to ruffle his equanimity or disturb the reposo and tranquillity of his domestic arrange- mnents. He lived and died nomarried, sod passed his life_either recliniog on & conch ot Isiug in bed. Even whon exercising hus judicia’ functions ho maintained this recambent aititnde ; his bedroom became his sudience chaaber, and he gave judgmout in a horizontal position. his body lazily stretched out. and bis head thrown back on a down pillow. This luxurious life, however, did not saffice to protect him from the inovitable lot of mortals ; and 31, Holloin in due ‘timo felt (bat bis end was not far off. Toder these circumstances be made his will, apparent- I5, with the intention of prowicg- his fidelit ta his traditions, for ho decreed thereby that ** Le hould be buried at night in his-bed, ‘and in_ ths position in which death should sarprixe him— with his mattress, shcts, blankots, pillows, and. in short, all that constituted tho belongings of ¢ bedstead.” As thero was some difliculty in ca rying out such a clanse, an enormous pit w: dug, and the deceased was lowered into Lus lest restinfi placo, exactly as he had dicd,‘nothing around or about him baving been = alterud. Boards were placed above the bedstead, in ordor | that the earth when filled in“again should not troubla the roposo of this imperturbable quiotist. Will of Danicl Martinete (an officer i East India Company's Service).—Among original wills may cortamnly be reckoned that of Daaiel Martinett. Dying very poor, this singalar fel- jow bequosthed bin debts to the Governor of Bengal, who generonsly accopted the oquivocal legacy. We bardlypknow whether to admire more the sang-froid of the testator or tk:o bon- homis of tho legates. Tho principal dispodi= tions which constitute the will are as fol- lows: I, the undersigued Daniel Martinett, beiug perfecily sound in mind, though wesk in’ body, | declare that I make my will in manner following : 1, I recommend my soul to God, and I hopa to obtain of Him Enrdon for all 1oy sion. 2. As to this miserable bady, as it has seen onvagh of the pomp~ of this lower world, ali that I do- gire is that it may be put away in an old green cliest I Lave, to avoid all _expenro, for, Laviog Jived the life of 2 prodigal, 1 would fain die tha death of s niggard. 3. Iy burial is to com nothing. 1 won the amount of its expenscs from the uondertaker at a gawo of hiliards wo nad together, in the presence of Messrs. ‘Thomsad | Morrice sud Wiltian Parkes, at the house of ! the smid William Parkes, in February Last. 4. I requost that the Rev, Henry Lut- ler will read over my body the prayers nsoal at burils, and, moreover, tnat he wiil preach & sermon on the first Sundsy after my deeth, taking for big text these words of Yolo- mon : *All is vacity!” In copsiderstion of tnis servico, I bequeath to him all my bypocrisr, —he needs 1t to be an Lonest mau. as times go. 5._1 bequeath to the Governor of Bengal, Heury ‘Vansittart, the office of paying eny sum or sum4 which may be foundat my deatls that [ owe to any person in needy circirostances,—ths wholo cannot amount to more than 300 rapees G [ give my Eible and prayer-hook to tho Lev. lieary utler, and my sabro 1o Capt, Knox, bscause L sincerely betlevo that he bas mot only ths it. I hava skill but the couraze to mse it beea, during my life, an object of ridicale to 3 fashionable gentleman, and the batc of s sar- casms, It 13 possible my conduct may hava been somowhat extraordipary; I hope to Lo ablo to forgive him. As I bavo nothing to to my relations in my pative counlry. neither have I soything to eay to them. However, they have not troubled themselves much about mo for ome titne ; only I wish them all very gocd Loalth, and I-hopo that my bm;bcnc .ud];x,;m nuay make a more prosperous journey through oo T have.—(Sigoed) Daniol Martinett.” F1uds will was deposited in the Registry-OSco-at i Caleatra afterihio death of the testasor, which | twos placo 10 1325