Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1874, Page 10

Lk e Ao 1 . 414 ot e S S P e R e 1 v emmmmypig-Look "3 and 3 By g bago, Prua- —__roplicer, st which the genli?enmgs:fem"’ il 6t Je fulitied, The tendency, most empupnol i8 forever tonard tho e Do, 10 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1874. got up at 6 o'clock, kindlo the firo, got breaktast, the move constantly, he conld no reconcile i, THE WOMAN QUESTIO =+ §pecific Functions - The Mater-~ 4 nity-Business an Awfully One- Sided Affair.” Woman as a Soldier---Her Capabili-- ty of Shooting and Being Shot. Power and Sufrage—Government “ Depend- ent Epon the Good-Will and Graco of fho Fighting Han.” A Law of Nature, that ¢ The Stronger ! Power Holds the Weaker One in Dependence.” Miss Jex-Blake and Mr, Huxley ---Polly’s Mother---Dress- Reform. Important Invention by a Woman: “‘She Who Rocks the Cradle Bules the World.” s Specific Functions»—Woman as a salaier—Iicsulis of Education. Ty the Editor of The Chteago Trivunc. Sim: With your generous p llie tosay a few words further on question, more particularly to REPLY TO ME. JOHN BECKER'S ATTACKS epoa “Stuff and Nensenso.” I cannot quite make up my mind to be coasidered beaten by tho gentlemon in 8 wordy warfsre, albeit he is g0 certain that womankind must succumb in the old-fashioned methods. It scemws very like the ungenerous goldiery ho doprecates to fiy at an evemy witich he assumes is completely routed and demoralized. Itseems indesd quite trivial for him to notice at all such s weak *‘sample of feminine argumentation.” I shall have to ask bim to eat his own words. * It is well kaown to every soldier that the groatest cowards are the most unrolenting and ferocions enemies when- ever they Lappen to achiave a victory. A brave man does not ferocionsly strike his defeated sdversars.” He takes it for granted, ap- parently, that hesdemolished my * satple” ar- gument. 1 will begin at the beginning of the * ettack,” if you plesse, and bo generous enoigh on my own part to the male sex’ia general, and Mr. Becker in partioular, to eay that it is really gracious of {hem to allow that male and fomale are ¢ complements of and dependent upon sach other.” But wo hear enough concerning * SPECIFIC FUNOTIONS.” 1t savors g0 much of tha old styleof talkabout ““spheres.” An admirable old-school gentleman of my scquaintance doparts from the ideas of conservatism 80 far as to say that ‘* Tho sphere of an individual, man or woman, is that condi- tion wherein ho or eho can usebis or her highest powers to the mest ennobling purposes.”. ira. Somerville, Harriet Hoamer, and various othes notable wnstances, talie the nonsense out of the bumdrum talk of women's splicre and * specitic functions.” Theso phrases, eifted down, mean, in most minds, maternity. But maternity is no always possible for woman, What thon? Must che hang to the skirts of the sisterhood. aud dwart her every aspiration, lest she should shock eocial profriesy by stepping out of her sphero ? A very motherly woman, with her heart and bands at present fall of the results of hor *su- perior specific functions,” writes to me in thin wito : “I tell you, my aear, reform has got to 0 very deep. ‘The mstcrnity business is an awfully noe-sided affair. Rither women sbould give to it their undivided attention (as I have), and be subjected to no other distrsctions, or men shouid, by some meaus, be induced to DEAR HALF 36E CHILDREN. The ides that 40ne heart must ever watch and weep; And one must soar and sing.! i5 one that needn't neccssarily be set down by. Both hearts should soar and sing ; sud, if there's any weepiag to bo done, lot them botk waep, by George! snd then soar 2gain, This woman-talk is becoming monotonous, nauseating. 1 hadal- mogt Tather be a stick—a real stlck—ar & stone, thsna woman with ‘& ‘ephere’ and ‘s functions.*" I say, Amen. - & Mr. Becker quotes me thus: ** May suddenly ‘be shocked ont of his scnee of propricty by some eubtie mothod of warfare which may be as eftectusl a knock-down argument as fisticuffs; " and then proceeds to knock me down with a Tough expression common -smong the Bocky Mouotains. That the gentleman moy see that my “ mouth-shooting " was not imply another “gample specimen of feminine argwnentation,” 1 wll give otber suthority for the suggestion of the “ coming woman-soldier,” mith her ¢ gubtle method ~ of warfare.” Justice Nott, in = delivering the opinion of the Court of Claims wpon the application of rs Lockwood to be admitted to practice as au attor- ney, threw out this hint: “I have been,” he &ny8, ot the bar and in the military service, snd my experienco leads me to the conclusion ' that ‘woraen are as woll fitted for one as the other. Aunother person baving had eimilar experiences may resch 2n opposite result. It is said that modern idcss havo brought down many occupa- tions withiu the reach of women which were supposed to belonz exclusively to men; but in nothing have modern ideas done 80 much of this leveling AS IN THE ART OF WAR. In the haud-to-baud conflicts ef women was matifcetly unable to cope with the peysical natures of ‘meu, ard, from necessity, were oxempt. But hand-to-band conflicts are us obsolets as (he wager of batle. The light breech-loadingearbine demands activity_rather thau strengtl. Woman as a soldier would bhave little to do besides marching, and ehooting, aud beiug shot.” _Mr. Becker “claims,” he enys, that the *supe- rionty of fighting power is the charncteristic of manliness.” Will ‘the gentleman leave us to conclude that, in the adjustmont of o difficulty with his neighbor, he would resort to the ancient hand-to-land settlement, and deal in bloody blows m pluce of some ** subtler” mothod ? He scknowledges the superionty of needle-guns and cannon-balls over the ** blowa ™ ; tacizly acknowl- odges thet the old *wagers of battle and hand- to-hand conilict are olsolets™; and yet will not for a moment admit that a womaos, by the use of some cuoniug electrical arrangement, may ehoot with romothing beside hor mouth, and blow a wholo regiment of bullies and brag: gadocios out of exisience 1 less than no time, EVOLVING ¥ROSI ANDIALISI. 1 am quits ready to confcss to the gentleman that T heve no dexire to defeat the euds of my esistence by any depatture from tlo proper cxer. cite of all the snimal functious. 1 was, perhaps, uaforrunate in using & general term for oue which should have been qualified. Wo certainly “xot}" ‘m:\ savage and cix!-ude‘perfo;-mancc of +* the animal functione.” igion Jies i belief thas e e Terfection waits the racs of man; fnd from that etandroint I always speak, and ave long kmce ceased to en weapons with Yo ight tho *fullen Adam.” }r. Becker warfate. tiquity, extincti i zm?p;n of the fighting man; and, uoless that * ware " which Alr. Becker pootically alludes - shonsd gome off to0 soon for it, I shell atil] Prophs that “Tho time will comle when & fghiiey ooc] o WILL XOT BE HEABD OF.” Until that time happens to dawn,” the man saye, “we will have to put'up wilh the monstrously trrannical =) b:g.m iniguity, the indeed, some guperi Sghting power should, by some subtle motned g£azq the latter would Leep the rest of organic uite correct. We shall —=—._=—v—1_‘i - | %e to put up with monstrous tyranny and brutish iniquits. 1am glad bo confesses that we have becn doing that sort of thing o far. ‘l( remains now for us to study out some subile mothode, 80 a5 to tarn tho tables on man, 28 80 intogral part of orgenic lifo, beforo wo quite ox- 1 tinguish him, and Jet bim tasto tho sweets of subjection ; and bo taught what is his proper ephere, and bo instracted in the wisdom of con- fining himeolf to his * special fanctions." Alr. Becker enceringly alludes to the value of another ** argument, and eays that *Tho marked difference 1 the edacation of tha sexes provails ouly AONG THE UPTER-TENDOM of a veryfew nations.” IHe states that, if *that were the cause of the differonce beiween the sexey, the latter would only obtain in tue small number of individuals who bavo the accidental good luck of being born in fashionablo private residences.” 1t bappens that the geutlemsn mistalses me for some such fortunato (or unfor- tunate) individnal. On the coutrary, I was born and bred in quite a humble fashion compared to the wide-spread luxury in these * few nations.” Ay conclusions have been drawn from the middie walka of life also. The pampored child of the fashionable upper-tendom stands no sort of chance auyhor, iu either rex. Tho men of this class are as efleminate as any samiple specimen of {ashionable femininity. Such is tho result of education. But does tho ditfcrence be speaks of exiet really with the class ** who wrow up as best they may,” with no maried differencesin dress or disciplino, Liviag ina commuity whose popila- tion is largely German, I turn to them for demonstration. The average Awmerican family lives in comparative luxury, and, in dress and education, follow the d:ffcrentiation plan. Tho Geimau women scem to - TAEE THE *‘BRUNT” OF EVERYTHING, and it: spite of ** special functions.” They never stop thoir Iabor for anything, uot oven materni- ty. Thoy show no infcnonty cf power inthe strmgglo for bread and butter. ‘They till tho soil; eaw the wood; curty burdens; engage in commerclal pursnits; sod sometimes distans tho superior male element in “ natural tenden- cios £o lay o claim to anything they desire:” aud would, 1 bave no doubt, march into the battle- field and face the cannon’s mouth, if the littlo house and garden spot were to be faken from them by any tyranvical power. Thay would fight hand to hand, or in any other wag, to pre- servo thoir hard-earned gasing, if tyranoy threatened. They would shoot, and bo shot, to mamtain the liberty gained on American sol, or to defend their childron, if it became necessary. Bridget and Pat—who bave been brought up 2liko and *‘2uyhow”—can usually settio their diTerences with & hand-to-hacd srgument, and Bridget’s brawny arm, vigorous with wash-board exercise, is 00 mean match for her quarrclsome mate. Perhaps, in conclusion, X should say I 2m sor- Iy to bavobeen oblized to * rehesh sunff avd nonsense " for Mr. Beckor's benoiit, a8 be fan- cies he has put a stop to all sich by having *‘ex- bibited it in its truo light,” and by burling ine mexims st the headsof ail opponents (o his * fighting-power” argument, *to shorten tho discussion.” 1 can't, however, see itin that light ; and, as therois no law tbat makosita crnminal offense for = woman to SHOOT WITH EER KOUTH O} Itrust to reccive fuir treatment from tho look- era-on of this fren Sght in Titz TRILUNE columns. 1f the gentloman is & sample specimen of a truo * fighung man,” he will shake hands with 2u encmy, renew the fightif 1bis worth the whilo, and not crow like acoward over ner defeas, if the crowd should clap and call him con- queror. Though my education did not ircluda 2 course of *logic, * and argumentation is not taught in fomale ‘seminaries, tho gontloman will Jearn that his enemy is in dead carnest on this matter of woman's subjection, and means todo what sho can to substantiste womsun's claim a8 an * individual.” She Las neither ume nor disposition to talk for tha sake of taliting. Her convictions are the outgrosth of oxpe- riences. Sho will not fliuch, if sbe does not knosw Low to fight, and meaus never to b anwomanly or ungeuerons ; bas » most thorongh bpprovis- tion and sdmiration of manly power, provided it be oxhibited in manly fashion. fost ph power is euviable, I mover seo a porter pick up 2 huge weight and toes it 1nto placa like 3 mere wilhout wishing 1 could do likewiso, shitway curse the gy 4 of sociaty that restricts woman's muscular exertion. Fower and Suifrage. To the Editor of The Chizage Tribune; Sta: Your correspondent of last Sundey takes exception to my view of the origin of the differcntiation of tno sexcs. As I remarked belore, it is " ALTOGETRER DMATERIAL whethor the fact of that differentiation had its origin in that unexplaived miracle by which, as she supposes,* maa appearcd upon ex:thi " (per- haps falling down from some come} passing by, which supposition may, st the same tima, oxplain the difficalty of finding the orizinal paradise on this planet, smco tho comot containing that de- sirable locality continuod its journey through space, after “man ™ had been * ejocted” from Lis plonsant home theroon); or whether it was gradually evolved in proportion as the Loing that originally bad been a lower form of animal life developed into higher, sexually-diTerentia- ted forms, and finally into the creaturs style “man.” Aslong as the fact of the superiority in péwer of the malo over tho fomale, during tho whole term of the previous existence of mankind, as well a8 at the present time, remains unguestioned, the conseguences of that fall will also remain. ‘Whils detailing various * hopes,” *suppozi- tions,* *probavilities” (?), sseumptions, and even “laws” (?1), which no maa has over heard of before, withont adducing tho slightost rea- eon for auy of them, she makes tho astonishing etatoment that “woman” ought to be dovel- oped ** A5 A HOMAN BEING.” Now, this discovery 15 indced s stunning one. In the dark jguorance the male brain, which Nawure has presented mo with, is coveloped in, I hed hitherto suppesed that *women” had been “a human being,” at least as long as her tyrant “man”! The light suddenly bursting upon my benighted understanding by tuia revola- tion 8o completely confuses me in all thoss idoas which I havo hitherto supposed contained some logic, that I may as well at onco concede the laurels of victory to the invincible mgu- mentative power of tho superior femalo brain. But, 28 other dull males may be as littlo able to understand that new creed which wants to de- velop “woman™ a8 “n Luman being” (from the potted *‘ angel ” she bas Liiherto been con- sidered?) as I am, and as they areslightly intor- csted in the conditions of society, I propose to discuss the valuo of the following etatoment contained in thot article,—showing theroby on what slight foundations tha peromptory ++It-is-not-trnes” of thecorrespondent are built : Again, it $3 nottrno in uman socicty flat the pow- er which permits the exercise of a hitherto-dented Tight, or bas conferred a new privilege, will always, or generally, have the power Lo repeal the right or privie lege. Al Luman history proves tho coutrary. Does anybody suppose that the members of the English ent, by whose votes the suflrage has beca 8o much extended in England during the st guarter of a century, could reassemble and repeal thoir past leg- islation if they saw fit ? Privileges of that sort, once conferred upon s class, can mever bo rocalled, except by tho consent or indifference of tho class itself. "1t is probable that thero sre in tho nited Btates 1 the 1ngism, no one 33 fuund to publicly advoeato on at- tewpt to repeal it. similarly it would bo impossible for man to repesl the exlension of the suffrage to woman untl wemen should themselves see it desirablo to do co, in- deed i it probable that man can loug refuse the suf- frage to woman after a mjority of women bhail Live decided that the common weal Tequires Woman's ade ssi0m ta dt, The whole of this statement originates in A THOROUGH 3SCONCEPTI of the nature of “ Power,"—a misconcoption tion wbich is indeod g0 generally extended that it may well be called a common superstition, It iy the “paternalistic” idea that the individuals ruling as tho Government of the State aro theta- salves the ** power " of tho samo, while, in Teali- ty, they are ‘merely tho temporary ageuts, ox- pressing, for the time being, the will of the act- ual **power " of society, which latter ig nothing else than the combined sum of the individuai powers of the * fighting members” composing it. It entirely overlooks tho fact tbat, while these sgents may enact laws, these lnws cre non- eutities whenever the actual fighting pwer does not, of its own free will, choose to enforco their execation. (See, for instance, the * fire ordi- nances” of the City of Chicago.) Irom the mo- ment the actual fighting powerof the State clects disregard the ‘laws ' given by the governing ‘nfll'\‘lduus' whether theso be a *‘ Czar,” *‘Kai- ser,” | Empereur,” “‘King,” *‘Parliament,” *“Con- gress,” “Legislature,” or any other of the many devices of organization invented by hu- D Ingennity for the purposes of government, the o se uthoritios are stripped at once of all fas.supposed “power™ they are superstitiously onte 0 Bossess, and rasolve themselves wnto emple two-legged individuals of the genus homo, having no more “‘power” than any other specimen of the eamo genus. They exorciso power in trust oniv, aud tha trust is subject to nzd dependent e E LOID-V L AND GUACE OF THE FIGETING Whenever these choose to trust autbority of Lis Majesty,” or taver elso the particular individual’s o inction may_be, g vau- ished, And their acts, decrees, and laws are tho acts of agents eolely, which take effect only when they aro ratified by the ncquicsc.em:e of the real ** power,"—the * fighting meu. 5 The neceseity of that rutificution is the thing which thst blow against the cardinal principles of true liborty, tha * the Dartmouth College Do- cision,” denics. It declares the acts of the ageut, called * Stato Government,” binding upon the master, * the people of the State,” with- out ever giving the latter o chance o either Tatify or reject it. It thereby declares the azent the abeolute owner of his mastor, and tries to abolish, at ona fell swoop, the froedom of the sovercign peoplo. Tries to sbolish ; for that decree, as well as any other, must Lave the ap- proval'of the actusl power by the acquickconce of the fighting men. Unless the Gghting men choose to make themsclves the property of their governing ugonts, to be dieposed of st the wiil 8ud pleasire of the latter, thoy will simply re- fueo to ratify, and will withhold their acqui- excenca by rising Agaiust any attemptad oxocu- tion 80 svon &8 it shall be worth whila to do so. IT 15 DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND how a doctrine which declares o et of fellows, sceidentally chosen as tho Legistaturo of tho Siate, empowered to maks an **inviolable con- tract with any individual, even though that coutract way give away the entire properiy of tho eitizens of tho Stato,—aye, and tho proceeds of their labor for all time 1o como,—for & song, and which decroes the_obligation of the peopio 10 quietly submit to tho well-ont *contracted” for by the bandful off fellows fcompoting the Legislature, could evoranse to the dignity of betag acknowledied s high court. But tho Judges wero guided by 1o Jass sn sathority than that of tho intellectual father of tho Declaration of Tudepondence, Thomas Pnino, who has fur- nished tho original argument stpportiog thas preposterous nveumpticn. I shall try (o cxposo tho e;rogious fallsey of his spurious plea in this case 1n & futuro article. ¥or tuo present, 1 shall confine my remarks to tho abovo statement of my opponent. In either the casa of Englaud or America, or in auy othor, tho actucl power js poseessed, a3 beforo mon- tioned, Ly tho individuals whom Nature has en- dowed with to qualities counbliug thein to take thy part of & watrior in na actual contest. That “power " is inhcrent i, and bolonging to, the Lodies of these men; can NLITHER BE GIVEN NOB GRANTED to them, nor to any pereon ot possossing it nat- urally; Dor ean it bo taken wway, excopt by eithor destrosing the life, or damaging tho body, 04 theroby malihg an **invalid” of tho whilom possessor of fizhting power. Aud whother any one of tho individuals hossessod of fighting pow- or is exercizing the right of.sulfrago in the State bo is living in, or not, duos not- maks the sligt- est ditferonce in the fact of his rosdession of that power. Ho Las got exactly as much of it as Naturo bas given him, whethor he be allowed to eto or not, aud Lio can u¢_any time exorcise his power eithcr in favor of orin opposition to the in- torosts of the State. Deing eudowed with tho averngo inlelligence of human kind, he will, whenevor the tavorable opportunity offers, exer- cisa thet power in furtherance of what he sup- poses Lo be his mteresta, by fighting or helpimg to fight againat the party or parties contrary to them. Jus the exerciso of tho right of sulffago ing men, or by any other elass of of the Stata. lonzer, Lh‘? A QUISTION OF EXPEDIENCY - with the party which, having tho suporior power at the particulsr moment, holds tho reins of Government. 1f they deeia it prudens and beneticial to their interests to suppress tho ex- pression of opinions which is_given by the suf- frages of tho voters, they will undoubtedly do 80. But they caunot, by doing so, destroy the natural fighting power of the individuals de- vivod of the right uf suflrage ; and, though the atter may bo thoroughly provanted from giviug their opinions by their votes, or periiaps evon by the oxercigo of “ freo speech,” they caznot be jr=vented from oxercising thoir natural faculties, constiteting fighting powor, wheaever, they shiould wisli to do o, excops by holding tliet 1 passiva subjection with s stronger fzbting powor. Hencs, whether thero oxists & right of saffrage ina Stato or not, and whatever may be the featurea of tho same, it eannot chango tho law | of Nature, thut TUE BILONGER POWER HOLDS THE WEAKER OXE L{ DEPENDENCE, = and thereby rules tho Stato. TFor, if the govern- ing purty should al any time grow the woaker ouo, and tlo opposition should become tho stronger ono, the latter would ot once cease to subuit to ths dictation of the hostile party, and, uuless the_Constitution of tho State provides & way by which the reins of government aro hand- od over to them in o peacoful manner, thoy will avail themselves of tho first chance to rise azamst the ruling party, and to_tako tbe admin- istation of government from thom by the oxer- cise of_their superior fighting powor in (civil) war. Now, if freedom from internecine civil etnfo is a benefit to tho State, it is ressonable aud prodent to o organize tho samo that the Goverament sbali always bo held and handed over to the party which i3 actuslly tho more, powerfal one, without civil contontion and war, ina peaceful manner. That object can best be sttained, I cluim, by the nxerciso of MANHOOD-SUFFRAGE 3 because, if the msjority of the wulo vole elects the Governmont, it is likely to be 1espected, and peacufully to be submitted to, by the opposite pariy, o the probability is very great that the numer of men, possessed of fighting_power, who have olectsd tha Government by voting with tho majoricy party, form actually the stronger fighting power oxXisting in the Siate: and hence, if the ultimate decision of the sword ia appealed to, il is likely to confirm tho decision given by tho ballo-box ; which fact, of itself, greatly lossens the probability of an appeal to fors Tt appears, then, that tho right of suffrazs is mercly an institution based on the dictates of prudence, nud intended to avoid civil wars and blvody encounters, snd to secure, s _far 2a pos- sible, the peacoful existence of the State. 1t is werely reasonable to ask the men, endowed by Naturs with fighting power, about their opinions in matlers of state, and to pay to their opimions tho respect due to their actual power, simply bo- Lecauso, if they aro not asked, they may chooso, and, 38 6001 84 an opportunity arises, undoubt: edly will choose, to euforco their opinions by the weight of tho fighting power they possess. Now, if, for Instance, the Administration of Eugland oxcludes a great number of individuals from the right of suffrage,—tbat is, from having their opiniour talken notica of and’ respected in the acts of government.—it is cither forced to try to inquire into the opinion of that part of it population indircctly, 50 aa to avoid such a dis- rogard of their sentiments as might diive them to take caro of their interests by oxercisiug their natural tacultios through armed resistance; or to biindly run the risk of tho latter eveutuality. S0 IN THE UNITED BIATES: Tho emigrant, if ho be a bealthy man, a5 the Lulk of thom are, isn *power” in the land ag soon as ho scts his foot on ir. Whotler his opinions are heard or not, hoe can always ox: cixo his power when opportunily offers, as, for instance, when a minority party of tho native vote should chooee to-adopt a'platform agree- able to tho seutiments and opinions of the (sup- posed) non-voting forcigners, and should theraby iuduce the (2,000,000 or thercabouts of) fAighting men of the intter cloment, who are at prosont lizing in this country as an actuzl power, to unite with them in the exccution of uaid plat- {orm by the possible overthrow of the majority pacty of tho mativo vote. It will probably hazdly be considered the part of wisdom by any one to take no notice of tho opinions of such & considerable actual power s the foreign eloment of the United States is at present. ‘I'hio presence in any country of any consider- able number of men able to cxercise fighting pasver, but deprived of the chance of influcncing the Administration by their opinions, oxpressed thirough thoir votes, simply D3 TO DESTROX TIE YALCE of suffrage itself. TFor it makes it iicr tho party defeated at the sliot-bos 1ight not, when appealng to ihe nstanco of the sword, roceive accessions power from the ranks of tho non- voting olemeuts, safficient to give them the decided victory. * Generally it would not bo pru- dent to faco that danger, unlcss the popalation deprived of the right of suflrage should ba well Luown to be 1imbued with tentiments o mark- cdly autagonistic to those of the grast bulk of the people of tho State that oven any * minority party of the latter would bo uzable to make any concessions {o their eentiments. In sach a case, 1 do not hasitate to daclare Lhat, in my opinion, the granting of the right of Suffrage to that evidently-hostile population woutd be an emi- nent biunder, us it weald only tend to give a aLronger organization to a fighting power hostile to the existenco of the State itsclf, and which would certainly seizo the first opportunity to exercige their hostility by uniung with a foreign enemy. _The valus of the institution of suffrage con- sists, then, ju the probability that its decisions anticipate, as it were, the result of an saciual contest betweon tho fighting forces of the par- ties exisling in the Btate, and luy the Govern- ment of the sams into the haudsof that party which, on the battle-field, would win the victory, whereby tho torrors of war itself, with its at. tondant evils, wastefal of life and we destructive to the welfare of society, are si:ar 10 tho commonvwealth. Or, in other words: The purpose of the systcm of sufrage is only that of furly estimating the relative fishting strensth of the oppused parties, by counting the urmber of fightiug men belouging Lo either party, sud by acting on the supposiuonibiat the pariy which bas the largest number of fighting mea on its eidois tho stronger oue, oud, 1f & forcible cou- test should bLe provoked by disregardiug its opiniout, would, in that contest, wia the victory. ‘Tuat victory is at once and PEACEFULLY ACCORDED TO THEM, and the Governmeus of the tate is li:d into the bunds of the victors, becauso it caouot bo kept out of their hands, Aud the country #aves the expense of a civil war, vhich, as far 03 reason can judge, would have brought about sho samo result. : As the deprivation of any large number of fighting men of that right tonds to destroy that prouability, o aiso would the granuug of that right to any consideravie number of persons not naturally possessed of the power to represeut their opinions on tiw field of battle when called unon, destroy it. Both arrangemeuts reduce tho value of ihut inaiitution as the presorver of the peacoful existcuce ot the countrs, and chal- lougoaivil war. Joux H: BECKER. Dliss Fox-Blake and Mr. Muxley. The London Times hus given a good ucal of gpaco lately to letters controversial betwoen Miey Jox-Blake znd_the medical exsminers of the University of Edizburg on the cauxes of her rejection. Who following letter of Mr. Huxley 18 juteresting a8 touching ivcideutally upou a subjeet which has bsen much agitated of lato on both sides of the Atlantic: o the Kditor of the Limea: - Sin: 1o justice to une of Miss Jex-Blake's ex- smiucrs, L'rof. Wyville Thowson (who, 23 the scientutic head of the Chailenger expedition, is sbsent from this country), vermit we to say that, in refusing to pass that lady’s paper in patural Listory, Dr. Thomson _simply lis duty, Of the papers submitted to me, iv was the only oue respoeting which I folt justiied in giving an opinion. I took tho puins fo read tho particular suswers, which, in my judgment, necessitated rejection, to tho Iady who, a Miss Jes-Liake's wish, sought my judgment, and I thought I satislied her that tlis oxaminer, at avy rate, had scted with per- fect fairness. As Miss Jex-Blako may possibly think that my decision was ilnenced by preju- dico agaiust Ler cause, allow mo to 2dd that such projudice as I may Iabor under lies in tho oppo- site direction. Without scomg auy reason to believo that women are, on the aversge, 80 strong physically, intelicctuslly, or morally as men, { cannot sbut my eyes to tho obvious fact that mwany wowen are much betier endowed in 211 theso respects than many men, aud I sm at & loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career whicki 18 open Lo the weak- est and most foolish of the malo sex should be “forcibly closod to women of vigor aud capacity. Wo have hoard a great deal lately about the physical disabilities of women. Some of theseal- leged impediments, no doubt, are really inherent in tooir organization, but nine-tenths of them -aro artificial—the products of their moda of life, 1 believo that nothing would tend 8o eftoctually to got 1id of these croations of idleness, weari- ness, and thay *‘ over-stunulation of tho emo- tions * which in plainer-spokon days used to be called wantonness, than s fair shafe of healthy work, directly toward a definite object, combined with an equally Inir sharo of healthy plsy, dur- ing the yoars of adolescence; and tuose who a16 bost acquainted with the ncquiroments of an average medical practitioner will tind it hardest to beileve thut sho atiompt to 1cach thal standard is lisoly to prove exhausuiug o au ordinanly in- telligent and well-edacated yourg womwn. 1am your obedieut ervant, @) 1. ligsLey. Tne AINENEUM CLUE, July 6 Polly’s Mother. From the New York Tribune. ‘While everybody lends a willing eyo and ear to Polly, vose-tinted, arch, aud_debouair, as she wood and wius ber way through tha world, Pol- ‘ly's mothor s0 suddenly tinds herself hustled iuto tho unnoticod crowd ihat she almost loses her breath. If Polly should liep a Leliof in Gog or Magog, or profess herself a Thug; 1t would bo held a3 o prebty caprice; but the stons, middio- sged matron i3 bumored in no vaguries of opin- -ion or uction, a cold Negloot drills ber to keop stop with tha rank and fils of orthodoxy, or fo pay a herd ponulty ; ber essiest, securest honor, 846 knows, ven in thews days of freedom for _women, liesin her lack of distinction. Polly ‘has sprung up beslds bor, she Lardly knows bow or when. It was ouly a few wocks ago, -according to her tablo of time, that she was “packiog her own dresces—{lounced silk tissucs, silvered moire antique for Suratugs or tho ‘White SulpLur, or dyeing her szsh in pokeberry juice to wear to smging-scbool. Sho has grown few pounds heaviar, and scquired a solid fund of experienco since tlion ; is an expert in curing ‘beef or conducting Dorcns Socioties, or can chat- ter of Darwin or tho coract learncdly ; but the men who used to flock about Ler tarn indiffer- ently away mow thut sac has something to say worth hearing, and if this_poor, superanuuated Polly should bappen to be still rose-tinted, ssucy, and gay, feeling herself not a duy older than, 16, they rogard her through hulf-closed, supercitions eyes, and pronounce hor “a fine wuman, and well proserved,” with an indul- goaco that brngs tho indigusnt biocd to her beart and the teara to hor eyes. As for Poll—nobody loves tho child s sue does, of course. It was ouly & year or two ago that she loat her sleep every uight with her colic aud croup. The little girl has not had the measltes yot, and is shockingly behindhand with hor tables and mithraetic, but eho is almost broken of her habit of giggling. So tho mother cackles on, 38 a hen over the ogg which she meaus shall bring forth a littio motherly hen just liko horself; sho does not sos the bird of parudiso that hss chipped the zholl and becomo the dohight of _the world for a day. Thero ia nothwg paradisiacal to herin Polly; she is the plumpest of her girls, not half ro steady or inteilizont a8 Japo, thiuks wmoro of her mutton chops and waflles than any of the others, and is, unfortanatoly, more given to fibbing. 1fer mother is delighted when from tbe lutchen-door she sees Lawyer Pratt rewn up at the cox-yard to talk to the girl at ber milking; or scroms the drawing-room of the Newport cottage finds her surrounded by gray-hoaded Judges and Congresemen, us well 18 beardless boys; but she is amezed, too. What can the giddy child (ind to say? Sho gocs nearcr to listen and belp Ler, that she may not disgraco Lerself by too groat silliness. Phil and Bob she recognizes a8 men, and codes their place to them ~whon newly breecliod ; but Potly is never grown up to her mother. The mother will shake hor Lead over Polly’s children some day, aud wouder why Providence should give babies to imbecile young peoplo. 1f Polly’s mother bolong to the hard-working classes, she will quiotly submit to give up all tha good cheer and frolicand ense of hfo to her girls and their *young mep,” and tum into barder work until old ags give to her a3 to the old maro in the shafts, a right to rest to the exd of her days, and lo a certain_kindly considora- tion. Tlieso is no class in this country drivea to such hard, poreistent, wearing work 23 the raw- boued, Ligh-shouldered, middle-aged women. In the Eastern, Middle, and Western States, they form an admiable orthodox phalsnx, per- petual in well-doing, of bread-baking, bacon- frying, and potato-peeling, irreproachabie in vir- tuo, and of an nspect which sets theteath on edge 10 look upon. In the Sunth, siuco the war, the samo class takes part of tho ficld-work ; you kLIl sec themintheir one garment of homespun wool, their gray bair kootted in s wisp bebind, plow- ing side by eide with the lazy negro, or staring with himwith vacant, lightish eves over the fonce at the passer-by. All tho scrimping and niggardiiness of o woman's lifs in the middle class in this country eets in, s ono may uay, botween tke ages of 20 and €0. ‘I'Le boys are to bo oducated, Pally dresses; or perhaps pior Polly comes back ‘a penniless widow with her children. The mother stints her own dress first. She poes about shabby and patched. * Fathor aud the boys ” zre ashamed of it at first, then they grow used to it, eatisfied it should be eo. She thinks they will thivk of wlat tho has dono, zad thoulk her for it when she is dead. Dut love is a toll which it is safer to take all along the road. In higher clagses Polly's mollieris ant to re- gent ber neglect by society. Sbo is fond of tell- ing us it is uot 60 in Earope; that American so- ciety is rendored vapid and loud by the aomina- tion of young people, etc., etc. Iu tho South sho usually Lias ench & succession of infantile Polliea coming vearly on the ecens that sbe has 10 time 10 plan any course of action, She Las no middle age. “To-day she is going to her couein's o0 a vigit with the Jast baby, and col- ored nurse, and bottle of miik, aad to-morrow sho i8 an old woman. = Bat in the Joag interreg- num of muddle age in tho North, Folly s mothor has tco often timo to harden zud mate dutable for life the weaknesses aud whims which wero £0 vague &nd charmiugz in Ler as n long-ago Polly.” Slo sits in the backzround at ball or opeia, and decides ** who's who * with thut sharp, corrosive slang of genulity which beioags o every would-be exclusive circle, or she runs from frieed to aressmaker chattering the vear round of polonaiscs, and laces, stons cameos, or ehe takes eome little creed of rome little chiurch and calls that reiigion, aud, shutting bLerself and her fellow-belicvers into its irons barred heaven together, standsat the gate bark- ing like'an amiable Cerberus at all the world out- aide. Butignore her a8 s0cioty may, she wislds aateady hourly Influence to which Polly's charm is s the aroma of the rosocompared to the ncc- essary daily air. Da it well or ili done, it is ehe who makes homo for husband and sons; and in the countless majarity of casos her work is gocd and dnrable. W have not in this_country the brilliant French or Italian salon ‘or tho modeling influence of English anstocraticdrawing-rooms, but, thore s no purer, stronger sooial force af work in the world to-day than that which comes siently from inoumerablo Americsn homos, over to be known by word or deed to tho press or pablic, whero, witn her plein common_sense and_sweot Christion temper, works Polly's mother. Dress-Rcform. T'rom the Golden Age. Tho efforts of women in various parts of the country to change the gtyle of dress worn by their sex show that there is a deepand wido- spread disaatisfaction with the present fashion. Mrs. Bloomer gained nn uneaviable fame many years ago by courngeously proposing a costume which needed a man 1side of 1t. Estimable wo- man, and devoted wife and mother too, she found it was oasier to propose thau to disposo, sad that while anybody could coudemn provalent fashions it required & genius of the first order to invent better and get them adopted. But the Bloomerang excited the ridicule which is the forerunner of reform. Poople throw stones first and then build & monament. A number of modisications of Mra. Bloomer’s idos have been suggested, bat wone havo yet succeeded in satisfying both the needs and the tastes of any considerablo number of women. Most of the proposed styles have deplorably fail- ed in tho Jatter partioular. Woman is a croature of fastidious it not exquisito taste. Its culture begins in the cradle. The first lesson instilled iuto the mund of the little girl 18 fhat sho mnst look pretty. Taste is half of ayoung lady’s con- scienco aud most of ber religion. Caraful sad prudent mammas never tiro of telling her that & woman's looks are of more account to her than any accomplishments. By precopt and oxsmple she is forced to beliove that a shabby dress s a sin 2gainst the unwritten commandmonts, and that whatover youny lady would get a good hus- band must angle for him'in the most becoming if not the most elegant attiro. Dross is made n speclal object of study with most women, and not a fow mako iz an art. The taste for it is a passion in the modern woman's nature, which cannot be allayod in & moment or woakened much. Apd most men aro somewhat affectied byit. Thoy have become accustomod to ses benutifully and elegantly dressed ladies tul the sight pleasoa the eye and gratifies the esthotio sense. Thoy look on a eplondidly-dressed lady a8 on a pictare or statne, or other work of art. Even the poor shop-girl trics her best to shaps mushn and alpaca and a few cheap ribbons and laces ln & tsstefo] and ming” way, so that Ler tollet shall not botray her toil if it does please the eye of the young men she meets, She will no more risk hor chance of s boau b{ appearing in the streot in & shabby or oatlandis] costumo thao tho guyest bello will dash her * raronts’ oxpectations and her own prospects in lifo by wearing man's attire. ‘Tho drees reformers have not taken this fact suficienily into account. They have sssniled fashions that are unheulthy and injurions, butin proposing now onea they have forgoiten to pro- vido for tho eloments which nature and edaca- tion havo mado so strong in the modern woman. The new stylos have lacked just those qualitics which are necesaary to make them popular. The styles proposed by the Boston modiste are said t0 be capable of aay smount of finish, elaborate- ness, elegance, and even costliness. If they are, it ia possiblo they may win their way into gen- eral nse. Therois stronger disposition towazd an entire change in the fashion of their apparel among women than ever beforo, The naw ideas of health have taken doop Lold on the pubtio mind. The discomfort, aud iaconvenienco, aud unhoaltiiuoss of the prescnt fashion is gener- ully couceded. Bat the new fasbion muat bo tasteful as well as healiliful, or it will go 3 beg- ging. A Lady Malies a Discovery Important 1o Tobacco-Growers, From the Paducah Kentuctian. . ‘Tho idea_prevailed in old times that women were only fit to attend to domestic affairs, suci a8 cooking, sewing, and attendiog to the chil- dron. Under a higher state of culture the ‘women buvo doveloped a capacity for scientific investigation and discovery that proves them equal in mental capacity to the lords of creation. Just mow, when tobacco plants aro scarce and hard to procurs, and when, for want-of a sosson to sct out plants, tho few that were in the beds have run to what is known *‘Ion shank .plants,” a _distingnished lady of Bal-. lard County has made a_discovory that must _provo of great utility. She cut off about an inch of the main bud of one of these plants and set it out, when to her delight the bud took root and produced a besutiful plant. We have one of iheso plants in our office, where it caa be seen, with eoven fine leaves on it. The main root ig about an inch and a half long, sad ahows at the end ‘whera it was broken off from ths original plant. Mrs. Oscar Turner is tho 1ady who mado this discovery, which may prove of great value to tobaceo-growera. Alexander Dumas on Women in Cuaristianlty. Aloxander Dumas baa recently writton a letter 85 a prefaco fo a work which bad been submitted to him on ** Tho Return of Christ au Appeal to Women ™ Tho following passages occur in the etter : ** The final triumph of Christis not a matter of doubt, either to the author or to myself, but I do not believo with him that the triumph and the salvation which will follow will bo the work of woman and of Maty. I bolieve that woro it not for Mary Christianity would trimmph much sooner. - 1t is she that embarrassed Christianity In a legend which, though touching and poctical, is narrow, and botter adapted to art than to conscience. 1 eee nothing in her beyood & woman who, with the characteristic curiosity. of her sex, wished water to be changed into wino by Jesus,—as Evo wighed to make Adam eat tho fruit of the tree of knowledge,—and to whom Jesus, penotrated by His miseion, roplies, * Woman, what bave I todo withtheo?' * She shall never be my advocate be- teon my God snd mysclf. All this, howover, will_not prevent Catholicism from perishing and Christianity from triumphing.” tShe Who Rocks tho Cradle Rules the World.» Drar wamzn §s the dream of life, Adorned with every winning art; Ar mother, danghter, sistor, wife, Sl melts the soul, she charms the heart, ‘Without her, what were lordly man ? A ruinlees'cloud— fruitless treo— A world without a sun—a plan That over fncomplets must be, Hor fout’ring care, devotion, love, Bcem inspiratious trom abote, In chilahood's hour, beside er chalr She calls cach fragile form ; Bhe clisps our tiny hands in ‘prayer, Safe-aLieltered from the storm, Tet man, ungrateful man, the dart Of falsohood hurls witki skill; Anid ‘when nc's won a woman's heart e sceks it love o kill, lier lot 18 to be tried ; though purs, To s13h, to suffer, and endure, Oh. mothers of & racs unborn, *Tia yours to spek these grand decrocs That berald in the Promiscd Morn, The wailing world's Hesyerides, the molds of herozs utrong’ ho guard and glorify our fales; Tho scas in song ehall ol along. Lencsth tke splendor of your smilea, “Cuc Beautdful and Good shall roiga, And sinless Eden bloowa again, —English Magazine. Yo Miscellanecous. A young Reokuk lady set her pa's houss on firo because ho wouldn’t pay her dry-goods bills. —A singulsr difforence—Call a girl a young witch und sho s pleasod; call an clderly womag an old witeh aud her indignation knows no bouuds. —A 3Irs. Olaen, of Salt Lake, makes publie declaration that, in_Ler opinion, polyzamy i3 as gnod for women as for mon, aod that sho would ltkze three husleods—ono to live with and love, and the other two to Lelp support her. —!*TLa elovation of women?" exclaimed my Lord Tom Noddy, as_he was driving home from Ascot, **Aw—if a fella wants to Ecc—aw— women elevated, he should 800 "em a¢ the waces —aw—after a good lunch.”— Punch. —Madame Lenoir Jousseran, a French Isdy of grent wealth, who hae just died, has bequeathed 10,100,000 francs for the erection of & vast bos- pital in the Faubourg of Paris ; and to the State £he has left & graod collection of works of art and artistic cariosties. —2Madame Holschout, a ¥rench actress, conld not live happily with M. olschout, aud ran ava; from him. * She fonnd she conld live with 1{{ Maleposre, whom she accidentally mat at Ra bouiller, 8he lived with him accoraingly until ho died, and ho left her 1,000,000 francs. His Leirs eved, but Madame Holschout gained the suit and got the monsy. But the noise made by this process wakeuned up M. Holschout, the hus— band, who was all the time ignorant of his wife's whereabouts. He went to Ramboniller in tho ext train. By tho French law a husband's con- sent is neceraury Lefore the wife can accept an mhgnlauoe, and M. Holschout refuses to con- scn ~—There is & woman out on West Hill who will out cut the fammly, wash the dishos and six :h?ldmn 80w buy:'ton on the neck of her hus- band’s shirt and hunt his bat, go to a mission Sunday-school and tench a class, attend church, rush home and have dinner over and the things clearod away in time for aftornoon Sunday- gchool, read the Sunday-school paperd to the childrez, go to charch ac night, and talk on her -way home zbout Sunday ns & ‘*day of rest.” — ZDurlington (1a.) Hawk-Eye. . —Tho Eastern women wbo ars burned slive with their deceased husbands often utter shricks that would pierco tho hiearcrs o the goul, and to provent a compassion which would endanger tho reign of superstition, the pricsts, with drums and cymbals, drown the terrific crica of their vic- tims. These widows of India asceud the funeral pile with a fortitudo that man csuld never dis- lay, and emulously yicld up their lives to a bar- Parous ussge which, If men hd been called upoa to endure it, would never have been perpetuated. —2XMr. Bancroft. ; —2liss Mooro, of Last Liberts, Pa., publishes this challenge in the littsburz Post: ** Hearing of 50 many prdostrians of late, but nono of Lhe *old-timers,” I avail myeelf of the opportunity of chiallenging any man in tho Stale of Ponnsylva- nia to walk with mo_100 wiles in tiwenty-four hours for the sum of 31,000.” —The Grand Rapids_(Alich.) Post thinks that to deny women the electivo franchise becauzo thoy cannot bear arms wonld not bo one whit more unreasonable than to deny mea tlo ballot because they cannot bear children. —Tight-lacing is eaid to bo coming into fash- jon agawn for tho convenienco of short-armed lovers. 3 —Young ladies subject to nervous debility in summer ought to beware of taking too much ex-~ ercise. Thoy should, 88 much 28 possible, lio quietly upon the sofa snd suffer their mottiers to fan them. —A Nebraska man and his wife simultaneous- 1y eloped from each other & few nights 8go, which was tho first time they had ever becn kuowa to entertain tho same opinion. —Some men cre born to misfortune. Ata Fourth of July picnic a Covington chap got his eye punched for speaking to anotber fellow's girl, and when he tearfully expleinod that he'd **knowed her these thirty-tive ycars,” he got all his bair pulled out. —Smith has doue thia in honor of the lady he has just taken out of her weeds: The gleam of ber oyo waa bright, Tho gieam of her gold was brightes, Tho first was » beautiful sight, The second a beautiful sighter. —When a Tennesseo husband will horsewhip his wife for washing potatoes in his Sunday plug hat it is timo to pquire whether this gen- eration of men 180’t getting to bo too confounded high-toned for the age of the century?. A young lady and gentleman, aged respect- ively 12 and 13 years, wero married at Gould- towa, lact weck. When last seen, they wore quarreling over a pound of - mixed candios, and tirowing oub vagua intunations about di- vorco. —“ Boy,” esid a traveler to a disobedient youth whom he ecucouutered, *don’t you hear Your father spoaking to you " * Oh, y-n-a-8," replied the youtb, *but I don’t mind what he soys, Mother don’t, neither ; and twixt' she and I we've aboat got the dog 80 ho don't.” —He went back on his own true love becanse she ato onione, and tho jury gave her $3,200 damages. —XRerasal on the part of a husband to push the baby-wagon on Sunday is to be mads ground for a divorce. —aA lady correspondent of 8 Western journal thinlks there ought to be a statute of limitation agninst the roappearauco of long-lost busbands. —Wo find tha following item in an Illinois pa- .c: ¢ Mr. —, who has been in retirement for a fow wecks after marrying and b sisters, came up smilingly to the al yesterday, baving begun oa & now family. '—A young lady who couldn't y. 't getloave to go to o picnic yesterday, said sho was so mad she believed if she would bite anybody it would be sure death from poison. A young man standing by remarked that he wanted to be a victia ina caso of that kunde —A Connecticut girl 13 years old tried to starve herself to death because her beau de- serted hor, but at tho ond of the eecond dsy was induced to give 1t up by the promise of a alice of bread and butter with sugar on. —A young Eentluman at the depot yestorday was overhezrd to remark, “Sarab, ou are too sli-killin’ sweet,* and a few moments afterwards permitted her to pay her street cac-farg up to the ity. —Hero follows o recaipt for making & good servant. It is taken from the Woman's Jour- nal: *Let tho mistress of the houss take two pounds of tho very best self-control, & pound and » half pationce, a_pound and a Lalf of jus- tice, a pound of consideration, and a pound of discipline. Let thiz be sweotenod with charity, let it simmer well, and let it be taken in daily or (in extreme cases) in hourly ‘doses—nnd bo kept slways on hand. Then the domestic wheels will run quite smeothly.” —**I'm not in mourning,” eaid a_young Iady frankly to a querist, * but ns the widows are get. ting all tho offers nowadays, we poor girls have to resort to artifice.” —She was & foot taller than he. They walked slong tho street, however,.arm in arm, a8 happy and contented a3 two chuldren just out of the mud-pie pile. Just as they turned the corner at Third and Main, he lnoked’flv at bher and mar- mured in tones like the god of thunder: *Sal, dog-gone my hide, if you ain't the.swestest, lLit- tlest mite of humanity that ever got squeezed into such a little space!™ Towering from her lofty pedostals, she calmly acswered, * You bot, Jack! "—Terre Haute Express. —A man named Wilton, 64 years of age, from Fayette, 0., and the father of nine living child- ren, nppeared at the Central Market yestcrday morning and took a stool at one of tho eating stands. - While munchung a piece of *“‘huckle- berry * pie he suddenly ceased to chow and said to the gurl in attendance: My dear, I want to marry ; Ilove you ; will you marry mo?” She tried to pass thie question off 08 & joke, and asked bim if ho'd have another fried ssusage; and ‘when he implored her to believe that he was in solemn earneat, she said she’d mash a dried apole pio over his aged head 1f he didu't go away. He went awsy, but before he left the markethe “proposed * to two widows, offering each a hoart {ull of love and a good home for life, but failing in each case,—Delroit Free Press. - —The London (July 4) correspondent of the New York World says: ““Tlke Hornet has had the indescretion to publish the following para- graph: *“ We beg to inform the Queen and the Lord Cham- berlain that the only daughter of President Grant has married Mr, Sartoris, xn English _gentleman, and has arrived in England. ' Wit will they do with'Ler? Ia America to be ~snubbed through her President's Uaughter on the 4th of July 27 *‘ No doubt Mr. Sartoris explained to his wife before Lheir marriage, that in the eyes of ‘the Queen and the Lord Chamberlain'he was no- body, aud ¢:at, as his wifo, slie would be nobody algo. This docs not prevent them from being happy, however, and probably ihey Lave not been snnosed by the fact that since their arrival here none of the journals have so much 2s meu- tionea their names untill the Lorne! broke this blissful silence. —_— DE PROFUXDIS. Bat, when tho ship's vons dowen, Itrow Wo lictla reck whatover wind may blow. O gracious, teuder God ! Have T not tricd to Le both braye and strong, E'eu when the path I trod Scemed but s hopeless desert, drear and long? When tired, aching feet, Bared to the touch of cruel rocks, bled fast ; Whicn every hesrt-beat Stabbed through me with s6me mem’ry of the past ; When darkness on me fell ; Whea Lovo lay dead, and fizkle Iope was not Wier all the pangs of Hell Beoruod focused, in 10 soul, to oue white spot,— it o, havo T d 1 uth, all sun 7 1, Lave I not ered, ¥ will, but Tuuns, ba done 7 “ Ol Fater ! 1 Yet now I can no more. 0, barque ! o tossed by ov'ry biiter breath, Drifs idly out from shore, And touck ta0 cool, dark, Waveloss hea of Death ! - zrrace KIRILAND, s o S A Father’s Extraordinary Affection. Fro:n the Haysrille (Ky.) Lulletin. While wo wero in Lipley, & fow_days ago, we learned of a circumstauco which. in these days of practical matters, siruck us as a little odd, and worthy of publication. Soma ‘two ek g0 & gentleman in comfortablo circametances, and apparently & man of cducation and ro- finement, srrived at thet place with his family, ou a gl trading-bost. Deing in 1ll-health, Lo concluged to Tent & homso ond male Lipley for a timo hia home. 1In hia interconrso with ‘the people ho informed them that be bad becn ou tuo river for over tweuty years, and followed trading rather for pleasure than profit. Whilo his effects were being removed from tho boat to his residenco, & laborer was nnn'yqu & peculiarly shaped box, when one of the children told him to handle it carefully, 2s it contained the bomes of his two little brothers. Au inquiry into the matter, dsvoloped the fact that twolvc years ago the gentleman lost two chiidren, to whom he was possionately attached, by death, aod having & gelf to leavo the remains of his iy smong strangers. 1le chose rather to tn‘;: (%:“ with him on bis travels, which he hag done “: % since. "Whay are contained in o neat fron poe which Lo £evor allows out of Lis sight circumstauce is cortamnly s singular ofs worthy of mentioa. —————— THE DISADVANTAGES OF DYINg, Thy sad It is not to bo supposed that dying conlq evey at any timo in tho Worid's bistory have besy pleasant event to tho individual most eoncen but the tondency of the 2go is to render it ey, day n more and more uncomfortable procssy Modern inventions and discorerics ars rapgy: makiog cxistenco enjoyablo. Such phruses o) the *‘burden of life,” *therestof the graze etc., originated in the days of our grandrstyer and grandmothers. No wonder man's lifs wag burden befors tlio advent of stcam plows, paey threshers, railroads, water-works, g, ete, 33 wonder women sighed for tha “rest of the grave” whon sewing-machines, carpet-sweepors, clothes. wringers, elovators, speaking-ubes, and dugy, waiters wero things unknown, Perhaps i Wi Just 23 woll that our grandparonts wers resigmay to die. They stood in tho way of the * margey improvement.” Dozs any fanatio supposs his grandfather would havo listened to tho weather, department, and loft his new-mown hag s (1, mercy of the gibberish of the sigral-serrigs 7 Doea any womaa who Leeps greenthe memoryof her grandmother believe the old lady wonlg havy tolerated for one moment tho ides of reads-magy underwear, or condescended £o_ belicve tiat hey 2ged foot could bo warmed over & patch of blacy iron set in the floor! Ahnol Toinirojeq ‘modern improvements it is Decessary to dispose of our graudparents. ~But We of to-dayara o} troubled with prejudices. Our anly trounla o that inveations do not come fast enough. - Telo. graphing is too elow for us. We demand poeq. jatic tubes. ‘Tho modern correspondent find; even a postal eard a weariness to the flesh, ang vearns for the advent of writing machines, thy ho may doch o bhis cpistolary = gep. timents as rapidly and gracofaily aud in mast sies. Truly, the world is growiog too com. forisbio & placo tolgave, S 08 t00 com Perhaps the one thivg that conduced most tg our forefathers’ resiznatiou to death was their possession of what thoy termed & “ FIXED RELIGIOUS IirTm ;" though how there could be a fuith’ that wamg fised Is a problom. In thoso days overy homy. hinded old farmer went down to his grave es. pecting & good long aleep in that narrow bed, rousing reveille from angelic bands, » miraculons reinvestment of his soul with his recreated body, & sudden growth of snowy wings from Bis TAbor-bowed sboidora, & long, white, foping aharp in his stff fingers. By somo. carious without changing his earihly identity in the least, ho who didu't know ona nots from another twang a harp io the noxt; and the honest son of the s0il, to whom ovea a White shirt was 5 Sune day martyrdom, deluded himself into believing his otornal happiness was partially comorissd in tho wearing of an ample whis vestment. But absurd as their be- lief was, thoy at least believed some _thing, and man's happiness depends mnuch on his credulity. odern scientitic discoveries and nated the old articles of faith, and fail to give us mew. Science ecouts at the idea of the sonl ever repoesessing its human body, and proves one man’s anatomy have descended o him from past gonerations, and will be ured over and over again 1n the economy of Natare in tho building up of physical forms yet to be. Of conrss, it that ba truo it alters .ths whola case. No well- bred man—not to say Christian—would bsgin the first thing on Resurrection momning is ticulsr body. Bioreover, thore is a grave doubf furnish bodies all around. Now, only consider in what forlorn_plight that leaves ome! Wae can, without ahivenng, couceive of himself 18an impalpable intangible sometling of no partica- larform? Even the doctrine of transmigration hes, in comparizon, aa endearing air of famie iarify...Who would not rather be clothed npon with the warm apimalism of o donkey even than to be resolved into = disombodied inteltie gence visible only to spiritnal mediums, and liable at say moment to be sbut in two by any closing door, or to. bo walked through by any sentieat Creatare? Then, too, 50 long a8 & man i8 living'the law looks after him;—bat It lum onca be unfortunate enough to die aud ha is - AT THE MERCY OF SPIRITUALISTS. medinm who chooses can publish over the desd man’s signature any amount of posthamous twaddle, the ntter inanity of which it hath nob entered into the mind of non-mediumistio man 1o conceive, and tho departed has no redresa. No life-long reputation for reticence can avail the 1 reatless dispoaition which impelled him to be oa medium's victims, and we .may even expect 8 speoch {rom Grant when he shall have gons —uwell, wherever ex-Presidents dogo. But even that i8 Dot the worst that may befall the de- parted. -Let no man flatter himsalf that bis invincible repugnance to having his ugiiness perpetuated on paper shall save Lis homely phiz from the ridicule of posterity. His cred- ulons sant from tho country can ioyest s dollar at say spiritaal photographer's and get & cloudy picture whore diligent search may dis- covor 8 human face amid » mass of dravery, and in this guise ho will go down to posterity. Every man ought to coosider it 8s much his duty’ to leave a good photograph s a will, aud eo checkmate those imposters, spirit photog- raphers. Once upon a time tho LEADING OF UNE'S OBITUABY would have been a pleasare, and happy was the man whose escape from premature burial en- abled him to indulge in the rare pastime of pornsing the world’s final verdict upon him. But nov-a-day a man’s reading of his own obitu- ary would lall him if nothing elwe Lad. No longer does the bleesed veil of sileacs hide all the errors and failures, and oven the crimes, of the tenant of the grave. The biographer's mis- sion to-day is not to gild, but to tarnish. When Abmham Lincoln’s wonderful iife came to b written over, what part of it did publo opinion ‘wage’ the hottest fight 2 Over his hard struggle for a common oducztion ? over his re- markable conscientiousnces? over his prind- ples? over his_statesmanship? over his mariyr- dom? O, no, indeed. The vital questions were, dud his mother bave o marriage certiticato? sad who was Lis first love? Itisof minor impor- tauce what his biographer may say of Sumner's public bifo so loug as we are given tho icside view of tho quarrel between thio Lusband and wifo. It ism't the sun itself which excites our interest, you eee, but the spots on it. What ars they? What caored them? When did thsy come? The best advice to those who conteme plate dying, i DON'T MEDITATE OVER IT. That only makes liviog_barder and dying 10 easier. Sull, if & men will die, let him dieto- morrow—not to-day. Never do to-day what you can put off till to-morrow. W=it till some of the (uestions of tho nge aro sottled. Wais and £es if Grant gets a third term. 1f vou must die, do it in the off-year in politics. Wait till the AL D.’s have decided all about hydrophobis and tei china, because if yon have ever patted a dog of caten a bit of pork you area doomed mad. Scionce has marked you for Ler owD, sod you may bo Certain of an au- topay. ~ Wait till the.scientists decide on the Dbest ncthod of disoosing of your discatded bodye 4Ghey declaro you'll bo & muwsaace if you aré barted. to mfect the air and poison tho water. XNo right-mindod mon. would die and make 8 nuisance of himeeif. Theu tho real-estate men declare that cemoteries depreciato adjacead property. Nobody oughs, in theso hard timesy to lend a helping hand to hurt the reaie-stsi busicess. Watt till cremation is tho fashion and your death incommodes only yoursell. No, dou’t be in & hurry sbout dywg. ~ In that mate ter you will find that Punctuality is tho thief of ‘ime, and Preerastination the robber of Eternity. (I is distioctly to b undenstood that that 1se: scnience is not a quotation, though there i something written somewhero Lhat sounds Lke Wrrcn-Hazzet. bl oot INQUIRING THE WAY TO ZION. T asked for the path of the pilgrim to Heaven, - Aad thought it was plezsant and bright sathomoras He chow:d 1ze the rozd ; it waa dark and unesen,— 01t rugged with rock, and oft tangled with (20rD. T asked for tho prospect of future successes, And thought that tho enemles all were afiight = He showerl e s feid, bu 20 friendd or care:acd, And said, Those Who conquer must first learn 8 fight, I zsked for the victors of past gencraticns, ‘¥nd thought they bad walked: through & path full of owern: He showed mo the fagot and stake of the naticns, And said, Iv's through these they ascend Lo the bowe ers, T seked for the crown that awaits us In glory, And thooght it was won by ourselves being txam: E;‘ul‘:’:lo‘zie. Friend, 1 will tall you the story: e #0d showed ms & croes and & grave CmeAGa, Julr 18, 1874 & K. Bazasts, make a fuse about such a trifle” as his own par- the same style ns the piauist cxecutes his fanty. . robe, & crown upoa his care-furrowed brow, a3 . mental process, he was firmly “persuaded that, - intis world would be eternally content to - modern theological investigations have. elimi- - that the atoms which go to tho composition of | a8 to whether thero would be matter enongh to H Any long-haired, hollow-eved, yellow-skinned :