Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1879, Page 9

"THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 187—-TWELVEL IR LEADVILLE. gterious Grub-Stake, and 1s Manipulated. 1MMENST MINRRAL RESOURCER, As far ns Leadylile {s concerned, I can say that tliera s plenty of room for willing workers, even thoueh they do cor foot and_sleep in hors versonal experience how dilenlt It ia o get even common luborers to carry on any work Niere. 'Vl men who aro employed on the rosds are patd #3 a'day, alud akifled artisans can fnd loyment at from 83,50 to $4.60 per nost impossiblo to secure earpen- ters at the latter rate, and veopls dosiring to crect dwellings have the groatest trouble In act- ting men to undertake the job, Then thero i8 always work on the shatts that aro belng started every doy In thls viciulty. “Iie miners arg naturally fenlous of green hands, and claim thnt labor s too uiffi undertaken, except by meu used to the business, Dut oil miners must have had a starting-point at soma porfod of their lives, und minkg fn the Loadville district is no digging In the ssmd and loam of Iliinols, Iex- cept from this statemont the work thnt is re- quired op perhaps a ozen of the inines which re. d “hard carbonates.” these drillling sind blasting are requlsite features, But [n most of the mines the dizglng is through aud the ore Is found In “soft care into which a pick will sink of its own Markoting Their A Monopoly of @ — to Immigration, nnd Bugges- rding Hond-Workers, sights About the Camp. " What s this grub- much abonti® anxiously ckian to one of the Leadville wiWhero can this instru il what {s the cost ot {t1"—an inquiry tho wholo camp in a ronr of 1t 1s mot surprising that the person fell Into this error, as tako?! Is essentlolly ao instifution reat, and 18 fndissolubly nesociated Thera aro not less than 500 men no make n lying out of the nstrument” this kiud ot All the old thetr own grub. To be more definlte, take {8 the result of a unton betweon tabor. Capital says: “Iwant to mino at ns llttle expenso as possi- nd Labor replies: “Furnish me witha d T will undertake to prospect for you shaft for you on shares,” Itisa The poor miner puts In’ his ex- A his muscle, and recelves therefor d an Interestn the mino it 1t should a valuable claim. There 18 no rule tent of that interest; it may be according to the contract that s in general, however, it may be uld that the finder or locator of aclalm {s entl- without working. If he i fo bis own labor, whilo another peraon fur- {ihes tne cash for expenses, ho expects to own fotercst. A miner who is extremely tosink a shaft on his clalm will some- e two-thirds of fvton man who will abstake him, and, per contra, there are many fulances whero ngw-comers to the eamp have rlshed ‘backing to o minor fu consideration nird "or ¢ven of n° quarter-{nterest. atthe general rulo s to halve the work and ~dtos third interest Loudon in the old camo fnto fashion. 9 and maliogan: halt to pay-ore §s dally hecoming o o B the dining-room. ND DIPFICULT UNDERTAKING, Tatha eatly days of thecamp, when Fryo 1 wubeginning to attract attentlon, miners fre- atly struck mineral at depth of ten or Af- feet, Dut all tho chofce locatlons near’ the yillsge Aave Jong sinco been taken up, aud ft 18 otncomman thing for a shaft to bo dux 150 or a0 feet beforg,reachings the bed-rock. . What s {he expense of mining io the Leadville diatrict? In the frst place, the tools, windlass, tope, buckets, ofc.,. cost mbout 850, Them, If the tound §s soft aud can be dug with o pick, the cost for the firat ity feet I3 Letweon ‘$200° and aré plénty of miners who will tako $4.50 a kind it. I3 .stipu- Senntor Chiandlor's Spooch, To the Editor of The Tritune. CrircAqo, Mirel 6,—The address by Senator Chandler at the closo of Contress, in responsc to Rebel eulogles on Jeff Davis, was one of those terse and timely efforts which are so characteristic of ..the Senator, and I am glad Tnr TrinuNz gove it more thao a passing notice. Althaugh it was delivered in o con- densed form, it was brim full of patrivtic senti- and covered a_territory of volumes In Coming at a time when ctetl to receive such a a thunderbolt from o clear sky, and, not o murmur being made in re- sponso by the Coufedernte Brigadiers, was suf- cient proof of its profound cllect. w0ld Zoe" folded tho ‘*‘hloody ehirt? and caretully latd it away, und - advised his friends to do the same; but™ the - attitude’ assumed Congress by tho ucchanged ltebels admonsties Dhim of the necossity “of* bringing aud waving It more vigorously than ever. 4 old war-lorse;” who cinerzed frum the smoke Run without a blot orstain on d crowned with vietory, provi- scootract for ity feet at the foot. Inall contracts of this Tated that 75 per-cent of the pay bo distributed 1othe men each week, the balanco to be re- serred and patd at the ond of the contract. I tbe ground 1s still pood at the second “ contract cnbe roade’for tén feet at 85 a fout, nnd nfter tist only ten-foop contracts will be taken by ekiled mincrs, hecause they do not know at shatmoment they may strike hard rock which und to work which is worth This is where the job {s done by contract. In the grub-stake systom, of couric, the capitalist pays all expenses, whether they bo heavy or light. “Miners working on day wazes receive $8 o day In zood | £4,50° for water or. rack. “Many'shafts e tronbled with water, which runs'in through seams fn the Yock or filtors in through th arborfwash,!' . When, the water. Tuus, In so npidly as to provent the mincrs-from dizging, thea elther, the clalm is abandoned or the own- ¢rs are competled to introduce machinery. e, with bolating apparatus nnd pump, costa 300 to $2,000, and, of course, Is our natlon’s history. the Scnate scarcely ex) requires blnsting, shock, 1t came dowu 1l from £8 to 815 a foot. and roar of Bul his escutcliéon, and depttallv camo back to the Scunte just at the e,~—tlie time when men full of courago fearleas, -and stalwart, nwl Mr. Chandler s the right We want In the 8enate micl pluck; men true oro needed, man i the right place. agercasive’ ‘men, Dositive men; men who will not quali béfory the Confoderates d in Congress now. spe Chandler hes no superior. o hins been through. the tght of the Hebellion, ad several of..the . subscquent years. stands the armiocs of the Rebals, he compreliends thelr future plans and purposes, und, in the fear- 1ossness of his nature, ho will not shrink from “in ‘any contest which they moy [he ' natfon awes Michizan adebt of or” Mr, Chandler’ he situntlon §s rewarded as Iminent and tull of thedirest danger, Thanks to a kind Providence, then, that we have a few wen in whom we ean roly fn cnso of und who are_true, stalwart, aud FrANK E. LAWES, 7IE POOR PROSPECTORS, In tols camp, 8o far, the last-named class have There nro so many men here cager to Ioveat o emall amount {n prospecta tlnt o miner who has worked his shaft down to & powt. where-lie {s certaln that ho will find no ore has nodificulty fn sciling out at a round ficure to Btrangers are every day pay- Ing comparatively high prices shuply for loca- Alon, thinking that i they can get nvar a mive tlat1s already devoloped their chiances for find- ing ore sra certafn, But it happens that location Isa slender reed to depend upon. Oneshaft may strlka s rich pocket of mineral and another within Afty feot may miss it cutircly. Most of the sharp practical miners and prospcctors here bave from three to o dozen claling cach which ttey hold, and only work or sell them when they can do 80 to good ndvantage. Iknow one ma, for inatance, who las four adjoining thims below Fryer HIl, two on the Littly Eyans, ona in fowa Gulch, besides sevoral mora 8t Ten Mile. Ho prospected them, stuck down stakes, dug holcs from flve to ten feet deop in ) and now keeps them to sell or to work on rub-atake principle, Ot course, this is o of * blosted monopaly,” because {t p Yevts other men from golng In and working the frouud fo good foith, Te 1a true that any ono Would bayo a lecal right to step in and sink a 8baft on each or all of thess claims, but this miner §5 one of the fellows wha maintain n vrivate praveyard, and he would make It do dledly uupleasant for any ono who might at- Miners' law nnd legal Iaw ‘l;= two very dilferont affaira In this camp, and 1o is more efliclency fn thy perspective of a ;:fl‘bll’rbl than fn a curt-load of writs ond In- some new-comer, o Unlicensed Lawyers, To the Jiditor of The Tribune. " Ciicaao, March 6,—In your {ssuc of March 1, under the title of * Information for Repre- sentative Wilson* you sllowed somo hasty young man, who without doubt aceurately de- seribes himselt ns * Notary,” to inform the public that Mr. \Wilson * beautifully fllustrated the Intclligence of the average legisintor " by advocating, In the fnterest of Chicago, the pasa- agoof an act to proveut unlicensed lowyors feom practiclng in Justico Courta. ‘The young gentleman calls Mr, Wilson's ottentlon to the net'of May 23, 1877, which prohiblts wnliconsod ors from practiclng in ‘Justico Courts In £ 100,000 fnliaLitants wd over, to stato for the beaedt of tho discoverer of this casc of teglslative finbeellity that the act ho re- fers to {s considered unconatitutionnl, 8ce. 22 aud Art. 6, See, 20, Const, 18705 ve, Board of Commissloners of Couk County, 84 111, 590.) Mr, Wilscn doubtless desired the o of the bi)l which he was discusaslug, in hnt the people of Clilcaco might have o valld act which would reliove thelr Justico tewpt to Jump him. The clieerul bang of the navy revolver can ga‘c;;u ot almost any houvryo( the day or TIIE STREETS OF LEADVILLE. orlite time, however, scoms to bo be- und 11 o'clock In the cvening, when the .OBem. miner, rofreahed and fovig Tening meal and o few drinks, sallies fo Heo luys bis pilo on the after which the ouly chieap et to bim [s to serve ) It-ho 1s ccogomical of Lo saves up a portion wherewith o dance-houses und the variely res. A few drivks niore or less do nut hi- his cquanimity or disturb his Intens utting o hole through some- yet it Is paintul to relato that, not- ™ % lis prolseworthy intention, he is n frustrated by renson'of unsteadiness Tve, induced by excessive whisky-skins, and succeeds fn plerclng the mirrov bebind uest ot adventure, ntsl:lmc: and loscs, Anusement man for breakfnat, . lutemperauce s fnde m hese plasaing oplsodes, which Dass away thu evening, thers i nut on oxciting nature, *A man b oted and robbed on Btato street afew tinee, LR but the game has not been ropeated on the whole; the camp 13 quiet wnd le, while retaining :uu-uy pecullar to a Irontier town. venlig, Chestnut street, which is the %, oughfare, {s thronged, ond all tho W und - gaubling-houses are brilliantly ; while the southing notes of the violin out fromn cach of thesg e monotonous cry of ¢t ooy oalls dteppi ho ivor,) alla drof gy lnb’.:,"\v“u out of the whisling %uknu. L eame-keepers in tha ki ' the nuinbers of h A VAST DIPPRRENCH OF OPINION 2 the neople of Leadville in recard to the h)-lncu-anlng siroam ol Immigration, Adh have “uade thelr vile,” und aro tesy responsible for thy mavagement Of this, mixed cetmmunity, ure aluiost posed to the fdea of uny other per- n for o share of the nataral wealth let, ury on other hand, of becoming he tuxpaylug element, income by the miilions huve your corcespoudent by the bute earnestly advisud him to ™ wrlte to that there Is uo rooin for uew- le. Whatls the vulue of fn- 0! ‘Ilio reader may solve the con- himself, ‘Phero {3 another large omong the preseut inhabitauts, and unm. 18 In favor of baving everybody sho., (30 get here, The mora the werrler, hojrkeepers, thn ealoanists, the gume ¢ anxiously encouraging immigration, g thelr pollcy s préferabls o the medlum courso mizht be etlil botter, U0 community is imnaterially and rogues, and vagabonds, although Tintory, points to sev ral notable Instances of sucecssfil dolonies founded wpon as poor bnres ar these, I do riot think, on_the whole, that tho State of Coloradg cap affard to discournge any finmigrat{on, pennifess though they muy be, providing they ‘are willing to worle aud de- over the Rangs on I know fron harder than well- While all ‘kinds of hand-workers ero in con- atont requisition, theroare - OTIIER CLAB3IRS who would - be sadly out of place here. I refer to clerks, bookkeepers, und ‘nll people who de- pend upon thtefr fet or thelr brains for a living. Balarivs are about the eamo here an In Lnstern cities, whilo oxpenses arg ligher, Board can- not be proctited for jess than §10 a week, nud of n poor cnongh quality at that. ‘The veople of Leadvilla aro largely d endent upon canned goods for provender. nnnod incats, canned fruits, und canned vegetables are ¢ommon on all tables.The beefsteak s generally lean nnd tongh, the vegetables (in a natural state) frozen Eges aro worth 60 only about one-fourth of them fit to use at that. Hebeo board-prices cents o dozen, und neeessarily restaurant in local celebrity, nud whero the bstter class of speculators nnd - adventurers gathier to discuss the Iatest find of mineral ar the chances of acll- or buylny mines, It L as miuch the eame re- eadvillé that the coffee-houses bure to times beforo the wazettes It Is the contro of nows and possip, and you mect thers the British tourist with eye-plasses nnd acheckrd sult, the neryous Suu Franclsco broker with lossy hat and flowery necktie, the broken-down anlier from St. Louls lenzo, and the Denver merchant who hns come over to opefi o branch store fo the new motropolls of the mounntaine, ‘There is a bar- room in front, decorated with plate-cluss mirrors #ide-boords, while nudo art 18 pletured lavishly upon the walls, In the rear Is After valnly endeavoring to securea cup of coffec there without a mixture of grounde, the other day, the impatient and thoroughly Western waiter set down my eup with o alam, und remarked ¢ * Thar, pardnes, ar markot to-day."” - But the Tontine has a printed Ll of fare, upon which are found many vartctles of flsh, flesh, und fowl, and is really creditable to tho y thet's the best drug wo hev THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Years ago it out sgain, who have so In thesore- 1o under- s clection at this nor Bar has uny control, “The provisions of the act of Muy 24, 1877, sand of the bill ure, more- over, entirely different, the latter allowlig par- nt in Justice Courts to avail them- the grotultous udvice, counsel, ml aesistance of avy pereons, und only prohiblting crsons not llcensed ns uitorneys” from proc- feing in those courts as nutd attorneys, ‘This rovision wouid have accomvlished tho object hich Mr. Wilson donbtiess had in view without parties of tho udvlce, counsel, vr 0a- [ their friends or nelghbors i the trial of sults bofore Justlces of the Veave, correspondent saye, thing, even n our day, taking to speakupon a i themselves to sume extent with that subjecet,! sud mmediately affords o steiking a mat writig 1 total § “1p lsnot an uucommon for wen before under- iven aubjeet to acquuint 2 oxample of ot his su LAWYuR. ‘The Sleeplng.Car Question. To thy Editor of The Tribune Cuicaao, March §.—The investigation of the sleeplng-car questlon by a committee of the Leuislature hua been a matter of a good deal of foterest to tho traveling public. Without eriticlalng the reports of clther the majority or minority of the Committee, 1 soutg Ideas of 1y own on this subject which I Qeatre to prescut. Obscrvution durlng thoe past year, during which I have had to do conslder- able travellng, has conyinced mo tat relutively o less-number of persona now patronize the slocping-cars than in former years, tho great masa of travelers submitting to the disconfort of nicht travel in the ordinary car rather than ay $2 for a borth In a sleaper, leeling fn thess ica that they cannot afford the cost, but who would be iad to avall themsclves of a wore comtortable inethod of pussing the pight i the cost were Lot so great, “ Adinitting thut the Pullmon Company cannob afford to run their cars at smuything less than present rates, there romalns the fact that thero fs & demand for something more comfort- able than the oralcary car for night travel and s expensive then the Pullnan. supplisa by tho rallrood compaales? [ iblnk {y can, Onoof thogreat cumpanies runniug tlwough trafus from this city to. the Bissourl River buy, recently brought out somo uew cars, or rather’ old oues rebyils, itted up with the slining-chalr, und faqow running theso care on Can this be orfon 1o part of the lossen the will e 81412, 105 nnd, na the other pollcy mustdie gome thne, the Btates of Mossachusctis, 1liinofs, and some othiers, comnpel all the com- panles {0 reserve at the ena of the firat vear,nt 4 t fnterest, the sum of 814110, which ), nitd as the company’ atniner’s fees, amount to 2340, there ns but 851,20 to meet * enurmous com- surplus,” cte, and tc. surcharza " at sccond year the companies- will recelve the full preminm 830844, the stinre of the loss account will be 3103, and the reserve at the end of the year required by Iaw, 829310, making the recelpts in premiums $50%.80, losa charge $205,10, resorve for expenses, alvidends, cte., surchurgy returned n soime combanies Lein aver #1203 so that by Interest, saving on martal- and good managzemnent, the o to_increase the $110.60 to sufliclent to meet the #120 surcharge and ex- penses, and leave n surplus besides mul this methiod {8 continied during the contimance of the polley. ‘The fact fg, while the laws of the Btates demnnd this §203,10 reserye, o cumpany muat he very prudent to o able 10 lie ancd make afaix return of surcharze, opinfon of the bust fusurance underwriters und financlers that this rescrve has heen the bulwark of safety of the lifo compantes. A great many persons do not lke the Jdea of 3,40 during lfe, but, having a uir expeetation of long life, preler to commute thelr future life premiums to five ainl fen paye These o pot get any wore insarance nor die sgoner thun If the, g smaller, premfum, but the companies receive from Lwo to threo times th necessary to e ita through tralna withont extrn chinrce to oceu- pante, 'These chalrs can be adjusted to any angle from that of the ordlnary seat to nearlv n horzontal position, while ai extenglon glves rest to the Hmbs ol Teot of tlie longeat mun, When 60 extended they are us comfortablen bed a8 nn ordinary motfress with s hlanket, and aie can get aeood nigh in hot weather they would be much moro comfortable than belng Iaid sway in o berth and shut in by the heayy curtains, - A vestibule at each ond shuts oft drafts from the ooening of the doors, nud, in addition to the ordinnry conveniences, thero are wash-basina at clther ol 'he coat of fittin cannot ho very el ICANSAS. not meet the dem The Contrast Batwean the Appears ance of That-State and of Missouri. anirit of veace, ur A Tramp Throngh Cherolkes County--- " How the Batiler Ereots His Now Iome. squntter’s *dohby,” up a car in this manner greater than the ordinary seating; but, an 1he scating capacity ks but half cary it would secin but right that a reasonnble_chargo should he made for the extra accommolations furnfshied. 1f our rallroad companies will furnlsh on all their through or night tratna_ this kind of car, with a porter in charge, with plllows and blankets for night riding, and, instead of rwiming them free, charging eay 81 for twenty-four lours, or 1 think {t” would afford a ole question, Wa alould —the ordinary car, "ullman,—and peo- 0, teaving $110.00 Interview In a Dngout with a Genileman Benrlng the Title of ¢* Hoppy- Go-Constant.” that ol the ordinor Ity or loss account, companles are abl rougher still, Sperinl Carrexpondencr of The Tridune, Buont Cnunk, Kas, Feh, 23.—1 have at last faken up my stafl and pack, s teamped in the most conventional manner through Cherokeo County, the southensternmost corner of the Uni- verac's contre,—dlstant twenty-tive wmites from the {nitial of ny pligrimage. Shadawy glimpses of lone objects upon the rolling plains over which we sped ta nll that remaina with me of o night's ride through the grenter pact ol NORTIERN SHSSOURIS but, when the morning dawned, I tooft in the scenery with the eye of n tourist, and observed eritieaily the plain features of the country's It must be confessed that the eea- son 1s not propitious, and much that contributes to the beauty of the landseape ina prafrie country was snugly tucked up in its wintry sleep, below a wann covering ol scared and’ sinitten grassea. The trees were noked and shadeless, nnd the rouch Virginia fences run n zigzag rare over uwild and desolate course, A few kigses from Pheebus, a fow tepld Laths from the April clouds, will chonge this wikierness fnton parden und clothe it in a vesture of pecultar loveliness. then lavigh her charine, makes ostrong effort to awake the esthetic faculties fn theee stolld farmers: but you .oy look in vain over this fertile country for evi- dences of urchitectural beauty or skillful till- 50 cents per nlight, solution to the wi then have the threo clagse the recdtning ehalr, and the ple could then travel ns thelr means would ollow or thelr fnclinations lead them. competition of such cars there {8 no doult that the rates on the Paltman or othier slecplig-car companies would ba reduced to os low a figitro as they could afford to run them, without the necessity of any leglslutive enactents. £ What " Trenting* Teads To, Ta the Editor af The Tribune. Cnitcaao, Match 5,—I am glud that the ques- tlon of treating hias been broached In your col- A fearless exposition of facta alwa; tendsto engage attention: and in many cascs worke a certatn amount of reformation., M Treating oue’s friends * (8 & misapplied quo- tatlon; friends do not need to be polsoned inor- der to keep ltelr friendshing friends do not re- quire to bo stimulated with beer or alcoliol to secure thelr wratitude or affectlon, relatlons, treating is demorallzinz in its tenden- ¢y nnd baneful in'fts ‘cffects, sad or fmprovident than fo witness a business- man, ond a acemingly respectable citizen In othier ways, totteriug trom a saloon at any hour of night or day, accompnuied by Iis cohorla of fqjlowers whom tainount of premiucie ind of life-policies, Others do not like any k! but prefer the endownents, und high premiums for the sum men na Marshutl Fleld, M, Nickerson, Prestdent of the First Natfonal Bank, nud many others have taken thewe hlih- ort-terin endowments, e took a $10,000 vndowntentin a New when It It matured re- celved his money, and immedirtely took out a new potiey of the eame kind for £20,0005 nud the Vice-Presldent ot the First Nutjoml Bank, F. D. Gray, stated to mo a fow weeks sgo that he wished he ld George M. Pullmay, 2 The flowers were nots My, Nickersun York company, and Wihat siglt inore Nature hero will Year after year she carrled 823,000 in onue company alone, ‘I'hie recorda siow one-sixth of the entire life-nsurunce busluess fn {s on the endowment wlun alone. OF cours the rates on theee than sufliclent to carry the ris chalee of the polley-holder. 15 it for Mr. Shu- to say that it Is a “ moral Mr, Pullman, Mr. ¢ 1 reekon not! other fnsurnuee. ho destructlon.of body degrading tnflnences cansiob bu over- nen who are scemd with tod-given attributes, men wh loving wives wid chifldren tey to look up Lo, it s a mast rorrowful sight to bebold auch mon sub- mitting to Satan'a away; treating and lojtering away their valuable tie in saloons, destroying thelr health, debasing themselves, and dighonor- Ing thelr worthy famlilies. Throwi, hard earnluga und pauperizing thel children, disgracing thelr respectable reiations and outraging soctety, How many true nnd fafthful wives have been brought to the verge of fnsanity and eventually to carly graves! low many sweet children hava been left orphans nd thrown on the charity of ‘a cold and” heartless world? How many families have been scattered to the four winds of heaven, rulned, opuressed, and aistressed by the sinful and ungodiv habit of treating? It mukes dirunkards and debauchees o thuse fathers who promised in -their young and happy manliood to cherlsh and protect her who left all for him. sweet and Joving counsel,—his best [riend,— and unhesitatiugly insiats that athers shall lieip hiin to squander “the m ought to zo to suppor Treating paves the w and Heentlonsne: olicles are morn but it s the 'I'he uncomely dwelling,—standing without re- lef of groves, nud frequiently of orchards,—the barnless farms, nnd the unsheltered, shrinking stocls, are sad cominentarles unon the progress of this part of the State, dues not eoter fato the North Missourden’s Jexl- Even fu the rallrond towns the scum of stagnation atandsj and over them ali, except Kansas City, might be written the words, feldt, or any one cise, frnuy ** for’ Mr, Nickerson, Fleld, My, Gray, nud over 100,000 others, to use thefr own Judgments und prefer to pay more money into companica than **necessary ' to pay for thie nsurance Wit is thie great objectlon to *surrenders®' Tens of thousands have heen under the necessi- ty during the hord tiihea to 1alse money upon any aceurity avallable, and hiave been toreed to sell their interests fn hese reaerves, The prinel- vle of purchasing these policles, and releasing the rezerves upon the same, s one of rizht, wnd gomethues gives great reliet to ine lolder, Must Mr, Shnfeldt pay that 2 18 a “oral froud ® for the States of Massachuscits, Con- neetleut, “New York, 1linols, nml others, to compe: the compunlus to Keep thesereserves, und for the nollev-holder to sell his portion ot them The word enterprire TIE CITY OP THE DEAD," without vlolence to truth. from the ceene, and found rellef in the quiet study of character from the confused collection The merchant-prinee and the moneyless adventirer, the brawpy mechauie and he greecless vagabond, sat side by side, ene Joying I full fetlowship the luxury of the nareotle weed from fragrant Havaon, or the ehort-stemmed, tooth-worn comfurter, of clay. From collected thinking § fell {nto nbsent rov- crfe, until the brokesman's voice and the grind- fng round of car-wheels informed mu 1 was crossing the bridge over the Missourd. "I a few moments the traln entéred the depot at Kansns Clty. The short delay gave but Mitle oppostuni- ty for observationi but the hurry mud bustie wmnnifested on all sldes, and the hoandsotne, spncloes Unfon Depot, accommodatit the trafns ot twelve railrond compauies, evidences ot thrift und enterpr Well, here § am in the land of the Joyhuwkers. WHAT A CONTRAST his short lopse of timocrentes, Activity and stagmation,—bees nid droves,~Knusas und 3 souris these are the opposttes presented to my mind. But why s this! the reflecting truveler very nnturally fnquires nfter he has recn both Why !5 thind asize the emizrant who starts out ju his overlind scho a home lu the wide West, when De bas looked the prospeets n the face from a practical furm- er's nil Dbusiness-man's standpolnt, The n swes s invarlabty the fama: the one 1s free sol the other hos been the land of ‘the slave, ona is found thrift, freedom of speely, Hberalicy “in_polirleal matters, exvelfent il nuwcerous gehout-houses; 1 the other, sloth, poor sehoot- nouses, and u people unwilling stinking carenss of o dead institution. one woutd not hu bound; the other still bears the, marks of the shacktes. This Is fact, not I turned wearlly of text-huoks within, In regaed tothe dividends orsurcharges, thero 1s but little to say. They medsure the pridence umd honeaty of managgement; they are the nterest, and” moderate No humau beinge can tell what misfortunes may viell the country ut any time. ‘Yhe Northmd West are lfable fo have a ca- tamity of some kind any year, The companics mael prepare for these thifs, and pradence causes them to charge hizh neies than necessn nd {f not needed dur “garcharges” are returned i the shape of Can Mr. Shufeldt say that this prudence und cautfon Is not demunded, nnd thut 10 vontinzencles will arlset cans. which In_ justice her und his children, to aiher viees,—icam- ¢, amed their attendant which loads to the lowest debauchery. fond und loving motliers have had their gray hairs sent down InBorrow to the grave by the late hours and wieked conduct of be- of “mortality, rotes for euch or urdiuary hust- 1z the yeor these meneed, in the majority of eases. with treating The only scelal gluss any ono should ever tuste is the gliiss of pure water by liis own firestde. Many men say if they do not aceept a ginss, or give one, in o sucial way, that those with whoni they transact business wiil tuen the cold shoulder on them, or they witl lose thefr trade, cte., ete. Sueh oxcuses are the sheerest nonsense, nnd nre only fntended to blind their familles to the truth, which is that they ke to Lreat and be treated in return; 10 other reason is true, _ Friends, take care; relurn to the paths of vlrtue ore too lite; you are treading on danger- Your iuture happiness, both here and hereafter, may dopemd on your jmmediate dectsion, - Avold ereating, 8uy No, abide by it, and you will be blessed Al thelr acquaintances, were suflicleut an inventory of s \What! be you the tax-gathererf™ onj I"tell 'ow ufl for you: of old rags; one bedstend ¢ half-rall and two ombiuation cupboard und tahle, y-goods box: two buckets, one knife, one stove, ono akillet, one B wder- others, scems to at the whole spstem of 1ife-in- surancy Is wrong heeause some companies have heen baully managed, ‘I'led, Fourth, nud German lave broken up, must_ we withdraw patronnue from the Merchauts' Nattoual una Saviuee, Lout 1y of Chieago, or discredit the Chemfenl Natlonnl Bank of New York? Or wihl Mr. Stufeldt for o moment comyaro the management of the Itepublic Life with those of Councetient Mutual, nnd have the ides fence-stako und o tie Seeond, ational Banks made of o dr, tle, one picee of ta forgot my travel val'able plece of & Trust. Comn per to eeels him the Mutuxl Benet other reapectable i T relterate that _the cougsanies nomed in my Just hove returned to polley-lolders, und keep as letal reserve and surplne, all the promiums and fotercst they have recelved, except small sum of about 7 por cent used fu expenses, and that thts ** same old story and eannot be assafled, and *Foft oy it bu re- W. E. PouLsox. ——t——— - THE AFGHAN W “Everything Qulet * an the XLnglish Poto- ATreating Man's. To the Editor of The-Tribune. Cmicago, March 6.—~I have been o constant reader of your honored paper for the past flve years that T havo been ‘n resident of Chicago, und, although I often havo been deeply dnter- ested In articles referrlug to local matters, I nover remember to have Leen so stirred snd opitated over auything, before as. over your article 1n last Bunday's - Tniune, headed Wil you allow me space in your honored paper for b few words concerning From the Mamt River until the Hannibal & St Jo Road sirikes the wouned conntry on the banks of the Marins des Cyprues, there 1s an ex- tensive sweep of the NOST BEAUTIFUL PRAIRIT. In every direction, un by the lorizon, =preads around. for clover nml vordure to garnish enund robe it in vernul loveliness; d enough to diversify the laud- clsim my nttention, handsome dwellings, batns und selters for stock, excellent hedzes, wide flelds of gurnered corn and small gralog, which, Judging frum the ricks of straw, must have g there were Jarre orelards “of apple and pench rroves of soft maple and cotton- promised soon to dec- shade the older humesteads. But by st enconraeing sight was the preety Hlere u school district eni- ot flve spuare miles ¥ the number of bull sliould sny they were flve miles square, Crossinir the Marios des Cygnes, wo sgain ne penfrie, which duplieated in ' cts the one we left. hebing us. wd every wnfle of her terrltory cxtends a preasing fuviiation to labor 1, and bids then foln hunds upon her gencrous soil to reap the ICH PILDITA OF A WISE ALLIANCE, and forever exorcise the blizhting influcnce of tradged on w8top Treating.” ke news from Natal Nias for the moment lessened publie Interest in Indin fn the progress of the Afghan war, which stlll continues free from excling incldents. Natal belng only twenty days by steam from Bombay ogainat thirty-four from England, it is felt thmt the prompt embarkation of o force from Indin offered by the Viceroy might, even it composed of native troops only, have been There are siill auarters in the Hengal Presidency, not to mention Sadras and which bave not been drawn upon for the —Assam, for Instauce, where there diments of notive jinfantry largely composed of thut best of all materlal, the Careurrs, Feb, 16~ When I firat read It—for T have read it half-a- dozen thues—L had the Impression of, as that articlo was written entirely for my benefit alone, as if you waa directing anopen lejter. to me Indi- vidualy, and plain but horribly true remembered me of my native country's pood, gensible prin- clples und hobits fn “drinking matters the resutt of o fow dnye’ nnd niziits Lhi aro these lines, II vou do publish them, it will bo the first time that any product from my pen ever wont Into print, but i€ ihey fn the least could’ helpto establish ns o rale In this man treats himsclf," I shall be How I wistied winl yet Flou size ol the stulks felded vountifully; advantageous, treer, toos and country *every more than satiifled A€ they b 1t 48 a great wonder that among the millions need in the temperance ciuse, no ratrucic the tree at the roots as you have dong here, for o it must be termed, For instance, let mo stato this country nearly elzht vears ago, end Iam this dav poorer than when 1set foot on Ameris Poorer b maoney, poorer fin health, with bisted hopes, and “lowored” n fellow-citi- zens' and—what fs even morc—in my own estl- mation, sl youne of years, glfted fn many respeets, I am often near” despalring of suceess whito school-houres, Whnt interest is fult In tho Afghan wor main- 1y centres for the moment in the Catdahar According 10 the latest nccounts, Gen, Stewart was Dringlu Iiia reconnolsunce on thy side of Khelat-{-Ghilzai ton close, nud his troona wera returning to Candahar by varlons routes; the Valley of Argandab, othera by the Arghesan, und himsell by the ‘maln road and the Valley of the Turnuk River. "This dlspetsion of troups, which appavently the state of the country remlera safe, bas the doublo ad- vantage of fucreasing our geographical know , and, In view of future “aperntions, en- ontered another #a8 1A rich In resources, One after ono I have lost many agood chance, and ¢neli une coutd have been n'step on the lad- der for me towards prosperity und honor. the canee, the only cause, I ean seck n vour ar- tele. “8top Treatign? You term this habit abominable and absurd, hen we tiwvice crossed the Osage,—a large stream which takes a serpentinu course for iz the line of the Missourt River, Fort Gulf Ralroud.—and swept - throuch Kuown whether Gen. Stewart has left o garerl- Khelatk-Ghilzal, Do s too able an ofiicer to have acted otherwise fu ihat respect. that the Vieeroy deferred to Sir Halnes' opinfon in allotting 8o stroug a foree tor Cundahiar operations. vlated, [t is sald, to reduce thut foree. Boine of the troopn tongrest sway from Indla—the originel Quettn garnson, for (hstance—ure sald to huvo ndered boek, 'Ihefr return will probatly ba taken advantage of to open ont the mueh- wanted slternative route to the Peshin Valoy through the country of the Kukur Pathans, but + yery great cautlon “witl lave to be exereised iy order to ayold embroiiing ourselves with that tribe, Gem, Biduuiph is still ot Girichle, Notwith- 5 acensional Timors to the contrary, an carly march upon Ilerat, it need not be utliemed, is qirite out of contemplation, Fublie sttention, liowever, having come to lie mora directed to Wostern Algannistan und Lo the pussibility of ou= havinge to take action on the elde of Herat, 1t I8 felt to be uf ureent importanee that our re- Iations with Perefa should be upon the hest foot- fug, Perhnps it 18 enoagh 1o note the fact that our road to Herat runs within sixty mi Perslan yesources, directed by o hostllo Power, mizht cinbarrass us ' the event of operations fn that quar- the question {8 agzafn rovived whathor our Persion policy ought not to be dirocted from ' Indta. ‘f'lie unesstness, which at ene timo sremed 18 to an sdequate roserve of sup. the Camialiar colimn belng collectud andutions and certaim intense L between Bukkur wnd Dadar has been much ulinyed, transport nrrangements through Seinde having been grodually fm- proved, Time nlone s dong much to briug the transport machinery into better workin v Richurd” Temple's euergy, nowledge of the country, encel’'s presenve at Sukkur bave mded (ku cffect of that agent, Two thousand camels nre, or shortly witl bie, on their wav to Quettn by the vew” Sonmueaneo route, Gen, Stuwart I8 sald 1o have no auxicty ol the subjeet of su; ‘Fhiere 18 nothing Iudd it s a detesta- eks and vivalets sutti- larce for purposes of frrigation; and then wo eutered n country whie Wo wera nearlng Fort Scott, foot-hills of the than prudently wenndered several ¢ W henever 1 have been approached by o tem- perance-upostio with tne solicitation to stop rinklng 1 luve scorned him nnd Jnughed at T'could not bear the thought of swearing off, und deelare that to be u sin which my mother tauzht me even a3 u child, what was 50 famdliae to me, what wo partook of at coch meal, what was & neeossity at all our gotl- erings wud festivals, and what never in the least did harm my verson, physieal or soclal. 1 could not besr the thuught ot swearhy and 411 1 wished 1 could have done it, wis! wauld not have scorned the idea For the first timo (n elzht the cause of my notb brospering, but coustuntly loshisgz, and your article *Stop Treating ? opened Sure enotizh, there and there only was the cattse to bu found, I neyer was o 1 uever had the lenst craving appe- the tor lquor us drunkards hove. I could h wore u Jess It s now contem- Huperintendent, s enumerators Crawford into Cherakee County. threo ot these the road cleaves the bonsnza regfon of Kansasy wl, for lead, zine, W by auy seetion of the or are good farming nud grazing nreas exeeptional, At Cherokeo T atopped from the traln, took myo**gerip," ad began in earnest TUB LIPE OF A PILORDY L I camo to Welr Clty, where o uauber of conl-mines, and ono blastfurnace, wherd zine i smelted from blende broutht froni Webbville, o tew milos northeast, ‘Thia block xine wil), in 8 short time, be manufactured into dent thera Is no rolling-mill, Centre Creck sl con), t is unsurpasse Tour miles o wmonths, und still 1 covld, owhyz to this much obtaln vory fully, esteemed nnd beloved **Amerles - fashion,” in a wesk nomont, entively reckloss of all conee- quenced, squander heaps of dollars away, just for not elnuing agast the * gushion,” |, Lodinle thut L may have gone farther than the averaee, uncd porhps oven the averazo mun better can Lwhon under influence ot liguar nnd Hguor-drinking surroundinzsy but there are stil thovsanda hike myself lelt who would nil could save und prosper was it not for this criminal soclal foablon of *reating,' Therefore, Mr. Editor, was {t not possiblo leadingg prominent Peralun frontler. andd furnace-mens but it s qulet and orderly, and does somes business, stored, a eovd eraded school, u ciureh, two anloons, Lwo drug-stores, 8 butcher-shop, o bar- her-shop, & Lotel, nnd post-ofllee, ull nlght in the town, und busied myself in gathering hints from the townspeople abiout the lins soma twenty before possible Teat close thia rou Iu the mornlng tie snow fell thick and fast; but 1 faced the storm und procesded to recon- 1t must not be suppesed that, In such a new settlement, ine liprovemonts are to be found cverywhere, and muny vory original architceture meet the traveler on 'y waogon hnlts upun il to-morrow you will sce the touke A deg ance sufliclent, ma liend 8 movement und sturt-a sociely with n oath for its -mewbers ¥ nevor to be and never to treat' athers,” it was, a8 you hint in your article, towards temperanct giodly envoll on the one of fts first end most ardent members, oll evauts I consider such a movement to ben true, good, nud Christian - help toward thou- sands, yes millions, young aud old, who other- sdbering to the prescut - rullng fashion, farm, mik 15 ¢ Phuyre's futinate ‘To-day 8 mover und’ the Commissar ¥ undbs prout bl boltis NEARING THEIR VUTURR CASTLE. There are no boards at hand 3 no tools but o ahovel, au ax, and a spades no osils, and no hammer exeept the one which holds the doubles treoa of his wagon, But he s u Yankee, and of auy ewergeney, blocks out of the touch s 1hem together for tha * ol futo rude but substantial il window are left when they are the refusal of an tion required by faw, lauicting on tha side of Kuram, where the construction of o new and more couvenfent road through the valley prin- cloally geeuples the troups, s of the Mangal tribe ure ruported to huve ne to Cubul, doubtless to clain (rom Yakoob fian_the reward of the trouble they huve glven Toberts und ugk his further instructions. ers comu to he tioally scitled, uo t that thoss Inhabitants ot the valley who have assisted us will bo protected from the otherwise probabla consequetices of thelr goad- courao equal to With his spade b cuts square Nome of the head- woman " to lay them walls, Opentugs for a door un 1 the conventionnl munuers and, fora roof, the head-centre tukes d ux to tho nearest brush and cuts Thess ho leaves ac his ombryo it starts to the ncarest town for a 1ittlo slding, a couplo of pieees of scantling, u fuw uails, & window-sash, und six pancs ot zlass. With this outilt he seturus and _complete bis bome, ‘The yld) from gable to gublo, and covered wiih soi . Lifor To the Edilor of The Tribune, Cniicago, March 0.—Mr, Shufcldt states thut my table showlnyg the lucome and expenditures of lite vompauics {s the *eamoold etory,” Why not,—is {t uot truel Ile ‘continuca and says, that the **sole object and purpose of a life- policy aro to securo a sum of money to the helrs of the ssaurcd,” wot to pay ‘‘dividends, sur- ronders,” cic.. . Liet us sea: At the with many finpor! a load of poles, ——— uog man who 'a ear in New a-pole i8 stretchied s lald on closely sud sod, the scantling I8 shaped with his ax futo hntels, the slding into table, sud tho window s suatclied o solitaire from a la York bas got twenty vears in pi -&s; n& the timo is sollitairey continement s not age of 40, for s policy of $10,000, what fa the ¢horize, wnd how made up? The experience of companies’ shows thay the Lo, the pfoncer’s first dwellingl It (loes not posscas many lnes of beauty s s of the sofi-handed gen- tleman or Iuxury-pampered lady in the wealthier ctreles of lifey i BUT IT 19 NOME,~— 1t I8 tite centro of llo to him,~the shrine beforn which his manly bosom pours out ita jull 3 under ita rude raof dwells the nl the slieen of Jmppiness gilds the grim walls ot his only chanber. More than this cannot be sakl; nnd, thongh youu may amile to<dny et ita lowly state, —though you may curl your Hpat thy humble —t0-murrow you tnay be toreed to recard with morerespeetful considera- thon this littie snnd-hut as the birthplace of a leader of men, Many of these ndobes stand upon recent but, oy unconth ond prinitive as thes may ahpeur, there aro other dwellings ‘I'iey are the dugot aire wrero hintes In the” ground on Fome shailow ravine or hullalo-wallow, waitked lewurely alon, § notieel stoke enrling up from the nhinost even eronnd, and, seeing n man approach with a lmping walt, and dissap- hear umider the eround, 1 coneluded to follow hini, Rupposing hlm to be n miner and the pince Whea | eot witlin ten feet of the stnoke, 1 found the surface alichtly ratsed awd covered with sod, and o rusty tw ot more than gl inchesabove the turf, an artly concealed by thue dry grass, e ubout tor some titne | found an opening, aid sunw out, * Honrs ahoy 1" hovin' for! Why don't you come in i | howel my head and ent atranuer! take a g ihe——huoitse, I lovked around forone seeing any, sy cheerful host old water-bucket nnd placed it b *There, toke thaty, Mister What mitht vour name hel" » Wanderiug Willle (s my sobriquet, Now tell me what is we shall* be acyuainted, ki ambling Joe, Wild Jun from , and [oppy-go-Uonstaut, CAN CALL ME 1torey.’ Mr. [loppy, your house scems to ho quite comfortuble for such an - unprepossesaln: exte- SAWhy, yes, i1l do; 1t keeps out the weather, and you see Use got a bed, o stove, o ent, and some cookin® utensils, Malty, and speak to the stianger.” not qulte ro soclable as his master, and did not Jenve bis throne,—u plece of Larrel-head stuck fnto the mud wall, ¢ But, Me.—" “Don'tmis- s at's soclable!” ) oppy, I don't ece anyching of Mra. Hoppy " What in h—] would I do with o woman wn t4's ho'e/ But there was a family of six Myin' here last winter,—the old man and’old woman, and four brate. Iady in such a den as thls, and my wife bhe a ludy when I you dothink of marrying some of these daysi?” * No, nol I was only jokin’. place long enoueh to it marrted,: That's how I got my——what did vou call it & Yoa, thut's it,—so-bree-kay! T've bean rovin? flve years, nnd nave bren v twenty- five States und three Teprltories, and never got ta be u citizen of any but one.” ‘* Ohio, In 174" I wouldw’t bring n tie whole Demucratic ticiet.” must have lud nuite un eventful life,” * Well, onu of ups and dowy, sve, catse une e '8 shorter than t'other, could put ull I've seen in a book, it would mal ookl around, T sas a long-bladed knife on roods box, 1 pleked it up and examined d sald: * This 8 a goud plece of wmetal, but it scems to be UOMEMADE! *There you are wroniz; 1 made {t hiere, and this afu’t dwae, | woitld remark, that kinfte—und 1U's 8 good one—out of u rasp. I bot it i that stove, and beat it out vnw bit of *T rail you see there, the tip of @ caw’s horn, nit s woman gave me that thimble which Lused for u fernle. a ralny day, and Lnade i to kill time, Here's o double roller that I invented, Some day 111 it it patented nnd make u foriune,” {loppy, you're o ueningy—that's a foetl 1 sliould lfke to stay ond going. hons 1 gou the handle from “Gond-bye, “Dowt Mr. ptly ended the furl asper- S Helloy Bl Stop und Lhalted a mo- —ee—— A CONTRACT. Harriet MeEwen Kimbali in the Independent, HONOIt, Losaes on losses, fart they came: **Pera’s left him bt b But that 18 frea from blot or blama, ™ Despalring, bowed with caro and cread, eird, he mlsed his heaa: /**Thunk God, 1 bave my nnmel" ho sald, BURPLCION. A pnlnces gitdod care and glare: Loud jeste nnd lnushtor; banquuta rarey Dark hints of foul benenth the fair, At daybreak, on o sloepless bod. Tio moanied and turned his fevered head: 11 things but A namo ' he wald, Tho Now Cenau; Indtanupolis Journal, An examination of the new Census law shows hat some of its vrovisions hinve been Jncorreeily or indletinetly reported, the appointment by the Presldent of ono or more Supervlsors of* Census 1n ench State und Torritory, the whole number not to oxeeed 160, Fach Bupervisor fs charzed, umonz other duties, with that of propostig to the Superintendent ot the Census at Washington the appertionment of Tiis district [nto subdivisfons most convonlent for the purpose of cnumeration, und to desiz- wate to the Superintendent of Census suituble the consent of employ within bdivision, mul therefn, who shall be salected solely with refer- ence to thelr fitness, umd without “reforence to their politieat or party alfiliations, ncecording L the apportionment abproved by the duperdl tendent of Census. ouslble to the Bupervisor, and e ur toeghie Buperintundent of Census, Supervisor s to recelve &0 in full for rervices rendered and expensos incurred, except that an allowanca for clerk-lire may be made ut the diseretlon of the Superintendent. Of conrse the Government tarmshes all Dlanks, Instrues tions, ete, ‘Tl taw prescribes the dutles of the enumerators und tha _fuformation they are to “The subdivislon assienod to any enumerntor shall not excced 4,000 ftants, ncconding to the census of 1870, nor slinll uny such subdivision contam less thun 8,000 fu- Dabltunts fu any case whers the Jast proceding census shows tho number of Inhabitants there- ‘Ihe boundaries o1 ull suludivislons shall be clearly deseribed by vivil divislons, rivers, road. ublie aurvoys, or ulher caslly distingulshed ines, Euwmeraturs east of the Rocky Mount. alus are to recelve not uiore than §1 per work- ngg day, niud thosy west of the muountalus 8t per duy for setual fleld-work, In lieu ot this per diem, the Buperintendent of the Census, in subdivistons where e shall deem such allow- nllow enumcrators hot ex- ceeding two eents fur ench lving inhabitant, two venta for each deuth reported, 10 cents for caclh for cach establishment of productive industry enumerated sud roturned, i full compensailon for ull’ serviees, merators are required to take au uath for the fulthfnl perfurinanics of thefr dutios, wid o peo- alty §s aftixed for vlolntiug the suine, us wlso fop person to uive the wlormu. ‘I'hia fnformation {4 to be by the heads of famllles, or iu the ubacnes of a'hiead of fawily by uny menber over 20 years of aue, und fn tho case of corporatiuns and companies by any authorized oflicer, ‘Fhu inquirivs cibrace thuse uscd fn the last census, tant additions, and the census, when complete, wiil prosent imuch the most complete exhibit ot the business, and soclal condi thut biss ever beon made, $13,000,000 08 the woximum cost of the census, exclusiye ot printing snd ongraving. e— —— The baw provides for ‘The enumcrat I Princoton to Be Freed fraw Dobts Pustadelubs Prest, Nothatanding the muny und liberal donations made to Panceton’ College, oge: 509,000 since Dr. McCosh Leeatne the lustivution has hitherto bad 10 cavry @ cou- . sidernble debt, the interest ‘on whicl/aennaily | diverted frotn {ts revenues o sum sufliclont to: support two ndditional Professors. Noarly nil” . e endowmenta and dorations hava heen for,; apeetal purpuses, walch, while of grent ndvan- tage to the collee aencrally, have doubtiess, I many cases, Increascd the ‘incidental. expenses requiired to be met out of the ordloary reve-’ This deht amounted to 8120,0005 aro ¢lad to say [t fsnow practically extingulsned. Certatit friends of the college on Batu engaged to pay oft this sum on’ the condition. thiat no further debt should ¢ver be contractud, - but that the college shontd henceforth keep its annual expenses within {ts income. % MRS, SWISSHELI, | Her Views on Womnn's Placo In the Creas . tion and After the Fnall, Ta the Lditor of The Tritune, Cricaao, Mareh 3.—According to tho Mosais account of Creatton, God created the firat pale and sald *to them, o fruitful, and fmultiply aud replenish the earth, and subdue It and have dominlon over the tish of the sea, and over the | fowl of thenfr, and over every' living thing which moveth on the carth, And God sald, be- hold, 1 bave wiven you every lierh Learing aced, which [supon tha faco of all the carth, and every (ree, in the which Is the fruit of 'n trew yielding seed. To you it shall be for meat!?” - ‘'his s the onginal land-grant, the, great ‘.. patent deed by which the human race holds the™. eartl, and it was given jolntly to the man nnd ! womun. ‘Therels no hint that the one should” have more authority than the otlier, more props erty than the other, ‘There was perfeet equall- © tyin this state of perfection to which we are . taught to look back with endless longings$ but Eve, who was one remove further from the an- finals than Adam, and that much mora liable to intelicctual temptation, was induced to risk tho raising vegotables, gathering stovepine sticking *What are yoil in gearch of knowledge, Of coursc this was.a dlsastrous atep, for it led the raco into all the study and Iabor of agriculture, brick-making, and house-bufldings beside that of making spinning-fennics, steam-ca. | , and o thousand other trows hut this sin was never made the canse ol printing presset aines, telephon bl v Diving revoeation of that orfginal land- . grant; und, In point of fact, she is, and alwayx has been, ioint proprictor ps well joint tenant of the eartli und all its wealth, # Men have disputed her title and enacted Jawa fn deflance of it: but bave nover succocded in She has beld posseszion of her estate, and the grant never has been, nover can revoked by any but the grantor, Voman was also iuvested with a representa- tive character In that original plani and it is not true, ns stated fu our catechisme, that in Adam wo all sfnned and fell,” for half the race 1ell in Eve: and ber sin s vistted on nll women by special penalties. God never commissioned. man as the representative of womanj; never qualifled lim for any such part; and his assump- 2 tion of thie charactor is slicer usurpation. After the original .plan bad been spolled by Eve's thirst for knowledge nud Adam’s appetite Tor npples, the Creator tells him that lience- forth the earth shall bring forth * thorns und thistles,’? and thut be shall get bis bread by the I can’t stay (o one “ Whom did yoit 1 voted for Sammy wid “ Hoppy, you We do not understand b; this that man’s. right to the earth was trans! rred to * thorns " hut simply that they should con. m for its occitpancy, aid it hns over been vonsitered meritorious In him to dis. <cs nuil descroy them. No man hesltates to Wl the sweat “of cultlvatiug the earth, bes couee lie was assigned to i, in this new de parture of the,race; and wo all rejolee in the machinery which Is rendering that sweat morg nick More unnceessary. ‘To woma, as tier sl Yes, slry 1 mado hara of the penalty for starting man on the way to ocean steamers and submaving telegraplie,” was assigned sorrow, in motiwrhood, yet noone avold that sorrow oltuzet its minlmun by every urt known to the laws of o, we have o universal admittance it the spirit of the statemcents duty of the st couple alter the fall was pro- phetie, not mandators, and that the commy - difilculties to bo -overcome, not rightut conditfons to boclierlshed and preserved, Condor would, therefuro, protest againat pleks, gz out twelve words from the Creator’s part ol that wonderful conversation, nnd suenishing ¢ diiferent vule of fnternras- A0 tor ofl ohier pavks ol 4o ‘The dozen words for wieh aucctal arrsigenients have been made are theso, spokeir to Eve by the Dwity: “And thy dosire u hnaband, and he ahall rule over thee.!! " the transintors huve interpolaied o *ghall be” not (oumd in the orinal; but, with tnla addition, the phrase licks the fore Taw, from hetnge in the passivo form. A desirs - is esseutlally fuvoluntac; passive ut best; uestions hier right’to ior, oF to redues (b to and fiere, 1 ke k. Tnisis the most of proverty I've oti iUs made Laer s, nothin but the Kolfe and gack will go along with me. 1 CANRY MY UMBUILLA TOOLS IN TIIAT, and #a follered mc"flu-mmh thiek and thin #Good: by, Miatcr. “Phen gond-bye, Billl 8 just thought of it, butuin't you u wri ke paperst” 1 prof ston und started aun 111 2o along with: you a plece,” wment, glud of gteh o fively compnnlon rher, for aghie or 1ol Hoppy disciizeed Murk Twaln and Dayard Toy- lur with the freedom of oikier eritles w probably better pald for tearing down the work ‘then our runas pared, ond this bleared pen-vortraly fs alt that [ snall perhaps ever sec of Rambiing Joeor Wild Jim from them with a tot: ton Lo that adod & rod to bu vualed but Eve Is not told tu subans Adain (5 not sutnorized 1o ity s aild on this sublect to tha actsve party i this rating, mud 1Ia fair to us. sume that the words are almply u prophoey ol o coming wsurpation nud despoiisin totily une authorlzed by that prophocy. Yo sar 1uat God nuchorized the evonts Ho foretolil Is to nssume Hut Iie commissloned thy nt to brufse Corist, who s universally owiedged s that »seed ™ of the womna foretolit in'this mterview, wid 2ays to the serpent: * He shall brulse thy head, anid thou shalt brofse his heel.” 2 1 this 18 0 command Christ came, not volune . tarily, bat by command of the Father, to da battie with tlie areh enewy, und the coemy was eommansded to bruiss hion propheey Justitics its fullithnent is to say thint 1he Cbifdeen of lspact down to other zods, whom they had ot known, sl I eatine the desh of thely'own children, for those aets were predleted helore they were one. rucifixion was predicted, veb we are told that He was taken, und, with wicied hands, waa* crueltiod, lie nefugs the Lord of (lory. 8o nan's rule over waman llnds no fustification in its prediztion, 8he now i3, und always las been, ins equul as coproprictor of the earth and co- representative ol the race. But, 1€ uny dowbt can remain of the intent of . that dozen words which hus excreised so wido orld, thut doubt must bo dispelled by turning to the fourth chapter of (Jenusis, twenty-seventh verse, whero God save to Cafn, when speakiniz of Abel, “*Aud - unto thee his deslre, and thow shalt rulo oyer him. Awaly_ the trouslators have suprlicd o & shull pacing 1t betwoen “thee? nnd “hfs'y ith or without It, tha phrase L Iz of tho e of command, which wunting In_the pame words addressed to Eye.. W Phou shalt rule aver him!" {3 a much strovger. than * 1lu shull rule over thee”; for the setion on the part of {he person od- dressed, witle the other indlcates submission, Lo submit to wrong, whil 1 of whom God "To pssumo that wers rlght in bowlng an Influence In th an At [8 often o dut; it noyer ean b to fol * Cnin snd Abel were representative men, ani, stoad for the wicked and richteousof all - time, Jt §3 n historieal truth that the wicked have ruled the righteous during most of all the aml dn most'of il the lunds of whick wehave 18 Lruo that the deatro of good men has been to ruto bod men; (hut they have destred fand petitfoned for justico, for mercy, for freedom to Jzhit to the procecds - of und truo that they haya It is true that kg wicked have ruled, sud the peoplemourned; bub ustify that rulo because God foretold worship (God, for the rl thelr, own industi been denfed these 0 fustify lis rule over woman on o ten-tald weaicer show of aythority? Phere {8 talk about the Biblobelng superannus, . philosophy which 1s “to s by peaple who know It §s tho creat’ chur- 1t not, how can mul ated, uud the liberat supersede it, but this Jittlo or nothing about it. tor of human liberties, the doterinined foe of ail’ castey and the inwst far-scuing engmica of ult govermuents *of the people, for the peop! " have over mado {6 o Vi Bivle from the people, We awa all theelvil and religlons liberty wo huve todta disseimination aweng the puoplo; and those who fear it must have eyil purposes or be fznorunt of its contents, ~ As a woman, pleading for the rhzhts of my sex, and’ ur o clatins of Christianity, now halt ond bl for wunt of the divinely appolnted lnbors ol pue-half the race, L usk ho surer weapon than that superanntated book which will yut throw off the shackles of superatition In wiiich it las been boumt by huwan iguorguue, und do it potnted work of destruction on all usurpations sud wrongs, lehed and committed in or in the namo of its opposers, ‘Ihe _corner-stone on which whole Bibllcal argument for woman's subjection are theso twolve woras, nlreudy guoted as spoken by the Deity iu the Garden of Kd aftor age, cuntury wfter century, around the peclk of every woniun puted Christinn land, welghing sa of inferiority, suinl-sl perpetual pupllage; yet, uary rules of I 1ess, anthority terpart is for ol nid by the people, has rested the 1 OVery pue her down into a 16-dlstzust, nnid measured by the ordi- It {8 no more,.nuy for any such result than its couny j1 the wrongs over futlictod by wicked and powerful mien ol the gof of their awn sex. ‘Ihe wholu philosoj 8 change had comu socioty wos to by opulotion, weuith, tlon of the conutry e sct approprlates nterpretation, y of both passugesls that. - which s perfuct statg ol | folfowed by one fu whicl thy * truth forces should predominate, and hold mora] + power in_subjection for u season;' but, as the! world progrosses, thu rule muat puts to theother. id JANB GRBX BWissuypL,