The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

Cf The Cedarville Herald. W. H. BLAIR, Publisher. CEDARVILLE,'' : : : OHIO. A SU P OP* COLERIDGE, CAMP-FIRE STORIES. SOMEBODY’S BOY. i passage, Hi iover, arid "mail** his vCn&To tlio s,i;r*rt - n. _____ |wriip dressed the vvound, auu the Colonel TJio ITlirfrot or a Star, With a <3rim race . WUMll'd to 1ho fight. U ffaff not until 1nnrt a.Murderous Heart. . . lato*tbat night, after the fijyfft, that ho Aswo ;\ voto falling hade on Malvern learned >vbat saved his life, lie felt Hi)1, ia Dio peninsular campaign, tbo , something Awkward in his .hoot, ami im IRREFUTABLE ARGUMENTS. How thp Poet Got* Mixed-on the Moon In , Ills “ Ancient Mariner. „ Has any'one ever-called Attention to the extraordinary blunder,-in describ- irig natural'phenomena, vyhich occured in the Ancient' .Mariner .of Coleridge.'/ At the moment of the to,mile apparition . of.the phantom ship, we read“how ' -Tli'v Western wave Wasall aflame, . ‘ This-day was well-nigh done; Alino's-t upon tbo Western wave f ■Rested tlio-broail bright smi." Then eomc-H^tlie awful gainq. of dice," then the- ’sunset, and then tk€ instant­ aneous Jroptcal n\ghi; and'the miserable ,.oM!ort» of the stenjsinun, when • . “ r’li-Hil.lrubovis‘tins oa..tern.bar, - -The horbed moon, with ones bVigbt'star., Within tlio nether t . r •« J-hit if the-moon ros(\. in the east, and • ‘gradually climbed the sky. she. was at or near her full—opposite the sun. •'•lienee afire could not bo horned, or have a star - 'Within either tip.. i’tie c.vosont'moon, | with her horns, as nf’.eoiirso seen in tin* | west,j i t or near sunset, and the crescent j moon’ is steadily s it in g and getting i lower-in. the sky from the Instant of its | - appearance. It may also he crescent in : , the .east at sunrise, but this has no i application here. , | 'The significance! of this error is two j i fold. ’ First, Coleridge" is one.-df those.| •authors"-who m has adinirers generally .will not allow to he criticised; he is'stip- posed to be justified by a kind,of inspir­ ation in any thing lie over wrote, In such circumstances.,there issomo satisfaction . for those whose taste is for a- wholly dif­ ferent style of composition, and who "■consider,--tAAerldgo a peculiarly proper subject for criticism, to find 'Lhe sort iff mistake in him.wliich, ‘if made .lut-JiroTtv -Byron or JIb’Ofo, "would have instantly ‘ brought down on the offender a swarm of harpies. . • _ ' But there is a much -deeper signitt-i •can.ee;in- this mistake.. It shows, that a-j roar-guard fighting back tbo Confedor-! stripping it off he found a long ate advance,-our brigade was wheeled to j piece* of brass fearfully mangled, tbo loft and'nnothor to the right to eov- j '•“ What is-this?” ho asked-of or tin,* mu-row-highway and give tho |Steiger#, who joined .him again wounded and tho stragglers an oppor- j fight. tunity to close up. Across the' fields, whlcli. were .broken and wooded, advanc­ ed the the enemy's skirmishers, followed liy‘the double line* of battle. Wo c;heck- ed thoni with a volley, -but they re-form­ ed-and charged with .a cheer. I eoiuld see their faces very plainly under" tile smoke, and as they, rushed- forward J..no­ ticed .that the mini directly in.front of me /Cas not a man, hut a stripling of a. boy. • II b didn't-’ look.T o he mow than”, fifteen years old, anil his face was white and seared." l -liad, a dead-.rt*st with tny musket,, iiird this "boy -was coming ' They both examined the bit p f‘ brifris very critically for -several minutes, not knowing what to inako of it; wlion the thought occurred, to Colonel Steigers that lio had loaned Blodgett his knife ‘ .“ .Where is my knife, illodgott?" be asked." Why Woman Suffrage la ,Right and Is Round to Come. 1 I think it is a custom amqng the Yan­ kee people when any new plan .is sug­ gested,xispockrfly if it has been advo- for a long time and with great ur- _, to settle th’e matter in tho only Sensible way, .which Is, to.put it to the test, lias it -occurred to you tlia-t a great many intelligent people—whether, or not you agree witli them—advocate woman -suffrage? Do you*remember that the Claim lias been advocated for 'many years? Are you aware how easy i.t would tie to settle .this question by putting.it to the tost? ; , ■»' ^“ By Jove, this .must bo'what is left of*it The question of woman suffrage suf- it," Blodgett replied, gazin* critically .fora from its -very, familiarity. I f .i t on tho little pieceoi brass. ■Ho then-re* 1 cbuld.ho sprung as a now qu.es.tiont if, in'emberod having put the.'knife into his j for instance, tbo rlgh tf^ .y^p^ 6^.aUo- right "pants pocket, and concluded Uiat1gether a-n®w'Vlgh? con^r4e ^ S ^ ® t » o » . it had warded .off .tho force of the builot pie in this year, 1^90 ;fqr .tbd'Tirst tidf|&. that ciime so mmr-calling him to bis’ ; there would bo 'no' more- question; of straight upon hie. 'Had-ho been a mini j AlaIter, The l^'nife was'.not; referred to granting it.to'both men and women than Isliould have killed him .' I could have ) aafti'n fjoi’jrcrfrs. In. fact” the men.wore of ffermittiiig-'both males and fimjalgs b* . poet of -undoubted genius' ami s.kill iii'i eompo-i'niu. who has planned and com-1i •posed' a poem .with profound thought and care, may In tlio course of forty 1 lined admit an-impossible ilicimgruity, unnoticed' himself, and, an time, has shown, unnoticed by three generations, of readers.- Yet it is pri cisol.v such-in­ congruities that, cause tlio'var.ous Ger­ man er.ties to cut up the •Iliad and . Odyssey into separate poems, and de­ clare that no ot\e man could have com- i hit himwith my oyosshut.' When I saw that it was a boy I couldn’t fire upon him. 1 covered him once, but his scared face turiled my gun q/way, ' .AVe let them come' charging 'up. until some of the more impetuous jvere ,'ii- Snost ovt>r ns, and thon.there wjas an aw- ful crash of riiuskofry—a.grcat billow of flame—a -tlioijsand Cries and-,curses The flame of death had licked, up their J lines.' I was lookTtlg fo-r-the hoy smoko lifted. IIo stood, musk hand, louking about him asif-par livery man,had gone down for ten -feet either side.of him. As our choors hurst forth the,,boy" faced afjjout with tlio rum-' “nant of tfio lino and retreated to cover. I rejdieed over his'escape and I hoped if auotlier charge was made he would not he with them. .. • • . • Half an hour passed and now wo were’ -.■tho rear gnardi-'a brigade holdi'ng tbo 'narrow road. We saw the enemy mass­ ing for auotlier •charge.' and .again wo made ready, to.Viceive them! As they game forward I saw the same while-, faced boy, inis tune a little to the: left of me. ■. “ Don't slim! tilat boy!" Ivailed to the. men beyond maw-, . . ■ Tim third man on tlio left was in.line witli tin- liny, lie looiced'np at me..with •S<>.parated-fdrTnaiiy years aftor. fo lon e l j attend to the public schools, or acquire liloilgott, hotvovor romemherod tho i and 11014 ,property, or do-imy of tlio oth- veminiscenee, and while, in Europe last j or things'.which both now doin common. met-a comrade tliero who ro-j Or put It In another way—for, in homo- T.:.... ...... ortflt i In riVinnurt wlinf, WRHVlC*fl'frtP .t.lin IS ytnir lie called to him tlio facts connected" with ! ly pbraso, what is satico‘for tbo goose is tho knife, aml. he secured tho most va.l-.! sauce ' for tho. gander--suppose that up uablo one lid could find. UiSturning to’ ! to this time suffrage bad beun -liitv1toil Sit. Louis on the 'lltli'day of January, ! to women, and that no man had over 1(<SSI, lio;called on Colonel Steigers, and, j been permitted to vote except for school after saJutiiig' hjm, -said; “ Colonel ( committee. ; .Suppose; ’meantime, 'th a t contribute out o f our property to a.com.. mon fund, if we aro taxed for n common enterprise,'if .our right--, our liberties, our persons, our children, ar<^ affected by certain laws, we ought to Lave a voice in "tlio arrangement,- ahd if, you doubt this, try- the experiment ivJth a body of men, and see what will come of i t As to this matter of, ojpe, diency, it. is an insult to our civilisation /to assert for a moment that we bayo not, /'intelligence and'ingenuity enough fodo a thing which it'is right to do; .or that the'mere mechanical' arrangements' cm not he provided for permitting women to take part,in voting as they take part in other exercises. -.Why, the thing has already been .tried. In, V/r^uiAffig it has been a success for, twenty years, certi- ■ fled to by the best authorities, there, pud sboy.'ing a much, bettor record than .suf­ frage in nia'ny- Southern .States or /North­ ern cities.' .Woman, suffrage .Js. vindi-- cated. by ,ttje fact that, while steadily ’ the sphere rhf-wothanbas been broaden* ling, admissi-m giveil her iiitd-ncn ihdds, -occupations..trusts.—yet in no single in­ stalled" has - tfhc failed to show herself .Rq.ual....tq....tba-‘task. Iteflect upon that fact for a- moment!. .If there-Wpre this inferiority on unfitness of woman i.n- • ‘“capacitating htr for sufirage; if it were H O W X W A S The Precautions % . T h i e f! out o [if w.e it ot ■<. out law 3 arr , try n, an' A h s aii i and iWi it u>i;ha vide t m v orcisi an tri '.cess ho be much kny N Wor, tup f (f'wc! sun g •trii or wrong and inexpedient and- dangerous. p as tho i Stnlgera, do ygu remember loaning mod.' wen had developedj/heliviintural cupqc- ike.t in j knifo some years ago?? • \ ■ j ify, for every.dejwtment of.b'u.sinesslife "alyzed. I He did, of. course,, and then Colonel •and onterpi-is'c, and .were demanding tho 1 - - ■ - ' ....... i . l't... .... ii.;..................... .................. Blodgett drew tju* one ho intr<:hasod,in i hiulot. Hqw much itonsc'ii>edoydu sup: Khetlielf^ and presentod it to ’Colonel < pose they would stand from any body Steigers in place of tho .onf* ho had bor*’ j wh.o.shci.uld answer (hem by. saying that rowed twenty-six y-r-ars Jjwfor’p. Colonel scfivage is not a right; tbai it is ii mat-' Steigers .had tire dates, Jminiary 8, 1803, 'te r of expediency; that there are too January 11. 18S9, Inscribed) on the brass many voters already: that nifaSiro vir- [date on one side, •amL_prizes it very Jtually represenU‘d by their, wives 'and; Louis .1*1 ’ ‘ ................ pl highly.—.S.L. :(be-I)emoi'jEatv BY lA vS^RATCH . ^ PARALYZED IV4*nHfir of iiAIaliHtHiin on t»rHattie. . ‘f - ‘.’.r have l-eail o r nfbn being paraWri'd by'ii-wtbfml and un tile to.mo.u-,i,'’ s.ud a well know.u nrouiinen! .Maine- edfieo- hoider- 'ami I believe-th ■’ 1 know that tiuu-i liave been iiiauv eases f/f tlie kunl, and one of them in naiu.-ul'.ir ha- •.urii a, luotliers; tiiat -to' give them -the ballot ; .would result 'inutile disturbance of farhe -ilios'and einlailger the liome.; that, it 1jvould 'fead lb violence ';H the polls; and thirr. niMi oU'gli't'ij'o’Mo lie perverted 'from their .sphere or dlMsycteil from their ap- , propria.t.e Imsiuess. .of making- -piuney. r.'i.-.ing"corn, iranspiu'iing' frei;rht, and all the '.-.real, mas i ''iinom.i'-. nT prodn tine a sardonic smylo ami then'lle rested [his iniisket ami cave red the boy.’t'o LillTmm • p mc f’a li s • that l lime good rea-on when'the, word.came to tire. An enetnyr wag tan enemy .to bun, wheUior man •or - hoy. llo was tliero>t<» isill. I held my h’reatii an the double-lint* again ad­ vanced.*: A little closer and they.fired a posed either of~them. Coleridge' tells j volley anil tlien‘charged: They sought itis lmiisolf-that he is indebted to Words­ worth for. two lines o f the poem, Lach- j ‘maun, would 'Undoubtedly argue that' one of these* two poets rmjst have j /stopped his hand soon after describing j tlie .sunset, and tjien the other have in-'; ■sorted the description of the inoon.'— 1 , Atlantic.. . CRIME IN ENGLAND ,. ! * i- , ' | Oni" Known Thief to Kvory Niiintpon lfan* ! iiik I l*orty-Ii%o J^ thoua , , l ! Burglat-y and kindred offenses show an increase during twenty years of IM j percent, hut this is in part explained by a change in the police cluHsificatiqri i by which various offenses which used to he entered.as larcenies are now entered j' as burglaries. In nil the smaller of- ! fenses {here,has been a “ coiuiiiuous i - and ^narked" abatement." The main , cause of tiHs improvement has been- the .action of tlie police. It. is "in the i smaller and eVery-duy in'ciiscs that the tiom fit of this— is most seen. Tlie t police are more vigilant, and their v ig i-: - .lance is more often sticcessfui. They * are now old.gel to furnish to, the Seerc-* ■ tary o f ’state full informaMoh as to the 1. *‘ t'* AV ^”‘1 f their district, and they are thus ,kopt 1 “ in touch with all known thieves'and t Biispecti'd eiraracters." The figures re- j lating both to these eharaeters and to ! tlieir habitual haunts are h igh ly en-1 conraging. ; i In ls>,S'9 Hsere wgs one'know n thief to i ve:y l.luO persons: in Issy-s *jie per- ■ cefita to bad fallen by nearly half, find j . th“ v.v.s only one k:i<itvn thn f to every 1.'.Ml persoT;--.' The deerease in tin* n - ceiw-r of stolen goods- is still -more. nm'.ke.L In , isi;s.y there w.i- orn* to" every ‘s.k'.O people; in ISsT-s there was ’ one to every 2, 'i,.V.c.l. So, too, with till' Incises which * suipieted fsons frequent. In I-'ifi ’there were 1,’.W3 !nu;^s kept hv reel iv* era of Stolen goods; in i‘-sH there were * only TTs, Tbe-numberof susp,<e.ted pub- Iic"'limHf-n, iieer shops and coffee shops has fallen, within the same period* from f),l(Ji to 7oiJ,. *This change is a striking ’ “lestimony to tlie vujiue of police supers 1 vision.- C'r.minals aro like wirewornjs- ? there i3 nothing they dislike so much I as constant disttirlutico. The visits of | the police make the discharge of the j Criminal calling troublesome and annoy* !, Ing. The of!» nor criminals are seen by the police when they are making holi­ day the more chance ia there l ‘;.ifc tljoy will he rocognL-ed and detected when they are at work. The decrease ip the number o f receivers of stolen goods is especially Important, since without such agencies thieves can not dispose of their j plunder, and as a thief is notacollectorj the inability to do this is a very great .hindrance to bis business. It is satisfactory to learn that, where- imr death they were following .us to destroy ' thev hadnonierev. Andvet, us’ ,V 1 fired inlo Hie smoke, knowing timt m,?' Imlli-f niust find a hun>aii tar -et, I was consoled by the refit ction tout -I was not shooting at tlie hoy at .Somebody's Hoy, 1f ho w.as-killed it would he !tv pi-r->on.ti ,ti* to ■t-eiiu'iii-ber.. . i “ it .yds'ar tin1battle of C'hantiHy, in ' the oat/iy part .of the. ilg5 t. We bait 'ip- jji-oiu-hKd a low-, rumbling -fence■‘■a Vir­ ginia fedve, as tlie,v were called and I had my'gun throughl it and .was doing: wli-at set vice I i*imhi.1 I stiw lhesplinn*r ■ ■fly from a ptr ce of ilia! fence .under tlie j impetus of a Tali, freiii tin' enemy. til i ■the ligntiling llash of the JlVilig wood 1 1 sec tiled' :*> find r’ me to dodge, and there w,i> a q, in'll ip un like tlie souring of a loa -mm, -and ti." splinter, was through my Imi-tiand and ,Hong, my senl|v peite- kill th(‘ man on my left; and he must-answer “ '1 im Vo.t w , »M rr* .'ill•l- stuirin-d foC it.- , - "me. and I ri'ini ;nlitr-f *m weii tfiV 1.M- ' The enemy could not Inidge "us. 'Th ey loot, :i' : t• ’ li'i.v !ini-liti- \\-r P*f' ‘ l^i couldn't touch our tlanks, and„ja.rt■brirgi-"' 1in’ stt oi»e. .in- : Hi* ’ !»►:v\i»l tl.e Jr*itini ► fj* iilur In front was -simply Hiaugliter. ( )jnr voi- >III'U. i ••■ii iv. suv: » in :r b,f(l leys broice tlieir lfu's - ijeeinv.ile'il t iie’ii ,|]| ! CM '[IM:m\ ■\ .in* il ’ inMnf-n* 1iy throw lli'-in in i['onf'.ision am1 Hi(>y ' stn ii'M( w |S go n»* n T•Wils !»" V, I 1' ivt’iv bre asli’,1 brick a:.raiu. I spr.i ng to l «*!(’. I*VInr, TIiiti tell 1•, ;i Ill**, inv feet and iooke d for the bov. The M’ II! t 'l Mioe-i r Ml ?I|V . Ii I** • 4 * /M'*' nowik-r-s tnok*’ swirk ■daiiout rioie down . oil 'irei.: i :•:•'. ill 1- ' ll* ;■! ull i lif,'id up i!u;.ted away anion g ' lie sole,. tree topis, and my heart bon ink•d as 1 •■My wit*, we.i • ( my Vf ,^n nn- .saw boniiehodj-'s .Hi ty iigai'n. He Stood .•lo..li'd ■ in U i » l, •! : il *• avh mjiilu hi-asts of with two comrades the remnant, per-' btips,cl I,is wh(>le yompauyr Ju .t as I got a gliiiipaijqfif liitn thh three turned to oh(>y tlie call to retreat, and J swung tny cap ami cii( I'l’e-i. Our whole line was cheering the others I ktuximv they had again repulse tlie .enemy - I because Somebody's Bo.v bad again escaped. And when J looked along our line to liiolueti’ a, mg • ".'o’_ .couiil hav: V- ■1 tor: i"«s 1 hi- . — l •' limn I ti.iimgiif 'ill !»■IH'l'il.lpS 1 iT--’ - life if an nri;'how th e . man wi*)i tlie grmi'faeo and murderous heart' hud missed his target, I saw him Ijmg'ou tho ground- stone ’dead. A bullet bad an. — struck i.Itif fair troit, I'reo Press, in the forche: hi ­ s t o r y OF A KNIFE." How Cntoni'l Illoilgett's Life Wan tlaicil ‘ on (lie Buttle Fletil,. , "" f'doni-l Stingers, private's»-ere*ary to Postmaster J. B, Harlow, has a knift that be p s/es almost as dearly as life, on a<- o ,nt of a very interesting war remjiisci-me t'l.mieeted w;tb it. Ac rordin.f to Mr. Stetgers* storj,. at one ' filin’ iti-m-r !5.»-war i.e and Mr. Wells' .; hour every moment a year of a g on y -- ■v.t-oi T ?i It some one's hand on my co l-' ' la', .mil I. .was drugged out and turned ( ; on my face, v here. I lay for a moment i as some one .rifled* my cartridge box. ! The motion saved me. My pulse seem- 'e d to.Slij-," in !;(-a’‘' bear, n , \ :-,viII it, i-X- t-rt it-.e',f, unii tu a f«v» mitiaU ■; J invM’^f. ’J'be woun'd was so small tifat ,-1 staunciied it with my handkerchief .and iii half an hour I was as well as I * t JeviT. 5 “ If 1ne band'l.aiT not found niv coat 1eoi!::!? 1 .simiild have lieen bleaching my b o m o n Cl antilly (it this moment m- 1stead of here talking to j.oti, aiui it v.ms’d tune i een tough to have p.ss-f J in oa such a s’-r.i’ ek.” -Lew e.ton Jour nil. ‘ c'qric.eijn.s aiid >rt and commerce.? Iliivv tiiey 'would riur you the great truths of -the Heel? ’ alien of Independ­ ence, tout all mankind are created free.! and equal, and that: gover.nmenL_dt'rives its just 'powers only from tho con­ sent of the governed'; .and that, whoever, is taxed ii>r the common benefit and af­ fected Ity tiie'hiak ing of laws should have a Voice in tin* process of taxation and legislation! '* ' *■ *t * . * . * . * r ■‘ ‘ Le-t us-he honestr-a-nd admit wli.it we, all know; that the ro.al reason why the rigiit’ is denied, to women, is because, .tin ro is'just truce chough of ancient bar- ..barisin lingering in ,our civilization to bar tlTom out--the saino barbarism that women slaves, that made them burden, that made them -pets and playthings; tmt'll^af:—thank heaven i —is graduaiiy passing away. Tho whole’ logic -of thq/uiing lies in a nutshell. .ThHrm^jyyiiion sliodld, vote, or . men ' sh'quld hot vote. Human ingenuity can j ' not .suggest a singltt distinction be­ tween tlio* sexes so far as the right of4 voting i.s concerned.. Tiiey are equally competent to judge of tlie merits of : -measures and tlie comparative merits of ; candidates* : * ' * • Men ami ’ women have an equal stake in tho Gov- erninewt-aml laws; They each-hold prop- j erty to be protected and taxed; they alike have children to .he educated, and , lives and limbs to bp made secure. I am' told that you will find niany a streot:m our towns, on which, ■'of tho adult; resi­ dents, a majority are "women owning property on which they ago taxed .for tho municipal expenditures, in which for her to' exercise that .function—;how '• do, you *account for tlio fa'ct that'w.hat-.. evei"forward step yon have lot her take, . sho has justified it? .4 • • Notmilyyi’n my "mini is there no ar-"' guwont against, woman suffrage, hu-t ' everyargumont. for it. In'thoifirst place; * every .’ exR'nsion' -of inteiygont {’ suffrage, strengthens tho body politic. 1. must. believe this, or give up the pi;inci{*lo..of republican gov-.. tJi’ ninent, which.is the strongest and so- ‘ curegt' form of- govonirnont. I know some, shudder a .little at universal suf­ frage, but it-is't'en ttiousand times more, dangerous to suppress aivd exelpde a part of tlio people. The gases winch are .irai'Mless if vented, mayWork ruin if -you‘ con-fine- them; There .can in the long run.bg little danger when "ali aro, equally responsible'. Suffrage isiits'elf an iumienM* /PdMcatiofH its absence a degeneracy. 1/ThKbromler ihe./busfs. of your State, tno s-yfn>. In the mix( place, the infiijeiH-e of wotmi-u lias refitted whatever ^circle jt ii;is b en admi’ ted into uiideiLcoiKlitions of its own self-re-* spoeR History, homely experience, com­ mon observation, all confirm this. MM;a- att suffrage would notdebasowomen.and politics. It would elevate ljorli. It would add‘to the body politic Ju; positive ele­ ments of ■ feminine wholoKomenpss, and • natural antagonism, to vice and violence. A, ne’vv interest for; tho securities o f home arid ’ yieaci’1, sobriety anil order, .would be .evoked. Woman herself would be benefited, as irfttei'iigeirtJretnancipa- tion of every sort arid to whatever do- gre« alway.s iienefits.its oliject. tiiey have no voice. Arid ve t "in every such cummuiiitv thy at t - i r . t e ’ li- gence and competency of the'ivonum is, at the very least, equal to that of the men. Some of the women don't know much; some of the men don't.know much, hoiite of the women would not vote if they could; and niany of the men do not vote, although they can,' Some of the woriien.would vole as tiiev Were 1 can,not-help feeling Unit hack ofjjU _ lies a slflT' tliis-matlter of casting a vote, : deeper ijucsUon ,pf .social’-.integrity. There is at stake not tbe.nnrvat of ai^jr women, leaders of tlie inovoment, tint, the welfare - the moral aiic- inteJIccUikl status of the gre'at body of women wlio nee in tlie fnass'of life, who toil in simps., •and whose character arid fate are subject to th,e moUlihg o f tlieir .circumstances. Any tiling that attaches’ to„themft badge or fetter of inferiority,'' dep'endence, or weakness, 'just.so far hinders their ulti­ mato’moral and intellectual self-sover­ eignty, Whi’ iu woman Is tmder -full equality of rights and of social .respon­ sibility, thence will, date tlio era of a whtrlesomer social life, which nitw.smm*-; times seems • “to be the despair of social science. 1'he topic is- boundless. I hive touch­ ed ott,ly oil. familiar and .practical ay pei:ts, which corao quickest home to the seiym of.justice.-;* To sum them up, it’is , riglit. that women, equally’ burdened, should liayfr equal voice In tho adjust- menl of the hurden. It igdespotic and j,, pg’cq right. Nothing is easier than to arrange Ivi its exercise without -.njurious .disturl)-' ance to social life or- political stability. Women would;-J>ot he drawn from tlieir duties, or their time over-itC’’U'>ji'd, any more-than now In the (gise o f men ari.l. We* all know how little; Low next to. nothing, that is'for nine hundred and ia htr .lie.’ * exo ■count .rd st( ’stilled! in gainst ilfiicin; jxti'ns str I live in a subur: Y;y of London. M detached bouses ^ j and hchis Imth comparatively w-.il ■having lived m <‘1^ riagu a few nioiith' -toted .into residehi the delights x>{ [ UI no particular alter window and "do' -forriror had tho.*e. 1 that aro drawn aer ■ aru known (in til xfiburglar‘8joy-” _ 1 excited no special porienced and in supposed that tlieii pie's fastenings; tl put.up tho ontire r were occupied by, ^ • had any fenr/of tWibrs to tbem.'-f had rather rickety on the other hand ' burglar’s-favorite ' kncTws—was massi and double-locked souls in a sense jokf'dlibout, the night proaler ma os. For a time w hies—including a * .perior electroplat - -every night,- Tin . proper precaution . yemarked. Af,tei •tlio cook take m This she did sati i the continued uhst her spirit into a iousness of . tlie: , mors of househroi - casionally reaclieil ’ ., %s no more than i : of people wo don "was to talk’ vague This was the sloa c, .awakening. One Ing’our marital s,'n| at seven a. m. b / t| our bodrot^n, and, distended1 eyes crying: “ Ob, nrm. in the house!" '. -In less time riod popularly knj ■wife and I rear! -—culast: opho. -.Nev - $pectacit* that .rtic ••lain had apparei: dations,to tho in; wrought fcarfui of tlie ouptoanD. siili’hoards were - ttil'tr-etmreTiTs a strewn upon tlie fragments of cold1 '■ nut cake, appareij pure superfluity ■■: the table were t *. piate, bull einpt;1 "glass and jug f had evidently bee : by v(-ro somi­ niatetes and a ’• allowing that b<> forta’jly witii a kitchen windows- lory wets’ wide tlirrst itself in tt ness,, for tlio mu o prinj [which in of [ddor n xb is J f VO |ne thi lid e'sjvon let’ e y- t ' ’. tlie >m-e - I'ir'-li r condi torVj -vh.'tio: fe wool won Jody t'emiri! nla-’-oi items, d pea volcn- iteil'. a. very ,f ys liei Ot ill’ll er of [liosth at stal .uler ro -•tl' f the e.mass e cliar, led or misted; and many or fjm men do ‘ ninety-uino iii every thousand of tin m lhe same thing. Abwl of the women in i ibuigeroi-s, but a better, ( lenient -flier •' ‘ ........... ................ RANDOM- SHOTS, H. l>l<i-1gi''t vvi re niei;ilj,.'rs of IjjeiK-ral E. if. Brown's ‘•'.stuff At the time be speaks of they- were, located at Spring- field, Mo., fbe basis of supplies for tip* army- On the morhlng.of -the Mfi of January, I m ;.;, tiiey received word that Tiii.’ve’.r-ran corps of the Fifth Infant­ ry, Mar;.Ian 5National Guard, romi'u-ed. entirely of men who servedm the .South­ ern atinv, has contributril sy-, New J'o.k Grant Monument fund. (it m u m , lilinniis, of the famous liiehetts ba’ fery. at Gettysburg, lias bad General Marmadnkb was marching to- a stroke of goo 1 luclc at which ,niany old ward them with sjx thousand men. The soldiers will rejoice. After the war he 6taff.ofiicer.s wore .sent over the field to bought ,* .W acres of Pennsylvania elrou '•positions for the troops. Colonel ■wmidlanu for a mere song, and timy he ►Steigers and Blodg-tt went together and has sold if for a round million,,, '1’hat is Worn some time away. The enemy was considerably belter than getting a big -not far distant when tiiey were ready to i pension. return, and while returning at a lively! DovvJr at, tiichmond, Va., an ex-f'olo- gallop one of the st.irrup-straps In Coi -1 nel of tlit" Confederate army said: "None onel Blodgett’s Saddle burst. " The Col- |of our old comrades sball-go to lhe poor- onel refned up his steed and called to I house’. When one of us is in financial Colonel Steigers to loan him a knife; se instances would, if tiiey; weye voters, exercise the suffrage with care, eonM’ientkuisncss, understanding and advantage; and ^lif* men do no more. These same men and 'women meet to­ gether many times a yetir and engage in the same interests, not only in private life, but in public relations. * * In view of tills, what patience can.be bad when some hardshell lelhs'.us that this is all so; -but the heavens, would falI,societywould.be ruined, the State woiifd collapse, if lhe same.women, o’nce In March and once-in November, should enter a decent town hall or ward room— all the more decent for their presence- walk to a ballot-box, and put into ii a piece of printed paper expressing in concrete form the results of their previ­ ous consideration! wdnld come into influence, I ..\iave no mo>o doubt, of the ultimate voting.of women than I Lav o o f tiie progress of dan-p and we w i\'hen we had "totaflce note of i indeed the iron i ding presents nr of unqualified pi . recipients, regard thorn as a lifvied bycustoij ally . feel that . Peter fnight liav more handsome) it. .But it is a1 derful aili’Ction presents when t * As wo looked and found the . chorjls were to:, ing thought l plated (inuifpr» isesomething i But, novvthat ti thein no more, .new light, 1 ltding g that] if infi just vi1and IMhei •if rig thenct her socl ms t< bic is b E m fan cii coti ustice. fc woni ve oqu he btir atic to ertsi' ■w'it, [cial lit ould n ’ heir now ow ho hat is e in e tins. i the human soul o r ‘ than 1 hcve tliat, ’.when that time cotr.es, a tnare enlight­ ened age ^will Ionic back «ii our llis* ' cruimiaiion qgalnst (/ne of tin sexes ja ! this inspect as a, relic of L'.trL.iristn, a i sJowly-iueltiug glacit-r-’ of lumrlK-rdsni i mid prej-ulice. I^varit' to bq on rei’erd i as having melted out ’early, or rather as having never been frozen in. probably walk* 1pi', ;nt<' was greatly aril lit of K ; shop,iu the .Mij Ln I oned sr.ilnc ;• 1 h sAui: longed to graJ j time t t "hint at his buy! Iv.'.d wife bore the I In a-'ai as in 180s -9 there wan ojpe jpoliceman to f 838 people, in 1887-8 there y/as ono every policeman to every 709 people,—Specta­ tor. —Nobody can speak a word against tbo typo writer; all she does ia write.-* WM&ngton Star, Colonel Steigers banded him a common horn-handled carver and rode on. When J a year,” Colonel Blodgett fixed his .stirrup-strap ho put tlio knife in liis pants pocket, mounted his steed and followed. Tbo tiattlc began before they expected it, and there was somo hard fighting all day. During the affray a hall struck Colonel Blodgett in the right groin and lifted him off the horse. When he re­ covered sufficiently to make an exami* tion he was Stir irised to find that lhe hall had not punctured, the flesh, but bad Right? Of course it is the denial of a trouble we levy an assessment on the j fight, and overy body knows it. To rest. It costs ns about twenty-live cenfs'*’ deny a right is an outrage. It is idle to mystify this matter with refinements about natural right and artificial fight. Most of tho Southern Stales lax their people to pay pen°i6ns to their veterans, ,1or.r>AN* B. Nqnr.ihknnwn throughout ) Somebody even has suggtsted thatwom- tlie South as “ Tho Drummer Bov of glanced off and out through the leftside,! of the rebellion Chalim-tle,” died recently at New Or­ leans. - He was born in 1790of slave par­ ents,- and served as a drummer under Jackson *.H tho battle of New Orleans. Jle also served’ in tlie Fio: ida and Mex- ieun wars, and organized a colored com­ mand undt'r General Butler in the war en are not particularized in the Declara­ tion of Independence or the"4' Constitu­ tion. Neither are alaves. Even as to them some used to argue that freedom is not a natural Tight; that children are not free; that offenders against tl o law and insane persons are not free; mil that freedom is a-matter of expedient discrimination. An .a matt' r o f , com­ mon-sense, you and 1 know that if * ao WOMEN AND .THEIR WORK. Fivit thousand fm iE hundred and thir­ ty-one missionaries are supported ly tho women's societies *>f tlie I’niTcd Mates- and Europe Avii nrcA boasts of'the only w<man traffic manager in tlie person of Mrs, Charles Haines, recently appointee on the Medina Valley road, O nk of the best if not tbo very lest high art cnanuders in this coun'ry is a New York woman whose-wages is M03a week. She has constant employment ;u l is a proof 'that women of spc.'-.ai i-una i- tiea are always in demand. M ost of the depositors in tho largest saving*, institution in l’inl.ulolpbk. are women,’ and an authority in such matters asicr's lhat by far ttc grt atesf share of* nil the- invested .-a -calki l’hiladcdpliia hold in trust Lc-iongs to women. and finding Ml she made one she broke do'| on my breast, trays: “ (J dearl tiaily helped . wt'-e-dding cakl We' ctumnnhil the police, wht| terest, in t.lr 'calk’d, so did* I constable who 1 dqy-time*. lik c l forinid a slunll as our fame of varying gf trie!s-paid vis Mseh. qaestiosj their lieads thanked me k il have a drop o il think the foie) neighborhood I burglary with EventuaUy.i and 1 bad the I terview will t US ting i if*-, melted .'C” bee N AN 'i.f.and sionarl ,i’iet>” ' boas fiager lines, Val.b he bef: i.imele womar has cor Miat Wf /ays ii ho dr- Set young..fell| -ititittj _anJ ,,er*q t nil ti/ |i:»' hel|