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PARTMENT "C";•• • CD R U ~' cm , c-i C a ar 5' Y; x A i r. b •-•T 0 CFQ P 6 :CIALTY. - pocs' For the JuIIRNAL.] Not Much BY DENNIS O'RAYFET:TY Me Irish blood is up, That big Dutchman's blood I'de sup, As freely as Id take a glass of liquor; The grazy heretic, To go wid us he's sick, But if I had him I would make him sicker, Och murder! jist to think, Of ridin' wid a stink, So loud that all the passers by might feel it; llad I his big red nose, Benatho me brogan toes, Like au over-biled pratie I would peel it., • Wid his grinnin' rangatang And his 6witzer-cabbage-slang, To want to occupy a sate wid white folks ; The filthy, bastely beggar, No bether than a nagur, Besides the rangatang would want to bite folks, No essence share of swine, Will I firer take in mine, Bedad ! I wouldn't take a tousand dollars To be seen wid such a lout, Wid his stomach inside out, And pumping like an over-burdened bellows. And thin his filthy pipe, His switzer kaso and tripe, Would be a nuisance to the sons of Erin; I niver liked the Dutch, That is, not over much, His prisenee would increase me hate I'm fearin. His voice would spoil the song— Oh, he cannot go along, I want the bloody lug to understand it; If he'd come snakir. 'round, His ugly mug I'de pound, And thin I'de he arristed as a bandit. Zit tore-Ztlitr. OLD MOSES. -:o:- A STORY OF TWENTY YEARS AGO. : 0 : ____. Mr. B. was a great merchant in Balti more. One morning as he was passing over the vessels that lay at the wharf, he stepped upon the deck of one, at the stern of which he saw a negro, whose dejected countenance gave sure indication of dis tress. He accosted him with : "Hey ! my man, what is the matter ?" The negro lifted up his eyes, and, look ing at Mr. B , replied : "Ah ! massa, l'se iu great trouble." "What about ?" "Kase, I'se latched up here to be sold." "What for ? What have you been do ing ? Have you been stealing, or did you run away, or what?" "No; no, massa; none o' dat. It's be kase I don't mind de nudes." "What kind of orders?" "Well, massy stranger, I will tell you: Massa Willum werry strict man, and a worry nice man, too, and ebrybody on de place got to wine him, and I brake frees de rule. but I didn't tend to break de rule, doe; I forget myself, and I got too high." "It is for getting drunk, then, is it ?" "Oh, no, sah, not dat, nother." "Then tell me what you are to be sold for." ''For prayin', sah." "For 'praying ! that's a strange tale.— Will not your master permit you to pray ?" "Oh, yes, sah, he let we pray easy; but I hollers too loud." "And why do you halloo in your pray ers ?" "Kase the spirit cornea on me, and I gets happy 'fore I knows it; den I gone, kan't 'trol myself; den I knows nudding 'bout massa's rule." "And do you suppose your master will really sell you for that ?" "Oh, yes ;no help for me now. All de men in the world couldn't help me now. Kase when Massa Willum says one tint he no do anoder." "What is your name ?" "Moses, sah." "What is your master's name ?" "Massa's name is Col. William C-." "Where does he live ?" "Down on the Easin Shoah." "Is be a good waster, and treats you well ?" "Oh, yes, no better massa in de wuld.", "Stand up and let me look at you." And Moses stood up and presented a robust frame; and as Mr. B. stripped up his sleeve ; his arm gave evidence of unu• sual * strength. "Where is your master'?" "Pander he is, jes comin' to de warf." As Mr. B. started for the shore he heav ed a heavy sigh, followed by a deep groan. Moses was not at all pleased with the pre- sent phase of affairs. He was strongly impressed with the idea that Mr. B. wasa trader, and intended to buy him, and it was this that made him so unwilling to communicate to Mr. B. the dasired infor mation. Mr. B. reached the wharf just as Col. C. did. He introduced himself and said : "I understand that you want to sell that negro man yonder, on board the schooner." "Col. C. replied that he did. "What do you ask for him ?" "I expect to get seven hundred dollars." "How old do you reckon him to be ?" "Somewhere about thirty " "Is he healthy ?" "Yes, sir ; he will eat as much as any man ought, and it will do him as much good." "Is h' a good hand ?" "Yes, sir ; he is the best hand on my place. He is steady, honest, and industri ous. Ile has been my foreman for the last ten years, and a more trusty negrD I never knew." "Why do you wish to sell him ?" "Because he disobeyed my orders. As I said, he is my foreman : and that he might be available at any moment I might want him, I built his hut within a hundred yards of my own house—and I have never rung the bell at any time in the night or morning, that his horn did not answer in five minutes after. But two years ago he got religion, and commenced what he calls family prayer—that is, praying in his but every night and morning, and when he began his prayer it was impossible to say when he would stop, especially if (as he termed it) he got happy. Then he would sing and pray and halloo for an hour or two together that you might hear him nearly a mile off. And be would pray for me and my wife and children, and our whole family connection to the third gen eration; and sometimes, when we would have visitors, Moses' prayers would in terrupt the conversation and destroy the enjoyment of the whole company. The women would cry and the children would cry, and it would get me almost frantic; and even after I had retired it would be almost daylight before I could go to sleep, for it appeared to me that I could' hear Moses pray for three hours after he had finished, I bore it as long as I could, and then forbid his praying any more—and Moses promised obedience; but he soon transgressed; and my rule is never to whip, but whenever a negro proves incor rigible, I sell him. This keeps them in better subjection, and is less trouble than whipping. And I pardoned Moses twice tt c:, .-$ c_. co Fit HUNTINGDON, PA., F for disobedience iu praying so loud, but the third time I knew I must sell him, or every negro on the place would soon be perfectly regardless of all my orders." "You spoke of Moses' hut. I suppose from that he has a family ?" "Yes; he has a woman and three chil dren, or lofe, I suppose he calls her now —for sou after he got religion he asked me if they mightbe married,and I presume they were." "What will you take for her and the children ?" "If you want them for your own use, I will take seven hundred dollars; but I ;dial' not sell Moses nor them to go out of the State." "I wish them all for my own use, and will give you the fourteen hundred dollars." Mr. B. and Col. C. then went to B.'s store, drew up the writings and closed the sale, after which they returned to the ves sel ; and Mr. B. approached the negro, who sat with his eyes fixed upon the deck, wrapped in meditation of the most awful forebodings, and said : "Well, Moses, I have bought you." Moses made a very low bow, and every muscle of his face worked with emotion, as he replied : Is you, massa? Where is I gwine, massa ? Is I gwine to Georgia ?" •'No," said Mr. 8., "I am a merchant here in this city, yonder is my store, and I want you to attend on the store, and I have purchased your wife and children, too, that you may not be separated." "Bress God for dat; and massa, kin I go to tue.ltin' sometimes?" "Yes Moses, you can go to church three times on Sabbath, and every night in the week, and you can pray as often as you choose, and loud as you choose, and as long as you choose ; and every time you pray, whether it be at home or in the church, I want you to pray for me, my wife, and all my children ; for if you are a good man your prayers will do us no harm, and we need them very much ; and if you wish to, you may pray for everybody of my name iu the State. It will not injure them." While Mr. B. was dealing out these privileges to Moses, the negro's eyes danced in their sockets, and his full heart laughed outright for gladness, exposing two rows of as even, clean ivories as any African can boast; and his heart's response was, "Bress God, bress God all de time, and bress you, too, massa; Moses neber tinks 'bout he gwine to hab all dese couamoda flutters ; dis make me tink 'bout Joseph in de Egypt." And after Moses had poured a few blessings upon Col. C., and bidden him a warm adieu, and requested him to give his love and farewell to his mistress, the children, and all the servants, he fol lowed Mr. B. to the store, to enter upon the functions of his new office. The return of the schooner brought to Moses his wife and children. Early the next spring, as Mr. B. was one day standing at the store door, he saw a man leap upon the wharf from the deck of a vessel, and walk hurriedly toward the store. lie soon recognized him as Cul. C. They exchanged salutations, and to the Colonel's inquiry after Moses, Mr. B. re plied that be was up stairs measuring grain, and invited him to walk up and see him. Soon Mr. B.'s attention was arrested by a very confused noise above. He listened and heard an unusual shuffling of feet, some one sobbing violently, and some one talking very hurriedly; and when be re flected upon Col. C.'s movements, and the peculiar expression of his countenance, he became alarmed and determined to go up and see what was transpiring. When he reached the head of the stairs lie was startled at seeing Moses in the mid dle of the floor down on one knee, with his arm around the Colonel's waist, and talking most rapidly, while the Colonel stood weeping audioly. So soon as the Colonel could sufficiently control his feel ings,'he told Mr. B. that he bad never been able to free himself from the iuflu• enee of Moses' prayers, and that during the past year he and his wife and children had been converted to God. Moses responded: "Bress God, massa C., doe I way up hea, I neber forgit you in my prayers; I olles put de ode massa side de new one. Bress God, dis make Moses tin's 'bout Joseph in de Egypt again." The Colonel then stated to Mr. B. that his object in coming to Baltimore was to buy Moses and his family back again.— But Mr. B. assured him that was out of the question, for he could not part with him and he intended to manumit Moses and his wife at forty, and his children at thiity years of age. Moses was not far wrong in his -reference to Joseph ;_for when Joseph was sold into E g ypt, God overruled it to his good, and he obtained blessings that were far beyond his expectations; so with Moses, he event ually proved the instrument, in God's hands, of saving the man's soul who sold him. Old Moses is still living, and at present occupies a comfortable home of his own, and is doing well for both worlds. (cadittg fax the Ana. Our New York Letter. The Last in the Beecher Matter—The Belk nap Disgrace—Political—The Business of the Week—The Hippodrome Meetings —The Labor Illarket—Haw the Rich amuse Themselves—Lent. NEW YORK, March, Bth, 1876. THE LAST IN THE BEECHER MATTER. The last developement in the Beecher 1 scandal case is the statement of Bowen. Driven into a corner by the denials of Beecher of die truth of his assertions, Bowen has made a very explicit statement to the committee. Ile asserts solemnly that a lady confessed to him, long before the Tilton scandal was made public, that Beecher had committed adultery with her at various places, the lecture room of the church, or rather the study back of it, being the most familiar place. He offered to give names and dates to a select com mittee, under pledge of secrecy, because he did not wish that the lady's name should become public property. This Mr. Beech er declined, whereupon Bowen makes this statement. It is not to be supposed that Beecher and his friends will let this pass. They cannot. The statement is explicit and circumstantial, and it will have to be met, consequently Brooklyn is in a state of mind. There is hurrying to and fro, there is trouble on both sides. Will Bowen, if Beecher sues him, give the name of that lady Will he face the music, or will he back down when the time comes that he is brought to the test ? And will he be brought to tne test at all ? These are ques tions that time alone will solve. I predict that nothing will come of it. There are skeletons in too many closets in Brooklyn, and the dragging of one out from its con , cealment, exposes a great many others. lIDAY, MARCH 17, 1876 The women of Brooklyn are, at this time. a great deal more. anxious to know the name of that lady than they are to know whether he was guilty with Mrs. Tilton. The Tilton matter is a little stale, but this is fresh and piquant. THE BELKNAP DISGRACE. The Belknap scandal created a profound sensation, for the prosecuting witness is a prominent man here, and Mrs. Belknap is as well known in society hero as she is in Washington. This is a clear case of fetni , nine extravagance. The present Mrs. Belknap was the sister of the secretory's first wife. She was a Tomlinson, of Har rodsburg, Ky., and was a high-flyer of the highest flying kind. She was wont to come to New York, and make the most extravagant purchases, for her principal ambition was to outshine every woman in Washington, twice or foreign. And she did it. ller . dresses were the most gor. geous, her equipages were the most costly, and she was surroundetl with servants of the most expensive nature. It was given out in Washington that she did not depend on the Secretary's salary—he had no means beyond that—but that she had inherited wealth, the income of which was sufficent to justify all this extravagance. At her home the story was the secretary had made some lucky speculations before he went into the cabinet, which accounted for it all where the inheritance would not go down. All this time they were selling traderships, and spending all the proceeds in this foolish way. There can be no doubt that the woman had the man completely under her thumb—that so iufatuaed was he with her that he would have stolen ten times the amount, had she desired it. The man was doubtless honest, originally, but oh, how weak ! The merchants of New York suffer severely by this exposure. It is rumored that Mrs. Belknap owes vast sums of money to the fashionable dry goods men and jewelers here, which, as the Belk naps have spent all their stealings, they will lose. POLITICA. The local politicians of New York are making a stir for Con kling's nomination for the presidency, but it does nut make much headway. There are many excellent men in the city who would be glad to see Conk ling in the Presidential chair, and there are a great many who would not. But there are a thousand or more political bummers, who would support anybody whose friends will "put up," and this class are unfortunately all for Conkling, he be ing the first Now Yorker mentioned for the place. They are organizing "Conk ling clubs," all over the city, and arc mak ing a great deal of noise, but I am happy to say that they all have a hungry look. They are not getting the rations they ex pected, nor will they. Senator Conkling is a gentleman, and a pure man. He would of course like to be President—l wouldn't mind it myself—but ho never did a dirty china., and he never w;ll. Ile will never pay bummers,—he wil! never support a body of mereetwries, nor will he use undue influence. The banimers who are shout ing Conkling at this time are doing it at their own expens, and they are getting sick. The supplies don't come, and these fellows never do anything at their own charges—that is for any length of time. Consequently their zeal will soon abate. The fact is New York isn't very anxious to have a candidate. There are two or three different factions in the city, and they are mortally !afraid of each other. They would all rather have a new man rather than have any one who has ever mixed in city or state politics. The De mocracy are hardly any better off. Tilden cannot get the undivided support of the party in the city, and for that matter no one can. So far as New York is concern ed it will not make much of a show of in fluence in either convention. The liberals what is left of them, are waiting 14 the highest bidder, but there are so few of them that no one considers them worth a bid. THE BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. The list of failures this week, foot up nearly one hundred, and they embrace al most all varieties of business. The smash ed parties generally offer 25 cents on the dollar, that being the regular figure. So common have failures become, that they excite no more surprise. The oldest, strong est houses in the city are going, and no one knows today who is going tomorrow. Rents are still sinking, and the nearer the first of May approaches, the more the land lords tremble. Their expensive &ores on Broadway are being vacated, and applica tions for them are as rare as hen's teeth. I know of one store that four years ago was in demand at $lB,OOO per year, that is now being occupied at $6.000, and the tenants arc giving it up for they can get a better one at $4,000. The Truth is busi ness men can hardly afford to pay any rent, for there is no profit whatever in business. The shrinkage in value is going on stead ily, and no one can see the end. Relief must come from some source, or bankrupt cy will be the rule, and solvency the ex ception. New York is very sick. THE HIPPODROME MEETINGS. Are still wonderfully filled, and it is as unfashionable not to go and hear Mr. San key sing an not to hear Titiens or Von Bil low, or any other light of the musical or dramatic world. The Hippodrome is still packed at mid day and evening, and the religious movement is treated with the greatest respect by the papers. But a visit to the meetings convinces a candid person, that the reason of the great audi ences drawn together is not Mr. Moody's earnestness, or Mr. Sankey's singing, of which he has grown chary of late as a pet tenor in opera, but the number who take a serious interest in religion. There are thousands of genuinely good people in the city, who believes that religion outweighs all other interests, and are drawn to these meetings, hoping for good. The populari ty of Moody and Sankey in Great Britain is easily understood ; it was their Ameri canism attracted the crowd, just as any thing distinctively American attracts Eng lish attention, like the jubilee singers, Artemas Ward and Mark Twain, and Brete Ilene'. stories, whose popularity abroad outruns that they have at home. One can imagine what a contrast Mr. Moody's curt, utterly unconventional man ner, his homely illustrations, must have been to the formal English way of doing things, and it is no wonder that he took the rather heavy Britons by storm. Here, he can never make the impression on cultivat ed people that be did abroad. The big clergy of New York sit up in the preacher's pen at the meetings, and laugh over Mr. Moody's apt hits, 1' the way of illustration, as they would at excellent jokes, and the evangelist runs on about salvation, very much in the way a Chicago business man talks insurance, or railroads, with the same earnestness, but not a whit more feeling, or reverence. His whole manner, is that a fini , he(l auctioneer, who i 4 re-ifly to knock flown salvation to the hi;he-c bi.f. der without reserve. THE LARoR MARKET Careliilly compiied tahles show that al most one halt' of the skilled labor of the city is idle, and that wvgee those in employment. have be.2n cut down near.y one half. The bricklayers, who two years ago were getting 81.5 i) a day. are glad work now for $1.50, while laborers who were firm in their demand for CAI) aro glad to get work at any price. There is but very little building going on. and but very little repairing, and in regular man• facturing, there is absolute stagnation It is a curious thing that piano making is the only trade which keeps its hands all em ployed, and at old wages. Pianns are lux uries, and it would seem tliaL this trade would be the first to fall off, but, it is not so That trade is just as briek as ever. The charities are of course et-wided with the hungry and naked, and the societies for supplying firing arc taxed away be yond their capacity. If there ever w:is a time when spring was anxiously looked for. it is now. It is a blessing that the winter has been so mild. But the lookout for the summer is dreary enough. A visit to the principal architects showed that scarce ly any building was contemplated for the ensuing season, and what the laborers are to do during the summer is a query. They can live on less than in the winter, but they must have something. and that some thing is very remote. HOW THE RICH AMUSE THEMSELVES. While the poor are starving the rich are amnsing themselves, as they always will. The last form of fashionable amuse ment is horseback parties. Companks as semble at comfortable riding schools, la dies and genlemen, and train their horses to go through the Spres of 'lances, pre cisely ns though they were in a ball-room. -Think of the Virginia reel on horse back' Yet they do it, and they "tag." just as they used to when they were children, and their fathers were butchers and bakers This latter game they play with their horses at full gallop, and so expert have the riders beemue, that very few accidents are reported. It beats skating. LENT is upon us, and the fashionable Christians have to chanlre their base. They cannot show their fine feathers at the theatres, operas or parties, but they make it up at the churches. flow devoutly they er.iw.l the churches every morning, when they have new clothes, and how sweetly pious they look. when they glance around and see that they out-dress all their neighbors, and then the meetings for charity, which are eminently proper. Now they compl4 eently go in a sweet, simple costume that cost $lOOO in Paris, and give $lO Co re lieve the suffering poor at their doors : there is 21.13 - thing utterly absurd, it is the observance of Lent by a fashionable New York Christian lady. They make the season of mortification the time for the wildest possible extravagance. They ex change the paid singers of the opera for the paid singers of the fashionable church es, and take revenge for the inferiority by piling more agony on their dress. Curious world this. And yet these people all ex pect to get to heaven by-and-by. ETP.o. Letter from Kansas. WrNFIELD, Cowley CI., Kani.o._ February 234.. P 476. MIL EDITOR :—Seeing by your paper (which comes to hand weekly.) that you have no correspondent in Kansas. I thought I would take the privilege of writing an article tar your paper. We have a very pleasant Winter here the mercury at no time has been below ten degrees above zero, and only one or two days at that. For weeks together the weather has been warm and p:eaaant.— Now and then, for a day or two, we have had high winds which of course make it scent really colder than it ia, but nothing compared with the cold or Pemitgylefinia. This is the most pleasant climate [ have ever wintered in. While you are sitting around your tire trying to keep warm the farmers here are sowing their oats and (a great many have sown) the "women t;,lkti' are making garden which will seem almost incredible to you, but such is the case here in Southern Kansas. We are fiteen miles! from the Indian Territory and have the red skins with us daily ; at this time of writing there is a large band of the Paw nees encamped on the suburbs of our town. A short time ago they (the Pawnees) were brought frotn their reservation is Nebraska to the Territory. Five hundred of them came through here and stopped with us for several days The rest of the tribe (2,600) went by another route sad consequently we did not have the pleasure of forming flair aeqnaintance, but the number we did have satisfied us that we had as many as we could entertain eons fortably. In company with a party of ladies and gentlemen we mounted 'cur io than ponies for a dash out to the ramp to see the sights ; which consist d of about SO or 90 wigwam.. Our curiosity prompted a couple of to enter one of their larsze wigwatns and there seated around a fir, in the center were six or eight warriors snioking the pipe; we were motioned to seat ourselves "tailor fashion" as they were when the chief' passed the pipe to as, we took a whiff at it, not because we rel ished the luxury, but to show that we were on friendly terms with them. I discovered one "old squaw" sifting cornmeal through a piece of Buffalo bide, I thought it would require several siftings to make it suitable enough for our urge. The men were all well armed each one possessing a carbine (seven shooter), two revolvers, a knifc and a tomahawk. There were several white men with them employed by the Govern went as agents whose duty it is to keep them in subjection and provide fur their 1 wants. But notwithstanding they some times get unruly and commit depredation. Fears are entertained by some that they will unite with other tribes of the Terri tory and sweep this part of the country but we think there is not much danger of that as the whites are getting too num erous. The moment you woes the hoe between the Territory and the 17. S. yes can tell that you are in a country inhabited by some other species of humanity than that of the whites. Everything wears a different aspect. No improvements noel ing but a vast "Prairie," with here and there a mound rising in the distance. It naturally makes one feel romantic to go dashing over these plains on an Indian pony where the "Red man of the forest" ' at one time reigned supreme. But -sloe the march of civilization is fast deereaeing their number. In a century from now scarcely ono of the tribe will be left to tell the tale of the present. There are a great many Pennsylvanians here several of which are from Huntingdon county, among the nuntlwty J. H. reirfottart. J -tr: man, J.•lin l'srk. S. 11 . )111,41 .44 r i will r;n4i. Cie pre.nt. Iu -sty rt.-t - I wiil le!! yutt ovoicthinz ,:afar-ii fratrirei sal prn. Net* Aran hers Rash.. I r..runin 7 •,itri. with .1 It. T A Voice from Vie rebel Prison Pens. Dz.lit SIR : a recent ar: a ur paper I see that you want a statement ,f the experienee of prisoners who were seep tared by the late rebels. i wil! rive m o o a few incidents in my prison : I yaw taken prisoner on the 14th day of Septern ber. 1.1t;-1. near Cogin's Point. V*. by the Confederate 'lens/rag, Wade Hampton We were taken from theta to 7ltony 0 - reek station. Ilene they issened ration. to so. givietz 'is three hard tack and three sera bites of meat. From this• pint we were taken to Petersburg and from thence to Richmond, and confined in Libby Prime. Here we got meat onee a Amy and two hard-tack. I was enntSned here two months. and then taken to lisosi.e. North Car.. lint, and my dai'y rations her were a small torn rake and trsoi/rw-s. I remeimed here two or three weeks. and w-as then to ken to Saulsbury. Yi r.. avid the rittotes eonsiated, at this p6ee. of a anvil tern bretsl. sinew a /Lay. gritted cob and all. and Isakesi withont Meat was timer aliowed its while i 7enia , ne4 here airs twi,- a pint u.f scnp with Al lionefel nf helms in it. (hit wood waa a foot thiek ami Awns eight feet bier with sashimi to est is awl no kindling I never ars 2ny seseirteel treatment given the primmer. Whew a man died they would take him by the feet and drag him on his beck to the house, and there they wnwl.l take le brzh ae eight or ten on a cart and heel them sae a ditch. dump them out on pile and erre el' them ever. The water wan Illtby 110.4 unfit for ate. 9ar -amp was an o r . sow. with no shelter : we had tai at is the set or lie in the mud. My feet were fres.._ and when they took the prisms.r they took my shoes and gave use an ~ 1 4 WWI" net ausi they also t•ask one overvalue from us. so that w.• had n.. , hing but one •hir and a blows , / all time that we were there When !inter. came for aut to be paroled they gaTe w. a liimiltet. and I ..41 sine for !ix 'laths,• with which I bowels a half doyen of bisenit and threw eteass. W. were set nrni-ri to Libby await, shone, warworil to death and naked. We ware paroial on the 9th of .Ipril. 1975. I irm a .I'er:eau' of Ov. C. 13th Fa. t'tvalry. IrsiNJ 31 1 N F. cowl llarrh 7th. 1'76. Woman's Iy:tooter!. WV, men'. sof t 1.' , 1 , 7! ;:1•1 .4 ziwiely frown th t Of min 11-r power ;JIM ;r1 her !zentlenes.. In her It tn.! .he h Glti c ta• potent sceptre than that weiltted by the so-4t potent nionareh In the grit social and moral r,f: Tme tha - bar.- i..n e.riepti on from time to time. we lint' chit women base takes an actire port We mauve fail to perceive in the politoest ir.ory France. how important we. the infinesee exerted by Mishits, de Ste:. in I:: • !roo blesome rontruk•lows of the 71. e. .13r shone brightly. and war, not .sti m n o .h..l, whenthe ,rapt eonqueror—jemioas of her power—basished her frost het =tire bed. AA woman'. intlmewee os grent her re.possihi;ity is great is prorrti-n. r her dtrro;res tie duty of tra:sing sp the future men of the natinn. 10 se tn.- ygenth er who moulds the character : tarsier her zent!e intinenee the yonfhful mind reeeir.t. its firg. In ...eivey -he Ts queen. and too often fares her 4objeets destruction. Too often the ewe, sperit hag wise proffered by the Lair baud of two man has proved the *suer ruin anti iitetes dation a man strong in inteffeet hut who could r the temptinz when we comp-mi.-4 by a winning *mil. It le tree a man should hare starsinr. easosezh to re the the tenspt.tion, lost if he hue not. so man shottld aot he the tempter Ifitty a wife bitteey .lephyreo• the effete:. of ti.st uric sdaso and many aeh 114 a rot ►n sue heart by the . :is.osleiige ;ha hie father is a druaknr.l A womb Lsuet b. rueful in bier depict meta. By s word or eyes a look .he cue encourage or .ifeetsally cheek 311 attempts at familiarity. if womatt. 27 1 6,6 7. 1 • 81 / girls would do this—if they shwa their displessnre az what they bass in IFri - ie.!, it w.iuld sot be repeated i* their presence. Though the aggressor might feign anger. in his heart he woohi feel more true roipeet nne why the• reloPie ed him than if the p:aale.l teak hors The Revise We Wart. We want 3 religion that boar. heaviY.y not only on the esereding ranearsty 4 )r -ing and stealing; a religion that banistrsee small mesons. from the emulate. from the cotton hems. clay trims the paper. .and from the iirrar. ehieory from the eel fee, alum from the hread, and water from the milk ears The religion that is to save the vivid will ant putt all the strawherri• - • at the ...p and all the Stole one at the bottom. It will not male nee half a pair of shoes of se r val l o p s itt. v , ju , that the firs - shall rt....grid to the srak..?". credit and the senotil to hi. re.b. it will sot p u t .Jonvin's damp Jenbine . ltd gloves ; or make Pori. hnnisets in the back room of a Boston milliner At"; nor let a piece of velvet that prof. +aye to measure twelve yart. come to 31119 natonely end in the tenth. 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