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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.
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A STORY OF TWENTY YEARS AGO.
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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
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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:
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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. It bee DM pa bridle
at five dollar• a thoessand into Attestor it
rontracts to haild with Irv." rinGer MOW
terial ; nor smuggle white pine into Soots
that have paid rir hard pine ; nor :rav•
yawning creeks in ebonite where UNE,*
ought to join. The religion that it ring
to sanctify the worl.l. part ire 4elbts It
doe. not meander that fin; eeneeretirised
from one hundred rents ;leer is *revel
ing to the rope!, tkiiinizh it arty be ae.
cording to law. It I.rok. An * maw who
ha.• failed in triple. and who emit:moo to
live in Insary. as a thief "kr...w;oa.
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and which are to be said withosit nomoy
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