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THE LEGISLATION FETICH.
Ihe Modern Idol-trship that Imperils
Individual Liberty.
LAWS WHICH OUTRAGE NATURE.
The Itr-Iuterference Doctrine -Robbery
By aw- the aloral Aspect- Burdens
r
le t Abe Weak -The " inspectorship*.
C se-lhe Hight to Vote and Pay.
The prevailing and most dangerous
,-4,•..,.trieemmy,tretkalmai,ie,,,Anyititt
BilitOlitain-the exsitasion of the statute
book over she lewd of nature ; the abnee.a.
tioia of individual lunation for the too
implicit trues in legislators' omnie-
°lanes and legialative. - omnipotence.
Probably never before in the history of the
world have the executive funotione of the
State been so exteoded, or corporate inter-
ferenoe with inoividnal freedom of tuition
been so frequently exercised and tolerated
•-nay, even witched. Men effect a horror
of the very name ot" Socialiam," yet bosy
themselves in multiplying paternal laws ;
they vaunt their love of freedom, yes peti-
tion for its limitation ; they revere the
memory of those who shed their
blood to 'noun fur them liberty aorta voice
in the oonduct of the affairs of the State,
yet, 'nil 'Liable are they of perceiving the
great is running through neture, they
po
im ay arat and vote to rivet upon them -
Reliant the, ehaoldes of a new ' slavery I
Verily, shall a man not denude bieneelf of
his rigbta if he will? Surely ; but if in so
doing he deprives others of their rights,
against their will,. he wrongs hie fellow-
man. We hear indult of " patriotism " in
these days, but, notortunately, the practi•
oil demonstrations of the noisy counterfeit
have been given in the 'dupe's of ignorence
and bigotry toiling in the harness while
callous. selfenhnese handled the lines and
plied the whip.
The miCtitade does not melon closely.
It inclines to seek ehort outs to its goal.
An apparent immediate good, although,
fraught with all the objeutione attaohing to
ezpedievoy as a policy, is often more
alluring to it than the certain but more
distant realization thereof by conforming
-----to-the- ate-lowitcf--netnire.- --A-nd- -it is -to -
this d tion of deeire over judgment,
this i , opacity of the multitude te Be that
COMPENSATION MUST BE MADE FOR 'EVERY
WRONG,
whatever the motive prompting it, that eel -
Esh, men owe their power to sway it to their
own prefit... A promise (if material benefit
mattle-t-h-origli-tr-be obtain -id b
.moral wrong -doing ?-a good .catoh-ory-:
what thoughit portake of the nature of the
street -corner prayer of the Pharisee ?-
and of how little avail is the Golden /Ude
or the " Thon sheds not steal" of the Great
Lawgiver 1 Men who Would. bubble over
with indigestion were the slightest question
raised as to their probity hesitate not to
luck for privileged toe themselves and their
friends Whi011 of neoeasity (tarry .with them
the oppression of 'others. Every advant-
age given by Mw to one man or Wase oper-
ate() to the disadvantage 'of some other Man
or elms. Nothing' Is added, nothing de-
ducted from tee total; but when one gets
more another gete less What is added on the
onencale 18 taken- from the. other.•, The
sggrendizemeui of -wealth and the 'pinch of
poverty are contemporaneous; they bear
to each other the relation of cootie and
effect. Yet wealthy men who clothe them-
selves in the msntle of Christianity and
profess a belief in the Brotherhood of
Humanity seem to see no inconsistency in
utilizing the power wealth and position
give them to secure the passage of laws
whose . tendency is to het nation against
nation, close against class, mon against
man, in order. that under cover of law they
may profit by the unnstutal induatrial
strife -consequent thereupon. The desired
Mw is pasaed ; the etofish shrewd heap up
riches; the seltiett u npd ,wonder that they
fatten nos, but tail not to their reverence for
the law. The taw -t What a word two -nail
become to conjure with 1 . And how.' the
oonjurers work it to their profit 1
Law is holy ; but not your law, ye who keep the
tablets wh ,le
While ye dash the law to pie es, shatte,r it inlife
and soul
Bearing up the Ark 1., lightsomo, golden Apis Ind
within,
While we Lovites share trio offerings, richer by
the people's sin.
And to won° people it never seems to
have ocouritio that there can be a coufliot
between Legiolosioo and Right, that there
are lunile. alreatiy far overetepped, to the
wiedorn, jostle") or awfulness of statutory
enactments. To others the credulity 'of
the multitude opens an easy avenue to
personal 0411.10A preforment, of which
moral obliquity enoblge them, reaidilyo to
takfatiovaintage. Thi3y have probably for
theMetnent loot sight of the oll•pervading
law of compenaittion which sooner or later
must be reckoned with; or Fortes- titre
present they do their fellows and the debt
they are accum,.lating
dET tvigate*AIONEOLI IF YOU CAN,
but get it at :whatever (toot of sacrifice of
principle, , of .frieinde, of future ; nowt:tot-
ever ansndonment of honor; as whatever
demoralization .of society; pay the price,
bat get wealth, seems to be the motto of
too tvany men to day. Arid these on 11 aro
not denizens of the back alleys and tit nirlid
dens of vice; they are leadera in neuron
and eociety', prominent in boatmen emir -soot
se philanthropisis. And hoc:nose of this the
danger is the greater.. rite lack of under-
otatiding or the .dtetegard of principle is
;pp% to be deplored. The villony that lark()
i dark planet) indicates a healthy goodnesa
in' the moiety from whioh is hidee ; the
ignorance tont is timid and inquiring is
already hal f • enligh toned. . But when
moral wrong becomes a political principle
and finds a place of honor in our gnome
hooka; when the Melees honors and
emoluments fall to the advoormea ot. laws
which theist° she fires principles of liberty
and deny the divine paternity, the thinkers
Fain )tv4M-Ny!Aeipalt411,ehimvki,
table oonsectuemoo,, .• •
For the lowed economics are act inyttria-
hie as the lawn of phyates. Were theSdits
well understood, the denial of individual
liberty would bo considered no lean &bawd
than thedeniel of the Mat of gravitation.
Yet people daily, by vole% by vote, by
at, deny the former proposition. They do
not, of course, say in pa many worde•
"Liberty ie an Evil." but they employ
theratelves lopping off branches and sever-
ing roots, until the tree onoe so freely
watered with heroic blood promisee *0
become a gnarled and stunted mob in-
oapable of sheltering us from the soorobing
sun of corporate tyranny. Emerson
graspedibeeituationviben.bo - •
The basis of political economy is non -inter.
ferenoe The only safe rule is found in the self-
adlusiing meter of demand and supply.' Do not
legislate. Meddle and you snap the sinews with
your sumptuary laws. Give no bounties; make
equal laws ; secure life and prIperty, and you
need not give alms. Open the doors of oppor-
tunity to talent and virtue, and they will do
themselves justice. and property will not be in
bad bands. In a free anti Just commonwealth,
property rushes from the idle and imbecile to
the industrious, brave anapereevering.
-4 kr s.#7044.0l-PRIAMPRMAIIII 1" A.re
wo oi.v.os to Liscaa•t1iatacip,566r...�. a
our laws " juin "? Do we practice legal
" noninterference "? Have we opened the
natural opportunitiee to •• talent and
virtue "? Who would make imoh a claim?
The very gifts of nature which no mon
could create are appropriated as individual
"property," and those who by virtue of man-
made laws exercise " righte of ownership "
over the Earth asinine %fait more redent ar-
rivals onthe scene have no right to a rest.
ing place upon it, save on condition of pur-
ohaeing that permission. The etored-up
heat of the coal beds and the mineral
wealth of the world are "private property,"
and can only be used at the pleeenre of,
and on paying the price asked by, those
who by virtue of legielation "own" those
natural stores of human neoesearics. And
far fauna feeling • that for thie undisputed
poseeseion of those deposite they owe some-
thing to society,thew " owners " of
creation's bounces use their prerogative to
extort the last cent from those dependent
upon those etoree for heat ; and when
those who own not, but who moat live and
pay with their labor for permission to be
upon the Earth, 'seek for wages -that will
enable them to be anything more than
'nimble of burden and perpetuators of a
recent earners for others, the lords of the
heritage close their works, freeze the public
and starve the workers into docility. These
men are not slaves; oh, no 1 They are
"free and independent." If they don't like
the wages, there's no oompuleion ; they
needn't take them ; the streets are
free to thern-if they keep moving 1
They nen oheer for political leaden, glorily
the old flag, tramp in processioos, vote
.and pay _taxed. Why. mot they .boati •
fled, when all that ie coked of them is that
THEY SHALL PAY THEIR SURPLUS EARNINGS,
over a bare anbsietenoe, in support of those
who poeticise the "privilege,' who " give
them employment," 'and who graoiouely
permit them to stay upon their planet'?
Men own the etirth, and charge their fel-
lowerfor-periniesion-to-live--upern-it-and
make it productive It has a queer Bound,
hasn't it ? Yet, turn over the proposition
as you will, give it expression in whatever
form of woria you may. there remains the
ugly fact. TA thie a conformity to natural
law or ie it riot ?
The coto 'mon is long- estsbliohed 1 Of
oouree it ; but Evil differs from Good in
that'age gives to it no reverence in tbe eyes
of intelligence, , With a good man to recog-
nize evil is to abhor .it, to seek means of
escape from it. Evil has its etronghold in
ignorance and eelfiohness. This oondition
is one that oppressea the masses; majori-
ties rule, and once dispel the illusion,
created by long reverence for laws which
deny natural rights, and the wrong will
Boon be righted.
Bo with regard to freedom of sale and
purchase. It is not enough that the Great
Disinherited should pay tor permieeion to
live upon this planet; they must be made
to pay the taxes of its ownerin Every dol-
-lar of federal taxation by exoiee and cus-
toms comes out of the products of labor
and is a deduction froth the earnings of
those least able to bear the burden of gov-
ernment. The owners of the Esrth, as
such, pay not a sent. And that the toxea
may be raised in this way an atrmy of offioe.-
holders, selected generally from the ranks
of political buncosteerere, are supported et
the public expense, paid fet ealaries and
comfortably pensioned cff when age, indis
position to exertion or the political
exigency which to quiree the posi•
tion as a reward for". another
heeler renders - such retirement ex-
pedient. Nor is this the only or worst
remit of the indirect system of roiting a
revenue. It opens vast opportunities for
official peculation and fraud, and Govern-
ment extravagatme. The duty en imports
enoblee capitolists in oertoin lines to get
higher prices for their product because of
the restriction. on the liberty of ohoioe to
which the oonstmer 18 enbjeottd. The
ihoresse in price oat:tied by she exolusion of
foreign geode and internal 'combination
does not go into the public ooffero, bat into
the purse of the protected manufacturer;
honoe wo have the opeotacle of a legalized
eoheme of pi -under -the lawproetituted to
the robbery of on close to enrich another
clime. And while the manwho sells his,
labor is compelled to submit to the
keenest competition in a free labor market,
this same law enables the favored ones to
make a profit by combination on abort
time and . limited produttion-at once
lessening the earners' period of employ-
ment and ,equeezing• a higher prion out of
she mummer. Combines of. labor 1 Oh,.
yea; they have sometimes held their own ;
oftener they have failed ; but whether they
succeeded or failed they always did so at
great cost, for in the end labor pays it all.
What is the cause ?io Interferences with
notated. laws ; meddle3ome logielOtiOn,
prompted by cupidity and selfishness
which regard not l•ruth or Right, but
prostitnte all principle for gala ;
ported by the snffering and deluded es a
abort out to a better condition, becomes
they think they B30 gond to bo obtained by
the expedient, forgetful of the eternal fiat
that will es sorely send punishment as
Consequence is indiasolnoly linked to
Cause. And hew orafty leaders
LAUGH AT THE GULLIBILITY
of the docile donkeys who firmness them-
selves to their carriages and shout them.
Rama hoarse in applonse of the men and
measures that take from them their
411:tertyrrn.-th&ny-wel4 thriv emoting's hod
rleproSO stili lowor their condition of sorrio
tette! Humbug is said to pay, bot it
dsan't often pay the humbugged; and
Logged the game is np. Ignorance is. the
when he gets able to Gee that he is bath.
mother of atiperatition, it is said ; it is the
vital air of Legislative Alit* Worebip.
And what of the plotters? You of the
broadoloth- and silk tile, up there in the
best pew near the pulpit; are you able to
'pour° the ezpoeition ot a comfortable
gospel ? Are your suheoriptione to Church
schemes and charities siaoh s oonsideroble
proportion of the gains wrung from tbe
toilers by unjust laws that unpleasant
truths jar not on your delicately 'Atoned
em.2. Dope your heantiful yeueerdetv ,the
eyes of the watofirnan eniihe Willi of Zinn,
or does he cry aloud and spare not ? Do
the tariff -stolen ehekele in your pookek
jingle out a "Don't be,personal" refrain
when he reds "Thou shalt not steal "?
Does it sound nuoanny to hear him assure
the people that " the robbery of the wicked
oho!! destroy them"? Do you take omit -
fort from the declared certainty that
''Abough hand join in hand the wicked
shalh not go uupumished "? Has it ever
aCiiictilinliatie2vVdstitiOqral 'oogoliktriornifier '
between a man untrue to principle for the
privilege of plundering his fellow's by law,
and the loafer who Bells his franohiee for a
few dollars or a glees of whiekey clan only
be one of degree ? And if it has arrested
yonr attention, what were the relative
positions yon assigned the purlieu?
And in how many other ways are we
"meddling," " interfering." Look at the
annual pilgrimages to urge upon Parlia-
ment the passage of laws without num-
ber, most of which ere in the, nature of
enoroaohmeuts on the domain of personal
liberty 1 Oar reliance upon legislation la
rapidly degenerating into a pure feteohism.
We have legally constituted combines in
law, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and
probably others, and some guilds are
hysterically complaining became their in-
corporation does nos give them the power
they wished to obtain.
EQUAL RIGHTS
The term has of late bean so ridiculottslv
travestied that it has lost mate. But
equal righte, in the course we are now pur-
suing, would eventuate in every trade,
profession and coiling becoming a pro-
tected body corporate. Imagine the
"Royal College of Dishwashere, or the
" Imperial Corporation of Scavengers," or
the " Empire Guild of Noble Bootblack
Artiste," with all the " whereases,"
" nevertheleases" and pains and penalties
with which these legal interferences with
personal liberty fortify the corporate oom-
bine 1
Strange, too, that the men On whom the
burden falls most heavy ahould be the
loudest in their demands for further legit).
lative interference. "oilier- roitospettiondl
ory is mostly an industrial one, even when
"engineered " by the place -seeking poli-
tician. We have had inspectors of one
kind and another until the farce has
become tiresome. What matter whether
they know a canal from a race -track, or a
colonization company froth's picnic 1. They
_get their oommission, salaries ' and
perquisites ; the people pay. It makes
patronage for politicione ; patronage makes
votes ; and here lies the secret of the readio
nein to aooede -to the ory for more offloads.
We must live by legislative rule, work by
legislative rule, be deprived of our earninge
by the same ride, be doctored, die and be
buried by it. And every way we turn, at
all hours, we need Government inspector
or other tax eatinnomnisment to see that
we ' suffer not from indulging in what
liberty remains to us. It coats money, of
course; but we are a patient, paying
people. If we like it, wby ahould
we not have it, and foot 'the
bills ? Most of us ehare in these benefits (?)
We may bo shut out from enjoyment of the
natural opportunities, kept on short time
and low pinked by the tariff thieves and our
personal liberty restricted by statutelawe,
but we can't he denied the right to worship
the Legislation Fetich and enjoy govern-
ment officers gslore as long as we can earn
enough to pay them.
But there is a cloud on the horizon. The
schoolmaster is abroad in the land. The
doctors say they find trouble in persuading
their patients not to be drugged; a olaee of
people are- to -day actually berating the -
popular ohildl'ike trust in legislation. It
remains to be seen bow tenaciona of exie•
mom is the Modern Idolatry.
MAKI:TETTE
Her Royal Sweetness.
To be called Her • Royal Highnese is
the destiny of every woman born to wear 'a
crown, . but it remaine for one woman
among all the royal -families to have the
endearing title of Her Royal Sweetneee
given to her and 'that honor belongs to
Alexandra, Princess of Wales. She had
that marvelous art of making goodness
mem attractive; ot making the right act
the pleasant one. and -of impreeaing upon
all who -know her that the knowledge that
to din good is to have a pleasant time, and
not to do it is to mise some of the pleasure
of life. Many princesses have been written
about &staving been' beautiftd, as having
caused great ware, as having done great
deeds of valor, of having made men cliofoo
them, and kingdoms quarrel over them, but
of nono of them oan is be said, as it is of
thie gracious lady, that the whole world
bows down before erreetness and goodnehe;
that peace has beep the watchword of her
life ; and not'only•doea ebo value poem, but
those loving sisters,
Faith, Hope and
Charity, abide with hen -Lady Elizabeth
Hilary in Ladies'. Home Journal.
Hoop the City Clean.
Philadelphia Record: In disuniting the
street cleaning problem- in the " Popular
Science Monthly " General Emmons Clerk
insists, with great force and ttuth, that no
system can enooeed if there bo not efficient
cto operation on the part of the public). So
long as householders and housekeeper()
shall sweep or throw their duet, dirt, ashes,
garbage or refase, or orly part of such mat-
ter, into the streets/4;4 allow anything to
escape from their garbage receptacles upon
the sidewalks or upon the streets, or so
long se conveying dirt and refuse
shall be allowed tb drop any part of their
contents on the streets, there will be con-
firming and irremediable uncleanness.
Cleanliness, like godlinoss, mut permeate
all the parte of a oity, and actuate all the
inhobilantet before proper physical and
moral sanitary cohditiotis oan prevail.
Whenever famen (Toncitirlea theft he has'
gOl enough religion it is a mire (Ago th,at he
haen't got any.
-Lawrence Barrett's life was insured
for 0100,000, it is said. Hianstate is worth
tOro hundred thousand more.
WOMAN'S MAX Wen WOMEN.
Nis. Bratsk. Leans Preambles Her Fortune
to Poor, Ediaeatati Women.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has dedded to found
on institution for women; not for paupers,
but for women who earn their own living
either by literature, art or by any eimilar
profession,-
" But not during my lifetime,", said Mrs..
Letitia. "1 am going to meet my lawyers
on -Wednesday evening and-instrnot -them
to draw up a new will. In this I ehall be-
queith almost all of my property to found
an inetitution to help women who are help-
ing themselvee.
" Eduooted and able-bodied women who
cannot helirthemselvee do not deserve to be
helped. Paupers, children, lunatioe, the
aged and the eiok are all oared for now.
Men need no help. The very fact of being
men gives there abundant opportunity to
in many wa3 te. I do not think any one has
ever held out a helping band to them in the
way I propoee."
In reply to a query_ as to the nature of
the institution, ehe proposed tib found, Mrs.
Leslie stated that in many respects it
would be a parallel of the Player's' Clab
that Booth gavaxo his fellows.
A substantial building will be booght, or,
more probably, built. In this studiee for
women artists will be provided. Club
rooms, library, bathe, offices and so forth
will be planned. A restaurant, et which
meals will be furnished at cost price, se in
men's clubs, will be a feature. Lecture
rooms and courses of lectures will be per -
momently endowed.
"To arrow you how women are handl-
copped," said Mrs. Leslie, "I will instance
the este of a young friend of mine. She
is about 22 years old and an artist of con-
siderable ability. A new studio building
woe opened recently. My youog friend
rented a studio and spent a good deal of
money furniehing and fitting it up. All
the other studios were rented to men.
Now, an olaer woman and one who was
not at all sensitive might have braved it
out. But'my young friend was sensitive
and had to move, as it was impossible for
her to remain living all alone in a building
with a crowd of men. If she was not
handicapped simply by being a women, I
don't know what the word handicap
means."
Mrs. Leslie was asked what amount of
money she proposed to devote to the pur-
pose.
" she replied, "will have to de-
pend upon how much longer I live. My
-properties-aro- now-valned at -about -$600,:'
000. Most of thie will be left, so that it I
should die this week, it would become the
endowment fund- for' the women's club.
But I hope to live many yeast! longer.
"I hope to remain in business ten years
more and enjoy life se I have been doing
fot the past few yettra. After that I shall
retire -and -spend -the- rest -of my-life-in-
eojoying the fruits of roy years of hard
work.'
'Eease tell the people," added Mrs
Leslie, "that I shall do nothing at all in
the way I have indicated until after I have
pawed away. I want to enjoy my .f,Ortune
while I live." -New York Morning Journal
Affecting St
one,.
N
e, bur-ewigionh 4
hood of a lady
it the time,' was
ohetiere street last evening. About Dr
°Wink quite a crowd volleoted on Om
street to witness the antics of an uufor.
innate young woman who wee under the
-influence of.liquor paid deceitig en front of
St. Bridgeo's Horne to the apparent delight
of the heartleee gathering of onlookers.
.When the unseemly exhibition had- lasted
quite 5 while, a lady happened along.
Without a thought of her costly attire and
regardless of the jeers of the crowd she an.
hesitatingly oaught the poor creature by
the arm, and induced her to accompany
her. She brought the unfortunate to the
door of Si. Bridget'e Home and craved fet
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Ingersoll s Eulogy on Barrett.
Gol. Robert G. Ingersoll lectured before
the New York Prese Club at the Broadway
Theatre Sunday evening before an immense
audience. His subject was William Shake-
peare, and the New York papers declare
that it was the greatest effort of, his life.
Before commencing the lecture proper he
paid the following tribute to Lewrence Bar,
rot4 ita a prelude to his aubject
" My heart tells me that oh the threshold
of my address it will be appropriate for me
to Bay a few words about the great actor
who has just fallen into that sleep that we
call death. Lawrence Barrett was my,
friend and r wee his. He was an inter-
preter of Shakepeare, to whose creation
be gave° flesh and blood. He began
at the foundation of his profession
and rose until be stood next to his
friend, next to one who is regarded as
the greatest tragedian of our times
next to Edwin Booth. The life of Law-
rence Barrett was a success because he
honored himself and added glory to the
stage. He did not seek for gain by pander-
ing to the thoughtless, ignorant or base.
He gave the drams in its highest and most
serious form. He spurned the question.
able, the vulgar and impure, and gave the
intellectual, the pathetio, the mealy and
the tragio. He did not stoop to conquer.
He soared. He was fitted for the stage.
He had a thoughtful face, e vibrant
voice and the pose of chivalry, and
besides he liad patience, industry,
courage, and the genine of Bnoceee. He was
o graoeful and striking Bassanio, a
thoughtful Hamlet, an intense Othello, a
msrvelona Hearbell, and ths best Cassius
of the century. In the drams of our human
life all are aotore, 'and no one knows his
pars'. In this great play the scenes are
shifted by unseen forces, and the cool-
otriotrome-rit-,ploran d-oreirtre-etill -unknowii;
are tinguemed. One by one the playera
leave the stage anO others take their places.
There is no pane°. The play goes on. No
prompter's voice is heard, and no one has
the slightest olds to what the next enene is
to be. Will the drama have an end ? Will
the curtain fall at last ? Will it rise again
upon some other stege? • Reason ssys
porhaos, and hope still whispers yes. Sanly
I bid my friend farewell. 1 ,admired the
actor and I loved the man." •
A String of Abstains.
The following ie, save the Australian
Sunday School Teacher, from a boy's essay
on total abstinence , " I obiitain from
alcoholic drink a beoanee, if I would excel an
a orioketer, G.raoe rays, ' abstain ' ; as
walker, Weston saye, abotain ' ; as an
oarsman, [Ionian says, • abotain ' ; as a
awimmer, Webb says, abatoin ' as an
orator, Bright says, ' abstaio ' ; ea a mis-
sionary, Livingstone sayp, • abatoin ; as a
doctor, Clark says„' abatain ' ; as a
preacher, Farrar sato], ' abotsind sylunos,
prisons and workhouses repeat the ory,
• abstain ; ' " Wo have heard a long -speech
With less in it.
One of the lateat "fads" in liquid
rorrrannotito is theroonater cocktail. Very
entail oysters are specially ordered for the
purpose. Eight or_ ton are put in a glom
aid sprinkled over with pepper and ailt.
'flitn some imported malt vinegar is
poured over them and the mixture is ready
for the coneumer.-Chicago Post.
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daunted she tried the adjoining inetitutieno
with the same reoult. The lady then stodd
for a few moments on the sidewalk es if
undersides:L*1mA to do. Finally, the light
Christian charity illumining her face, she
was heard to rumark, " The poor 'mature
cannot be Jett on khtretreet; I will take heir
home." A passing cab was called and the
lady and her charge drove off.-214ontreal
Herald.
A Woman's Essay on 'Women.
It often puzzles me that some men seem
to prefer silly women. Some clover men,
too, perhaps on the same principle as this
eminent mnaioian who used to say, " Give
me yonr stupid pupils." They never cola.
sidered themselves clever enough to leave
him. I am told that Herbert Spencer
enjoys the society of giggtiog girls, perhaps
as a complete contrast to hie life'a work.
Yet, in apite of this-, it always annoys me
to Bee a mindless woman at the mercy of
an aggressively superior man, who ie
always either s bore or a bully, for ehe is
sure to give herself away. What pathos
there is in Congreve's lines, if one only
look at them from this point of View ;
When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair,.
With eyes so brigbt and with that awful air.
I thought my hears would thirst so high aspires.
As bold as he who snatched celestial fire.
But soon as e'er the besaiteons idiot spoke.
Forth from her coral lips the folly broke;
Like balm the trickling nonsense my
wound,
And wbat her eyes enthralled, her tongue
unbound!
Poor Lesbia 1 who no doubt thought bee
face had conqtrered the irresistible Oen.
grove, to read that she wae only a • beau.
teous idiot ' after all. It was a pitiful' •
termination lei what was orcitifiiiess a meat ' •
exciting episode for her. But she was sto
eilly woman, he the witty aad
exquisite maker of comedies. What
else could ? The age of gallantry ie
over, , and our Pineros and -doneses and
Grnndye do not write cutting epigramsi
about the young ladies they meet :Iowa-
Itrys ; at least I hope not -indeed, I OM
mire not, or we should read them in the
Era ; but silly women are pitied and
laughed at all the same, parhapa by even
sillier men, and that is wast irritates me.
A great rosily women, I am sure, have,the
repotation for beirg atupid, simply because
they allow their native wits to go to mast;
they have no self-reliance, and they have
been reared to a sort of religions belief in
the eanotity of man's superior renee and
intellect. Such women seldom, if ever,
exercise their own ideas, even in matters of
dram, while their minds rarely range
beyond social courtesiee and domestic con-
fines. .
Good Words for Girls.
Your mother ie your best friend.
Have nothing to do with girls who snub
their parents.
Tell the pleatantest thirgo you know
when at meal.
Do not expect your brother to be as
dainty as a girl.
Anproise, and nevertry to look as if you
werin delicate health.
Introduce every new acquaintance 10
your mother es soon as possible.
on't think it nccessary to get married.
There is plenty of room for old maido, and
they are often happier than wives.
Enjoy the pleaeures provided for you
by your parents to the fullest extent. They
will like that as a rewsrd better than any
other.
Most fathers are inclined -to over -indulge
their daughters. Make it impossible for
your father to spoil you by fairly returning
his devotion and affection.
Never think you can afford to be dowdy
itt home. Cleanliness, hair well-drssed
and a amile will make a calico look like -
silks and satins to a father or brother.
Do not quarrel with yonr brother; do
not preoch at him, end do not coddle him.
Make him your friend, ana do not expect
him to be Your servant, nor let him expect
you to be hie.
Notes Froin Scotland.
The British Postmaster•Genorsl an-
nouncea the establishment shortly of a
aervice-for the-repiirtrancroigeforrofiettertr
for short distancee.
Damage -to the extent o! between £606 .
and 2600 -was doneby a fire which occurred
on the 12th in et.18 Princes' Street Railwoy
Station, Perth.
Mr. John Diok Peddle, R. S. A, wha
represented the ;Kiinernouk Burghs in
Parliament from 1880 to 195, died on the
12th loot., at Bile age of 67.
The Heoldingten cattleodishorning case
came up before thO Justiciary C./qtrq a,
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La.) AU AIL 6.Py
oc and has seen the historic old banner )1-•
11(.. the Sepoys carried to glorious victory.
th I beg to protest against its assumption
betty our Wingham frinds, who lin no
th earthly or other " reason are riLditly
imentitled to it. -I trust the old „Spys
Li everynthere will raise their voices'
eltagainst the "steal"
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•AN TA)Si-:-ol
autficknoW, .April 15.
orn [En. NOTE Our correspondent s
ne,
in exception is w•Al t,akon.. For
reason the AVingharn club ehoso to
lassume the name we cannot imp. in,
Certainly, they do not 'fall Iwir
,Tbthrouh history, and our boys havo
mEuPhold the narne so long and so et en
Wathat by all the press of the two
hTcdtiniicti it has ditioonic it s
pe6:course to refer to us as the -S(Toy
fortown:" The Winham, .cul• should,
certainly ferret out anorber name, if
they are not satisfied with then titlf.!:
of former yars.]
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