The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-02-15

preached US unobserved. The Chair, sir
presents his compliments, and begs YOU
will do him and the Baron de Bete-F auve
the honor to occupy the seat that has been
placed for you between them
sly heart stood still. Ny hair rose. A
chill of horror shot through me.
The baron, sir, speaks no English, and
though him and the Chair has been hard at
it all dinner, neither of them has under
stood word, said the steward, confden-
TALLY. The Chair, sir, and the company
generally, would all with pleasure the
spectacle of your introduction to the baron
The baron be -.' | know not what
had caught glimpse of the fair occupants
of the gallery, leaning over the balustrade
In their eagerness to examine the favored
individual for whom the chair of state had
been so osscntatiously prepared, and Wis
ion of myself marching up the hall, the
mark of every eye, almost made me reel in
my char.
| shuddered, strove to speak, conceived
q wild thought Of diving under the table,
when, whish. with lurid, fitful twirl, out
went the enormous lustre, with all the
minor lights following suit. We were in
total darkness.
| will not describe the confusion that
succeeded, the screams of laughter from the
gallery, the scramble and the crash below.
Torches cleaned in the dOorways almost
before We knew what had happened, and
the accident that had occasioned the sud
den extinction Of our light was remedied
within few minutes.
But when order was restored, one chair
stood vacant at that hospitable board.
Whether its occupant had been trampled
under feet in the disorder, or had vanished
with the light, was never known. My pri-
vate opinion is that, while anxious inquir-
les were being made in the Lumpeters
Hall, the missing gentleman WAS warming
his legs at his domestic hearth, and smiling
at the peril he had so narrowly escaped.
Some Common Sense from a " oman
Suffrage Advocate.
Judge Jamesons decision is good law,
and still better common sense. 1t is plain
that Congress and the States never intended
by the Fifteenth Amendment to give women
the privilege Of the ballot. Even Mrs.
Woodruff, when she said at Steinwav
Hall, % trust l am UNDERSTOOD" did not
make her announcement of free love any
amendment. To try to get the ballot bv
joggle on the meaning of words is not
manly, and we think is not womanly, logic.
There is just one way in which women
can secure the privilege, and that is the
way in which the religious qualifications
of the colonies, and the property qualifca-
tlons of Z few states, and the color uualif-
cation of nearly all Of them have been
altered-by persistent agitation. Those
who take this latter method are adopting
the only method which will enlighten the
public mind, and thus secure their end !;
while insisting on constitutional bubble
only prejudices the cause, by creating a
suspicion that the class of citizens in
whose behalf it is urged are not capable of
interpreting, much less of making, a law
The women who are Fostering Congress
committees on this matter utterly mistake
| the public sentiment. Men, as a BODY,
are reluctant to try the experiment of
female suffrage, though willing to grant
this or any other privilege of right that
women ask for: while women, as a body,
are strenuously opposed to the plan.
Long agitation must be the preliminary to
| success, for women are somewhat coEser-
vative, and will not easily be brought to
ask for what, at present, they do not want
/ And we may be sure that men will never
| intlict the responsibility of suffrage till
! they are asked to do so. 1t will be some
/ years, we suspect, before the experiment
is fairly tried. But the plblic sentiment
! is verging toward it: and we trust that it
Will have as speedy and thorough trial as
! posi- b!e-not one N cg1pore nj, but in
sets. That state is favorable one for
the trial. 1t is hospitablc to new ideas
its Governor has just proposed a tentative
/ form OF female suffrage, which would make
a capital entering wedge. Thousands of
women who shrink from ordinary political
action would be happy to vote to shut up
/ grog-shops in their own towns; and, once
having gone to the polls, the subsequent
steps will be easy. The first step is what
/ is difficult. and what Governor Washburn
/ would kindly trick them into taking. Or
/ have they already taken the first step in
/ the hundreds Of churches in which they
claim the right to vote ?-The Indepe,l-
! dent.
Mysterious Skeleton Clock.
matchmaker in an Illinois town has
constructed peculiar time piece, and the
! local journal describes it as follows:
1t is simply dial-plat with two hands
An hour hand and n minute hand. The
dial is a inches in diamet er, with large
! opening in the centre. The minute hand
! Ia twplya inches in 1anrth orJ tho hon,