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eumstances we hardly blame him, when
lue car stopped so suddenly that she
| caught at his arm, for the squeeze he
gave the plump rosy hand-any man of
sense would have done the same-it was
such an inviting little lily.
Allow me to carry your basket, Miss,
as our paths lie in the same direction"
sala MI. Edge, courteously, relieving her
Oh her burden as he spoke; "and-and-
may Oe you'd find less difficulty if you
take my arm.u
Well, wasn't it delightful? Mr.. Edge
forgot the wet streets and pitchy dark
ness-he thought he was walking on
roses. Only as he approached his door
he began to feel n little nervous, and
wished the little ineOgnitO would not
hold on so tight. Suppose Maria should
be at the window on the lookout, as she
often was, how would she interpret mat
tiers? ? He could not make her believe
that he only wanted to be polite to the
fair traveller. Besides, his sweeping de-
clarations in the mOrning-she would be
sure to recall them. As he stopped in
front of the right number, and bade her
adieu, he was astOnished to see her like
wise run up the steps to enter. Gra-
ciOus Apollo! he burst into a cold per-
spiration at the idea of the young lady's
error.
81 think you must have made mis-
take, Miss" he stammered; "this can't
be your house."
But it was too late-she was already
in the brilliantly lighted hall, and turn
ing around threw off her dripping hab-
iliments, and made low curtesy.
"Why, it's my wifeH' gasped Mr..
Edge.
"And happy to see that you have not
forgotten all your gallantly toward us
ladies'" pursued the merciless little
puss, her blue eyes they were pretty
all in dance of suppressed roguery.
Edge looked from ceiling to floor in
vain search for a lOOphOle to retreat, but
the search was unavailing.
"Well,n he said in the most sheepish
of tones, otis the first time / was ever
polite to a lady in the cars, and hang me
if it shan't be the last"
"You see, my dear" said the ecstatic
little lady, 81 didn't expect to be delayed
so long, aud had not any idea I should
meet with such attention III the cars,
and that from my husband, tool Good
ness gracious, how Aunt Priscilla will
enjoy the joke"
''If you tell that old harpy I will never
hear the last of it, said Edge in desper-
alton.
Very probable" was the provoking
reply of his wife.
',Now, look here, darling" said Mr..
Edge, cOaxingly, ''you won't say any
thing, will you? A fellow don't want
to be laughed at by all the world. say,
Maria, you shall have the prettiest furs
in New York if you will only keep quiet
you shall, upon my honor"
The terms were satisfactory, and Maria
capitulated-who wouldn't? And that
is the way she got those splendid furs
that filled the hearts of all her lady
friends with envy. And perhaps it was
what made Mr.. Edge such a courteous
husband ever since.
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lily his bride was excessively anxious to

lily his bride was excessively anxious to
see.
Arriving at Chicago in due time, and
finding the weather so severe as to rem
der the journey by stage impracticable
for the season, they were compelled to
enter cheap lodgings and engage in some
sort of occupation for the winter.
Ellen, wiser than most young brides,
kept her own counsel about the roll of
bills presented her by Aunty Harris,
and thus gave her husband no reason to
believe that he could have other tempo
rary dependence for livelihood than
his own hands and brain; but she soon
plainly saw that he would depend upon
her, for he engaged an infant school for
her at terms to suit himself, and eoolly
so informed her after the bargain was
completed.
The darcy blood arose at this, not
but that she was willing and anxious to
work, but she felt that if her lord and
master had consulted her wishes it
would have been easier for her to endure
the burden. With compressed lips and
resolute heart she took up her Iabors
and performed them faithfully, while
her able-bodied consort remained idle,
eontenting himself by saying that he
could find no work to do.
''Take my school, then, and let me
rest" said Ellen, when the term was
half completed.
Her health was rapidly giving way
under the double 'curse" so often borne
by wives whose husbands not only ''rule
over them," but, in addition, compel
them TO earn the "bread" for both 'in
the sweat of the face"
"HOw would it look for me, a man
weighing two hundred, to engage in
teaching an infant school?" he said,
"Quite as well as it looks to see you
living off my labor" was Ellen's bitter
but unspoken reply.
TO be eontinucd.l
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MARK TWAIN on WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Mark Twain says that when women
frame laws, the first thing they will do
will be to enact:
/. That all men should be at home at
ten p. NJ, without fail.
. That married men should bestow
considerable attention upon their own
wives.
8. That it should be a hanging offense
to sell whisky i'm saloons, and that fines
and Acknowledgement should follow in
such places.
4. That the smoking of cigars to ex-
cess should be forbidden, and the smok-
ing of pipes utterly abolished.
5. That the wife should have the title
of her own property when she marries a
man that hasn't any.
"Such tyranny as this" says Mark,
Eve could never stand. Our free souls
could never endure such degrading
thraldOm. Woman, go away! Seek not
TO beguile us of our imperial privileges.
Content yourself with your little femi-
nine trifies-your babies, your benevo-
lent societies and your knitting and let
your natural bosses do the voting.
Stand back-yOu will be wanting to go
to war next. We will let you teach
school as much as you want to, and pay
YOU half price too; but beware! we
don't want you to crowd us too much"
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FRIED BEEFSTEAK TO RESEMBLE
BROILING.-Heata a spider so very hot
that flour will burn on it instantly;
wipe it free from dust, and lay in the
steak;it should brown Immediately; take
it from the spider before it has had time
to cook any part except the browning of
the side that came in contact with the
spider; lay it on the platter, which
should stand over hot water; heat the
spider again; wipe it free from fat; and
brown the other side in the same man
ner as the first. Have butter, pepper
and salt for tim gravy laid on the plat
ter to melt, while the last is browning;
remove the steak to the platter, and soak
it in the gravy, add a tablespoon of boil
ing water to the gravy, and serve inn
mediately. When these directions are
followed to the letter, there are but few
that would imagine the beef otherwise
cooked than broiled. Is is far before
poorly brOiled steak. If desired we'll
done the process must be repeated, not
left in to fry, until cooked through, as
that would give taste like fried beef to
the whole dish. If the juice of the meat
stands on the steak, when the first side
is browning, lift the beef carefully, so as
to pour it from the beef into the platter.
If any escapes to the spider, it viii be
worse than wasted if added to the gravy.
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NUMBER a..
From the Democratic Era.1
We Indignant Ghost of Kit Carso,
Speakefh-
BY STEPHEN MAYBELL.

Like shadows we sat, the lights burning dim.
Ranged In a circle ghOstly and grim,
Our hands clasping hands, tongues silent ant
dumb,
Patiently waiting We spirits to come.
The mediums brow grew sulien and red
And flashing her glance-she rose and she said
"I'm Kit Carson's ghost; pear to your eye
To say Xii CarsOn's Ride Is lie.
From the realms Of the unknown and unseen
From the mOuldering shroud and coffin Nv,
been
Called by that webfoot poet, Joaquin.
Let the folks stand advised, / have denied
Desertin' that gal in Kit Carson's Rfde;'
Such heroism I'd rather decline
Twas a ride Of Joaquin MillerS, not mine.
I'm only a rough, wild son of the woods.
Who never had much Of learninf or goods,
A hero Of bear and Indian fights,
Such like adventures and such like delights.
But I've been man, whatever I've been,
And no one can say Kit Carson was mean;
But I've been treated mean, and moreover,
Tumbled and tossed in over and clover
And over and clover and clover and over
And made to desert an Indian lover,
And cowardly leave her 10 burn and moan,
While rode off with her mustang alone.
IL was alive in flesh and blood
I'd put "a head on that poet, would:
But I'm only ghost and can but complain
Joaquin, don't make me your hero again"
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REMARKABLE SCENE IN A CHURCH.
Last Sunday evening most remarkable
scene was witnessed i'm the old Church
of st. Johns (CathOlic) Parish, Pat
terson. The Rev. William McNulty, pas
tor, at all the morning masses had read
Bishop Bayley's Lenten pastoral, and
feelingly dwelt upon the passage where
in the Bishop declares that "the spec
tacle of a strong man behind a bar deal
ing out crime, misery and death, instead
of earning an honest living in some
manly way, was the most pitiable sight
imaginable" He announced that the
old church, i'm which they had wOrshiped
for years, would be opened that even
ing for the purpose of administering the
total abstinence pledge to all who
might wish to commence Lent in this
praiseworthy manner, ard that he had
invited the President of the Catholic
State Temperance Union to deliver an
address, and would himself address to
them some exhortations on the subject.
About two thousand people were packed
in the old church at seven o'clock. The
altar was hidden away behind draperies
and banners, platform being erected
in front. Pews and aisles on the floor
and galleries were crowded. The pastor
delivered an impressive address which
was listened to with breathless attention
and introduced Mr.. ]. w. O'Brien,
of the State Union, who spoke for an
hour. Father McNulty then called upon
his people to join the army yofteetOtalers,
and told those so disposed to stand up.
In an instant fully 1000 people were on
their feet. They repeated the pledge
aloud, and received the priests benedic-
tion. The Presidents of st. Patriek's,
st. Joseph's, st. Johns (of Patterson,
and Passaic st. Patrick's societies were
on the platform. The meetings was
compared to one of O'ConnelPs monster
emancipation meeting.-N y. Herald,
Fob. 2lSt
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UTAHIN LINE on WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The recent convention in Utah, COM
posed of MOrmOns and Gentiles, which
framed a Constitution for State Gov
ernment, was nObly loyal to the prinei-
pies of Republican Government, so far
as women were concerned. Without
diplomatic ambiguity or verbal lodging,
the convention in unmistakable English
placed woman's political enfranehise-
ment beyond the possible reach of the
Courts or the Legislature to disturb, as
the following extract from Section l of
Article III. of that document will show:
''Sec. l. Every citizen of the United
States, male and female mot labOring
under the disabilities named in the con-
stitution), of the age of ftwenty-One years
and over, who shall have resided in the
State six months, and in the county
thirty days next preceding any election
shall be entitled to vote for all officers,
that now are, or hereafter maybe elected
by the people, and upon all questions
submitted to the electors ut such cleo
ton. Pioneer.
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A young lady in a neighboring town
has taken up dentistry for a living. All
the gentlemen patronize her. When
she puts her arm around the neck of the
patient, and earesses his jaw for the of
Tending member, the sensation is about
as nice as they make 'em. One young
man Is hopelessly infatuated with her.
consequently he hasn't tooth in his
mead. she has pulled every blessed one
of them, and made him two new sets
and pulled them. She is now at work
on his fathers saw. He holds the saw.
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AS Russia will not raise crops much
beyond what are necessary for home
this year, she may afford
us a market for portion OF our surplus.
No one need starve in this world if the
United States are informed in season.
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Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names 10 the
Editor, or no attention will be given to their
commun fcatIons
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Pittsburg has a singular diyoree9, suit
on its hands. The complainant alleges
that the defendant fell so violently IN
love with her photograph that ne pro pro
posed and was accepted, ana sne caIne 1Ili',
'tall the way from Ireland 70 may Ii
him. Arriving she di-'l,,i'i,,,ef t1 law for re- re-
dress.
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Professor Marsh, of the Yale College
eXpedluon, who passed through Idaho
last year, visited the Shoshone Falls on
snake river. He says that the leap Of
those falls Is greater and the gorge deeper
and grander than Niagara. The expe-
dition gathered an immense quantity OF
fossils, including at least fifty new spec
linens of animals entirely new TO SCI
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OF all the disagreeable habits the
world was ever tOrmented with, scolding
is the most annoying. To hear a saw
filled, to hear n peacock scream, or an
Indian yell, is music compared with it.
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Gbe A3Ese'o A!.lortbwest. g
a Journal for the People.

a Journal for the People.
Devoted 10 the Interests OF Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
OF the Masses.
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ELLEN DowD, THE FARMERS WIFE.

Entered, according 70 the Act OF Congress, in
the year 1872, by Mrs 4. J. Duniway, in the Of
fee OF the Librarian OF Congress at Washington
Cffy1
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Be Sensible.

Do not be above your business.
He who turns up his nose at his
work quarrels with his bread and
butter. He is a poor smith who is
afraid Of his own spark; there is
some discomfort in Gil trades ex-
cept chimney sweeping. If sailors
give up going to sea because Of the
wet; if bakers left off baking bread
because it was hot work; if plow-
men would not plOw because it was
cold, if tailors would not make our
clothes tor fear of pricking their
fingers, to what q pass we would
come. Nonsense, my fine fellow,
there's no shame about an honest
calling: don't be afraid of soiling
your hands, for there is plenty of
soap to be had.
All trades are good to good ira
ders. Lucifer matches pay well if
you sell enough Of them, You can
not get honey if you are frightened
at bees, nor plant corn if you are
afraid Of getting mud on your boots.
When bars of iron melt under the
south winds; When you can dig the
fields with toothpicks; blow ships
along with fans; manure crops with
lavender water, and grow plum
cakes in hower-pots, there will be 4
fire time for dandies; but until the
conTes we shall al have a
great deal to put mp with.
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CHAPTER II.

'Here, wife, is a child that has
just been washed upon the beach
She is cold and stiff, but think she
is not dead. Let US have some
warm flannels Immediately, and tell
Thomas to run for DR.. Hunt"
1t was long before the quiVering
lashes and feeble fIuttering Of the
heart gave token that success would
crown the efforts of Eva's rescuers; ;
by and by the lids parted and re-
vealed two large, liquid, Sky blue
ewes, that wondered from face to
face in a bewildered way and then
closed sEyesFily.
Sc 81 fear she viii not recover very
said the docter. -She has
a delicate constitution and viii re-
quire the best OF care.
"Poor childr' said Mrs. Turner,
"I do not wonder she is nearly dead;
but who can she bee Some terrible
accident must have happened at
sea.
'.You had better examine her
clothing" said the doctor. @Per-
haps you may find some clue to her
..s .r rr-
Mrs. Turner lifted the gossanler
white dress, and turned it over and
over. The square and compass
placed there by Mr.. Durant flashed
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name is to DO conspicuously assOci
ated with yours in a determined eff
fort to render amnesty complete
and universal in spirit as well as in
letter. Even defeat in such cause
wOull leave nothing, while triumph
would rank with those victories
which no blood redresses and which
evoke no tears but those of graft
tude and JOY.
Gentlemen, your platform, which
is also mine, assures me that De
mocracy is not henceforth TO stand
for one thing and Republicanism
for another, but that those terms
are to mean in politics as they al.
ways have meant in Democracy.
substantially the one and same
thing, viz: equal rights, regardless
OF creed or cline or color ] hail
this as a genuine new departure
from outwOrn feuds and meaning
less contentious, in the direction of
progress and reform.
Whether 1 shall be found worthy
to bear the standard OF the great
Liberal movement which the Amer
lean people have inaugurated is to
be determined not by words, but by
deeds. With me, if l steadily ad
over me if I faItcr, this grand
array moves to achieve for our glo-
rious beneicent destiny,
/ remain, gentlemen, yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
To the Hon. James II. Doolittle,
Chairman of tile Convention, and
f. w. Sykes, John McCabe and
others of the committee.
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CHAPTER III


The six years that followed the
death of his wife and the loss of
his child passed wearily to James
Durant. He visited nearly every
country in the Old World, seeking
among scenes of natural beauty and
granduer as well as historic interest,
for the mental rest which could ne
yer be found. Once more he turned
his steps toward America, and
sought his Masonic friend Wads-
worth. Finding that gentleman
about starting out with his family
on a journey to the Atlantic coast,
Mr.. Durant accepted the invitation
to accompany them TO Saratoga and
Niagara, then to New York, where,
leaving the ladies, Mr.. Wadsworth
and Mr. Durant wandered from
town to town along the coast, enjoy
ing the beauty Of the scenery and
the quiet hospitality that greeted
them mol than the crowded hotels
and the fashionable style of the
popular watering places. Fancy
and the kind hand of Providence at
length led them to the little town of
B, and the second evening after
their arrival they visited the Mason
ic Lodge. A warm welcome was ex-
tended to those Brethren from such
distant homes, and both were invited
to address the Lodge. MIR. Durant
said:
'Brethren, I have travelled much
and Tong. I have found Masonic
sympathy in every part of the-globe,
and everywhere is Masonry sub
staatially the same. can hardly
tell where reside. The world seems
to be my home, as remain but q
short time in any town or country,
but my name Is recorded in an Eng
lish Lodge, 1 love my English breth-
ren, for they first brought me from
darkness to light, and l love Eng
lish soil, for in it sleeps the love of
my youth. But 1 love American soil
also, for here L have found the warm
est of welcomes, the kindest Of
brethren. And here, too. my own
child is sleeping in American wa
ters, even beneath the very waves
that wash the shores of yoaF beau
tiful village
"Six years have passed since this
friend and brother robbed himself
of his life-preserver, that my little
Eva might perhaps escape, and we
hoped that the elements might be
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The WiGe,s Inflnenee

A woman, in many instances, has
her husband S fortune in her power,
because she may or may not conform
to his circumstance. This is her
first duty, and it ought to be her
pride. No passion for luxury or
display ought to tempt her for a mo-
ment to deviate in the least degree
from this line of conduct. She viii
find her responsibility in it. Any
other course is WTetchedness itself,
and inevitably leads to ruin. Moth
ing can be more miserable than TO
keep up appearances. If it could
succeed, it would cost more than it
is worth; as it never can, its failure
involves the greatest modification.
Some Of the sublimest exhibitions
of human virturc have been made
by women, who have been precipita-
ted suddenly from wealth and splen-
dor to absolute want. Then n man s
fortunes are, in a manner, in the
hands Of his wife, inasmuch as his
own power of eXertion depends on
her. If it be harrassed and worn to
a morbid irritability, her gentle
tones steal over it with 4 soothing
more potent than the most exquisite
music. If every enterprise be dead,
her patience and fortitude have the
power to rekindle them in the heart,
and he again goes forth to encOun-
ter with the tolls and troubles of
life.
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The most convenient and salts
factory way to keep eggs fresh that
we have ever tried is to punch nu-
merous holes in a tin pail, fll it with
Jresh eggs, lower the pail with the
eggs into 4 kettle of melted tRliow,
which is as hot as can be without
burning ones finger when thrust in
to the liquid; then lift the pail out
quickly, and the melted tallow will
flow out, leaving a thin coating over
every egg. Let the eggs be removed
as soon as possible from the pail,
and be placed on the ends in a keg
or barrel, which should be kept in
4 cool cellar until the eggs are want
ed for use. We have kept eggs IN
this manner more than six months,
so fresh that expert Judges sup
posed they were fresh. As the eggs
are so much colder than the melted
tallow, q thin pellicle Of cold taliow
viii be formed almost instantly,
which will render the eggs inpervi-
Gus to air.
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The family Cirtte.
Live in LIGHT.

A@A' ~ AAA AANs
Light is one of the most attract
i've agencies in enlivening and beau
tifying a home. We all know the
value Of sunlight as n health-g Civ
ing agent to the physical system,
and j. is no less so to our moral and
spiritual natures. We absorb light,
and it nourishes us with strange
power. We are more active under
its influence, can think better and
work more vigorously.
Let us take the airiest, choicest
and sunniest room in the house for
our living room - the Workshop
where brain and body are built up
and renewed. And let US there
have a bay window, no matter how
plain the structure, through which
the good twin-angels of nature
sunlight ard pure air-can enter.
This window shall be the poem
Of the house. 1t shall give
freedom and scope for eye and
mind. We can hang no picture on
our walls that can compare with the
living and eyer-changing pictures
which God shall paint for us
through our ample window. Rosy
dawns, golden-hearted sunsets, the
tender green and changing tints of
spring, the glow of summer, the
pOmp of autumn, the white of win
ter, storm and sunshine, glimmer
and gloOm-all these we can have
and enjoy while we sit in our shell
tered rooms as the changing year
rolls on.
Even in q gloomy house, where
walls and furniture are dingy and
brown, you have but to take down
the heavy curtains, open wide the
windows, hang brackets on either
side, set flower-pots on the brack-
cts and vines in the pots, and let
the warm sun stream freely in, to
bring health to our bodies and JOY
to our souls.