Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-30

t'iIS, 'ic Iio eiSn GOWN with five
dollar gold pieces, and if we wish 10
be select, VIC can admit only enough
drunkards TO run Il lodge and then ii.
vide. and thus maintain our selections.
This is getting too serious, and | must
hasten. (APplause.l
We are SAID 10 be II secret society. I
most Indignantly repcl the vile asser-
ton; we are open and above board i'm
all things. Every child in this me-
tropOllS, and every al-burner ont of
1t, did know our workings. and do so
yet for aught l know to the contrary,
rms TACT alone stamps the assertion
tina we are a secret society as an un-
miiigated falsehoOd. a Islander too foul
to merit contradiction. | must hasten.
IApplause.l
Again, it is said that We protect our
members in wrong doing. i'm tramplinp
the laws under foot. We do nothing of
the kind. 1t is said that if a member
OF this order ropes Il stranger into the
"strap' or %"three-card monte" games
that 1t Is only necessary for him to di-
vide an ! be protected. I have never
Vet received Il cent from such a source
since a member of the lodge; and can
ANYTHING lie more ridiculous than to
think such is a fact Have we not
ignominiously elected such brothers as
have feloniously, AMI with malice
~aiOrethought. rome on IL solitary
drunk? Could we do less than nav
this small compliment to such disi,i-
tercsted and Self-Sacrificing members
as have cheerfully devoted their pre-
ciou> time TO the detection of this most
.heinous OtfenSe? We mnSt teach these
errins brothers, that if they have the
collie. and a tellow-n,enber is i'm view,
that is their b~rOtherly duty to prcSup-
pose hat he also has the collie; and
moreover, if he should, in vulgar par
lance, be "brokc," then must the first
brother provide the remedy for both.
and neither will then inform upon the
other. Protect members in wrong do
ing! Perish the thought; it could only
einalate from Il brain as dark as the
inky %blackneSs of the Stygian pools.
No reflection is intended upon the Eff
teenth Amendment. And | would re-
quest the w. {. L. to instruct his sup
porters no to wink at me again. l
must has'en. [.Applau>e.l
To the ladies', what shall ] say?
From the combined languages of the
globe I could obtain no more fitting
sentinlentsthan those anonymous lines
contains:
"ifis woman's smiles that lull our cares to
Dear woman's charms that gives life its zest:
Ills woman's hand that smooths afiliction's
bed,
Wires tn cold sweat and stays the sinking
head
Or as Moore, the sweet songster,
writes:
40 woman! Dear woman! whose form and
whose soul
Are the light and the life of each spell we
Whether summed in the Tropics or chilled at
tho Pole,
If woman be there. there is happiness too
fully agree with the poets quoted.
You can bet. Are not wOlnen more
dear to us than gold and silver or pre-
cious stones | should say SO! Do
we not find her in the mansions of the
wealthy, and the novels of the poor?
With what unsclfisll devotion does she
swallow the contents of the demijohn
that her husband may not be lost in
dissipation; with what ardent fervor
does she smooth his cleaning brow
with Il flat-iron, when he returns to the
bosom of his family, weakened by collie
of the most malignant type. Sweet ar
biters of Il destinies! Lovely minis
ters to mans wants! l feel as ShakS-
pearc wrote af.cr Il row with Anne
Hathaway:
!" Is it more %yirtuous to endure
The sings and arrows of outrageous for
tunt-
Quit %applauding, I am quoting from
the wrong place, this is the right one:
For s,v raj virtues
| have liked several women: never any
With SO full! n soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblcst grace she own'd
And put it to II toll.
As mothers, we revere YOU; as sweet
hearts, we worship You; as daughters,
We uOte upon yOu; and as wives, we
obey YOU and foot your millinery bills.
Where a pan is to be secured, clothes
to be washed and ironed, Il meal to be
cooked, IL baby to be hu>hed, Oh riot
to he inaugurated: there do we find
vOu-or the Chinanlan. Everywhere
that you ought to be-and in a great
many places that You ought not to be-
do we find yOI-or the Chinanan.
Without ContuciuS' disciples we might
manage to survive; but v ithout your
tender glance>, atlectiOnatc at;eDdanccS
y soft manners, Il century would
elapse only to find men relapsed into
barbariSnn, or extinct. (Any member
who doubts either otthe last assertions
can obtain Il wager, with odds, by call
ing on me after AL journment q that
things were arranged as Buffers
'iIudibras' says they should be:
"Women first were made for men.
Not men for them--it follows then.
Men have II right to every one.
And they no freedom of their own,
And therefore men have power to choose,
Bat they no charter to refuse"
Unfortunately for Butler and his adj
mirerS, women do refuse, and l know
it is wrong i'll them to do So; but we
are prone to wrong. l must hasten.
[.Applau>e.l
| will now conclude by giving an in
cident that came under my W obSer-
vation, in which IL Teinpler woman
was the heroine: Capt. lleal-lllcrc
Brother Brown took his audience twice
around the globe and wandered in
every conceivable way INTO digre>sionS,
and finally sat down exhausted, and
amidst vociterous applause. Some
members who desired TO know the
end of the anerdote were informed
that, as he had taken them around The
world and had not found the end, it
was evident that the globe being circu-
lar left him no end to give them.)