Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-08-06
Nu1nber37
A Womau's Grafton.

A Woman's Grafton
Susan Spikes delivered the Fourth OF
July orxt!on at South Mountain. Idaho.
and full report appears in the Owyhes
Avalanche. Susan is doubtless myth,
but the oration is good. We append tho
closing paragraph:
Fellow Guzzlers: have already tres.
passed too long upon your valuabls tune.
1t has been long tune between drinks,
and feel that you are dry. ! have said
that argument would be lost amongst 50
much intelligence. IT'S true. Your
mirds have already digest
ed this SUB; ct OF Woman's Rights.
The great intellect and energy that are
developing South Mountain and finding
Eve million dollar mines In these hills.
will know intuit:vely-as it were-that T
have been trying to drift through . mass
OF low grade ore to reach good paying
rock. The rock when reached, though
rich may be rebellious, and we want the
ballot box for smelter. We need for
tlux the privilege Of knocking the heels
from under old>time institutions and set
ting up system Of our own on the ruins.
Yes; we want to change the fashions.
We want to dispense with riding habits
when We mount our mustang and get on
trad lie leg if we please. We want eman-
cipation from the wash tub and drudyery
OF housekeeping. We want the Consti.
tuition SO amended that any one who
laughs at woman because her back hair
don't reach below her hustle, be punish
able by fine and imprisonment-just a.
the Civil Rights Bill provides for a Mig
gers accommodation at your hotels.
We want to practice Medicine and plead
law. We want to preach the gospel and
take up the collection every tims. We
want to vote at the primaries; to 60 to the
and sell our votes like littlo
men. We want to put ourselves outside
OF a cocktail where ever We are invited or
feel like bumming one. But, first and
we demand to take a hand In
the mixing the political stirabout that
fattens lean office holders When that
right shall have been secured, and II our
true inwarlness don't 20 back on us. the.
one hundredth anniversary Of American
Liberty will witness pettic0at flung to
the breeze and Haunting its fril:s side by
side with the stars and stripes over Inde-
pendence Hall, at Philadelphia. Then,
and not unil then, can we say:
''All hail to the American Eagle!
Ploud bird OF Freedom, all hail!
The fowl that no man can invcielc,
Nor spread salt on his beautiful tail!''
There is mystery about American lakes
Lake Erie is only GO or 20 feet deep; but
Lake Ontario, which is 500 feet deep. Is
23O feet below the tide level of the ocean,
or as low as most parts of the Gulf of st.
Lawrence. and the bottom of Lakes Huron
Michigan and Superior. although the sur.
face IS much higher, all are from their
vast depths on ]cyel with the bottom of
Ontario. Now as the dlscha, &c through
the river Detroit, after allowing for the
probable portion carried off by evaporation,
does not appear by any means equal to
the quantity of water which the three up
per lakes receive. 1t has been conjectured
that subterranean river may run from
Lake Superior, by the Huron, to Lake
Ontario. This conjecture is not impossi.
ble, and accounts for the singular fact
that salmon and herring are caught in all
the lakes communicating with the st.
Lawrelce, but no others. As the Falls Of
Niagara must have always existed, 1t
would ruzzle the naturalists to Say how
these fish got into the upper lakes without
some subterranean river; moreover. any
periodical obstruction of that river would
furnish not improbable solution of tho
mysterious fux and reflux of the lakes.