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in that age of the world, and he was
kinder to the abused sex, than any
other ruler, for the account runs in Ex-
odus that ''if man sell his daughter to
be maid-servant, she shall not go out
as the men-servants do. IF she please
not her master who has hetrothed her
to himself, then shall he let her be re-
deemed; to sell her to a strange nation
he shall have no power, seeing he hath
dealt deceitfully with her; and, if be
hath betrOthed her to his son, he shall
deal with her after the manner of
daughter; if he take him another wife,
her food, her raiment, and her duty of
marriage shall he not diminish" etc.
If necessary to produce it, there is much
recorded that would add to the evidence,
in taking up the chain of the past and
coming down to our own time of COM
parative civilization, to interest the pro-
gressive mind in this subject alone.
Even the boasted civilization of an
tiquity was eminently one-sided, and
could not stand, but fell, simply because
society did not advance in all its parts,
on the principle of sacrificing part,
that the progress of the others might be
assured. Woman has not been consid-
cred a component part of humanity,
but simply a being, having life out
side of her own interests. And not un-
til she has arisen herself and demanded
the enjoyment of all opportunities has
the plan of her education changed.
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INFORMATION WANTED !" Lower
House of Congress with its seats filled
with reformers and lovers of country."-
Corr. Eureka Sentinel.
We mentally wished, when we read
the above, that the correspondent of the
Sentinel had been trained in his youth to
be little more explicit. We have for
some time been under the impression
that the present "Lower House of Con-
gressr was largely made up of ex-Con-
federate officers, both civil and military,
and those who were forming sympathiz-
ing clubs in the Northern States, aided
by the gold jeff. Thompson stole, and
which he was distributing from his safe
retreat in Canada; men who were de-
claring the war failure, and by every
means, both open and covert, they dare
use, were doing their best to destroy this
government. We thought that there
was some little doubt about these "lov-
ers of the country" We have never had
much faith In the conversion of the man
Peter Cartwright soundly fiogged before
he could convert him. 1t has always
seemed to us that the element of SINGER
ity and "iove'' were wanting. But per-
haps we are mistaken; perhaps these
''lovers of the country" have met with
"a change of heart" as suddenly as did
Paul on the road to Damascus. Will
not the Sentinel tell US all about it
Were the men who attempted to burn
the principal cities of the North in '65,
and tried to introduce into them in
fected clothing, any relation to these
'reformers and lovers of country ?" We
really should like to know.-Hunl6oldt
Register.
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how I was feeling. He looked pleased
when told him I felt better. Then he
went to the bureau to take a view of
himself in the glass. Presently he
said; 'I haven't had anything fit to eat
for week. Couldn't you just sit out
in the kitchen and tell that girl how to
do 2'I
ayes, maybe so," I said, forcing back
the tears that would come into my eyes
because Tom seemed more thoughtful
of himself than of me; and little hard
feeling came into my heart, and 1
thought would get his supper for him,
no matter what happened.
hardly knew how 1 prepared that
meal, but, just as had put the last
dish on the table, Tom came in. saw
that his face was deadly pale, but the
room was spinning round so fast 1
could not say anything. A blank fol-
lowed. The next i felt great drops
falling on my face, and 1 knew that
1 was on the bed and that Tom was
bending over me. When opened my
eyes he buried his face in the pillow
and sobbed. Well, 7 cried too, and
blamed myself for going out in the
kitchen at all.
Next week I'll tell you more about
how it is to be sick.
MADGE BRIGHT.
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Autumn at Long Branch.

Beyond all question, the most de-
lightful time of the year at Long
Branch, but not the most fashionable,
is the autumn, when there comes upon
the shining face of the sea a soft haze,
which is most agreeable to the eye, and
the air is full of balmy OdOrs. To many
people, the sight of the sea with the
sunlight beating on it in the bright days
of summer is painful and wearisome.
"Oh, can't bear the sea ~ cried poet
of my acquaintance, one day, as we
stood on the bluff; "it puts my eyes
out" On some hot days the great wat
ers will lie almost rippleless, save for a
little surfy dog-day frothing at the
mouth, all the long hours from morn
till dewy eve, glittering like a burn
ished shield, and flashing in the eyes of
the beholder until he is fain to fly.
But in the mellow days of autumn this
is not so. Though the ocean then
grows smoother than even in the hot
test of the og-days-though it will
sometimes lie for days together like a
mirror-it is not mirror which flashes
back dazzling sunbeams, but absorbs
them, and the eye is rested. Then the
tapping waves WOO the shore so gently
Oriental luxury not to be resisted. The
atmosphere is so sweet and pure you
can almost taste it, and the waters,
warmed by the long heats of summer,
are as balmy as the air. When the tide
reaches of shallow bathing ground as
the bathers of the midsummer would
hardly believe possible. On the same
- oh in Tnlr frrI
buffeted strong men in its giant arms
as pigmies, and tossed them, painting
with exhaustion, on the hot sands, now,
in September, they might wade out
half a mile from shore before they
would meet a surf sufficiently strong tC
knock them off their feet. But, in
September, when the surf-bathiDg was
like this, there would be no more than
three or four lonely bathers in the ses
! at the hour when formerly there were 8
hundred. The writer remained at Long
Branch last season until near October
and does not speak from hearsay. The
hotels were utterly deserted; cows pas
| tured on the lawns in front of them
the windows were nailed up will
boards; the bathing huts were torn t
pieces, and lay piled, mere everyday
lumber, in heaps on the grassy bluff
no carriages rolled up and down the av
enue; no lovers strolled upon the sands
yet, the days were simply heavenly
and passed by like dreams of fairy-land
! Long Branch was at its lOveliest, bu
the crowds were gone. Fashion is th
jade who has wrought this grievou
wrong upon our fellow-men.-OLjU
Logan, in Harper'S Magazine for Sep
| feJl1ber
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A Gentle Hint.

Believing it to be the duty of every
one to look just as well as possible with
out spending needless time and money
upon personal adornment, we submit
the following hint from a popular au-
thor for the benefit of those whose mir
rors return to them pale blue eyes, often
rendered paler and given a weak ap-
pearance by the dimming effects of
a bright blue dress, tie, or ribbon:
I found out something new the other
day. Professor McWilliams's baby,
about ten months old, has very light
blue eyes; SO pale, indeed, that people
often say there is something not right
about that baby's eyes, that they are
defective, or its mind will be weak.
But why its eyes look pale and ugly
came to me in such a strange way that
| want to tell you about it, because |
believe you girl-readers will find valua-
BILE Information in it.
Tudie wanted a new pink dress to
wear to a picnic, and her mother sent
her six specimens of pink calico that
she might make a selection, then she
would buy the dress and make and send
it to her. We spread out the six pieces
beside each other, and every one of us
said: "None of them are pretty. This
light pink looks dingy, and as if it had
been worn out, almost; this dark looks
bold; this purple pink will not wash;
this delicate shade will wear DINNER
and DINNER; this makes us think of
pokeberry stain; and this striped looks
too positive and glaring."
The child was disappointed, and wrote
home to her mother that none of the
pieces were pretty; but the mother, di-
Vining the reason, selected the delicate
pink with a little not of red in it, made
up the dress and sent it, and it was just
as pretty as pretty could be.
Now, the reason was, that We had
laid the samples beside each other to
compare them, and the different shades
of pink had-had-I don't know how to
tell it so you will understanding be-
lieve they had injured, or belied, OF
killed eacn other. Any one piece alone
would have been pretty. Tudie's
mother must have thought how we had
been induced to give such a sweeping
judgment against the half-dozen pieces,
From this came the conclusion con-
cerning baby McWilliams's eyes.
thought, and both my hands went UP
in surprise as 1 said "Why, that baby
has always worn little blue sacques, anG
the light blue of its dear little eyes has
suffered condemnation for no other rea'
son."
1 hurried over and told its mother
and she said she had no doubt but thai
was the reason, and ever since theI
haby's blue has been laid aside.
Then l remembered how annoyed
used to be last summer when Mary wore
her hat trimmed in light blue gros- grair
ribbon, and the ribbon about her necE
was another shade of blue, and the blut
of her eyes still another. 1 could no
think what was wrong, I only knew
that / was annoyed whenever she wa
dressed that one way.
have not made this very plain, bu
you women readers will understand i
perhaps better than l do.
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$50 you are going to marry drug
gist's clerk ?n remarked a Chicago girl
to another on the street cars yesterday.
The question was asked in an unmis-
taxable tone of derision, and so the fair
one addressed half apologeticalIy re-
piled: "Of course-don't they have all
the soda water they want for nothing2"
"Yes," was the gloomy reply; they're
all right in summer, but what about
next winter?" "Ohv' mildly answered
the engaged one; "maybe by that time
We'll be divorced l' The interfering
friend seemed satisfied them Chicago
Journal.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-22

AN ITEM FOR TEMPERANCE PEOPLE.
Prohibition in all of its phases has been
discussed and rediscussed during the
past few years, its enemies rallying TO
the charge as often as its friends COM
PEELED them to temporarily retreat. In
this, as in other matters, ii is fair to
presume that a pound of practice is
worth a ton of theory, and we submit
this item from an Eastern exchange to
the consideration of those who believe
that prohibition laws would, if passed,
remain dead upon the statutes:
Temperance men may well point to
the town of Vineland, n. J. The liquor
traffic has been effectually shut out,
first, by clause in original deeds
of town lots; secondly, by the
united action of the people in voting
mo license" So here is a town of
twelve thousand inhabitants, with
property valued at $1,000, 900, and with
out grog-shop, Jail, almshouse, or po-
lice department. The deputy-sheriff, q
grocer, is the guardian of the public
peace-the only policeman. Cost Ol
pauper support in 1874, only 1924.
Vineland has been contrasted with New
Britain, Ct, which has one hundred
grog-shops, and pays $500 for police
and SIS, 800 for pauperism.
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BEECHER's FOURTH OF July ORA
TIoN.-In Mr.. Beecher's Fourth of July
Grafton, delivered at Peekskill, n. Y,
there occur the following paragraphs.
Summing up the growth and gains of
woman during the last hundred years,
he says:
Nor has she done growing. That
power which is latent and directly ap-
piled, is seeking for itself channels that
shall be direct and influential. You
may die too soon to see, as many have
died before they saw the beatific vision,
but you that live long enough will see
woman vote, and, when you see woman
voting, you will see less lying, less
selhshness, less brutality, and more
public spirit and heroism and romance
in public affairs. l do not propose to
discuss the question at any length with
you, but l cannot fail to recognize,
with thanksgiving, that steady advance
which is sure to make woman a voter
in this generation.
Again, showing how, in a hundred
years, suffrage has extended its bound:
until it includes the whole male popu.
iation, he continues:
And now there is but one step more
We permit the lame, the halt, and the
blind to go to the ballot-box; we per
NIT the foreigner and the black man
the slave and the freeman, to partake o
suffrage; there is but one thing left out
and that is the mother that taught US
and the wife who is thought worthy t.
walk side by side with US. 1t is Yomar
that is put lower than the slave-lowel
than the ignorant foreigner. She il
put among the paupers and the insane
whom the law will not allow to vote
But the days are numbered in whicE
! this exclusion can take place.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-22
In Memoriam.

Lucy Stone, in the WoDldn's Journal,
pays the following tribute of remem-
brance and respect to one of the earliest
laborers in the movement for equal
rights for women:
Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis died at
her home in Providence, Rhode Island,
last week, of cOnsumptiOm
Mrs. Davis was one of the earliest
woman's rights workers. She was one
of the callers of the first convention,
held in Worcester twenty-six years ago.
She took an active part in that conven-
ton, and in some of the conventions
which followed. She was at one time
editor of The Una, a weekly paper de-
voted to the interests of women.
But her most essential service was
rendered by lectures on ANATOMY and
Physiology" She prepared herself
carefully, procured a mannikin to illus
trate her subject, and travelled with it,
lecturing in all the large towns and
cities, and in many smaller places, be-
fore the right of women to speak in
public was fully acknowledged. Her
lectures were always given to audiences
of women, and, as the public had dim
idea that women had right to, know
something about their own anatomy,
her lectures were tolerated, and, at last,
welcomed. Her presence as a lecturer,
and the very announcement that a
woman would lecture, helped to make
the way easier for those who have come
after her. The lectures were source of
! income to her, and, no doubt, suggested
the idea to other women of earning a
| livelihood by public speaking,
For several years past, Mrs. Davis has
been an invalid, seeking health or relief
in foreign countries, or confined to her
own home. Mr.. Davis and two adopted
daughters survive her.
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{ All the real godsends are
Common as the daily dew

A PANCAKE SUPPER.-The- average
Western girl doesn't take dare. She
prides herself on her inventive genius
also. The other day a couple of young
men, "nameless here forever more," ex-
pressed a fOndness for pancakes, and
boasted of the store-room for this kind
of fruit in the bay window of their anat-
omy. This expression was made in the
presence of two young ladies, who re-
solved that they would institute nov
city in the evening entertainments, by
getting up kind of select pancake tea
party. Invitations were issued to these
two aforementioned young men to call
at $40 P. NJ. and test their pancake ca
pacity. We are gratified to state this
morning that the whole business was a
grand success. The mills of the gods
grind slowly, and long years may come
and go, while the frost of age may set
tie in the dark locks, but the remem-
brance of this pancake supper will
dwell in the memory of those young
folks like the many-hued circus poster
as it clingeth lovingly to the board fence.
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The first seeds of matrimonial discord
are usually sown Immediately after go
ing to housekeeping. 1t is not because
the tender wave of harmony no longer
pulsates from soul to soul. 1t is be-
canse she insists on his doing the mar
keting Immediately after breakfast, on
a full stomach, when he doesn't care
whether he has canvas-back duck or q
boiled dish-rag for the next meal.
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fT know'd it-I know'd it," remarked
a colored politician, sitting on the GUS
tom-house steps, discussing the outlook,
'dat de Democrats had done every kind
OBJ wickedness, but fur dem to go now
an denominate dat man Tiltun arter all
de big lies bout Brudder Beecher, is jes
simply owdashus. Mobile Register.
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Iowa juries hold that in case mar
riage engagement is broken, the parties
must return all presents, or their worth
in money.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-22

'That's going most too far,"Ias a man
said when his wife went to Europe with
another Woman's husband.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-22

If falsehood paralyzed the tongue,
what death-like silence would pervade
society,
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A bad pOlicy.-one that has run out.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-31
GIVING UP THE FIGHT.
Republicans Dcspondept and Conceding the
Election Of Tilden.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-IIardly any topic
is spoken Of here except the Presidential cleo
tion and Its consequences. There Ia a marked
difference between the two parties. The DEM
ocrats are In receipt OF encouraging news from
all quarters, and rcgast the contest as virtually
settled. Their enthusiasm and exnltaton a.
only p'ralleled by the despondency OF their or
ponents. This gloom over the Hepubcans 10
visible everywhere. and especially In the cxecu-
tive departments. Here the conviction Is gen.
eral that Tilden will bo elec ed. and especially
Is the idea current among tho female clerks,
whose ages, antocedent.. ani political a1lia-
tiOns have lately been 80 csrefully examined
into hy the Radical managers. This demoral-
lean of this morninc calls on the despondtng
RoUubllcans to have pluck. and argues with
thou to show that their fear Is onlya oonvic-
tion OF the evil Iildens election would hri1g
upon the country. The leaders have no notion OF
refunding the two per cent. levied on the an
nual salaries OF these clerks, but 1t Ia not un-
likely TINS tax may be made the subject OF a
rieid Congressional investigation next winter,
some of the most prominent and well Informed
Republicans openly GIVE up the nght. Informa-
tlun has reached here that the Republican Ma
tional Committee, regarding New York as n
hopeless state, are now concentrating their
resources on North Carolina. There Ia un-
doubtedly z lnie of devitry on foot with re-
spect to North Carolina similar to the frauds by
which It was carried for Grant In 1872. but the
best belioi Is that the majority this time Ia too
large to DO swept away Oy any ordinary frauds.
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PRICE TWO CENTS.
LIFE In THE METROPOLIS.
DASHEs HERE AND THERE M rHH
SUNS REPOR ORTERS.
Not Done on the uiebwnv-Buf in the Litus
Chamber in which Zach Chandler Il Co.
IA ,i.fx a

Not Done on the uigbwnv-But In the httio
Chamber IN which Zneh Chandler & Co.
Keep their LiUutenant. Gen. Pinckner.
"Gen. Pinckney desires to see you at
Hanover square," was the notice that every em-
ployee In the Custom House got yesterday on
appearing IN the Auditors office to receive
check for hls October SALARY. Few dared to dis
regard the notice, knowing that dismissal would
follow II they did so. The robbery Of the ONCE
holders was ncrpetrated openly at the place
designated. The sum demanded was four per
cent. OF the victims salaries, two per cent. OF
which they delivered In sep,ember.
One poor oflceholdcr, on stepping out from
the theatre of the robbery said; 81 have Just
given them t95, and shall have to hand over
s25 more TO the Ward Association When get
home ! shall have onl, 35j to give my wife to
pay tho rent and buy coal aud food through Mo-
Gen pinckney met zich Chandler In Collector
hrthui's otlce at three o'clock In the afternoon.
anu y ~ over the booty to him, the amount be-
inc $30,000
Tue ten per cent. taken from Custom Hotls
salaries by ex-senator Bristow last spring was
restored yesterday. by orders from Washington.
III was Understood that the restoration wls
merely Tor one month, TO enable the ufilcchold-
efs moro easily 10 bear the Hayes and Wheeled
robbery !
Atet ELECTION the salaries atc 10 bo reduced
and "A number OF men are to be discharged to
bring the expe nses OF the service within the APP
urOUfiatiOu,
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TUPPER'> REIDIACS.
The Drama oil Washington, but Not Of Ross
shepherds WASHINGTON,

Shtpherd's washington,
1t was not large audience that greeted
Martin Farquhar lupper last night but Cnicker-
log Hnl was tolerably well flied, and the Pro-
verbal Philos Jpher received q hearty welcome
from at least go enthusiastic admirers. The en-
tertainment offered by Mr.. Tupper consisted OF
readings from lis own works, in their rhymed,
rhythnical, and dramatic torns," az the pro-
srammes set II forth. and tho FIRST piece on the
list was, very appropriately, the poets "Wol-
come" As no reached the reading desk, amid
applause, he announced the title OF the opening
poem, and gave as MS reason iur prfsuuttn1 IL.
tht u tfeathed a heartfelt sentiment that
would well serve hiin ~ a graceful return fur
the many Kind words Of welcome thAt he h Il
received in tLis his second visit to tue New
world. lie Rad the pleasant lines with much
ieelhs' auu' AS lie rehd, LIS oren faco aud
bright eyes beamed fOr,h tue CHEEKY greeting
which be meant tu express In words. hut whIcn,
unfortunately, failed TO reach largo portion
Of h, auditors. lie next read his "H ilway
lines ana, altera cuirbing comment followed
with MS proyeruiai PHILOSOPHY ot Love"
mat wa my wfe, Oi wnom wrote IA clos
lac tho extract have recited," ID Mr. Tupper,
WIN win"ins smiie. - married her snOrtly
ai eTwaid. That was Ave aud fIriy years ago,
ANA nay opinions have not ca nepd. Sometimes
human natures sOucr second Thought Is besi la
1--we matters, ana VIA now Irtj you Cecifs
inen followed some more rroyerti4I philoso-
ply, this tiue anout marriage: after whiah tho
tender s"Shlng poet, ali healt ana SOU, seemed
u undergo com plote metamorpnosis. Ia his
Adventure he shOt the Iohtiug lion ana too
raFenOus wolf; strangied the anaconda and tho
tDugh sItAzlI; aud, ia Dfei, hileu the air with
hows and the eattn with bl ud. His hearers
were delighted, but when, on MS nylng steed ne
rode down the megaincriIfn, ami sent his good
sn.tt through the tVu-h hide OF the Iniuocoros,
and ridIied the ichucumOn vita IoAdon balls,
thtiR'nlhusi SIN knew no bounds, aud ;Le naI
rdn-", lth applause,
Mr.. TUNER read many more seloctlons from
his pnnted worAs, but no hing that ha
present ed awakened hall the Interest that
centred III a scene from his fJlthcom-
lng drama, " W ashiugton.' II introduced
1mothV Yankee, wno must he better
khowhtO he idehdhed as such; Rpchei li4 pu-
pil, and perhaps his sweetheart; NuNhuI. "A Qua
r, who speak, tue Imtei states lAu9ila 20
with perfect ,ccur,cy; ana BJuuiia Fr1HkAn,
Wlo comes upon tho scene IN timely answer 10
a question ~ rog.rd to the nag ut ihe Uuited
: ites Dr Fdnhlin tells you the design OF the
ilag WAS au amuilGcaliJn Of MaohIugtuu's coat
~ armsi Timothy becomes, u possible. more
patriolc than belore: Rachel Is lost m wonder,
anu Nathan almost swears that, although no Is
man ~ peace, II aHy Otbet man oar, ; 10 touch
lhat Il ~, save m the way u hiuduess, ho Will
shoot Lill Ou tho spot.