The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-23

mot long"
"Then you see that your great weak
ness is caused in great part by the Ii
cense you have had to do evil. You
have dared to exercise the masculine
prerogative because woman was power
less to make laws, either to prevent it
or protect herself. But, by the time
this baby is a woman, all women will
be mems co-Iaw-makers, and then, men
will be held to just as strict account for
all their misdeeds as they to-day hold
women. There is no law now in exist
ence to protect woman in this way;
therefore, I, an outlaw as far as the
legal codes of men are concerned, am
resolved to be a law unto myself, and
thereby protect my own womanhood. !"
81 only wish all the women in the
world were like yep exclaimed the
nervous sufferer, with a sob.
"If every woman would be true to her
self she could easily compel all men to
be true to themselves" was the decided
reply.
ppm awful sick ~ said Jason, sud-
denly, "and I'll never be well any
more"
"He ought to sober off by degrees" I"
whispered Mrs. Andrews, coming in.
(Which he cannot do ~ said Madge,
as she assisted him to the clean, white
bed, with its "clover leaf'' spread of
patchwork, which he had so often de-
spoiled in days gone by with his
drunken debaucheries.
81 clearly see," continued Madge,
"that it's case of kill or cure. If we
give him liquor, and patch him up by
easing his longing, it will only prolong
his misery, for he will not be cured, but
will be more than ever susceptible of
temptation. Let him alone. He'll
either get thoroughly well and die de-
Gently, in his bed, or rise from this ILL
ness so thoroughly controlled by the
demon that We can no longer manage
him, and then he'll die on the gallows
or i'm the gutter. Desperate diseases re-
quire desperate remedies. have re-
solved to save Jason Andrews, but
whether in the body or out of the body,
I cannot tell. God knoweth."
'Madge! are you crazy ?"
81 guess so. 1t seems to do you all a
great deal of good to think am, at any
rate"
"But what do you mean by saving
Jason whether in the body or out OF
Iit""
"Just what say"
"Well, do explain 1t. You frighten
me-"
"MOther, 1 see clearly, yet 1 cannot
tell you how or why, for it is not Lawful
for me to utter all the truth that is re.
vealed unto me, that when a pOol
drunkard dies with his spirit clouded
with such a disease as is consuming
Jason, the awful appetite will follow
him into the other life, where there
| shall be weeping and gnashing. of teeth
! That evil spirit must come out Of JasoI
Andrews, and we must exercise it.
e his body is rent by the ordeal, we shall
have done our duty, and can afford tt
leave the result with God. If he shal
survive the treatment, he shall com,
r forth ransomed while yet in the bod!
from one of the most burdensome ant
t soul-destroying diseases ever yet enduret
f or cured among men. If he goes ou
+ into the life of souls afflicted and il
q chains, his last state shall be wOrs
than his first"
u "Well, Madge, have things your OWL
way. But must say that, to my mind
O your theology looks about as badI.
:. muddled as your system of hygiene"
Il 'If you could feel truths in you
d bones, and see them with your eye
}, shut, you wouldn't talk that way !!
d cried Madge, as she relapsed into he
o usual reticence over the faith that wa
e in her; which was literally the sub
stance of things hoped for, anu the evi
|, dence of things not seen.
q 1t was soon known through the neigh
d borhood that Jason Andrews was dar
J. gerously i'll. To the surprise of th
many visitors who so thronged an
filled the house with all sorts of -unsee
,e magnetisms as would alone have rel
,. dered the recovery of the patient uncel
1t tain, if not impossible, he refused otht
% medical aid than such as Madge pr,
Ie scribed.
l. "pve dreamed dreams an seen vi
ions, an somehow / know that whi
a Madge tells me is true ~ he would sa.
ID 81 don't want to live unless 1 can COZ
r quer drunkenness by gettin' well. If
die fghtin' it, know Pll conquer, for
/, see the light ahead"
lie 'The girls bewitched him. I'd lii
er to see the days of thumb-screws al
I'd racks come back again for all cases lii
MadgeW said tie ex-parsOn, with IL
:" voice that naturally attuned itself on q
IS solemn occasions to a rasping doub
lie bass. "This sorcery among women tn
IN rises and puts its own construction {
Scripture, when Paul suffered not
r. woman to teach, is simply abonlinGble
er (Which is the best judge of what
IS woman can and ought to do, do "
think-God Almighty, or Paul ?" cri,
~ Madge, her eyes flashing.