The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-14

! lalk goou Engllsn, pleaSei MI hOT-
rison; your learning mystifies me-"
'p1 get you books to read" was the
amused reply. IA brain like yours
should be well stocked with knowl-
edge"
81 wish my brain were stored with
understanding" said Madge, dryly.
"You don't seem to want me to pro-
ceed with my story, madam"
''Yes, do; or 1 should, only I have
lost faith in all men, and Pm afraid
your story will make me lose confidence
in all women"
"You're mistaken, madam. You will
find, before you have seen much more
of life, that you have not lost faith in
either men or women. Sometimes both
are bad, but exceptions do not consti-
tute the rule"
''They prove it, though"
'You're in a bitter mood, ma'am-
what did you say your name was ?'
'T didn't say"
81 beg pardon"
"Go on with your story"
"The woman loved became my af-
fanced I was wealthy, L lavished
every luxury upon her. I trusted her
farther than 1 would have trusted my
self I built my brightest and holiest
hopes upon the altar of her affections.
She was an orphan. paid her ex-
penses at school. 1 did not want to
hurry her into matrimony. She loved
me, as 1 believed, and I was content.
What do you think the denOuement
was ?"
"She met some brainless pumpkin
and married him." said Madge. "These
things always turn out this way in real
!. life. In novels there are exceptions.
Some grand, lordly man, in novels, af-
ter much tribulation, becomes the hus-
band of some charming divinity in
, muslin, and all trouble ceases with the
/ marriage ceremony. In real life the
trouble begins where the novel leaves it
off,"
"She became fascinated with a de-
; signing villain" continued the narra-
tor, "and, even while she was subsisting
upon my bounty, she was living in Sc
cret and guilty alliance with a man in
whose veins my own kindred blood was
! flowing. The result was as might have
been expected. AS the sun, in kissing
the rosebud, tears open its petals and
! leaves it at last to wither and blight, so
the villain, who was my own sisters
son, as soon as he had accomplished her
ruin, ran away and left her to her fate
r of disgrace and faithlessness."
''That was very sad, said Madge.
] at was devilish % was the excited re-
, joinder. THE man who will desert his
= own offspring, and the mother who
s bears it for him, in time of her trial, is
a monster whom it would be base fat
q terry to call a brute"
r "You describe Jason Andrews, my
= adorable step-father, most faithfully
e al don't care whom I'm describing
but know Pm speaking the truth"
e "What became of het?" asked Madge
d az sent check to her foster-mother
whom have never seen, and to whom
z. did not reveal myself, for had be
n come acquainted with my ideal in
distant town, and selling out my posses
~ sions at a sacrifice, 1 left for California
Ie where speculated till became as poo
t. as a church mouse. Men are deceptiv
when women are not in their power
lie sometimes, and tyrannical when the.
l. have the power, often; but women ar
,e their mothers, and under the same Ii
cense, would be as heartless as they.n
d, az hope they will never have the sam
We license, then"
''They ought not to have the license
I'd and men ought not to have it, eitheI
My hearts idol is dead to me; but, if
bit ever set eyes on her betrayer, I'll send
I'D bullet through him quicker than
er would shoot rabid dog"
'That is because he interfered wit
one whom you considered your prospet
tive property, sir. If you were indit
to nant from principle, you would avene
Ir. some other woman's injury in just I
ny radical a manner, provided she hs
been betrayed"
at ''How do you make that out?"
lr- az see the idea is new to you, sir. It
rst new to all men. But, you see, the prime
pie is the same, no matter what woms
fe, is betrayed, or how, or by whom.
man is woman's protector on gener
re- principles, as he claims to be, he shou
lat not confine the practice of his theory
'ry such women only as he holds CLAIM
ng upon, whether those claims be presel
t." or prospective. He should, rather, no
lr- himself responsible to her for all Il
wrongs she may suffer through men,
matter where he may find her, or und
ou what conditions"
81 see you have studied this questit
of thoroughly"
he 'No, haven't, or Ishould know wh
ld- to do. 1 am resolved upon one thin
lto though; rll not go back the man W
ill calls himself my husband"
rd- "Then you will act very wickedly." ;"
ant ''I know better, sir. He stultifi
as himself, and morally nullified our m;