Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-09
=. n onKILLING WOMEN


when the pert Margaret toid Deneoic'
that his wit was as blunt as q fencer's ioiis'
which s.hit but hurt not" he answered;
"A most manly wit. Margaret; it will not
burt a woman" The average riminal oil
the present day, remarks the New York
Yard. Il we may trust the daily records
Of the newspapers, is not like Benedicts
vii, rs his main purpose seems to be to
hurt women by blowing out their brains,
cutting their throats, heaving them out OF
high windows and kicking them to death.
Indeed, the number Of persons who have
been laying their hands upon women in
the way Of unkindness lately is alarming.
Under the old notion that the exaltation OF
women was the full poisoning Of civilian
tion-s.the greatest evidence of its health
and the greatest excellence Of its beauty
the protection Of her weakness, the worship
Of her beauty, the desire for her compan-
ionship, we're like the faith and hope of a
chivalrie religion. and being a woman was
the pleasantest lot in life to which anybody
could 81 called. But things are changed.
and many seem TO have fallen back into
the old barbaric idea that man owns wo-
man and can claim submission from her
under penalty Of death.
There are countries in which certain
animals are held sacred, and men let them
roam the woods at will, build parks for
them and make fantastic shelters wherein
they can seek refuge from the storm. II
IN any one Of these places the superstition
should suddenly cease, we can imagine
how these hitherto sacred animals might
be neglected, despised and ever hunted as
prey, SO that the wayfarer would stumble
over their carcasses by rock and stream, as
is now common in regard to the corpses Of
women in various parts Of the Union.
Members Of that unfortunate sex seem to
have no rights that q man is any longer
bound 10 respect. II they seek security in
married life, the drunken. jealous and I'M
faithful husband who promised to love and
cherish them may deal with them by axe
or poison.
Recent news from Chicago tells of the
slaughter Of two wives by their lords and
masters. II they shun matrimony, some
young fellow like Lawyer Tracy, of Smith
port, Pa, or Hotel Clerk Guetig, Of In
dianapolis, takes it into his head
to shoot the recalcitrant objec. Of
his affections. If they steer be-
tween the scylla Of wedlock and the
Charybdis Of spinsterhood, like Mary
Stannard, they may get murdered by a
total stranger in q blackberry patch. The
late lamented Scntor Morton used to say
ON the stump-that it was o f~avorite
amusement with the Southern chivalry to
60 cunning for negroes; it seems to be .
favorite amusement with the chivalry Of
III parts Of the country nowadays to go
cunning fer women If this thing con-
sinscs, the profession Of being = woman,
which has fiourished in spite Of all that
Susan B. Anthony and John Stuart Mill
have said against it, will become decidedly
unpopular, and the affrighted females will
gather their skirts in . firm grasp and fee
70 the uttermost parts Of the earth.
The World thinks 1t is time that the
preservation Of women should be pro-
nounced the first law Of nature. and does
not deem 1t too great q severity to ordain
for their slayers that they shall undergo
The penalties which in England attach to
shooting . fox.