The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-07

Mrs Lovelady's land claim was in due time adj
vertised for sale under the Sherif7s hammer
This brought Mr.. Allgrace, the father of Mrs.
Loveady, to the front. And /, being in search of
a ranch, was driven out to the land claim in ques-
tion in company with the father and mother of
the supported and protected woman, whom we
found in tears and destitutOn.
''Women are blasted idiots in money matters !"
said Mr. Allgace, desperately. "What in the
name o. common sense did you sign over your
claim to Adonis for Oracle? Didn't you have
sense enough to know he couldn't keep ?"
''You forget yourself sir Adonis Lovelady is
my husband ~ said Mrs Lovelady, with an impe-
rous gesture in i'll keeping with her angular form
and grim visage.
"That hasn't prevented him from being darned
fool ~ was the fathers apt rejoinder.
'Then we're well mated" said Oracle, with a
bitter smile.
"weIl mated I'd say so! Half score O.
clamerous young ones, and not rood o land to
bless yourselves with ~
81 decided my claim to Mr.. Lovelady because he
wouldn't go to work on my. land, father. 1t was
too humiliating to his pride. \ man ought to be
the head of the family, you know"
'Stuff and nonsense - retorted Mr.. Allgrace.
a man that's worthy to be the head of family
never bothers his head about his imaginary dig
nifty. How much is the Indebtedness Of this para
gon of conceit and incapacty that YOU call the
head Of the family?'
''I don't know"
'Then ask him. and find out"
''He won't tell me- He thinks it isn't my busi-
ness TO know"
'Td like TO know whose business il Is, then
with ali these mouths to feed and nothing TO 20
uponw
Adonis Lovelady entered at this juncture, look
ing crest fallen and sheepsh. Hot words passec
for several minutes between the father-in-law an,
himself / shall not repeat their language. Suf
flee il To say that each consigned the other Il
places where the thermometer would hardly indi
cate the heat.
'I shall bid high enough upon this land claim
said Mr.. Allgracc. ''to free il from encumbrance
and then I'll turn it over to my daughter for he
inheritance, retaining the control of it in my owl
possession till she gets sense enough in her hea'
to know that she's somebody on her own account
'And compel me to live with my wife ," aske,
Adonis Lovelady, with lugubrious look that
regret my inability to transfer to paper.
! "You can live with your wife or go to thunder =
was the coutemptuous response. II have no pa
tience with any such nonsense. If you'd beer
man enough 20 make a living and be somebody
/ in your own person, you'd never have been in thi
/ fix / always notice that the men of smalles
mental caliber and greatest incapacity to get il
the world are the greatest sticllers for their imag
mary rightsr
had good reason, as the reader knows, to re
frain from bidding when Mrs. Loveady's CLAIM
was sold under the hammer.
Mr. Allgrace kept his word. He bought tn
claim and paid the debts, and gave his daughte
an order upon his account at bank for money t
fence and pow and build and plant an orchard.
Adons Lovelady very indignant at first
but he gradually became accustomed to the neN
order of things. 1t never will be possible to max
a good manager of him, but he has learned in thes
later years to rely upon the superior judgment
his wife, and has altogether given up the idea
ever again owning donation claim on his ow
account.
Mrs. Lovelady has regained her health and spil
its, and is driving ahead with her business in
practical, quiet womanly way bringing healt
and prosperity to herself and family, and causin
her husband to prosper i'm n manner that, under tn
old regime, would not have been possible.
wish every Mrs. Lovelady had father lik
Mr.. Allgrace. But, very few women in lib
circumstances blessed with parents who ca
or will assist them, my next desire is that the il
herent individual rights of married women ma
hereafter be respected, and that men and wome
will learn at once that both sexes will I
largely benefited by granting to both the libert
that is now monopolized by one class,
The death in New York is announced of Elisl
Bliss, who brought out Mark Twains 'Innocen