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The Coming Women.
BY REV. T. o. AYRES.


man, all eliminating in the idea that he
will blush alike to be or have "slaye.n he
will "blush at naught but sin, and fear
naught but Cod" But the coming woman,
what will she be and do? Will she follow the
plough, be constable, policeman, black.
smith, or will she be content to 20 to Con.
gress, play doctor, and preacher?
Now, with the full knowledge of the
fact before us, that this article will be uh-
popular, We take the stand that the coming
woman will be wife, mother and house.
keeper, "only this, and nothing more"
We take this view because we believe it is
true TO the nature of the case. AS we look
back through the ages we track tho fema.
nine trail, and like all of heavens work it
has its internal counterfeit. We read of
Miriam, and witch of Endor, Esther and
Deliah, Sarah, Pataphis wife, and Gez
ebei, OF Mrs. Wesley, Of Mrs. W., of a
Josephine, and bloody Mary. We take
our stand by the nature of the case.
l. The intellectual heave so much talked
of will never come. The great mass of
humanity must dig for bread, for the in.
dustrious, and "the lame and the lazy"
must eat. We shall go on growing, ex-
pandlng, and rising, but the ,cork has got 10
be done. The man must 80 out and do it, the
CONAN must stay IN and do it, and this fact
will keep us at it.
Now let US look at the nature of the case
from another stand point, namely: the
nature and work Of woman.
/. She is Il child receiving her education
learning from books and from practice.
This period runs up to and III most cases
overlaps the physical elimination known
us puberty.
2. When she has reached this state of
being her nature and her heart prompt her
to pursue path that leads to another dstty
and state of being known as wife and
mother. This state continues through the
middle of her life, and reaching on toward
its end.
3. When this middle life-this life giving
periOd-is passed, then she retires, or grad.
yates to an sphere in life: when she sits as
counselor, to give advice to the children,
and to the young wives and mothers.
This is woman's sphere: God has made
1T so and so it will remain. Gods laws are
broken, but they come back, unite and
flow on.
Now in which of these periods has
woman, as q class, the fitness, the time to
enter into ths field of manual professional
labor2 For our own part we do not see that
the nature of her case allows any opportunity
for her as q class. 'Tis true that there are
broken places, periods of rest in her life when
can go out and do much good, but these
chanchss are the exception and not the
| rule.
We conclude by saying that the coming
woman will be wife and mother, and like
the coming man, she will be an improve.
ment on the present stock, but she will be
tSoman, and not a man; she will have o
woman's nature and that nature will con.
troll her, and cause her to seek to fill her
natural sphere in life, which is wife, mother,
house.keeper and help.mate to man, and
may the Lord save her from the wiles OF
short.hairsd women and long.haired men.
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"What shall l. preach about7" said a
minister to the pastor of colored flock
which he was about to address. "Well.
mos any subject will be septabIe," was the
reply, tonly I'd like to glib you word OBJ
caution" "Ah what is that 2" "Well, if
! was you, I'd tech very light on de ten
commandments" "Indeed and why ~
"Qh, COS hab notise dat dey mos always
hab a dampenin' effect on de congrega.
tion.n
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A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.

The explorers were about to retire when
they noticed 8 depression in the floor. A
trap door was revealed. 1t was lifted up,
and in the gloom a pit outlined itself, for.
bidding, cavernous, unknown. Lights were
procured and some of the men descended
They found themselves in an abyss shaped
like well, six feet deep and five feet in
diameter. Her and there little damp
places could be seen, as though water had
come up from the bottom or been poured
down from above. They groped around
over those splotches and held handful to
the light. The oeze smeared itself over
their palms and dribbled through their fin.
gers. 1t was blood. Every suspicion was
realized, the murderers had fed, leaving
behind damning evidences of their hideous
guilt. But where were the bodies of the
victims? For an hour the party Of excited
people traversed the long iron rod. All at
once the iron seemed to strike Heshy
matter. In moments time dozen eager
spades had resurrected from its shallow
grave the decaying body of human being,
1t had been buried face down. They
turned it to the sunlight. 4 cry of terror
went up from the crowd. II was York 8
corpse. Although far advanced in the
stage of decomposition the features were
plainly recognizable. How the murderous
deed had been done was speedily and easily
learned. A terrible blow on the back ol
the head had crushed the skull upon the
brain and the throat had been cut from ear
to ear. The work of discovery went on.
One aftep another were laid bare the graves
of ten murdered people. Most ef the
bodies were identified. Among them were
the bodies of two children, There were nc
marks of violence on them. They had
been buried alive. They had been com
mitted for robbery. Travellers were asked
in to drink. They never left the house
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" GOD KNOWS"

1.-The following exquisite little poem, from the pen
of Nat Urner the NOrtbfcd disaster, appeared i'll
the New York Sun few days ago, and is a gem that
deserves to live Il
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THE ARREST.

All traces OF the Repdsrs wsVe lost,
Where they went no one knew, A few
days ago man was seen travelling eastward
with woman, They stopped at house,
and soon after their arrival made inquiries
as to whether anything bad yet been dis.
covered of the Bender family, who former,
ly lived in Kansas. Pheir talk and actions
excited suspicion, which was further
strengthed by answers to questions asked
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

| Never Kick a thermometer when it
/ Is down. Yoakers Gazette. r. .,.5.
Many people who hunt for happi-
ness are continually finding fault
! W1hiteltaH Times. 7aq-
"A woman cannot become asuccess-
full lawyer. She is too fond of giving
her opinion without pay OIL City Der
rick. as..ss..-...
"A bad little Philadelphia boy made
his mothers hair rise the other day.
He stole her switch for kite bobs. -
Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
Mr.. LIE Due doesn't seem to be
aware that the great demand in this
country is for black raspberry with
out seeds. ds.-Syracuse Herald. 49, -
The base-drum player makes more
noise than anybody else, but he doesn't t
lead the band. There is moral to
this. .-SteasbeasviUe Herald se ssil,.si
The suburban person who talks
most eloqently of crops, focks and
herds, is he who has lived all his DAYS
between the pent up walls of city un-
til week before last. Fresh knowledge
is what gives . man the itch. Boston
Transcript. s-e.. s.s....,e,.
"A Philadelphia lady who never
spanked her boy hard enough to hurt
him recently hung in her sitting room
the Illuminated motto Whatsoever thy
hand fndeth to do, do it with all thy
might. y That boy reformed on the spot.
Philadelphia, Nesos.
=" What are you doing out there, nv
daughter, in the night dewan said the
kindly old gentleman on the piazza.
"Practicing fencing" was the sweet
reply, as she leaned over the picketsr
till her. face was dreadfully near Will
lam m's.-Syracuse Times. sssa.44. s
Chicago is going to make compul-
sorry the use of smoke-consuming appa-
ratus on all locomotives, steamboats, and
factories. fChieago will extend this
wise provision to cover, the men who
smoke five-cent cigars Chicago will
earn the worlds gratitude. Puck.
Two friends were dining at a restau-
rant overlooking the Seine, whose pro-
prietor would skin customer as re-
morselessly as he would skin an eel.
This is an admirable view," said one.
81 love to sit here and look at the
boats.' "Shi Speak low. The boss
will put, the boats in the bill. ."-Paris
Paper. a'l y9Af Bats aia1h si4 &
-"Thrashing by steam, = murmured
fond mother, as she glanced at an ar
ticle in an agricultural paper. 'sWhat
git ups they have to have nowadays. If
I'd had one of those steam thrashers
for my four boys my arms wouldn't have
been SO achy and rheumaticky as they
are to-day. and she dreamily thought
Of the past as it might have been. ANeU1
Hooefs Regsster. .anA ..ElrirnEu al
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rros BELLEVUE, La, THURSDAY AUGUST 26 -lsso

Mr. Gregory followed right after her.
and tell you the starch was taken out
OF him tremendous
''Our children" he began, but broke
right down. And pitied him for all |
was thinking so much of some one else.
l suppose they felt as bad about the
twins as we about our Nell. -.
The wind began to slack a bit, so Mr..
Gregory and started for the wharf.
where father with lots of others was
huddled under the lee of the freight
house, looking off to sea. 1t was break
ing all feather white over the bar at the
harbor mouth-ah, it looked cruel, what
with the black waves and all.
There's tug" hollers old Newell,
who's got an eye like hawk, :. headin'
III for the harbor she is, too" n
= Perhaps we can charter her, Mr..
Gregory" says father, his voice all of a
tremble; but MIR. Gregory only nodded
and kept walking up and down the
wharf.
All of a sudden. Bates, who'd got a
spy-glass somewhere and was Watching
the tug, gave regular yell. like he was
crazy. ~'''-'7ss' . -a...-.-----1S.
"YThey afe-hooray-thank Godr'
he hollered, all in one breath.
| thought it was curious that he should
think 80 much of the twins all at once.
but when he ran at father and began to
hug him, began to mistrust. that he
might have somebody else in his mind.
There didn't much grass grow under
my feet before they had the good news
at the house, you may be sure. And
when about a half an hour after, Nell
herself came running in,5 there was a
regular scene. Father shifted and
mother cried, and that great spoony of
Bates bo-hooed right out. She d lost
her hat, and her hair was all flying, and
she was drenched through; but it was
Nell. When she got her dry things on
and came down stairs again there was
another scene. But I'd like to know
what Bates whispered to make hercolor
up SO. for she didn't blush one bit when
the Gregory's came in and said they
had no words to express their thanks
all that. Best of the whole was, Mr..
Gregory began to beg her pardon, as he
said, for his past tunchristian behavior;
but she hushed him right up. - :
Nell said afterward, that she hap
pened to be looking out the vestry win.
dow while they were singing and saw
the boat adrift with the twins in it. She
set out to give the alarm, but she
thought to herself that if she could row
OFT and get 'em, Mr.. Gregory would see
that her boating practice was something.
beside mere play. She got along side
'en Just as the squalf struck and had to
let her own. boat gosa She kept the
dory along before the wind till it mod
Grated and then the tug picked them all
up and brought them,in safe. fT ,dg
MIR. Gregory's an old trump, after all,
and I'm not mad at him any more. He
had just the neatest little boat built for
Nell, in Portland, ever. you saw. Cedar
wood, copper fastened, with velvet csushl
ions and everything complete. Joke of
1T is, he named her the 'sGemini." But
you can't get bod or Dan within gum
shot of the water now; so their sea voy-
age did 'em that much good. But there
isn't any more unpleasantness between
our folks and Mr.. Gregory's. No sir,
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A Notable Instance Of Fasting.
In view of the experimental Dr. 7

In view of the experimental Dr. Tan
ner, OF New York, in his attempt to fast
forty days. a case which I-heard of in
loI2, while a patient of DIR. Pusey
Head, in his Hygiene Home at VIII
mngton, Del, may be of interest to
your readers: A Mrs. H., a small lady
with dark complexion, who was visit.
OF at the above health institute, accom-
panied by a daughter, who was received
as patient, informed me that twenty
years before she was a hopeless dyspep-
tic. suffering all the terrors that the
term implies and given up to die by her
physicians, when a new physician, a
health-reformer, who in those days, as
a. class, were noted for their "heroic
treatment undertook the treatment of
her case, if she would follow implicitly
his Instructions, encouraging her with
his firm opinion that she would be cured
as a result. Believing that she must
die in any event-which shows thatsher
will power was about exhausted
consented to his terms, which were, in
brief, to abstain from food until he
should order otherwise. The second
and third days of her fast she suffered
excessively from hunger, after which.
she felt no desire for food. Her tongue
soon began to swell and gather slimy
coating, which continued for twenty
days, during which time she exercised
more or less daily, as her strength
would permit. On the twenty-first day
the coating came off her tongue in q
mass. leaving it in a comparatively nor
NAL condition; her physician then or
dered her a little rice water, and by de-
grees she reached generous diet, and
found to her great joy that all her old
dyspeptic symptoms had disappeared,
and that her enjoyment Of food was as
intense and natural as she could desire.
She stated, however, that ever since
her recovery she had been obliged 20
exercise care in her Diet as her stom-
ach had not recovered its original tone
and elasticity, which could hardly be
expected. In conclusion, / have always.
considered this remarkable ease and
fully believe in its truthfulness, as does
DIR. Heald; and there are undoubtedly
others here in Boston who know of It,
as it happened here; and it seems to me
that if sick woman. weak and emaci-
ated from dyspepsia, can live twenty
one days without food, it ought to be
possible for man endowed with good
health and liberal allowance of adipose
material, backed by strong will, to re-
frain for forty days, though perhaps this
reasoning is not altogether logical.
Cor. Boston Transcript.
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the cross, after Rubens; and the en-.
tombment, from Raphael The cruci-
fixion, which is the elimination of the
sublime and awful tragedy, is repre-
sented, according to our guide, with a
pathos and power which the greatest
actors could not surpass. The art is
intensely realistic. The mailing to the
cross, indeed, is not seen, but is heard
behind the scenes; but when the cross
IS raised, the strongest glass could not
show that the nails did not pierce hands
and feet; and there was murmur of
horror when crimson stain followed
the thrust of the centurion's spear. .
1t is peasant named Joseph Mair
who represents Christ. with a studious
fidelity to all the pictures and traditions
and with startling reality of effect, but
with some want of intellectual vigor.
But the same realism is wonderfully
illustrated by the deep and agonized
sigh. distinctly audible to the whole
audience, with which. upon the cross.
he drops his head and dies. For twenty
minutes he is rigidly suspended, but
the stiffness is not relaxed when he is
wrapped in the costly linen cloth by Jo-
seph OF Arimathea. Our observer thinks
PLATE to be, upon the whole, the best
acted character in the play; and after
Plate, Judas. The scowls, the visible
avarice. the shoulder jerking, the
stealthiness and the suspicious face
were admirable and the haggling for
higher price could hardly have been
surpassed by Shylock. Among the
other disciples, Peter was excellent and
he and the rest were all carefully stud
led from Da Vinci's picture.
The spectacle is SO strange to our re-
ligious world, with its own traditions of
propriety, that it probably seems to
many of our readers little short of
blasphemy. Yet ithas very solemn
effect upon the vast throng which be-
holds it. If some eccentricity of Judas
moved to laughter, the emotion was in
stantly and instinctively checked by the
audience; and if the curtain rose upon
apecuiiarly striking tableau. the ten
dency to applause was instantly re-
strained. At the end of the seven hours
OF unflagging attention to the absorb
ing play, during which many had si-
lently shed tears, there was adeep ear
nestness upon the faces of the great null
titude, which moved quietly away with-
out levity. The little town, which has
but fifteen hundred inhabitants, is over
flowed with the deluge of strangers,
and there is naturally a difference of,
opinion as to the moral effect Of, the
play. But if to those beyond the pale of
the Roman Catholic Church it seems,
as to an English clergyman who has de-
nounced it in an open letter, as devilish
it must be remembered that the Church
of Rome has always appealed to the re-
ligious sentiment by every form Of art,
and that the Oberammergau Passion-
Fay is but . step further than, the ex-,
and the Miserere, !" IN 9the sSistine
Chapel. Whatever criticism may be,
passed upon that renowned and impos-
ing service, no one will deny its pro-
found and touching solemnity. Editor's
Easy Chair, in Hdrper's Magazine.
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The Chowders Go Along.

Mr.. Chowder. Mrs. Chowder and four
little Chowders went on the excursion
to Sugar Island yesterday. 1t had been
the talk of the family for week. Each
child had been taken into the bathroom
and washed, secured and sand -papered
down. Each one had received twelve
lectures on the art Of behaving himself
or herself after getting aboard the boat.
Each one had been told about fifty times
what to reply;if old Mrs. Clamshell felt
gracious enough to ask after their
health, or if that bad Brown boy had
one Of his streaks on and made up faces
at them. Every time the subject came
up Mrs. Chowder called for silence and
said:
g Now you children pay strict atten-
tion to what / say. Youcan't have any
ice cream or lemonade or peanuts. You
cant run up and down on the boat. You
must not make a racket. You must not
ask your father for pennies. You must
not keep talking to me. If Henry or
William asks to 60 fishing or swimming
they will get whipping. II Lucy or
Jennie sits down on the grass shall
punish them.n s-1..
-
boat started out. Mr. Chowder had one
eye on his two boys and the other
squinted down the river. Mrs. Chow
der had one eye on the two girls and the
other flashing at a boy who had harvest
apples to sell, and who was trying to
get near them. Chowder had his mind
made up that it one of his boys attempts
ed to find out what steamboat was
like. or limited at fruits or refreshments
or desired to mingle with other bows,
he would squelch him on the spot; and
Mrs. Chowder was fully determined to
let her pinches be felt the very instant
either of the girls forgot her dignity
and wrinkled her stiffiy starched dress.
Two or three hundred children
romped over theisland, playing "tag,"
picked up pebbles, climbed trees and
raced after grasshoppers, but Chowder
sat on log and talked politics; Mrs.
Chowder sat on a camp-stool and talked
of the poor heather and the young
Chowders sat on the edge Of plank seat
and kept their mouths in proper pucker
to reply Eyes ma'am" to every old
grub-hoe who asked if they were hav-
ing an awful good time. When they
returned last evening, not a hat had
been lost-not button gone-not a
shoe string broken-not a particle Of
starch missing. They had that same
solemn pucker, and Chowder and his
wife had the same awful parental dignity.
Not one had even the faintest trace of a
smile when newsboy standing at the
gang-plank shouted out:
Here's family who've been off to
bury their dead grandmother-make
way for the mournersr'- Detroit Free
Press.
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The Oberamhmnse,rgeau m {, Passion. .play.o

The theater, like the theaters of
Greece, is open to the sky--an inelosure
with seats capable of holding five thous-
and persons. The little village over
flowed with people--curious spectators
from all parts of the world, and deyout
throngs of peasants from the neighbor-
ing countrya AT five in the morning
the cannon and the bands of music an
nounced that the great day had dawned.
The town was all iastir, and crowds of
worshipers pressed to the parish church,
where high mass was celebrated. At
eightlo clock the theater was packed
with people. Three cannon-shots echoed
among the mountains that overhang the
town, announcing that the play was to
begin. The country people reverentially
uncovered-for to them the play is re-
hgious festival-and the. performance
began.
An orchestra Of thirty performers
preluded with soft and solemn. music.
The blue sky shone overhead. The
odors of the mountains perfumed the
fresh morning air. The bells of browsing
cattle tinkled from the distant pastures.
The swallows twittered and fitted
among the scenery upon the stage,
while chorus of nineteen-ten women
and nine men-came from either side,
and standing in a line before the audi
ence, chanting fitting prologue. It is
the correspondents of the London Times
through whose eyes we look, but even
he does not attempt to give complete
account of a play which, beginning at
eight in the morning, continues until
five in the afternoon, with an hours in
termission. It is series of symbolic
tableaux from the Old Testament, fol-
lowed by spoken scenes from the New.
The play is in two parts-the first OPEN
ing with Christ's triumphal entry into
Jerusalem, and ending with His be-
trayal and imprisonment; the second
beginning with His trial, and ending
with the resurrection.
The tableaux are symbolical and Gu
riously illustrate the ingenuity of the
playwright. Judas's bribe of thirty
pieces of silver, for instance, is repre-
sented as typifed by the sale of Joseph
by his brethren to the Midianites for
twenty pieces and the scene of the en-
try into Jerusalem is preceded by two
tableaux, of the expulsion of Adam and
Eve from Paradise, and the sacrifice of
Isaac. They are all perfect of their
kind. There is no looking askance at
the audience to study the effect; but the
statuesque immovability of the rustic
performers and the felicity and complete
ness of the design and the execution.
suggest the connection between Jewish
history and what is believed to be its
Interpretation and fulfllment, in man
ner which leaves very profound and
solemn impression.
The scenes in the life of Christ which
are portrayed are the Sanhedrim taking
council against Christ, the parting at
Bethany; the Last Supper, which is a
perfect copy Of Leonardo's great pict-
IRE; the appearance of Christ before
His judges; the bearing of the cross,
trom Paul Veronese; the descent from