The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-02-26

but she must be emancipated from her pres
emit thraldom. Thral lom of this kind is
liable to break out in any community, and
those who are now in perfect health may
pine away in q short time and flicker.
My course while mingling in society mad
whirl is to first opel the conversation with q
young lady by leading her away to the con-
servatory, where I ask her if shs has ever
been the victim of thraldom and whether or
not she has ever been ground under the
heel of the tyrant man then time her
pulse for thirty minutes, SO as to strike a
good average The emancipation Of woman
is destined at some day to become one of our
leading industries.
You also ask me to kindly lead the ger
man while there | would cheerfully do SO,
but owing to the wobbly eccentricity of my
cyclone leg it would be sort of q broken ger
man Blu could sit near by and watch
the game with fur.ive glance, and fan the
young ladi between the acts, and converse
with them in low, earnest. passionate tones.
like to converse with people in whom I
take an interest l was conversing with
young lady one evening at a recherche ball
in my far away home in the free and unfet-
tered west, very brilliant affair, l remem-
ber, under the auspices of Hose Company
way to this liquid-eyed creature, little
louder than usual because the music was
rather forte just there, and the base viol
virtuoso was bearing on rather hard at that
moment. The music ceased with sudden
snort.
AND so DID MY WIFE,
who was iu-t waltzing past u.s. If | had
ceased to converse at the same time that the
music shut off all might have been well, bu.
dill not.
Your remark that the president and cabi-
net would be glad to see me this winter is
ill timed
There have been times when it would have
given me much pleasure to visit Washing
ton but did not vote for Mr.. Cleveland, to
tell the truth, and l know that if 1 were to
go to the White House and visit, even for
few days he would reproach me and throw
it up to me- 1t is true that did not pledge
myself t. vote for him, but still / would
hate to go to mans house and eat his pop
corn and use his smoking tobacco after had
voted against him and talked about him as
have about Cleveland
So that even if | go to Washington shall
put up at hotel and pay my bills just as
any other American citizen would know
how it is with Mr.. Cleveland at this time.
When the legislature is in session there
people come in from around Buffalo with
their butter and eggs to sell and stay over
night with the president But they should
not ride free horse to death. may not
be well educated. but l am high strung till
you can't rest. Groceries are just as high
in Washington as they are in Philadelphia.
Ihope that you will not CLEAN from the
foregoing that have lost my interest in ma
tional affairs. God forbid. Though not in
the political arena myself, my sympathies
are with those who are. am willing to as
sist the families of those who are in the po-
litical arena trying to obtain precarious
livelihood thereby. / was once an official
under the Federal government myself, as the
curious student of national affairs may learn
if he will go to the treasury department at
Washington, D. c., and ask to see my
voucher for 50 s., covering salary as United
States commissioner for the second judicial
district of Wyoming for the year 1882. tt
was at that tins that vile contemporary
characterized me as "a corrupt and venial
Federal official, who had fattened upon the
hard-wrung taxes Of my fellow-citizens and
gorged myself for years at the public crib"
This was unjust. was not corrupt. was
not veniaL was only hungry! Yours, as
here2,4, BILL NYE
Boston Globe.