The record-union., 1892-08-11
OUR REFORMATION BUREAU.
Responses to Cores ondents Seeking
substantial Information.


10 make this department an information eX-
change also. Communications must be brief
and signed with name and address,
EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN: Please answer
the following questions in your ''In-
formation Bureau and oblige: l. In
Lucy Stones address, she speaks of the
"ducking-stooP'; what was it, or what is
the meaning OF the expression? She
says: 1.-The old ducking-stool is nearly
abolished, to which when a woman was
worn with hard work and bearing many
children and talked little sharply, her
husband had the right to take her."
z. What was the cause of women being
DISTINGUISHED in America? They voted
IN y ew Jersey as late as 1903.
3. Have women the Federal right of
franchise? | have read several articles
which declare they have.
I. Are indians who own real estate and
pay taxes on same voters?
+. C. X, New Hope. Cal.
/. A device by which common scolds'
under Puritan regime were given invol-
untary baths.
2. We assume that the people concluded
that the system was not beneficial TO
women or the country. The best thought
OF to-day is (G) that woman does not de-
mand the elective franchise; (6) that were
she invested with it it would tend to de-
stroy domesticity: (c) that she not having
the power TO enforce, should not make
laws; (d) that her sphere in the house
hold gives her full duty and imposes full
responsibility IN the scheme of society;
(e) that as woman is an emotional being
she is not fitted to fill offices, as rule,
which in the man demand a judicial
quality. Probably the experience and
the facts and principles thus generalized
actuated the people.
Z. No. No:
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: Can you tell me
who was the author Of the saying: "Great
souls care only for what is great" and
what is the full quotation? The speaker
heard use it paused there; evidently
something remains that he did not quote.
SELIM, Sacramento.
Anil; Journal, March II, 1865. Mrs.
Humphrey Ward translator. The full
sentence is: 'Great souls care only for
what IS great, and to the spirit which
hovers in the sight of the Infinite any
sort of article seems disgraceful pue-
rility.n
EDS. RECoRD-U UNION: In which of Ma
caulay's essays can find his declaration
that the English people make fools of
themselves IN spasms of reform?
a. L. c., Red Bluff.
In his essay or review of Moore's Life
of Byron, Lord Macaulay said not that,
but this: I'VE know no spectacle so ri
dlculous as the British public in one
OF its periodical fits of morality.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Were the Phoe
nicians monotheists. Settle dispute?
C. NJ, Sacramento.
Examine your history. Originally
they were monotheists, and had lofty
idea of the Great Power. They called
IL lin Il
high; Bael, Lord; Melek or Molech,
king; Eliun, Supreme; Adonai,
MY Lord But this belief became cor
rupted and the doctrine of one God
passed into belief in different gods.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Who was Ju-
MUS and what were the letters of Junius?
ANNIE c., Sacramento.
Reference works in the Free Library
will give you a fuller reply than is pos
sible here. In brief, the letters OF Junius
were written at intervals between 1863
and 1772,a their subjects were political.
critical of the men and questions of that
time in England. Junius' was their sig
nature. 1t remained a mystery at the
time as to who Junius was The Public
AdUertiSer, in which the letters appeared.
refused to disclose the identity of the
writer or writers. The whole power
OF the Government was exerted to
discover the polished writer, whose
holiness, fine style, caustic criti-
cismand wit, and his evident knowl-
edge Of inner-life at the royal court. made
the letters the sensation of the period.
Indeed, JuniuS became the dread of poll
tlcianS and courtierS and they spared no
means to unearth him whom Burke called
1.-THE Boar of the Forest" The
more it was sought to discover
him the bolder, more startling and
da2ZlinO hpOa M a his aSSa11fS
conceded that if discovered his life would
be in danger. His publisher proved loyal
to the correspondent. Indeed, no in
stance is known of more loyal protection
by newspaper man to his writer. 1t is
asserted that 100 volumes have been
written upon the subject of his identity.
Writers have credited the letters to half
hundred men, some of whom claimed to
be ''the man." TO Sir Philip Francis,
more than any other, has the credit been
given, and the probabilities ali point to
him as the real Junius, and it is now
accepted that Francis was the author of
the letters. The claim Of the American
revolutionist, Charles Lee, to be the
writer OF the letters was not well founded.
though many of his friends maintained
the claim vigorously. The literature Of
the subject is very extensive and YOU
can devote great deal of time to its ex-
animation and not one-half complete it.
EDS. RECORD UNION: Is it known
who was the first white woman who came
to Sacramento? MARY L., Sacramento.
Yes, but we have not the record at hand
to tell you who she was.
EDS. RECoRD-U UNION: Is it true that
female deer ever grows horns? [ once
saw u statement that such cases have
been known, but hunters laugh at the
idea. EsCAMPo, Sacramento,
They laughed at you without reason.
There have been number OF such cases.
In 1869 l.. p. Hatch of Minneapolis,
Mimi, wrote to the Americun Naturalist
that a hunter near there had shot doe
that wore beautiful pair of antlers, each
with four branches. Hundreds saw the
animal in Minneapolis, and Mr.. Hatch
had the antlers in his office for long
time. Instances are known of female
birds living to an old age changing their
dali plumage to that of the brilliant
colors of male birds. In the Peabody
Academy of Science, Salem, Mass, a
specimen of this character is preserved
where pea-hen, at the age of 10, devel-
oped full trail of the male bird with all
its brilliant color Of plumage.
BRIEF NOTES
Pierre J. Nathan, who died in London
last month. was not a brother of : T