Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-09-04
worse. New Zealand has tried il Le,

not exercise it For the refutation of
that theory put the fact that ia the
last election in New Zealand, Of lO9. coo
women who registered 90, 600 have vot
ed, while of the 1913, 900 men who req
istered only l29, 900 have voted. This
ratio shows that women are more anx-
ious to vote than meD.--Perhaps women
VIII yet save politics. l know the
charge that she is responsible for the
ruin of her race, since she first ate the
forbidden fruit in paradise, but think
thero is chapter in that matter of
Edenic fruit not written. l think that
Adam when ho saw Eve eating that ap-
pic asked for bite, and getting it into
his possession ate the most of 1t, and he
| Immediately shook the tree for more an.
pies and has been eating ever since. If
woman did first transgress, cannot
forget that she introduced into the
world tho Only being who has ever done
much toward saving it. Woman has
started for suffrage, and she is u deter
mined and persevering creature, and
she will keep on until she gets it, She
may yet decide the elections in England
and elect presidents for the United
States, as already she is busy in the po-
litical affairs of New Zealand | was
surprised also in these regions 10 find
how warmly loyal they are 10 oil Eng
land. | had heard that they had Lecome
somewhat impatient of their govern
mental mother. But this is not so.
| They practically have things tic + own
way, tletting their own parliamti-t, and
all governors seut out from the old
| country are such men as are agreeable,
and the people are required to Fay no
tax to the British crown, and they are
in good humor with the British fag.
addressed an audience last III ut, on
my right hand the United States ag. on
my left the English flag, and yCu. ought
| to have heard them shout when 1T the
beginning of my address l said, When
in NY church at home pray Tor the
president of the United States, am
very apt to add God save the que Ell. "
Many of the streets Of New Zealand
cities are called after the generals and
prime ministers of Great Britain, and
Wellington and Palmerston and Glad
stone are the names of great Thorough.
fares. New Zealand feels the financial
depression very much as the whole
world at this time seems suffering an
epidemic. Indeed the world is now a
compressed and interlocked affair. Out
of the hold of our ship arriving in New
Zealand were lifted rakes, fowls and
various agricultural implements of
American manufacture Today all New
Zealand is rejoicing that the American
congress has put wool on the free list,
and the value of the sheep ON all these
hillsides is augmented.
Among our most interesting hours in
New Zealand were those spent at the
bishops house in Auckland. Lord
Bishop Cowie is a man of marvellous at
tractiveness, end his home is an en-
chantment, adorned with many curios
which he brought from India when he
served as chaplain during that war
which interests and appalls the world
with its tales of mutiny. Whilo chap
lain he rode with Sir Colin Campbell
and his historical host for the capture
of Lucknow, that city whose name will
stand in the literature of all ages as the
synonym for sepoy atrocities and wom-
anly fortitude and Christian heroics. He
told us most graphically how the wom-
en- waiting for death at Lucknow tore
up their underclothes to make bandages
for the wounds of the soldiers, and that
when at last these women were rescued
they appeared in the brilliant dress of
the ballroom. these dresses formerly
worn by the convivial having been sud-
denly come upon, and when the wives
and daughters of missionaries and
Christian merchants had nothing else to
wear.
Lord Bishop Cowie also had On his
walls pictures of some of the most stir
ring scenes of the Russian war with
which the military friends of the bishop
had been cognizant. Here is a pictured
scene where there was no retreat for the
English, and yet their standing firm
seemed certain destruction, and their
general cried oct: "Men, there is no re-
treat from this place. You will die
herel" and the men replied, "Aye, aye,
we are ready to do thatP' And yonder
another pictured scene OF Balaklava
after the famous charge of the 600, and
the commander said TO the few men who
had got back from the awful charge,
"Men, it was a mad Drained trick, " and
they replied, Never mind, general; we
would do it again." The bishops walls
in other places were made interesting
by swords. belts and torn insignia OF
battle from the fields Of India, all the
more interesting because we expect in
our journey around the world to visit
Lucknow and Cswnpur and Delhi and
many of the chief places made immortal
by the struggle between British yalor
and sepoy infanly.
And here from the bishops own
words / got satisfactory answer 10
question / have asked many times, but
for which never received asatisfactory
answer. / said: "Your lordship knew
the chief men Of Balaklaya, and will
you please explain to me what i have
never been able 10 find out, and 10 which
Iennyson makes reference In his Charge
Of the Light Brigade, and in that line