Year: 1878

claimed that the bull was we'll behaved
animal and would have passed quietly
through the street had he not been
frightened by locomotive. One Of the
men who had him in charge swore that
while he was looking at the locomotive
the bull passed him, unobserved; and
running to overtake and turn his bull
ship, he saw the toss, at distance of fifty
yards, but thought the bull did not see
the woman, so could not have had any
personal malice or enmity in the act He
wanted to get up on the sidewalk, found
some obstacle in his way, tossed it off
under the bridge, and proceeded up
street, rejoicing


The woman sustained no serious injury,
since she walked straight to her masters
house, and was able to be up part of ev-
cry day, attending the child. The
doctor had only waited upon her ten days.
Her owner had not been deprived of her
services or of "the comfort Of her compa
ny" The bull had had the best right to
the street, and the man who drove him
had right to stop to look at train,
while his bullship made his way in his
own fashion. And verdict was render
ed for the defendant.


This shows that the streets of Pennsyl
vania cities and towns belong to the bulls,
and that, if women get in the way, with
their sick babies, their owners must take
the consequences, provided these are not
such as seriously to interfere with the
rights OF said owners. If this woman,
after her toss, had been sent to a hospi-
tai, so that her husband had been de-
prived of her company, or if she had
been rendered unable to perform her
usual service, even for a day, her owner
would, no doubt, have recovered damages;
but since his property was not materially
injured, for his use, there could be no
damages.


In the good old days of England's glo-
ry-i. G., after Christianity had risen to
such stage of civilization as to incorpor-
ate into its code the marriage laws of old
Pagan Rome-it was held by her jurists
that woman doing business by the con-
sent of her husband and contracting a
debt could be imprisoned for that debt,
provided he were out of the kingdom in
asmuch as such imprisonment could mot
deprive him of the comfort of her compa-
ny" he having already deprived himself
of that comfort; and so she could be put
into a debtors prison until he came
home and claimed her.


This bull case reminded me that we
still live under this grand old Christian
law, invented by the worshipers of Jupi-
ter, and that it is for it that Christian
philosophers and divines call upon the
feminine half of humanity to get down
upon their knees, turn up their eyes like
flock of ducks in a thunderstorm, and
have an ecstacy of thanksgiving over the
glories of that Christian liberty to which
we have all attained through divine
grace and masculine magnanimity AS
this is one of the duties in which 1 am
largely in arrears, should like to square
the account before l go hence; and, if
anybody will get up a national conven-
tion of women, for the especial purpose
of thanking God and man for the glori-
Gus privilege of living under the laws of
the old pagans, and having had them
carefully preserved for our use and be-
hoof, so that every feminine citizen of
this Republic is provided, by marriage,
with an owner, who may recoveIsdamages,
when a bull tosses her, provided he only
tosses high enough and hard enough,
shall be on hand and risk my eyestrings
in looking up with becoming devotional
enthusiasm.


What should we do without this bless
ed institution of marriage? And, of
course, that could not be marriage which
did not punish one of the parties with an
owner who would be entitled to damages
if she was injured, and who would be
liable for damages if she should injure
the property of another.


All the pious men and philosophers
now engaged in Saving the Union" and
maintaining public morality through that
salvation, recognize this as the only mar
riage; and of course the philosophers
know.


Once admit that it is the wife herself
who is injured by being tossed by bull,
and you have knocked the keystone out
of the arch of society For this would be
to admit that she has proprietary inter-
est in the body that was hers before mar
riage, which would be Free Love and
general anarchy. So l would exhort all
womankind to thank our Christian God
for the good provided by Jupiter. take
courage, and keep out of the way of bulls
that may wish to promenade on sidewalks.