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Year: 1873

MONTANA WOMEN ENFRANCHIsED.- -
By an awkward mistake made by the
the last Montana Legislature, that body
unintentionally enfranchised all the
women of foreign birth in the Territory.
The law which was passed declares that
GALL male citizens of the United States
above the age of twenty-one years, and
all persons of the same age who shall
have declared their intention to become
such citizens, etc, shall have the right
to vote" AS an evidence of the wom-
ems anxiety TO vote, whether such
anxiety is previously expressed or not,
many women of that Territory have
declared their intention to become citi-
Zens in order to vote at the next elec-
ton. II the foreign-born women of that
Territory would all declare their inten-
tions thus, and then vote promptly, the
Legislature, we think, would be too
gallant to repeal the law or correct an
error which might result in no error, in
the long run. OF the Montana legis-
lator it may yet be said that he built
better than he knew.-OdklGRd EUening
T|orchlight.
Year: 1873

We find all these good things in the
New York Commercial AdUeTttser:


When a jurist as eminent as Judge
Henry II. Selden testifies that he told
Miss Anthony before election that she
had a right to vote, and this after a care
full examination of the question, the
whole question assumes new import
ance, and Mr.. Selden at once becomes
the central object of alteration by all the
gentle believers in woman's right to the
ballot. And when the same able law
yer advocates the cause of Miss Anthony
in the United States Courts, there is
abundant reason why other men, both
lay and legal, should put themselves in
an attitude at least of willingness to
change their convictions upon this
topic, which now threatens to take on
very enlarged proportions. The points
made in the argument by Mr.. Selden
are that the defendant had legal right
to vote; that even if no such right eX-
listed, if she believed she had such q
right, and voted i'm such faith, that she
committed no Offense; and lastly, he
argued, that she did vote in pursuance
of such belief. The point that Miss An
thony had acted illegally only because
she was a woman, was well put. Had
her brother, under the same circum-
stance, done the same thing, his act
would have been not only innocent but
laudable. The crime was, therefore, not
in the act done, but in the sex of the
person who did it, Women, remarked
the Judge, have the same interest in the
maintenance of good government as
men. No greater absurdity, to use no
harsher term, can be presented to the
human mind than that of rewarding
men and Furnishing women for the same
act, without giving women any voice


in the question of which shall be re-


warded and which punished. How
grateful to Judge Selden must all the


suffragists be! He has struck the


strongest and most promising blow in


their behalf that has yet been given.


Dred Scott was the pivot on which the
Constitution turned before the war.
! Miss Anthony seems likely to occupy
similar position now.
Year: 1873

BALKY HoRsEs.-Balking is serious de-
feet in very useful animal, and it cannot be
overcome by whipping or swearing at him.
His brain does not seem capable Of entertain
ing but one thought at time, and the stub
born resolve not to move seems uppermos ost in
it. Therefore you must endeavor to give
him new subject OF thought, and thereby
change the direction of bis brain.


The simple trick OF putting small quan
tity of earth or gravel, taken from the road
side, upon his tongue, will suffice to turn his
attention to the new kind of fodder offered to
him. Now cluck to him, but don't strike
him, and almost before he is aware of 1t he
is walking along. and soon trcts as fast as is
needfu.. This is remedy much in use on
the western plains, where teaming is employ
ed to perform vast amount of labor and
balky horses are quite common Trouble. l
have seen it work to perfection on the plains
of Colorado, when whipping and profanity
were utterly Intellectual; very small quanti-
ty of earth and gravel make its mark directly.
Kindness will always produce great effect
upon horses, and every driver should learn
that pleasant words and tones are IF much
grea er use in making his horses oil edient
than the whip-lash, mingled with harsh olths
aud ear-splitting tones.
Year: 1873

Grace Greenwood writes from Washing
ton to the New York Times as follows:
| visited Mr.. Spinner the other morning
on behalf of a poor woman who aspired to
the humble position Of q sweeper.
thought the situation must be easy to OBJ
tain, but might as we'll have asked him to
supersede with my client the old women
in the nursery rhyme, in her immemorial
employment Of sweeping the eobweDs out
of the sky" He vas obliged to refuse my
request, but be did it In such way that


my feelings were spared. He followed
up his refusal with q statement Of affairs
which it is "borne in upon me" / should
make public for the good Of all good Eo-
men who have designs on the United States
Treasury. l am assured that at the pres
ent time there are no situations 10 be had,
in that department, for love or money, or
pity, or political considerations. Cen
Spinner saws that when the new civil SER
vice system was adopted be hoped it would
reduce the number Of hopeless applications,
but it has not done 30. Young ladies', as
sured by impartial relatives and infallible
school ma'&ms that their atainments will
stand any test, and buoyed up by internal
convictions that they are armed at all points
come here, perhaps, from great distance,
with abundant hope, but little money
fail to pass the ordeal, and are left without
the means of returning home, without
friends or resources Of any kind. he says
the ladies', well-bred and educated, have
come to join and begged for messenger
work, cleaning, and odd jobs about the
building. Very many apply for the light
employment Of sweeping. He can not te
the bosom friend Of them all, but he Is Of
ten tempted to act the part of T. good
fairy, and scatter eh2ff and torn paper over
the building at night, after it has been
swept nd gsrnered, to give them work to
do in the morning.
Year: 1873

STRENGTH FOR THE WEAK-A medi-
cine which either directly or indirectly con-
fers strength, is the most appropriate for
those whose radical ailment is simply fee
bleness. (And such is the case with the
great majority of invalids.) This truth
has not been always recognized In for
mer days violent purging was resorted to
in such cases. This course involved rad
ical error it is to have strength added to
them-not to have the little which they
still have, taken away from them, (by vio-
lent purgation,l that such sufferers need
Now food is the only source of strength
but the want of food is not the only source
of weakness. There may be full abund-
anee; but, if the system does not possess
the necessary vigor to digest and TO assim
ilate it, it becomes, in so far, useless. Al
a remedy for this unfortunate condition
DR.. Gottlieb Fisch's Bitters will be founC


has been found-marvellously suitat lie


This subject continued next week undel
Our Tropical Summers
Year: 1873

the largest and best stock of goods he had
ever seen. The rural gent thought he
would look through the different stores in
this city and Davenport, and compare the
goods and prices before purchasing: He
calleI at an old established Carpet House
in this city, and also at several stores in
Davenport, and after long and careful
examination of goods and prices, he re-
turned to this city, thoroughly disgusted
with what he had seen, and almost
Year: 1873

two hours from the time he came into the
store, he started home with $4S9.63 worth
of goods for himself, and good supply for
some of his neighbors. The last thing he
said when starting home, was this: L shall
always come to
Year: 1873

The law does not and will not after June 3Oth require full prepayment of postage on alLprinted matter. Transient or miscellaneous matter must be fully prepaid at the mailing office. Regular publications, known as newspapers or periodicals, may be sent to subscribers now and after the 3Oth instant unpaid, and the postage collected quarterly of the subscribers. Newspaper exchanges may be prepaid quarterly either at the office of mailing or delivery.

 The requirement for full prepayment on transient printed matter is statutory, not departmental, and therefore cannot be abrogated by the Postmaster Gen. eral. It is made the duty of all post masters to collect all deficient postage at the office of delivery, whether upon letters or printed matter. more or less such matter being inadvertently trans mitted in the mails. It is not shown that more is collected at the Washing ton office than is legally due, or more than st other offices, in proportion to the quantity of such matter delivered.

 If any statement has been made that no papers will be be sent without pre- payment, then 8 mistake has been made, for large numbers are sent daily to sub- scribers as provided by law.

 One cent will fully prepay on any daily or weekly published in this city, but it will not carry two such papers, nor will it carry the larger New York weekly or daily papers.
Year: 1873

Attorney General Williams has con- cluded that Ca military commission may be appointed to try such of the MOdoc Indians now in custody, as are charged with offences against the receg- nized laws of war, and that if upon such trial any are found guilty, they may be subjected to such punishment as those laws require or justify" The murder of Gen. Canby is classed as such an of- fence, and the opinion of the Attorney General Is based on the assumption of 8 state of war existing between the United States and the Modocs, although he ad- mits that the relations of the Indian tribes to the Government are difficult to determine. It may here be stated that the army officers had everything in read mess to execute some of the warriors when orders came for their trial by court nnartial-the court to consist of army officers.
Year: 1873

Lord tells you to do." When she tried to sleep it's irresistible influence held her wearily awake with her eyes wide open to see it ever frowning upon her. And when at last she did sleep, the long night was one succession of dreams through which the awful vision was always about to inhict eternal punish ment upon her for her neglect to work it's will She woke from such a dream one morning with the words Yes, I will do it." upon her lips, and straight way peace like that she had imagined of heaven came upon her and the phan- tom presence was like that of a friend recovered after an estrangement.

 Mechanically she performed her own household work, and then proceeded to Garland's with another dose of poison. When he came to her after his dinner for dose of "pain-killer to cure 8 pain in his stomach she felt that she had known all the morning that the spirit would thus send him to her. Her dose of strychnine was mixed in the peppery stuff he had called for, and his death soon followed.

 Henceforth she saw no more of the phantom. She felt relieved when she thought it had no more such work for her but she knows that it did appear to her and did talk to her just as she has related it to the physicians and others who have visited her in jail. She feels no remorse, no regret she did not kill them of her own motion, but because the spirit forced her to do it. She does not think she sinned, but rather that she executed the divine will. She never killed or attempted to kill any one other than those four.

 Such is the story of Mrs. Lambs insane delusion, as alleged to have been told by herself, though not in her own language.
Year: 1873

A man who draws the prize of squeak ing boots from shoe store always gets them on Saturday, and by the next day the full power of the squeak is devei- oped. He arrives at church ct the opening of long prayer, and is admit ted by the sexton with admonitory ges- lures of silence. The first step inside the door is followed by sound like that of ripping clapboard from the side of barn, while all the ladies on the right side of the aisle tip their top knots to one side and squint from their left eyes, those on the other side re- versing the order. Balancing painfully on his worst corn, he makes 8 more gradual effort and is rewarded by hear ing the same harmonic reverberance like linked sweetness-long drawn out. Then he tries to navigate on the balls of his feet, and waddles along on his heels. He clutches convulsively at the sides of the pews to tighten his weight, knocks down a woman's parasol, and gets all the deacons to raising their bald heads and the skin across their fore heads, and scowling as they do the rest of the week. Sohe determines to mince the matter no more, and trots along fast, jerking out spasmodic "shrieks of sole that's damned" with a regu1ari- ty that he never could attain at any thing else, and reaches his pew with all his under garments turned to porous

 plasters, and his face of color to match the saint done in red glass in the principal window.-zTtusville Herald. -
Year: 1873

The leading newspapers of the coun- try are discussing the probable future of journalism, its character and its management, and if we are to believe most of them, we are entering upon that period which MT. Fred Hudson classi- fled as independent" The plans that made newspapers successful twen- ty, or even ten years ago, would not make journal half successful now. It would be as unwise to start paper upon the plan of the first Tribune or Herald (James Parton to the contrary, ), as it was for Nicholas Nickleby's dramat- ic master to insist no his writing play in order to bring in the pump. The demands of modern journalism are in favor of correctness of representation. It has come to be known that the dash ing genius who lives by his wits is like ly to color his reports with his preju- dices, and to do an injustice when he wishes to support his own opinion 1; so that in time men become great or little just as somenewspapers choose to make them. The public know this, and is disposed to dispute the power of girsy journalism.
Year: 1873

a LADY writes to the New York
Herald: | happen TO be the wife
OF an inveterate smoker, and do boldly
avow that | love the perfume of his
cigar better than all the perfumes OF
Arabia. | think there is nothing
more delightful, and | am never more
happy than when my husband Is BY my
side. with slippers on, and 4 fragrant
Havana between his lips-a picture Of
home comfort which many poor mar
ried man has never seen, who is driven
from home by cross, selfish wife,
who would rather send her husband TO
the club or worse places, so rs to be
rid Of his after-dinner smoke"
Year: 1873

OYE-roURTH of share in London
water company was lately sold for
Gi6,000. The face value OF an entire
share is only one pound! 1t is one Of
the wealthiest corporations in the
world, but its protector lost his for
tune and died In the workhouse. Its
name is the New River Company.
Year: 1873

over the river they beckon to me-
Loved ones who've crossed to the farther side |;
Inc gieam of their snowy robes see,


But their voices are drowned in the rushing


tide.


There's one with locks of FURNISHED gold.


And eyes the embodiment of jets own hue;
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold,


And the pale mist hid him from mortal view
We saw not the angels that met him there
The gate of the city we could not see
Over the river, over the river,


Ny darling stands waiting to welcome me.
Over the river the boatman pale


Carried another--the household peti
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale
Darling Roseyl I see her yet.
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark;
We watched it glide from the silver sands,
And all our sunshine grew suddenly dark.
We know she is safe on the other side,


Where all the ransomed angels be-
Over the river, the mystic river,


Ny household idol is waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet shores


Who cross with the boatman cold and pale
We hear the dip Of the golden oars,


And catch glimpse of the snowy SAIL
And 10! they have passed from our yearning


hearts,


They cross the streams and are gone for ave,
We may not sunder the vail apart


That hides from our vision the gates of day
We only know that their barks no more
Sails with US DER life's stormy sea
Yet somewhere, know, on the unseen shore
They watch, and beckon, and wait for me-
And sit and think when the sunsets gold
Is flushing river, and hill, and shore
L shalt one day stand BY the water cold


And list for the sound of the boatman's oar.
shall watch for e. gleam of the Tapping sail;
shall hear the boat as it nears the strand;
l shall pass from sight with the boatman pale
To the better shore of the spirit land.
L shall know the loved who have gone before.
And joyfully sweet will the meeting be-
When over the river, the mystic river,


The angel death shall carry me-
Year: 1873

Editor Spectator:


A Deniston, Iowa, paper notices
the successful cultivation of tea superior to the
imported article, in Crawford county in that
State. This IS no new thing in Virginia. The
Ballards, Of Bedford county, cultivate it still
from the same stock brought over by their great
grandfather, on his return from China. A gen
tleman, who has seen it grow and used it, in
forms us it is as good as the imported article.
He gave quantity of the seed to different per-
sons in Augusta, and We would be glad to hear
the results of its growth here. It can be plan
ted iu Spring, in rows two feet apart and grows
to the size of a large huckelberry bush, which
it looks something like. 1t needs go plant
ing When the seed turns black, the leaves
should be gathered and dried in the shade
We will have something more to say in regard
to this matter in the future, aud consider it one
we'll worthy of the attention of our people.


TEA LOVERS.
Year: 1873

Editor Spectator.


The beautiful spells of weather
that charm our Valley people SO, in Winter,
had q terrible significance to the early settlers.
After the apparent onset of winter bad set in,
came one Of these delightful summers we love
SO, and gave Indians another chance TO wreak
destruction on the settlers, or compelled them
to crowd into small forts, and hence the name
Indian Summer
Year: 1873

Everything is grist that comes to
tue Democratic mill. Even the 6nan.
cial panic is being converted by the
organs or orators of that party into q
campaign argument. It never could
have happened under Democratic rule,
We are given to understand. They
have forgotten about 1857.-Philadel.
Dhin Press.
Year: 1873

The mayor Of Texas town, who
was instructed by the Council to pro.
vide against visitation by the yellow
fever, reported at the next meeting
that he had done so--he had bought
an addition to the cemetery and had .
number of ready-made graves on hand,
having had them dug for the emergen.
Year: 1873

An engine at Reading, Pa, the
other day, struck boy and threw him
several feet 10 the air, but the engineer
rushed out upon the cow.catcher aud
caught the boy as he fell. The boy
walked home without any assistance.
Year: 1873

Lion-hunter in Africa invented trap, a
strong iIon cage mounted on wheels, in which
he catches the beast alive and trundles them of
to seaport, where they are shipped for sale 10
menagerie keepeV. He might vary his sport
BY getting into the cage himself after wheeling
to place where lions resort, aud shooting his
game from his safe port of vantage.
Year: 1873

Love makes it own law and writes it
on the heart in which it breathes and
lives. No book in the world would be
so large as to hold all the laws that
love would write, if it told Us at once
all we should feel, think, say and do
for man all the days of our life. The
ten laws that God wrote on stone are
full of notes. All of them but one tell
US what not to do. But when God put
his love IN the heart Of man, it writes
there with its pen what it shall do to
all who live near him, or whom he
deals with. He loves them not simply
because that God tells him he must do
SO. Good will to them is the breath
Of his own soul and his soul must
breathe though it is not told to do 50.


This, then, is the love of the heart
and life. 1t is not put in words. 1t
does not tell man how or when he
shall think kind thought, speak q
kind word or do kind act, no more
than he need to tell his lungs when to
breathe, or his blood when to run or to
stop in his veins. This law acts of its
own self, just rs the heart does when
it beats or sends blood TO the brain
Quick as thought can move, it fills the
eye with sweet delight which no law
put in golden words could make to
shine there. 1t gives a kind tone to
the voice which mere words could not
teach the tongue or lips to breathe.
1t gives the hand warmth that the
blood does not make, and which the
man who folds it in his, feels all the
way to his own heart.


So love has its light, life and law.
Heaven is called world Of light. The
best book says there is no night there !;
that the face of God is the sun that
fills it with day that can have no end.
Now all the hearts that burn with His
love here are lamps that shine with the
same light that his face gives out to all
who live in Heaven. And the earth
grows more like Heaven the more of
such lamps there are lit on it. And a
child's heart may hold as much of
Gods love, and make as bright lamp
of its light, as the heart Of a man in
the prime of life. For an old man, if
he dies with none of his love in him,
dies a child at the dawn of life. He
has not lived at all in the best sense.
He has lived q mere mole in the
ground.-[ Elihu Burrat.
Year: 1873

TRANsFIxED.- The following rare bit
is from the Saturday Eevning Post:


We shall never forget that evening we
spent at Magruder's years ago. We
admired Miss Magruder, and we went
around to see her. 1t was summer
time, and moonlight, and she sat up
on the piazza. The carpenter had been
there that day, gluing up the rustic
chairs on the porch, SO we took seat
on the step in front of Miss Magruder,
where we could gaze into her eyes and
drink in her smiles. 1t seems probable
that the carpenter must have upset his
glue-pot on the spot where we sat, for
after enjoying Miss Magruder's remarks
for couple of hours, and drin king sew
eral of her smiles, we tried to rise for
the purpose of going home, but found
that we were immovably fixed to the
step. Then Miss Magruder said: "dont
be in hurry and We told her we be-
lived we wouldn't. The conversation
had sadder tone after that, and we sat
there thinking whether it would be bet
ter to ask Miss Magruder to withdraw
while we disrobed and went home in
Highland costume, or whether we
should urge her to warm up the poker,
or whether we should give one terrific
wrench and then ramble down the ward
backward. About midnight Miss Mag
ruder yawned, and said she believed she
would 90 TO beo. Then we suddenly
asked her if she thought her father would
have any objection to lending us his
front steps for few days, because we
wanted to take them home for patternp
We think Miss Magruder must have en-
tertained doubts of our sanity, for she
rushed in, called her father, and scream
ed. Magruder came down with
double-barelled gun Then we explained
the situation in whisper, and he proc
cured q saw and cut out the piece OF
step to which we were attached. Then
We went home wearing the patch, and
before two O'Clock crushed ont our love


for Miss Magruder. We never called
again, and she threw herself away on
dry goods man. There is a melancholy
satisfaction in recalling these memories


OF youth, and rejecting upon the infu-


ence Of glue upon the emotions Of the
! human heart.