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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 07, no. 23 (May 16, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2019
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-05-16
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT zi UNTR:A_MMELE:D LIVES 2 BREAKING THEUUINAY FOR FUTURE OENERATIONs. I : 0' “ . A Vol. VII.——No. 23-—Whole N o . 180. :< 1 PRICE TENCENTS. LOAN ER S’ BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL .......... ........ . .V .......... .. $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. V ‘ Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. , @“‘ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUI‘. RENT BALANCES andliberal facilities oifered to our CUSTOMERS. - DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & sON, ‘Bankers, N 0. 59 Wall St, New York. l ..__ Gold and Currencyreceived on deposit subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credi...
Show morePROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT zi UNTR:A_MMELE:D LIVES 2 BREAKING THEUUINAY FOR FUTURE OENERATIONs. I : 0' “ . A Vol. VII.——No. 23-—Whole N o . 180. :< 1 PRICE TENCENTS. LOAN ER S’ BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL .......... ........ . .V .......... .. $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. V ‘ Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. , @“‘ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUI‘. RENT BALANCES andliberal facilities oifered to our CUSTOMERS. - DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO & sON, ‘Bankers, N 0. 59 Wall St, New York. l ..__ Gold and Currencyreceived on deposit subject to check at sight. 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Three of any of the Speeches.....................‘ 50 I contemplating itself no less than by attentive observation of ‘ of consciousness; or the physiologist, who has attempted to _ diligence.’ The result is, a profounder and more precise . and the physiological mechanism in the production of pas- ”of mirth, anger, love and vainglory. 9h. \ soul; and Descartes,in his famous work onthe--passions, was the ﬁrst to hold that their seat is in the brain. He localized all passional states in that organ. “The soul,’.’ he says, “can. suffer directly _only through the,brain«;” and. in another place, “ The soul does not receive impressions from‘ all parts of the body, but only from the brain.” This truth, which now seems so elementar , was nevertheless demon- ‘; strated only by the physiology of recent times. The greatest ' ‘ physiological theorist of the passions, Bichat; did not accept it, as we shall see from an exposition of his doctrine. ' The ﬁrst physiological character recognized in the passions by Bichat is intermittency. Whereas our thoughts may be continued-—prolonge_d over a considerable period of time—- and whereas a habit of making the same reliections and judg- . ,, ments strengthens and perfects them, the passions, on the The Principles of Government’ by Victoria 0. Wd0d_ other hand, have no persistence. With the‘ exception of ‘that The Books and Speeches of Victoria 0. Woodhull and Tennie_C. Claﬁin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices: ’ I . v pleasure and pain .wh'ich~we might denominate absolute, and bun - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -v - - - - - - -- -, - -- -V v - - - $3 00 which depend on direct nerve-excitation, it may be asserted Constitutional Equality, by Tennie o. Claﬂin. . ,2 00 that 3, habit 0‘ “*3 -Sam‘? Se“Vim‘?“t.s will 50°“ blunt and Th I P , i 1 _ weaken them. Aprolonged sensation, be it pleasant or pain- ‘? “H.049 93 of $00131 Freedom - - - - - --.- - - ' - - - - ° - - ' 25 ful, at last gives neither pleasure’ nor pain. The perfumer, Reformation or Revolution, Which ?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25 whois ever surrounded by an’ odorous atmosphere, does not The Elixir of Life ; OI,’ Why do We Die ,3‘ _ . _ . _ _ . _ 25 engoy the sweet scents. All that delights the eye on charms Th 8 7 _ V ' 2 the ear becomes indiﬂerent when the impression has lasted e care—Crows of Sexual Slaveiy . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . j 5’ for some time. The same holds good for disagreeable ‘sen- Ethics of Sexual Equality, . . . . . . . . .., . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 25 sations. “Happiness, therefore,” says Bichat, “ consists onty in incontinuousness. Pleasure is but a comparative senti- ment, that ceases to exist where you have uniformity be- tween present and past sensations. ,Were the forms of all ‘ women cast in one mould, that mould were the grave of love.” ‘ ' SCIENTIFIC SERIES.-—-N0. 5. __.___ \ » s [From the Popular Science .i{omff.:.l'y.] PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS. , BY FEBNAND PAPIi.I.oN. I \ Trtmslated from the French, by J. Fitzgerald, A. M. If there is to-day a fact demonstrated by reason reﬂexly This profound difference between thought and passion Bichart explains by the theory that the former is dependent on that side of our being which we call animal life, while the latter proceeds from the orgamlc life. Every thing that has to do with intellectual operations, properly so called, has its seat in the brain, which is the centre of animal life. Every thing that has to do with the passional states has its seat in the viscera. The effect of passion of every kind is to produce some change, some alteration in the organic 1ife—that is to say, in the organs of circulation, of respiration and of nutri- tion. This fundamental difference between intelligence and passion, as regards the organs which seem ‘to be. their re- spective seats. has long been remarked by popular sagacity and incorporated into language. Such expressions as “ a. good head,” “ a ﬁne-shaped head,” have always been em- ployed to express perfection of understanding; and “ a good heart,” “ a. tender heart,” to express the perfection of senti- ment. 1t has also‘ been a. current_ phrase to say that the blood “ boils ” with anger, or that indignation“ moves ” the «bile, or that the heart “ leaps ” with joy. Our gestures ac- cord witli our words: thns, when we would in dumb show indicate some state having to do with memory, imagination, perception, or judgment, we bring the hand up to the head. But, when we would express love, j oy, hate, disgust, we bring the hand up to the region of the heart or of the stomach. ‘ I the entire development of human knowledge, it is the close interdependence of all natural forces and operations——a sol- idarity so ﬁrmly knit that it is impossible to study any one point of detail without reference to the sum total of the phe- nomena. The sciences, long kept apart from one another, new all tend to come together, to fuse into one another, for the explication of facts. It is the exigencies of the‘ science of man that, above all, have determined this irresistible attrac- tion, this systematic conﬂuence of branches of knowledge, the most diverse, toward one centre, where they attain their full value and their full signiﬁcance. Man brings together within himself, as Buffon says, all the powers of Nature; he is the centre to which all things are referred—a world in miniature. N 0 amount of analysis can come amiss if we are to resolve the endless complexity of this so multiple being; and we need all the light we can get inorder to illumine the darkness that surrounds this mysterious creature. If, as Leibnitz thinks, one single monad——an imperceptible atom—~ is a mirror of the total beauty of the universe, how much more truly may this be said of that singular and diversiﬁed assemblage of monads——-man! Surely it would ill become us to disparage the psychologist, whose study has been to get at a knowledge of man solely by observation of the phenomena A close observation of facts proves the correctness of the instincts that have given rise to these phrases and gestures. It is evident that anger accelerates the circulatory move- ment, and that joy has the same effect, while grief and fear produce the opposite results.’ Extreme emotions are some- times followed by fatal syncope. Profound grief causes a difficulty of respiration. Sudden fright checks the secretio of bile. Independently of theselpalpable phenomena, the passions modify profoundly the nutritive processes, and give rise to disordered conditions, of a more or less grave nature. Here, again, language accords with physiology. To pine away with envy or with remorse, to waste away with grief, are ex- pressions that attest the inﬂuence of the passions on the organic life. Again, Bichat ingeniously notes the relation subsisting between the passions and the temperament. The individual whose lungs are highly developed, ii.IldVWl10S6 cir- latory system is specially vigorous, will naturally be of very impetuous disposition, choleric, passionate and courageous. Where the biliary system predominates, enviousness and hate seem to be more habitual. -The lymphatic temperament gives to the passions a quiet and indolent character. Thus every thing, according to B.ichat, goes to show that the organic life is the terminus to which the passions tend, and the centre from/ which they start, and that the animal life only suffers from therebound consecutively. If the focus of the animal life is the brain, then what is the focus of the organic life? What is the apparatus specially concerned in producing emotions and passional manifestions? Bichat holds that there is no one organ on which this oﬁlce devolves exclusively, and he localizes‘ the passions in what he calls the epigastric centre; that is to say, in the heart, the lungs, the liver, the gall-bladder and the ganglionic nerve- system distributed throughout these organs. Each of these is, according to him, the seat of a distinct passion,‘ and the movements that are determined by tliislpassion are perfectly involuntary. ’ ﬁnd an explication solely in organic phenomena. Both of these have, with much toil, broken‘ the ground and prepared aﬁeld where investigation may henceforth bear fruit; but, precisely because the soil is now ready, it is to be hoped that the controversies and antagonisms of the past will give way to a goodlunderstanding more conducive to a true knowledge of man’s nature; and that inquiry, instead of diverging and so losing itself, shall be regulated and co—ordinated to the at- tainment of one end. ' These reﬂections are addressed neither to those who im- agine that psychology has done all its work already, nor to those who think that work never can be done; we submit them to those who, following attentively the double move- ment of physiology and of psychology, ﬁnd that, at least, the progress made by each of these sciences is correlative with that made by the other and inseparable from it. ‘Phi- losophers, whose position and whose previous inquiries seemed very unlikely to invite them to the study of physical man, now devote themselves to this study with enlightened ardor. Experimeiiters, whose reputation and whose habits might appear very unapt/to incline them toward the study of moral ii’1an,I now pursue that study with conscientious science of the relations between the physical and the moral ;~a science thatlis full of i'evelations,an,d surprises. ‘ The ancients had a theory witliregard to the passions which, at bottom, differs not much from that countenanced in these later times, by experimental physiology and pa- thology. Theyerred with regard to the role of the humors sional phenomena; but they had closely observed, and, with rare precision, deﬁned the inﬂuence exerted by these on the viscera of the abdominal region. Their poetry ‘and their medical writings are full of expressions which show how ancient is the knowledge of this relation between the soul’s sentiments and the movements of heart, lungs, stomach and liver.* The ancients even went so far as to localize the pas- sions in the viscera ;‘ and their theory on this subject is ex- pressed in the aphcrism, “ Splene rident, felle irascnnt, jecore amant, pulmohe jactantur,” where the spleen, the gallbladder, the liver and the lungs are represented as the seat respectively The physiology of the passions, so far as it could be and was studied by the authors of ancient times was, from the standpoint of description, a science of such exactitude that there is new little to be added to it. Still, they mistook the real seats of those states of the Such is Bichat’s doctrine of thepassions; it is the ancient doctrine, only developed and elucidated, reasoned outwith greater precision and fortified withgfresh proofs. It is correct in its analysis of the visceral disturbances produced by the passions, but erroneous in that it regards the viscera as their proved that the passions primarily aﬁect the brain and not the viscera. It was the experiments made’ by that great man which showed that the brain is the organ of sentiments no less than of ideas. His argument against Bichat’s- theory may be reduced to these fundamental observations: “ The heart and the diaphragm are only muscles, the stomach and the liver only secretory apparatus, the kidneys only an ex- cretory apparatus, and the spleen only a sanguineous gland. Several of these organs may sufferglesion or be removed and still the passions remain; hence we cannot localize the pas- sions in them. Gall, in the next place, examines all the ‘parts of the -nervous system outside of the brain, viz., the plexuses, the ganglia, the nerves and the sensory apparatus, and shows that liere, too, it is inipossible to find the source of our pro- “ Reason sits arbitress within the breast, , .h‘or there it is our conscious being dwells; There fear and dread anxiety creep chill,’ . 1_ And soothing joys play flattering round the heart, Whicli shows the soul is there that joys and fears." ' --L':m‘c%z3tu.9, F. JQfm.§o~u’s t7°a.72.slc;.d-Zen. \ “ ~ .‘I:.;.ii~§té¥.’¢-'~?»--‘-’;\q.;»,<yi_vg:e3:.~. . ,. iwoonriiiri. & CL.AiF_LIl\l’S wEE‘Ki.,Y: pensities, instincts, affections or passions. —/Finally, li-e.eAxam— ines the brain itself and in it discovers the exclusive seat of all brain is proved from ‘the fact that any impairment of that viscus determines a perturbation of the passional no less than - half a century ago, who wereprofoundly versed in the study of insanity—a Pinel or an Esquirol, for instance—hesitate about locating in theebrain the immediate cause of dementia and the various forms of mania, we can appreciate l}l16°,1i’Il.°, portance of the service done by Gall to the science of man, when he rigorously demonstrated the ill-unders t0'od functions , of the brain and proved the correctness of Descartes’ doc- trine of the passions. ‘ ' The experiments of modern physiologists, those of, Claude on the nerve-centres, through the nerves reaching from the periphery of the body to those centres. The excitation thus determined in the brain orlinfthe spinal cord, is then trans- ferred to the nervc—ﬁ1aments whichextend to the viscera and members, and hence the latter are affected only secondarily." Of all the organs, the heart is the'one’which'earliest and most profoundly experiencesthe inﬂuence of the sensitive e;xcita- tions produced in the nerve-centres. So soon as any modiﬁ- cation whatsoever is produced in the central nerve—subv stance, the nerves transmit this vibration to.the heart, and at once the movements of the latter suffer ‘a. perturbation main-spring and origin. To Gall belongs the honor of having which is expressed in various ways. At one time the nervous . actionis suﬁiciently energetic to at once stop the working of the heart; and, as the blood is noilonger discharged into the vessels, syncope (fainting) islthe result, the ‘skin assuming takesplace, the beatingof the heart being accelerated instead of being stopped; in this case the blood is forced through the distended vessels to the brain, and there is over-excita- tion of that organ’s activity. The heart is no more the seat of the sentiments than the hand is the seat of the will, but it is a reactive which is modiﬁed by the sentiments, with the the heart betray by the very disturbance of its normal rhythm the nature of the initial brain—excitation, but it also produces throughout the whole organism disordered actions, the sum of which constitutes, as it were, the physical image, the palpable externals of passion. But it produces this dis- ordered action only by reacting on the brain, which isthe organ of all the demonstrations and, of all the movements of ~ the nerves and consequently‘ of the muscles‘. Thus it is that tem, conspire iii the production of passional phenomena by a. series of alternate actions and reactions. Such are, at least, the chief points of Claude Ber- nard’s doctrine, as set forth at a famous Sorbonne conference in 1864. .At that period the nature of the nerve-connections of the heart with the brain were has, for some years past, labored successfully to ﬁll up this gap. The heart is provided with a number of little» self- acting nerve-ganglia, without relations to the brain,lfrom which spring, under the inﬂuence of the blood, a, certain number of motor impulsions. These ganglia govern the usual normal action of the cardiac apparatus; but the rhythm and citations having their origin inthe brain. The latter organ ‘sends/out to the ganglia of the heart two sets of nerves——the pnemogastric, or retardator, and the accelelerator nerves. Excitation of the former diminishes the frequency and aug- mentsthe force of the heart’s movements. The accelerator nerves Produce theopposite results, increasing the number and lessening the force of the heart’s contractions.‘_ These two sets of nerves accommodate the activity of the heart to that of the rest of the organism, and hold it in equilibrium with the continual oscillations of the various functions of body and soul. Besidesthese ﬁlaments, extending from the brain to the heart, there are others from, the heart to the ‘brain, which M. Cyon calls depfressors. The oﬁice of these nerves is to notify the. brain, and consequently the soul,’of diac contractions. Thus, invirtue of the piieumogastric and the accelerator nerves. the ‘heart is an organ wheron is re- ﬂected, = immediately and with precision, every passional state, with its nicest shades of distinction. And, on the other hand, in virtue of the depressor nerves, our conscious- ness notes the inﬁnitely di/verse oscillations of the heart’s beatings attendant one passional states. The mechanism of _the heart's motions under passion depends on these twozlin- verse nerve currents. , a Every agreeable or joyous emotion-of the soul excitesthe accelerator nerves. of the heart andvcauses that organ to beat its. conti'ac\tions.» The phrases, the heart leaps with joy, or ﬂutters with joy, admirably characterize this action of the accelerator nerves. The facility with which the heart drives duces that feeling of comfort and pleasure Which is expressed by the words, alight heart, On the otherhand, all sad or painful feelings act chieﬂy on the retardator ﬁbres of the pneumogastric nerves. Emotions of this description diminish the rapidity of the heart’s beatings, and so increase the amount of blood discharged from that organ at eachediastole; hence the contractions by which it drives the blood ‘into the vessels are laborious and protracted. These contractions, attended as they are with pain, give rise to an ensemble of, sensations, expressed‘ in common language by such phrases as oppression of the heart, théheart is agonizecl, etc. That other phrase, the heart isready to burst, expresses, with ‘suﬁering, from pent-up anguish. The news of some painful loss, when suddenly conveyed, oftentimes pro'duoe_g, .wj1d_, irregular contractions, owing toa paralysis of the retardator nerves, and it is not rare to find this disordered excitation, followed’ by a total stoppage of the heart’s action and syn- cope. Hence, says Claude Bernard, when we have ‘b0_com_ municate to a person some heart-breaking piece or 133311;- l these activities. That the passions depend’ essentially on the . of the intellectual phenomena. When we see physicians of ' , Bernard in particular, show that all sensations act primarily \‘ the pallor and lividnes/s of death. Again, the reverse effect ,, utmost nicety-and with infallible certainty. Not only does ' the heart and the brain, the blood-‘system and the nerve-sys- , as yet unknown, anda Russian physiologist, E. Cyon,,' the force of the beatings are every instant modiﬁed. by _ex- I the changes occurring in the rhythm and energy of the car-,» I with great rapidity, lessening at the same time the force of I the blood into the arteries,,under such circumstances, pro-» , great exactitude, the sensation of stricture one feels when " ‘ “§ my ‘W “ggi s as , ,woo1°)HULI. .vf3‘oL.ArfI;1~i~I*sefWEEKLv. May 16, 1874.‘, l gence, we must use great precaution. The intensity of the 'eﬂ'ects produced on the heartby the soul’s emotions depends, a above all, on the excitability oflthe nerves connecting heart and brain. The greater the excitability of these nerves,«the more pronounced are the heart"s motions, andvthe ﬁner, too, and the moreidelicate are the consecutive impressions. Itis because the nervesof -women and children are more excitable than those of men.‘that their hearts also are more profoundly .aﬁ‘ected by the emotions; or, in common language, their ' hearts are more tender, more sensitive. While the heart seems to be more directly under the~in- liuence of the feelings, the lungs appear to have some con- nection with thought. Wheii «absorbed in somcqprofound meditation, or when listening to some orator whose discourse rivets ourattention, we suspend‘ the respiratory movements. Darwin offers an ingenious explanation of‘ this phenomenon, attributing it to the habit we have contracted of not breath- ing-when weare listening attentively, so as not to disturb by the sound of the breath the silence necessary for catching everyssyllable. . . s , From the "fact that the real aﬁections of the soul, and con- sequently of the ‘brain, are always accompanied by disturb- ’ ance of the respiratory and circulatory functions, we may . conclude that the heart and the arterial tension are the true index of the passional states. Hence it is that the actor, when he would prove that some perilous situation inspires him with no fears, seizes the hand of the one he seeks to reassure orto convince, and places it over his own heart, in . orderto show that the beatings of that organ keep up their usual rhythm. Hence, too, it is that we must, not regard * , outcries and gestures as positiveindi.ces of passion. W hen you see a woman weepi gand agitated on hearing some pain — ful news, you have only to feel her pulse; if that is normal. qyou may pronounce the emotion simulated. On the other hand, if you see a woman whose distress is manifested by no‘ outward signs, but Whose heart beats with unwonted irregularity, you may be sure that she feigns a calm that is not in her soul. ‘ There is yet another mode of ascertaining, and even of measuring accurately, thestrength of emotions. This we may do by applying either to the pulse or to the heart one of those delicate apparatus invented by M. Marcy, which trace on a\sheet of blackened paper curves of greater or less sinuosity, representing the number, the force and the form of the beats of the pulse, or the contractionsiof the heart. Just as these apparatus give us tracings which at once indicate the nature of the heart’s motions in various diseases:-for'instance, fever, typhus or pneumonia-— they might in like manner give‘ us graphic representations of its motions under the inﬂuence of the various passions, , such as love, fear, grief, joy, anger, etc. Indeed, each of these states of the soul produces. in the order of the heart’s beatings, a modiﬁcation so peculiar; and characteristic that we may regard each of the passions as having a curve of its own. M. Cyon, who has recently suggested this ingenious idea of applying graphic apparatus to the physiology of the passions, gives some illustrations of the bearings such/ex- periments might have. Among the heirs gathered round the bed of a dying man there is one whose grief causes his heart to beat slowly but violently. In some of the others, who im- patiently await the end, theqheart beats quickly but feebly. V The graphic apparatus, which describes, with. marvelous pre- cision, the rhythm ofcardiac contractions, and which is called the camdtograph, could in this case exhibit thereal feelings of the heirs. This is not at all an exaggeration, and we have no doubt that an instrument of great sensibility could be got to note the differences ‘here referred to. Perhaps the case would be ‘different under circumstances of greater com- plexlty. The modifications of the heart’s beating intervene in a twofold manner, in the determination of our inclinations and in the acts which proceed from them, either by pro". ‘ ducing sudden changes in the quantity of blood diﬁnged through the nerve-centres, or by giving us agreeable or pain- ful sensations through the depressor nerves. Now, a sudden afflux of blood to the brain, and extremely painful sensa- tions, may produce,’ in a man not suffering from any mental disease. the craziest notions, and may betray him into the commission of the most serious offenses. Suppose a man commits a crime under circumstances but ill understood ; the question arises, Was he moved to the act unconsciously and by physiological causes, or did hedo it designedly and after calm reflection? eM. Cyon thinks he can resolve this problem as follows: The soul possesses the faculty of ex- periencing, on the recollection of a past act, emotions of a like-kind with those it experienced at the moment of its*com- mission. The detailed history of a crime must produce in the accused who listens to it—supposing that he had committed the crime knowingly-—emotion_,s of this kind, as also the cardiac motions necessarily correlative to them. Hence the judge may, by means of the cardlograph, inform himself as to the presence or absence of these motions, and so decide whether the accused’ has or has not a recollection of the 7 crime, 2'. c., has committed the crime whether with or Without consciousness. This instance is rather» ingenious than‘ plau- sible,‘rather theoretic than practical. Of course, an indi- vidual who has committed a crime in a state of delirium can- not, on hearing the history ’of that. crime, experience the . sameemotions, nor consequently the same modiﬁcations of» the heart’s movement, as he would if he had committed it ’ with a full knowledge of what he was doing; still, it would be as hard for him in the one case as in the other, to main- tain’ an absolute sang-frotd. ‘A man who is accused of having committed a crime, and who knows that he has committed it, V is alarmed at the sight of the judge wlloiquestions him, and at thethought of the accusation which stands against. him, , even though the crime was committed in a ‘moment of de. ,»- lirium. On the other hand, it may easily, happen that a ‘hardenéd iIJ3»16fa0i50I‘. Who has committed a crime with full deliberation. will be so far master of himself a to feel but , _ insigniﬁcant emotion when the circumstances of his crime are brought up before,him. Yet this idea of‘ M. Cyon’s merits "the attention of psychological physiologists, and We may venture‘ to hope that the day will come when treatises, in psychology wih conclude theirdescriptions of_passionel_ I states with graphic tracings showing the rhythm of heart- -contractionswhich answers to each passion. These tracings will be trustworthy and precise, for, if the will be mistress of movements and demonstations that appear at the surface, it has but very little power; over ‘viscera that are concealed, like the heart, and these are truthful witnesses, ever at hand to rectify lying testimony. ‘ ‘ 7 ‘ (To an CONTINUED.) w sooIAL1‘sTIo. FREE-LOVE CONTROVERSY \C‘O/NTINUED. I.ETTER FROM HENRY JAMES To 5:. If. ANDREWS-CONTINUED. Now if by freedom of love you mean emancipation from ‘marriage constraint, you compel me to regard your use of the word» love as symbolical merely, and to view theword itself as meaning substantially hell. ' I hope you will not deem me silly enough to suppose that I, thus stigmatize your doctrine to anygood man’s regard. On the contrary I, am only making an fhonest attempt intellectually to characterize it; and as [by the marriage-love of the sexes heaven has always been appropriately symbolized to the intellect, so I take no liberty with thought in saying that hell is no less appro- priately svmbolized by love as opposed to marriage. * I repeat, then, that free love, regarded as the enemy of marriage, means to the philosophic imagination free hell, neither more nor less. ,F,ree hell, it is true—-which is a greatly improved ‘aspect of the subject—but still hell, and not by any means either earth or heaven." It is this fact alone as it seems to me which supplies the philosophy of the free-love agitation, and redeems it from\ an otherwise utter triviality. Free love is only the shibboleth of the movement, only the specious battle-cry under which its shadowy cohorts are being marshaled for the ﬁnal ﬁeld of Armageddon. But, viewed under the surface, it is a surging up of great hell itself into the current of our daily life, to become henceforth an acknowledged ‘factor in human affairs, or to be reckoned with no longer as a suppressed and disreputable, but as an every wayfree and respectable force in our -nature. You pay me the somewhat dubious compliment of calling Swedenborg my fountain of wisdom. I ﬂatter myself that the fountain in question is somewhat more highlyplaced. I am quite sure at all events, that Swedenborg’s stately Wig would rise off his head in astonishment and awe of the waters that ﬂow from that fountain. Swedenborg is not the least a man of ‘ideas, but eminently a man of facts; and if any one goes to him‘ therefore for ideas themselves, and not for the mere raw material out of which ideas are constituted, he will be sadly disappointed. This is what makes Swedenborg at once the most un/authoritative and the most instructive of writers, that he has no pretension to supply his readers with ' intelligence, but only with facts, which, nevertheless, are a surevehicle of intelligence to every one who knows how to use them. Now, altogether the most impressive fact I ﬁnd in Swedenborg is the fact of the Last Judgment, effected, as and resulting in the complete practical effacement of the old antagonism of heaven and hell, and their jointgand equal subjugation henceforth togthe evolution and uses of a new manhood on earth, at once natural and spiritual, or ﬁnite and inﬁnite, which he calls a Dimjnc-natural manhood, and represents to have been the sole creative and the sole forma- tive force in our history. \ M ' \ Now if this Last Judgment of Swedenborg’s be a fact of our spiritual or race-history, and the elements of good and evil in our nature have become’ actually reconciled in a new divine manhood, have become actually fused, blent, or mar- ried in a new or divine-human life on earth, what can nature but Society ? Society then is the true form of human destiny. And if ‘Society itself be a marriage of good and evil, of spirit and ﬂesh, of heaven and hell, consummated in the divine heart of our nature, why should not hell declare itself free of heaven, or love declare itself free of the purely enforcedbondage it has hitherto been under to marriage? How indeedc-an it help doing so? The slave, in disavowing his coerced bondage to his master, does not refuse him a spontaneous loyalty on occasion. Andlove, in refusing a constrained homage to marriage, will not deny itself the honor and advantage of a spontaneous adhesion. Society, when once it is fairly established to men’s recognition as the sole law of their origin and destiny, as the sole divine justi- ﬁcation of their past disreputable existence, will exhibit or express a perfect reconciliation of our most ﬁnite or personal necessities with our most free or spiritual and inﬁnite. aspirations. But that is only saying in other words, that man’s life, whether inward or outward, whether celestial or~infernal,_will then be no longer moral or voluntary as con- tered primarily in self, or primarily in the neighbor, but alto- gether aesthetic or spontaneous, as centered in selfcmd the neighbor quite equally. And when the law of man’s life thus expresses itself no longer in the rugged forms of duty, but in every winning form of delight, the lower element in glance than the superior element. Hell in that event as a recognized factor in human life, coequal with heaven, will vindicate its freedom no longer by voluntarily deferring to heaven, but by doing so instinctively as the very condition of its subsistence; for reciprocal deference is the life—blood of freemen. Thus when the veriest prudence of a man, or his inmost love of himself, binds him to society as the law of his being, he may surely be allowed to claim what freedom in love he pleases: his 1ove—-in~spite of himself, if need were—- will evermore strive to indue itself in marriage Iineaments, for marriage is both the substance and theform of true soci- ety, and nothing derogatory to the marriage spirit can sub- sist in it. This is why it is written 3‘ ‘* There shall in no wise enter into it anything that deﬁleth, neither anything that work- eth. abomination or maketh a hie; but they which are written in the _Lamb’s book of life.” 7 \ ’ I am, dear sir, yours very truly, HENRY JAMES. \ Gsunnincn, Mass, .A.pri116.‘_ he declares, more than a century ago in the world of spirits.‘ worthily express this grand spiritual achievement in our our nature will be found even more prompt to its social alle-T COMMENTS, AND. REPLY. V V, 131' STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. The opening sentence of this partof MR. JAMEs’s com- munication is in itself utterly ambiguous,‘for the reason that it is impossible to tell, from it, whether by “emancipation from marriage-constraint ” he meansby marriage-constraint the outer constraint of the statute law, or thatrelease, which he has imagined to be the demand of the free lovers, from the divineqorder, whatever that may be, of the love—relations of mankind. But light is thrown upon the subject farther on, and it appears that he means this last, for he contrasts the “ emancipation” from it under the name of Hell, with “that marriage-love of the sexes by which Heaven has always been appropriately symbolized.” \ s r ' , Now by marriage as appropriately symbolizing Heaven, he lundoubtedly means nothing other than harmoniously ad- justed love relations in accordance with the divine law; by, I which is meant, again, nothing other than the highest law in the universe applicable to the subject. He may assume in his thought that this highest/law is such, or such; but that does not" affect the question; as he may be either right or wrong in the assumption; and he can hardly, I /think, reject my deﬁnitions, which transcend all special renderings of the law. -This highest law must in turn be ascertained by intuition, by inspirational impression, by experience, by reason, and, in ﬁne, in the highest degree, by the absolute science of the subject superadded to and modifying the results of all the other methods——by, in a word, whatsoever faculties and means the human mind possesses for compassing a knowledge of the highest truth, especially in this sphere of affairs. Love—as a SUB‘S1‘Al\‘CE‘0r subject-matter, appropri- ately regulated by the hue and highest law of its rela.tions—~ united or married to each other, is what ‘MR. JAMES is here characterizing as marriage-love, and as heaven;‘ and nobody‘ can, I think, appropriately objectto this char,acterizati‘on. So, on the other hand, the divorce or sundering of this, substance and this form——it is a little queer to call that idea. an “emancipation, ” but no matter so long as we can guess at what is meant—may, with the same appropriateness, extending -the symbol, be denominated hell. I conceded, at once in my previous answer, that what Mn. JAMES under- stood us to propound as doctrine would be a. doctrine of devils; and I suppose that sort of thing is rightly character- ized as_he1l.i But, I have now to show that, as I think, MR. JAMES does not quite understand himself on this subject; and I take the liberty to correct him; as, if he is going to conduct us to the sulphurous uabyss, I want he should go straight to Hell; and not deviate a hairs’ breadth to the right nor the left. I have pointed out two senses in which MR. JAMES has used the word marmiage. There is involved here a third meaning so subtle that I presume he is entirely unaware of it. Mar-r riage is herein one breath contrasted with love, as the opposite partner in a partnership of ideas; and, in the ‘next breath, it is used to mean love conjo1'-ncd with anarrvlage, (mo/rriagc being new used in the former, sense), that is to say in the ﬁrst place to be fairly treated, in relation to JONES, in settling the affairs of the ﬁrm of SMITH ct JONES, but that, surreptitiously, the assumption were glided in that JONES is the ﬁrm of SMITH~& JONES, and that poor SMITH has now to reckon with the whole ﬁrm against him. Read the following extract in the light of this criticism: “I am only making an honest attempt intellectually to char- acterize it [free love]. And as by the marriage-love [love and true marriage conjoined] of the sexes heaven has always been appropriately symbolized to the intellect, so I take no liberty with thought in saying that hell is no less appropri- ately symbolized by love as opposed to marriage. I repeat, then, that free love, regarded as the enemy of marriage, more nor less,” etc. It will appear at once, on a close inspec- tion of this extract, that marriage, the last two time it is here used, is used as synonymous with marriage-love-—as, in other words, a. partnership-idea, including love as one of the partners——.a.nd in that case love is no more an appropriate idea to contrast with it than SMITH is the appropriate an- true antithetical idea of a partnership, is the individuals as individuals, and both of them equally, out of the partner- ship. So the true antithet, in idea, of marriage (meaning love inmarriage and marriage in love conjointlv) is love, and marriage, as a substance and a form, mutually contrasted, divorced or separated from each other; and then if the word free is used to mean their separation (or emancipation) from each other, it is just as applicable to marriage as one of, the partners as it is to love as the other partner; and it is not alone free love which is hell, but it is love divorced from true rela- tional adjustmentlhere called marriage) and true relational adjustment (that is, the relational adjustment which would be true it love were present) this last without Love/, which are both and equally the symbol of hell. In other words, love without marriage and marriageewithout love are hell——the read er remembering that we are not now talking of statute marriage, but of true sexual adjustments; and love married to true sexual adjustments, or vice verso, is heaven. H No philosophical free lover, any more than any other philosopher, would object, I presume, to these statements; and this is what Mr. James means, or should mean, in the premises. \ I We are all aware that love, as mere unsatisﬁed desire, is hell, or misery; and satisﬁed upon a low plane it is still hell to one who has conﬂicting superior desires unsatisﬁed; and when the satisfaction is complﬂte ill kiﬂda if 13119 adjustments are imperfect, conﬂictingp or disharmonious,_ inwhatsoever sense, the result is still hell; and this authorizes MR. JAMES to call free love hell; he having taken the word free to mean divorced or sundered from true or harmonic a,djustm,ent; but how he could ever have thought any set of people to be athe partisans of this particular kind of hell‘ is still very sur- L prising. On the other hand, he might just as rightly, andis l as a FOBM—this substance and ‘this form, again, happily , “"'/\'va..J/2+»-v-/\4 .- to mean the partnership itself. It is as if SMITH were about, « means, to the-philosophic imagination, free hell, neither tithet, in the case supposed above, of SMITH 85 JONES. The _ even required bygconsistency, to say free -marriage. in the e May 16, 1874. wooronurtta CLAFLINFSC wEm,n«;;.-: gj ,_.V.,.. .. ,.._,__,3 \ sense of mere formal adjustment divorced from love as its appropriate inﬁlling substance, and then to denounce it as hell of another kind; which we all know it to be. It is this latter hell which freelovers are especially engaged in com- _ batting; and it is that hell of devils and this hell of Satans I g. (Swcdenborgian) between which I insist that MR.- JAMES -shall hold even balance; in other words, that he shall go :;stra'l'ght to hell. , . A . But MR. JA_MEs_'s ladder of argument, though there is a round loose occasionally, is still a, ladder conducting him up to a culmination of magniﬁcent philosophical statement. Free love, as hell, is still with him by no means altogether disreputable. Hell itself is getting up in the world. ‘It is an equal factor in the -genesis of all things, an equally honor- able ,combatant in the grand ﬁnal battle of principles, the end of which is not defeat for ei'ther,.but a trinismal recon- _ clliation whereby the new heavens and the new earth are or are to be constituted. All this is universological and grand and true, and it rejoices me to have so distinct an announce ment of the doctrine, in this connection, from MR. JAMFS. I gladly concede also that he has derived only the materials 3. , for this doctrine from Swedenborg, and that theform of it is‘ ' " f‘j_‘_’,g,.-,, new and equally original with MR. JAMES and myself, and perhaps some other thinkers of this age. At all events, I am in full fellowship with him upon this central point of what I must undoubtedly believe is the ﬁnal and integral ' - philosophy of mankind. ’ ‘ I should not, it is true, base my faith in a ﬁnal philosophy upon Swedenborg’s personal experiences in the spirit world, nor upon any mere historical averment of events which may have transpired in any world, but upon what to me is far securer, the universological laws and principles of all being. Still, I have no contempt for Swedenborg’s experiences, whether they prove to have been subjectiveor objective phenomena; and the rendering which MR. JAMES gives of‘ the event alluded to is altogether sublime and alike true, I whether the event literally and objectively occurred or not. If the date of these spiritual espousals was so far back, it would seem that the effective promulgation of the fact has been reserved for this and the coming age. The new divine manhood has as yet made but small external progress in the world. The germ, nevertheless, exists, and it is taking on, every day, increased proportions. The most fatal mistake that soldiers make in war is to ﬁre upon detachments of their own army, and it is all important that they discover and retrieve the blunder. The ﬁgure is commended to ME. JAMES’ consideration. Verbum sap. sat. STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. TI-IE MIXTURE AS BEFORE. The following is taken from the New York Day’s Doings: It is reported that there is a family in Paterson who were a few days ago united, husband and wife, after being sepa- rated for some time under very singular circumstances, in- dicative of a state of society decidedly loose. A certain mar- ried man, living in the southern part of the city, some time c.,........, ,.,r"'\. _ -__, ,.since eloped with a certain married woman who lived near. To console himself, the husband left alone, took the other man’s deserted wife home to cook his dinners for him, ‘etc. if . ~ After some months, the/runaway husband returned to visit ' Paterson, and the first one he met was the husband whose wife he had taken. It was then and there mutually agreed that the exchange of wives be a permanent agreement, all hands seeming to be pleased with the new order of things. So the ﬁrst-mentioned man returned with the good news to Camden to tell his new partner about it, when, to his horror, he found she had eloped with another man. This was worse than ever. He returned to Paterson, mourning the loss of all his wives, when he was met with open arms by his own legitimate wife, and they made up and agreed to live together again. And, to make the matter all right, what should hap- pen in, two or three days but the arrival of the other man’s wife, begging to be taken back again, the man with whom she had eloped to Camden having eloped from her. And so they are all living now together as they originally were, in legitimate marriage: It is about as mixed up a case as we ever heard; and what is more strange about it, is that it is all true, and the parties are now living in Paterson, the reunion referred to having taken place only a week or two since. ~ _.___,._. RESPECTABILITY SEEDING IN RASCAIJITY- Mary Ellen McCormack, eight years of agelwas recently rescued by Mr. Henry Bergh from the custody’ of Mr. and Mrs. Conolly in New York city. It appears that she has ‘been frequently, cruelly and wantonly beaten, out with scissors, conﬁned alone in a ﬁreless room, insufficiently clothed, etc. She slept on a piece of carpet without covering, was never allowed to leave the room except to go in the yard at night; is unusually intelligent, and—-mark tliis—is sup- , posed to be the illegitimate child of RESPECTABLE parents. Just so‘! There’s therub! _ * . In view of the care and aﬁection lavished upon children as exhibited in the foregoing. under the present system of mar- riage and sexual relations, the intense wickedness of those who would change .them. and thus render the Conolly role impracticable, must be universally conceded. The present system must be upheld and the rights of children secured, beyond peradventure, to scissorings. whippings, cold, soli- tude, lovelessness, and death by slow starvation! Vive Con- . , olly and Conservatism! . h We read of one Moloch to whom children were made to “pass through the ﬁre;” thousands of years afterward we pass our children to Elie“ Moloch of respectability through frost, whippings and" starvation. Thus perish——as Ellen McCormack might have perished— thousands of the best and brightest because they were not born in accordance with ‘the iron rules of false moralists; Some. are taken and tenderly nurtured by those who adopt them, but even these more fortunateones are subjected to taunts and sneers from “legitimate” yahoo abortions, whose very “life” originated in a “ respectable,” lie, whose “liberty” can only belicensedv and whose “ pursuit of happiness ” mainly consists in mak- ing others miserable. For such the Declaration of Independ- ence is a falsehcod——aI“ truth (as Swedenberg has it)‘ let down from Heaven-into hell, ” which “_ there became a lie.” * I — ‘ A ’ * ALFRED CRIDGE. .A NOBLE WOMAN’S WORK. Mrs. Sarah, J . Spencer was before the House Committee upon Buildings and Grounds the other day, and gave a most startling picture of the social evil in the city of Washington, in her demands that Congress establish there a reformatory institution for fallen women, who really wish to escape a life of sin and shame. Her eloquent address beforethe“ commit- tee fairly startled them. condition of ‘the under life: in Washington. Mrs. Spencer said: ‘ \x. ‘‘ In one house of ill‘-fame in this city I found, as the chief attractions for visitors, ﬁve chi1dren,iranging, from twelve to sixteen. Upon expressing my horror to the keeper of the house, she said: ‘ The gentlemen, even white—haired old men, pay the highest price for tit-bits. It won’t payto keep old girls here. The youngest one here was seduced by her master, a respectable married man, at her service place, and ran away from her mistress. If I should turn these children out. I should like to know who would take’ careof them. You can take them all, if you choose. I won’t stand in their way. I should like to get out of it myself, but nobody will trust me.’ 4 “I groaned inwardly, for abandoned as she was, Iknew she spoke the truth. No one would take them, no one would trustthem. How dare we say these girls choose that life .until we give them an opportunity to choose a better? A note came to me one day stating that a young girl in Murder Bay wanted to see me. The locality was described but the number was not given. . A woman with a blackened eye and bruised face said: ‘Reckon you’ll ﬁnd her in the corner house.’ Iknocked at the door.‘ A~woman, who had been beautiful once, with a face now distorted with evil passions, opened the door, glaring atmefuriously. Suddenly a change passed over her face, and she did not attempt to molest; me as I walked past her to adelicate little ﬁgure leaning against / the wall. I took the icy-coldhand of the little girl and led her into the parlor, the mistress following. Her face was deathly white; her eyes hada heavy, leaden look, and as I put my hand upon her forehead I found it was as cold as her hands. She had been drugged, and", as I afterward found. had been in that state three weeks. I kissed her forehead, thinking, ‘Whose daughter is this?’ The kiss startled her, and she said, faintly: ‘ Oh’! I know you," I saw you once be- fore. Your name is Spencer. and you’ve come for me. I can.,, get my things, ’ She (whispering in’ my ear)’won’t let me have them. Can I go with you without a bonnet?’ “ Gentlemen of the Committee on Public‘ Buildings and Grounds, I wish I had language to tell you how I felt when I was obliged to tell her that l dld not come to take her away. I had no place to take her for a single night. “ The other day I was sent for to come home in haste. In a little room at the foot of the stairs, upon the floor, Iaya. little ﬁgure. with a white, child-like face,-bearing traces of mortal agony. She had been “on the town ’ since the age of twelve, having been at ﬁrst lured/into a den and locked up for three weeks. The night before she had been turned out of a little room because she could not pay‘the rent. She wamed up and down the streets with atiny bundle in her hand, penniless, hungry and cold. Late at night she earned a dollar at her. usual trade. Fifty cents oflthis she was obliged to‘ pay for the use of a room, andjshe was upon the street again with ﬁfty cents in her hand, and sickness com- ing on. She asked a woman to let her stay all night and to give her a piece of bread and butter for her ﬁfty cents, which she did. Pain would 110t let her sleep and at ﬁve o’clock in the morning she was frightened at her condition and started for the station. The mortal agony of mother. hood had come, she hurried on to the station-house, and asked an officer to ‘take her to the poor-house. She said he told her “he »didn’t ‘take none 0’ them no more; she’d better go to the Women’s Christian A330- ciation.’ This was two miles away. and she had not a penny. So she dragged her suffering body to théir ado;-, They asked her if she had a letter from’ anybody.. ‘No, nothing at all, but the d’rections from the police-station.’ Then she must go to some one whom they named and get a letter. Another mile and back. It was now late in the day, for she moved very slowly the long way out, and she had eaten nothing since she bought the piece of bread and butter the night before. She walked half a mile further, and then droppedupon a door-stepwhere a man was smoking a pipe. She asked how far it was to the lady to whom she had been sent. He told her. and she said: ‘ I can’t go there, then, for I done give out.’ He told her ‘she had better go to Mrs, Spencer’s; that wasn’t far oﬁ.’ She does not know how she came to be lying on my ﬂoor. This was two Weeks ago. When, even within a few days, my heart has grown faint with the long, weary struggle to secure help for these poor girls, I have thought of that suffering little girl dragging her way through the nation’s capital, and I have grown strong again.” ' ~ . Theieffect upon thecommittee was very great. Mrs. Spen- cer’s arguments gave them food for thought that had not been in their minds for years. To legislate for humanity was novel. Mrs. Spencer only asks for a place where she can care for the young girls that have fallen. She" says that fully seventy-ﬁve per cent. of fallen ones in this country and Europe are lured into vice under the age of ﬁfteen years. Not over twenty~ﬁve -per cent. enter the business from choice] With all the lavish appropriations by Congress to subsidize the commercial interest of the country, Mrs. Spen- cer thought that a few thousands would not be amiss to sub- sidize the virtue of this district. It is thought the committee will recommend an appropriation. = I ‘ A ‘ From a record report of Mrs. Spen- 1 cer’s speech 1 give one or two extracts, to show the horrible‘ T wnnanas-R:asoLvnD;‘l '. A A fractional remnants of dried-up societies, with members in Hammonton, N. .I., that~hav_e passed with" great ‘unanim- , 'ity certain whereases and resolves against Woodhullism when there was no’ .Woodhullisin, and against « the Chicago Convention, which they ‘never saw, and whose acts and resolves they knew nothing about,» except from false reports and slanderous Vattacks K of enemies, and against Free Love. when all love is free, except the loveof ‘God, which is constrained by church. limits and sometimes prominently against, their own personal records-=-wegreolved. to hold a convention, which we did, and unanimously res: solved as follows: ~ -i 1. Every sane man and -woman has a perfect and iualicnao of crime, and restricted in such right as a punishment, 2. As marriage is not a criminal act, it cannot justly res strain such liberty: nor can parties to it, by agreement, set aside such right, even by a sealed or solemnized contract. 3; A rape committed by a man upon, the person ofxhis wife if committed upon any other woman. . , _ 4. Any personal attack or abuse of a wife by her husband, if committed on any other woman. a right toenter into it and dissolve it without a priest, mag- istrate or court, as they would any other contract, subject only to the general laws regulating civil/contracts, with such amendments as would adapt it to the protection of women and children‘, until woman has an equal voice in making the laws, and an equal share of the property, to ‘support herself and children. A ' 6. As every part, organ and function of the human body is created for use, and none for abuse, and as woman is alone endowed with the capacity to receiveand support the-germs and early forms of organic human life, therefore she alone should decide when, where, how and by whom she will be- come a mother. ‘ I 7. As true marriage is that relation, and condition where one man and one ‘woman are/wholly, sexually, devoted’ to each other, and. fully satisﬁed with each other as mating coma panions, thereforethis is the highest social form of life known to us, and in such relation no woman would desire other parentage or partner in childbearing nor in .sexual \int-=.“r- course. I , 8. No ceremony of priest or magistrate can makexan act right that is wrong without such ceremony, nOI)‘,Cal1‘8llGh‘ cer- emony make an act wrong that is right without suchcere-= mony, since right and wrong exist in the acts and relations of the parties, independent of the ceremony, and’ not in the ceremony, nor in the consent of the parties in the ceremony: hence marriage exists without the ceremony, or not at all. 9. The sexes should be registered, examined, reported, no- ticed, talked about, tabooed and esteemed morally by the law and public opinion alike, thereby compelling men to bring their victims up to their sociallevel or sink to the level to which they degrade the females they disgrace. ’ " 10. Woman should be pecuniarily independent of man, and have entire control of all sexual intimacy Without any and houses of prostitution. - ‘ 11. Rape \is an act in which the parties do not act mu- tually and jointly in participation, and hence is more frequent in marriage than out of it. ’ . sexual abuse of any man without sexual attraction or desire, and without participation in the acts arising therefrom. 13. No man is virtuous who uses or abuses the; body of a femalewithout her voluntary and mutual attraction and par» ticipation in such relations as arise therefrom. within the legal bonds of marriage, but by the proper, ‘and by never sacriﬁcing nor abu‘sing' the organs of the body, nor the attractions ofthe soul. . 15. As thenatural desire for maternity cannot be restricted by legal marriage, and as there are many women who do are often able to support and educate their children, there- fore they have as good right to become mothers without being disgraced as married women have, and are not as much disgraced in “the eyes of God, of angels and of good men and women as the women who bear ‘unwelcome children b husbands they do not have the proper /attraction to for ma- ternity. ' s , . 16. _While woman is kept in an inferior condition and sub- jection, as at present, vice, immorality and unwelcome chil- dren will be the rule, and virtue, morality and welcome chil- dren the exception; but when woman is ma.u"s [equal in. property and every department of social, civil and political- life, the reverse will be true. _ . » 17. The most necessary legislation for regulating the rela.-A tion of the sexes is to properly protect woman from the -necessity of selling herself to man for an hour, a day, a- promise of a home, or promise of a loving husband, who does not know he will love her at all after he ‘gets possession of her, and whose love may be only last and not last a week, or may be a. love based on false estimates and perish in as week, with no power, in promise, or ceremony to restore it. 18. Those who do not desire to live together as man and. wife havea right to separate, without-the expense or gossip. of a court trial and decree of divorce. ' ’ 1 Having ‘deliberately discussed the foregoing resolutions and unanimously adopted them, all alone, at Omaha, this- I call" of oﬂicers. WARREN CHASE; ‘ Having noticed the somewhat amusing incidents of overall’ enough for oiﬁcers, and a quorum of an indeﬁnite number, led off by one that died‘ several years ago with the dry‘-rot,« ble right to control his or her own person, unless convicted is as much a moral, and should be as much a legal, crime as ‘ whether sexualor otherwise, should be punished the same as 5. As marriage is a civilcontract by our laws, parties have . pecuniary consideration, and thereby abolish the social evil ' 12. No woman is virtuous who submits her body to the ' 14. Virtue is not sanctiﬁed by, restricted to, nor conﬁned healthy, natural and legitimate use of the sexual functions, , desire to be mothers and do notdesire”to marry, and as such’ month or a lifetime in order to obtain bread, clothes, or a S 20th day Of March: 1374..We therefore adjourned,‘ subject to-« i ‘e ” ” i , E ,;?W0o15>nuI.Is a osnrriisés wsuxtr. , May 16, 1374. .. /“V — _[17‘r0m. the Lexington, (K2/.) Prssa] A‘ . BEAUTIES. OF.‘ THE PRESENT SOCIAL SYSTEBLQ, J A little forlorn white baby is in the possession of a colored woman in Upper street. The child is a bright-eyed, fair- skinned boy of twelve months, /had been noticed in the arms of his sable nurse, and inquiry was active as to whom it be- 1on‘ge.d.‘ Well, for all we have been able to discover, it be- longs to the women now so kindly nursing it., It was left with her, she said, by a colored woman who had been taking careof it at her home. xear Payne’s depot, but who had to ’ leave for the South, and desired to putthe child somewhere where it would be cared for. Of the parents we could learn nothing except (and the woman gave a meaning . laugh while she spoke) that‘ “ the mother was wealthy, was quite a gay belle much adniired, living in an- other county, and the father was supposed to live in Fayette. The child; when delivered to her was nicely dressed and had five or six changes,,and if ever she got anything for taking ‘care of it she supposed she would get it through the woman that left it with her.” . I The woman volunteered some curious information concern- ing other little foundlings. She had heard of three quite re- cently. In one case an infant dressed in a ﬁne cambric robe, was left at the door of a colored woman residing. on Broad- way. The infant was wrapt in‘ adozen ﬁnesuits similar to the one .worn, and with them was found some money. In another case, a ﬁne child was found upon the door- steps of a poor lady on Limestone street. -The latest case she knew of was at Midway; an infant, only a few months old, had been left with a. colored woman at that place, by a man who came and went in the’ night, and appearedto go toward Georgetown, Scott county. He came ‘ frequently, bringing clothing and money; never got out of his buggy, made anxious inquiries about the state of "the child’s health and departed as he had come—in the dark. The last time he called he left ten dollars for the child’s use, and promised to‘ call again in six months. Our informant was under the impression that the concern ‘thus displayed was parental. The biting sarcasm in the word parental, pro- nounced by such an one, with such experience of its empty meaning in a found1ing’s presence was enough to make one ashamed of his kind and weturned away. CIRCULAR LETTER TO SOCIALISTS. ’ In View of the great diversity of ideas now being set forth by those prospecting for some feasible plan of organizing communities, we herewith offer the following propositions as aplan upon which we /should like to unite with others in carrying out,,and we invite criticism from all who may think our positions untenable: ‘ ' H \ 1. We wishpto come in contact with an equal proportion of menand women ‘who are morally, socially, religiously and politically free; and who can use freedom, not abusing it, in all of life’s activities; but this, of course, gives no one the right to ‘trespass upon any other person, as, in so doing, the freedom of the one trespassed upon is thus impaired. We regard those morally and socially free who hold individual’ -control of all their functions, uninﬂuenced by fear or favor; and who act in whatever way that promotes happiness and auxiliarates the beauty and glory of life. We do not seek the perfect, but the free. 2. We want happiness, and in its attainment desire to seek it with those who will, with us, make use of all the power theylnow or ever may possess, for that end alone, without mental or material reservation. Those who would “keep back a part” are not wholly with us, and we cannot ﬁnd happiness together. To us, happiness means the reciprocal conjugation of all the attributes of one person withlthose of others. . I 3. As the apple wants a place and conditions for its unfold- ment on the tree, so we want a place and’ conditions for human unfoldment upon the planet; and as these conditions are ‘associative with other things, so they are with us; and we want a place andbonditional associations, the former to be had as it can. and the latter by attraction of similarities. 4. Humanity, unlike plants and animals, is not clothed with bodily protection; has reason, hands and the utilization of tools; and with these powers must build habitations, make clothes and procure food, or perish. Thus, with the place, we want a habitation and the means of comfort and subsistence; and, as one-half of life is glowing beauty, so the place, habitation, clothes and food shouldybe as equally beautiful as useful. ’ _ )5. Plants unfold inspirally, and animals can unfold in- stinctually; but humanity can only unfold by cultured means; and as science alone gives a way to culture, so we want all the processes of life to be guided by science. Having now found out what we want, and what all persons like us may want, we next proceed with the plan of gratify- ing these wants: ‘ ' ‘ ' .1. We invitelmen and women, whose wants are the same as ours, to unite with us in attaining happiness; the home to be held in the name of the association, and all associates to be equal in p”oss‘ession, and equal in all privileges and ben- eﬁts. . 1 I / -2. That all ownership shall be associative, and notintegral; that each. person can use an equable amount of the proceeds of labor for individual uses, and all else be provided.associa- tively. I « ' . . \ 3.’Believing that physicalunfoldment is all-important to mental culture, we propose that the agricultural industries constitute the basis of sustaining -life and providing the ma- terial essentials for promoting happiness. . I ’ 4, We propose that all associates live as one family, con- forming to such rules of order-as may be found necessary to secure harmony. ; O , 5. We propose that all persons, in becoming associates, will freely deliver to the commontreasury all their material su‘c"st'ance; and, in withdrawing, to receive back the value of the same, Without interest or premium. . , I akouets, allaouic oidas pothen erchctai, Rat pou upaget; autos I-Iim had by the cautious rabbi are enumerated the facts and For any further illustration of jourideas, read the writings of Victoria 0. Woodhull. J’ EVARTS, . ‘ _ , Fresno 1?. ROBER'rs. CENTRALIA, 111., 1874. A . Q SPIRITUALISTIC. , TO_ THE SPIRITUALISTS OF AMERICA GREETING. 7 _ . r ‘ LOMBARD, Il1.,-April_12,‘1874;. Brothers and S'istcrs—We have run the gauntlet and still live. The Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists will hold their Eighth Quarterly and Second Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, at Grow’s Opera House, 517 West’ Madison street, commencing on /Friday,‘ at 10% o’clock, A. M.,,June 12, 1874, andcontinue over Sunday the 14th, a three days’ meet- ing. We shall then meet under charterifrom the State of Illinois. All the members are requested to be present, as business of importance will come before the meeting, also election of ’ officers for thecoming year. There will be reso- lutions of vast importance to Spiritualism to be considered. We cordially invite all Spiritualists, Mediums and speakers, as well as all others interested in the cause of humanity and truth to be with us at this our second annual.meeting. Our platform is free and shall remainso for the discussion of all subjects germain to humanity, truth and progress, under strict parliamentary usages. in , - , - O. J. HOWARD, M. D., President. J g E. V. WILSON, Sec’yN. I. Ass. ' H We also give to the world the following statement, viz. : \ Whereas, following our Seventh Quarterly Meeting of the Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists, held in Chi- cago on the 13th, 14th and 15th of March, 1874, grave charges and accusations .were made against us personally and col- lectively as a body, reﬁecting on our moral character, truth- fulness, as well as social standing and position in society; Therefore. we challenge our accusers, who have maligned us through the Religio-Philosophical Journal and other papers, to meet us while in session in June, 1874, and prove these charges to be true; or, failing to do so, forever after be branded as liars, cowards and villains before the public, for we here deny before the world the truth of said charges and accusations. Truth is mighty and will prevail; though the heavens fall we will stand by our princip1es—equa1 rights, a. free platform, the discussion of all truth——aiming ever to arrive at the highest. 0. J. How.4.nD, M. D., President. E. V. WILSON, Sec’y. _ SPIRIT TRANSIT—(John iii., ver. 8.) The transit of a spirit to the earth—life by means of its taking control of a borrowed animate body, as a fact recog- nized by Jesus and used by him to illustrate his doctrine of entrance into the kingdom of God, is indicated by this erroneously translated and misunderstood Greek sentence, namely: To p-neuma. opou thelei pnei, km‘ ten phonen autou esti pas. gegennemenos ek tou pneumatos, being the eighth verse of the third chapter of the Gospel according to John. Who has not listened to a windy and incongruous sermon on this text? The preacher always supposing the Word wind was the properly translated word, and truly meant a wind from some one of the cardinal points—east, west, north, south. Let this class of preachers cease to traduce the faith Of Spiritualism; to vilify its professors. The Master, whose disciples they pretend to be, taught the great and central fact of’ Spiritualism in the above Greek text, to wit.: the spirit’s return and communion with mortals.’ This is the corner-stone of the temple of Spiritualism.‘ Let us examine this text as seen abovelin the original, and see whether we are safe in our averments. The text shows that Jesus sought. to indoctrinate Nico-N demus concerning the operations and inﬂuences of“ a spirit—— the spirit of a person who had departed this life——upon a per- son still dwelling in the natural world and being in his natu- ral body. 'Nowh_ere elsein the New Testament, where to pneu-ma are so constantly translated spirit or ghost, are we able to’ ﬁnd to pneuma rendered wind. The proper Greek Word for wind is (memos, and by no usage whatever of Greek writers can the common version of the words to pneuma. be justiﬁed. Even in the Gospel, according to Matthew, sec- tions 25 and.2’2' of chapter vii., where it is said “ The winds blew,” the word anemos is used. What evidence is here of the ignorance of ‘the Commissioners of James concerning spiritual phenomena, and to what bad translation hath it led! The whole context shows that the word pneuma was spoken of the soul orspirit of a man. It had been‘ properly translated spirit by them just before, in verses. ﬁve and six, ' and, to be at all consistent, they should have rendered it wind wherever used in the same immediate connection, or spirit; one or the other, all along through the dialogue. , The reader has seen that the same ‘word in the Greek text above quoted, begins and ends the section. If to pnewma, at the beginning, must be rendered wind, then tou pneumatos, at the end, should also be rendered wind. It would seem, surely, that there can be no ‘good reason for a different use of it in the same sentence. We will, therefore, end the sen- tence ~ with the same word with which the common version begins it. To use all along the word wind, how absurd and \ Nicodemus, no doubt, had seen cases of entrancement, ;etc., which, to him, were inexplicable, and by him were set down as miracles. Jesus toldhim that a spirit was the producing cause of the phenomena which he had witnessed. Pnieo, from which comes pnei, primarily signiﬁes to breathe, whether it be in a case of common respiration or of some peculiar inspiration or expiration——and the idea of Jesus, no doubt, was this; the spirit breathes into, or inspires, opou, ' M whatsoever person it wills or chooses to inspire—-such seems to be the case nowadays with all susceptible media in our midst. Whatever, indeed, may have been the act of the spirit, whether entrancing, or controlling in some other man- ner, the person upon whom ‘it chose to exercise its power, the result certainly was to make itself heard; akoueis, thou hearest———and what is heard ?—-ten phonen, its ,voice, its word, its language, its speech, its discourse. The spirit is not visible to‘ the natural eye, and what is here affirmed of it is in harmony with its laws. We discern not its ingress or egress; oulc oidas, thou dost not behold; pothen, ‘whence; erchetmi, it comes; [cat pou, nor where; upagei, it departs. All this is plain to any one familiar with spirit phenomena. Consolidating the above items of interpretation, critipcism and explanation, the following is a correct reading of the Greek of the celebrated wind text of the King’s commis- " sioners: “ Aﬂspirit inspires whomsoever it will, and thou hearest its voice, but thou dost not behold whence it comes nor to what place it departsfso is. the case of every one who is begotten of the spirit ” (from on high). I This contribution of evidence, by Jesus, to the support of the grand idea of spiritualism, the occasional and temporary reincarnation of a spirit, in a borrowed mortal body, as in‘ case of entrancement, is conclusive against the constant denial of churchmen that spirits ever return and speak con- cerning matters "of spirit life; conclusive. that a spirit, once individualized by an earth-life, may incarnate itself in the animate body of a person yet dwelling upon earth.—Dr. Horace Dresser. A . SPIRITUALISM—A.N INDIGNANT OLD SPIRITUAIST AND FREE-LOVER. ' ' Your article of this date, “The Necessity of a Radical Reform in Spiritualism,” like many others upon the same subject published in the Times, is onlynremarkable for the. entire absence of either justice or truth. I have been an avowed spiritualist about eighteen years and a reader of the Times about ten or twelve years, therefore consider myself posted as regards the manner the Times has treated this sbbject._ The fearless, independant manner that the Times treats the majority of subjects discussed in its columns deserves and no doubt receives .much credit. But‘, sir, if you had been enjoying a Rip Van Winkle sleep the past twenty-ﬁve years, there might be some excuse for such an article appearing editorially in the Times, but under the circumstances, how 7 shall we account for such an abortion? Let me examine your statements a little. First. How did ithappen that those scientiﬁc men and un- scientiﬁc thinkers, philosophers and wise men of the press (with a few glorious exceptions) ignored the phenomena called spiritual, and not only ignored the subject, but pro- nounced the whole thing a humbug, and that without any knowledge or/investigation of the subject? Now, Mr. Editor, will you tell your readers what in your opinion, prevented the wise men mentioned in your article from investigating this subject twenty-ﬁve years or even twenty, or say ﬁfteen years ago. VV as it free love, Woodhullism, harlotry, or the mad—dog cry of priests and the press? Haven’t_vou a faint recollection of the manner you leaders_ (wise men) have , treated this subject for the past twenty-ﬁve years? Do you , not well remember that when the humbug theory would not answer, the priests set up the howl of devil, and proclaimed from pulpit and press that that old cuss the devil, was at the bottom and had entire control of all media? Did not the pulpit and the press combined pronounce Edmonds, Hare, Davis, Brittan, Owen, Tuttle, Denton, Chase, Pierpont, William and Mary Hewitt, Massey and a thousand more greater or lesser lights, a pack of tricksters, /humbugs, ignorant asses? And, sir, how long since have you ceased using theabove epithets against these same persons? And are not, and were not, some of them scientists, philosophers and unscientiﬁc think- ers? Again, Mr. Editor, how much longer do you think skeptics, inﬁdels, Free’ Religionists, Spiritualists and Free Lovers are going to support the press in its present utter and entire demoralization? I can tell you——until we can have a free, just and truthful press, and not a moment longer. You, Mr. Editor, know just as well as I do (for you are not the ass your article suggests) that the above ﬁve classesare the- thinkers of this age,«§and, sir, they are, as a class, dis- gusted with the demoralization of the pulpit and press. Second. Now, Mr. Editor of the Times, how many inde- pendent scientists and philosophers are there who have be- come cognizant of the phenomena of Spiritism, as you name it? And, sir, how many, exceptthe independent ones, do you think are fools enough to risk their reputation and bread and butter against the odds of this unscrupulous priesthood and press? Has the pulpit ever scrupled to brand and black- ball every new development under the sun, and as soon as it gained popularity claimed it as the offspring of their total depravity, immaculate conception, Holy Ghost, divinely in- spired humbug? And where is the secular press that has dared to expose this curse against the freedom and advance- 1‘1di0U-101n15 Would be the rendering» may be 5,9911 thus‘ “ EX‘ ’ment of ourcommon humanity? ‘And, sir, if the press dare cept a man be born of water and of wind he cannot enter into the kingdom of God! That which is born of the ﬂesh is ﬂesh, andthat which is born of the wind is wind I" ’ /In thesayings of Jesus in the memorable interview with philosophy of a most ‘reasonable and -satisfactory incarnation, possible to all who ever inhabited the earth. Jesus teaches the spirit’s return, but only through its incarnation of itself in the body of another person, to remain only for a limited’ Aperiodnand for temporary —purposes—-a return through the ﬂesh of another still animate in earth-life, and borrowed only forthe occasion. . I ’ not do this, how unreasonable for you to raise the question: why.d'on’t the scientiﬁc men, the philosophers, the wise men, investigate and give us the result of their search? And, ﬁnally, Mr. Editor, for you to answer the question by saying that they are deterred because free lovers, Woodhullites, and harlots believe, is, to say the best, very thin; and at the same time you designate this wing ‘ of Spiritualism as frauds, long-haired asses,/etc., etc. Isn’t this placing a high‘ estimate upon the character of those wise men and the sub- ject to be investigated? N V AN OLD SPIRITUALIST AND FREE Iiovuu. . Curacao, March 27,1874; . I Y ‘ .0‘ """uk~vv--.5=‘*' 1 3‘ b \ "\». , — . luv \ . May 16, 1,874. \ _WOO,'l)I'?iULL & oLAEi:i,N*s WEEKLY SPIRITUALISM IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS; SPRINGFIELD, Mass.,.Apri1 17,- 1874. _ Editors of the Weekly—Yourlarticle on “What is a free“ paper,” I think must meet the approval of all true friends of human progress; and of all who have the best interest of the cause at heart. If the article‘ which you publish from N.‘ Frank White is a sample of what you receive you are cer- tainly justified in refusing them and still your paper be called a free paper. In this article it is not my purpose to notice him at all, but another person. I Just at this particular time I feel that a. brief review of the cause of Spiritualism in this place will be of interest to your readers, and that is my purpose in writing; but if I should, under the sting of the falsehoods and misrepresentations which he utters‘, be a little personal, remember the provocation. ,After the proceedings of the Chicago Convention became known, and the letter of Moses Hull was published which caused such a commotion among the self-righteous Spiritualists all over the country, such expressions as these were of very common occurrence here: “If that is Spiritualism Idon’t want anything to do with it ;” and although they did not pass resolutions re- pudiating those proceedings as Spiritualists in othereplaces did, it was evident that their disposition was good enough; for Moses, who was engaged to speak for us inﬂctober, had his engagement canceled, showing very plainly what the feel- ing among them was. One of them was building alarge block, a portion of which he set apart to be used as a hall to hold Spiritualists’ meetings in. As it approached completion it was thought advisible to organize,,and measures were taken to do so under the laws of the State. During this time, and be- fore the meeting for organization took place, it was thrown out that no one the least bit tainted with Woodhullism should hold any oﬁice in the organization; and some even went so far as to say, that, if Miss Jenny Leys (who doesnot submit to be muzzled) had not been engaged a long time in advance, her engagement would be canceled, at any rate if she had not been engaged, she would not receive a call to come here, as she was tainted with the “ abominable doctrines.” All this is history and will not be disputed. The society organized under the name of the First Free Religious Society of Springﬁeld, and strangers and Spiritualists in the city looking among the Sunday notices to ﬁnd where Spiritual- ists’ meetings were held, were at a loss to ﬁnd any; for the Sunday notices of the “ Free Religious Society,” read as fol- lows : , “ Preaching by N. Frank White, at half past two and seven o’clock, Sabbath school and bible.class at one P. M.,” which was hardly the kind of notice to attract Spiritualists. Some of us felt that to make the notice complete another line should be added, as follows: The sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered immediately after the close of of divine service. Such a. notice it was thought might tickle the palate of the bluest advocate of an angry God and a burning hell. 3' » 7 Some of us who had suifered obloquy and reproach for principle’s sake did not feel like seeing the spiritual ﬂag thus trampled in the mud, and we took it up and raised it aloft once more; and after our first Sunday announcement ap- peared, a very perceptible flutter was noticed among the “ Free Religionists," which caused a very marked change in their programme, and their’ Sunday notices afterward read as follows: “The jSpiritualists and Liberalists of the Free Religious Society, of Liberty Hall,” etc. ; and now Free Re- ligion isgone entirely by the board and their notices read, “The Spiritualists of Liberty Hall,” etc. This also is history as our own city papers will testify; and if our movement were to die right hereand never accomplish anything further, it would certainly die an honorable death, for it has taught them not to be ashamed of Spiritualism and to stand by its ﬂag, how- ever short some may comeof attaining to that false standard of respectability which is the curse of the world. Spiritualists ought to know that there is no such thing as “vicarious atonement”—-that every one must stand or fall by their own actions. It seems to me if they could realize this they would not be afraid of “ side issues” or anything else, and they would have charity enough to accept thegood and true, and reject the false, let it come from whence it may and through whom it ‘may, and if S piritualists here or anywhere else feel like surrendering its ﬂag to Free Religion or any other religion, because some, according to their pharisaical notions, are not quite as good and pure as they esteem them- selves to be, they will ﬁnd themselves mistaken; for there are a few here at least who do not propose to see it so insult- ed, and if any doubt exists as to their ability to keep it ﬂoat- ing in the breeze, they mistake very much the character of the persons engaged in the movemant. Now that our friends of Liberty Hall have seen the folly of their course and repented of the error of theirways, and no one hereafter will have any diﬂiculty in ﬁnding where Spirit- ualists‘ meetingsare held, we extend the right hand of fel- lowship and wish fthem success, for there is room enough and Spiritualists and Liberalists enough here to support two societies handsomely, if they had the disposition. Since the flag of Spiritualism now‘ ﬂoats to the breeze over Liberty Hall, and they hire speakers that will not submit to be muz- zled, we feel that if we knew how, to die, we might do so with a good "grace, but as we don’t know how, we don’t P1‘0P0S6 to do any such thing. And here perhaps/I ought to stop; but I feel that a few Words more yet remains to be said. There has been ‘.‘ a kernel of purity and truth” here, (at least that is what he calls himself in the Springﬁeld Re- publican), who'has undertaken to defend the course of the Free Religious Society. He says they are not ashamed of Spiritualism and have never changed their name, but took the name of Free Religion in order to broaden theirplatform, so as to admit such persons as Horace Seaver and C. C. Bur- leigh; just as though the Spiritualist platform was not broad enough. I have always supposed it broad enough not only’ for such persons, but persons like the late Elder Knapp and Robert E. Fulton, if they would consent to listen half the‘ time, but as the latter will not do this the platform is not at fault, nor too narrow to receive them. He also put me in possession of a great many facts that I knew nothing about; he speak of ChaunceyiBarnes—-purposely for effect. It is the first time I knew of his applying for the hall. Thomas Cook, whom from my limited acquaintance with him, I should judge to be an educated Spiritualist and a gentleman, and who gave as -good a lecture as I ever listened to in Liberty Hall, told me, he engaged the hall every evening for one ortwo weeks, when not otherwise occupied, at a price-not to exceed $3 per night, for heating and lighting, and was astonished whentold that he could not have; the key without paying $5 in advance every evening. My first reply to;this\“ kernelof purity and truth” was sent to the Banner with the request to return it if not published; but it was neither published_”nor~ returned. The one publishedin the WEEKLY, was written several weeks later, and possibly some things were added which explains dates. ( What he says about “ ignoring,” he knows is incor- rect and if he would take oil’ his “green goggles” he would admit it. This “ kernel of purity and truth,” also talks about "‘1icentiousness" and “nastiness,” but if we are to judge peo- ple by the companythey keep, one might suppose that he had, not yet learned the meaning of those words. I-Iis thrust at the treasurer is without any cause, and no foundation infactl, In the ﬁrst place, nomoney was put into his hands or oﬁered to him for‘ two weeks after it had been received by the col- 1ector,which he thought“sha.bby treatment ;” then when'_.it was offered him, with the request that he/sign a receipt, while the collector and he kept a memorandum, he took it as an insult. Hisuncalled-for ﬂing at my liberality is easily ex- plained._ In consequence of an attempt on the part of the queen of the Spiritualists here, nearly two years ago, to dis- place me from aposition that I had always held, I told her leige lord that I should never give or subscribe another cent in support of public speaking while she remained queen. From this spread the report that a large amount stands, against my name, which I will not pay, and that I never did , pay anything of any account toward supporting the meetings. However, since that time or before, I am willing to compare notes with the “ generous-hearted” and see which gives the most to advance the cause in different ways. In conclusion, if this “ solid kernel of truth and purity” will produce one Spiritualist that will say I have falsiﬁed the truth‘; and prove it, I will produce ten that will say I have not; or if he will produce one here that will say he has not falsiﬁed the truth, I will produce ten that will say he has, and prove it. i , ' Yours, for the truth and right, though the heavens fall, . ‘ I F. LA1)D. 0 TAKING THE INITIATIVE. , We warned the ladies of San Francisco some time ago, that the evil of intemperance in dress had assumed such gigantic . proportions that the men were about to move in the matter, and that praying bands composed of earnest men, led by practicedpreachers, intended to visit the dry goods and mi]-‘ linery establishments of this city, and pray at the proprietors until they promised to give up their unholy tramc. The ladies are determined to take this reform intoutheir own hands before the men are driven to such extremities. The Bulletin says: . / _ L I , , “ A meeting is appointed for all who are interested in the subject of dress reform for women,,to meet in Anthony’s Hall, 417' Bush street, opposite the California Theatre, on Monday afternoon, April 6. The ladies Will meet at 2 o'clock precisely, and the gentlemen at 3 o’clock. A company of ladies have commenced the agitation of this subject by calling around this little nucleus all who are interested inithis great; work. There is, no doubt, a. great chance for improvemem, in this dress _,business, as fathers \ and husbands can well testify, but the work of bringing it about will be very la‘. borious.” Woman’s dress in America is clumsy, unhcalthful, .expen_ sive, and in many cases ineleghnt. The only sensibly-clad women in San Francisco are the Chinese, who Wear comfort. able loose wrappers and loose pants. No Chinaman, as far as wehave heard, objects to his wife wearing breeches; and we do not see why a Caucasian should object, if she pleases to do so. Pants can be made as graceful andbecoming for women as men, and, after she has got rid of all these super. fiuous pettiooats which now encumber her movements, will be made more fit to take her part in the duties of life. There is no necessity for the immense number of articles of clothing which women wear. There is no reason why she should Wear‘ a, greater number than a man does. - The dress of the present day may be reformed and still remain womanly and pretty. There is too much of it, and it costs too much. . I ‘ Any dress reform which has for its object the dressing of an Woman alike, like convicts or soldiers, must fail. Only general principles can be laid down, and each woman must be left to dress in the manner which she considers most be- coming. Fashion is a tyrant from whose power manya W0, ‘man would gladly emancipate herself. ’ If it can only once become “the fashion” 130 31959 Simply and inexpensively, the reform will progress rapidly. The prettiest dresses are not the most expensive. It is the form of woman’s garments that needs to be changed, not the material. ‘Something like pants must form a portion of the reform dress, or it will be no reform at all. We are glad that tlieladies have made a commencement in this much-needed reform, and hope the press will encourage them in their good work, ‘though dry goods stores advertise liberally—their large proﬁt they make out of the follies of women enabling them to do so.——_Som Fra:ncz'sco Figaro. ‘ ‘ CHARMS. The belief that the; maladieﬁ; by which poor human- ity is tormented ‘are removable without the interven- tion of drug or doctor, has obtained in all ages and in all countries; the savage and the civilized’ alike have had, We might say still ‘have, immense faith in the power of sundry charms of a more or less ridiculous nature. Philosopher though he were‘, Bacon himself, not, it must be owned, without signs of misgiving, testiﬁed in their favor, writing: “ I had from my childhood a wart,upouone of my fingers; at Paris, there grew upon both my hands a number of warts bassador’s lady, who was a woman far from superstitious, told me one day she would help me away with my warts; whereupon she got 9. piece of lard with the skin on, and melted the warts all over with the fat side, and" among the restthat wart which Ihad from my childhood; thenshe a part of her chamber window, which was to the south. The success was, that withinfour weeks’ space all the warts went away, and that wart which I had so longiendured for company; but at the rest I didlittle marvel, because they came in a short time, and might go away in a shorttime doth yet*sti’ck, with me.”f We might put down the cure to the credit of the lard, but Bacon goes on: green alder stick, and then pburying the stick to rot in before casting it away. A writer in Notes and Queries tells of a relative troubled with thirty-two warts ‘on one hand and two on the other, who . tried the elder cliarni upon the ‘she sought to remedy her fault by going through the core; mony again she found it futile ; “ the charm would seem to have been broken by her telling, of it.” Another corres,» ago there resided at the little village of Ferry ‘Hincksey, charming, warts, Being at that time a lad, and much troubled with these excresences, one of which was as large lady a visit. With fear and trembling I entered her little certain notches were cut,- a cross having been ﬁrst slightly that day my troublesome and unsightly adherents began to 0/'2.ambers’s Journal. ~ [From the Baltimore American.) THE SOCIAL EVIL IN VIENNA. A man's wealth is often’ estimated in Vienna by the num- ber of mistresses he keeps, and the magniﬁcence of their equipages, diamonds and dresses. There is no city in the world, not even‘ Paris,‘ that can rivaltthe metropolis of Austria in these respects, and there is a universality of semi‘. ment that isquite remarkable. There are no establish: ments in Vienna like those. which have proved such ,8. Baltimore, for the reason that professionals of that class do not exist there. C l p , There are, in short, no ﬁaunting courtesans in Vienna, ask are to be seen on the strpeeis of Paris, or even New York or Baltimore. Where virtue is suchia, rarity, there is no -opportunity for making a speciality of, vice, and .it has no special locality. In this respect Vienna would appear to the casual visitor more free from this species of social evil than any other large city in the world; but a visit to the foundling hospital, where there is an average of about forty infants receivedr daily, or the thirty a day, shows the pre-eminence of Vienna over all other cities in the world. . i There are twenty thousand soldiers always in the city, mostly young men from theprovinces, who could not marry if they would, and would not if they could. They ha.ve no .means to support a wife, and seldom have money suﬂicient to pay the church charges for the performance of the mar. riage ceremony. The _ can be seen in crowds with the young girls on the wingstrasse and Prater, They form attachments, but are never expected to marry. Their ex» ample is followed by the young men. in other walks in life,‘ and I am assured there are fewenmarriages in Vienna than in almost any other city of one-third the population. There. seems to be no attempt _made_by the authorities or bythe church to remedy this evil, which has become so universal that——among the laboring classes especially--—therer are few mothers that have husbands. . . l nrmnmio DELUsIoNs., , “ Epidemic Delusions” is a book by Dr. Frederic B. Mar» vin and from the publishing house of, AsaK. Butts, No. 36 Deystreet, New York. The book is beautifully written and the argument is plausibly constructed, but the scientiﬁc value of the bookis equivalent [.0 zero. Dr. Marvin is a good poet but he is a poor philosopher. vHe evidently doesnot understand his, subject. I He classes Spiritualism with witchcraft and nécromancy, and this alone brands him as a the spirits alone; He is Professor of Psychological Medicine in the New York Free_M.edical College for Women. _ We wonder what ‘sort of a professor‘ of . psychology a man can be who denies the existence of a soul and its immortal-at —.ity, and actually closes a lecture before a crowded house; ‘with such, words as “All hai1,Aann1hilation! we greet thee with gratitude, O forgetfulness!” How will he woiider at of the summer-land helooks down on earth’s busythrongs, who, led by such leaders as he is. are wandering further and further from the truth. , We have nojunkind words for the Doctor. lWe are ratherjpleased than otherwise with his boo'n,,,"’ ism, which is buiided upon ‘a rock. books than this is the prayer of his reviewer. _ , . i g i Q; Dtunngsnsr. afterward, when I was about -sixteen-years old, being then . \ (atleast an hundred) in a ’month’s space; the English Am-I nailed the piece of lard, with thefat toward thesun, upon , again, but theigoing of that which had stayed so long" ,“ They say the like is done by rubbing of warts with a I muck ;” and we remember trying that charm most triumph~y’. antly in our boyhood, but we were taught to notch, the stick , worst hand, and got rid of the thirty-two, while the pair , she had omitted to charm remained to plague her, and when . pondentof .7_~Voz‘cs and Quarries writes :' “ Twenty-ﬁve ye'ai's I hear Oxford, an old Woman who had a great reputation for v as a four—penny piece, I was. recommended to pay the old " hut ; and after being interrogated as to the number of warts F upon my person, a small stick was produced, upon which I imprinted on the larger wait; the old lady thenretired into‘ . her garden to bury the stick, and I was dismissed. From I crumble away, and I have never been troubled since.”-4 ‘ I nuisance to the citizens of the Eastern School District of . general hospital, where, its illegitimate births average about _ charlatan. Dr. Marvin had better stick’ to. the muse and let I ’ his own blindness a.nd*perversi,ty,when from the green slopes ‘ ‘ for it really illustrates the weakness of both the materialisg. ' tic and the Christian positions, and does not hurt Spiritual. . . \’l‘ha.t the Doctor may live many years andgwritaé bgtter I \.. at i‘ , t . I t . ".woonHuLL a c-LA:rLi:u’s wsrixi-Y interior’ ss RP'l'I0lil. PAYABLE IN ‘ADVANCE. ' One copy for one year, - $3 00 .One copy for six months,‘ - - - - - -‘ 1 50 Single copies, - ,- - p - . - - 10 _ ‘ CLUB RATES. ’ I Five copies for one year, - - , - . $12 00 Ten copies for one year. , - - - . - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more at‘ same rate), -I - - 40 00 Six months, - - - - ‘ - » \- One-half these rates. 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This progress was for along time successfully resisted ; ‘and whether it is now obtaining because men begin to feel that women are getting ' in earnest in their demands——this legislation being enacted as a peace-oﬂ‘er'in g to prevent actual rebellion—or really because they have a genuine sense of the injustice of the past, it may he ditlicult to determine. It may, however, result from recent decisions of the Courts, upon matters relating to marriage and woman’s rights within it. Wherever this ques- tion has been considered recently, Judges have gone beyond statutory enactments and founded their opinions upon prin- -ciples of justice; in several instances going so far as to de- clare that inarriagc is a civil contract merely, thus virtually establishing the right of individuals to make and unmake . social. contracts without legal interference. Perhaps legis- lators, who are mostly lawyers, fear . this movement of the Courts and enact these lawsto limit their actions within reasonable (1?) grounds. , Having once begun. the advance from the absolute authority of so-called divine marriage it will be extremely difficult to stop its progress short of the absolute sovereignty of each individual man and woman, which is the only logical position.» ’ The following, from the Chicago Times-of Api'il_26, on . “ The Rights of Married Women,” shows the condition in Illinois: S I A — . The law .in relation to husband and Wife, enacted at the ‘ late session of the General Assembly, contains som important provisions which should be understood by everyone living or having property interests within the State. _ It is a radical measure,»framed andjpassed with the intention of placing .. the husband and wife on terms _of.perfect equality before 1 the law. - Its provisions are sweeping, and nearly allthe old landmarks of common law in this relation have been carried J away. There will be none of that ivy-clinging-to-the-oak business in the marriage state in 111 nois after July 1, when the new law goes into force. Matrimony will no longer be a union; ‘it will be merely a confederation, a limited partner- ship, in which neither party surrenders any individual rights and assumes no new responsibility, except a share in the ex- penses of educating the children, apoint which loses much of its importance wheirthe fact is considered‘ that children are pretty much abolished, save at the touhdlings’ homes. The act was drawn, and engineered through the legislature by Judge Bradwell. of Chicago. It is said that his personal J‘ vexperienceghas led him often to deplore the condition of sla- I very to which the wife has hitherto been subjected, and hence his efforts to secure her emancipation. ‘ V T The law provides that contracts maybe madeand liabilities incurred by the wife, and the same enforced against her the same as though she were a man, and" single. The husband is not responsible for the debts incurred orcivil injuries com- mated by the ‘Wife. The latter may receive, own and convey property, real and person.al. in the same way that a husband can. In? case the husband survives the wife, he has a life ﬂlgﬁeregt in only one.-third of her estate, and nice-cersa. In @age at the abaJ,udonment of one by the other, or of the con- ﬁnement of one in the penitentiary, the other may, upon a.pp1ioat‘ion to, and under direction of, the court. sell or en- cumber the estate of the absent One to the extent necessary £9; g,-gm ,5-gppggjg ggggne family. The wife may receive and I 4 ‘ of wonder why this reservation was allowedi i tion of business associations. DOSSGSS-;h9I' own earnings, free from the interference ofqher husband or his creditors. Neither husband or wife shall be entitled to recover any compensation for labor, or services rendered for the other, whether in the management of pI'0P- erty or otherwise. . J ‘ A _ -- This last provision is of peculiar interest on account of the fact that Judge Blodgett has now under adviseineiit a case coming directly within it. The wife and daughter of a bank- rupt put in claims for certain personal property in the. hands of ‘the assignee, alleging that this property had been EIVGH '50 them in payment for services. rendered to the bankt‘l1l3l? 3-9 agent and clerk. Judge Blodgett has already decided that a wife can form a partnership with her husband, but his opin- ion upon her ability to act as agent has not yet been made public. The new law settles the matter for the future’, how- ever. After July 1. the husband ofia woman who is agood book-keeper, or accomplished in business practices, W111 no . longer be on a par with other parties competing for his wife’s services. He will not be allowed to pay her anything: the others will offer what her services may be worth. and of course she will go where she can get the best pay. Tl1Is‘W1ll be characteristic of the coming woman modeled after the new law. * ‘ _ There is one section of the act that appeays to be a contra- diction to the letter and spirit of all the others. That is the one which provides that the wife may not enter into or carry on any business partnership except with the consent of her husband, unless he has abandoned her, oris insane, or is conﬁned in the penitentiary.’ This is about the only remnant spared of the supreme authority that vested in the husband I1lldeI‘,l5h6 old common law. He may still forbid her entering into business partnership. His rights over her person and property are all gone save this, and it-is a matter Indeed, with the new responsibility respecting property and liability for debts imposed upon her, it seems somewhat unreasonable that she should not be allowed perfect freedom in the selec- It will not do to answer that her natural affection would prompt her to consult her hus- band, for the whole law repudiates the idea of the existence of natural affection, or, at least, it is founded on the assump- tion that such affection is not very general, and cannot be '. relied upon to guide or control the conduct of persons in the ordinary transactions of life. This restriction of the rights of the wife is inconsistent, and must be removed before absolute success can be attained in the transformation of a woman into a perfect man. 4 ~ . Whether the last sentence of this article was written in earnest or in sarcasm is not evident. But webelieve the Times “senses” the coming condition and begins to see the necessity of falling into line. With the Times we can see no reason for the reservation of the,right of the husband to control the business relations of the wife. Probably it was a compromise to secure the support of a conservative ele- ment requisite to the success of the general bill. But women must not be idle. They must not rest until _ this restriction is removed. We disagree utterly with the sentiment that the law 1S not founded upon natural affection, and hold that the whole matter ought to be remanded from law to affection, which this enactment provides with this single exception. The wresting of control from affection and giving it to law is all .that we have ever complained of about marriage, which we hold to be subject to love without reserve. - . Nor must they stop with securing the removal of this restriction. They need to have a‘ law enacted that will secure to them the absolute control of their persons, so that they may be able to determine when, and when they shall not bear children. This is the last and greatest slavery from which woman must be emancipated ; and it will be the last that men will resign. -——-———>—+o-<—-————-- Dons THOUGHT EVOLVE? The WEEKLY of January 31st last contained an editorial entitled “ The Evolution of Thought,” in which the theory was advanced that thought, like matter, is subject to the law of evolution. Our valued friend and correspondent, ‘_‘ Sturgisf” has called our attention to what seems to him, perhaps, to be fallacious positions, which”, until now, on account of the various duties and annoyances of our recent trial and suits, have been overlooked. Nevertheless, there is nothing that pleases us so much as ” these evidences, of close and exact thought. Few people think consecutively, or synthetically, or even con- sistent-ly,,at diﬁerent times upon diﬁerent subjects. This arises because there are so few who are grounded upon principle. By far the greater number of those who are accredited as “thinkers ” fail to recognize that a law that is applicable in and to one branch or class of facts is to be rigorously ap- plied to all other-branches and classes of the same degree of evolution, in whatever department of nature or mind. «Even Herbert Spencer, the most comprehensive analyzer of modern times, is guilty ‘of this failure. He does not apply the laws which he recognizes in matter to his discus- sions upon other subjects. , He regards the agitation and the advanced ideas in social evolution as things that ought to-be discountenanced; while -in other directions he considers them as indicative of rapid progress; We may be guilty of like or more inconsistencies, but our effort is to always apply the same law in’/all departments of investigation. If “the agitation of thought” in the domain of science is “the’ beginning of wisdom,” so must it be the same in social afiairs. Welhold that until people have established themselves upon a solid foundation of principle they are not competent to discuss, synthetically, anyproblem. While our correspondent, but to that large class of writers and speakerswho attempt to deﬁne the limits between Spirit- ualism and Materialism‘. V The distinction between these two extremes is to us very evident.’ Spiritualism,‘in its wide sense, is not a term im- plyingsiinply a belief in the existence and communication of the individualized spirits of persons once in human form, but includes in its complete application the intlligent belief that spirit is the motive power behind matter which this position is logically true, we do not mean it to apply to . May 16, 1,8174. , causes it to evolve—-is in fact the life of matter--the power ‘resident in it that determines all its movements-—tl1at power which, resident in protoplasmic units, between which there is no chemical difference whatever, causes one to evolve, into an animal and another into a man. Materialism is by no means limited to that conception which supposes there is no future , individualized‘ existence after the decay of the physical body. Materialism ‘properly means that theory whichyholdst that spirit, or the life. of matter, is a result of the movements among its COI.lSl3llll€lJt parts, and is thereby dii'ec.tly antipodal to Spiritualism/as above deﬁned. theory that life has a physical basis, the opposite to which is that life is the physical base. But our coijrespoudent says : STEUBEN, Huron 00., 0., 1874. ' Permit me, then, ﬁrst to notice the ﬁrst paragraph of arti- cle “The Evolution of Thought,” and to say that although fully convinced myself of the "truths, so far as they are al- ready eliminated, involved in the theory of evolution—and these have remained the settled convictions of my mind for more than thirty years——I ‘am yet doubtful whether any com- paratively considerable number of the otherwise intelligent class of human kind have yet accepted the evolution theory, opposing as it ‘does that of special creation, and involving of necessity a disbelief in the existence of a personal God; but that “ the theory goes rather to substantiate the materialis- tic theory that God and Nature (force and matter?) are one and the same,” is not so clear to my mind. That God is the force and life everywhere found in matter and developed in , its at present highest known degree in tle sub-organism man, and manifested as intelligent being and power, is quite a different matter. _ ‘ _ A Second paragraph: If the intelligent inquirer reaches to a point in his investigations where he sees that matter existed in elemental form, when there were no two of the “recog- nized elemcnts;” or else, when all matter was a common element ﬁlling space “ without form and void ” (void of all form and universally diffused), it. seems to me the next in- quiries should be, rationally assuming that matter was uncre- ated, what were the primal elements of which matter was composed (for not all of the “recognized “elements” of the science of our day were primal, I think), and what their con- dition? Huxley says, I believe, that if he should go backlto a begin- ning he should expect to see living protoplasm evolved from non-living matter, but how evolved is the question, how can one conceive of dead matter capable of motion per se .9 and if motionless per se, which is conceivable, how evolve form out of non-form? A.nd does not evolution, in connection with the theory of the non-creation of matter or its eternal exist- ence and its ﬁnal’coiidition, imply beginning of motion, life and form? Is there any known principle of spirit or spirit or force, either in or out of matter, that could have imparted life and motion to dead matter? and what is motion or the action of matter but the evidence of life in matter! Permit me now, then, to__suggest that a true theory of evo- lution must embrace the knowledge of the principal elements and their primal condition out of which matter is constituted, and the knowledge in some degree of the character and power of the latent indwelling spirit of force by which evo- lution is caused or accomplished. , Again, if the evolution of thought is analogousito the evo- lution of material forms, is matter and form the cause of the evolution of thought ,(as held by materialists), or does thought suggest form and manifest itself through form? Is it rationally conceivable that matter without thought or thought involving principle, can create or compound thought out of itself? or that thought without matter can create or ccmpouiid matter out of itself, or that either intelligence or I matter can create something out of non-pre-existing nothing of its like or kind? If there be a source of life as is recognized, conceded, is it less intelligible or rational to suppose that thought, intelli- gence,’ originates in that source, rather than in dead matter; or that the force that constitutes the life and causes the motion of matter, also imparts intelligence rather than that dead matter creates intelligence out of its, of course, non- intelligent self? Trusting that I have made my meaning intelligible to you, I submit the above for your consideration and remarks, or answers, after which I may have more to say. ST URGIS. We are of the opinion that a very large proportion of scientists have accepted the theory of evolution. But it is also evident that an equally large proportion of ‘mankind in general have not accepted it, simply because they do not know anything about it, a.nd they therefore stand neutral. We cannot conceive of a person accepting the theory that every effect is produced by a-competent cause and at the same time rejecting the theory of evolution. Indeed, it seems to us to be the theory itself. If cause and effect fol- low each other, as there can be no doubt that they do, this is of itself a suiﬁcient basis of -evolution. iinless it be aﬁirmed that there are two methods of creation-—one special and the other general-——-which idea is so utterly at variance with all that is known, that it is to be doubted if any consistent theor- ist could even think such a thought. ' We think, therefore, that we were correct when we said that the theory (of evolution) goes rather to substantiate the inaterialisti'c view, than otherwise, because the overthrow of a personal God, the creating genius of the universe and the remanding of all power back to matter, is virtually ma- terialism, subject only to the distinctions to which We have referred above. It is almost universally acknowledged that the tendencies of scientiﬁc investigation of the last quarter of a century have been evidently in the direction of mate- rialism; and it is only a few writers of the school to which ' Fernand Papillon belonged, who haveendeavored to coun- teract this tendency, and to show the failure and fallacy of the materialistic theory. We may have failed clearly to / As expressed by Prof; Huxley ‘it is the r-"4ba—4. _4- » ''‘.s»~./"/'\‘ l l l l 5 .. l~lution. ,May 16, 1874. }~woo1)HjUL_L ‘av. cLAF‘tLIN}s W‘E’EKL,Y. . S I “ . “ state the whole inference in the particular sentence quoted by our correspondent, but elsewhere, in the article from which it is extracted, it is evidently held that the “ oneness” ineant is the unity of method rather than that of absolute identity. If we were to state our highest conception ‘of this point, we should say that spirit and matter are the two opposites, which together form what we know as God; and this is doubtless the point which our correspondent. thinks was not clearly stated and which “is quite a different I matter.” 1 / Investigation into primordial conditions are necessarily * a priori. We are obliged to take facts as we ﬁnd them and follow them backward. We cannot look backward to the beginning as the Bible pretends to do, and ﬁnd a ci'e..ting point from which to start and follow matter down through its var- ious gradations and changes. To do this, would be origi- nally to assume something arbitrarily, which from its nature would be impossible of veriﬁcation. If, therefore, we ﬁnd that the highest form of organized matter were made possi— +4-\ble only by and through various previous integrations and disintegrations; if by geological and biological investigation it is found that organiclife were possibleonly after various epochs of inorganiclife, and that there were several periods of this sort of life——various strata and formations-—it seems impossible not to conclude that all of these are but succes- sors to a primal organization of two different elements; or to dissimilar movements set up in the diﬁerent parts of the same common element. A Undoubtedly the next question is, of what is matter com- posed? But here the realm of speculation must be entered. There is nothing to resolve except the elements and the force that moved them. In this is hidden the solutionof the only problem tobe solved that can determine absoutely which is theldominant part of the whole—-whether it is force or matter. But it is not probable that the origin of organiza- tion is contradictory to all its experiences. The fact that we cannot investigate beyond the original unity of two elements or the different action of the same element, should be no bar to the acceptance of what is legitimately to be drawn from the facts of evolution, from that point upward toman. From a condition where matter was without “form and void,” or where space was ﬁlled with a common element, there are known laws by whichvarious theories may be ant’ are built up, and which may ultimately be so logically de- duced as to bear the stamp of self-evidence; but when an attempt is made to determine the composition of matter itself, the realm of the inﬁnite is invaded, in Which nothing except inﬁnite comprehension is capable of selfevident statement. ‘ i It is not evident, then, that a knowledge of the constitu- tion of primal elements is necessary to a true theory of evo- It is suﬂicient for a theory if the law that governs the movements of matter is discovered, without going so far backward as to ask whether matter is self-existent or was created. It might as consistently be held that there can be no true theory about any of the specialfacts of existence without a knowledge of the origin of the matter involved in the existence, as it is to hold the same of the general theory of evolution. At least it seems so to us. We do not see that it would be any more diﬂicult to con- ceive of “living protoplasm,” evolving from-so-called non- living matter, than it is to conceive of a higher kingdom as evolving from a lower, of the animal kingdom following after, as a result of, the vegetable kingdom.’ The diﬁiculty is to imagine that there is a difference, in fact, in the “living” life in “living protoplasm” and in the life in “non- living matter,” and the only way in which this difficulty can be removed, is to take the common-sense view, that all life, as wellas all matter, was originally homogeneous. Nobody disputes the fact that the same matter of which the animal ’ is composed once formed a part of the lower kingdoms. Is it any more difﬁcult to conceive, indeed does it not follow as a necessity, that the same is true of the life of the animal? V The real difficulty then is to conceive of dead matter and of motionless matter. Where there is no, motion there is death; and we all know well enough that there is no such thing as death absolutely; that which is called death being change ’ merely. Change is a necessity of evolution and is the’ only evidence of life. Change is the evidence of the existence of force, and if there ever was a time when there was abso- lutely no change then there was a time when there was no existence, because an existence of which there is no evi- dence is non-existence. To conceive of such a state; and of ..a change from that to motion and life is to make that . change ‘‘ the Creation.” It is impossible then, consistently, to imagine a time when life and motion were imparted to - dead matter, and at the same time to deny the existence of a personal God who created the world out of nothing by His almighty ﬁat. , \Now form is the result’ of the movements in matter. Matter does not change, except through new integration to consitute new forms. Form, then, is the expression of mat- ter. Is it any more diﬂicult to think that thought is the result of the movements in the life of matter, is the expression of that life made possible through the various organizations of matter, than it is to conceive what we know about matter per se? If thought does not evolve it is self- existent, and works upon matter forthe formation of meth- ods through which to express itself. In other words, if thought is not the result of evolution among the elements of life, then it is the creative God. We have no proof-—tli-ere can be no proof——that this. is true ; but the evidence is that expression and form accompany each other, neither being the result of the other, but both being results of the persist- ent action of force, or of the life ‘contained in all matter in common, The substance of a given thought is the same that composed various previous and lower forms of thought, the same as higher formsof matter arecomposed of various lower and previous forms of matter. It seems to us that to accept one is. to receive the other, while to deny one would be to deny both. Both thought and formare the results of the action of force upon or in matter, neither created by the other, nor either dependent upon the other as separate entities; but dependent upon that to which a prior investi- gation leads, which is incapable of further resolution by’ analysis—that force and matter, ‘_‘ without form and void,” which so far as we can now determine, scientiﬁcally, was the beginning, but which we know was not the beginning, be- cause matter then existed and was acted upon by force. These two persistent elements of the experiences of tlieuniverse are found in existence. They give ,us A no solution from whence they came or by what command; but with them, there are theories established which consistently account for all the facts of the past and present, and from which all that may occur in the future is possible of being foreshadowed. This is a subject which requires careful thought~—more' exact than canbe bestowed upon it during the hurry and bustle consequent upon a lecture tour ; and if the ideas are incompletely advanced or explained we, shall hope by'fur- ther and sterner consideration to make our position clear ultimately. Meanwhile we court criticism generally. ay--————— REVOLTING REYELATIONS. The English papers teem with leaders and letters on the subject of the best method to be followed for the purpose of checking the crime of infanticide in that country. The diﬂiculty appears to be that Mr. Bull cannot yet strike out a plan by which he can at once neglect the children and diminish the crime. As to fulﬁll both these requirements is a manifest impossibility, ’our transatlantic brethren and sisters usually come to no conclusion upon the subject. At a late meeting an adventurous orator proposed the establish- ment of foundling hospitals with revolving baskets, similar to the one we lately had in New York, but the idea was vetoed, “because such humane contrivances,” it was assert- ed, “tended to increase immorality.” The .meeting forgot that the lack of them “tended to increase murder.” But the true reason, it is surmised, is, not that they would -in- crease-inimorality; but that they would increase the poor- rates, which is a crime even worsethan murder in that pauper-ridden country. The bewilderment, meantime, of poor Mr. Bull continues to increase in a manner which, if it were not horrible, would be ridiculous. \ He appears to be lost as to what should be done in the crisis, as Mr. Toots was when the question was put to him, “ Sir, in case of a war with Russia, what are you to do with your raw mate- rials?” It is a pity that Mr. Bull is not a cannibal, Mr. Toots’ answer follows so readily, “Cook ’em, sir, cook ’eml” It will be remembered that Dean Swift solved a diffi- culty, in the case of ‘Irish babies, in a similar manner. But we respectfully inform Mr. Bull that the WEEKLY does not indorse any such suggestion, for there is a diabolical doubt, that in his present state of excitement, he might be induced by us_to carry into effect so very practical a solution of his present dilemma. One would naturally suppose that under such awful ex- posures as have lately taken place England would ‘be inclined to follow the example of the principal cities of the continent of Europefin some of which the crime of infanti- cide (if not of foeticide) is almost unknown. Their system is simple; it is merely to provide homes for all destitute infants. This may not agree with British political economy, but it is not bad Christianity. It really ought to be adopted in Great Britain for statistical reasons. It is important that the world should know the minimum of milk which will sustain life in a baby, and also whether some artiﬁcial food - could not be manufactured which, at a still lower cost, would support infant existence. In a country which inhu- manly boasts that it feeds its paupers atjless cost than its criminals, we might hope to obtain acorrect conclusion on that matter. But the subject is too fearful, for ridicule or even contempt, and that it is so let the following statement, which is taken from a. London paper, ‘prove : “In foundling hospitals a very large proportion of the children .broug'hi: in are well known to be the offspring of married parents. Not a few were deposited at the London establishment by night, by parish ofﬁcials; but many more by married couples who had as many on their hands as they could provide for. We need but recall the disclosures of our law and police courts for the last twenty years to see how little can be done by any association which conﬁnes its re- gards to illegitimate children and their mothers. There is also the abuse of burial clubs, so fearfully revealed a dozen years ago, and impressed on us by the trial and execution of parents in more than one county in England; criminals only too truly regarded as specimeiis of an order gro wii up under the ‘shadow of an evil principle, viz.: that of insuring the death and not the life of the children. There are the poison- iugs, whole nests of which are discovered from time to time, sometimes in our less prosperous towns. but oftener in the rudest: country districts,_ where the depressed rural class seem to be only half alive in body and mind, and susceptible to animal and devilish propensities and notions accordingly. Now in our eastern counties, now on the south coast, now in * nooks and corners, where intelligence scarcely penetrates, oases tur.-i up which appal the judge on the bench and per- plex the jury——cases of the murders of many infants in suc- cession. There are women in many parts of England who will do the job for cottage mothers as well as for perplexed maid-servants. Then there are the cases of the fearfully over—d1-iven wife who has had before her the fearful alterna- tiv,e of sacriﬁcing her infant-.’s life or her own, which latter would probably involve that of. the older children. lAs soon as she is up from her conﬁnement she must go outand work and get food forthe latter. Sheleaves her infant in hands in which it is sure to die; to die of improper food,ldrugs and neglect. The mother knows it will die, and is relieved wherv it is-gone: and she has no pain of conscience, because she. ~ knows she could not do otherwise than commit this child- murder. Her husband cannot, will not, or does not support the elderchildren; she cannot even complain to .the’inagis- _ trates of his not doing it; the workhouse is not open to them while the father lives at home. them and the baby, and the baby naturally undergoes the doom. Then again, midwives, as well as half-barbarous parents, are positive that infants ‘are better off with the Lord,’ and are quite easy about sparing them the pains of a hard and troublesome life.” \ _‘ Butthereiis another and, if possible, still more. frightful — view of this Gehenna. It is, alas! not conﬁned to Great Britain. Fearful revelations of the class of crimes: alluded to have been exhibited in the New York papers of the past year. The whole subject is,monstrous—it is a pit of horror. The questions under it ought speedily to be faced, by true men and women of all classes, both here and there. It is certain we are far less guilty than Great. Britain, where the systematized oppression of the laboring classes has culmi- nated in murderswhose numbers may be guessed at but can hardly be computed. Suﬂicient reasons, we might almost say in some instances. excuses, are given in the above ex- tract to partially justify present in lieu of protracted. suffer- ing. it is gone; and she has no pains of conscience, because she knows that she could not do otherwise than ‘commit child- , murder.” * Such is the picture of the condition of humanity in the richest country in creation. Surely there can be no ‘ lower earthly perdition for a nation than that in which mothers are compelled by want to slaughter their own oil?‘ is the case of‘ spring; and yet, on its Great Britain. own showing‘, such , THEOLOGICAL on CREDAL MADNESS. An eminent Scotch surgeon, Dr. Abercrombie, on being _ called on to testify in a case involving the subject of the lunacy of Miss B., atestator, in reply to the question as to whether he considered her of sound mind, replied, “No; he did not believe that any human being was sane on all subjectsytliat sanity in mankind was comparative only.” Whether this doctrine be correct or not, one thing is proven by history, that the most fruitful source of absolute mad- ness in all countries is certainly what is called religion’. We it: A singular mania has broken out among the colored people of this city. Religious revivals of the most exciting charac- ter have been going on in the churches for some time past, and the colored people generally have become so “ enthused ” that in many cases their condition actually approaches that of positive lunacy. The same disorder broke out in Ken- tucky a‘ few years ago. and was called by the inedical men ‘.‘ the Kentucky jerks.” That it is a disease is very sure. ‘ Yesterday morning the streets in the upper portion of the city were resonant with shouts, groans and mumbled prayers. About midday, in front -of _ the Harrison-street colored school, a scene took place which defies description. Perhaps one hundred ‘children, from eightvto ﬁfteen years of age, were mingled in a mass of daucin9.',.howling humanity—a‘ll‘ repeating the same formula, all making the same wild ges- tures, all ‘using the same tonejof voice. ‘ Bedlam was holding a high carnival of-=maLiiac’s. and discipline was lost: in chaotic frenzy. The giddy mass surged hither and yen, while teach- ers vainly commanded, entreated and implored the enthused, children to come to their studies. but they might as well have talked to the wild waves of the sea when the storm king held his court. ' Higher and higher rose the tumult, till -physical exhaustion brought relief alike to the perplexed teacher and wearied’ child. . ' We feel real anxiety concerning the result of this extraor- dinary hallucination in our city. Without doubt many will beomne raving maniacs, while the mental po,we-r of hundreds will be injured for life- Expostulation is thrown away, and. ' there seems to be no remedy but to wait. until the storni ex- hausts itself. - . In many respects the disease resembles the terrible visica. tion which came over Naples in the seventeenth century, when St. Vitus or St. John’s dance took the form of an epi- deniic and spread over. the entire, c‘ity.——Petersburg, Va,, .— News\,iApM’l24. . . It is the belief of the WEEKLY that all religions which profess to deal in a knowledgeof the Deity and celestial genealogies are more‘ or less stimulants. The churches are the Spi1'itl.!al grog-shops of the people. Some sell only one kind of stimulant, some sell all. In the Protestant churches you can get any kind you prefer,ufrom the small beer of Episcopalianism to the whisky of Methodism or the rot-gut of Mormonism. Catholicism keeps a variety and furnishes its goods according to the demand of the applicant. The Catholicism of a Lord Baltimore is a very different thing from the Catholicism of a Torquemada. C To the educated it is an easy-ﬁtting garment which can -be carelessly worn, \‘ but to the uneducated it is the straitest of strait-jackets, and is tightened according to the ignorance or superstition of i the worshiper. A We do not condemn any faith that is real, we only object to sham. All religions have done and are doing their work, when people becomemore developedlthey ,- will fall away into disuse. They are doing so now. Spirit- ualists may be said to be undera new dispensation, although that term is not strictly accurate, for the foremost of them have dispensed with dispensations, and are in a state of spir- itual freedom. Nextcome the Frothinghams and Beecliers and their followers, who manufacture their creeds as they go. ' Like Mohammed they assume to get their instructions direct whenever they need them. mouth dida few Sundays ago,-when he called the Sermon on the Mount, ironically, ‘* a precious dispensation.” These cannot be called spiritual inebriates, though theyfmerit the , name. “heretics,” that is, “ehoosers.” Afterdthese come, A She has toehoose between . “ The mother knows it will die, and is relieved when , present the following recent case to point our remarks upon” Ifthe Bible displeases Y them they quote it and condemn it, as the pastor of Ply- A “ deleterious to the peace of society than alcohol. I10 wloolnnunr as c‘LArL1N*s WEEKLY. ‘May 16, is’?-1., , J1 probably, the Episcopalians, which is a mighty easy belief. for the wealthy, as it ought to be, having been manufactured in Great’ Britain, whose real God is Mammon. . With the exception of those Spiritualists who are not ’ religionists also, these latter-mentioned may be considered as specimens of the milder form of the disease of Spiritual mania, but should the same obtain power, as they are trying to do under the Y. M. C. A., the consequences would be- come alarming. Then,_ no matter under what name, all _ Then Catholicism in Spain, Episcopalianism in Scotland and Presbyterianism in credal faiths present similar aspects. New England prove that they are cousins; The disease, mcmzia theologies, in the form of anﬂepidemic, is -always\at- tendedwith fatal results. Without it, it is diﬂicult in these daysto goad men to bloodshed {with it, women, as in the ' temperance crusadein the West (which has already entered upon the phase of force) prove no exception to the rule. Wherever the so-called religious element enters into public controversies it is almost sure to bring war and death in its The most alarming feature of the British labor movement isthe entrance of religion into the Granges in the Both of these men have been Methodist parsons, both have been agricultural laborers, and, to _their honor, both are now earnest Labor Reformers. But they can’t keep out off the shop. At alate meeting at Spalding, in Lincolnshire, re- ported by acorrespondent in the New York Herald of May I "let, and which was addressed by Mr. Ball, we ﬁnd the fol- train. persons of their leaders, Joseph Arch, and Mr. Ball. lowing hymn, which, we are told, ‘has sung con amora by the 500 laborers who attended the meeting : D‘ ‘ Lord,—as Thou didst invite of old, ,We weary, heavy-laden, come; Thy roused, uprising poor behold, And those with hopeless misery dumb. Beneath our feet we tread the lie That our great wrongs are Thy design—- That we in want should live and die While others share the corn and wine. Crowned Justice!/hear our cry of wrong; Throned Love! attend our wail of pain; ’ Plead Thou our cause against the strong, Who serve as god, the Moloch gain. Lord, make us patient, as Thou art, Yet constant to our great design; From thoughts of vengeance keep each heart-— - Justice and love are both divine. More men, more manhood now accord, Make us more worthy to be free; \ Where dwells the Spirit of the Lord, I There is the home of liberty; If this religious element should obtain inlthe British labor question the old battle of the Cavaliers and Roundheads will soon be recommenced. It takes credal faith to put the spice into public controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. We regret that it is so,'and wish the world had grown wiser, but we fear it has not. ' The right-thinking people of the Union have escaped religious butcheries through the divisions in the ranks of religionists. i Given the position of absolute power, and all credal religionists become tyrants and mad- men. When they cannot exert authority over others they exert it over themselves. There is no difference, save in name, between the ranting Methodist who kisses J esusin a trance in a camp-meeting, and the howling dervise of Tur- key who has just laid his head in the lap of Mohammad. As they treat themselves so such men would treat others. The days of martyrdo are not past. Every man-made God de- mands human sacriﬁces. If they are not now readily.ob- tained it is because the ‘power islacking, not the will. Only , last week our correspondent, William Foster, Jr., pointed out the fact that the Galaxy] suggested the “ cremation” of a few mediums. It is fun new, to-morrow it may be sober earnest, In all times of religious excitement human reason is ‘surrendered to something much stronger andlfar more Theman with the poker only attacks individuals, but the spiritual itielziriunz ‘tramenahas, at times, goaded almost all civilized nations into blood and crime. . If we, as a people, have escaped this mama tlteologica it A ' has been more by good fortune than by design. The circum- stances under which the Revolutionary War was waged V compelled the institution of religious liberty, which we hold to be the very foremost footprint of present human -freedom. There remains yet another step to be taken : it is the admis- ‘ sion and ordainment of that individual or personal sover- eignity ofwoman and man, atrall times andin all places, which forms the natural complement of-religious liberty and iwithoutlwhich the latter is shorn of much of its excellence to half the people of the United States. , ;=—.-——-—--—-—>-+&>—-<—-—-——-——-- , BERGH ON BABIES. I The following characteristic letter of the New York cham- / pion of the rights of the brute creation appeared in the Herald of . the 2d inst. The confession it contains-—viz., «4 thatithere arelalmost countless little human beings in this , great «city that are habitually treated with as much cruelty as are the inferior aniinals”——is not complimentary to our I Christianity, or even to our humanity, but is believed to be too true. Our readers ‘will remember that the only “ Bergh ” K that has of late called attention to their interests has been . the “ WEEKLY," which has repeatedly pointed out our com- munal duties. insuch particulars We believe that little I . perishing, perhaps, before their timely arrival. to respect.‘ Society-has recognized one of these, viz., edu- cation; but it must recognize all, or it w-ill suffer the conse- quences of its neglect of duty. Here is the letter: » c - NEW Y.oBK,. April 30, 1874.. To the Editor of the Herald.‘ . , Having been partially instrumental, lately, in rescuing a child from the cruel treatment of an unfeeling woman, I ﬁnd myself frequently applied to to interpose in behalf of others. It is only necessary to cast an eye over the vast ﬁeld in which I labor at present for the protection of helpless dumb crea- tures. to realize’ how impossible it is for me to ipcludewithin that domain a proper supervision of the little unfortunates of our own race. This I regret as profoundly as ‘any one can. But while reluctantly avowing this inability, I have thought that I» could offer a useful suggestion, and one worthy ofia. place in your columns. ‘ ’ ' . — , Let a “ Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children” be formed, without delay, and, in view of the osuccessf-ul working of the institution over which I preside, let it be modelled on this one. There is a strong analogy between the purposes of both, viz., the proteotionof the helpless child and the speechless brute. It may be asked, and I feel the /appositeness of the inquiry, “ why create another society to do the work of those numerous infant associations already maintained by the State?” I have no other answer to make than to declare that there are ‘almost countless little human beings in this great city that are habitually treated with as much cruelty as are the inferior animals, and that is saying all that can be urged; unless I supplement the fact that this savage treatment tends to extinguish nearly every quality, except the ‘outward form of humanity, and substitute there- for the instincts of the wild beast, which react again on our- selves, and thus continually torment society. And now to the point. That this immense ﬁeld exists, and that unpaid laborers are needed in it, no one will deny; but then, where are they to be procured? Iwill tell you. In the clubs of this city there are at least 500 young gentlemen who, with ample means, and I prefer to believe, with kindly feelings also, if once aroused, live with no other object in view than self—self in, the. most comprehensive sense. In addition thereto there are quite as many beautiful, accomplished and tender-hearted young ladies, who—we11, no matter. Now, let both these unfortunate———I mean fortunate- branches of the great human family calla meeting in the Academy of Music, where they have so often met bef.ore, and let the most earnest and devoted one that can be found make a. forcible appeal. Let him—1f it be-.a. man—depict in simple but glowing terms the soul-suﬁicing joys derived from a day well spent in striving to_rescue some little fraction, of humanity from physical suffering and moral death. Let him ﬁgure to his audience the enviable emotions inspired by the encounter of a noble young fellow.with a charmingpet of fashion upon a rickety staircase leading to the gloomy cham- ber where, in a. corner lies crouching the wasted bodyiof some little being, possessing a soul like to their own, and Let him de- mand of his ‘hearers whether hands ever met and were clasped in the giddy «mazes of the ,-ball-room with such sub- lime delight; whether the opera, the concert or the “ kettle- drum” ever yielded _such _r1ch, substantial, incomparable pleasure as such an interview? If, after a trial. they shall answer in the negative. then have I misinterpreted my own sensations while working in a. more humble sphere. ’ Respectfully, - . HENRY BERGH. Although sadly neglectful of the children of our com- munity we would not have our numerous readers infer that our city government is always heedless of its duties. It attends ‘to every cause that has “ money” , in it, and last .week‘passed‘an edict to protect our people from the unau- thorized visitations of “ riotous cats,” for such were the words in the same. As to the desire expressed by Mr. Bergh, that the lilies of the valley of Fifth avenue, who ‘toil not neither do they spin, will turn their attention to the little humans, when most of them are already provided with Spitz dogs and Italian greyhoundson which to expend all their delicate sympathies, we think that such a sugges- tion comes with an ill grace from a friend of the four-footed creation. The better way assuredly would be to appeal to the clergy Br all denominations, who are continually pain- fully proving to the public that they have, as a body, very strong human affinities, to give their aid inthis crisis. Any way. is better than leaving the little ones where they not un- frequently are now, viz., in the hands of the policeauthori- ties, who, only _a short time ago, arrested over one hundred and thirty of them at one swoop, and imprisoned them by way of giving them a lesson in morality, for the gravecrime of pitching pennies on Sunday, - ’ , The great question of the age is what is to be done with these children? We all know that each and every one of: them that lives will prove either a blessing or a. curse to the next generation. Society says, “Let them, alone ; they are no ‘affair of mine.” The Church says, “ Send them to Sun- day-school, and I care not what becomes of them the rest of the week.” The State says, “ Iwill put a sword in their hands, and I care not how they use it.” All of these ignore their real duties in the matter, more or less. The WEEKLY, in turn, addresses the State, and says : These are yours; all the attention you bestow upon them will be reciprocated; all the moneys you expend in promoting their physical, in- tellectual and moral welfare will be returned to you in the nearfuture with compound interest. Asa matter ‘of simple humanity, of the soundest economy and the highest self- interest, we charge you to lovingly make ample provision for these little ones. In the past, attention to them might be, and generally was, neglected, but, at the present time, their condition is the gauge by which is rmeasured the civilization of nations. ‘ - r H [a I ' l SHOULDER TO SHOULDER. There are no more xhopeful or more certain symptoms on which to basehope for the speedy success of the Labor Re- form movement,‘ than the organizations springing up, among us, which, under the name of “Patrons of Industry, Indus- country and welding the farming, mining and mechanical readers will remember that in these the claims of women are represented also, so that the great social movement may , amid;-en have rights that adult men and women are bound be said to be mioreor less united with the seine. -Any one u trial Brotherhoods, etc.,” are uniting the labor force of the I interests into one solid and soon-to-be organized body. Our‘ who reflects upon the} subject Iiiustperceive‘, that, in this country, there are workers enough to right their own wrongs, ballot to assume their numerically proper position. A In Great Britain the case is somewhat diﬂerent, but dur- ing the past week occurrences effecting the Labor Reform movement are there taking place which are of the highest. magnitude. As these are well enumerated in aleader of the New York Herald, of May 1st, we take the liberty of pre- senting our readers with the following extract from the same: “ Our correspondent asks us to accompany. him to the agri- culturalsection from. which hewrites. We ‘there see over four thousand farm laborers on a strike. They ask for higher weekly wages, for better cottages, for opportunities of edu~ eating their children. These laborers have been receiving thirteen shillings a Week (less than four dollars)-,‘ and now ask for fourteen. ‘ It seems that not long since they had formed themselves into ‘ an Agricultural Union.’ The pur- pose of this union was self-protection, and counsel. The farmers not only refused to give them the additional shil- ling a. week, but they informed them that if they did not withdraw from the union they would be ‘locked out’—that is to say, given no work at all. The laborers replied that but for the union they would now be working for ten shillings a week, and declined to withdraw. So the 4,000 farm laborers were ‘locked out.’ The farmers supposed that the union would not be able to support the four thousand laborers. The trades’ unions came to the support of their agricultural brethren, and now we have the singular fact that the farm laborers are sustained in their contest against the-farmers by the hard earned money of mechanics and artisans in the large cities and towns. In other words, labor recognizes the brotherhood of labor, and togethermechanic and farm- ‘laborerwill stand or fall.’ ” As the clown says in the circus, ‘_‘ here we are again." Mechanical and agricultural labor absolutely and practically uniting by love, which is the strongest of bonds. There are twelve hundred thousand agricultural serfs in England, for the conditions under which they exist prove such to be their real status-—that is if William Cobbet’s deﬁnition be correct, which is, that “rags and bare bones are the badges of slavery,”-—who will never, never, never forget the loving hands of their brother and we trust sister toilers in the cities, which in the time of sorest need have thus been stretch- ed forth to sustain them. Contemplating such actions as are new daily exhibited in the ﬁeld of labor, /the WEEI{LY‘tal{6S heart of hope for the good cause of humanity. It laughs to scorn the insolence of the attempt of a few hundred boss carpenters to override the law of the State of New York, and force their working brethren into the old dungeon of ten hours a day slavery, and notiﬁes them to prepare for far greater changes than thatsofthe question of time between the employed and employers. It gladly recognizes that the terests are not bounded by nations nor separated by oceans, but are one and the samein all parts of the globe. Lastly and most especially, the WEEKLY being aware that the revolutions it has so long advocated are near at hand, re- joices in the fact——proved by the true charity thus exhibited by the Trades Unions to the Granges of Great Britain, her- alding the union between mechanics and agriculturists—that such changes will not burst upon the world like devastating torrents, portentous only of destruction, but as gentle rains descending upon the parched earth will be productive of good only; reanimating and reinvigorating the physical and moral status of mankind. A I ...____..____,_.@ , TO OUR FRIENDS AND SUBSCRIBERS. Having now passed safely through the ordeal of a trial in which our personal liberties were at issue, may we not ask all who are in any manner whatever interested either in us personally or in the doctrines advocated in the WEEKLY to come -forward to its support. All the hard-earned money of our recent lecture tours of one hundred or more nights has been exhausted in securing a successful defense. There-» fore we ask, with a certainty of ready response, that our friends. and readers will at once see the necessity of stand- ing by us in the present exigency. To renew your subscrip- tions and send in new subscribers should be your pleasure not less than it is your duty, since it is your battle which we have fought. and won. -———————r—+m-<-—----——- H REFCRMATORY L1r.ctrUB;sBs.. 0. Fannie All 11, Stoneham, Mass. i J. I. Arnold, Clyde, 0. J .0. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. ~ Chas. G. Barclay, 121 Market st., Allegheny City, Pa. Capt.'H. H. Brown, Brownsville, Mo. , ‘Addie L. Ballou, Terra Haute, Ind. Warren Chase, St. Louis, Mo. Prof. J . H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. Mrs. Amelia Colby, Winona. Minn. , Mrs. Jennette J . Clark, 25 Milford st., Boston, Mass. A. Briggs Davis,Rochester, N. Y. ‘ , Miss Nellie L. Davis, 235 Washingtons 17., Salem, Mass . Lizzie Doten. Pavilion, 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass. Mrs. L. E. Drake, Plainwell, Mich. ' R. G. Eccles, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. H. P. Fairﬁeld, Ancora, N. J . James Foran, M. D., Waverly, N. Y. I. P. Greenleaf. 27 Milford street, Boston, Mass- I I L. A. Griﬁith, Salado, Bell Co., Texas. Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J . : E. Annie Hinman, West Winsted, Ct. D. W. Hull, Chicago, Ill. , . Charles Holt, Clinton, N. Y. . -» Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vinela.nd,‘N. J ‘ Moses ,Hull, 871 Washington st., Boston, Mass. R. W.‘Hume, Hunter’s Point, L. I. A - W‘. F. J amieson, 139 Monroe street, Chicago. Lil. Miss Jennie Leys, .4 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass. OephasB. Lynn, Sturgis, Mich. « V , ~" Mrs. F. A. Logan, Sacramento. Cal. 0 Anna M. Middlebrook, Br-idgeport,’Ct. Dr. G eo. Newcomer, J a.ckson,,Mich‘. Thos. ‘W. Organ,Pa.1nesvi_11e, O. y and to rule the other non-producing classes, whenever‘ they are enlightened enough to unite and by means of the masses of humanity are appreciating the fact that their in- - , /-f~;$_”;1‘N-(_w._,‘ . vi}? ,‘.\ .,, .7 . Iilayhld, 1874. / wioonnos/3. a C,l'iA.gFLNlE’S_ WEEKLY. 11 . MISCELLANEOUS. [From the Lam.-zs Courier-Journcl.] I How GIADSLEY KEPT HOUSE WHILE‘ HIS WIFE WENT CRUSADING. 1 Learning that Gradsley’s wife had become a leading emo- I tional force in 'thecrusade party, leaving her husband in charge of home affairs, I took timeone afternoon to call on him; and I may as well confess, nowW that I am out of his hearing, that it, was purely a motive of curiosity that led me to Gads1ey’s house on this occasion. I was attracted thither ‘ by an uncontrollable desire to see how a poor, l.one, long- suifering man would manipulate a family of eight or nine children. How he would manage, curb, restrain, subdue, ‘ ' control them, feed them and wash them up in away they should go. He met me at the door, and I immediately per- ceived by the signs of delight which/shone in his eye that he was glad to see a familiar face. I - I , “ Well, well,” said he, “ really I am overjoyed to see you. Come in, come in; haven’t seen a soul before in three weeks. Sorry, th.ough, only half of us is at home. Very sorry-sorry on your, account. Fact is, Brown—here, Emeline Bell, take Mr. Brown’s hat——fact is, my wife is not in. A glance at the surroundings of this interior will prove sufﬁciently to you that no gentle woman lends her cheering inﬂuence here. Wife is out in town to-day———Hoonchensphlizer’s or some- where—started promptly on time as usual early this morning. She is out doing what little she can in her feeble way, poor thing, to clog the wheels of the social juggernaut. Samantha, daughter, bring the shoe brush and dust a chair for Mr. Brown. . Whew! how the dust ﬂies. There. that’s better. Now, Brown, do take. this arm-chair and make yourself easy; may as well be comfortable when you can. I do so like to see people comfortable. .VVell, as I was about to say, wife has been out battling manfully against the accursed rum traiﬁc now going on seven weeks, regular and‘——” ’ I “And meantime,” interrupted I, “you have the super- vision of affairs in the house, and look after the children.” “ Supervision? .Well, yes, exactly. I am throwing in a few endeavors in that line. Am doing something in———-—— Only look at that child. Buddy, give me that poker. N o, I don’t want thewindow ﬁxed. You have ﬁxed windows enough already. Here! sit down here. * There! now ﬁsh away in that ash-pan and be quiet for one minute, will yew?” I “ That baby,” , resumed Gadsley, “ is, insane on ﬁxing things. He never rests from his labor of repairs to this house. Look behind you at those windows-'—scarcely a whole pane to be found. See the array of old hats and things that I have crammed into the sash, and only look at the wall paper where he has skinned it oﬁ until the walls resemble the ruin of a panorama of circus bills. I tell you, Brown, the very old boy is in that last hope of ours. But, let mesee. Where was I? Yes, I am supervising things here. I rather like that word, it is so ﬁtting; doing things in an amateur way toward housekeeping. You remember the story of the man in Ar- kansas, how he kept hotel? Well, I am keeping house some- thing as he kept tavern. I am a feeble imitator of the man in Arkansas. I am, doing my levelcst to keep the house from going to the dickens; but it will go there in the long run. It is bound to go there, in spite of my administrative ability.” “ Do I understand you to say,” I ventured to inquire, “ that you are taking care of the house and all these children without. other help? ” ' “Certainly! ’Ill1at’s just what I am doing. ‘ I am devoting my Whole time to it, giving the matter my exclusive personal attention. Why, bless me, yes! You see, we fell out about a servant———I mean we disagreed. Wife wanted’ me to get-” .“ Hello! what’s that ?. Don’t you smell ﬁre,‘Brown ?” “ Yes,” said I, “something burns. There it is! Gadsley—— it’s the baby—the baby’s clothes are on ﬁre 1” “Why, Buddy,'what in this World! Never mind-don’t cry. lt’s all out. There! Tush——there! There! N —e—v-e—r mind! never occurred to me. Want - down? Want to go to Charlotte Ann? Well, take him, my daughter. There——go to Charlotte Ann.” “Yes,” Gadsley went on, “she wanted me to get a black woman, old Aunt Linda, to come and look after things and do the cooking. VVell, to tell the truth, old Aunt Linda isn’t ‘ any too honest; and, besides, the children don’t like her, and so I suggested that we get the white girl who formerly lived at Smith’s and wants a place. She is an excellent girl; honest as the day's long and neat as wax. But, no; wife wouldn’t listen to the proposition, and would have old Aunt Linda or nobody.’ I can’t understand why she should be so set in her ways. Can’t fathom her motives in the matter but, at any rate, I took the other alternative. I took nobody, and here I am sole supervisor of this menagerie, supreme con- troller of the outﬁt, master of the ranche, and when-—-”, , Gadsley’s attention was here drawn to the movements of the twins, who, by means of some twine, appeared to be making up a sort of lightning express train by coupling the cats together by their tails, but the father laid an injunction on the train and it failed to go “out on the regular,run. . “Now, Herbert Spencer, and you,‘ John Stuart Mill, just untie those eats this moment. This moment! What is the earthly use in tangling up those cats in that /cruel way! It’ does seem that you are trying to drive your father into a mad-house. There ! N ow turn these cats out-doors and march yourselves off into thekitchen. Hush! N 0 words to'me. March, I say!” ; p ./ “Those twins are more bother to me than all the other , children put together. “ I say, Brown, when you consider howlshort a time I have been engaged in this work, I think you will ﬁnd that I am, doing about as well as can be expe'cted. I am by no means perfect in it. Of course not. You cannot reasonably expect a man to make a situation like this in seven weeks‘. Really I» have succeeded beyond my most, sanguine expectations. At first I ‘didn’t like it, didn’t regard it my duty, and under- took to express my views on the subject to Maria; but, Lor’ bless you, she talked me right down! You know how she ' \ , can talk on temp’rance and woman’s rights and the franchise ‘her rheumatics in her knee. joints there will be lively times . ity that Old Probabilities hasn’t got down in his chart. You Now who would _ have thought there was ﬁre in that ashes? Such a thing . defeat is real victory, and that there is a heaven for thosewho , ,"'”“’B and things when she warms tothe subject a little. Why, thatwoman talks to me like a father, as it were. She is merely a mother, you understand, but she talked to me like afather, and the result wasl became a convert to her ideas at once, as I always do after listening to one of her over- Whelming speeches. Then I settled down to my work and went at it witha will—-went at it with as much dead earnest- , ness as if I were going to take a drink.” I , ‘ -At this juncture there was a crashing noise in the ad joinln g room as of broken glass, andsoon Samanthapeered through the door to say‘ that “ Herbert Spencer had gone and broke mother’s bottle of rheumatic liniment and spilled it all over things.” » ~ _ I “Yes!” exclaimed Gadsley, “ I knew it. _, I knew that lin- iment would go: Well, when your mother comes home with in this house; that’s all. There will be a storm in this local- couldn’t have broken the clock, or some furniture, or a look- ing glass? No; you must break the liniment bottle and shatter your father’s piece of mind for the next month to come. You couldn’t have gone out in the yard and chopped down a few trees,‘ or killed the canaries, or sawed the banis- ters out of the porch railing?’ Of course not. There is no amusement which is comparatively innocent that will satisfy you. Don’t boo-hoo ‘round here. It’s not tears we want; We liniment. Hold’ on, Brown; you are not going?” “Yes,” said_I; ‘‘I must be off. I have an engagement in I town set for ﬁve o’clock. I merely dropped in for ‘an hour to see if there was anything I could do for you. VVell, good by, Grad. Good by, old fellow.” . I I “No——but hold on, Brown; won’t you stay for tea ?” “No, I can’t possibly. You must excuse me to-day. Good afternoon.” . Andl was off. . 5 I I have given only the most prominent incidents which hap- pened in this bedlam during my stay. There were many, very many of those minor joys that sweeten and ﬂavor domestic life, which came under my observation, and which need not be told. I have not time nor space to narrate them. The public is now, I believe,willing to admit that, before his con- version, John Allen was the Wickedest man. And only a day or two ago we read in the newspapers of onewhop is the meanest man; but if you have not I fully settled upon a can- didate and should be called upon for a verdict as to who is the most patient man—~wo_n’t you please vote for Gadsley? OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN FREE DRESS LEAGUE.’ The list of oﬁcers of the above-named organization, as published by us May 2 was incomplete. Vie give- the corrected list below: , 1 Presidcnts——H. M. Allen, Ohio. , n Treasurers——Dr. R. T. Trall, Florence Heights, N. .I.; Dr. Mary B. Lucas, Newﬁeld, N. J. i > Recording Secretaries——O. F. Shepard, Vineland, N. J.; Benj. R. Tucker, New Bedford, Mass. ‘ Corresponding Secretary——Mary E. Tillotson, Vineland, N. J. I Vice-Presidents~: , For Ohio—Dr. Thos. ‘W. Organ, M. S. Severance, Paines- ville. \ I For Vermon't—])r. Martha Williams, W’. V. Hardy, Con- cord. I I For Maine——Seward Iditchell, Cornville; Emeline A.—Pres- cott, North Vassalboro. A . I . For District Columbia—Dr. Mary E. Walker, J. ‘W. Bell, Washington. ~ \ For Pennsylvania-——Dr. R.,Garter, Mrs. Carrie Taylor,Phil. For Delaware-9-Dr. Mary B. Heald, Dr. Pusey Heald, Wil- mington. I / S. L. O.'Allen, So.‘ Newbury, For Virginia—-Sarah L. Tibballs, J. Q. Henck, Manchester. For New York—Dr. L. A. Strobridge, Cortland. For Massachusetts—D'r. S. A. Vibbert, Somerville. For Michigan—La-milla F. Stegeman, Albert Stegeman, Allegan. , I For Illinois—-Sada Baifey, VV. C. Elliot, Waukegan. For lowa——l/Verner Boecklin, Cornelia Boecklin, Burling- ton. 1 ’ I F . For Missouri——A. W. St. John, Mrs. St. John, Carthage. For Kansas—-J. H. Cook, Dr. Frank Cook, Columbus. For California—Sarah =l\/Iichener, James Michener, ‘San Jose. ‘ « I I ‘ ‘ ‘ For Rhode Island——Mrs. C.» M. Pinkham, Providence. PEARLS FROM THE SEA OF THOIIGIIT. BY LAURA CLTPPY SMITH. “All the virtues are _.meansIand, uses; and if we hinder their tendency to growth and expansion, we both destroy them as virtues and degrade them to the rankest species of corruption, reserved for the most noble organizations. For‘ instance, non-intervention in the aﬁairs of neighboring States is -a high political virtue: but non-intervention does not mean passing by on the’ other side when your neighbor falls among thieves—or~Phariseeism would recover it from Chris- tianity.”-E.‘ B. Brozvning.‘ A « “ Surely, if the crosssays anything, it says that apparent have nobly and truly failed on earth.’’—-Robertson. , “In this world there is one God-like thing, the essence of all that ever was or ever will be of God-like in this world: the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.” --Thomas Carlyle. , V I ,‘ “The wealth of a man is the number of things that he loves ‘ and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.,”—-—Bai'lcy. p “ Heaven is not separated from temporallife by an abyss that in death we must overleap; heaven begins immediately where we first feel impelled for the conception .of the di- , I “ Would you make yourself dear to every home you enter: form the habit of forbearance, and all your kindred will bles your face for its own benediction.”-‘A. C’. Bartel. I “ There is no friend of mine " I Laid in the ‘earth to sleep; ‘No grave, or green or heaped afresh, , By which/I stand and weep. I “ Not they, but what they wore . Went to the house of fear; They were the incorruptible, . v They left corruption here.” I ' ' I 5 “ ‘Tie a kind of good deed to say well; ‘ And yet words are not deeds.” . V . I . * A -;$'7La7C68Z}6a/M. I “ There is no man of so discordant and jarring a temper, . to which a tunable disposition maynot strike harmo.ny.”--— St'rThomas Browne. I ' “ Between the heavens and the earth a glad, ﬂeeting world ‘ ,, stretched out its stout wings and lived, like myself‘ in the’ “ presence of the Inﬁnite Father, and from all nature around us flowed sweet, peaceful tones, as from evening bells.”——— Jean Paul Richter. I r ‘ ‘ I “ Life’s harvest’ reap, like the wheat’s fruitful ear."’P-Zlfirs. Jameson. . M y . . “ He who agrees with himself agrees with others.”——~G'oethc. / . WHERE IS COMSTOCK? There is work for this toolof the Young Men’s Christian Association in »a Christian quarter. Mr. Henry C. Bowen, designed to be the representative of _ gilt-edged religion, there is a picture containing nine nude ﬁgures, one, a female, prone on the ground, and eight chil- dren; and as a portion of these’ have wings, I suppose it‘ is designed to have it appear they are angels, so take on’ the seeming impropriety. This picture is designed to advertise some new invention about a\ piano, but this seems no excuse for all the nudity. We have heard much of ofbscene litera-! , ture within a few months, and Brother Bowen has opened the roll of obscene advertising, according to the ethics of Comstock. This is a very grave’ offense, for the Independent has a largesubscription list and a wide circle of readers; be,-= , sides, it is a family paper. spiced ‘with religion to give it a . ﬂavor and increase its popularity. So this picture, with its nine nudes, the female most conspicuous, has been distribu- ted broadcast throughout the country, scattering“‘arrows, ﬁrebrands and death” among the unsophisticated. This is too bad, and the Young Men’s Christian Association and lomstock shouldrush toIthe rescue of public morals and have Brother Bowen in court. ’ Why not? Is the fact that his paper is a religious organ to: screen him’? It is now more than a month since this picture has been before the public, but the pulpit remains silent. _ Comstock is as’dumb as an oyster, and no United States or State Attorneys have ﬁled information and asked for an in- dictment, ‘nor has any judge issued a lettres de cachet to have s‘ the author of the immorality sent to the Centre-street Bas-. I tile, the Tombs. ‘The demoralizing picture is on its travels, and no pious dogswags itstongue to protest or rebuke. And why ?I, The publisher is rich, he is respectable, he is:/religio.us, he belongs to the “standing order.” So the matter isnkept quiescent. , A I A few months ago New Bedford was in a ferment ‘over the seizure of aclassical work of art exposed for sale by a trades- man, by the police authorities, who sought to amerce him. in ﬁnes and penalties for obscenity. But I do not ‘learn that the newsdealers have been prosecuted forexposing for sale this twelfth of .March Independent,‘ though to be consistent, the authorities should have proceeded against them instan- ter. But the law always selects its victims and pays court to an aristocracy, provided it says prayers and singslpsalms.“ But things will not‘ always be‘ thus. I A day of reckoning is coming, is near at hand for all these pious shan1s,.so elabo- rately varnished andstudiously gilded.‘ Religion is in the balance, and already the handwriting on the wall begins to appear; “Meme, meneﬁ’ can be read of all men, and the ver- dictwill in due time ﬂash out, “Tekel,uphars21n.” Spiritu- alism, the disorganizer and the organizer, is -becoming a power, and in its broad philosophy is proving itself. to be the harbinger of reform. All creeds, formularies and dogmas are dissolving under its inﬂuence, and when the process shall be completed, there will be the evolution ofxthe new! ' order, a religiongbased on humanity and its possibilities. , . L WILLIAM Fosrnn, JR. PROVIDENCE, April 5, 1874. ‘ GERALD MASSEY.»-To-night the talented 'lectur,er and orignal ‘thinker, Gerald Massey, will deliver his last lecture in this city. Prior engagements prevent his long/er stay. The immense audiences which he has drawn, will, we hope, I induce him to pay us another visit before long. The subject’ of the lecture to-night will be, “ The Coming Religion,/” A great many of the old ones do not appear to work well, this very wicked world is getting no better fast,‘ and the coming . religion will probably be adopted because it is better suited to the age than those which were invented duringa different state of society from that which exists at present. There is room for alive 1'eligion.—Scm Francisco Figaro. _ I ‘ IN neither California nor Scotland. is any ceremony or declaration of any kind necessaryto make a marriage legal. The merefact of the parties living together as man and wife constitutes a legal marriage. In Scotland the performance of a ceremony, except among strict church people, is the ex-3 I ception rather than therule. ROMAN VON RAMPONY, an Austrian oﬁcer and a student of the University of Innsbruck, was recently challenged by several members of an”atheistic club, He refused to fight, being a good Catholic, and,consequently has betenndisniissedj _, ‘ from the A.’ustrian'se‘rvice.. V \ o I-—P/acetic ' Cary. ' . In the New York In- dependent of March 12, a paper edited and published by i . to sudden, savage life. / I May 1s,"1s7.45. . CRINOIDA DAJEEANA. I THE MAN-EA'I'INGr TREE or MADAGASCAR. T The following description of this singular tree, found in the lsland of Madagascar, is copied from the New York ,World. It was originally published in the last number of Graefc and IValther’s Magazine, of Carlsruhe, together with notes upon it by Dr. Omelius Fredlowski, to whom the letter , of Karl.Leche, the discoverer, from which the following is extracted, wasaddressed: _ V ‘ The Mkodos are a very primitive race, going entirely naked, having only faint vestiges of tribal relations, and no religion beyond that, of the awful reverence which they pay “to the sacred tree. They dwell entirely in caves hollowed out of the limestone rocks in their hills, and are one of the smallest of races, the men seldom exceeding ﬁfty-six inches in height. ;_ . , ' ‘ At the bottom of a valley (I had no barometer, but should think it not over 400 feet above the level of the sea), and near its eastern extremity, we came to a deep tarn-like lake, about a mile/1 in diameter, the sluggish oily waters ofwhich over- flowed into a tortuous reedy canal, that went unwillingly into the recesses of a black forest, jungle below, palm above. A path, diverging from its southern side, struck boldly for the heart of the forbidding and seemingly impenetrable forest. I-Ienrick ‘led the way along this path, I foiiowing closely, and behind me a curious rabble of Mkodos, men, wo- men and children. ' I . \ ’ Suddenly all the natives began to cry “ Tepe! Tepel” and — Henrick, stopping short, said, “Look!” I The sluggish, canal- like stream here wound slowly by, and in ‘a bare‘ spot in its tend was the most singular of trees. I have called it Orino- da, because when its leaves are in action it bears a striking resemblance to that well-known,fossil the crinoid lilystone or St. Cuthbert’s beads. It was now at rest, however, and 1 will try to describeyit to you. ‘If you _ can imagine a pineap- ‘ ple eight feet high and thick in proportion resting upon its base and denuded of leaves, you will have a good idea of the trunk of the tree, which, however, was not the color of an anana, but a dark, dingy brown, and apparently hard as iron. From the apex of this truncated cone (at least two feet in I diameter) eight leaves hung sheer to the ground, like doors swung back on their hinges. These leaves,which were joined to the top of the tree at regularpintervals, were about eleven or twelve feet long and shaped vcry much like the leaves of the American aguave or century plant. They were two feet through in their thickest part -and three feet wide, tapering to aqsharpp point that looked like a cow’s horn, very convex on the outer (but now under) surface, and on the inner (now upper) surface slightly concave. This concave face was thickly set with very strong thorny hooks, like those upon the head "of thc teazle. These leaves, hanging thus limp and lifeless, dead green in color, had in appearance the massive strength of oak /ﬁbre. » - j . ' ’ I Theapex of the cone was a round, white, concave ﬁgure, like a smaller plate set within alarger one. This was not a flower but a "receptacle, and there exuded into it a clear, treacly1iquid,ihoney-sweet, and possessed of violent intoxi- catingyand soporiﬁc properties. From, underneath “the rim— (so to speak) of the undermost plate a series of long, hairy, green tendrils stretched out in every direction toward/the horizon. These were seven or eight M feet long each, and tapered from four inches to a halfinch in diameter, yet they stretched out stiﬂy as iron rods. Above these (from between the upper and under cup) six white, almost transparent, pal-pi reared themselves, toward the sky, twirling and twisting with a marvellous incessant motion, yet constantly reaching upward. Thin as reeds and frail as quills apparently, they were yet ﬁve or six feet tall, and were so constantly and vig- orously in motion, with such a subtle, sinuous, silent throb- bing against the air, that they made me shudder in spite of myself with their suggestion of serpents ﬂayed yet dancing on their tails- , . p , - The description I am giving you now is partly made up from a subsequentzcareful inspection of the plant. My oo- servations on this occasion were suddenly interrupted by the natives, who had been shrieking around the tree in their shrill voices, and chanting what Henrick told me were pro- pitiatory hymns to the great tree devil. . With still wilder shrieks and chants theyitnow surrounded I ‘one of_ the women, and urged her with the points of their jav- eiins until slowly, and with despairinggface, she climbed up the rough stalk of the tree and stood on the summit of the cone, thepalpi twirling all about her. “ Tsik! tsik I ” (“ drink! drinkl”) cried the men,_and, stooping, she drank of the vis- oid ﬂuid in the cup, rising instantly again with wild frenzy in her face and convulsive choreain her limbs. But she did not jump down, as she seemed to intend to do. 0, no! The atrocious cannibal tree that had been so inert and dead, came fury of starved serpents, quivered‘ a moment overher head, then, asif instinct with demoniac intelligence, fastened upon her in sudden coils round’ and round her neck and arms;’ then, while her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose wilder, to be instantly strangled down again into a gurg- . ling moan, the tendrils, one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity rose, re- tracted themselves, and wrapped her about in fold after fold, ever tightening, with the cruel swiftness and savage tenacity of anacoudasfastening upon their prey. It wasthe barbarity of the Laocoon without its beauty—this strange“ horrible murder. And now the great leaves rose slowly and stifdy, I like the arms, of a derrick, erected themselves in the air, ap- proached one another, and closed about the dead and ham- I pered victimwith the silent force of a hydraulic’ press and the ruthlesspurpose of a ‘thumb-screw. A moment more,’ and, while lI‘could see the bases of these great levers pressing more tightly toward each other, from their interstices there‘ trickleddown the stalk of the tree great ‘streams of the vis- cid, honey-like ﬂuid, mingled ‘horri-dly with the blood and ‘ oozing viscera of the victim. At sight of this the savage hordes around me, yellingmadly, bounded forward, crowded to the tree, clasped it‘, and with cups, leaves, hands and _ ‘tongues, got each one enough of the liquor to send him mad The slender, delicate palpi, with the _ 12. " t r to Wtwoo:Dn,UtLL &"CLl.A4FL/IN’S WE;E'KIlYV. and frantic. Then ensued a grotesque and indescribably hid-A °°u§.01‘tIl6; fI'0m ,which, even while its convulsive madness was turning rapidly into delirium and insensibility, Henrick dfﬂgﬂed me hurriedly away into the recesses of the forest, hiding me from the dangerous brutes and the-brutes from .me., May I never see such a sight again! . In the course of my stay of twenty-one days in the valley, . I saw six other specimens of the Crinoida Dajeeana, but none so large as this which the Mkodos worshiped. I discovered that they areunquestionably carnivorous, inthe same sense that dionea and drosera are insectivorous. , The retracted leavesof the great tree kept their upright position during ten days, then when I came one morning they were prone again. the tendrils stretched, the palpi ﬂoating, and nothingbut a white skull at the foot of the tree to remind me of the sacri- fice that had taken place there. I climbed into a neighboring tree and saw that all trace of the victim had disappeared, and the cup was again supplied with the viscid ﬂuid. The indescribable rapidity and energy of its movements may be inferred from the fact that-I saw a smaller one seize, capture and destroy an active little lemur which, dropping by accident upon it while watching and grinning at me, in vain endeavored to escape from the fatal toils. 3‘ . With Henrick’s assistance and the consent of some of the head men of the Mkodos (Who, however, did not dare stay to witness the act of 9a.crilege,) I cut down one of the minor trees and dissected it carefully. Seid, however, is waiting for me, and I must defer to my next the details of this most inter- esting examination. >l< ac >i< >1: =i< KARL LECHE. MAY’S ADDRESS TO THE GOTIIAMITES: BY R. w. HUME. I Come away to the country ! away I away ! I My carpet is spread on the lea,; The trees are in bloom and the air is perfume—- All Nature rejoices in me. , The birds in the bowers are tolling the hours Since I have arrived with my lap full of ﬂowers To scatter ere dawn of day. I $ Come, merchant l your carriage is wai‘ ing; Nay, sigh not, ’tis no time to grieve; Health is better to hold than your silver and gold, And a legacy richer to leave. Your lady’s pale check it shall bloom in a week; Nut a balsam so rare as the balm-breathing air ‘ ' That ﬂoats on the zephyrs of May. Come away 1 leave your balls and your parties, Your concerts andoperas gay; Hear the brooks roll along, charming stone into song-- w "l‘is Nature’s own music, roué.’ I _ ’ I No dancer can trip like their bright ripples skip; Ohl taste them, but dash the red cup from yourlip 4*’ 1f yorﬂd relish the nectar of May. ' Come, lawyer ! we need you. The weasel Has foreclosed his mortgage on rabbit; He founds the base" claim of his right to all game “ Cap 8. On Executors. Grabbit.” Or perhaps you_‘ll deﬁne the estate of the vine—— Gain a‘ rule to show cause why its tendrils should climb O’er the arbors, in frolicsome May. Come away i leave your toiling and moiling; , And, shopkeeper, shut upiyour store; You have a fair w1ia—-buy a long lease of life—— And what can a prince wish for more’! ‘ , If you’ll take anice drive from that overgrown hive You shall mark how the bees in their brisk business thrive, For they do their spring trading in May. ' Come, doctor ! I’ve cured half your patients, Your practice must speedily fail; Then into your pill-box and drive like a hill-fox With twenty good hounds at his tail; Leave word for the sick to come out pretty quick; For you know’ grim disease is soon brought to his knees If he scents but the sweet breath of May. Come away from your college. pale student, And learnmoral lessons more true; Leave Homer, and look into Nature’s bright book-— l’ll open its pages for you. ' I Your Virgil’s a rake, but his works you may take; It was toying with me that he stole half you see From the bowers of blossoming May. Come, person 1 your sermons are mouldy; Your sheep do fresh pasturage need; They have lived through the fall upon Sherlock and Hall, And Scott was, in winter, their feed._ ' If you‘ll meet me at night when the moon’s shiningbright You shall hear the old trees holding forth in the breeze, And eloquence study in May. ‘ Come away to the country i away I away .1 My carpet is spread on the lea; 4 The trees are in bloom and the air is perfume- All Nature rejoices in me. ‘ - The birds in thiibowers are tolling the hours ‘ Since I have arrived with my lap full of ﬂower To scatter ere dawn of day. ‘ » ~ —-Harper-’s Weelct'z/W A WIFE IN PURSUIT OF ALIMONY. In the dictionary of the free lover the word alimony has no place. When the husband and wife continue or dissolve their union at pleasure, there can be no place for a law coma.- pellizg the one to maintain the other. In Massachusetts,’ whereno divorce is allowed except for crime or some offense kindred thereto, it is proposed to pass at law authorizing the courts to grant [alimony to wives whose husbands will not support them and whodo not want a divorce. It is also pro- posed to‘ make ample.provision for alimony for wives who have divorce suits pending during the time occupied in get- ting a trial. ’ I Mrs. Florence Ada Merrill, formerly of New York, but new of Boston, is one of the petitioners for these alimony reforms. “Imagine,” says our enthusiastic correspondent, who heard her plea before the J udiciar, Gomuiittee, “ iinag ine a “charming young lady of twenty-three, of medium height, voluptuous form, blonde complexion,soft, blue eyes of the heavenlyshade, attired in a rich black. silk dress, a profusely trimmed black velvet’ pollonaise, French.polka boots and black velvet hat, mounted with a luxurious ostrich plume, which, with her golden curls, ﬂoated lightly in the breeze; and then, when you have added the jeweled ﬁngers and braceleted'wrists,' you may hope to be able to form an imperfect picture, in your mind’s eye,eof Mrs. Florence Ada Merrill, wife of Joseph Palmer Merrill, as she rose to present counsel.” She spoke as follows: _ “While on a visit to Haverhill in 1867, when I was but six- duced to me. He immediately opened acorrespondence with me, and I, after receiving several letters, was foolish enough to reply. He really had some reason to boast of his conquest, once using C2esar’s laconic words: “ I came, I saw, I con- quered.” Our acquaintance soon ripened/‘into affection, and‘ on December 27th, 1870, we were married in New York. Neither my parents-nor his parents knew of our marriage at the time, though they were informed of it a day or two after- ward. My father had always provided well for.me till then, but this one act of girlish folly led him to utterly disown me, My husband’s father also opposed the match, and through libels were ﬁled and heavy expenses incurred on both sides. This unhappy litigation lasted eighteen months, during which ‘ my husband contributed almost nothing toward my support, leaving me to» the kindness of my aunts for the means of sub- sistence. My Wardrobe, replenished shortly before my mar- riage by anoutlay of two thousand dollars, which I received from my father, was sacriﬁced, for I was compelled to dis- pose of it to raise money formy necessities. “After all this I ﬁnally forgave my husband all the wrongs he had done me; the divorce proceedings were dropped, and for the next eighteen months we lived together—~s‘ometimes as happily as’ any couple could be—though most of the time I was the most wretched woman alive. My husband was grossly unfaithful, continually associating with bad women , and frequently subjecting me to the most shameful abuse. A broken hand, a broken wrist and a broken tooth are some of the marks I now bear of my husband’s unkindness. “ Four times I have been deserted and left without a dollar in money, and on three occasions everyarticle of furniture was removed and sold by the man who had solemnly vowed to love. cherish and protect me. Again and again I have for- again and again he has repeated his inﬁdelities and brutali- ties;‘ until, in January last, I concluded to put up no longer with his ill—usage. Upon the advice of my counsel I applied for a divorce; and knowing that many months might elapse before a decree could be obtained, I applied for alimony pending the suit. those views of marriage in which I have been brought up. I am a churchwoman, having been baptized when a young girl in St. Pa.ul’s church, Newburyport. I have been taught to regard the marriage rite as one of a sacramental nature, and as bindingon both parties until death. Were I divorced from Mr. Merrill I could not, with my principles,‘enter into any new marriage during my husband’s life; nor would I fora moment entertain the thought of divorce, if the laws pro- vided any other method whereby my husband could be com- pelled to perform the duty which he voluntarily assumed, of providing for my support, independent of a divorce. Here, I think, is a serious defect in the law as it now stands. Why not provide that married women, deserted by their consorts, may have a separate maintenance without resorting to the divorce court? Such a law would do much to preserve the sanctity and perpetuity of marriage. . ' “ But I wish to speak of my application for alimony pending my suit. Upon that being heard before Judge Morton, gross counter-charges‘, utterly false and unfounded, were made by my husband’s attorneys, merely for the purpose of saving him from the obligation of supporting me during the suit; and my application was denied, because, upon a mere pre- liminaryhearing, without my having the time or the means to provide myself with proofs, the Judge said he could not ’ see that I was clearlyin the right and my husband clearly in the wrong. Pray how could I be expected to show that I am until I have opportunity to obtain the depositions of the wit- nesses at a distance who know the facts, and the attendance of those who live near to the place of trial, together with means upon which to subsist till the trial takes place. _ Mr. Merrill has often boasted that he could buy witnesses . cheap to prove anything that he wished against me; and after protracted delay s he doubtless hopes to defeat my libel, and procure a divorce himself. But I do not believe it. What I ask is. that a law be passed whereby the wife may, in all cases When she is not clearly in the wrong, obtain from her husband alimony sufficient for her decent subsistence during the pendency of her suit, and money adequate to de- fray the nccessary expenses of counsel and Witnesses. I do not ask this for myself alone, but for all similarly circum- stanced. I I « MORE “LAST woansv or MR. BAXTER. To THE EDITORS on THE WEEKLY: You do not know" what that means, friend. ,Well, Iwill tell you. Mr. Baxter was a gentleman who collected taxes in Great Britain in the early part of this century. He was a wise man,,for he did not collect them for his king, but for himself. He was a sound political economist, forhe took care that all he co1lecte<1,.went into his treasury. However, his brother king cornered him at last-,. and the was tried and condemned to be what Highlanders call ‘‘ justified ” at Ty- burn. Like Prince Talleyrand (who was a better diplomat, but not so good a political economist), he left a. confession, not to be published until after hisexecution. Of course, as he had led’ a very stirring and romantic life, “The Last Dying Speech and Confession of Mr. Baxter” had an unpre- her case, and was introduced by Judge Charles Cowley, her ’ teen years old, Mr. Merrill managed to get ‘himself intro" ._ his management efforts were soon made for a divorce. Cross ' given him all this upon his promise to reform in the future; 4 “I would here say that divorce is a thing altogether against A clearly in the right and my husband clearly in the wrong, K H ' __ 5,w.\< W35‘ . A" , comes in at the‘ end. At present I have to go to Boston, and, , 1ency,”’or “Your\Honor,”i for in case he should be» the , Governor or Lieut.-Governor of the State, you’ll be acting 7 illegally if you don’t, and upsetting the Constitution of Mas- - r2.~\< W‘ The account’ does not show that the rich man went to hell / things.” / rich man. ‘ doubtless got the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s I ference from the excellent disposition which the rich man May 16, 1874. \ w’ooDHULLi & CLAFLIN’S wnnpxtr. I i to in 1, is I is eedented sale—-so much so that another edition was published next day, “More Last Words of Mr. Baxter.” A Now for the application; but it don’t come in here, it friend, if ever you go there you’d better call every well‘- dressed man you have occasion to speak to “Your Excel- isachusetts. (’Tis a fact, Mr. Attorney-General, and it is your duty to prove that it does not invalidate the U. S. Constitu- tion, sec. 9, cl. 8, and also to prove such addenda consistent with a republican form of government.) However, ‘I didn’t go to Boston to call upon the Governor, but to see my old friend. John Hollingshead, who worked in a factory there. I found him at last, or rather the place. However, I made bold to enter. the place, when the janitor asked me what I wanted. I told him Ihad come from New York to see John Hollingshead; that I had to go back by the next train, and wanted to speak to him immediately. The janitor replied that it was contrary to rule, but he would call him; so he stepped tothe pipe, gave the signal, and said,“Number Ten’s wanted.” Presently John came down, and after shaking hands we went outside, to be more at ease. “ Hilloa!” said I, “John, you’ve changed your name.” “Devil a bit!” was the reply; “a man can’t change his name without an act of the Legislature.” “ Oh, yes, he can, John.” “How ?” “Why by an act of the factory; you’re Number Ten here, are you not '2” “ Oh, yes; we’re all numbered here, for conveni- ence.” “ But you were christened John, were you not?” “ Yes.” “ Well, how about your godfathers and godmothers, and all that?” “Oh, botherryour godfathers andigodmothers,” replied he; “ they care nothing about them at the factory.” “ But the parson; why don’t you complain to the parson? You'wasn’t christened Number Ten.” “ Oh, the parson be hanged! He'd christen the factory if the boss ordered him to; besides,” said John, “I don’t know that it’s without its use, afterall; we shall all be numbered by and by, and I thought the other day, when I was reading of the execution of that chap that killed his mother,» how much better it would be for his relations if he’d been reported thus: ‘Number 65,432 was executed at Boston this" morning for killing his mother.’ ” “ Ah, true,” replied we‘; “ and supposing his mother was called 65,433, it would not be so great a crime after all, only rubbing out a few ﬁgures.” This lettering and numbering of mankind, and the present uses of the word s——hands, operatives, 'etc., are all modern innovations. The labor of man has long been depreciated; these belittle the man himself. In old times slaves were col- lared and marked with their names and the names of their owners, but they were not numbered——-that is still more de- grading, because it more effectually destroys identity. It is also a grave insult to the churches, but the churches are bound hand and foot, and dare not stand, forward in defense of their sacrament of baptism. Worse than this, as these derogatory terms are used at one end of the line, titles are creeping in at the other. The word, master, which was sup- posed to be killed and buried by the last war, has risen again in New York, and it seems, as in" the case of Mr. Baxter, above alluded to, we_ are to have “ More Last VVords of Mr. Master. It is not true, as the song says, that He took his hat and he left very sudden, And think he ran away. Oh, no, ‘or if he did, as the bricklayers can testify, he ran away North. Wherefore else do the boss masons get their title? Wiil he stick there ?——that’s the question. I know not, but I do know, and this nation knows, that it takes a sight of trouble and expense to_ kick him out. I don’t like him, that’s a fact; but if he takes up his abode where I work. as I am an old man, I suppose I shall be compelled to com- promise the matter, and when I come across‘ the obnoxious word. I shall call it—“ BAXTER.” I ‘ “NOVADMITTANCE FOR RICH MEN!” BY W. F. JAMIESON. Such was the teaching of the Christian founder, with refer- ence to heaven; while, on the other hand, He taught what would justify this inscription over the heavenly gate: “ Beg- gars’ Safe Retreat!” He gave the poor the Kingdom of God, merely because they were poor, and pronounced woe upon the rich, simply because they were rich. “Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.” “ But woe unto you that are rich! for you have received your consolation.” Even in His parables He expressed the same thought, assigned Lazarus a snug place in Abraham’s bosom, and gave the rich man hell, where the climate seemed to be very warm and dry. Why was that beggar entitled to a reserved seat in heaven? Jesus’ teaching shows that it was for no other rea- ‘ son than he had been a beggar! This is the reason, accord- ing to the New Testament. The same book shows that the only reason why the rich man was sent to hell, was because‘ he had. been rich. He was reminded that in his lifetime he received his “ good things,” and Lazarus evil things; and the old ghost of Abraham, with a perceptible tinge of exultation, exclaimed, _ “ But now he is comforted, and thou art tor- mented.” From this teaching we are to understand that people who are rich on earth will go to hell and be damned. because he was wicked, but solely becausehe received “good It is hown that he was a good, kind, benevolent, The beggar who laid at his gate, full of sores, table, and with which he desired to be fed. This is a‘ fair in- manifested after he had gone to _hell. He was superior to the Christian maxim, “Misery loves company,” and importuned Abraham to send a delegate from heaven to his father’s house,and warn. the inmates to keep out of the scrapehe had got into; to testify to his ﬁve brethren, “lest they also come into this place of torment.” _ g V ‘ Then listen to thefreezing reply of that heartless hypocrite, hear them.” As if they ever warnedanybody against riches! They, as a class, taught an opposite: doctrine.’ They believed thatriches were bestowed as favors from heaven. But Jesus Christ despisedwealth, which proves him to have been no philosopher. It is not questioned thatwealth, like any other blessing, may be perverted to evil purposes, but poverty,'the system which he recommended, is an unmitigated curse to ‘the race. The teachinggof Dr. Samuel Johnson on this sub- ject is much better: “Itesolve not to be poor. Whatever you have, spend less. Poverty isan enemy to human happiness. It often destroys liberty, makes some virtues ditﬁcult an some impracticable.” I Robert Bonner and Henry Ward Beecher profess Jesus /and practice Johnson. That camel, of which Bonner gave an illustration in his Ledger, on its knees getting through the “ needle’s eye,” after it had been divested of its load. of wealth, would have been a source of greater comfort to rich Christians if the text had said “ loaded camel.” If this.sen- tence from the “Nazarene,” “It is easierlfor a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God,” does not shut out rich men from the place where Lazarus was, language cannot be “trusted at all. The rich men in the life to come will ‘have the satisfaction of thinking they received their good things on earth——-all the consolation to whichthey were entitled! ‘ When the Judean mendicant said “ needle” and “ camel,” he evidently meant what he said; it is not strange that the disciples were, as the book says, “ exceedingly amazed,” an at once anxiously inquired, “ who thenican be saved?” Not rich men assuredly, if his doctrine were true. Why this amazement, if Jesus Christ meant by the “ eye of a needle” the gateway of a city wall, as Romer and many preachers say. Jesus Christ had. reference to a needlc’s eye, such as they used in those days to sew with. and to a camel—hump and all. The subsequent phrase. “with God all things are possible," is no solution of the matter; the same book says it is not possi- ble for him to lie. “ The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” I do not believe it; it is impossible for men to make hills near together without a hollow between them. Is it possible for a godto do it? A l The clergy have been for ages in direct opposition to their Master’s teaching, trying to get rich men into heaven by first pulling them into their churches and amusing them with, stories about the “ Little‘Joker”—allegorical' renderings. Jesus Christ taught that no treasures should he possessed upon earth; He said, “ Whosoever he be of you that for- saketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.” Chris tians as a rule, practically, do not believe in the injunction to remain poor; in that matter they follow common-sense and not Christ. That very rich’ ruler who was advised to “sell all thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven,” concluded not to invest in heavenly estate. It was quoted ‘below par then and has de- preciated still more since. ‘The young Jewish gentleman seemed to prefer present wealth to prospective bliss. Chris- tians have been “ ﬁghting it out on that line” for ages.’ Theii efforts to become wealthy, or at least, to , carefully avoid be ing poor, shows as loudly as actions can speak, that they think the young Jew» who did not sell his possessions chose the good part. _ . ‘ * DON’T SLAM THE GATE. Now, Harry, pray don’t laugh at me, But when you go so late, I wish you would be careful, dear, To never slam the gate. _ For Bessie listens every night, And so does teasing ‘Kate, To tell me next day what o’clock They heard you slam the gate. “Twas nearly ten last night, you know, But now ’tis very late—- V (W e’ve talked about so many things):- 0, do not slam the gate l For all the neighbors hearing it, Will say our future fate . We’ve been discussing; so I beg \ You will not slam the gate 1 , For, though it is all. very true, I wish that they would wait i To canvass our aifairs until-— Well—pray don’t slam that gate 1 At least, not now. But, by and and by, J ’ When in " our home ” I Wait \ Your coming, I shall always like . Tohear you slam the gate ! For, whether you go out or in, At early hours or late, The whole world will not tease me then About that horrid gate 1 — . ——Rqform Leader, Iowa. COMMENTS or THE\WES'I‘ERN‘PRESS. ‘ VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. To say what one thinks of Mrs. Woodhull is no light task and to criticise her lecture at McCourt’~s Hall on Tuesday evening is a most laborious undertaking. There is so much much of sound teachingsand so much to admire,that to criti- cise would be to specify,and to specify would be topick apart almost beyond alimit. To say that there is about her that car- nestness ofa great teacher, and that evidence of pure con-/ viction which merits respect, is to but do her justice; to say that her theme is sometimes wild and her ideas too Utopian for this world, is but todo ourselves justice. Not that truth in any light or language should be suppressed for the sakeof the-false delicacy of. the uneducated world but her ideas of ‘ marriage and marital relations are scarcely acceptable even in the most unprejudlced light. She strikes upon the theory that human nature can regulate itself—-a thing which the ex- that is true, so much of eloquence, so much of humanity, so - \ Her ideas of thecourse mothers should pursue in the rear- ing of their children are eminently sound, and for this in- tion. That she talked plainly is perhaps no deteriorating. circumstance, for the world has got to thatpitch that it needs some plain language. I * A I _ g ‘ , ’ Wethink thatfor ability, intelligence‘ and eloquence, she gained the_ acknowledgment‘ of the entire audience. . For the good she did and the truths she spoke she deserves credit. —-—Northwestem, Oshkosh, Wis., April 29. - . I , L FOOD MEDICINE. Dr. Hall relates the case of a man who was cured" of his biliousness by going without his supper and drinking freely of lemonade. Every morning, says the doctor. this patient a feeling as though the blood had been literally washed, cleansed and cooled by the lemonade and fast. His theory is that food can be used as a remedy for many diseases suc- cessfullyf As an example, he cures cases of spitting ofvthe blood by the use of salt; epilepsy by watermellons; kidney affections by celery; poison,,olive' or sweetioil; erysipelas, pounded cranberriesappliedito the part affected; hydro- phobia, onions, etc. So the way to keep in good health is really to know what to eat--not to know what medicines to take.—E:cchangc. , A ' * OLIPPINGS; . that it required a thousand camels to carry it. A king de- sired to have it abridged, and certain scholars reduced it so that it could be carried by a hundred camels. Other kings until at length the volume was reduced to four maxims. prescribed obedience to the people; the third recommended fourth advised women to be modest.-—Sha.ke*r and Slwikcrs. COMMENT. too freely in the above instance; the last sentence would look better if it contained the words “and men also.” CLINTON—LOVE AND DoM1ivoEs.——A recent wedding has somewhat of interest behind it, hinging as, it did, upon a -ra,me——or more exactly two games——of dominoes. The parties were vacilating; whether they loved for good and all they dominoes settled it. If she won, it meant the marriage bell’ and its accompaniments, while victory upon his banners was at once to extinguish the hymeneal torch. Of course she car- ried her point, but another game was in the programme by which the marriage expenses were to be paid. Again the dominoes were brought into requisition. this time, by the future —bridegroom’s brothers! and the expectant bride’s mother, the result being that the bill was to be canceled by the brother, and ‘now the wedding is over, and the bills are all paid—thanks to the dominoes. ‘ ﬁve miles away, was plainly mirrored in“ thelsky, and sailing vessels and steamships were distinctly traced as they glided along. Even the pulsations of the waves were visible, the exhibition continuing for about three-quarters ofan hour, until the sun disappeared below the horizon. who walked the earth in the form of a Universalist minister or an editor. I I “ I SAY, boy, stop that ox.” _ “ I haven’t got no stopper, sir.” » "‘ Well, head him, then.” ‘ ",He’s already headed, sir.” , ~ “ Confound your impudence, turn hinzi.” “ He’s right side but, already, sir.” “ Speak to him, yourascal.” “Good morning, Mr. Ox"’ these volumes bound in Russia or .Morooco, sir?’ Retired Coal Dealer-—‘ Well, if I‘can’t have them bound in London, sendiem to Russia. WV e must encourage the; Czar now, you know.’ ” . = THE.Postmaster-General’s dignity must have suffered the other day, when he received a letter from Delta, Iowa, say- ing: “ If you don’t git some one to run this ’ere poast offus purty soon it’ll be throwd in the river; for I’m going oﬁ' on a, bear hunt and can’t fool any moar.” , , \ . A NEW YORK politician, in writing a. letter of condolence to the widow of a deceased member of “the Legislature, says; “Icannot tell you how pained I was‘ to hear that your hus. weshall never meet again.” A SENSIBLE Mnvrsrhs.-—An.'hon_est country parson, who had no/’ belief in the bigotry of special pi-ovidences, who, in. * the time of A great drought, was desired to pray for rain, answered: “ I’ll willingly do it to oblige you, but it is to no purpose while the wind is in this quarter.” - ' » ﬁgures of each year, since 1866, it isshown that in that year In 1873 the proportion was one marriage to one hundred and eighteen of the population. K ,THERE is no telling what that intelligent Coroner's jury ‘will do next, since it hasiindicted a Connecticut man for shooting his wife, whom he, upon’ honor, “mistook for a. ' straylcat.” _ _ V , THERE is something very sensible in the impromptu re-» mark of a pretty girl»: “If our Maker thought it wrong“ for Adam to live single when there was not a woman on earth, Abraham; ‘".i‘hcy have Moses and the prophets; lot t,l1em_i, . \ ..._,,... _ , A ,. L./;,. ‘.)—u .h- l , perience of the past ages and the very uecessityyot any law whatever clearly disprove, * . , i — ’ / \ how criminally Wrong are the old. bachelors, with the wow; full of prctty.gir1s!” truction alone. it was worth the while of every ladyfs atten- ' arose with a wonderful sense of rest and refreshment; and ~ THE philosophers of In dia once possessed a book so large i came, who demanded that it should be dimished still more; A The ﬁrst of these maximsbade kings to be just; the second . mankind’ not to eat except when they were hungry; the The WnE'<LY suggests that the scholars used their scissors ' really couldh’t decide; but a bantering wager and a game of ' SOME days ago, at Vineland, N. J., Delaware Bay, twenty- THE dead Elder Knapp (believed ﬁrmly in a personal devil, THE London Hornet gives the following as one of the eﬂfects ’ of the late royal marriage: “ Bookseller-‘ ‘Will you have i band had. gone to heaven. We were bosom friends,.but snow ' STATISTICS of marriages in Ohio, since 1866, show a re- A markable decline in matrimony. According to the published ’ there was one marriage to. every eighty-two of population. ‘ / 14 I “A MQRNING. contemporary says it is becoming monotonous to see - disreputable twomen in the private boxes at our theatres.” ‘Just so. It would be quite refreshing ‘to see some disreputable men there for a change, wouldn’t it? The 7 trouble is that there are no “ disreputable me.” Certainly neither the‘ Post, nor its “ morning contemporary,” would think of calling a man who has money enough to pay for a box at a theatre “ disreputable.”-F1'.garo. ‘€DooToR, what will cure theifever of love?" : “ The child A of wedlock, —mademoiselle.”—New Northwest, 07'. The WEEKLY holds that love is the normal state of woman and man, and that the Want of it shows disease; but it agrees with the New ‘Northwest that the vain effort to chain it.in wedlock operates to annihilate it.‘ . A MAN at Bridgeport, Conni, has named his two canaries ’ “Wheeler” and “Wilson,” because neither of them is a “ Singer.” The only historical parallel for this case is oﬁered by the old farmer who called his rooster Robinson, because Robinson Cru-soc. / OLIVE LOGAN says that there is such as contrast between America and France that she never wants to see America again. America can stand it if France can. THE CHURCH CALLING THE STATE A LIAR.-—Ccmmunities lie; governments lie; like that gigantic. -wickedness of our! government to—day, printing lie by the hundreds and by the hundreds of thousands tending» to depress and destroy our . industry, and rotting out the foundations of our future pros- . perity.-Beecher’s Lecture at Steinway Hall. I I During the war such language would have placed a cop per- head in Fort Lafayette. Beecher eulogized Grant at the New England dinner, now he calls his government a liar! The Macbeth xwitches were round the pot. Boil and bubble; ‘. panic ;1 plague; repudiation; lust; ruin; murder; death. 7 Brethren, love one another. —-The Crusaders. * THERE is nothing like having a genteel gospel. An Epis- copal journal» has published /an article on “ The Etiquette of the Lord’s Table.” MEMPHIS husbands joke grimly of inaugurating a crusade against dry—goods dealers. They say if it’s temperance the women want, why they shall have it in full measure. w< Businsss EDITORIALS. . THE GREAT sENsATIoN:~ A_Fulland Reliable History of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. I Including Comprehensive and Interesting Biographical Sketches of Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, Victo- ria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬂin and Colonel Blood; . giving Facts and Incidents inithe Lives of each never be- fore published. By Leon Oliver. The Book is Illustrated with Portraits of all the Characters. The prominent position occupied by thedparties involved in this greatest scandal of the nineteenth century, has given to ‘- it an almost world-wide notoriety, and the partial and frag- mentary reports of it which have been published have doubt- less done injustice to some, if not all the parties involved in it, and have only served to whet the appetite of " the reading , public with a desire to have the whole story truthfully and. impartially told. This the author has done, and in such a manner as not to shock or be oﬁensive to the most fastidious reader, nor to do injustice to any of the clramatis pars-once. We wish it to be distinctly understood that this work is not ‘compiled fromiunreliable sources, nor has it been hastily gotten up, but it is writtenby one who has for years been personally acquaintedwith the interested parties, who has been “ behind the scenes” and knows whereof he writes, and who has had better facilities for the work undertaken . than any man living, and he is also one well and popularly (known to the public by his writings over a nom cle’ plume. In this work he gives facts, and lets light in where hitherto there has been darkness and confusion. The whole story is i not only graphically but truthfully told, and the book is one of the most interesting ever offered to the American public. The sketch of Henry Ward Beecher has been submitted to several ‘of the ablest journalists and authors in the West, and is unanimously declared by them to be, the best and most 0 entertaining ever-written of this foremost clergyman of the — topics—frce‘ love, social freedom, etc.,—-and a description of ' I the Social Utopia, to the establishment of which they have age. He has been the subject for several biographical writers, but theauthor in this portrays him in an entirely new, no ve and unhackneyed style. A . In addition to the biographies mentioned, there is avery entertaining sketch of Henry C. Bowen, who was the ﬁrst to circulatethe story of Mr. B‘eecher’s moral delinquencies. A There is also included in the work copious extracts from the writings and speeches of Woodhull and Clailin, giving an epitome of their views and theories ‘ upon their favorite . pledged “ their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.” Also what Mr. Beecher has to say about the scandal, and the opinions of Theodore Tilton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beech-er Hooker, Susan B. Anthony a11d‘oth'er noted characters respecting it, and the comments of many of the . leading men and journals of the country upon this engross- / ‘ ing topic. ‘- N The biographical sketches are concise, yetcomprehensive; . ‘written in a free, chatty and racy style,and are enlivened by characteristic and entertaining incidents and anecdotes never before published, and are of themselves worth more than the price of the entire work. ’ vi The book ‘is printed from, beautiful new type and upon ' superior paper, in one large octavo volume of about 400 pages. A No expense or pains have been sparedto‘ make this book one I x of real merit and value, creditable alike to the author, artist and publishers. , It is bound in fine English muslin, library style, with gilt back and sides. A , Price sin an. in bestsE'nglish, cloth. am back and sides, All cash orders for thisbook, addressed to the’ WEEKLY, P Q. Box 3791, I will be promply filled. furnished, and the repudiation of all so-called debts, the ‘of his valuable services.” We would say to those who are wosonnuii laid ,oLArI_.1N*‘si WFEEKLIY. is M PROCEEDINGS or THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION or THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION or SPIRITUALISTS. 12m, pp. 266. THE ELIXIR or LIFE; on, VVHY n0‘wE.D;E«? 8vo, pp. 24. An ORATION delivered before the above-named CoNvENTIoN, at GRow’s" OPERA ‘HOUSE, _CHICAGO,/ by VICTORIA. C. WOODHULL. September 18, 1873. ,The above “Report of‘th‘e Proceedings of the Tenth An- nual Convention of the American Association of Spiritual- ists,” is an accurate and impartial account of what was said and done at the above convention. The: speeches are pre- sented to the public word for word as they came to us from he hands of the able reporter employed. by the convention. The orations of the members, on ‘both sides, discussing the question of “ Free Love,” or rather “ Personal Sovereignty,” are worthy of the serious attentioninot only of all Spiritual- ‘ists but of the community at large. t _ ' = ‘In proof that we have not overstated the merits of the work, ‘we respectfully submit the generous testimony of Judge Edmund S. Holbrook, who so ably defended the posi- tion of the conservative Spiritualists at the above conven- tion: ‘ . . . I V “ I have seen the report you have published of the doings and sayings of the Chicago Convention, and I take pleasure in ‘saying that, in the publication of such a report, so full, so accurate and impartial as it is, you have done a work worthy of highcommendation. Some could not be at this conven- tion, either forwant of time or means; but now, such of them as may choose to read, can [almost imagine that they were there; and though they may not attain whatever there may be in personal presence, in the "eye, and the ear, and in soul-communion, yet whatever of principle has been evolved they may well discover and understand; and also, as I hope, theymay proﬁt thereby.” ‘ I Price of the “Proceedings” and the “Elixir of Life” 50 cents; or the “Elixir of Life” alone 25 cents.“ Orders for the same addressed to Woodhull 8t Claﬂin, P. 0. box 3,791, willbe promptly ﬁlled. ’ The First Primary Council of Boston, of the Universal As- sociation o'f_ Spiritualists, meets every Thursday evening, at Harmony Hall, 18% Boylston street. Seats free. .,l‘oHN HARDY, Cor. Sec’y. THE WORD, A Monthly Journal of Reform——Regarding the“ subjection of Labor, of Woman, and the Prevalence of War as unnatural evils, induced by false claims to obedience and service; favors the Abolition of the State, of Property in Land and its kindred resources, of speculative income and all other means whereby‘ Intrusion acquires wealth and power at the expense of Useful People. Since labor is the source of wealth, and creates all values equitably rveml-ible, the Word (not by restrictiveemethods, but through Liberation and Reciprocity) seeks the extinction of interest, rent, div- idends and proﬁt, except as they represent work done; the abolition of railway, telegraphic, banking, trades union and other corporations charging more than actual cost for values principal whereof has been paid in the form of interest. f E. H. HEYWOOD, Editor,‘ Terms——75c. annually in advance. Address The Wocrzl, Princeton, Mass. , DR. R. P. FEIJLOWS. This truly gifted healer, who has gained such a wide popu- larity in the last few years, is now permanently located at Vineland, N. J. After years of successful practice and close application in the art of healing, he has earned a reputation as a public benefactor, curing many cases instantaneously that were regarded hopeless. We coincide‘ with the Banner of Light in saying: “The afflicted should avail themselves unable to visit the Doctor in person to send $1 for his Mag- netizetl Pellets. The sick are being healed by these Pellets who have heretofore been in perfect despair. Dr. Slade; the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his cﬁoc, No. 413 Fourth avenue ‘ DR. L. K. COONLEY is speaking and healing in Newark, N. J., the present month, and can be addressed at 2'7’? Mul- berry’ street, that city. Mas. CHANNING, is Great Jones street, New York, tells the past, present and+future;~ advises as to future ‘success; diagnoses disease without asking questions ; treats all diseases with success. Specialties; Consumption, Brightfs disease of kidneys and female diseases. Best of references given. PROF. E. VVHIPPLE ‘ Will speak during the Sundays of May in Springﬂeld,‘Mass. Address 896 Main street, Cambridge, Mass. 4 x W’. F. JAMIESON A Will speak at Lynn, Mass., the Sundays of May; at Salem, Mass, Fric1ay.evenings' of May. Will receive a few more week-evening‘engagements for April and May. Address, care of Bummer of Light, Boston, Mass. . @“’Send Austin Kent one dollar for his book and pam- years .ph‘ysically»helpless, conﬁned to his bed and chair, is poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ﬁted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- est andrmost logical writers. * You are hardly well posted on this subject till you have read Mr. Kent.‘ You who are able add another dollar or more ascharity. His address, AUSTIN KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. for 75,cts. Iwill add two more of the “Woodhull” Pamphlets for.$1.00, or I will mail ten of the pamphlets for $1,00. In. buying these you greatly aid a physically helpless man. I i . AUSTINKENT. ' The legal rate of postage on the WEEKLY, addressed to regular subscribers, is twenty cents per annum, or ﬁve cents per quarter, payable in advance. /Subscribers. who receive their copies by letter-carriers will please hand the anniualvor A quarterly postage to carriers, taking their receipts. If any higher rates are demanded, report the facts to the local Postmaster. The postage on copies directed to subscribers in New York city has been prepaid by the publishers. E. M. Flagg, dentist, 79 West Eleventh street, New York city. Specialty, artiﬁcial dentures. \ I SARAH E. SOMERBY, Trance Medium and Magnetic Healer, 23 Irving Place, N. Y. WANTED.4A first-class clairvoyant physician as a partner in a medical institution doing a good business. Open sum- mer and winter. Must have from $5,000 to $8,000 for invest- ment. . A A I Address, for particulars, P. O. Box 395, Ithaca, N. Y. PROSPECTUS. Woonn ULL 5t CLAFLIN’S VWEEKLY. Principles of a Free Press] It advocates a new government in which the people will be their own legislators, and the oﬂicials the executors of their will. « A . ’ It advocates, as parts of the new government- 1. A new political system in which all persons of adult age will participate. I 2. A new land system in which every individual will be en- titled to the free use of a proper proportion of the -land. 3. new industrial system, in which each individual will remain possessed of all his or her productions.’ 4. A newvcomrnercial ‘system in which “cost,” instead of “demand and supply,” will determine the price of every- thing and abolish thersystem of proﬁt-making. be the source, custodian and transmitter of all money, and in which usury will have no place. 6. A new sexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money or any inducement other than love, shall be the governing law, individuals being left to make their own regulations; and in which society, when the individual shall fail, shall be responsible‘ for the proper rearing of children. 7. A new educational system,.in which all children born shall have the same advantages‘of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and .thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. All of which will constitute the various parts of a new so- cial order, in which all the human rights of the individual will be associated to form the harmonious organization of the peoples into the grand human family, of which every person in the world will be a member. I Criticism and objectionslspecially invited. ' The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. _ Subscription price, $3 per year; $1.50 six months; or 10c. single copy, to be had of any N ewsdealer in the world, who can order it from the following General Agents: .- The American News Co., New York City; The New York News Co., New York City; The National News Co., New York City; The New England News Co., Boston, Mass.; The Ce,ntralNews Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; The Western News Co., Chicago, Ill. Sample copies, mailed on application, free. itors and Proprietors. COL. J. H. BLOOD, Managing Editor. _ All communications should be addressed ._ WOODHULL 8t CLArL1N’s WEEKLY, Box 3,791, New York City. The New Jersey State Association of Spiritualistsand Friends of Progress will hold their Second Quarterly Con- vention for 1874 in Library Hall, Newark, N. J ., on. Saturday and» Sunday, May 30th and 31st,’? commencing at 10 A. M. Three sessions each day. I v _ \ SPECIAL SUBJEoTs.—-Temperance, Indians and Law or Government; yet the platform will be free as usual for the WARREN CHASE I . Will lecture in Chester, I112, Sunday, May 8; in Cairo,,Ill., Mayiiﬂ; in Centralia, Ill., lifay'17», and will return to Des Moines, Iowa, the List of June. He will receive subscriptions for the WEEKLY and for our pamphlets. I Miss NELLIE IA. fD._sgvi's, in answer to calls received from ’ .he Paciﬁc‘co'ast will go "W est next autumn. Friends along the route, desiring one or more lectures, can secure her! ser- vices by addressing her at 2235» ‘Washington street, Salem, Mass. A * A discussion of all subjects. Free accomodations as far as pos- sible. I . D. J‘. Srsnsnrznnv, Secretary, 0 I Newark, N. J. -—-—-.—~— I The Fourth Annual Convention of the American Labor Reform League will be held in Masonic Hall, '1‘hirt-eenth ‘ street, New York city, Sunday and Monday, May 10 and 11, day and evening,’ clcmmencing at 10 :30 A..M‘. Sunday. Chas. T. Fowler, S. P. Andrews, John Orvis, JKK. Ingalls, Mrs. M. ‘E. B. Albertson, Edward Palmer, L. K. Joslin, R.’W. Hume, VVm. Hanson’, ELH. Heywood andother speakers are ex» . pected. ' A ' ~ I A « Dhlets onlFree Love. and Marriage. He has beensixteen _ P. S.——h will new mail “Free Love,” in paper cote/r, “Mrs. . Woodhull and.Social Freedom,” and “ True and False Love” A [The only paper in the World conducted, absolutely, uponthe \ 5. A new financial system, in which the government will / ‘VICTORIA C. WOODHULL AND TENNIE C. CLA)3’I.IN, Ed» , ‘I-‘S;i.~_2~:'§v:r~“ «' : l _ 2 Mayis, 18,74, 2 Wooni-IfULL J5 Co,L.AnLiNés A-_wrEn»Knr. , general reader.”——Bomnei' of Light. -V it is astounding.”—Hartford Times.‘ ‘ of aremarkable life, narrated in an unaifected style.” r. Geo. Newcomer, THE HEALER, -PH Y SI CIAN 4ND SURGEON, HURD BLOCK, JACKSON, men. Thirty years‘ experience. Examines diseases and sends prescriptions for one month for $3. Has a spe- cific remedy for CATARRH and THROAT DISEASE. Sends by mail for $2 for four months,»and with direc- tions two months, $1. Pile Remedy, $2. Treatments at rooms moderate. Warrants relief or no charge. 146 GEO. NEWCOMER, M. D.‘ SOGIAL FREEDOM COMMUNITY No. 1. This Institution is situated in Chesterfield County, Virginia, about nine miles from Richmond. It,_1s founded on the principles of Social Freedom, as laid down in the address of Victoria. C. Woodhull, in Steinway~Hall, New York November 20, 1871. The Community owns three hundred and thirty-three acres of land, half of which is improved—the balance if valuable timber. There is"a good water-power on i , and they propose to erect a saw-mill. A few more congenial persons can be now admitted on probation ARAH L. TIBBALS, Pres, Address, inclo sing a sheet of paper and a stamped envelope, , . _ J. . HENCK, Sec. st Box 44 Manchester, Chester Co., Va. 146- PSVFG EIREC . AND Soul Reading. MRS. H. L.—_I:A PIERRE Will give those sending lock of hair and autograph a full reading of marked changes through life; also ad- vice in regard to business. Will diagnosis disease and is causes from a lock of hair, and give magnetic treat- .ment at any distance by spirit control. p v Reading and treatment by lock of hair. .. Reading alone ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... .. 2.00. Address Post-oﬂice box 856, St. Paul, Minn. DR. J N0. A. ELLIOT'l' Is now prepared to give Readings of Character, Delineationls of Adaptability to Business, Physical Conditions, etc., from Autograph, Lock of Hair or Photograph. r Address, inclosing Two Dollars and four three-cent stamps, Dr. JNO. A. ELLIOTT, care Box 4,952 New York I’. O. GOLDEN MEMORIES F I AN EARNOEST LIFE. A BIOGRAPHY OF A. B. WHITING:i Together with selections from his Poetical Compo- sitions and Prose Writings. Compiled by his sister, R. AUcUs'rA Wriiriive. Introduction by J. M. PEEBLES. ’ “His ‘years, ’tis true, were few; His life was long.” “ We live in deeds, not years; ' In thoughts, not breathsﬂ,’ ‘ The work is piiblished in response to the general demand for a ieliable resume. of the life, labors and wonderful mediumistic experiences of our arisen fellow-laborer in the cause of human freedom and progress, and is embellished with a ﬁne steel portrait of theindividual whose life it portrays. _ A V v Price $1 50, ‘postage 18 cents. . K For sale, wholesale and retail, by the publishers, COLBY & RICH, at No. 9 Montgomery Place, corner of Province Street (lower ﬂoor), Boston, Mass; , . Orders may also be addressed to R. A. WRITING, Albion, Mich. ‘ WHAT THE PRESS SAYS: "‘ The book is one that will be of interest to every Spiritualist and to all who are interested in rare and curious developments of mental phenomena, while the travel and adventure of seventeen years of public life furnish incidents both instructive’ and amusinggfor the “ We will venture to say that, among biographies, this work stands alone. In its narratives of experience “ The volume is replete with interesting incidents 2072. Mr? or. “ Full of life-like delineations. 1‘ * It contains the soiil of the human.—J. 0. Barrett. _ . . Cannot fail to have an extensive saIe.’?—Porz Hysrorg Commercial. 1 Rich in thourxht and a treasure to any household that possesses it. ’—-Our Age. SYLLABUS» OF THE H ‘SUN-DAY ;sXnRo1sns DE G-ARMO HALL, No. 82 FIFTH AVR, First Floor, Corner of Fourteenth Street, New York. First lllieirupliian A tnngiregaiiiiii. MORNING AT HALF—PAS'1‘ TEN O’OI.O(>K,- A S'CielitiﬁQ Sermon ‘ BY ‘ A STEPHEN PEARL Aivnnirws, IN EXPOSITION 029' Universology, Integralism and the Pantarchal Regime, asthe Commonwealth or Universal Institute of H11- manity, and of the general scope of the Sciences; with some appropriate Literary and Religious Exer- cises illustrative of the purposes of THE NEW CATHOLIC CH URCH. (The desk will be occasionally ﬁlled, in the absence or by the consent of -Mr. Andrews, by other distin- guished Scientists and Reformeru.) A AFTERNOON AT 2 o’cLoci:. , A Social and Spiritual Conference for the free in- terchange of the expressions and aspirationsof all who are desiring a Higher Religious Life, or a better knowledge of. the Way. I Evnnmc AT 7%“ 0’CLOCK. Lectures and discussions, by selected speakers and volunteers, upon religious, scientiﬁc and miscel- laneous subjects. 0. o. 1., Or, United Order of Internationals, is a Secret Or- ganization, devoted to the best interests of the laboring classes. It is the vanguard of Social and Political Reforms. ‘ For a description of its principles and purposes see Woonnnm. & CLAri.iN’s WEEKLY, No. 160. e U. 0. I. meet every Sunday evening at P. 11., at 234 Fifth street, N. Y. . For, particulars of membership, address , T. R. KINGET, M. D., Cor. Sec. of U. 0. I., 234 Fifth street, N. Y. SPERMATORRIIEA CURF»‘D BY A SPIRIT PRESCRIPTION, AND » WARRANTED, non $10.’ It is an outside application. No medicine given. Sendfor free circular to "DR. E. woonnnnn, Grand Rapids, Mich. Would you Know ‘ilouijselii CONSULT wrrii A. B. SEVERANCE, The well known Physcromeiiisi and tairvtyaiiii. Come in person, or send by letter a lock of your hair, or handwritingora photograph; he will give you a correct delineation of character, giving instructions for self improvement, by telling what faculties to cul- tivate and what to restrain, giving your present phys- ical, mentaland spiritual condition, giving past and . future events, telling what kind of ainedium youcan develop into, if any, what business or profession you are best calculated for to be successful in life. Ad- vice and counsel in business matters. Also, advice in reference to marriage; the adaptation of one to the other, and whether you are in a ‘proper condition for marriage. Hints and advice to those who are in im- happy married relations,’ how‘ to make their path of life smoother. ‘ ‘ Further, will give an examination of diseases, and correct diagnosis, with a written prescription and in- struction for home treatment, which, if the patients follow, will improve their health and condition every time, if it does not eﬁect a cure". He is eminently practical in all advice given, as thousands can testify from the Atlantic coast to the Paciﬁc, having letters A daily from men and women for the last ten years. Has ‘a word of sympathy and encouragement for the aﬁlicted, advice and counsel to the young, and some- thing for every one to help them to meet the strug- gles of life that will pay them more than ten fold for all the money required’ for the delineations. ’ , He also treats diseases Magneticallyand otherwise. TERMS. , \ Brief Delineation ....................... . .3 . . .. 1 on Frill and complete Delineation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “$2 00 Diagnosis of Disease...................I . . . . . . . .. 1 00 Diagnosis and Prescription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “’ 00 1- A . . . , . " o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , , , _ . , , , . _ _ , ,, Address 457 Milwaukee street, Milwaukee, Wis. P R. and‘ELlZABE'l‘H LAWRENCE. of Ottuniwal - Iowa, will heal the sick at home from the 1st to the 5th, and from the 15th.to the 20th of every month, and answer calls away from home the remainder of A the time. - and intermediate stations. ’ A SPECIALTY FOR TWENTY YEARS. * A Medical College. o JATCENTRAL ROUTE. ......__._......_.._.......__.,._,....._ﬁ___...... I-IORT LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT BY THE OLD ESTABLISHED AND! Popular Route via. NIAGARA FALLS SUSPENSION BRIDGE or BUFEALO AND‘M—ICHIGAN CEN - TRAL AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY LINE to Detroit and Chicago witlioutxchange of cars, making“ close connection with all Railroads leading out of Chicago to 9-11 P011105 in the gre.at‘WeSt. . Tn-Roman Txoxxrrs to all important towns, and lgeneral information may be obtained at the Companl office, 340 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), ew York. A. , _ it soonoiensed Time Talole. , WESTWARD FROM uwiuti. . 0 , Via,7Erie & Central &, Great.Western R’s x ‘STATIONS. , ‘ Express. Eﬁz-fa. STATIONS. _ Empress. I . Lv 23d Street, N. Y . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M.$!LV 23d Street, N..Y . . . . . . .. 6.45 P. M. “ Chambers street _ . . . . . . . . . .. '8.40 “ 10.45 ‘f “ Chambers street. .’ . . . . . .. 7.00 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 " “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “. “ Susquehanna . ...... .. 3.40 P. M’. 8.12 P. M. “ Susquehanna . . . . . ..; 2.48 A. M. “\ Binghampton . . , , _ _ . . . 4.40 “ 9.20 “ “ Binghampton. ., . . . . . . . .. 3.35 " , “ Elmira. . . . , . . . , _ . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ 12.16 A. M. “ Elmira ......... . . . . . . . . . 5.35 “ “ Hornellsville..' ............ .. 8.30 “ 1.50 “ “ Hornellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.401 “ “ Buffalo.’ . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.05 A. M. 8.10 “ “ Bu’, alo , . . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “, Ar Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.00 “ 10.00 “ Ar Sus ens-ion Bridge . . . . .. 12.27 P. M. -———- , Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . . . . .. 1.10 A M. 1.35 P. M. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 1.% “ , 9.50 p._ in Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.35 “ 2.00 “ Ar St. Cathermes . . . . . . .. 2.00 “ 10. “ “ Ha.milton.... .' . . . . . . . . . 2.45 “ 2.55 “ V “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ 11.20 “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..; 3.53 “ “ Harrisburg ............. .. 3.58 ‘ ‘ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.35 A. M. 5.55 “_ “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a. m “ Chatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.55 “‘ 8.12 " “ Chath‘_am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.12 “ 45.00 ‘ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.40 “ . 10.00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 “ 1 7.00 " Lv Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.40 “ 10.10 “ Lv Detroit.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.10 “ 8.10 ' e, Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.21 “ . “ Ar Wayne ._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 H “ Ypsilanti ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, _, 10.45 “ 11.25 P. M.» “ Ypsilanti .............. .. 11.25 “ _9.27 " “ Ann Arbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 ‘.‘ 11.43 “ “ AnI1,A1‘b0r . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.43 “ 9.50 “ “ Jackson .............. 12.15 P. M. 1.00 A M. “ Jacksonn‘ . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 A M 11:30 “ ’ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.15 “ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 p, m “ Battle Creek ,,,, , . _ _ , _ _ _ ,_ 2,03 “ AIR “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Am. 1.25 1 “ “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ LINE. “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Lima. 2.35 “ “ Niles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.32 P M 4.40 A. M ' “ Niles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 A. M 5.00 " “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 25 “ “ New _Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. ’6.02 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 5.45 “ “~Micli1gan City . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “. 6.25 “ “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.18 “ 7.47 “ ‘.‘ Calumet....._. . . . . . . . . . . 7.47 “ 8.00 “ “ Chicago . . . . ..‘ . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 ‘ “ Chicago . . . . . . . ._, , _ _ . , _ ,, 8.00 “ , 8.45 .“ Ar Milwaukee _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ _ _,,__’ A_,__M 11.50 A M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . 11.~50"A. M _530 a. in Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. 8955 P. M. .. ‘ Ar Prairie du Chein.. . .' V 8 55 p. in Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.50 P M 7.05 A M. Ar La Crosse; . . . . . . . . 7.05 A. M. 7.05 a. ff" Ar St. Paul...’ . . . . . . . . . . ‘($.15 P M A1‘ St. Paul . . . . . . '7-00 A. M. . .- Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . ., . . . . . . .. 8.15 P. M. Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.40 P. M. :Ar Sedalia....‘.... . . . . . . . . ._~ 6.50 A. M. .. X “‘ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 “ “ Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 ‘ ‘ ... “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ . “ Galveston . . . . . . .. .. . 10.00 “ Ar B'is‘inarck.. . . . . .. . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M. . ‘Ar Bismarck...._. . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 ‘P. M. “ Columbus ................ .. 5.00 A. M “ Columbus .............. .. 6.30 “ “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M . “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Ar Burlington ................ .. 8.50 A. n- Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P. M. “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. M- “ 0m3«h’a.., - - - - - - - - - - - -- . ‘$45 A-‘ M- “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. f‘ Cheyenne ....... .350 1’. IL “ O den . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 “l “ San Francisco . . . . . . .» . . . . .. .. * “ San Francisco . . . . . . . .. 8.30 “ ' Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.40 A. M .. . Ar Galesburg . . . . _ . . . _ . . _ ,_ 4.45 r, n “ uincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 “ [ “ Quincey 9.45 " " St Joseph ........ .. 10.-00 " .. . “ St.Joseph.. 8.10 A. M “ Kansas City . . . . .. . 10.40 P. M. '. “ Kansas City.. . . . . . .. 9.25 “ .. “ Atcliisori . . . . . . . . .. . I1.00 “ i “ AtCh1S0!1 . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ A " Leavenworth. . . 12.10 “t . j ‘- Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. “ Denver. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M. I] “ Denver. . ..; . . . . . " . on Through Asleeping Car Arrarigerriients 9.15 A. M.-—Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday), with Pullman’s Drawing-Room Cars and connecting at Suspension Bridge with Pulliiian’s Palace ‘Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. in thefollowing ay in time to take the morning trains from there. » ‘ ~ » 7.20 P. M.-—,—Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to ‘ Chicago without change, arriving there at 8.00 a. m., 'ving passengers ample time for breakfast and take the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and Southwest. ’ -3,, A CONNECTIONS OF (ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES ANDVBRANCHES OF Michigan Central & Great Westeri1_ Railways. At St. Catharines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. * . . At Hamilton, with branch for.Toi-onto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch’ Grand Trunk:Rail.way.r ' At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley an daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. ” ’ ' At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De troit, Lansing do Lake Michigan R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also.Detroit 85 Bay City it it — Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. R. to Toledo. X , ' p ‘ , ' , ‘ At Wayne, with Flint & Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth,‘ Holy, etc. , k . At Ypsilanti, with Detroit Hillsdale & Eel River R. Rs for Manchester llillsdal B kl ’ .. Columbia City, N. Manchester: Denver and Indianapolis.‘ ’ A , . 6’ an gr 5' \ at(‘ﬂ00 At J acksoii, with Grand River Vallev Branch, for:Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nunciar Pent water, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air Line for Homer, Nottowa, Three Rivers and Casas’(~polls' Also with Jack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch, for Lansing, Owosso, Saginaw, Wgnoug, stam]j.gh_ (;m',,.f(,,.d Wayne, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cin. R. R. to Ciiicimiati. At Battle Creek, with Peninsular R. R. v . . . At Kalamazoo, with South ‘Haven Branch, to G. Junction, South Haven, ,cic_. Also with G. Rapids JD 1133 R. R. for Clam Lake and intermediate stations. Also with Branch of L.“ S. & M. S. R. B. I , ' At Lavvton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw. ~ ' At Niles, with South Bend Branch. ‘ . * ’ . , an l§1<13:(71?%1gT:t1:t,igVn1;i1 Chicago &: Mich. Lake 8. R. R. for Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwutur and At ‘Michigan City, with Indianapolis, Peru a Chicago R. R. cago R. R. v _, « V ~ At Lake, with J oliet Branch to Joliet. ' - ' = . ‘ At Chicago, with all railroads diverging. ‘ ‘ ' Also with Louisville, New Albany & (71, DR. P. MJ. KO‘Ol\IZMf ‘ Dentist, 5 Cured without the Knife or Pain. r I 1 I kfbaughing Gas administered -for the Painless Extrzm, l « tion of Teeth. MRS. M. M. HARDY, TRANCE MEDIUM,‘ N0- .4‘ C‘o11'(3ord ‘Square ' ‘ _B0sro22:- ‘ ‘ For seven years ,Profes;sor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in a New York»: . PROF. J. M. COMINS, D, M3 East Twenty-Sixth Stree-t,_1 NEW YORIi. nouns-irRoMA9 A. in. no 13- 2. st. Terms (for, PM‘/vote Seances in Reguggzp ‘ ‘ .1 lH;oia°s.):;$2.0(;. V . r Also with Fort Wayne. Jack & Saginaw R. R. for Jonesville, VVatoi'1oo, ‘ }r-1,; ‘N ENO. 1 GREAT JONES ST., NEAR BROADVVAYXA i wo\oDnULL.& CLAFLIN’ES WEEKLY. May 16, -1874. The recent test of Fire’-Proof Safes by the English Government proved the superiority of Alum Filling. No 0 other Safes filled with Alum and I,’laste1'-of-Paris. GQE; K 265 Broadway, N. Y., t. ?2§il ﬁhestnut St., Pltlla. and The Beckwith $29 _ Portable Family Sewing Machine, L ' ozv THIRTY DAIS’ TRIAL. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-05-16_07_23
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-05-16_07_23
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 07, no. 24 (May 24, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2020
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-05-24
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS: FREETHOUGHTI UNTRAMMELED LIV'ES! BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.’ V01. VII.—-NO. 24.—WhO1e N O. 181. NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1874. PRICE TEN CENTS. . LOANERS’ BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. ®"’ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. OIsOO &. SON, Bankers, N o. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. ~ Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. pe...
Show morePROGRESS: FREETHOUGHTI UNTRAMMELED LIV'ES! BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.’ V01. VII.—-NO. 24.—WhO1e N O. 181. NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1874. PRICE TEN CENTS. . LOANERS’ BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. ®"’ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTH. Vice-President. JOHN J. OIsOO &. SON, Bankers, N o. 59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. ~ Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. . ‘ ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds /on commission. Collections made on all parts or the United States and Canadas. The Most Dangerous A Man ' in America! A The Independent Tract Society solicit orders forthe above startling Tract—a real bombshell, at the rate of 75 cents per hundred, or 50 cents per half hundred. Working-men and women, send for it! Let‘ a million copies be. sewn! INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, Clinton, Mass, or Rochester, N. Y. 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Nobody would imagine, on glancing at the neat, artistic head and well-ﬁlled pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm or specially disastrous had ever happened to it. Suc- cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought to feel proud of it.” and Handsomest Paper for The La/rges M * A Young People.” I THE Young. Folks’ Rural, A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF COUNTRY AND CITY. TERMS: $1.50 per Year; $1 in Clubs of Four or More. A PAIR. OF BEAUTIFUL BERLIN CHROMQS, MOUNTED - AND VARNISHED, SENT POSTPAID As A GIFT To EVERY YEARLY SUBSCRIBER. The Young Folks’ Rural is a novelty among publi-I cations for Young People—entirely a “ new idea,” and diiferent from any other in style and character. Six- teen pages and sixty-four cOlumns—the largest news- paper in Chicago ! ' WHAT “ THEY SAY.” [From the Chicago Evening Post] “H. N.’ F. 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May 23, 1.874. WOODHULL & cLArL11v’s_ ?WEEKLY.l« 4.4 “ wrnnnr T l. A The Books and Speeches of Victoria 0. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices: I The Principles of Government, by Victoria 0. Wood- hull . . . . . . . . . . . $3 00 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬁin. .. . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Reformation or Revolution, Which ?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 “The Elixir of Life ; ‘or, Why do we Die ?. . . . . . . . . 25 The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Three of any of the Speeches . . . . 50 SCIENTIFIC SERIES.—N0. 6. [From the Popular Science J1/fonthlg/.] PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS—CONCLUDED. BY FERNAND PAPILLON. Translated from the French, by J. Fitzgerald, A. M. But we must bear in mind that muscles which are subject to the will are not always employed to dissemble passion, but . that very often, by their almost automatic attitude, they be- tray the real state of the feelings. In vain would a man in a furious passion strive to stand still. All his members are agitated with violent movements. Astonishment produces a relaxation of the muscles, and hence the French phrase, les bras tombent (the arms fall), to denote the effects of this emotion. Fear causes one’s legs to fail him; one is said to be petriﬁed by fear. But there are none of the muscles that are so inﬂuenced, so modiﬁed by the passions as those of the face. The physiognomy is indeed a betrayer of the sou1’s inner states. “ When the soul is agitated,” says Buffon, “the face becomes a living picture, wherein the passions are given with equal delicacy and force; where every movement of the soul is expressed by the dash of the pencil, and each act by a character, the rapid, living impress of which outstrips the will, thus unvailing and manifesting by passionate signs, our most secret emotions.” It seems impossible to subject to physiological analysis ap- And yet an accomplished experimenter has recently succeeded in par- tially ordering this chaos, and in precisely determining the muscular mechanism of the human physiognomy as related — to the various passions. Having ﬁrst ascertained, by minute dissections, the position and separate function of the numer- ous muscles situate between the skin and the facial bones, and having learned how the nerve-ﬁlaments of the seventh pair (the facial nerves) are distributed through these "muscles and animate them, Mr. Duchenne, of Boulogne, has determined, by means of the eletric current, or of various excitants, the contraction of each particular one of these little muscles. Again, by observing these ready-made experiments which we call diseases, he learned what takes place when some of these muscles contract while others are inactive._ In this way he has been enabled to see, most clearly, that the contraction of each muscle of the face deter- mines a certain invariable expression; that is torsay, that each passion seems to have at its command a facial muscle which contracts so soon as the soul is moved by this passion. M. Duchenne discourses as follows about the muscle of sulfa’ '- ing (soujj"rance), as he calls the muscle whosecontraction in- dicates pain : “ From the very outset I had observed that the partial movement of one of the motor muscles of the eyebrow always produced a complete expression in the human face. For instance, there is one muscle which expresses 'pain——tl1e superciliary muscle. On causing this to contract by elec- tricity, not only did the eyebrow assume the form expressive of pain. but the other parts and features of the countenance, particularly the mouth and the naso-labial line, seemed also to undergo a profound modiﬁcation, so as to harmonize with the eyebrow, and, like it, to give expression to this painful state of the soul." So, then, other muscles appear to share with the superciliary in the expression of suffering. M. Du- chenne, however, believes that he is authorized by his ex- periments in holding that the muscular region of the face, directly modiﬁed by a single passion, is very circumscribed. But this modiﬁed region acts by a sort of sympathy on the ' adjacent regions precisely as one color modiﬁes the tint of p the colors all around it; and, justas in the latter case, there is caused an optical illusion, the result of what Chevreul calls the simultaneous contrast of colors, so with the muscular movements of the face there is produced a kind of mirage which modiﬁes, complicates, and seems to dilate a movement whose real spherepis very restricted. However this may be, M. Duchenne has succeeded in reproducing, by contractions called forth in a certain number of the facial muscles, nearly all those expressions which answer to the inner states of the soul, and he has thus been enabled to assign to each muscle a psychological in addition to its physiological name. Thus, the frontal muscle is the muscle of attention, surprise, won- der and alarm, and each of these emotions excites it in a’dif- ferent way.- The great zygomatic and the inferior orbicular muscles are the muscles of ’ joy, while the pyramidal muscle O In gen- eral, the muscles of the eye are adapted to expressions of the higher order, and those of the mouth _ to expressions of a the physiognomy, \ more gross and material kind. The purely self-satisﬁed and sensual smile calls into play only the zygomatic muscle. It is the contraction of the inferior orbicular that gives to the expression of contentment and pleasure a character of good- nature and benevolence. Besides the primary expressions resulting directly from the play of one muscle, M. Duchenne ﬁnds that several passional states of the physiognomy may be resolved into anumber of simple movements. And, just as he produces simple passional expressions by artiﬁcial means, so, too. he effects the synthesis of the com- plex expressions. Attention, which isproduced by the con- traction of the frontal muscle, and joy, which is due‘to the conjoint activity of the great zygomatic and the inferior or- bicular, are primary expressions. Whenever we determine simultaneously on one face the contraction of these two mus- cles, we get the physiognomy of a person who has a lively impression of some pleasing and unexpected news. If, to- gether with these muscles, we excite that which serves to express lecl1ery—i. e., the transverse nasal muscle—~we get the type of attention directed toward some lascivious object. If we associate the lines indicating pleasure with those de- noting pain, we recognize at once the melancholy smile. When we combine the smile (by contracting the great zygo- matic) with gentle grief (by contracting the minor zygo- matic), or, better still, with a slight contraction of the muscle of suﬁ‘ering—the superciliary—We have an admirable and touching expression of pity and compassion. . These ﬁne physiological dissections, and the masterly syn- theses they suggested to M. Duchenne, are nearly in full accord, as concerns their results, with the most ancient ob- servations of empiricism, with the intuitions of painters and sculptors, as also with the teaching of psychologists and mor- alists. Results of this kind add nothing to our knowledge of the body or of the mind, but they will, perhaps, be of service to artists who desire to be exact in the anatomical reproduc- tion of the passional movements of the physiognomy. No doubt the genius of superior artists is a sure and potent in- stinct which leads them to: follow rules they know not; and it is probable that neither Raffaello, nor Correggio, nor Titian, would have been a greater painter, had he known, as modern physicists do, the laws of harmony and the simultaneous contrast of colors. Nevertheless, this sure and potent in- stinct, the germ ‘of which exists in the elite of the artist_ world, may be to some extent acquired by laboriousstudy, and hence the conscientious artist will understand all the advantage to be derived from a science which, by giving him precise and certain directions, will save him much prelimi- nary labor and much fruitless experiment. Why is one special muscle of the face affected by pain, another by fear, and a third by anger? In short, why is every passion interpreted in the physiognomyby regular, determi- nate movements, just as the rhythm of the heart is modi- ﬁed? To give the question a more general form, is there a logical relation between gesture and emotion? This is a dif- ﬁcult question, recently put by Mr. Darwin, and which he strives to answer in accordance with his usual doctrines. For him, instincts are habits originally acquired purposely, voluntarily, and afterward ﬁxed in the race by heredity. The instinctive movements of considered as passional expressions, have the same origin. Thus, the habit of praying with the hands joined palm_to palm comes, according to him, from the fact that in past times captives testiﬁed their entire submission by holding up their hands to be bound by the victor. The captive assumed the kneeling posture, in order to make this operation easier. Thus, the gesture and the attitude. which are now the instinctive expression of adora- tion, of devotion, would be merely vestiges of the savage usages of primitive man. When we are angry With a person, we involuntarily close our ﬁsts, so that they may be ready for use, even when we have no intention of striking the one who has angered us. If, under the action of similar feelings, the lips contract so as to show the teeth, as though we were preparing to bite, the reason is, says Darwin. that we are descended from animals who used their teeth as weapons of offense. Why do the eyebrows assume an oblique position when _a person is suffering pain? For this reason: when chil- dren cry from hunger or from pain, the act of crying pro- foundly modiﬁes the circulation; the blood ﬂows to the head and particularly to the eyes, and this produces an unpleasant sensation. The muscles around the eyes then contract so as to protect them, and this action has become, under the in- ﬂuence of selection andheredity, an instinctive habit. Most of Mr. Darwin’s ingenious explanations thus tend to refer movements of physiognomy, that are now involuntary and instinctive, to movements that once were voluntary and intentional. — Many of these explanations seem plausible, but it is’ nevertheless true that the physiognomy betrays the emotions and passions by means of signs entirely independ- ent of the will.’ That some of the muscular movements of admit, but still we cannot see how that accomplished natu- ralist can reduce under his fundamental hypothesis these complex movements which are expressed by laughter, lach- rymal secretion, blushing, pallor, turgescence or ﬂaccidity of the ﬁesh, and the ﬂashing and dimming of the eyes. All these phenomena are entirely independent of the will, nor can they be explained on the theory put forward by Darwin to account for the eyebrow contracting under the inﬂuence of painful emotions, or for the lips contracting in anger. There- fore, we are forced to the conclusion that the agitation of the cephalic centres, produced by the passions, calls forth, in virtue of the anatomical relations of those centres with the facial nerves and muscles, reﬂex phenomena that never were under the control of the will." The habit of seeing such and such an expression associated with such and such a passion leads us to judge of the one by the other; but yet the habit is not the efficient cause of the expression. _ There still. remains to be considered one more series of physiological phenomena which bear the impress of passion, viz.,vocal phenomena. The inflections of the voice, as related to the passions, are as varied as the expressions of the physi- ognomy. Each passion has its own language, its own tones, the face arose in the manner described by Darwin we might ' its own note, just as it has its own nerve and its own muscle. Physiological analysis, however, is far more diiﬁcult here than in the case of the physiognomy. How shall we analyze the complex mechanismsthat cause the lungs and the larynx to produce the various sounds of moaning, crying, groaning, sobbing and sighing? We are acquainted with the ensemble , of muscular functions which give rise to these diﬁerent ex- pressions of the»soul’s states, but why does laughter express gayety, and sighing express sadness? We cannot tell. i To sum up :* a profound disturbance of the circulatory and respiratory acts; a more or less violent agitation of the mem- bers; changes of the attitude of the body; diversiﬁed move- ments in the physiognomy; inﬁnitely-varied inﬂections and modulations of the voice——a1l these phenomena are the con- sequence of what takes place in the brain when that organ receives impressions of such a nature as to agitate it. Hence we see that the main-spring of passion is the sense- impression. But what is this impression? In order to answer P i this question, let us analyze some passional state. We shall there ﬁnd four principal elements: a more or less distinct initial sensation of pleasure or pain; voluntary or involun- tary movements, more or less pronounced; and, ﬁnally, a recurrent sensation» consecutive to these movements.‘ It is clear that iflthere were no sensation there would be no pas- sion. On the other hand, if the sensation were but amotion, we might say that passioniconsists of a series of motions originating in the agitation of the sensorium produced by the internalor external causes of emotion; but then, we never could understand why this agitation, beingpurely vibratory, should affect us at one time agreeably, at another painfully, or why it should act in so many different modes. Hence the power of discerning, immediately, in the sensorial perception, diﬁerences that have no mechanical equivalent, cannot be explained on mechanical grounds, and it is abso- lutely necessary to recognize here a psychic faculty,'whose function it is to ascertain and to conceive the causes of emo- tions, and to regulate, according to a certain harmony, the consecutive physiological movement. Passion, therefore, ‘resides in a something that is neither the brain nor the nerves nor the muscles; a something which perceives, and joys, and suﬁ‘ers, and which moves the entire body in unison with its own feelings. Now, this conscious faculty, this faculty of perceiving causes in no wise mechanical, is the soul. The more deeply We study the physiology’ of the passions, the more are we convinced that the agitation of the nervous and motor energies is but the external manifestation of deeper causes, which we denominate psychic. So, too, the more we study into matter, the better we see that it is only an ex- ternal form, a vesture that clothes the activity of an invisible principle. Thus does science ever lead us back tothat eternal and mysterious thing, forcehand, beyond force, to spirit.- Remte des Deuce Mondes. ' -—-—--——-——p—4Q-9——4——&:—..—. INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. _ 1. Go to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. ' 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James, v. 1. FREE BANKING—-WHAT DOES IT, MEAN? ~ The New York Herald said that 96 per cent. of the busi- ness cf the city of New York and 88 per cent. of the business of the country is done on credit. Now, it follows that if the credit of the country is paralyzed, the industriesof -the coun- try must stop, because 4 and 12 per cent. of cash transfers cannot be stretched to cover the 88 and 96 per cent. of credit. So, according to the Herald’s data, to do business on a cash basis we would need many times as much currency as we now l1ave,,which is a fact, though we should not need as much currency to take the place of credit as the ﬁgures indicate, because currencywill do ﬁve or ten times as much business as credit. Thus, whenthe credit failed last fall and winter, the industries suspended operations, throwing the wealth- producers out of employ and into consequent ‘suﬁering and starvation. ‘ O I To remedy this calamity, various plans have been present- ed. The last one on the tdpis is “ Free Banking,” which means that any person or body of persons desirous of start- ing a bank, can do so under certain restrictions, mainly, that the basis of all money issued shall be suflicient in value-- whether of gold and silver, or national bonds, mortgages on real and personal property—to comply with the requirements of the lawlof Congress. Thus the currency of the country would be put into the hands of a few bankers, who could reg- ulate the amount of issue, not according to the demands of business, but according to the real or apparent interest of the bankers themselves. In other words, what is there to pre- vent -the capitalists or money—kings from regulating their. issues so as to make money scarce, and compel the highest interest for the use, of money? Says the “Free Banking” , man, “My neighbor can open a bank right alongside ‘of mine, and can loan money at alower rate, and thus keep down the rate of interest.” ‘ But would he do it? Don’t every busi- ness man do what will be for the greatest interest to himself? and if he has means to start a ‘bank, would it not be for his interest to get the highest possible interest for his money? and would he be slow in joining the ring, when to stay out he would have to ﬁght capital for the beneﬁt of the public, and but little proﬁt to himself, whereas if he joins the ring he loans all his money at a better price and equally good secu- rity? ’ ., F c c . ; With such a free-banking system. the public would be no. better oft‘; the rate of interest would be all the people, could stand and -more,’ and we should have to wind up our credits and pay our debts quiteas often under that system as under the present, for the combination of capital, whether in “Free Banking” or national banks, could shut down on their debtors, call in their securities and thus plunge the business of the country into a panic and bankruptcy at any time. No, gentlemen; f‘Free Banking” under our present system .‘ i‘. I ’',,;-<‘.»-_ ' ab’ WOO‘DH,ULL§'F&g!gCLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. May 23, 1874. of money lending will be as ruinous to thecountry as is the I present national plan. The banker must have his pound of flesh in theworst time, when the country is in a skeleton condition, when all the reserve product of labor is eaten up . and we have to draw upon the charities of the more fortunate or starve. , ' But We need money, and how shall we get it? I will tell you. Call in the national bonds and pay them in legal ten-‘ der currency which shall be taken for all imposts, duties and every class of indebtedness to the government, thus making the greenback equal to gold, being based upon all the wealth of the country, gold included, as well as upon the faith of the nation; thus the money, would at once seek investment in the’various industries of the country. Or again, let the city ‘ of New York borrow $100,000,000 in greenbacks of the United States, paying a low rate of interest therefor, of not over 3 per cent»., and at once wipe out its debts and start up its im- provements. I ’ We could proﬁtably expend $25,000,000 annually for ﬁfty years in building our docks and wharves in this city. Other‘ cities could do likewise, and the business of the special banker or money lender would be gone, because the government»- that is, the whole p'eople—-could manufacture and loan its own money at amuch cheaper rate than would satisfy private usurers. Again, pass the “Post Office Savings Bank bill,” viz., con- stitute all Post Offices, Savings Banks, paying a low interest to the depositor and loaning out that money at such an ad- vance of interest as will pay the expense of doing thebusi- ness, taking therefor such -collateral security as will be a valid and safe basis for every dollar loaned. Thus we would kill off these usurers who are sucking the life-blood out of the people and giving nothing in return.» We are anation of debtors to foreign capitalists, because as soon as a man gets to be a money lender of any considerable amount, he leaves his country, not for his country’s good, but to revel in idleness in foreign courts, aﬂunky and a toady to European fashion and monarchy, drawing his gold interest > from the country inwhich he shouldremain andhelp to de- velop. Our present absenteeism is equal to the absenteeism of Ireland’s Lords in her worst days of bondage to money rule. 7 Money,,whose head is in Europe, controls the Legislative, Judicial and Executive departments of our government. ‘ Let it be shorn of its power. MADQX, of Maine. ! TRUE CONSOLATION. SCENE 1.—-A scantily-furnished room ; a woman weeping, with two small children. * ‘[Enter Parson Brown] PARSON.-=G0Od morning, Mrs. Poor. How do you feel this ’ morning? Mrs. PO0R.-Oh, I hardly know! I am in so much trouble. P.—I come to give you the consolation of our religion. «You must say, “The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” Mrs. P.-That I would gladly do if I could feel so; but it seems impossible to me. I cannot command my feelings. I have no heart to use what little strength I have for the com- fort of my children. ' , P.—S.' our husband is dead, but you should not mourn as one without hope. If you will have faith in Christ you may meet your husband in that happy world where parting shall be no more. ‘ ‘ Mrs. P.—But do all go to that happy land? _ 3. P.—No, most assuredly not. You must put your trust. in Christ, and he will save you. » Mrs. P.—But my husband was an inﬁdel—-an unbeliever in your Christ--and has consequently gone to the other place. Would you have me go there to meet him ? }?.—That is indeed a sad case. . Mrs. P.—But it is not so much‘ for the dead that I am troubled. In spite of your religion, I believe that he is in a I» better condition, But it is the living that engages my mind_ The expenses of his last sickness and funeral were great, and - all our means went. Trade has a mortgage upon our house and lot. I could not pay it in time, and so he take the ' property and turns meand my children out of doors. As for me, 1 can work for a living; but what can I do with the chil- dren? ’ ! P.-—Thev can go to the alms—house. Mrs. P.—Yes; tovbe paupers—outcasts—the companions of the degraded! My dear daughters to become prostitutes and trampled into the ﬁlth to die! Better kill them now. [Enter Trade] T.—-I do not wish to distress you. madam; but if you’ can- not pay the rent I must have this house for another family immediately. I Want them to work in the factory. ]?.——You must be merciful to the poorgwoman. Give her more time. I I T. But what is the use of time? She has no means to pay, and I: want the house for my workmen. Is it anything more than just that I should have my own? P.—»No: I acknowledge that you have the right to take the V house. I only asked for mercy. ’.l‘.-But mercy will not keep my manufactories running. [Enter Mann] M -«Does Mrs. Poor live here‘? Mrs. Pf.-She /stays here for the present. M.-—-I understand this house is for sale. T.-—-It is. V M.--Are you the man who owns it? T.—'-I am, sir. — M.-—What is the price? '.T‘.——Two thousand dollars. It is worth every cent of it. M.—-—But‘ I ‘understand that you got it for about eight hundred. T.‘—-Oh! That was a mere matter of trade. I took it on debt. I . I A l\/l.—-—I understood also that this lady’s husband worked for you. . I T.---Yes. he was in my employ for a number of years. The woman, also, before she was married. ' ! M.—--Then how did they get in debt so to you? T.-—‘Oh, he was sickand borrowed money. They also got credit at my store. - I . M.———But how did you come by the moneyithat you lent them? . ' i . T.——-That is my own affair. . M.~—But I am interested also. I wish to know something about my neighbors. ' . T.—Wel1. then, I commenced life as a small merchant. I saved enough to build a manufactory, and then kept making additions, until now I have a number of them. These, of course, bring me money. V ‘ M.——Then you sold goods for more than they cost you, and now you hire men and keep part of their earnings. Is that-it? . I T.—I have to make a proﬁt, or how could I live? upon? You have money to lend to those who earned it for you; and you turn the helpless widows and children out of doors because they cannot pay you again. Is that justice? T.—-But business must be kept up. M.—But why cannot men continue to do their work and share the proﬁts equally and with justice to all? T.——I will not stay to argue socialism. [Exit Trade] P.——But, young man, your doctrines would run into Com- munism and overthrow the foundations of society. M.-—My doctrine, as you call it, is founded upon justice; and, let it run where it will, it is right. If society is founded upon‘in justice let it be overthrown; the quicker the better. P.——But what will become of the noble principle of charity? M.——And, we may say, what can we do in reforming drunkards if no whisky is sold? Let us, then, encourage dram-shops so as to give work for temperance societies. That is on the same principle. ‘ P.-—But your principles would run into free love. It would break up the family, and then what would become of the holy bonds of matrimony? With that all morality would end. . M.—If what you call moralitypconsistsyin binding together people who do not wish to live together, I confess it would be sadly damaged. But I call that prostitution. What I call marriage is a union of heart and soul in love and sympa- thy. With that no one would interfere. But what right have men to forge bonds to hold unwilling couples together? Or to prevent those who are willing from uniting? P.——-If you are that kind of a man 1 will leave you. Good- morning. [Easit Parson] M.——I did not expect much from those who live at ease and grow fat from other people’s earnings, nor from their hired priests’ or preachers. But you, woman, who have felt the stings of their oppression, will you help to put it down? Mrs. l?.—-But what can I do? I Tell me and I will do it gladly. M.—-You can give your labor. We will give you and your children a home where you will be equal with the rest of us, and your children will be educated as the children of the community, if you will go and help build a home for all. Will you go? Mrs. P.—Can that be true? I M.—Certain1y it is. The community is started, and the invitation is extended to all right-minded persons without regard to sex or race. Mrs. P.—Then I will’ go with all my heart. That is true consolation; now I can bless the Lord. Let me first go and ten my friends at the factory- . J [Emit Omnes.] SCENE 2.—Street. {Enter Trade and Mann from opposite d1Jrectt'ons.] '1‘.——I have just been down to the factories and I found everything there as still as the grave and I have come to settle with you for it. M.—Indeed! How is that? T.—You have been preaching/Communism to my hands, and then that cursed woman came to them and told her story,’ and they all quit and refuse to work for me. M.—But why should they work for you, pray? T.—-Because I pay them for it. M.-——And where do you get‘ the money with which you pay them? . v T.—That same question again! I tell you 1 make it off my business. That is a necessity. M.—But why cannot they carry on the business without you and pay themselves? T.—-I shall be ruined this way! My business is going to smash! ' . M.—Oh, no; not ruined! You are an able-bodied man and can work as well as other and better men. T.—Me work! I cannot work; I am, a capitalist and pro- prietor of manufactories. M.——That will not hurt you. Besides you will soon be as poor as the rest of us, and then you can work. ' ‘~ [Emit togethen] CEDAR VALE, Kansas. ' vorcns‘ or WORKINGWOMEN. ALL SPEAK our! 3 The_Pen—The Newspaper—The Ballot. BY A. GAYLORD SPALDING. ‘ How important that workingmen and women learn the value and power of the pen! It would give a potency to the newspaper beyond all‘ churches, priests, legislatures and congresses, and thereby enable them (the people) to throw oﬁlthe extra burden of taxes—State and National—of reli- gion, politics and war. They would no longer, through igno- rance, consent to be continually crushed by capital, fashion and aristocracy. Each one would produce his own honest bread and become his own individual sovereign‘, president, governor and minister. What worker needs to be governed, protected and saved so much at such fearful cost? ‘We are taxed for our very breath, which tax goes into the hands of / / .;‘ ’( . 5 I M.—But does it take all of your proﬁt for you to live. J. G. TRUMAN. ~ I men that never lift a ﬁnger in the way of productive labor. And it simply keeps up a class of professional leaders, who live on the people’s drudgery. But the leaders will never stop until the workers dismiss them. Let us do that,!then, quickly as possible; itswill be a happy day. Grangers and workers, discuss this matter, and write for all brave news- papers. ‘ The question of rights must be understood. The ﬁrst right is to be a man or woman, which consists of body and mind, life and liberty and the means of happiness, as stated in our great declaration of rights. And the ballot is the key which ‘ unlocks to all and to each, impartially, the world’s riches and blessings. It is the symbol of equality and the power of the nation, which, if intelligently exercised, makes every man king andgevery Woman queen. It is the backbone of all true democracy. Any other quality is an unmitigated sham and an outrage on mankind. _ The means of happiness are labor and property or produc- tion. What need of lack to anybody? But behold your Astors, Stewarts and Vanderbilts! They are social car- buncles and monstrosities. Yet such men lead the world, and every city and town have their petty Stewarts and Van- », derbilts, whose motive, aim and principle are the same as those of the ‘,‘bigger bugs ” of large cities. They are your monarchs of trade, money and monopoly. The true object of life is perverted, and property is rendered more a curse than a blessing, for the rule seems to be that the higher the wealth is heaped up the more frightful and hideous is the amount of poverty, ignorance and vice all around, especially in cities. “ To have and to hold ’/’—more than the noble use—is the controlling idea of most men of property. The few natu- rally gain an oppressive ascendancy over the many, and no relief is attainable except through a terrible struggle and crisis as in the late rebellion against negro slavery, and now in our rebellion against monopoly. A partial and temporary victory will amount to very little. We must plow deep into the principle of things. and make it both religious and politi- cal. Aristocracy and non-production are the same under any name, whether secular or ecclesiastical. There is no sect in truth and principle, and but a small degree of real truth or principle in our sects. This is proved by their endless divisions and disputes: They must, therefore, be set aside and better ideas substituted, which will throw oif an awful burden from the shoulders of the laboring class. Truth is always a harmonious unit and works exceedingly cheap. But the Granges and Industrial Lodges will correct and regulate matters hereafter, and will cover the entire ground of business, politics and religion, thereby economizing ex- tensively, by dispensing with hundreds of old costly profes- sional aristocratic ways. For instance, in legislation: As no legislature projected or invented these grand institutions». of equity, justice and brotherhood, they will Work independ- ently, and do very much their own legislation, right out- doors, on the farm and in the shop. And your monopolizing Othellos will lose their rich_ occupation. So there will neces- sarily be fewer salary grabs and ofﬁcial swindles, for lack of opportunity. Thus the Grange and the Lodge become at once justly magniﬁed into wonderful importance, being in themselves a combinedwholeness of—- . 1 1. The Farm. 4. The Church. 2. The Workshop. 5. The Lyceum. 3. The Legislature. G. The School. The ballot is the magical key of accomplishment that will open the mammoth money bags of all the world. It will distribute, like rain drops, the concentrated and hoarded wealth of cities over the broad country among the workers, and develop the full sources of production, employment, wages and education; for the sewing-girls, cooks and washer- women; yes, and even the prostitutes! Your Vanderbilt, Stewarts and Astors, big and little, will dwindle down beau- tifully, and join the common brotherhood. All this must come, and the ballot-key will open the door to it. But a.woman’s rebellion is the preliminary step. Rebel. lionshave become popular and respectable. However, we propose no bloody one. for there is a better way. The woman’s prayer crusade is an example of sublime and heroic rebellion for temperance. N ow just adopt the same crusade for woman’s ballot, only by better methods. First.-—Revo1t against all tax paying while denied a repre- sentation. Remember Abby Smith’s cows. ' . Second.—0bey no laws without a voice in their enact- ment. , " Third.—Give no, audience to any minister or public speaker whose desk, pulpit or platform is not equally free to woman preachers and speakers. 7 Fourth.-—Inscribe,on your waving banner, for the proud lords, of creation: N 0 ballot, no allegiance and no babies! This would be the last ounce on the camel’s back, or mule’s back, of obstinate, stupid and wicked opposition to woman’s - suffrage. This would be a Rebellion in Heaven. CHAMPLIN, Minn., April 27, 1874. __...._— ‘ . NEW ENGLAND LABOR REFORM LEAGUE. This well—known body of radical reformers held its annua New York meeting on May 10 and 11 at Masonic Hall. The sessions were well attended throughout. The addresses were generally good and to the point. I Although the League makes an invidious distinction against the real interests of women by admitting them as members at ﬁfty cents per annum less than men, they were well represented on the platform by their sisters. ! . Able speeches were made on the various reforms of the day———industrial, ﬁnancial, social and religious, (which, by the way, all reformers are beginning to understand are inextrica- bly locked together)——by S. P. Andrews, Albert Brisbane, L. K. J oslin, Judge Carter, J. K. Ingalls, W. Hansom, E. H . Heywood, Edward Palmer, R. W. Hume and many others. Mrs. Emma R. Sill, Mrs: A. C. MacDonald, Mrs. Dr. Harmon, Mrs. Dr. Hallock, _Mrs. Mary A. Leland, Mrs. Dr. Somerby * 2‘ i I : 4...,_\/.,.w.1 . M L] 2: , 1874., WooDHUI.L dc C’-L‘.AFLIN"'S WEEKLY. |’.."“" "»‘B . 5 a , Mrs. Marie Andrief and Mrs. Dr. Lawrence also addressed the meeting. ' A ‘ . I At the Sunday afternoon session two Shakeresses were present, and Elder F. W. Evans discussed the subjects of land, usury; etc., and commended the reforms in the same proposed by the League. The following are the resolutions adopted i 1. Resolved, That sincelpeople are naturally required and disposed, by honest service, to supply their own wants; and since working women and men are not natural dependants on property holders, their poverty is a condition arranged and enforced by parties seeking an income without work. 2. Resolved, That since labor is the source of wealth; and creates all values equitably vendible, property holders who have not. by creative service, earned what they possess, or received it as a free gift from the rightful owners, are thieves; and proﬁt in the form of interest, rent or dividends, is only another name for plunder. ( ‘ 3. Resolved, That since assumed ownership in raw mate- rials is a constant invasion of the only rightful claim to pro- perty, labor; and since wealth remains in the control of its creators unless ﬁlched from them by legal and political de- vices,—with the extinction of property in land, mines, forests, we demand theabolition of that fruitful source of oppression, fraud and war—the. State. 1 ‘ 4. Resolved, That as the indecent haste of Gov. Wise, of Vir- ginia, to hang John Brown was prompted by men stealers, theemployment of armed force by the Mayor of New York to suppress la.bor meetings in Tompkins Square, and by Gov. Hartranft, of Pa., in the “ Erie strike” was an enforcement of the pretended rights of property robbers; that we advise ambitious “public servants” to turn their hand against the ﬁnancial and railway swindlers who are backed by those chronic mobs called municipal, state and national govern- ments. 5. Resolved, That the blind rage which submitted the slave- 1 lord’s case to the arbitrament of force was not more insane _. than the ‘coercive “methods now employed by capital against ; * labor; that while working people,_who ask not a dish of ‘ charity soup, but justice, have little to fear from impending revolution, not merely the treasure but the lives of property holders depend upon their using reason and forbearance in the settlement of these grave questions. ‘6. Resolved, That the ﬁnancial issue is not “ contraction or expansion,” but a struggle between Usury and its victims- the'old “Union-saving” cry of slave-traders in Charleston and New Orleans, reappearing in the “ public faith” anxiety of New York and Boston money—lenders seeking perpetual power to ﬂeece the West and South through currency mo- nopoly; that while any amount of greenbacks on the delu- I sive basis of the “ national wealth ” would only increase ex- isting insolvency and furnish no relief, it is the natural right of individuals and voluntary associations, by staking market- able values against the issue of currency, to provide their own money at cost. . ' 7. Resolved. That the industrial, social and political sub- jection of women is a clear invasion of their natural rights, which reveals the still controlling influence of barbarous ideas in American society; that every consideration of hon- esty, purity and harmony demands the sternest assertion of woman’s equality, in all her relations and transactions with man. O SOCIALISTIC. THE JUSTIFIABLE SUICIDE. I met him on the boiler-deck as we sailed out of port, He seemed to be a gen1.leman~one of the better sort; But he had 8. most ferocious look—a maniacal stare-— Such as hunters ﬁnd in tigers when they rouse them from their lair. 7 We met again at even, when the cabin lamps were lit, He did by an ancient female, in the after-cabin sit. Then he wore a look of sorrow——such a fearful look of woe, As Niobe with her children on the printed canvass show. And we met again at"midnight as we glided down the stream, And all around was stillness save the ’scaping of the steam, Then he had a look of wildness—of misery and despair, As/he gazed into the waters, as if something drew him there. I sought a conversation and asked him if he knew That we were on a dangerous boat, and had a desperate crew? I told him that the engineers were carrying the steam so high That any moment we might be meandering to’ard the sky. That the pilots both were drunk, or so I understood, That they might sink us on the rocks—-“I wish to heaven they Wei-'rldl’* The stranger cried. “ But no such luck willere be mine, I trow, For death in any shape would be a pleasure to me now. .- .. I’ve sought it at the cannon’s mouth, and on the raging seas, And on the Camden-Amboy road —and places such as these; Why will it ﬂee! The young and gay are called away too soon,. While I am left who many years have craved it as a boon.” I tried to cheer this gloomy man, and draw his thoughts away From dwelling on such dismal things; “ Sit down, my friend, I pray; Have you no loving wife or child—no cherished kindred dear, Is there no one you love on earth—-no ties that bind you here? “ Who is that elder lady who is traveling with you now; Can she not clear away the gloom which settles on your brow? Ah. there she comes——I’ll ask her aid—1nost surely you’ll repent”-- But up he jumped—threw off his hat-—and overboard he went. I turned to where the lady stood and spoke to this effect: “~,Madam, you’re his mother-in-law 2?” She calmly said “ Correct." ' ' ———Adve7~llse7°, Joplin, llfo; HOLMAN HUN T’S MARRIAGE. -London society is just now exercised to an almost revolu- tionary pitch by the announcement that Mr. Holman Hunt, the eminent artist, is about to marry his deceased wife’s sister. Such-amarriage, of course, cannot be legally cele- braited in England, and so the parties have determined to go abroad to seek some country where the alliance is 1e‘ga1. ,l The great question, “ Ought we to visit her?” is likely to be raised, for it is understood that Mr. Hunt means to take his wife off to Jerusalem, which may‘ now be regarded as his residence. In the eyes ‘of English law a lady married to a deceased sister’s widower is simply a concubine, and as the lady in this case belongs to a. family of high rank a good deal of the excitement arises on that score. But more of the dis- may arises from the fact that Holman Hunt is they especially religious artist of England. Pious ladies have been for some time going to weep and pray before his “ Shadow of Death,” taking season tickets for the same and also their prayer books. If the artist had been detected in an intrigue with some lady he would have been pardoned with effusion for his pious pictures; but when he proposes to marry a lady under circumstances that Moses, Parliament and the Church do not approve, it causes a scandal of the ﬁrst water. A lady says that “if she had heard the like rumor of the Archbishop of Canterbury it wouldn’t have so amazed her, as Hunt has never been such a worldling as the average English bishop, who loves old port and looks kindly on fox hunting. This marriage, about to be consummated, is not unlikely to exert a very important inﬂuence on the question of abolishing the law which prohibits it. The law has, indeed, been repeatedly violated. but hardly by persons of equal position in society. FREE LOVE TWENTY YEARS AGO. V I H COLEAX, Iowa, April 27, 1874. I ﬁnd in an old scrap-book the following letter taken from the regular-‘correspondence of Warren‘ Chase published in the Universe, then printed in Cleveland, Ohio. I It seems so much like your excellent paper and the sentiments of its contributors thatl could not refrain from copying it to show .why Mr. Chase has been so long called a free lover by the enemies of woman’s freedom and equal rights for the sexes. Yours for the truth, MARY C. TURNER. “ MARRIAGE AND PARENTAGE.” CERESCO, Wis., May 29, 1854. A work with the above title, by Henry C. Wright, has reached me from the publisher. ‘ Brother Wright will not complain if I criticize his reason- ing alittle, when I acknowledge his book calculated to do much good, and that I am rejoiced to ﬁndhis among the bold hearts that dare speak on this subject which is soon to create more commotion in the social walks of life than it ever has, or then all others do. The thousands of crushed and bleeding hearts now -suffering in worse than Southern slavery, have sent a. cry to heaven, and it has reached there‘, andbeen heard, and an answer is coming to their relief. Those who have female slaves they call Wives have reason to be alarmed. Those who hold captive men by legal bonds without attrac- tion, have reason to be alarmed; but those who are truly married, those whom Grod’s laws of attraction and afﬁnity hold together have nothing to fear. Legislating loves and hatreds is nearly through with. I \ But I took my pen to criticize one or two positions in the book. (I have not read it half through yet.) In the second letter, page 22,» the author says the objects of the distinction . of the sexes are two: the continuation and perfection of the 7-race, and that so far as the human race is concerned, the object of sexual distinction is to reproduce human beings. This is an error into which Fowler in all his works has fallen, but however many writers fall into it, it is, nevertheless, an error, an assumption that is not borne out by nature or fact. The propagation of the species is a result, or effect of sexuality. Causes are not made for their effects any more than by them. Man is not made male and female solely that he may perpetuate his kind. Neither the Bible account, nor the Developement Theory, nor» true Philosophy authorizes this conclusion. Man is male and female, having complete sexuality, with the attractions, loves, desires, etc., of the sexes for each other as described by the author without the desire for offspring, and both before and after nature allows these results. 'Man. goes to the spirit sphere both male and female, and enjoys there the ecstacies of conjugal afﬁnity, in . proportion to his reﬁned, puriﬁed and elevated condition; and yet I have never learned that childrenare born there, or that sexuality alfords no delight or is useless there, but far otherwise. Sexuality is a fundamental part of our being and existence, goes with us as long as we exist. Reproduction is incidental and temporary, not always aﬁording pleasure or answering desire. ‘ ‘ Nature is ever true to herself, and this faculty and condition will in the true, harmonious life of single, conjugal and truly spiritual unions eternally afford pleasure and delight, but not always by reproducing our species. We ever err when ﬁnd- ing an effect, we assume at once that the cause was made for that speciﬁc elfect. Causes are always superior to, and often produce a variety of facts or effects. There is two much sensitivoness on this all-important subject. People shrink back at every step and ask, “ What will people say?” It is one of nature’s conditions, that a true knowledge of our- selves and our destiny is essential to happiness. Why should we hide important truths under ﬁg leaves? In the old legend Adam and Eve were not ashamed until they had sinned; and my experience has taught me that those who are tainted most with the stain. blush the quickest at’ the pure marble or at nature’s specimens. , That which constitutes the sexual distinction in the race, Brother Wright, is inherent and eternal, and will eternally have its effect and gratiﬁcation, ever, affording happiness when nature’s laws of harmonious unions are realized, and ever punish thetransgressor for all licentiousness and scor- tatory violations. The marriage and sexuality and joy and intercourse of truly united partners goes beyond the produc- tion of the species and beyond this earth-life. So I read nature.‘ I may ﬁnd other points for another time, but this is now the extent of my reading of the book. ' WARREN CHASE. . EQUALITY OF THE SEXES. “I should think that ‘C. P.’-might acknowledge some ob- ligation to his mother, sister and wife, if he has them; cer- tainly he has had a mother whom he would honor, as well cial, intellectual and political equal of man. ‘f I say social equal, because you will not haveto go out- side of your own city, Boston, to see that the laws discrimi- nate. In the annual report of 1873, the Chief of Police, Ed- and moral wrong which characterize the administration’ of unfortunate females; is repugnant to all"the,better feelings of humanity; and it is not well understood how an act com- mitted by one sex, under temptations, and inducements held out by the other, can be criminal on the part of the seduced and justiﬁable on the part of the seducer. Why a law so un- equal andso unjust should be suffered to disgrace our statute books is a question remaining unanswered.’ Suffrage is a trust, and it is the duty of woman to assume that trust. Ought she to have less concern than a man in the laws’ that regulate social questions? “I say intellectual equal, because, while the best institu- tions of learning in the land are closed against woman, she cannot have that knowledge imparted to her which l,1‘erfaoul- of expansion and capacities of development. She ought to have a chance to develop her mind to the highest culture. The ballot is a guarantee of equal opportunity in a republic. Let woman have the ballot, and the highest institutions of the land will be thrown open to her, and she will not only be allowed, but invited and encouraged to compete with men for the nrizes for noble service in science, in art, in jurispru- dence in politics, in religion, and achieve for herself a grand personal independence. “I say political equal, because I see all around me and everywhere injustice done to woman because she is not in- cluded in the governing class. I see it in the action of a majority of the schoolcommittee ‘of your ‘city. Shame ‘on , the stolidity that would keep women from their place and work when the people are calling loudly for more able and efficient service for the schools of Boston!’ ”—Oommonsense . in the Boston Index. \ \ THE DECREASE OF MARRIAGES. Warren Chase long ago affirmed that marriage must be re- formed or it‘ would be ‘ practically ignored and abolished among the people, and the prophecy is being veriﬁed. / The great State of Ohio furnishes these statistics: In 1866 the number of marriages’ was 30,479, but in 1873 they had fallen to 23,460. In the meantime the population had so increased that these ﬁgures, which indicated 1 marriage in every 82 of the people in 1866, showed but 1 in every 118 of the popula- tion last year, or a decrease of nearly one-third in the period of seven years, and the general statistics of the last‘ dozen years are of the same tenor. While marriages are constantly decreasing, divorces are as constantly on the increase. And .. it is a notable fact that the higher the moral character of a. State the more numerous are divorces. Paris, Vienna and other continental cities, where nearly or quite half the chil- dren are born outside of wedlock, have no practical method of divorcoment,' although the Code Napoleon for France fully recognizes the principle of divorce by mutual consent. thousands of subjugated and prostituted women, and New York, with its tens of thousands of more miserable slaves to the lusts of respected and honored men, are eachﬂloud in their protests against easy divorce; while the freer and hap- pier Western States, having fewer of this unhappy class of women, have their lax, divorce laws, and to these States the victims of life-long marriage slavery and inexpressible‘ misery have ﬂed for freedom, with a detestation of cruel bonds as intense and aspirations for liberty as pure and hallowedas ever possessed the soul of the African slave who ﬂed for refuge to British soil. South Carolina, when it ranked at the head of the slave list, permitted no 'divorce’laws, thus exhibiting twin sisters of barbarism—-indissoluble marriage, slavery. V Can we with honor enter an institution which has no hon- orable way out? The laws of no State as yet admit those just causes of temperamental, intellectual, moral and religious in- adaptation, as being suﬂicient cause for separation. The man who counts his soul as of more importance than the words of Henry C. Wright, “Human enactments can neither create or annul moral obligations, and that which is right to do with a license from human government is right to do with- out a license.” - Many professed liberalists who preach the infallibility of average modern politician. Legal enactments of all kinds and marriage laws are only true and binding on honest people when they are the expression of universal moral and beneﬁ. cent purpose. I ' ’ The priest may dispense religion to those who see nothing beyond the priest. Jesus may be God to those who have no other. And the timid souls who know nothing of beauty or. love or marriage but the barren law and priest-bondage, may and should have it. They hold in it a sword by which they shall perish. , V , — - Is there no virtue because the State has ceased its deﬁn- 'tion? Then there may be ‘.no marriage because religion and law have left the nuptials! But truth and love and beauty, such as shall be the sanctity and law of the better marriage, will survive all change. What if there are fewer marriages by which more of the inﬁnite is expressed. L. K. JOSLIN. f THE MARRIAGE LAW. _ Extract from _a letter of Orson S. Murray in answer to O. as himself, by declaring that woman ought to become’ the so- . ward H.;Savage, says of night-walkers: ‘ The great injustice ‘ the law, in the case of this class of friendless, misguided-» and , ties demand. She, like man, is an organic being, with powers A So in this country, Boston, with its North street and its C edict of the Legislature will ignore unjust laws. In the Moses and Jesus, yet swear ﬁdelity to the legal code of our / if they are better, and fewer children if they honor their - fathers and their mothers by "joyous, healthful and new life, T., as published in the Boston Investigator of April’29, 1874: - “’ The marriage law of Christendom is afraud,,an illegiti- D aﬁbrded. be at V i I " WOODHULL be Cl..AFLlN’S WEEKLY. ' rs macy, a. bastard conception, gestation, paturition, nurture . and education, of barbarism and despotic rule. ‘The mother of it was ignorance. The father of it was brutality. The nourishers of it have been cupidity and concupiscence. The progeny of it have been prostitution, beastly dissipation, effete sensuality, physical corruption, spiritual imbecility and hallucination and moral depravation. The ﬁtting and worthy conservators of it are time—honored.and sanctioned tradition and superstition. It is based on assumed-to—be divine authority for the enslavement of one-half of human kind tothe base, brutalizing gratiﬁcation of the other half , and the degradation of the whole. This system of tyranny and fraud which makes slaves of the mothers, makes tyrants’ of the masters of the mothers, and the progenytake the con- sequences. It is a slavery to be supplanted and superseded. For humanity’s sake, longer subjection to it cannot be It is the destroyer and preventer of genuine marriage in more perfect and permanent love relations be- tween properly mated pairs by themselves. It works prurj- ency, promiscuity and debauchery. Oftener than otherwise, it puts asunder what," without its violent interference, would be lovingly joined and inseparably held together. , “All laws in relation to marriage should protect in their rights all parties concerned——the individuals and society. While the rights of society should always be recognized, the rights of individuals should never‘ be ignored. Women should be equal with menin the creation and administration , of these laws. Then, for any wrong done to society, in which individuals participate on grounds of equality, ‘each ‘individual would be held equally responsible; whereas, the Christian marriage law, which decrees that man shall ‘rule over’ woman, criminates the woman and exculpates the man, even, when, the man is more in the wrong than the woman. Any ‘ protection ’ for woman, pretended to be prac- tically provided for in the system, as in offset to the subjuga- T tion and degradation, is no adequate remedy for the evils re- sulting to all parties under the usurpation. It is the protec- tion of sovereigns for subjects, of owners for property, of rapacity for victims. Under this law, the governing force is controlled religiously, is a religious force; whereas, any laws regulating marriage relations should be controlled morally, should be a moral force. Instead of being a godly mandate for the beneﬁt of caste and the promotion of iniquity, it should be a human and humane enactment for human wel- fare and the promotion of equity. This religious imposture is a Gordian knot which long ago should have been cut. , The‘ godliness’ of the Christian marriage law is too ‘ great pain’ to the party in power under the divine decree. The gain is fraudulent. Itis illegitimate. It is iniquitous. It is p the gain of the sovereign, selﬁshly sacriﬁcing the subject. “The rights of all women should be held as sacred as the rights of men. The Christian marriage law is Bible license to men for beastly incontinence and violent ravishment. Let all women have protection of law in their sexual rights. Let all men and women be held responsible for the conse- quences of their indulgences. This last proposition is reply to the question to know what is to become of the children. The bad consequences,/to children is one of the unanswera- ble arguments against the past and present religious rule in this regard. Its unnaturalness throughout tends to making them selﬁsh, lustful, incontinent, wanton, proﬂigate, aban- doned, reprobate. In this, as in other regards, the unnatu- ral system provides for self-perpetuation, at the expense of virtue, chastity, morality, intelligence, reﬁnement, goodness, excellence. “Contemplate the instrumentalities, the appliances pro- posed by this man of opportunities, of talents and attain- ments, writing in the Investigator for the enforcement of love relations between the sexes. To think of enforcing love between human pairs, by punishing or threats of’punish- ingwith pillories or whipping posts, with ﬁnes and imprison- ments, with any manner of coercing appliances, is as philo- sophical, as rational, as to think of enforcing love between human beings and inhuman deities, by acts or threats "of roasting with ﬁre and suffocating with sulphur. The system is one system, it is religious, it islblasphomous, it is immoral, it is inhuman. H “Think not to dispose of the matter by saying he was using language hyperbolically. It was the language to use; the thing to be done; the conclusion driven to under the as- sumption on which the institution stands. His irrational, inhuman remedies are to be applied, and this religious in- stitution sustained and perpetuated—with its necessitated concomitants, bastardy, rape and universal prostitution, sexual inﬁdelity and perﬁdy——or reason is to rule, humanity to prevail, morality to succeed and supersede, the illegiti- macy to be made a nulity, the imposture exposed, the cor- ruption cleansed away. i I , , “It cannot be done at once. It is to be the work of doing away the corruptions, the degenerations of the ages; let the work now begin and go on. Let caste, cant, cowardice and corruption go d0wn—-go under. Let manhood and morality rise puissant, have place and bear sway; let the work begin materially, physically, physiologically, by eliminating scrof- ula and preventing congenital diseases. Let us have genera- tions which shall not be the ‘conceptions of deception and fraud; not born unwelcomely nor begotten in godly aban- donment——under the unnatural impulsion of religion or rum, not nurtured in idleness and immorality, in lies and hypoc- risy, in theft, robbery and piracy; not taught and trained under the preaching of peace and the practice of war to do the work of self-subjugation and enslavement to superstition and imposture. __ ‘i As for the Christian marriage law as it is, the corruption and curse, the religious crime against morality, virtue, pur- \ ity, propriety, decency, destructive of intellectual activity _and ideal salubrity; rotting the bones out of manhood, the heart out of humanity——“in generations ‘following,/ let the name be blotted out.” Henceforth, let there be enlighten- ment, straightened paths towalkin, leading out of this dark- ness of despotism, this religious labyrinth of licentiousness .. into moral regeneration, physical. puriﬁcation. intellectual ¢1¢vs‘,ti¢n.*{ SPIRITUALISTIC. MAN’S OLD AND , NEW STRUCTURE. [From a discourse delivered at A;I>§llao]Hall, New York, Sunday, Aug. 18, Nowhere does the genuine Scripture, in the original Greek text, or, in true translation thereof, teach the Church dogma of a general, simultaneous resurrection of the dead bodies of men, or of any resurrection thereof, whatsoever or howso- ever. , L i A _ I propose, ﬁrst, to present by way of preface and founda- tion to the subject, the text and a translation of a section from the correspondence of a distinguished historical per- sonage, whose writings have reached us in the Greek lan- guage. The Vatican copy diﬁers in many of its passages from the,Greek Testament generally in use. The obscurity of this Scripture, in the common version, has led me to -furnish a free translation of the original. To give the idea of the writer, as. derived from the general drift of his thought, I have had to supply frequent words, and sometimes sentences, not found, but implied, in the Greek. This seemed to be necessary, in order to conform my version to the sentiment of the apostle, and to the idiom of our language: But some one says, How are the dead, those persons ‘whose animal bodies have fallen lifeless, reconstructed, and with what constituent element do they go forth from their fallen bodies? Fool"! what thou sowest is not enlivened unless it die. And as to what thou sowest, observe, that thou sowest not the substance which is to be produced, but a mere kernel: for example, it may happen that it is that of wheat. or, per- chance, that of some of the rest of the grains. Now, the Deity gives to it a constitution such as he hath deemed ﬁt for it, and to every one of the grains its proper body. Another example, taken from the animal kingdom. All ﬂesh is not the same ﬂesh.‘ But there is, in fact, on the one hand, the ‘ ﬂesh of men; on the other hand, the ﬂesh of brute animals; on another hand, that of ﬁshes; and then still otherwise, that of birds. Take still another example: And there are bodies celestial, also bodies terrestial: but the splendor of the hea- venly is one, and that of the earthly another. On the one hand, there is the brilliance of the Sun, and on the other, the eifulgence of the Moon; and on another, the splendor of the Stars, for star differeth from star in splendor. And after this fashion is the reconstruction of the dead; Man is begotten in mortality——he is rebuilt, tn wrticulo mor- tts, in immortality. He is begotten en atec'mt'a—-—he is raised from the ruins of the mortal in exaltat-ion immortal. He is procreated in inﬁrmity—-—he is upreared in strength. He is procreated an animal entity—-he is reconstructed a spiritual man. - There is, belonging to him, an animal system; there is, be- sides, a spiritual one. Indeed, it is written: The ﬁrst Adam was constituted a living man, ﬁtted for animal existence in the earth-life: the last Adam, the same continuous man through the earth-life, but at the end thereof ascending from the ruins of his fallen animal body, and, being reconstructed, becomes a vivifying spirit, ﬁtted for aispiritual existence in spirit-life. Assuredly, the spiritual was not ﬁrst in the order of events, but the animal economy, next after that the spiritual. The ﬁrst man belongs to earth, and, in his vital relations, is terrestrial; the second man, the same ﬁrst man, only immortalized by the fall of his earthly body, and second only in the order of the mode of his existence, belongs to heaven. As is the case of any one terrestrial person whatso- ever, such also is the case of every one of the terrestrials. And as -is any one celestial, such even are all the celestials. And aswe have borne the likeness of a terrestrial, we shall also bear the verisimilitude of a celestial. And this I say, brethren, that ﬂesh and blood cannot share the kingdom of God, nor doth destruction share in.the allotment of an im- mortality. Lol I declare to you a mystery. We all shall not become dead, but we all shall be exchanged from animal life to that of spirit. Instantaneously, in the wink of an eye, at the last trump of his nature, of his animal life, each man shall fall to the earth, for Nature shall trumpet life’s journey ended; and the dead. each one in his appointed hour of dissolution, shall be reconstructed immortal; and we shall thus be exchanged from the animal life to the spiritual. For it is necessary that this, the perishable, shall enter into imperishableness, and that this, the mortal, shall enter into immortality. Then shall be fulﬁlled the declaration which is written: ‘ Death was worsted in the ﬁght! Wheie, then, Death, is thy conﬂict? Where, indeed, Death, is thy goad? ——I. 0012., Chap. xv., v., 35 36. an ~ >1: >1: >1: . as Among the lessons to be derived from our rendering and interpretation of the Vatican Greek text, we should learn ‘the need of precaution to ascertain what is genuine, what is free from forgery, what is without pious frauds; we should cautiously question all translations, those of the genuine text even; we should beware of records falsiﬁed by either of these methods; we should never accept any Scripture as true and guiding in morals and religion which is absurd or contrary to Nature, whose volume of “elder Scripture” is infallible—a living, constantand forever ﬂowing inspiration of Deity himself; we should abnegate the incredible, the un- natural notion of a simultaneous resurrection into life, in any sense whatever, of the dead animal bodies of men, as taught in the creed, and the foolish faith of a general judg- ment of the total humanity of ages upon ages; and yet, such inanimate bodies shall have resurrection—-but not unto life with their quondam occupants. I The natural elements——the corporeal atoms composing our bodies—disintegrating upon the departure of the spirit, shall indeed rise again, but only to be borne away on thewings of the Wind or in the chariots of the Storm Cloud, to be diffused, perchance, in desert sands or in ocean depths, and to forever run the eternal cycles of Nature, create and incorporate in other varied and multifold forms that ﬁll her vast domain of lands and seas and surrounding skies. , The ﬁrst Adam, which “is of the earth earthy,” as the old translation hath it, doth indeed fall,——fall to pieces——pieces minute, ‘impalpable, inﬁnitesimally comminuted. Truly, “the mills of the gods grind slow,’ but exceeding small.” But destruction awaiteth not the second Adam; he is spir- itual, and ascending from the fallen ‘ruins of the ﬁrst, spirit- born, he standeth, indeed, erect in the heavens, reconstruct- ed, , the glorious, radiant angel, whose elements of life ar indestructible, and who will forever remain x ’ “ Unhurt amid the ‘wars of elements, The Wrecks of matters and the crush of worlds.” 1 ~—.Dr. Horace'D<ressexr. May 23, 1874. CONVENTION OF THE CENTRAL N. Y. ASSOCIA- TION OF SPIRITUALISTS. ‘ To THE EDITORS or THE WEEKLY: , The last meeting of our association held in Deveraux Hall," Oneida, N. Y., April 26 and 27, was a very intefrestingland instructive one. ‘ H p y _ It was called to order by the President, W. W. Hicks, with some pertinent remarks, and after the adoption of the min- utes of the last convention and appointment of the regular committees, a conference was held. in which J. W. Seaver took aprominent part, and many others assisted with short speeches of interest to the convention. ‘ T Inthe evening the resolutions were discussed, in which a lively interest was manifested,after which Rev. J. H. Harter, of Auburn, N. Y., gave us a short but interesting speech, followed by Mrs. S. A. Byrnes, of Wallaston Heights, Mass» which was the feature of the evening’s session. Although the snow had been falling nearly all day we had a large audience, in which the adjoining counties were largely represented and all manifested great interest in the discussion and ad- dresses. ' . Sunday session opened with a ‘conference in which a lively discussion took place over some resolutions of the annual meeting. J. W. Seaver then endeavored to address the con- vention, but his voice failed him, and he was obliged to desist. Mr. S. is one of the pioneers of this movement, and it was universally regretted that he was unable to take his accus- tomed part in the proceedings. The morning session was closed with an address by Warren Woolson, which was listened to with marked attention. ' The attraction of the afternoon was the lecture of Mrs. Byrnes, who spoke for an hour and more, as inspired by the spirit of ThomasPaine,in which Spiritualists were criticised as being ungenerous with the means they have of doing good-‘, of striving for popularity, establishing creeds, becoming aristo- cratic, indulging in back-biting, and wearing masks that must soon be torn off that all may be seen as they are. It was the most practical and telling speech of the session. The evening was spent in conference, singing and short addresses from W. Woolson and Mrs. Byrnes, and the con- vention was adjourned to meet at Waterville, Oneida Co., N. Y., June 27 and 28, 1874, in the best of spirits, all uniting in the consciousness that they had had a good time. DR. E. F. BEALES. Wnsr WINFIELD, N. Y., April 30, 1874. VERY STRANGE.—-I was at a wedding many years ago, and there were the usual festivities consequent on such an occa- sion; but I noticed that the bridegroom’s face wore a scared, restless expression, and that he looked now and again over his shoulder like one who expected some one, and that one not a welcome guest. His name was George Cleugh—a ﬁne, manly, strapping fellow, not long out of his teens. The bride was a Winsome country Wench, ' and she strove by light-hearted gayety to dispel the gloom from her husband- elect’s brow. I discovered the cause of the bridegroom’s gloom from one of the guests present. It seemed that he had for three nights successively dreamed a fearful dream. In his vision a brother, who for many years had been lost to sight-—having wandered to foreign parts—-—suddenly appeared on his wedding night, and that he in a solemn tone had warned the lover-husband of his death at twelve o’clock that evening. We waited, some of us with superstitious dread and others with marked unbelief, the advent of the hour of twelve. It struck, and at that moment a fearful change be- came ‘apparent in the bridegroom. His face became deeply pale, and he shivered as with ague. He took a few steps forward and cried aloud, as if to some invisible person. “ I come! I come!” and then fell dead on the ﬂoor. Can men of science and philosophy explain this occurence, of which i was an eye-witness? Is there a subtle chain bind- ing the ﬁnite and inﬁnite so closely as to amount to fore- knowledge through the medium of dreams? I heard after- ward that his brother had died years before in Chili, though none were aware of it before the hapless bridegroom’s decease. ‘ i } .~.-Asudﬂj ‘ —-»———-———>--40+-<---—-——— MISCELLANEOUS. , A~ Fioxnn WOMAN. . Not long ago a Windsor-ite in the employ of the Great Western Railroad Company became enamored of a Jewish widow of this city, who reciprocated his attentions and prom- ised to become his bride if he would renounce his Christian _ beliefs and become a full pledged Israelite. These conditions were accepted on his part, and in conformity with them he boarded some six weeks with a Jewish family, conforming to all the requirements of the faith, even to the suffering of martyrdom, and became an accepted member of the syna- gogue. In the meantime the widow had pledged her heart and hand to a better-looking man than the Windsorite, and when the latter requested her to name the day for their wedding, she indignantly advised him to look elsewhere for a wife. This was a terrible blow to him, considering his long probation and suffering, but as she was mistress of the situa- tion, he concluded to follow her advise instead of. suiciding like a fool, as" many a man similarlysituated would have done.—Um'on, Detroit, Mich. AGASSIZ’ BELIEF IN THE IMMORTAIATY OF ' ANIMALS. g It would be idle to multiply instances of the thorough hu- manity and gcniality of Agassiz. Everybody who knew him can tell hundreds of anecdotes illustrative of his sym- pathy with all forms of life, whether in the jelly ﬁsh, the human child, the developing boy or girl, or the mature man or woman. Still‘his conviction of the immateriality and per- sonality of mind was something wonderful‘ in so austere a naturalist. We happened once to please him by. deﬁning a jelly ﬁsh as organized water. microscope," he said. “But, Agassiz, the play of organization 1 \ “ Now look at it through the” -I a L... May 23, 1874. woonnULL,so I Lgrtins WEEKLY I I I I ~ is so wonderful that it seems to me that nothing but mind can account for it.” “You are right,” was his answer; “in some incomprehensible way God Almighty has created these things, and I cannot doubt of their immortalityany more than I doubt of my own.” His fealty to the rights of ani- mals exceeded that .of ’ any great naturalist who ever preced- ed him. Incompetent as we are to give him his due rank among the naturalists of the world, we think he excelled every naturalist who has gone before him in striking at the soul and -A individuality of all animals "below man. It is im- possible to convey in words the peculiar feeling which Agas- siz had on this matter. Doubtless this large and genial genius is now satisﬁed. We cannot penetrate beyond the vail.——Bos— ton Globe. BORROWING BEGGARS. BY W. F. JAMIESON. ~The respectable beggar never begs—he borrows. He, or she, would not stoop to beg. The professional borrower is a cunning workman. He may be‘ pious withal; generally is. The inspired sayings of the “Lord and Master " favor the art of borrowing. It is a system of genteel beggary. The bor- rowing beggar holds fast all that is given him-—never returns anything. Such beggars are the meanest kind. They are grab-bags and carry—alls. They borrow with so much. charm of manner they convey the impression upon the victim who lends, that “they somehow confer a lasting favor upon the lender by c ondescending to borrow. The model Society of Jesus would let loose myriads of such mendicants. They would swarm throughout our cities like L ﬂies in August around a sugar hogshead. The reason, probably, why he advocated a contempt for forethought and industry and property, is that he expected the world was near its end. His prediction that the world would come to an end before some who heard his words would “ taste death ;” before that generation would pass away, shows he was no sounder on the prophecy business than in his opinions on practical life. People who are daily looking for the world to burn up are not in a frame of mind to value earthly blessings. In our day we have had illustra- tions of this fact. Second Adventists were so sincere, that, in expectation of l a speedy end of our planet in 1848-4, they gave away their goods to sinners. They doubtless felt as the newly-converted girl did: “Brethren and sisters, I felt that the wearing of jewelry is vanity and would surely plunge my soul into hell, so I took oﬁ‘ my rings and gave them to my sister!" ' I have heard some ministers go into raptures over the kind, benevolent teachings of Jesus, such as, “From him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.’ ’ How kind society would be! Sounds pretty enough to most ears. But reduce it to practice and the charm is dispelled. Any suffer- ing mortal who has been doomed to live next door to an in- veterate borrower knows what the plague means. But the clergy who quote this “borrowing ” passage as worthy of imitation, usually omit reference to words spoken by Jesus in the same connection, where he says the lender should lend without any expectation of receiving anything back! His precise words are, “Lend, hoping for nothing again.” In the same chapter he says, “If ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye ?” One persistent bor- rowing beggar would demoralize a whole neighborhood. It is fortunate for mankind that, in this respect, Jesus Christ has not many full-ﬂedged followers. He vagabondized around Palestine, as mendicant friars have done, and do now, through Italy, Spain, Mexico and some other parts of the world. As they do, so Jesus com- manded his disciples, “ Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes.” He advised these bare-footed mendicants to go into houses, “eating and drinking such things as they give.” They were told to remain in the same house that would give them welcome, not go from house to house during their stay in a city or neighborhood, and“ eat such things as are set beforeyou.” They ought to have been paid for their healing services and preaching. That would have been 'no more than justice de- manded. He himself had a right to demand compensation‘ for the same service. The nearest he comes to recognizing the justice of compensation for beneﬁts rendered is where he says, “ The laborer is worthy of his hire.” But, accord- ing to his teaching, there was no redress for a laborer if an employer refused to pay him his hire. The laborer, whether as preacher, doctor or ditch-digger, must submit to wrong—- “resist not evil.” “ And of him thattaketh away’thy goods ask them not again.” On such principles a few mendicants and thieves could rule the world. They come very near doing it now, in spite of all the restraints imposed; but what _would their power become if there were no restraints? There could be no government at all. V ‘ I have proved by the recorded sayings of Jesus Christ that he lived the mendicant’s life, picked up his victuals wherever he could, and when he could not get any from humans “ he ’ looked up to heaven.” “Presto, change!” about ﬁve thou- sand men were fed with only ﬁve loaves and two ﬁshes to begin on. His doctrine accorded with his mendicant prac- ‘ tice. “Consider the lilies of the ﬁeld, they toil not.” “ Why take ye thought for raiment ?” “ Oh, ye of little faith!” I hope I have in these few articles dispelledia general error, namely, that the practice of the precepts of Jesus Christ would be a blessing to the world. ‘We are sometimes informed that if such a person as he never lived, there is the CHARACTER and the precepts. Those who think mendieancyv sublime are welcomelto the character. As to the precepts, the good ones,- like the Golden,Rule, are purloined from Paganism, while _ the bulk of them are shown to be impractical and pernicious. I If converts to Christianity were supplied with meals through faithful leaders, looking “ up to heaven,” it would become a popular religion with the heathen, at home and abroad. They would have more time to devote to religion; then could they sing, most feelingly, with their gaze ﬁxed “ up to heaven,” ‘ “ Come thou fount of every blessing.” I "‘ Blessed be ye poor,” said Jesus. All but that.‘ It does violence to common sense. Then, think of it! such a phrase could not be appropriately applied to a band of ﬂourishing “ communist s.” The prime object of communism is to drive poverty from the world. Witness the Oneida (N. Y.) Com- munity. They are wealthy. If the word “blessed ” is ap- plied to poor beggars it is not true, unless it can be shown that poverty is a blessing. . ‘ There is, then, a world-wide difference between com- munism and mendicancy. “Communism never says, “ Blessed be ye poor.” Advocates of mendicancy do. _ In my next, Iwill analyze some of the ‘ Great Teacher’s’ (?) views on marriage and divorce. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 6, 1874. The eighth annual convention of the Indiana State Asso- ciation of Spiritualists will ‘be held at Pence ‘Hall, in the city of Terra Haute, Ind., commencing Friday, May 29, 18%, at half-past ten o’clock, P. M., and continue in session over Sunday. The business of the convention will be conducted by delegates and members in attendance. Each local society of Spiritualists within the State will be entitled to three dele- gates, and one additional delegate for each ten members over twenty. A free hall will be furnished, and also board as far as the friends in the city can accommodate, after that reduced rates will be arranged for elsewhere. , By order of the Board of Trustees. Y * A J. R. BUELL, Secretary. VEGETABLE OYSTERS. . As a ﬁtting addendum to the terrible Crinoida Dajeeana, or Man-Eating Tree, of Madagascar, we submit this week to our readers an account of some trees on which oysters grow’. As these are not far from us, any persons who feel offended by the cannibalistic pranks of the former may readily avenge I themselves on the latter for its ﬂesh-eating impertinence: “ OYSTERS on THE MANGROVE ’l‘REE.——A writer in the Hartford Times tells how oysters inhabit the mangrove woods in Cuba. He says: ‘No doubt the reader will open his eyes at oysters growing on trees. Often have I seen the sneer of unbelief on the face of the ignorant when the fact has been mentioned; but grow they do, and in immense quantities, especially in the southern part of the island. I have seen’ miles of trees, the lower stems and branches of which were literally covered with them; and many a good meal have I enjoyed with very little trouble of procuring. I simply placed the branches over the ﬁre, and when opened I picked them, out with a fork or a pointed stick. These peculiar shell-ﬁsh are indigenous in lagoons and swamps on the coast, and as far as the tide will rise and the spray ﬂy so will they cling to the lower-parts of the mangrove trees, sometimes four or ﬁve deep, the mangrove being one of the very’, few trees that ﬂourish in salt water.’ ” A PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS., _ BATES, I1l., May, 1874. “ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.”—Bz'ble. I “ From the creatures of God let man learn wisdom, and apply to himself the instruction they give.”——Economy of Human Life. - ’ Let us go to the honey-bees and learn lessons of industry, of union, of social economy. See how much better is a family of ﬁve hundred than one of ﬁve! The honey—bee’ lives in an orderly family of thousands of members; whereas the corpu- lent bumble-bee will domicile in an old mouse-nest, with four or ﬁve members for company. Which kindof family should social beings like us try to imitate? Which of the two modes of life seemsthe wiser? - I Come, you fogy conservative, with me, and let us imbibe and treasure up a lesson from God’s great book of animated nature. In a pleasant day in June see the willing soldier bees come marching out from the old hive; they rise andﬁy hither and thither in chaotic confusion; they air themselves in wild freedom. Then observe them begin to gather on a limb of a tree. See the most loyal ones cluster around the queen bee. willing to sustain the more dilatory, until the whole regiment are suspended in a compact, united brother- hood. If the family is introduced to a proper hive, they will will be ready on the next rising of the sun to go forth to their useful and proﬁtable work. I Can we not also learn wisdom from a clock? Observe when the tinker takes away the verge——the regulating part- the wheels run with a buzz till the weights are down. When he puts the parts in order, the clock again performs its useful part in domestic economy, like the organic family of bees. . Now, let us apply the instruction to the human race. Have we not buzzed long enough in this airy, wild, chaotic free- dom? Is it not time to begin to collect into a unitary home? If we have no queen for a leader, let us make one as the bees do. Call her president, superintendent, or queen; we need not be very particular about the name, but I think I would prefer a female leader to a man. WM. GOULD. a [From the Salt Lake Herald] MISS TENNIE C. CLAFLIN. The greatest living curiosity in the city at the present time is Miss Tennie C. Claﬂin. She created more of a sensa- tion inltown, yesterday, than the entrance of a ﬁrst-class circus would have done; and an open air tight-rope perform- ance would have been completely eclipsed. The sister of the social reformer, Victoria Woodhull, was tripping in and out of every officethat she could discover by intelligent perse- verance, and last night, after doing the heaviest canvassing business ever accomplished in this city in one day, she at- tended the theatre, and was still able not only to enjoy the ! performance, but to pleasantly talk WOODHULI. 8: CLAFLIN’S V WEEKLY to the numerous gentlemen who sought and made. the acquaintance of the indefatigable woman. We trust the 1 ‘lady will not take it as,” anything but a merited compliment when we say she is decidedly the best talker in petticoats we ever had the pleasure of listening to. After a few minutes’ conversation with her a man would pawn anything he could borrow and subscribe for the WEEKLY. In appearance she is pleasant and has a business air, which, though unusual in one of her sex, is far from being disagreeable’. Victoria W’oodhull will be here in a few days, when our citizens will doubtless have an opportunity of hearing some- thing of her peculiar social views. ‘ I , CLIPPINGS. _ J UDGED by the ﬁnal test, the chief thing in life is LovE.-— — Theodore Tilton. YOU may build your cathedrals until they kiss the heavens, and your altars until they glow like the rainbow with precious stones—if you build them without love they are nothing.-—I~Ie'nry W/Iard Beecher. IN presence of these climacteric catastrophies which devas- tate and revivify’ civilization, one hesitates to judge their details. To blame or praise men on account of the result is ought to blow blows.» The Eternal‘Serenity does not suﬁer from these north winds. Above revolutions Truth and Justice remain as the sky lies above and beyond tempests.—— Victor IIugo in ’93. . Z ' ‘THE ways of women are past ﬁnding out. It is said that the young ladies of Jacksonville, Tenn., have a fashion of ' * tieing up their taper ﬁngers when young gentlemen are ex- pected to call, and when they very naturally ask the cause, they, blushing, make the reply,‘ “I burned them. broiling the steak this morning.” The result, as chronicled bythe local ﬁngers by believing the story. A CLERGYMAN at Springﬁeld, who has a bad habit of add ing; “ah” to many of his words, told last Sunday of those who had been brought up on the Lord’s side-ah; A QUEs'rION.—‘Not long since a very.nervous lady took passage at the Tip-Top House, White Mountains, to descend by the almost perpendicular railroad. Her fears were appa- rent to every one, and the following unique dialogue took place between her and the conductor: La’dy—-Mr. Con- ductor, how do you hold these cars when you want to make a stop?‘ Conductor-—Madam, we apply the brake which should give way, what do you do then? Conductor——Madam, we then apply the double-acting brake, which you see at the other end of the cars. Lady—But, Mr. Conductor, suppose that brake should not be suﬁicient to check the cars,’where will we go then? Conductor-—Madam, I can’t ‘decide; that depends upon how you have lived in this world. Y - HENRY WARD BEECHER calls greenbacks “ government lies,” and his words are as true as his gospel. ‘ Mns. HARRIET D. VVALKER, of Lowell, Massachasetts, has been licensed to preach by the Methodist Conference of the Lynn District. The examining committee said she was better qualiﬁed than any other candidate that had ever been before them, and she was licensed with only two dissenting votes. Something new for the Methodists. P “WHY,” anxiously inquires the Pittsburgh Commercial, are there no he dolls?” We beg to suggest that the gentler sex require no sort of early education to enable them to put on pantaloons. And the question had better be dropped- it’s dangerous. ' / AN ambitious young lady was talking very loudly about herfavorite authors, when a ‘literary chap asked her if she liked Lamb. With a look of ineﬁ’able disgust, she answered that she cared little about what she ate, compared with knowledge. - K WE don’t know whether this funny parody of “ The Three Fishers” has any present reference to the Rev. Canon Charles Kingsley or‘not. - It is among the waifs of the mo- ment: ‘ . A robin _ Sat bobbin’ - Out into the West- ' Out into the West, as the sun went down; ~ He piped a shrill note, But it friz in his throat, And he laid himsel‘ down on the cold, cold ground, _ ———--—-———-:>—49+—<——-——=-—-=—- , REFORMATORY LECTURERS. / C. Fannie Allyn, Stoneham, Mass. J. I. Arnold, Clyde’, 0. ' J .O. Barrett, Battle Creek, Mich. A Chas. G. Barclay, 121.Market st., Allegheny City, Pa. Capt. H. H. Brown, Brownsville, Mo. ' Addie L. Ballou, Terra Haute, Ind. Warren Chase, St. Louis, Mo. Prof. J . H. Cook, Columbus, Kan. Mrs. Amelia Colby, Winona. Minn. Mrs. Jennette J . Clark, 25 Milford st., Boston,‘ Mass. A. ‘Briggs Davis,Rochester, N. Y. , Miss Nellie L. Davis, 235 Washingtons t., Salem, Mass. Lizzie Doten. Pavilion, 57 Tremont street, Boston, Mass, Mrs. L. E. Drake, Plainwell, Mich. \ R. G. Eccles, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. H. P. Fairﬁeld, Ancora, N. J . James Foran, M. D., Waverly, N. Y. I. P. Greenleaf, 27 Milford street. Boston, Mass-. L. A. Grriiﬁth, Salado, Bell Co., Texas. A Anthony Higgins, Jersey City, N. J. E. Annie Hinman, West Winsted, Ct. D. W. Hull, Chicago, Ill. Charles Holt, Clinton, N . Y. - Mrs. Elvira Hull, Vineland, N. J. Moses Hull, 871 Washington st., Boston, Mass, R. W.‘Hume, Hunter’s Point, L. I. W’. F. J amieson, 139 Monroe street, Chicago. Ill. Miss J ennie.Leys, 4 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass; Cephas B. Lynn, Sturgis, Mich. » ’ ' Mrs. F. A. Logan, Sacramento, Cal. Anna M. Middlebrook, Bridgeport, Ct. Dr. Geo. Newcomer, Jackson, Mich. Thos. 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During the contest that has been waging in Congress over the question of solving the ﬁnancial difficulties into which a long course of ignoring the principles of ﬁnancehas driven the country, we have felt littlelinclination to take part in the controversy, knowing well enough that whatever we might urge would be so different from anything that is practicable in‘ Congress, that it would be time and space worse than wasted. But since the measure adopted by Con- gress has been vetoed by the President, as it was certain from the beginning that it would be, and as any similar measure such as can pass the present Congress will be, we feel that some good may be done by a representation of the I essence of what many times has appeared in these columns \ regarding this very important subject. This virtual rupture between the President and Congress has a deeper meaning than is evident upon the surface. There must be something of considerable moment that - could cause the President to part company with the ruling power at the Capitol. Nobody will credit him with having done this uponprinciple or upon any settled policy regard ing the public welfare. Aside from the usual common- places contained in his ﬁrst Inaugural, he has neither said or done anything that could possibly warrant such an ‘ opinion; but he-has both’ said and done many things that indicate plainly a deep regard for his own future. The President is constitutionally of a military cast of ‘mind. He believes in authority and a power competent to enforce it. And he realizes enough of the tendency of events to see, clearly, that this country is approaching a- crisis in which there is to be a contest between authority and individual liberty, and his judgment is biased by his constitutional tendency in favor of the former, He doesn’t believe in the people any more or -in any other way than the Astors, Stewarts and the Vanderbilts believe in them, and nothing could indicate this. more clearly, except a direct statement, than this recent Veto message. , The bill that Congress offered the President for his ap proval was little more than an act to legalize what had all ready been done by the Secretary of the Treasury with the consent and approval of the President—-the re-issue of a por- tion of the “forty-four millions.” The same policy that issued this reserve during the panic of last fall ought, it seems to us, to have approved an act making the issue legal. But the same power that invoked that issue by its inﬂuence over the President in October reverses its demands in April, and induces the veto of the bill to make the issue legal. The men who recently visited Washington to secure the defeat of the ﬁnancial bill were the same,.or they repre- sented the same class who, in the panic, were clamorous for more greenbacks., Then they needed the increase to help them carry their indebtedness through a ‘«‘pinch;” now they want the volume of currency lessened, so that what they were enabled to carry through the panic may be in- , creased nominally in value, « 13 K It is this inﬂuence that controls the President. He per- haps does not think or even know that the people—the in- dustrial masses—have any interest, or any right to any interest, in this question. He probably thinks that the class who hold the wealth alone have any right to have anything to say about the matter; he probably ‘does not realize that the interest of the debtor and creditor classes are not iden- tical;: or that lessening the volume of‘ the currency one—half would virtually double the amount which the former owes the latter. General Grant is not a political economist. Hence, to have done anything else than to veto so-called inﬂation would have been to desert the bondholders and the money—lenders and the wealth monopolists generally, and to side withthe industrial classes against them. If there ever come a direct issue between labor and capital (and that such an issue is rapidly approaching not anybody who observes the progress of events can doubt), all the classes referred to will be found in league against labor. _ Nor can it be doubted that an understanding to this effect exists now between the representatives of these classes; nor again, seeing the power that these representatives have over the President, that he is already committed 1,0 their schemes, nor in the event of the issue being precipitated during his term, that he will be found with his inﬂuence upon their side. The veto message, then,‘ has a much wider signiﬁcance than any it can assume merely as a question of present ﬁnancial policy, really extending, or rather merging, into the general issue between labor and capital; and in this view it is safe to conclude that, let Congress pass whatever terests of capital. The several classes who hold the aggregated wealth of the country desire a return to specie; all other classes who have any understanding of the subject deprecate such a return. A strictly specie currency is desired by the former because, as it would be necessarily small in volume, it could be easier controlledby them. The few hundred millions of specie would represent all the wealth, and they would own it and receive whatever usury for its use they might choose to de- mand. But they are not satisﬁed with this monopoly. They want, ﬁrst, a return to a specie basis, and next they want the government to authorize them to issue currency, three or more dollars to one of gold, so that upon their several hundred million of gold they may really draw interest upon three or more times as much more currency. Other reasons may be advanced, but sifted of all iirrelevancy this remains as the chief specie-payment motive. This is soevident when the argument is advanced that national currency is better than greenbacks, that it is sur- prising to us that the people who pay interest do not see it. Why are national bank notes better than greenbacks to the money-lenders? Because they can convert their greenbacks into bonds and deposit their bonds with, and draw interest on, them from the government, and obtain a large percent- age of national currency over the face of the bonds, and draw interest on that also from the public. Why should not this class want the greenbacks retired and national cur- rency to take their place as a circulating medium? Wliy, indeed! but because they are thus enabled to obtain quad- ruple interest upon the same wealth—interest from the gov- ernment as therepresentative of the people, and from the people themselves directly as individuals. Of course they will call for_the currency and for free banking; that is, free banking under such limitations of law as will give them the entire control of the currency. ' But what, at bottom, is really the underlying question in- volved in the present controversy? We hear a great deal said and see a great deal written about the “ well known ” and “ well established principles of iinance.” VVe deny that there are any principles involved in any part of the ﬁnancial question as it is now being discussed. The ques- tions that are agitated are purely matters of policy. is no principle in the proposition that the gold dollar is the true monetary standard. It is, on the contrary, the most arbitrary assumption possible to think of, having no con- ceivable basis in principle. supported by any natural reason of fact as are now the long- since-exploded dogmas of theology. And it was invented for the same purposes that these dogmas were instituted for -—-to enslave the masses of the people; and it has succeeded industrially even more completely than they ever did re- ligiously. I ' It doesn’t matter much about the scientiﬁc deﬁnition of money. The best that has been given it is, that it is an in- vention to facilitate the exchange of the products of labor. This ought, however, to be supplemented by this: and to increase the aggregate amount of such products. The former is an original deﬁnition; the appendix being a result of its use, arising from the fact that by such use the manufacturer is enabled to increase the amount of his products. The prac- tical deﬁnition of the money-lender, and that which best describes the uses to which money is put, is, that it is an invention to enable one class of persons to monopolize the products of another class of persons, and thereby to make it possible for the former legally to live from the labor of the latter. , This has beenthe result andstill is the result of the uses of which money is made the subject; but in a humanitarian sense, in that sense which involves the public welfare——the welfare of all classes of people considered as one people—it ought to be deprived of the power that hasbeen bestowed upon it to make one class subservient to another class. ﬁnancial measure it may, the President will act for the in- There ' It is a ﬁnancial dogma as un-_ May 23, 1874. / . A-ﬂy - Money in this sense—the humanitarian-—is required so that commodities may be ‘exchanged between producers without the actual transfer of one ‘commodity for another, and should therefore be a representative of such commodities. It ought not to be used as wealth, because it is not wealth. It cannot be both the representative and the represented. It cannot be both wealth and money. A ﬁnancial error that has prevailed is, that wealth cannot be used unless converted into gold, or unless it is measured by gold; and, following this error, that wealth cannot be serviceable as a whole because there is not gold enough in the world to convert it. This is a virtual contradiction, since to require a gold measure for wealth, and then to not furnish enough to mea- sure it entirely, is to make the quantity of gold in existence at any given time a measure for all other wealth in existence at such time; This is illustrated by the fact that when the circulating medium——-the money-——of a country is reduced the nominal value of wealth is reduced proportionately. The real standard of value is the amount of comfort, of happi- ness, or of life that any given commodity possesses. A barrel of flour will sustain the life of a" given number of persons a certain time; and it makes no difference if it cost a hundred or only ﬁve dollars, this time is neither shortened or length ened thereby. So it is clear that the price of flour is nominal and arbitrary according to our present money system; and ‘ so also is the price of every other article and thing. But passing the question of deﬁnitions and principles, for what do we as a people require money? Do we want a sys- tem that either purposely or as a necessary result will com- pel those who need more of it for present use than they have, to pay a bonus under the name of interest to those who have more of it than they can use otherwise? or do we want a system that will permit those who have this need, who desire to increase the amount of their products by ad- vances upon their prospective delivery, to obtain it without \ paying a bonus to anybody? If the former, then it follows that as a government we want to so legislate to promote the interests of the money- lenders and necessarily against the productive, industrial classes. “ For to enact that the former may charge the latter for the use of something that they could as well, or better, obtain elsewhere without cost, if it were not for the law, is to legislate in the interests of the former and against those of the latter. Nothing could be clearer than this. And this, we say again, is the reason that the former class wants national currency instead of greenbacks. - If, however, it is the interests of the ‘:‘productive classes that legislation should endeavor to protect and to promote, A ‘ then the duty of Congress is clear. It should repeal the national banking law and provide a system of “ greenbacks,” or some other form of circulating medium, that would fur- nish currency to those who have need to borrow without cost. Instead of the government making money and paying. interest to the rich to take it, who in turn loan it to the pro- ductive classes and obtain another interest by so doing, the government ought to loan it directly to the people for noth- ing. It is not neces‘s-ary to pay them to take it off its hands, as the government now pays those who deposit bonds and receive national currency. This class of middlemen in our monetary system is an immense tax upon the industries of the country, of which Congress ought to rid them. If the government were to furnish money to the manufacturer as - he needs it, all the immense amounts now paid nominally by him, but really by the laborers to the capitalists, could be saved to the laborers, and the pecuniary standard of this class would be constantly and positively elevated, instead of as it now is, depreciated, both comparatively and really. There is no possible objection based upon the public in- terest or the general welfare that can be raised as an argu- ment against the issuing by the government to those who can give the required security, of all the currency that they need. It is done now partially through the bankers annd brokers who charge immense commissions in the form of interest and discounts. Let those who want it get it direct from the government or its agents, and without cost, unless it be a sufficient charge to pay the expense of maintaining the sys- tem, and thus do away with banking, as it is now con- ducted, at the expense of industry, by which conduct all the surplus products of labor are aggregated in the hands of those who hold the wealth. ' It will be objected of course by the capitalist, if the gov- ernment loan money to the people free, that their capital will be of no use to them. But they forget that it will ena- ble them to live with.out work as long as it lasts, after which they would have to go to some productive labor. It will also be said that such an issue of money to the people would depreciate the value of property. Of their property, granted; because its present value is purely ﬁctitious and arbitrary, and not determined by any natural or just stand- ard. This much, however, must be clear to everybody, that the people would never have anv 111019 11101193’ than they should want, and this amount would be regulated or restricted by the possible security which they could furnish. By such a system both the values of accumulated wealth and the volume of circulating medium would be naturally regulated, and would soon assume an established standard, which would never be subjected to appreciation and depre- ciation by panics, since under it there, could be no causes to induce them. Panics arepossible only because commod- ities and things have a ﬁctitious value ﬁxed upon them - an arbitrary money standard which is subject to all sorts of ,1 ..=....“.#~......... ... '~ powers. May 23, 1874. WOODHULL Jr CLAFL_IN’Si WEEKLY. inﬂuences. The real value of anything can never be either appreciated or depreciated except through change in the thing itself; while under a free money system the price of ' everything would naturally and necessarily advance or fall to the real value, which would become the established price. i Let Congressmen who are really desirous to advance the interests of the country, think of these things from a general instead of from a class standpoint, and putting aside the demands of the bondholders and money-lenders, insist that the interests ef the producers of wealth have the attention of those who should be the representatives of the people, and not, as Congress now is, the promoters of the interests of those who have ‘through legal measures monopolized all the wealth that the people have produced, and who want such additional legislation as will still more effectually make their designs successful——who want‘ more national currency and less greenbacks, whereas the interests of the producers demand an abolition of the former and as many of the latter as their productive capacities severally require, in order that these capacities may be fully exercised. It is the amount and not the price of commodities that determines the aggregate wealth, and therefore whatever facility is added to the present capacity for production adds to the aggregate of wealth. ' ——-——.-—-—+—<o~—<———-—- THE CHILDREN PROBLEM. «'One of the chiefest objectionsmade to the adoption of social freedom or the abrogation of legal marriage, and that one to which all objectors ﬂy when driven from every other position, is to the children. What will become of them? is the universal query. The needs and necessities of the past and present are rapidly answering that question so surely, that every one must see it when attention is directed to the solution. a ~ Our system of public schools grew up out of the need that parents found for a better system of education,\mentally, than they themselves could bestow upon their children. To do by them as there was need that they should be done by, required that every father and mother .be a competent teacher. As this was impossible, public schools were in- augurated to supply this deﬁciency, and they have gone on, step by step, until compulsory education is widely discussed as a national measure. But it is beginning to be discovered that intellectual train- ing is not all that children require to make them proper men and women, and, also, that parents are almost if not quite as incapable of ﬁlling this want, as they were unqualiﬁed to be teachers mentally. It is coming to be recognized that education means, rightly, a great deal more than stuﬁing one’s mind with accumulated and formulated knowledge; indeed, that it means individual growth— personal develop- _ ment in all departments of human character. And, as we said, with this consciousness comes also the further conscious- ness that parents are as unﬁt to superintend this growth,.this development, as they are to. attend_to the mental portion of it. ‘ ‘ It is really beginning to be known that there are very few parents who are ﬁt to have charge of children at all, and that their real needs demand as absolutely that their whole growth be superintended by those who have ﬁtted themselves to perform this service, as their mental development demand- ed that their minds should be guided by proﬁcient teachers, persons qualiﬁed ﬁrst by natural inclination, and, secondly, by special training. In a word, the rearing of children is to become one of the departments of the future organized industries. Then it will not become necessarythat every woman be a household drudge because she is a mother. Women will then be free to ﬁll the various departments of industry for which they are ﬁtted by nature and physical capacity, and a vast economy will be thus inaugurated. The following article, which we copy from the Chicago Times, indicates the direction in which the public sentiment is being developed: ' “ Among the serious problems that interest parents, is that of the bestmeans of training children between the ages of four and seven years. It is one of the mostumportant periods of life when the child is ﬁrst brought _in contact with the circumstances, extraneous from home inﬂuences, which give inclination to the growing character. _Parents have long ex- perienced the want of a system of training or education. by means of which these years of the child's life might be made ‘ proﬁtable as well as pleasant, and turned to advantage in forwarding proper mental and physical development. In this country very little has been accomplished toward sup- plving this want, and, consequently, children of this age be- coyrne a most perplexing care to their parents, or are tempo- rarily abandoned by them to the sidewalks and gutters. “ In Germany this subject has received_a great deal of atten- tion, and the ‘ Kinder-garten ’ system. invented by Froebel, has been quite generally introduced. The published reports, . and the testimony of persons who have witnessed the practi- cal operations of the system, show tha.t_the most gratifying results have been attained.‘ Some experiments upon a modi- ﬁed plan have been tried in different cities in this country with good results. For several years, two schools, conducted to some extent according to Froebelfs principles, have been maintained in Chicago, and another, which will be essentially a ‘ Kinder-garten,’ will soon be established. The result of this attempt will be watched with a good deal of interest, and it is to ‘be hoped that it will provide a solution of one of the greatest diﬂiculties now encountered by those intrusted with the care of children. _ I _ _ “Brieﬂy stated, the ‘ Kinder-garten’ system consists in making the child’s play the instrument of its largest culture. While it has always been a matter of common observation thatlthe earliest years of human life were devoted_to play, educators have entirely ignored this circumstance while seek- ing a proper I system for the development of the child's ing element in the way of all eﬂiicient instruction, an incli- nation to be held in rigid check. Froebel taught that the Fondness of play has been regarded as an obstruct- and true system of culture was in following nature; that ‘what nature is striving to do in the plays of childhood, it is the this creed (Written by H W Beecher) and that of the Cath_ I business of the teacher’s art to take up and foster.’ The idea is to have the play organized and reduced to some sort of an intelligent system, arranged with reference to certain inherent capabilities of human nature, which are manifesting themselves constantly in the varied amusements of children. Thus it is observed that the instinct for cultivating the soil is common to nearly all children; every boy is a natural-born granger. This instinct is turned to account in the “ Kinder- garten," where each child learns to take care of its own little garden patch, to dig, to rake and to water, and then to watch‘ and study the processes of nature in the opening of the buds and blooming of ﬂowers. The same plan is pursued for de- veloping thc plastic and ‘artistic instincts of the children. Great stress is laid upon the education of the hands in early years, when the ﬂexibility and softness of the limbs ﬁt them to be easily trained to facile movements——a matter of equal glide over the keys of a. piano or wield a pen ‘or plane. “ The "Kin‘der-garten ’ is designed to meet the formative instincts of the child on all sides. Building and shaping are going on in all sorts of material. Miniature houses and utensils are formed of wooden blocks and sticks, while work- ing iii paper-—folding, cutting, etc.—furnishes an opportunity to practice endless artiﬁces of the hand. In this way the hand and the senses are trained to dexterity and technical skill, which are useful in‘ all departments of life. Children receive only the material, not ready-made objectsywhich they are allowed to fashion according to their own personal choice under the guidance of the teacher. It is intended that the production, however small and insigniﬁcant, shall be original and not merely imitative. The greatest care is taken to preserve the individuality of the children, so that the work of each one shall bear the impress of an individual peculiarity in process of training. ' “ It is apparent that in a system of this kind the acquire- merits necessary on the part of the teacher are manifold. It is scarcely possible that success can be attained in any in- stance unless the teacher is peculiarly adapted to the work. It is impossible to prescribe deﬁnite rules for the conduct of of a. school of this kind. It must be regulated by, and everything made subject to, the nature, disposition and circumstances of the children. So far as these are common to all. general rules will apply, yet the study of the disposi- tion and capabilities of each one under charge must be the ceaseless, conscientious work of the teacher. The Germans are more patient than we are, and patience on the part of both teacher and child is an essential element of success in such an undertaking; yet, again, patience is a quality that American youth need more than anything else. and the ‘Kinder-garten’ is a means of cultivating it. Under this system, a child is early taught the value of patient applica- tion, and the inﬂuence of such training will be felt during the whole life. The beneﬁts that will surely arise from a successful introduction of the ‘Kinder-garten’ system in this country will be readily appreciated. The work devolving upon those who have assumed to undertake the experiment. is a most trying one, and for the sake of both parents and little ones we wish them unbounded success.” 9 LEGISLATIVE LAMBKIN S . Since the Credit Mob ilier expose the members of the House of Representatives have not been considered by the Amer- ican public as pre-eminently virtuous. Some, indeed, have gone so far as to hint that the proper qualiﬁcation of a can- didate for a seat in that‘ august hall was a knowledge of all the vices committed by human beings, from pitch and toss to manslaughter. But this idea is destined soon to be dis- pelled, for the question of polygamy is to come up for discussion at an early date, upon a resolution which is to be moved by Mr. Hazelton, of VVisconsin. We trust that all the members who engage in that debate will come to it chaste and free, to treat the subject upon its merits. The Election Committee have already reported that Mr. Cannon, who is a polygamist, is entitled to a seat in the House as the representative from Utah. Some very delicate matters will undoubtedly have to be critically examined into before the House comes to a decision, and the battle will unquestion- ably prove whether nionogamy with prostitution is a match for polygamy without it. There is only one point to which the WEEKLY desires to draw the attention of the legislative lambkins who may engage in the encounter, it is : “No stone-throwing, gentleman, if you please, except under the condition prescribed by the Great Nazarene.” 0 ST. JONATHAN’S CREED. Below we give the creed indorsed and accepted by the members of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. Our readers will ﬁnd it is strictly orthodox. There is in it the ingenious vacillation in the description of the Trinity that may be found elaborated in the creed of St. Atlianasius, the asser- importance whether the hand in training is in the future to i -To us there seems but little variation in essentials between olic Church. A week ago the pastor of Plymouth publicly declared that he would ordain Pio Nine to preach the Gospel, and we see no reason why the Pope _sliould not re- turn the compliment. the two it is that the man in Rome is apt to call hell, hell ! and the. man in Brooklyn would prefer to call it Hades, or not to mention the subject to cars polite. As to infallibility they both appear to be pretty much on a par, for if Beecher don’t claim it’ like Pio Nino, his {people assert it for him, so that it amounts to the same in the end. ‘ . As the pastor of Plymouth suggested in his sermon of the S 27th April, there is no reason why these two potentates should not be friends. In preaching, as teachers, they are about equally dogmatic; in singing and music it is difficult to tell whose church carries off the palm; ,if, in the matter of pomp and ceremony, Rome goes ahead of Plymouth, the latter makes up for the deﬁciency by its super-excellence in the ﬂower—department. As regards the variations in their creeds they amount to nil. However, the words Cooper, in the “Spy,” puts in the mouth of, Bridget, would express our opinion with greater accuracy. The difference between her hero and his likeness on her sign exactly resembles, in our opinion, the difference between the Roman and the Brooklyn Churches. “The eyes,” said Bridget, “ are not so large nor so ﬁery as the Captain’s,' but the whiskers and the cap are as like as two pays.” L -——————>-—«g+——-4-—é.__‘_ THE SOCIAL DRAMA. “The theatres will preach the truth on the subject of slavery before the churches,” was the remark of the veteran reformer, Parker Pillsbury, some years previous to the elec- tion of Abraham Lincoln. It proved a true prophecy. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was dramatised, and instructed while the farthest footmark of the churches, before the people Cliristianized them in the War of the Rebellion, was that slavery was not malum in se. The clergy have got bravely over that idea now, all honor to our soldiers who posted them as to their proper duties on that subject. As with chattel slavery, so with sexual slavery; the theatres, in the play of Alphonse, are again instructing those who ought to be the moral instructors of the community. The character on the twpis, in the following statement : A lady, well known in New York society, has lately sold her own history to Victorian Sardou, and he is to make a drama of it. This lady, one day about seven years ago, feel- ing in her husband’s coat pocket——which ladies never ought to do——found some letters in a feminine hand. They proved to be very ardent love letters from a mutual friend. She carried them to a lady friend of her own, who refused to receive them.,but advised her to consult a lawyer. She did; them. This she did not choose to ‘do at that time, but going to the reverend clergyman, whose most docile -lamb this young lady correspondent was, she told him the whole story, and he dismissed the young lady from the communion. . Now the faithless husband had been very religious, and had taken his daughter to church, and had put her ‘under the religiouscare of this young lady. The poor little girl had been the unconscious postman between the lovers. This, of course, on being known, aroused public opinion sadlv. It ended after several years in :1. divorce being obtained, and the faithless husband has married his young lady! Now, all the money belonged to wife N o. 1, but ‘the poor Woman offered half of it for the possession" of her children. Her husband agreed to this, and took a very valuable country place as his moiety. He had paid all his legal costs out of his wife’s money in the meantiine. But having one of our New York judges to help him——and you know the ermine touches nothing less pure than itself when it touches a New York judge—after he had got the _money he refused to give up the children. - The wife got one only, and sailed for Europe. The sum-‘- mer after she sailed she reappeard in New York, and, taking a distinguished officer with her, went out to her old country home and kidnapped the other. Sad to say, she had to ﬁght with her own eldest daughter, who had been taught-to hate her. The father and his second wife being away from home, she got the little boy and carried him on to Paris. took the young lady’s letters with her, which she had found in the coat pocket, and has sold her whole wondrous history to Sardou, who says no such material ever came before him. It is to be played in New York, this new drama, next winter, tion of the doctrine of total depravity (modiﬁed to suit the times), of vicarious atonement, of the resurrection of the body in spite of erem ation or maggots, and lastly of ever- lasting damnation. We believe in the existence of one Ever-Living and True God, Sovereign and Unchangeable, Inﬁnite in Power, Wis- dom arid Goodness. We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be inspired of God, to contain a revelation of His will and to be the authoritative rule of faith and practice. We believe that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are revealed in the Scriptures as existing, in respect to attributes, character and ofﬁce, as three persons, equally divine; while in other respects they are united, and are, in a. proper sense, one God. We believe that our ﬁrst parents were created upright: that they fell from their original estate by disobedience, and that all their posterity are not only prone. to sin, but do be- come sinful and guilty before God. ' We believe that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for it; that Christ appeared in the ﬂesh; that He set forth a perfect example of obedience; that He purely taught the truths needful for our salvation; that He suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust; that He died to atone for our sins, and to purify us therefrom; where He ever liveth to makeintercession for us. Lord Jesus Christ; While those who do not believe, but per- severe in sin, shall ﬁnally perish. We believe that God offers full foregiveness and\everlast- 895 in the'Oh3mS 0339 have been Set aside- ing life $0 all W110 Will iheitrtily 1'eI>6I1t and b61ieVe in the argued the motion before the Supreme Court in chambers, and Judge Spaulding presiding gave a ’decision on .the 26. We believe in the resurrection of all the dead; in a ﬁnal inst. vacating the orders of arrest; so we are now relieved .......g§;t*izttirataz:;t;3::.:i:.:ir§i§f.r:;22.a:.::“e:% from the f-irther necessity and annoyance of W in that life eternal. and doubtless the faithless husband and the lady will come and see it at a dollar and a half a ticket. It is a good re. venge, is it not? I The adjustment of matrimonial bickerings by men, s_olus, in our courts, is a monstrosity that the age will not——cannot ——long tolerate. In cases of that kind, in which both sexes are concerned, both sexes ought to be represented, not only in the jury-box but on the bench. As things are now, all other nations laugh at British law, which obtains here also, on such questions. This being so, we congratulate Sardou on his purchase. The wildest ﬂights of his imagination cannot equal the enormities that women have often to sub- niit to under the name of law, but which to unrepresented slaves better merits the titleof stereotyped injustice. ‘ o G>—<—j——————, SET ASIDE. Thanks to the efforts of our indefatigable counsel, Chas. W. Brooke, Esq., we are enabled to announce to our friends and that H6 T059 from I113 dead ‘md ascended 11150 he‘1Ve11~ that the orders for our arrests under the civil suit for dama- Mr. Brooke case. »,;_ If there be any distinction between‘ H thousands nightly in New York previous to that event, Dag/’s Doings reports that there is another play of -a similar and he told her she could obtain a divorce on the strength of _ She also V L10 . W " , ,WO0DHULL& crnrrrnis WEEKLY. May 23, 1874. INDUSTRIAL DEMORALIZATION. ~ Last week a letter was published from one of our corres- pondents calling attention to the modern style of numbering mankind in factories, and deploring the effort to degrade workingmen. and workingwomen into things by calling them hands, operatives, employees, etc. It is questionable whether this lettering and labelling of human beings, which at present obtains on our railroads and in our cities, is an improvement on the old Saxon system of collaring. True, the one is commaned, by a corporation and the other was imposed by an individual. But, in fact, there is a great -‘similarity between the livery of John Thomas and the honest ‘old collar of the swineherd in Ivanhoe, ornamented with the legend: “ Gurth, son of Beowulf, born thrall to Cedric.” There was a time, and that not long ago, when such aris- tocratic trappings were held in contempt in our Republic. That time is past. In our larger centres liveries are the order of ‘?'the day;.but let us hope, at least in the instances" of private families, the wearers are imported. Americans would do well to remember that even in Great Britain John Thomas is usually spoken of with contempt.’ England’s most , popular authors, such as Thackeray and Dickens, never fail to pay their respects to him whenever they introduce him in their works. There must be some reason for this treat- ment. ~ What can it be, unless they spy in his scarlet. breeches and yellow vest the old iron collar of the past, and feel that those who will submit to be thus set apart from the rest of the community are not ﬁtted to associate with free- men, but ought now, as they were before, to be placed by [the people below the salt at the table of the public. But the numbering and lettering of vast bodies of peoples in our cities is a still greater degradation. Fifty years ago, neither in Europe nor America, were men in public callings I «condemned to wear such badges as now often distinguish them. Why? The public had conﬁdence in’ one another then, but that under the new system has departed, or rather has by it been destroyed. It is melancholy to see on our city railways the various contrivances now coming rapidly ‘into use, which prove the utter lack of conﬁdence that exists between employers and workers. Have corporations estimated what must be the natural result of such lack of conﬁdence? Does not the tinkling bell that records each fare intimate to’ the public that the conductor is not a man to be trusted? If this be not “ metallic slander” what is it? One thing is certain, if it be untrue now it ought not to be untrue long, and will not; for it is only natural to suppose that distrusted humanity will—must—.sooner’or later, revolt against such constant suspicion—by crime. A somewhat similar system has also long obtained in our larger retail stores. The old aifection between employers and employed is gone, and ﬁrms of the Brothers Cheeryble kind are ‘almost obsolete. The motto of the new system is, “trust none.” The effects of it are daily frauds and rapid demoralization. In our largest dry-goods stores there are from four to six checks on every salesman. He must not depositthe cash, the article purchased must be re-measured by one, packed by another, and noted by another before the transaction is complete. But there is reason to hope that this wretched system has nearly run its course. It must fail for the same reason that cottonpickiiig by monkeys, according to the late Senator Thompson, failed in the South. A young plantation owner “who had been to Cuba and marked there the nimbleness of the monkeys in the woods, thought he would trap a lot of I them and train them and set them to work at cotton picking on his plantation. He succeeded in obtaining and training them, and found that they didpthe work quicker than -negroes. But notwithstanding, the speculation was a failure, for the reason that it took two overseers to watch every monkey. That is the fault of the Stewart system, too many oversecrs. ‘ I I Admitting, however, that all these endeavors to secure property by the moral sacriﬁce of men are present successes, is that any proof that they will continue to be so long? When marine, life and ﬁre insurances were ﬁrst established - they were successes. The tables they drew up were then correct. They are so no longer; and in consequence such concerns are being destroyed by the crimes which they themselves have generated. But corporations can fail and cease to exist, not‘so with peoples. When oppression be- comes intolerable in their case it is overthrown. When a system ceases to be available for man’s good it is subverted, and another takes its place; although only to be itself in turn guperseded when it also has ceased to conserve the interests -of-humanity. W A I , -—--—---4»-«M--+----—-— . CAOUTCHOUC CHRISTIANITY. Bourienne tells us that when the ﬁrst Napoleon went to Egypt, for political reasons he proposed to renounce what little Christianity he had and turn Mussulman. He sent for the Mollahs, and inquired of them what he would have to do in order to effect his purpose. They told him to believe in Allahand Mohammed his prophet ; to submit to the rite of circumcision, and to renounce wine. He accepted the ﬁrst of these propositions, but appealed to the priests to dis- panic, in his case, with the enforcement of the others. But the Mollahs were inﬂexible. They stroked their beards, and answered“ Mashallah!” and consigned him forthwith to the gentleman in ‘black below. A few years agoachild of Jew- pi; parentage, Francisco Mcrtara, was baptized by 9.-Oath- / r ' olic housemaid. Pio Nino consequently took the child by fcgrce from its parents, and consigned him to an institution to be brought ‘up in the Catholic faith. Louis Napoleon remonstrated with him by letter for so doing, but the Pope replied, “that as a Christian pontiff he could not do other- wise.” - ‘ ‘ tianity (if not of Mohammedanism) are far more accommo- dating. They never merge their individuality in their beliefs. They stretch the gospel to suit their necessities. If their churches dissent from their conduct, and dismiss them, they open shop, solus, on a new plan, in the next street. As to the doctrines they hold, they are never unnecessarily paraded, but lie, like Viola’s text in Twelfth Night, “In Orsino’s bosom,” to be brought out as occasions require. Of course it is no use for their trained orthodox adversaries to fence with them, for they are as changeful as chameleons, and are as impervious to mortal polemical weapons as the shade of Lodi was to the thrust of the spear of Fingal, which, .Ossian tells us, melted into air, “like the column of smoke, which the staﬂ” of the boy disturbs as it rises from the half- extinguished furnace.” It is, therefore, neither with the intent or even the hope of ﬁxing the status of the Rev.’ 0. B. Frothingham that we present our readers with extracts from his sermon on April 26, as published by the New York Herald. We know that would be impossible ; but rather by exhibiting his various -kaleidoscopic viewson the subject of religion, to enable our readers to guess where he is now, and to surmise where he is likely to be to-morrow. Here is his commencement; if our Spiritualist ’friends will substitute “ Spiritualist” wher- ever the term “ Christian” is used in the following extract, they will ﬁnd much to proﬁt by in its perusal : " Without announcing a formal text he began his discourse as follows: The subject this morning is “The Cofiﬂict with Evil.” The writer of the Epistle to the Ephesians says: “We battle not with ﬂesh and blood, but with principalities and powers; with evilspirits that rule in the air.” The idea of the writer is this: that the chambers of the air are the abode of evil spirits whose aim is to lure men to their ruin. These spirits are organized in ranks and denominations, which he calls principalities and powers. The people, accord.- ing to the early Christians and’ according to later Christians. too, in a great measure, are to battle not against ﬂesh and blood, that is, against persons, against institutions, against wrongs--things as we call them; but against impa-lpable spirits that are always besetting the soul. It is in a. measure an inward conﬂict, and therefore the principal teaching is to keep the heart pure, the soul clean and the mind free from debasing thoughts and desires. The Christian reformation from the beginning until now speciﬁcally has been for men to purify themselves from the world; that reformation begins from within; that the kingdom of heaven must ﬁrst be within a man before being outside of him. and that, therefore, the greatwork to do is to regenerate the soul, and that has been the nature of the preaching from centuries past until the present time. The phrase “ the battle of life,” as applied to conﬂict with outward evil, against wrongs, is a modern phrase, and, involves a modern idea. They ,who speak now of the battle of life speak of it as a grasping with existing evils in socie,ty—that is, it is a war with ﬂesh and blood, not against “principalities and powers” in the air, but against principalities and powers on earth“, and against evil spirits domesticated here in the ﬂesh. And they who speak of the battle of life in this way have an entirely dis- tinctidea of its signiﬁcation. Their idea is that reformation begins outside and works inward—that if you will make the conditions right men will right themselves; that if you will abolish evil, wrong, error and injustice, you will at once ﬁx in the grooves of law the men who are now wandering and working evil amidst conditions they do not understand. The speciﬁc Christian theory and the modern theory therefore differ, in that one conﬁnes the battle to the evil spiritslthat are always tempting the individual soul, and that the other confines the battle to those outward institutions which in- volve the soul in a’ fatal thralldom. We are next treatedto a dissertation on Satan, which commences thus : ~ And yet it is evident that this modernbattle with evil is carried on in some respects to greater advantage under the old theory than under the new. For instance, the belief in a personal devil, a being either created or uncreated, having supernatural powers, rank and origin, presents to ordinary minds an object forthem to ﬁght against. It is a great con- venience, to say the least. Belief in the devil originally was a, very palpable conviction. Coming from the far East, it originally formed two dominions of light and darkness, which were presided over by chiefs or kings, perfectly dis- tinct from each‘ other; one the origin of light, the other of darkness; one of truth, the other of error; one of good, the othertof evil; one was all life, the other was all death. I We have heard of slavery being termed an impediment, but that is nothing to calling the devil “ a great conveni- ence.” Yet probably he is one to the orthodox clergy. The old Scotchwoman said, “If ye tak awa the deil what’s to become of the Laird ?” And another one, who asserted “that God made all things good,” on being remonstrated with by her dominie with the words, “Why, Jennie woman, he made the deil I” replied, “E’en sae, dominie, and he’s gude for a deil I” But if our readers hope they have ﬁxed Brother Frothingha.m’s position in the above quotation they are mistaken. Read this : r The modern idea is that evil is good in the making; that there is no such thing as intrinsic evil; thatnothing is essen- tiallyand through-and through bad: that there is a soul _of goodness ;in things evil; that evil is often a friend in dis- guise, a benefactor wearing a mask, and consequently, even when a thing looks exceedingly ugly, they forbear_to gtrike it, lest they may in some sense be committing suicide. We have learned in these days to pay some respect to very noisome things; to explain, qualify, compromise, adjust and make excuses. We will not destroy the muck heap,,for it is manure; we will not heed noixous sewage, because when spread over ﬁelds it fertilizes the ground. ‘ Nothing, is so evil that it cannot be made into good. The consequence is the moment we lift a hand to strike a blow at evil we, fear to strike in the wrong place and kill the wrong person. and our weapon drops from our hand, and we lay our armor down. Similar beautiful dissolving views are taken on the sub- ject of total depravity : A _ ’ ' Thebelief in total depravity is a very convenient faith to hold, because it blends that in a mass Which if, taken apart . 3' This kind of obstinacy may do Very well for ancient , V faiths, but the modern apostles of the new orders of Chris- re- and. analyzed the evil vanishes away into thin air. The Christian who looks upon the world as a place to be regen- erated, andupon men as beings to be converted and made over. enters upon his work with a whole hearted purpose. Surely then, one would think BrotherFrothingliamiwould speed him on his errand; but not so, for further on we are told : ’ — ' N ow substitute this theory for the modern theory, the theory which we hold, that there is no such thing as total de- pravity, and that the task is not to convert or regenerate the _world, or to turn it inside out, or to turn it round, but to instruct and educate and guide it. We are thankful for the admission contained here, but even this statement seems to require further modiﬁcations. According to this theory everything is good inits place, nothing so perfectly bad that it must not conform to condi- tions, and nothing so bad that conformity to conditions will ~ not redeem it. Even war, slavery, violence, oppression, taken in their time and place, and all the circumstances that go with them, are innocent, are servants of the Almighty to do their good work in the world. This is the idea of prog- ress. Even the monsters of the primeval world. though uncomfortable to look at, had their place, and creation could not go on without them. So in this law of progress all crime, all abuse has its place and fulﬁlls its mission. It is not known whether Brother Frothingham had our conservative Spiritualists in his mind when he uttered the following warning,\but we think they would do well to heed his remarks : ’ ~ We speak of the law of progress. Whe1'e would the law of progress be without progressive men and women? We speak of the law of-cvolution. What does the law of evolution mean but the evolution of our conscience, heart purpose, determination—therevolution of a grand will in us? Sup- pose the schools should be closed and all attempt at educa- tion be discontinued, would knowledge abound in the world ? Would intelligence increase? Suppose that all the scientiﬁc men who are just now the active powers in instructing the world—the men of great mind and indomitable purpose- suppose they were.at once to stop their work, what would happen? Would the knowledge of the laws of nature in- crease, or would a scientiﬁc understanding of the conditions of life be more largely diffused? You see at once it would not. The love of God is man’s loving heart. God begins to live when man begins to learn. Ormuzd lives in us. A fatal reaction would make the cause of progress progress back- ward. In the determination to make the law of progress a living law we should consecrate ourselves and use as much energy as the old Christians used in working against the evil spirits in the air. Ormuzd, in the above extract, we presume is J chovali in Persian. It sounds harsh to us, as some time ago we were of the Christian faith, but we hasten to the conclusion. Strange to say the peroration is a discussion of the subject i called “Temperance.” _ In contradistinction to the inductive method of Lord Bacon, Brother Frothingham’s maybe termed the deductive method of looking at a subject. Witness the following : t It is avery interesting question to know whether alcohol is always, under all circumstances and conditions, a poison, noxious and deleterious, and there are many other interest- ing questions; but the particular question we have in view is, what is the evil we are Do assail, and how are we to assail it? It is not the partaking of spirituous liquors, because that is not drunkenness. Of course no one can be a drunkard at once but, though every one begins with moderation, all do not become drunken. The fact that so many people can go on to the end of their lives moderately partaking of these’ things is a sufficient proof that it is not. the cause of drunk- enness. ' From this we gather that drinking rum is not the cause of drunkenness. It is evident that Brother Frothingham is not experienced on that subject. We pass on. What is, in his opinion, the source of the evil of intcmperance ? It is not the wine shop that makes it its duty to supply, as far as possible, harmless and unadulterated articles to the community. It is not the restaurant or eating house where the noxious ﬂuid is taken in connection with food. What is its source we all know; places we count in every great city by the hundred and the thousand, which exist purely and simply for. the sale of that article, and that alone, to passion- ate people who are greedy to get it; professed places of temptation to lure men where men known to be the slaves of the evil habit are sunk deeper. Backed up closely, this ‘means as follows : You may sell good rum anywhere. You may sell bad rum in eating houses, but you may not sell bad rum, unless you sell food with it. If you do you are reprehensible, and stillmore reprehen- greedy to get it .” That is the sum of the above statements. Now for the cure : ' - If these places could be limited—could be suppressed——in- temperance would cease. Let any of them, the moment a disturbance is tracedtto it, be shut up. N 0 extra legislation is; needed—no grand crusade throughout the country. If this were done, in’ ﬁve years something like a revolution would take place in society. But in this war with evil the new method is not content with direct ﬁghting with the wrong. It aims at ﬁghting the gwrong indirectly and out- ‘ stripping, outwitting and supplanting it. Instead of rebuk- ing error it plants the true. Any effort to lead men out of this slough of intemperance would accomplish more in the indirect method applied in the most simple way. For instance,‘it is perfectly possible by establishing coffee houses to draw people away from thellow, bad places where they spend their money. The experiment has been successfully tried under adverse circumstances and made self--sustaining. Mr. Frothingham, in conclusion, expressed a wish that their society would make a beginning, and prove that this was an experiment that would succeed. . Coffee houses, eh! If there are no heavy brewers an distillers in Brother Frothingham’s congregation there ought . / . to be next Sunday. Dickens tells us that in the London Gordon riots, a wine merchant went to the Lord Mayor to ask protection, as he feared his house would be attacked. That ofﬁcial,"in great trepidation, told him he wouldsend him an alderman. The wine merchant asked what for. The ‘mayor replied, “To overawe the mob, sir!” “Oh Lord!” cried the discomﬁted winesellcr, “if they was ‘babbies they wouldn’t care for an “alderman.” Yet, in our opinion, the odor of the mayor was princely‘ in comparison with putting down intemperance by the erection of coffee houses. ' A As with religion, so with temperance, or rather~abs~ti- nence. Many views are given but no conclusions are \ sible if you dispose of it “to passionate people who are _ A d May 23, 1874. wvosonnnnr. as OLA_l«‘LIN’S WEEKLY... 11 M arrived at. The“ only absolute stand taken in the whole dis- course is against the doctrine of total depravity. But, though this is so, the public are presented with a variety of opinions on all the subjects treated of, from which "they may select positions according to their individual desires. In this partic- ular Bro. Frothingham reminds us of an anecdote told by the elder Matthews of a British penny showman, who was equally noncommittal. ‘ He represented him exhibiting to alad the battle ‘of Waterloo and speaking thus: “Now, young gent, there is in the forground of the ﬁeld of battle a noble View of the Duke of Wellington, enveloped. in smoke; and also, surrounded by a group ofioiﬁcers, you/will see a ﬁne likeness of Napoleon Bonaparte, with his back turned toward you.” Here the young gent broke in with the ques- tion, “But, Mr. Showman, which is the Emperor and which is the Duke ?” The answer to this sums up our view of the caoutchouc Christianity of the time, which isaequally am- biguous, it is “Whichever you please, my little man ; we makes no distinctions whatever.’,’ r-3-<3 MISCELLANEOUS. ‘ A CONVENIENT ’EAR. We thought everybody in the State knew that we are deaf, but once in a while we ﬁnd one who is not aware of the fact. A female book peddler came to the office the other day. She wished to dispose of a book. She was alone in this world, and had no one to whom she could turn for sympathy or as- sistance; hence we should buy her book. She was unmar- ried and had no manly heart into which she could pour her suﬁerings, therefore we ‘ought to invest in her book. She had received a liberal education, and could talk French like a native; we could not, in consequence, payher less than $2 for a book. We had listened attentively, and here broke in with: “What did you say? We’re deaf.” She started in a loud voice and went through her rigmarole. When she had ﬁnished we went and got a roll of paper and made it into a speaking-trumpet, placed one end to our car, and told her to proceed. She nearly broke a blood vessel in‘ her effort to make herself heard. She commenced: “ I am alone in this World————- ” “It doesn’t make the slightest diﬁerence to us. We are a husband and a father. Bigamy is not allowed in this State. We are not eligible to proposals.” “ Oh, what a fool the man'is,” she said in a low tone; then at the top of her voice, “ I don’t want to marry you; I want to sell-a- b-o-o-k." This last sentence was howled. “We don’t want a cook,” we remarked, blandly; “ our wife does the cooking, and she wouldn’t allow as good-looking a woman as you _to stay in the house ﬁve minutes. She is very jealous.” She looked at us in despair. Gathering her robes about her, giv- ing us a glance of contempt, she exclaimed: “I do believe that if a 300-pounder were let off alongside of that deaf fool’s head he’d think somebody was knocking at the door.” You should have heard her slam the door when she went out. We heard that.——Santa Clara. (Cal.) Echo. SECTARIAN CRUELTY. Protestants usually assume that their churches are free from the charge of persecution; but it is questionable whether, considering their powers for evil, they have not used their power for evil. far more recklessly than their more potent Catholic neighbors. The following extracts, taken from a lecture lately delivered before the Society of Progres- sionists of Toledo, Ohio, by E. P. Bassett, Esq., for which we are indebted to the Toledo Sun, seems to bear out our assertion: , I , From the Simple Cobbler of Agawam, published by John Ward, of Ipswich, in 1645: “ ooD’s BIBLE DANGLING AT THE DEvIL’s GIRDLE. “ My heart hath naturally detested four things: The stand: ing of the Apochrypha in the Bible, foreigners dwelling in my country to crowd out native subjects into the corners of the earth, alchemized coins, toleration of divers religions, or of one religion in segregate shapes. He that willingly assents to the last, if he examines his heart by daylight, his con- science will tell him he is either an atheist, or an heretic, or an hypocrite, or at best a captive to some lust. Polypiety is the greatest impiety in the world. To authorize an untruth by toleration of the State, is to build a sconce against the walls of heaven to batter God out of his chair. Persecution of true religion and toleration of false, are the Jannes and J ambres to the kingdom of Christ, whereof the last is far the worst. He that is willing to tolerate any unsound opinion that his own may be tolerated, though never 4 so sound, will for a need hang God’s Bible at the devil’s girdle.‘ It is said that men ought to have liberty of conscience, and that it is persecution to debar them of it. ‘ I rather stand amazed than reply to this; it is an astonishment that the brains of men should be parboiled in such impious ignorance.” The way the Pilgrim Fathers treated the Woman’s Rights Question he discusses as follows: I “ WOMEN PERSECUTED AND BANISHED. . “Anne Hutchinson, founder of the Antinomian party in the New England colony, was another distinguished victim of Protestant intolerance. She belonged to the congregation of John Cotton, in England, and with her husband. arrived in Boston in 1634. Her principal crime seems to have been the asserting of Woman’s Rights in a theological point of view; and although Governor Vane, John Cotton, Wheel- wright, and the whole Boston church, except pastor W'ilson and four others, were her partisans, the country clergy and churches united against her, and in November, 1637, the , Ecclesiastical Synod banished her, with several of her asso- ciates, from the colony. In 1639 an attempt was made by the Baptists for an organization at Weymouth, a town about fourteen miles south-east of Boston. Six of the persons thus engaged were arraigned before the General Court at Boston. Some were ﬁned and imprisoned, others tlnecl. R115-»diSf1‘aH_ chised, and the organization was prevented. The next year a woman of distinction, Lady Moody, who had purchased a plantation at Lynn. was hunted out of the colony for deny- ing the eﬁicacy of infant baptism. “THE CHRISTIAN LAWS on DEATH. “ As early. as 1642 this colony enacted a criminal code mak- ing twelve offenses punishable with death. The several pas- sages of Scripture on which the laws were founded are noted in the act as follows: I “ ‘ If any man or woman shall have or worship any god but the true God, he shall be put to de’ath.’~—Deut. xiii. 6 ; Exo- dus xxii, 2. _ “ ‘If any person in this colony shall blaspheme the name of God the Father, Son or Holy Ghost, with direct, express presumptions, high-handed blasphemy, or shall curse in like ’ manner, he shall be put to death.’—Levit: xxiv., 15, 16. “ ‘ If any man or woman he a witch, that is, hath, or con- sulteth with, a familiar spirit, they shall be put to death.’- Exodus xxii, 18; Levit. xxii; Deut. xviii, 10, 11. “ QUOTE WITH CARE, THE BIBLE IS OBSCENE. “ Here our historian encounters laws quoted from the Holy Bible, that relate to incest, incontinence and Wanton- ness, which he _is too circumspect to quote, and whose pru- dent example we shall follow, at least until we learn the fate of reformers who, through the agency of “ The Young Men’s Christian Association,” have been ﬁned and incarcerated in jails, and are still on trial on the charge of “circulating ob- scene literature,” for quoting these identical passages of the - Bible and Christian laws of ‘the New Haven colony. The his- tory, however, continues as follows: ‘For the remainder (of these laws) see Leviticus xx., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; also Deut. xx., 11, 25; Exodus 31:11., 16; and Deut. xix., 16, 18, 19.’ He adds: ‘Before this time incontinence and wanton behavior had been punished with whipping at the tail of the cart, by ﬁning, or obliging the delinquents to marry, at the discretion of the particular court.’ mother, and notorious stubbornness in children after a cer- tain age, were soon after made capital offenses.” The inconsistency of our own Y. M. C. A. brethren and sisters is neatly touched upon here : “ CHRISTIAN INCONSISTENCIES. “It, is somewhere asserted, and with what truth I know not, that in this process of whipping at the cart tail, the sub- jects, whether man or woman, were stripped naked and whipped through the public streets. One can get a good idea of another method adopted by our New England Christian fathers in dealing with delinquents by reading that manly, bold and thrilling production of Hawthorn’s, ‘The Scarlet Letter.’ Is it not a conclusive proof of the continued hold that bigotry still has upon orthodox Christians, that while they are prosecuting and imprisoning not only men, but dis- tinguished women, too, for publishing obscenity written in their holy Bible, they are still ﬁghting to the bitter end those who would exclude the Bible from our public schools?” The lecture closes with the following words of warning, which ought to be heard and heeded throughout our broad land; for the persisted in effort of the bigots to put God- their idol—in the Constitution proves that the spirit of in- tolerance is nearly as rank among us now as it was in the days of the pilgrims: A g “ A WORD 013‘ WARNING—GUARD WELL THE TEMPLE OF LIBERTY. “Numerous legitimate successors of the dominating spirit of these Puritanical fathers are among us. They are now united, active, zealous and wealthy, and although we have not arrived at the Centennial Anniversary Day of the rearing of this Temple of Liberty, yet so soon their sappers and miners are thoroughly organized and vigorously at work, and with the same fell spirit of domination that characterized their ancestors, are engaged in tearing asunder the super- structure of this Temple of Freedom, to rear upon its ruins another Christian oligarchy. If liberated minds, if humane souls, if patriots everywhere cannot unite-—if they will not devote their means, time and inﬂuence ungrudgingly to counteract and defeat this; backward movement toward the ‘dark ages of fanaticism—if, in a word, we will not realize that eternal vigilance is ever the price of such liberty as is worth possessing, and buckle on our armor and ﬁght it out on that. line, then is this progress and freedom to which we have now attained too great a boon; and we, unworthy of its enjoyment, ought to be driven out as baseborn slaves, and ‘ enjoy such liberty only as would be meted out by our John Calvins, John Wards and John Cottons. EPISTOLARY. VINELAND, N. J ., April 23, 1874. Dear Editors Weekly——With your approval I would like to publish a response’ which can answer dozens of inquirers, and, being of general interest, may answer scores anxious to inquire, perchance, elicit important thought in other scores: THE RESPONSE. Dear Mrs. M—The questions you ask are on many lips and’ are favorable omens. From various quarters I am learning that the leaven of fashion-abolition, furnished twenty-four years ago to the famishing nature of woman, has lived, and raised her aspirations above the weak-minded dependence on despotic fashion and McFlimsy respectability. All preten- sions to caste and popular favor shrink to things of pity in minds that scan the status of usages now under scrutiny. Popularity is but the synonym of falseness in these times of probing to the causes of vice and woe. It is demeaning to be termed respectable by devotees of aristocratic honors. You have already seen that the customary round of ceremonies and styles are the scare-crows and tethers whichtenslave and enfeeble women, bowing their heads to the tread-mill of squeamish reputation, chaining their hearts to the grind- stone of complex prostitution. Now, my young student of equality and liberty, note this: few people are so dull as not to see that a sensible dress represents its wearer as saying: I am learning to take care of my life and be true to my knowledge. I value health and independence above the dis. Cursing and smiting of father or I Adi ‘ jﬁiL_+.m ease and degradatiomthat yielding my body to the fashion demon imposes, and will avoid being sold and bought in the foul mart of hypocrisy and shame! Remember, also, that those ‘who pretend to scorn know that you feel this, and secretly respect you forﬂacting accordingly. And more, rather than to ignorance. A few more evolutions of law’s chemical ﬁres will convince them they deceive, no one, and compel open recognition of the right. On this sustaining rock take your unswerving stand, though all alone, and never lower your truthful head. If your husband is grand and true enough to. stand “by you,,be grateful for double strength; assure him a host of us will bless him with our esteem, and, better still, his own soul’s high approval will be sure. The men who come to our aid in this trial time of a reform that spoiled women do not seize because, probably, law does not oppose, will behonored by brave women forever. If he cannot sustain you, then you must gird your moral armor the tighter, and move a self-poised heroine in the noble work. , Others are doing the same, happier in their lone progress than they could be in wrong, with all earth’s honors. Scattered, as we are, much lone labor must at pres- ent be endured, but it will be‘ cheered also by the fact tat every steadfast reformer rolls a whole system of wheels to— ward the success of her cause. We will communicate and feel united; will visit when able, meet at conventions when possible‘, and, though it cost time and means, know they are given to holy use. I In this long preface, your queries on style, etc., are not overlooked, and will now be considered. , 1 , Yes, your long dresses can be mostly made into good ones, and without using the torturing tight waist and back-heating gathered skirt. These are too depraving to use. A breadth of the skirt is long enough to out the sack from the shoulder to the bottom. What remains of the dress will somehow cover the lining of the trousers. , "A . It should not be an aim to imitate each other’s patterns; Inthe ﬁrst stages of the change some imitating will doubt- less occur, and later on experience will show what styles best serve health and useful activities, and an approach to uni- formity may prevail. But let us cultivate individual taste, seen alike. This is my idea of anti-fashion, and does not for- bid learning of each other. I willingly give the idea my twenty-three years’ experience has developed, merely craving that you bear in mind that active duties have prevented the extensive experimenting I would like. Main points toavoid are corsets, all tight bands or pressures, long, heavy skirts, high-heeled, tight, thin-soled shoes. In dry, warm weather soles need not be thick. Hygenic shoes are not yet made. any one able to walk. Those having “ large feet ” have the right to a good chance to use them, and nonsense, not science, disparages them, and large hands and loose gloves also. Even deformity does not excuse obstructing and crushing. Women’s gait is generally bad, but good garments will help to mend it. ‘ The strong ridicule of women’s trousers shows how well the power they invest a person with is understood. They are the main article in any wardrobe. Their language is pro- wholesome or becoming for either sex. If snug any where they should be at bottom, not at top. -‘They can be full, or comfortably loose. I like them quite loose in the body and thigh, and quite tapering below. If gathered to an ankle band they are not tapered below the knee. This style suits thin, summer cloth. Young women who wish a jaunty dress days, even in summer, a loose covering should. prevent moist- ure from reaching the skin. In cold weather the firm trousers to the foot, or boot, are essential. The shame respecting them is all in going without them. This, and the imperative need of them, is’ being known and acted from. American women are wearing better than mere drawers under the skirts they confess they hate, and the English women’s white trousers are no secret. If Dame and Dandy Fashion deem the fetters will be ever carried over them, let the hope he hugged a little longer, till bodies not worth retrieving fall away. The shirt should have long sleeves, high necksand body of size to be comfortable inside the drawers. the weather. (It is common for men to be insuiﬁciently clothed by drawe Over the wrapper I wear a body, or waist, without sleeves, coming a few inches below waist- bands, and having-buttons on which to suspend drawers and trousers. This equalizes the weight suspended, is loose, and, to my comfort, preferable to elastic straps. Vests are good for those who like them, if loose enough; no lacing answers. You scarce need a word on the neck dress—collars, bosoms, small cravats and ties, or rouche and pin, as per occasion. The tunic completes the suit. Any ingenious woman can modify a good Gabriella or other sack pattern to a loosely, snuggish ﬁt in the body. In ﬂaring it over the hips be care- ful to not ﬂare too much, for no underskirt asks for room there; lining is enough. Kind of collar, lappels, buttons, trimming, to your taste. Broad or heavy trimmings would not adapt. As to length, if you can begin with it ‘a few or several inches above the knee and wearit a while, you will sooner shorten than lengthen it. Doubtless many will dis- pense with their cumbrous load by degrees, and beyears in. getting well -relieved; but that need not deter those who are clinging to the fetters, and your power to rise immediately from them to full bodily freedom. But try to be brave and faithfuhand climb the bright mountain of the emancipated. as soon and fast as your development will allow. A ' happily so by I .EV6.1‘ybcdY’sfriende M;sar.E.r'.!.‘maersoar, ‘ when-you reason with them they will confess to the truth . that would create another fashion, which is not desirable. I and wholly tolerate each one, though not two garments are i I Skirts below the ever active knees I cannot commend to Al tection, exem.ption from exposure. I think“ tights f’ are not * for the leg can use knickerbockers, or some device over the knee, and cover the stocking or not, as desired; but in damp Wrapper and drawers are the articles for warmth, and should always suit 7 ready to proﬁt by others’ trials, and escape a series of half- ’ gblest probations. You will all consult your weakness in--= You will be heartily welcomed by all you meet, and most 12 H . I I WOODHSULL &ei.AFLIN's-WEEKLY‘. ~ \ May 23, 1874. COMPULSORY EDUCATION. V ‘ BY 0. r. SHEPARD. ' Conceding as indisputable the factthat society has a vital interest in the moral and intellectual status of the individual units of which it is composed, it remains to consider whether it has a right to attempt to regulate such status by legislation and why it will inevitably fail in the attempt. , The familiar declaration that every human being has an ‘ inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness "become null and void when we deny the right of every human being to decide what for him constitute life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and how they are to be main- tained. ‘ Compulsory education will prove a failure, because it is Working against the better part of human nature, instead of with and for it. To legislate to compel people to do in a cer- tain way what every one inc/lines to do in some way—viz., acquire "nnowledge——-is manifest inconsistency, impertinent and unpardonable meddling, and will be found unproﬁt- able, as all such meddling is. The supposition that the average human being prefers to remain in barbaric ignorance.‘ from which state he must needs be driven by threats of courts and ﬁnes, is only equaled in enormity and falsity by the parallel and still existing, though rapidly de- clining, theologic one, that he is by nature wholly sinful, and cannot be rescued save through fear of hell, and by vicarious atonement! The desire to know is one of the strongest of human nature, being barely equaled, in intensity by the desire to eat, and sleep, and love; and if ‘we are not war- ranted in legislating to compel the adoption of certain methods of eating, sleeping and loving, we clearly cannot be in doing so for learning. If any one department of man’s natureis sacredly his “to have, and keep, and hold,” every other must be equally so; and if government may rightly interfere between the parent and child in respect to its train- ing in the lore of books, it may, with equal justicein all other matters; if we admit the legislator’s right to determine what the child’s‘ secular education shall be, we must concede this right to decide to what course of religious instruction it shall be subjected; from spelling-book to catechism’ is but an easy step, and the falsehoods of the one are scarcely less mystify- ing and detrimental to the innocent child-mind than the falsehoods of the other.“ To believe that “ In Adam’s fall‘ We sinned all,” requires no’ greater stretch of faith, than to believe that p'.1-o-u-g-h spells plow, while c—o-u—g-h does not spell cow; and both have all the claim to respect which long-established usage and acceptance by “ the best of men” can give. I think the advocates of Compulsory Education hardly realize what systems of espionage and oppression may c011- sistently be formulated, from the arguments they advance in its support. They admit that the conditions surrounding the parents, and the transmission of the effects of these con- ditions determine, to a great extent, the character and capac- ity of offspring. Where, then, shall legal interference prop- erly commence, if not with the regulation of conditions under 4 which children are begotten, and by which their physical, intellectual and moral capacities are determined? But if, on the other hand, the claim of the friends of social freedom, that the sexual mating of men and women and they begetting of children can more safely be trusted to the indi- vidual than to statute law, be a just one (And I believe it wholly so), how much more certainly may the subsequent and, so far as character is concerned, far less important training in the knowledge books can give, be so intrusted? But how shall society secure educated citizenship, not by legal coercion? lainly, by making education so attractive, its beneﬁts so evident, and the facilities for its acquirement so cheap and universal that none will be found willing to live without it. When children choose to satisfy their hunger by the meagre and uncertain food which street-begging brings, we naturally infer that the_ home table is scantily supplied or harshly disciplined; and when the little ones turn with dis- ‘ relish from home and’ school education, I must fain believe that neither home norschool has carefully considered and properly provided for their mental appetites. ‘ It is argued that many parents are indifferent to the well- being of their children, and that this is sufficient reason for governmental interference. A few are undoubtedly so, but they are almost always the victims of those iniquitous sys- tems of labor and ﬁnance which compel them to live at starvation point, and by making life one continued struggle for food and shelter, blunt the natural desire for knowledge, and sadly mar parental tenderness and love. Almost an parents I have ever known, of whatever rank «in life, have greatly desired better educational ad- vantages for their children than they themselves have had, and would count no sacriﬁce too great for the at- tainment of their object. In dealing with the few excep- tional cases to the general rule, would- it not be far better that community carry on such reforms as shall remove the causes of indiffere-nce,rather than to legislate against effects. Parents are sometimes compelled to put their children into ‘factories and workshops at an early age to get them food at all, and it will be manifest injustice torequire that such be taken out and placed in school before the necessity for ex- cesiiive child-labor be removed. Let the wages of the father "and mother be so increased by justice to the laborer that their earnings shall be suﬂicient to provide amply for the child, and there will seldom be found a parent so indifferent to the education of his children as the assumptions of those who advocate coercive measures indicate. It is sometimes claimed that children with large back heads and small front brain need compulsion because they are by nature so closely related to the brute. I think it will be found that such children are nearly always the result of com- pulsion in the married state; and since those conditions which create any given development, whether harmoniousor otherwise, must necessarily as long as continued renew and perpetuaet such development, it seems reasonable to con- cludethat the continuation of a system which could beget unbalanced organisms, would serve to sustain inharmony rather than to remedy it. Brute force has proveditself entirely inadequate to human need. Let us try some more potent agent; and unless we should frustrate our own efforts for the enlightenment of 0“? GOIIIIDOII kind, let us rely wholly on attractive education rather than on that which is compulsory. [From the Alta C’ali_7“omia.] A TURKISH BATH. ’ CONS’1‘ANTINOPLE,'Feb. 16, 1874. I have read certainly not less than ﬁfty times elaborate descriptions of genuine Turkish baths, by Bayard Taylor, Ross Browne and others, and Ihad always had my imagination ﬁlled with combined ecstacies of being scrubbed with hot water and perfumed soap, and iced sherbet, and I made up my mind not to leave Turkey without having had that delightful ex- perience. You know that I belong to the softer sex, and they do not bathe promiscuously here as in Baden Baden, Long Branch and many other fashionable places. , This bath where I went is for ladies alone, and not even the common herd being admitted, for the charge is very high. I have made a few friends among the natives since I came here, and can speak a few words of Greek (the predominant tongue). and owing to my acquintance with them, I got a glimpse, or rather a whole day’s sight, of a paradise where man is excluded. . The exterior of these baths is of the usual style, or no style, of Turkish architecture-—but the interior fully recompenses for the lack of beauty without. It is in the upper part of Galata, and you go in Sedan chairs, which wait for you, as you must take the extremest care of your- self in coming out of the bath, particularly at this season of the year. A cold taken after a Turkish bath is always fatal. Four of us went, together with two servants who carried our towels, bathing dresses and lunch. It is an all day’s job, and the ladies all take lunch with them. I had a number of very handsome and curious things given me at the Exposi- tion by the Egyptian and Turkish commissions, and among them were large bathing towels with borders of gold woven in; also a bathing dress similarly decorated. My friends in- sis-ted on my taking them, and they made of me while in the bath a person of no ordinary importance, for, as it happens, no one but royal ladies are permitted to wear such in public baths; however, nobody interfered with my right to Wear them, only admired me, not always from a distance. THE FIRST CHAMBER. On entering we were conducted to a large room, where we must undress and leave our things. ‘I think there were ﬁfty women there in all stages of undress, who all paused to re- gard us with curiosity while we disrobed. Men can pull oﬁ their most sacred garments, toss them in a heap, and run about as if nothing were amiss; but somehow I felt as Eve did when she made the discovery that she was alittle too thinly clad for that time of the year. . A servant caught up our bathing dresses and left the room, beckoning us to follow. W'e ran the gauntlet of a hundred pair of eyes before we reached the divau where I was laid, like a defunct, still with no clothes on. I raised my head to see if I could not ﬁnd a friendly towel or anything, but the attendant ducked my head back on the pillow again, as much as to say, “lie there.” I did, but rolled my eyes around a little, and saw that there were at least twenty more women lying around in spots like myself; ‘but they all seemed to take it very easily. ' V The rcom was very warm and grew warmer perceptibly, though how I don’t know, until I began to feel as if I should suffocate, until my heart beat painfully and I grew very faint, when one of the-women gave me some lemonade, of which I drank twoglasses. Then, all of a sudden, I began to pei-spire, and I looked likea pumpkin that had lain out all night in a heavy dew. I felt as if I was dissolving, and waited pa- tiently till the end should come, and I should be but the transparent essence of what was once a very substantial body; but that time had not come. I was so sleepy that I felt like calling very hard names when the woman came in and made me get up after she had rubbed me down like arace horse with a pair of very scratchy gloves, which left my skin as red as a lobster. Then we, all being in the same state, were led into another great, vaulted, marble-ﬂoored room, where the divans are made of marble, which is not at all soft to lie on. This room was warmer than the last, more vapory, and the vapor was more strongly perfumed with sandal wood. After lying a few moments the marble grows soft, and a sense languor and a dreamy content, and your eyes close, and you lie with a smile of exquisite laziness on your lips, and your imagination ﬂies off in every possible direction, when the sweet repose is again rudely broken, and you have again to “move on.” ‘ LED‘ INTO PARADISE. Now, indeed, ‘opens the door of paradise. You are led, still without other covering than Nature gives you, into a large circular room, withigmarble pillars supporting the blue dome that is spangledwith stars. All around the room are marble divans, and in the centre is an immense fountain, in the basin of which are sixty or seventy girls and women play- ing in the warm, perfumed water, or lying in all attitudes on the marble edges of the basin. The-water rises in one grand column over ﬁfty feet, and falls back into anupper basin, while thelower one is undisturbed, except by the beautiful white forms that it most delights to receive. . On all the divans lie women of all ages and complexions, even to some negresses, who only served to make the white bodies and polished limbs appear more lovely than ever. Small fountains were placed at regular intervals around the large room. and from these the attendants pour continu- ously over the bodies of those who lie on the divans Warm water,‘ which is carried off by pipes. , , One attendant stood at my head, holding my gold-em broidered bathing apparatus, one lathered me with perfumed soap till I began to imagine myself a gigantic rose, and all of the most delicious repose comes over you. You feel a soft these. beautiful beings laughing and singing and gliding around me but other specimens of ﬂowers. Another attend- ant rubbed me with gloves made of sponge, and another poured warm water over me incessantly, not dashing it nor letting it trickle, but ‘just emptying the beautifully chased ‘silver ewer over me with the gentlest motions, till it seemed my face, and another kind was rubbed in my hair—a1l done in that caressing way that made it a positive eestacy-—-then more perfumed water, till I felt drowning in a sea of all de- lights, in which I could distinguish perfumes, ﬂowers, weet- singing voices, and forms of heavenly beaiity. Time and the nothing——nothing else in the world to make my life content forever. « ’ _ LIVING STATUARY. To lie there on the marble and dreamily watch the glorious white of the living statues, with the long, black-hair and the rich, dark eyes; to see the soft, undulating motions of those swimming in the warm. delicious water; to look at the lovely forms stretched at full length on the divans and on ‘the edge of the fountain ; and others laughing, sporting, singing, mingling with affec- tionate glances and wrestling in the water or on the marble ﬂoor, dripping from every limb. the perfumed’ water that glistened on their bodies, and the trickling of the fountains. and the rosy, subdued light that stole in through the jealously-guarded windows, were enough to send one of ah imagination like mine off into the realms of fancy, and make one believe it the promised land, and cause the whole soul to be satisﬁed with the enchanting picture, which needed no imagination to imbellish. For after all what is where all is light and perfume and love and beauty; where every sense shall be satisﬁed, and every desire ﬁlled with a mine there were not any men, but I did not miss them in my supreme content, nor, I think, did any of the women who were lying about clasped lovingly in each other’s arms, or have before, I had just as lief have my paradise one where no men could come. Just asI arrived at this very sensible conclusion my at- tendant aroused me from my dreams of perfect peace by pointing to the fountain and signifying that I was also to get in. My four friends then made their appearance with the servants and our luncheon, and nobody can tell of the comical look of us ﬁve sitting round the baskets eating, without any clothes on. I have seen many sights in my life, but we women around those baskets, with chicken legs in our hands, and glasses of wine and other things, were too perfectly ludicrous for anything, and I laughed till I couldn’t eat. If I had only a napkin to cover my face I think I should have laid down and died on the spot. PLAYFUL SPIRITS. All my dreams. of a luxurious, sleepy, sensuous paradise ﬁlled with undulating ﬁgures of transcendant beauty, were gone, and I was fully possessed of the demon of mirth, and I provoked the others into my own state of :nind—a capacity which has never deserted me at any time or place, or with any person, in my life-and we were soon the maddest of the crowd in the perfumed waters. Iiwould be afraid to tell all the. freaks we performed and antics and prancs we cut. Although it did not in the least startle the natives, it might some who have imagined me ‘to be the model of perfection in deportment. But then you must remember that Mrs. Grundy does not live in Constantinople, and she has no one to tell tales out of school except my own self, and I never tell more than suits me. It was two full hours before our wild sport ended, and we slid out of the water and sat talking in little knots of four or ﬁve, while the attendants were drying our hair, and separating it till it stood out in alight puff all around our heads. Not a tangle was left in it, and no comb or brush was used. Then we were laid on the same marble divans, though with a thick bathing towel this time under us, while the at- tendants punched and pulled, and rubbed all our joints, and cracked all our knuckles and I elbows and shoulders, till I thought I should be always even more unsteady than ever They don’t give you the least chance to make protest to this sort of thing. They roll you and rub you, up anddown and round and round, till you only want a chance to get your hands free to “ punch their heads,” when all at once, panting and perspiring, they grin at you and say pelckey, which means “ all right.”—-Olive Harper. THE CENSUS OF FRANCE. The French, says the Pall llfall Gazette, must have in their census for 1872, recently published, more than one unpleas- ant piece of evidence of the losses inﬂieted -on them by the war. Whereas, in 1866, the native population was returned at a little over 38,000,000, it now shows a diminution of nearly 2,000,000 on that number. The exact difference against 1872 is given at 1,964,000, of which 1,600,000 is due to the separation of Elsass—Lorraine, and the remaining 380,000 must be accounted for by the direct action of the war. The loss of territory is probably more difficult to replace than that of numbers; for the acreage of the missing depart- ments now turned over to the German empire, taking it at a fair agricultural value, may be valued in fee—simple at not indemnity exacted. In only thirteen departments of France has there been any increase of population during the four years, and such as to be found in any of these is under 3,000 excepting in the Nord, the Seine and the Loire, where the existence of large cities has had its usual effect of promot- ing an inﬂux of inhabitants; but the largest addition. that caused by Paris to the Seine department, is only 55,000, whereas the war losses in the rural districts are terribly ap- parent, the population of the Dordogne having diminished by over 20,000 and that of La Manche by nearly 30,000. Of the 36,000,000 of Frenchmen left, there are no fewer than 13,500,000 returned as living actually in the country, while / J like a caress. Then soap of bitter almonds was rubbed on ' outer world were lost in this delightful trance, and I desired ‘ the heaven we have been taught to believe in butva placed pure and exquisite fullness? It is true that in this heaven of , laughing and sporting in the water, andl think now, as I 0 less than £l7’3,000,000, being but a triﬂe less than the money , l is , E In, ‘V - -R ‘,7 ,. i . . ‘I . 4 2..-<n;.,;:,,_._,_: _=.: nu, I .May,23, 1374. over 18,000,000, or rather more than one-half ofvthe popula- tion, are dependent on agriculture—an enormous dispropor- tion when contrasted with our smallrural population. The agricultural wealth still remaining, despite the immense ex- actions of war, is suﬁiciently shown by the fact that France has still left to her in round numbers, 3,000,000 of horses, 300,000 mules, 450,000 asses, 11,000,000 of cattle, 25,000,000 of sheep and 5,000,000 of swine. The educational part of the statistics appears far from satisfactory, since there are 13,- 000,000 ‘ (possibly this may include the infants) who can neither read ‘nor virite, and nearly 4,000,000 more who can read only. As to religion, the bulk of the population are, of course, returned as Catholic; but there are 580,000 recogniz- ed Protestants and very nearly 50,000 Jews. A PRIVATE letter from Zina Fay Pierce. the female re- former of New England, is published in St. Albans, Vt., papers, giving her temperance creed, the main articles of which are that the reformers shouldmake a distinction be- tween the milder and more ﬁery liquors; that beer drinking and billiard playing are in themselves conducive to moral- ity, and should be rescued from their present disrepute; that the true way to promote temperance; is to establish good beer gardens, where young people may drink moderately of mild liquors, dance, play billiards and have agood time generally; that tea drinking, is ruining women and they would be much better oﬁ‘ if they would drink it but once a day and take a pint of mild beer every noon; and that the total abstinence pledge, except for people in whom drunkennessis a disease, is a “stigma upon the communion and a direct accu- sation against the wisdom and morality of our blessed Saviour Himself.” Zina was brought up as a clergy‘man’s daughter in St. Albans, and seems to have had a bad time of it, as she “ cannot, owing to the prejudices of Christian so- ciety, and those of my parents imbibed fromit, look back upon my girlhood and ﬁnd in it one single ray of youthful “ pleasure from beginning to end.” ~ [From the Chicago Times.] VVOMEN AS RAILWAY OFFICERS. From a paragraph in the Times of 17th inst., it appears that that great and progressive thoroughfare, the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway, has taken precedence of all . other roads in the matter of employing lady oﬂicials! Under the head of “ Superintendent’s Meeting,” the Times pub- lishes the names of railway officers in attendance during the convention recently held in St. Louis, prominent among which are “J. B. Carson and wife, Toledo and Wabash.” It may not be generally known, though no news to a favored few familiar with the situation, that this deserving and ac- complished lady has been connected with the Wabash road in various capacities almost from its infancy, and to her in- domitable energv and indisputable business qualiﬁcations it is greatly indebted for its present prosperity. That the new management recognize this fact is obvious, since they not only retained the lady at a time when it was found necessary to reduce their operative force, but promoted her to the responsible position of superintendent! The wisdom and policy of this departure from an orthodox method of procedure will not be without a liberal effect, and when another meeting of “ Superintendents ” is called, it may safely be predicted that Mrs. Carson will not stand forth ‘“a solitary example of justice to and appreciation of women. All honor to the Toledo, Wabashand Western. W. ST. LOUIS, April 20. THE ORIGIN OF DIMPLES. My mischief-loving maiden, Belle! Sit here and listen whilel tell- Awhile your saucy tongue to tame-— A pretty tale without a name, Save this, of “ How the dimples came.” A merry girl, the story goes, With eyes of violet, checks of rose, One day with feet that noiseless stepped, Behind her lover tiptoe crept; * V "‘\ And peeped with many a bow and bend, While he, all unsuspecting, penned A timorous sonnet to the maid, Which doubted, hoped, despaired and prayed. She peeped and read, too pleased by half, And smiled, and smiled, but durst not laugh; ‘ And so a strange event occurred; It happened thus, so I have heard: The dainty mouth, too small, I doubt, To let too much of smiling out, Became a prison most secure, And held the loving legions sure. Weariezl, at length, of durance vile, Impatient grew each captive smile; Still, fain some outlets new to seek, They wreathedand coiled in either cheek, Still at the ruby portals fast Grown desperate, so the story closes, Cleft a new passage through the roses. Love’s kisses healed the tender harm, And gave the wound its dearest charm . Since, not uhthankful, Beauty keeps Her cheeks less sacred than her lips , . And while they smile their prudent “ Ndl” So fair the deepening dimples show, That love reminded of his claim, , ‘ May take the guerdon without blame; And this is how the dimples came. _ ‘ . -—U7’ti07‘b, Detroii,.1l[ic . THE LAST VETO. _ Norawicﬂ. N. Y., April 28, .1874. “ How are the mighty fallen!” I had thought General Grant a man of ideas; one‘ that could solve a problem and knew the source of evidence, but, he seems to lack all those qualities. The advance guards of thought and reform have supported him supposing that back of his silence, there was gtudy and wisdom; but when he speaks he betrays them. > . He served us in the war, but has lost himself in‘ politics ; this last is the climax of his many failures, I care not for the veto, but the reasons he gives for it. i I supported him as did many others for re-election in the face of the notorious corruptions of his administration, and urged at the time that , it was the politicians and party that were corrupt and not Grant; but since then things have been unearthed that leaves him not so innocent. His chances seem good for a third term, through the help of the money tyrants, and I am not opposed to his having a’ chance to either-redeem himself or to run his course to the wretched end. ELMoRi1 Srmnrn. A ‘ . OWATONNA, Minnesota, 1874. From a full heart I say God bless you, Victoria 0. Wood- hull, fcr the moral courage to speak out the truth and bring to the light the social condition‘ of woman. Woman has borne the wrongs, the insults and degradation of her social condition about as long as ﬂesh and bloodcan endure, and now ten thousand voices are raised and concentrated in one unanimous call and demand for emancipation from a con- dition of slavery that is worse than death. Mothers are looking down from the spiritual plains of freedom to which they have ascended, and their hearts are pained and grieved at beholding the sad condition of their daughters; and it seems to me they could do no less than to unite in one grand effort for the emancipation of their suffering children. And these united voices from the upper spheres are a part of the inspiration that urges us on to the utterance of truth. Man has had his cruciﬁed and risen Saviour, and a John to foretell the, coming of the new dispensation. To woman there is one greater than John\ preaching to those in the wilderness of social sin: Repent, ye, for the kingdom of heaven (harmony) is at hand. She deals heavy blows at the old tree, oppression, and already the leaves begin to quiver and the branches to tremble. Deal out your [blows with a might and a will. Cease not from your labor until the sharp steel of your words penetrate the very heart of the old, scraggy, overgrown mon- directed. You seem to hit where you intend, and the chips fly squarely into the faces of those that are trying to frighten and drive you from the forest‘. There is a great work before you; trees must be felled, the brush and rubbish cleared away, the sod broken up and the soil prepared for the good numbers are increasing; there are a few noble and true women that be in to inquire, What must we do to be saved? What can we d to save our daughters from being sold into the slavery of legalized prostitution, into the bondage of sin? The social question has been handled with gloves long enough. Itneeds a brave heart, a steady hand and strong nerve. as well as a sharp instrument, to probe the depths of the moral and social sore or evil; but it must be probed, deep, too, then cleansed and healed before those bodies can be inhabited by pure spirits. . Go on, in the name of humanity, and the God of justice, and freedom‘ will go/-with you to sustain and bless you. I. like many others, are still leaning upon seine old theo- logical fence or society-approved post for support, but am gaining strength daily and hope by and by to be able to stand without the aid of these time-sanctiﬁed crutches. , Yours, in the cause of truth and progression, I MINNE SOTA. [From the Herald of Health, April, is74.3 STRAY THOUGHTS, BY THE EDITOR. Few things ruin the body and soul of men and women so rapidly and completely as excesses in the indulgence, of sex- ual passion. If there is one subject that human beings ought ﬁrst and foremost to study and understand, it is this part of their nature; and yet it is oncon which there is the gravest ignorance. And this ignorance is wholly unnecessary. The means of information on these subjects are abundant, and only prudery and false modesty keep people from it. There are no more unhappy, unholy sinners in this wide world of ours than those who wantonly abuse their‘ sexual nature. The body is a thing of time, subject to contending inﬂu- ences, able to be lifted to the highest pinnacle of health and happiness, or sunk to the lowest depths of darkness by sick- ness and disease. If, then, you wish to enjoy the present life, in afull and true sense of the word, do everything in your power, by every lawful agency, to maintain the health and integrity of the body-—the most wonderful mechanism of the Inﬁnite Creator. MRS. DAHLGrREN’S NEW BOOK. All the world knows that Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren is an out-and-out opponent of Woman Suffrage, Spiritualism and Free Love. She is not second, even to Mrs. Sherman in active opposition to the woman’s movement in every form. But as she never descends to personal vituperation of those who, with as good motives as her own, differ toto coelo froml her, she is entitled to respectful treatment. She has just published a translation of the Marquis de Chambrun’s book on the Executive Power in the United States, which is meeting very general and not undeserved , favor. But the question forces itself upon our attention- Why should a woman of culture and capacity waste her time in political studies, and in translating treatises on constitu- tional problems, if she is never to have a vote in determining those problems? Mrs. Dahlgren sees nothing unwomanly in writing or translating political-discussions, nor in addressing Congressional Committees in behalf of public measures; yet she cannot think it within the sphere of woman to lay her hand on one of those powerful ballots ,“ Which execute the freeman’s will V . As lightning does the will of God.” It is a pity that ladies like Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren and Mrs. General Sherman should lend their influence, large as; it is, to obsolete theories in government and ultramontanism in religion. But truth is mighty; and whether these ladies ster of the political and social forest. Your blows are well hearts that are willing to labor for humanity, and a few’ WVOODHULL .9. c.LArI..1N’s~wEEKLv. “A l 13 lend their inﬂuence td speed on the car of progress, or throw themselves recklessly under its wheels, the car will move on to its destined goal. ‘ R. C. .. \ THE NEXT GREAT BATTLE. V Timiwos, N. J., March .15, 1874. To the Editor of the New York Tribune: ~ Your article in a late issue, with the above caption, so clearly represented the feelings of the masses of the Amer- ican people of to-day, and has already beenso heartily Vap- plauded in this vicinity by independent minds that I am led to offer a few suggestions as a sequel to it, if one in so hum- ble a sphere of life may be allowed to enter the arena wherein the leading statesmen of the world are sparring. ‘ The “ Coming Man ” has been so long in coming that many have despaired of his advent in the present age, their eager- ness for which advent has caused them to overlook the necessity for a base upon which such leaderimust stand, a central principle around which he must rally his forces for “The Next Great Battle.” To offer some ideas wherefrom — may be crystallized such basic principle‘ is the object of this communication. I conceive that nations, like men, are‘ governed by estab. lished natural laws in their creation and progressive develop- ment, and that a natural correspondence may be traced between the developments of the nation and the man, from germination onward, through all their periods of growth. This much admitted, it comes within the province of science to determine to what stage a nation has reached in its prog- ress, and whatis its next natural step in advance.’ A careful comparison of notes between earnest and competentiphysi- ologists and historians might enable them to arrive at deﬁnite conclusions upon this point. My system‘ of corres- has not yet beenborn on this planet, but that the most ad- vanced among them~ are still in embryo, but very nearly approaching the “ quickening period, ’,’ when the embryo must focalize its forces and produce a unitized foetus, or come to abortion from lack of vital energy to effect the tran- sition. » That the various elements in this American nation are ripe for the focalizing process seemeth evident from the instinc- seed. In the reform ﬁeld, laborers are indeed few, but their tive efforts within the diﬁerent classes to centralize the forces of their respective class bodies, to which they are driven for self-protection from results of isolated efforts be- yond the resources of present out-grown conditions; those class bodies constituting the main roots (to use a vegetable correspondence) whose united forces will push their repre- sentative sprout another step toward sunlight. ‘ Though phrenology may not be generally accepted as an exact science, its general principles are accepted as natural truths by some of our wisest men. Each organ in the head of a ‘representative man, of any nation is supposed to have its correspondence in a class body of practical operator in that nation. This being admitted, phrenology may be 311101- dated through corrospondence with national conditions, and the national focalizing processes may be directed through phrenology. If the head oricapital of a matured nation must; correspond to the head of a matured man, we have a clue to the formation or reformation of such head in its transitj from embryotic to -foetal condition s. 0 The brain of man is supposed to be naturally representa tive of his body, each distinct class of particles or cubes (ani- malcules) in the body being represented by a distinct organ in the brain, each brain organ being thespecial. governor of its correspnding class of body atoms, particles or cubes This admitted, we have a clue to the formation of a system of class governments in the nation, corresponding to the’ separate governments of the American colonies of a hundrgd 011 or national government, by a union of the whole. Causality and comparison—the general or “ reasoning or. gans,” are supposed to be representative of the class or instinctive organs of the brain. Admit this, and our way becomes clearer toward the formation of a. general nationa government, after Nature’s model, which is the man to be governed. . The right side of the brain is supposed to be masculine or positive, the left side feminine or negative. Each instinctive organ on the masculine side sending one or more represent- atives to masculine causality, and the corresponding organs causality—in the new national creation this representation of classes—would form two legislative bodies for thenation at large, corresponding to our United States Hcuseof Rep:-8.. sentatives, thediﬁerence being in a distinct representationof classes instead of a mixed representation of localities. to be representative of the two causalities, and to act as the or provisional government might be the practical leader of the new national creation. ROBERT SINNIQKSQN, PERSON AL LIBERTY. 7 An Ohio subscriber asks us if we are in favor of"y‘"P1-lo- hibitory Liquor Laws.” We answer, 0: We are in favor of “ temperance in all things,” not only in drinking wine, but in eating Sunday dinners, but are opposed to sending men to heaven by force. We consider it one of the inalienable rights of an American citizen to go to hell if he wants to—and a, Bible right, too; for were it not so the God of the Bible would have sealed up the entrance to the. “ bottomless pit,” so aha, men could not get in. The fact that he left the gates open. shows that he recognized the right of peopleto go there; ,an the further fact that he made a “broad road ” leadin thereto, shows that he expected a great many to go. W don’t.want‘ to abridge the liberties of the people, or thwar the plans of God.”—The Freeman, Chicago. pondences has led me to conclude that a whole nation-child ' years ago. The next step will be the formation of a general‘ . on the other side sending their representatives to feminine . Comparison, being a double or central organ, is Supposed , judge between them. Its presiding ofﬁcer in a rudimental .' I .,. . style, with gilt back and sides. is P BUSINESS EDITORIALS. \ THE GREAT SENSATION: A Full and Reliable History of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. . Including Comprehensive and Interesting Biographical Sketches of Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, Victo- ria C. - Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬂin and Colonel Blood; giving Facts and Incidents in the Lives of each never be- fore published. By Leon Oliver. The Book is Illustrated with Portraits of all the Characters. 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The Northern Illinois Association Of Spiritualists will hold their Eighth Quarterly and Second Annual Meeting in, ‘Chicago, Illinois, at Grow’s Opera House, 517 West Madison 51 reet, commencing on Friday, at 101/, o’clOck, A. M., June 12, 1874,, an rl continue Over Sunday the 14th, a three days’ meet- ing. We shall then meet under charter from the State of Illinois. _All the members are requested to be present, as business of importance will come before the meeting, also election of oﬁcers for the coming year. There will be reso- the same addressed to Woodhull & C-laflin, P. 0. box 3,791, will be promptly ﬁlled. I Harmony Hall, 18% :Boylston street. , furnished, and the repudiation of all so-called debts, the kidneys and female diseases. Best of references given. ‘ "W-OAODHULL &tCLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. m PRoCEEDINes OE THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OE THE AMERICAN AssOCIATION OE SPIRITUALISTS. , 12m, pp. 266. THE ELIXIR OF LIFE; OR, WHY DO wE DLE? 8vo, pp. 24. An ORATION delivered before the above-named CONVENTION, at ,GRow’s OPERA HOUsE, CHICAGO, by VICTORIA C. WOODHULL‘, September 18, 1873. v The above “Report of the Proceedings of the Tenth An- nual Convention of'the American Association of Spiritual- ists,” is an accurate and impartial ‘account of whatwas said and done at the above convention. The speeches are pre- sented to the public word for word as they came to us from he hands of the able reporter employed by the convention. The orations of the members,,on both sides, discussing the question of “ Free Love,” or rather “ Personal Sovereignty,” are worthy of the serious attention not only of all Spiritual- ists but of the community at large. . In proof that we have not overstated the merits of the work, we respectfully submit the generous testimony of Judge Edmund S. Holbrook, who so ably defended the posi- tion of the conservative Spiritualists at the above conven- tion: - “I have seen the report you have published of the ‘doings and sayings of the Chicago Convention, and I take pleasure in saying that, in the publication of such a report, so full, so accurate and impartial as it is,‘ you have done a work Worthy of high commendation. Some could not be at this conven- tion, either for want of time or means; but now, such of them as may choose to read, can [almost imagine that they were there; and though they may not attain whatever there may be in personal presence, in the eye, and the ear, and in soul-communion, yet whatever of principle has been evolved they may well discover and understand; and also, as I hope, they may proﬁt thereby.” Priceof the “Proceedings” and the “Elixir of Life” 50 cents; or the “Elixir of Life ” alone 25 cents. Orders for The First Primary Council of Boston, of the Universal As- in amedical institution doing a good business. mer and winter. Must have from $5,000 to $8,000 for invest- ment. ' sociation of Spiritualists, meets every Thursday evening, at First-class lectures every Sunday afternoon and evening. Seats free. JOHN HARDY, Cor. Sec’y. THE WORD, \ A Monthly Journal of Reform—Rega.rding the subjection of Labor, of Woman, and the Prevalence of War as unnatural evils, induced by false claims to obedience and service; favors the Abolition of the State, of Property in Land and its kindred resources, of speculative income and all other means whereby Intrusion acquires wealth and power at the expense of Useful People. Since labor is the source of wealth, and creates all values equitably oencllble, the Word (not by, restrictive methods, but through Liberation and Reciprocity) seeks the extinction of interest, rent, div- idends and proﬁt, except as they represent work done; the abolition of railway, telegraphic, banking, trades union and other corporations charging more than actual cost for values principal where/of has been paid in the form of interest. E. H. HEYWOOD, Editor. Terms——75c. annually in advance. . Address The Word, Princeton, Mass. DR. R. P. FELLOWS. This truly gifted healer, who has gained such a wide popu- larity in the last few years, is now permanently located at Vineland,’N. J . After years of successful practice and close application in the art of healing, he has earned a reputation as a public benefactor, curing many cases instantaneously that were regarded hopeless. We coincide with the Banner of Light in saying: “The afflicted should avail themselves of his valuable services.” We would say to those who are unable to visit the Doctor in person to send $1 for his Mag- netized Pellets. The sick are being healed by these Pellets who have heretofore been in perfect despair. Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be_ found at his office, No. 413 Fourth avenue ' » DR. L. K. COONLEY is speaking and healing in Newark, N. J ., the present month, and can be addressed at 277 Mul- berry street, that city. MRS. CHANNING, 44 Great Jones street, New York, tells the past, present and future; advises as to future success; diagnoses disease without asking questions ; treats all diseases with success. Specialties: Consumption, Bright’s disease of PROF. 'WHIPPLE Will speak during the Sundays of May in Springﬁeld, Mass. Address 896 Main street, Cambridge, Mass. - W. F. JAMIESON Will speak at Lynn, Mass, the Sundays of May; at Salem, Mass, Friday evenings of May. Will receive a ‘few more week-evening engagements for April and May. Address, care of Banner of Light,vBoston, Mass. ' WARRENCHASE » lutions of vast importance to Spiritualism to be considered. We cordially invite all Spiritualists, Mediums and speakers, as well as all others interested in the cause of humanity and truth to be with us at this our second annual meeting. Our platform is free and shall remain so for the discussion of all subjects germain to humanity, truth and progress, under strict parliamentary usages. I - O. J . HOWARD, M. D., President. I}. V. WILSON, Sec’y§N. I.:Ass._,g,-._._., « Moines, Iowa, the 1st of June. He will receive subscriptions , for the WEEKLY‘ and for our pamphlets. win lecture in Centralia, 111., May17, and will return to Des .he Paciﬁc coast will go West next autumn. Friends along the route, desiring one or more lectures, can secure her ser- vices by addressing her at 235 Washington street, Salem, Mass. ’ A MISS NELLIE L. 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[The only paper in the World conducted, absolutely, upon the Principles of a Free Press.] It advocates a new government in which the people will be their Own legislators, and the Oﬂicials the executors of their will. I It advocates, as parts of the new government- 1. A new political system in which;a1l persons of adult age will participate. / 2. A new land system in which every individual will be en- titled to thefree use of a proper proportion of the land. 3. A new industrial system, in which each individual will remain possessed of all his or her productions. 4. A new commercial system in which “cost,” instead of “demand and supply,” will determine the price of every- thing and abolish the system of proﬁt-making. 5. A new ﬁnancial system, in which the government will be the source, custodian and transmitter Of all money, and in which usury will have no place. .. 6. A new sexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money or any inducement other than love, shall be the governing law, individuals being left to make their Own regulations; and in which society, when the individual shall fail, shall be responsible, for the proper rearing of children. 7. A new educational system, in which all children born shall have the same advantages of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared atmaturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. All of which will constitute the various parts of a new so- cial order, in which all the human rights of the individual will be associated to form the harmonious organization of the peoples into the grand human family, of which every person in the world will be a member. * Criticism and objections specially invited. The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. Subscription price, $3 per year; $1.50 six months; or 100. single copy, to be had of any N ewsdealer in the world, who can order it from the following General Agents: The American News Co., New York City; The New York News Co., New York City; The National News Co., New York City; The New England News Co., Boston, Mass.; The Central News Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; The Western News Co., Chicago, Ill. Sample copies, mailed on application, free. VICTORIA C. WOODEULL AND TENNIE C. CLAELIN, Ed- itors and Proprietors. * COL. J . H. BLOOD, Managing Editor. All communications should be addressed WOODHULL St CLAELIN’s WEEKLY, Box 3,791, New York City. The New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists and Friends of Progress will hold their Second Quarterly Con- vention for 1874 in Library Hall, Newark, N. J ., on Saturday and Sunday, May 30th and 31st, commencing at 10 A. M. Three sessions each day. - SPECIAL SUBJECTs.——TempeI-ance, Indians and Law or Government; yet the platform will be free as usual for the- discussion of all subjects germain to Spiritualism, in their proper Order. Free accomodations as far as possible. D. J . STANSRERRY, Secretary, Newark, N. J . ,‘ LONG LANE, Dallas Co., Mo., May 7, 1874. “ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY,” located at this place. 1,000 live, sober, industrious men and women Wanted as mem- bers; no ﬁner location in the South-west; best of fruit; ﬁne climate; engaged in trading, manufacturing, farming, stock and fruit raising. Correspondence solicited. Address as above, ' WM. H. BONNETT, P. M. 30- ll‘ 1.. May 23,1874. WOODHULL a oLArLiN:s WEEKLY. 0‘ -wonderful mediumistic Dr. ﬂee. Newcomer, TI-IE I-IEALER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, HURD BLOCK, JACKSON, MICH. Thirty years’ experience. Examines diseases and sends prescriptioné for one month for $3. Hasa spe- ciﬁc remedy for CATARRH and THROAT DISEASE. Sends by mail for $2 for four months, and with direc- tions two months, $1. Pile Remedy, $2. Treatments at rooms moderate. Warrants relief or no charge. 146 . ‘ GEO. NEWCOMER, M. D. SOGIAL FREEDOM COMMUNITY I No. 1. This Institution is situated in Chesterfield County, Virginia, about nine miles from Richmond. It is founded on the principles of Social Freedom, as laid down in the address of Victoria C. Woodhull, in Steinway Hall, New York, November 20,1871. The Community owns three hundred and thirty-three acres of land, half of which is improved——the balance is valuable timber‘. There is a good water-power, on, it, and they propose to erect a saw-mill. A few more congenial persons can be now admitted on probation ‘ SARAH L. TIBBALS, Pres, Address, inclo sing a sheet of pa er and a stamped envelope, J . . HENCK, Sec. ' Box 44 Manchester, Chester Co., Va. 146-8t PSYG EIREC AND Soul Reading. MRs. H. 'L._LA PIERRE Will give those sending lock of hair and autograph a full reading of marked changes through life; also ad- vice in regard to business. Will diagnosis disease and ts causes from a lock of hair, and give magnetic treat- ment at any distance by spirit control. Reading and treatment by lock of hair. . . ..$3.00. Reading alone . . . . . . . . . ..-. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.00. Address Post-oﬁice box 856, St. Paul, Minn. DR. J N 0. A. ELLIOTT Is now prepared to give Readings of Character, Delineations of Adaptability to Business, Physical Conditions, etc., from Autograph, Look of Hair or Photograph. Address, inclosing Two Dollarsand four three-cent stamps, Dr. JNO. A. ELLIOTT, care Box 4,952 New York'P. O. GOLDEN MEMORIES 13' AN EARN-I-)EST, LIFE. A BIOGRAPHY OF A. B. WHITING: Together with selections from his.Poetical Compo- sitions and Prose Writings. Compiled by his sister, R. AUGUSTA WRITING. Introduction by J. M. Pnnnnns. “His years, ’tis true, were few; His life was long.” “ We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts, not breaths.” The work is published in response to the general demand for a reliable resume of the life, labors and experiences of our arisen fellow-laborer in the cause of human freedom and pro_ ress, and is embellished with a fine steel portrait of t ie individual whose life it portrays. , ' Price $1 50, postage 18 cents. For sale, wholesale and retail, by the publishers, COLBY & RICH, at No. 9 Montgomery Place, corner of Province Street (lower ﬂoor), Boston, Mass. , Orders may also be addressed to R. A. WHITING, Albion, Mich. WHAT THE PRESS SAYS: *_‘ The book is one that will be of interest to every Spiritualist and ‘to all who are interested in rare and curious developments of mental phenomena, while the travel and adventure of seventeen years of public life furnish incidents both instructive and amusing for the general reader.”——B0m7ze7' of Light. f‘ We will venture to say that, among biographies, this work stands alone. In its narratives of experience it is astounding.”-—I{m"Zf07“d Times. I “ The volume is replete with interesting incidents of aremarkable life, narrated in an unaffected style.” , -—AZbz'0n Mirror. “'Full of life—like delineations. * '* It contains the soul of the human:-J. 0. Barrett. ' “ Cannot fail to have an extensive sale.”--Port Hz/fﬁn gonwﬁeircéaz. ic in. oughtanda to 1. h r h 1 thatpossesses it.”—0ur Ag1e.asur ‘any Ouse 0 d A SYLLABUS 0177 THE ‘SUNDAY ynxnnioisns DE G-ARMO HALL, No. 82 FIFTH AVE, FirstFloor, Corner of Fourteenth Street, New York. First Illetmplitan tnngregalitn. MORNING AT HALF—PAS1‘ TEN o’cLoon, A Scientiﬁc Sermon ‘ BY 0 A‘ « STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS, IN EXPOSITION‘ OF Universology, Integralism and the Pantarchal Regime, as the Commonwealth or Universal Institute of Hu- manity, and of the general scope of the Sciences; » with some appropriate Literary and Religious Exer- cises illustrative of the purposes of THE NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH. (The desk will be occasionally ﬁlled, in the absence or by the consent of Mr. Andrews, by other distin- guished Scientists and Reformern.) AFTERNOON Ar 2 o’cI.ooK. A Social and Spiritual Conference for the free in- terchange of the expressions and aspirations of all who are desiring a Higher Religious Life, or a better knowledge of the Way. EVENING AT 7% o"cI.ocK. Lectures and discussions, by selected speakers and volunteers, _upon religious, scientiﬁc and miscel- laneous subjects. U. o. 1., Or,'United Order of Internationals, is a Secret Or- ganization, devoted to the best interests of the laboring classes. It is the vanguard of Social aud Political Reforms. For a description of its principles and purposes see Woonnum. & ,CLAirLIN’s WEEKLY, No. 160. he U. 0. .I.'/ meet ’every Sunday evening at P. M., at 234 Fifth street, N. Y. I For particulars of membership, address T. R. KINGET, M. D., , Cor. Sec. of U. 0. I., g 234 Fifth street, N. Y. __...__._____.__________‘____ CURB‘-D BY A SPIRIT ‘PRESCRIPTION, AND WARRANTED, FOR $10. It is an outside application. N 0 medicine given. Send for, free circular to 7 DR. E. WOODRUFF,‘ Grand Rapids, Mich. Wculdyou Know Yourself? CONSULT WITH A. B. SEVERANCE, The well known Physcmmelrisi and tlairvyani. Come in person, or send by letter a lock of your hair, or handwriting. or a photograph; he willggive you a correct delineation of character, giving instructions for self improvement, by telling what faculties to cul- tivate and what to restrain, giving your present phys- ical, mental and spiritual condition, giving past and future events, telling what kind of amedium you can develop into, if any, what business or profession you are best calculated for to be successful in life. Ad- reference to marriage; the adaptation of one to the other, and whether you are in a proper condition for marriage. Hints and advice to those who are in un. happy married relations, how to make their path of life smoother. ‘ , Further, will give an examination of’ diseases, and correct diagnosis, with a written prescription and struction for home treatment, which, if the patiemts follow, will improve their health and condition every time, if it does not effect a cure. He is eminently practical in all advice given, as thousands can testify from the Atlantic coast to the Paciﬁe,.having letters daily from men and women for the last ten years. aﬂiicted, advice and counsel to the young, and some- thing for every one to help them to meet the strug- gles of life that will pay them more than ten fold for all the money required for the delineations. _ He also treats diseases Magnetically and otherwise. B _ fD TERMS’. T13 81' t’ . . . . . . . . .. Full and 333: llgltle Delineation ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' "$5 80 Diagnosis of isease . . . . . . . . . . i - I ' ' ' ' H 1 08 glllaﬁamosls and Prescription 00 _ ..... .. 3 andﬂlglflésggggtxigtice Delineation, with Diagnosis 5 Address 457 Milwaukee street, Milwaukee, Wis. P R. and ELIZABETH LAWRENCE. of 0ttl1111W&5 Iowa, will heal the sick at home from the 151; to the 5th, andrfrom the 15th to the 20th of every month ‘ ‘ 9 .j and answer calls away from home the remainder of the time. vice and counsel in business matters. Also, advice in ‘ Has a word of sympathy and encouragement for they SHORT LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENT BY THE OLD ESTABLISHED AN}? Popular Route via NIAGARA FALLS SUSPENSION BRIDGE or BUFFALO AND MICHIGAN CEN- TRAL AND GREAT‘ WESTERN RAILWAY LINE t_o,Detro1t and Chicago without change of cars, making- close connection with all Railroads leading out of Chicago to all points in the great West.‘ ‘ — THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, and general information may be obtained at the Compani oﬂice, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New York. ' Copndensseol Time Tablet, 1 V ‘ wrsunnrru nu lﬁlt. 1 Via Erie & Mich. Central & Great Western R, R’s STATIONS. Express. Ema,-less s'i'ArIoNs. I Express. Lv 23d Street, N. Y ......... .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. m. Lv 23d Street, N. Y ...... .. 6.45 p. M. 1 “ Chambers street . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street . . . . . . 7.00 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ “ Jersey City . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.20 “ “ Susquehanna . . . . . . . .. 3.40 1*. M. 8.12 P. M. “ Susquehanna . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.43 A. M “ Binghampton . , _ . , _ , , . . . . . _ . 4.40 “ 9.20 “ “ Binghainpton . . . . . . . . . . .. 3.35 “ “ Elmira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.30 “ 12.16 A. M. “ Elmira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.35 “ “ Hornellsville . . . . . . . . . . 8.30 “ 1.50 “ . “ Hqrnellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ ' “ Buffalo . . . . . . . . . I . . . . .. .. 12.05 A M. 8.10 “ “ Bugalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.45 “ , E:ty2r , Ar Suspension Bridge... . 1.00 “ 10.00 “ Ar Suspension Bridge .\. 12.27 P. M. ——--_.......... ~ Lv Suspension Bridge... . , 1.10 . 1.35 P. II. LV Suspension Bridge 1.35 “ 9.50 p. m,_ Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . . 1.35 . “ 2.00 “ Ar St. Catherines . . . . . . . . . .. 2.00 “ 10.12 “ “ Hamilton . . . . . .. . 2.45 “ 2.55 “ . .“ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2-.55 “ 11.20 ‘ “ Harrisburg , , _ , , 3.53 “ “ Harrisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53 “ .... “ ondon..... .. 5.35 A M. 5.55 “ “ London . . . . . . .., . . . . . . . .. 5.55 “ 2.35 a. m. “ Chatham .. 7.55 “ 8:12 “ “ Chatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.19 “ 5.00 “ “ Detroit . 9.40 “ 10.00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7.00 ‘ Lv Detroit . 9.40 “ 10.10 “ Lv Detroit . . . . . . . . . ._ . . . . . . . ., 10.10 “ 8.10 Ar Wayne .... .. 10.21 “ . .. “ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . .. 8.55 “ “ Ypsilant ____ ,_ 10.45 “ 11.25 r. M. “ Ypsilanti .............. .. 11.25 “ 9.27 " “ Ann Arbor . . . _ .. 11.00 “ 11.43 “ “ Ann Arbor ....... 11.43 “ 9.50 “ “ Jackson... ._ 12.15 P M. 1.00 A. M “ Jackson ............... .. 1.00 A. M 11.30 “ “ Marshall.. . 1.15 “ ‘ “ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 p. m “ Battle Cree . . . . .. 2.03 “ AIR E “ Battle Creek ........... .. Am 1.25 " “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.55 “ LINE. ~ “ Ka1am8«Z00 . . . . . . . . . . . . .. LINE 2-35 ‘“ “ Niles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.32 P M.‘ 4.40 A. M. “ Nﬂes . . . . . ..~ . . . . . . . . . . . .: 4.40 A. M 5.00 “ “ New Buﬂalo . , _ . . _ , . , _ , . , _ ., 25 “ “ New Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.02 “ “ Michigan City . . . . . . ..‘ . . . . . , 5.45 “ 5.45 “ “ Michigan Clty . . . . . . . . . .. 5.45 “ 6.25 , “ “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.18 “ 7.47 “ “ Calumet ................ .. 7.47 “ 8.00 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.00 " “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8.45 “ Ar Milwaukee _ , , , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ W NE ,;,_M, 11.50 A. M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a. in. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. 8-455 1’; M. .. . Ar Prairie du Chem, , _ _ _ _ ,_ _ _ ,_ ‘~ 8.55 p. in. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.50 P M. 7.05 A. M. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M.’ 7.05 a. In. Ar St, Paul , , _ , _ . _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6,15 12, M,‘ ’~ . .. . A1‘ St. Paul . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 2.00 A. M. Ar St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.15 A M A1’ St. Louis ......... ..j . . . . .. 8.35 P. M. .. Ar Sedalia ..... . ..... .. 5.40 r. Ar Sedalia ................ 6.50 A. M. I :: geiiison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18.20 :‘ geiaisoin . . . . . . . . . - ... aveston.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0. 5 ‘ aves on . . . . . . .. . .,.. . Bismarck _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ ' _ _ _‘ 11_00 P M Ar Bismarck...... . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P M “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00 A. M. “ 0911111113116 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. 6-30 “ ou- ‘‘ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . ., 7.30 P. M. “ Llttle Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ar Burlington.'. . _ _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ , _ ,_ 8 50 A 1.1 A1‘ Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P. M .... “ Omaha _ _ _ _ , , _ , _ _ _ _ , _ , _ _ _ , _ __ 11 00 P M “ Omaha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.45 A. M ...... “ Cheyenne _________________ ,_ “ Cheyenne .............. .._l12.50 P. M .-... *‘ Ogden...._. ............... .. “ 0gden...._ ........... .. . 5.30 “~ “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. “ San Francisco... . — 8.30 “ ’ .. .. , Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . .. 0.40 A. M . A1‘ Galesburg - - - -- - 4-45 P M . “ Quincy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.15 “ “ Q11111CéYI--- - 9-45 “ “ St. Joseph . . . . . . . . ...... .. 10.00 “ “ St. Joseph. .... .. 8.10 A M .... “ Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.40 1’. M. “ Kansas Cit . . . . .. 9.25 “ .... “ Atchison ....... . . . . . . . .. I1.00 “ “ Atchison . . . . . . .. 11.17 “ ..... ‘- Leavenworth ..... ....... .. 12.10 “ " Leavenworth .......... .. 12.40 noon. “ Denver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A M 1 “ Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... Through’ Sleeping Car Arrangements _ T 9.15 A. M.——Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday), with Pullman’s Drawing-Room Can and connectin at Suspension Bridge with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. in the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there. _ , , , 7.20 P. M.—Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullm_an’s Palace Sleeping Cars, rims through to Chicago without change, arriving there at 8.00 a. m., iving passengers ample time for breakfast and take the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and outhwest. ~ CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH, MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF A E Michigan Central & Great Western Railways.- At St. Catharines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. ' ’ At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunkgﬂallway, _ At_ London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Port Stanley, an daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. ' . V , . At Det_i'oi.t,@with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk Railway. 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In this last class of complaints, ‘some of the most extraordinary discoveries have recently.’ been made,: which surmount the diﬂiculties that have heretofore‘ stood in the way of their cure. _ . v_ The peculiar advantage which the practice at_t_his Institution possesses over all others is, that in addition to all the scientiﬁc knowledge of Medical Therapeu- tics and Remedial _Agents which the Faculty have, it also has the u-nerring means of diagnosing diseases through GLAIRVOYANGE, as well as the scientiﬁc administration of ANIMAL and SPIRITUAL MAGNETISM in all their various i-ms. fOThlS combination of remedial means can safely be relied upon to ‘cure every disease that has not already destroyed some vital internal organ, No matter how often the patient aﬁected in chronic form. may have failed in obtaining relief. he should not despair, but seek it from this, the only Institution where all the various methods of cure can be combined. In addition to the cure of disease, Clairvoyant con- sultations upon all kinds of business and upon all forms of social affairs can also be obtained. Sealed letters answered. Reception hours from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Invalids who cannot visit the Institute in person can apply by letter. Medicine sent to all parts of the world. All letters should be addressed " Dr. C. A. BARNES, . I Healing Institute, 706 W. Monroe Street, CHICAGO, ILL.~ The Sexual Question Tire Money Power. How shall this fewer be made to serve, instead of ruling as : A A Lecture delivered by Lois Waisbrooker, at Jack- son, Mich., Dec. 14, at the Annual Meeting of the State Association of Spiritualists, and published by request. . “ Sister Lois—-I am glad to see, in the last number of Our Age, the names of so many who desire you to pub- lish your Lecture delivered in Jackson, December 14. Add my name to the list of siipplicants. Your ideas upon the money power, how it can/be made to serve, instead of ruling us, are grand beyond a mortal’s tell- ing. The Lecture was deep, logical, argumentative, and should be sent broadcast over the earth. ‘ i “M L SHERMAN, M. D. “ ADRIAN, Mien.” , ‘ Price 15 cents single copy; 10 cents if sent by the dozen. 0 _ ‘Address: oUR"AcrE, attle Creek, Mich. iWrapping paper or S for ' cut’- SENTO EVERYWHERE : tuetcrito SUN. No A Chrome ‘Fraud with it. DONfT SUBSCRIBE IF YOU WANT IT Eon ting dress patterns. .?._-— The Sun is printed to he read. \ » BY PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE, And takes its place on the Centre Table.‘ While the old FAMILY BIBLE GOES UP ON THE SHELF. SEND FOR THE’ TOLED 0 8 UN, Edited and Published by Jrto. A. LANT, at 129 Summit Street, Toledo, Ohio. TERMS: $2.00 for ﬁfty-two numbers; $1.00 for twenty-six numbers; 75c. for thirteen numbers, in advance. DR. J. C. PHILLIPS, clairvoyant and Magnetic Healer, ' OMRO, Wis. 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A Weekly Journal, devoted to the Interests of Spiritualism in the broad sense of that term——does not admit that there are Side Issues. - Can there be sides to a perfect circle or a perfect sphere? A Religion which will meet the wants of Humanity must be both. ‘ Free Press, Free Speech, @“° and has nb love ,5 sell. . Terms of Subscription, $2.50 per year. PUBLISHED BY ‘ LOIS j WAISBROOKER, EDITOR AND Pnorruaron, A oirice 68 energy Street, Battle creek, Mich. EARTH oLosETs. The Great Blessing of‘ the Age. ‘Comfort to the Sick and t r — Feeble. -——:— THE WAKEFIELD Is one of the latest inventions, and has many advan- tages over all others. The simple act of closing the lid brings the earth forward and drops it directly in the centre of‘ the pail, thus insuring the absolute cer- tainty of covering all the excrements. This is of vital importance. It also has a dust or odor slide, a child’s seat, and an extra large reservoir for dry earth or ashes. * CLOSED. OPEN. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-05-24_07_24
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-05-24_07_24
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 07, no. 26 (May 30, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2021
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-05-30
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: J, l I -. p . ' l l PAROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGZEITII UNTRAMMELED LIVES: BREAKING THE WAYI FOR PPUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. vVII.—No. 26.—WhOle N O. 182. NEW YORK, MAY BO; 1874. PRICE TEN CENTS. LOAN ERS’ BANK (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. .—_._.._— CAPITAL .......... ...... ........... .. $500,000 Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 .This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advamlae on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. .f Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @' FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. W1LMABTH.«Vice-Prtlsident. JOHN J. OISOO & SON, . . Bankers, N O. 59 “Tall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to _ check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the endof ea...
Show moreJ, l I -. p . ' l l PAROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGZEITII UNTRAMMELED LIVES: BREAKING THE WAYI FOR PPUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. vVII.—No. 26.—WhOle N O. 182. NEW YORK, MAY BO; 1874. PRICE TEN CENTS. LOAN ERS’ BANK (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. .—_._.._— CAPITAL .......... ...... ........... .. $500,000 Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 .This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advamlae on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. .f Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. @' FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CUR RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. W1LMABTH.«Vice-Prtlsident. JOHN J. OISOO & SON, . . Bankers, N O. 59 “Tall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to _ check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the endof each month. 7 ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE‘, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of. Deposit issued, payable on demand, 1 bearing Four per Cent interest. Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts of the United States and Canadas. ‘ The Most Dangerous Man A in America!’ The Independent Tract Society solicit orders forthe . above startling Tract—a real bombshell, at the rate of '75 cents per hundred; or 50 cents per half hundred. Working-men and women, send for itl Let a million copies be sown! ' , INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, Clinton, Mass, or Rochester, N. Y. N0'l.‘ICE.—Owii1g to our books having been lost -through the rascality df enemies, we are compelled to ask members to send names and P. 0. addresses again. Let no one write desiring reply without inclosing tamps for postage. Send stamp for catalogue, circulars, etc. A. BRIGGS DAVIS, 223 Brown st., Rochester, N. Y. TO THE AFFLIGTED. Having permanently located at Chicago, I am pre- pared to treat all classes of diseases both medicinally and magnetically. The success I,have hertofore met with in magnetic treatment is a suﬂicient guarantee . for the future. - Those who cannot come tosee me in person should write to me sending photograpliybiit it is better to some to my rooms if possible. ' ~ , D._W. HULL, 14% W. lfl7&l,ﬁll‘llston st" Qlllcegq. ‘AGRICULTURAL & FAMILY WEEKLY ‘ prietor of the Western Rural, one of the ablest and - THE \ . Western Rural, JOURNAL OF THE H. N. F. LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor, ' WITH AN Able and Practical Editorial Staf, AND AN EFFICIENT CORPS or SPECIAL AND VOLUN- TARY CONTRIBUTORS. TERMS: $2.50 per Year ;' $2 in Clubs of Four or More. '4 SPLENDIDA INDUCEMENTS TO AGENTS. ._.__. A PLUCKY PUBLISHER. [From the Ohlcago Daily Sun, Nov. 30, 1871.] “ One of the most remarkable examples of Chicago pluck and energy is given by Mr. H. N. F. Lewis, pro- most widely circulated agricultural journals in the country. Mr. Lewis lost by the ﬁre one of the most complete and valuable printing and publishing estab- lishments in the West, and also his residence and household goods. Yet he comes to the surface again with unabated ardor, re-establishes himself at No. 40'? West Madison street, where he has gathered new ma- terial for his business, and from which point he has already issued the ﬁrst number (since the ﬁre) of the Western Rural, the same size and in the same form as previous to the ﬁery storm. Nobody would imagine, on glancing at the neat, artistic head and well-ﬁlled pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm or specially disastrous had ever happened to it. Suc- cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought to feel proud of it.” " The Larges and Handsomest Paper for Young People.” THE Young Folks’ Rural, A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF COUNTRY AND CITY. TERMS: $1.50 per Year; $1 on Clubs of Four or More. A PAIR or BEAUTIFUL BERLIN CHROMOS, MOUNTED AND VARNISHED, SENT POSTPAII) As A GIFT To EVERY YEARLY SUBSCRIBER. The Young Folks’ Rural is a novelty among publi- cations for Young People——entirely a “ new idea,” and dilferent from any otherin style and character. Six- teen pages and sixty-four columns——the largest news- paper in Chicago .’ WHAT “ THEY SAY.” [From the Chicago Evening Post] “H. N.‘ F. Lewis, Esq., the well-known publisher of that admirable weekly, the West_ern"Rural, is publish- ing a monthly rural and literary Journal, under the title of the Young Folks’ Rural. *f _* * Mr, Lewis is just the man to make it a ‘ big thing. ”’ [From the Letter of a Western .H[0l/1.61.] » “ The Young Fol7cs’.Ru_ra_l is just what 0111 dear children need. Altogether it is a noble enterprise, and will do an untold anioiint of good. It is the ‘ parents’ assistant,’ and all thinking parents will join me in thanking you.” [From a School Teacher.) “I am a teacher, and take the paper for the beneﬁt and amusement of in pupils. Eyes are bri hter and lessons better learned when the ,Young F0? ’ Rural makes its appearance. , ~ SPECIMEN NUMBERS SEN T FREE’. Address, ' H. N. F. LEWIS, Publisher, ' M Chicago, 111. Both Wrrtsrn Rural and Ymmg F0lla9’..Ru/ml tarnished for Qzjjls Year for ss.so. THE {ONLY FIRST-CLASS ‘LITERARY, HOUSE- " ‘ . , CHARMING STORIES, INSTRUCTIVE ESSAYS, Ladies’ Own Magazine. R , HOLD AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE IN ' THE WEST, AND ~ THE ABLES T, BEST AND MOST POPULAR IN AMERICA. - BEAUTIFUL POEMS, ' Live Editorials, Superb Engramrogs. OVER TWENTY ABLE WRITERS EN- GAGED UPON IT. I ‘ . Only $2.00 a Year, or Twenty Cents a Copy, AND A SUPERB ORIGINAL OIL CHROM0, WORTH $5, I / FREE. SUBSCRIBE AND MAKE UP ACLUB, AND SECURE A HANDSOME PREMIUM. We will send the LADIES’ OWN three months on trial for 50 cents, and allow that to count as the sub- scription if you renew for the balance of the year. A new volume begins July 1. ‘ M. C. BLAND & C.0.,r Publishers, 287 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. lllu llll Showing how Interest on Money can be abolished by Free Competition. By WM. B. GREENE. Sixth thousand. Price 25 cents. Yours or Mlle: An Essay to show the TRUE BASIS PROPERTY and The Causes of its-Unequal ‘Distribution. By E. H. HEYWOOD. Twentieth thousand. Price 15 cents. ALSO, BY THE SAME, lard ash: Showing that Financial iteslhinder Enterprise and defraud both Labor -and"‘Capital; that Panics and Business Revulsions will be effectively prevented only through A FREE MllNEY. Fifth thousand. Price" 15 cents. .—.*__..—o All the above sold wholesaleand retail by the I Cc-Operative Publishing Co., RAILROAD IRON, FOR SALE BY S. ‘W. HOPKINS & 00., 71 BROADWAY. I TOLEDO,PEOR1A WARSAW RAILWAY,- .SECOND MORTGAGE CON - VERTIBLE 7 PER CENT. CURRENCY BONDS. INTEREST WARRANTS PAYABLE OCTOBER AND APRIL, PRINCIPAL 1886. . block. By act of reorganizationof the Company hese bonds are convertible into the First Preferred Shares _ of the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares, at Amsterdam) of six milllonsof dollars, whichcover the _entire line of miles‘ of’ completed road, to gether with all the rolling stock and real property, to the value more than ten millions of dollars. '.l‘lie road crosses‘ the entire State of Illinois and connect with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the Missi s sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The income of the road for the year will net suﬂicient. to pay interegf, 93 feired shares. F01 term sllpply to ‘ CLARK, DODGE a CO, reissues, rm and Wm We offer for sale $100,000 of the above bonds in and into the Consolidated Bonds (recently negotiated I all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on, the pres , / DENTALNOTICE. ‘hi “""1§ nﬁﬁigg 'sr.eqsgtqnId ‘'03 E ‘sling - A brilliant defense of Buddha. 2 “PWOODHULL do OLA 3 FLIN’S WEEKLY ' May 80, 1874. Z The Spiritual Mystery; I ’ OR" ' ‘Y “ The New Ogle,” Is in its third thousand, dud revolutioniziiig human thoug"ht.on Spiritualism. will be mai1e‘d'for60cej1tg_ It contains what can nowhere ellselonﬂ earth be found. Address, " ’ I I p ,,.AKate V.,,.;:C9\rs\qn, L : ‘ ‘ --w-3 Ohio. 2". THE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY, Cedarvale, Howard 00., Kansas, Desire co- (1 ‘tn ' ' C0mmunit1';'e1:sp1<I)1i;.ence w1 persons W'lSI11I1g for a Address (inclosing stamp) ; J. G. TRUMAN, Secretary. Recent Radical’ Reading. 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When we reﬂect that the nervous system of the animal life and the system of th.e great sympathetic govern all the vital operations, and that the regularity of these latter is absolutely dependent on the orderly performance /of their functions by the centres wherein are found the prime springs and the fundamental activities of the animal economy, we conceive at once how ‘ countless diseases may arise out of disturbances produced by an abuse or an excess of the passions. Physicians have in all ages reckoned the passions among the predisposing, de- termining, or aggravating causes of the majority of diseases --especially chronic diseases; for it is a peculiarity of the nerve-substance that it is impaired, and that it ‘spreads abroad the consequences of its impairment, only little by little, and by imperceptible degrees. The work of the pas- sions might be compared to the operations by which an army approaches a beleaguered city; they set about overmastering "health and life circumspectly and slowly, but their advance is always sure. A few observations concerning the psycho- logical and physiological disturbances produced by the pas- sions of the moral order, which are the most disastrous in their effects, viz., love, melancholy, hate, anger, etc., will give some idea of the material working of these poisons of the soul. We may regard lo ve as a neurosis of the organs of memory and imagination, in so far as these two faculties are related to the object of love. The memory in particular seems here to acquire an intensity that is truly extraordinary. In illus- tration of this point, Alibert states a fact which he observed at Fahlun. As some laborers were one day at work making a connection between two shafts in a mine, they found the remains of a young man in a complete state of preservation, and impregnated with bituminous substances. “The man’s features were not recognized by any of the workmen. Nothing further was known than that the accident by which he had been buried alive had occurred upward of ﬁfty years before. The people had ceased to make inquiries as to the identity of the body, when a decrepit old woman came up supported on crutches. She approached the mummiﬁed corpse, and in it recognized the body of the man to whom she had been betrothed more than ﬁfty years previously. She threw herself upon the rigid corpse-which was like a bronze statue—wept over it, and manifested intense joy at seeing again the object of her early affection. As for the imagination, it transcends all bounds and loses all character of exactitude. The will is no longer mistress of the vital, acts. Says Romeo, at the tomb of Juliet: “ Here, here will I remain . With worms that are thy chambermaids. Oh, my love! my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty; . . . beauty’s__ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And Death’s pale flag is not advanced there." “ I am drawn towards you,” writes Mdlle. de Lespinasse to M. de Guibert, “by an attraction—by a feeling which 1 abhor, but which has all the power of malediction and fatal- ity.” The English‘ poet Keats, when dying of consumption, writes thus to a friend: “I am in that state wherein a woman, as woman, has no more power over me than a stock or a stone, and yet the thought of leaving N. is something horrible to me. I am ever seeing her form, which is ever disappearing.” “ This latter fact pertains to the history of hallucinations, and this in turn borders on the history of ecstacies, which are so frequent in religious life; so true is it that love, even mystical and divine, if not conﬁned within the bounds of reason, turns to a kind of mania, which, as we shall see,‘ is full of danger for the general functions of the mind. ‘ , Thought draws the sketch of life, but passion adds the coloring of the picture. When this passion is a happy one, I the coloring is brilliant and cheerful, and then life is a bright, vernal season. But oftener thecpassion is a painful one, and the color given by it to life is darksome. Melancholy is one f those passions which throw a gloom over a man’s life." W.OODHULL\& cLArL1n's' wnnxtn. I . . » I i There is one form of melancholy which is plainly a variety of dementia, and which often comes under the notice of the physician. It is characterized by an incurable sadness, an . irresistible’ love of solitude, absolute inaction, and a belief in .a host of imaginary evils that are ever haunting the patient. “ My body is a burning ﬁre,” -wrote a melancholic subject to his medical man; “ my nerves are glowing coals, my blood is boiling oil. Sleep is impossible. _ I endure martyrdom.” ““I am bereft of mind and sensibility,” ‘writes another; “ my senses are gone; I can neither see nor hear anything; I have no ideas; I feel neither pain nor pleasure; all acts, all sensa- tions are alike to me; I am an automaton, incapable of think- ing or feeling or recollecting, of will and of motion.” This form of meloncholia is a disease and not a passion. It is a species of dementia akin to those strange aberrations which go by the name of lycanthropy, lypemania,.etc. The true passional melancholy is that reﬂex, profound, painful feeling of the imperfections of our nature, and of the nothingness of human life, which seizes on certain minds, torturing them, disheartening them, and making their life one long sigh. This feeling is expressed by the gentle poet Virgil when he says, “ Swat lacrimoe rerum ” (everywhere tears). This is the gloomy thought that haunts c the mind of" Hamlet, the hallucinatory despair of Pascal, the heart-rending cry of Ghilde Harold, the grand desolation of Manfred, the inquietude and the agony represented by Albert Durer’s graver and by Feti’s pencil. Melancholy, -so deﬁned, has a place in the depths of the heart of every man . that philosophically contemplates destiny, nor need we seek elsewhere an explanation of the sombre humor which distin- guishes men of this kind, and which is witnessed to by those books wherein they convey to us the history of their souls’ troubles. If such a humor as this had its source in the com- mon ills of life, in its sufferings, its miseries and its decep- tions, we might understand it, perhaps, in the case of such men as Swift, Rousseau, Shelley and Leopardi; but when We meet with it in such favored geniuses as Byron, Goethe, Lamartine and Alfred de Vigny, we are forced to acknowl- edge that, in men of the higher stamp, its cause must be the pain they feel on seeing that they cannot slake their ideal thirst. Such is the melancholy which we may call the philo- sophic. Besides this, there is another form of melancholy which proceeds from better-deﬁned causes, '5. e., from the common griefs and lvexations of life. ;Reverses of fortune, balked ambition and disappointments in love are usually the causes of this kind of sadness, which, being far more active than purely philosophicisadness, often give rise to organic dis-. orders of the most serious kind. Albert Durer succumbed to the vexations caused him by his wife. Kepler died the victim of the afflictions heaped upon him by fate. Disap- pointment in love is one of the most frequent causes of melancholy. This it is Which harassed and tortured Mdlle. de Lespinasse, which troubled and worried the chaste soul of Parmela; it was the death of the beautiful Genoese, Tom- massino Spinola, when she heard of Louis XII.’s illness, and of Lady Caroline Lamb, when she went home after the funeral of Byron. These two women had lived years and years, the one preserving inthe depths of her heart the calm despair of an impossible love, the other the bitter recollec- tion of a love that was spurned; but neither of them could outlive the affliction of seeing the object of her affection taken away bydeath. There are some cases in which the resistance is not of so long duration, and where the ravages of passion are such that the organism becomes dislocated with fearful rapidity. Indeed, it is no rare thing for a phy- sician to be summoned to a patient who is wasting away with sadness and dejection. No organic cause can be discovered to account for the malady; the usual remedies are of no avail; the patient does not mend, and usually keeps the secret of his griefs to himself. Insuch cases the physician should always strive to discover whether there is any passion of the soul which produces this disorder of the functions and makes his remedies of no effect. Usually such a. passion exists. Thus it was that the physician Erasistratus discovered that Antiochus loved his step-mother, Stratonice. Boccaccio like- wise tells of a physician who by chance detected the true cause, previously unknown, of the complaint with whichra certain young man was suffering; whenever ayoung female cousin of the patient entered the room, his pulse beat quicker. It often happens that the melancholic becomes iiiieapable of bearing his afflictions, or of waiting for death to relieve him. This is the origin of suicide. The history of medicine and , literature is full of narratives, real or ﬁctitious, of suicide determined by an unfortunate passion. While we admire. whatiis touching and dramatic in such narratives, we cannot fail to see that suicide is in se a fact of the morbid kind. — Its cause is a total aberration of the instinct of self-preservation; and asthe latter has its seat in a certain part of the brain, we are authorized in locating the cause of suicide in a cere- bral disorganization, brought about more or less rapidly by certain more general changes in the economy. Similar changes are produced sooner or later under the in- ﬂuence of resentment, hate and anger. Resentment" isia secret passion which draws its plans in silence. Hate is taciturn, or ﬁnds utterance only in imprecations. Anger has its crises. Whereas resentment is disquieting, hate painful and anger distressing, revenge is a kind of pleasure. It has been compared to the feel of silk, to indicate at once its im- perious nature and our gratiﬁcation in appeasing it. VVhen anger and the desire of revenge distendthe veins, flush the face,'stiﬁ‘en the arms, brighten the eyes, bewilder the mind and lead it to the commission often of criminal acts, the soul feels a sort of delight, but it is of short duration; and the momentary excitement is followedby a profound depression whose effects, if oftentimes repeated, differ not from those of concentrated resentment or pent-up hate. The man who is given to outburts of anger is sure to experience a rapid change of the organs, in case he does not die in a ﬁt of rage. Death under such circumstances is of frequent occurrence. Sylla, Valentinian, Nerva, Wenceslas and Isabeau of Bavaria, all died in consequence of an access of passion. The medical sadness which broods over Oberman and Rene, the bitter," annals of our own time recount many instances of fatal effects following the violent brain-disturbance caused by anger. The symptoms usuallyjare pulmonary and cerebral congestions. Still such fatal accidents as these are excep- tional; as a rule, the passions of hate and anger deteriorate the constitution by slow degrees, but surely. ’ How, then, do we explain those morbid phenomena which have their origin in misplaced affection, in disappointed am- bition, in hatred or in anger,,and which culminate either in I serious chronic maladies or in death or suicide? They all seem to start from an impairment of the cerebro-spinal cen- tres. The continual excitation of these by fever-present emotions determines a. paralysis of the central nerve-sub- ‘stance, and thus affects its connectionswith the nerves ex- tending out to the various organs. These nerves next degen- erate by degrees, and soon the great functions _are com- promised. The heart and the lungs cease to act with their normal rhythm, the circulation grows irregular and languish- ing. Appetite disappears, the amount of carbonic acid ex- haled decreases, and the hair grows white, vowing to the interruption of the pigmentary secretion. Thisgeneral dis- turbance in nutrition and secretion is attended with a fall of the body’s temperature and anaemia. The ﬂesh dries up and the organism becomes less andless capable of resisting mor- biﬁc inﬂuences. At the same time. in consequence of the reaction of”-all these disturbances On the brain, the psychic faculties become dull or perverted, and the Patient falls into a decline more or less complicated and aggravated by grave symptoms. Under these conditions he dies or makes away with himself. I Two organs, the stomach and the liver, are often affected in a peculiar and characteristic way in the‘ course of this pathological evolution. The modiﬁcations produced in the innervation, under the inﬂuence of cephalic excitement, cause a disturbance of the blood-circulation in the liver. This disturbance is of such a nature that the bile, now secreted in larger quantity, is resorbed into the blood instead of pass- ing into the biliary vesicle. Then appears what we call jaundice or icterus. The skin becomes pale, then yellow, owing to the presence in the blood of the coloring matter of the bile. This change in the liver is usually developed slowly; sometimes, however,*jaundice makes its appearance = suddenly. Villeneuve mentions the case of two youths who brought a discussion to an end by grasping their swords; suddenly one of them turned yellow, and the other, alarmed at this transformation, dropped his weapon. The same author speaks of a priest who became icterical (jaundiced) on seeing a mad dog jump at him. Whatever may be said of these cases, we must reckon painful affections of the soul among the efficient causes of chronic diseases of the liver. . The digestion, says the author of a work published some years ago, is completely subjected to the influence of the moral and intellectual state. When the brain is wearied by the passions, appetite and digestion are almost gone. What- ever causes grief or fright aﬁ"ects the stomach more or less. In times of epidemic, or of civil war, and in all social con- junctures when any extraordinary peril threatens the mass- es, dyspepsia becomes more frequent and assumes a more serious aspect. This affection commonly prevails amid the various symptoms of depression and decline produced by moral suﬁering. The direct pathological consequences of disordered nutrition, whose chief symptom is dyspepsia, are of the most serious nature, and there is no doubt‘ that among them we must reckon cancer. Hence it is that Antoine L n- bois located the cause of cancer in the brain. As a vibrating chord determines ‘v’ibrationin.a neighboring chord, so a passion produces in those who are the witnesses of it a passion or a tendency to a passion of the same kind. The infant by a smile responds instinctively to its mother’s smile, and it is difficult to contemplate attentively the por- , trait of a smiling person, especially if we obsbrve that the face wears a smile, without our own faces assuming a like expression. “We cannot,” says Leon Dumont, “reﬂect on any mode of expression but our countenances will have a. certain tendency to conform itself to it.” A fortviori it will so conform itself when, instead of merely reﬂecting on the expression, we see it. Yawning, hiccoughing and sighingkare as contagious as laughter. All passions, whether good or bad, are contagious. Esqui- grol seems to have been the ﬁrst to discern and characterize moral contagion, which he deﬁnes to be that property of our passions whereby they excite like passions in others who are more or less predisposed to them. The contagion of good example is manifest, and it is certain that the worship of the saints is oneof the wisest and most powerful instrumentalities devised by the'Catholic religion. Unfortunately, depraved passions too have their imitators, and in this case the imita- tion is so prompt, so thorough. and in some sort so'auto- matic, as often to appear irresistible. An able physological physician, M. Prosper Despine, who has bestowedprofound study on this subject, shows, from a very large number of instances, that when a crime surrounded with dramatic cir- cumstances is published abroad, and made matter of general comment, a certain number of similar crimes will be com- mitted soon afterward._ Minds that are notfortiﬁed, by a I strict morality and a good education, against the allurements of such examples, and whose slumbering passions only await the occasion that will stir them up, are spurred on and dc.. cided to act by the bustle and the parade made about the hero of a criminal trial. M. Despine’s statistics on this pain- ful subject are exceedingly curious and conclusive. Now it is some peculiar form of murder, again a new process of poi- soning, anon some original way of disposing of a corpse, that gives occasion to grim plagiarisms, with all’ the circumstances identical. In a word, all criminal aetsproceeding from hate, revenge. and cupidity, always summon forthin certain indi- viduals a spirit of emulation. Hence it were advisable.abso- lutely to forbid the publication, in popular prints, of criminal trials, Whether real or imaginary, and to interdict the per- formance of "plays wherein wickedness and crime are por- trayed for the gratiﬁcation of the spectator’s morbid curi- osity. ; M. Despine’s suggestion with regard to this matter will be approved by physicians and hygienists, who are al 4 . C . I” _i .~*WOODHULLV &j§'{CLAFL’IN’S WEEKLY. May 30, 1874. agreed that writings and plays of a certain class are to be reckoned among the causes which conduct so many wretches to the galleys, the morgue and the mad-house. When we disseminate examples of outrage and disorder, we must not be surprised if we ﬁnd a harvest of crime and insanity. Let us, then, heartily second the suggestion we speak of, and which M. Bouchut authoritatively formulates when he says that, instead of feasting the public with recitals and plays so dangerous to the common weal, we should rather found a moral pest-house, to which should be committed, so soon as ' they make their appearance, those rascalities whose conta- giousness is now beyond question. i Besides the contagion of those passions which end in crime, there is also the contagion of those passionate states which terminate in suicide. Epidemics of suicide are frequent in history. The instance of the young women of Miletus, 1 as told by Plutarch, is familiar. One of them hung herself, and ‘ immediately severalofher companions made away with themselves in the‘ same manner. To stay the progress of this redoubtable frenzy, the order was given to expose the naked bodies of the suicides in the market-place of the city. An ancient historian of Marseilles records an epidemic of suicide which raged among the young women of that place. In 1793 the city of Versailles alone offered the spectacle of 1,300 vol~ untary deaths. In the beginning of the present century a sui- cidal epidemic destroyed large numbers of people in Eng- land, France and Germany, the victims being young persons who had conceived a disgust for life, from the reading of melancholy romances, coupled with precocious over—indu«1- gence in pleasures. A still stranger epidemic is that of in- fanticide, which prevailed in Paris at the beginning of this century, after the newspapers had published the history of the Cornier case. Madame Cornier, under the inﬂuence of infanticidial monomania, had murdered her child under cir- cumstances of such a kind as to make an impression on a certain number of mothers, so that, though excellent women and sincerely attached to their children, they were seized with a desire to get rid of them. They did not yield to the temptation, but the circumstance of their being attacked with such a mania excited much surprise among medical men. It will not be uninteresting if to these curious phenomena We append the facts of nervous contagion to which M. Bouchut called the attention of physicians some years ago. It had long been known, especially since the time of the famous convulsionnaires of the St. Medard Cemetery, that some neuropathic states are multiplied by instinctive imita- tion; but M. Bouchut shows that facts of this kind are far more common than has been supposed, and the work wherein he‘ describes them adds a new and dramatic chapter to the strange history of nervous aberrations. One of the ﬁrst cases given by M. Bouchut is as follows—it was observed at Paris in 1848, in a shop‘ where 400 workwomen were employed : One day one of these workwomen turned pale, lost consciousness, and fell to the ﬂoor, her limbs convulsed, and her jaws set. Within the space of two hours 30 of the women were seized in the same way. On the fourth day 115 were affected, the symptoms in all cases being the same——viz., suffocation, prickling sensation in the limbs, vertigo, dread of sudden death, followed by loss of consciousness in theconvulsions. A similar epidemicwas observed in 1861 among the young girls of the parish of Montmarire, who were preparing for the ﬁrst communion. On the morning of the ﬁrst day of the retmt'te——or preparatory season of religious sec1usion——while at church, three of them became unconscious, and were seized with general convulsions. The following day the same symptoms appeared in three other girls. Still others were attacked on the third day. On the fourth, the communion. day, 32 were seized in the same way. On the ﬁfth, conﬁrma- tiou-day, as the archbishop ‘approached, 15 girls were seized with convulsions, uttered a shriek, and fell to the ﬂoor un- conscious, when the prelate was about to conﬁrm them. _ Thus, in the space of seventy-ﬁve days, 40 girls out of 150 manifested identical nervous disorders. The various hallucinational, ecstatic and spasmodic states, transmitted and multiplied by example, play an important role in medieeval history, particularly among the religious orders. There is the closest analogy between the accounts handed down to us by the writers of those times and the observations of physicians published in our own day. As concerns the question of treatment, we possess hardly any save moral remedies; and the success attending the employ- ment of these shows well the purely nervous character of these singular affections. We read of Boerhaave staying an epidemic of hysterical convulsions in a boarding-school by threatening to burn, with a red-hot iron, any of the girls who should be attacked. Practitioners in our own time adopt analogous processes and artiﬁces to conquer those pas- . sicns which degenerate into morbid states. They strive to inspire the patient with a passion different from that which possesses him, and to ﬁx his attention on subjects discon- nected with those which occupy his mind. 1 ’ This style of physio--this moral therapy-—requires inﬁnitely more tact and discernment than the application of the usual remedies of the pharmacopoeia. Nor is * it in our medical ' schools thatryoung men, who intend {to practice the healing .. art, can learn to diagnose and to treat those maladies wherein the soul wrecks the body. This is a vocation which requires profound ‘personal study and observation, and wherein the student would do well to draw on, a source too much over- looked in our times—-viz., those old authors who treat ques- tions of this kind. The young physician will ﬁ nd equal proﬁt and delight in studying those profound connoisseurs of the human mind, La Chambre, Stahl, Pinel, Hoffmann, Bichat, Tissot, Richerand, Alibert, Georget. From them the student will not only learn how‘ to judge wisely of the passions of others, and of the best means of treating them, but will also get sage counsels for the government of his own. There he will see that thereis nowhere perfect health, save when the ‘passions are well regulated, harmonized and equipoised, and that moral, temperance is as indispensable to a calm and tranquil life a.s,phy_siological temperance. He will seeithat, without going the lengths of stoicism—in.which there is more pride than wisdom, more ostentation than virtue——the noblest and the most desirable state for the mind and body alike is equidistant from all extreme passions—t'. 6., situated in the golden mean. And this conviction that regular living and moderation in material as in emotional life are the secret, not, indeed, of happiness—which is nowhere in this world———but of serenity and security, he will strive to spread abroad/as being the most useful_ precept of the medical art. If it is your desire that your circulatory, respiratory and digestive functions should be discharged properly, normally, if you want your appetite to be good, your sleep sound, your humor equable, avoid all emotions that are over-strong, all pleasures that are too intense, and meet the inevitable sor- rows and the cruel agonies of life with a resigned and ﬁrm soul. Ever have some occupation to employ and divert your mind, and to make it proof against the temptations of want or of desire. Thus will you attain the term of life without. overmuch disquiet and afﬁiction.——Revue des Dem: lV_ToAndes. O INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE. 1. Go’ to, now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. 4. Behold the hire of the laborers who‘ have reaped down your ﬁelds, which is keptback by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have ,. reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord. Gen. Ep. James, v. 1. _____.. CAPITAL AND LABOR- T0 THEVVORKING PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE ALL THE WEALTH or THE WORLD—A DECLARATION or INDEPENDENCE or LABOR OVER GAPITAL—A 'I.‘HIR'1‘Y—DAYS’ STRIKE T0 BENE- rrr THE wonxme PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. 1 APRIL, 187 .1 Labor produces everything; money, nothing. Labor is the real capital and money the representative. But see the power of money at interest; for one dollar at compound in- terest would in time buy all the wealth of the world, and without producing anything; and that is the injustice of capital over labor, viz., too high interest. The Boston Trav eler has a reference to this subject. It says: “The gradually increasing rate of interest should make people wary of borrowing money for speculative purposes, and especially of hiring it for the purchase of unproductive property, or in the expectation of obtaining. permanently high rents. It is the high rate; of 1ntcrest_wh1ch every few years causes a general breaking up _of bus1_ne_ss, when prop- erty and products fall In price. This also 1t is which causes wealth gradually but steadily to concentrate into the hands of comparatively a few persons in the community. Take any series of ten,/twenty or_ thirty years, or more, and the longer the series the more positive and conclusive becomes the evi- dence of the fact, and it will be seen that the most proﬁtable business in the world IS the lending of money. The high rate of money, high rents and high taxes must, in the course of a few years, tend to_ such a concentration of wealth as cannot fail to be injurious to society. and will lilti- mately so straiten the debtor classes as to necessitate to a very great extent the process of wiping out old accounts and beginning anew.” There is not a money lender, note shaver nor speculator in or around Wall street who does not fully understand and appreciate the facts set forth in the above extract. .You believe in strikes; now make a grand strike for free- dom from the tyranny and injustice of capital over labor all over the world. I As in 1773 the inhabitants of,New York and Philadelphia returned to England the tea ships, and the people of Boston threw overboard into the harbor 342 chests of tea, which was the beginning of our war for Independence, commence another war for the independence of labor over capital on the next 4th of July in this country and in Europe, or as soon thereafter as possible. , Let all men, women and children strike for a day of rest; a “ Sabbat ” a month long; for it is only by combined effort that great public wrongs are righted and great public beneﬁts secured. . Many of you have labored all your lives like Tslaves for a mere pittance, just enough tolkeep soul and body together, under great sufferings, with not a moment of rest or time for mental improvement, while the favored few, the “masters of the situation,” who have enslaved you, have too much of this world’s goods—not honestly obtained, but through fraud and injustice to the laborer. Now prepare yourselves for a month’s rest in the summer, when you can live cheaply, One or two bushels of corn and beans, properly prepared. will carry anindividual through a summer month. Most 3,11 of you can get that, and the more fortunate must help the un- fortunate. The strong must help the weak. Stand by each other like brothers and sisters. Make this one month the people’s “ Sabbath,” "in it thou shalt not do any work; thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates ;” for you have been working all your lives for your miserable living, and others have received the beneﬁts of your labors, who were not entitled to them. Strike, not for ten hours or eight hours for a day’s work, or for any particular trade and more wages, but strike alto- gether for co-operation and freedom. Isolated strikes only make your condition worse than it was before, because it in- creases the price of rent, food andclothing, and of every- thing useful, makes much confusion, and beneﬁts no one. “ Strike ” for a month’s freedom from the tyranny of the Church, State, political, ﬁnancial and corporation “rings” that now tyrannize over you. Pay no more monev to the priest, physician or attorney. For the priest knows nothing about the soul, or the physician about the body, or the attorney about justice. Let all these “professions,” non- producers, who live on the earnings of others, “go to grass,” except in cases of emergency. Be your own thinker, your own priest, doctor and lawyer. I Give all these people a month’s rest and timefor reﬂection about the brotherhood and sisterhood of the race. Let the, ministers of the many different religions all over the world quarrel about their dogmas, but not on your money. Let them preach to empty houses and earn their living by hone industry. Money and justice is what you need most, and not their religion. If you can act like brothers andsisters and stand by each other and “do as you would be done by,” it- will be all the religion that you will ever need‘ here or here- after. . It is of but small consequence whata man’s belief is on Sunday, if on Monday, behind the counter, he gives fourteen‘ ounces for a pound of sugar, or sells 190 pounds for a barrel of? ﬂour; or retails a worthless patent medicine, or conceals the- cause of disease in hopes of proﬁting by its effects, or makes. a corner in grain, gold or stocks, or wrings service from the‘ unpaid laborer, oritramples on the feelings of men, or triﬁes with the hearts of women, or lives beyond his income, asking; credit without the ability to pay, or charges exorbitant fees. All such evil deeds, from which society suffers so much, re- sult from the lack in men of one thing which ought to stand over them with a ﬂaming sword to keep them in the way of life-a vigorous sentiment of honesty. But “man’s inhu- manity to man (and woman) makes countless millions mourn.” If Secretary Boutwell was right in estimating the national debts of the world to be about twenty-six billions of dollars, is it not time for the men and women of the producing classes all over the world, who have these debts to pay,/to consider the subject how long they will remain degraded, pauperized laborers, as they are sometimes called——slaves to immense corporations and giant monopolies——before making war against this oppression? Probably the State, municipal railroad and other corporation debts would exceed the na- tional debts of the world, making altogether over ﬁfty bil- lions of dollars of debts for the laboring classes of the world. to pay; for labor produces all the capital of the world, and money nothing, and therefore the laboring men and women I of the world are the paymasters for this tremendous debt. Allowing the population of the world to be about one thou- sand million, this would make a mortgage of about $50 of debt on the head of every man, woman and child in the world to pay the monop oly—the favored few-—the owners of this debt and of these working people——“ the masters of the situation.” Of course, no one can at present foresee how this burthen can be removed from the poor, and so it must always remain a perpetual tax upon the producing classes unless they shake it off by their own efforts. ‘ The people believe in strikes. Let the next 4th of July be the beginning of the world’s strike all over the world by the producing classes of the world for thirty days. Let the farmers keep their products, and refuse to sell any- thing except to consumers. Let mechanics refuse to work for corporations or any one but themselves. Refuse to run the cars and steamboats or the machinery of the factories. Cut down expenses of living. Abstain from all expensive and injurious habits, such as the use of tobacco and liquors, and make store bills as small as possible. Waste no more money on ministers, doctors or lawyers. Turn the churches into school-houses. Let the doctor tell you how to prevent disease, and the lawyer how to prevent disputes. Try this strike for a month and see how it would work. Capital is master to-day, but gently “ turn the tables ” upon the capitalist. Be gentle, and respectful, and loving to him, (as he has been to you ?), but let his railroad trains, steam- boats, factories and stores stand idle for a month, to give him time for reﬁection on “ the situation.” He is too busy now. But give the “nobility,” who live on the poor, time to inquire into the cause of so much misery and starvation all over the world. No wonder some people are so very poor when others are so very rich. Twelve familes own three-fourths of Scotland, and ﬁfteen million acres of land lie waste for deer parks for the amusement of the lords. And who is a lord but a robber of the working man’s hard earnings? A laborer there gets seven or eight shillings a week, and never tastes meat from one ,year’s end to another; and one-third of London are paupers. Who is responsible for this misery and suffering? It rests somewhere. Is it on the Quee, Parliament, gentry or where? And the same questions can beput here in this country. Massachusetts has over 25,000 children between ﬁve and twelve years of age who do not receive the slightest education at home or at school. .\(See Report of Massachu- setts Bureau of Labor.) Who is responsible for this? Who create wealth but the producers? But it is taken from them by taxes on almost everything they use, which will be continued forever unless a bold and concerted action is taken by them to throw off the load, for no one ever ex- pects to see the national debts paid. And so, if a national debt is ablessing in disguise, let the owners of these debts keep them. \ Do no violence, but be careful to vote for men for oﬁice in the future who will legislate for your interests more than for their own as they are now doing in Congress and elsewhere. For how can you expect to have just laws made by men whose interests are opposed to yours? Send workingmen to Congress and your Legislatures. Men.out of your own ranks I who know your wants and needs (for you have many capa,_ ble among you), instead of lawyers and bank oﬁicers as you now do. You have the votes; use them, as the negrodoes “ down South,” and they have sent excellent colored men to Congress, who excel many white members from the North. I )on’t patronize newspaper publishers that are not friendly to your interests. Let them keep their papers and you keep , your money. The large city papers are mostly under the 0011-1301 of capitalists whose interests are the same as other capitalists at present, viz., to keep things as they are, to keep money scarce. Money-rules. and workingmen have no voice and no hearing. I Don’t “love your enemies,” by patronizing them for thirty. days. Let the busy world stand still a month, and have time for reflection on the condition of humanity all over the world. Try to ﬁnd a man——a true man—one who “loves his neighbor as himself,” and will “ do as he would be done by ’” to represent your interests. ' “ God give us men!-a time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands-« Men whom, the lust of oﬂlce does not kill, 5%” May 30,1874. ' ‘ WOODHULI.“ a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. I Men whom the spoils of oﬂice cannot buy, . Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who have honor, men who will not lie, Men who can stand before a demagogue ‘And damn his treacherous ﬁatteries without winking, Tall men, sun-crowned, who live ahove the fog, In public duty and in private thinking, For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selﬁsh strife, lo! freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land and waiting justice sleeps.” The platform of principles of the National Grange is worthy of notice, viz.: to develop higher manhood, toen- hance the comforts and attractions at home, to maintain in- ‘violate the laws, to reduce expenses, individual and co-opera- tive; to buy less and produce more, in order" to make farms self-sustainin g, diversify our crops and sow no more than we can cultivate; to condense the bulk of our exports, selling less in the bushel and more on the hoof and in theﬂeece; to discountenance the credit and mortgage systems; to buy and sell and act together for mutual protection; to avoid litiga- tions as much as possible by arbitration in the grange; to suppress prejudices, unhealthy rivalry and selﬁsh ambition; to dispense with middlemen; to increase in every practica- ble way all facilities for transporting cheaply to the sea- board, or between home-producers and consumers, all the productions of our country. They are not enemies of rail- roads, navigable and irrigating canals; are not enemies of capital, but oppose t.he tyranny of monopolies andlong to see the antagonism between capital vs. labor removed; are opposed to excessive salaries, high rates of interest and ex- orbitant percent-age of proﬁts in trade. The world is dead—ripe for revolution, and the mighty army of the working class must start it. Crimes, corruption and abuses are exploding the old government, Church and social order by spontaneous combustion. Look out for the crash. ~ Good people, workers, producers, stand from under and save yourselves! Come to the front, all ye true-hearted, for labor, reform and reconstruction! Let the common people stand up and join hands. We must rear new institutions in place of the old, crumbling ones. Strike! is the word for every man and every woman. Strike for manhood and woman- hood! Strike for equality and fraternity! Strike for a working aristocracy to supersede the present proud, non- producing, tyrannical aristocracy of wealth! Humanity must hold the supremacy, and money be servant instead of master. Sift the chaff‘ and cookie out of Church and State, and save the wheat for the people’s bread! Please read ‘and circulate, and, if interested, address Dr. B. Franklin Clark, Bunker Hill District,~Boston, Mass. GOLD AS A BASIS FOR MONEY "FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CAPITALISTS, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE WEALTH PRODUCERS. Gold of itself is not money, any more than iron or any other natural product. It becomes money by arbitrary statute, and is only recognized as money when it is properly -stamped with the seal of the constituting authority. The reason why it is recognized as a safe and reliable money ma- iterialis because all civilized as well as barbarous people and countries use it as such and put their stamp, each nation and people severally, upon it, not by indorsement. butby re- stamping it under the provisions of their own authority; it thereby becoming their individual or sovereign money. It grew into use as a medium of exchangeﬁrst as a pledge; it being a scarce and durable metal, it was used fortrinkets, rings, jewels, etc., and these were, among the savage tribes, left as pledges for whatever was wanted by the pledgor, or the article given by the pledges to the pledgor, and to that extent became a circulating medium between two persons- tne pledgor having the privilege of redeeming them within a. given time. This pawning or pledging of jewels, rings and trinkets for necessaries was in time supplemented by giving them right out for what was needed,and thus it became neces- -sary to ﬁx a standard value to metals in the countries where ‘it was used, and so iii the early time the king or ruler of a ‘people put his own seal upon it and made it money. This ﬁnally grew into general use in and among all peoples, and the ‘interchange of commodities by and between different coun- tries, using this money as the medium of exchange, pro- duced the necessity of a uniform—-or nearly so—standard of value, each authority preserving its own stamp or seal. But as commerce increased it was found that this kind of money! was very inconvenient, owing to its great bulk and weight in heavy transactions, while at the same time it was found that there was not enough of it in the different centres or places of exchange to meet the value of exchanges. Thus the paper check, note, promise, came into use from sheer necessity, which paper check, note, promise, being indi- vidual, not governmental, not having the seal of the govern- ment upon it to give it credit, was frequently violated by non-redemption or failure to make it as good as the money. To remedy this evil, the government was asked to step in and puts its seal upon this class of paper promises, and to re- deem this paper promise in gold when the owner demanded, so paper money came into use based upon gold money. But as the commerce of the world increased it was found that there was not gold, dollar for dollar, enough coined by the ‘ several governments of the planet to equal the amount of paper dollars; so gold, being the basis of paper dollars, came to have an enhanced value from its scarcity in the money market, and individuals sought to get possession of it in such quantities as to control the value of even the gov- ..ernment paper dollar, or, in‘ other words, the capitalists of the world “cornered” the gold and thus depreciated the paper promise of the goverments, and to that extent were masters ‘of the governments. \ This latter condition has obtained to such an extent that no government has completecontrol of its money values. The governments seeking to bring their promises to apar value have sold their promises to individual capitalists for what these capitalists pleased to give-—the governments paying or ,p romising to pay principal and interest in gold, of which there ‘italists ten billion dollars, and railroads, States, towns, is not in the world enough to pay the interest. \ Twenty-six governments of the world have within the last ten years, up to 1872, increased their indebtedness to these individual cap- telegraphs, etc., to say nothing of the wealth producers, have become indebted to these capitalists at least ﬁve times as much more as the national governments, until not only do capitalists own the governments of the world, '5. e. control them. but own or control, states, corporations and individ- uals. How? Why, simply because gold. is the basis of money, and that basis is in the hands of a few individuals, every- thing and everybody paying tribute to these gold possessors. I think I have made this clear and stated it fairly; now, what are you going to do about it? Pay the pound of ﬂesh? or will you rise to the dignity of self-government, and make the paper dollar the measure of values arbitrarily based upon the faith and resources of the country? The yard-stick is a measure of length,and thequestion of the material out of which it is made does not not come into its measuring quality. It may be made of wood, paper or iron; no matter, so long as it is an exact and unvarying measure. Money should do the same and would if it stood upon its arbitrary value alone, but standing upon gold, which in and of itself is varying, owing to its commercial value and also to its intrinsic value, it becomes the most ﬂuctuating medium we could select, and especially when it is a basis of money and that basis is controlled by a few. _ The basis as well as the money itself, must (to be uniform and unvarying) be an article, a creature of authority, and that authority the whole people who create it. Mnnox, of Maine. FARMERS, AWAKE! BY A. H. GAGE. What mean those sounds that in the air, Give forth their solemn, earnest Warning? Those tokens of a darkening night The prelude of a doubtful morning. Hear ye the sound—the trumpet peal—_ That o’er the land to-day is swelling? Know ye the wrongs the million feel? The story sad that blast is telling. A tyrant rides o’er this fair land, V And marks for his unjust oppression Each son of toil, whose sturdy arm Creates the home in his possession. That tyrant, with the mighty power Of gold and bonds as his dominion, Rules courts, and dictates laws of trade; Deﬁes the voice of just opinion. Who feeds this pampered lord of wealth, This foul, remorseless, bloated vulture? The sons of toil, rough laboring hands, And brawny arms of agriculture. Awake! to arms! let freemen strike For justice now, for freedom ever; Let lawless sharks and railway lords Know that our will their rings can sever. ‘ Press on the hosts, bear up the ﬂags, Encourage each desponding neighbor; Unswerving battle for the right, Must end in victory for Labor. —1ndust7~iaZ Age, Okicago. amenities. * We extract the following from an address by E. M. Davis before the Radical Club of Philadelphia, as reported in the Philadelphia Inqwo"rer : ' THE PRESIDENTS vnro. The President of the United States is also commander of the army and navy. Some wonder whether his famous veto comes from the soldier or the civilian. We shall. assume it to be written in the spirit of a civilian. We shall not trouble ourselves with his apparent inconsistency; he keeps the party promise which favored resumption, but breaks the personal one, where he said that he “ would not stand in opposition to the will of the people.” He either does not consider the action of Congress an expression of the will of the people, or he disregards his promise. He had a constitutional right to veto the Finance Bill, and it was his duty, as President, to do so if he believes the fol- lowing, which we quote from his message: “I am not abeliever in any artiﬁcial method of making paper money equal to coin when the coin is not owned or held ready to redeem the promises to pay, for paper money is nothing more than promises to pay, and is valuable exactly in proportion to the amount of coin that it can be converted into.” If what the President says means anything, it means that we should have no more paper money in circulation than we have got dollars in hand. Does he believe this? Do his ad- herents? Do those who sustain his action? Let us assume that they do. Apply the doctrine, no more paper than gold, and what becomes of the national bank notes? Eighty dol- lars out of every hundred must be retired. What would be- come of the greenbacks? Sixty out of every hundred must be retired. Can any one estimate the ﬁnancial and social disaster that would ‘follow? We have seven hundred millions of paper money aﬂoat. According to the most re- liable authority, two hundred millions of gold coin isthe largest possible amount we can get into and retain in our vaults. Fivehundred million dollars are to be withdrawn! Let us recall the effect on the productive industry of the country and on the revenue of the General Government of the withdrawal of only forty-four millions of greenbacks, and only four millions a month. Who were the first to cry out, “ Stop contracting”? Those who ,held mortgages on our» land, because interest could not be paid punctually; those who owned real estate, because rent was behind; those who held government bonds, because they saw that if there was L any default in the interest the principal was in danger; those W110 m‘c1ﬁaged the banks, because their securities were daily becoming weaker. , . . - If forty-four millions could produce this result, what would be the effect of the withdrawal of ﬁve hundred millions? The revenue of the government would fall sixty to eighty. per cent. Taxes could not be paid. Repudiation would fol- low; not from indisposition to pay, but from inability. An- archy would reign, and the civilian would be absorbed by the soldier. Shall we again ask the question, Do the President and his supporters mean this? , ‘ We think they do not; but, unfortunately, the gold basis party cannot sustain itself on any other ground. As a. con- sequence, the principle they uphold is not only injurious to the wealth producers of the country, but destructive to them- selves. Are they ready for this? _ Or do they propose to get out of the dilemma by falling back on the old system of issuing from four to ﬁve dollars in paper promises to one dollar gold? If they do would they not be creating some- thing worse than what they call “ greenback lies?” Give it up, ye money monopolists, I or you may ﬁnd yourselves in the position of the slaveholders who claimed too much and lost all. . I SOCIALISTIC. ’ FOURIER, BEECHER, MARRIAGE AND THE COM- . BINED SOCIAL ORDER. A seemingly strange conjunction as to the individuals; but, unlike as they are in nearly all respects, they have, one thing in common——a faculty of perceiving the importance of things slurred over, not only by the mass, but by professed ' thinkers. Beecher could, if touchedwith a. live coal from the right altar, place within reach more than Fourier’s ideal. Fourier considers it requisite that an association, to realize the advantages of the combined order in. any degree, should consist of at least four hundred members, and, if practicable, eighteen hundred; this mainly to afford the requisite variety of character and of, personal relations, to prevent people tir- ing of each other. The experience of" co—operative domestic organizations seems to sustain this position in some degree. and a common objection to Fourier’s theories, by persons ac- quainted only with their outlines, is, that as even two or three families cannot live_ harmoniously together, how is it ~ to be supposed that two or three hundred families can? The objection, however, was answered, as above, long before it was made. i . Now, how can this difficulty be met? It seems impossible to get four hundredqpeople to come forward at once in the initiative, and sacriﬁce all their prospects in life to what, however demonstrable (1. prion’, is but an experiment ‘consid- ered a posteriori. Beecher, speaking onianother topic, says: “Wedded life is often very poor, because ‘not one in ten thousand is good enough to furnish continually aspects which feed the higher nature.” That is, few persons are sufﬁciently’ varied and multifarious in their mental development not to pail after a few years’ acquaintance. “If,” he continues, “the doctrine of immortality be swept away by the doctrines of annihilation, or if it die because it is alleged there is no evidence of its truth, then might you as well spread the heavens with sackcloth and expect agriculture to continue on earth, as expect life to go on, with all its sweetness and * ::< tudes in the discussion, and men’s minds grow richer,,more ' subtle and reﬁned.” Still more is the range extended, and still more subtle and reﬁned become those minds when a future life transcends discussion and becomes a matter of positive knowledge. Spiritualism unfolds that beauty and variety which, under the shadows of ecclesiasticism and materialism, lies folded up and frozen. Two souls thus unfolded——thus expanding under the sunlight from the summer land—will “furnish continually” to each other “aspects which feed the higher nature;” for, their minds not being “ cribbed, cabined and conﬁned ” by the possibilities of a life which, to most of us, T, is so poor and mean, their aspects of character becomegvery ’ greatly varied as compared with clodhoppers (however rich, fashionable, reﬁned and exclusive), whose highest con- ception of afuture life, if they have any conception at all, is perpetual .psalm-singin g in‘ summer-clothes. ' And if two minds can thus “furnish continually aspects which feed the higher nature ” how much more two hundred? And could «there not be a more harmonious and varied social intercourse among ﬁfty such persons than among four hun- dred, or even eighteen hundred average persons, such as Fourier contemplaited? . More success, so far as the social element is concerned, may then be expected from a comparatively small number 0 cultured Spiritualists, fully recognizing the principle of indi- vidual sovereignty at one’s own cost, than from a large num- ber of the ordinary ‘fraw material,” of which probably most of our experimental co—operative societies have been com- posed. This want of variety and completeness of character in the individual components, combinedwith the small num- ber of socialists in each case, may account for the numerous failures of co-operative social experiments. A certain variety ’ of character seems indispensable to success ;,but whether this variety is attained by mere numbers or by many-sidedness _ in the component individuals, the result, it is believed, will be socially the same. i If the new Community in Chesterﬁeld county, Va., has any experience on this point, let its light shine! ' ‘ ALFRED ‘CRIDGE. THE CHILDREN OF SOCIAL FREEDOM. BY MISS ANNIE E. HIGBY. _ The question is: Are the children of social freedom-—born out of marriage--illegitimate, according to the rules of the Churches-holy and good equally with other children? and is it right to have, them when and where they are well taken careiof? ‘ This is the question the spiritual warfare hinges upon rm Reason gains in range and habi- er . I I , woonnctx. so CLAFLIZN’s WEEKLY. much more than their “temporal welfare that the inquiry “What will become "of the children?” points to: although ~ the latter is a matter to be by no means left out of consider- ation, or to. be attended to without question—the rightfulness of taking a proper care of children having been settled long ago. I will here say that so far as my personal knowledge extends I do not know of even a single child of social free- dom that is not, to say the least, as well taken care of as the children of marriage. _ - Of that other class, who without being free lovers in any sense from principle, but who are seduced or led off from what they believe to be right, having children out of mar- riage while they indorse the principles of marriage, trying to catch the man as a husband who uflees from them, and most probably, in many cases, bearing their children subject to the sexual abuses that prevail in marriage, I think Iecan safely say that‘ by very far the largest number of them would never put hand to the death of their babes, or aban- don them, if it were not for the fear of the persecution and I ostracism‘ of society, but would keep and tend them as lov- ingly and carefully as if they had been married, if they were only properly encouraged and helped to do so, or as well en- couraged and helped as they would have been had they been married. ’ ’ I . am myself‘ the mother of an illegitimate , child. I eschewed‘ marriage because I saw I could not bear-my child in marriage without having it pollutedwith "sexual abuse; and I believe my'child is better, illegitimate, and borne free from sexual abuse, than he would have been borne in mar. riage and subject to it. My child is well taken care of—as well taken care of as a‘ child can be-——only when and where he is subjected to persecution by the sinners who stone him on accoun_t of his being illegitimate. That the regulation of marriage pays not the slightest re-' ‘ gard to these terrible abuses, this seething‘ pool of pollution that is wrapped up in its bosom, like a worm in the fruit, spreading death and destruction throughout it, is too, patent to be disputed. Oh I is it a. little matter? Is it not rather a matter to cause the hearts of the angels to bleed, that the irouiheel of an ignorant custom is upon the necks of these little ones and their mothers, whose starved and defrauded . souls cry out to the gods for the life that is withheld, as hungry children cry for bread? Neither does it care or take cognizance of what sort; of children it gives birth to, provided they are born in marriage. As one of the many illustrations of this I will refer to an article in the New York Herald about the death of the Siamese twins, each one of whom was married, one having six, and the other ﬁve children‘ all deaf-mutes. What a splendid exhibition of respect- able deaf-mutesl Their parents were married and belonged to the Baptist Church, were considered worthy members, the paper stated, showing very plainly . that the religion of which they were worthy members did not care how many deaf—mutes they gave birth to provided they were married, and, I presume, attended to the rules of the ¢hm.ch_ The paper also stated that there was an estrange- moot between the families because one had six and the other only ﬁve——because there was not a dozen of these poor de- formed children! Even if they were not all deaf-mutes, it is one and the same so far as their religion is concerned, since the paper stated it gravely. supposing it to be true. without arousing a thought of comment as regards its rightfulnegg am on g them. , The npposers of the principles of Social Freedom appear to be dividedprincipally into two classes—those who believe in hell-ﬁre and brimstone. and that sexuality is a sinful abomi- nation not to be alluded to in any way by righteous ‘people (except by hunting down with persecution the women who break its ordinances), and who do not seem to have the ﬁrst intelligent idea of what sexual virtue is, their standard being as barbarous and unreasonable as the standard of morality in the old, ancient and barbarous nations where fealt_y to one’s king, might have been considered morality. To be moral was to be loyal to one’s king—to be virtuous is to know A 01115: one’s husband sexually, and to submit to him,,withou¢; wngidering the results springing from such a ruling, or the underlying principles in either case. The other class are those who admit the abuses, but who believe it better to sub-. min to the rulings of “ Vanity Fair ” than to attempt to stem its tide of persecution. They do not believe in Social Free- dom; they think something might be done inside of marriage as a remedy, but so far as they are concerned themselves, they do not intend to meddle with it, do not think it worth Wmeddung with, probably. They think intemperancc worth meddling with, however, and this is a worse evil than intem- .pemnce_ Drunkards beget children by force, and they spend their time trying to reform them.‘ fruitlessly. This class almost, always ﬁnally settles down into—-and it is an argn- ment .1 have very often met with: f.‘Evcn admitting the evils, do you not think it would be better to have your child born in marriage than to subject yourself and your child also to the persecutions of’ society, of the World, on - account of its being born out of marriage?” This often comes from (church, members, who do not seem to sense the fact that they are asking me to sin, in order to escape the persecutions of a, 1-eiigious sect that makes the pretence of being an aid to sal- vation- Or else: “If you think it a,sin to bring children into the world through the usages of marriage, you should‘ not have them at all ;” 03. e., unless you will bring them on to the earth damned by a breakage of nature’s laws, you must; not bring them on at all. ' ' i I To have a beautifully organized child, conceived according "to the laws of nature. and borne without having the womb that carries it subjected to abuse, is one of the best of good works; one that is worth running the gauntlet of all the halls to attain; one that pays at any price that banded igno- rance and error have it in their power to impose. And it is absolutely necessary to the making of a better condition ‘ upon the earth, that we should gain a more intelligent con- trol of the creative organs, that people may not Waste the forces of nature, and worse than ‘waste them, by peopling the 119115 of ignorance, impotence, hatred, perversion, etc., with misformed human organisms. Nature and individuals should do their whole work, the best work possible in the matter, by using the best conditions for it existent among them, and no hoary-headedfdemon. of conservatism to popular igno- rance, or popular misconception, should be allowed to pre- vent them. A Neither would I be willing to wait for that good time com- ing when the community will take care of the children, as it might never come for me,- or for any of us for a long time yet ;\ and I think I would not be satisﬁed to pass through my earth-life withoutbeing a mother, that I might hold to my bosom my babe, my very own, the child that came into life through my own being. Even if that good time were here, I do not think I would be willing to yield my child entirely to its care, as I would rather satisfy my mother’s heart by watching the little blossom unfold beside me ; yet, for the better promotion of its welfare, I would yield it a part of the time; and I would uphold such institution for the sake of those who could not well take care of their children, and for the sake of the little ones, who would thereby be better taken care of. Are the children of social freedom holy and good? and is it right to have them when provision is made for their wel- fare? Because if it is, the question, “What will become of the children, or what does become of the children,” applies equally to all children, those of marriage as well as any other system; and those who are thus anxious can ﬁnd plenty of room for thought and good works without going, as yet, to social freedom to ﬁnd it. The reformers of social freedom are expected to do more than has over yet been done for the promotion of the welfare of their children—all that lies in their power, certainly; ‘and I believe they would do all that ‘lies in their power for the beneﬁt of children, generally, if they were permitted to do so. THE TRUE, FAITH. “ I hadja dream which was not all a dream”-— Methought within my lover’s arms I lay, One happy April day; He clasped me close and closer still, And yielding to his own sweet will, I could not choose but stay. His loving breath fell warm upon my cheek, And fond caress told more than words could speak; He framed a novel creed; And thus in tender accents framed With love’s own ecstacy, exclaimed, “Ah! this is heaven indeed!” If this be heaven, then let me never stray Froinout the limit of its blissful sway; Oh! may I never rovel But live to meet him face to face, Forevermore in his embrace, I Where all of heaven is love. S. M. S. IS IT A MISTAKE OR A DESIGNED MISREPRESEN- TATION ? Our brother, J. M. Peebles, in his interesting “ Letters of Travel” in N o. 20, Banner of Light series, throws a sop to theenemies of social freedom that does injustice to himself by betraying an utter ignorance of our principles or a de- signed misrepresentation of our arguments and statements. We have never cared enough about the allusions in these letters to the fabulous and utterlypunreliable Christian his- tory of persons, places and dates, as conﬁrmed to him and other travelers by interested’ monks and priests, since this is the common failing . of nearly all travelers who are, at least in education, Christians, and feel the truth of Christian fables; but when we come down to passing events of present history, it is not wise to let misrepresentations go unnoticed in popular letters of any writer. In speaking of the pool of Bethesda and the old house-top on which David is said to have stood when he saw the beautiful wife of Uriah bathing, he says: “And this man, after God’s own heart, being touched with the inﬁrmity of ‘ affectional freedom,’ sent mes- sengers and took her.” Now, Brother Peebles either does or he does not know that affectional freedom is not an in- ﬁrmity, nor its advocates inﬁrm, but, on the contrary, as ﬁrm in truth and true principles as the rocky hills of his fa- vorite Palestine. If he does not know it, he should seek the truth which will make him free;/, if he does know it, he should not misrepresent us in such things to tickle the ears of his Christian readers, as he gives them a full share of sops in the other allusions referred to. Brother Peebles either knows or he does not know that social or aﬁectional freedom would not allow a man to take ortouch a woman without her consent and mutual attraction; and that it is the Christian Church and State and the enemies of affectional freedom that allow men to seize, force, abuse, steal, rob and enslave women, as David, God’s most faithful servant, did Uriah’s wife. The advocates of social and aifectional free- dom are trying to correct this wicked, corrupt and abusive practice of social slavery, and it is a shame for men like Brother Peebles to misrepresent them and pander to the popular prejudice of the licentious advocates of woman’s de- graded and enslaved condition by such perversions. Our principles have been so often, so fully and so plainly stated as totally opposed to all such transactions as that of David, that “ he that runs may read, and a man, though a fool, need not err therein.” Hence we ﬁnd it extremely diﬂficult to ex- cuse Brother Peebles even by the slip of the pen. If social freedom had been the law in force, the lustful man, after “ God’s own heart,” would have had to keep his holy hands off the beautiful woman who probably hated him as all pure women do such men ;»but it was the enemies of social free- dom, who then and new force women into subjection to the most brutal treatment, and worse than brutal, for the brutes will not display as much cruel passion as many men who op- pose sociall freedom. Whoever upholds the present social system of tyranny and opposes social freedom, can by it sus- tain the slavery, polygamy and monogamy of the Bible and themost cruel system of sexual barbarity that sends, in our country, annually to premature "graves, thousands of ﬁne, sensitive, delicate, shrinking victims S to the lusts of men; and whoever is opposed to such sacriﬁce must be an advocate of social and alfectional freedom. If it is an inﬁrmity it is , the most liol y and righteous one ever infecting man, and it is tiinetevery man and woman was registered on one side or the other of this great question, so that we may know who are in favor of keeping woman in slavery and subject to the passions of man even to her destruction, and who will help to emancipate and rescue her. It is doubtful whether the principles of social freedom would have admitted of the liberties of the old Jewish Jeho- vah, in the case of the two immaculate conceptions. Cer- tainly not, without a mutual understanding in regard to the‘ protection and care of the offspring which the record does not seem to show._ i The truth is, Jewish and Christian history have always made slaves and prostitutes of woinen without their consent, or after one forced consent is obtained compelled a life-time of slavery without a proper knowledge of the master to whom she submits herself. In the case of the mother and grandmother of Jesus (or, as the Catholics say, of God) it was only a temporary violation of the marriage rights of the owners and sanctiﬁed, because it was God who was the one that did the violating acts and he had the right to do wrong without consulting either the woman or their owners; but men with a. license from priest or magistrate can torture even unto death the female victim, and they do it in thou- sands of instances every year, and if we raise our voice or use our pen against it, we ﬁnd, of course, most of the clergy and most of the libertines and corrupt tyrants, opposing, abus- ing and misrepresenting us. But toﬁnd a man like Bro. Peebles, whom nobody will accuse of belonging to either of these classes, lending his aid to their misrepresentations and pandering to a wicked and false prejudice, is what astonishes us; or would, did we not know his early education and of his recent tra_vels in the Holy Land, among the holy men and enslaved women, by which long journey he got behind in the march of mind in this rapidly advancing country. We are certain that either the abolitionists were wrong and chattel slavery right, or the advocates of social or affec- tional freedom are right and its opponents are wrong, and we are also certain that if truth and righteousness prevail over error and-wickedness, then surely must social freedom triumph and woman be emancipated and have her equal rights with man in every department of life, and especially in the maternal, sexual and affectional relations. N o promise to love where she cannot and where she is decived into the promise, shall make her a slave for life to the sensual lusts ofaworse than brute as many husbands are. Could Mr. Peebles have heard the hundreds of stories of the poor suf- fering victims of sexual tyranny that have so often in recita- tion or reading brought tears to our eyes, he too would, even in the face of all the churches and Mrs. Grundy, have been an advocate of social freedom. We have been so long (30 years) an advocate of those principles and w,oman’s rights, that we are known to thousands of victims who conﬁde in us _.henee we get the terrible histories. WARREN CHASE. COBDEN, Illinois, May 13, 1874. . SPIRITUALISTIC. RECONSTRUCTION OF MAN. FROM A DISCOURSE, Aug. 18, 1872. The constant falling around us of friends and neighbors into the embrace of death cannot fail to arrest attention and lead to the inquiry, “If a man die, shall he live again?” and if yea be the response, the further interrogations of, when ? and where‘? and how? The present happiness or misery of millions is affected by the answers given to these questions A stupid Theology has ever been ready with its absurd answers, however much in conﬂict with the instinctsand teachings of Nature they may be. It is not necessary to de- tail at length, in this place, its gloomy doctrines, but only to dwell fora space on one of them—t0 wit, “ Death and the Resurrectio'n”——better and more truly and philosophically phrased, “ The Fall and Reconstruction of Man”—iiatural and necessary processes in his being, which need not cast gloom nor melancholy apprhension over the journey of life. Man dies__—such is the seeming; the ﬁeshly building has fallen under the pressure of years of decay and inﬁrmity, or of some untoward event in life. But the invisible, imperish- able spiritual being, the man himself in the last analysis, now without the appliances for longer continuance in the earth life, must have reconstruction for an existence in spirit life. Where shall it be? how shall it come to pass? A poet hath told us- Gliding from out the body we have worn Without a jar to break The mystic strain of harmony, that winds With sense-dissolving music through the soul, We are at liberty, at once, in the spirit realm; and, as if by the power of enchant- ment, sheltered in an ediﬁce not the workmanship of hands —a habitation which is from heaven——a structure of God——a. spiritualbody. Herein lies whatsoever there is of mystery’ concerning the Resurrection of the Dead. It is plain, how ever, that whatsoever the process, and by whatsoever name it may be called, it is such resurrection as comes of expulsion from an abode, an uprising and evacuation of domicil——.im- mediate reinstatement elsewhere; such a reconstruction of all the human psychical elements of man’s nature as ﬁts him for residence in the spirit spheres. ~ Another poet who hath deeply drank of the pure Pierian, and besides, been baptized in the waters of ’ Siloa’s brook that ﬂowed Fast by the oracle of God, thus beautifully frames an apostropheof a departing mortal to his spirit in the moments of dissolutionof the companion- ship of his soul and ‘earthly body. /er‘; I’ May 3}), 1874.’ WWOODHULL & CLA,FiLIN’iSl' wnnxrvi" L Jr Listen to his glorious song of entrance into immortality: Vital spark of heavenly ﬂame, Quit, Oh quit, this mortal frame; Trembling, hoping, lingering, ﬂying, T ‘ Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper, angels say, Sister spirit, come away! What is this absorbs me quite, . ’ Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my soul, can this be death? I The world recedes, it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! 0 grave! where is thy victory? 0 death! where is thy sting? N o scripture. perhaps. is so often used in the hearing of the people and so fully relied__on as foundational to that declaration of the Christian Creed, “ I believe in the resur- rection of the body, as I Cor. chap. xv.” It is always read at the, funerals of a. large class of churchmen, leaving the im- pression on the less intelligent and thoughtless hearer, that the spiritless, defunct body, consigned to the earth, is so.wn in some such sense as will warrant the expectation of its springing forth from the ground, at a future period, aspirit- ualized and living one——-and conveying to his mind the idea that the law which governs in the sowing and germination of grains, applies also to the burial of animal bodies and their resurrection, in the case Of men. Nor is there a passage, perhaps in the entire New Testtiment, more mischievously erroneous in its rendering into English. The mind and /meaning of the author are scarcely discernible. But herein he teaches the profound philosophy of man's initial state, and illustrates a law of life and of death which pertains to the whole human race. ' _ Paul likens man to a traveler, this life to a journey, and his animal body to a. tent or tabernacle to shelter him in. his pas— sage. Nature he considers as the chief—in—charge of the grand caravan of Humanity. Her trumpet shall sound the journey ended, and signalize the traveler to quit his tent, and enter and abide in “ a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” , Let the arch-angel blow his blastat the time theology has appointed for his services; but will he be able to startle the dead bodies of the generations of earth ?-—Dr. Horace Dres- ser. TO THE SPIRITUALISTS OF AMERICA GREETING. LOMBARD, Il1., April 12, 1874. Brothers and St'stcrs—We have run the gauntlet and still live. The Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists will hold their Eighth Quarterly and Second Annual Meeting in Chicago, ‘Illinois, at Grow’s Opera House, 517 West Madison ‘ street, commencing on Friday, at 10% o’clOck, A. M., June 12, 1874, and continue over Sunday the 14th, a. three days’ meet- ing. We shall then meet under charter from the State of Illinois. All the members are requested to be present, as business of importance will come before the meeting, also election of oﬁicers for the coming year. There will be reso- lutions of vast importance to Spiritualism to be considered. We cordially invite all Spiritualists,~Mediums and speakers, as well as all others interested in the cause of humanity and truth to be with us at this our second annual meeting. Our platform is free and shall remain so for the discussion of all subjects’ germain‘ to humanity, truth and progress, under strict parliamentary usages. O. J. HOWARD, M. D., President. E. V. WILSON, Sec’y N. 1. Ass. , We also give to the world the following statement, viz. : W'hereas, following our Seventh Quarterly Meeting of the Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists, held in Chicago on the 13th, 14th and 15th of March, 1874, grave charges and accusations were made against us personally and collectively as a body, reflecting On our moral character, truthfulness, as well as social standing and position in society; Therefore, we challenge our accusers, who have maligned us through the Religio-Philosophical Journal and other papers, to meet us while in session in J une, 1874, and prove these charges to be true; or. failing to do so, forever after be branded as liars, cowards and villains before the public, for we here deny be- fore the world the truth of said charges and accusations. Truth is mighty and will prevail; though the heavens fall we will stand by our principles——equal rights, a free platform, the discussion of all truth——aiming ever to arrive at the highest. 0. J. HOWARD, M. D., President. E. V. WILSON, Sec’y. To all Whom it may Concern: We, the undersigned Oﬁicers of the First Society of Spirit- ualists in Chicago, Ill.,.state that the charges and accusations made against the Northern Illinois Association of Spiritual- ists, held in our hall (Grow’s Opera House) on the 13th, 14th and 15th of March, 1874, by the Religio-Philosophical J our-nal and other papers published in “ Chicago,” Ill., “are false.” We indorse a free platform and free discussion of all truths or questions, that we may in this way arrive at the highest truth, and have , enrolled our names as members of the Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists, together with many of our society. A. H. WILLIAMS. WM. T. J ONES. CHICAGO, I11., April 12, 1874. (All liberal papers please copy.) CCoLI.rNs Enron. J. S. HUNT. WHAT IS IT TO BE A SPIRITUALIST? Is a question which all who profess to be Spiritualists as well as all progressive minds might well ask themselves at the present. hour. Many think, and especially those who have had but limited opportunities to investigate this great and exhaustless 'subjeot,_tha.t to accept and believe in the phenomena of spirit intercourse settles the whole matter, and they rest there; but to thinkers and minds who have dug deep into the subject matter of Spiritualism, by ex- perience and investigation, who have read closely its history . and carefully observed its workings, such a ‘conclusion is entirely superﬁcial. True, the phenomena is the A B C, or the ﬁrst rudiments,’ by which we approach this great subject. But why stop ‘there when the truth, which will inevitably make you free, lies beyond this point? ‘ My object in raising this question is to place Spiritualism on the broad basis upon which it properly belongs, as it is presented to use through its present degree of development. Spiritualism has moved forward in the years of the near past with giant power. It has taken hold of needed reforms and held them painfullynear to human view; it has laid open to our vision the sad condition of humanity, which con- dition is the result of ignorance, so deeply enshrined in our social and religious systems, and it is destined to cause this ‘great country of boasted civilization to tremble‘ to its very centre. It is now/marching upon the enemy’s works—the enemies of truth and freedom. , It is indeed a priceless blessing that the dear departed ones can and do come from the realms of immortal life, and bring us tidings of a better land and words of love, and hope to cheerus on through this material life, the childhood of the soul’s organic existence with matter. But to suppose that this is all for which they come, leads us into a grave mis- take, for the truth-loving and progressive minds of past ages have been struggling for centuries on the spirit side of life, against the dark opposing conditions of ignorance and false teaching, and the extreme materiality through which the human race has groped its way, and under which to a great extent‘it is buried to-day. But thanks to the great in- ﬁnite life and the angels and ministering spirits, the gray light of the morning appears in the East whichbids us hope. Butfor what has this light come? To make us free! yea to strike off the shackles of slavery in all its forms, in order that social, religious, political, mental and physical bondage may be swept from the earth, and that the sun of truth may shine through the clouds of error and drive home its pierc- ing rays direct to every human soul. The watchword of Spiritualism is not “let us have peace,” but let us have truth, lead where it may. Its ‘mission is to accomplish this work; and to be a Spiritualist in the broadest and fullest sense, we must labor to this end. Spiritualigm stands to-day on the broad basis of universal freedom", and freedom is our birthright. . But social freedom requires our ﬁrst attention, because upon the social relations of mankind rests‘ the entire struc- ture. If the foundation of the structure is decayed and rotten, how unwise to attempt to repair its other parts, for, with its foundation thus impaired, it must fall in time. The social question is a fundamental one, and upon it hangs vast consequences for good or ill to the human soul as it passes on through it5 illcaarﬂation with matter. If it starts upon its organic relations with material life, under condi- tions opposed to thelaws of nature, who can compute the amount Of evil and suffering consequent upon such transgressions? Why is h“m3nii'»Y groaning under such b/urdens to-day? Because of ignorance of which slavery is the Offspring; and this is the result of man’s not being able, as a whole, to comprehend and obey those vital laws which have to do with the reproduction of the race as it should be developed, up to those noble proportions of mind and body worthy Of being called men and women_ 13 it not time to awake to this important issue, Or will mankind repose longer under these conditions of living death? The man of Nazareth propounds this question, “ Do men gather grapes of thorns, or ﬁgs of thistles ?” On the other hand, We niay ask how can mankind rise to that elevation which 11; should occupy, while, almost without exception, they dis- regard and ignore nature’s laws, and by this means bind themselves down in suffering, darkness and degm- dation? This load must be removed ere men and women can rise to their noble and rightful estate. Human beings (can we call them all human?) come into this world half made up—yea, ‘many of them less than half made——all be. cause‘ of the disregard of the laws of organic life. We are fully aware that it is in accordance with the laws of pro- gression that man should come up through the lower strata to the higher planes of life, but it is not in accordance with the laws ofprogression that humanity should remain dor- mant and nearly at a standstill in regard to the issues upon which its very existence depends. It is not in harmony with progression that -man and woman should be chained down in slavery, caused by their ignorance ofvthese vitai. laws of life. But what is to be done to raise the human family out 0 this slough of despond? First, know thyself and be thyself; when these points have been gained the sexes will under- stand each other, and be better prepared to come together and fulﬁll the laws and condition on which true propagation depends, and by this means the race will beresoued from its present sad condition. To accomplish this, we must deal with causes and not effects; lay the ax at the root of the tree, and not commence cutting the tree down at the twigs or branches. But, says one, if after we have accomplished the de- sired points as near as practicable, vvhatif then we make mis- takes and become unequally yoked together? What do human beings of ordinary capacity do when theyﬁud they have made a mistake in any of the oiﬁces of life except in the social re- lations? Do they not as a rule make haste tolcorrect the mistake if it can be done? And why not rectify this wrong in our social relations, which of all the errors we commit is the most detrimental to human progress and elevation? . Truly before mankind can arrive at .,a perfect state of man- hood and womanhood, and ﬁll the sphere of a pure and ele- , vated humanity, Nature/’s laws of propagation and organic life must be fully obeyed; freedom must take the place of slavery and truth annihilate error. But what is the duty Ofgthose who have been made free by the truth? There can be but one answer: put your hand and embraces all the elements of human progress. to the plow?of' progression and truth and look back never ; not even to be termed what society calls respectable, or to escape Ostracism from fashionable circles by the scandal- mongers. i i A The same desperatestruggle is going on to-day between truth and error that raged so ﬁercely in the centuries of the dark past, when men and women counted not ‘their lives dear, so that they defended the truth as it came to them - from the great Father and Mother of ‘souls through minis tering angels and mediums. A ’ , Spiritualism, in its broadest and truest sense, comprehends VVhy is Spiritualism so comprehensive and all—embracing? Because’ it comes of , the spirit, and is the expression of the measure- less ages of the past. And its physiology speaks to us of is the philosophy of all philosophies, and embraces all spirit, soul and matter, and truth itself." B. B. HILL. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. OMENS FROM THE OTHER WORLD? i HOW THE OLD FAMILIESJN EUROPE ARE WARNED T0 PRE- PARE FOR THAT BOURNE, ETC. . A mysterious knocking, never heard at any other time, tells the Lords of Bampton that one of their race is bound for the silent land. A stamping by unseen feet on the palace. Modena. A sturgeon forcing its way up the Trent toward Clifton Hall is a sign that the Cliftons of N ottinghamshire will have to put on mourning. For some days before the death of the heir of the Breretons, the trunk of a tree is to be seen ﬂoating on {the lake near the ‘family mansion. Two giant owls perch upon the battlements of Wardour Castle when an Arundel’s last hour has come. If a’ Devonshire Oxenham is about to die, a white-breasted "bird ﬂutters Over the doomed one’s head. ' A local ballad relates how on the burial eve of Margaret, heiress of the brave and generous Sir James Oxenham, a silver-breasted bird ﬂew over the wedding guests just as Sir James rose to acknowledge their congratulations. The next day the bride fell dead at the altar, stabbed by a discarded lover. Howell saw a tombstone in a stonecutte1"s shop in Fleet street, in 1862, inscribed with the names of sundry per- sons, who thereby attested the fact that John Oxenham, Mary, his sister; James, his son, and Elizabeth, his mother, had each and all died with a white-breasted/bird flutter- ing above their beds. A family of Loch Ranza, Ar- ran, know when one of their kin is about to die by an invisible piper playing "a lament, on the hill- side. When death purposes visiting a McLean of Toch- bury, the unwelcome caller is heraldedby the spirit, of as he gallops twice round the old homestead. As a rule, death4announcing phantoms are of the feminine gender. No Lady Holland expects to shufﬁe off this mortal coil until she has seen a shadowy counterfeit presentiment of herself. lic house, have a Benedictine nun to apprise them of a re- distinguished member of the family. , A hairy—armed girl called May Mo-ullach brings the like sad news to the Grants of Grant; the Bodach-am-dun, other- wise the ghost of the hill, performs the oﬂice for the Gra.nts of Rothiemurcus, and most old Highland families boast their ing tells them the head of the house must make room for awful, unearthly scream", she beheld by the light of the moon a female form at the window of. her room, which was too far from the ground for any woman of mortal mould to dishevelled hair, and was "clad in the garb of‘; Old—‘——vLer/Cy Old-- Ireland. After exhibiting herself some time, the interesting spectre shrieked twice and vanished. When Lady Fanshaw 1 told her host what she had, seen he was not at all surprised. “A near relation,” said he, “died last night in this castle. We kept our expectation of the event from you lest it should throw a cloud overthe cheerful reception which was your due. Now, before such an event happens in the family and castle, the female spectre you saw always becomes visible. She is believed to be the spirit of a woman of inferior rank whom one of my ancestors married and whom he afterward caused to be drowned in the moat to expiate the dishonor done to our race.”~All the» Ear Round. ' -—-—-—-—--—>-—¢G>--4%--..._ DISCONTENT--BOTH SIDES. A man in his carriage was riding, along, His gaily dressed wife by his side, In satins and laces she looked like a queen, And he like a. king in his pride. ' Alwood-sawyer stood on the street as they pgggga The carriage and couple he eyed, And ‘said as heworked. with his saw on a log, “ Iwish I was rich and could ride.” The man in the carriage remarked to his wife... . " One thing I would give if I could-- ' ' I W°111,£1.8i:§’;€L.&11 my Wealth for the strength and the health Of the man. who is sawing the wood.” , the living present and casts the horoscope of the future. It C ﬂoor predicts a death in the family of the ducal house of A a. battle-slain ancestor ringing the bells on his fairy bridle , The Middletons of Yorkshire, as becomes an ancient Catho- ' duction in the number of Middletons. A VVeGplI1g,.D10ll1‘l;1:-__: ing, earthly sprite warns the Stanleys of the death of own familiar banshee, whose wailing, screaming and weep- If his heir. Lady Faushaw, visiting the head of an Irish sep - A, in his moated baronial grange, was made aware that banshees I are not peculiar to Scotland. Awakened at midnight by an . reach. 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In liberty for the individual, they seem to think the ultimate is gained—seem to think there is nothing beyond that except individual progress in the sphere of freedom, and their arguments go so far, at least by impli- cation, as to denominate the right which two people have to enter into any organized effort as despotism. “ The W07'd,’? E. H. Heywood, editor, is the organ of this class of reformers. In the number for May there are several articles of this kind, some of which have appearedin the WEEKLY together with answers to the arguments advanced in them.‘ The articles referred to assume that children be- long to parents andthat there is -no right outside of them that can interfere to change their rearing or promote the interests of the former. If this were true, of course any government that should undertake to arrange for the better education of children would be despotic. - Butwhile admitting the conclusion we deny the premises from which it is drawn. The Word does not assert’ that children belong to parents absolutely, but it “proceeds with its arguments just as if it did so assert, and in so arguing, also by implication, denies the right of society to have any- thing to do with them. Had The Word considered the re- plies that have appeared in the WEEKLY upon this point, we donot think it could have consistently permitted the article in question to appear without also printing the reply. This would have been just and fair to all parties. We maintain that children belong to themselves just as all other individ- uals belong to themselves, so then the real thing to be deter- mined before The Word can consistently charge us with des- potism is as to the ownership of the children. If they belong to parents, then The Word is right. Ifthey belong to them- selves,\then_ The Word is wrong. « We hold that there can be no ownership in human ﬂesh, not even in children. They belong neither to parents nor to society, but to themselves. Now the question is as to how these children shall be reared and educated so as to make them the best men and women. It is not a question whether , “not one mother in forty would consent to deliver up her child” or not, but whether the childls interest can be best promoted, subjected to the blindness of ignorant affection, or conducted by‘ an enlightened community. A hundred years ago parents voluntarily began to perceive that they, as a class, were unﬁt to educate their children mentally, and from this recognition our system of public schools originated. According to The Word this system is a despotism‘; according to us it is the truest liberty, because it best prepares children to assume the duties and responsibilities of adult life as free- IIIED. - We say it is barbarous to leave children to the abso A v , lute control of parents. 'wooDH.ULL-as cLAEL1N's WEEKLY . In many cases this control is, even now, outrageously abused, and thousands, aye, millions of children are turned loose into the world to become the pests of society thereby. It is_ then. a question whether children can be better reared by an organized system of society, or, as in past ages, by their parents, and this only. Beyond this pa- rents have neither duty nor right. If this is admitted the other ..points involved" necessarily follow. Society having a direct interest in the condition of children arriving at adult age has the best right to conduct the rearing of them previous to that age; and this becomes specially obvious when it is remem- bered that, in case parents fail to properly rear and educate their young, there is no recourse upon them for their failure neither by children nor society. But if society fail to do its duty in the premises it suffers the natural and inevitable penalty of being composed of undeveloped, uneducated and unproﬁtable members. Therefore, it would be more consist- ent for The Word to refute these positions than to con- tinue to charge usﬂwith advocating despotism. We dorebel against the tyranny of any law that in any manner tends to impair the great natural law of individual sovereignity. But we do not rebel against the so-called ty- ranny of a law that is enacted to provide for any great or little public need. We do not condemn society for abating acpublicnuisance, nor for providing forthe public comfort. We do not condemn public highways, nor the law which provides and maintains them. The people who constitute any community have certain interests in common, and all such should assist to promote those interests, or in the event of not doing so to refrain from making any use of them. If the "intense individualism of amember prevents him from paying a tax to maintain a public street, then let him be consistent . and not use the, street. Let him remove from society into such , places as require no streets. If this principle is so intense as to cause him to resist taxation, and he be robbed of his prop- erty, let him not invoke the power of the law to recover it. We have no objection to such action. We do not believe there is any power to compel any person to pay any tax; but if a person refuse to pay then let him not make use of any- thing that the money paid by others maintains. The Woo“d, in its Free Banking proposition, also seems to ob- ject to our views of a proper circulating medium of exchange. It says : “ You propose to prohibit—or virtually to prohibit—- _ an individual banking, either of issue or deposit.” We are at a loss to conceive how The Word or any of its contributors has obtained such an absurd idea. We defy them to produce a sentence either in our speeches or writings that by any, even far-fetched construction, can be made to mean any such thing. Our demand is that government shall issue money to its citizens, without cost, to whatever extent they need and can secure. ‘We never argued that individuals should not do the same, nor that individuals should be prevented from loaning money at whatever interest to whoever desired to borrow, but such borrowers should ﬁrst have theprivilege of obtaining it free from the Government. Therefore, we do not say‘: “ Here is a branch of business into which you shall not enter,” and to assert that we do is a despotic use of free- dom to which we have a right to object, and to which wedo object most heartilyiland earnestly. If the advocates of free banking want to do a banking busi- ness let them do it freely, but do not ask that free banking shall be protectedin any mannerby law. If persons desire to patronize free banking let them do so at their own risk, ‘not asking the community to protect their deposits or exchanges. We say let everybody bank who wants to do so, and let everybody make use of such banks who will, but do not ask a law eitherto limit or protect its functions and call it “Free Banking,” since it would be legal banking. No I Ours is not the “liberty of bondage.” It is the free- dom of organization. A mass of individuals, unorganized, is ’ not acommunity but a mob, and this is no less true of society than it is of an army; it is no less true of industry, generally, than it is of the postal service specially. Now this service does not compel any one to commit his letters to the mails to be transported to. their destination. Every individual may carry his own letters from Maine to California if he so de- sires, or he may send them by a messenger, but the postal service offers so great inducements over the individual’s means that no one thinks of objecting to it as a despotism. This system could be carried on only as nationally organized. To limit it to states, counties or towns would be to destroy it. So would it be with -a currency. We Want a national money system, and then let whoever will issue and receive individual currency. If The Word can see despotism or any infringement of individual rights lurking in such a proposi- tion it has a sharper perception than we have. If, however, it conﬂict with its ideas of free banking that is anothermatter, but not to be set down as despotism, or to be refuted by the charge that it is despotism. If «organization is despotism, then we have studied nature to no effect. Observing its operations we learn that the highest forms of nature are those that are the most thoroughly organized. The action of individualized elements, or sim- ples, is a low order of development. So is anrorder of so- ciety in which each individual is obliged to provide for all l1is own needs and comforts by his own hands, a low order.» A society where each individual raises his own food, builds his own house, mends his own clothes, boots and shoes, fashions his own plows, rakes, machines,—-his axes, hoes, saws— his pens, ink, paper——his types, presses, paper, and reads the paper after it is printed, alone, is a primitive order. We see nothing desirable in a freedom that would remand us back to such a condition. I I ~ May 30,1874. In the place of this we want complete organization—, organization of the industries—organization in everything in which the interests of individuals are identical, and in which no individual right is forfeited or impaired; but in which every such right is promoted and protected. T0 class . such interests with love, where the interests are purely individual and impossible’ of general organization, is to play with reason and common sense. To say that love between men and women is similar to currency, which people require to exchange commodities with, is a position, at . once so ridiculous and so absurd that we are constrained to doubt the sanity of Whoever assumes it. Love is something that is not public. It belongs speciﬁcally to the individuals who love, and nobody else has any right to interfere, either to dictate or to regulate; -but for the people to construct a general currency, illustrating their faith in themselves as a people, with which to conduct their business arrangements, is so entirely an opposite order from love that the two have no possible relation. To say that an individual shall not utter or receive personal money, would be the same as to say that an individual shall not love, except as the law permit; but we have never either conceived or uttered what would be such a clear and such an unwarantable interference with individual freedom. I For the Nation—not the State——-to provide a better cur- rency than a number of individuals can possible provide; a better system of education and nurseries for children than therecan be found in the isolated household; better trans- portation for individuals and merchandise than can be fur- nished by individuals, and which will prevent the impositions upon justice now so generally true of transportation; a better method of securing the use of land to every one who desires to occupy it and to use -it; but yet to permit anybody who willgto make their ow: money, educate themselves (we deny the right to prevent the education of children or to compel them to suffer from an inability on the part of parents to ‘provide for them); to transport their own letters, freight, and to ride in their own or anybody else’s conveyance; to do all these is not despotism in any sense that we can understand it, or that anybody else can render it. Nor is it any more despotism in the sight of Mr. Heywood than with us. These opinions we have held consistently, we affirm, ever since we had any opinions at all upon these subjects; and we do not conceive that to hold and advocate them now is to “have been dcmoralizcd by some man.” If Mr. Heywood does not believe in organization, let him permit us to do so without the imputation, gratuitously bestowed of demoralization;' and instead of denominating our position as despotic, let him meet argument with argument. In this field we are ever ready to contend for our views, and to yield them when con- vinced of their fallacy; but Mr. Heywood will have to reverse the order of nature and establish the fact that primal elements are a higher order of organization than -a single system which represents all the primal elements, before he can successfully establish his theory of individual sovereignty. Individual sovereignty doesn’t mean that every individual must conquer and maintain an absolute freedom from all other individuals; but true sovereignty means a condition in which the highest interests of all individuals are merged in a common interest and purpose—in which the best interests of each are represented in the brotherhood of all; and not when each person holds every other person at arm’s length, saying: “ Don’t you dare to administer to my comfort or happiness, because by so doing you will interfere with my freedom and make me false to my individual sovereignty.” 2-————>-«O ANTI-USURY. The Anti-Usury Reformers, of whom Edward Palmer is President, held their annual meeting at Masonic Hall, N. Y., on May 10th. As the N. E. Labor League recognizes the ‘movement as a component part of Industrial Reform, one of its sessions was set apart to consider the subject of usury. Opposition to the same is not now unrepresented in foreign countries. All educated Catholics are aware that gusury or interest is and has been from time immemorial condemned by the papacy as “ mortal sin,” and in Great Britain a yearly in- creasing body of Labor Reformers (under the leadership of Mr. James Harvey, of Liverpool, from whom we have just received a work on the subject, for which we tender our thanks) are making rapid headway in converting the members of the Unions and Granges to their anti-usury doctrines. As interest for the use of money is utterly forbidden by Moham- med in the third and thirtieth chapters of the Koran, the money-lending business is monopolized by the Jews and Christians in Turkey, who are the; real opponents of the Turkish nation. It is believed that in every civilized country there are some brave people who are trumpeting before the walls of the modern Jericho, the infamous money system, and what is more important there are many indications in all countries that the walls are commencing to crumble and fall that have so long shielded the oppressors from the just indig- nation of the wealth-producers whom they have so long and so cruelly persecuted. 0»-<-——— MAN ON HIS METTLE. The New York Herald is on the war-path. It is after the Fifth avenue butterﬂies with a sledge hammer. This year the annual meeting of the woman suﬁragists has eﬂected one thing—it has unmasked the battery of its opponents. There is no fencingin the article we copy from the New York’ if. ~‘____ g 4' -V——‘: ll’ May 30, 1874. WOODHIULL dc. 0LAFLIN’S WEEKLY. I I ‘ 9 Herald thereupon. It throws down the gauntlet in behalf of man, admits his tyranny and declares war against the move- ment for the political equality of woman wi.th man. It is a point gained, henceforth the reign of twaddle on thatgsllbject oughtto cease, “as the disagreeable fellows who hold the reins of power mean to keep them in spite of Miss Anthony and her noisy legions.” Hear it, ye women of the Union, and tremble I The Apostles of W0man’s Rights held their annual meet- ing yesterday (May 14) at Irving Hall, and it will be seen from an account published in another column that their pro- ceedings were marked by unusual enthusiasm. The tireless Susan still urges on her petticoated legions to struggle against the domination of the brute man, and under the leadership of this female Caesar the Amazons threaten to become a danger to the State. The cotton umbrella 0f..the oratorical lady shines in the vanguard of the woman s move- ment like the oriﬂamme of Navarre, and whenever that awful piece of cotton waves, tyrant man trembles. The most serious part of the bu.iness is_ that the leg1011S We 110 longer recruited from the female printers and the somewhat repellant ladies with the cropped wigs, but the services of the young and dashing belles of the Fifth Avenue have been enlisted. It will puzzle tne male kind to find out the ‘griev- ances of, the latter class, unless, indeed, they may think of executing a change of front and becoming useful as well as ornamental. Perhaps they have taken pity on their husbands and pap-as, and want to have the right_to earn some of the silk dresses they look so well in. If this be part of the pro- gramme we do not doubt that it would prove quite accept- able to the tyrants. Indeed, we think a_good many reforms of this nature would be necessary before extending the much desired suffrage to the ladies. We have alread)’ V00 many politicians, and patriotic persons are‘ endeavoring to ﬁnd some means of reducing this class withinreasonable limits. Under these circumstances the irruption of the ladies into the political arena would be viewed with alarm by the cornmuniiy, as calculated to turn every household into a miniature Arkansas. Two Governors in_ one State have proved disturbing enough, but the establishment of divided sovereignity in the home circle would Eproduce uni- versal anarchy. For these good reasons the umbrella of the ' woman suffragists will be for sometime to come waved in vain, as the disagreeable fellows who hold the reins of power , mean to keep them in spite of Miss Anthony and her noisy ‘legions. The WEEKLY can afford to set aside unanswered the low vulgarity and aristocratic assumption which permeates this article. The old copy says “variety is charming,” and we would advise our contemporary to remember the same, and lay the “cotton umbrella” aside in its future lucubrations, f or it is quite worn out with the double duty it has been com- pelled to perform in the above paragraph. As to the “ fe- male printers aiid the ladies with cropped wigs” their servi- ces in the cause appear to displease quite as much as those of “the dashing belles of Fifth avenue.” The former are in- sulted because they are poor, and the latter rated because they are rich. There is no consolation for tbe Herald. It wiiices under the double inﬁictioii like the soldier who was flogged by his friend “Sam.” Said the ﬂogger, “tell me where to strike and I’ll obey you.” When undergoing the punishment the sufferer naturally exclaimed “ higher ! higher l—lowei‘ 1 lower !”——until he exhausted the patience of his friend, who replied angrily, “ Confound you, Sam, there’s no pleasing you !” The same appears to be the melan- choly case of our contemporary. ' But there are some unpalatable truths in the above article which merit attention. The ﬁnancial slavery of the “ dash- ing belles of Fifth avenue” is one of them. The beggarly money discriininatioiis between the sexes in our industrial institutions, patrons of industry, granges, labor leagues. etc., are the messes of pottage that are offered to woman for her birthright. Robbed and wronged in every way as she is, we hold that it is her duty to utterly repudiate all such distinc- tions, apparently in her favor but operating to enslave her. True, there are periods in the life of woman, viz. : cliild— bearing, nursing, etc., when she needs assistance. Were we an enlightened people we should appreciate the fact and pay our debts to her under such circumstances with far greater readiness than we pay the public bondholder, feeling that she conferred and did not receive honor in accepting the assist- ance of the State. Napoleon the Great appreciated the truth of the above statement. VVhen Madame de Stael asked him who was the worthiest woman in France, he answered: “She, madame, who has given to her country the largest number of children!” The conclusion is obvious that she also ought to be the best rewarded and the most honored. But the gist of the article lies in its conclusion. There the fact is fully revealed that fools and twaddlers so long have striven to hide. There the admission and assertion of the power of man over woman is declared and paraded. If the bible be correct the position is justiﬁable. Women have far greater,i'iglits now thanwere granted to them under the laws of Moses, and they, we are told, are emanations from an un- changeable God. VVc disbelieve the statement and advise all women who are disiatisfied with their present positions to shut their bibles and keep them shut before they ask for more freedom than they at present possess. The positions that women hold under Christianity and Mohammedanism may be legitimately traced to the rulings of the J ewisli God in the Old Testament. In the New Testament these immaculate (1?) . laws are somewhat ameliorated it is true, but the apostle Paul, who commanded women _‘ ‘ to keep silence in the churches” would not be likely to act as a chairman were he called upon to preside at a meeting for the political enfran— chisement of the sex, much less would the bachelor who or- dered all wives to “submit themselves to theirhusbands ” be willingto endorse the greater demand for woman’s individual and social liberty. ' . As a human and fallible history of the Jews we do not ﬁnd fault with the Bible. 'As a legislator of A. M. 2,250, accord.- ing to the Mosaic record, we respectMoses. As a singularly democratic community we honor the Jews of ‘his time. But the world ‘is three thousand years older thaniit was then, and the condition of woman is the gauge of its advancement in civilization. Among slaves or savages, as the Jews were in the time of Moses, she is under the rule of force. To those women who are satisﬁed with the position woman holds on earth in the Bible, for she has no representation in Heaven in that book, we would submit that silence and obedience are their manifest duties. Their political and social chains are manufactured out of theological iron, and as Cliristians, they haveno right to demand emancipation. To those who think differently, and they are already very numerous, we extend a hearty welcome, for they are ﬁt to ﬁght the battle for their freedom, in which that of man is also included. , It is thus that the movement for the emancipation of woman enters into the domain of spiritualism. There are reformers suffrage by women would at present be detrimental to the best interests of the nation. Unless the latter are theologi- cally as well as politically, free they declare it would simply be conferring a plurality of votes on the clergy. The power of woman backed by the churches, though used illegally, has been exhibited in the west in the temperance or abstinence crusade. What might it effect, when organized, as it would be by the Protest-antclergy, at the polls? ’ Already the New York. Witness, the only religious daily in the city, has run up the ﬂag of “suffrage for Women.” It is easy to perceive why it has done so. justice and right, and in it the motto of the WEEKLY is that of the ancient Romans'—jia25 jiostilict, ruat cazlum. Q-r—<<—.._ VOX POPULI, VOX DEI. We rejoice to know that the masses of the people are more merciful than that small section of humanity terming itself “Society ;” and, we believe more truthful and more pure also. They are unwilling in the West to condemn a young woman who is charged with sacriﬁcing her child for her character. The WEEKLY does not desire to defend crime, more especially acrime so general among people married and unmarried, as child (or foetus) murder ; but, at the same time it honors a judge that gives , to sucha victim prisoner, the beneﬁt of every doubt, and a community ‘brave enough to applaud so honorable an action. The trial of Maggie Oleson on charge of infanticide came off in the Circuit Court on Monday. The circumstances which led to her arrest are doubtless fresh in the minds of our readers as full particulars of -the affair together with the detailed confession of the girl were published at the time, only a few weeks since. It will be remembered that the in- fant was found on the railroad track with its head nearly severed from the body. VVhat interest there was manifested in the case was a sort of genersl feeling of sympathy for the girl under the circumstances. The outspoken coiidemiiation was heaped upon her seducer more than upon the girl her- self. H. B. Jackson and C. W. Felkerhad volunteered to __act in the defense. The main witneases examined were Drs. Gordon and Blodgett who made a postmortem examination of the Child when found. The main issue turned upon the question whether the child was alive or not when born, and to these conclusions both sides, in their showing to the jury, were obliged, in a great degree, to place their case almost wholly upon medical authority on this point. The girl having confessed to the cutting of the child’s throat, this point was dropped out of the thread of testimony almost entirely. .Both these physicians testified that, from the tests made by them, ‘it was their opinion the child was alive when born. Their main authority for this opinion was from the fact that the lungs were fully inﬂated and ﬂoated lightly on water. After these gentlemen had testiﬁed, the judge interrupted proceeding by citing the district attorney to voluminous authorities, recording that this was no infallible test, and that chiidren have been known to have been born dead and yet have their lungs fully inflated, stat- ing that, under these circumstances, it was impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the child was born alive. The judge ordered the jury to enter averdict of ac- quittal and the prisoner was dicharged. Under the peculiar circumstances the verdict meets with the general approval of the people. The man Hans Jansen, the seducer of the girl, it is believed has gone back to Denmark.—Da.2'ly N orth- west, Oshkosh,’ Wis. ' ' It is not to be wondered at that our Western brethren and sisters cannot appreciate the justice of condemning awoman to moral death for an‘ act, which in a man, is looked upon rather as a credit than otherwise. It is not lobe wondered at that they will weigh the terrible inducement that society forces upon a young woman under such circumstances, to posed victims who are not worse than thousands, probably‘ hundreds of thousands, of their adult fellow countrymen and countrywomen. It is no use for the public to deny the charge. The proof is extant in the daily advertisements of many of the principal papers of our cities, and Dr. Allen, but a few years ago sanctioned it by asserting that on its account, the native population of Massachusetts had ceased, to increase; Coroner Lankester of London, Great Britain, estimated that, in that city, there were twelve thousand such ‘murders per annum, and a correspondent of the N. Y. World, surmised that more than double that number, were so slaugh tered every year in New York. Copulation, if it be a crime when willingly entered into,- is the lightest of sexual crimes. The WEEKLY does not con- demn it, but strikes at the degrading sexual bestialities of the age whose name is legion. It knows why Society, mam- mon-ruled, has sacriﬁced woman to man’slust from time im- memorial; that she is not immolated at the shrine of chastity, but at the shrine of the dollar. The civil law takes no note of what is termed fornication when the parties committing it are agreeod. No priesthood in our country dares to dis- criminate between male and female guilt (as they might term it) in such cases. Society alone, saturated itself through and. I through with sexual monstrosities of an inﬁnitely worse char- acter, elevates the ﬁnger of Escorn and damns the female “anarchy. This is denied. who assert that the admission and the exercise the right of Nevertheless, the cause is thecause of . commit so awful a crime, and cover with their sympathy ex- . only. It is woman who murders her weaker sister, instead of comforting her. It is even yet with such a victim as Oliver Goldsmith so pithily described it. The trembling and heart- broken Qlivia is brought to her home to meet the scorn of female society, and there is no priest now that dares thunder in its ears——“ The kindness of heaven is promised to the penitent, and let ours be directed ‘by its example.” i T This is an argument, however, addressed to those calling themselves Christians. . For ourselves,.we take higher ground. We deny the claim of the ‘public to sit in judgment over such leases in which it is not directly injured. We assume-not to judge’ another, and will not submit to judgment ourselves until we have injured another. What man asserts for him- self we claim forwoman. The world says this will introduce , Anarchy in social affairs is rain- pant now. When a city like New York anda country like France cease to increase matters cannot be much worse than they are without annihilating the races; mankind. A But, says Society, it willintroduce promiscuity!‘ “'VVe answer-—do you intend to be promiscuous? No, not us that attend churches, but others. A Ah, dear Society, trouble not yourself about others. What little sexual virility and purity there is in the world lies with those others; _Do you ask why? Because their labor has defended them from the meaner vices, that’s why; and, whether you believe it or not, with them lies the power in the near future. 3 A It is for this latter reason the WEEKLY republishes and re- joices in the above decision. It honors the humanity of the judge who dared interpose his power to shield the defenseless. and to limit that Shylock——society—to its exact pound of“ flesh. We rejoice also to recognize the sound common sense of our Western fellow—ci°tizens, and are gladindeed to re-record the fact that “under the peculiar circumstances the verdict (not guilty) meets with the general approval of the people.” o-<————-— EYANGELICAL DRESS REFORM. What is majesty deprived of its externals? Every one same reply would probably be equally truthful (though not so humorous) were we to inquire, what is religion deprived of its externals? Verily were our modern priests stripped of their extra trappings they would appear only like jordi, ‘nary mortals. Silence the music of the churches» and stop the chantings of the sweet (opera) singers of Israel, and many of our costly cathedrals would be half depopulated. We do not complain of these things, we like costly dresses ; and do notybelieve that a clergyman can properly give the benedic. tion in a coat. For this reason we take pleasure in laying mass, of May 13th. ‘ “ In your issue of the 2d inst. is a short paragraph on ,‘ Dress Reform’ among Church-going Christians,’ 1 have a suggestion to offer. Let some ladies who stand high in the fashionable World, ladies of education, reﬁnement and taste, contrive a church costume. Letit be elegant. neat, plain-- that is, with little trimming——and so artistic that it can never look ugly or outre. The shape—the cut+—is the important thing. It matters little what the material or color may be. First, it would do away in part with that extravagance in dress among the worshipers which makes a. plainly-clad Christian feel out of place in our congregations. Second‘, the costume, continuing ever the same, would be familiar to our eyes, and so would never, seem old-fashioned. E And ladies who have not the means or the wish to follow all the ‘changes of fashion could adopt it as their usual dress and not attract attention on the score of being odd or antiquated in appearance. Will not the ladies see to this matter?” There is no doubt tliat if some “ high and fashionable Christian ladies” would start this movement it would prove a success ; and, in addition to what the writer says, it would go far to draw a broad line between saints and sinners outside the churches. As regards the precise shape and ﬁnish of j the garments required that could easily be arranged, but no two denominations ought to permit their peoples to dress alike. We should require, of course, Episcopal milliners, and Presbyterian tailors ; also, a depot for the sale of ready- made garments for Methodists. In the case of our Mormon neighbors, propriety would demand that the husbands of that many-wived people should not be permitted by Con- gress to unduly limit the longitude of their wives” dresses, as they might be tempted from motives of economy. IAI- together, we look at the suggestion ‘ contained in the above letter as excellent, and hope with the writer that the most pious and devout ladies will take an interest in the matter. ____...._._...._¢o+.._4_____..__. A WORD IN SEASON. ' When a newspaper desires to hold forth, it is the easiest thing in the world for it to ﬁnd a text. - Here we have one to hand fairly copied from the “ Drag/’s Doing/s”——we would go farther back for its source, but cannot : “An Iowa Judge has decided that it is more of a sin to steal a horse, than to elope with another man’s wife ; because there are eight millions of women in the United States, and only three millions of horses.” If our system of political economy be right, the above decision is ‘correct. Measured by their money value babies are the most worthless drugs in our country, and next to them come women; men are more valuable but still not comparable with horses, at least, in time of peace. Even in time of war_ Congress ﬁxed the value of male United States Citizens at three hundred dollars per head. As Mr. Bonner holds. Dexter at one-‘hun- dred thousand dollars, it is evident that that noble animal is‘ worthiabout three hundred and thirty—tliree able bodied men :w'itho[ uppythrown in} As to woman, who shallassert knows the correct answer to that question is, “ a jest.” The , before our readers the following letter from the N. Y. Wu: , The advantage of such a church costume would be two—fold.‘ _1oi T S woonisiuhr. ax 0LAFLIN’S WEEKLY. May i se;=’51is7’4.- ‘ ‘E that the Long Island farmer was wrong who depreciatingly compared his deceased par_tne1' to a cow. “Yes” said he, “my poor wife has gone, and though she was nothing to me but ha bill of expense, I would rather have lost the best cow in my yard. " ' > But our readers may say that human beings are not prop- erty, and so object to the above comparisons. I Then, we ask what is the meaning of “ another man’s wife,” in our text ? What is “ a wife” in law ? A “femme coiwe9'te,?’ alias, ‘ “ a covered or hidden woman.” What is she if she outlives her husband ? \ “A relict,”‘ that -is, “ ao relinquished or broken piece.” Does not that word. also tinge of property ? Come to the grave, what do we ﬁnd there. Here lies. John Smith etc., etc.; then below, also Mary, relict of the above etc., etc. Did Mary die ﬁrst her case would not be bettered ; then the document could run, sacred to Mary, wife of John Smith, etc. But where is the‘ monument that has, under such an inscription, Also John, relict of the above, etc. ? Nowhere ! John is always, under all circumstances, a round and sound unit, never an addendum to any other individual. What is the just inference but that women are property? Verily the Iowa Judge is right in this instance also. The WEEKLY would do wrong to palliateithe present posi- tion of woman. Its duty is to hold up the facts of her case in order to justify the discontent that at present exists in one- half of the people of this great country. As to the “ tit quoque” argument Society uses in order to shield itself from just exposi- tions, all right-thinking women, and men too, are beginning to sicken at the folly of such a defense. Furthermore, the pres- sent position of woman, and the consequent fearful social and sexual conditions of humanity are not chargeable to Social Re- formers, but to the tyranny of man operating through priest- hoods and legislatures. Like the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s play, the WEEKLY, in its animadversions and warnings, / - “Makes not—but foresees I” and the people are beginning to realize that its statements are public beneﬁts, as its constantly increasing subscription listvery satisfactorily proves. Nothing can more painfully prove the necessity for its existence, than the statements in the text above quoted, neither will the work of the WEEKLY be accomplished until a woman, or even a baby, is more val- uable than a horse, although there may be in our country, as the Iowa Judge says, “ eight millions of women and only three millions of horses.” ‘ -—-————>-<o>—+—-———-- IPAST AND PRESENT CHRISTIANITY. It would be as well for those who profess to be Christians to conform slightly to the doctrines of the great Nazarene. It is not ﬁtting in a bishop to be butting against the teach‘ ings of his God, like the little red bull of New Jersey dashed against the locomotive. ~ Who ever heard of Jesus commend- ing his follewers for their acquisition of money ? No one ! Who, but the bishop of Minnesota, does not know that He condemned wealth and those who possessed it i? The only privilege He gave I to rich converts was the privilege of transferring their stock, but they had to do it. “ Sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.” ' “The Bishop of Minnesota, at his late visit to the Indian mission at White Earth, under the Indian clergyman. En- megahbowk, conﬁrmed twelve Indians. The hospital for the Indians is full of patients. In his address the Bishop said: “ When I ﬁrst came among you, fourteen years ago, there was not in God’s universe a more hopeless race than the Chippewas. I see before me now single Indians who own more property than the whole band of Chippewas then pos- seased.”,". There are four candidates for orders among the Chippewas; one is the son of the Head Chief, one is the son of the Head Medicine Man, and a third is the son of the In- dian clergyman, the Rev. J. ‘J’. Enmegahbowk.” _ 2 Verily, the times are wonderfully changed from A. D. 30. As the great dramatist says : l “The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges I” And nothing proves the truth of that statement more than the present condition of the churches. All the vitality of thefaith, founded by the great Jewish Medium has departed from them. Like the prodigal son, they seem to have squan- dered, their spiritual heritage, and are now only kept alive by illegal stimulants, and munching the husks of ceremonies. 4. S611 311, ‘be poor, and follow me,” was the order of the day in J udea ; but, as the Bishop of Minnesota puts it, the word of command in our country is, “Join the church and get rich 3” I __..._.._....._...+g.-—4—-—--—--—- ‘ ‘ MISCELLANEOUS. THE ZAPOCYNUM CARNJEUM. ' [From the N. Y. World]. ‘ DoYLEsrowN, Bucks County, Pa., May 8. Sir-——]. have read the very singular and frightfully graphic account of “The Man-eating Tree,” published in a recent nﬁmber of the World, ‘with much interest, but, you will ex- cuts me for saying, with some little skepticism. While the disclosure; 0; science are often more strange than the wildest imaginations, of the romancer, it is but seldom that they enter into such ghastly regions as that into which your cor- respondent leads us. lYet no one’ knows -better than the ‘student of science how very far removed is the unlikely or the incredible from the impossible, and how rash it is because a statement seems’ strange and startling to denounce it as untrue ; andcertain recent observations of my QWD (Which I hajdgno intention of making public in their present imper- fect state until I saw the letter above referred to) give me an special, reasonfor at ‘least suspending my judgment The gag“, ﬁg which I, allude are as follows: = ‘ gather more"thl ‘n. a year age I received’ '=frg‘)m Dr. Frays- sinet, o f Paris, a small parcel of seed, which had been sent him by the lamented Carne. These seeds were all of known genera of plants (though some unquestionably of new species) and had been collected by that traveler in his journey to Laos and Mekong. To them all Dr. Frayssinet had attached labels, copied from Carne’s, except to one-small packet con- taining three seeds to which he said he could ﬁnd no label. They were of a dark coffee color, oval, ﬂattened, slightly compressed at the—_edges, with longitudinal black ridges con- verging at the apex. As there were so few, I did not exam- ine their internal structure. I planted them in a very light sandy soil in a well-warmed conservatory about the end of April, 1873, but it was not until October that I perceived any signs of germination, when a pale green sprout, made its appearance, with two seed-leaves, showing that the plant was a dicotyledon. On my examining the two other seeds I found that they had rotted. The plant grew but slowly, but ﬁnally developed a few leaves very like those of passiﬂora, with the difference however, that each lobe terminated in a small green hook or abortive tendril, formed by a prolongation of ' the midrib. Like passiﬂora, it had a small cup-shaped gland near the base of each leaf, secreting a limpid ﬂuid. The growth of the plant was so slow, and its whole appear- ance so sickly, that, remembering that its habitat was prob- ably the hot, seething swamps of Mekong, 1 determined to increase the heat and moisture, which resulted in avery marked improvement. VVith the details of its growth I need not trouble you; I ﬁnally placed it in a closed case, gave it more heat than any other of my tropical plants would bear, made for it a highly nitrogenized soil—-what I might almost call a putrid soil-—and allowed the sunlight to which it was exposed to pass through violet glass. The plant was thus at all times surrounded with awarm mist. The result was quite satisfactory. The leaves assumed a dark green, small rough patches like warts began to stud their upper surface, and the hooks at the end of the leaf—lobes lengthened into tendrils like those of the clematis. The plant grew so rapidly that I had to add a second story to the case. A ring of ﬁlaments or rather processes made its appearance around the stalk about ﬁve inches from the ground, grew in from two to three days to about an inch in length, and then dropped off, leaving a zone of’triangular scars. But in the meantime another similar ring had been formed just above, which in its turn fell off, so that this curious ruff or fringe kept advancing up the stem. A similar ‘phenomenon on a I smaller scale was presented by the larger branches, of which there were three. The leaves, I must mention, showed a marked aﬁinity for the sunlight, always maintaining them- selves in a position as nearly as possible at right angles to the solar rays, drooping when the sun was clouded ‘even for a few minutes, and almost immediately after sunset closing by folding themselves up along the midrib of the central lobe, so that the opposed lateral lobes resembled the ﬁngers of two hands placed palm to palm. ' As you may suppose, I waitedwith curiosity for its ﬂower- ing, but this function it seemed to accomplish with great difficulty, owing, I surmise, to the want of sufficient sun- light. However, after several buds had partly developed and then dropped off, it succeeded in producing, last month, three perfect ﬂowers. These were of what is called the per- sonata type, of which the common snap-dragon is a. familiar example; though they did not very closely resemble the snap-dragon, and I could only give a correct idea of it by a drawing. It had the mask-like form from which the name of the type is derived; but the upper part was longer in pro- portion, more elongated backward, and more like a grotesque head; and the labellum, or jaw, was protruding, but ﬁrmly closed. The general color is greenish-yellow, with small, brown, ﬂat warts, something like those on the stem. The mouth, or rather the margin of closure, is set with sharp, whiteprocesses that interlock. The labellum, or jaw, does not spring separately from the calyx, nor does it merge into the rest of the corolla; it is attached to the corolla proper as a sort of appendage, in a way which I shall presently explain. V .. From between the closed lips of the ﬂower hang out seven slender appendages of a dark red color, which I shall venture to call tentacles‘. These I was at ﬁrst inclined to consider altered stamens. They are about an inch long and terminate in a blunt end. While observing the ﬂower closely I noticed a slight, apparently spontaneous, movement in one of these, which was presently repeated by another. Having often ob- served the movements of the stamens of hedysarumiand her- beris and the closure of mimosa and dionaea, I thought that this was something of the same kind, and was about touching one of the tentacles with a needle when, to my great sur- prise, the tentacle erected itself, a slender ﬁlament darted from its point and twined round the needle for about a second, then uncoiled itself and vanished. This ex- periment I repeated several times, always with the same re- sult, except that in each case a different tentacle came into activity: nor did the ﬁrst show any irritability until the concave side ran an exquisitely ﬁne thread in which I could distinguish no structure. When the ﬁlament was protruded the ﬁlament was thrown into a. sudden spiral, thus grasping whatever it touched. When this ‘ act had been . repeated several times the motion grew weaker and slower,-and I was able to distinguish minute corpuscles moving about with great rapidity in the spiral -vessels like those seen in the sting of the nettle. ' The mode in which the tentacle sprang up from its base I could not discover. To get at their bases I had to remove the labellum or jaw to which they were attached, and this operation seemed to paralyze them. The corolla proper or vexillum contained seven stamens grouped around a pistil, which stood a little above them on an ovary. At the base of each stamen sprang a tentacle and passed down over the labellum to which they were attached for about a. quarter of an inch on the interior surface. The cavity was of a pale,, dull red, specked with white, and set with a number of short’ hairs resembling in structure the sting of a nettle7though knowing what some of the tropical nettles are, I did not ven- ture to test their stinging powers on my own person. Each of the white specks had a central oriﬁce large enough to ad- mit the passage of a ﬁne bristle. The anthers were covered with masses of a. viscous pollen like that of the orchids. The ﬂy, I may mention, lay in the cavity covered with pollen and quite dead. , ~ The mechanism of the jaw which I next examined is curious. It depends from the proper corolla by a ﬁne, thin, elastic mem- brane. It is strengthened and kept in shape by a structure somewhat resembling that of the “keel” of papilionaceous ﬂowers (such as the pea), except that this stiffening rib is bifurcated. Imagine the clavicles (or “ merrythought ” of a chicken to be curved up much more than they are, and taper- ing toward the point into ﬁne threads. and it will give some idea of this contrivance, which supports and gives ‘shape to the under and front surface of the jaw. At the point of bifurcation is a little vertical plate resembling that at the end of the merrythought, except that it is quite ﬂat above and cut into a deep notch below. The articulation is effected in this wayé From near the base of each side of the proper corolla runs a strong tense ﬁbre, crossing to the base of the other side, the two being united at the point of de- cussation, making a sort of bridge, like thiszlxj. The notch that I have described in the frame of the labellum ﬁts over the centre of this bridge, so as to allow free motion upward and downward to the jaw, to which it serves as a hinge. From the base of the pistil, and just above this, springs a ﬁrm tooth-like process, projecting over this hinge; and on the under surface of this _process are two prominonces, like tiny brown cushions, resting on the hinge, one before the fulcrum and one behind. Havingmastered the simple mechanism of the arrange- ment so far, I became convinced that in these two cushions must lie the moving power; but my removal of the lip seemed to have paralyzed the ﬂower, and I could not stimu- late them to any activity until I bethought myself of elec- tricity. On directing a very slight current to the stigma of the pistil I was gratiﬁed to see the front cushion ijsuddenly shrink quite ﬂat, While the other was prodigiously distended, when as suddenlythe action was reversed—the front cushion swelled and the rear one shrank. On increasing the strength of the current, this curious systole and dyastole was repeated with great rapidity. Now it was clear that, as the cushions rested on the hinge I have described, one before and one be- hind the fulcrum, these alternate contractions and expan- sions must throw the jaw up and down. I repeated this ex- periment on an uninjured ﬂower with perfect success; the jaw opened and shut with quick, strong snaps, and when the current was increased the whole ﬂower was singularly con- vulsed, presenting a grotesque resemblance to a small writh- ing face. Unfortunately I carried these experiments too far, and destroyed the vitality of this second ﬂower; so, having but one perfect ﬂower left, I was constrained to post- pone further investigation. It will be seen that the two cushions I have spoken of are a true erectile tissue. Under the microscope they show a spongy mass of compressed hexagonal cells mingled with spiral vessels, and it is evident that the sudden injection of I some ﬂuid into one, and its simultaneous withdrawal from the other, produced the mechanical action. It is worth. notice that these singular organs are immediately connected with the organs of reproduction——the tentacles with the stamens and the erectile cushions with the pistil; so that there seems to be in this ﬂower only a modiﬁcation and ex- altation (favored by a more highly-‘organized mechanical ap- paratus) of the phenomena observed in the barbery and other plants where the period of fructiﬁcation is accompanied with the development of new and almost animal powers. My sur- mise at present is that since the viscidity of the pollen and has to avail itself of the services of insects to accomplish this to the ﬂower. As before, the tentacle arose, the ﬁlament function. But the insect, even if attached to this ﬂower, can- darted out. plucked off‘ the pellet, and, to my inexpressible not enter the closed mouth. So by the apparatus we have astonishment, instantly curled itself back and deposited it in seen the ﬂower catches the insect and imprisons it until in its the jaws of the ﬂower which opened to receive it and closed efforts to escape it has carried the pollen upon the stigma. 11p0I1 it. the ﬁlament drawing itself back more slowly. I Whether the death of the insect invariably follows, and if so _ next tried a small living ﬂy, which was disposed of in the whether it is due to any poisonous qualities of theipollen, or - same manner. . "to the nettle-like hairs of the corolla 1 cannot now say. Itrust So remarkable a phenomenon sent me at once to my micro- that if the buds which the plant now has develop, I shall be scope, and, after considerable diiﬁculty, owing to the irrita- able to place seeds in the hands of several distinguished bility of the tentacles, I succeeded in attaching one by a little botanists, and that next year we shall have a full account of isinglass to the glass slide without injuring it or detaching it this singular plant. from the ﬂower. I then discovered that the ﬁlament was in reality the prolongation of the tentacle, which in repose was introverted like the ﬁnger of ahglove, dartingout when ex- cited like the glove-ﬁnger blown into. It was perfectly trans- parent, and by the use of a higher power I was able to make out something of its structure. Along its under or convex side ran a longitudinal series of long, anastomosing cells, re- It is with diﬂidence that I attempt to ﬁxlthe place of this plant’ in the vegetable kingdom; my opinion is that it be. longs toihe family of apocynaceae. and most nearly resembles the genus vahea. Should it prove to be, as I think, a new genus, I trust that the leaders of science will commemorate in it the name of Carrie. sembling the ordinary spiral vessels, and on the upper or7 there was a. violent rush of ﬂuid into these cells, distending and elongating them, while as the upper side remained rigid the elevation of the pistil render the ﬂower, like that of the - other six had successively acted. I new rolled\a small pellet orchids, incapable of self-fertilization, it, like the orchids, of paper, ﬁxed it on the point of the needle and presented it Before closingthis too long communication, Ilwi11 mentimy I \z May —2o,,1's74. v V woonHUI.L a ChAFLIN’S WEEKLY. c j 11 that your correspondent has fallen into the‘ error of many botanists in supposing that the dimieea inuscipula, or Venus’s ﬂy—trap, nourishes itself upon . the insects that it catches. Dr. R. Murdock. of Baltimore, has made this plant the object of careful investigation, whose resul.ts were embodied in a paper read before the Maryland Academy of Sciences, in which he showed that the death of the ﬂy involved the death of the leaf. From the body of the insect sprang a fungussor mildew which attacked the leaf and caused it to wither and drop from the stem. I It will be seen that the phenomena here described fall very far hort of those described by your correspondent——at least they are on ‘a much smaller scale. But if his carnivorous tree be merely the production of a lively imagination, it is certainly a curious coincidence that at the same time certain very real analogous phenomena were in process of; study by a modest and prosaic observer of nature. I am, very respectfully, yours, VW. MERCIER.‘ HARWICH, Mass., 1874. EDITORS on THE WEEKLY: Well, we are in the midst of revolution——revolution social- ly, and perhaps ﬁnancially; but as agitation tends to puriﬁ- cation, we may expect good to come at last. ., Few understand the breadth and ‘scope of this Social ques- tion. Those who do must expect to perform pioneer work, . and bear the taunts of an unthinking people. All innovations are jealously suspected, especially by those whose crafts are in danger; but let the probe go deep, for , superﬁcialities never will do in times like these. Man cannot really put together what Gr0d has put asun- der, nor can he put asunder what God has put together. Penalties surely follow violation of natural law, as is veri- ﬁed in tens of thousands of instances of ill-advised, unhappy connubialities. Shall we connive at and continue these things? I say, no! a thousand times, no! About four years ago my wife passed into the realms of spirit life; and, although my nature is eminently social, I am leading a single, lonely life—not daring to venture within the clutches of the law, lest in myweak judgment I might make a mistake, and saddle upon my domestic relationship a scourge instead of a blessing. The Congregational clergyman who saida few words at the Spiritualists’ camp meeting last summer was complained of by some of his Church members therefor: and he is now at loggerheads with the Church, being too liberal for them. They can’t get clear of him, however, because the disaffected members are in the minority; and -so he continues stirring them up. ‘Last Sunday, in his pulpit, he spoke of Mrs. Woodhull with respect. He has commenced to think, and, being a great lover of nature, he cannot feed longer on husks. B. F. R. __...__..... MAZEPPA, May 9, 1874. Dear Mrs. Woodhull—“ Brave, beloved Victoria, who shall yet be victorious,” were the prophetic words uttered by Mrs. Waisbrooker here in her eulogy and championship of the work to which you are both devoted. Yes, the Age’s ener- getic editress has beenin Mazeopa and given us two lectures, from the eﬁects of which the conservatives and free lusters will not soon recover, and which ﬁlled the radicals with a hungering for more from the same fountain.~ Church mem- bers, ministers‘ widows, and all were out to hear. “ Pure ” men, who boast of fallen sisters (?) “coming in unto them” through bedroom windows,in the absenceof their wives,went home saying they did not want their wives and daughters to hear and read such stuff as Our Age contains and its. editress speaks. Ah, no, she held a chalice to their lips until they drank to the bitter dregs. Mrs. Waisbrooker deserv es success, by virtue of the right which she advocates, and earnestness of purpose, combined with rare eloquence and oratory. Come again, sister Lois, your kingdom shall be the whole world, and more beyond, if but you can send your voice so far. Mrs. Dr. Lont, who heard her at Lake City tells me she outrivalled herself in her masterly eloquence on the evening in which she spoke there. She speaks soul-stirring, conscience-convincing truths. I am going to Red VV'ing next week, to make it my home. I’ve been told there is no liberal element there: but I shall carry enough with me to seed the ground; "and I pledge’ myself that the ﬁrst liberal mind I come across who does not take your paper or the Age shall be invited to do so. I join with your friends here in many kind wishes for your success, and am, yours respectfully, MRs. M. I. WASHBURN. .____... 5. MAX ADELER ON CREMATION. I hardly think, -upon the whole, that I am in favor of ore- mation. The process seems to me to be so frightfully waste- ful. At the same time, I am ready to admit that the dead might beused much more proﬁtably than they are now. If a man must be buried, let him be planted where he will make something grow. I remember that Casselbeny, of Vineland, N. J ., once laid his grandmother near his grapevine, and by carefully watering her twice a day, be secured a crop of ﬁf- teen bushels of black Hamburgs. The subject came up in the agricultural society subsequently, and there was a ques- tion whether a grandmother was the only female relative that could be efﬁcaciously used, and whether it should be a paternal or a maternal grandmother. Casselbeny explained that he had known a maiden aunt or a second cousinto do equally well; and he had his step- father among the roots of his mammoth‘ gooseberry bush, with every prospect of a superb crop. ,Very particular in- quiries were made by several members concerning the avail- ability of mothers-in-law improving the asparagus bed; he took the ﬁrst prize for asparagus at eight county fairs. Then the meeting suddenly adj ourned, and ﬁfteen mothers-in-la in Vineland died during the succeeding week. And then there is the skeleton. The Esquimaux ‘make skates out of the collar-bones of their departed friends; and I remember Hufnagle, of Mauch Chunk, having lost his leg by a railroad accident, took out ‘the bone, and had it made upinto aclarionet, with which heiused to go around sere- nading a woman who refused to love him. — He always played in a minor key. and they say up. at Mauch Chunk that he whistled the most heartrending music out of that bone. When old Mackintosh, of Darby, died, his widow had his framework taken out, and shepworked the whole of it up into knife-handles and trouser-buttons, which she gave to her second husband when they were married. The hottest kind of water never hurt those knife-handles, nnd the sus-. pender that wouldn’t_ stay buttoned on those buttons was ad- ,mitted to be just no suspender at all. But7I admit that there is. something disagreeable about this form of utilization,,and therefore I rather incline to favor theplan of turning inanimate remains into illuminating gas by consuming them in a retort. This, I understand, is prac- ticable, and it would be, I should think, inexpressibly con- soling to a man to sit and read the paper comfortably every evening by the light of his deceased uncle, and to have the satisfactionof knowing that the said relative had been run through a meter at so much a thousand feet. , It would be beautiful to illuminate the parlor with a .de- parted hired girl, or to turn off your h,alf—brother before going to bed.‘ And think what splendid gas a Congressman would make. We might have a law appropriating dead. Con- gressmen to the Light—House Board for use on the /coast. This class of persons then would have the consolation of knowing that they would be much more useful after death than they are during life. i i JESUS CHRIST ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. BY w. E. JAMIESON. According to the New Testament, Jesus Christ repudiated marriage. “ The children of this world marry and are given in marriage; but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and‘ the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage.” _ In that passage reference is -made to two classes—the mar- rying class and anti-marrying. Those who marry and are given in marriage are, by implication, unworthy. Bachelors and maids only will be admitted to kingdom come! Jesus had no expectation of converting mankind to celi- bacy, for he said “ Allmen cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.” This was in answer to a ques- tion from his disciples, after he had spoken about the infelici- ties of married life. They sagely (as the Shakers would say) remarked,“ If the case of the man be so with‘his wife, at is not good to marry.” M _, Jesus replied to them thus: “There are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb—[Begging Mr. Comstock’s pardon for quoting this passage]-—and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men; and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.” N ow, my Christian brethren, here is a chance for you! Jesus coldly adds, “ He that is ‘able to receive it, let him receive it.” As there has been, considerable confession through the WEEKLY, 1 am now ready to “ ’fess ” that I am inadequate to the heavenly situa- tion! I am in favor of marriage. If Imust miss either heaven or marriage, let heaven go! But the disciples let their wives go for heaven’s sake. Heaven has mademany cowards. . The teachings of Jesus 'Christ on the question of divorce are nonsensical. According to him if a divorced woman marries she is guilty of adultery, be she ever so pure: 7 “And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.”—Mark x: 12. He said a husbandwho puts away his wife and marries another is guilty of adultery: “Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another committeth adultery against her.-”—Mark x: 11. » He says that the man who marries the divorced woman commits adultery! N o allowance is made if the man should be ignorant of the fact that she had been divorced: “ Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrteth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.” Whewl Is not that a beautiful law! There it is, without exception or qualiﬁcation. “Go to,” ye ministers, build a spiritual ‘signiﬁcation. It is odious as it stands, and will spices. In the time of Moses, “ Grod’s ” law was in favor of V“ easy divorce,” more easy than divorce in the State of. Indiana or the city of Chicago. Alla man had to do was to write his wife a bill of divorcement, give it in her hand, and send her out of his house if she found no favor in his eyes, t’. e., if he had found some uncleanness in her. But notwithstanding her uncleanness the law declares, “she may go and be another man’s wife.” If the latter _husband hate her he is allowed to serve her as her former husband did——send her tramping! The former husband, however, is forbidden to take her again, even if the latter one dies. The plan evi- dently was to pass her around, on condition that she must have a new “ affinity” at each change. If the woman under the old code had had an equal chance to rid herself of a. bus- band in whom she had found “some uncleanness ” (a drunken sot, for instance), on which account »it could scarcely be expected that he would ﬁnd “ favor” in the eyes of a reﬁned, pure-hearted woman, the law would have been just to all parties. As it is, it proves to be one-sided, unfair to the woman. I Jesus Christ disavowed any intention of destroying the Mosaic law, yet he proposed one which he manifestly in- tended for soft-hearted people. “For. the hardness of your hearts he (Moses) wrote you this precept.” ‘ According to Jesus Christ’s law of divorce, a man and woman who enter into the marriage state must remain in it during lifel If a blunder is made at the start, there is no remedy for it unless one of “the parties commits adultery or fornication. Such a law would compel a woman to suffer any amount of brutal treatment from a husband. He may make a slave of her, physically and mentally, and there is no \ probably smell ‘badly when embalmed swith allegorical 1 ‘redress, according to the stringent and unjust law of divorce as laid down in the New Testament. N 0, release for her; no hope save when her body is wrapp ed in the quiet grave and her spirit is freed from her merciless tormentor. , And what shall we say of some men who are legally bound. to termagants? The marriage law of Jesus Christ compel , them to live together and hate it out on that line if it takes lifetime. / . This is the glorious law which the ministers profess to .b-. so anxious to have carried out to the veryletter!‘ . It does appear as if Jesus Christ was determined to do what he could to abolish the marriage institution by making it burdensome; in the meantime holding up before the . peoplethe advantages of celibacy, wishing them to become eunuchs. for the sake of gaining heaven. This idea is incor- porated, too, in what is called the “Lord’s Prayer.” After death “ they /neither marry nor are given in marriage ;_. but are as the angels which are in heaven.” “ Our Father which it is in heaven.” Inrheaven there is no marrying; and if that/prayer had been answered there would have been no marriages on earth; and, unless children were born out of depopulated ages ago, and nothing but a wilderness,*in place of villages and cities, would have been the practical result of the “Nazarene’s” teaching about marriage. Christians for generations repeating the “Lord’s Prayer,” “as in tioning against marriage. Fortunate for the race that there is no efficacy in prayer! V it THE DEGENERACY on THE PRESS.-We have heard much. said about the degeneracy of the press, and we ‘have strenu- upon the San Francisco News Letter, and we took off our armor and resolved to battle no more for the sanctity of the profession to which we have devoted our life. Since Satur. day night a lonely and unprotected female has been in our city, quietly attending to her own business, seeking subscrip- tions for WOODHULL AND CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY, as paper that boasts not so much of literature as of a general interest to mankind, and a paper which professes to speak the truth. Miss Tennie C. Claﬂin, the lady in question, is modest and retiring, presses no one to open his pocket-book, but when subscriptions are offered she, as in duty bound, accepts them. Yet with all this modesty of manner, illustrated by a beauty that is proverbial, we want our readersto look at the horrors of a man who knows not the blessings in store for him. Here are the terrible apprehensions of the San Francisco editor: land. passengers was a false alarm, yet it is threatened that this fearful female contemplates a descent upon California. In what have we offended, that heaven should choose a set of long line of them, ranging from the wickedness of our pet hyenas to thestupidity of the breeched Clark. And now the C1aﬂi.n ‘comes to cap the climax. 0, Lord! keep her off, if she is not too much for thee. Are we not a city of churches, parsons and prayers? Do we not use thy name long, loud and frequently? Have we not done away with the City Han Commission, and are we not, going to shut up the whisky shops at twelve? Are we not ﬁghting the devil and all his works during all of our leisure hours? and wilt thou there- fore persecute us with a Claﬂin? Send us rather a default. ing treasurer, a thieving Congressman, or any other one whose ways are not altogether past ﬁnding out, but not an- other woman. 0, Lord! if thou lovest us, not another we. man! We have several batches of the article which we are ready to deliver into thy hands, whenever it shall please thee to call for them; but we can’t recommend them. 0, Lord!- we have not yet sunk so low.’ We scorn a lie.” One smile from the serene countenance of Miss Claﬂin be any one rather than the editor of the News Letter when the frail form of the fair Tennie appears in his sanctum. Cremation would be as the balm of Gilead compared to what he will have to undergo. Won’t Tennie scorch him,» though! _—Salt Lake Paper. AN“'INOREDULOUS READER. Emrrons OEETHE WEEKLY: I see you have published a tree story from the World Now, the VVorld for the last two or three years has at periods three columns long, and that tree story bears the same ear marks. ‘ ‘ I am glad it was given in your paper, if it should be the ‘means of calling forth a warm rebuke from you. To write a hoax or literary joke so elaborately without giving some clue whereby ordinary readers may detect the falsity of the story is to my mind very reprehensible. * - J ASPER. [We do not arrogate to ourselves any greater powers of discernment than our “ordinary readers” possess. We admire a well told story, and are willing to submit such to our readers, conﬁdent of their ability togdetect any “hoax” hidden in the'well—rounded periods. . If our correspondent has discovered an imposture, we think it “reprehensible "’ to “ hide his light under a bushel,” and we request forour readers that he let it sliinethrough ourdcolumns for their beneﬁt.—EDs.] 4 ‘ ,NOT IMPossIBLE.—The question was put some time’ since to a candidate for installation in ——-—r, Conn., by an excenen brother, “ Could not God have changed Pharaoh’s heart F” The answer was shrewd but evasive. “ I insist upon 3;"; un. equivocal answer,” cried the questioner; “ Could not God‘ have changed Pharaoh’s heart ‘B’? After thinking a moment, the answer came: “If he had neglected everything else and given his whole attention to it, I don’t know but he m1ghun__‘_ , Boston Indus, ‘ I I art in heaven * *‘ ‘ * thywill be done in earth, as V, wedlock, where would we have been. The beautiful earth A heaven so in earth,” have not realized that they were peti-‘S I’ ously scouted the infatuation; but yesterday our eyes fell . “Although the name of the Claﬂin woman among the over- J wicked women to be our especial scourge ? We have had a, ought to wither that dreadful inﬁdel. We would prefer to ' I of three to six months apart published hoaxes one, two and ‘ .- .\ . a, synthetic evidence. ‘discovering such causes and following them through their 3 as we are, and then our Columbuses will be followed by a ' sand. But who shall lead. the way in this discovery? The ' through, though he enter aharbor without dock or proper 12 t 1 . wooDHULL J5 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. "' May 30,/18474. 4‘. NECESSARY IMMORTALITY. BY ROBERT G. EccLEs. Our leading paradox——man is at once mortal and immortal v——now comes in for investigation; No subject has stood the battle for so many ages, and to-day it is waged with as much vigor as one hundred generations ago. If either side is wrong it has stood the test most bra.vely,.an,d still stands forth undaunted. Materialism has always intrenched itself in crude realism, while the bulwarks of Spiritualism have / been wild idealism. ,‘ The former has held up as its data‘in- disputable facts, while the latter has attempted to dive into and explainvby the inscrutable- Every Immortalist, from Socrates and Plato downto Berkley and Butler, in following the line of argument they chose, has attempted the impos- sible. Bridging the hiatus of the unknowable with a petitia principit they succeeded‘ in leading themselves and dupes through the mazy.intricacies of the most specious sophisms. ’Bewilderment instead of conviction was the result. Be- ginning with an assumption of immortality and passing around their metaphysical circle, we cannot wonder that they always landed safely on the same rock. Cato, after having perused “Plato on Immortality,” is made by’ Shakes- peare to say: ' “ It must be so, ‘ Plato thou reasoneth well. (Laying his hand on his sword.) Thus am I doubly armed; My death and life, _ . My bane and antidote.” ’ The copy read by Cato must have been entirely different from that now extant, or he could not have arisen from its reading so conﬁdent of a. hereafter. No more glaring or transparent a begging of the question was ever written. It is well calculated to make a believer in immortality who reads it arise doubting the doctrine. ’ ‘Aftera most thorough and elaborate search through our whole Spiritual literature for evidence of necessary immor- tality, we ﬁnd it as barren as that of Antiquity,’ Paganism or Christianity. Indeed they have given us but a re-hash of the gray-headed, hackneyed sophisms of theologians and crazy metaphysicians. True, we ﬁnd amid a mountain of trash a few grains of analytic evidence through mediumship. Where the pneumatic hypothesis is the only rem cause as- signable, this will do. No better evidence, of its kind, could be given. As long, however. as the hereafter stands forth unexplainable, mysterious or miraculous, how can we expect man’s attention to be diverted that way? How do we gain an existence hereafter? This is a perfectly legitimate ques- tion to ask. Until answered satisfactorily we need not hope tohave men follow very far what to them is a mere “ Will- 0’..th3-wisp.” Once or twice being humbugged, as John Tyndall was, will settle them for life on the question of me- diumship. Tell a man that Baron Munchausen threw his hatchet up "to the moon, and if he will take pains to go to Cambridge Observatory and look through the telescope at that body he may see it. Failing the ﬁrst, or ﬁftieth time, you tell him to look on or go to Amherst and try there, as you are sure he will see it, if patient, for you did. Could you expect him to take your advice, or persist for any length of time in follow- ing your directions when feeling conscious all the time that he was making a fool of himself. This is exactly the idea M-aterialists have of a future life. If the /hatchet really was there some necessary mechanical means, generally unknown, carried it up. Convince this man of’ the existence of such means and he will improve every opportunity to try and gain What can we do for men who look upon our belief as (a mere Munchausen story? What have we done for them? So far we have evaded their interroga- tions, or treated them to ﬁne-spun sophisms. “Show us,” they say, “that immortality is a logical necessity-—that we must live——and weshall then take pains to gain a veriﬁcation by mediumship.” ' _ ‘ Future life must be the result of necessity. It can no more be a miracle than the motion of the tides. It must stand forth a purely physical fact—an effect of pre-directing causes. This being the case, what is there to hinder us in sequence to the goal? Once discovered, it will stand forth impregnable to every assault of the foe. At ﬁrst it may scarcely convin‘ce——only surprise—and afterward become triumphant. This is the history of new truths. We tell our opponents that the next world is as real and purely objective as this. Where is our proof? An ipse dimit will only satisfy those who, like young robins, with open mouth, gulp everything put therein and cry for more. Give men the unbroken chain of successive causation that must exist if you would convince. Enter the ﬁeld of science and prove a spirit world inhabited by entities as real, as tangible 1-ace prepared for such a truth. It will do more to convert the world to Spiritualism than all ‘ the mediums that ever‘ lived. Mediumship too will be prized at its true worth, for there will grow up an army of Crookes, Higginses and Wal- laces in the ranks of science, glad to investigate, though fail- ing nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of every thou- task will be a perilous one, for he must stand alone. Never yet has it been accomplished, although the names of those who have attempted it are legion. One thing he can do- steer clear of the rocks and shoals on which his predecessors and contemporaries were stranded or wrecked; and if by the chart of their failures he is fortunate enough to pilot safely mooring, let him cry-“ Eureka.” Seeing the other shore and pointing the way, he has done his work. Those that follow after will do theremainder. L The following are some of the .most common sophisms of Imlmortalistsz ’ 1 I ; _ connection in’ this between premise and conclusion? Is the soul a primate atom of inert matter? 2. “I am, therefore I must continue to be.” An apple is, therefore as such it must continue to be. ‘ 3. “The eye cannot see, the optic nerves cannot see, the brain cannot see‘, therefore the soul, behind all these, must see.” This is Butler’s argument from subjective conscious- ness, ‘and is applied to all ﬁve of our senses. 7 Suppose we run it back to the soul. How does it change ether waves to sight? Is there something behind this again that sees in- stead of the soul? Run it back, thus, inﬁnitely, and you will ﬁnd as much reason for believingthat sight is an inexplicable function of the brain as of the soul. This is the region of the unknowable, the most fruitful ﬁeld of U metaphysical sophistry. . 4. “We desire immortality, therefore we have avcapacity to enjoy it.” Yes’; we sometimes desire a good dinner, but do not always get it. Our desire of immortality is to live with the change called death, a desire we know cannot be gratiﬁed. 5. “(All progression cannot be for nothing. Minds like Newton, Mill or Euler could not have been designed but for a day.” How do you know "nature has any design? If she has, how do you know that the very thing you dislike so is not her design? She does not ask you what she pleases to do. You must assume a miracle-working God, with hopes and desires like your own, to make an evidence of this. Cold, stern fate spurns such logic. C 6. “Intuition tells me Ilam immortal.” Intuition has not been so kind by others, since it has left them’ with the gravest doubts. May not this thing you call intuition be merely an hereditary instinct,the outgrowth of superstition among your progenitors, photographed upon you by generations of blind faith? Indeed, upon psychological considerations, it must be so. ’ ' 7. “If false it could not have been universally believed by every nation , and in every age.” It has not been believed by every nation in every age. Some nations have never dreamed of it. Others, superﬁcially noting the wonders of Atavism, have taught the doctrine of progressive metamphsychosis or re-incarnation, followed at last by annihilation. This is but a compromise with pure materialism. Indeed, had it been as universally believed as claimed, instead of sustaining it we would have an at prion’ presumption of its being false. All discovery, all increase of knowledge goes to show that the earlyideas of the race are, as a rule, untrue-—especially if universally accepted. Growing adaptations and growing powers of mind ever demand continuous modiﬁcations of the beliefs of our savage forefathers. The history of every sci- ence furnishes evidence of this. Their interpretations of meteorological, biological and psychological facts were all wrong. It was a universal belief with them that the earth was ﬂat and stationary, but who would now dare to bring this forward to oppose the doctrine that the earth is a globe. Nothing but sophistn heaped on sophism has obtained in this ﬁeld of thought. It is a wonder the whole human family is not steeped in the blankest kind of Materialism. That wonder will increase when we ﬁnd the Materialist in his crude realism has fortiﬁed himself with facts, while his oppo- nents have met him with fancies. The Materialist, so far, has been logical according to his data, while the Spiritualist lacks every fact in logic when you move from denied phe- nomena. But for the occasional evidence of angel ministra- tion, the ship of Splritualism would have foundered long ago, being most unseaworthy. There is but one convincing channel of proof to this as all other sciences. That channel is evolution. This is the key to every fact in the universe man can ever gain. If evolu- tion does not open wide the gates of Heaven for man to enter mentally and really, nothing ever can. Destiny has closed the door against everything else in the shape of knowledge. As evolution is incessant change of every factor, immortality will be found the same. The soul, the mind, the conscious- ness itself must change, be metamorphosed, by the hand of alike, as through insensible modiﬁcations it must pass, will be its formula. No other immortality can exist. _But in this let us see what we have to prove before we can sustain our- selves. We must show that a perfect correspondence‘ be- tween ourselves and the ever-changing balance of our envi- ronment obtains. Show that we have an eﬂicient power of change within to balance every change without. Show that everything without that can effect it has an answering change Within. When this is done the most skeptical must bend. To accomplish it we need not, like so many before us, at- tempt the impossible by calling up the inscrutable. We must deal only with evidences from relationships subsisting between the subjective and objective, the only real fount of knowledge from which we can draw. Metaphysical specula- tion is of two kinds—-that which reasons from the data of relationship, through successive parts of the same to the unseen parts of a like kind, and that which ignores relation- ship as untrustworthy objectivity, dealing exclusively, or nearly so, with subjective idealism. The former is the'sci- entiﬁc process of to—day, the latter the wild vagaries of a man trying to lift himself to the roof of the house by his boot- straps—the useless reasoning process of crazy monks of a few centuries ago, and, we are sorry to say, still practiced by some otherwise bal.anced minds among our contemporaries. Although at ﬁrst sight every evidence in the objective world seems to be against us. pointing. as our senses seem to tell us, to changes in our environment to which we have no answering internal action, and hence resulting in death or complete dissolution. But here we begin by confronting our opponents with the fact that all the evidence of our crude senses are as much against this world’s being a globe as against the possibility of a balance in this. All facts of re- lationship which we have to arrive at by induction are illu- sory in their character: and since this is a fact of that type, it, too, must be illusory, as we will ﬁnd by the sequel. We propose, then, in a series 6: lectures such as we have already delivered in many towns of Mi_ssouri, Kansas, Iowa, 1. “Man must be immortal because matter is.” Where is the Time, at every movement of her turning dial. Never twice ‘ WEEKLY the evidence that immortality is a necessity; or, in other words, that our conscious existence cannot cease. We have wandered into a ﬁeld hitherto unexplored, and become the pioneers of the -thought. So far as we know, it is en- tirely new to the world, but the facts upon which it is based are the discoveries of such men as Spencer, Tyndall. Helm‘ holtz, Secchi, Darwin, Wallace, Thompson, Joule, Fresnel. Young, Bouchepour, Senarmont, Regnault, Eranhaufer, etc. Were the readers of the WEEKLY all familiar with the works- of these men, I might state the facts without evidence, and so go immediately to my task; but as this is not the case. We must give evidence of their generalizations as well as our own. In our next we will brieﬂy indicate the direction we shall travel, and respectfully solicit the earnest attention Of all thinkers interested in the subject to follow us carefully‘ and withhold judgment till the whole matter is laid before them. The following lines were suggested by reading an annony- mous letter addressed to Father Beeson, in which the writer refused to give notice in his church of a lecture in behalf of the Indians, unless he could have a satisfactory reason why the Indians who had received a Christan education, neglect- ed Christianity, and why so many of them turned back 1:0 Paganism, signed, A PASTOR: Will ye, Christians, trouble borrow, Kill the Indians one and all; Just because they feel no sorrow, Nor believe in Adam’s fall? Can you rob them of their country, ' ‘ And their mines and forests claim? And yet pray for God’s great mercy, Through your Christian Saviour’s name? And because they cannot cherish Your pet creed or noted schism; Will you let them starve and perish As condemned and unforgiven? Did the Christ of love and beauty In his life such action take? Oh. ye hypocritic teachers Learn to love—or fear and quake. Leave your ﬂock like the good shepherd, Seeking for the one lost sheep; In the wilderness you’ll ﬁnd him. Drowsy shepherd-wake from sleep, Leave the ninety and the nine, , Help the one that needs salvation, Or when e’re you leave this clime You’ll get what you have taught-damnation. LITTLE FRANK. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN MICHIGAN. JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section one of article seven of the Constitution, in relation to the qualiﬁcation of electors. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatzbes of the Sta.-te of ]lIz'cht'gan, That at the eltction when the amended constitution shall be submitted to the electors of this State for adoption or rejection, there shall be submitted to such electors the following propositions, to be substituted in case of adoption, for so much of section 1 of article 7 as precedes the proviso therein, in the present constitution of this State as it now stands and substituted for section 1, article 7, in said amended constitution, if the latter is adopted, to wit: Section 1. In all elections, every person of the age of twenty~one years, who shall have resided in this State three months, and in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote, ten days next preceding an election, belong- ing to either of the following classes shall be an elector and entitled to vote: First——Every citizen of the United States; Second--Every inhabitant of this State who shall have re- sided in the United States two years and six months, and declared his or her intention to become a citizen of the United States, pursuant to the laws thereof, six months preceding an election; Third——Every inhabitant residing in this State on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-ﬁve. ‘ Said preposition shall be separately submitted to the elec- tors of this State, for their adoption or rejection, in form following. to wit: A separate ballot may be given by every person having the right to vote, to be deposited in a separate box. Upon the the ballots given for said proposition shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the words “ Woman’s Suffrage,——Yes ;” and upon the ballots given against the ‘adoption thereof in like manner, the._words “ VVoman Suffrage,—-No.” T 1 If, at said election, a majority of the votes given upon said proposition shall contain the words “ Woman Suﬁrage,—- Yes,” then said proposition shall be substituted for so much of section 1 of article 7’ as precedes the proviso therein in the present Constitution of this State as it now,stands, or sub- stituted for section 1 of article 7 in said amended constitu- tion, if the latter is adopted.——O-ur Age. Battle Creek, Mich. Approved March 23, 1874. BOTH the Port Huron (Mich.) papers have declared em- phatically for ‘Woman Suffrage. The C0'mme'rcial, two weeks ago, took that position, and on Monday the Times followed suit. It says: i “ For ourselves, we are obliged, with other voters of Michi- gan, to choose one side or the other; we must place ourselves in the ranks with those who represent the progress of the age as we read the signs of the times. And, in advocating Woman Suffrage, we do it, ﬁrst, because we believe it will be of great advantage to the women themselves; second, be- cause we believe it will advance the general political good of“ the State and Nation. “ Woman's advancement from the position of a menials Ohio and Pennsylvania, to present to the readers of the land’ slave among barbarous tribes to that of her present posi $<‘ . Q May 30, 1874. 3 ’woonnU\L’L as c'L«ArLIN*s WEEKLY. A I . , I 13~ \ T; / l tion among civilized nations, has kept even pace with the ‘ advancement of civilization, and it wi1l.not stop short of giving her equal political rights and equal responsibilities with man. And with such rights and responsibilities will comea better mental and physical development, more inde- pendence of position and character, awider sphere of oppor- tunity and of usefulness, and a higher standard of living and of virtue. Politics need not take woman out of her particu- lar sphere of duty in domestic life, but political duty and power will make her more independent and better able to support herself under all the circumstances to which fortune or misfortune may bring her." DAWN. _ In a previous article in a March number of the WEEKLY, I gave a brief outline of a plan for a community; and, at this present time, I am able to "submit to those who are looking for a practical realization of this movement, some facts that will. satisfy them that we mean something more than talk. Before proceeding with a description of our plans and lo- cation, I wish to say a word in reply to an oft-repeated ob- jection raised against the practicability of establishing suc- cessful communistic societies. It is said that there are not a suﬁicient number of ‘ individuals divested of selﬁshness to enable them to surrender up their individual aspirations to the welfare of the community. This I esteem as among the smallest objections. Every incentive in the present order of society contributes to the development of selﬁshness. He who would make life a success, as society is now organized, Lmust do so by sacriﬁcing true manhood and promoting selﬁsh- ness. The man who would give you his cloak after you had stolen his coat, is a failure, and such as he would be the poorest possible material with which to commence a com- munal home. To provide for the necessities and comforts of life and secure the greatest amount of life’s choicest blessings, are‘ among our highest aspirations; and any one who knows ~ anything of the advantages to be derived from a union of effort in communistic life, ought to appreciate the fact that our individual interests would be promoted in such a life. There are two governing principles that surround us and mould our destiny through life; one is in conformity to natural law, the other in obedience to artiﬁcial law. If the latter is in conﬂict with the former——as it inevitably is in the present order of society—we shall encounter great diﬁiculties in establishing a permanent and lasting order of society; in fact it is impossible, since it is only a question of time when natural law will supersede all human expedients. Remove thos'e outward restraints that are at war with natural law, and you have taken the initiatory step toward the establish- ment of a true order of society. It is always more diﬂicult to reverse the order of nature by the use of artiﬁcial expedi- ents, than it is to allow the inherent forces of nature to assert themselves. The human family is, by nature, good, and we are made bad by false surroundings. Remove those surroundings and permit the people to come together in the fraternal relati-)ns——brotherhood of the race—nature has de- creed, and all seeming objections that have their origin in the unbalanced condition of the mind who raises them will soon pass away. In a community, the in- centive that ﬁnds expression in‘ this competitive struggle in the building up of selﬁshness by sacriﬁcing the sacred rights of those around us will express itself in the performance of noble deeds that will be productive of the real good of those associated with us. There is no compen- sating power on earth that is so beautiful and grand as that which comes in response to the performance of noble‘ deeds to others, and as soon as our bodily wants are provided for, as they will readily be in community life, deeds of kindness toward each other will become the ruling incentives of our lives. In a true order of society each individual will be placed upon his honor, and competition will only ﬁnd ex- pression in noble deeds that alone make men and women beautiful and grand. It at once overthrows the present in- centive to greatness that rests entirely upon a special basis, and admits of the free development of the human soul to a position of grandeur and beauty to which humanity has never attained on earth. There are but two or three fundamental principles that must be kept inviolate in order to insure suc- cess in a movement of this character. First, absolute free- dom must be recognized to the extent that it pertains to individual rights, without infringing in any way upon the superior welfare of the community; second, equal rights and privileges, with perfect industrial equality, must be kept inviolate, except in cases of physical inability. Tolsecure a practical realization of these fundamental principles, the angel world, at whose instance this movement has been inaugurated, will call together those principally who have had suﬂicient experience in the follies and inconsisten- cies of the present order of society to secure the triumph of the above principles under all circumstances. We do not in- tend to urge any one to join us. Those who are best ﬁtted to enter into this movement will be induced to make applica- tion. The required number (forty families) will make application in a few weeks. Already we have a number of good families pledged. I am not permitted to give the exact location that we have ﬁxed upon for the work. We have secured 1,000 acres’ of the very best land in the most genial climate and location in New England, part of which is under cultivation with orchards and nursery. It is on one of the greatest commercial thoroughfares, centrally situated between the great Eastern markets. Apples, pears and plums, together with all the small fruits, grow to the greatest perfection. The land contains a large amount of valuable timber whichcan be used for manufacturing purposes. The whole property is estimated to be worth $75,000; and the present owner offers to contribute about $45,000 to the enterprise, and join us with-his family. . " ' The territory is amply suﬁicient to furnish industrial em- ployment for one hundred families, yet we only wish forty families, or a. sufficient number to organize ﬁve groups, to begin with, and the amount of means that we desire to ob- . for the movement. tain through those who join us is $100,000, as this amount is thought to be sufﬁcient to construct ﬁve commodious resi- dences for the groups, and aid in carrying us through the two ﬁrst years that will be mostly occupied in laying theifounda- tion for future operations. A I In my next communication I will give particulars in re- gard to our location. and all whogtwish to join us can corres- pond with me, as I hold myself ready to answer questions and receive applications for membership. Observe the fol- lowing suggestions in writing us: Give the number of mem- bers’ of the family and the amount that you can subscribe '7 Send photographs, and do not omit stamps to secure an answer. Read our previous article so as to get a deﬁnite understanding of the nature of our mode of organization; and if your knowledge, of the true relations that we sustain toward each other and the duty we owe to the generation that is to follow‘ us is sufficiently advanced I have no doubt that you will not only feel it a duty but a privilege to be among the ﬁrst to aid in establishing a true order of society on earth. Address, Omro, Wis. JOHN WILLCOX. SAINTS. The Church, of all stripes or sects, has its saints—men and women who are supposed to outrank ordinary mortals; but with the majority of them I am not satisﬁed. The Catholics have a long list, the Protestants a shorter one——a few common to both—but Catholic or Protestant I care not to adopt them. When I scan the characters of the Old Testament worthies, so honored by the Church, there is nothing to com- mend them to my sense of right, morals or religion. Most of them, if living now and conducting themselves as they are recorded to have done, would ‘ﬁnd themselves in States prisons without any hope of a pardon. Take David and Solomon, for instance, the two great lights; I need not re- view their records, for they are familiar to all, but leave the same as reorded in “Holy Writ,” as the samplar of that religion which calls one the wisest man, and the other the man after God’s own heart. Comment is unnecessary. If I am to have saints I want them made of better stuff. Then there are the New Testament saints. Of most of them it can safely be said they have no record of any special account, or one which should cause us of this generation to exalt them into patterns to imitate and follow. Most of them were a hum-drum set of fellows, except Peter and Paul. Peter lied most lustily and swore most sturdily, nevertheless the Catholic Church makes him the basic rock of its founda- tion. His moral obliquities pass as nothing. Paul, another saint, whose philosophy is the very essence of Christianity, as embodied in the major creeds of Christendom, has been a stumbling-stone for near nineteen centuries. His dogmas, which superseded the pure teachings of Christ, have been a pall, enveloping all Christian nations, and to-day are an in- cubus on the world’s progress, the butresses of a theological system behind which the sectarists and creedists are en- trenched to withstand the onslaughts of those who would uplift humanity and welcome the democracy of souls. So Iinaight go on, analyzing the roll of saints, and ﬁnd but precious little wheat in the sifting. I recollect reading some forty years ago, a small work entitled, “The Forty Chris- tians,” a work which ought to be reprinted and circulated in these days. It was a succinct sketch of forty Christians selected from history, twenty of whom fell under the ban of the Church, were anathematized, some even being put to death. Noble souls all, who believed a little more than the creed, or not quite so much, and were therefore cast out. The other twenty stood well in the Church, and do now; if not exalted to a saintly niche they are well up toward it. They were persecutors and monsters of iniquity, yet are shining lights among Christians, the kind of stock from which saints are made. * This being so, is it any wonder that morals are at a low ebb? that corruption has worm-eaten the public service? that moral delinquencies are so common in places of ﬁduci- ary trust? With such a roll of saints what better can be expected? It is a patent fact that nearly all the great rascals of this era of the War of the Rebellion have been great Christians; many, pillars in the Young Men’s Christian As- sociation, who, if it had not been for their cloth and piety, would now be looking through‘ prison bars. VVhen I make up my roll of saints I shall not go back to that semi-barbaric, nomadic people, the Jews, nor to J udea, nor to Christian Rome, nor the period anterior to that eclipse of the human intellect, known as the Dark Ages—an. eclipse generically Christian, and only passing off when new forces and agencies came into play. When Christian Europe was under a cloud, enveloped in a darkness so thick that it could be felt, the Mohammedan nation shone resplendent. There the intellectwas stimulated and the arts and sciences were cultivated. Most important elements of civilization were brought from the Mohammedans when the Crusaders re- turned from their fanatical forays to rescue Jerusalem from the Moslem inﬁdels. An infusion of these new elements, coupled with the inﬂuence of the printing press, broke the spell of ignorance and superstition, the outcome of the Church. The press became a mighty factor of civilization in spite of ecclesiasticism, for that, at the outset, as with all great movements and inventions, met with opposition from the dominant religion. It cannot be said that this opposition has come from Catholics exclusively. Protestantism has always vainly striven against the innovating new, whatever it might be. The world hasfadvanced in spite of the Church, and those who have contributed to /this result are the real saints——those men and women who have promulgated the evangels of progress. Civilization is a/many-hued stream, whose waters, blending to give it an impetus, have steadily ﬂowed on, diffusing themselves over the world, causing a vigorous growth of the germinal principles of liberty and rationalism. Honor to the brave souls who have deﬁed ob- loquy and reproach, and at the peril of life even in numer- ous cases maintained the unequal contest and came of con- querors. , 1 Space will not permit me to attempt to give a list of the Saints of Progress. I will mentiona few, however, who , impressed themselves on their age, and “left foot-prints on the sands of time,” which have been waymarks to guidexna-» tions and peoples in their grand march to a higher and better life. There was Mary Woolstoncraft, whose “Rights of Women ” was a Gospel which is now beginning to be appre- ciated, and is yet to bless her sex and the world.‘ There was Thomas Paine, whose “ Age of Reason” and Rights of Man ” made priestcraft and kingcraft tremble in their ancestral halls, whose inﬂuences are still unspent, and will not cease to be felt until the victory bewon. There was Abner Knee- land, whostruck valiant blows for freedom, and manfully plead for the enthronement of reason. The church sought to break him down and check the progress of free‘ thought ‘he had provoked by consigning him to a dungeon. Vain attempt. Rationalism only marched more valiantly forward. There was Frances Wright, too, whose brave words forty years ago summoned Church and State to judgment, and bade the people’ to rise into the region of reason and mental independence; who proclaimed with fervid ‘eloquence the great truth of the equality of the sexes, and in her person demonstrated the falsity of the prevailing philosophy—- the Fox family, who ﬁrst heard and translated the evangel from the spirit world, and became John the Baptists to the new dispensation in which we are living, when the human ' mind is stirred and human aspirations rise as never before. These, and such as these, are the Saints of Progress. , One of these days the world will appreciate them; and those other Saints, which Christianity has exalted, will fade out into for- getfulness, or be remembered only as warnings. WILLIAM Fosrna, JR. PROVIDENCE, May 12. 1874. ’ I VICTORIA C. WOODHULL IN WAUKEGAN, ILL. Dear Vi'ctor7Za——The sage nor the prophet would be compe- tent to perform the task of reporting the effect of your labors at Waukegan. But when the glorious future crowns thee the savior of humanity, not through whose blood souls are to be born again, but by Whose grand mission human beings will be rightly born, then may be told the effect of thy brave and faithful work. In your lecture here you said: “Mothers, go tell your children that Victoria loves them, and wants them to grow up pure-minded men and women ;” and so my little ones and their mother have wreathed your photograph in evergreens and ﬂowers; they are better children for gaz- ing upon your radiant face; and when I am weary one look at thy spirit-lit eyes refreshes and gladdens my heart and bids me toil on for truth’s sake. ‘ Here, as elsewhere,‘ those who attended your lecture to curse came away to bless you; and your opposers acknowl- edge your audience to be composed of the best people of the place. Your lecture is the topic of conversation on the street, in places of business, and at the ﬁreside; those who attended speaking respectfully of Victoria C. Woodhull, and defending ‘her against the opposition. _ A One gentleman of inﬂuential mind, who has considered it himself converted. He, like your friends, is rejoiced that in your lecture, “ The True and False Socially,” you so plainly show that your object is to bring men and women into a condition in which love shall be the only consideration in conjugal relations, and the proper generation of children the noble aimyof father and motherhood. How much longer will it be denied that freedom, the only natural element for the unfoldment of any department of being, is necessary to insure this result? ’ Who does not know that the “ naked truth ” must be fear- lessly spoken to arouse slaves to a. sense of freedom? , In closing my hasty letter, allow me to say that our brave sister Wadsworth sends her love, and that she and the noble Wadsworth brothers, who so lately were leading minds in the Methodist Church, are gloriﬁed more than my feeble pen can portray, and have earned our lasting gratitude in their zeal and persevering ‘eﬁforts to procure your services in the beautiful little city of Waukegan. Thine in love, Sana BAILEY. CLIPPINGS. “ WIFE, wife! what has become of the grapes?” “ I suppose my dear, the hens picked them oﬁ,” was the reply. “ Hens hens! some two-legged hens, I guess,” said the husband, with some impetuosity; to which she calmly replied, “My dear, did you ever see any other kind?” Ar a weekly meeting, a most exemplary deacon submitted a report of the destitute widows who stood in need of assist- ance from the congregation. “ Are you sure, deacon,” said, another brother, “ that you have embraced all the widows ?” “He said he believed he had. “ YOU never saw such a happy lot of people as we had here yesterday,” saida landlady in Indiana to a newly-arrived guest; “ there were thirteen couples of them.” What! thirteen couples just married?” “ Oh, no, sir; thirteen couples just divorced.” , ‘ . “ OH, Mary, my heart is breaking,” said an Aberdeen lover to his Highland Mary. “ Is it, indeed? So much the better for you,” was her quiet reply. “ Why, my idol?” “ Be- cause, Mr. Mcsmith; when it’s broken out and out, you can sell the pieces for gun-ﬂints.” I I “MA, has auntie got bees in her mouth?” Ma.——°‘ Why do you ask such a. question?” ‘ “ ’Cause that leetle man with a heap 0’ hair on his face cotched hold of her and said he was going to take the honey from her lips, and she said, ‘ Well, make haste.’ ” V THE-Evangelical clergy of the Church of England do not seem to have heard, or, if they have heard, to appreciate the shrewdness and wit of Dr. John Ritchie’s reply to one who « disapproved of his going up and down the country and re- sorting to agitation. “Agitatioul" said John; “what good in the world was ever done without agitation? We cannot make butter evenwithout it 3*’: ‘ , Christian all through-which subordinated woman and prac- \ tically made her a cipher in the activities of life. There was «I his duty to oppose your theories, honestly acknowledged ' l’_1»4i ‘ WOUOIDHULLU &: CL.AFLI_N’S tWEEKLY. L May 30, 1874. ' AH SAM says the rights of property are not duly regarded in Sacramento. He paid $300 for a countrywoman. Ah Lin coveted her, and, not having coin to purchase, meanly, married her “American fashion.” Ah Sam consequently ‘ raised the devil—-jerking six-shooters and things on Ah Lin. The case was taken before the Police Court, when the Judge \ of that iniquitous institution basely land fraudulently de- cided that Ah Lin had the best right to the Celestial damsel. Ah Sam is out $300, hence his poor opinion of American law. THE lawyers of Indianapolis are torturing their brains over an extraordinary problem. Some years ago a lady of that city was married, and four months thereafter separated from her husband, was divorced and re-married in a month, and four months thereafter gave birth to a child by her ﬁrst hus- band. Quite recently the second husband procured a di-_ vorce, and the custody of the 1 child was awarded to him. N Ow comes the ﬁrst husband and claims the child. Who is ' entitled to its possession? MRS. VAN COTT says that at one of her prayer meetings a negro brother prayed: “ Oh Lord, send dy angel to pin de wings on Sister Bancot’s heels, dat she may ﬂy troo ide world preachin’ de everlastin’ Gospel.” And one added, “ Lord’! give wings on her shoulders, too, or the preachingwill not have effect, for she’ll ﬂy upside dOwn.” THE Tennessee negroes in convention assembled have re- ' solved that “it is their duty as men to arrange for the per- fect development of posterity.” COMMENT. Good ‘for the negro ;‘ white folks know how to develop everything—-except their own people, at present, like Topsey ,“they’re growed.” And the WEEKLY is condemned by the unthinking for intimating that they might easily be “ growed” better. A -———-———>-49+-<——-—-— BUSINESS EDITORIALS. , THE GREAT SENSATION: A Full and Reliable History of the Beecher-Tilton Scandal. Including Comprehensive and Interesting Biographical Sketches of Henry Ward Beecher, Theodore Tilton, Victo- ria C. Woodhull, Tennie O. Claﬂin and Colonel Blood; , giving Facts and Incidents in the Lives of each never be- ’fore published. Bv Leon Oliver. The Book is Illustrated with Portraits of all the Characters. 4 The prominent position occupied by the parties involved in this greatest scandal of/the nineteenth century, has given to it an almost world-wide notoriety, and the partial and frag- mentary reports of it which have been published have doubt- less done injustice to some, if not all the parties involved in it, and have only served to whet the appetite of the reading ‘public with a desire to have the whole story truthfully and impartially told. This the author has done, and in such a manner as not to shock or be offensive to the most fastidious reader, nor to do injustice to any of the dramatis personoe. We wish it to be distinctly understood that this work is not compiled from unreliable sources, nor has it been hastily gotten up, but it is written by one who has for years been personally acquainted with the interested parties, who has been “ behind the scenes” and knowswhereof he writes, and who has had better facilities for the work undertaken than any man living, and he is also one well and popularly known, to the public by his writings Over a nom de plume. In this work he gives facts, and lets light in where hitherto there has been darkness and confusion. The whole story is not only graphically but truthfully told, and the book is one ‘ of the most interesting ever offered to the American public. The sketch of Henry Ward Beecher has been submitted to several of the ablest journalists and authors in the West, and is unanimously declared by them to be the best and most entertaining ever written of this foremost clergyman of the age. He has been the subject for several biographical writers, but the author in this portrays him in an entirely new, nove and unhackneyed style. I In addition to the biographies mentioned, there is a very entertaining sketch of Henry C. Bowen, who was the ﬁrst to circulate the, story of Mr. Beecher’s moral delinquencies. There is also included in the work copious extracts from the writings and speeches of Woodhull and Claﬂin, giving an epitome of . their views and theories upon their favorite topics-free love, social freedom, etc.,——and a description of the Social Utopia, to the establishment of which they have pledged “ their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.” Also what Mr. Beecher has to say about the scandal, and the opinions of Theodore Tilton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, , Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan B. Anthony and other noted characters respecting it, and the comments of many of the leading men and journals of the country upon this engross- ing topic. 7 The biographical sketches are concise, yet comprehensive; written in a free, chatty and racy style, and are enlivened by characteristic and entertaining incidents and anecdotes never before published, and are of themselves worth more than the price of -the entire work. The’ book is printed from beautiful new type and upon superior paper, in one large octavo-volume of about 400 pages. ‘ No expense or pains have been spared to make this book one of real merit and value, creditablealike to the author, artist and publishers. It is bound in ﬁne English muslin, library style, with gilt back and sides. Price $2 50. in best English cloth: Gilt back and sides, 33. All cash orders for this book, addressed to the WEEKLY, P O. Box 3791, will be promply ﬁlled. —_:.....- CAUTIoN.——Heavy penalties are-attached to photographing or otherwise copying, selling, or offering for sale, copies from our steel-plate engravings, “ The Dawning Light,” “ The O1-phanﬂs Rescue,” “Life’s Morning and Evening,” etc. Any one furnishing us with information of such violation of copy- right law and our moral rights will receive our ‘thanks and be rewarded. For circulars, prices and club rates, address at 28 School street, Boston, Mass., R. H. -Curran st 00. PROCEEDINGS or THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN AssOOIATIoN OF SZPIRITUALISTS. . 12m, pp. 266. THE ELIXIR OF LIEE; OR, WHY DO WE DLE? 8vo, pp. ?A. An ORATION delivered before the above-named CONVENTION, at GROw’s OPERA HOUsE, CHICAGO, by VICTORIA C. WOODHULL, September 18, 1873. The above “Report of the Proceedings of the Tenth An- nual Convention Of the American Association of Spiritual- ists,” is an accurate and impartial account of what was said and done at the above convention. The speeches are pre- sented to the public word for word as they came to us from he hands of the able reporter employed by the convention. The orations of the members, on both sides, discussing the question of “Free Love,” Or rather “ Personal Sovereignty,” are worthy of the serious attention not only of all Spiritual- ists but of the community at large. In proof that we have not overstated the merits of the work, we respectfully submit the generous testimony of Judge Edmund S. 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Orders for the same addressed to Woodhull 8t Claflin, P. 0. box 3,791, will be promptly ﬁlled. , N The First Primary Council of Boston, of the Universal As- sociation of Spiritualists, meets every Thursday evening, at Harmony Hall, 18% Boylston street. First-class lectures every Sunday afternoon and evening. Seats free. JOHN HARDY, Cor. Sec’y. THE WORD, A Monthly Journal of’ Reform—Regarding the subjection of Labor, of Woman, and the Prevalence of War as unnatural evils, induced by false claims to obedience and service; favors the Abolition of the State, of Property in Land and its kindred resources, of speculative income and all other means whereby Intrusion acquires wealth and power at the expense of Useful People. Since labor is the source ‘Of wealth, and creates all values equitably vendible, the Word (not by restrictive methods, but through Liberation and Reciprocity) seeks the extinction of interest, rent, div- idends and proﬁt, except as they represent work done; the abolition of railway, telegraphic, banking, trades union and other corporations charging more than actual cost for values furnished, and the repudiation of all so-called debts, the principal whereof has been paid in the form of interest. E. H. HEYWOOD, Editor. Terms—75c. annually in advance. Address The Word, Princeton, Mass. DR. R. P. FELLOWS. This truly gifted healer, who has gained such a wide popu- larity in the last few years, is now permanently located at Vineland, N. J . After years of successful practice and close application in the art of healing, he has earned a reputation as_ a public benefactor, curing many cases instantaneously that were regarded hopeless. We coincide with the Banner of Light in saying: “The aﬁlictedshould avail themselves of his valuable services.” We would say to those who are unable to visit the Doctor in person to send -31. for his Mag- netized Pellets. The sick are being healed by these Pellets who have heretofore been in perfect despair. Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his office, NO. 413. Fourth avenue DR. L. K. COONLEY is speaking and healing in Newark, N. J ., the present month, and can be addressed at 277 Mul- berry street, that city. ‘ W. F. JAMIESON Will speak at Lynn, Mass, the Sundays of May; at Salem, Mass., Friday evenings Of May. Will receive a few more week-evening engagements for April and May. Address, care of Banner of Light, Boston, Mass. MISS NELLIE L. DAVIS, in answer to calls received from .he Paciﬁc coast will go West next autumn. Friends along the route, desiring one or more lectures, can secure her ser- viees by addressing her at 235 Washington street, Salem, Muss. IN consequence of bad health, D. W. Hull is compelled to give up his room for the treatment of patients in Chicago. He will again take the lecture-ﬁeld, and is ready to answer calls to any part of the country. Address 148 West Wash- ington street, Chicago, Ill. "The Orphan’s Rescue,” price $53; “The Dawning Light,” with map of Hydesville, $2; “Life’s Morning and Evening,” $3, or the three pictures to one address, $7; are mailed to any part of the United States, postage free. Warranted safely through and satisfaction guaranteed on receipt of prices above speciﬁed in post-Office order or registered letter at risk. Club rates given on application. Address R. H. Curran 8: Co., P11b1isher,_28 School street, Boston, Mass. JOSEPH J OHN’s GREAT WORKS or ART, engraved on steel,’ ll§Send Austin'Kent one dollar for his book and ‘pam- phlets on Free Love and Marriage. He has been sixteen years physically helpless, conﬁned to his bed and chair, is poor and needs the money. You may be even more bene- ﬁted by reading one of the boldest, deepest, strongest, clear- est and most logical writers. You are hardly well posted on this subject till you have read Mr. Kent. You wholare able add another dollar or more as charity. His address, AUSTIN KENT, Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. Woodhull and Social Freedom,” and “ True and False Love” for 75cts. I will add two more of the “ Woodhull” and “ So- cial Freedom” Pamphlets for $1.00, or I will mail ten of the pamphlets for $l,00. In buying these you greatly aid a phy- sically helpless man. AUSTIN KENT. The legal rate of postage on the WEEKLY, addressed to regular subscribers, is twenty cents per annum, or ﬁve cents ‘per quarter, payable in advance. Subscribers who receive ‘their copies by letter-carriers will please hand the annual or quarterly postage to carriers, taking their receipts. If any higher rates are demanded, report the facts to‘ the local Postmaster. The postage on copies directed to subscribers in New York city h-as been prepaid by the publishers. E. M. Flagg, dentist, 79 West Eleventh street, New York city. Specialty, artiﬁcial dentures. SARAH E. SOMERBY, Trance Medium and Magnetic Healer, 23 Irving Place, N. Y. WARREN CHAsE lectures in Cambridge, Illinois, May 24th in Des Moines, Iowa, during J une. Address, Colfax, Jasper county, Iowa. He will receive subscriptions for the WEEKLY. %;The New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists and Friends of Progress will hold their Second Quarterly Con- vention for 1874 in Library Hall, Newark, N. J ., on Saturday and Sunday, May 30th and 31st, commencing at 10 A. M. Three sessions each day. SPECIAL SUBJECTs.—Temperance, Indians and Law or Government; yet the platform will be free as usual for the discussion of all subjects germain to Spiritualism, in their proper order. Free accomodations as far as possible. D. J . STANSBERRY, Secretary, Newark, N. J . MRS. CHANNING,.44 Great Jones street, New York, tells the past, present and future; advises as to future success; diagnoses disease without asking questions ; treats all diseases with success. Specialties: Consumption, Bright’s disease of kidneys and female diseases. Best of references given. PROF. E. WHIPPLE Address 896 Main street, Cambridge, Mass. PROSPECTUS. WOODHULL 82; CI.ArL1N’s WEEKLY. . [The only paper in the World conducted. absolutely, upon the Principles of a Free Press.] It advocates a new government in which the people will be their Own legislators, and the Officials the executors of their will. . It advocates, as parts of the new government— , 1. A new political system in which all persons of adult age will participate. 2. A new~land system in which every individual will been- titled to the free use of a proper proportion of the land. 3. A new industrial system, in which each individual will remain possessed of all his Or her productions. 7 4. A new commercial system in which “cost,” instead of “demand and supply,” will determine the price of every- thing and abolish the system Of‘ proﬁt-making. 5. A new ﬁnancial system, in which the government will be the source, custodian and transmitter of all money, and in which usury will have no place. I V 6. A newsexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money Or any inducement other than love, shall be the governing law, individuals being left to make their Own regulations; and in which society, when the individual shall fail, shall be responsible for the proper rearing of children. 7. A new educational system, in which all children born shall have the same advantages of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. All of which will constitute the various parts of a new so- cial order, in which all the human rights of the individual will be associated to form the harmonious organization of the peoples into the grand human family, of which every person in the world will be a member. Criticism and objections specially invited. The WEEKLY is issued every Saturday. Subscription price, $3 per year; $31.50 six months; or 10c. single copy, to be had of any N ewsdealer in the world, who can order it from the following General Agents: The American News Co., New York City; The New York News Co., New York City; I The National News Co., New York City; The New England News Co., Boston, Mass. ; The Central News Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; The Western News Co., Chicago. 111- Sample copies, mailed on application, free. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL AND TENNIE C. CLAFLIN, Ed- itors and Proprietors. COL. J . H. BLOOD, Managing Editor. All communications should be addressed WOODHULL st CLArLIN’s WEEKLY, P Box 3,791, New York City. . P. S.-—I will now mail “Free Love,” in paper cover, “Mrs. - Will speak during the Sundays of May in Springﬁeld, Mass. Q,- at -.1 -fj; '»‘:;.-::;?“S>'.,'=?T‘f ' wooDHULL7a CLAFLI«N’.S WEEKLY. it p 15*‘ of Province Street (lower ﬂoor), Boston, Mass. Dr. Geo. Newcomer, THE HEALER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 1 HURD BLOCK, JACKSON, MICH. Thirty years’ experience. Examines diseases and sends prescriptions for one month for $3. Has'a spe- ciﬁc remedy for CATARRH and THROAT DISEASE; Sends by mail for $2 for four months, and with direc-‘ tions two -months, $1. Pile Remedy, $2. Treatments at rooms moderate. Warrants relief or no charge. 146 GEO. NEWCOMER, M. D. SOCIAL FREEDOM COMMUNITY 1 No. 1. - This Institution is situated in Chesterfield County, Virginia, about nine miles from Richmond. It is founded on the principles of Social Freedom, as laid down in the address of Victoria C. Woodhull, in Steinway Hall, New York, November 20, 1871. The Community owns three hundred and thirty-three acres of land, half of which is improved—the balance is valuable timber. There is a good water-power on it, and they propose to erect a saw mill. A few more congenial persons can be now admitted on probation SARAH L. TIBBALS, Pres, Address, iiiclo sing a sheet of paper and a stamped envelope, j. . HE , Sec. 146 St Box 44 Manchester, Chester 00., Va. PSYCHQMETRHC, L Soul ggading. . MRS. H. L._LA PIERRE Will give those sending lock of hair and autograph a full reading of marked changes through life; also ad- vice in regard to business. Will diagnosis disease and ts causes from a lock of hair, and give magnetic treat- ment at any distance by spirit control. Reading and treatment by lock of hair. . . ..$3.00. Reading alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . . . . 2.00. Address Post-oﬁice box 856, St. Paul, Minn. DR. J N0. A. 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For sale, wholesale and retail, by the publishers, COLBY & RICH, at No. 9 Montgomery Place, corner Ordcrs may also be addressed to R. A. WRITING, Albion, Mich. _ ’ WHAT THE PRESS SAYS: “ The book is one that will be of interest to every Spiritualist and to all who are interested in rare and curious developments of mental phenomena, while the travel and adventure of seventeen years of public life furnish incidents both instructive and amusing for the general reader.”—Bamm' of Light. f‘ We will venture to say that, among biographies, this work stands alone. In its narratives of experience it is astounding.”—Ha7"tfo7"d Times. “ The volume is replete with interesting incidents of aremarkable life, narrated in an unaliected style.” ——AZbz0n Mirror. “ Full of life-like delineations. * * It contains the soul of the human.-—J. 0. 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A Social and Spiritual Conference for the free in- terchange of the expressions_and aspirations of all who are desiring. a Higher Religious Life, or a better knowledge of the Way. EVENING AT '7}; o’cLocK. . Lectures and discussions, by selected speakers and volunteers, upon religious, scientiﬁc ‘and miscel- laneous subjects. U. 0. I., 0 Or, United Order of Internationals, is a Secret Or- ganization, devoted to the best interests of the laboring classes. It is the vanguard of Social and Political Reforms. For a description of its principles and purposes see WOODHULL do CLAr'LIN’s WEEKLY, No. 160. 'I}lic U. 0. I. meet every Sunday evening at P. M., at 234 Fifth street, N. Y. For particulars of membership, address T. R. KINGET, M. D., Cor. Sec. of U. 0. I., 234 Fifth street, N. Y. SPERMATORRIIEA CURBHD BY A SPIRIT PRESCRIPTION, AND WARRANTEI), FOR $10. It is an outside application. N 0 medicine given. Send for free circular to’ DR. E. WOODRUFF, ' Grand Rapids, Mich. Would you Know Yourself? CONSULT WITH A. B. SEVERANCE, The well known Physorometrist and clairvoyant. Come in person, or sendby letter a lock of your hair, or handwriting or a photograph; he will give you a correct delineation of character, giving instructions for self improvement, by telling what faculties to cul- tivate and what to restrain, giving your present phys- ical, mental and spiritual condition, giving past and _ future events, telling what kind of amedium you can develop into, if any,‘ what business or profession you are best calculated for to be successful in life. Ad- vice and counsel in business matters. Also, advice in reference to marriage; the adaptation of one to the other, and Whether you are in a proper condition for marriage. Hints and advice to those who are in un- happy married relations, how to make their path of life smoother. , Further, will give an examination of diseases, and correct diagnosis, with a written prescription and in- struction for home treatment, which, if the patients follow, will improve their health and condition every time, if it does not, effect a cure. He is eminently practical in all advice given, as thousands can testify from the Atlantic coast to the Paciﬁc, having letters daily from men and women for the last ten years. Has a word of sympathy and encouragement for the aﬁiicted, advice and counsel to the young, and some- thing for every one to help them to meet the strug- gles of life that will pay them more than ten fold. for all the money required for the delineaticns. He also treats diseases Magnetically and otherwise. TERMS. Brief Delineation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1 00 Full and_ complete Delineation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 00 Diagnosis of Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 00 Diagnosis and Prescription. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Full and complete Delineation, with Diagnosis and Prescription . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 00 Address 457 Milwaukee street, Milwaukee, Wis. P R. and ELIZABETH LAWRENCE, of Ottumwsl - Iowa, will heal the sick at home from the 1st to the 5th, and from the 15th to the 20th of every month, and answer calls away -from home the remainder of that possesses it. ’—Our Age. L the time. ‘ ‘Via Erie & Mich. Central & Great Western R, R’s G*EAT CENTRAL€ROUTE. H93? TRAL ?§]3uGREAT WESTERN RAILWAY LINE to Detroit and‘_Chicago without change of cars,“making_r close connection with all Railroads leading out of Chicago to an pomts In the €1'eat~We5t- THROUGH T1cK11:'rs to all important towns, and general ilnformation may be obtained at’-the1C;9mpa»nt cﬂice, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New Y01‘ '- , Condensed Time 0Ta.b1e. WESTWARD room NEW roar. gvmzr-Ions, Empress. mag?‘ , srsvrrons. ~ ' E96277‘?-‘5-L Lv 23.: gm, N, Y _________ ,, s.,3o.».. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d Street, N. Y ...... .. 6.45 1». 1:. “ Cham'bers’street . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.40 “ 10-45 Chamber?‘ Street" “Jersey City ............... .. 9.15 “ 11.15 “ Jersey City---~ - 2-43 A M “ Susquehanna . .. .. . . . . . . . .. 3.40 P. M. 8.12 1:.‘ M. “ Sl;1S<1l-10h311n9-- 3'35 ;, “ Binghampton...: . . . . . . . . . .. 4.40 ’ “ 9-90 ,, Bm?.hampt°n"' ' u “Elmira ................... .. 6.30 “ 12.16 A. 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M. 5.55 “ I-0130011 ----- - -‘ - - - - - - - - - -- 5- ,, 2-35 3 m- “ Chatham 0 7.55 “ 8.12 “ “ Chatham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8-12 . 5.00 “ st Detroit ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 9_40 N 10,00 “ “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. 10-00 “ 7.00 ‘ Lv Detroit’. ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 9_4o “ 10,10 “ Lv Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.10 “ 8.10 ' Ar Wayne ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 10,21 “ “ Ar Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ---. - 8-55 “ u Ypsilanﬁ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 10,45 “ 11.25 x», M, “ Ypsilanti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.25 “ 9.27 “ cc Ann Arbo} ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 11,00 “ 11,43 “ “ Ann Arbor. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11-43 " 9-50 “‘ “ Jackson...::::::::::::::::::12.15 P. M. 1-00 A- M- “ Ja°kS°11 ---------- 1-0° 0- “- 1‘-3° “» “ Marshall .................. .. 1.15 ~‘ “ Marshall --------------- -- 12-50 1»-m » “ Battle Creek _ , . _ ,, 2.03 »“ 0 AIR “ Battle Creek . . . . . . . . . . . .. A118 1.95 V" cs Kalamazoo ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 2,55 6‘ Lung, i “ Kalamazoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .. LINE. 2.35 " as Niles ' ' ' ' ' ' ' . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " 432 r_ M_ 4,40 A, My “ Niles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4-40 A- M. 5-00 “ NeWg,,',.jE;,;g, """"" 5 25 u “ New Buifalo...- ........ .. 6.02 “ “ Michigan ciéir .......... ” 5.45 H 5.45 “ “ Michigan City --------- -. 5-45 “ 0-25 " at Calumet . ' ' . . ' I I I I ' ' " '7'_'18 “ 7_47 “ “ Calumet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ 8.00 “ «cmgo::::::::::'::::::::: 800 u 3.00 ~- ~ ou1cago...- ............. .. 8.00 “ 8.45 ~ A1, Milwaukee ____ NP”. L M_ 11_50 ,4“ M_ Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A. M. 5.30 a. in Ar Prairie du Chem . _ . ' _ _ _ _ . _ __ 3.55 p_ M_ Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . ‘ 8.55 p. m _ A,. La 01.0359 _ _ _ _ . ' _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ I __ 150 P_ M_ 7 05 A M, Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7.05 a. m, Ar St. Paul .................. .. 6.15 P. M. * Ar St Paul ------ ----- -- 7-00 A- 11- Ar St. Louis ................. .. 8.15 A. M. Ar gt-dl-101115 -------------- -- 17- 11- _....____ Ar eaia . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . .. . A.M. . . Arszrra --------------- 3:38 1 .......... .. 1. “ Galveston”.'.:::::::::::;:::: 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10-00 “ -.--. Ar Bismarck ................ .. 11.00 1-. M. Ar Bismarck...” 12-01 P M- -- “ Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5-00 A. M. C91“mb“S"' " 630 ‘ “ Little Rock ............... .. 7.30 P. M. Little Rock ------------ -- A1. Burlington ________________ __ 3_50 A, M. A‘? Burlington ............ . . 7.00 P. M. . “ Omaha .................... .. 11.00 1-. 11. ~ ,, Omaha---e ------------ -- 7-45 A- 11- “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ,, Cheyenne - - ' - ' - ' - ' - ' ' ' ' P;, M‘ "" “ O den . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0gden"". ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " * 530 "" “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .; “ S3-11F1‘31101S0° ------- _, 8-30 “ . 1. H; _ _ . _ _ . _ 5_4 _ . Ar Galesburg ............. .. 4.45 P. M. Aiéiiiil’-“.”?. 11.1% ‘um “Q111n<=et>'----. ..... .. . 9.45 “ .- “ St. Joseph‘.:..........'.'... 10.00 “ “ Sh J0SéPl1-------- 8-10 A- M “ Kansas City .. 10.40 1». M. “ Kansas City” .. 9.25 “ “ Atchison....'...: ......... .. 11.00 “ “ Atchlson---« -.115-17 “ «~- ‘' Leavenworth. . . .. . .. . . .1 12.10 “ " LeaV9nW°1'th -40Vn°°n- "~- 1; Dem,e,_._ ~ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ’ . _ _ mm L ,,L “ Denver . . . . . .. .... ' I Through Sleeping Car Arrangements 9.15 A. M.—Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday). with Pulln_1a,n’s Drawing-Room Cars and connectin at Suspension Bridge with.Pullma_.n’s Palace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there. V ' 7.20 P. M.—Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullmanfs Palace Sleeping 03105» 111115 through to Chicago without change, arrivhig there at 8.00 a. m., giving passengers ample time for breakfast and take the morning trains to all points West, N01‘l3hW€St and °“~thWe5t° ‘ CONNECTIONS‘ on ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHESVOF Micliigan Central & Great I Western Railways. At St. Catharines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. ' p . At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Tru’nk:Rall4way. At London, with branch for Petrclia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branchjor Port Stanley, an daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railwayfor Port Huron, Branch Grand Trunk _R_ailway. Also De troit, Lansing & Lake Michigan R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit & Bay City R. .12, Branch Lake S. & M. S. R. R. to Toledo. 1 At Wayne, with Flint'& Pere M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. _ At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale & Eel _River It. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Bankers, Waterloo Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapohs. At Jackson, with Grand River Vallev Branch, for Eaton Rapids, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Nuncia, Pem, . watei, and all intermediate stations. Also, with Air L1n_e for Homer, Nottowa, ’lhree Rivers ai_1dCassopolts, Also with Jack, Lansing & Saginaw Branch. 1’01' L9-11311’-lg» 0W0§S0s Sagllmw, VV6.Il0H9-, S09-1101811, Crawford and intermediate stations. 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HARDY, For seven years Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of ., Women in a New York . _ N ’ Medical College. 1 ’ jg N“ 4 "°“°°1‘d Square PROF. J. M. Coiuiivs, M. D., 0 I43 East Twenty-Sixth Street, BOSTON. norms FROM 9 A. M.’ are 3 P M‘ Terms (for .Pm'0a.te Seance; in Reg: lHours.).'_ $2.00. , NEW YORK. } .,."v 16 WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. May 30, 1874.. The recent test ef‘Fire-Proof Safes ‘ by the English Government proved the superiorityof Alum Filling._ No other Safes filled with Alum and Plaster-of-Paris. MARVIN. & 60., ’ "265 Broadway, N. Y., L 72! Chestnut -St, Philas $20 The Beckwith $270 Portable Family Sewing Machine, ON THIRTY DAYS’ TRIAL. WITH STRENGTH AND CAPACITY EQUAL To ANY, RE- . GARDLESS or COST. The Cloth-plate is the size used by a $100 Machine is of Polished Plated Steel. Attachments of propor- tionate size and quality, while the entire‘ machine has corresponding ﬁnish throughout. 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Et('l‘(l1deHil)§:lnliaryadvantage which the practice at this Institution possesses over all others is, that in addition to all the scientiﬁc knowledge of Medical Therapeu- tics and Remedial Agents which the Faculty have, it also has the unerring means of diagnosing diseases through . CLAIRVOYANCE, as well as the scientiﬁc administration of ANIMAL and SPIRITUAL MAGNETISM in all their various forms. This combination of remedial means can safely be relied upon to cure every disease that has not already destroyed some vital internal organ. No matter how often. the patient affected in chronic form may have failed in ‘obtaining relief. he shou!d not despair, but seek it from ihis, the only Institution where all the various methods of cure can be combined. In addition to the cure of disease, Clairvoyant con- sultations upon all kinds of business and upon all forms of social affairs can also be obtained. Sealed letters answered. » Reception hours from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Invalids who cannot visit the Institute in person can apply by letter. Medicine sent to all parts of the world. ‘ All letters should be addressed Dr. C. A. BARNES, Healing Institute, 706 W.‘ Monroe Street, CHICAGO, ILL. ii. sexwa nuaann The Money Power. How shall this Pawn‘ be made to serve, instead of ruling us .° , A Lecture delivered by Lois ‘Waisbrooker, at Jack- son, Mich., Dec. 14, at the Annual Meeting of the State Association of Spiritualists, and published by request. - . “ Sister Lois—I am glad to see, in the last number of Our Age, thenames of so many who desire you to pub- lish your Lecture delivered in Jackson, December 14. Add my name to the list of supplicants. Your ideas upon the money power, how it can be made to serve, instead of ruling us, are grand beyond a mor‘tal’s tell- ‘ing. The Lecture was deep, logical, argumentative, and should be sent broadcast over the earth. “M L SHERMAN, M. D. “ADRIAN, Mien.” Price 15 cents single copy; 10 cents if sent by the dozen. . 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Ziledvical and Business Claircoydnt, Trance Speaker, Psyehometrist and Spirit Medium, 277 MULBERRY ST., NEWARK, N. J., Gives advice by letter in answer to questions on all the aﬁairs of life, together with Spirit Communion and Tests. Terms for Open Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1 00 " Sealed Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 00 Spirit Prescriptions, 25 cents each, with stamp. Medical Examinations and Business Consultations daily. Terms, $1. ‘ Public Circles every Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Author of “ Clairvoyance made Easy.” Second edi- tion now ready. By mail, 50 cents. Mrs. E. Smith has been permanently located and en- gaged in the successful practice of her profession in Newark for upward of twenty years, and respectfully refers to the prominent Spiritualists of New Jersey and New York city, and the many patrons who have received the beneﬁt of her experience. YOUR PATRONAGE IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. Address as above. HARMONIAL HCME, 1,204 CALLOWHILL ST., PHILADELPHIA, _ Where the WEEKLY and other reform papers are kept for sale, and subscriptions received therefor. Where a register is kept of all who. desire to form Communi- ties or Unitary Homes, and the location they desire, and what they can do ﬁnancially‘ or otherwise to start one. _ Address as above, G. D. HENCK. A Weekly Journal, devoted to the‘ Interests of Spiritualism in the broad sense of that term—does not admit that there are Side. Issues. Can there be sides to a perfect circle or a perfect sphere‘? A Religion which will meet the wants of Humanity must be both. sell. _ / Terms of Subscription, $2.50 per year. PUBLISHED RY ’LOlS WAISBROOKER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, omce 68 Qherry, Street, 3sattiS.§,r'eek,. Misha Wi°apping paper or for cut-« Free Press, Free Speech, RE” and has no love to EARTH CLO SETS. The Great Blessing of the Age. Comfort to the Sick an . 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1874-05-30_07_26
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1874-05-30_07_26
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 08, no. 01 (June 6, 1874)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2022
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1874-06-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 3.: C-,ur_....-‘M PRUOGRESS I FREE THOUGHT! UN ». ' 9 BREAKING THE WA ..._.4\_._.——_ Vol. VIII.—No. 1.-:YVh0le No. 183. A _ NEW YORK, JUNE 6, 1874. Y FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIONSQ. PRICE TEN CENTEY LOANERS’ BANK . OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. .——.-—»-— CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,000 ‘ Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. ‘ ’ Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. f FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CU1't RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTII, Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO’ & SON, Bankers, , N O. .59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. ‘ ’ ' I ’ * Interest allowed on...
Show more3.: C-,ur_....-‘M PRUOGRESS I FREE THOUGHT! UN ». ' 9 BREAKING THE WA ..._.4\_._.——_ Vol. VIII.—No. 1.-:YVh0le No. 183. A _ NEW YORK, JUNE 6, 1874. Y FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIONSQ. PRICE TEN CENTEY LOANERS’ BANK . OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,) Continental Life Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. .——.-—»-— CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,000 ‘ Subject to increase to ..................... .. 1,000,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES and receives DE- POSITS. ‘ ’ Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. f FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CU1't RENT BALANCES and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILMARTII, Vice-President. JOHN J. CISCO’ & SON, Bankers, , N O. .59 Wall St., New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit subject to check at sight. ‘ ’ ' I ’ * Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate - of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. - ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued,‘payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent interest. Loans negotiated. ‘ Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts of the United States and Canadas. The Most Dangerous Man in America! The Independent Tract Society solicit orders fortlie above startling Tract—a real bombshell, at the rate of 75 cents per hundred, or 50 cents per half hundred. Working-men and women, send for it! Let a million copies be sown! . INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, Clinton, Mass, or Rochester. N. Y. N0'.[‘ICE.—-Owing to our books having been lost through the rascality of enemies, we are compelled to ask members to send names and P. 0. addresses again. Let no one write desiring reply without inclosing tamps for postage. Send stamp for catalogue, circulars, etc. F. FLETCHER, CLINTON, MASS,‘ D. W. HULL I Has rearranged the notes for a Series of Twelve Lec- tures on Spiritualism, the evidences being drawn from the Bible. He shows that the church, the gospel and Christianity were founded not on morals, ethics or dogmas, but the intercourse of spiritual beings with the inhabitants of the earth. The whole ﬁeld of Bible evidences is thoroughly canvanssed in these lectures. The following are the subjects of the Lectures: ~ ' 1. Spiritualismand Inﬁdelity, _' _ 2. Spiritualism a Test of Christianity. 3. Trial of the Spirits. S ’ _ 4. Spiritualism of the Church (Ancient and Modern). 5. Angel Ministry. ‘ 6. What Good will Spiritualism do? 7. The Resurrection of Jesus-—only a Spiritual Re. surrection. 8. The Temple of Spiritualism., « x 9. Tuletary Deities (Human Spirits, ‘Jehovah one of them, Dark Circles in Bible Times). . Pro ression in Religion. .» Bibi cal Objections. , . The _Devil. Will give the entire Course or as many as desired, or speak on any subject desired by the audience. A discussion wished in every community. W111 not be I-J-I—l-I4 IQ}-4-3 ~ restricted in what he says. Satisfaction .wai-ranted, Address D. W. HULL, 148 W t W h’ t . t Chicago, 111.; or 871 Washingto:i?st.,%i>s]tbIi,o11U§sg?et’ MTHE Western Rural, AGRICULTURAL FAMILY WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WEST. H. N. F. LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor, WITH AN Able and Practical Eclttort'otl Staﬁ”, ANDAN EFFICIENT CORPS OF SPECIAL AND VOLUN- TARY CONTRIBUTORS. TERMS: SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS TO AGENTS. A PLUCKY PUBLISHER. -A _ [From the Chicago Daily Sun, Nov. 30, 1871.] “ One of the most remarkable examples of Chicago pluck and energy is given by Mr. H. N. F. Lewis, pro- prietor of the Western Rural, one of the ablest and mos‘t widely circulated agricultural journals in the country. Mr. Lewis lost by the fire one of the most complete and valuable printing and publishing estab- lishments in the West, and also his residence and household goods. Yet he comes to the surface again with unabated ardor, re-establishes himself at NO. 407 West Madison street, where he has gathered new ma- terial for his business, and from which point he has already issued the ﬁrst number (since the ﬁre) of the Western Rural, the same size and in the same form as previous to the ﬁery storin. Nobody would imagine, on glancing at the neat, artistic head and Well—ﬁ11_ed pages of the Rural that anything uncomfortably warm or specially disastrous had ever happened to it. Suc- cess to Lewis and his excellent Rural. Chicago ought to feel proud of it.” The Larges and Handsomest Paper for oung People.” THE Young Folks’ Rural, A RURAL AND LITERARY MONTHLY JOURNAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE OF COUNTRY AND CITY. TERMS: , $1.50 per Year; $1 in Clubs of Four or More. A PAIR on BEAUTIFUL BERLIN CHROMOS, MOUNTED AND VARNISEED, SENT POSTPAID As A GIFT -ro EVERY YEARLY SUBSCRIBER. cations for Young People-—entirely a “ new idea,” and diﬁerent from any other in style and character. Six- teen pages and sixty-four columns——the largest news- paper in Chicago ! WHAT, “ THEY SAY.” [From the Chicago Mentng Post.] “ H. N._ F. Lewis Esq., the well-known publisher of that admirable weekly, the Western Rural, is publish- ing a monthly rural and literary journal, under the title of the Young Folks’ Rural. * * * Mr. Lewis is just the man. to make it a ‘ big thing. ”’ [lib-om the Letter of a Western Mothei .] “The Young Folks’ Rural is just what our dear children need. Altogether it is a néble enterprise, and will do an untold amount of good. It is the ‘ parents’ assistant,’ and all thinking parents will join me in thanking you.” ' , [From a School Teolcher] “ I am ateacher, and take the aper for the beneﬁt and amuseent of 111 pupils. yes are bri hter and lessons better learne when the Young F0 Ice’ Rural makes its appearance. SPECIMEN NUMBERS SENT FREE’. Addreliﬁa 11- N. E LEWIS, Publisher, Chicago, I11. A Both Western Rural and Young Follcsiﬁural furnished 39’ 0?? lledli 1'9?‘ 33-092 .921 $2.50 per,Year; $2 in Clubs of Four or More. W The Young Folks’ Ru/ral is a novelty among p1ibli-_ . La¢1je.s5’ Own Magazine. THE {ONLY FIRST-CLASS LITERARY, HOUSE- HOLD AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE IN ‘ THE WEST, ’ AND . THE ABLEST, BEE T AND MOST POPULAR IN AMERICA. - CHARMING STORIES, INSTRUCTIVE ESSAYS, BEAUTIFUL POEMS, _ Live Editorials, Superb E/ngrmnngs. OVER TWENTY ABLE WRITERS EN- GAGED UPON IT. Only $2.00 on Year, or Twenty Cents a. Copy, AND A - SUPERB ORIGINAL OIL CHROMO, WORTH $5, . FREE. I SUBSCIRIBE AND MAKE UP A CLUB, AND SECURE A HANDSOME PREMIUM. We will send the LADIES’ OWN three months on trial for 50 cents, and allow that to count as the sub- scription if you renew for the balance of the year. A new volume begins July 1.-» I I . ;_ H p M. C. BLAND 85 CO., Publishers, 287 W. Madison St., Chicago, ‘Ill. 1131 Banllli: Showing how Interest on Money can be abolished by l Free Competition. By WM. B. GREENE. Sixth thousand. Price 25 cents. , _____ . T, I M ﬂ F I and The Causes oi’. its Unequal Distribution. By E. H. Hnrwoon. Twentieth thousand. Price 15 cents. ALSO, BY THE SAME, Hard. Cash: Showing that Financial Monopolies hinder Enterprise and defraud both Labor and Capital; that Panics and Business Revulsions will be eﬁectively prevented only’ through FREE MONEY. Fifth thousand. Price 15 cents. Allths above sold wholesale and rotoltl by the co-operative Publishing co, An Essay to show the TRUE BASIS OE PROPERTY . RAILROA IjB.ON,l FOR SALE . BY S. W.CHOPKINS & 00., u 71 A BROADWAY. TOLED O, PEORIA * , WARSAW RAILWAY, O P SECOND rMORTGrAGrE CON. ;VEItTIBLE '7 PER INTEREST WARRANTS PAYABLE‘ OCTOBER AND APRIL,’ PRINCIPAL 1886. We offer for sale $100,000,lo1' the above bonds in. block. By act of reorganization of the Company hese; bonds are convertible into the First Preferred Shares' _ of the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares and into the Consolidated Ber/ids (recently negotiated at Amsterdam) of six millions of dollars, which cover the {entire line of 7:30 miles of completed road, to, gether with all the rolling stock and real property, to, the value of more than ten millions of dollars. 'J.‘ii'e- road crosses the entire State of ois and connect with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the M15513 sippi at ‘Keokuk and Burlington. The income or the g . road for the year will net eumcient to pay interest; on an the bogded indebtedness and dividend on the preg. v lferred shares- Foi term yiipply to it CLARK, DODGE a co, 3;: <‘ PRINCETON, MASS. l 3 4 CENT. CURRENCY BONDS. A ., . ‘N , 2 ' ~ ' A l i".W0i0DHULL~& CLAFLIN’S WEEKIiYi,; , June,6,18.74- . ' - .- . A i A W ‘Pubhcottions of Walt A Wmtmom ’ the T E ZY E S’P AOTJUE. . . : Sp“ ltual 3 , . N ,Y R _ r . M DIBBLEE’ . ~ Greatest of Poets. - , x . A U 03’ ” t A DR PERKINS LADIES’ HAIR DRESSEP -* A ' ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ’ V “v LEAVES or GRASS. N Ed't’ . 504 . F“ T h a9 9 9 Gan be con salted as usual at his Oﬁicﬁ, A A 854' BROADWAT ‘ A: A A8 BIRD O;WPIl‘:I::S J ust 1 ‘I IS in its third thousand, and revolutionizing human N0‘ 9 FIFTH STREET (South Slde)’ . , out. 75 cents. ' ' A . Y/11011g11t 011,SDii-itualism. It will be mailed for 60 cents. OPPOSITE PUBLIC SQUARE», ' Has removed from his Store to the DEMQCRATIC VISTAS. Political Essay. Pros ’ . 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As the best practical solution of the relations of capital and labor, the Social Palace comes to us ﬁtly from France, now unhappily suffering from the pains inherent in the birth of a new social and political order; and by it, in the future as in the past, France will lead in the inaugura- tion of the increasing happiness of a social system based upon liberty and sympathetic human love. - ' M. Godin, the owner and builder of the Social Palace-or the Familistere, as he also named -it, for the purpose of ex- pressing in its title the fact that it was an abode where the love and sympathetic interest of the members for each other (which, alas! are too frequently simply a tradition in the ordinary household) should. make its inmates really a family —has recently published a work entitled “Solutions So- ciales,” giving» an account of its organization, and justly claiming by its title that it contains a solution of the social questions which are exciting such attention among all civil- ized nations. For making this practical test of solving the problem concerning the relations between labor and capital M. Godin was peculiarly suited both by his natural charac- ter and his experience of life. The son of a working-man, he early in life served his apprenticeship to manual labor, and by the rough usage which this implies learned the condi- tion and needs of those who earn their bread by the actual sweat of their bodies. Even from his childhood he has been possessed with the conviction that the recognition of labor as the basis of social organization was needed, in order to intro- duce the new order of human relations, in which justice, honesty and mutual sympathy should regulate our collective, as well as our individual actions. To quote his own words: “ When, at the age of eight to ten, I was seated on a bench in a village school, where a hundred and forty other children were crowded together in a stifling atmosphere, passing the days in receiving the master-’s ferule instead of a proﬁtable and regular system of instruction, I often reflected upon the insufficiency and imperfection of the methods of teaching applied to us. Frequently I said to myself, If I was a teacher I would teach the pupils better than they are taught here; and I asked myself whether I should devote myself to teach- ing. Soon, however, another thought came to me: No, I shall devote myself to learning the manual arts, for by these I shall have a great example to set the world in the sphere to which I shall devote myself. This persistent idea, at so early an age, is at least a singular fact, especially when considered in connection with the excessive timidity which then ,I dis- played in all my actions, and the extreme difficulties which my frail and delicate temperament offered to my “engaging in such labor as I saw carried on before me. Despite this, how- ever, at the age of eleven and a half, under the control of the idea that the practice of the manual .\ arts should lead. mete play an important part, I commenced to work in iron in my father’s workshop, and to take a part greater than ‘my strength would permit in the agricultural work carried on by my relations.” During his apprenticeship, and while making, as a jour- neyman,.the customary tour through France, his attention was directed to the unsatisfactory condition of industry, the inadequate justice /of the wages system, and the want of harmony in the social relations of the various classes in the communities through which he passed. It was the time, in the early half of this century, when the study of social ques- tions began to interest the thinkers of France, and the un- easy consciousness of a want of adjustment between the internal and external conditions of the body politic, between A the education of labor and its social and political recogni- tion, was seeking expression both in literature and in action. Witli an active interest in all questions of social develop- ment, M. Godin examined carefully all the new theories as they were presented,‘ but found none of them satisfactory until he became acquainted‘ with that of industrial associa- tion as proposed by Fourier. Here alone he found a theory which was universal in its application, and proceeded upon the strictly scientiﬁc method of studying human nature, and from the facts thus gathered deduced the laws of socia1vha'r-‘- requires for its practical application a preternaturally de- voted and unselﬁsh set of men. It does not demand the re- form of human nature, any more than musical harmony re- quires the destruction of the differences and discordsj of the musical notes of the scale, or that they shall all bereduced to a dull uniformity of quality and sound, even though the standard selected should. be that of the sweetest and most musical. As all the natural systems of science are merely with which they deal, so Fourier, in histheory of associa- tion, laid the basis ,of a real social science, and M. Grodin, in the Familistere, has made the first practical applicationi of its fundamental principles. Having commenced a new industry in France—that of re- placing the use of sheet iron in stoves by the use of cast iron —M. Godin thus laid the foundation of the large industry which now is carried on at the Familistere. V€’ith the in- , creased success of his business, and the necessity thus cre- ated for employing other men to aid in carrying on its pro- cesses, the opportunity was afforded him for continuinghi/s study of the relations of capital and labor from the stand- point of the capitalist. In this position, however, no less than in that of a workman, he brought to the study of his duties the same love of justice and the enlarged human sym- pathy which aregso characteristicof his course of life, while the wealth which his business foresight and enterprise brought him now afforded him better means and opportunities for the study of social questions, and for making practical at- tempts for their solution. - The abolition of the discontented quarrels which lead to strikes and lock-outs he effectually brought about in his own case by an exhibition of the spirit of human sympathy, and the simple recognition of the ne- cessity and advantage in this human relation, as in every other, of a conference between the two parties at interest, in which mutual good sense and fairness should be brought to bear upon the question in dispute. He had not needed this, however, to convince him that human nature was the same, whether living in a hovel or a palace, or that the question of development is one simply of conditions; and he soon saw that it was n_eccssary to supply these conditions. The antag- onism of the present social relations of labor and capital is no more to be removed by a reduction of the hours of labor, or an increase in wages, than that of the political relations which arose between the colonies and the mother country was to be settled by the removal of the hated tax on tea. ' It was a ques- tion of principle, of political freedom and equality, in the one case, and it is in the other a question of social freedom and equality. In, our political relations the world has risen from the isolation of the savage horde, to whom each stranger is .a natural enemy, to the sentiment of national sympathy, and the conviction of the universal brotherhood of man. Modern civilization has also in our social relations com- menced to realize the necessity for supplementing the isola- tion of individual effort by the support of the collective aid of society. Our public-school system is an evidence of this; our boards of health, our police, our insurance methods, the joint—stock principle applied to industrial pursuits, are each of them evidences that in an imperfect and tentative way society is inevitably but unconsciously tending in this direc- tion. But while the isolation necessarily inherent in our methods of domestic life continues, it is manifestly impossi- ble that industry should obtain the culture which comes alone from social sympathy and friendly association with our fel- 1ow—men. The tenement-house system has kept pace with the growth ‘of the public school, and its inﬂuences upon the young are of necessity greater than those of the school, since the child is brought more intimately into relation with them, and since he is subjected to their injurious inﬂuences more hours of the day. are passed, from their cradles to their graves, without any opportunity of sleeping or living in a ‘well-ventilated or decently furnished room,who have never sat down to a well- cooked or properly. served meal,‘who have never enjoyed an hour’s social intercourse surrounded with the conditions of culture and reﬁnement which the wealth their toil produces has prepared for, others—the thought of this cannot but be present to the hearts and minds of every one who recognizes the fact of our common humanity, and is aware how he him- self is the result of conditions. S Aware of this, M. Godin felt the necessity of building a house which, in its construction, should foster the spirit of social sympathy,~while its arrangements should interfere in no .way with the domestic privacy of its inmates; and which also, by its air, its decoration and its character, should im- tion of industry, to which the lives of those for whom it was erected were devoted. It was no improved tenement-house which he wanted, and still less was he desirous‘ of erecting a set of model workmen’s.homes, where the narrownessof the garden patch. the smallness of the rooms, the crowded and conﬁned arrangement of the ‘whole interior, should suggest constantly to those ‘who dwelt in them the narrowness of their own fortunes, and the pittance of enjoyment with which the present constitution of society insists upon their remain- ing contented, and happy. It was well enough for such men as Napoleon III. to bid for the ‘admiration of the pseudo- liberality of his time by designing and erecting such model houses for industry at Mulhouse and elsewhere. It was a part of the sham statesmanship which characterized the whole imperial regime. Nor did M. Godin wish to erect a vast structure, which, from a feeling of sentimental philan- thropy, tempered with a desire for personal notoriety, should be a charity to those who were fortunate or unfortunate enough to live in it, to be admired and wondered at by the thoughtless, somewhat as the luxurious stables which other men, whose taste leads them to take greater interest in the well—being of their horses than in that of their fellow-men, have erected from their superﬂuous wealth. This was to be a social palace, and as it was to inauguratea new era. of social life, there was but little architectural precedent by Whi0h ‘Q0 mony. The theory of association is no ideal scheme which i formulae to express the constant relation of the phenomena - The thought of the thousandsof human beings whose lives‘ press upon every one who entered it the dignity of the voca-" be aided in planning its constructionp Though M. Gsodin; himself is far from claiming that in the Familistere he has attained all that it is possible to attain in the newera of social architecture, yet he deserves great credit for what he has. done; and so just was the method he used in the study of j the problem which he sought to solve, that though thefuture will unquestionably see extensions and enlargementsmade upon it, yet they must be made in accordance with the prin- ciples which hehas here first practically realized. . A The plot of ground occupied by the Familistere an.d its de- pendencies consists of about eighteen acres, and, as will be ' seen from the general plan, is divided into two parts by the ' river Oise, which ﬂows in a winding course through the grounds. The Familistere is upon one side of the stream, and the buildings of the foundry upon the other. Connec- tion between them is had by a bridge. The general plan of the Familistere comprises three chief buildings united to- gether. The structure was built in this form from the force of circumstances. The increase of M. Grodin’s manufacturing operations having attracted a large number of workmen to the town of Guise, it became necessary to provide some place .V for them to live, and as the idea of the Familstere was‘neW, and experiment alone could show whether it would be a suc- cess or not, a ﬁrst building was erected, and afterward the .other as additions. As M. Godin says: “To create a. lodging for from 1,200 to 1,500 persons is a. daring experiment; I had not the means to construct at once: so vast a house, and it seemed to me enough to try at ﬁrst with a building large enough to accommodate a third of this " number. The plan -of uniting a seriesof parallelograms to- gether afforded an opportunity for realizing a unity of design, which could be realized by successive constructions, and would allow me at the same time to try an experiment which was too new not to afford in practice suggestions which would be of importance in the ﬁnal developments of the work I Wished to undertake.” « Each of these three‘ buildings incloses a central court, which is covered at the roof with glass, and each of them is four stories high. A gallery for each story runs around the central courts, and from these access is had to the various apartments. The stairways are placed in the corners of the buildings. The Ecentral building measures 195 feet front by .120 deep. The interior court measures 135 feet by 60. The other two buildings measure—the one upon the left 150 feet _. by 114, with an interior court 54 feet by 90; the other, on the right, 162 feet by 150. The courts are paved with cement, and upon each ﬂoor there are communications connecting the three buildings, so that the circulation through the entire palace is ample and easy. A cellar extends under the entire structure; that part which is under the dwel.ling portions is’ subdivided into compartments for the individual use of the residents, that under the interior courts is used for keeping the wines, vegetables and other stores for the consumption of thepopulation of the Familistere. The entire structure is built of brick, and the division walls run from thefoundation to the roof, as a protection from the spread of ﬁre, in case‘ such an accident should occur. These walls are placed at regular distances of thirty feet. During the winter the en-_ trance doors to the palace are put up, turning upon pivots in the middle, so that the smallest child can easily open them. They are also provided with a spring which closesthem after the entrance of any one. During the summer these doors are removed, so as to give free passage to the air. The stair- cases placed at the corners ef the buildings are semicircular with the intention of furnishing an easy passage to chil- dren, who can more readily ascend the small end, while grown people prefer the broader portion of the stops. The galleries at each story, 3 about the ’ central courts, are four feet wide. Their balustrades are three feet high, and are placed near enough together to prevent any child from passing his head between them, while their height pre- vents him also from climbing over them. iiillxperience has shown that this width of these galleries is suﬁilcient for the circulation, while they do not extend so far into the court as to interfere with the light from the glass roof at the top of the court in the lower stories of the building. These galleries afford an admirable stand-point from which to overlook the court, the children playing there, or, on occasion of the fetes, the proceedings which are carried on below. From the gal- leries access is had to the apartments by means of a passage, which serves as an entrance to two _ apartments. The apartments are so arranged that a single room. or a lodging of two rooms, or as many more as may be desired, can be - had. This allows the families to extend and contract their ' quarters with their own extension and contraction. In its construction it was necessary to provide lodgings‘ which should be afforded at‘ prices not higher‘ than workmen could obtain elsewhere in the town such accommodations as are generally afforded to labor. It was not to be expected that the workmen were to be induced to occupy better accommo- dations, at higher prices‘, on account of their superior advan- tages. The question with labor is of necessity simply one of 1 price, and a very small advance in rent makes a serious dimi- nution in the pittance of wages. At the same time, however, by a judicious use of his mate- rials, by such a comprehension of the problem he had to I solve as was gained only by the patient study of years, guided by a large-heartedlove of his kind, and by making full use — of the economies which are attained by operating at whole- sale, M. Grodin has succeeded in producing a. building of which he speaks, with modest truthfulness, as follows: “ It can be readily understood that whatever may be the simplicity of its architectural execution, yet the result has been an ediﬁce which is remarkable by itsimportance. Even though we notice some planning in its construction, though the facades are studied for effect and the architecture is care- ful, yet none the less we ﬁnd that it is not one of those habi- tations which proclaim the ‘poverty and suffering of their inmates,_but that it is a remarkable palace, in which the workman’s lodging is completely transformed, where his life is provided with entirely different conditions, where re- sources of every kind oﬁer him the conditions for Well-being 44 I I woonHULI.a CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. i f , 1. i_ - which it is impossible to realize in any other way for the working-classes. “The Social Palace is, then, not only a better shelter than the isolated house of the workman, it is also an instrument for his well-being, his individual dignity and progress. It is precisely because it affords him the right conditions for the full development of his physical life, that it opens to the ‘world anew horizon for our moral life; if it were not so, it would miss the end for which it was designed.” A The accommodations afforded ‘by the Familistere, if they were arranged 9. our villages usually are, would spread 'the population, which is now brought together in a sympathetic union, over a space a mile or two square. Byit some ﬁfteen, hundred persons are enabled to see each other, to visit, attend «. their domestic duties, meet in public, or purchase their sup- plies, without going from undercover, and regardless of ‘the condition of .the weather. Not only is the time thus saved, and the convenience of living thus gained, most desirable, but the general industrial spirit of the whole establishment is constantly exciting to activity,‘since each member sees constantly all around him the evidences that his labor is directly productive, and productive for his own beneﬁt. For the children, too, the schools are near at hand, and the "parents can constantly oversee their progress in their classes and their behavior at play among their companions. This facility of social communication, with the spirit which ac- tuates it, renders the Social Palace peculiarly eﬂicacious in raising the moral and intellectual standard of the people, the necessary leisure being thus gained for the cultivation of - social intercourse, for reading, and” for culture of every kind. In the lower story of the Familistere are the shops of 7 various kinds necessary to supply the wants of the inhabit- . ants. These are attended, managed, and the accounts are kept by persons from among the inhabitants of the Familis-, ere who have shown a natural aptitude and an attraction to this work. The supplies are bought at wholesale, and sold at a small proﬁt, sufﬁcient to pay the ex- penses, and a little more, which is used also as a part of . the general wealth for the beneﬁt of all. By this means the oppression of commerce, which weighs with exceptional force upon the poor, is done away with. In our present sys- tem he who has the least money is forced to pay the most for everything he buys, and suffers more than any one else from adulteration. Each time that bulk is broken in the passage of industrial products from the hands of the pro- ducer to those of the consumer expense is incurred, and a further opportunity offered for adulteration; and to these additions to the cost of what they consume the poor are forced to submit from their very poverty. Economy to the poor is thus rendered doubly impossible; individually they have not the money with which to be economical. To many people economy is supposed to consist in not spending money; but, in fact, the very essence of economy is spend- ing money, and spending it judiciously. From the exercise of this the poor are debarred——ﬁrst, by their want of the money to’ spend, and, secondly, by the lack of the conditions to spend judiciously what little money they have. In the Familistere, however, by its organization, the quality of the supplies offered for sale is assured, the dealing is of necessity honest, andthe poor have the facilities for spending their pittance as judiciously as the rich. 4 Nor is this all. The shops for the sale of various goods- shoes, millinery, hosiery, cloths, and so on—keep constantly under the eyes of each one of the population the sight of useful articles, and suggest the proﬁtable employment of the wages for the good of the family. Hence it results that, however poor the inmates may be~and ‘the Familistere has received very many such—the children are never squalid. There is a public sentiment of emulation concerning the ap- pearance of the children; they are all well dressed. The parents, seeing them gathered together four or ﬁve times a day, and marching in procession to their classes, cannot escape a feeling of mortiﬁcation if their own children appear ragged or neglected in comparison with the others. The fault is theirs, and they cannot avoid being sensible of it and remedying it, even though at the cost of personal priva- tions. /' Thus for the children a sure escape is organized from the misery and mortiﬁcation which children are so constantly forced to suffer by an unfavorable comparison with their companions, and the culture of contentment and happiness, instead of that of privation and suffering, is secured to them from their earliest infancy. In fact, from their birth the Familistere has organized the conditions for the comfort and development of its children. In the ﬁrst place, it adopts all its orphans, and their support until they are old enough to earn their own living is assumed by the collective wealth of the association. In this way the care and anxiety for the future is removed from the parents, and the mistaken econ- omy which sacriﬁces the present for a possible future con- tingency is no longer necessary. ' The education of the children commences from the cradle. There is nothing to prevent any mother from keeping her child in her own apartment, if she chooses to do so, but the Familistere provides for it so much better conditions for comfort and happiness that there is no danger of any one’s refusing to allow her child to enjoy them. , - Spacious buildings have been built for the accommo- dation of the children during, the various phases of their education; andvagainst the material’ conditions thus ” secured, and the intelligent methods used for the regular development, both moral and physical, of the children, with- - out regard to the ‘pecuniary condition of their parents, no one, however wealthy he may be, can hope to successfully contend. The course of education is divided into seven « classes, each of which has its own set of teachers and direc- tors, together with its own accommodations and its own i appliances. '; First, there is the nursery for the babies, from birth until about the age of twenty-six to twenty-eight months. Sec- ond, the pouponnat, for children who can walk, up to those gfonr years of age. Third, the bambinat, for children from four to six. Fourth, the primary school. or third class, for pupils from six to eight. Fifth, the second class, for pupils from eight to ten. Sixth, the ﬁrst class, for pupils from ten to thirteen. Seventh, the upper course, for pupils who have shown themselves ﬁtted for it by their intelligence and ap- plication. Finally, there 'is a system of apprenticeship, where the young begin to take part in productive industry, and aretaught gratuitously the various arts which are car- ried on in the Familistere. According to his inclination, the apprentice can devote himself to any special branch of employment, and is paid for the value of the work he does. An account is kept of the expenses of this educational organization of the Familistere, and they are carried to the general expenses, which are met from the proﬁts of the in- dustry carried on. The average number of children in the various departments reaches about 320, and the expense is about 20,000 francs——$4,000—a year. In the nursery "there is an average of about forty babies, and its cost is about $2,000, making an average of $50 a year for each child, or less than 20 cents a day. The pouponnat contains an average of about forty children, and its cost is about $160 a year, or $4 yearly for each child. The bambinat has an average of about eighty children, and costs $400 a year, or $5 for each child. The third class costs, for an average of forty-ﬁve pupils, $280 a year, or a little over $6 for each pupil. The second class, for an average of sixty-ﬁve pupils, costs $460 a year, or $7 for each pupil.‘ The ﬁrst class, for an average of ﬁfty-ﬁve pupils, costs $440, or an average of $8 for each Lpupil. The upper class costs about $200 a year. In these estimates, made up from the accounts, are com- prised the food and _all other necessary supplies for the children, from their entrance into the nursery to their en- trance to the pouponnat. For the other divisions of their education it comprises all the appliances necessary for their instruction. The course of education is the same for both sexes. The boys and girls are separated in their seats in the schools, but they participate _in the same exercises, under the direction of the same teachers, the details varying only aci cording to the aptitudes ofeach sex. The children, how- ever, pass their lives with the same freedom of association whichprevails among theboys and girls of any family. The method of instruction used in the Familistere is that of reasoning andpersuasion. The object is to realize, as far as possible, the theory of teaching by attraction. The chief difﬁculty has been to ﬁnd the teachers--persons who, im- pressed with the utility and importance of their function, should be enthusiastic in their work, and at the same time conscious of its demands, be zealous in preparing them- selves, and constant in increasingtheir own culture. In this respect the Familistere suffers with all society. In the last report of the Massachusetts Board of Education great stress is laid upon the necessity of more normal schools for the in- struction of teachers. The new spirit of the age has made it manifest that in our theories and practice of education we are now suffering from the evils incident to all periods of transition. The new is only in process of preparation for replacing the old. The teachers, as all persons occupied in the Familistere, are chosen from among the inhabitants. Those who display a special attraction and aptitude for this occupation are em- ployed in it. Though all the results desired are not yet attained, yet such success has been reached, and such a spirit developed, as justiﬁes a conﬁdence that time will complete the work which has been so successfully begun. The con- ception of the education afforded the children in the Fa- milistere is that it should be integral; but for the organization of the methods, and for obtaining the conditions necessary for securing this completely, time and experience are still needed. In order, however, to supplement as far as possible the instruction of the schools, the persons employed in the industrialpursuits give instruction in mechanics, geometry, lineal design, vocal and instrumental music, and other branches to the pupils. I-Iere, where the process of education has been so organized that the public spirit of the parents as well as that of the pupils themselves is secured as a support for the instructors, the necessity for using no other methods of government than purely moral ones has been most triumphantly demon- strated. All corporeal punishment is abolished, and the only penalty used is depriving the refractory of their pleas- ures. 'Rewards, decorations, distinctions, complimentary grades and the publicity given to these, together with an organized system of recreations, are the only methods used for stimulating the enthusiasm and friendly emulation of the pupils. The decorations are given the children once a week, according to their progress; and, in deciding this, a child’s record is compared not only with that of his classmates, but with itself. Besides this, a friendly emulation between the classes is organized, and on the ﬁrst Sunday of each month the collective honors thus gained are awarded. This cere- i mony takes place in the large court of honor of the», Familistere, in the presence of ' the councils and the committees of awards and before the eyes of the as- sembled population. Medals worn with scarfs of vari- ous colors, according to the section which wears them, are the signs of distinction. In every class, the division, either boys or girls, which has obtained the greatest number of recompenses for its work duringthe previous week or month, has the right to precede the other divisions in marching to their class-rooms for the succeeding period. After each recess the classes deﬁle in this order: A bell calls all the children together, and each child takes his rank in the pro- cession according to his merit. Banners of various devices mark the various studies to which the sections are devoted, and thus before the eyes of their parents each child is made to declare the position which he owes to his own exertions. During the summer the children are instructed in the gar- dens of the Familistere, under the direction of the head gar- dener, in the cultivation of fruits and ﬂowers, and also in a respect for the labor of others. The groups of boys and girls elect from among themselves leaders and sub-leaders,,whose duty it is to see that the orders of the head-gardener are carried out and the groups do not injure the plantations. June 6, 1874. These elections are made every week. In order to encourage this spirit of industry, the chlldren are paid for the work they perform and according to the skill they display. The gardens of the Familistere are an important adjunct in the education of the children. They are open to them all the is specially laid out in winding walks, lawns and other land- scape eifects, is used for promenades of the classes, and the privilege of enjoying it iskeenly appreciated by the children. The theatre is also one of the means used by the Familis- tere to stimulate the friendly emulation of the children,‘and constitutes one of the higher branches of general instruction and cultivation. Here the general lessons are received, declamations are held and entertainments given, which form an amusement for the whole population. Those pupils who distinguish themselves by their excellence in reading and by the oliteness of their manners, are chosen to form companies of actors and actresses who have the honor of presenting plays. The theatre is provided with scenery and a wardrobe for their use. Here the most intelligent pupils have the op- portunity of learning to speak well in public, to improve their carriage and general case of deportment. By the play S. which are carefully selected or composed especially for them, they are given lessons in history, in science, in true social morality, which, as they have learned them in the happiest circumstances of their youth. they never forget. The Familistere has also two yearly festivals, in which all the population and visitors from the town of Guise take part. These festivals are held in honor of labor and of child- hood. The first rewards the labor of those engaged in its in- dustry, and of those employed in the service of the Familis- tere; the second rewards the labors and the progress made by the children. The ﬁrst of these is held in May, the second in September, and in both of them the children are given the ﬁrst seats, either to witness the prizes awarded to their fathers and mothers, or those received by themselves for their merits. These festivals are held in the grand court of the central building, which is decorated with trophies and emblems of industrial pursuits for the ﬁrst, and with those of education for the second, while the galleries are festooned with garlands of ﬂowers and foliage. During the festival of childhood the works of the pupils are exposed to the public, and all the classes, from the infants to the most advanced pupils, are publicly rewarded with the prizes they have progress during the year. These prizes are such as are suita- ble to the recipients, and consist of books, boxes of paints, mathematical instruments, musical instruments and other various, useful and desirable objects. The recipients are also crowned with wreaths of silvered or gilt laurel leaves. The smaller children are presented with the toys and playthings which are so sadly missed, as a general rule, by the children of the poor. Thus the gratiﬁcation of all the moral and physical wants of the children is provided for as far as possi- ble by the organization of the Familistere, and the attrac- tion to pleasure, which is so strong in children, is made use of as one of the best means for exciting them to industry, in- order to thus obtain the right to use the playthings or the materials for their moral and physical development. ‘ To those of us who have experienced in our own isolated households the entire destruction of the usual orderly quiet of domestic life, which is caused by the advent of a baby, or who have in our boarding—houses and summer resorts passed ‘ a wretched existence from the disorganizing presence of numerous babies, the account of the nursery and pouponnat of the Familistere scenes like some fairy story of impossible results. Is it not impossible that an infant should be intro- duced into a house without causing it to become immediately a sort of museum of napkins, or without occupying the at- tention of all the adult members of the household from sun- rise round again to sunrise ‘I Nor is this the worst feature of the isolated home to those who feel conscious of the respon- sibility which naturally devolves upon the parents of a child. In our isolated condition of living it is absolutely im- possible to provide the conditions requisite for a child’s hap- piness. Our necessities as social beings for the association with our kind are at no period of life more peremptory in their demands than in infancy. Nature imposes upon a child an imperious desire to obtain control of its faculties by their exercise, and as the majority of these are such as can- not be called into action except by association with our kind, its lonely condition is a source of continued unhappiness for an infant. It is uneasy, it knows not why. Nor can the pres- ence of adults, or even of children of an older age, take the place of those of its own age. As a rule, it is evident that crying is not the expression of happiness upon the part of an infant, and every one of us knows how universally infants protest‘ against their lonely condition in the isolated family ;by crying. ‘ V In the Familistere, where some forty infants are together, {the universal testimony of all the visitors who have Written ‘of their visits is that there is no crying, and that there is less difficulty in organizing the conditions for the happiness of these forty infants in each other’s company than there is in securing the same for a single one in an isolated home. The success which has attended the arrangements for the young children in the Familistere is [so marked that it will be interesting to quote somewhat at length M. Godin’s de- ’ scription of it. The nursery will accommodate ﬁfty infants besides the nurses’ beds, and is provided with ample closets, a kitchen, water-closets, baths and other ofﬁces. It is warmed, lighted all night, supplied with water and well ventilated. « The infants sleep in beds of a peculiar construction, which have been found to be the best, by the Familistere after numerous ex- periments. The cradles consist of a stout iron wire bent into the form of an oval. ‘This is supported upon an iron stand at the head and foot. The support at the head is ex- tended and bent over to uphold the curtain to the bed. ‘To the oval wire a thick cloth is laced which thus forms the bed. Upon this cloth is spread three or four inches of, bran and upon a cloth covering this the child sleeps. This bran mat- tress is not penetrated by wet. When the child wakes 1311 time for playing and walking, while a reserved portion, which — gained by their good conduct, their industry and their ‘ --4 \ ,' June é%,.187rl. ewpocuncim. a C_I.AFl..lliiS wsssgtst A . ~ ’ dampened bran is easily removed as a small cake, and fresh bran put in its place. Experience has shown that upon this simple bed, which is so easily kept sweet, the child does not suffer from cold in winter nor from heat in summer. The children in the Familistere are never rocked to sleep. Their education commences from the ﬁrst. They are taught to -go to sleep, and it is ,“a pleasure,” writes M. Godin, “to see them put to bed awake, like grown persons, and go to sleep without crying, and wake up in the same way. The suppression of rocking is another conquest over the errors of routine. “ In the Familistere neither abandonment, want of clean- liness, inanition, poverty, nor indigestion are any longer the causes of that mortality among young children to which society closes its eyes. In the palace the child receives all the attention demanded by its age. The halls of the nursery and the pouponnat are in the building itself, near to the home of each one, always open to the child and the mother, while night and day good nurses watch with a tender care over all the children in the cradles as soon as their affairs call the mothers away. The child is in the conditions suited to its age, in the society of its kind, free from that loneliness which is so often for children separatedfrom their natural companions a torment which they seek to escape by cries and tears. Forty infants in the nursery of the Familistere are less tiresome and annoying than ‘a single one in an iso-‘ lated home.” The education of the children begins even from their ten- derest age. Much of it, of course, results from the well- organized arrangement of the rooms, from the material cares. with which they are surrounded, the general cleanliness in which they are placed, and especially the choice of the nurses, for it is the maternal sentiment which is the best auxiliary of early education, when this sentiment is directed by science and reason. The exercises of the children at this early age are not numerous. They consist in waiting without crying whenthey awake until their turn comes to be attended to: to eat in their turn without trying_ to take the food of their neighbors; to eat alone like grown people so as to become grown themselves; to stand up bravely in the little gallery in which they are taught to walk, and to pass their comrades without knocking them over or falling themselves; to go to the water-closets and use them skillfully, induced thereto by the example of the larger children of the pouponnat; to ee the little babies play and listen to their songs; to admire the birds in the aviary and talk with the parrot; to call the squirrel and make him turn in his cage; to walk on the balco- nies and the lawns, guiding by the hand the little friends who essay their powers; to lie down and roll about on the lawns; to talk with their young friends; to obey the nurses; to go to sleep without crying- These are the results which the Familistere obtains with- out constraint from the young children living in company with their kind by conﬁcling their education to intelligent and affectionate Women, in whom the love of good and of infancy’ is the chief quality. The infants remain in the nursery until, having learned to walk, they eagerly demand to go into the pouponnat, and take part in the exercise of the next grade of children. This takes place at about the age of twenty-six to twenty-eight months. The children then return to their parents for their meals and to sleep, but come every day to the pouponnat, making the journeyalone if they can, or, if not, being brought by some comrade or one of their parents. The pouponnat is the necessary complement of the nur- sery, as a guarantee that the children do not lose the super- vision which they still need before they are able to attend the schools. It has also a most happy effect upon the nursery. Children are imitative by nature, but the child is attracted to imitate not the actions of adults—-these are beyond his comprehension-—but the actions of children a little more advanced. The pouponnat is thus a strong stim- ulant to the nursery, as it in turn is stimulated by the bam- binat. The exercises in the pouponnat are as follows: Gather- ing upon the benches for the ﬁrst lesson; inspecting the cleanness of the hands and face; singing; marching; ﬁrst lessons of good fellowship about what is good and bad, upon what is due to others; lunch, with lessons in eating prop- erly; gymnastic exercises while singing; walks in the gar- den and on the lawn; moral and instructive stories by the teachers, illustrated by pictures; ﬁrst knowledge of letters; singing the alphabet; singing the numbers from 1 to 100, as they are pointed out by the monitors; drawing upon their slates; object lessons; playing in the garden without injur- ing anything; selecting the monitors for their merit‘; recep- tion of the week’s recompenses, ribbons, bonbons, toys, etc.; from ‘time to time sights of ﬁne, dolls which open their eyes, run out the tongue, move the hands, and other surprises promised in advance; as exceptional recompenses, and at rare intervals, if all the children are very good and attentive to the directions of the teachers, a represenation of a puppet- show; exhibition ,of images, artiﬁcial and living animals. These means for amusing and exciting the attention of the children are varied according, to the intelligence and devo- tion of the teachers, so as to produce the best results. The building for the bambinat; in connection with that for the theatre, lies in front of the central por- tion of the Familistere. The central building contains the theatre, serving also as a hall for conferences anda general gathering of the children. It contains also the hall for the orchestra, which serves for the meetings of various committees and societies. The building on the right contains the rooms for the bambinat and the third class. That on the left contains the rooms for thegsecond and ﬁrst classes.’ The system of education commenced in the bambinat can be most succintly described as that of object teaching. ‘To enter fully into a description of its methods would occupy too much space. It will be enough to mention for those in- terested in the matter that the works of Madame Marie Pape-Oarpentier have been used as the source from which suggestions have been gathered for its methods, and for the training of its teachers, who are selected from among the residents of the 13‘am‘iliste_re. Froebe1’s works have also been used for suggesting some of the exercises, and the works of other writers have been placed under contribution. In the schools the methods of education thus admirably begun are continued.‘ The educational advantages of the Familistere are all gratuitous, their expense being paid from the general fund, the only individual charge being a ﬁne inﬂicted upon such parents as do not send their children to the schools. ' The service of the Familistere is performed by those en- gaged regularly for this purpose, and paid for it. Scrupu- lous neatness and propriety are the rule for all the public portions of the building. Within their own apartments the lodgers are free. The Familistere requires nothing from them but the payment of their rent, and is not deceived in believing that the general spirit of order which pervades the entire institution will inﬂuence all its inmates. As the ser- vice is not thus individual, the persons who perform it being dependent upon no one, but relying upon the collective in- terest alone, all sentiment of servility in their function is destroyed, and their proper performance of their work is a title to general consideration, since all labortand all evi- dence of skill are held in great honor by the inhabitants of the,Social Palace. ‘ Besides the material advantages which the arrangement of the Familistere offers to its inhabitants, its theatre and library, its gardens and groves, its choral society and or- chestra, its fetes and other entertainments, all concur in aﬁording such opportunities for social culture as are not ‘within the reach even cf the rich in the ordinary conditions of isolated life. ~ The onlyrule and regulation of the Familistere is liberty. and this is the principle of its organization. Neither the families nor the individuals are subjected to any other rules than those written in their own natures. Hence they na- turally seek the good, because the new habitation corres- ponds to the desires of them all, and each one respects the common good with which his own well-being is so intimately connected. I Frequent infractions of this natural rule in any one particular would be simply an indication that the ma- terial conditions were imperfect in that particular, and it would be necessary only to reform these, and thus suppress the undesirable effects by suppressing their cause. Since the foundation of the Familistere, though it contains 900 persons, and their meetings and circulation are perfectly free, there has been but one single case which required the intervention of the police. When any act is performed by one of the inhabitants which is injurious to the order of the building in any way, a. notice is sent to the lodging of the culprit by the administration, or a written mention of it is posted publicly,’ but without the mention of any one’s name. If there is a repetition of the offense‘, or if it is one of suffi- cient gravity, the notice posted contains the name of the perpetrator, together with the imposition of a ﬁne, for the beneﬁt of the general fund. The notice is allowed to remain posted a length of time proportionate to the gravity of the offense. The councils elected by the votes of all the in- habitants, both men and women, united together form a council of criticism, and give the weight of their authority to the rebuke by signing the notice. In cases where the necessity arises this council can exclude the offender by demanding that he be dismissed. The industrial and other interests of the Familistere are organized as follows : An administrative commission is charged with their direction. This body is elected by the inhabitants, and consists of the persons most ﬁtted to direct the operations. It meets once a week to discuss the interests of the industry carried on, and another time to regulate the provisioning and all other matters which come naturally be- fore it. This commission controls and oversees the operations of the palace by means of sub-committees, but puts the execu- tive part of its duties in the hands of an oﬁicer entitled the Economist. He buy the provisions and necessary supplies of all kinds, and, with the aid of those attached to the vari- ous shops and branches of the service, sees that the quality and quantity are honestly delivered. Each shop and each branch of the service keeps its own books, and is carried on independently of every other. Each of these has an account with the Economist, who charges each with the supplies ob- tained from him, with the rent of the premises it occupies, the wages it pays its clerks, the interest upon the capital it employs, depreciation of its material, for its insurance, its portion of thegeneral expenses, and so on, /and credits it with its sales and deliveries. Every day the total of the operations of each of the stores and branches of the service is carried ‘to its respective credit, and these accounts are balanced by proﬁts or by losses in each balance-sheet, as they have been conducted well or 111 during the week. This gives an opportunity, when it is judged best, to make a partial balance, so as to discover-,the condition of any par- ticular branch of the service without waiting for the regular taking of stock. ' ' The various duties of the diiferent branches of the service requirewfor their performance from seventy to eighty persons. The duty of the administrative commission is limited to the material control of the palace, to directing the employees of the service, and also to following the commercial and ﬁnan- cial course of its operations. The various societies formed by the members of the Familistere among themselves man- age their own affairs by the committees they elect. The ad- ministrative commission interferes with them in no other way than to advise when asked concerning the investment of their funds or concerning similar matters. The industrial interests of the Familistere are managed by committees chosen by the workmen engaged in them. These commit- ‘ teespropose rules which are discussed and acted upon in the general assembly of the members of each society. The same method is used in the workshops, the societies, the corpora- tions and the committees, and thus are considered all matters’ of education, prevention and aid, hygiene, the protection against ﬁre, music, the theatre, the festivals, picnics, the club, the library, the claims of labor, etc. The election of these committees leads consequently to frequent voting I "the question, “ Does it pay?” twelve women, elected from among the women, by universal suffrage, forms a peculiar social feature in the Social Palace. In voting for the members of these councils every one is con- sidered an elector, who, having left school. can earn his or’ her own support; or when this qualiﬁcation is wanting, the age of sixteen is ﬁxed as the limit. The functions of these councils‘ are principally suggestive and observing, though. they are not in any way limited. For the most part the 1 I council of men is occupied with questions concerning improv- ing the work, organizing methods of prevision, division, or in arranging the festivals. That of the women considers chieﬂy the domestic functions, the quality of the supplies, the gen- eral neatness and healthfulness, the care taken with the chil- dren, the wash and bathing houses, and all the improvements which can be introduced into domestic labor and life. These councils unite when occasion arises’; they use thelrinﬂuence concerningmeasures seen to be useful; they give their ad- vice concerning the operations of the Familistere, industrial or ﬁnancial; the state of the accounts is .made known to them, and the general disbursements made for the beneﬁt of the population. , From the minutes of their meetings the ad- , ministrative commission takes suggestions for action. They I are also the arbiters in important matters of order; they pro- nounce uponinfractions made upon habits of fraternity, and. in any way endangering the good order of the Familistere. They also see to the encouragements given to merit of all kinds, in the workshops or the domestic service; they call attention to zeal, or its want, displayed by any of the func- tionaries. Thus they have a great moral inﬂuence in main- taining the regular working of the administration, and in guarding the general interests of the community. . ' The spirit which controls all of the operations, which inau- gurated the movement, and has carried it through to its present successful condition, despite the doubt and incredu- lity of all those outside of its inﬂuence and manywithin its shelter, is that of 7M. Grodin himself. But he sees, more clearly perhaps than any one else, how incomplete is a social. s organization in which the stability of such an enterprize, en- hancing as it does the well-being and the future of over a thousand human beings, is made dependent upon the frail tenure of a single individual’s life, or the continuance of his interest in it. His object, therefore, in the beginning, was to make it an association: but this he has been unable to do . V legally. The laws of France, like those of this country, do ' not recognize the possibility of such human relations. As it has been succinctly stated, the position of the law upon this point may be thus summed up: “ What is everybody’s is no- body’s, and what is nobody’s belongs to the‘ state.” Now, however, that association has been shown to be a most prac- tical necessity, the law will tardily recognize the fact as soon as the public conscience demands it, as it demanded recently the recognition of the futility of all the legal bulwarks A of chattel slavery. It is gratifying, however, to know that in the building up of this enterprise Grodin has had the hearty co-operation of his children. The family live themselves in the Familistere. M. Godin’s son has been his chief aid in the enterprise, and his daughter is one of the chief promoters of its educational spirit, taking a. practical ‘part in its admira- ble organization. ~ With a conﬁdence in human nature. M. Godin, though obliged legally to remain the owner of the capital represent- T . ed in the Familistere, haseplaced the control of its affairs in the population, who elect those who carry on its operations, and the result has shown how quickly men demonstrate, where the only law is liberty, that human nature is inherently good, and learn to seek their own happiness in that of others. Admirably as the Familistere appears in an examination of its social, its moral and its educational inﬂuence upon labor, it oﬁ'ers in this practical age a no less satisfactory answer to This will appear in a very brief statement: The first build- ing erected was the left wing. The foundation of this was T I marked out in April, 1859; it was ﬁnished in 1800. but not completely inhabited - until 1861. The other portions were commenced in 1862 and occupied in 1865. The cost of the land was about $10,000. The left wing cost $60,000. The de- pendencies erected in 1860 cost $10,000. The central buildings cost $80,000. The constructions for the children, built in 1866, cost $8,000; the schools and theatre, built in 1869, cost $25,000. The baths and wash-houses, built in 1870, cost $7,000. This makes a total for the buildings of $200,000. To this must be added about as much more for the, furniture and other ’ material, making the capital invested say $400,000? As the Familistere was built for the accommodation of workmen, its rents had to be made as low as those prevailing elsewhere. The rates charged vary from about three to ﬁve cents a day for each chamber, according to the location and the floor. Fromthe rent the gross income is about $8,000. From this about $2,000 is deducted for the general expenses —gas, repairs,;etc.—leaving about $6,000 income from" this source. This is about three per cent. upon- the capital em- ployed in the building. It would evidently be easy to in- crease the rent by seeking its population among another class of persons, but this was not the object of the enterprise. From the commerce carried on in supplying the population, after paying for expenses about $3,000,. and for salaries to ’ those who are engaged about $5,000, there remains a proﬁt of about $9,000 a year; of this a reserve fund of $2,000 is yearly - put by, leaving $7,000, which, with the $6,000, makes $13,000 a, year, or six per cent. upon the capitalinvested in the build- ing. The daily experience also of the Familistere shows that with the skill which comes only from experience these re-1 sults can be greatly improved. _ In this country there are most probably now in operation a thousand industrial enterprises employing capitals larger than that which has produced the Familistere. Among those who control the use of. this wealth, produced by labor, who: Will be the ﬁrst to imitate this use of it? -————--.——s~—-vo+-<—————........ ' MRS. PARTINGTON moved this spring to a house on a rail- . road, and she :likes it very much. “It is so pleasant and sociable,” she says, “ when Ike is off to see to see the cars, A council of twelve men, elected from among the men, and forty times a day Pass Pro and conhefcre herd windows.” woonnuti. a o“LA’rLiN/vs wnnfxtr. June 6, 1874. SOCIALISTIC. . N O T E S. BY 0. r. s. {MORMON MARRIAGES. The editor of one of our Liberal (?) Journals recommends , legislation against polygamy in Utah. In the same issue of his paper he makes record of the public testimony of Brig- ham’s nineteenth wife, which is simply a corroboration of what we have so often been reliably assured, viz., that the Mormon’ wives are held under their yoke by worship of the Bible, as expounded by their prophet. Against what, then, shall the legislative battery be aimed ?———the Bible, their blind devotion to it, or the system which is its natural outcome? If legislation against the Bible would be deemed religious persecution, legal interference with conscientious imitation of the patriarchal lives which it records must be equally so. a , Has matrimonial felicity come“ to be such a very drug in the ‘ home market that we must needs export to Utah at the bayonet’s point? I would venture to suggest, as a milder method, that the sympathizers with the sad-eyed wives of Salt Lake City contribute to a Marital Relief Fund, to be usedin transporting a few hundred couples of such sweetly wedded, monogamists as would like to do. missionary work, and as could give satisfactory evidence that their conjugal happiness was of such remarkable endurance as to be likely to outlast the trip, to settle among the sad ones as living expo-I nents of monogamic faithfulness and bliss. But, ironyaside, such a fund might do mostibeneﬁcent and much-needed work byway of aiding those who want to be released from wedlock, in ﬁnding homes and furnishing them employment until they become accustomed to standing on their feet, in the dignity of self-supportingwomanhood. If such a fund be raised, I en-' treat that no odious distinction be made between the sufferers of the monogamic system, with its tearful wives and outraged magdalens, and the victims of theipolvgamic one. Let al be helped as they desire and need, in escaping from the m_is_ eries of marriage; and, more than all. let a knowledge of the laws of adaptation, of physiologic function, and psychologic powerbe so widely disseminated, and so easily available, as that discordant mating of the sexes shall become as r-areas it now is universal. When humanity wearies of its constantly defeated effort to legislate itself into happiness, and turns its attention to the discovery and dissemination of principles, the glad morn- ing of the better era will begin to dawn; but while it ﬁnds cruciﬁxion of its teachers more agreeable than patient and ‘unprejudiced hearing of theirstatements, it will doubtless hold to the delusion that it can vote things right. MARRIAGE AMONG FRIENDS. I notice the WEEKLY has quoted the venerable Lucretia Mott as saying that, “VVhen our young folksimate they trouble neither the priest nor the magistrate.” Seeing that the statementof that fact unaccompanied by a statement of further facts behind it would mislead people to suppose that there is more personal freedom enjoyed by the members of the Society of Friends in the matter of mating than in most religious sects, while the reverse is absolutely true, and knowing that neither Mrs. Mott nor the editors of the WEEKLY would be willing to mislead the public in any matter, and especially in the serious one involving the best interests of the race, it seems right to make some further statement. I When young friends wish to mate, they are required to- announce such intention in meeting one month previous to the ﬁnal ceremony. Having thus laid their case open‘ for discussion and consideration for one month, and no reason appearing why they should not proceed, they are at liberty to recite before witnesses the stereotyped pledges of faithful- ness and constancy, the woman “promising to be unto him a faithful and affectionate wife until death do separate us,” and the man making equal promise. The marriage certiﬁcate is then read aloud and ‘signed by the wedding couple, the parents and other witnesses and friends. The certiﬁcateis ‘ so formal and so full of legal technicalities, that I never heard one read without a shudder at its painful resemblance to a, deed‘ or bill of sale, and think there can be no rea- sonable doubt that the original intent of all marriage ceremonies and documents was to put the parties in as abso- lute possession ofeach other as law could do it; and I am sure no Friend will question but that this is accomplished as thoroughly by the Friends’ legal compact as by any other; the simple fact that the parties recite the ceremony instead of having the priest or magistrate doit for them, is the only favorable thing, while the end accomplished, viz., legal joint ownership, is the same everywhere. Friends are far more illiberal than any other religious sect with which I am acquainted. “ Marrying out of meeting,” as it is familarly called, andlwhich being interpreted means marrying a person of, different religious faith and church "membership, or one with none of either, is a most serious bl-eachcof “discipline,” for which the offender becomes liable to dismissal from the sect. rRorHINeHAM’s APOLOGY for the social evil, as quoted b y the Word, is the worst "E1i"iii‘§ ' I ever heard from so intelligent a source. I confess I can ﬁnd no words adequate to my anger when piétism non- chalantly consigns to the ﬁres of aliving hell the “ saviors ” of its own neck and heels! « I I . The old theologic dogma of atonement was a baby one of perfect innocence and sweetness in comparison with this which he would fain have us accept. No, no, Mr. F.,'we will “ not scorn ”.‘the Magdalen. but we do scorn with utter loathing the bad teaching which would keep her what she is, “ bearing the sins which but for her we might commit.” I am glad to believe that you willasometime blush to ;call that virtue which can be bought at such a price. some more human method must be discovered for rescuing our literary men from the consuming ﬁerceness of their passional ﬁres than this fearful holocaust of virgins. Any schoolboy . shames to’ think of shufﬂing thelconsequences of his dis. In one respect the . obedience on*his‘,innocent playfellows; and the loss of this innate sense of justice is the greatest any man can suffer. AVINELAND, May 7, 1874. JESUS CHRIST AND THE FREE-LOVE WOMAN. WHAT Is Now COMMZONL1’ CALLED “ LICENTIOUSNESS ”‘JEsUs ' CALIJED “Lovn.” “And one of the Pharisees desired him (Jesus) that he would eat with him. And hewent into the Pharisee’s house andsat down to meat. And, behold, a woman in the‘ city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of oint- ment, and stood at his feet behind himiweeping. and began to washhis feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now, when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he, spake (within himself), saying, ‘This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, for she is a sinner.’ And Jesus, answering, said unto him, ‘Simon, I have somewhat to sayunto thee.’ And he saith, ‘ Master, say on.’ ‘ There was a certain creditor which had two debtors; the one owed ﬁve hundred pence, and the other ﬁfty; and when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave t-hem both. -Tell me, therefore, which of them will love him most?’ Simon an- swered and said unto him, ‘I suppose that he to whom he forgave most.’ And he said unto him, ‘Thou hast rightly judged.’ ” *-‘ ‘ “ And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, ‘Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house; thqu gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss; but this woman, since the /time I came in, hath ‘not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint; but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore, I say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are forgiven her; for she loved, much.‘ but to Whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.’ “And he said unto her, ‘Thy sins are forgiven. Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.”’ (Luke vii., 36 and following.) i a ' The incident related above is no parable, but a narrative recording an actual occurrence in the life of the most famous and radical social reformer known in history—the inspired Nazarene. Might not many of our modern social reformers learnla lesson of mercy and charitable feeling from this A touching and beautiful episode. I refer now to the habit of making always and continuallya vague but invidious dis- tinction between loce and lust when referring to the sexual conduct of other people, whether males or females. We are prone to regard in others as lust that which we would esteem in ourselves to be love. We are too apt to conjugate the verb “to love’’ after this fashion: First person, I love, second person, thou lustest; third person, they lust. First person plural, wélocc ; second person, you lust; third person, they lust. , But how noble and tender is the language of Jesus when, in speaking of an outcast woman, “ a sinner,” a Magdalen, a “free lover.” He did not denounce her as a lustful being, nor a prostitute, nor beastly. On the contrary, he spoke of certain manifestations or practices as Love, which many mo- dern “ reformers ” are in the habit of ﬂippantly branding as “lust,” as though there could be no love outside of legal mar- riage and no lust within its pale. “For she loved much.” “Thy sins are forgiven.” “Go in peace.” Dare any bogus “ Christian ” who proudly “ wor- ships ” (?) or prays or preaches in any modern temple exhibit any such benevolent and humane temper and tender con- sideration toward an erring woman in the present day? Surely this is a practical and a vital question, and one which “ practical Christians ” (if there be any such thing, and I do not believe there is) cannot safely ignore. “Except your righteousness (rightness, justice, equity, probity) shall ex- ceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” “By their fruits ye shall know them.”—(Jesus.) “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tink- ling cymba .” “ And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I’ give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it proﬁteth me nothing. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity.”—(Paul.) T “To whom little is forgiven the same loveth little.” In this saying‘Jesus‘ recognized the truth that ardent, sympa- thetic, loving, amative natures require and crave more to satisfy or appease their conjugal demands than do individ- uals of a cold and impassive temperament. We must not think to “ measure everybody’s corn in our ha1f—bushel.” A great “sinner,” sexually, is to ‘be forgiven for the reason that they are great lovers; “ they love much.” ‘ PERTH AMBOY, N. . EMORY FLETCHER BOYD. V THE SHAKERS SEE IT. K [From the Shaker and iS’7zakeres5.]- There is great confusion in society at the present time; and many minds are bewildered by the commotion. There is a disintegrating power at work; monogamy is being super- seded, in a degree, by polygamy and incest: Infanticide is practiced to an alarming extent, and foundling hospitals are crowded with the innocent offspring of guilty parents. It has been stated that there are thirty thousand female prostitutes in the” city of New York at the present time. How many male prostitutes must there needs be to support those women? They are not supported a by vagrants; for many of them dwell in splendid palaces and live in luxury. Who, wewould ask. are their supporters, if not ‘men of wealth and station. who cover themselves with a cloak of re- spectability, while their associates of the opposite sexaareaa ~c marked and consigned to infamy and disgrace? But these “ respectable” hypocrites——whited sepulchres——are the more dangerous to society because their true character is unknown. —Rioth Webster. * A I THE HOLBROOK DIVORCE CASE. Boston society is now agitated over the disclosures made by Mrs. Zebiah M. G. Holbrook, formerly the wife of Charles C. Holbrook, for many years aconspicuous Boston merchant, in a little pamphlet, entitled, “The Mistake of a Life; or, The. Other Side of the Holbrook Divorce Case.” There has long been a suspicion that this divorce was “a put-up job,” and that it was only “ by ways that are dark and tricks that are vain ” that Mr. Holbrook’s attorneys and detectives secured him his divorce. If I-Iolbrook “was of ~ such an overbearing temper that the misplacement of a knot in his cravat was sufficient to bring down upon her the weight of his wrath and petty tyrannies,” Mrs. Holbrook, apart from pecuniary considerations, was for- tunate in being divorced from him, even if the mode of getting rid of him were not to her liking. , Mrs. I-Iolbrook was an early convert , to Spiritualism, but since her divorce has found, or thinks she has found, rest and peace in the Roman Catholic Church. At one time she was an Episcopalian; and she having to ‘submit to a severe sur- gical operation for a cancer, her then husband requested the prayers of the congregation in her behalf. “ lt advertised his business and ﬂattered his egregious vanity,” the pamphlet says, “ but did not in the least soften his heart.” For while this unhappy wife was under the surgeon’s knife, and while the prayerswere making for her recovery, the heartless hus- band, hatlcss and coatless, sat in his pear tree, regaling him- self with the fruit! The pamphlet will prove an admirable disenchanter to such as still worshipaathe divinity of marriage as it now is. The divorce case itself is a famous one, and in it, in one way or another, many of the ablest lawyers of Boston were engaged —Rufus Choate, Gen. Butler, Judge Thomas, Judge Cowley, E. D. Sohier and Gr. A. Somerby. When men and women are left to form and dissolve their love relations according to their own will and pleasure, such scandals will cease. R. C. . _Ho ’ SPIRITUALISTIC. ADAM AND HIS FALL. FROM A DISCOURSE, AUGUST 18, 1872. The passage of Scripture before us (I. Cor. xv. chap), in its truer translation (just now read) inspires other and better and more cheerful views than those held by the churches. It is the same appealed to by them, but with how little con- solatory assurance! Besides, as printed for the people, in the authorizedlﬂversion, and as interpreted by theology, it is a m-ighty prop to sustain the story of the fall of man. The idea concerning the fall of. man, as taught by the pul- pit and as generally accepted, is that of an apostasy, by which was brought upon the race a diathesis of soul, a moral taint. whose inevitable consequence was death, both physical and spiritual. But such fall is fabulous, having no foundation in philosophy nor in historical fact. The extent of the mischief which such a doctrine has reached cannot easily be meas- ured; it is world-wide. Poetry has embraced the myth, and lent its charms and mighty powers to affirm the theological fancies. _ The storied statement received as foundational for the fal 1 hath this averrnent—that Deity, in the concluding process of creation, made a man, manufacturing him mechanically from the dust of the ground; and that independently, it would seem, of the laws of generation and of growth, to which his progeny has ever been subject, over-stepped the stages of infancy and adolescence. which in all subsequent ages seem, of necessity, to have obtained in the life of man; that he also madeawoman, manufacturing her out of a rib taken from the previously made man, having caused a profound sleep to fall upon him that he might not suffer pain from the'cruel incision; that when these human fabrics were completed, he placed the original pair in a beautiful paradise—the Garden of Eden—and that he there forbade them to eat of the fruit of a certain tree therein; but, disobedient to the behest, they did eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree, and thereby enkindled the Creator’s wrath, which eventuated in their expulsion from Eden, in their own mortality, besides the entailment of death upon their posterity. Thus, in epitome, runs the story of man’s creation, ‘ Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, ‘whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe. \ Truly, aﬁne ﬁction this for poet’s ﬂights of fancy! Let his genius revel in such imaginings. Let his lyre thrill our souls. Let him sing enchantingly of Paradise lost. We can listen to the sad tale of temptation and the ruin of a race; but we cannot concede the claims of Christendom to infallible faith, when it rests on old-time legends and anomalous alle- gories concerning the genesis and the fall of man. The dogma derived from the mythical origin of a first man andﬁrst ‘sinner. whose name the historian calls Adam, how- ever absurd, is important in the Christian economy of grace and scheme of redemption—im;>ortant because if neither Nature nor what is called Revelation demonstrates any such geneology or line of descent of the human family as that claimed for it in theology, but that, on the contrary, they plainly prove that the Adam of Scripture history and Christian polemics is not signiﬁcant of speciﬁc personality, or of a single individual man, but signiﬁcant of the whole embodied humanity—signiﬁcant, generically and collectively,’ ofthe entire race of man, being a substantive word convey- ing the idea of multitude likelzlnthrogoos in the Greek, I-Iomo in the Roman, Mankind in the English, etc., what then becomes of the ancestral attainder, dating back to the guilt andcondemnation for the crime of the Garden and the . expulsion from its paradise? Indeed, what then becomes of the fall of Adam, the inheritance of his depravity by his . :,_., 1 -3 ,-5;..-/_2;L V June 6, 1874. woonnnm. _& 0LAFl‘.IN’S WEEKLY: 3‘ I I ' ~ '3 \ -4:’ ‘ / 2-,." I A descendants, that provocative of sin, which necessitated a vicarious atonement by the sacriﬁcial shedding of human blood to remove the judicial taint, but notgtill centuries had gone by and millions upon millions of the children of Adam had gone to perdition! . v New, neither Nature nor even Scripture reveals the fact of aﬁrst man; the record relied on for such supposition and belief aﬁiirms that God said, “Let us make man”—not a _man; and further, that God. said, “And let them have do- minion,” etc., not let him have dominion, in the singular number. How lacking isthe Old Testament in proper ma- terial forithe items of a ﬁrst man and his fall, in the struc- ture of the religious creeds! Nor does the New Testament, aside from the fraudulent interpolations, erroneous translations and false interpreta- tions, in this behalf, afford anything to” sustain the pulpit teachings concerning the fall of man and his redemption from the penalty thereby incurred. Witness the foregoing defects found in the common version of the Scripture trans- lated for this occasion. I To support the story of a ﬁrst man, the father of the race, Adam by name, who brought upon his family, by an act of his own disobedience, sure destruc- tion-——and the ﬁction of a second man, Christ by appellation, dual of divinity and humanity, the redeemer of the race, suﬂering death to atone for the great transgression—resort has been had to a convenient amendment of the Apostle’s statement! A By a comparison of the Greek text, asfound in the Codex: Vaticartus, with King James’ version, it will be seen that the reader of that version is imposed upon and cheated by the use of the word “ man ” in the 45th verse, and the word “Lord” in the 47th verse, words forged and found in the Greek Testament in common use. Without these interpo- lated words, anthropos and kurios, what becomes of these important dogmas of the church, viz., the sin of the ﬁrst mart, Adam; and the imputed righteousness of the second man, the Lord ? In soft theological parlance, this variation in the reading is characterized as interpolation; in legal phraseology it is pronounced forgery; in temporal matters, it is punish- able by restricted locomotion for a period of years in the Penitentiary. Whosoever is familiar with the church teach- ings concerning) the fall—-to wit., inherited sin, redemption by vicarious atonement, etc.—will readily see why those words are found in the Greek testaments now used in our colleges and by our clergy, and why they are wanting in the ancient copy. " _ , Thus it is seen that neither the legendary creature of Deity by whom‘ sin was introduced into the world, yclept Adam; nor that historical personage, the spiritually An- ointed One, called the Christ, by whom, as it is preached, the consequences of sin have been counteracted, was in the mind of\I’aul when he wrote concerning so-called Death and Resurrection——words of misnomer for man’s fall and Re- construction. Paul meant to affirm, and he did affirm, only this—that the Adam, or the human family, is both animal and spiritual, having earthly bodies, for the uses of this life, which family he calls the ﬁrst Adam; also having a spiritual element, which will be developed in spiritual bodies on entrance into the next life; which spiritual element or body, he calls the last Adam—the second man-—after his spiritual reconstruc- tion is ﬁnished, and he hath become a celestial; thus showing man to be dual in his nature. and_ making plain his proposi- tion contained in the 47th verse. Thus, it is conceived, is afforded a sensible solution of the question of man’s fall and redemptio n—the mystery of death and resurrection: terms familiar and common among the majority of Christians, and suggestive to them of that poetic embodiment of their theology- In Adan1’s fall We sinned all. ——Dr. Horace Dresser. [From the Pioneer of Progress, London, 0. 13.] POSITIVE KNOWLEDGE. In the light of positive knowledge ignorance would be dis- sipated, and in proportion as ignoranceiis dissipated from the minds of mankind, so will all the evils and miseries that at present curse it vanish also. Let us, then, pray for the light; let us search for the truth; let us apply that truth to the solution of all the problems of existence; and by so searching and applying it we shall build up a fairer and nobler life, draw nearer to our Father and our friends, and call down high and noble aspirations from the higher and the nobler life; and those friends of thine who once walked with thee in the ways of mortal life, who once shared all thy trials and troubles, who wereionce men and women even as you are to-day, they from their happy homes will draw near, join in the glad chorus of awakened humanity, and the divine ' song of universal love, ﬂowing upward and onward, shall be borne through the inﬁnite space to the glad heart of the great eternal cause; and that eternal cause, in its inner joy realizing the destiny of its children. shall send forward the ' mighty roll of inspiration that shall lift humanity onward and upward, bringing in the greatest and grandest day the world has ever seen, linking humanity in the bonds of fra- ternal love, calling forth every aspiration of the soul, devel- oping every noble attribute, and then a resurrected human- ity shall take the place of this one, and perfect order, brotherly love and holy inﬂuences shall hallow every rela- tionship; and crime and all the incongruities of human life, all the excesses and diseases that aﬁflict society, shall be known no more; every noxious thing shall be removed, and humanity, glowing in the divine inspiration, bound together by mutual bonds, shall live and grow in truth, justice and love forever and forever.—Tt‘en Sim T/ée. , —-———-——>—<G>——<—-T: \ RELEVANT THOUGHTS. Is it less reasonable to assume that formation of forms began with the most simple in character and construction, and if constructed of matter consisting of two differing ele- ments, that it must have had a beginning, than to conceive that evolution had no beginning in the construction of forms in view of the fact of the existence of the exceedingly com- plex forms that now exist? I . Can any rational mind conceive of a gradual development ‘of higher forms out of lower, or higher succeeding lower of even the most simple character, without taking a step back to inquire whether or not matter was active at a point just previous to suchf beginning, and yet unproductive of the same immediately succeeding results? \ Is it possible that any other conception of a starting point can be considered more reasonable than the suggested one that alternate periods of rest and activity have transpired in all of the past, the former of which was the primal period, in ’ View of the fact asserted in favor of the evolution theory, that higher forms and conditions grew out of lower, and were ‘constituted of unorganized matter? . Can the evolution of forms be believed to have commenced with the ﬁrst combination of two. elements (known now to exist, and of course without a beginning) without knowing that if the organization of forms implies activity of matter per se or applied, that the non-organization of matter_ im- plies immobility? ‘ ‘ l g If these questions are not close and transparent enough, let us try the spiritual microscope (or try it alone, if you please),a little further, to ﬁnd, if possible, the sanctum sanc- torum of the cause of activity and the constructive power in matter. V . L If the statement of ideas is repetitive, it is because the Writer desires to present his views in different forms, so that even the more careless thinker may be impressed therewith. STEUBEN, Huron Co., 0., May 21, 1874. ' L S. TI-IE NASBYTLETTIERS. THE WOMEN 013‘ THE CORNERS MAKE A RAID’ON BASCOM— THE TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Toledo Blade 1 ‘ A CONFEDRIT X ROADS : . (Wich is in the State uv Kentucky) % d April 6, 1874. The cyclone, whose wrath we hoped hed bin spent in futile endeavors, hez ﬁnally smote us, and we are sufferin under the blow. The wimmin uv the Corners riz in their mite on Friday. The sun rose brite and smilin from the eastern horizon—- the frost wuz all out uv the ground, and the day wuz warm and blamy. Deekin Pogram came down the road barefoot and hilarious. “ It’s Warm enuff,” sed the_old innocent, “ to go without shoes! Thank heaven, I shel not hev that ex- pense on me for seven long months.” The Corners alluz rejoices when,its citizens kinleave off shoes in the spring. Bascom turned away and wept. ‘ “ Why do yoo weep ?” sed Pogram. “ Ef I don’t hev to buy shoes you will hev jist that much more for linker for me.” I “-Alars!” shreekt.Bascom, “ can’t you see that the warm weather wich enable yoo to come without shoes, also enables the wimmin to walk these streets without shoes? And hezen’t Pollock and Bigler and them cusses bin incitin em to rage, and hevn’t they been a bilin in agony to get at me, but wuz provedenshly prevented by the weather? They’ll be here to—day’shoor, and then—” . ‘ And Bascom bowed his head and wept agin. ’ Wat Bascom prognosticated did reely occur. At ten o’clock precisely a delegashen of Wimmin headed by Lucindy Gravitt ﬁled around the corner and approached the grocery. We stood on the porch in an agony of feer. “They are comin,” said L eckin Pogram, tremblin ez the he hed ager, “ ez terrible ez a army with banisters.” “ Can’t we fool em out uv this?” sed Bascom. “Wood that we cood!” said Issaker, “but I doubt it. A Lucindy is a running this thing and she’s akoot. Yoo can’t play any vermifuge on her.” “ Subterfuge, yoo fool,” sed I. “ In sich a time ez this, be correct watever you are.” Slowly they approached. Bascom turned pale, and leevin the porch took his posishen behind the bar. “ Here,” sed he, “ I_will endoor the shock. Here where I hev lived and had my bein will I die.” The enemy came on, until the hed uv the purcesshin reeched the porch. Lucindy bore a banner on which wuz written, “Liz Bascom hez stockins—we hevn’t. Death to Bascom!” and pokin it in my face ez she past me, she marched with the tread uv a grenadeer into the room, and took up her posishen in front uv the bar, where she looked Bascom square in the face. “ The regler thing,” sed Lucindy, “ ez I hev heerd, is for the wimmin to pray. Kin yoo pray, Mrs. Pogram ?” in our house?” “Kin yoo pray, Mrs. McPelter?”‘ “ Nary.” - ‘ -“ And ther can’t none uv uz. The fact is that we wuzn’t brot up to it. I don’t bleeve thcre’s a woman within four ' miles uv Basco-rn’s—onless it’s a new corner—who kin, but it don’t matter. I hev been looking at Bascom for ﬁve minutes and I don’t bleeve prayer wood hev any effect onto him. Its works we want here—works with him, works 1” And that infooriated wom‘an, pullin her sleeves back, dis- playing an arm wich a long course uv splittin wood and hoein , taters and whalin Issaker had made ez muskeler ez a black- smith’s, uttered her war—whoop: “ Remember. gentle sisters, Liz Bascom hez stockins and we haint none-—our husbands sell corn wich we grow to pay Bascom for likker! More ‘stockins and less likker.” A With this ejackelashun, she sprang over the low counter and throttled Bascom, bearing him to the ﬂoor. “Now, sweet sisters,” sed she, “ while my frail and fadin strength lasts I will hold this man uv Belial safely—-lie stil yoo broot——be it-yoor work to go for them bottles and bar- rels !g Go for em—Bascom’s wife hez stockins 1” . A dozen uv em drawd. axe helves from under their apers and kep us off, while the rest went inside the bar and rolled out the barrels and jugs and split em. open. /The precious “Nary,” replied Mrs. P. .“ Sich a thing wuz never heerd ﬂooid ran "out on the floor and disappeared betwixt the cracks thereof forever. We cood do nothin’ but look on and weep. v ‘I I . Finally, when the last barrel was bustid and the last bottle broken, Lucindy let Bascom up, and the percession, wild with, excitement, marched out uv the place and dispersed. It wuz a pitiful site! Them empty barrels wuz mute wit- nesses uv our w’oe—them broken bottles hed each a tale of distress to tell. There wuz an aromauv likker risin from the floor and that wuz all. But who cood live on an aroma? “ Thank heaven!” sed I, “ we hev that reserve in the stable left. We kin live on that till yoogit a noo stock in.” ' “No yoo can’t,’/’ replied Bascom, his voice broken with emoshun. “N o yoo can’t. That barrel wuz in‘ among the rest, and is gone with the rest.” , “ Why, oh why, did yoo do that?” I asked. “Kin yoo, ask me af_ter the nite yoo attempted to steal it?” said he. “I’d sooner trust it with the wimmin than with yoo. Dooplicity meets its own reward.‘ Hed you played fair yoo wood hev had a barrel to go on. E2 it is, there ain’t a drop in the Corners, and none kin be hed from Louisville for six days.” ' l p ' At this Deekin Pogram dropped a stave wich he hed bin lickin and fell faintin to the floor. Isaaker Gavitt, Elder Pennibacker and Captain McPelter turned ‘away sorrow- fully. V in agony, feelin that Bascom must hev a privit bottle some‘- where. , “Yes,” sed he; “I relent. I pervided for this catastro- phy. I bored a hole in the ﬂoo, here, where it is the lowest. Under that hole, infthe cellar, Iput a tub. Go down and bring up a wash-basin full and revive him.” Droppin the old man’s head, I ran. There wuz three inches in the tub. Fillin two quart bottles which I found there, and puttin them in my pockets, I hastened up with the wash- basin full and held it to his nose. He drew along breath, and fastened his lips to the edge. He swallered! he wuz saved! . -We are yet without likker. The Corners is ez dry ez a lime-kiln. I hid my two bottles where they cant ‘ﬁnd em, and four times a day I go and take a modrit nip. But they cant last long even yoosed ez sparinly ez I do. . Dcekin Pog- ram is askin me evry day uv my opinyun uv the hereafter, and the rest uv em would leave the Corners of they hed any earthly way uv gittin out. Bascom has ordered a new in- voice, but Hevin knows when it will come. Ez I hev but a pint left, may the day be not far distant. -Curses on Pollock and Bigler, who did this thing. i i PETROLEUM V. NASBY, A (Wich wuz Postmaster). -. TO HENRI ROCHEFORT. Representative soul of sister France, Americawelcoines thee! Although her Ruling sentinels--protecting shell—may I Fail to recognize thv mission here, or, If so recognizing, fail t’ appreciate, ller yet unorganized soul-cules will ’.l‘hy advent hail with joy, as harbinger Of love‘s unbridled reign, accompanied By peace and plenty for the race of man. That all do what they must—impelled by pow’r Unseen but not iinfelt-—Would seem selilevident, When men in stations of authority Will banish to seclusion those who need - It most, though motive for such action be Far different from the love of him cast out. Seclusion is the outcast’s boon-oft sought By Weary brain the mind to recup’rate, By prophets for recruitment of the soul. Whatever by seclusion thou hast gained Will doubtless prove for Freed_om‘s beneﬁt. Hence welcome to the shore where F1-eedom’s hosts Are marshalling for battle. Nevermore May they be scattered by dissentions on ’ Minor points of diff’rence. Let tolerance Prevail for all opinions, charity , For all designs deemed ill or actions vile- So easily to be misunderstood. What vilcr criminal e’er Walked the earth, As measured by the time’s morality In which he lived, than he who even now Is worshiped as a god by such as then Reviled him most ? In worshiping his name I-lis god-like charity they overlook, And love for all mankind. “ Let him the ﬁrst Stone cast whose self is guiltless ” meaneth much, When carried to its sequence logical. \ Are those all guiltless who control the State, Administer law, hang women—-by such law Unrecognized as peers of jury-men Who render verdict for the hangin'g—-leave ‘ Children unprovided for, to starve or Steal, whose parents by misfortune or the State’s revenge are rendered helpless; those who For selﬁsh interest most do legislate, And through such legislation holdtheir pow’r? My brother soul! the few perceive what all In time must know: mankind a unit is In embryo, whose vital forces now? ‘ Converging toward their central sun of love, Whosepwarmth abounds, are casting o1i:"their old’ And worn-out garments, needed only for » Protection in the cold extremes of their- Divergence. In love’s pure light the naked / Truth needs no apology. Welcome home! ’I.‘RIcNTON. N- ‘If: MSY534, 1873-} T ‘ V . ExcELsIo‘n. A NEG-R0 in a religious gathering prayed earnestly that he’ and his colored brethren might be preserved from what he called his “upsettinf sin.” “Brudder.” said one of his friends, at the close of the meeting, “you ain’t got d'e hang der,” replied the other, “-if dat’s so it’s so. Butl was a-pray. in’ Providence to save us from de sin of intoxication; amiﬁf dat ain’t an upsettin’ sin, I dunno what a.n1.’E ‘ ‘ I e / ‘Aint there suthin to revive the good old man?” I shriekt , of dat ar word. 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The ne- cessity that produced the ﬁrst reduction is made only more demanding by its achievement, for the second; and thus the human mind, outwrought by human strength, goes on con- quering and to conquer. Shall it not ultimately reduce the subtle elements, not yet mastered, to complete subserviency, so that it may be said, truthfully, that man has become their master; and the powers of the material world do yield obedi- ence to his mandates; he hath«to command and they to obey? Across the continent in eight days—-New York, Chicago, lOmaha, Ogden, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and the vast expanse for which they stand representative—united by a common and mutual interest. Who shall dare affirm that an event so auspicious as this, that unites the two conﬁnes of a vast ocean-bound continent in commercial unity, shall not be the beginning of that still more humanitarian unity that shall eventually usher in the common brotherhood of at least the American ’ race? Not any person in whom the basic principles of human existence have had birth can traverse this route and not feel that humanity is rapidly becoming one in purpose and interest.” This interest will of course be first material; but a common interchange of material in- terests leadsto common methods of thought and‘ forms/ of life. Hence it is that commercial intercourse, carried-on intimatetely between two widely different classes, or even races, of people, gradually moulds them into one ‘people, What is true in this relation of two different peoples, will be true ultimately with the whole world. Indeed, the primary foundation for this unity is already Plaid. As a sequence to the completion of this trans-conti- Inental line of travel a regular line of steamships has been es- tablished to Japan, China and Australia, whilefrom each of these countries there are other regular lines plying to London and thence to New York,'thus completing the earth’s circuit. So much a matter of fact has this become that tickets are now sold in all the principal cities of the world for the tour round the globe, either» eastward or westward. The trip can be made in three months. The distance by the route that steamships are compelled totake is, via. Japan and China, twenty—three thousand ﬁve hundred and seventy—eight miles; 1 cost of ticket $1,105 ; via New Zealand and Australia, twenty seven thousand ﬁveghundred and sixty-four miles; cost of ticket, $965. These prices include ﬁrst-class passage and every necessity of the trip, excepting sleeping cars and meals while on then‘-ailroad portions of the route.‘ T .§W00—DHULL a CLAFI..I,N’S wEn:KI.r; June 6, 1874. It is just about the right time of the year now to start 011 this trip from the eastern portions of the United States, so as‘ to complete thejourney a_cross the plains bcforethe intense heat of summer is upon that locality. Itis no worse there, however, than railroad /travel is in general between New York and Omaha during the summer months. In fact there is the relief of strong southerly winds to break the direct effects of the heat in mid-day, while, when the ascent of the mountains is begun,a deliglitful coolness is experienced that is entirely wanting anywhere eastward of there. Between New York and Cheyenne the traveler has a choice among several routes. The most southerly is by the Balti- more and Ohio to Cincinnati; the Ohio and Mississippi to St. Louis; or by the Pennsylvania Central and its connections to St. Louis‘; or the Eric and the Atlantic and Great Western and the Ohio and Mississippi to St. Louis and thence by the Kansas Paciﬁc and Denver Paciﬁc, to Cheyenne. Few persons, however, will choose the route by the Kansas Pa- ciﬁc who start from the vicinity of New York, unless they wish to visit some point upon the route, incidentally to the trip. Most will prefer the more northern "and really the most direct route by Chicago. Even by this city there is op- portunity. for choice among several routes, but they who go westward of Omaha, either upon business or for pleasure, desire to make the trip to that city by the route that oifers the most inducements in case, comfort and elegance. As be- tween the Pennsylvania Central and the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, and the Erie by suspension bridge and Detroit to Chicago, there is little if any choice. So far as these matters are concerned both routes are noted for their regularity of time, for their elegant equipages and sumptuous eating houses at well regulated distances. The Erie, however, pre- sents the advantage of more capacious through drawing room and sleeping coaches. The Pullman cars on this route, which are ru11 from New York to Chicago,are models of elegance and comfort, being widerlby a foot or so than those that run on any other route. This is amatter of no small moment, espe- cially when more than two persons are to occupy a “ sec- tion. ” This route is rapidly growing in favor with the public, but the larger portion of travel still adheres to the route by Pittsburgli. - For those going west from Chicago, however, (and it is for such that we are now writing), there is avery evident advan- ’ tage in the Erie and Michigan Central route, since by this passengers arrive in Chicago at the same depot from which they depart over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy for Omaha. The Pennsylvania Central arrives in the St. Louis depot in Chicago, from which there must be a transfer of a mile to reach this favorite route to Omaha. This transfer consumes the hour until the departure of the train on the “ 0., B. & Q.,”_which otherwise could be devoted to break- fast. The only other route to Chicago arriving in the same depot from which a westward train for Omaha departs is the Lake Shore route. Persons using this road would naturally use the Rock Island to Omaha; but the objections to the Lake Shore route to Chicago are of such magnitude as to preclude its use by travelers who can reach any other route; while much the same arguments hold against the Rock Island and Paciﬁc to Omaha. Those who manage these routes give more attention to manipulating their stocks for speculative purposes than they do to managing their roads for the accom- modation of travel, while all of the roads in which Mr. Joy is interested are managed to accommodate the public. The Michigan Central, of which he is Presidient, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, including the Burlington and Mis- souri River Road to Omaha, of which he is a director, are really the best managed and equipped roads in the country, while their western and southwestern connections, which his genius has conceived and his ability is constructing, are rap- idly making all that vast country west of the Mississippi river and south of the Union Paciﬁc railroad, tributary to this popular route eastward. For the south and west, east of the Mississippi river, the Pennsylvania Central has the un- doubted supremacy; but for the great west, and especially the trans-continental business, the route in which the Michi- gan Central and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy form the connecting links, will, for popular reasons, retain its hold upon the public heart. . . — We speak thus particularly of these several routes because they form the important connections in that great system of international communication which is ultimately to produce such general and beneﬁcial results to the human race. They are parts of the chain by which the whole world is to be bound,ﬁrst in commercial and afterward in general interests, which will lead up to the possibility of organizing all the nations, peo- ples and races, in one human family, and thus make possible the prophecy of all past ages. Indeed, by no other methods can the peoples of the world be made as one people. Chris- tianity, so called, can never eifect it. As a means of regen- erating the world and carrying it forward to the results that Christ is said to have desired, the commercial interests that make railroads and steamships a necessity are a thousand times more potent than all the priests the world ever pro- duced. Religion alone is impotent for progress. The reli- gion that has cursed the world has‘ invariably stood in the path of progress, and has transferred the very idea of a uni- versal brotherhood from earth to a future life, and then made it impossible there by dividing that life into heaven and hell, with about ninety-nine one hundredths of the people in the latter forever wailing over their failure in earth life. But, thank God, this religion is fast losing its hold upon, the hearts of men and women, and they are coming it; know that scientiﬁc and commercial progress are prime factors in that evolution of humanity through which alone the millennium can be in- troduced upon eartli. A In this sense, telegraph, railroads and steamships are mightier prophetslof a real advancement to the time when the kingdom of ha.ppiness—~heaven——shall be established on earth than churches could be were they multiplied in number ten fold and did their congregations include every living per- son. Churchianity might be made a mighty engine of civili- zation. The very things which, ‘if the priests would do, would forever establish the church in the world, they are afraid to do lest they shall lose their power over the people, and through this failure the power they might otherwise create and hold will pass to other and more worthy hands. The failure of modern Christianity to adhere to the principles said to have been laid down by Christ will ultima'tely prove its destruction» and consign‘ it to the past, where so many other systems that have made the same failure have already gone. A remarkable exempliﬁcation of this is about to occur among the Mormons in Utah, of which further mention will be made at another time, as the-record of transcontinental travel westward from Cheyenne shall appear. at which place we are supposed to have arrived in this article. To this point the matters of interest pertain almost wholly to the relations which railroads bear to general civilization. Westward from this point there are many local things that are of suﬁicient interest to form a part of any account that might be made of a trans—conti11ental trip, and such will be the subject of our next number. 9 STILL MORE EVIDENCE. Every day we are more and more surprised at the almost astonishing rapidity with which the public mind is being called to the vital issues involved in the Social Problem. There is scarcely an issue of any paper of any importance, daily or weekly, that does not contain, in some form, some important statement or argument relative to the absorbing question of the social condition, while the magazines are replete with able, if not exhaustive, articles touching the matter. The Popular Science Monllily is doing an immense work in this direction, and the Galaxy and Harpefs are little if any behind it. All of these magazines are becoming a necessity, almost, to all persons who are deeply interested- or actively engaged in reform movements. It is very gratifying to us to see all this ; to know that the public, which reads publications of the high order of liter- ature which isrepresented by these monthlies, demands the discussion of these things. If there were no demand for these subjects they would not be found occupying so large a part of the limited space of these publications. Their conductors cater to the tastes of their readers, and they seem instinctively to realize that the great social question is the paramount one for the near future. gWe do not think it is egotistic for us to feel that the WEEKLY has done much to create this demand in the public. Three years ago no such articles as are "now constantly ap- pearing would have engaged the attention of the reading public; and it is seriously to be questioned if they would have been tolerated had they been presented. Nobody will be found so foolish as to pretend to assume that there has not been a very remarkable change in public sentiment upon the social question, nor that it is not the chief topic of gen- eral conversation, where, but two years ago, it was almost unknown. This revolution, almost, has been brought about by the persistent discussions that have been maintained in the WEEKLY. People who have read it have begun to think upon the subject; while those who write begin to learn that they may safely present their ideas regarding it to the world, and publishers to ﬁnd that they may print any, even a bald, consideration of the facts involved and be sustained by the public. In Harperh, for May, there are two very important arti- cles——not important particularly on account of any new ‘ theory advanced, or for any argument upon old ones, but, highly so, because theycall attention’ to a certain class of facts that necessarily lead up to the theory and science of the social relations, to which the question of freedom in love is the ﬁrst step in the advance from present enslavement. Sex- ual freedom is the ﬁrst necessity, since nothing less than this will -give to woman the control cf her maternal func tions; while the facts that are presented in these two arti cles in Harpevis are true because the women, the mothers of them, by whom they exist, were not sexually enfranchised. One of these articles 1S entitled, “ The Skeleton in Modern Society,” and occupies nearly ten pages of the magazine. While we cannot reproduce it so that the reader may fully estimate its value, we propose to select sentences and para- graphs that will indicate its general tenor: “ This story of Méry is a horrible romance, yet, frightful as it is, this description of means used to destroy death is no more shocking than the plain‘ truth as to the prevalent means of bringing death into the world even in this boasted nineteenth century. * * * * We have learned how to take from wounds their sting and from pain its anguish, yet * men and women murder themselves and their children as -never before; and while suicide undoubtedly increases in all civilized countries, many of the conspicuous habits and indulgences of our modern society may be justly called the chronic type of the self-murder of which the actual suicide is the acute form.” ., . j,‘ The §1:eleton_is as heir-loom is ourigreat harass iamily. .T1Jl.1l.Q6, 1874. wconnnttc oLAFLiN’s3;wE_EKL-€r. . I 9 We all cover it up as well as we can with ﬂesh and clothing, but there it is, the framework of this mortal coil, and to this complexion it must come at last. * * * * In all things a certain order appears, and crime, like death, has its periods and laws. * * * Sickness and mortality are closely related to human folly and transgression, while intel- ligence and virtue are sure in the long run to prolong life.’ \ There has been a decided increase in the average length of life in civilized nations. In France, between 1771 and 1868, it had increased by twelve or thirteen years. In Greneya mortality has gone down in three centuries from one in every twenty-two to one in every forty-two. In London and Liverpool the death rates were one in twenty and one in twenty-eight; afterward the rates stood one in forty-ﬁve for - London and one in thirty-eightfor Liverpool.” From all this, and much more that is said that is similar, it would appear that the length of life is gradually increas- ing, and consequently that the virtue of the race is continu- ally ascending higher in the scale. But before this should be assumed as decided, there are several facts that should be given their proper application and weight. It will be found that the countries in which the estimates are made are those in which, there has been a very large decrease of death ‘in wars, and that the periods estimated upon are those ‘in‘7 which wars have decreased most rapidly. A century ago almost the whole of Europe was in continual strife, while for the last half century it has entirely changed. f Since the “ Allies” overwhelmed Bonaparte in 1814 war in Europe has been the exception and not the rule. It is true there have been large standing armies all the time, but the,mor- tality is small in time of peace compared to time of war, waged as it is in Europe; and it is precisely in this time that the death rate is shown apparently to have decreased. The fallaciousness of this showing will become evident, at least in a large degree, when it is considered that the causes of mortality have almost entirely changed within the last century. Formerly these causes were largely of the sort known as accidental, and not based in a generally deteriorated condition of health. Now the causes of almost all the mor- tality are in a low standard of health. A people may be ro- bust physically and their death rate be much larger than an- other people whose standard of health is much lower. Therefore, the death rate may decrease in fact while the real condition of the people may at the same time be greatly de- generated. Not anybody who will stop to think for a mo- ment can be deceived by any statistical facts into the belief that the standard of general physical health is anythingias high now as it was a century since. And it is for the reason that it is not, that the statistics,which show a decrease in the death rate, while true in fact, are really untrue in regard to the deductions which they premise. _ The writer of the article in question evidently holds the same view, since, after presenting a large number of statisti- cal facts seemingly to establish an increased degree of health, he says: “ Oettingen, whose elaborate work deserves great respect, thinks that modern writers tend to overestimate the decrease of the death rate in recent years, and quotes leading writers to show that great mistakes have been made in the statistics of former centuries by false calculations of the relation be- tween births and deaths; and also by mistake as to the mor- tality among children, and also by overlooking the factvof the decreased number of children born of marriage in recent years——a fact which does not allow us to regard the absolute diminution as a compamtzhw diminution. Thus it would not do to say that fewer children, comparatively, died in France in the -latter years’ of the period between 1816 and 1855, merely because fewer I died in proportion to the number of families, since within that period, the number of legitimate. children to a family fell twenty-ﬁve per cent. Oettingen thinks that on the whole the average duration of life remains the same. i I He maintains that in Prussia the rate of mortality aﬁirmed by Siissmilch so long ago——1 to 36——prevails now, and that in England, since 1850, in spite of all sanitary meas- ures, the ratcjs higher than ‘for the previous term—-1838 to 1844. The explanation of this seeming paradox is to be found, undoubtedly, in the fact that everyblessing has its attendant evil, and that our enlightened scientiﬁc age has a dark shadow ofvdcpmeim , an increasiitg corruption and reckless- ness that seem to bear the character of achronic self-murder, and to neutralize the advantages of our progress.” Now this seems to fully sustain our theory, that while the causes of death have been revolutionized the death rate itself remains about the same—that while deaths from accident and exposure have greatly decreased, other causes of mortality have been developed that have nearly if not quite offset this gain. What are these causes, and where are they to be found? Evidently in the “ dark shadow of depravity,” “increasing corruption” and in “ a chronic self-murder,” of whichOettin- gen speaks. Andqthese are the points to which we desire to call the especial attention of our readers, since they have their foundation and beginning in the sexual relations of the race. People live in these relations so that their acts bear the character of “ chronic self-murder.” Nothing could be more true! “A shadowlof dark depravity” has settled over these relations, and the foul miasms that are exhaled, because the sunlight of truth is -shut out or held in abeyanee by Christian bigotry and intolerance, are every day adding to its darkness and thick impenetrability. If anyone doubts, this let him or her so among the aged A women and ask them about the women of their youthful days, and then contrast their picture of them with the sad spectacle which womanhood presents to—day. And then, if the causes are not self—evident, askthe scientiﬁc physiologist why women are so changed from what‘ they were formerly, and hewill tell you, if hetclls you the truth as he knows it, that they are so because of their unnatural sexual conditions which are maintained so universally, into which their heart and desire do not enter. Trace the causes of every diseased woman’s condition back to their foundation and it will bring you to false sexual conditions; to a time when she wasthe victim of undesired sexual commerce, or when she resorted to unnatural methods to destroy the natural results of what, at the time, was desired commerce. I These things are too patent to be longer ignored. It is more than folly to attempt to ignore them. It is a crime ap- proximating nearly to willful murder to permit these condi- tions to continue to augment in number and force. It is saying, virtually, to the coming ages of the earth: If you are peopled at all it shall be by a race of beings deformed pliysi- cally, idiotic intellectually, and degraded below the brute morally. I Nor _will this be so much the crime of man as of woman. So far as he is concerned “in the-.ﬁrst instance” the relations are natural. They are desired by him, and are naturally consummated, and if the results to him ceased with the completion of the act he would be unharmed and blameless; but he suffers, secondarily, to the same extent that woman suffers, primarily, since the evil eﬁects of unde- sired and unconsuminated intercourse upon womanare re- flected upon man, and the shadow cast brings back to him the just results of an unnatural act to which he may have been, ignorantly, an innocent party.‘ So, with him, even though he may be innocent so far as each individual act is concerned, he cannot afford to remain in ignorance of the conditions which precede the act and make it right or wrong as they indicate or forbid it. - Q But it is different with woman. She is guilty in the ﬁrst instance. She knows before the act is performed whether it is right or whether it is wrong. She has the conditions present in herself which make it whichever it is, and not only this, but also, notwithstanding the slavery of marriage and sup- port, the power to prevent it if wrong. For there is no wo- man living who is absolutely compelled to submit to nude- sired sexual commerce, or if so compelled once who has not the power of self-protection. It is because we_ know too well how much of the misery from which the race suffers is caused by the failure of wo- man to assert and maintain her sexual independence that we are so persistent in urging her to emancipate herself from this degrading and soul and body destroying servitude. Nothing that could come from her rebellion would possibly be so much to be deplored as is that which follows from maintaining her present condition. Woman’s sexual free- ‘ I hide my time.’ This post-mortem pursuit of the Queen has thrown the whole royal family into consternation. The royal family being tinged with superstition, vague notions of ghosts and midnight spectres gaunt and ghastly disturb their royal repose.” The above is a grave charge to bring against the Queen of Great Britain. Alas,’ for the poor girl I “ Done to death by slanderous tongues!" . “ Or in more exprestive language ’f ‘murdered by so- ciety—that’s the word. VVhen will the young, ‘the; true and the tender rise in rebellion against the witheredold harridans that, in the fashionable _world, generally rulein \ such cases? When will woman rise to the real ‘dignity of her sex, by asserting, her individual sovereignty, and by re- fusing to be measured by one foolish rule, which, were it not constantly broken, the world would soon be depopulated. Until then cases like the one that has been narrated must and do occur‘ daily, though /-they may not be found, as this is, in the newspapers. - - I . WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Our neglect of enforcing strict and exact truthfulness in these matters of trade may be said to have been the means , of inducing the unwary to commit fraud, and may rightfully be charged with having created crimes. It is certain the future historian will largely attribute the defalcations of our public men and money dealers and the degeneracy of the present time to the ‘many opportunities that have been aﬁorded (by our laxity in our application of our just laws) to fraudulent operators in such business transactions. The very currency wevhave. used has been the means of intro- ducing moral corruption and disseminating it through the masses of the community. The old Spanish coin and its quarter cent division, for Whichwe had no representative, was a proliﬁc parent of peculation. Previous to the Rebel- lion the retail tradesman was often, non-contentwith the just proﬁts of his traﬁic, but on many occasions added to of money. Of course such openings for fraud were only afforded him by the heedless, the ignorant or the innocent. In all cases such impositions naturally operated to degrade his moral nature by destroying his self-respect. To the statesman or legislator the injury done to his neighbor was a minor evil in comparison with the crime and its consequences, committed against himself and his country in thus lowering the moral tone of society. Our neglecting to establish, when we had the power, the wise constitutional laws with regard to the currency, viz., “that no State shall emit bills of credit, or make anything except gold and silver a tender in payment for debts,” has not been without ill results in this particular. The London —Times asserted, at the time the West ‘suffered from the free bank currency, that it cost an Englishman less to exchange dom and the maintainance of her sexual purity can decrease the death rate, and elevate the standard of general health. I , ‘ Think of this, so-called and self-styled virtuous women, before shrinking from those who are urging rebellion from present slavery upon you. Think of this before denouncing those who are striving to save the race fromsinking into physical, mental and moral decay, and beware lest yourselves ‘be found to be the really unvirtuous ones of our day-—lest you be in reality the worst prostitutes of this age, and so to be denominated by your children, now prattling about your knees, whom you are permitting to grow up in utter ignor- ance of sexual science and of their sexual functions. It is upon the women of the world that the redemption, the salvation, rather, of the race depends. It is Eve who is now wilfully damning the world. It must be her seed that shall bruise the serpent’s head——the head of sin——wliich, as the head of hu- manity, is to-day leading it onward to destruction through the gross perversion and prostitution of its sexual instincts. MORAL MURDER. Under the present ruling of societyit is a very easy matter to morally murder a woman. It can be and often’ is accom- plished with a word, a shrug, or even‘ with a glance. Alas! how often have young, loving and beautiful girls been so slaughtered‘? Is the WEEKLY to blame for striking at a system which immolates yearly its thousands of such victims? Is it to blame for asserting for women the same personal rights that are now established for man only? Is it wrong in the WEEKLY to hold up to the scorn and contempt of all right thinking people the present partial rulings‘ of society in sexual matters, and to aﬁirm that their injustice is only equalled by their impertinence? ‘ The above thoughts were suggested by the following item which is taken from the columns of the N. Y. Sunday Demo- crat of May 23: “The Qountess of London has died with athreat against Queen Yictoria on her quivering lips. ‘Dead or alive,’ she gasped» I yvlll be revenged on Victoria.’ The Countess had a. young sister, who, some years ago, was one of Victoria’s maids of honor. The Queen had hearkened to gossip and scandal impeaching the integrity of the sister of the Coun- tess. and ﬁnally banished her from the royal household. The falsity of the scandal was shown, but not until after the lady’s death. The Countess blamed the Queen for her sister's un- timely fate, and determined to avenge the wrong. In the will of the Countess, which has recently been opened, was a clause directing her right hand to be out 0E and buried in a spot selected several years ago by herself and overlooking one of the Queen’s country seats. A monument is to -be erected over the buried hand. surmounted by a gigantic skeleton hand of marble, pointing to the Queen’s castle, ._...._..,....-;...., .,..._.»......,a......~... ....,..~..-.-,.....~..... . .- ,... ...-..,..., \,,__ HW11 in large letters on the monument will be the motto ; Turkish or Austrian money into English than it cost a citizen of Iowa or Illinois to purchaselthe bills of the banks ‘of the cities of New York or Boston. Manufacturers often took their ﬁrst step in wrong-doing by the facilities aﬁ‘oi.ded for such practices by the use of an indefinite currency. Why should amanager pay his men in money at par when he ' could realize twenty, ﬁfty or a hundred dollars by paying them with money at one per cent. discount? After a month why not advance upon this and make twice as much by using money still more discreditable? The laborer, who received such in wages, did not purchase theinecessaries of his existence at less cost in consequence. Who could blame the butcher or grocer for charging more for his Wares when he knew the money he was going to receive in return was not bankable and of less valuethan its face? These thoughts are not foreign to the subject under consideration, for it is ' certain if the general medium of exchange be not of an as. sured value and capable of exact division, those of all 8 other commodities will also be unsettled and insecure. As with our money operations so with our wholesale and‘ retail trade transactions. In the former, close and some- times short measure is the rule rather than the exception. It is true this is generally calculated on by the larger pur- chaser, so that fraud, when committed, does not enure to the beneﬁt of the factor. In our markets, baskets of un. known and unrecognized capacities usurp the places of legal and standard measures. These, as in the case of the Jersey peach baskets, are sometimes built on bases so small that one wonders whether it be possible for them to stand alone, or whether it be not a physical necessity to disposeof them only in groups. As a natural result of the permission of such innovations in the regular markets, it'may be asserted with truth that the weather itself is scarcely more variable than the quantity supplied by most hawkers and peddlers as a quart of as a bushel. From a loaf "of bread to a ton of coal the public have little or no protection. against individual dishonesty and rapacity in the law. There may be an in. operative edict upon the subject, which “ Like to an o’ergrown lion in a cave, Now goes not out forprey,” » but of real, active, living, public ‘protection there is no'ne_ In most civilized countries not onlythe quantities but also the prices of the strict necessities of existence are carefully deﬁned and guarded. In Paris the price of bread is super- vised by the Government, and sometimes it is supplied to the people at a loss, which is made good to the bakers out of the public funds. In’ London, the weightof the loaf is,- ﬁxed, and the price regulated by law to rise and fall in exact proportion to the value of flour in the principal market. I For a merchant of that city to send out coals without also Gm/ins inlet -and iieishn iii 9r _ur-W hit. raises Wﬁuldp \" them evil gains acquired by superior craft in the exchange ‘ x 10 . WOODHULL & cLA‘FLIN5s WEEKLY. subject him to a ﬁne of. not less than sixty pounds sterling. It is the duty of the police to take note of all such offenses . and bring-delinquents to justice, and, as they also are held sharply to their work by the detective force, such infractions of the law are almost certain to be exposed and punished whenever and wherever committed in that city. , The best interests ofsociety demand that, with us, these matters shall be inquired into and their present irregularities rectiﬁed. The power to originate and legalize standard weights and measures is rightfully» limited to Congress by the Constitution. The people, therefore, have here a right most solemnly guaranteed which oughtto be secured. N to vessel or package containing an unrecognized quantity ought to be permitted to be offered for sale in our markets or stores. From the cubic feet in a cord of wood to the half grainiin an apothecary’s pill the public have a just claim to protec- tion in this particular. To enforce such a regulation would not be difficult; it would injure no one, the price remaining under charge of the sellers. It would protect the true man and force even the knave to act rightly. It is hardly possible to compute the beneﬁcial effects which might be expected to ﬂow from a strict adherence to justice in all such trade regu- lations. Righteousness requires to be inculcated by proper action, as well as to be proclaimed from the platform. The compulsion of close attention to our appointed standard of weights and measures would originate a moral sanitary re- form of the ﬁrst magnitude. It would also certainly operate as a protection to the just manufacturer or tradesman him- self, who is now oftentimes unwillingly forced into actions of doubtful integrity as measures of self-defense against villainy. Looked at in any aspect it can be perceived (and would prove) to be a sure corner stone, right ‘capable of ‘sup- porting a higher stage of civilization. A The scales of justice should be like C2esar’s wife——above suspicion. All doubtful balances ought to be condemed. It is not only necessary that the buyer receives his due weight but he has a right to be assured by ocular demonstra- tion that he obtains it. For this reason all balances or steel- yards ought to be exposed in full view of the purchaser. Of course it is absolutely proper that they should be strictly accurate. It is usual in London for retail tradesmen to make contracts with balance-makers in order to secure and preserve this result. For a stipulated sum,, usually paid semi-annually, the latter parties agree to furnish the weights, scales, etc., used by the former, and to attend to and guar- antee their correctness ; in such instances they are usually examined every three months. It is requisite to be thus particular, for juries are annually appointed in every‘ borough, having care and — supervision of such matters. Each jury consists of twenty-four, of which eight form a quorum. They meet, without public notice, whenever and wherever in the borough they please to appoint, and then, preceded by the police or beadle, visit whatever shops or stores they choose to select. If they ﬁnd any delinquents they have power to condemn them on the spot and to order their false or incorrect weights, balances or measures to be destroyed. This is usually performed after calling upon all bystanders to hear the crime and witness the punishment‘ before the doors of the parties offending. These juries have considerable power, and can ﬁne’ to a certain extent. As a necessary result of such speedy justice, offenders are rarely found and public morality is secured. As instruments, the scales and balances should be implements capable of easy and-exact rectiﬁcation,,though not liable to serious deterio- ration by constant use. The best kind are those that most simply indicate to the purchaser their own truthfulness. It is hardly proper to select (or refer to) an umpire whose power is hidden and whose decrees may be inaccurate, though, at the same time, incapable of ready detection and exposition. The circular dial spring balance is open to these objections: It is questionable whether it would bear the test of public approbation. The buyer certainly has the best right to pass judgment upon it, for the seller even! to assist in doing so would be somewhat indelicate. To the superﬁcial a critique on such matters as weights and measures may appear trivial, but justice and morality, which are involved in the question, are not triﬁes,'but the most important organs of national existence. It is stated , by the Turks that when their prophet Mahomet visited the .- seventh heaven and stood in the presence of the Deity he found Allah employed in settling a dispute which had arisen between two sparrows for the possession of a grain of rice. The prophet is said to have smiled on beholding his Deity, Allah, engaged in such an operation. On being re- buked for his levity before so august a presence, Mahomet replied, “He could not avoid being amused at beholding the Lord of the Universe so earnestly engaged in arranging so miserable an affair.” “A ‘grain of rice,” replied the Deity, “ is to the hungry birds as valuable and important as .a necklace‘ of pearls to a woman or a crown to a monarch ; icut in this case, not only the possession ofit hangs upon my decision, but my attribute of justice.” Our Christian brethren will also do well to remember that possibly the only inanimate objects for which it has pleased their God to igxpress his peculiar dislike or gratiﬁcation are those which are treated of in this article,’ for their Bible says that “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.” ' - . ——-——--—->-—+o+—««———-—-——- PHoroeRAPns——PRrcns RnDUonD.——We can now furnish photographs of Victoria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬂin and Col. J. H. Blood for ﬁfty cents each, or three for one dollar. send. for them for yourselves and friends. VIVE LA COMMUNE! ‘ For four long dreary years the above cry boomed over the Atlantic to us almost weekly, from the bloody shambles of Satory. For four long weary years the best and noblest of Frenchmen there met their fates and sealed their patriotism with their lives. One after another, like a long line of he- roes, they hailed death with the above words. . “And, self forgetful to the last, In words of cheer and bugle glow Their breath upon the darkness passed.” No, not upon the darkness, but upon the bright clysium be- yond the grave, wl1_ich their undying devotion to their coun- try so well merited. ~ Such is and ever has been the opinion of the WEEKLY of the Communists of France. It holds to the same belief now, for it knows well that the Commune (like Lazarus) “is not dead, but sleepeth. ” It maintains now as it did in the stormy period after the surrender, when Frcnclnnen were frcemen, the rights of v the Parisians to rule Paris, which was refused by the Versailles traitors who surrendered their country to the Germans. It defends now, as it did then, the wisdom and justice of annihilating the worship of Mars by the de- struction of the Column in the Place Vendome; and lastly it asserts now as it did then that the execution of Archbishop Darboy and the priests was due to the obstinacy of Adolf Thiers, who thrice refused to accept them in exchange for Blanqui, a leader of the Communists. We have been led into the above reflections by reading in the New York Herald, of May 22d, that Henri Rochefort, the Communist, who was ever the steady foe of imperialism when Napoleon the Third was in power in France, having made good his escape from the penal colony to which he was expatriated, has arrived safely in San Francisco. The paper quoted adds, in a short leader upon the subject, that “he will probably seize the opportunity of his presence in Amer- ica to explain the aim and objects of the Communal struggle, which have been so much misunderstood and so much mis- represented indthis country.” In the name of the Commune we accept this tardy “admission of ignorance” thus made by that paper, consoling ourselves with the reﬁection that the WEEKLY, in conjunction. with the ;S’pz'm'2f of the Times and the New York Stcmdard, were not among the tory presses that degraded the republicanism of our country on that most melancholy occasion, which may well be termed the second and more fatal surrender of the city of Paris. man; fur‘ \ KING ALCOHODS MALAKOFF. Potentates rarely admire the virtues of a community, but they love their vices. Napoleon the First said he made nothing out of the virtues of the French nation, but their one yice of brandy drinking paid into his treasury six millions of Napolcons per annum. The tax on malt in Great Britain pays into the royal exchequer forty—ﬁve millions of dollars yearly, and were Congress to withdraw the external and in- ternal duties on wines, spirits and tobacco, Uncle Sam would ﬁnd himself soon without sufﬁcicnt means to carry on the government. The amount of loss that would accrue may be guessed at from the following statistics which are taken from the Eeenmg Post of New York: Statistics showing the amount of m oney spent in the United States for intoxicating liquors during the year 1870, as taken from official record: Imported and ‘domestic distilled and spirituous liquors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..- . . . . . . .$1,344,000,000 Brewed and fermented liquors. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 123,000,000 Imported wines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 15,000,000 Domestic wines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000,000 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,48’7,000,000 -The women crusaders may learn from the above the power of the fee that they are ﬁghting." They may also be able to account for the defections or palliations of the/Catholic and Protestant clergy on the subject called temperance, and why such clerical potentates as Archbishop Purcell and H. W. Beecher are not quite such geese as to be sound on the total- abstinence goose. The WEEKLY is no friend to intemper- ance of any kind whatever in reprinting the above statement, but is simply desirous of preventing any further addition to the sufferings of woman. It does not likeito hear of wo- men being hauled off to prison en masse, as they have been at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and does not honor the men, whether they were clergymen or laymen, who incited them to the work and left them in the lurch on that occasion. In ‘all probability, however, they were modern Christians, in which case they will assist them with their prayers rather than their persons. In the time of the great Nazarene, we are told, that the disciples could cast out one kind of devils, but that there was another lot, more stubborn, which would only come out with prayer and fasting. The women crusa- ders have tried the latter on King Alcohol, and some say without effect. There is yet another method which the WEEKLY would respectfully suggest, which, in this republic, is probably more potent than either, viz.: the ballot. But, alas! truth compels us to add that,'in order to be consistent, before demanding even their civil and political freedom, it will be necessary for women to dispense with the services of their theological instructors and discard their bibles. True, there are many of what maybe termed the very liberal clergy who advocate the movement for woman suff- rage, but they do so in spite of the doctrines on the subject of woman contained in the book on which they profess to‘ -base their faiths. The head of the Roman Church, who is more modest than Henry Ward Beecher, and who, though he claims to be infallible, does not take upon himself the June 6, I874. duty of manufacturing a creed for his followers like the latter gpotentate, in a late ecyclical letter declared his opinion on the attempts made to enlarge the sphere of woman’s rights and-jduties, he said such efforts onlytended “ to deprive wo- man of her native modesty, to exhibit her in public, to turn her aside from domestic life and its duties, and to puff her up with false and vain knowledge,”——and, there is no doubt above positions. We do not aﬂirm that he does not need enlightenment upon the subject. We believe that, if woman suffrage is carried in Michigan or Iowa, a dispensation would soon be granted enabling Catholic womenlto drop their bal- lots in the boxes, for the glory of God and the advancement ‘ of the faith. We believe that Pio Nono will be more tractable than Sir John Falstaff, who declared that he would not give a reason, under compulsion, if reasons (raisins) were as plenty as blackberries; and furthermore, that, as in the case of Galileo versus Joshua, he will gracefully yield to the ne- cessity of the time and permit the debris of St. Peter’s to be carried over the social Niagara, which is destined eventually to renovate the face of modern civilization. The above reflections are partially indorsed by the actions of the late annual meeting of the Woman Suffrage Conven- tion in Irving Hall, New York. The pious element was not in force there. It was of the earth, earthy. The only cleric who harrangued the meeting was that very independent Christian, if he be a-Christian, the Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, and the mention of the bible appeared to be a tabood subject with the sisterhood. The WEEKLY is not the only press .,which recognizes that the game of pious cant is almost played out among sensible women on the question of Woman’s Rights. The unfortunate New York IV£me3s, the only religious daily published in this city, ra.n up the flag of woman suffrage (for temperance purposes) in alcading article which appeared in it about two days previous to the convention. It sums up the character of the meeting in the following melancholy whine: I We see that though the anniversary meetings of the VVom an Suffrage Association have kept clear of the Woodhull—Claﬂin element, they have some ef the most prominent opponents of evangelical Christianity among them. To take a part in these meetings is not therefore the way to obtain the beati- tude promised in the ﬁrst verse of the Book of Psalms. The fact is, the weakest thing about woman suffrage has been some of its advocates. What the editors and proprietors of this paper or the sub- scribers to its doctrines had done that they should be thus inferentially anathematized, because the Witness had made a mistake, like the peace of God, passes. all understanding and, therefore, we dismiss it with the contempt it merits. As for the ﬁrst chap. in the book of Psalms, which discusses the subject of man only, we think it impolite if not insulting to refer women to it. Like the Witness we noticed with sor- row the lack of the male element on the platform and in the attendance. Inour opinion man has as great, if not greater, interest in the full enfranchisement of woman than woman herself, and we abhor any division of the sexes on the sub- ject. We look upon the movement as a battle between civ- ilization and liberty against barbarism and tyranny, and trust that soon cheering accounts from Michigan and Iowa will prove that our Western brethren will cheerfully uphold the hands of their mothers, sisters and wives, nor leave thorn. to ﬁght alone the battle for their freedom. As to the clergy and their aids, we can trust them, as in the case of the anti- slavery crusade, to come over from the other side after the victory has been won, ‘to celebrate it with 256 cleums and sing hosammhs upon the occasion. mag; r wr HOW ABOUT CZESAR ? . This very important question is asked by a correspondent of the New York Hcmld of May 25th in the following com- munication from Washin gton : “ I am saddened by the reports of the terror which ﬁlls the hearts of many of the poor women clerks who have families depending on them. They who have ‘friends at court’ are advised to appeal to them; but it happens that those who have no such inﬂuence to rely on are not only the most needy, but usually the most deserving, the very best clerks. obliged to ‘work out their own salvation with fear and trem- a strict inquiry could be made, and the names of such em- ployees as have other means of support should be stricken from the rolls, there would be more humanity. if not justice, in these dismissals. A friend suggests that all women who are in the departments through ‘ improper influences ’ should be at once dismissed to save the others. But that is clearly impracticable. Another says: ‘All women about whom there is a breath of scandal should beobliged to walk the plank. - Women in office should be like C2esar’s wife——abovu suspicion.’ But how about Caesar? How silent anddesolate the enforcement of such a rigid code of morals would render yonder marble halls! I trust there would be a quorum.” It is all very well for “Ca3sar’s wife ’e’ to be above sus- picion, but it must be admitted that she has a difficult role to play unless “Caesar” is above suspicion himself. When will the world understand that the promiscuity of C2esar’s wife is, collectively, the natural result of the promiscuity of Cmsar? That, in sexual matters, the one sex is the exact counterpart-of the other; that the old motto‘ of this State, New York, can be written with truth over each of the above parties in all such aﬁairs, 'viz., “Alium sad idem.” True, the superior tact of woman, engendered by, four thousand (if not more) years of man’s tyranny, and what the poet Burns calls - U . “Her better art 0’ hiding,” than her mate, but to suppose that a balance of what society might call “superior virtue” exists on either side is to sup- that both the Old and New Testament sustain him in the ‘ bling.’ They are industrious, circumspect and reliable. If » enables herto cover her tracks neater in sexual transactions \ Ax HE §E_.l‘-1°l:3slS*S.*e+:'r\‘s5':"L1.omc+nmn $1 . June 6,i1S74. w.00,DHU'LiL & cLA’rLIiN=s‘W;EnRLY. I ‘11 pose an impossibility, Mrs. Grundy herself to the contrary notwithstanding. ( . This is the real state of the case, and now we can attend to the question before us, which is: How about Caesar? If we ask Custom, weshall ﬁnd that he has a right to do just as he pleas es in sexual matters; that whether as labors‘: ' farmer, mechanic, shopman, clerk or clergyman he is on tlf“ free list. ‘ This is especially the case

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