Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1879 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1879.

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A WINTER PICirRE.

C1BOUXE LESLIE. A cold north wind sweeps over the hill. And the sharp, white snow dost whirls In the air ; And deep in the heart of the woods 'tis stilt, The silence of slumoer is reigning there. . Under the brown earth, and tinder the mow, The 111 tie white things are lying asleep; Giving no heed to the winds tbiu, blow. Caring no whit though the drlits be deep. In her round, dnrK burrow under the rocks, . Where no cold breath can come creeping through, - , Cozy and warm lies the mother fox, And her three little foxes are cozy, too. Down in the trunszs of the old oak trees Are huddled the squirrels, brindle and gray; The field mouse and shrew, with their 1amilles. Under the tussocks are tucked awny ; And the muskrats dwell by the frozen stream, There is store of food in.eacQ little home; Nothing to do but drowsily dream Through the long, dark time till the spring shall come. . Bitterly cold Is the winter niqht, And the fierce north wind sweeps over the hill, But high in the heaven the stars shine bright, And deep In the heart of the woods 'Us still. MADGE'S COUSIN. Cassell's Magazine. Madge was sitting upon the hearth-rue palling to pieces a white camelia, and excusing herself to her kind old guardian by saying it was "only Jack's." "My dear," said Mr. Selwyn, walking up and down, and stroking his pray beard in perplexity, "I want to talk to jou about Jack." . .. . "Oh! please, not now. Papa Selwyn. She called him Papa Selwyn when she meant to be coaxing, and that was nearly always. "But, my dear, that is all nonsense. I must talk about Jack some time. Yesterday it was, 'Oh! please don't my head is aching;' and the day before. 'Ob! please don't I want to go out with Gerty.' Come, let us face this affair." And sitting in the easy chair behind her hassock, he drew up on his knee the hand that held the broken Mower, and proceeded to lecture his unmanageable charge on the endless subject of "Jack." Madge was a charming charge for any kind old man's heart to have. No one could look into her large gray eyes without seeing the jreat warm heart, w hose tale they told every moment; and yet the brieht quick glances and the saucy set of the lips showed that Madge had a will of her own, and wit and cleverness enough to carry it out. This lecture on Jag k was the same as many others had been. It consisted of two parts, the first being devoted to proving that ihe ought to throw her own whims and pleasures aside, and as a dutiful girl fulfill aer dying father's request and marry her sousm; and the second was an enlogium n the many good qualities of Jack Hawkessury. ! "Do, Mr. Selwyn," laughed Madge, after iie had been making out that even Jack's awkwarkness came from an overplus of good lature; "do throw him at Gerty 's head as rou throw him at mine, and I shall make lim over to her, and they will be happy for ife." ! Gerty was Mr. Selwyn's own daughter, and it the mention of her name a strange expression crossed his face, which Madge could not ead. -, "Throw him at Gerty's head! what words 'ou use, child!" he exclaimed, his annoynce for a moment escaping his control. "I rishyou bad half Gertrude's good sense, ion fancy Jack thinks of her is that it? ie is the soul of honor, and as far as it defends on him, your father's word will be :ept" - . "Oh! Papa .Selwyn, don't be vexed with ne; I am so sorry," and ber facs was bidden in bis large, rough bands in a burst of orrow, quite childish in its passing intently. j '-Cheer up, my darling girl," be said; "you Bade a mistake that's all. Why, one of fiese days yon will forget poor Papa Selwyn iltogether, when you fall in love with your wusin." i "That I won't!" cried Madge, with ail the : itrength of her hot heart, i All her life, even so far back as her cbildiood, the had dreaded the fate that bound ler to marry ber cousin. When Jack Xawkesbury came on the scene and stayed m visits at the bouse, she disliked and idiculed bim without mercy. Another, one Ike fair-haired Gertrude, for instance, might lave accepted the inevitable and been lappy; but Madge's active and Independent lature made ber run against fate. And now here was only one month left befora her ilst birthday and the betrothal. Often she old Gertrude she wished be would g home tnd stay there; and Gertrude would only laugh, with a deeper tinge of color on her . fair fcce. The girls went out but little, an arrangement against which Madga often rebelled, believing it was in some way connected with the safe management of the marriage with ber cousin. But there were two pleasures in prospect now, an afternoon's boa ting with Jack and a friend of bU and Gertrude, and a party that the Ponsonby-Joneses were going to give, to which the Salwyn family were cure to be invited. First came boating. Ah! that ever-memorable day how many J ears it would take to make Madge forget i'! There were four in the boat that passed, with Ihe measured beat and ripple of Jack's pair cf sculls, along by the reedy shallows and Tooded banks of the Upper Thames. The two girls snared the cushioned seat at the stern, their white woolen shawls guarding them from the chill of the autumn wind. Gertrude was watching the shores and the running ripples, thinking in her quiet, easygoing way. -Madge, bright with excitement, vas talking, not with Jack, but with the cark-beardtd, travel-bronzed man, who was rating from hia turn at the sculls. , He was (harmed with the way she chatted and listened to bis tales of half the world, with a sfreshing absence of self-consciousness. Yhat would be hare said if he had known - tie thought that strove for entrance into ler heart? Ob! if Jack awkward, blunderfag, good-natured Jack could be changed nto this stranger that she called timidly Mr. Jitzallan, and Jack and her guardian bad gee ted at the house as Herbert! i At last there was a pause in tne tauc sae give a deep sigh, prompted by a sad longing t do right, a vague fear, a first suspicion of be change that was coming over ber impetlone heart. - : "Are you cold, Madge?" said Jack, pulling sway and bending to his strong stroke. 'Keep your shawl well about your shoulders, and my dear girl, look to your steering. Ton have been sending the boat into curves Ike a corkscrew only 1 did aoi want to distirb yonr tete a tete." ' Poor Cousin Jack! She drew the white siawl closely round ber, chilled not by e vino, bat by a sudden pang of remor , ' tie foundation of which was very sin ml, but dough to trouble ber peace. , What need to tell the inner lnstory of Xadge's life during the next few weeks? Sore and. more she longed tor freedom, litzallan was staying in the neighborhood, aid was frequently at the bouse, and in the tioosand little incidents of every-day life sie knew be cared for ber, and honest Jack gw yet more distasteful in ber sight. In due time came the second promised pleasure. Toe family that distinguished the uttne of Jones by the prefix of Ponsonby eive tbeir party. Madge was In her Rlory taat night. One looker on called ber charming; another, the mother of fair daughters, admitted ber expression was charming, but voted ber features plain. Mrs. Ponsonby -Jones, weighed down with bright colored silk and jewelry, said in her finest tone that Mr. Selwyn's ward would be quite a xemme d'espnt. Madge bad no lack of society, bat she kept a place In the conversa

tion for Jack Hawkesbury, and her love of mischief was gratified to the full by his making of it what he called "a bawlbie muddle." But the trivial triumphs and pleasures of the night were long forgotten by Madge before she lost one remembrance of a scene that passed in the conservatory, where the music was bushed by heavy curtains, and there was only the soft light of a few dim lamps among the masses of blossoms and dark green leaves. She bad lost the flower from her hair one of ber favorite camelias as sbe said, "with a darling bud," and Fi'zillan bad promised, with Ponson-by-Joaes' permission, to get ber another with a darling bud, too. She bad placed bis gift in ber hair, and she sat near the dewy glass, saying it was cool there, and she would rest. Fitzallan stood at a little dis tance, penknife in band still, swinging carelessly tbe fan-like leaf of a dwarf palm. "If this were nearer I could fan you," be said. "Thank you; I am tired rather than hot." Never in her life before bad Madge been so serious or so troubled as she was now, in the soft light among the cool plants, within sound of tbe half hushed music. "Will you do me a favor?" she inquired, raising tbe gray eyes t. at shone for a moment with liquid brightnes?. "You have only to name it I am at your service." His manner, unromantic to a studied degree, made her feel all the more safe in taking heart to epeak, while she gave him at the same time in penesous measure that most precious offering to which every noblehearted man entitles himself a woman's respect. "1 have seemed very happy to-nieht, Mr. Fitzallan," she began, in a quiet, low tODe, the torn leaf trembling in her hand, and the color dying out of her face, "but I am In great trouble." "Indeed! I am sorry to hear it." He drew a little nearer, listening attentively aad helping her now and again by a word of encouragement. Her story was a simple one. She was to be married' next month to ber cousin, Mr. Hawkesbury. She had dreaded- it all her life, but it was her fate. And then taking courage from the respectful and almost paternal demeanor of her listener, she made the frank confession that she disliked her cousin just because she was forced to marry him; and to this sbe added such a childlike entreaty not to be thought "too bad" that it must have required more than ordinary self control for Fitzallan not to say something that would have allowed the scene to become a tender one; but this he seemed determined to avoid, and so in her simple way was the sadly perplexed girl that was pour ing out ber heart's trouble to bim. "Will you speak for me to Mr. Selwyn," she said, "as you are an old friend of bis? I can not reason as men do, but I want you to try if there is any way of release for me. Pray forgive me if I am wrong in asking your interference, but-1 am very wretched" here came a burst of tears that must have tried the listener sorely "and I myself have so often spoken of Mr. Selwyn, and it is of no use. He always says my father's will most be carried out; and oh! how I wish I could do it""It must be done, if possible,'.' Fitzallan said. "But it would not be your father's will to mar the happiness of your life or to put you in bondage." "Oh! if Mr. Selwyn would only speak like that," said the girl, sadly. "Well, I shall hava a talk with him," said Fitzallan, "and do my best for your happiness, though I would be sorry to injure Hawkesbury's prospects. Let ns go back now, there is anew piece beginning. That is one of Itubmstcin's, is it not? I need not Fay you have done me a favor in granting me vour confidence." With that he drew aside the heavy curtains, and they returned to tbe dazzling light and bewildering music and movement

of the bill room. After that night Madge waited in anxiety to hear the result of Fitzallau's parley with her guardian. Three days passed, and a note came from him only a few words saying that be bad succeeded, at least so far as to win a promise that the matter should be considered. But Madge saw little gaod coming of Mr Selwyn's "considering" what seemed to be decided irrevocably long ago. At last it was the eve of her birthday. Tomorrow would be the dreaded day, and that very morning Mr. Selwyn bad said to her gravely, but tenderly: "My child, it has been the work of many years for me to see the fulfillment of your father's last wish. He was my best and dearest friend, and his life was a sad one. At least his dying will must be done. Bat I promise yoa happiness I do, indeed." But beyond that day Midge was unable to bear her heart's burden. "I must tell bim every thing," she thought. In the afternoon twilight, some time after Mr. Selwyn bad returned home, she found him asleep in his arm-chair in the dark dining-room. But little daylight came in between tbe red curtains, and it was only the glow of the fire that showed her bis white hair and long beard. Sbe knelt betide bim. as sbe often did for a talk when be was in that chair, and she woke him by stealing her hand into bis. "Who is it Gerty? No, Madge my little Madge that is to ba so patriarchical to morrow." ' Papa Selwyn," sbe began, not giving him time to joke any more lest she might not be able to disclose all ber troubles, "I want ta tell you something, and you won't be angry, will you, no matter what it is?" He took ber face between bis hands, and the firs flashed up and showed bim how earnest it was. "I'm quite sure," he said, "nothing csn make me anything but as deeply in love with my second daughter as a poor old fellow like me can be. Why, child, I am under a cloud all day bcsuse to-morrow as soon as to morrow I can be Papa 8?lwyn no more, and Madge will be thinking about nobody but her cousin." "No, indeed!" cried Madge inipe uius'y; ' you will be Papa Selwyn always always; and I don't care for my cousn a bit." But her guardian shook his head gravel v. "My dear, you wiil marry your cousin." The firelieht bad died down "low, and Marine bad courage enough to blurt out with an effort the few words: - "I can't marry Jack, because I ought . to love my husband, and I can never care enough for bim. Or, if I must be engaged to him to morrow here tnere was a great sod "Mr. Fitzallan is very good and kind, and I don't want to hurt bim but but be must go away." ' - Her head sank npon his knees with the great effort of that request. "My poor child," he said, "I know your dfcret. Bravely said, my little Madge, my bonny girl! You have bad tbe truth out and done nobly. You are wortoy of tbe man tbat is to have you, and that is saying a good deiL" Then raising ber bead gently, be bade her listen, for he was going to tell a secret in return for hers. When she beard it she waited with wide, wondering eyes while he told it a second time, for she could not believe in her joy. "As you know, Madee," he began, most people in tbis world have more cousins than one." And then be went on to explain to her that Herbert Fitzillan was a very distant cousin, and that it was to bim her father wished her to be married. Fitzallan' s father bad been tbe companion of bis labors, and Herbert himself had". been loved by the dying man, as a son, for Herbert was 20 when little Madge was an orJbaned baby of fonr. "You ask what about ack, then?" said the old man. '-That was my clever trick upon Madge. I never said you were to marry Jack. I told yoa of your father's wish. I brought Jack here, tbe only cousin yoa knew; and I praised bis good qualities which are fine enough lean tell you, and appreciated by a young lady not far from here. I knew tbat wayward heart of yours, and I knew that a woman should not marry without real love, and a great tore of it, too. So I left my darling open to tbe idea tbat ack was to be the lucky fel

low; and she did just what I and all sensible folks expected almost hated Jack and her doom. "Then I took care that tbe man you were meant for wbo, my dear, has tbe best and truest heart in the world should come in the way just at the right time and show an interest in you. So have I not succeeded and made my Madge choose ber father's choict with ber own free heart and will? As for Fitzallan, he is all impatience for tomorrow, and he would have told you the secret at that ball the other night, when he says tbat he was put to a desperate trial, but be bad promised me never to disclose it till we were quite sure of success. Well, are you bappy now, Madee?" "My dear, good second father! How can I love yoa enough?" was all she could say when she felt his arms round her in that moment of fulfilled desire, and his lips pressed to her forbead in fatherly affection now tbat bis long solicitude was at an end and his hard task well done. That very night Madge, scarcely able to realize her joy, was betrothed to Herbert Fitzallan, who, when once the secret was disclosed, would not watt another honr. "Have I not waited years?" he said. "All my time abroad I was waiting, and then I came back and fonnd my Madge more than ever I had dared to hope." But Madee in ber new freedom did not forget poor Jack. Indeed, sbe was almost in trouble about ber nnkindness to him when she heard tbat he had been only playing a part, bearing all ber teasing, and being purposely ungracious whenever sbe grew kind. But Gertrude consoled her effectually on tbat score by telling another secret after her kiss of congratulation. "Jack was indeed doing his best to carry out the plan," she said, "and be was often grieved about you; but, dear Madge, you must congratulate us now not me, but us. Jack and I made it up between us months ago, and we had many a quiet laugh about you." So Madge herself accepted the ring and wore ber golden fetters by her own free will after all; nor was there ever a happier or more willing captive. As for Fitzallan if he was not another Arthur, as the girl's fancy had prompted her to call him, be was "blameless" as the prince of the "Idyls," and far more blest; and if he reigned over no realm, he was at least king of one brave and tender heart a kingdom wide enough to satisfy bis desires, and a prize which time proved to be well worth his yean of waiting. ' LEADV1LLE.

A Typical Mushroom City The Wealth of the Mines Prosperity of the Town. Xew York World. Denver, Feb. 15. Leadville is emphatically tbe typical mushroom city of America, for it has sprung up more rapidly and in a more sensational fashion than ever did any of its predecessors spring of Pacific railways or discoveries of ore or petroleum. It is in Like county, in this State, about 150 miles southwest of this city, and is best reached by rail to Webster or Canon City, and thence by stare. From Chicago, the passenger rate (with 50 pounds of baggage) on stage line is $57; emigrant tickets are $10 less. Leadville lies in a basin of the Eocky Mountains, between the main and Mosquito ranges, right beside the source of tbe Arkansas river. It is something more than 10,000 feet above tbe sea level, and the local wits tell of brushing away clouds Irooi their front doora, so as to get at the keyhole. In age, the town may be said to be turned of one; it had 200 inhabitants a year ago; at last mail advices it had 6,000, and its population is increasing daily by ' hundreds. When Leadville was California Gulch, its handful of inhabitants made an indifferent living by placermining, but presently tbey struck into an immense and apparently inexhaustible deposit of carbonate ail ver ores. Sometimes tbe metalliferous ore was laid bare almost at tbe first .blow of the pit's; fortunes were found in digging so shallow that the miner could stand on the bottom and bave his head above ground. At other times the shafts bad to oe sunk to considerable depths, bu whether the miner bad to go down five feet, or 50 or 150, be at last struck it. The digging, too, was a gigantic lottery, for experience proved of no avail in locating the richest deposits, on which greenhorns stumbled. All classes were thus attracted, and when the stampede began it was swollen at every moment by business men, speculators, gamolera in fact, all the tribes have gone up to Leadville to make their fortunes, and I fancy as yet everybody Is succeeding. The mines are yielding immensely, and the miners are spending their gains freely. How long it will last who can tell? It is believe 1 tbat all the way out to Ten Mile the deposit exists that there is a bed of carbonate of stiver nearly 20 miles long by from two to three miles wide and varying in taickness from five feet to 30. but rival settlements claim that the mines will suddenly "peter out," a new stampede take place to Silver Cliif or some other point or promise, and Leadville be deserted like so many other cities of a day. At present no one wbo sees Leadville would believe the prophets of evil. It has but four or five streets, built up wiih frame or log houses, but structures are rushed up as rapidly as lumber, at from four cents (for green") up to 10 cents a foot, can be hammered together. A lot on Main street (25 feet front by 125 feet in depth) brings $40 a foot front: a corner lot is worth 5u percent, more, and prices are advancing daily. It is cheaper, if one means to stay, to buy and build than to rent A very ordinary storeroom commands a . rent of $3.U00 a year; a second story room for an offlcs is worth from $300 to $500, and every sleeping room in the town is taken at $2 a night. Three railroads are racing across the country to open communication betwean Leadville uud the world without; meanwhile some 1 203 "freighters," huge wagous drawn by four or eight mules, are constantly on the road carrying supplies in and ore out. Five smelters with 11 furnaces are already at work; tbe ore is bought from the miners, Bmelted and sent in bars of base bullion to refining works elsewhere. Tbe lead paysforthe transportation. There are gamblers and courtesans a plenty. but already the Methodists and OU: holies have built creditable church ediiists. and three or four other congregations bave been formed. Tbera are three solvent and well manaeed banks, and three lively daily newspapers. The shipments of bullion are nearly $200,000 a week; tbe daily mail sent out is 1,000 letters, and that received half es large again. For weeks the receipts at the telegraph othce bave been fully $100 a day. The four hotels already built are too crowded to receive travelers, and others are beinir built. Propar quarters for county offices and courts bave been sought. It is Indeed time, for tbe Leadville bar is 40 strong. There has been a good deal ol sick ness from exposure, and there is likely to be more, for winter is siidtocome on in the bills after it has finished everywhere else, and in May snow drifts four feet deep have been known. Luckily, Leadville has 30 doctor?. There is a line fire department, and work is uroceaaing on tbe water works. At present all water has to be hauled to the town from a considerable distance. When the improvements are completed the business classes will not be long in feeling tbeir benefits, for insurance rates are now jfrom 2 to 10 per cent. Uas works are going up, which will s.ill further decrease tbe now great danger from fire. With all this the cost of living is not great, though now and then a "corner" is gotten up in some one of tbe necessaries of life whenever the stock runs a little low or a train of freighters is delayed. Competition is very keen in the grocery and provision trade and as there has been an immense stock of bacon, pork, etc., laid in, tbe consumers have the advantage of prices but little If any higher than those tbat obtain for tbe same articles in towns in the Mississippi valley. So much for tbe newer, t town of the time, which in less than a year has grown so that it is only inferior in importance to Denver herself.

FREE LOYERS.

Soma Facts About tbe Origin Mode of Living of the Oaeida Community. and What the Member Have te Say In Tnelr Uwi Defease. lOoriespondence Cincinnati Enqoirer.l Oheida, N. Y., Feb. 22. The organization known as the Oneida Community is located about four miles south of this place, on the line of the New . York and Oswego Midland railroad, and Oaeida is located on the New York Central railroad, almost midway between TJtica and Syracuse. The Community occupies an area of fertile land a trifle over a mile square. The depot on the railroad is built for the especial accommodation of the Community, and is located almost in the center of tbeir domain. Their building, mostly brick, are handsome, very substantial, and are but a few yards from tbeir depot. The main hall, or family buildings, is a three story brick 180 feet long by 70 wide, surrounded by beautiful lawns and shrubbery. It is trimmed after a modern pattern, and contains the sleeping, eating, reading and worshiping rooms of the institution. Tbe membership amounts to about ZZ0 men, women and children. The Oneida Community, commonly known as the "Free-Lovers," but by the members themselves called "Perfectionists," bad an origin in 1831 in Patney, VL, the home of the originator, John Humphrey Noyes, a graduate of Dartmouth college, and subsequently a studentat the Yale Divinity school. The existence at Patney was a sickly one, and prosperity only began in ISIS, when the Community was moved to its present location. Here it grew in streogtn and numbers until a branch was found necessary, and established at Wallingford, Conn. a branch which now numbers a trifle over balf a hundred members. The founder, J. Humphrey Noyes, who still stands at the bead of the institution, and Constitutes tbe essential element of Its cohesivenets, is now an old man bowed down from a stature once over six feet in height. He was once of a giant's strength, but as he grows full of years his fullness of strength is naturally emptied. His head is a large one, and covered with a good deal of light hair. His face looks sensual only to those who know J. H. Noyes, history. He la seclusive, and rarely tees a visitor. His time is principally devoted to writing, tnd to tbe giving of counsel. His writings many of them are able, and many more are bold and pernicious. Among his writings are a pamphlet on "Male Continence," and one on "Breeding In and In." both of them alleged to be contributions to science, but both of them of a character that the law proscribes. They are siDgularly appropriate in the community where they bave their origin. Tbe Perfectionists ara very industrious. and tbeir industry in tbe manufacturing of snk t iread, traps, and the raising and can ning ot fruit yields taem an income of upwards of $200,000 annually. The older members of the institution were all converts; tbe younger were mostly born in the Community, iwery male member of tbe community, after he is once a lather, is "father" to all tbe children; and tbe female members, after maturity, are called "mother." The male members are. for the most part. full bearded, well dressed and fine looking men, while the mothers wear the disgusting bloomtr costume, cut tbeir hair by a square and compass in tbe neck, and look as ugly as a bald-haaded chimpanzee. I searched through and over the premises the other day on my visit to the grounds, vainly hoping to discover one female Perfectionist who was not as imperfect in her features as Egyptian sculpture. I sought in vain. I saw pig-noses, big mouths and big tbeeth, ghastly wrinkles, cadaverous skins, small eyes, or eyes as big as door-knobs, but noth ing whatever in tbe line of female beauty. The men were A polios, the women Gorgons, and tbeir children pleasant-featured enough, but awkward and unnatural. I visited the nurseries. There are two of them, the brst for the babies after their mothers bave done nursing them. Here they are kept until three or four years of age, when they are promoted to the nursery for children be tween three or lour years old, and an age when they do not need the immediate care of curses. Tbe nurses arc usually the old ladies of the institution, wko relieve each other from duty at appointed hours. The children are fed in the nursery, and in the nursery for babies they are fed as chickens are in big poultry show; by measure. When on s visit to tbe institution one summer, a few years ago, I saw an old nurse feeding strawberries to her babies a score or more of them. Sbe first bad the babies arranged in a row on a bench. Then she took her dish of large, ripe, unsugard berries and passed down the line, dropping a single berry into each upturned mouth of the little featherless robins. This constituted tbe depart, after a meal on oatmeal mush, fed with a single spoon, from a single bowl, by pwtng down tbe line, as she tai done with tbe strawberries. The Perfectionists attempt to keep a record of the maternity and paternity of each-child, but, as will be seen by tbe following, the attempt can not help but often be a failure, while the inevitable consequences of incest follow. When one of tbe "Abrahams" of tbe community sees tbat a cartain "Ha?ar" ia fair to look upon he negotiates with her through some third party, a male or lemale member ot tbe organization. If Hagar likes Abraham the lovers all laug1! at the idea of loving one member of tbe community more than another sbe so signifies, and Abraham and Haear may live together as man and wile for 12 hours, or for a fortnight If they mutually agree to so live, Abraham, however, must not subject Hagar to the perils of child birth witbont tbe Community in council shall to vote. Through tbeir medium of negotiations they amount to little less than a common herd, and it is observed by many tbat their children show unmistakable signs that the revolting crime of incest has been committed. Tbeir religion is in accordance with their lives. Tbey maintain tbat tbe Creator is of a dual nature, male aud female, made in tbe image of God. The relation between Jesus and Mary tbey claim was tbat of lovers. Heaven, like the heaven of the followers of the prophet, is to abound in black eyed houri dressed up, no doubt in bloomer costume. Sunday as a day of worship is ridiculed by them, and so is tbe relation of marrisgfi, claiming tbat both are relics of barbarism. The recent movement in Syracuse, N. Y., against tbe Free lovers, and the cbarge of Mormontsni, have provoked thH following, published in tbe official paper of the organization, entitled tbe American Socialist. The article reads: 1. The Oaeida Comcnnnlata are and always bave been peaceable subjects of civil authority. No seditious acts bave ever be;n charged upon then. Tbey have never bad a thought of carrying out tbeir Communistic principles , in opposition to tne laws, or even to the ! public opinion of the people among whom they dwelL Soon after their first settlement at Oneida, on tbe occasion of an attempted prosecution (which brought to light all tbe objectionable features of thir system and was afterward withdrawn) tbey explicity offered to sell out and leave, if that was the wisb oi their neighbors: and tbey fully expected to do so, but were stopped by a vol untary petition to the contrary, signed by

many respectable people in tbe vicinity. Tbey were assured at tbat time and many times afterward, by lawyers of high standing, that tbey were not breaking any laws. They have substantially repeated tbe same offer from time to time, as often as there seemed to be danger of collision with public authority or public opinion. It has lately been generally admitted, even by tbeir enemies, that they are not breaking existing laws; and it is nnderstoodth at new legislation is contemplated. If such legislation should be obtained, the Communists would certainly obey it, though they might justly complain of its ex post facto character. They will be faithfnl 10 their record of submisnon to "tbe powers that be" to the end. In all this they are antipodes of tbe Mormons, whose proclivity to defiance and violent resistance is well known. 2. Tbe social theory and practice of the Oneida Community, though liable to be confounded with Mormon ism by those wbo think careletsly of both as being alike dangerous departures from established customs, is really at the very opposite extreme from Mormonlam. The entire scale of sexual relations may be distributed into three categories, indicated by the three titles: One wife, many wives, no wife. The first category is that of ordinary society; the second, that of tbe Mormons; the third, that of tbe Oaeida Communists, and it is obvious that tbe difference between many wives and no wife is greater than the difference between many wives and one wife. The Shakers, as well as tbe Oneidians, belong to the No-wife category; and, accordingly,- there la a great deal more analogy between the Oneida Community and tbe Shakers, and more practical sympathy, than between the Oneida Community and tbe Mormons. We hold, however, tbat the Primitive church, in its best examples, those of Christ and Paul ; in its most significant teachings, such as those of tbe 7th of 1 Corinthians; in tbe Communistic tendencies, seen in the Pentecost revival; and in its avowed ideal of its heavenly home, was and is the true archetype of the No-wife svsteni. Resurrection was the ladder on which that church was ascending through the whole visible career, and at the top of tbat ladder was this plain inscription: "No marrying here." Both tbe contrasts which we baye exhibited between the systems of the Oenida Communists and the Mormons may be summed np and combined in tbe following statement: One system represents tbe civilizv tion of tbe Old Testament, the other tbat of tbe New; war and polygamy appear on one side, non-resistance and freedom for women on tbe other.

TEMPERANCE HUT ABStlHESCE. Sensible Views ef Dr. Croeby Moderation Desirable, Not Teetotallam. 1 New York World. -Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby addressed a large audience at the Anthon Memorial church last evening on the subject of "True Tem perance Ketorm." At tbe very outset be gave his hearers to understand that he bad no faith in the power of the "total abstinence" people to effect any kind of temperance reform except a false and hypocritical one. Those people, while acting witb the very best intentions, bad, be said, set up false theories and absured doctrines. To make their arguments consistent with the Scriptures tbey bad perverted the plain language of the latter. The obstinate and absurd assertion tbat the wine of the Scriptures was a non-intoxicating beverage was the last leg that the total abstinence people bad to stand on, and it was their only leg. By basing their doctrines upon theories which every thoughtful and intelligent man knew to be false and absurd, tbey bad driven away thousands of good people in disgust, although their cause was a good one. That the total abstinence people bad done much good by attracting public attention to the vice of drunkenness no one could deny. "At the eame time," said Dr. Crosby, with emphasis,, "tbey have done incalculable harm." Dr. Crosby said he believed in tbe moderate use of light wines and malt liquors as beverages, but tbat distilled spirits ought to be banished by a law of tbe land. Light wines were healthful, but distilled spirits were poisonous. He believed tbat if the Government of the United States had the means -of supplying tbe people with light wines at a very low price it wonld do more for the cause of temperance than all the total abstinence lecturers had ever done or ever could do. "Tbe rum-holes of our city, said Dr. Crosby, "must be abolished. It is to fight those places tbat every man and woman, rich or poor, ought to co operate. You must see to it tbat your legislators, your governors, your commissioners and your mayors are chosen from the classes who abhor, those iniquities. The people shou'd rise up in their might and throttle this monster evil to its death." Speaking of "tippling" as one of tbe curses of society, Dr. Crosby explained tbat by tippling be ment "drinking with another." Taking a glass of wine at dinner was quite another thing. A man might make a drunkard of himself on nothing else bat light wines, but it was a difficult thing to do, and could only be done with malice prepense. He believed in total abstinence as the only means of caring those who could not use wine without abusing it. Such people should be treated for abnormal conditions, and in such cases total abstinence was the best remedy. Dr. Crosby said that tbe oft-repeated assertion tbat drunkenness was prevalent among all the European nations where wine drinking was tbe common custom was an absurd slander. It was not true, as any person who bad lived abroad could testify. The greatest amount of drunkennes was to be found In our own country, where total abstinence reformers do most abound. . , , . Is It Fate? : There she goes through tbe storm, shabby and pale and pinched, suffering from cold. suffering perhaps from huoger. There is not a line in the poor soul's face that does not tell of privation, and I know her home, tbe wretched abanty yonder. Through its crev ices tne winu wnisues; wrougn i is root me ram passes, and she has no kindred. Tbat other woman in the close carriage. muffled with furs and with diamonds in ber ears, is going borne to a palace. Sbe bas but to choose what dainty viands she will eat. and her servants will set them before ber. She has never known a want, and friendship and love are hers, and warm home ties and the tlatterv of tbe world. Two women oh. so different! Yet, not long ago they were two babies, possibly so alike tbat it their nurses bad changed them none would have been tbe wiser. . And if tbe thing bad been done, tbe woman in tbe carriage might now be fighting against tbe mud npon the road there, poor, shabby, suf fering, and the poor creature mere naing home to a banauet. Might but wonld it have been so? Is it only because of surrounding circums'ances that these two lives are o different? Tbe child of that wealthy family could scarcely bave coma to want, but would not tbat other woman have fought up and out of tbe slough of poverty, if she ha I found herself there? You can not fancy her wearing regj. or bearing burger, and yoa can scarcely think of that other one-surrounded by lux uries. Surelv. there is au. inheritance apart from tbat of worldly good.-, and it must tell. I can not help thinking over sgain, as Ihe two vanish from my sight: Wnat if you bad been changed In your cradles! Yours was a blue silk bassinet, my lady. Yours, poor soul, may bave been the old wooden bread trough. Would just that exchange bave given one the fate of the other? Ah, well! I may ask forever, but the question will never be answered. Mary Kyls Dallas. "Dasbaway" all opium preparations aod give only Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup to the babies. It Is the onlv remedv which contains do opiates and is reliable.

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