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CHAPTER V. —Conttnvbd. “Hoar La'dios:—Allow mo to remind you ol the power of female influence. M.v lips are not spiking flattery; I give you credit for nothing more than what God, vour Maker, allows you to claim, without subjecting y ursi Ives to the im putation of vanOy. It is tot yours to mingle in the rough and thorny nett sof life, and hy masculine authority to con trol the destinies of the world: hut in the nursery, at the domestic fireside, in the social circle, and other retired and gentle scenes, it is yours to give the first direction and impulse to thought, to give to the heart an abiding impress, and to character its line an 1 texture. You are imparting tt lasting flavor to those moun tain springs, which are destined to send forth their pure or pollin' and waters into Various and extended regains. nil have the moulding of the feelings, the habits, the principles of communities. A our instrumentality (under Goti) materially affects the destinies of empires, Princes and ki gs are settit g upon your knees, iml receiving laws fi tn your lips Uni versal enrisettt tuts invested you with pe culiar p-erogatives. You can speak and act when others cannot; you can reprove where others dare not. 'I In* eomhined influence of your loveliness, heanty and affection, gives terror to your IVowtts, and re is less power t your smiles, ft im pa-ts force to your arguments, pungency to your rebukes, and render,- successful those bold expostulations which would perhaps often procure for the other sex '.usiilt, and even v oDnco. lour influ- i iico, though soft anil ucntle as lb- z phyr which imptusscs its kisses on the fiowory landscape, is p> wcrhtl as tin; rushing wind, which raises int ■ mounta n waves the surfiu-e of the great deep. And may I not apj ropriately adopt lhe wolds u.-ed T>y one long years ago, where he sa s: It, is not the King, nor tin multitude of men; neither i- it wine that t xec'leth. Who 's it then that ruleth men, or hath the I rd-liij) over men? 1- it not women? These have bourne til ■ King and uli the i eople that hear rule hy sea tittd land And if men have gatheied together gold and silver, or any other goodly thing, do they not love a wt a an which is comely in favor and beauty? and letting all tin so things go they gape, and even with open mouth fix their i yes fast on her, and have more desir • urit > her than unto silver and g M, or any goodly thin, whatsoever. Men labor and mil, and bring and give all to women. Via, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rod and to steal, to • ail upon the sea ami upon the rivers, an : end a nee eth his life by day arid by night, and when he 1 nth stolen, spo led and robbed, he bringeth it to his love. Yea, tin ny men have been run out cl their wits for women, and become ser vant- for their s kes. Yea, many men have perished, erred and sinned for women. The King is great; yet the King's concubine, sitting at his right hand, look the crown from his head, and -true' him with her left hand. Yet the King for all this gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth. If she l ushed upon liiut lie laughed also, II she took any displeasure at him, the King was i lain to flatter and caress, that she might l e reconciled to him again. Mow great, how wonderful is the influence of woman ov.r man. blow then shall this influ ence be excited? In the defence of man's best interests, or irt the destruction of all that is dear? In purifying, or corrupt ing the fountains of domestic bliss ami national prosperity? Shall your strength be lent to the aid of virtue, or to c 11- summate the triumphs yf vice? Shall y ur influence come down up n si cicty in dews of celestial mercy, or must it send out a pestilential breath to curse, wither and destroy? Shall your influ ence he converted into infernal sorcery to entice souls o ruin, or shall it put on the attractions of mercy, to allure the erring from the paths of danger? No doubt you are ready to reply, "tt'e wish to ex tend out strength in a prop r way.’ Lend it not then 1 1 the cause of Alcohol. Forsake h:s banners; snatch his children from liis ranks and in the exorcise of that authority which is peculiarly your own, command the world to forsake him* Look at the Jf-unketi Posse. You h ive aid. din filling it. ranks. Some of your own sex are f A '/'c/ and is there anything mere disgusting and hateful than to see a female marching after that (log (kin, and fighting for a demon? If you are aliockcd at the issue should you not abhor and shun the first step that conducts to such an end? Many of your sons are there, and their folly and crimes have filic-d your cup with wormwood. Lo k ag .in: ten thousand husba ds are there, and 0, how many hearts have they broken! They have caused many ami able and virtuous wives to shed tears of gall, to heave uay after day, and year after year, he pen etual sighs of unavail ing anguish; and having -wrapped them selves in rags, and laid down on their beds of straw, in the bitterness of their souls to curse the day that they were born. Poverty, neglect, scorn, curses, stripes, bruises are a part of their sad inheritnnee. The wretches who onee swore to love, cherish and defend them have become their tormenting demons, and Alcohol made them so. Si on many of these wives will put on the robes of widowhood, and then, with helpless little ones, they must l eg a cinst of bread it the door of charity, or die. Such is the blessedness of having such husbands. Hut, these husbands once hod mothers. And, ah! perhaps the first, step, which maternal guidance enabled them to take in tottering infancy, was under the silken banner. Mm hers, per haps, dedicated them to the demon, and said: “Alcohol is good; march gently on, dea* littio ones.” Gruel mothers! to sacrifice upon an altar worse than moloch s the fruit of your own bodies. Now, let me solemnly inquire, how can you, how dare you coun tenance tin enemy that, has thus abused your own sex, and compels vou thus to abuse your helpless children? How can you in luge the least fondness for the mo"Htcr who is preparing daggers for your hearts, and coals ot tire f or your paths? On your own heads falls a tre mendous curse you are the deepest suf ferers, Mcthinks l see your bosoms swelling with just indign itiou; let it have full vent; let it tail upon the monster’s pate, it is in your power to crush him. You can desert his ranks. You can iti ll it, nee your children. You can refuse to introduce the villain to your friends. You e.in set forth his base character and expose Itis alt ininablo deeds. You cut) address his soldiers with a severity if ro- Imi f, which they must led. And those of you who are candidates for Heaven’s bliss and honors —i can tell you what you Can do—you can declare tit all your ad miring lovers, that i! they wish to s cure your hearts it ml hands, they luust be di vorecd from Alcohol. An! this will touch thorn, Adam's boys must have wives anyhow; and rather than not get them, they would glad y forsake the ban tiers of the I’rinco, and fly to the ranks of Totai-A-biitiiioiice. ” In this manner 1 spun out my oration. But many dream ot talking, and it any actually talk while dreaming; hut who ever eared much for the lucubrations of a sleeping man? Alas! alas! I am sadly all-aid that my sweat and toil and vo ciierations were in vain. However, lean assure ui\ leaders, that had I been awake in tru I , I should have said pretty much the same tiling; and now that 1 am wide awake, and in the exercise ol as much wit and wisdom as I ever had, recording my midnight phantasms, l say— “ Amen Tt/ THE SPEECH.” [continued in oitr next. 1 Our attention was attracted by several lust; squeaks from the inside of a pail almost full of water, into which a hall grown mouse had liibcn. T in: alarm Dei hardly died away when four in five mice appeared on the scene, and began clam bering to the tup of the pail- For sev oral moments after gaining the top of the pail, arid catching sight ol the mouse in the water, a squeaking confab was hold. First one mouse and then another would cling to the rim ol the bucket with his hind legs, and while almost touching the water wi;h his nose squeak nut. consola tion or advice to the immersed; but while all this was going on the swimming powers of the iinlortunate mouse m the pail were rapidly giving out. Ah last a happy thought seemed to strike the big gest mouse, and almost without a squeak he firmly fastened his fore feet on the edge of the pail, and let his body and tail hang down. The drowning mouse saw it, and making a last desperate effort for life, swam to thu spot, seized the tail of his brother mouse, and amid squeaks of delight h-otn all the uiicc present, was hauled high and dry out of the water and over (lie edge of the bucket. Language .>p the Hanijkekchief.— LDuwirig across the lip —Desirous of an acquaintance. Drawing across the eyes— -lam sorry. Taking it by the centre You are too willing. Dropping it—We will be irionds. twirling in both hands— I hate you. Let ting it rest on the right cheek—Yes.. Letting it rest on tne left cheek—No. Twirling, in the left hand —1 wish to be rid of you. Twirling in the right baud —I love another, hold ing it—l wish to speak to you. Flirt it over the light shoulder —Follow me. Opposite corner;: in both hands —Wait for me. Drawing across the forehead— We are watched. Lifting it to the light ear —You have changed. Letting it re u aio on the eyes—You are cruel. Wind ing around the forefinger—l aui engaged. Wil ding around the tiiiid finger—l am married. Pu ting it in the pocket—No more at present. Crump up in the hand —lain impatient. Toucliitg right eye twice- —Repeat your last signal. Virginia City, Nevada, is situated at a great elevation above the Sea, and the atmosphere there has rcec tly i;een un commonly full of electricity, o that many pti’soris were startled at receiving unex pected shocks and hearing snapping sounds. This occurred when art cles of various kinds wete passed from the hands of one person to those of another, and as often when the articles were not as when they were of the same metal. Sometimes when persons touched hands a slight shock was foil and the electrical snap beard. A while ago a party (,f lynchers, down South, postponed the hanging lWe min utes to allow the victim time to fiui h smoking a cigar. This proves that the use of tobacco prolongs life. A Gigantic Snake Story. While one of our sport unen was hunt ing lately in the Ties Pinos country he killed a lawn and left it on the ground to go in pursuit of other game. Returning a short time alter, he found, to his amaze ment and horror, that a huge serpent was coiled around its body. Judging from the mischievous look of the reptile's eye, the nervous curving of its neck, and liio threatening poise of its elongateu head, that it would not surrender the pi ize without a light, the hunter con cluded to retreat and take aim at the glittering thief at long range. After seating himself behind a rock a hundred feet distant and getting his nerves some what steadied for work, he binzod away and spent about twenty charges of ter rible B shot without any visible effect. Keeling bis pulse, he concluded from its rapid run he must be nervous. The snake hy this time had uncoiled itself from the carcass and had twisted itself in the form of a corkscrew, ready for a spring. With a manly effort onr hero controlled himself and gave a firm and steady pull at the trigger. 'The serpent’s head was nearly severed from its body by the shot, and its form was at once relaxed and stretched out prune and powerless upon the ground. When tic 1 Imnterooti sidore 1 it sate lie advanced to get a closer view of his victim, and in stepping over the ground found it measured twenty feet in length. The body was as large around j ns a child's waist. While looking on and wondering to what, genus ol large scrpuiits it belonged lie was horrified to sue about one bundled and twenty small snakes twisting, hissing and emerging from a nest close by. Each particular hair of his head stood t n end, and ris legs were suddenly electrified with won derful motion as he skedaddled like a racehorse from the sm ne. j here is a noii-veuomous serpent of the boa family in California, b it it attains lull growth only in warm climates This is one of uncommon size, and some of its offspring may yet attract the intention of natural ists. — Gilroy {Cal.) Advocate: A Good Reason —Perhaps yon have not observed that nowadays a great many ol our young women marry elderly men. The reason is evident. The young man of the day is not the des ruble young man of fifty years ago; he is nut so thoughtful, sober, painstaking, and con scientious; lie lives at a club, has no love for home-life, nor desire to build up character and reputation as a man and citizen; his ideas ot life aie bounded by the theatre and the doings of his little set, and in too many cases his ambition is to own a racer and be cn intimate terms with the ballot. N.turully mothers sin ink from intrusting their daughters t"|-iich youths as thu-e, even iflhe.t have an opportunity, a:.d aie better pleased to bestow them on older men—men who have sown their wild oats; who know how little ol real value there is ir. the the temporary excitement of pleasure; . who have, perhaps, been married once, and have learned to value home and the guarantee it affords for pe uiaueot hap piness. Ifi short, thinking girls prefer to be “an oldman’s darling rather than a young man’s slave. — I Vaverty Mnjnzinc. It was certainly a very cand and little boy who told his mother th t some folks don’t like had company, but that lie did. Of course, we all .-Uy that such a preference is very wrdng, but still in a quiet way, we have a great deal of sympathy lor that ever truthful child. We can’tgct over the lact, account for it how we will, that Ui.der the present regime go id things are apt to be a little insipid, while there is a piquancy about forbidden pleas ures that makes them attra tive. For example, the Presbyterians have just de cided that a Christian can’t dunce, can’t go to the opera, can’t have a tiiliard table for the boys iu the attic, and can’t wear a train or a hands line winter bon net. There is nothing left except to listen to the sermon and repeat the Ten Commandments, until you wish that when Moses broke the tables of the law be had never found them. We have often wanted to as. why religion should have such a strict monopoly of dulness, and why Baton should have undisputed possession of almost everything that young people w int to do. The True Gentleman. lie is above above a low act. He ctn tiot stoop to commit a fraud, lie evades no secret in the keeping oi another. Ho takes selfish advantage of no man’s mis takes. He is asha.i.ed of inuendocs. He never stabs in the dark. Ho is not one tiling to a man’s lace and an ither to his back, if by accident ho comes into pos session of bis neighbor's counsels bo pisses them into instant oblivion. He bears scaled packages without tampering with the wax. Papers not meant for his eye, whether tiiey flutter in at his win dow, or be open before him in unregarded exposure, are secret to him. Ho pro fanes no privacy of another however the sentry sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks and keys, bonds and securities, notices of trespassers, arc not for him. He may !.c trusted out of sight—near the thinnest partition-an j where. He buys no office, he sells none, intrigues for done, lie would rather fail of his lights than win them through dishonor. Ho will eat honest bieud. lie tramples on no sen sitive feelings. He in-mlts no man. if he lias a rebuke for another lie is straight forward, open and manly Ho cannot descend to scurrility. Billingsgate does not fo on bn track. Of woman, and to her, lie speaks with deemey ami respect. NUMBER 51. In short, whatever he judges honorable lie practices toward every one. He is not always dressed in broadcloth. “Some people,” says a distinguished bishop, “think n gentleman means a man of in dependent fortune— a man who fares sumptuously every day; a man who need not: labor for his daily bread. None of these makes a gentleman—not oue of them—nor all of them together. I have known men of the roughest exterior who have been used all their lives to follow the plow, and to look lifter horses as thorough gentlemen in heart as any noble man who ever wore a ducal cornet. I mean l have known them as unselfish; I have known them ns trptiiful; i have known them as sympatldling—and all those qualities go to make what I under stand by the term “a gentleman." It is a noble mivilcgc which has been . adly prostituted; and what 1 want to tell you is, that I lie humblest man who has the coarsest work to do, yet, if the heart he ten.Dr, and pure, and Due, can be, in tlie most emphatic sense of the word “a gentleman.”— Christian Statesman. A gentleman attending one of our churches with It is wile, the other evening placed his silk baton the seat the cour teous usher had led them to. The lady, not noticing 'lie hat, sul down u|t .n it with such effect as left no doubt about her weight. The circumstance was the occasion of considerable merriment to the observing persons near by, aud especially del the Disband enjoy the crushingefl'ccu ofliD wife’s movement towards the seat. Ala ly, telling of the circumstance at breakfast-table, said: “I really did not think the couple were married, the gen tleman toox the matter in such good humor." “What," said her neighbor, “did you expect to see the husband driva bis wife nut of church with a frown, or knock her down, for the mishap?” “Oh. no; but husbands are so inconsiderate I" vris the reply. Miss Grace Vernon Bussell is a young Iv'.glish lady, only sixteen years old in deed, whose name ought to bo known and honored wherever the word “cour age” i . understood Hea r ing of a boat being capsized. Miss Bussell rode on horseback down a steep cliff at full speed to the scene of the disaster. She rode her horse into the sea, and succeeded in reaching the boat, acoompaniod by her servant, and, with as many women and children clinging to her and her horse aa possible, she made for the shore and placed them in safety. The Royal Hu mane Society bus awarded the brave girl a silver medallion, with a bronze medal lion to her servant, who saved a man. It is getting quite fashionable in Ken tucky and Tennessee for lunatics intend ing to commit matrimony to be married on horseback, the advantage of the sys tem being that, while the clergyman ha bis eyes shut pronouncing the nuptial benediction, the newly married couple cm put spurs to their horses and gallop away without going through the formality of paying the ice. Wife awake preach ers, h iwevor, take their trusty shot-gun with th in, and cover the groom and his cara spo-a at tiie critical mouicut, till the cadi is forthcoming. Literary young man at a party: “Mis* Jones, have you seen Crabbu's Tales?’’ Young lady, seornlully. “1 was not aware that crabs had tails.” Literary young man, covered with confusion: “1 beg your pardon, ma’am; I should have said, read Orabhe’s Tales?” Young lady, angrily-seoroful: "And I was not awar* that red erabs had tails, either.” Exit young man. “Come, pa,” said a youngster just home from school, "how many peas ar* there in a pint?” “How can anybody tell that, you foolish boy?" “I can, every time. II you don’t believe it try me.” "Well, how many are there, then?” “Just oue ‘p’ in every pint, pa.’ 1 - “Pomp, was you ever Jrunk?" "No l ’loxioaied vid ardent spirits onoe, and dat’s enuft for dis darkie. Do Lord hies* you, Caesar, my bead felt as if it was a wood-shed, while all de niggers iu do world appeared to be splittin’ wood in it." ♦■!■ According to the Columbus (Ga.) En quirer, oue o the strangest things in the world is to find Southern planters buying tons of Northern hay, while the heavy and grievous task the whole year round is to keep the fields clear of grass. Camel's hair shawls are not made of camel's hair. They come of the wool of the Thibet go-t. Thus it will bo eeeu that women not only have the wool nulled over their eyes but over their backs. One of his lady clerks in the Intetior Del a luiorit bong incorrectly told that she must pronounce "Schurx" like “shirts,” like “shirts,” replied, “If he is 'stmts’ we clerks are “under-shirts.” Gir's who arc not handsome hato those who are, while those vrho are handsome hato one another. Which class has the best time of it? “Mankind,” said a preacher, “includes woman; lor man embraces woman.” Iho right place for tramps—the tread mill.