WORKING WOMEN
Their Hard Struggle Made Easier—Interesting State*
ments by a Young Lady in Boston
and One in Nashville, Tenn.
Qrser^ J
y^A/issPear/ Acker,
All women work; some In their
Itomes, some in church, and some in
the whirl of society. And in stores,
mills and shops tens of thousands are
on the never-ceasing treadmill, earning
their daily bread.
All are subject to the same physical
daws; all suiter alike from the same
physical disturbance, and the nature of
their duties, in many cases, quickly
drifts them into the horrors of all
kinds of female complaints, ovarian
troubles, ulceration, falling and dis
placements of the womb, leucorrhooa,
or perhaps irregularity or suppression
of “ monthly periods,” causing back
ache, nervousness, irritability aud
lassitude.
Women who stand on their feet all
lay arc more susceptible to these
troubles than others.
They especially require an invigorat
ing, sustaining medicine which will
•trengthen the female organism and
enable them to bear easily the fatigues
of the day, to sleep well at night, and
to rise refreshed and cheerful. ,
How distressing to see a woman
•truggling to earn a livelihood or per
form her household duties when her
back and head are aching, she is so
tired she can hardly drag about or
stand up, and every movement causes
pain, the origin of which is due to
•some derangement of the female or
ganism
Miss F. Orserof 14 Warrenton Street,
Boston, tells women how to avoid such
Buffering; she writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham: —
“ I suffered misery for several years with
irregular menstruation. My back ached; I
harl Dearing down pains, and frequent head
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to my surprise, every ache and pain left me.
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Miss Pearl Ackers of 327 North Sum
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Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—
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the abdomen; was very nervous and irrita
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You can tell the story of your suf
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CHAPTER XXXIV.—Continued. '
“Say you as? But how is this? Sure
ly I am not mistaken. I could be cer
tain Colonel Tarleton reported you tak
ing as a spy, and his trying of you.
And was there not something about a
rescue at the last moment by a band
of these border bravos? But stay; let
us have the colonel’s story at first
hands. Have the goodness to ring the
bell for me, will you. Captain?”
The crisis was come. A pull at the
bell cord would summon the guard, and
the guard would be sent after Colonel
Tarleton. Well, said the demon Despair,
’tis tlrpe you were gone to make room
for Richard Jennifer; and I laid a
hand upon the tasseled rope. But when
I would have rung, all the man pride,
of race and of soldier training, rose up
to bid me fight for space to strike one
good blow in freedom's cause by way
of leave-taking.
So, as it had been an afterthought, I
said: “A word further with you first,
my Lord, and then, if you please, I will
call the guard. Ail you remember is
true, save as to the principal fact. So
far from being a spy in intent, or even
a partisan of either side, I was at the
time but newly come into the province,
knowing little of the cause of quarrel,
and caring still less. But Captain Fal
connet and Colonel Tarleton did . their
earnest best to make a rebel of me out
of hand."
"Ah? But the proof of all this, Cap
tain Ireton.”
"The best.I can offer is the present
fact of my coming to place myself at
your Lordship’s disposal, being moved
thereto by your Lordship's own desire
expressed in an order sent some weeks
since to Sir Francis Falconnet.”
"So?—then you knew of that order?”
"Captain Falconnet showed it to me
after I was condemned and the firing
squad was drawn up to snuff me out.”
My Lord Charles gave me the cour
tier smile that so endeared him to his
soldiers—as he was well loved of his
men—and bade me sit.
"The plot thickens, as Mr. Richard
son would say. Let me have your
story. Captain Ireton. I would rejoice
to know' why Captain Sir Francis Fal
connet saw fit to disobey his orders.”
I was clear of the lee shore and the
breakers at last, but I was fain to be
lieve that not Machiavelli himself could
hope to weather the storm in the open.
How much or how little did Lord Corn
wallis remember of Colonel Tarleton's
report? How explicit had that re
port been?—was there any mention in
it of my eavesdropping at the confer
ence between Captain John Stuart and
the baronet; of my attempt to warn
the over-mountain men against the In
dlan-arming? Could I hope to tell his
Lordship a tale so near the truth as
to be unassailable by Tarleton and his
officers, by Gilbert Stair and the spite
ful little pettifogger, and yet so deftly
garbled as to keep my neck out of the
halter for the time being.
All these questions thronged upon me
as a mob to pull cool reason from her
seat, and I could only play the part
of the trapped rat and snap back at
them. Yet my Lord Cornwallis was
waiting for his answer, and a single
moment's hesitation might breed sus
picion.
You must forgive me, dears, if I
confess it beyond me to set down here
in measured words the tale I told his
Lordship. A lie is a lie, be it told in
never so good a cause; a thing deplor
able and not to be glazed over or boast
ed of after the fact. So I beg you to
let these quibblings to which I was
driven rest in oblivion, figuring to
yourselves that I used all the truth I
dared, and that 1 strove through it all
not wholly to sink the gentleman and
the man of honor in the spy.
'Twes but a bridge of glass when all
was said; a bridge that carried me
safely over for the moment into my
Lord's confidence, yet one which a
pebble flung by any one of a dozen
hands might shiver in the dropping of
an eyelid.
■ "Truly, you have had a most ro
mantic experience,” said his Lordship,
when I had made an end. Then he lay
back in his chair and laughed till the
stout body of him shook again. “And
ail about a little wench of the provin
cials. Well, well; Sir Francis was al
ways a sad dog with the women. But
all this was in the early summer, you
say; where have you been since?”
Here was a chance for romancing,
this time of a sort less dangerous. So
I drew breath and plunged a'galn, tell
ing how I had been carried off by my
captor-rescuers; how I had fallen into
the hands of the Indians—not all of
whom, I would remind his Lordship,
were friendly to the king; and lastly
how I had but lately escaped from the
mountain fastnesses back of Major
Ferguson’s camp at Gilbert Town. At
this point my Lord interrupted the
i tale-telling.
"So you know of the major and his
doings? I would you had brought me
late news of him. ’Tis a week since his
last courier reached us.”
This was the moment for the playing
of my trump card—the only one I held.
I rose, bowed, took from my pocket
that other letter given me by Colonel
Davie and handed it to his Lordship.
’Twas Major Ferguson’s last report,
intercepted by one of Davie's vigilant
scouting parties.
"Ah!” said my Lord; and I strolled to
the window whilst he read the letter.
When I turned to front him again he
was all affability; and I knew I was
safe—for the time, at least.
“The major commends you highly as
a good man and a true, Captain Ire
ton," he said, and truly the letter did
contain a warm-hearted commendation
of “the bearer," whose name, for
safety's sake, was omitted; and not
only this, but the writer desired to
have his man back again. Then my
Lord added; "You are here to take
your old service again, I assume?’
I hesitated. There be things that even
a spy may balk at; and the taking of
the oath of allegiance to the other side
I conceived to be one of them. So I
said:
“I have worn many uniforms since I
doffed that of King George, my Lord,
and—"
He laughed cheerily. “But me no
huts,' Captain Ireton; once an English
man, always an Englishman, you
know. I shall assign you to duty in
my own family."
At this I made a bold stroke. “Let
it be then as an officer of her Apostolic
Majesty’s service, and your Lordship's
guest for the time. Believe me, it is
thus I may best serve your—ah—the
cause.”
“As how?" he would ask.
I smiled and touched the braided
Jacket of my hussar uniform.
“As an Austrian officer on a tour of
observation in the campaign I may go
and come where others may not, and
see and hear things which your Lord
ship may wish to know. Does your
: Lordship take me?"
He laughed and rose and clapped me
| on tbe shoulder.
"You may call the guard now, Cap
tain, and I will turn you over—not to
a firing squad, but to the tender mer
cies of our old rascal host who is a
‘trimmer’ of the devil’s own school. If
he tries to screw a penny’s pay out of
you, as he Is like to, put him in ar
rest.”
‘‘It is your Lordship’s meaning that
I should be quartered here?—in this
house?” I gasped.
“And why not? Ah. my good Cap
tain of Hussars, I have made you my
honorary aide-de-camp and a member
of my family so that I may keep an
eye on you. Comprenez-vous?”
He said it with a laugh and another
hearty hand-clap on my shoulder, and
I would fain take it for a jest. Yet
there be playful gibes that hint at
gibbets; and I may confess to you here,
my dears, that I left my Lord’s pres
ence with the conviction that my ac
quittal was but a reprieve conditioned
upon the best of future good behavior.
So it took another turn of the audacity
screw to tune me up for the battle roy
al with Gilbert Stair and the pettifog
ger, Owen Pengarvin.
CHAPTER XXXV.
IN WHICH I FIGHT THE DEVIL
WITH FIRE.
With the house guard for a guide I
found my host in a box-like den below |
stairs; a room with a writing table, :
two chairs and a great iron strong box
for its scanty furnishings.
The old man was sitting at the table
when I looked in, his long nose buried
in a musty parchment deed. The light
from the single small window was none
too good, but it sufficed to help him
recognize me at a glance, despite the
hussar uniform. In a twinkling he put .
the breadth of the oaken table be
tween us, hurled the parchment deed
into the open strong box, clammed to
the cover and gave a shrill alarm.
“Ho! you devils without, there!
Here he is—I have him! Help! Mur
der!”
The guard, a burly, bearded Darm
stadter, turned on his heel and stood
at attention in the doorway, looking
stolidly for his orders, not to the shrill
ing master of the house, but to the man
who wore a uniform.
“ ’Tig naught,” I said, speaking in
German. "He mistakes me for a ritt
meister of the rebels. Verstehen Sle?” j
The soldier saluted, wheeled and van- ;
ished; and I sat down to wait till the
old man's outcry should pause for lack
of breath. When my chance came, I
said:
“Calm yourself, Mr. Stair. You are in
no present danger greater than which
you may bring upon yourself. Blot out
all the past, if you please, and consider
me now as a member of Lord Corn
wallis' military family seeking quar
ters in your house by my lord's express
command.”
“Quarters in my house?—ye're a
damned rebel spy!” he cried. "I'll de
nounce ye to my Lord for what ye are.
Ho! ye rascals, I say!”
“Peace!” I commanded sternly; “this
Is but child's folly. No man in the Brit
ish army would arrest me at your be
hest. Ring the bell and summon your
factor lawyer. I would have a word
or two in private with both of you."
He dropped into a chair, and I could
see the sweat standing in great beads ;
on his wrinkled forehead.
“D’ ye—d’ ye mean to kill us both?”
he gasped.
“Not if I can help it. But some bet- !
ter understanding is needful, and we
will have it here and now, once for all. ;
Will you ring, or shall I?”
He made no move to reach the bell
cord, and I rang for him. A grinning
black boy came to the door, and seeing
that Mr. Gilbert Stair was beyond giv
ing the order, I gave it myself.
."Find Master Pengarvin and send
him here quickly. Tell him Mr. Stair
wants him.”
There was a short interval of waiting
and then the lawyer came. Being but
a little wisp of a man, all malignance
and no courage, he would have fled
when he saw me. But I caught him by
the collar and sent him scurrying
around the table to keep his master
company.
“Now, then; how much or how little
have you two blabbed of the doings at ;
Appleby Hundred some weeks sincej
I demanded. “Speak out, and quick
ly.”
•Twas the lawyer who obeyed, and
now he was the trapped rat to snap
blindly in despair.
"You will hang higher than Haman
when the dragoons find you,” he grit
ted out.
“On your information?”
“On mine and Mr. Stair's."
“Ye lie!’ shrieked the miser. “I tell't
ye to keep hands off, ye bletherin 'lit
tle deevil, ye!”
“Never mind,” said I; “what’s done
is done. But it must be undone, and
that swiftly and thoroughly. Lie out
of it to Colonel Tarleton and the others
as you will; Captain John Stuart and
the baronet are not here to contradict ■
you, and you are the only witnesses.
Knock together some story that will i
hold water and lose no time about it- j
Do you understand?
Seeing he was not to be put to the
wall and spitted on the spot, the lawyer
recovered himself.
“ 'Tls not the criminal at the bar who
dictates terms, Captain Ireton," he
said, with his hateful smirk. "You are
under sentence of death, and that by a
court lawful enough in war time.”
"You refuse?” I said.
He shrugged.
"Speaking for myself, I shall leave
no stone unturned to bring you to book,
captain—when it suits my purpose.”
I was loath to go to extremities with
either of them; but my bridge of glass
must be defended at all hazards.
"You would best reconsider, Mr. Pen
garvln. At this present moment lam
one of Lord Cornwallis' military family
and 1 have his confidence. A word from
me will put you both in arrest as per
sons whose loyalty In times past has
been somewhat more than blown upon.”
"Bah!" said the pettifogger. "Blus
ter is a good dog, but Holdfast is the
better. You can prove nothing, as you
well know. Moreover, with your own
neck in a noose you dare not mess and
meddle with other men's affairs."
"Dare not, you say? I'll tell you what
l may dare. Master Attorney. If you
are not disposed to meet me half way
in this matter, I shall go to my lord,
tell him how I have been cheated out
of my estate, declare the marriage
with Mistress Margery, and see that
you get your just deserts. And you
may rest assured that this soldier-earl
will right me. come whnt may.”
’Twas a bold stroke, the boldest of
any I had made that morning; but I
was wholly unprepared for its effect
upon the lawyer. His rage was like
that of some venomous little animal, a
thing to make an onlooker shudder
and draw back.
"Never!" he hissed; "never, 1 say!
I'll kill her first—I'll—" He choked in
the very exuberance of ins malignance,
and his face was like the face of a man
in a fit.
’Twas then that I saw the pointing of
his villainy and knew what Margery
had meant when she said that for rea
sons of his own he was holding my
betrayal in abeyance. He was Falcon
net's successor and my rival. This lit
tle reptile aspired to be the master of
my father's acres and the husband of
my dear lady! And his holding off
from denouncing me at once was also
explained. Taking it for granted that
the wife would bargain for the hus
band’s life, he had made a whip of his
leniency to flog Margery into subjec
tion.
My determination was taken upon the
instant. There was no safety for Mar
gery whilst this plotting pettifogger
was at large, and I stepped to the door
and called the sentry. The Darm
stadter came back and I pointed to the
lawyer. Then, indeed, the furious little
madman found his tongue and shrilled
out his defiance.
“Curse you!” he yelled. “I’ll have
quits with you for this. Master Spy!
'Tis your hearing now, but mine will
come, and you shall hang like a dog!
I'll follow you to the ends of the earth—
I’ll—”
I made a sign and the soldier
brought his musket into play
and pricked his prisoner with the
bayonet in token that time pressed
So we were rid of the lawyer in bodily
presence, though I could hear his
snarlings and spittings as the big
Darmstadter ran him out at the bay
onet’s point.
During this tilt between his factor
and me. Mr. Gilbert Stair had stood
apart, watchful but trembling. When
we were alone I said:
“Now. Mr. Stair. I shall t-ouble you
to billet me somewhere In your house,
as a member of my lord’s family. Dead
on, If you please, and I'll follow.”
He went before me without a word,
out of the little den and up the broad
stair, doddering like a man grown ten
yeurs older in a breath, and catching
at the balustrade to steady himself as
we ascended. The room he gave me
was at an angle in one of the crookings
ol’ the corridor, and pointing me to the
door he went pottering away, still
without a word or a look behind him.
The door was on the latch, but it
gave reluctantly, letting me in sud
denly, when I set my shoulder to it.
There was a quick little cry. half of
anger, half of affright, from within. I
drew back hastily, with a muttered
curse upon the old man’s spite, and in
the act my spur caught the door and
slammed it shut behind me.
For reasons known only to Omnis
cience and to himself. Gilbert Stair had
shown me to my lady's chamber; she
was standing, with her bodice off. be
fore the oval mirror on the high dress
ing case.
XXXVI.
HOW l RODE POST ON THE KING S
BUSINESS.
If a look might be a leven-stroke to ]
do a man to death, t warrant you my ,
lady's flashing eyt-s would have crisped
me to a cinder where 1 stood fumbling
with one hand behind me for the latch
of the slammed door. Scorn, indigna
tion, outraged maiden modesty, all
these thrust at me like air-drawn dag
gers, and It needed not her. "Fie, for
shame, Captain Ireton!—and you
would call yourself a gentleman to
set me afire with prinklings of abash
ment ! ”
What could I say or do? The ac
cursed doorlatch would not find itself
to let me fly; and as for exeusings, I
could not tell her that her own fa
ther had thrust me thus upon her.
Yet, had she let me be, I hope I should
have had the wit to find the door fas
tening and the grace to run away; .in
truth, I had t)ie latch in hand when
she lashed out at me again, and my
tingling shame began to give place to
that master-devil of passion which is
never more'than half whipped into sub
jection in the best of us.
"How are you better than the man j
you warned me of?" she cried. And j
then, in a tempest of grief: "Oh, you j
would not leave me the respect 1 bore ;
you; you would even rob me of that to j
fling it down and trample It under
foot!"
Figure to yourselves, my dears, that
I was wholly blameless in this unhappy
breaking and entering, and so, may
hap, you may lind excuse for me. For |
now, though I could have gone, I would
not. Her glorious beauty, heightened
beyond compare by the passionate out
burst, held me spellbound. And at my
ear the master-devil whispered: She
is your wedded wife: yours for better
or worse, till death part you. Who has
a better right to look upon her thus?
So it was that the love-madness
came upon me again, and that thin
veneering wherewith the Christian cen
turies have so painfuly overlaid the
natural man in us was cracked and riv
en, and the barbarian which lies but
skin deep underneath bestirred him
self and winked and blinked himself
awake in giant might, as did the pri
mal man when he rose up to loos about
him for his mate.
(Continued Next Week.)
ANALYSIS OF THE PEERAGE.
Make-Up of the British Aristocracy of
the Period.
London Truth: "Progress Is revolution
In disguise and by degrees," a well known
tory lias recently said; 'it is destined to
make the peers powerless and the poor
prosperous.” The description will remind
many of the phrase uttered by Cromwell:
"There will never be a good time in Eng
land till we have done with the lords.”
What is the value of our peerage of to
day? Lord Beaconstleld ■ answered the
question in “Coningsby" many years ago:
” 'Ancient lineage,' said Mr. Millbank, T
never heard of a peer with an ancient Mn
eagr. The real old families of this coun
try are to he found among tile peasantry;
the gentry, too, may lay some claim to old
blood. I can point you out Saxon families
in tills country who can trace their pedi
grees beyond the conquest; I know of
1 some Norman gentlemen whose fathers
i undoubtedly came over with the Con
1 queror. But a peer with an ancient lin
eage is to me quite a novelty. No, no;
the thirty years' wars of the roses freed
I us from those gentlemen. 1 take it, after
the battle of Tewkesbury, a Norman baron
was almost as rare a being in England
as a wolf is now.' ,
I ” 'I have always understood,’ said Con
i ingsby, that our peerage was the Idlest
I in Europe.’
I " 'From themselves.' said Millbank; 'and
the heralds they pay to paint their car
riages. But 1 go to facts. When Henry
Vii called his tirst parliament there were
, only twenty-nine temporal peers to be
found, and even some of them took their
seats ’ illegally, for they had been at
tainted. Of those twenty-nine not live re
main; and they, as the Howards, for in
stance, are not Norman nobility. We owe
the English peetage to three sourees—the
spoliation of the church, the open and
flagrant sale of honors by the older
Stuarts, and the borough-mongering of our
own times. Those are the three main
! sources of the existing peerage of Eng
, land, and in my opinion disgraceful
[ ones.’
I Lord Beaconsfteld might have added a
; fourth origin of the existing peerage, to
| wit, the bestowal of honors upon the mis
tresses of the kings and their Illegitimate
children. This decorous nation, therefore,
delights to honor those who hace Inherited
titles from such shameful sources;
All Over.
From Harper’s Weekly.
One afternoon, during an adjournment
for the holidays, a number of prominent
senators and representatives visited Mon
ticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.
A venerable negro acted as guide for th*
party, and the distinguished callers were
much Interested In his quaint disquisitions!
upon the place and Its memories. To this'
old fellow one of the western representa
tives chanced to address the question
whether any battles had been fought In
the vicinity- of Monticello.
"No, sah,’’ promptly replied the aged
darky,—” no, sah, not sence do wah, sah.”
Progress ot an Animal.
From the Sunday Magazine.
In babyhood his mother called him “A
kitten.” (The neighbors called him "a,
little monkey.”)
When at college he was commonly
called "a calf.” (The girls, however,
termed‘him "a puppy.”)
After he left college he became, ac
cording to his friends, "a gay dog.”,
(According to his enemies, "a beast.”)!
In business he was referred to as “a,
sly fox.” (His competitors labeled him’
"a wolf.”)
In Wall street he was “a bull.” (Justt
as often "a bear.”)
In his love affairs he was “a perfect
tiger.” (Some said, however, “a per
fect donkey.”)
In society he was described as “a
Hon." (Varied occasionally by "an
ass.’’)
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Enough Said.
From the Chicago News.
Tom—Did you ever have a girl ask your
If her hat was on straight?
Jack—Yes, once.
Tom—Didn’t you think it a very foolish
question?
Jack—No. You see we were on an ex
cursion train and had just come out otf a
'ong tunnel.’
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A Universal Hope.
From the Portland Oregonian.
It is to be hoped that next wintei.
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MARKING THE KINGS’ SWANS.
How the Cygnets of the Thames Are
Identified.
From the London News.
Last year the custom of marking the
Thames swans was initiated, and yes
terday men under T. R. Abnett, the
king's swanherd, were again engaged
on this year's brood of the cygnets in
the upper portion of the river. Six
pair of oared skiffs were engaged in
the operation, the fulfillment of which
will occupy about 'a week. It is said
that the year has been a good one, and
that the cygnets are rather more nu
merous than was the case last year.
Mr. Abnett explained the meaning
and method of ■’upping,” as the mark
ing is termed.
"We go out In six boats, myself, two
other swanmasters and thirteen others,
sixteen altogether, and we get around
the young birds by forming a semi
circle, then we gradually drive up*,
close in and catch them.”
“Much difficulty?”
"Sometimes. The young beggars ar«
very lively. But we go quietly at it.
and the old birds are very tame, and
quite used to boats and people. Still,
In catching your bird you have to* be
careful you don’t tumble yourself out
on top of it and into the stream. We
catch hold of them by the leg generally.
That does not hurt them. Then you
turn their legs up on top of their wings
and they become helpless.”
"Then what do you nick them* with—
some special kind of machine?"
“Oh, no, just an ordinary pocket
knife. We only make scratches on the
upper mandible, not very deep, but
they never grow out or wear off.”
"What marks do you make?”
"For the king a diamond, for the
Vintners’ company two nicks, one on
each side of the mandible. For those
belonging to the Dyers’ company one
nick with four tittle bars just below
It."
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