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    TISS ME DOOD-NIGHT.'
"Pfi, mamma, pease, S me dood
nigbt," My blue-eyed love, with sunny curls.
Stood pleading 'tween ber obs and tears,
I said, "I can't kiss naughty girl."
I led her to her snowy cot.
Peae, mamma, pease," she sobbed
again,
"I won t tie naughty any more."
I left her, all her pleading Tain.
I had been reared in Spartan school.
And deemed it duty to control
With rigid rule, nor never knew
That love with love should away the
soul,
I heard her sob, my mother h'-art
With yearning tilled, to soul he and
cheer.
Yet I refrained, and in her sleep
My balie still lay sobbing there.
'Twas midnight when I felt a touch
A fever'd bund lay on my brow.
My white-robed baby pleaded still.
"Pease, mamma, pease; 1 can't sleep
now."
AH through that agonizinj night
Delirious she moaned in pain.
The "ittle broken heart still begged
For kisses that I gave in vain.
At dawn the angels hovered near:
She nestled close, and smiled and said,
"I won't be naughty any more,"
And in my arms my babe lay dead.
And I am old; the passing years
Have brought no comfort in their flight
My heart still hears that sobbing cry.
"Pease, mamma, pease, fisa me dood
night." Kate Thyson Marr, in Form,
THE PRINCE OF
PEACE AT LOGO.
The day Logo was born there came
with the rush and roar of the boom tide
a Baptist missionary preacher ready to
open a gospel tent.
. A marked feature in the opcnijjg of
nearly all the boom towns of Okhinoma
was the presence of the missionaries of
the Roman and Evangelical l'rotestant
churches, contesting with the gamblers,
dancehouse men and others of that ilk for
land on which to erect buildings. At
Guthrie the "Dodge City gang,' which
was aiming to establish quarters in vari
ous parts of the town, attempted to drive
out of a choice corner a preacher of the
Methodist persuasion who bad g it there
first. The preacher was a fight, us par
son, but there is no doubt that he would
have been either moved or removed but
for the fact that a number of men who
were not much on piety an their usual
gait, came to the help of the Lrd against
the mighty. On a count of grins the
Dodge City gang concluded it would be
policy to withdraw. If they had reached
a different conclusion the history of Guth
rie would be bloodier that) it is.
- The Logo parson was called Brother
John, and the strangest part of it was
that no one knew him by any other name.
Even the appearance of the name of John
Wentworfh at the bottom of his church
notices appearing regularly every week
in the Logo Bloomer could not rid the
community of its fixed habit Brother
John he had been known, from the begin
ning and Brother John he was and is lo
remain until the end, which, I hope, is
yet far off.
Brother John was a man of good works.
He was at constant war with the worid,
th flesh and the devil. He knew that
the only way for him to reach the hearts
of the men with whom he hail to deal
was to preach Christ and him crucified.
For it is a true now as it was during all
the long and dark night of the middle
age that the men of the most desperate
valor the most warlike instinct She
most bloody-minded men. if yon will, are.
those whose eyes turn most longingly to
Calvary; who adore most, that sublime
self-sacrifice, abnegation and humility of
which they know themselves to be incapa
ble; who aspire most to that meekness so
foreign to their natures. The weak man
sneers at the cross; the strong man never.
So when Brother John preached the
cross in Ligo he struck the popular
chord. The people heard him gladly.
Sometimes ;!T night, when he heard the
shots in the street, followed by the rush
of feet find the excited exclamations,
which to'ii fht some new tragedy bad
been added to the history of the tow n, he
would rise from his bed and remn!n
in prayer f ,r hour, and often until, with
the early da.vn. someone would tap at his
humble dour to ask him to come around
and officiate at the funeral.
As Christmas drew near a new inspira
tion and ft new resolution came to Brother
John, He had been talking in the ab
stract. He would be concrete. He had
been telling, these men of the Christ life
nd urging thetn to I've as near to it as
possible. But he had not been practical
in hi methods. He had set before them
an example impossible of full and com
plete attainments, but he had neglected
to proTide means enabling them to attain
, to it, even in part, in any practical and
comprehensive way. He would urge them
to make a supreme effort. He would
admonish them, as the birthday of Christ
drew near, to make a sublime attempt to
overcome the weaknesses of the flesh.
Brother John had a pretty good idea of
what the old-fashioned Christmas season
In Logo would be like. He knew these
men, or their kind, of' old. He knew
that what are called the holidays in
other parts of the world would be the
busiest season of the year for the doctor
Md the undertaker at Logo. And his
heart yearned to make a new dispensa
tion and a new departure.
Christinas fell on a Sunday that year.
So la the istue or the Logo Boomer the
aext but one preceding the day Brother
John iueerted this notice:
"A the First Baptist Church the pas
ter will preach from the test: "I am the
ay, the truth and the life,' being practi
cal aarrfee a to how, the birthday of
(MM aaoald he speat. The pastor haa
a plan to propose for giving Logo a boos.
Clan one, come all.
"JOHN WBNTWORTH."
Toahaot" Sawyer, the greatest boon
tZJm the ftonthwe haa ever seen or
OTJrtl aae. tare thia aotiee a proaiaeat
r-st la of colama and Mst to read
,i . w. That vaa tfc ataaa ha alwaa
saying, fro aa Barter,
Jaam Wmt atJUI ft
JIM tUi (M ai Bad Lkjktt
1 sww iaaao girt from th Orlaa
'T rMl wfai it far
lint drinks of all kinds. Everything hot,
red hot.
"The 'f tars everything hot fists; at
the Oriental everything goes,
The heart of Brother John sank within
him. iln could he bring the spirit of
Christ into any community afflicted as
this'; If Christ was to 1 made manifest I
j was not the devil equally manifest in this
proclamation ot me ueo igat: tiut lie ;
was the stuff men are made of, and the J
more convinced he became that it was the
devil himself who urn challenging hiui to J
a struggle for the tidd, the Wore deter- I
inmen ne grew to win me ngnr. ms
saints in all this wicked w orld shall con-
uuer ere they die," was the refrain that
rang through his mind as he metaphor
ically buckled on his armor ami went out
to do battle in the name of the Lord of
Hosts.
He would have a week's start. That
was a irreat tbin. 1 he sermon he had
prepared for the Sunday before Christmas
would be at least four or live days ahead j
of the new dance girls aud the hot drunks
aud all the other hot stuff promised by the
Bed Light. The seed he would sow
would not fall upon stony ground. He
would have the tirst deal in this game
of cards with the I'riniv of Darkac,
and Brother John flattered himself that
he had not entirety lost the skill aud dex
terity in dealing which had characterized
his play in the Gunniaon country lefore
he saw the error of his ways. He was
not disappointed in the site of his audi
ence. It was the largest ever assembled
in the small frame building he had erect
ed on the corner lot he had held at the
muzzle of a Winchester for twenty-four
hours after the opening. The building
was not only filled to overflowing, but
it being a mild day, all the windows were
filled with eager and expectant listeners.
The morning stages had brought visit
ors in from all the boom towns along the
trail. They were there from Lido, Mar
low and Heno, from Hennessey and I'ond
Creek; from every town which in that
early day of Oklahoma history regarded
Ljgo as 3 rival in the race to determine
the location of the future metrojtolis.
"Come here to take notes on the boom
sermon." whispered Thompson Travis to
Otis Kldridge, pointing to Colonel Miles,
of Lido and "I'ony" Sanders of Heno,
who had come early aud taken front
seats. ' rears ter me taint jist the
right sort o' play to advertise your boom
pointers ten days ahead."
The reader of this narrative is already
advised of what the "boom pointer" in
the sermon was. Brother John, in his
game with the devil, had played a card
! out of 1 leeve in advertising a 1kkiu
sermon. played for a crowd, and he
had won the fir,t point in the game. And
the crowd inspired hint. He threw him
self into bis work with an eloquence, a
force and a vigor, an earnestness, an ap
pealing enthusiasm which moved bis au
dience at his will. He dwell upoD his
hope? and fears for the Christmastide.
He told of how he dreaded most the Haul
ing out of the men of wrath; how he
feared strife, contention, murder find nil
nncharitalilenens, and bow he had held
the image of Christ before them, hoping
that they would worship it not only in the
spirit, but in the ilesb.
"Oh, for a week of Christ-life in Ixgo,"
he cried, spreading his arms above his
Hock.
"Oh, for only a day of that life. We
might stumble, we might fall, but if we
rose again and pressed onward we would
be doing his holy will. He who seeks
shall surely find, though he may be long
In the search. How many here want to
be like Christ T
Kvery band in the audience went up.
"How many will try to be like him'"
Every hand went up again.
"Then every man here will sign this
contract, to run for the rest of Uiis year,"
said Brother John, as he took a paper imt
of bis pocket aud read:
"We, the undersigned, this 1SU day of
December, IS'j'i, agree for the rest of this
year
"Not to drink.
"N.-vt to fight
"Not to kill.
"Not to rile anybody.
"Not. to bear firearms.
"To be patient and meek.
'To bear insult and injury.
"To tnra the otlc:r cheek if struck."
"I move to strike out the first clause
in that contract," said Duple Dodge.
"if that goes I fear ail the rest will
follow it." said Brother John, sorro-w-fuliy.
"Not necessary," said Ihiplee. "We've
got rid of all the skunks around here, and
the men of I Ago are good for their word,
drunk or sober."
Bo the pledge against drinking was
stricken out. All the others stood, with
the distinct understanding (bat every man
living in Logo must sign the compact
When the paper had been circulated
through the audience and was returned
to Brother John he found that not a man
in the town had been missed.
"Where does the boom come in on this
thing?" asked Thompson Travis, some
what uneasily.
"The boom will come," said the preach
er, triumphantly surveying the list
"when we prove to the world that we are
capable of doing this thing."
But while the preacher bad been bnay
nd so far successful his arch enemy the
devil had not been idle. It was he who
put it into the minds of the boomers from
Lido, Keno and Marlow to appear at the
meeting. And it was certainly his evil
influence which suggested to them tht
the success of the scheme meant the suc
cess of Logo in the metropolitan race.
His nejrt suggestion, naturally, was the
advisability of disseminating the informa
tion up and down the trail that Logo was
going unarmed; that she had to the last
man swore off from fighting for two
weeks; that her fighting men bad agreed
to take insults and tarn the other cheek
when strnck.
"We una must stay together," said Col
onel Miles at a whispered caucus of the
rlaiting boomers held in the stage office.
"Bnt what the hell can wo do to break
it np? I know none o' my f el (era will
come here to raise a row when they hear
thia whole town' under a pledge not to
"OR np your rapscallion," aaid "Pony"
Bandar, meaning in the language of that
eoaatry, the men who browbeat the Inof
faaaliw aad defenieleaa, who take advan
tage of every opportunity to' bluff and
wh are ambition to cat a notch on
their gun handles whenever the thing can
b4oa without the leaat danger to thatn-
Tkt daril firat appaared to Logo la
aW a am M 2 'dock 4a th aftanMO
af tk TMadar foUowlag the atmI.
rata na f ram the old Fort Rapaiy trail
atawart Lit. Is tfca awM
there waa aa ooemaloaal rad giaaa
aad g kd Mam BfM with a yafl
which strwk upon tuany an ear in Loen
with a iuot familiar sound. Soon t!ie
horse and nd.-r ame into clearer view
and then Thnuip-a. Travis H.iuted bis
Diiuer down tlx- trad and said:
"Thar coin I.ura Viiy. hark agin."
"Iaujn me if tm't. growled Otis Kl
dridge,, Wha:'ll we do to him"?"
""What kin we do? We're under oath,
and that vanniut knows ii."
Lugo shook with indignation ar the re
turn of Lutii Pa Igett. Three nioutiis be
fore he had been run out of town for
quarrelsomeness, cowardice. bluffing.
i cheating and genera! eussedness and
i wan.i-d u-t t come bark. Sim- then be
I had been driven oi.t of a doseu tow ns, but
bad finally settled down iu Lido on parole
that is, with the understanding that in
esse of any misunderstanding be might
get into he was to be presumed guilty
until proven inmeent
Lmu fired a half doien shots as he
reach.il the Bed Light, where he threw
his cay use hack on the haumhes and took
a l.Hk at the crowd, which by this time
hail assembled.
"Why. you coyote," he yelled, rising
in his strtp. "Did sich rapscallion
as you mis think you could skeer Lu;n
i augcii : n uy. don i you Know me; i m
the cyclone of the plains, tne blizzard of
the north, the ui k cantankerousest, most
contraries!, niot iudependentest cu you
ever seen. I kin w hup my weight in w ild
cats, list light or gun play, I don't kecr
which.
"Is they a man beer?" he asked, as he
resumed his saddle, "as wants to take
me up? I ni kou not. You all know me,
and you know I'm a man as won't, be
fooled with. The best men among yoii
haj licked my boots in fear and tremblin.
Otis Eldridge is one of 'em; Thompson
Travis is another; Syl Carney is another,
and Dupe Dodge got down on his knees
once and begged me not to kill 'im. Tbey
collogued together agin me at last an'
drove me out o' here, but I've bin layin'
off to come back, and here I am.
Whoopee!"
And he fired another salute of six
ronnds, A council was immediately held
by the four men who had been named
by Padgett. They met in the upstairs
room of "Old '"!," the general headquar
ters of the vigilance committee. Kvery
man was white to the lips.
"I guess we're in fer it," groaned
Thompson Travis, "but we'll have to pull
our freight. We can't stay iu this coun
try if we take it"
Just then Frank
head up through
shouted:
"The Arkansaw
I'ieper pushed his
the tradMr and
traveler's comin'
hackr
The council rushed to the window
opening to the street, and there ssw that
the crowd had left the Itod Light and
moved down the block to a point iu front
of Old 'ill, where a long-haired and Inn-tern-jawed
individual, astride of a spav
ined steed, was evidently haranguing
them.
"I've come hack to stay as long as I
ff-el like it." floated up to the windows as
the council opened. "I wuz druv out o'
heer by a hundred men ou one, an' they
ain't none o' them men now as'll dure
to face me in battle. I don't wsnt to
brag on myself, but. where I'm the best
known, in Arkansas, they tnmble at my ! "I will." said Thompson, as he turned
name. I've come back here for revenge, ' W left cheek to the bully and drew a
and I hereby give ten days' notice to Otis bowie knife from the pocket of his Hun
Kldridge, Frank I'ieper, lien Bruce, Syt j day coat. "Now strike it."
Carney, Duplee Dodge and Thompson i "That's agin yer pledge." said Hairtrig
Travis to go armed, for at the e:id ' that I ger, white as a sheet, as he pointed to the
time I'll begin to shoot They're a lot weasui.
o' ornery cowardly sneaks, an' I'll get "'Taiu't firearms," was all the answer
even with 'em, if I have to camp on Travis made to the protest. "But why
their trail till the judgment day." don't you hit tother cheek'''
The ''Arkansaw traveler" had dis- "Yer might kill me," said Hairtrigger,
mounted and was about to go into the "an" that'd shore he a hreakiu' o' your
"Old '7(1" for refreshments, when another J pledge. I won't tempt no man to go back
volley was heard OB the outskirts of town, on hi vows."
and a moment later another horseman ! ".Mtn h obleeged," growled Thompson as
emerged from another cloud of dust, with I he moved away.
a salvo of yells and artillery. That incident aroueed Hainrigger lira-
"Hairl rigger Brady," said Svl Carney. ' necessity of doing something
"I saved his life in Deadwood once when 'h-lrale. His desperation took the
the crowd was going to hang him for ; shape of shooting a tuuday sojourner in
Khootin' a woman in a dancehouse. He s i ,ht toa 8 S- Unis drummer,' stopping
the ornriest, dirtiest ctir this side o" hell." at the Southwestern Hotel.
-Getitlemen." said the stranger, as he 'J " ,'Kii'"'' csmmiuee ordered the
stood up in his stirntps. "I'm glad to see nirxhal to rintf the lire hell fer a pub
thin welcome to a perfect stranger in vour I H1' '''-' Thompson Travis was or
midst. I was e,v'ctin' it and it kinder j ''r ,0 l,r""-' brother John before the
overpowers me like. I ve heenj o Iogo
ever sence this country opened, an' I've!
come to see fer myself what you've got
here. They's only one trouble 'lout me,
I'm too easy riled, and that's how I've
come to be called 'Hainrigger' Brady
wherever I'm known. I've got too many
notches on my stick, an' no man knows
it beter'u I do, but I can't help it when
I'm riled. So, gentlemen, don't rile me
an' we'll get along all right together."
"D' you know the pledge this town's
tuk?" asked .Martin Davis.
"Oh, heavens," said Hainrigger Brady,
throwing up hi hands. "You don't mean
to fell me Logo' gone dry and quit drink
in r
"No," said Martin, "but every man in
town's swore off fightin' an' rilin' one
another."
"Jist the place I bin lookin' fer fer
yeers and yeers," said "Hairtrigger, as
he dismounted. "Ood must 'a showed me
the way heer, gentlemen. It's a place o'
rest, sweet rest, fer a man of ungovern
able temper, who can't sleep o' nighta fer
thinkin' o' the widows an' orphans an'
broken-hearted mothers and sisters an'
sweet hearts he's made In hi anger."
About sundown of that day it waa an
nounced that the Holy Terror had come
into town on the fteno eooeb. Thompson
Travis, Blufe Reno, Allen Down, Ben
Bruce and Kyi Carney were in the '76
when Otia Kldridge threw open the door
and announced:
"Here come the Holy Terror back
agin." ..... .
The populace of Logo was by thi time
thoroughly alive to the situation and acted
as a committee of escort for each distin
guished arrival, who might be expected,
under the new order of thing, to visit
nomination and disgrace upon the well
known and recognlied fighting men of the
community. Ho a the Holy Terror turn
ed into Main street the crowd came with
nim tod it aPtomJly ch-rld M ht mounts
a dry good box hi front of the Rad Light
"Gentlemen." said the Holy Terror, "it
fill my heart with pride and Joy to git etch
a reception aa thia when I mm back U
Logo, 1 told them coyote that tied me
to the mule that night that I'd coma back
an' drink by myself an' nose of 'em would
dare aay a word. I drink by myeelf
wbea I feel like It, and if aay maa here
don't like It he know what he kia do.
Yoa knew met I'm the Holy Terre. $ I
ain't called the Holy Terror far aataiag ',
I've buried my dead la retry ftcata aad
territory waat of the Mlaaiaaiavi river, and
to-atgat the owl croak akwre aha grave
of taa laet maa that riled ft ' ;
"How," ha eaUaaaa, aaw jiaat J a
anee on his audience, "I want this crowd
to go with me ti the 'TH saloon. 1 will go
inside an' tall fer a drink by mjself. That
crowd of coyoles'i! ! there, an' if they've
got the grit to ha k up what ihey said
ttiet'H kill me f. r cctuiii' hack here an"
vioiatui' what flu-. the Social code
u' this town. I ii, . y Lave to die, but if 1
do. gentlemen, I'll !ietmeaiid luM with
htiilet holes. If not. an' they tiike my
dare. I'll whiniie u' the rowd'il take
drinks or me."
And that is bow and why Otis Kldridge
threw open the dint of "Old 'jii." where
the "coyotes were aiciiibled with the
announcement: "Here comes the Holy
Terror ba k agin."
A moment later the Holy Terror came
through the d'xir outside of which the
rod stood in client exje-luiic. He
gazed defiantly, noting particularly, as
could lie seen by the inuveuieut of his eyes,
the fact that iione of the group liore side
arms. Then he struck a tragic air.
"Cowards," be hissed. "Lveu thus am
I reienged. When you used the brute
force of number to drive me from this
town I said nothing, hut resolved to re
turn some day. at all hazards, aud to do
as I pica. It may he a law in this town
that no ii m u sluttl drink by himself, hut
no law wss ever made than can run me,
an' that's why Via called the Holy Ter
ror." '
Walking up to the bar. he called for
glass and bottle, and when these wi re set
out proiTedid to till the glass to the brim.
It was the most direct and insulting chal
lenge the committee had yet received and
Thompson Travis, w ho was himself easily
riled, w as for a renunciation of all Chris
tian life on the spot. He pointed toward
the Holy Terror and urged that he be
again deported.
"What yer promised to do if I rune
back," said the Terror, "was to kill me. I
dare ye to do it. I'll fight any one o' yon
or all o' you together."
He drained bis glass and whistled and
instantly the crowd iourcd in. To he thus
humiliated Iwforc the public eye was add
ing injury to insult, and the committee
went upstairs, w hile the Holy Terror en
tertained the crowd. After this things
went from bad to worse. The "rapscal
lions" continued to pour in. All the Fal
staffs of the plains were inquiring the
way to Ligo. "Three-Hall Charlie,"
"Dead Shot Dick." "The Alligator" and
"The Fox" and a virtual reign of terror
were all on hand liofore Christmas day
came.
That day brought the climax. "Hair
trigger" Hrady bud slap-d Thompson
Travis on one cheek and demanded that
be turn the other. It was just after the
Christmas sermon, preached by llrother
John, in which lie bad thanked Cod for a
week which had tried so sorely, without
weakeuing, the patience, the honor and
faith of the men of Lgo.
"TLe victory would lie less." he said, "if
it had been less dearly lought. Only
through overcoming temptation can we be
made free from sm. Brethren, again I
adjure you. turn the other cheek."
"Turn the tother one this way," said
Hairtriggir Brndy in front of the Ked
Light, alter he bad left the marks of his
fingers on the right check of Thompson
Travis. "I'raefice what yer preacher
; preaches."
' o" "- w-wkt appeared
one member of the vigiisuce committee
after another demanded the abrogation i
of the cimiiaet.
"Lven the city marshal." said Otis El
d ridge, "is gon" around w ithout a gun an'
takin' insults from varmints. We wants
a stop put to it." 1
"The town is swannin' with rapscal
lions," said Duplee Dodge. "An' every
man in this town is under bond not to '
hurt 'em." j
"Tbat'a a mistake," said Brother John. '
"There's one man here didn't sign the ;
pledge." '
"Who Is he'" asked a doien voices.
"I'm the man." said the preacher.
"None of yon thought it necessary, and
I hd thi very contingency in view when
1 kept my name off the list. I've brought
along the gun 1 used to carry at lomb-
j stone aud in the Gunnison and now I'm
going to drive the rapxillious out of
town."
"We'll go with you," volunteered Syl
Carney, Ben Bruce, Thompson Travi and
a dosen others.
"No, no. You're all under pledge and
I'm not. All of" yon stay where you are
and see the procession go by."
Ten minute later there came the noise
of a aerie of shots to the crowd in wait
in-
"He' found 'em," aid Byl Carney.
"He' rounding 'em op for the trail,"
aid Ben Bruce.
In another five minute the Holy Ter
ror came Into view belaboring a mule,
which was doing ita very beet nnder the
preaeure. Cloae behind were "Hairtrigger"
Brady, "Dead-Shot Dick." "The i'oi,"
"The Alligator," aad, bringing up the
rear, "Lum" Padgett, the cyclone of the
plain and the billiard of the north. Close
behind thi panting and terror stricken
cavalcade came the parson, mounted on
Moea Thompson' mole, and firing freeh
volley at every Jump. He (topped in
front of the meeting house and raised hie
hand for aUenee.
"Meeting to night at early candle-light,'
ha aaid.
"k waa a powerful meetio'," Jed Wltb
row aaid, in daaciiblag It Brother Jeha
Poored oat hie soul. He teld hew the
etreaf man Uvea in the fear af the Lord
aaa by Ood' mercy. Be deeerfbed hew
"the eeward and bad mea" had ftad at
the tret abet aad then be prayed, aad
thadaeeef thelavocatiea waa: "Oa earth
feed wfll reward BMa." . , .. i
a eeere af veieea. aad
area aa, with three i
-aaajr aud
fheat m aiiiclag
Wltam aTaejwadjaa
ANSWERS MADE TO OBJECTIONS
M
US. M A Ul'H A Ht'SIINKI.L
Cdli iie. a u eu.l cr i f the Col
ora io State Legls'atuie. ha J
I answers to three of the ede
piiMislie
jcti!iis timt f reijueiiily heard to wom
an suffrage. 1 he answers ars a fol
low :
Nu. 1 "Men w ould lose their n (ct
for women. A woman running for otlii e
would he liable to iisnault upon her char
cter, and a campaign wo'lid nci eritate
Uer coming into contact wha d:s:ig cable
and degrading coudiiiotis." Aiocwer. My
;iwu observation and exi ri. !ic-e do not
iu the bast snstaiu this lAijeciinn. The
men with whom we came iu nuiaci treat
ed us iu previsi ly the same manner which
prevails when men mid women meet in
society, in church or elsewheie. 'I'iiere
were the tames of thirty-three women
ruiididatcs on the ballot of our nsl elec
tion, hut not one word derogatory to the
Jiguity of oil) .ne of those women ap
peared, so far as I know, in any news
paper iu the State.
t "dejection No. "Woman would lose
her love for domestic avm atiotis, her chil
dren would he neglected, and home would
he no longer attractive to parents and
children." Answer: A true woman's
home is to her the tirst consideration on
arth. Very little else should be required
if the mother of young children than their
proper care and training. But the mother
uf young children is by no means the only
"on in n. Not one of the women elected
in Colorado this year baa young children,
and these women will probably enjoy as
much of the society of their families as is
usual in the average home where the avo-i-atiotisnf
ihe different members separate
them through the day.
Objection No. 3 "Women of immoral
"haractcr would lie particularly active in
politics, nnd women who are now self-re-ipi-eting
would lie contaminated hy poli
tics and Income as corrupt as the 'gang'
element among the men." Answer: The
women of tliis class in Denver declined
to register, but were nmM lleil to do so.
1ko to vote, by the "gang." Their action
hows that if left to themselves thev
would take no part In the election. The
limn! cultured, most intelligent women of
the State are the ones most deeply inter
ested and most active in jsilitics.
C'.ood Teeth and Hcinty.
Voltaire nice w rote a couplet to the
effect thill there never was an tig'v
woman with ti good set of teeth nor a
pretty woman with a Imd set. It is a
fact that nothing adds a greater chitrm
to an otherwise plain face than nice,
even while tceih. It Is a moilier's duty
as soon us her children first teetii
show eigns of decay or coining out to
lake them to a dentist nnd have their
teeth iiMeiidcd to. in tin.st cases lr-1
regularities can he put right when the
second lei'tli begin to make their ap
pearance which it-Is (Jilfh-ult and pain
ful to do when the teeth are more iirni-
ly fixed in the jaw.
r.anj decay i tin? teeth is a sign of
delicacy and an unhealthy state of ihe
stomach, which may not iiiifniiucntly
he alleviated hy proper medical atten
tion. Among the many cati-.es of injury
to the teeth we may mention the taking
of very hot food and drinks, strong
acids are also very Injurious,
is said to be had for the tceih.
Sugar ,
This is
true ir It Is taken In ton large mntl
ties, ti8 the excessive use o sugar is ,
apt to disorder the stomach and en-:
gender an acid which Is very injurious j
lo the enamel. A good Mound set oft
teetii are indispensable to healili, and
tnose uiki value gYiod digestion
fth't
consequently good health should he
careful to have their decayed teeth
stopped or extracted and to have ab-
aetit teeth replaced hy false ones, as
nothing tends to age one so much as
the loss of teeth.
nirs, jnsirp'i I c la Mar,
Mrs. Joseph De la Marin the most ad
mired American woman in Parte. The
renchmcn simply rave over her. Mr.
De la Mar la now T2 years old, has a
profusion of fair hair, regular features
aud a perfect complexion. Iu direct
contrast to the furor her beauty has
created Iu J'arla was the colduee with
which ahe waa received in NewKiri.
She. with ber bus hand, occupied the
King cottage, on Bellevue avenue, dur
ing the summer of 1KU5, and was not
received in the beat aoelety. The nu n
aaid that Mm. De la Mar wa too pretty
to be tolerated by the women. Captain
De la Mar, who la the owner of Color
ado mine, ia aaid to have a prodigious
Income, and haa lieen apoken of aa the
modern Monte Crleto.
Physical Kacrclea for Uirle.
While many people are naturallr
graceful, as otbera are try nature awk
! ward, there are few that will not be
come more aupple, etronger, healthier
and therefore better able to realat dla-
aaat by Judicious physical training. The
chief difficulty la lo maklne- a heiB.
nine. "What la tha tmat form r ....
elaer la a qjeatiea fraqueotly aaked.
Ajt4 there can ba bat otat raply, '-flncb
eiareiaa aa wSU aaratop alike all por-
I asH?
tions of the t ody." To attempt to train
a girl's miixl hy forcing her ti follow
j a Mingle line of study, as I-'i!lu or matU
I i ioatics, for el.i.ol le, w ould be no
; greater folly tliaa to try to develop her
i physically hy the practice of a single
! form of exerciw, as walking or awlng
; lug Indian clubs. For one who haa
never taken exercise systematically,
the gymnasium U the best place to
make a Iteginning. At all t tinea keep
the head erect ami the shoulder
thrown hack, filling the lungs n fully
e po" hie at each briath; make a pnc-
I th e of doing so, and before long th
chest will U-ln to expand, the lungs
will demand more air, and with the
j Wood lienor oxygenated, the eye will
row ur:'iier, uiti cuecas uiure luuuy
and the brain clearer. David Sum
mers. Able Woman Lawier,
Mi Caroline B. Hendricks haa the
distinction of lsdng the first woman
lawyer In Indiana to plead a case In oral
argument liefore the Supreme Court.
Misg Heudricka Is young In the profes
sion. She Is Hoosier born, aud with the
exception of a few months ulie ha
passed her entire life In ludlanapolla.
She has also received her education In
the acbisds of the city, excel one year
at boarding-school in New Haven.
She is possessed of an analytical
mind and always Intended to
Ik- a lawyer so that he grasps! the
first opportunity when the Indiana law
Hchool wna opened, and from It ahe
graduated List June. Mis Hendricks
has a hereditary powivssioii of law. Her
father was A. W. Hendricks, of the d!-
j titigtilwhed firm of Hendricks, Baker,
Hor.l & Ileiulcks, the tirst tiiemtx-r lie-
itig Thomas A. Hendricks, once (iover
uor or Indiana and Vice rresbh-tit of
the Ctiitcd States. Miss Hendrlcka'
father left a tine library, in which nht
has always reveled. She i thorough
i ami painstaking iu her work. The in
diaiiaiMiIis Journal of the day following:
the cn.se hud this to say alKitit .Miss Hen
dricks: ''She KMike for nearly half an
hour, quoting auUioriiy both from mem
ory and from reference like au old at
torney. Hit manner Is eartntrt and
hiisiuenslike, free from all oratorical
H!,'bt and flowery cxpn-hsintm. Her
argument was clear and concise, nnd
would have 'done credit to any lawyer."
''V:n-g n I omi-ntutioo.
When a foiticntatioti in prescribed hy
n physic dan. or when It slmll tlll1l, lit
e the tirotier thing In the emoro,...,. ,.t
evtn.fini tnlorroil ixiiio !...,.. .c .
i " i ". b iwuaei ciom
may he folded, wruiig out of hoi wtter
ami nppiui directly to the skin. Nev
ertheless, it is better after wringing
out the Hanm 1 as dry as desired to fold
it In n dry flannel cloth of one or two
tlilcknmse before applying, it to the
patient. A little time Is required for
the
heal of the foinentatloti lo tiejp1-
trate the dry flannel, and thiw the jkiii
Ls allowed on opportunity to nciju'rn
tolerance of the heal, and tt greater de
gree of temperature cat) he liortie than
If the moist cloth U brought directly Iu
contact with the surface. The outer
fold of dry flannel will also serve to
keep the cloth warm hy preventinjt
evaporation. Fomentation thoroughly
applied will relieve most of the local
pains for which liniments. lotions and
poultices are generally applied, nod an;
greatly to he preferred to !h.vi. reme
dies, since they arc cleaner n.M aid
nature more effctnally ItrrextorSii the
part to a annul condition.
Keeping Awor the Moth.
A Chicago upholsterer give thia ad
vice to the public: "i'pbobitered furni
ture mu lie kept free from moths by
taking It outside about once a mouth
and beating tt tlwrwuchly with Wrirw of
ticking HlHiut an inch wide attached to
a piece of broom handle. Khotild one
hit the wood hard with thia It, will not
war It, while the regular rattan and
wire latent nmr more parlor frame,
ruin more covers and brink up more Iu!
aide tilling than a down children could
do. The maiu reason wc have moths I
we arc alwaye going to beat out our up.
holatered furniture, but rarely ' get
around to it. Clothing, Including fun
to be stored in the wardrolie during
Nttmnier can be kept entirely exempt
from attack If pnt Into new Hour aacka,
linen aacka, or anything of that nature
and tightly tied ao that a moth cannot
enter at the mouth. Chest nerve tha
aame purpoae when tight enough to
prevent the motha from entering."
Coastant in Una Tbnr.
Fair woman taints away no more
Nor essay the pathetic; .
Hbe not the ahrinking thing of yore--
Hhe goee In for athletic. .
A full, free etrld that' aliuoat bold -
Hnceeeda tha high-heel wriggle
Bnt la one way ibe'a a of old '
She haa (be aame old giggle.
Lord Kelvin, a noted authority, re
jorta taa riewa of Ball, Langley, at al.
and declarea that the earth la ooa htaav
tfrad mUlloo year eld.
i'AUoLINK H. HEN' f KICKS.
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