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’Tis useless to try the door, , 
O pitiful wemfttt of ptn ! 1 . 
O woman, so gaunt anti so thin, 
Use vain entreaties no more. in 
O woman wltli faUely-red cheek, pi 
O woman so wan and so weak, ct 
’Tls useless to try the door. pi 
Out in the pitiless cold 
With your ragged cloak of deceit, 
Out in the curious street. 
Bewildered, afar from the fold. 
Vaguely wanflcrlmr up and down, )( 
’Mid Jest and laughter and frown, 
Afar from the safe, happy fold ! ^ 
’Tls useless to try the door. C 
They hear your faltering rap „ 
In the cheery parlors, mayhap. a 
But they’ll open to you no more ; ‘ () 
The sound makes sweet faces frown. 
For you they'll never come down 
To open thu bolted door. " 
You’ll wash your garments anew 1 j 
Ah, t.lu» stain will never come out; 
Kyes will glare with scorn and w ith doubt, 
No matter what you may do; 
The videos of young and of old 11 
Will hid you Stay out In the cold, U 
No mntter what you may do. s 
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’Tis useless to try the door, 
O repentant woman of sin ! 
All, yes, It all might have been, 
But naught can avail any more. i 
Straying foot, you cannot go in, I 
Frantic heart, you ure lost for your sin— 
They will not open the door. I < 
No matter for your few years, 
The hearts of young and of old 
For yon are bitter and cold, s 
No matter now for your fears. 
Only Cm It tut will offer you grace, I 
And pity your poor hollow face, 
When you wash fils feet with your tears. 
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THE UTAH WIVES. 
Mbs. StenhoUSF. Ims been lecturing in Den- 
vor. Col., and u paper of that oily gives the fol¬ 
lowing report of what she said, whieh, it scorns 
to us should be placed before the women of 
America: 
Mrs. STENHOtfSE began her lecture with a 
brief Sketch of the origin of the doctrine which 
gave rise to the polygamic evil, and its effect 
upon the women in Utah and elsewhere. She 
was in Switzerland at the time, and it was her 
mission to break it to the sisters there. She. 
felt as if she was bringing n blight upon every 
home, and pointing a poignard at tin- breast of 
every woman in the land. She then described 
the practical working of the system in 1 lali, 
quoting from lht ton AM VoiTXO himself to prove 
the deep, unutterable, and universal unhappi¬ 
ness caused by it. The murmurs and tears of 
the women wore unheeded. They were com- 
manded to round up their shoulders and hear 
the burden, or expect a complete end lasting 
divorce. Those who complied were promised 
rule as kings and queens in heaven; those who 
did not were to be damned. The terrible male¬ 
dictions of Young meant something. They 
knew that ho would ruthlessly apply his doe- 
t,lines of blood atonement, if necessary, and 
many a man and woman bad, for their opposi¬ 
tion, been buried in quiet graves, where they 
would rest until the day when they should meet 
their murderer, not as a judge, but as a trem¬ 
bling culprit. 
So little were women respected in Utah that 
elders had said, “ We lb ink no more of marry¬ 
ing a wife than or buying a cow.” But there 
were no wives in Utah, they were nothing but 
slaves. 
Mrs. StenhottsB then gave a new and start¬ 
ling statement of (ho attitude and expectation 
of the Mormons during the great rebellion. 
They gloried In the carnage, and predicted that 
tho males would la- killed, except a very small 
remnant, and that, then they would take the ' 
Gentile women as their spoil. They applied u 
passage of Scripture to that anticipated result, 
and believed that, seven women would lay hold 
of one man and say we will eat our own bread, 
etc., only lot u« bo called by thy name to take 
away our reproach. Her picture of the plural 
wives, their lonely, comfortless, and sometime* 
destitute condition, was touching and constitu¬ 
ted a strong argument against the infamous 
practice. 
Brigham Young was denounced as a stern, 
implacable tyrant, and his conduct toward his 
wife, Harriet Cook, cited as proof, Tliis 
young, high-spirited woman had aspired to the 
position of Sultanu, as having borne the Prophet 
the ffrst eon under the new system, but Young 
had steadily ignored her pretensions. One day 
tho child waft punished hy her and stigmatized 
as a bastard. The sting was not intended for 
the boy, but for Ids father, who was within 
hearing. He came forward and said “ Harriet, 
that is the last bastard you shall ever have.” 
And for a quarter of a century she has been a 
husband less wife. Other instances of a similar 
character were narrated. 
The fearful practice had its female support¬ 
ers of whom Eliza Snow was chief. She had 
recently published a letter purporting to come 
from a country-woman, in which the degrading 
vice is praised as beneficial to tho temper and 
Character of woman. Mrs. S. knew of one wife 
who went insane when her husband took anoth- 
er to his home, and when lie died, soon after, 
she ran out of her hovel, and with curses and 
maniacal ravings threw stones at his coffin. 
The Union Pacific Railroad came, and then 
Young gave women the suffrage, not that they 
might emancipate themselves, but because the 
ciphers should magnify him, tho only figure 
recognized of value. The horrors of the En¬ 
dowment House were then exposed, trad a Story 
told of OhsoN PKATT whieh, for ils perfect tell¬ 
ing and the world of woe it reveals, ought lobe 
published verbatim us a tract, and sown broad¬ 
cast over the world wherever the disciples of 
polygamy seek to make converts. 
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A LOVELY WOMAN. 
Heading foi[ the fjjomtg. 
THE HEIFER, THE GOAT AND THE EWE, 
In League with the Lion. 
FROM THE FRENCH OF t.A FONT A INK. 
Once on a time, when Urn world WOK new, 
The heifer, the gout, atul their shier the ewe, 
Made with the lion what'* now culled a “ ring;” 
Come, gain or loss, to share everything. 
In the trap of the goat a stag was caught. 
And before tho " rbiy” at once was brought 
To he divided, fair and square, 
That each of the four should have Ids share. 
In tho common acceptance of the term, a 
lovely woman is one who is perfectly passive, 
whose amiability Is her greatest fault. Her 
countenance is serene mid placid under all cir¬ 
cumstances, she agrees with everybody, no 
matter what ideas arc expressed, but seldom 
advances an opinion of her own ; and when she 
docs, it is uttered In that doubting, hesitating 
manner which implies a lack of confidence in 
her own Judgment. I remember a school girl of 
this lovely type, who always impressed me as a 
powerless baby something to love anil cure 
for. nothing more. 
Her face bore the same look of serenity upon 
all occasions; she never went into raptures over 
anything that was particularly pleasing, as most 
school girls do: neither did she ever grumble or 
scold upon any provocation. 
I was natch amused one day at table. Her 
right-hand neighbor was scolding about the 
meat, and, turning to her, said, “ Isn’t It taste¬ 
less stuff?” 
“ Yes,” replied the lovely girl, with the sweet¬ 
est of smiles. Presently the young lady on fbe 
left remarked that the meat was excellent, 
“Yes, it is," she replied, with the same placid 
smile. 
I used to wonder what kind of a help-meet 
this young lady would make. Yet since that 
time l have seen strong-minded, energetic men 
marry Jusl such placid Creatures, and after a 
few years, tired of such perpetual serenity, 
turn to forbidden sources for such society as 
(heir nature® craved, while the wife of such a 
man, although her hen it was breaking, would 
meet him with that same sweet smile, never 
reproaching him to the day of her death. 
1 have a different Ideal of a lovely woman. 
She is not a virago, nor as passive as u doll; but 
a woman Of good, sound common sense, who 
inm a few ideas ns well ns the man she married ; 
who is affectionate and kind but has some spirit 
and does not hesitate to show It at the proper 
t ime. .She can kiss her husband when be leaves 
the house, and give him a good sound rating 
when he returns, if he has spent the night at 
the Club instead of at home. 
She is active and ambitious; likes to be well 
dressed herself and to see her children well 
dressed. She makes her homo as pleasant and 
attractive as possible, does not say yes to every¬ 
thing, but expresses her own independent ideas 
in a ladylike manner, She Ik not always tho 
same; she is sometimes flurried and excited, 
and sometimes loses temper entirely; for she is 
but. human ; but she always controls herself as 
well as possible, and acts like a woman possessed 
of a good mind and a good heart. 
CLARA JULIEN. 
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WOMAN PERSONALS. 
Upon the carcass the I ton sprung. 
And with tooth and flaw he then began 
To divide the body, and wild, with a shout. 
" The first part's mine, without any doubt, 
“ Because I am mas tor. And 1 have a right 
To the second part, because of my might. 
1 will have the third part; that’s enough. 
If you touch ilits fourth part, 1 11 cut you up.” 
Now that tho world is old and wise, 
And wears big spectacles over its eyes, 
Boasts form no ring*. But now and then 
Wo hoar of this " Hno* ” Of certain men. 
Kuril swear b to help all, come good or ill; 
But to help self first, and tllO pockets till. 
Is tho oututnon thought. And the lion's share 
Still falls to the strongest. Of “ rings” beware. 
K. C. TMEUC'E. 
Miss Emily Fa itii full, who is now In this 
country with thuavowed purpose of examining 
anil studying our Institutions, organized, in 
ISfiO, the Victoria Press, ft printing establish¬ 
ment in which only women are employed ns 
compositors. Queen VICTORIA has smiled on 
and encouraged the undertaking. Miss Faith- 
full is also the editress of the Victoria Mugo- 
ziue. 
IN her quiet retreat at Patchogne, Long 
Island, surrounded by her books, statues and 
pictures, Madame R. Oakes Smith Is writing 
some pleasing reminiscences for Appleton’s 
Journal. In one of them she speaks or meet¬ 
ing, so long ago as 18-15, Mr. Felice H. Fanebtl 
the Italian puirlot and exile, at a party given 
by Miss Lynch, now Madame Batta. At lids 
reception she met CHAS. F. Hoffman, Henry 
T. Tuckerman, N. P. Wilms and Ml - Cather¬ 
ine Sedgwick. Madame Batta still continues 
hor receptions, ami at. one of the last we met 
Bayard TAYI.OR and wife, Mrs. Leonowenh, 
RiCHAJin Grant White, Latent Thompson, 
U. H. Stoddard ami wife, and many other 
people not unknown to fame. 
Many Englishmen of note have married 
American wives. Home of the more prominent 
oases are the following — The dowager Duchess 
of Leeds, who was a Miss Baton; Mrs. Hey- 
mol'u, daughter of Mr. Russell Sturoib, the 
wife Of Col. Leopold Seymour of the Grena¬ 
dier Guards; a brother of Lord Can i noton 
married a daughter of A. T. Stewart's Ameri¬ 
can partner in Paris; the wife of Licut.-Col. 
Pa k f.ntiam of the 301 h ltegt. was a Miss Clarke 
Of New York; Mrs. Adair of Derrymigh Castle, 
Ireland, is a daughter of tho lute Gen. Wads¬ 
worth of Genesee, N. Y„ and her aunt was tho 
wife ol Hon. SlrC. A. Murray, K. C. B.; the 
lli>n. Mrs. Lee is the daughter of Mrs. Kimrle- 
Bctlkk; Miuiame Van de Megar is the only 
child of i he lute Joshua Bates of Boston ; Mrs. 
Stewart Maitland is the widow of the eldest 
son of Lord Dundrknnon ; she is the daughter 
of the late Mr. Lynch of New York. 
OUR LETTERS FROM BOYS AND GIRLS- 
Mumps and Poetry. 
Dear Editor:—M y papa takes the Buhal, 
and we all like It very much. I love to read the 
letters that the boys anil girls write, and 1 do 
not go to school, but recite to Auntie. 1 study 
English and Latin grammar, geography, arith¬ 
metic and spelling. Then 1 read physiology, 
and have lessons in drawing. 1 hope to be n 
good scholar when I tun grown up, and a useful 
woman. 
When I had’ the mumps I wrote a piece of 
poetry, because I did not know what to do. I 
will send it to you. I am a little girl only ten 
years old, so you cannot expect me to do as well 
as Longfellow, or any other poet, would. 
Here is the poetry. 
the moon. 
In the starry sky you still. 
With your silvery light so pale; 
Shining bright 
la the night. 
When the sun Is gone. 
Peeping o’er the tree-tops green, 
Covered with a silvery screen; 
Climbing high 
In thu sky. 
O’er the stnuly lawn. 
Pale-eyed moon, we love thy light, 
Giving brightness to tho night; 
With the dawn 
Thou art gone— 
t tone but for a day. 
When the stars come twinkling out, 
'1 hou art, shining round about - 
On the hills. 
O’er the rills, 
Bending down thy ray. 
Ethel A. D. 
A Cood Grandmother. 
I would like to tell the little boys what a 
good homo I have. I am only live years old. 
My mamma is 6ick all the time, and I live with 
my grandpa and grandma. I told mamma if 1 
had anybody «Js0 for grandma I would change 
and get this one; shots the best grandma I ever 
saw. She said thut when she was a little girl 
er. I have got a nice little colt two years old, 
that I am breaking. Ilavoseen Professors York . 
and Williams train horses, and think it learnt 
me a groat deal about, breaking my colt. I go 
down to tho Sound every Fall and camp out 
wit h an older brother, and an officer that was in 
the army let us take his lent; but ho has gone 
away now, so that wo cannot have i( any more. 
I think that t shall build a nice litlle portable 
house. I think l saw In your paper, some time 
ago, mi advertisement of paper sidings and 
roofings, and have searched nil the buck num¬ 
bers that I could get, to find it, but could not. 
Now, dear Editor, can you tell me where I eon 
buy this paper to make my house out of? If 
so, I shall use that instead of boards. I shall 
he very onrefttl to save nil the numbers of the 
Rural New-Yorker. hereafter. 
John Comstock. 
What One Boy Knows. 
I like good horses, and 1 know how to take 
cure of them. My father is gono most of the 
time, so Hint I and my brother have most of the 
farm work to do. Tho boys in this county can 
find a plenty to do, and some of us have to 
walk over two miles to school. Wonre pretty 
hungry when wo get home at night. There are 
plenty of prairie wolves here and rntllesniikes. 
Wo lost a horse in harness from the Idto of a 
snake. 1 have a good chance to make money; 
my aunt wrote to me, if 1 would get subscrib¬ 
ers for the Rural New-Yorker, 1 might send 
her the mimes and keep the money. I have 
not had much time, but I have four names. 1 
want to toll the boys two things that I have 
learned ; one is, when a cow gets choked, don’t, 
punch her throat wlthastrutght stick ; nor turn 
horses out, to run il’ one Is shod. 
A. J. Mc Kinney. 
The Burning Bush. 
Mr. Editor I am not as young as some of 
the little girls and boys, nor is this tho ffrst let¬ 
ter I have writton for the paper. I want to 
ask the little readers if (hey ever read in the 
Bible about a bush that burned, but, was not 
consumedl Will you Ibid ft? Perhaps your 
mother will help you, or boiler still, you can 
And it yourself. Now, directly In front of my 
y window Is a rose bush. When we draw our 
I table for the evening, and place the lamp in 
front of tho window, tho light shines on the 
bosh, and it seems on fire; so we have a picture 
of a burning bush, yet the lutsh is not con¬ 
sumed. Lizzle. 
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PROBLEM.- No. 7. 
Toe three perpendiculars of a triangle, when 
produced. Intersect each other at a point with¬ 
out the triangle, situated 20, 8 and (1 rods, re¬ 
spectively, in perpendicular distance from ils 
base and sides produced. Required, the sides of 
the triangle. 
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her SlsUjr married, and went off ti hundred 
miles; (it took three days to go a. hundred 
miles then;) she cried, and naked her father if 
she had got to get married mid go way off. That 
made me Cry, I told her i f she had got married 
and went way off, I should not have any grand¬ 
ma. Last Summer we wont ft berrying; we 
heard the birds sing. Grandma, asked me if 
they said, “ Bobolink, what do yflu think? or 
was it. ‘ Phebe?’ ” I guessed it was “Captain 
jinks." Uncle set a trap for crows, and caught 
a blue Juy, and I bad that a while. 1 live close 
by a little brook, and if you will come and see 
me, we will flsti. Freddie. 
About n Country Fair. 
As you do not hear how t he boys are getting 
along up in St. Luwrcnce Co,, N. Y., very often, 
1 thought I would write you a fctwlincs ffrst. I 
will tall you about the Potsdam Fair. It was 
the third Fair of that Society; the receipts wore 
six thousand two hundred dollars. It held four 
days. I went wilh my poultry, nod took ffrst, 
premiums on the following kinds:- Sliver 11am- 
burga, Silver l’olands, Golden Polands, Black 
Spanish, Bolton Greys Silver Pheasants, White 
Georgian Garnets, mid one coop of mixed fowls; 
and second on Golden Pheasants, There was a 
horse called British Splendor, owned by the 
Huntington Importing Company; ho was very 
handsome. There were some nice imported 
Alderney cattle, owned by Messrs, Ruther¬ 
fords of Waddlngton. It is supposed tho four 
largest oxen in tho world were there. The 
floral hall w«s filled with fine things. The mu¬ 
sic and flowers drew a crowd around them. 
Prof. 1’eter Collier of Burlington, Vt„ deliv¬ 
ered the address. <*• b. C. is. 
A Paper House. 
Dear Editor:—I am a little boy, fourteen 
years old, and we take ihe Rural Nkw-York- 
Seale of figure 20 rods to the inch. E P “20 
rods; F P— 0 rods; D L’ —8rods. 
B. F. Burleson. 
jTEZ" Answer in two weeks. 
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DOUBLE ACROSTIC.-No. 1. 
1. A COLOR. 
2. Unrefined metal. 
3. A kind of boat, 
i. A beverage. 
5. Above. 
6. A corner. 
The initials and finals name two American 
cities. J. m. s. 
£■$/"' Answer in two weeks. 
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PUZZLE. No. 8. 
I have five letters, and am the same whether 
you read mo forward or backward. Each end 
cut off, loses me 1,000, but leaves me a daughter 
of a poet. Take my center, and I lose 500 more, 
but keeps a mother on one side and a verb ou 
the other. My 3d and 4th give a division of 
time; my 1st. and 2d a month, ami my 2d and 3d 
the current year. My center Is an arithmetical 
sign, and so is ray 2d and 3d. My first three ex¬ 
press a state of mind which may make you nso 
my whole as a lady’s address. What is it? 
Jj?/' Answer in two weeks. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS-Nov. 2. 
Illustrated Reuus No. 15.—Radiant with 
beauty, the maiden stole a parting glance. 
Cross-Word Enigma No. 6.—Philosopher. 
Problem No. fi.-22*4 acres. 
Puzzle No. 7.—Cheat. 
Anagram No. 5.— 
* l ’Tis not the plant, uproar <1 In sloth, 
Which beauty shows, and sheds perfume; 
The flowers whieh yield the most of both 
la Nature s wild luxuriance hlcem." 
