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Bible T em p eran ce .THE IHRLE AND THE WO­

MAN'S CHRISTIAN TEM­PERANCE UNION.

A A ' B A 'A M I N A T l 0 N-OF THE—

CLAIM or M ODEKN C H R IS T IA N S-THAT THE—

B IB L E IS A T E M P E R A N C E W ORK. Bv E. C. WALKER.

c o n t e n t s :PrefatoryNote; Introduction; Idst A,—Fas-

mirvs Unequivocally Condemning tho use of Wine. List ll.—Passages Commending or Enjoining tho usoof Wlnoor Strong Drink.or both, or Including a Plentiful supply of Wlno among tho Blessings to bo Bestowed upon Favored Individuals or Tribes, etc., or Includ­ing tho .Deprivation of It among tno Punish­ments Indicted upon tho Disobedient. List C.—Passages Conditionally Condemning tho useof >Vluo, etc., upon Stated Occasions, by Certain Persons upon Certain Occasions, etc. J.l«t 1).—VassngCB which IncldontuMy mention thnUsoof Wiue and Strong Drink without cither Condemning nr Commending Them. List E,—Passages Showing that Scripture Wine m u lutoxiente, Conclusion,

" E v e r y honest and ra tio n a l m orpm rnf»» fa v o r o f tem perance is to be comm ended,but th is nat(Araun(7 s tu f f ca llod 'J iib le Tem per’ «nce* is unbccmifcJe. 1 have long fe l t that th is sham ought to be p u n ctu red . I t has been done a t la s t , nn d tne.sf e ffe c tu a lly a one by the lo g ica l pen o f E . C . W a lk e r .

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“ TEACE REIGNS IN WARSAW,Ask, Is It Pence? of tho nations, and thou slmlt fornnswer bo toMt“j/ l euco is lorthoso who can buy iter, she barters her honor for gold*. -Tyrants together have sworn upon crowns and oontmnntiblotbl»gis» X ettce thull bo nought uny moro but the armed alliance of kings.-, - s,Where Is the garland of ollvo wherewith she wan shallowed of yore? \\ litre tho goodwill that of old for a frontlet of glory she wory^-. ^Surely a strange and wonderrul Peace broods over the land, :• >1 eace propped up upon muskets, u two-odged'sword In buy hand.pare to dlsputo her sway, and for battle she thirsts utui is fulu. wv ,P Dare to deny herdomlniun, and thou thyself shalt be slain. ‘ *7 7*1

tt**/Honey and oil of the olive and wheat undthe fruits of tho earth—1 hose are no longer her emblems, hut drought and disaster and dearth.Nay, but this cannot he Peace that of old to the nntlons was wed;- ' Not Peace she, butattlm dotw hetrium phsand reigns in her Mend. ?

What shall be said of her beauty with that rod stain on her brow?’ ’ w hat shall bo said of her body, and whom doth bho wanton with now?.What la her meed hut n hissing, and what but a byword her mono?— t Girt with reproach tor a garment, and robed In a raiment of shnmo.How should her worshipers greet her, wherewith Is her grace tp

be won?What Is the g ilt must bo brought, and the sacriflcu meet to be done?Offer tho oil o ft ho olive—her Horn? eyes kindle with ire:X’our out the blood of a victim, and tuou shall have all thy desire. .Ask in her tctuole for nurture, and pros* of her priests to bo fed, ?| Stones who will gho thco lor succor, and bayonets rather than bread*- -v.*Nought may appease her fierce anger but travail and torture and

toil,Nought but tho sweat undthe tours of tho sorrowing sons t>f thoeolljjTlicso ho tho gifts that delight her, these only she tnketh for toll; These and those only can quench the lnsatluto deslro of her soul.Glory Js hers and high honor o f those that oppress and enslaver M Shelter gho gives to the poor in the sheltering mouth of the grave. ^Commerce and riches Incrouso In tho hoi rank stonm of her breath l Keen is Its blast to tho tollers, and cold as the shadow of .death. ^Tyrants mnv kiss and caress Iter,.and kindle a curse at her lips; Hers is the nmno they Invoke to envenom tho lash of their whips.':All AllThercforo, sluc0 6Untiiia Is (ho portion she chooses and Is not ashamed; Since without scorn and derision her InuTotrlosmay not be mimed;Since sho has truckled to tyrants, and wantoned with cowards and

kings;Slnco oti her brow is a blood-mark, and healing Is not in her wings;NowshnlL tho people proclaim that tho day of he,* triumph Is dono. tBvcnr that her throne shall no tnoro ho set up in tho sight of the

sun;—Vca, though ther- come in her stead, or In gloom or in sulphurous

ghi ro,Warwltu ids Ii c i t IM c* eyes and a hissing of snakes J11 his huJr;Vet for the glorious sake of tho Ponce that Hereafter shull bo,AH tncu shall turn from the trnlloress,and swear of her simresto

bo froe;Slmko off her evil dominion, mnl swiftly m nkoendof her might, Rend her imperial raiment, mid pul her away from ourelght*

—L ib e rty .

T I I 0 3 1 A S . J E 1 O jrJ iR C S O N .

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A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE CHICAGO BKCULAK L'NION, l'KIt. 20, 18S7, ]1Y UKN. X. JL TIIU.MI1ULL.

Deported for tho Iudepeudent rulpit.In religion, .leit'er.son was a Freethinker; in social

theory, he was an Individualist; in politic?, lie was a Democrat; in theories of government, ho was called an Anarchist. As you anil 1 may differ on the defini­tion of the word “Freethinker," perhujis it would he best to allow Jefferson himself to say wliat he meant 1)}- it. I quote from a letter un tho duty of Free- thinking, which he wrote to ids n<ii)hcw, I’eter Carr. 11c said: '

“Shako off tltu fears of. servile prejudice, under which weak minds arc servilely crouched. Fix rea­son firmly on her scat and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. * * * * Do' not be fright­ened from this inquiry by any fear of. its conse­quences. If it ends in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the effort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise, and the iovo of others which it will procure you. If you find reason tabeliovn there is a God, the consciousness that you nro acting under his eye, and that lie approves you. will he a vast additional incitement; if that there he a future state, the hope of a happy existence in that state will increase the appetite to deserve it; if that desus was also a God, you will be contorted by a belief in his aid and love. In fine, 1 repeat, you .must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neither believe nor reject anything because any other person rejected or believed if. Your owti reason is tho only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness hut the uprightness of its de­cision.”

Here is no expression either for or against any reli­gion or form of religion whatever. It might have been written by any Christian willing to submit his faith to tho. test of credible evidence, and the analy­sis of reason, that sublime defense which the Creator has placed behind the forehead of every man to prottet him against imposture and lie.?. Yet tho musical tone of the sentiment, ringiug round tho world in harmony with universal law, tells ns that it must have been written by an Infidel. Unhappily

,£or us all, the Christian refuses to bring before tho .tribunal of reason either tho facts of his Rible, or the .opinions of his priests, lie warns us to bewnre of the foolishness of knowledge and the depravity of the •’understanding. Any church that refuses lo bring every nrticlo of its creed before the supremo court of i'eason, lays itself open to suspicion; mid the ministers ’of the gospel who deny tho jurisdiction of that court are afraid that truth will get tho verdict, nml that justice will he done. From the dawn of human reason Until now liberty has been enlightening the world, hud logically enough the cleigy, all the time, .have been trying lo put out the light by placing extin­guishers upon liberty. Tho advice of Jefferson to his nephew was the wisdom of. a liberal philosopher who knew that the man who is not a Freethinker is ^tot n.free man..| This letter is also valuable as a rebuke to those partisan idolaters who subscribe to certain political doctriues because they think Saint Jefferson pro­claimed them in his epistle to tho Virginians, or the Kentuckians, or, maybe, tho Hibernians, or the Hel­vetians. They worship at the party shrine, mid they vote the ticket early and often to prove their ontlm- ijiftsm for tho faith as it wasin Jefferson.. Tho mental servility of these devotees is condemned in the epistle to Peter Carr: ‘‘Neither believe nor reject anythingbecause any other person ever rejected or believed it.” i have always admired tho remark of u certain 'doctor who once lectured before this society. One ol the members, in critieisiug him, called his attention to the .authority of some famous physician, to which .tliaJcjftnrev replied with .someimpatienco: "I, myself, am authority on this question.’’ Self-conceit is a' marie of weakness, hut self-conlidonco is a mark of strength. Whenever anyone tries to overpower you with “authority’’ in matters of religious opinion, whether it he the authority of liibles, Korans, Apos­tles’ Creeds, or Catechisms; tho authority of synods, sanhedrims, or ecumenical councils; tiie authority of popes of Rome, or Canterbury, or Constantinople, answer with tho independent self-respect of a Free­thinker and say “I, myself, aai authority on this question; and to my own conscience alone am I re­sponsible, and not even to that for tile rightness, hut only for the uprightness of my decision.” The writ­ings and opinions’of wise and virtuous men on any subject are worthy of study; they are indeed parts of our education; hut we should never allow tho wisest of them to speak to us with “authority” in matters of religion. . Authority is always ambitions, and is for­ever striving to extend its dominion over all the inter­ests, and all the relations of men. A feeble Italian priest, of the very narrowest education, an elderly gcntlemuii who does not understand so well as the little news-boy on the street the genius of our iuffi- tution?, nor the political character of our people,scuds his authority nil tho way from Rome to domineer in tho politics of New York; and American citizens who know ten times more than lie does, actually how their heads in degrading submission to that luitliority. They do not know their own minds until after they have heard frim the holy father. There is not one grand­mother in Chicago who Iui3 brought up chil­dren in honor who is not holier than lie. And to Americans, tho grandmother is a safer political guido than any holy father or luily grandfather in the land of Italy.

Jefferson lias been canonized as tho founder of a great party, and yet lie held in hitter scorn tho putty men who lay their manhood at tho feet of the cau­cus, and hold their ballots subject to the call of party discipline, in 1780, lie wrote to Francis Hopkins and said: “1 am not a fcderali-t because [never submit­ted tiio whole system of my opinions to the creed of any body of men whatever, in religion, in phi­losophy, in politics, or in anything else whero 1 was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free moral ngent. If 1 could not go to heaven hut with a party I would not go to heaven at all.”

( 7 m hr continual.)

G overnm ents nro the foes to freedom ; Privilege and A u­th o rity are their supports; th ey oxist by the exploitation oT labor, nod by th e creation of m onopolies which facilitate tbn t exploitation; they are th e foun ta in s of social inequality and tbodestroyors of social prosperity ; e ll Hie good works ascribed to them are dona ou tside o f them, aud would bo hotter done did they not ex ist; tho combined knavery and ignorance of barbarians created them ; tho combined in te l­ligence and determ ination of th e civilized filial! destroy thorn. T he political system of try rnnny nnd robbery shall give place to tbo A uarclustic system of liberty and honesty. F riondso ttreodom ,hasten its n d v en t!-“IIouo6typ" M elbourne, A ustralia ,

F o r H ie CaiiM't.Fuiund H akman: L uciixu of Mny

Gth, te lls mo tho lmly, tho earnest fricrnl of woroiiu mnl nil Im m unity,M rs. Slcuker, is iu prison—tho la test v ic tim to crim e wiolilintf tho vicious club called law. I am grioveil beyond expression* yot I fool alm ost iilco Huyiu/7, Fm rIiuI oC it. W hy not? Vm uCmul Boiuotimes th a t somo of U ncle Sam 's millions will do som ething iu u dogroo bocom iug liu* wuu and civilized eroaturos. Such u m isfortuuo could h u t fu r th e r postpone •the day th a t reform ers can c learly seo ?uusi come, when forhonranoi? ceases to be n v irtue. W o don 't co u rt it, h u t eiuco it mi<s£ come, then lo t it. T he sooner tho be tte r, and tho quicker over. O ur very best w orkers m ust anlToc iroa t in thoordoal, b u t since they m ust, so le t it be. T iiey will e land by th o ir principles oven un to death , as do tho XiUUlats of Russia. W o cannot save thorn, mul thoy cannot conscientiously snvo them selves; b u t for all th a t tho im prisoned m arty rs su iter not iu vain. Tho sulTercd perse­cutions of tho L ucifku b aud In the past six m onths havo pu t L ucifer nnd its princip les in to the bauds and m iuds of thousands, who boforo would touch tU6m n either m ateria lly no r m entally for fear of contam ination . T h a t is enough --n llw eu B k is th a t pooplo road and th in k ou tho social aud law -authority questions involved, and a ll honest hearts nro wiilVus’in the main, though thoy may disagree sligh tly wi'.h us and each othor r.a to methods.

A w rite r snya; “W hen men go w rong woratMi m ust bo punished,*' I, too, frionds, havo been boluud tho prison bars—tho victim of a vu lgar and illilor- nto voter, o ld onongh to bo my graud- father, whose h and nnd h eart I dared reject, and so b ro u g h t dowu his vongo* nueo, while I stooi^ w ithou t a frioud or even nu aequaintanco in n s trange land. Ho know h is pow or;said i could choose between him self nm l s ta te prison w ithin a lim ited time. Aud th is nmu verified Ids boast of money power aud M asonic iuMuetico with law olHcinis by having me nrrosted on a Uatohod*up charge of nu a ttem p t on b is life, and I was denied a ju ry tria l (whioLi the Con­s titu tion prom ises to nil accused of orimo) nnd convicted, w ithout witnesses o r evidence othor thau Jus word. Law yers insolently refused to defend mo, sueor- m gly saying, “you have no friouds,’’ and trea ting m y le tte rs and lite ra ry iden ti­fiers with contem pt. T ho one w illing to tnko my e.uso d id so in iimolcuco, and snoko with h idden evil reflection on m y character, I had to pay him for it, too.I meet those soulless c reatu res daily, singly and iu pairs. They are respect­ful now, bu t I havo seen them unm asked.

Mrs. tflonker lia n a m u ltitu d e of tru e friciul3. Slio is epolceu of ovoryvvhoro, whero liberal papers art) soon, w itu tho esteem and praise she so h ighly m erits.I don’t dare hope sho will escape con­viction. li* t hor bo brave, cham pion th a t she is of individual rig h t and social reform , w hatever mny b o th eco et. Every liberal paper will gain sym pathy and ro- onforrom eut by Lor confinement, new in terests will bo enlisted, and o u r causo will streng then , as i t m ust ere it cun ucIu h v o iLh final etui.

Your radical frioud,’ IHUM AB M-AUIAOUU.

Santa B arbara, Cal.

Mr. Anthony Oorastock cau boo a nastier m ooning iu nu inr.ocout work of a r t than any a d u lt of o u r ac­quaintance, W hatever suggests tho hum an form is, to th is m an, an indecont tiling, and Lind ho held ofllco in tho days of I ’bidinn, ho would have delighted in “suppressing” tho friezoa of th e P a r­thenon. \Vhut n m ijgniilccnt contem pt ho m ust have fo r tho Jicnntious b ru te w kocrontod the Venus of M ilo!—Life.

At lo*t wo nro stack. Tho Brooklyn “ Citi* zon” argues that if everybody gets to ho well off, nobodt will want to die, and so thero will bo a great deal of grief a t the pros­pect of deatli. As things now are, there is m i innch misery iu the world that many are gbid to get out of it, and this makes it easy for thorn when the end come*. W« are wholly prostrated by the Citizen’s powerful nrgu* menl, and enn only open the window to got enough fresh air to cry out, Long live htmgor nnd horror.—John Swintoa's l'oper.

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M O SES IIAEM A N & E . C. W A LK ER E ditors.

M. HARM AN and GEO. 8 . HARM ANPUJiLISHEKS.

OXJXC P L A T F O K M . Psrfect Freedom of Thought and Action for

every individual within the limits of his own personality.

Self-Government the only troo Government liberty and Responsibility the only Basis

of Morality.

L I S T O F OUH A U T H O R IZ E D A V E S T S Carthage, Mo,—E. 8. Galloway.IV’eir City,Knus.—Dr. J . B. Cooper. Scnmmonville, Kan.—-J, McLnnghlin, Omaha, Neb.-iTnmes OrifiHh,1712 Dodge St Leavenworth, Kan.—H. II. Ilutchenson. Joplin, Mo,—.T. Ilenrichs A Bro.Joplin, Mo., (East}—Geo II, Uotchinson. Humboldt, Kan., Wm, Hath.Burlington, “ Chris. Brown.Garnett, “ O. Gretrg.O t t n w n , “ W , W , F r a z e r .Cedar Junction, Kan., J , O. Collins. Burlington, Iowa.—Corner Bcecklin.B est Darlington, Iowa.—Jam es Toft. Success. Kan.— Chas. Dinlnny,Kuliim Kan., J . M. ltten.Scranton, Kan., John F . Young. Onrbondnle, Kan., James S. McDaniel. Preston, Iowa, John Durant,M. O, Hicks, Hiloam Springs, Arlt.H, L, Joslm, Mankato, Minn.T. B. Palmer, Manning, Iowa.Kansas City, Mo., Dr. O. Bonn Marstocs,

** “ ; Carrie V. MaLotte,Now Haven, Conn., M. Franklin.

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Tho reception given by tho Oraugo- uiou of Canada, to tho Ir ish oditor O 'Brien, is a m ost lam entable common* tnry upon tho so-called civilization of th is ago. The only crim e charged against O’B rien is th a t he ploads for Ir ish n a ­tionality and for justice for tho evicted and outraged tenants ns against tho p resen t system of landlordism . F o r this erimo h o is stoned o r sho t a t in overy tow n in which ho speaks; nml if wo may judgo from tho press dispatches, tho city governm ents of tho loading Canadian c ities have shown b u t little disposition to defend tho orato r from uiob violence or to punish tho pe rpe tra to rs and abet­tors of such violent^.

We loam from tho daily news th a t O. B, Reynolds lias been found guilty of “blasphem y1* in Now Jersey and has been sentenced to pay a lino. T h u s instead of advancing tow ards la rger freedom of conscience, nml to lug lio r regard for per­sonal liberty wo find ourselves, in this la tte r half of tho 39lh century , adopting again tho m ethods of the m iddle ages. Air. Reynolds has been found g u ilty of speaking d isrespectfully of w hat is to him n m y th - n m yth th a t though doud bus not yet been buried . T o assist in giving flcputtiiTO to th is hidoous invention of p riestcraft so th a t it would no louger frigh ten and dem oralize m ankind with its deform ity—this is tho head and front of M r. Ueyuold’s offending, nml fo r th is ho has been compelled to feel tho heavy hand of tbo m odern Inqu isition .

BOOK TABLE,UOOKS IU iCElV K D .

Report of tho Knusns S ta te B oard of A griculture, for tho quarter euding M arch 31,*87. W . Sims, Secretary’, T o - ; peka, Kns.

Siu and its Consequences. Au ad* dress dolivon.nl by E . II. Beau, Esq., beforo tho American S p iritua list Alli­ance, Now York City. Jo h n W . Lovell, Compauy.

I s thoro Reciprocity in T rade? A m eri­can Farm ers and tho Tariff of 18S3; Defense of our Protective Policy, and Producers and Consum ers. Theso aro respectively “Tariff Tracts** Nos. 1 ,3 , 5 and 7, sent out by Tho Philadel­ph ia “Industria l League/* A waste of good paper.

L ittle Lessons fo r L ittle Folks. By A uut Klmiua. Now Y ork: Tho T ru thSeeker Company, In boards. Price, 10CtR.

W e have received ft fresh supply of th is excellent book fo r th e little ones. They aro from M rs. S loukcr and arc to bo sold for h e r benefit. Every L iberal fam ily in which there aro children shou ld have a t least one copy of “L ittle Lessons,” and all who can should help th e solf-baerifieiug au tho r iu her time of troub le . vr.

W I M T n e x t ?During tho past wcok a number of women

have been employed by some of the churches of this city at fZ p?r day to go about with pe­titions f i r signatures to prohibit baseball playing on Sunday, Tho council has already passed an ortllunnco, at tho request of a num ucrcf clergymen, prohibiting sports of any kind upon any j ubllc grounds, streets or alloys of tbo city, with which these gentlemen of tbo cloth are not satisfied.—Lonrcnwortb cor. of Kansas City Times.

Tho threat, or promise, of chief presiding oflieer Ellen Foster that the Prohibitionists would ‘"keep right on till they bring every man to the feet of Jesus,” seems to bo tbo motto of tlie Leavenworth cler­gy anti of their women workers. •‘Theso gentlemen of the cloth are not satisfied" with “prohibiting sports, of any kind upon any public grounds, streets or alloys of the ci­ty” on Sunday; tboy now propose to invade pnvato grounds also. If tbo boys happen to own a few vacant lots within tiio city limits, and if they think it better for their health and manhood to spend a few hours in the exorcise of their muscles in ball playing, instead of attending church or Sunday School, they must 1)0 driven oil those grounds ’by tho policeman's club—driven beyondtiio city limits lest tho sight and sound of such sacrilegious games should distract tho medita­tions of church'going people, and, perhaps, tempt somo to stay and witness the sport instead of going to hear tho sermon or Sunday school lesson._ I!y and by tlicso clergymen will lind that driving the bail players beyond the city limits will not help to till the churches. Then they will send these same women electioneer­ing from liouso to house for a law prohibiting tbo game of baseball, or other Sunday recreations, anywhere within the limits of tho state.

A writer in tills same issuo of tiio “Times”-in speaking of the agi­tation of tho Sunday question in Leavenworth, says:

Tho strenuous ©fl'orU now being mndeto prevent the playi/i# of l>a)i on .Sunday bylaw by aoltiM, who under tho guise of Christian­ity and tludv infallible knowledge of ethics, W contrary to thesplrlt of our law and tho freo- dom of conolenco allowod l*y it.

After referring tiio reader to tho times when tha church used tbo “civil authorities” to compel at­tendance upon its rites and cere­monies, Hits writor continues:

History Is simply repeating Itself. Avo not tho churches combining to aecuro a law by which they may use the arm of civil power to compel everybody to observe tho Sabbath as appears religious iu their opinion? vvo protest ugnlnst this Infringement of our fundamental liberties au<l oqual rights.

♦ * Can any ons bo deceived as to their moUvesIu this matter? Tho oxccrablo mito- dn-t'o was performed by tbo civil authorities, tho church not holding Itself responsible, but who Is deoelved thereby? Was not tho church using tho secular power as nn instru­ment to carry out Us religious tenets ami to* pvoseouto thoso who chose to havo other opinions?

Evidently tho church intends to tolerate no rivals. Tho thcatro ami concert garden, tho Sunday excur­sion, tho Sunday opening of Muse­ums and imblio libraries, baseballplaying anil like rccroationa on Sun­day aro all rivals in tho estimation of tho church,and must be suppressed by the strong arm of civil law,

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Dr. Monroo (sen ‘‘Spirit of tiio Opposition) “(huts most of the in­fidel martyrs of modern times hold­ing some beastly and loathesomo at­titude toward the sexual relations.’1 Dr. M. sees nothing immoral or “loathesomo’* in ins own rebellion against, authority in matters of re­ligion. In fact, he himself, in his paper, uses more epithets that churchmen regard as wicked and “loathesomo*’ than almost any other man in tho United States. Rut when wo claim tho right to use tbo samo freedom of speech in denounc­ing tho superstitions and slaveries inherent in tho Christian marriage) system, that he uses in denouncing tiio superstitions and slaveries in­herent in tho Christian “Plan of Salvation,” then this valiant “Infi­del” editor makes common cause with our persecutors. If to con­tend that there shall bo no “sex-re­lations” between men and women except such as aro sanctioned by mutual love, and if \ o oppose tho prostitution of the procreative func­tion, whether legitimized by a mar­riage ceremony or not—if this be to bold a “beastly and loathesomo at­titude towards tho sexual relations,” then wo plead guilty to tho charge. If to uso plain, simple language in treating of tho horriblo abuses that aro now destroying the lives of thousands of women all over our land, and that aro sowing tho seeds

of vice, criino and imbecility* for the on-coming crop of humanity to battle with—if to preach tho gos­pel of science in regard to tho most important of all human duties, pow­ers and functions as against the old doctrine that “ignorance is bliss”— if to do this is to put ourselves in tho condition of “outlaws and per­sons to bo shunned,” then, Dr. Mon­roe, wo of tho L u c if e r baud justly como under tbo sweeping denun­ciations of your late article headed “Martyr Making.” Tour mention of a “Kansas paper” containing Mrs.Slcnkcr’s letter from jail makes it evident that your article was in great measure aimed at us, although you did not havo tbo manliness to call us by name. Whether it was ignorance of tho real teachings and conduct of those who aro now being martyred for their conscientious de­fense of what they believe to be a higher code of morality in sex-rela­tions, or whether it bo malignity on tho part of tho “captain” of tho “craft” known as the “Iron-clad Age,” wo havo no means of know­ing, but tills much wo do know, that while Dr. M. holds ©ut the idea that his is pre-eminently a moral and pure sheet ho has, in this samo ar- ticlo from which wo havo quoted, printed a sentonce so shockingly vilo that wo decline to republish it, oven to show to what depths of de­famatory abuse tho self-righteous Dr, can descend. n.

J. S. Loveland in a scries of very ably written articles in thot “Now Thought” on the “Failuro a'f .Spir­itualism,” attributes much of what lie, a Spiritualist, concedes to bo failure, to the following:

W hile we hove been so fearfu l th a t ou r indiv iduality would bo trenched upon, ou r ch ildren have boon ga thered by tho tens of thousand* in to church , Sunday- schools nud society. W e have croatod no social s ta tu s a round w hich o u r ch il­dren and friends could ga ther. W ehnvo presented no g rea t program m e to a ttrac t the a tten tio n of p rogressive h u ­m anitarians. In s tead of assum tug to lead tbo though t of th e ago—to show th a t S p iritualism is fundam en ta l to all

, forms of philosophic though t, nud social evolution a nd progress, wo havo w asted our energies in sneering n t soience, and tabooing tho discussion of im portan t re ­form atory questions as no p a r t of S p ir­itualism .

To a very largo extent this charge is true in regard to Secularists, Free­thinkers or Rationalists of every grade. Wo depend too much upon tiio public school, upon books and papers, and upon individualistic effort, and fail to avail ourselves of tho rtrength that comes with or­ganization. Wo all know tho pow­er, for good or evil, of early im­pressions, and vet wo send our children to Sunday schools under the delusive impression that they will not be inlluenced by tho false­hoods and suporstitious notions there inculcated. Wo havo heard good, honest and earnest Liberals talk liko this:

“Oh, well, lot the children go to tho Sunday School. I got my first start'in Frcothought by listening to tho absurdities of tiio Bible as taught in Sunday schools.”

While to tho well balanced intel­lect there may be but little danger of contamination from listening to such teachings, yet to tho child of emotional naturo tiio effect must necessarily be disastrous.

Again Sir. Loveland says:Organize everywhere. T he m ore sim-.

p lo tlm fo rm the be tte r. L e t there be a regu lar con tribu tion , if no m oro than a nickel ft week. U se i t to sp read tho light. A nd, when all tbo sm all bodies becom e affiliated in ono cen tra l body, we bIiaII see euck au onw ard m ovem ent as wo have never d ream ed of beforo,

What say you, sister and brother Liberals? Aro not theso words of wisdom? ii.

a i iuv cu rric isM s.I havo num bered certa in sentences iu

A. W urreu 's reply to ,M rs. Fow ler,w hich, I th ink , call for a fow w ords from rue.

1, I judge th a t m ost of thoso who read Mr. W /s a rtic le iu L ucifer of M arch 11t concluded th a t he re ferred to me ns one am ong thoso who had not yet “conceived of tho ho ly ghost of freedom /’ B u t i t is im m aterial.

2. M y contention is th a t tho “freo” as­sociation in which tho freedom consists m erely iu “not te lling ’’ w ilt never win for u s tru e liberty in sex re la tions. Such freedom as th a t is n o new th iug , and s till society is fu ll of corrup tion and men aud women aro staves to custom aud tho sta te . I t tnkos stud ied effort to keep such re la tions secret, nud tins makes them clandestine and su rrep ti­tious, M r. W /s lluo w ord p lay to the co n tra ry notw ithstand ing . T ho rig h t to be won is th e rig h t to livo together (if the

parties choose), w ithou t deny ing o r a f ­firm ing any th ing . T h a t liv ing together m ay be a m a tte r o f convenience in b u si­ness, i t may bo d ic ta ted by friendship , it m ay be fo r 6exual association, o r i t may be fo r all these purposes o r because of kll those reasons. So long as a man m ust guard against su rp rise o r spying when a tten d in g to his own affairs he is not free ,

3. U ntil wo shall liovo won th e rig h t to live and w ork toge ther (if we choose) w ithout d an g er of fines and im prison­m ent if wo have failed to com ply w ith certa in red -tape regu la tions, wo m ust e ithe r no t love a t a ll o r love c landes­tinely, i. c., wo m ust not associate w ith those of opposite sex or we m ust care­fu lly conceal the fac t of such association. Theoretically , wo have a rig h t to con- ceol theso th ings, b u t practically it is im possib le everyw here save iu a fow of t h e la rge r c ities. There can be no p erm a n en t happ iness w here ono m ust b e 1 continually ou tho w atch against sneaks and police officials. To so live is no t to be free, b u t is to be slaves to those iu “au tho rity above us.”

•1. T he Benso in which, ns I th ink , all A narchists and M utualists uso tho word “con trac t” i9 th a t of consent o r agree­ment. T h e con trac t m ay lie w ritten or oral, expressed o r im plied, fo r a long o r a sho rt tim e o r for nn iudefiu ito period; it m ay or m ay no t bo a tte sted by w it­nesses o r sw orn o r affirmed beforo fi uotnry,—nil these are inciden tals, th 0 j essential fact is th a t two o r moro per­sons have found a m utua l net p leasu ra ­ble in somo o r m any ways. M r. W ar­ren enuuot even buy th e paper upon which he shall w rite h is next artic le for L ucifer w ithou t en tering in to a con­trac t w ith Ilia s tatioucr. O nly goveru- m entnlists enu consisten tly repud ia te tho word contract, fo r only whore th e re is m u tu a l consent can th e re be a con­tra c t, and ns governm ent rests upon iu- vnsive force, thoso who defend the S ta te cannot ho expected to look favorably upon n w ord w hich im plies tho consent of a ll the parties to the transaction . B ut why M r, W . shou ld object to the w ord I cannot understand .

C. I t m ay n o t bo necessary th a t Mr.W . should live w ith any one, b u t ho has the righ t so to do if ho chooses, and the opportun ity to exorcise th a t rig h t should be free to him , us to all o thers B u t th e re a rc very m any who find it neces­sary to th e ir happ iness to live w ith thoso they love, nod M r. W. shou ld no t pro-

, sumo to say th a t, m erely because of th is necessity of th e ir na tu res, they are less devoted friends of L iberty th an ho him - self is.

W hy M r. W arren should say th a t M r. Iln rm nn “eomod tho phrase ‘freedom of c o u lrn c t /” is beyond my com prehen­sion, A ssuredly , he m ust have been fn- n rilin rw ith th a t phrnso long years be­fore ho oveu heard of M r. II . I know th a t I used i t years ago, and it is of fre­quen t occurrence in tho w ritings of m any o lder Ind iv idualis ts . w.

E d i t o r i a l N o I c r .I M r. llow io tt says th a t he bolieves in freedom so long ns we do no t in terfere w ith tho rig h ts of o thers . B u t does he n o t behove iu freedom a fte r we in te r­fere, also,—the freedom of th e invadod “others” to drive u s back? Freedom does not exist whore tho rig h ts of the hum blest a re uot rospectod.

E lm iua m ust not be d iscouraged by thoso who say th a t reform s come of them selves, th a t no th in g is gained by work. Such assertions a re only ex­cuses for idleness, sh irk ing aud cow ard­ice. In th is stage of developm ent the hum an b ra in is tho m am fac to r in the evolution of progress, lndeod, so com paratively s lig h t nro th e combined effects of a ll o ther causes, th a t wo may safely say tha t reform s como on ly as m en and women strivo to chaugo the cond itions in to which they were bora.

Yes, friend N aegeli, Gov. M artin is n p roh ib ition ist, n “R epublican p roh i­b ition ist." 11b opposod the principle u n til ho becam e certain th a t i t was to bo tho settled policy of the p a rty and th a t those who opposed it to the extout of acting independently could not “get there ,” nml th eu he cam e back to the fo ld nud—19 now governor!

I I M .D . is m istaken in regard to what he considers tbo 'fa ilu ra of Infidel w riters to note the g la ring contradiction in tho two accounts of the first 12 years of the life of Jesus, as given by M atthew aud L uke. N early ftU th e w riters whoso works I have read and who have dwelt a t leng th upon the discrepancies of the gospel accounts, have p u t th is in the lis t of the m ost m arked and irreconcilable.

Tho T opeka “ Com m onw ealth," speak­

ing of th e new act fo r th e regulation of th e m anufacture , transpo rta tion aud sale of explosives, passed by tho Illino is leg isla tu re , takes occasion to add :

I ln d i t also provided fo r the immedi­ate hang iug of the A narchists already condem ned an d sentenced, it w ould havo been well.

No, i t w ould n o t have been well; no p roof h as been p roduced to show th a t auy of th e condem ned E ig h t had any­

th in g to do w ith th e so-called “Huym ar- k e t m assocre." They w ere condem ned and sentenced by tho press, n o t for w hat they hud done o r advised to be done, b u t fo r th e Socialistic) views they had expressed. Seven policemen hud been k illed by a bom b throw n by some­one,nobody knows who,—at le a st nobody who w ill toll,—and the b lood atonem ent m ust bo made. T h e real cu lp rit cannot be found , and so e igh t of th e loading ag ita to rs of th e c ity aro seized; they will do fo r the sacrifice, and i t will be easy to convict, for thero is a s trong popular p rejud ice against them ; th e y a re con­ven ien t scapegoats to bo sen t away in to tho w ildernees of D eath bearing tho sins of th e Unknown.

New Y ork kopeB to soon havo her m u­seum s open o u , Sunday, fo r p a rt of tho day, a t least. T h o D irectors of tho A m erican M useum of N a tu ra l H istory say th ey w ill open from 1 to 6 o’clock if they aro given nn add itional $15,009 per year. T he “T ru th Seeker” 6tates th a t it is tw ice o r th rice w hat the extra eorvice will cost, b u t i t is presum able th a t the officials w ant 6om ethiug to salvo their consciences, fo r you know they th iuk it w icked to have the institu tion > open on Sunday , no m u tte r how m uch money they ge t from th e c ity I 6

O rthodoxy seem s to be abou t tho same on th e Pacific C oast as i t is here in the M iddle W est. W o learn from the San F ranc isco “C hrouicle” th a t w hile S. P , P u tn am was lec tu rin g a t U kiah u few evenings ngo, one H am ilton , a citizen of “h ig h stnndiug ,” becam e so angry aud excited th a t he aror.e and in te rrup ted M r. Pu tnam , end ing h is perform ance by th row iug a ligh ted lam p a t the lecturer, and leaving th e hall m adly w hirling a n ­o th e r abou t h is head , T lie first lump s tru ck and b roke tho chandelier, missed M r. P u tnam , an d going th rough a w in­dow, exploded outside. T he second sca tte red drops of (lam ing oil over tho audience, b u rn in g tho dresses of several lad ies. V ery fu rtuuately , i t d id uot r e ­su lt iu n conflagration, a lthough iu tbo pan ic several people wore in jured. W heu th e love of god is deeply im planted in tho h e a r t of th e citizen of “h igh stand ­ing/* tho righ ts, liberties and lives of his ne ighbors a re a p t to appear very small in h is eyes.

O f course M r. H am ilton throw the lam p a t M r P u tn am because he could n o t ju s t thou th iu k of any otbor way to answ er th a t goutlom au’s argum ents. F o r precisely tho sam e ronsou we have boon th rea ten ed w ith mob violence and have fe lt upon us tbo c rue l power of invasive etututea. Aud for the sam e reason we are now confronted w ith th is u tte rly baseless charge of obscenity. Bigotry* ignoruuco of N aturo and intolerance con­s titu te a trin ity of curses which w ell-n igh m akes th is earth w liat tho old-fushlouod Christ* iau su se d to call i t, “a valo of tears” and nu “abode of so rrow /'

Wo lire prosecuted for using a L atin te rm ; Mrs. S lonker, for adhering to tho p lain E nglish . W hat do th e censors w ant? Are they so d is-untured aud co r­ru p t th a t the ir reproductive pa rts aud func tions havo become, to them , sham e­fu l and degrading, so m uck so th a t they w ant to send to prison all who are hon­est and pu re enough to call a spade a spade? A nd yet the vast m ajority of these inqu isito rs who are so v irtuously in te n t upon im prisoning sincoro investi­ga to rs have no scrup les against using in o rd inary conversation, in n b lackguard wny, a ll these inh ib ited words. How is th is? Is i t allow able to u tte r in vulgar je s t words w hich nro m ade cause for prosocution and im prisonm ent when used In th e course of au iuqu iry in to tho causes of the w rongs and m iseries which atllict hum anity?

F ro m tho appearance of the w ritiug upon tho wrapper, we judge that Mr. P u tn am sent u s th e copy of tho “Chron­icle” above-m entioned. W e are nit w orking fo r the enlightenm ent imd die- en th ra llm en t of tho race, aud all such item s nf news aro welcome to ns, bu t we cannot forget th a t du ring all uur troub les the Secretary of tho Amerionu Secular U nion never once, b o fa r ns wo have seen o r heard , lif ted I119 voice iu p ro tes t against th e outrageous invasion

of ou r rig h ts by th e Pectarion bigots. Aud ne ither has he 6aid an) th in g about the Comstock prosecution which followed the m arringo persecution , a lthough he is known to be a radical in his views re ­garding, th e freedom of publication . B u t he accepted oflice in nn organization w hich had com prom ised its principles for tho sake of securing a la rger con­stituency, and no t m uch really valuable, pioneer w ork can be expected from him.

T h e spirit- th a t prom pted tho th row ­ing of tho lum p a t th e bead of S. P . P u t­nam aud which led to tho prosecution of C. B. Itaynolds fo r “blasphem y," is tho iden tical sp irit of A u tho ritarian in to le r­ance which sent L illian lla rm an aud mo to ja il and which is frantically s triv ing to consigu M rs. B leaker, th e H unnaus and myself to tho peuiteutiary . D oes Mr. P u tnam know th is, and if he does, why does ho not say so? H o believes in the un ity of th e universe, in the u n ity of tho race, and is not tho unity , the Ouenoss, of all reform s, equally appar­ent?

Tiie rep o rt of the C incinnati Vico So­ciety, w hich wo rep rin t in tho O pposi­tion colum n, takes tho palm for dow n­righ t falsification. Think" o f th e m en­dacity involved io calling M rs, S lonkcr ‘The m ost depraved woman in Am erica!4'

This m an M cAfee says th a t sho has w ritten and pub lished some of tho “ vil­est lite ra tu reever know n.” Iu w hat con ­d ition is tho m ind of n m an who can. say th a t of tho p roductions of such a hum anitarian w riter us E lm iun Slonkcr? H e m ay n o t agreo w ith h e r A lpliito philosophy—I do n o t - b u t only mi ob­scene m ind could irmko tho statem ents th a t he docs concerning hoc conscien­tious s tudies iu sexual scionco.

O ur A lma C ity correspondent likes L ucifer because i t is L ib era l aud don’t like it because it is too L ite ra l. l i e is a fra id of “A narchy aod Freolovism ,” but i t is Biipposablo th a t ho does no t define theso term s ns we do. Wo shah send him th is paper and now request him to giv t us his idea of w hat we moan when we avow' th a t wo aro A narchists. \v,

llw h iiu g o T ab le .“H onesty!” T h a t’s ag o o d n am o f o r a

paper, and i t is borne by the A narchist journal w hich comes to us from M ol# bourne, A ustra lia . I t has tw elve pages, two wide colum ns to tho page, and tho typography and p ress work aro good, very good.

Theso p a rag rap h s from its prospectus will give a fa ir idea of its principles and purposes:

“ Honesty” will zealously guard tho liberty of the individual, and will oppose tho in­fringement of oae’a liberty by that of an­other. I t will rest satisfied with nothiug short ot individual sovereignty—tho equal liberty of each, limited alone by the like lib­erty of others, or in other words, unlimited liberty,

“Honesty” will champion tho cnuf*e of equity. I t will oppose every form of privil­ege and imported authority, every form of monopoly, every form of slavery. It wiUmako no compromise with the slavehold­er, but demand equality of opportunity for every individual to obtain froo access to natural resources, and to labor upon them for Ins own wolfare and support.

“ Honesty” will unmask and opposo every scheme, which has for its object the robbery of one class by another, or of individuals by others. “ Thou shall not steal” will be its watchword: and it will fearlessly oppose both Church and Stato in their systematic ignoring of this lofty maxim while preload- mg to indorse it. I t will carefully oxplain to tho unforlunato workers iu the social hive tho prevailing methods of exploitation of tho laborer by menus of rent, interest, profit, and taxation; and it will ruthlessly tear aside the veil of sophistry in which craft bns envelopod privileged indolence.

T here aro able artic les by D . W Brookhoueo, J u s te A n M ilieu and W . 0. A ndrade; selections from P roudhon and o thers, and a g rea t varioty of notes and sh o rt criticism s.

“H onesty” is a m onthly, and is sent postpaid fo r 3s, Gd per yonr. In c lud ing le tte r postage and money order, it will cost S I.10 to bo supplied w ith “H ouesty” for one year. W e shall be glad to order i t for any of o u r subscribers.

W e give m ost hearty greoting to our A narchistic contem porary on the o ther side of the g lobe. M ay i t live long and p rosper in its h onest work,

“The C redit F oncier of S inaloa,” of M ay 17, contains the second olllcinl re­p o rt of tho Company, Among other th ings, wo find in fu ll the charges and specifications b ro u g h t against ou r friend, L . H . Hawkins, w hich resu lted iu bis ex­pulsion and tho fo rfe itu re ot b is stock. I t is generally believed th a t there are a t lenst two sides to every question ; in th is report wo have ouo side of th is ques­tion .

On M ay 17 tho B altim ore “S im ” celo* brntod its fiftie th nnniveisary by sending ou t a supplem ent containing a sum m ary ot th e principal events in its journal! stic life o t half a century, and also a fa e s im ile reproduction in m in ia tu re o t a page ot its first num ber aud ono o f its anniversary issue.

E lizabeth C. S tan to q ’s le tte r from E ngland , “J a ils and Jub ilees,” In “Open C ourt” of M ay 14, and from w hich we quoted la st week, is n tim ely e.rjyose o t th e m iserable toady iug o f E ng lish and Am erican flunkies a t tho feet ot a woman whose fam ily absorbs tbo enrniugs of J3 ritish sub jects w hile th e people l i r e iu squalo r and m isery, aud who is now ac t­ively coun tenancing tho penny and pound con trib u tio n businoss, th e ob­jec t of w hich is to b u ild a costly m onu­m ent to P rin ce A lbert.

T he “L abor O rgnuizer,” lato of K ansas City, Mo., lius been consolidated w ith the “L ab o r E n q u ire r,” D euver, Colorado. H a rry C. *Vrooman, ed ito r of L ab o r O rganizer, is associate ed ito r of tho con­solidated paper w hich now comes o u t as an e igh t page weekly. B urne tte G. H a s ­kell, form erly ed ito r of Ban Francisco “T ru th ,” is ed ito r iu cbiof of tho “L ab o r E nqu irer.” W e regard th is ns ono of tho ab le st of a ll o u r lab o r exchanges.

“ Sunshino” is “devoted to the in te rests of M edia aud M odUtmship.” Six of tho sem i-m onthly p a rts aro bound togothor, m aking a m agaziuo of GO pages, ID cts. Ph iladelph ia , Pa . w.

T o S imIii Ilullcj* Towlci*.B efore reply ing to y ou r la st lottor,

(L ucifer, A pril 8th) I w ish to co rrec t th ree typographical erro rs in my form er one, pub lished M arch 11th. In the la st lino of tho 2nd parag raph , a fte r would, insert “soon.” Iu tho 11th aud lD th liuos of tho fid parag raph , fo r the ir children, read “the child .” In th e S t l i lino from the sam e paragraph , a f te r earnest, in sert “ tliougUt.”

I am som ew hat disappoin ted iu your la st article, in th a t you saw fit to p o st­pone o r evade tho questions th a t w ent to tho root of the m a tte r in controversy, and contentod yourself with some fu r ­th e r personal apologies for W alkor and H arm an, and som e personal criticism s of my poor self. As to your ideal in d u s­tria l home, i t has n o t been my in ten tion to criticiao’it ; for, being proposed as an a id iu tho w ork of h um an em ancipation, my sym path ies have been iu its favor, aud no th in g would p rom pt me to oppose it, b u t to learn th a t i t is to be based on a foundation essentially incom patible w ith its doaigu.

Y our charge th a t the o ther In d iv id u a l­is ts w ant L u c ife r to say “Wo in ten tio n ­ally disobey tho law ,” seoms to mo wholly unw arran ted . C ertninly, I have ex ­pressed no such wish. I t breaks no law to re frain from m arriag e . W knt I have advocated is th a t wo avoid parting w ith o u r freedom voluntarily . Tho “F re e ­dom of con trac t” seem s (o me merely tho freedom to a lienate uu “Inalienab le righ t.” W hat freedom does thoooutrac t th eo ry prom ise? I f the so-called con­tra c t is to have no b in d in g quality , i t is a fraud and a farce. I have not denied the rig h t of parties to m arry by con­trac t; b u t why wusto am m unition fight­ing for a b a rren rig h t, especially when th e re is no hope of w inning tho b a ttle? I t is no t a fight for froedom , and a w il­lingness to en d u re tho suffering i t costs is no evidence of devoliou to the cause of freedom . T h e re is plenty of evidence th a t com rade W alker is n genuine friend of freedom , b u t his m arriage, and conse­quen t suffering, a re no p a r t of th a t evi­dence. (1.) I d id n o ts a y t lm t ho has n o t yet conceived of the holy ghost of, freedom. I intended tho rem ark fo r no ono in p a r­ticu lar, and noon© need app rop ria te it, unless it be M r. H an n an , wiio coiuod the pbraso “ Freedom o f contract.”

Of course, you nil have the rip lit to differ w ith mo. You lmvo n righ t to give your wbolo s tren g th to the m aintenance ot the rig h t to ge t m arried by contract; bu t when you go fu rth er , and dem and that I help to fu rn ish tho sinews of war, on the ground th a t wo are nil alike in ­terested in tho rosult, you r notion seoms to mo a little queer; and. wheu you go fu rth er s till, and thronlen to disown mo fo r proposing to d ispense w ith ovon the contract, and every o th e r device th a t my experience has tau g h t mo to recognize ns a yoke, i t seem s m ore and moro queer. B om oot you belong to a secret o rg an i­zation of free lovers, an d som e,if n o t all, of tho m em bers o t th a t organization bo* lievo in the “V arie ty” theory . T his class do not, ns a rule, p u b lish their love uffairs. T hey know th a t iu their case it would bo a m ischlovous k ind of non* sense to do so. W hat s trik e s me as the queerest o t ah , !s th a t a n y one o f these should help to swell the c lam or og a in s t “Secret love r e la t io n s ” I do not charge you w ith being a m em ber o t tho order. You have a r ig h t to abuse in© all you please, because i t seem s you do not ad ­vocate “Varioty,” and presum ably do not favor m ore than a lim ited freedom . T his is why I ask you w hat abou t loving two o r m ore a t the sam e tim o. I observe th a t you prefer no t to answ er th is kno tty question, ju s t now.

W ell, it is a ll r ig h t; I will excuse you, and even th an k you fo r th e in tim ation

tha t, iu y ou r (fraud iil*nl home, th e re will b© lio need for m ak­ing love re la tions public . A ll w© differ, then, is iu th a t I see no need of i t now. I regard love ns a m attor n o t to bo published . (2.) To me it seems th a t, to go about rovealiug one’s pri- vnto affairs is to betray a weakness in th e m enta l m achinery. Thor© is n o th ­ing “clandestine,” o r “surreptitious,” in m ind ing ono's own business. Those words im ply disobodienco to rig h tfu l au tho rity and an infringem ent of tsoino- body’s righ ts, (fi.) To stigm atize lovo as claudostine, o r su rreptitious, is to deny the r ig h t to love except by perm is­sion of au th o rity above us.

A ll I seek iu th is controversy is a fa ir understand ing . I f you are opposed to entiro freedom , o r if you chooso to con • tend only fo r p a rtia l freodom, aud will p la in ly eay so , I have no desire for fu r ­ther argum ent. W© w ill quietly p a rt com pany, of course; fo r I tun for uncon­d itional em ancipation, and cannot pose before th© w orld as au advocate of au- touom istic m arriage, o r any otbor k ind of m arriage. (4.) I claim the righ t to lovo w ithout nuy con tract whatever, ami w ithout au> body’s perm ission or know l­edge, except th a t o f my lovo. (5.) I t is no t nocesflury th a t we live together, oithor in the isolutod or th© combined house­hold. AU th e holy m inistrations of genu ine love cau be oxchmiged, and the re la tion can be am ply honorod, w ithout liviug uuder tbo sam e roof, and w ithout nnrad iug them before the world. T he living toge ther, and th© m erging of in ­te re s ts , are w hat consnm o tho love and wreck tho happ iness of nearly all, uuder the old system. T here can bo no “d i­vine” bu ild ing cou&tiuctotl w ith these ro tteu tim bers. Com m unistic homos have been tried fo r much m ore tlinu “a thousand years,” and have alurnysproved th© graved of bo th freedom aud loro. A com m unistic homo, of lovo and freodom, cau exist only by a miracle. I f you, my sistor, can succoed in establishing such a com bination, your nam e will be iiaudod down to posterity us the real savior of tho world, and Je su s C hrist w ill have to tali© a back sea t. In tho m eantime, lost your “div ine bu ilders” got tirod ou t beforo tho w ork is done, I hope to bo pardouod fo r im provising a “d ugou t” for myself, and assisting a few othors to do th e sam e, so th a t wo may a t least b e iu o n a rcb s of all we survey, w ithout being e ither herm its o r barbarians, d e s ­po ts o r slaves. W hat would you have moro outspoken? As to which is host, o r w hich rosts upon the exploded theories of tho past, it is a m atter abou t which opinions aro liab le to differ.

A. W a iv e s .

IHTcmlcd*S ta tu te and society m oralists are m ak­

ing desperate and n o t en tire ly ineffectual efforts to suppross aud , prevent froo speech aud action. Tho la st blow hav­ing s truck ou r fa ith fu l veteran, A unt E lm ina, i t becom es tho im perative d u ty of us younger ones, who have boon w orking loss d iligently , to toko our places p rom ptly and firmly by hor side, aud prove, if only by a fow words, how m uch wo appreciate her earnest ondoavor to probe tho social cancer to tho core, and rem ove tho tho rns from the paths all com ing generations m ust travel.

T hose who aro study ing tho social p ro b lem have decided, to a person a l­m ost, th a t tho sexual o rgans a re n a tu r­a lly as pure os any o ther o rgans of tho body, a lthough wo liuvo boon tuugld th a t they m ust bo k ep t in perfect secre­cy mid that tho m ere m eution of them is to ta l depravity. Reform ers aro w ork­ing earnestly to remove those erroneous ideas, aud to elevat©t tho functions and knowledge concerning tlioso organs to a h igher plane, aud to prove, logically, th a t they ehouhl bo oarud tor, talked of nml though t ot tho same as o u r lungs, m ouths, stom aohs, eyes, or nuy o th e r organs o t the body, Tho ob ­jection to A tm t E lm ina is,tha t she wishes to call theso organs by the ir E ng lish names, which, as yet, aro no t used in p rin t. T he brnvoBt and tru e s t reform ers feel fu lly justified in try ing to rodoera tho sexual o rgans from tbe ir un justly degraded positions, b n t thovehriuK from using th e nam es by w hich they lmvo been known. How can tho nam e bo any m oro obscene than tho object?

I suppose if ou r organa of s igh t and of tnsto had ever boon hold in tho deep d is­grace th a t th e organs ot gonoration lmvo been, and if we wore now m aking efforts to restore thorn to the ir proper p laces iu tho estim ation o t th© people, A unt E lm ina w o u ld lmvo been arrested and p u t iu ja il for sending th rough tho m ails th e words oy© and m onth.

(lEOROIA ltET*LCXlL& roccmKF.nraiE, N, Y., M ay 18.

T o ITTomN.Tho tim e 1ms como when Scientific

T ru th m u s t cease to be th© p roperty of the fow—when it m ust be wovou in to tho common Ufa of the w orld .—Prof. Agassiz.

Tho book D iana—the a ttem p t to in ­culcate tho princip les Of w hich by means of p riva te correspondence h a s caused tho p resen t com plication of affairs—is fo r sal© by tbo publishorn of L ucifer, I w ant a ll my friends to o rd e r a copy and road i t well.

I t lms been called “Tho F ree Lover’s I’rayer Book,” yet it is w ritten expressly fo r tho m arried . I believe it i ts advice were followed happy homes, happy he­red ity and a pu re m orality would over­spread th e earth . Only 2D cents will open up a now w orld for you.

A w orld w here lu s t, p ro stitu tio n and tho long tra in of diseases th a t follow in tbeir wake w ill no moro bo found. Tho

book is in its th ird edition, so you need not fear b u t it is safely mailable.M ay 4, 2S7. E lmixa,

f ro m Jtlr*. M cnLor.D eaii F r ie n d ; I got home W ednes­

day, tho l l t b , b u t hnT© n o t been well enough to w rite hulf I ought. Homo don’t 6ecm home now w ith all against me.

You all pull together in your trials, uud th a t gives a fam ily sup p o rt th n t will carry ono th rough alm ost nuy trouble, B n t I am u tte r ly nlouo, old, fooble, and m ost worn out.

Som etim es I doubt if I ’ll bo nblo to s tan d tria l, o rw illliv© tiU thou ,(Ju !y 12).I thunk the© for good words, and W . and all of yon. I know iu all couscionco L ucirE R aud “W ord” could no t go back on me. t a r n no t euro of others wheu they know nil.

As to tho story, do w ith i t ns you please. I give you nil righ ts, and only reg re t i t is no t nsoxual story. I f 1 como o u t a ll rig h t 1 will w rito a soxiinl one I

I ’lonee send mo a fow of L u c irc u with your rem arks on my enso. I w,iut them for friends, nnd ot n U fu tn ro issues. I ’U' m ake i t square if le a n . If 1 mu used tip you m ust lose it 1 Of M ay Gth is tho papers I w ant most.

Bo fow will s tand by mo th a t I prize nil th e m ore those who do.

M r, B. bailed mo ou t. F riends iu Now York were preparing to do so lmd ho not done it. E lmina IX S lunkku.

IX B.—f i r . M. M ay 13, and some twenty- four le tte rs to road and answ er—will carefu lly preserve “H ealth M onthly” and r e ta in some tim e i f 1 can. I t was lucky to say tho least, th a t tbeo found ono.

1 dm glad friends continue k ind ly fecliug. Yes, the heaviest penalty of nil is findiug hom o friends so hard again st rao and all I have done, yot ovon those own th a t I luoaut a ll for good work. Thoy believo iu me bu t not my w ork mid the m auuor of it. I lmvo only timo to thank thoo and thy Ron and off who aro help ing and encouraging uie. Bomotimos I feel hopoful, then some cruol stub from ono I Joy© will make tho w ound bleod afresh and all w illbogloom and darkness.’ My life has boon largely affectioual, and now the woo atul an­gu ish I have causod othors, oat o u t my life.

H arm au and W alker had fam ily unity, B ennett was surroutn lod by friends, Ileyw ood has his wife—I have uo one, ouly fu r off friomls. Is i t a wonder I feel doeolnt© and my crim e (!) is ton Told of theirs, ayo, ouo thousand fotd, if nil l>o couu ted in? Bometimes I get a lo iter Buying i t is all bosh to try to reform tho world. T h a t no reform er ©vor does good. Reform s como o t them selves by N ature . I don’t believe it, yot even those help to pour oohl w ater on oue’s courage aud Rolf gratu la tiou . B u t whoa I calm ly look back on a lifetim oof w ork I feel th a t l have don© utm ost imruoleHl Bown BOfid tha t shall produce a g ran d crop Borne day, Affectionately, Huowvilic, Yu. E lmina.

*»IBH i:m A gin .”Com rade Kolso asks the “outrngod

C hristians” of Valley F a lls w hat thoy would do w ith tho parlies to “ th a t o ther (autonoraistio) m arriage” recorded iu tho scrip tu res, which resu lted iu tho b irth of J o9uh C h r is t—tho tem porary m arriage of Jehovah , o r th e H oly G host, to M ary, a t tho tim o she wim“botrothe<l” to Joseph —provided thoy should dw ell iu tho holy lau d of V alley F alls.

Kolso was pnugout uud brief, consid­ering th a t tho a foresaid nutouoraistio m arriage, uu account of which K ing H erod slow nil the mid© children iu Ju d ea under th© ago of two years, ami caused tho m other (mid fa the r tie Jure) to ilea from tbeir homo, to w ander twolvo years in a foreign land, uud th a t the final tragedy ended w ith the execution of tho Son of God on tho cross, between two th ieves,—considering all th isT th in k b ro the r Kolso m ight lmvo h it thorn ano ther d ig on thoir tough old “m ora l­istic” d iaphragm .

Boaidos, i t may lmvo escaped tho notice of M r. K elso, na it seems to lmvo c f all w riters, C h iis tian and Infidel, th n t there aro two accounts of tho b irth of C hrist, ono of w hich rep resen ts his pnronta as w arned by a dream to iioo iu to Egypt, M at. I I ., 13, 11, 15, whoro they dw elt twolvo years, tho o ther telling now the child w as taken up to the temple, Luko I I ., 22 to 42, w ith public rejoicing, tho m other going th ro u g h tho th irty days pu rification , etc., w ith n o t a word abou t the S ta r of Bethlehem , K iug H erod, tho S laugh te r of tho Iunooeuts, o r tho land of tbo Fharaohs.

i t also seem s to mo th n t the lineage of Joseph , th e husband of M ary tho m other of C hrist, from D avid down, is an ab ­surdity , considering tb u t Joseph was not the fa th e r of Jesue , ns i t is said he d id not conso rt w ith h is wife till a fte r the b irth of C hrist.

B u t th e re w ould be uo end to tho waste of tim o o r new spaper epneo if wo wore to follow un tho absu rd ities w ithin tho lids of tb o B ible. E. M. D,T ulare, Cal.

W an ted—A defin ition of tho theologic­al crim e “blasphem y.” Answer hero.

LARGE THOUGHTS IN SMALL TYPE.Never on earth, my comrades. iin* there

been « state where justice was done to citi­zens, Irrespective of sox or “of previous con­dition of servitude*.” —M a ria H o w la n d , in “ tVcdif P o n d er,'*

Tho only new party wanted iu IhU country u oue to advocate tho repeal of laws,—l i . ( i . In rjcrso tl.

The highest legislative wisdom—not ©von the supreme wisdomof that body of supreme wiseacres, tho Massachusetts Legislature— over yet saoceeded in framing n parchment law which, a t some possible mid conceivable application thereof, It would not be a greater virtuo to disregard thau to obey. Lifo for au>* of as would not bo worth living thcoagh ouo single day if all tbo laws that legisla­tures, with the very best of intontlons have made, could bo enforced throughout the hours of that day, All of us would in that case ocmnmt suicide beforo sunset. There is too groat a craze among ns for multiply­ing laws. It is no sign of ndvnnclug civili­zation—it is rather a sign of the coutrnry, W\wn the members of tho Massachusetts Legislature ary in session they spend more than half thoir time In working puroly legis­lative mischief.— Hev. d . K , A pp tibec.

Government is citliot nn individual, as a king or czar; or a combination of individ­uals; or a fixed class, i . r,, tho nobility; or a shitting muss. (, c „ tho majority,—foroing tho rest of their countrymen to OMiformto such laws ns they like to make for them.—/). IV. Bi'ooMotm', in “ H o n esty .”

Tho spasm of pmltamoal “ virtuo” which lias attacked Now York and to a certain ex­ten t the rest of the country, will perhaps open tho eyos of tho people to th© Impor­tance of thowo personal liberties which thoy lmvo heretofore eujoyod in spite of tho fussy moralists and little pulpit popni, At Iwast wo hopo so, for life to the rest of us will cer­tainly not bo worth its cost if tho.v aro to lmvo their way unchecked much longor.— \\rilisted (CWn.1 “ IVess,”

Thoro is not a corporation doing business in tho United States to-day thnt doc* na poor work as tho postal eyetem, and were oipresa companies nml general transportation linos run ns poorly thoy would ronotve no busiuoas, —Jfedtciao Lm bjn “ In d e x ,”

Koveronco for u flag is a virtuo only whoa tho ling symbolizes good government and protection of tho natural rights of tho poo- plu,—A nti-M on opo lis t.

Tho best sooicty for tho suppression of pernicious literature is tin family. The best legislation that cun bo pushed for th©Crovontlon of tho side of vilo literature can

» pnssod by father and mother in Joint con­vention assembled. Daily teaching to Ioyo and study good nml useful tilings will tiring boys aud girls to dotost the opnosilo. Those are tho only menus by which ttu* snlo of poj- nicious literature cau ever bo permanently nud effectually suppressed, Th© passage of laws Liy th© btuto and the watchfulness of the societies for tho suppression of pornl- cious literature may do somo good for the youth who havo no parents to touch them, bnt to provide sound early training for them would do fac more. — ItaU im orean .

SPIRIT OF THE OPPOSITION.The Cincinnati Society for the Suppress­

ion of Vic© hold its annual meeting a t the Gibson House last night. Air. J . D. llearne, l ’rosideut of tho Third National Itsnk, was Chairman, mid William V, Koersolo Hecro- tary. Mr. lloaruo mado n few remarks about th© objects of tho society, tho sup­pression ot ob«oono publications aud pic­tures. lie spoke of tl>© good results accom­plished in this city Mr. K, W. McAfee, of St. Louis, agent of tho Western Booiely, made Ills annual roport, which was very in­teresting, aside from tho statistic*, During the yonr Mr. McAfee causod tho arrest of twenty-sovon persons— twenty-throo wore in. dieted, twenty-two wore convicted atul sent tu prison for terms aggregating four years nud four month* and were lined withcosta of prosecutiou. Tito gentleman re. ferrod to Llniina IX Slonkcr, of HnowviUe. Vn., us being probably the mostdepravod woman m America. She has issued aud published KOino of the vilest litaraluro ever known. Mnchof It was indescribably filthy, Mr. Mo.Vfo©enpturod tho manuscript of ouo of her proposed books, and ©ho was arrested aud thrown iu Jail. Mrs. Hlenkor is ovor fifty years of ago, and lias been a con­tributor to freo love and other obscene na. ners for some time. Jn tho past year Air. McAfoo nirojtod two editors—ouo iu Iowa nud tho other in Wisconsin—for publishing iruloaout articles, aud both wero pent to jail, The roport allowed that vulgar and obscene litoruluro 1* being aaroly Htnmpod oul. The financial statement al Uto society showed receipts amounting to 81.IKS fir»; oxpeusos $1 ,11 )1 CXI.— C f n c f / u H i f f t K u rp iir c r*

D ear S i r s : At present, I take tho “ lu- vbsligalor” and an man) other papers as 1 cun (itford. I admire yonr paper for Us Liherntily, bnt 1 think tl is a liltto too lib. oral, it borders on Anarchy and Froolovo- iam, either of which l cannot iudorso,

Yours Itospeclfully,Wm. I iiomimon.

Alma City, Minu., fi-S-’87.I t lias atways Ixien am jstory loth© writer

who somo alleged infidels conceive a hatred for th© restraints and docencios of society and constantly seek to put thern*>elv©.H in tho condition of outlnws and persons to bo shunned. J'hero is no rauaott why nti tnlldel snoiildn’t be a high-znmded, honorable gen­tleman or lady. We find most of the infidel martyrs of modern times holding somo beastly and loathcsotno attitude toward tho soxnnl relation* .—iro n C la d A y e ,—Com­ments on tli© Wlenker cn*o,

Tbo passion for liberty , slum bering o r extinct iu tho the bosom of th e nvorafeo Amoricati drudge, rules suprem o in tho heart of the nvorago Ruam n N ihilist. Ono of tbo moo condem ned for com plicity iu tho recen t a ttem pt to nRHussiimto tho Czar declared tlm t ho and his accomplices acted from firm conviction tha t what thoy not out to do i t was th e ir du ty to perforin. A nother of tho prisoners is a b rillian t young studen t who had ju s t won tho gold graduation m edal of ht9 tinivoraity nud then sold it to obtaiu funds to eunblo au nceomplioo to leave tho em pire. AU of tho prisoners, says a d ispatch from Bt. P etersburg , plead gu ilty , and ovory ono rofusod uudor th re a t o r prom ise to betray uny accom* p lic a Ono of thawitn*MeA w asn woman who ©aid she was th e wifo of ono of tho nocuaod though who had never been w edded to him by “unnecessary religious form alities,” whereupon, the dispatch naively says, sho was a t once arro9tod and conducted to prison.”—-Wiustod Dross.

DEAD AT THIRTY, almost died (beer saved my life) for thatBY JOHN E. m'CANN.

Juet for th© Bake of bctngcullftd a g Just fo rthepralaoof tbofyooph

That smoked your clears, quaffoclwines and nr'Uow,

Vou are sleeping, to-day,' neatu your shroud,

oodfeliow, nnt crowd, your richtho eod Jn

Just for tho sake of being called clever— dashing—

By human bogs living outside of n pen,Tho rain on your cold bed Is ceaselessly

splashing.While you should bo living-a man among

incnl

state of Kansan,I would not live there, shame on Kansas!

X suppose you are Prohibitionists too, but that "makes no difference,” it is wrong, a thousand times wrong.

Is the Gov. a Prohibitionist? of course! I know ho need to like his “ toddy" as well os anybody.

Yours for liberty,IIlMBY NiKOKTJ,

Manlorvilie, Minn., 5-lG-’87

Just for the sake of being pointed a t—lookedHv the false, Insincere, hypocritical crew.

That grow* on tho fplljes of weak brains—like yours—fn t, ' , , .You are ns dead as tho dreams your boyish soul know.

You feigned a contempt for tho caglos of yellow,

And scattered them broadcast with boister­ous mirth—

.lust for tho siiko of being called a good fellow!—

You arc nothing to-dny hut a boxful of earth.—F lin t Jo u rn a l, M ich ig a n ,

LETTERS FROM FRIENDS.E d ito r L u c i fe r : I have received several

iesoos of Lucifeb and am interested in it. I bclievo in freedom in every sense of tl*e word, no long as wo do not interfore with the rightsof others. I enclose $1.00.

8. 0, IIowtirrT.L d s . L u c i f e r } I will give f/ou one dollar

for one copy of (he "Now E ra" containing your proposed scriptural quotations and agroo to raise ten dollars to prosecute tho editor if ho mails ono of them.

Anotjikii P oor Man. Des Moino*, Iowa, 5-2l-187

D ear M r , l l : In "New Thought,” May XI, Jlev, Moses Hull jnstly and vigorously de­nounces Mrs. Sleuker's nrrest. Her chief “ oltonse” is uso of “ thvoo words" which Mr. Hull says belong to “slams and brothels.” In "New Thought" April 30th ho said CHJixion of tho propriety of using these words is "tho gospol of nastiness"! Trasling Mr. Hull will "riso td explain" and lot his light shine farther for the benefit of "benighted" dissenters from somo parts of h is gospel,

Truly yours,K. 31. H kywood.

E d ito r s L u c i f e r : I promised to donate $1.25 for your defonco in the U, 8. Court bat I can spare only $1.00 which I boro en­close. I am so very hard pushed with debts, and I want to do ns much for "A unt" 321mi» no. I do not approve of your coarse and presume I would not of hers, but I vrant to make it as hard to convict a Liberal ns pos­sible and want to see tho Comstock laws wiped out. I cannot for one moment be- lievo that Eimina has violated any law, I have road ho much of bar writings that I feel that she is one of our family. I do not think that you can bo convicted on that let­ter; surely, I think, it is “game" they aro a f­ter.

I do not feel that Liberals can afford to fold their hands and let a few fanatics run men Into prison who do not say what suits iho majority. If you. are defeated I will circulate a petition for your pardon, and will do the same by Eimina, I will also {dace your case beforo tho public in the lo­cal papers. I think it outragoous that well- moaning peoplo should be lakon away be­fore a U. 8. court and put to groat expenso and iuconvenienco when they ought to have a hearing before a Justice of the Peace in their own town. Everybody ought to work for tho repeal of tho infamous Comstock laws.

I will keep our Union posted cu the cases of persecution, and will use my influence for tho “ under dog in tho fight."

Kindest regards,E. XV, Miner,

Axtell, Kansas, 5-35-87.

MISCELLANEOUS.IM imI.

JOHN JOHNSON.Princeton, Mass., May 18, Y. L, 15.

F rie n d s o f P ro g re s s : Your card received. Shall yon outer mv name as mibscribor for L u c i f e r V Yes, s i r . One dollar enclosed on subscription. When 1 sent tho 25 cents for trial, did not know but what, as so mnuy ac- cusations had been heaped upon you, that some of them might be true, that Lucrven mljcht bo obaceno. lin t after a fair trial I must sny that I would honr moro obscene language spoken by a popular minister in flvo publlo sermons than I would rond in L v c i f b u in ns many months.

Yours, II. XV. S t e w a r t ,Liberty, Pn,, 5-12-W.

F e a r F t 'icn t ls : I must call you so though wo are strangers, boenuso of tho course you have taken on the roforms of the day. I in­close two dollars for tho defense fund. Kay to Ltllio aucl 33. O., They have fought the good fight and called pnblio attention to (he great wrongs of tho marriage laws, and further contention may not bo of any uso. Now York is tho only State I know of where such marriage contracts are legal, except for Quakers.

Your papor is of tho right stamp as well ns your lives, but yours is a hard road lo travel. Von have my suppott ns far as I am able. Youra for tho good of alt,,

II. S. B r o w n , JM. II. Milwaukee, XVis., 5-tfl.’87,

L u c i fe r C om pa n y : I-lncl enclosed *1.00 on subscription. Do not agree with you in all things, neither do I think it necessary for all to bo© alike. Think you tisod common sense in getting out of jail. 1 am no hair splitter in theory; would not givo aco u tfo r tho man thnt is. That class of pooplo never did much for Immunity, If my house takes Aro 1 will not Inquire about ihn red tapo or tho discipline of tho firo company that puts out tho fire, whethor each rnau had on tho regulation lint or not or whether every inau kept tho exact step. Alt such tomfoolery will bo ignored so they save the houso. I am a wreck of tho great war nud, while I hate war gouorally, am glad I had tho manhood lo help save this Nation and while I think you L uciveh folks are somewhat cranky on tho subject of government, yet would not put yon in jail one minnto for anj thing you havo ever done. * Yours,

XV, M, C a m n i e u ,. Vosburgh, Kaus., 5-17-’87.

M , H a rm a n if' S o n : ( feel Interested in your state, having been thoru as early as 18(50 roaming around here and thoro, Por nbout six months I was among tho buffaloes and coyotes, 200 nulcs west of Kansas City on the Santa To road in wlmt I tiiiuU must now be McPherson county, ilad a good limo there; it was a free country then, XVhen war broke out I enlisted tu tho 8th lvs., of which regiment Gov. John A. Martin was Colonel, and served with tho regiment until Jan. 1SC<5. I always did like Kansas and would yet but for one thing; i t is n slave state now. Sottled thickly by old soldiers who helped to free the negro, they voted themselves slaves, XVhere would I be in Kansas with my brewery? I would bo pros- ecuted, fined, put in prison or sent to the poor house. I could not ruu my business there (wlucb, by tho way, I consider more honest thau preachiugb Allhough I wont to war from that state Aud fought, bled and

Wo havo neglected to m ake n note of tho dentil of Jo h n Johnson , of Oak V alley, Kn**» who ilocoosed some weeks Biuce, M r, Johnson wns a form er residen t of V alley Falls , b u t has lived iu E lk county fo r a num ber o f years. H o \vtis an earnest, fearless, outspoken, Freetliluker, and n m an of tho m ost un ­com prom ising in tegrity . I m ade h is ac­quain tance n fo.v years ago w hen ho a r­ranged for somo lectures in O ak Valley, and h ts nam e has boon on tho su b sc rip ­tion book of L ucifek sinco th a t time. M ay the mem ory of his life and deeds bo a power for good th rough tho years to come, help ing h is ch ild ren aud m auy o thers to perform w orthily tho tasks w hich they, as citizens of th is w o rld ,sh a ll find to do.

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O u o o f th o c leares t of th lnkors, Ly- sander fSpoouor has w ritten m uch th n t w ill live, thn t will enduro th ro u g h tho ages as a positive powor fo r L ib e rty nud Justice . "T he C onstitu tion of no A u­thority ," "N atura l Law ," and “A L o tte r to G rover Clovelaiul," aro somo of tho best know of his works.

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An ngent Mtite*: •* '.VHl do nM I nun ta ]*rt a bo.>k in overv family In this vicinity, nnd will foci that iota doinggotnl ns well ai putting nmiey In my own ituckct.”CONTENTS OP THIS FriTOMB OP MrmO\fM PO’ I.H, AND SEXIML SCIENCE:

tM i ia ' i . - fl-ciSv.vr- a n d *’i *m u u ite< .Provt Hlon and Cure, (/cnmvw/n brn><e llemodu's, nml Doctor* ot nil Kiri*) Ihthldmq rhnpltr* retntlng In foiwl, clothing, bud habits of children and inmdxsKl, cvecMtb e study nnd lulH>r. sl<cp. elwndim'..* nnd hcullhy Udilc*.IM B T 1 1 ,-T I tH .IT S OU C JIH O M I r.*peela11y Diaeose* of the brent htng organs of Um Ihcr. Moimuh mid U,\t« I*, of u< hc’“ mnl tin In*. htriouH nffei-ttorn. lioiidrnhcH.nciirulgiu mid rhcuinati*fn; atfrctionu of tho eye* nnd ears; divnMts ot tho tunrl, kidneys. I>1 udder. Mid t»rivijto |Ktr,n. Then come* Important chapters on ••I’rbute \Vor*b for Women." flinu to tho UhUdlyro* aud “ Frivnte \\nnli for Men: ” with easily*, on emmer. s»;r<ifnW. pvnhUK etc., md their trciduunt.

,F A B T 111,-CON K D ilS O ft PbAl.N T A U t A IP B JT The natural relatlontt of tho -texe*. rivUtration, society nnd murriago. Here nrc imxwotvd in plain Mnpnngo a thoURuml ij nest (mis that occur to tho mhidt! of young nnd old, of men nnd women, of a nature that they feel a delicury in consulting a physician about. Chuptern aro tlcvotod to the history of marrinp- in the old world nnd tho new, Itsdehwts and th»-ir retnndien, t«» wxutd tmmor.duy and nnm<-reiis Interesting Mdtjects enm-emnig marriaco mid tho sexual relations from u pltyshdogiad 6taii(li>oii)t, uIncli tnnko tho book iv Mtiwrior kviMo to tUu iU'tiuna nf men nnd women in nnd out of marriage.

P A B C 1V .-T K U A T N O P T H U D IP K O V E ’ntN ’T O F M A IH U A fiK . Adaptation, mental, physical, mugnotlo mid temperamental r mental marriage*, physical marriages, nnd ‘ I-ucifoi-xvlaflics/' Tiu-n cento chapter* on the lutemmrriueranf rclaiim.s, pinlo-vontivof cioiKiiicni*. «s»ny e far married I'onple. eoneeridng Jealousy. soKtial iridUtereuce, sexun) mndcuttioti, food tor pregnant women.eto., etc, Tho philosophy of chlld-mui king and envoys for young and old. conclude a lx>ok of which wo have wily hwenablo to givo u bunt outline. A 1 #•/*<:/« com pitta Content* Tuhlc, retth author'aportrmt^ tent j ice,S tn m lu ra lCdHIon—clrc rnn t, n u b s tn n tla l—fo r Hi© L ib ra ry , by m a il , 53 ,25 . JFt»j»ulur i-itliU oii—A m e ric a n C lo th llln d lu e r, t h in p a p e r , “ 51 .50 .

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