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1. - . itrEAil AA,1 ...' _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ (IZYT ?ZJCAY, S~ CAROLINA, FIA' Ai 17884 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ S Z Z A ~ 7 6 a Trhere's lots of fItp iun cont'thig, Jtfotg itn ti ky tU: p nt's Ni a i glp$ iul of spfnting On1Pee geO ccustomed to it. Do yOlW*io iuthig moderately, As not a favor; Ma tg yt: litdde greatly T I leiant fl:lvor.* Cotirt yoir a vetheart lia the kitchen, in the parlor, li the -park;. And you'Illfind the most bewltein' Time for courting after dark. Court for love; most women like ft, Nay, I am certaiu they all do; And the .fellow who can strike it Once willhanker for it,, too. Court a woman for herself, sir, For the ,lrttue that Is In her; Don't go courting'or her pelf, sir; You will rue it If you win her. Court a woman boldly, bravely; Never court her for a fool; When you do, she'. teaph you nalvely Ilow a woman scorned can rule: Court'a woman for a wife, si' For a mother good and true; And mypwor yog~ll tind th~i Ufe, sir, Paradise enough for yout. And such courting heats strawberi Ies Penehes iqzeni in ,lceeeam; Charppagne frippe bran led. cherries, 'Tis a sunny golden dreajfl. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. BY MISS TABITHA PRIMROSE. [From the Alfma Mater.] My hearers.-malo and female, -Squenchin' my native modesty, which is nateral to all of the weak or vesselsuv whom I am which, I feel impelled to speak to yoo this1 evenin' on the subjeck iv wonan -her origin, her mission, her des tiny-a subjeck, bein' ez I din a woi , an myself, I hev given much attention.to. MA1, my.hearers, olans to be the sooperfir tiv won! nIs it 06 and ef so, in what, and how much ? wui he the fust creation? Nie wvuz, my heaters; but what doe~s that p~rove? Man wuz applied to the mnan kin' .uVa bet~eror and more fiuer bein', uv whom I am a sample. Nachier made man, int sawv irma breef space uv time that he cood ent take car&t uv hisself alone, and so he made a woman to take (care uv him, and thats lhy we wuz cre ated, though scein' al'l the trubhle we hev I don't doubt that it would hey been meney in our pocke~ ef we hadn't been mnade'at all. Tmagine my antiquated sisters. Adath before Eve wuz made! Who se opisg~gbettons I A'Whf' CQoked his beefsteoak? Who made his coffee in the m6rini',.and did his washiri'?. He wuz inizable, he wuz -he. must hev boarded out and eat hash ! But when Eve come the sene changed. Her gentle hand soothed his akin brow - when he <-one in from a hard day's work. She lied his house in order. She lied Iiis slippers and dressin'-gown ready, and after tea he smoked his ineer schaum in. peace. Men, cruel ,! hard-hearted inen, assert that Eve wuz the cause iv his expulsion from Eden-that she plucked the apple and give him half, oh, my sisters, is it true! It's too true, but what uv it? It proves, fustly, her goodness iHed Adam plucked the apple, of it lied bin a good one, he'd never thought uv his.wife at home,, but, would hev gobbled it all. Eve, angel that we all are, thorght uv him, and went havers with him. Secondly, it wuz the means of good, anyhow. It introdoost death into the world, which seperated 'em while they still lied love for each other. I ap peal to the sterner sex present to night. Would you, oh Would you desire for immortality, onless in deed, you lived in Injeany, where you cood git divorces and changze your names wunst in 10 or 15 yeas ? S'pos,n all iv you :ied bin fortunate enough to win sich virgin souls ez me, could you endure charms like mino for a eternity? Methinks not. I know that of I hed a hiusbiaid he would bless Eye for introdoosin' death into the world. I progress. Woman then,is-manu's ekaI, but ez she okkepyin' her pro per speer? Alas not! we are de prived uv the ballot, and ain't al Jowed to make stump speeches or take part in pollitix. Is it right? rue we ain't ez yit learned in these mjatters,, but what uv that? How mans men vote who know what they'r votin' for, and how mnuy stumpt sp~eakers -know what they'r talkin' about ? I dle1ifand the 'ballot. I want to be ai torehlight procession. .I want to sit in Con gris: among the other old grannfies. I want to demonstrate my fitnse for govcrin' by comin' hiome eleva ted on 'le'ckshunm nigh ts. I' w ant to assoom that speer which Nachei fitted me for ekally with nian,' bu from which maskeline Jealousy he: thus far excluded me. Don't waM we're weak and frivolous! weak Why I wunst knowed a 'femabl friend uv mine whohed strenth reg lerly to carry her husband, wh< weighed 200 lbs., averduJ-ois, intc the house every night, after he wa; lifted off from a dray onto whici his friends which c(ould stand mor, fluids thai he could hed depositet him. Many a time I've seed het lift that barrel uv whiskey with a man outside uv it. Ez I heard some wicked boy who wiuz a playin' cards say, I pass Matrimony,. thus far in the world's history, hez bin our only destiny. I am glad I led alls stiengtl II mind enough to resist all proposi tions lookin' to my euslavement. I lied too much respeck for mysell to make myself the shlae iv a man. IWunst, indeed, I might hev done so, but the merest accident in the world saved me. A young nian, iin my younger (lays, when the 1loom wuz on the peach, ere sleepless nflights spent in meditatin' thc wrongs tiv my sex hed worn fur rows into tlhese wunst blushii' cheeks, a young man come to our house and conversed sweetly with me. It wuz my fIst beau ; and oh, my sisters, hed. he that night, asked me to be his'n I should hey bin weak enough to hev sed ves, and I woulld hev bin a washer uv dishes and a mender of stockings for life. But fate saved me. IE DIDN"I ASK ME-that night nor nevei afterwards-and, htlelujy I arc free! Again. I demand the right oi standin' up in the cars the same an mel), instead uv havin' a dozen ua 'em start up when I enter coz I'n a womian 1 Why should they ! Wu: these limbs given mue by Nacher for what? I resent wvithi skor-r-r'i the implied insult. I hev seem bearded men stand up to let a lit ti chit av 18 [0, my sisters, ef ther, oz a provokin' objick in tnis worli it's a smooth-face girl av 18 ; thek know so little of life and let om they know :so inuch,] .set down . when the nlght af'orc that samecgir lhed waltzed 90 miles, and .ef sh14 hiednf't tired 'all her n~artnlers ont eould 1heV .&-aitzed.;20 norei. It-i disgusted withsh There hev' bin Wo;vu 'l the worid who heV'do~iieu tce I wuz the queen of 40e61" i eggselled only by Solomon, antall that surpi'ized heri him wuz that he could supp~ort 3000 woeu. Bless Solomon's heart, I'd like to see him do it now! Where could lie fiad a house big enough to hold 'em? He'd hev to puit a wihig Oil each side uv the end put another story on top uv it. And th'ere 'iu Joan of Arc, who walloped the En glish, who wuz maid uv Orleans, which wuzn's the same as Noah's Ark, for that wuz made of gophet wood, besides the latter wuz pitch ed within. There wuz Queen Eiz abeth, who wuz the Virgin Queen, and-but I propel. How shall we gain our lost right, and assume that positions ini the world to which we are entitled to? 0, my sisters, these is a question utpon which I hav cogitated long aud vigorously. We might do it by pisenin' all the mni, but we would be robbed yiv one-half ny our triumph, for, they vouldin't be alive to see how well we did things without 'em; and besides, who'd pay our bills, and then what would become iv the generation? We might resolve to do no more of the degradin' work they hev imposed onto us, but if we- didn't who would? One week's eatin' what * they would cook would sicken a well-regulated woman, but let us be women in a grand style. Let us refuse to. kiss 'pm or be kissed by 'em till they -ome to - terms; let's preserve a keerful coldness toward 'em till they.acknowledge our skality. This I have practice d for years. I allow no young man. to throw his arms around my waist, and pressin' me to his buzzuim, imprint. upou my virgin lips the Simpassioned kiss uv love. ~,F4 one Sshotild attempt it this minute, 1. Sshould exclaim, 'My-ivil :rights Sfust, the marriage rights after' Sward !" 'Tr'y it, young sisters ! rapnd ef that don't fetch em to terms, Swrite mq postrpaidl, snlL I'I send~ suthin that will. -+-Gen. Longstreeg' -though only sixty-three years 'old, is repoffdf to be in his dotage.