Show A DERER DEMURRER ose ONE of the forty thousand a feminine didymus writes to the tile editor of tile the new york graphic that sho she does not believe that the lowell petition praying ins ing the tiie Legisla legislature tui tul c to do away with the tile legal destri restriction action which limits a man to one wife on the ground of religion and humanity was tiie the work of women but that the horrid creature man is responsible for it she slie says forty thousand women each one m multiplied ul by forty thousand might inight live and die la in single blessedness before one would think of such a thing as sharing a husband with another woman I 1 put it to you mr nin editor from what you know of the way men support their one wife nowadays whether the forty thousand women who so excite your sympathies yam ytm would be likely to be boyr an any hetter better e r off as secondary wives than they are inc binl 10 the present period is hard on woman it it depriving her of her old supports and forcing her into conditions and occupations for which bhe is not prepared but there Is no position which a single woman is called to hold no difficulty she is made to encounter BO so utterly degrading and terrible as to be bound to a man without any claim to even the poor element clement of respect respects which society and manhood itself pays to a wife women can cease to live much better than to lose all claim to their own self respect 0 0 T F T forgets that tile jile majority of the human race at the P present r besent time are le and th that at tile the petition does not ask that a woman be bound to a margwith man without any claim to the respect due to a wife on the contrary that document expressly requests the status legitimacy honor and respect of a wife for those who find it difficult or impossible to acquire e the same as things 11 now go in society ety again the lady might know that women desire marriage more than men and that the latter even when wilen refusing marriage manage to find women associates in abundance especially specially in older settled localities farther we may assure her that it is a mistake on her part to suppose tha that t women would live and die in sing single e blessed ness before they would think of such a thing as sharing sharin 9 a husband with another woman so far from chisare this are the facts that we do positively know that a decent respectable capable man would find no di I 1 in obtaining half lial f a dozen wives either in lu England or america and more than this most of them while with the tongue declaring that plurality of wives was distasteful would if asked not only think about becoming the wife of a man already married but would actually get up promptly and gladly go forth and do it we 1 know now tins this to be sowe so we le leave ave aye 0 0 T F T to study studs out tile the why and the tre wherefore it is owr our our modest opinion that in a few years plural marria marriage e will become one of the tile most popular in institutions in america that then there will be a grand rush into that kind of union perhaps to hueh puch uch an extent at first as to run it into the ground and cause a healthy reaction but not sufficient lerit to destroy tile principle or prevent the prudent I 1 development thereof tim THE amo MONTHLY timy REPORT of the department of agriculture for april contains colit ains articles on the condition of winter wheat pa condition of sheep and cattle cattie diseases of farm animals entomological tom record CC chem chemical leai jeal memoranda P botanical notes Consular Communications epizootic catarrh fish culture foreign statistics facts from 17 arlous various sources and home and foreign V market prices THOSE BRiTTAN BRIT brie TANIES ies irs where were our local and enterprising t cattle men when wilen the sale of that brittany herd came off april 4 in massachusetts they missed s a splendid chance either for obtaining in g a start with a remarkably useful and beautiful breed of cows for utah or for making all an immediate profit of per cent PROFESSOR P F V Y haynen HAYDEN TJ berald S geologist says the omaha herald herat at has lias organized his party of explorers and is about to resume ills his labors of exploration congress havi ing again made an appropriation of I 1 for that purpose tile the or of the corps is so complete as to give the tiie assurance of a scientific observation of all subjects connected with tile the development of a new country the field chosen for exploration this seanoa season beason is south and west of denver a stretch of country not very well known at present pim |