Pardon me, Miss Jemima, if mi language in this letter iz strong, it cums from a strong place, mi heart, if i didn’t mean what i say i should hav bin az sweet az a courtier, i should hav torked about the gorgeous mission of woman, the exalted career that might be opened for her in walks yet untrod, and other rhapsodys in the key bugle style, but i kno the power that woman haz over me, and i kno whare it lays, it dont lay in the ballot box, it lays in that misterious delikasy ov hers, thoze silken threads, whoze power iz invisible. In summing up, if i kno ennything about human natur all that “_Wimmin’s rights_” means, iz, _more power_, and enny woman who would exchange a single article, in the “magna-karta” which she now iz empress ov, for the whole ov the byelaws, constitushun, and power sought for, in the ranting programme ov a “wimmins right convenshun,” would be swapping an intrinsick bower, for an emaskulated privilege. “_Barney._”--I received the rat tarrier yu sent me by the Merchants’ Union Express, last evening, and gave him a quart ov milk for hiz tea. He pocketed the milk, and wagged for sum more; it made him stick out like a false caff. He slept sound last night, and hasn’t waked up yet, altho it iz now 10 o’clock this morning. I have stopped writing tew tickle hiz nose with a pin, and he iz now rushing things around the room for sum rats. He haz just tipped over a Chinese god, worth 8 dollars, and broke him, he will git rats when mi wife cums in. He kant find enny rats, and is now chawing oph mi little boy’s toe--to hiz shoe. He iz now crazy for rats agin, and will smash the other vase agin, I’ll bet. Thare goes the other vase, bi thunder! all tew powder. He iz now out ov wind, and iz running hiz tung out and in. He wants tew go out doors for sumthing, and i hav let him went. He haz just found a poor little boy in the street, whom he knows, and the boy seems tew know him, and they hav gone round the next block, on a run, together, tew see sumthing. He don’t seem tew cum back! It iz now to-morrow, and the tarrier don’t seem tew cum back. My wife iz glad ov it. I am out 2 vases, a quart of nu milk, and one tarrier. My wife sez, if i ever buy another rat pup, she will put him tew immediate soak in the cistern at onst. Mi wife iz one ov them kind ov wimmin that don’t make enny statements unless they are true, so yu needn’t send me enny more tarrier. “_Fred._”--Yu aint obliged tu ask a gals mother, if yu ma go home with her from a partee, git the gals endorsement, and sale in; it iz proper enuff tu ask her tu take yure arm, but yu haint got no rite tu put yure arm around her waste, unless yu meet a Bear on the rode, and then yu are bound tu take yure arm away, just az soon az the Bear gits safely by. [Illustration]