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To Her Who Will Understand it.

''Send me word to comfort me for the
death of my baby writes q broken
hearted mother to me.
Nv dear friend, l might tell you that
there are thousands of childless mothers
all over the land, who, like you, are look
inc for comfort here and there, and find
none; but that would not help yOu. l
might tell YOU, too, that if you knew all
the sorrowful histories that have been
told me by tongue and pen, for many
years, you would be glad that your baby
is gone where there is mo more pain"
but that would not cause you to shed one
tear the less, or keep you from feeling
that yOitf sorrow was harder to bear than
theirs. l could tell you that God is good
even in this affiietiOn, but your vision is
so dimmed that time only can enable
YOU to see it. 1t is because / know that
nature must have way, or you could not
live and bear it, that j can only say to
you now, / am so sorry for you. l know
lust how you go about, listening for the
| little appealing cry that you may never
more hear; touching listlessly the little
useless clothes that you fashioned, with
your heart so full of love and hope.
| too have done all this. / have lain with
my cheek close to the grass upon my
/ baby's grave, lest she should be lonely
without me, though / knew she was not
/ there. And yet | have lived to thank
/ Him who took her so early, that the
storms of life which afterward OvertOoE
me, did not burst over her little head
/ SO, as / say shall not reason with yOt
now, for that were worse than useless
/ only reach out my woman's hand anC
clasp yours in sympathy, although W,
never have and never may meet in thi
world.
But one thing | know, that in tn,
other world your baby and mine viii
know us-their mothers, else God wer
not God. BY the strong love that cam
with them, and the grief that followed
this must be; we could not be so cruelty
Knocked if this were to be the end.
Now, do not sit down and brood owe
your grief if you can help it. Do no
close your blinds and shut out the sun
shine. Let it warm you, though you
baby is cold. You would rather have
felt its little warm clasp even Tor tiiil Il
brief time, than to not have known tiie :
bliss of motherhood, would you nor .
Well then warm your poor hearI WIZ 1.i
that bit of comfort. NOC there Is la'l,
der reaching to Heaven only seen "
YOU, ONLY used by you. heaven - no.
now. TO You. the misty land II USED 20 DS;
Yoy see it clearly. BY and by you VII
hear its music, and one little voice youl
mothers ear will detect; and none VINO
sae the peace that illumines your iae'
will know trheref0re, save "Hlm wh(
doetb all things we'll" Ana So witt
NV love, leave you. FANNY FERN.
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Just ,how the scenery appears, and all
about the premises"
'sThen why didn't you seek me out in
time to prevent my wicked marriage ?"
"Judith, dear, do you forget that 1 was
conUict s-that my native land had
cursed me, and that I could not visit
you when you were John Smiths wic ?"
"But l did not become his wife for
many years. should think you would
have known this fact had you pos
sessed clairvoyant power"
'But 1 did not discover that | pos
sessed such power; or, rather, did not
understand the power until compara-
lively recently. | used to attribute all
this to an over-wrought Imagination"
at has always seemed to be supersti-
ton, I admit said "but 1 acknowl-
edge that if the whole was delusion, it
was very solacing one"
Il believe, my dear, that the scientific
world is one the eve of great discovery
in relation to phrenology, clairvoyancy,
premonitions, or inspirations-it mat
ters little to-ne what the phenomenon
is called. What the discovery may be
of course do not know; but 1 shall not
cease to investigate for myself"
The bright and busy housewife came
bustling in TO announce her dinner
''Do you know, Mr. Snyder" said she
gleefully, ''the secret you imposed upon
me that day-you know what I mean
was almost more than than / could
keep"
"You did keep it, though, didn't
you ?v
"Oh, yes! But I'll not keep another
such. 1 thought sure you'd come bach
that day; so 1 dressed my patient in
my best wrapper and rigged her NJ
beautifully, just to have the doubtful
satisfaction of seeing that upstart of {
doctor taken by storm | had gooC
will to tell you all about it."
"Soyou were in the conspiracy agains
me, too?" / said, laughingly.
'NOt willingly, but from the force o
circumstance" was the quick reply.
"a truce to Olden mysteries, and lett
eat this elegant dinner" said my hus
band, leading the way, and we gathereC
around the well-filled board and, i'm tn,
the same low kitchen where my mOthe
had toiled and drudged, we sat an'
} talked Of Aud Lang Syne.
TO be continued.
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FINE MANNERS IN WOMEN.-Is there
any barrier against presumption, and
against an attempt at equality, like
thoroughbred courtesy "DO what
yon Will, you can never be so thorough
lady as I am,n was the impression
made upon me by the sweet humility.
the plain dress, the almost fOrlOrn sur
roundinSs of Mrs. Curtis, the former
mistress of Arlington. 1t was more
what she did not do, the absence of ef-
fort, coupled with the desire to make
YOU happy, the thorough breeding, the
self-abnegatiOn, the graceful dignity,
that made this lady n duchess in her
faded realm. Such breeding and such
manners as hers are not within the
reach of every One-they are partly nat
ural- gifts-but the virtues which led to
them are to be cultivated by everybody
with some hope of success. Miss Sedg
wick was one of these wonderful we'll
bred women. No woman in America
was more famous than she in her prime,
and she had much of the grace, with lit
tie of the formality, of those 'Old-schOOr
manIiers i'm which she must have been
trained. F'lattery never turned her
head she was modest and humble rs
Madam de Sevinge. Her manner of in
Producing two persons has never been
surpassed she made them both feel
hOnored and distinguished. Her atti-
tude of listening was in itself a cOmpli-
ment, and to the very last she MAIN
tained charm beyond beauty, the charm
Of,perfect manners.-LipPUcOt Wdgd-
zinc.
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CALIFORNIA WOMAN SUFFRAGE
ASSOCIATION.
314 BUSH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, I
Nov. 10, 1871. !

3l4 BUSH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, ;
Nov. 10, 1871.
Dear Mrs. D,mirdy Mrs. Gordon
requests me to give you brief state
ment of a meeting held yesterday in my
rooms for publication in your paper /;
and 1 find have only time to say that
a preliminary meeting to form a State
Central Committee to act in concert
with the National Committee of Woman
Suffrage at Washington, ID. C.-Of
which Mrs. Sargent and Mrs. Gordon
are members for Calffornia-was largely
attended, and over one hundred dollars
were subscribed to help defray Mrs. Cor
don's expenses to Washington, where
both she and Mrs. Sargent are going TO
work with other members of the Ma
tional Committee TO obtain the passage
of Declaratory Act at the coming ses-
sion of Congress, declaring that women
have the right to vote under the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments tC
the Constitution.
y stIOAlu VIII W hNAN hN-N'
Saturday, when needed officers will b'
chosen, and work systematized and a
once commenced.
Last evening Mrs. Gordon lectured il
the Hall of the Young Mems Christian
Association to a large and sympatheti,
audience, which added considerably t.
the subscription fund.
read weekly the NEW NoRTHwEs'
and circulate it as. extensively as an
able. l am sure it is doing a goO'
work
Some one will furnish you the plan
and methods adopted by our next meet
ing, and / trust the friends in Oregol
will unite heartily I'm this grand effor
to put in practice the justice which tn
trainers of republican government in
stinctively give expression to Will
they cling to the barbarism of the past
With best wishes,
Believe me yours sincerely,
c. II. SPEAR.
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The HABIT OF LUXURY.-The fol-
lowing is from an article on marriage, by
Herbert Stanly, in the OctOrber number
of LippincOtts Magazine:
''The English nOblcman who sends to
Paris for his daughters dresses, is rea-
sOnably certain that he, and his daugh-
ter's husband after him, can continue
sending, and that in the training of his
child he is fostering no habit which can
not be rightly INDUCED in. The Amer
lean knows, If he knows anything, that
the habit of luxury i'm which his child is
reared unfits her for the duties of the
life to which she will in all likelihood
be called-that he cannot hope that his
family wealth can long survive him, any
more than that his daughter will love
a man to whom that wealth will be un-
important. Experience and observation
alike tell him that wealth in this coun-
try rarely continues in a family three
generations, and that at any time hC
may find himself a poor man again
/ Yet he regulates his life and that of his
children as if his wealth and theirs were
| assured, and as though the habits of 6
/ lifetime were to be broken like wisps oi
straw. @ His daughters are not fit tC
marry any but the rich men they ex.
perience so much difficulty i'm finding
and n man of moderate means is careful
to avoid asking them to change theil
/ habits of life. There are few saddel
pictures than the one we see when som,
such woman of Drawer heart than mos
of her sex chooses that portion of a poo
mans love and vainly seeks to adam
herself to life of which she has hithert,
| known nothing. The habits of her girl
hood bind her like strong fetters. he
/ knowledge of domestic duties weighs he
to the earth, the loss Of social position o
the fevered efforts she makes to suppor
it, wear out her life in bitter repinings
until her health gives way and She dies
leaving her faults to vex the world il
her children, and her virtues undiscov
cred save by the husband. who bide
from himself all else of her pfemorv y
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COMMON SENsE.-Let us remember
that wouanhood is the great fact-wife-
hood and motherhood its incidents. y
place i'm the world of work, in the trades
and professions, will enable women to
marry from the highest motives, not
from their necessities: 1t will teach
them, too, the value of money-to earn
what they spend will be the best q1ssible
check 10 extravaganza, and end much of
the domestic contention over the
almighty dollar. And this place she is
slowly conquering to-day. Let every
wise father educate his daughter to self
support If he would make her life happy
and independent. If girls had occupa-
tion, kind fathers and mothers would
not be so often called to deplore the un-
fortunate marriages so many OF Their
daughters make. If they were Kept IN
colleges, as their brothers are, until
twenty-five, studying science and phil
osophy, they would not commence tine
study OF man at sixteen.-lHrs- T.. Z.
/ iStonfOR
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\ TRAGEDY.-HOw many acts are
there in tragedy Five, l believe.
ACT I.-GOung man starting from
home. Parents and sisters weeping to
have him 90. Wagon passing over the
hill. Farewell kiss thrown back. Ring
the bell and let the curtain drOD.
ACT II.-Marriage altar. Bright
lights. Full organ. White veil trailing
through the aisle. Prayer, and eXcla-
nations of "HOw well she looksw Ring
/ the bell and let The curtain drop.
/ ACT III.-Midnight. Woman waiting
/ for staggering steps. Old garments stuck
/ into the broken window pane. Many
marks of hardships on the face. Biting
of the nails of blOOdless fingers. Neglect,
cruelty, disgrace. Ring the bell and let
the curtain drop.
ACT IN.-Three graves in very dark
place. Grave of husband and father
who died of dissipation. Plenty ofweeds
but no flowers. o, whata blasted heath
with three graves Ring the bell and
let the curtain drop.
ACT Va destroyed souls eternity.
No light, no music, no hOpel Despair
cOiling around the heart with unUttera
BILE anguish. Blackness and darkness
forever Woel woe wOel l cannot
bear longer to look. / close my eyes at
this last act of the tragedy. Quick
quick! Ring the bell and let the curtain
1 dFOp.-ReU. T. De Wit Idlmddge.
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lOriginaLl
Reply 20 EIarah.

Who art thou whose pensive notes
FAN In sweet cadence on the air,
And In their mournful beauty float
Into my soul, and find an echo there .
o, what is man, more than thou art
Was he not formed Of earth's rude dust?
should he have power to pierce thy heart,
when faithless HE % thy eOnfiding trust:
Thy form was made Of finer clay,
Thy spirit more exquisite far;
Why HIS unjust demands obey
BY needless sacrifice thy soul TO mars
let thy spirit grieve no more;
Cast not fragrance on the wild;
let fhv love Of sELF restore
That beauty which mans cruelty despOiled.
We were not made 10 brood o'er gTief;
Pine souls would starye on fare so rude;
But erander thoughts viii give relief,
And feed the soul with eternal food.
Then plume thy spirits golden wing,
Nor quail at any tyrant's nod;
But soaring, let IL ever sing,
Il know on earth no master but my God :"
CONSTANCE.
SALEM, Oregon, Nov. II, ISL
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CORRESPONDENCE.

| his department. ol the NEW NOkIH-
WEST is to be a general vehicle for ex-
change of ideas concerning any and all
matters that may be legitimately dis
cussed in our columns. Finding it practi-
cally impossible to answer each cores
pondent by private letter, we adopt this
mode of communication to save our
friends the disappointment that would
otherwise accrue from our inability to an
swer their queries. We cordially invite
everybody that has a question to ask,
suggestion to make, or a scolding to give
to contribute to the Correspondents
Column
Carrie c.: Make your water proof
cloak in the form Of loose sack, large
enough to fit comfortably over the dress
and long enough to protect your skirts
from the mud. Button it down the front
with large gutta percha buttons and
line the waist and sleeves throughout
with flannel. Then make a circular
cape with hood attached, and line the
whole with flannel of any bright color
that is becoming to your complexion.
All wool water proof is best. The half
cotton wears grey and ''seedy'' in little
while.
Mollie: "Winsey" is a very durable
heavy dress goods, generally woven il
two colOrs. 1t is very fashionable, but
is not in as general favor as the ordinary
double-width water proof. "Wigans'
is a stiff goods much used for facing
dress skirts. We do not like it. Won
ans dress should be undulating an,
drapery-like anything stiff aud un
wieldy makes her form appear ungrace
full.
George H.: We have not had oppor
tunity as yet to investigate the matter
Mrs. \. G. c.: You ought not to know
that you have "nerves." But you viii
never be well and strong until you lear
to take exercise in the open air. Z
woman with a vigorous constitution
would be killed in a month if she wer
placed in your inert position; and tn
only reason that you do not die is be
cause, from the force of habit, you hav
become a lackidasiaca, nobody. Nov
don't get angry! Ifyou apply to ply
sician for relief, you must not complain
if the dose is bitter. Get your husban,
to "let' you arouse yourself from you
, lethargy, and strike out i'm the world o
work and make a ssss-t0rn OF yourself i
he won't "let" you-do it anyhow. Th
woman who sacrifices her days to pent
up hotel and her nights to her owner
bedchamber prostitutes her soul ant
body for Support" that brings he
nothing but just such a state of irrita
; bility and Mysteries as you complain OF
Take our advice and follow it, and from
! the ruin of your health and strength
you will arise ennoDled, strengthened
useful. Go on in the old way and you
useless life will soon be spent, and yOl
, will pass away and be forgotten. w
always get earnest over these importan
truths.
Mrs. V. c.: We send you the file c
back numbers. You will find that tn
Herald comes in for a fair share of plai
dealing. Politically, we are independen
of any and all parties; publicly, we al
after our opponents with the best weaI
ons we can command; and PERSONAL!
we are on good terms with everybody
/. Thanks for the remembrance.
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A lady has started paper at Portland,
Oregon, which she calls the NEM
NORTHWEST. Her salutatory opens pens III Il
this vigorous style: I'VE have served u
r1.1I rngnlag iaUp5prenticeship at working
WASHING. scrubbing, ironing, darning'
patching, patching plain sewing raising babies,
milking, churning and poultry ptatt raising sdSaGg
.n,,o.bt i,t music. written for the news
,1ansrs ,aTs made speeches, and carried on
PT,tS-s, dn textensive millinery and dress-making
business. We can prove by the public
that this work has been well done.
Now. having reached the age of thirty
six. and having brought up family of
bows to set type, and daughter to run
the millinery store, we propose TO edit
and publish newspaper; and we intend
to establish it as one Of the permanent
institutions Of the country" Which is
not only straightforward talk, but better
poetry, we leave it to anybody, than
Walt Whitman's.-N j. Mechanic.
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a Mrs. Conway has been awarded the
contract for building a railway in Mary
land, and already has her wOrl1men bus
lily engaged in digging, carting, and
track-laying. This is much the most
noteworthy of the recent manifestations
of female determination to rival man in
fields heretofore exclusively occupied by
him. We have becOme-sO accustomed
to the Western girl who cultivates a
farm of forty acres, planting, plowing,
and irrigating it in manly fashion, that
she is no longer an item of interest. Al
so the young woman who perpetually
goes out upon raging sea in a small
boat and rescues shipwrecked sailors
bids fair to exaspeTate mankind by her
wearisOme iteration of what was once a
pleasing philanthrOpic novelty. But
woman who undertakes to build q rail-
way and proves herself a mistress of
grading, ballasting and bridge-building;
who understands the mysteries OF
"chairs' and Switches and who can
oversee gangs of track-laying navvies
with discretion and authority, deserves
at least n transitory fame.-N'e5C Jersey
Mechanic.
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THE PHYSICAL STRENGTH OF Yo1-xc
WOMEN.-SOme one asked Mrs fCoJ,.
Stanton if she thought that girls pos
sessed the physique necessary for the
wear ana tear OF a college course of study.
Her reply IS both sensible and sarcastic.
Il would like to see your said Mrs.
stanton, take thirteen hundred Young
men, and lace them up, and hang ten to
twenty pounds weight of clothes to their
waists perch them upon three-inch
heels, cover their heads with ripples,
chlgnons, rats and mice, and stick ten
thousand hair-pins into their scalps, if
they can stand all this, they will stand
little Latin and Greek"
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THE FUTURE.-'Generation after
generation" says a fine writer, "have
felt as we now feel, and their lives were
as active as our own. They passed like
vapOr, while nature wore the same as
pect as when nature commanded her to
be. The heavens shall be as bright over
our graves as they now are around our
paths. The world have the same at
fractions for our offspring yet unborn as
she once had for US children. Yet 4
little while all will have happened. The
throbbing heart will be at rest. Our
funeral will wind its way, and prayers
will be said and then we will be left
alone i'm silence and in darkness for the
worms, and it may be but a short time
we shall be spoken of, but the things of
life will creep in, and our names will
soon be forgotten. DAYS will continue
to move on, and laughter and song will
be heard i'm the room in which we died;
and the eyes that mOurned for us will be
dried, and glisten again for joy; and
even our children will cease to think oil
us, and will not remember to lisp our
name.
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A gentleman was describing to Doug
las Jerrold the story of his courtshiP and
marriage-how his wife had been
brought up in a convent and was on the
point of taking the veil when his pre-.
enee burst upon her enraptured sl2iro
and she took him rs her husband. Jea l5
rold listened TO the end of the STORY, %li,,
then quietly remarked: "9ne siiiiP''
/ thought YOU better than num-
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At Null messenger having requested
a London clergyman to announce that
Iif DIR. Leach was among his audience
he was urgently wanted" the clergy
man added from sympathy, i'and may
God have mercy on the poor patientr'
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1t has been lately decided that hotel
keepers are liable for watches stolen
from their guests, although they may
have notices posted that they will not be
responsible for money, jewels and orna-,
ments, which are not put in the hotel
safe, for safe keeping. The court holds
that watches are not Ornaments, but
as useful during tn night as during the
day. This item sill interest hotel
keepers as well as travellers.
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JUDITH REID
A Plain Story Of a Plain Woman.

Entered, according to the Act Of Congress, in
the year ISL, by Mrs. a. J. Duniway, in the
Office OF the Librarian Of Congress at Washing
ION nlfN.1
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No nation, mo religion, no mo- class, a,sstba,. mo
R5 Without tt finding the day of retri6nti0n On
come mon itself 1t may not always
come come ,bromgb gom an uprising of the perse-
@ c1ted people, but It comes from m some oaTs
agencies, In some form, Will, the GER
teinty Of final Judgment for all crimes
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''I wish was dead" is the heading to
a quack advertisement. This wish
can speedily be gratified by taking the
medicine.
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Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
,ures must make known their names to the
T5ditor. or no attention will be given to Their
communications.
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Gbe flew aertbwest.

A Journal for the People
1,evofed 10 the Interests Of Humanity.
independent in Politics and Religion
alive 10 all Live issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
Of the Masses.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-01-10
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

CECOND SESSlON OF 4lST CONGRESS
SENATE. Wednesday, Jan 4th The Sen
ate passed Mr.. Sherman's bill authorizing the
additional issue of 100000, coo five per cent.
bonds for funding purposes 1t agreed to MIR.
Summers resolution asking the President for
copies Of all the papsrs relating to the San
Domingo negotiations Bills were introduced
for the relief of distilers of brandy from
grapes encouraging mining, incorporating
mining schools, paying for army stores taken
from the citizens of Alabama who had enlisted
or did service lii the Federal army A resou-
ton vas passed instruoting the Committee on
Finance to inquire into The expediency of i'm
posing tag upon applications for Office
The bill for the relief Of j. M Best of Pa
dueah, was discussed, Bests house was de-
stroyed to give range to artillery FIRE. The
questions involved are whether it was an Incl
dent of fight or property taken for the use of
the army,
House. Tho House reaesembled at noon.
with barely a quorum. The bill relative to the
centennial fair was discussed Mr. Banks gave
notice that he would call up the San Domingo
bill on Monday The Presidents message We
TONG the bill for the relief of the bondsmen of
certain detaulting officials and the Indian APP
preparation bill were made the special order
for Wednesday
A bill was reported for additional appropra-
tons for the Louisville and Portland canal