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A Sad Case.

We are all inclined TO judge the erring
harshly. Instead of throwing over them
the veil of charity, to cover up their
short cOmings, society, as q general
thing, hands them forth in all their hid
eOus deformity.
We should treat those who commit an
ofiense against law and order precisely
as the physician does the invalid.
Kindness, proper surroundings, sympa-
thy and love, is what the erring require.
Certain offences are regarded rs crimi-
nal, and those who commit them are
spurned by society; the finger of scorn is
pointed at them, and thereby they are
arlVen still deeper into iniquity.
1t Is not often that we meet with such
a touching, melancholy record of a life
OF shame, as that found in n late number
oi the Atchison (kan.) Patriot. The
Vlcilm was only seventeen years of age,
giri oi rare beauty, fine education and
polite manners. About eighteen
months ago she was sedueed, under
promise of marriage, by a young man
whose acquaintance she formed at a
public hall. In n few months her
destroyer left the place, and she discov-
cred that she was i'm Il condition that
would soon disclose her shame to the
world. Soon afterward she went to
Kansas City, where she spent several
months with some relatives, and became
the mother of child. Crushed with a
sense of shame, and her heart broken bv
the treachery of the man she loved, she
determined never to return to her home.
She finally went to St. Joseph, Mo-,
where she died. Just before the termi-
nation of her sad career, she wrote the
following to her parents:
''ST. JOSEPH, July 9th, 1872.
"DEAR FATHER AND MoTHER:-I am
dying; life, with its bitter regrets, will
soon close, and / shall be at rest. Oh,
what an eternity of misery | have found
since l deserted you so cruelty. I had
thought to keep you in ignorance of all.
and TO die away from you, for am un-
worthy of your memory; but as NIGHT
comes on, deliriOus fancy takes me hsct
to the home in which / was once the
idol, and where | was once so happv.
and ! see father and mother-oh. those
and wondering where I
am, and "where Julia sleeps Tonight -
The picture craZes me, and | can't lie
until YOU know where / am. Alas
alone, with none to pity me; in a house
of shame, and an Outcast bowed down i'm
grief l am dying-yielding up INV
young life, the price of my sin. and
dying with a broken heart. on. /
mother, how / have longed for one smile; l
you-nO, must not think Of it. Forget
me; forget that you ever had Julia, but !
do not curse me. May God forgive me
for dealing you this blow, and help YOU
to bear it. Goodbye. Your dying
penitent, JULTG.n
Thus died a beautiful, accomplished
and affectionate daughter, whose souI
was too cOniiding, and whose sense of
wrong so acute, that under the shame
which rested upon her, chose the life of
an outcast to drag out miserable
existenee.-ReligiO Philosophical Jour /
nal.
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NOVEL READING.

A writer in Scri5ReI's Monthly truly
observes that the novel has become,
whether for good or for evil, the daily
food of the civilized world. 1t is given
TO Youngest childhood in Mother Goose
and other extravagant and grotesque in
ventions, it is placed in the hands of
older childhood and youth through the
distributing agencies of a hundred
thousand publishing-houses and Sun
day-school libraries, and prepared for the
eyes Of the adult world by every maya
zine and weekly newspaper that finds its
way into Christian homes. Among all
peoples and all sort Of people, Of every
age and Of every religious and social
school, ii is the only universally-ae-
cepted form Of literature. History, poe
try, philosophy, science, social ethics
and religion are accepted respectively by
classes Of readers, larger or smaller; but
the novel is read by multitudes among
all these classes, and by the great muI-
titude outside of them, who rarely look
into anything else. The serial novel is
now an invariable component of the
magazine in America and England; the
French .feuiUcton has been so long es-
tablished as TO be regarded as n necessary
element in the newspaper; while in
Germany, the land of scholars and
philosophers and scientific explorers,
the story-tellers are among the most
ingenious and prolific in the world.
The daily life Of the people is not in
politics, or philosophy, or religious dis
cussion. They eat and drink, they buy
and sell, they lose and gain, they love
and hate, they plot and counterplot;
their lives are filled with doubts and
fears and hopes, and realizations or dis
appointments of hope; and when they
read, they choose to read of these. 1t is
in these experiences that all classes meet
on common ground, and this is the
ground of the novel. In truth, the
novel is social history, personal biogra-
ply, religion, morals, and philosophy,
realized or idealized, all in one.
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To sell a quarter section Of the public
lands to a man who VIII simply make
that his base of operations and feed ms
cattle on half dozen sections, laborlng
persistently to keep out other settlers, Is
as gross a violation of the principle OF
Justice and correct public policy as TO
sell the whole tract at once to some land
speculator or give it to some greedy cor
poratiOn.
This is one form of monopoly that we
believe has thus far received no atten-
ton, and we now call the attention of
the people to it. 1t is the plain duty OF
every man who wishes to see the eoun-
try develop to afford strangers every
facility for obtaining lands for actual
settlement. There are, we are glad 10
know, generally some persons in all
these regions who, for the sake of society
and schools, are desirOus OF having the
country settled. We advise persons
who are seeking lands TO seek such per-
sons out and inquire of them. But be
ware of the man who builds orush
fence between two spurs of the hills ana
tells You there is no land back OF 1t
Willamette Farmer.
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A Monopoly.

We are eonstitutionally opposed to
all kinds of mOnOpolies. Land monOp-
Olies especially are n curse to any cOun-
try. And we know of other persons be-
sides the usual class of land speculatOrs
who may be legitimateiy called land
mOnOpOlists.
An article was recently published in
this paper calling attention to the hill
lands on the western slope of the Cas-
cade range, and showing their advauta-
ges for summer grazing. We have since
heard of several persons who have be-
come interested in that direction, and
gone to look out locations for permanent
settlement. And in many instances
such persons have been met by the scat
tering settlers in those regions with the
statement that there is no vacant land,
or that the land is too broken or barren
for settlement. Now, the plain truth is
that in many instances these settlers
have bought a small tract of land, a for
ty or an eighty, perhaps on school sec
ton, paying for it, in three annual in
stallments, n mere nominal price. They
cultivate enough land to raise their veg
etables, and turn their cattle on the
Government lands, and very carefully
inform every stranger who comes to
look at the country that there is no va
cant land. And newcomers who are
sharp enough to judge for themselves
and seek locations beyond them, are
very often met with petty opposition.
Now it is to the interest of the country
at large, to the interest Of the immi-
grant, and to the interest of these small
monopolists themselves if they only
knew it, to have all available vacant
lands opened TO settlement.
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Oregon.


The Liberal C,ristiGR, of May 4th,
published i'm New York city, has the
following comments on the recent let
tiers of Mrs. Mary 2. Sawtelle OH Oregon,
which shows that q good deal of interest
is felt in the subject:
Statistics show that the climate Is the
healthiest of any State in the Union, the
annual death-rate being one to every
two hundred and nine Inhabitants. Inc
soil is rich and lOamy, all the products
of the temperate zone growing in great
est abundance. Such luscious fruits
apples OF enormous size, pears that VIII
melt in your mouth, and sweet, juicy
plums in such abundance that the limbs
bend and break under the load, while
the delicious wild strawberries, goose
berries, raspberries, blackberries, and
huckleberries spring up in profusion on
hillside, plain and valley. Farmers are
not obliged to buy dressing for their
land. Once put the seed in the ground,
and it cannot help growing. The finest
wheat in the world is raised-the plump
wheat that makes such sweet, light
bread. No one with the energy of a
snail need starve in such country.
They have no paupers to be supported by
charity: all can get their own living.
And what can compare with the
beauty and grandeur of the scenery? !?
Lovely, nesting valleys, clothed with
everlasting veFdgre, where deep, rolling
rivers pursue their onward way, kissing
alike the little fiowerets and the gray,
old trees that stand on their green banks;
vast plains, covered with luXuTiant
grass, dotted all over with gray-colored
wild flowers that bloom every month in
the year, filling the air with their
fragrance; grand old forests of gigantic
trees; silver lakes so transparent that
the motions Of their finny Inhabitants
are distinctly seen at the greatest depth;
cascades, leaping and tumbling from
mOuntain-sidcs, now over awful preci-
pices, and now through deep, wooded
ravines, ever rushing wildly on to the
valleys below; crystal springs
fountains-that send pjets thirty, forty,
and hundred feet, in whose waters is
healing for the people; lofty peaks,
whose snOw-capped SUBMITS tower in
silent majesty above the clouds. What
a paradise for the lover of Nature! Can
even the famous scenery of Switzerland
surpass this? If tourists in pursuit of
health or pleasure knew of half the
wonders of our own continent, they
would visit the Pacific Slope before ever
thinking of Europe.
In the midst of all this loveliness are
thousands of acres of fertile soil lying
idle; only waiting to be titled by the
husbandmau TO yield the richest reward;
while in our large cities multitudes of
human beings are crowded together,
struggling for daily subsistence, without
an inch of land to call their own, and
scarcely cubic inch of the pure air of
heaven To breathe.
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they should not occupy clerkships un-
der the Government, as he told me in
so many words not two weeks prior to
his nomination. A man with such
views would oust every female clerk or
postmaster in the nation if he had op-
portunity TO do so, which fortunately
there is not the slightest danger of in II.
G.'s case. He can take as many "new
departures as he has crotchets in his
fossilized brain, and it will not equal
his departure for Defeated Politicians
Landing up Salt River next November.
Senator Wilson, "the noblest Roman
of them ALL" when placed in juxtaposi-
tion with the nominee for Vice Presi-
dent on the Democratic ticket, appears
grand moral and intellectual giant.
With his fearless defense of woman's
claims to the ballot, and his oft-repeated
efforts4in our behalf in Congress, COM
bined with his nobleness of soul, his re-
membranee Of the working classes,
women as well as men, in his days OF
prosperity, to whom he proudly reverts
as his fellows in early life-all these
things make him worthy of any position
in the Government.
Gratz Brown, with his first advocacy
of Woman Suffrage, which we used to
refer to so proudly, stands now, like the
fareical farmer of Chappaqua, charged,
by his silence at Cincinnati, with apos-
taey to the gospel he once proclaimed
and confirmed.
With Grant and Wilson and the four
teenth plank Of the Philadelphia Plat
form under them, we shall work for
their triumphant march to the White
House. Hurrah for Grant and Wilson.
LAURA DEFORCE GORDON.
INDIANAPOLIs, Ind, July %, 1872.
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MRS. YOUNG.

After tour of some weeks through
the upper Columbia region, Mrs. Carrie
F. Young returned to this city few
days ago, and will soon take her de-
parture for California. As a popular
lecturer she has won golden opinions in
all places she has visited.
1t is her present intention to deliver n
series Of lectures throughout California
in support of Grant and Wilson, and it
may be that she will visit several of the
Eastern States during the month of Oc-
tober for like purpose. All the really
earnest and prominent leaders Of the
woman movement throughout the
United States are enlisted on that side.
Mrs. Young is a woman who has ability
to adorn and elevate any subject that
she touches
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-08-16
LADIES' RELIEF SOCIETY.

PORTLAND, aug. Sth.
II gives the ladies of the "Relief So
ciety'' great pleasure to be able to re-
port that ''The Home" for the relief Of
the poor for which the public has 50
generously contributed, is entirely COM
pleted, and in readiness for the furniture
which is necessary TO put it in working
order. Trusting that the community is
not yet weary in well doing, we are en-
eouraged to appeal once more for helpin
this quarter.
Will the merchants who are willing
to furnish something i'm their line, ear
pets, dry goods, bedding, etc, make it
known to any member of the society, or
to the furnishing committee (Alrs. Bur
rage, Mrs. General Babbitt and Mrs.
Wadhams,) who will most gratefully
receive any contributions The ladies
are greatly indebted to Mr.. +. VI. Bur
ton, who generously gave his services
as architect for "The Home free Of
charge, and they would here publicly
express TO him their thanks.
FANNY AINswORTH,
Secretary ladies Relief Society,""
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Platform of the Woman Suffrage Party Of
the Pacific Slope.

W IIEREAs, We, the representative women of
the racine Coast, in Convention assembled in
san Francisco, this 2lst day Of June Is72 beIiav-
ing the time has come 10 form new poIificot
party, DO organize under the name OF the Won
an IN Suifase Party Of the Pacific Coast ana
uSeiare Ihe following platform of princfnies
lst- All men and women are created ~, ar,4
cIguai, anu are endowed alike with certoir a.,
~ rights, among which are the robfs fr
NJ 81 il0sIty W. anu Tie pursuit OF hanpineSs
~ W hOlu thnt under the Folirfeenfb aud
III r,ttl'Sslth amendments TO the COnsfifufion ~
~ ~ Chlted states women are alreadv snfron-
Ii .seu anu ebtltled 10 the right to vote and are
I ~ ~ oi the privilege only through prejudice
anu anu nlslnterpretaton OF tht. law
80 =. cAliLA q decision OF the Supreme Court
- =, 5 - III tull import OF these Amendments and
w., i1, NJ 1l q me Possibility of adverse decision
-. " "lii l,.Dor with our utmost zeal and energy
tIo,, ~ - duulllonal amendment to the Constitu-
.9,i r.G 70 secure these rights We VIII also work
gst @isa determination FOR the revision and modi-
respective States
1t tsl. Nj persons alike. both men and women,
'S ~ Ssitileu 10 equal rights before the law.
s 3si. All persons and parties who oppose these
pr,t Ples shall be treated political enc
al ,irlesl from whom we will withhold our inhu-
ieeS ee IN politcs and our patronage in business
otn; We Will work for the election OF any
moLtihy candidate OF whatever party VINO WI WI
WOIk with US, and We will vigorously opp9so
these principles
Ith- As political party we unite npon inls
common platform, regardless oi nauoh'utyi
sex, religion or condition.
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The treatment OF women in hotels is
Indignantly set forth by one Of the sex
who says:
The register is generally as remote
and no easier of access than if it lay in
some other city. To 20 to the Office is
unheard of; to ask TO have it brought
into the parlOr usually brings the clerk,
but not the register, and in reply to his
polite question, "Madam, what can do
for you ~ she can only weakly saw,
"Nothing, thank you,n not daring to
repeat the rash question which has once
been so completely ignored. So her best
friends may be on the floor below her
and she never know il, unless she chance
to meet them in the hall or on the ele-
vator. If she stops for dinner only her
better half can quickly rid himself of
the dust of travel in the bathroom pro-
vided for gentlemen. There are none
for ladies, or if you find water there is
never a towel; and a waiter at the office
brushes and brooms him till his cloth
ing is as clean and fresh as ever. No
waiter hOvers around her with whisk-
broom in hand as she strolls into the
parlor. To be sure she takes a room, and
Tor pitcher of water pays its price for a
gay; In comes my lord fresh and cheer
.uii ~ out wonders why my lady can't take
eIilhss as they come, as he does, and not
aiMays Iva look so forlorn when on a Jour-
d;sS, While she, poor thing, goes in to
Inner oIaI'er unrefreshed and unclean. her
oio.hlhg, always heavy and irksome
enough doubly so. from heina iIiaS
with dust and einders. '0
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ON THE FENCE.

1t has been general remark for the
last several weeks that the Bulletin is
con the fence" on the Presidential ques-
ton, and very many people are expect
ing it to go over to Greeley. Its articles
during a month past have had a very
strong Greeley flavor, and its leanings
toward the Greeley side seem to have
surprised some who do not understand
that the Bulletin is n mere mercenary
sheet, which exists only as 4 supporter
Of certain corporation interests. Still
we do not expect it TO come out squarely
for Greeley, simply for the reason that
the signs do not point to his election.
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'sTHE OLD WOMAN. pit was thus, a
few days since, we heard STRIPPING of
sixteen designate the mother who bore
him. BY coarse husbands, we have
heard wives so called occasionally,
though i'm the latter case the phrase is
more often used endearingly. At all
times, as commonly spoken, ii jars upon
the ear and shocks the sense. An "Old
woman" should be an object of reverence
above and beyond most all phases of hu-
manity. Her very age should be her
surest passport TO courteous cOnsidera-
ton. She has fought faithfully "the
good fight" and come off eonquerOr.
Upon her venerable face she bears the
marks of the conflict in all its fuTowed
lines. The most grievous of the ills of
life have been hers; trials untold and
unknown only to her God and herself,
she has borne incessantly; and now, in
her old age-her duty done, patiently
awaiting her appointed time-she stands
more honorable and deserving than he
who has slain his thousands or stands
triumphant upon the proudest fields of
victory. Young man, speak kindly to
your mother and even cOurteOusly,
tenderly OF her. But little time and
you will see her no more forever. Her
eye is dim, her shadow falls graveyard.
Others may love you when she has
passed away-kind-hearted sisters, per-
haps, or she whom of all the world Won
choose for partner-she may love YOU
warmly, passionately; children NAV
love you fondly, but never again, never,
while time is yours, shall the love Of
woman be TO you rs that of your old,
trembling mother has been.-Keystone
Good Templar.
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for the champions belt. Then she
xvorl-ed.her wrists and hands to Timber
iem @ I suppose, and spread out her fin;
GERS till they looked as if they would
6refty much cover the whole keyboard,
from the growing end down to the lit
tie squeaky one. Then those two hands
of hers Jumped at the keys as if they
were couple of tigers coming down on
a flock of black and white sheep, and
the piano gave a great howl rs If its tail
had been trod on. Dead stop-so still
YOU could almost hear your halr grow
ing. Then another howl, as II the piano
had cot two tails and you had trOd on
both of 'em at once, and then grand
elatter and scramble and string OF
jumps, up and down, back and forward,
one hand over the other, like SIAM
pede of rats and mice more than like
/ call music.h
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PREPARING To PLAY.-Oliver Wen
dell Holmes says this is the way women
prepare to play on the piano:
III was young woman with as
many white flOunees around her as the
planet Saturn has rings that did it. She
gave the music stool whirl or two. and
futied down onto it like twirl of soan
suds in hand basin. Then she pushed
up her cuffs as if she was going to fight
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The total membership of the Orthodox
Quakers at present in the United States
IS 57,4O5, being an increase of rs in 20
Years.
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"A "A small boat containing a little hoy
anu girl drifted over Niapra FaI1s ~, s ~,
10th OF July. Also a boat contain, t,,,o, -,,o
men. '"o
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Mrs. Fairs trial has again been post
poned until september
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Presidential Electors
a. B. Meaeham, OF Umatilla County.
w. ID. Hare, Of Washington County.
Jas. +. Galley. OF Douglas County.
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that which has been done by half dozen
returned Caltfornians who are now resi-.
dents of this city. How does nv frisnd ar
rive at his ten tons Of earth removed in tan
hours1 To do this he would have to know
how many tons OF water an engine could
project In ton hourH, and how much earth
the water would take up. Engine num-
Der one tAdamS street, win throw Eve
hundred gallons minute, or twelve hum
cred tons In ten hours; and II the water
viii amalgamste with and carry OF
twenty per cent. Of its own weight in
earth, We would have two hundred and
forty tons OF esrth as the capacity Of the
engine, or nine hundred and sixty tons as
this capaoity of the four engines; and If
the work Is worth thirty cents ton. then
the engines will earn daily two hundred
and eighty-eight dollars think It will
be found in practice that a much larger
qusntity will ne moved.
In conclusion, may say that our enter.
prisinP chief engineer of the fire depart
ment, II. ID. Anderson, ESQ, is fully In
accord with me in this matter, and viii
make practical test In q few DAYS, when,
II 1t is success, as have no doubt Ii will
be, he will take charge of the business (pro.
vidsd always the City Fathers do NOT OBJ
Jeet), and with few hundred dollars
worth OF fuel solve this much vexed
question, give Us fair view, an excellent
placs for additional stot age, and eventu-
ally handsome park, with which latter,
II live, shall have some part In arrang-
ing. GEORGE W. GIFT.
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WARRINGTON GOSSIP.

WAsHINGToN, April 5.
The British and American mixed
commission has adjourned TO April
10th. s TfF
The Secretary of State to-day intro.
duced to the President Admiral Jose
Palo de Bernabe, who delivered his
credentials as minister plenipoten-
tiary from Spain.
The preparations for paying the
last sad tributeto to the departed Morse
are on the most extensive scale. Pre-
paratoEY meetings are being held by
citizens, employees OF the telegraph
Office, government officials, and So
eieties, at which resolutions appropri-
ate to his memory are being passed.
The ceremonies will probably take
place on Monday, 18th instant,
General Farrsworth has made re-
port from the postal committee, in the
matter Of the investigation Of the sys-
tenn Of letting contracts in the Post
Office Department, completely exon
Grating General Cresswell from all
charges against him. The report is
signed by Farnsworth, Porter, TyRer,
Mitchell, Hill and Houghton. The
minority Of tie committee will present
their view in q few days.
The ways and means committee
this morning voted to insert section
in the tariff bill providing that in lieu
of the duties now imposed by law,
there shall be levied and collected
upon printing paper used for books,
magazines and newspapers eXelu.
sively, of size not less than thirty
two by forty-six inches, twenty per
cent. adj valorem; and upon drawing,
foolscap, imperial letter, and note
paper, thirty-five per cent. ad vslO
rem.