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HOMES.

How many wanderers there are up
and down the earth who never know
the sweet influence of home, and into
whose dreary lives fall no loving words.
How many walk with aimless feet
the great thorough-fares of life, stran-
gers amid the multitude! Especially
is this the case on the Pacific coast,
and particularly with young men. Per-
haps more young men turn out to be
dissolute and dissipated from this cause
than from any other. And this is
doubtless the reason that many who
in the Eastern States We're considered
moral, steady and industrious may
here be found among those whose ways
''take hold on hell" Is there no RENE
dy for this condition of things? Cannot
some of our benevolent-minded people
institute some plan by which the want of
a home may be at least partially sup
piled? Cannot more pains be taken TO
introduce young men into society and
make them feel "at home?n True,
some unworthy ones may sometimes be
the recipients of this kindness, but then,
on the other hand, many who are
worthy and deserving will be assisted
and encouraged.
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OREGON's CLIMATE.

Those carping critics who are forever
complaining about the climate of Ore
gon have been silenced at last. Any
body who could complain of the weather
this summer is certainly very hard to
be pleased. While the denizens of al
most every other portion of the Union
have been suffering with the nearly in
tolerable heat, and striving in vain to
find some cool spot at some fashiona-
BILE watering place, our people have as
vet had little occasion to take a jour
ney down TO the sounding sea" on ac-
count of hot weather. In fact, taking
all things into consideration, it must be
that much-abused, much
Oregon has some at
fractions even as regards her climate.
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HEALTH OF FARMERS WIVES.

As these are harvest times, it will
perhaps do some good to re-publish the
following editorial, which appeared in
the NEW NORTHWEST about a wear
agO:'
We well remember that we once en-
tertained the yet popular theory that
farmers wives were more healthy, hap
py and eontented that any other class of
women. Though Brought up on a farm.
with the vision of our pale-faced, weary
and over-taXed mother ever before Us.
we yet failed to analyze the difference
between her weary form and that Of our
city visitors, who always praised her
many delicacies for the table, and who
appropriated, as 10y prerogative, the
coolest chambers and incest hooks and
corners Of the rambling old farmhouse.
Never did we realize, until the brunt of
all such burdens came upon our own
shoulders, how thankless and hopeless
as the never-ending toll of woman
whose business it is TO be both drudge
ana lady, attending to the numerous
wants OF her many guests, borne down
'y me suffering and toll and weakness
attendant upon and inseparable from
incessant maternity; cooking also for
ooncourse Of hired men, and wasbing
ana serubbing for everybodv MI :
the regular life ruotine of thousa,,i9 ,,9 e -
farmers wives. ''''''S VI
The result is the early dealt, or -.
than half of them, and tha =, sa,iI' more
forth upon the world large rar,;I;s" ii,''"s 3
weak and nervous offspring. yyho ~ ~
their turn, will be yet more poorly f,tas -
for the responsible burdens of life a.
were the weak, over-taxed motI,ors
whose lives were a constant Succession
Of suffering.
Now, there is no need that women
should endure all this. Farmers wives.
from their apparent opportunity 10
breathe pure air and eat fresh and
wholesome food, should really possess
better health than those women who
live ia pent-up cities, where the air is
Initiated, the habits unnatural and the
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DETERMINED TO BE MARTYRS.

In spite of the oft-repeated declara-
tions Of this and other Human Rights
journals, men are determined to be con-
sidered martyrs to the cause Of the
coming woman. We rarely meet
gentleman who converses upon this inn
portant topic but he says in substance:
''AIen will be compelled to take back
seat. Women will hold the reins Of
government as soon as they vote. Men
will be compelled to take care Of chill
dren in the coming era. Women would
soon drive men 10 the kitchen"-and a
host of just such ridiculous, half
serious, half-playful expressions, while
many of them say that we regard them
as ''brutes" and animals and all that,
which we are certain they don't really
believe. In the coming era Of woman's
political emancipation she will take
her place, not as dictator or ruler over
man, but by his side rs his equal. She
will come not to destroy but to fulfill
the perfect law Of humanity.
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food often unwholesome, because decay
ing and stale.
Saws Dr. Hall: "Many farmers
wife is literally worked to death in an
inadvertant manner, from want of re-
Election or consideration on the mart of
her husband"
We know hundreds of farmers wives
who never have an hours 'help'' in the
house during the whole child-bearing
period, except perhaps for a week or
two at most, just subsequent to periodi-
cal confinement. And these women not
only bear all the dread, anxiety and suf-
fering incident to maternal responsible
ity, but they drudge and drudge until
their best friend, the monster Death,
takes them from toll and suffering, and
lays them down with folded hands and
silent hearts TO "sleep the sleep that
knows no waking"
We do not wish to overdraw this
melancholy picture. Visions of ruddy-
faced and happy farmers wives do
sometimes fit before us, and We thank
the careful and provident husbands who
shield and comfort them; but we know
that such women do not Systematically
perform double and treble menial labor
all through their life, any more than do
the well kept horses of the many men
whose care-worn wives could well en-
dure a tithe of the care and recreation
that is ungrudgingly given them (the
horses), by men who never once con-
slider that their wives need equal pro-
lection
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had passed a bill TO pay Interest on one
million dollars for railroad uses, but i
have never since / came to the State
said or acted otherwise than that the
State ought not to be bound for money
for such use. / don't propose TO ask the
State for q cent for any of the purposes
the Mercury mentions, and | want this
understood, that | am here to help Ore
gon and not 10 cripple her; to make her
inhabitants more prosperous and not TO
add 20 her burdens in any way. When
1 ask any county named, or counties
not named by the Mercury, to vote sub
sidies, it will be time enough for men or
newspapers that oppose me to talk about
my doing so.
1 have as much interest in keeping
down the rate of taxation as any man in
the state, and ] want to see the taxes
kept as low as thev can be compatible
with the requirements of the people
themselves. | am astOnished that any
! body should accuse me of being the
prime mover, or in favor of having the
capital removed from Salem to East
PORTLAND or to any other place. | am
nafdly 20 be convinced that anybody
does believe so. such an idea has never
entered my head.
If gentlemen will only do me the ia
vor to come and ask me what | think
before they publish what they say L
think on subjects they attach my name
/ 70, VIII be very much obliged to them.
l expect good deal of opposition from
newspapers like the MerciHy, but 1 hope
/ they will give me credit for some sense,
and / think the movement that paper
speaks OF would indicate that ! wanted
to brave or TO oppose public opinion, a
thing i have never done and do not seek
TO do when it concerns public interests.
! expect to subservc and not to go con-
/ trary To the public sentiment, and
don't wish or propose to ask the Repub-
| lican party or the Legislature for any
favors Or rights that they would not be
willing to yield to any other citizen,
whether he voted that ticket or not.
As 10 their remarks that work is
stopped on the railroad construction on
either line, let me say there is no truth
i'm IT, The work will go on until the
rainy season renders it impossible and
forces the suspension Of it until next
year
II there were anything more to be
said to satisfy the people that [ don't
want 10 do or don't intend to do what
the Mercury says Of ME, would say ii
here, but what you have said so we'll,
and what | say now, ought, l think, to
cover the case. Very respectfully,
BEN HOIIADAY.
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WOMEN AS GARDENERS.

Now that so many women are be-
ginning to enter some other depart
ments of labor than the kitchen and
nursery 1t Is not amiss TO suggest some
ouI'"tlons for which they are emil
hently fitted. Some women. as wen as
1' inen' naturally prefer outdoor to in
uoor work, and for such we think oar
uenihg would be just the thing n js
mol near as hard work as bending ovor
the wash-tub or ironing-table. II is
moreover, remunerative-whieh cannot
be said Of wOmsn's present work We
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Unoccnnied Land.

To those who are opposing the influx
OF foreign population, on the ground
that our country will soon become too
densely inhabited, the following article
from the Boston Courier may be read
with profit:
"While there is a narrow strip of coun-
try on our Atlantic coast, extending
from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to
Philadelphia, which apprOXimates the
countries OF Europe in the cultivated
condition of the soil and density of the
population, the rest of the United States
is only settled in spots and Oases. HUI
man occupancy is the exception, and
the wilderness condition the rule. Mas
sachusetts, Southern Maine, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connect
lieut. have the aspect of old countries
brought under subsection. But a great
er part of the soil of even the old Thir-
teen States is still unOccupied and I'M
claimed.
"Ihe railroads Of the West and South
run through wildernesses for the most
part. The greater portion Of the old
state Of New York is a wilderness, and
yet settlers have been going West from
that State for two generations and more.
Only the choicest spots and localities of
our vast territory are taken. Settlers
are dainty. Our oldest States are not
yet settled. Large as is the stream of
emigration flowing i'm from Germany,
Great Britain and other European cOun-
tries into the United States, it is only a
drop i'm the bucket. Some four millions
and half of European emigrants have
landed at New York during the last
twenty years. II would take all this
host 10 settle Northern, Central and
Western New York alone, and even
then that state would not begin to ap-
pTOXimate the crowded condition of such
European countries as France, Belgium.
Bavaria, etc.
''The North American continent can
furnish homes and abundant food for all
cOmeTs for centuries. Land, which is so
precious in the Old World, will continue
to be e drug here for an indefinite pc
TiOd of time. Nobody with a spark of
enterprise need be drudge in our old
Eastern commercial and manufacturing
towns and cities. There is a piece of
soil with abundance and independence
for everybody. This fact makes trades
unions and labor leagues, modelled on
those of England and other European
communities, ridiculous. The Secretary
of the Treasury recently said, in a
speech before the Chicago Board OF
Trade, that if We were to aggregate the
entire population OF the States and Ter
ritOries Of the United States within the
State of Texas, and leave the whole
country elsewhere uninhabited, the pop
ulatiOn TO the square mile would not ex-
ceed the present population Of Massa-
chusetts.n
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GREELEY, FROM woNAN's STANDPOINT
nEE INTERVIEW WITH THE SAGE oF CHAP
l'AwAoUA-wHAT HORACE KNOWS ABOUT
EDITORIAL CoCErFsY.
The Opera House was well filled last
night by n respectable audience of ladies
and gentlemen, on the occasion of q lee
ture on the political situation and Hor-
ace Greeley, by Mrs. Duniway of Ore
gon, the editress of the NEW NORTH
WEST. She was introduced by DIR. +.
y. Clarke, and pTefaced her address with
poem, which was delivered in feel
ing and admirable style. She said that
in san Francisco, previous to her lee
ture, while walking the streets, she
heard one man say to another: "What,
YOU are not going TO hear that woman
speak on politics, are you? ?n On the
evening of the lecture she told the au-
dicnee, as she would tell them tonight,
that il any man doubted her knowledge
Of politics, she would try and show them
that she knew something about il before
she got through, and that women had
right to learn something OF her country
and her country's government. The
lecturer narrated in n graphic manner
her first attendance at political meet
ing, when she went to hear Col. Baker
speak in Oregon. She was advised not
- So NAN ~ was liUl NOAll1il .Ahh
she would be laughed at, but, disregard
ing the advice, She got together seven
women who went and We're provided
with seats along side of the renowned
speaker, who complimented them high
~ for their courage. She said that the
bachelors were always crying out
ABOUT THE BABIES,
When the married men We're not trou-
sfNn .I-ln Il
the maternal love was so strongly i'm
plicated in the female breast that poll
ties would not obliterate the fond en-
dearment. She would trust the men to
take care of the babies every time. IL
had been said that women Were weak,
silly and vain, and had no depth of un-
derstanding or intellect, but women had
never had the opportunity allowed to
men TO become different, and after
Bakers lecture, she resolved, should the
time ever come, to turn her attention TO
politics and stir up the men and women
TO proper understanding of wOman's
status in the world, in her family and
in the commonwealth.
She said she was not there to make a
woman's rights speech, for every man
whose brains was of the
CAPACITY OF \ RABBITS
Must know that the day of woman's re-
generation was coming, and that it was
impossible to stay it.
She had been told that women should
not want to dabble in the filthy pool of
politics, and she would ask, "who made
the pool so filthy?" When man recoils
from the necessity of dabbling in the
pool, woman is called upon to come to
the rescue, and that right speedily. She
entered her
EMPHATIC PROTEST
Against the ISLANDERS that men were
worse than women. Women were just
as good as men and no better. If wom-
en- should form a government it would
become corrupt, just as the government
controlled by man becomes corrupt, by
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Ladies are to be admitted to the
Young Mems Christian Union Of Chi
cago, and the name is to be changed to
simply Christian Union. We believe
ladies may now become members of the
Portland Young Mems Christian AssO-
citation. Suppose now that the exam
pie set by the young men of Chicago be
followed still further, and the euphOn-
ious appellation of ''Young Men's'
dropped.
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LABoR.-The great doctrine to teach
a child is, that he must labor for what
he wants. Is it riches? Let him stop
envying those who have made money,
and 90 to work and make it himself.
Is it the position that character gives?
Let him build up good reputation for
himself. is it talent? Let him study
TO improve his mind. Possibly he may
come honestly by somebody else's
money without working for it, but he
cannot inherit an education. knoW!-
edge requires brain work, and there Is
no getting over it. y man-may dle anu
leave his money, but he cannot leave
his education.
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Letter From Ben Holiday.
SUMNER House,
NEAR TuLAMOOR HEAD,
July p, 1872.

July p, 1872.
To the Ei{itO, of tie OrcgORi0a:
SIR: The mail which came last night
brought to me the Salem Mercury Of
last Saturday and the OrcgOlGdH of yes
terlay. / see in the former an article
which assumes or presumes that | in
tend to ask the next Legislature to pass
certain measures for my benefit, or in
my interest, or to suit my purposes.
Among these is a statement that work
has been suspended -On the railroads i'm
Southern Oregon and on the West-side :
that | propose to make it appear that
something must be done to HELM the
construction of these roads along. and
that this something must be done by
the state; that to accomplish this
want the State to guarantee me the in
terest on the railroad bonds, (which the
Mercury states at S7TO, 900 per annum),
at an increase, as that paper figures it,
upon taxation of fifteen and One-half
mills on every dollars worth OF prop
erty i'm the State; that | intend to have
laws passed by which / can levy subsi-
dies in the counties of Namhill, Polk,
Benton. Lane, Douglas and Jackson ;
that | intend to try TO pass Portland
subsidy bill over the veto of the Cover
nor; that L want the Republicans TO
oust enough Democrats from the Senate
TO have two-thirls of that branch, and
that / am the prime mover in move
ment to make East Portland the capital
of the State.
In the OrcgoaidR of yesterday | saw
AN excellent and prompt refutatiOn of
what the Mercury says, and for the re-
f1tation am duly grateful. You did
me Justice when you said did not want
the State of Oregon to pay interest on
the eleven millions of railroad bonds.
Before came to Oregon the Legislature
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Miss Foley, an American sculptor at
Rome, has been about the most success
full artist i'm the Holy City during the
past season. Most Of her work has
gone to England. American women
are noted for succeeding in whatever
they undertake.
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LANE LADIES.-We, one afternoon
last month, stood at a window, on Mar
ket street, in San Francisco, to notice
the gait of the fashionably dressed Ia
dies on the sidewalk. We watched un-
til one hundred had passed. OF these
tweuty-four were decidedly lame-so
much so that they limped peTceptibly;
thirty-foUr got along without limping,
but could not avoid showing that they
walked in pain; they shufIled awkward
iy along, as if both feet were affected,
and they could not favor one without
injustice. Few of the remainder walked
gracefully; many, if compared with
really graceful walkers, would have to
be put in the awkward squad.n
The same day, meeting friend, we
inquired of Miss Lizzie NJ, bright
girl of 'sweet sixteen
''Why, had you not heard? She is
laid up for four months, the doctors
say
''No! What has befallen her?n
"Well, there seemed to be shorten
ing Of the muscles and tendOns in one
leg and back Of the ankle. You may
have noticed that she was lame. She
had some very bad bunions under the
sole of her foot, and for while we LAID
il to them; but soon the tendons ! speak
Of contracted so much that she had 10
walk on tiptOe. Last week the surgeons
cut the tendons, Strengthened her leg
and ankle, and now they say she VIII
have 10 lie perfectly quiet until the
cords grow out and unite, and that II
will take three or four months"
"What caused the difficulty in the
first place ~
Wearing high-heeled shoes. You
know Lizzie liked to be in fashion."-P
{. Journal of Health.
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Christine Nilsson was married at
Westminster Abbey, July 9th, to NJ.
Roussard. The nuptials were witnessed
by an immense assemblage, including
many aristocrats and well known
artists. Among the persons present
were Baron Brunow, the Russian
Minister; Minister Schenck, of Amer
ica- and Lady Peel.
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a woman at Damville, New Hamp-
shire, having been notified to appear
and work out her tax of four cents,
made her appearance at the appointed
time, armed with hoe, and toiled Wig
orously until her tax was cancelled
about fifteen minutes. Plucky action,
surely. Wonder how many OF our
Portland girls would be willing TO do
the same thing?
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By a new law married women in
Pennsylvania may purchase sewing
machines without the consent of their
husbands and the contract will be bind
ing. Another step in the march Of civ
ilization.
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\ letter from Mr.. Holiday to the
OregOaidH will be found elsewhere. 1t
deserves careful perusal by the people
of Oregon, who will naturally be anx-
ious that its fair pledges be faithfully
kent
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An organization, known as the 'Ida
Greeley Grays," has sprung up among
the ex-Confederate soldiers in the
South. 1t will now be in order TO get
up the ''Nellie Grant Blues"
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Twenty thousand women keep body
and soul together in Switzerland by
their skill at the finer work Of watch
making. Poor things, out Of their
SDhp~af
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Mrs. DIR. Tarr takes the place Of her
husband, recently deceased, as editor Of
the Denton (Maryland) Journal. What
an outrage upon the rights of man.
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A Buffalo woman has raised s., 500
worth Of Strawberries this year from
two acres Of ground. Better than llitch-
en- work. that.
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would, therefore, most heartily advise
ali women who would like to have an
outdoor occupation to try gardening.
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A Chicago actor, who was greatly IIS,
oiven 10 tbe "howing bowl was locaIly
alluded to as n living specimen oil tns
mellow drammer.
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\ runaway couple from Indiana vent
to Dowagiac, Mich, to get married. The
Good Templars of that village saw 4
chance to raise a stake, and offered the
young couple free use of their hall for
the marriage ceremony, but levied tax
OF fifteen cents on all who were anX-
ious to witness the affair. The fifteen
cents entitled the visitor to plate of
festival ice cream. The runaway couple
can be secured on reasonable terms by
religious and benevolent societies
throughout the State.
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a. r. HeReham, OF UmatilIa County.
". D. Hare, of Washington County.
Jas. +. Galley. OF Douglas County.
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From the san Jose Mercury.
Mrs. Duniway.

GREELEY, FROM a wOMAN's STANDPOINT
HER INTERVIEW WITH THE SAGE oF CHAr-
fAwAQUA-wHAT HORACE KNOWS ABOUT
EDITORIAL CnCETFssY.
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EMPHATIC PROTEST

Against the ISLANDERS that men were
worse than women. Women were just
as good as men and no better. If wom-
en- should form government it would
become corrupt, just as the government
controlled by man becomes corrupt by