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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15

PAPER CAR WHEEIS.-The Spring
field Republican says that the Connecti-
cut River Railroad Company is about in
Producing for trial a set of paper car
wheels under the forward truck of one
Of the engines. These wheels have been
known TO car builders for some time,
but the demand for them has been mod
crate, on account Of their cost, notwith-
standing the universally admitted fact
that they are safe and easy-going. The
wheels arc manufactured by bringing a
pressure of $50 tons upon sheets of COM
mon straw paper, which forces them
into compact mass, which is then
turned perfectly round, and the hub
forced into a hole in the center, this re-
quiring a pressure of twenty-five tons
weight. The tire is of steel, and has a
cne-quarter inch bevel upon its inner
edge, thus allowing the paper filling to
be forced in, 30 tons pressure being re-
Quired in the process. Two iron plates,
one upon each side of the paper, are
bolted together, which prevents the
possibility of the Filings coming out.
The tire rests upon the paper only, and
partakcs of its elasticity in consequence.
Although these wheels are much more
expensive than those in common use,
the patentee claims that they are
cheaper in the end, as they wear longer,
injure the track less, and run with less
noise than wheels OF any other mate
rial.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15
A Beautiful Incident.

a young man recently ran away from
the galleys of Toulouse. He was strong
ana vigorous, and arrived next morning
before a cottage, and stopped to get
something to eat, and get a refuge while
he rep0sed a little. But he found the
inmates Of the cottage in the deepest
distress. -Four little children sat trem-
ollng IN the corner-the mother sat
weeping and tearing her hair, and the
iaVher was walking the floor in much
agony.
The galley slave asked what was the
matter, and the father replied that they
were that morning to be turned out OF
rent.
You see me driven to despair said
the father, "my wife and little ones de-
prived Of food aud shelter, and without
means to provide for them.u
The convict listened to the tale with
tears OIL sympathy, and said:
Il VIII give you the means. / have
Just escaped from the galleys. Whose
ever brings back an escaped prisoner is
entitled TO q reward of fifty francs.
How much does the rent amount to p'
Forty francs" answered the father.
My children should starve before
would do so base thing.n
Inc generous man insisted, and de-
eiared that he would give himself up il
the father would not take him. The
latter yielded, and taking his preservel
by the arm led him to the city and tC
the Mayors office.
Every one was surprised to see that Q
little man had been able to capture such
q strong VOunO faiiOw
The fifty francs were paid, and the
prisoner sent back to the galleys; but
after he was gone the father asked &
private interview with the Mayor, tC
whom he told the whole story. The
Mayor was so much affected that he moi
only added francs to the fathers purse
but wrote Immediately to the Minister
OF Justice, begging the noble prisoner:
release. The Minister examined into
the affair, and finding it was compara
lively small oflense which condemned
the young man TO the galleys, and tha
he had already served out half his term
ordered his release.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15

STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR.-Until
you set foot on Gibraltar, you can form
no idea of its real impregnability.
Very properly its real strength cannot
be seen from a ship in the bay; only
when you land do you find that the sea
wall bristles with heavy guns, and
groans beneath piles of ball; only as you
traverse its flank do you see how for
midable breech-lOadeTs peep from every
available chink, and powerful mortars
lurk behind every convenient embank-
ment. And not till you penetrate the
rock do you get any just notion of the
marvellous piece Of military engineer
ing exhibited in the galleries" These
are tunnels excavated from the solid
rock, parallel to the outer side, but some
thirty feet therefrOm, and large enough
to drive a carriage through. They are
iu two tiers, and comprise q total of
nearly three miles. At every thirty
feet or so along them, spacious embras-
ures are outhewn that terminate in
commanding portfolios, which look to
spectator outside the rock like swallows
nest-holes in sand cliffs. These embras-
ures contain heavy guns always stand
ing ready for action, with powder mag
azines hard by. From the portfolios q
beautiful peep of the bay and the Span
ISL EOAllutAAG art OON0lnEuf ONlb VI LAtGcEg
on the North side, you look down upon
half sandy, half grassy fiat, perhaps
half mile long, and as wide, connect
ing the rock with the main land and
separating the bay from the AIediter-
ranean. Two lines of sentry-boxes, one
at the rock end, the other at the distant
end, mark the boundaries of British and
Spanish land, and between these lines
is the neutral ground. The guns of the
quarried embrasures and those hidden
guns that stud the Western and South
ern slopes of rock, cover the neighbOring
/ Spanish land, the whole of the bay, and
[ the strengthening work is ever going
on by the fortificatiOn of new points
that from time to time appear vulnera-
| BILE The Eastern side of the rock re-
quires no projections; it is a forbidding
wall, with n great sand slope in one
place, but with no foothold for anything
more than few fisherman's huts near
the waters edge.-.St. James Magazine.
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TO DEMOCRATS.

Democrats of these United States, a
word in your ears. You have been rout-
ed, horse, foot and dragons, and you
know it; but we are well aware that
many Of you see not, even dimly, why
you have been defeated. Never were
prospects brighter than were yours last
May. The women of this Republic,
tired of the masculine idea of Republi-
can equality as applied to men alone;
disgusted with sexual legislation, which
the dominant party seemed in no haste
TO overthrow, and anxious to establish
the principle OF Democratic Republican
ism in deed as well as in ethics, looked
to the head men in your ranks as their
convenient allies in great, progressive
struggle. As you were out Of power, we
felt that you had time to study princi-
pie, and for this reason, rather than be-
cause your past record had given US any
cause to look to you for aid, Te felt that
you might be induced to frighten the
Republicans into recognition or refusal
of our claims by taking a bold stand in
advance of them or their professions.
Vain hope! delusive dreaml You
spurned our supplications with derision,
and when we would have aided you,
you Knocked US.
But you have reaped the bitter re-
ward Of your shortcomings, and now,
as you chew the bitter cud of discomfort,
let us assure you that you deserve your
fate. The party that cannot advance
must die.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15
Mr.. GREELEY ON SUFFRAGE.

In his card, announcing a return to
his editorial duties, Mr.. Greeley says:
II he can hereafter say anything which will
tend 10 heartily unite the whole American peo-
pie on the broad platform OF universal amnesty
and impartial suffrage he will gladly do so.
What pity you didn't say so sooner,
Horace. But then it's better late than
never, and as we too believe in "univer-
sal amnesty" as well as impartial suf-
frage," we now offer you the right hand
of editorial fellowship perfectly willing
to let "by-gones be by-gones" pro-
vided you stay converted. You were
the women's champion once, you know,
but you fell from grace, and we, in re-
taliatiou, have voted you out Of the
White House. Pray, don't baekslide
this time.
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INCEST.

Our cheeks tingle with Indignation
as we pen this caption.
Are not men the natural protectors of
women? Do they not tell us so? And
when we seek to Undue all womankind
with the idea of self-protection, do not
the husbands and brothers of the nine
teenth century look at us with an in
jured air, saying, "Cannot you trust
your natural protectors?" Now, men
and brethren, hearken unto us. Do not
the disgraceful facts that are chronicled
from week to week in your journals un-
der the above caption prove beyond
possibility of refutation that men as a
class cannot be trusted to protect women
and children as a class?
Many of you are grand and no.
ble, but the idea that you are all so inn
maculate that woman need not be
taught to protect herself is one which
you do not for one moment believe.
Then why do you not urge upon woman
the necessity of self-protection for the
benefit of herself and society? True,
you provide jails and gibbets for the
punishment of crime, but remember
that laws and usages for the prevention
of evil are far better. Teach women
the glory of self-dependence and the
folly of implicitly trusting these So
called protectors" if you would keeT
them pure.
One man in Linn county, the father
of large family, has just been sen
fenced to lifelong Imprisonment al
hard labor for this most heinous o.
crimes. Hardly had the public hear
ceased to throb with honest indignation
over this horrible outrage before an.
other case, this time in Portland, came
before the Grand Jury, and the daily
papers contain the sickening details.
o, frailty, thy name is man!
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15
METEOROLOGICAL CHART.

Hon. S. c. Adams, well known in Of
fetal and religious circles in the North
west, is at present canvassing the State
for subscribers to a synchronological
chart or compendium of the worlds his
tory, which, so far as we can judge from
eursory examination, commends it
sen very highly to favorable Judgment.
pom chart p feet in length by q feet
III "lulh Mr.. Adams has portrayed in
systematic groupings, arranged accord
ing 70 data of occurrences. the most re-
markable events in the different oros of
the worlds history, from the aorIiost
days OF Bible records down TO the mr.
ent time. The chart is a eompleto n,o
tOgraph of history, ancient and modaro
sacred and profane, and from if the s,n
dent can acquire in few hours tho To-.
that would otherwise require wears 90
patient research. Mr.. Adams will soon
depart for the East to superintend the
publication of this chart, which will he
autographed in excellent style. MANY
prominent citizens have already sub.
scribed for the work, and we hope il
will be literally patronized by the gen.
eral public.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15
WOMAK,s CAMPAIGN WORK.

The detection of the San Francisco
Pioneer from its proper Woman Suf-
frage work to the supreme consideration
of the Train interests has left the large
and influential association of Woman
Suffragists in that city without an or
gan. But the Republican sufTragists
were not idle during the Presidential
campaign, as is proven by the following
notice Of large and enthusiastic Grant
and Wilson meeting, which we con-
dense from the San Francisco dailies:
4 Republican mass meeting. one OF the Iarg-
est and most enthusiastic OF the season. was
recently held at Dashaway Hall. Mrs. Lewis
presided.
Annie Denton Cridge made a long and elo-
quent address, setting forth In a spirited and
earnest manner the claims Of Grant and VIII
son 10 the support OF the women Of the Repub-
lie.
Mrs snow offered the following resolutions:
Resolved, That we, as Woman Sunfagists. re-
joice in the recognition of the rights Of woman
contained in the fourteenth clause OF the Ma
tinnal Republican Platform, and rcaflirmed by
the California state Republican Committee,
trusting that the day Is not far distant when
the justice Of her claim 10 the elective franchise
shall be generally admitted and the idea OF her
political equality practically endorsed
Resolved. That the recent action OF the Re
publican party AT Worcester, Mass, proves the
sincerity of its promise to woman and inspires
her with hope for speedy enfranchisement.
Resolved, That we believe the election OF
Grant and Wilson Will Subserve the best inter
estS OF woman and the highest good Of the Ma
ton at large.
The Alta refers TO Mrs. Shows adj
dress in high terms of praise, and re-
views it at considerable length.
If the California Legislature does not
enfranchise its women after all they
have done, and are yet doing, for the
Republican party, We are mistaken in
regard to masculine ideas of reciprocity
that's all.N
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15

RECREATION.-A great neglected need
of our day is that of recreation. Play is
the counterpart of work. 1t is a recu-
perative process. We are to apt to
think that play is appropriate for chill
dren only; though in fact it is fault of
those who have the care of children,
that they discourage rather than en-
courage play in them. The father and
mother tell their young son to be man,
and the young girl to be lady, when
they ought to be nothing but children,
to have their childlike ways and
thoughts encouraged rather than re-
pressed. The girl and the boy at twenty
should be playful, hilarious, childlike;
and, indeed, this should be the case with
persons at thirty and forty and fifty
years of age. a youthful, playful spirit
imparts elasticity and vigOr to the body,
adorns the character, and keeps the
heart young; and such spirit can be
cUltiUntcd They who never take pains
TO have cheerful society, to find Oeca-
sion for laugh, or for engaging in
amUsements and recreation, will ncces-
saTily grow demure and sedate, if not
remOrse, and be old before their time. II
would be vastly better for all concerned,
if it We're customary with us for the old
and young to mingle together in theiI
social recreatiOns. The former would
thereby be made younger and happier,
and the latter would be saved from
many mistakes and fOllies which harm
them.-Dr. II. ". dustin.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-15

SCENE At THE GRAVE OF GFANNy
FERN. IA correspondent of the Boston
Transcript writes from Mount Auburn
as follows:
Sunday, October l3, opened dark and
dreary; the wind, which came i'm fitful
gusts, drove across the leaden sky dark
masses of clouds, threatening the rain
which later in the day fell so heavily,
Just at noon plain closely covered
herse, followed by four carriages, passed
slowly through the gate at Mount Au-
burn. It bore to their last resting place
the remains Of Mrs. Parton, better
known as Fanny Fern" The funeral
services had previously been held az the
residence of Mr.. Parton, in New York,
and the remains Were followed only bv
the immediate family.
As one looked on the little group OF
not over n dOZen-with perhaps six or
eight spectators standing several rods
away-gathered around that open grave,
on that dreary autumn day, and thought
of the departed, of her life and writings.
so full Of spirit, so bright, sparkling and
CHEEKY, the contract was so complete.
that it seemed impossible to connect
my idea OF her with these scenes.
On the casket was wreath of choice
flowers, but more conspicuous than these
and more appropriate-was large
boquet of autumn leaves and ferns
Ere the mOurners had left the grave,
rain began to fall, at first scarcely more
than a heavy mist, but hardly had they
taken their carriages, it dashed down a.
| though nature joined with theirs her
tears over the grave of one who loved
her so well and interpreted her so faith
fully.
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WILL YOU DO YOUR DUTY ?

WILL 1UU III 4OO0 - L
Now that the Republican party is
certain of enjoying another four years
Administration of Governmental al
fairs, it is well for that party to forget
its pride and exultation even in the
first flush Of victory and begin in good,
honest, earnest endeavor the task of
amending National shortcomings and
correcting National abuses.
First and foremost as a principle of
Republican policy, the people are urging
the abolition of the appointive fran
chise. This privilege carries in its train
q long line Of public abuses, over which
the perplexed President has no control,
but from the disposition of which, do he
the best he may, much dissatisfaction
will necessarily arise, for which he is
often made to bear much unjust and un-
reasonable eensure.
Every Office, from the least to the
greatest, should be made elective. The
people of any given district are better
prepared to choose their officers than
the President or his advisers can posi-
bly, become. Under our system of APP
pointed office-holders the man who is
least worthy but most imperative and
contumacious is the one most likely to
succeed at Washington, while his more
worthy competitor, the peoples choice,
is left behind in the official race from
sheer lack of cheek or impudence. The
people are out-growing this order of
things. Our country has become so broad
and its office-seekers so many that it is
impossible for the President, were he
even ubiquitous, to know one one-thous-
andth part Of his appOintees. The peo-
pie Of each and every district can and
do know whom they want to honor,
and these alone should be the men and
women who should choose such officers.
Republicans, the women of America
look for you to do your duty. If in
your haste to become rich and mighty
you overlook the fact that progression
is the watchword Of greatness, your fate
will become like that Of the defeated
Democracy, and that right speedily
But if you prove yourselves alive to the
grand issues of the hour, ever standing
nobly for the right, and ever ready to
accept the broad principles of eternal
progression, long shall be your days in
the land the Lord your God hath given
you. Once try the stand-still policy
and your race is run. The people are
now, more than ever, with their in.
crease Of knowledge, the arbiters ol
their own destiny. They will not pause
in the ranks of inevitable progress,
though the parties may.
They demand of you rs Republicans
that your Congress pass a Woman Suf-
frage Act at once. The women, to
whose united efforts you owe your Ma
tional success as party, are demand
ing of their sons and brothers the inal-
ienable rights these sons and brothers
have usurped and appropriated. -Four
years grace are given you, o, men and
brethren, in which to choose betweer
certain overthrow as political power il
this Republic and the practical recogni
tion Of the great principle Of "equalit!
before the law" which you, as tn,
party of progressive ideas, acknowledg
TO be inevitable. Will you do you
duty?
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CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY.

The Oregon Presbytery met at .
O'clock Monday evening for the purpose
of celebrating the Centenary OF three
great events, occurring in the year l512
the death of John Knox, the great
Scotch reformer; the massacre OF Saint
BaTtholomew's eve; and the organiza-
ton of the first Presbytery in England.
Interesting and feeling addresses were
made on these subjects by Rev. Mr..
Thompson, of Olympia; d. Geary, of
Albany; and DR.. Lindsey, of Portland.
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AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Father Buchard, a little, weazen-
faced old fogy who lives off the indus
try and ignorance of a large number OF
Catholic women, has been lecturing in
San Francisco recently in opposition to
Woman Suffrage, "for the benefit OF
Catholic schools" His principal argu-
ment is the intellectual inferiority OF
women. Well, we suppose he can be
forgiven for judging all women by the
feminine society he seeks.
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DECLARATION CT HOMESTEAD
WHAT 4 WIFE CAN Do.-It is not gener-
ally known that wife alone can make
homestead of the property which she
and her husband 6wn, and on which
they reside The husbands consent
is not requisite, the law stating that the
homestead land and house, not exceed
ing in value $1,000, can be selected by
the husband and wife, or either of them.
A case illustrative of the power of the
wife in this respect lately occurred
here. 4 husband, who was a hopeless
drunkard, after running through
all his personal property, was preparing
to sell the homestead in which he, his
wife and his family lived, without con-
sent Of his wife. Fortunately she heard
of it, and quietly went and registered
the property as a homestead. The
buyer, when searching the title, butted
up against her declaration, which made
it impossible for the husband to sell the
property. All wives i'm like position
should follow this example. If a hus-
band will not provide for his wife and
children, it is the duty of the wife to
protect both by taking advantage of the
homestead law. The law not only Ie-
gally makes the wife half owner of the
homestead, but also eXempts it from
sale for subsequent debt, execution or
liability. Estate Circular.
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whose recent misfortune we notice else
where, thus goes into heroics over
Woodruff and Claflin:
The career Of these bold had women I'VE will
not beioul our columns by calling them by
ineir proper names !, as leaders ofthe Woman
Movement" as II Is called, should be sufficient
10 turn every true woman in the land from thf.
vile hcreSy with loathing and dis rusf should
the time ever come when the sons OF America
must be reared and educated By such mothers
as these women, may God help our race and
country then.
Now, sonny, we have little hope that
we shall succeed in enlightening your
mind to such degree that you shall be
able to comprehend the truth, for we
know that braying you seven times in
a mortar has not yet caused your folly
to depart, but "while there is life there
is hope" so we venture once more to
give you an easy lesson in the great
book of Human Rights. Know, there
fore, whimpering sonny, once for all,
that Woodruff and Claflin are no more
"leaders of the Woman Movement
than you and Jasper Johnson are lead
ers Of the Democratic party. We do
not much wonder, after seeing your re-
cent wall over being "weaned," that
you are frightened lest you be left to
"be reared and educated by these
women," but don't fret and worry,
sonny. "GOdr will "help our race and
country" before they come to that. The
'Woman Movement is no more re-
sponsible for Woodruff than the 'Man
Movement" is for Brigham Young.
Can't you see, sonny? Now spell
"booby." Take your seat.
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a Go0D LECTURE ON A Poor "SUB-
JEcT. Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Miller has
just delivered q lecture in San Francisco,
with Joaquin Miller for a subject. In
Mrs. Miller's writings about her hus-
band, heretofore, and in her lecture on
him it is almost hard thing to decide
whether she really means to praise or
ridicule him. However, from what we
can see we think she considers him a
iair seeond-rate poet and an indifferent
third-rate man. Her relation of his un-
romantic meanness takes much of the
romance out Of his poetry. In our esti-
nation of the two, we think Minnie
Myrtle the better poet and by far the
better half of the Miller family.-Er-
change.
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A girl of sixteen, whose parents live
in McMinnville, has lately been alb
Quoted from this city by jail-bird
known as Paschal Smith. The girl had
oeen attending the Sisters School, and
ilVing IN the unnatural state of one
aeAeu society which these schools i'm
pose had imbibed romantic and ridicu-
ious iueas concerning the other sex that
turned her head.
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1t is q mistake to say animals are
"only mutes, and never know a pleas
ure." At this moment from our library
we witness the intense pleasure which a
mother cnt and her little ones are hav-
ing upon the lawn. In their gambols
they play at 4 real .'puss in the corner; (;
and when mamma is caught she wags
her tail and fondles her little ones with
exquisite delight, and then darts down
the garden walks, followed by the en-
raptured little misses, who vainly en-
deavor to climb the walnut tree, from a
bough of which madam looks down
upon her children with a chnckle oil
true sport.-OIg' Dumb ARiRldfs.