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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-29
The South.

Young JEWELL, who has been on trial at
Brentsville, Va, for the k ling of Clark,
editor of the Manassas Gazette, while the
latter was in Jail charged with the seduction
and abduction of Fewelrs sister, q girl Of
some sixteen years, has been acquit. ted, the
Jury being out only five minutes The
horse d'stemper is prevailing in Louisville.
and street traffic is almost wholly suspended.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27
From the woman's Journal
Mrs. Stanton and Mr.. Greeley.

The intellectual ability of Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton and her respective
character as the leader of one wing of
the Woman Suffrage Movement gives
peculiar significance to her views of the
political situation. The following ex-
tract from q private letter will be read
with interest by ALL
Mr.. Greeley's course on the woman
question has been a complete repetition
of his course on the anti-slavery ques-
ton. When it was a moral question
merely, he was an abolitionist, but
when it came up in anyway to trouble
politicians, he was down on its advo-
Gates. You well remember his bitter
hostility when the Liberty party was
formed, and rolled up 60,000 votes, and
hatred of James G.. Birney, for splitting
the Wing party to pieces, that he let no
opportunity slip to persecute his sons,
even during the late war. Exactly so
with Woman Suffrage. He could con-
slider il, as an abstraction. but when the
hour came for political action in New
York and Kansas, Mr.. Greeley thought
II wise to shun question which might
be as troublesome to the Republican
party, as slavery had proved TO the old
Wing organization. He felt that Suf-
frage for the Negro was all they could
carry.
Whoever wrote the article you enclose,
"Mr. Greeley on WOman's Rights"
failed to see what n whittier he made Of
Mr.. Greeley in representing that he
could be turned from the convictions of
years, publicly professed and advocated,
because Tom, Dick and Harry, who pro-
fessed the same faith, proclaimed their
opinions without wisdom, or good taste.
Neither Train nor Woodruff could damp
my enthusiasm in pressing what l deem
the greatest step in civilization the
world has vet taken; namely, the recog-
milton of wOman's thought in political,
religious and social reform.
Mr.. Greeley's opinions, so strongly
expressed in his recent controversy with
Theodore TiltOn, indicate his real posi-
ton to-day. | think it fair to Judge him
by his latest and most deliberate utter
ances. The fact is, Mr. Greeley is def
cient in real respect and chivalrous
feeling for woman. ! suppose there
never was n woman he admired more
than Margaret Fuller; and yet, in sum-
ming up her character, in his 'Recol-
lections of n Busy Life he said, in sub
stance, that what she most wanted was
a husband and three bouncing babies.
These are not his exact words, but near
enough to show what he considers the
remedy for all the shortcomings and
idiosyucracies Of q woman's character.
/ know plenty of women who have
grand men for husbands and numbers OF
bouncing babies who, nevertheless, have
deteriorated every year Of their lives.
But ! am glad 10 see Mr.. Greeley's
friends trying to prove him sound on
this question now. The splinter has
opened their eyes. / think il Oliver
Johnson could travel through the cOun-
try, rs | have done during the last year,
he would not find Woman's Suffrage a
"stench in the nostrilsn of the multi
tude, but the hope of the nation. Let
30 such twaddle discourage us.
Truly yours,
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
TENAFLY, y. j., Aug. p, 1872
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27
TRUE WOMEN.

EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
In all Of mans sublime essays Of
loveliness and beauty, he has not nor
never can more than symbolic true
woman. Faras the mind may have ex-
plored the plain OF Imagination, far as
divine rapture may have repayed the
efforts of speculation in the realm of
fancy, far as the perceptive ken has
been introduced to Heavenly forms and
angelic glory, man has never vet found
even the ideal Of woman's superior in
the whole universe. Strange it is that
men will forget that the skill OF God was
applied in the creative perfection of
woman as well as man. All this fustion
about superhuman excellence is the
merest nonsense. 1t is not within the
mental compass of man to conceive Of
anything better than the highest range
of earthly perfection. Man may weaken
his own eyes by celestial speculation, or
by chronic condemnation of earthly
perfection; he may indulge evangelic
visions, but he can dream of no image
more divine than woman. The daugh-
ters of Eden have all their elements of
divinity yet. Men, what are you talk
ing about? What are YOU looking for
of there among the clouds? Better
come down and stay here awhile
maybe you can see something TO admire
J. G. SNoDGRAss.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

NEW TAX BILL.-For kissing pretty
girl, one dollar.
For kissing a hOmely one, two dollars.
The tax is levied in order to break up
the custom altogether, it being re-
garded as a piece of inexcusable absurd
ity.
For every filtration, ten cents.
For every young man who has more
than one girl, five dollars.
Courting in the kitchen, % cents.
COurting in the parlOr, five dollars.
COurting in romantic places, five dol
lars, and fifty cents thereafter.
Seeing a lady home from church,
twenty cents.
Failing to see her home, five dollars
and costs.
For ladies who paint, fifty cents. Pro-
ceeds to be devoted to the relief of dis
consulate husbands who have been de-
deceived by outside appearances.
Wearing a low-neck dress, one dollar.
Proceeds devoted to the relief of frail
old bachelors whose earthly welfare has
been put in jeopardy by this fashion.
Wearing hoops over eight feet in di-
ameter, eight cents per hoop.
Bachelors over thirty years old, taxed
ten dollars and banished TO Utah.
Each boy baby, fifty cents.
Each girl baby, ten cents.
Twins, one hundred dollars premium,
to be paid out of the fund accruing from
the tax on bachelors.
Heads of families of more than thir-
teen children fined hundred dollars
and sent to Jail.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27
A Money Matob---Death.

\ recent letter from Boston tells this
sad story; "a funeral procession passed
by yesterday. a young man told me a
story that L think has peculiar sadness
about it. At Saratoga, last season, at
one of the largest balls, was a young lady
with the most charming and insinuat-
ing manners and graces. Her toilet was
equally rs pleasing. She was the belle of
the ball-an honor accorded her without
dissent. Her attendant during the
evening was young man dressed al
most gaudily, and bearing himself with
all the distasteful self-conceit of brain
less millionaire. He was the son of
Boston leather dealer. He met the lady
at Saratoga for the first time last season,
and she, by direction of her parents, who
were also wealthy, and who insisted
upon the arrangement, became his affi-
anced. Previous to this she had met
young gentleman, also Of Boston, of the
utmost Tespectability, thorough honor
and integrity, but without fortune. To
him she had been something more than
a friend, in fact almost q betrOthed. He
was young, had risen by his own stern
efforts, and was, it is said, possessed of
sterling and promising abilities, which
in time must have won him wealth and
perhaps distinction. On the return Of
the lady from Saratoga last season her
engagement prevented her from further
intercourse with her first suitor and he
was dismissed. His grief was pitiful.
He strOve not to reverse it by word or
action; but the very efforts he so labor
iOusly made exposed the pOignancy of
his wounds. The lady lived with her
husband in the suburbs of the city at a
large and costly residence for one month
after their marriage. By that time the
abuse of the husband compelled an inn
mediate separation. He was inconti-
nently shipped to Europe, where estill
remains, and the young wife was left to
gradually decline in health until death
ensued; but not before she had re-
preached her parents for driving her to
the alliance which wrought such early
ruin and blasted such bright hopes and
expectations. As the funeral procession
passed up public street the first lover,
while watching with blanched cheeks
and moist eyes the sad cOrtege, fell to
the ground while suffering an attack of
hemorrhage of the lungs. He was car
ried into a physicians Office near, where
he died before the body Of one he so
tenderly and devotedly loved was laid
in its last resting place"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

THOMAS CARLYLE'S ADVICE To A
POET.-Nour name hitherto is known to
me chiefly as associated with verse. 1t
is one of my constant regrets. i'm this
generation, that men to whom the gods
have given genius (which means n
light of intelligence, of courage, and all
manfulness, or else means nOthing) will
insist, in such an earnest time as ours
has grown, in bringing out their divine
Gift i'm the shape of verse, which now no
man reads entirely in earnest. That n
man has to bring out his gift in words
of any kind, and not i'm silent divine
actions. which alone are fit TO express il
well, seems to me a great misfortune for
him: but that he should select verse,
with its half credibilities and other sad
accompaniments, when he might have
prose and be wholly credible, if he
desired it; this | lay at the door of our
spiritual teachers Opedants mostly, and
speaking an obsolete dialect, who
thereby intellectually rot the world;
making him who might have been a
soldier and fighter so terribly wanted
inst at present., 4 mere preacher and
idle singer. This is fixed perception
of mine. growing ever more fixed these
many wears; and offer it to you, as
have done to many others in the like
case, not much hoping that you will be-
lieve in il all at once. But, certainly, a
good, wise, earnest piece in prose from
YOU would please me better than the
musicallest verses could.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

GENERAL JAMES +. WILSON on
GRANT.-In his eloquent speech at Fair
field, Iowa, General James F. Wilson
said:
l have entered on no defense Of Presi-
dent Grant. He does not need it. l do
not claim that he has made no mis-
takes; but l do assert that such as he
may have made do not seriously affect
the public interests. He has done as
well in his high office as any man would
have done. He is a patient, able, plod-
ding man, who neglects no trust and be-
trays no confidence. Let those who can
point TO deeds of their own as great as
his criticise him. Let drones and fail
ures he silent. What man has done
constitutes the true standard by which
TO try him. Take Grants history for the
last twelve years, and You may safely
challenge the world to match it. The
storm of malignant mendacity which
has burst upon him will spend its fury
in vain. The people of this country,
gratefully remembering his great SER
vices, will see to his safe deliverance.
The American people are not migrate
ful. November will prove this by the
reelection of Grant.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27
REFLECTIONS.
mon Wv Nonrnwrsr:

PORTLAND, sept. l., 1872.
ON the 18th inst. bright and interest
ing little giri of one year, Rachel Virginia
Grabel by name, in the glory of opening
childhood, just learning the use of her
little feet, slipped mischievously away
from the care Of her elder sister and fell,
unseen, into q tub of boiling water.
The scalding was deep and terrible, but
no cries of pain came from the little suf-
ferer. She fingered a few hours and
then-her burial took place this after
noon. assisted to dig the grave. The
friends Of the AFFLICTED family assembled
at an early hour BY and by, among
the approaching vehicles, came one con-
tanning the principal mourners and the
casket that enclosed the corpse The
coffin was opened, revealing the sweet
face Of the child in the death sleep.
The mourners had Withdrawn from
the coffin, the cover had been fastened
down and the ropes taken in hand to
lower the precious remains TO their final
resting place when the sad act was
arrested and the -sorrOwing silence
broken By the notes of n sacred song. I
am not q believer in the resurrection, or
life after death, but that pause during
the singing; the body of the dead before
us; the unutterable agony of the be-
reaved parents; the silent sympathy of
friends and relatives, and that sad, sweet
song, caused these words Of Victor Hugo
to strike me with n force / never felt be-
fore, "Let us so live that death shall be
progress" The death of children is more
impressive than the departure of those
who have run longer career. l..
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

BE GENTLE WITH CHu.DREN.-Be
ever gentle with the children God has
given you. Watch over them con-
stantly. Reprove them earnestly but
not in anger. In the forcible language
of Scripture, "Be ye not bitter against
them." ''Yes, they are good boys" l
once heard kind father say. ~ talk to
them very much but do not like to beat
my children-thew world will beat them. y
IL was beautiful thought. Yes, there
is not one child in the circle around the
table, healthy and happy as they look
now, on whose head, if long enough
spared, the storm will not beat. Adj
versity may wither them, sickness may
fade, cold world may frown on them.
But, amidst all, let memory carry them
back to home where the law of kind
ness reigned, where the mothers eye
was mOistened with tear, and the
father frowned, "more in sorrow than in
anger.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27
NUMBER 81.
The Benefit Of Woman to Man.

Did il ever occur to any of our readers
what refining and polishing influence
the society Of woman gives to man
The association with intelligent and ed
ucated women is ever observable in the
man. The common cOarseness of many;
the bashful awkwardness of others; the
general tendency of man to satisfy his
passions-are all toned down and oblit-
Grated, when they are continually
brought into the society of women. The
gentle, kind and insinuating way good
woman's influence is thrown about the
rude and reckless man, is always OBJ
servable. She seems TO reach into his
heart with fingers that very soon weed
out every uneouth and unseemly plant.
She does this, apparently, without an
effort; she gives to man grace, fiuency
in conversation, gentleness of manner,
complete ease in society and love OF
the arts, sciences and beauties of nature;
she throws about his experience an
atmosphere of love, confidence, hope,
trust, honor, fidelity and virtuei The
rough distractions to be met with upon
the exterior of his character are very
soon cut away and the scars healed up
from sight. The process of change from
a vicious, lonely life, to one of female
association and refinement, is often slow
and tedious; but the metamorphic
change is sure to take place under the
love, Judgment and guidance of true
woman. If there is anything in a man
that may be called metal, the beneficial
influence of wOman's association will
burnish it to such n brightness that its
kind and quality can soon be deter
mined.
Some coarse and british men scott at
the beneficial influence of woman, but
most all sooner or later are led to feel its
power. The man who can never feel
this reclaiming, purifying power, and
has no faith in wOman's ennObling, ele-
waiting influence, is possessed of u heart
poor indeed. We do not wish his
society-we know our business relations
with him cannot be pleasant and COM
paniOnable. The low, vicious habits of
life are his, as he has no incentive to be
otherwise, or even wish to elevate his
chaTacter.-W Willamette FtUn1cr,
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ELIZABETH CADY STANTO
TENAFLY-, y. j., Aug. %, 1872.

THE AGE OF MAN.-PrOfessOr Farra-
day adopts Flourin's physiological the
Ory that the age of man is one hundred
years. The duration of life he believes
to be measured by the time of growth.
When once the bones and epiphyses are
united, the body grows no more, and il
is at twenty years this union is effected
in man.
The natural termination Of life is five
removes from the several points. Man
being twenty years in growing, lives
five times twenty years, that is to say,
one hundred years; the camel is eight
years in growing, lives five times eight
years, that is To say, forty years; the
horse is five years in growing, and lives
twenty-five years; and so with other
animals The man who does not die of
sickness lives anywhere from eighty to
one hundred years. Nature has given
man a century of life, but he does not
attain it because he inherits disease, eats
unwhOlesOme food, gives license to his
passions, and permits vexation to
disturb his healthy equipoise; he does
not die, he kills himself. The Professor
divides life into two equal halves,
growth and decline, and these halves
into infancy, youth, virility and age.
Infancy extends to the twentieth year,
youth to the fiftieth, because it is during
this time that the tissues become firm;
virility, from fifty to seventy-five, dur
ing which the organism remains COM
plete; and at seventy-five old age COM
mences.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

CANNING TOMATOES the Syracuse
Union we find the following: ''The most
thorough and reliable mode of canning
tomatoes is as follows: They are Just
sufficiently steamed, not cooked, to scald
or loosen the skin, and are then poured
upon tables and the skin removed, care
being taken to preserve the tomato in as
solid a state as possible. After being
peeled, they are placed in large pans
with small bottoms in which holes are
perforated, so rs to strain off the LIQUID
that emanates from them. From these
pans they are carefully placed by hand
into cans, which are filled as sOlidly as
possible, in other words, all are put
through the usual process and hermet-
ieally sealed. The cans, when opened
for use, present the tomato, not only
like the natural vegetable in taste and
color, but also in appearance; when thus
sealed, they are warranted to keep in any
and when opened, will taste as
naturally as when first plucked from the
vine -
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

DISTURBANCE IN THE SUN.-FamiI-
lar as we all are with the great luminary
of the solar system, astronomers at this
particular epoch were never so vfvidly
excited in regard to its physical eharac-
ter. Since the invention of the spectre
scope, they have found that we have
been profoundly Ignorant in a branch of
science considered quite firmly estab-
lished. Within the past few months
observers have witnessed gigantic dis
plays of force in the metallic lustre of
the SUMS atmosphere, far more wonder
ful than any phenomena heretofore seen
or suspected in far off celestial regions.
There are frequent burstings or expIo-
sions on the surface of the sun, appar-
emily, which rend 4 path through its
shining envelope ut the rate of seventy
thousand miles in a single minute.
Electricity is slow coach in comparison.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

THE DRESS OF CIVILIZED WOMEN
/ do declare that / think il would be
better to die and get out of torment at
once than to have To rise every morning
for some forty or fifty years and box
ones body up in a sort of compressive
armOr, hang weights to ones hips and
more weights upon ones head-which
last are supported by the roots of the
hair; put ones feet into shoes a number
too small, and not OF the right shape,
and with heels like stills; and then set
about doing the whole duty of woman
with a cheerful face and a spry air, for
from fifteen TO seventeen mortal hours
out of the twenty-four! That there are
so many women who are not freightened
into a decline at such a prospect, and
that they bravely undertake to do it
nay, more, that they even dream that
under such disadvantages they can work
side by side with Uhshaekled man, and
that they die in trying 10 DO it, certainly
says much for their courage, but very
little for their common sense.
a mans dress TO a great extent is
fashioned for comfort He has contriv-
ances for suspending the weight of his
clothing from his shoulders. If the east
wind blows he can turn up his coat col
lar button himself up snugly, slouch
his hat over his eyes, thrust his hands
into his pockets and brave the weather.
But imagine n woman removing her hat
or bonnet from the angle at which fash
ion says she must wear il on account of
the weather, or turning any Of her "fiX-
turesn up 10 protect her neck and throat,
or buttOning anything that was unbut-
toned before, or sticking her hands into
her pocketsl She would be taken for an
improper character out on mild spree,
or for an escaped inmate of n lunatic
asylum, should she endeavor by any
impromptu arrangement of her habili-
ments to save her health.-ScieHce Of
He0lfH
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

ANTS AND MoLEs.-FOr ants, place
fresh meat bone where the ants can get
at it, and they will flock to it in large
numbers. When they are on it, dip it
in hot water; repeat it few times and
the ants will have disappeared. For
moles, dig hole like post hole across
one of the mole holes, i'm the bottom,
place some rags previously dipped in
sulphur. Set fire to them, and, when
once well on fire, cover up close with a
board, and the mole hole acts as pipe.
The mole leaves.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

a Quaker married woman of the
Church of England. After the cere-
mony, the vicar asked for the usual fees,
which he said We're a crown. The
Quaker, astouned at the demand, sand if
he would show him any text in the
Scriptures which proved his fees were a
crown, he would give it to him; upon
which the vicar directly turned to
Proverbs xii (, where it is said, ga
virtuous woman is a crown to her hus-
band" 'TThou art right" replied the
Quaker, "in thy assertion; Solomon was
wise man; there are thy fees, and
something besides to buy thee a good
pair of gloves"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

THE TROUBLES OF Az ENGLIsHMAN.
| talked with brother from her Maj
esty's dominiOns:-
Saws |, ''Where are you going ~
SAYS he, ''To hide hoe"
SAYS ], "What are you going to hide n
hoe for?
Says he, 81 didn't say hide hoe, l
said hide hoe"
Says /, ''Spell it,"
Says he, "I-d-a-h-o.'
"Ohp' says /, ''Idaho."
'Yes," says he, "hide hoe"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

A young German girl named Mary
Rice, living near Bethel, Morgan county,
attempted suicide on the 3Oth ult., by
throwing herself across q railroad track.
The engineer succeeded in stopping the
train within four feet of her. DesertiOn
by her lover is the cause ascribed. Since
recovering, however, she has thought
better of the matter, and now saws She
wouldn't commit suicide "for all the
Dutch lovers in the country"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-27

a correspondent of a Boston paper,
writing from Newport, says: "The belle
of the season here is a Philadelphia lady,
who has been q belle for over half q
century, and whose hair is as pure and
white as the paper on which l write.
She is charming. She is never 'out of
practice when asked for music; she is
ready to entertain any one, and she does
it as few young ladies can do. 4 Tshould
be furiOusly jealous said Kate, last
night, after watching her hold court in
the hotel parlOr, "were l her husbandg
do not believe this better half of hers
even felt more proud when he led
her to the altar, than he did last night
when he carried her off up stairs from
among an admiring crowd