The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-03-28
Snook's Chrom6.

If the religious press gets ahead of the |
El Paso Journal we give it fair warning |
that it must get up on its spine. We have |
stood the ''sleeping Cherubs"by the Chris
tiGn Union; We have gazed on the picture |
of wall-eyed virtue, with which Bro. Tai |
madge ropes i'll subscribers from the rural |
districts, unmoved. But when the Christian
at Work sends us picture of two sore-eyed |
dogs watching three merino rams, and wants
us to pay them $50 for it, then, indeed, is
the free spirit of an American citizen
aroused
We want it distinctly understood that we
are in the chrome business, ourselves.
Hereafter every subscriber who takes the
Ell Paso Journal will receive a beautiful
chrome, entitled ''AIrs. Snooks Washing
the Children 1t is one of those beautiful
home pictures that at once appeal to the
fondest and hottest affections of the heart.
Every man who sees it will at once
"Would he were boy again. when being
washed and getting soap in his eyes was
one of the regular Sunday Affections next
the catechism.
In the foreground is Mrs. Snooks. Before
her is a tub, and one of her orphans is
struggling in the water. The artist has
seized upon the moment when the infant
has just opened his mouth for prolonged
solo, but is dexterously checked by his
mother swabbing his mouth with sponge.
urchns a tight eye Is Very finely donse. into
the other eye is thrown all the added emo
tion of pent up grief and ':sorrow that
knows no tongue" We defy any man to
see this picture without being stirred to
his inmost depths. Mrs. Snook's face is q
study. Tt is such an expression of motherly
love, housewifely zeal, and beautiful devo-
ton to duty, that can be likened to nothing
except that seen upon the faces of our
mothers on wash days and at house-clean-
ing times.
Three Of the children have aready been
washed. Their rosy countenances, bright
with exuberant health, has been further
heightened by the art of the Inner, who
has depicted them suffering with colds as
one result of their baths. At the same
| time their complexions form an agreeable
cantrast to the three behind the tub, who
have not yet been bathed. This is finely
/ done and cost a world Of labor.
The whole forms an agreeable contrast
| to the naked cherabs sent out by the relig-
/ II P,,1 oF
holy JOY and tranquilized by sweet and
dream-lilse peace.
| In order to delicately convey the idea
| that even in so perfect a home as this,
one of the children suffering with the mea-
/ sles. The way in which the measle
blotches are struggling with the dirt ON his
nose, having captured the last named organ,
is one of the sweetest things in the chrome
line that has ever Been presented. v
We are now prepared to furnish these
chromos to every subscriber Of the Ell Paso
Journal. We append a few certificates
/ from prominent individuals:
ssTrue to life. The very atmosphere
smells of soap. p."-Henry Ward Beecher.
81 assure you ON my HONOR that the
chrome is so natural that one Of my children
1 actually caught the measles from looking
at it.''-Bez Butler.
4 9 Reminds me of the time when they
used to wash me, now many, many years
o.'-Stsaas B. Aatho,sy.
j" Send us Is, 600 dozen of your chromos,
Washing the Children We want to Offer
them as premiums. ~ Christian at Work.
g 1t shows domestic misery in the highest
degree. No woman ought to be allowed to
have seven children. ~ Victoria WoodhalI
Is We trust these testimonials are sufficient
We could append many thousand; but we
forbear Now, let the honest masses show
their appreciation Of art by coming up and
taking the .louraaJ. .--EI Paso Journal.
NATIONAL DEETs.--In f64S the debts O
the great civilized nations of world amount
ed to $8, SOC, 600, 900. Now they amount t.
about s24, ,0o0, ,Oo0, 900, an increase which il
attributed to the unprecedented development
of the investing spirit and the aid b.
governments to public works, and especial.
, to the occurrence of great and expensiy,
wars. OF the entire addition to the debt
nearly two-thirds have been incurred by 81.
nations, VIZ: France, the United States
Russia, Austria, Italy and Spain; and of tn
remaining third the greater part has bee
incurred by six other States, viz: Turkey
! Egypt, Portugal, Brazil, Peru and Mexico
| England and Denmark pay but 81 per cent
t interest on their debt; France and th
Q United States pay from 5 to 8, or evei
! higher; Greece is said to pay 50 per cent
( and Honduras the enormous rate of 66 pc
: cent. The stocks of the countries payin
s low and moderate interest have increase
Q bsenne $500, 0O0, 900 over the price OF ISSUE
. while the stocks of those paying high an
: excessive interest have deprecated owe
q, ,n0as s0oo. 600,