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A TERRIBLE TIME OF 1T.

They have a new hired girl over at
Keyser's farm, just outside our town,
says Max Adeler, and on Tuesday, be-
fore starting to spend the day with
friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed the girl to
whitewash the kitchen during her alb
sence. Upon returning, Mrs. Keyser
found the job completed in a very salts
factory manner On Wednesdays Mrs.
Keyser always churns, and last Wednes-
day when she was ready she went out,
and, finding that Mr.. Keyser had already
put the milk into the churn she began to
turn the handle. This was at eight
o'clock in the morning. and she turned un-
til ten without any signs of butter appear
ing. Then she called the hired man and
he turned until dinner time. when he
knocked off with some very offensive
language addressed to that butter which
had not yet come. After dinner the
hired girl took hold of the crank and
turned it energetically until two clock,
when she let go with remark which
conveyed the impression that she belived
the churn to be haunted. Then Mr.
Keyser came out and said he wanted to
know what was the matter with that
churn, anyhow. 1t was good enough
churn ifpeople only knew enough to
work it. Mr.. Keyser then worked the
crank until half.past three, when, as the
butter had not come, he surrendered it
again to the hired man because he had
an engagement in the village. The man
ground the machine to an accompaniment
of frightful imprecations then the Key
ser children each took turn for half an
hour, then Mrs. Keyser tried her hand,
and when she was exhausted she again
enlisted the hired girl, who said her
prayers while she turned. But the but
ter didn't come. When keyser came
home and found the churn still in action
he blasted his eyes and did some other
innocent swearing, and then he seized
the handle and said he d make the butter
come if he kicked up an earthquake il
doing it. Mr.Keyser effected about twt
hundred revolutions of the crank !;
minute, enough to have made any ordinar,
butter come from the ends of the earth
and when the perspiration began t.
stream from him and still the butte
didn't come, he uttered one wild veil G
rage and disappointment and kicked tn
churn over the fence. When Mrs. Key
ser went to pick it up she put her nos
down close to the buttermilk a nd took
sniff Then she understood how it wa
The girl had mixed the whitewash
the churn and left it there. A goot
honest and intelligent servant WI
knows how to churn can find a situa,tio
at Keyser's. There is vacaricy.
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DIR. d. A. BENIIS,
uOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
IL IL Craftsbury, Vermont.
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CUTLER 81 GOSS,
M TASUFACTURERS ofCarriages andSleIghs,
VA Greensboro, Vt.
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?. r. KENDALL,
A TToRNEY. BARTON LANDING, VERMONT.
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j. +. WRIGHT,
physician and Surgeon. Office at his residence,
L o2-l Barton Landing, VT.
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ROBERT GILLIS,
nEALER IN HARNESSES, blankets, whips, curry
~ combs, &c, Barton Landing, VT
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MISCELLANEOUS,
l. n. THOMPsON.

L. II. THOMPSON,
A TTORNEY, COUNSELLOR AND SOLICITOR.
N Also Bounty and Pension Agent, Irasburgh, VT.
i. & G. S. SKINNER,
NEPOT STORE. SUCCESSORS TO GRANDY,
~ Skinner Parker Dealers in Flour, Corn. Gro
cees Hardware, Paints and Oils Barton Landing, VT
DANIEL SKINNER. Ala G. S. SKINNER.
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i ] HILL.
T.. f. DUTTON,

.tUCCEssOR TO f. F. CHENEY, WILL CONTINUE
= to sell Large Variety Of Sewing and Knitting
Machines Orders solicited.
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Ii. Ii. MOkGAN,
NTENCIL CUTTER, LYNDON, VT. SEAL PRES
- ses for Oranges, Societies, &C. making Plates for
Vneese Factories and Manufactures. Satisfaction
guaranteed to4-42
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IT II MORnAN

L. G.. STEVENS,
sURGEON DENTIST. At I.ittle's Hotel in Barton
y Village every Wednesday. Barton Landing, VT.
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w. w. MILES,
4 TTORNEY AT LAW.
IA 2-29 North Craftsbury, Vt.
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]. L. WOODMAN,
DEALER IN BOOTS, SHOES AND FINDINGS
Of the best kind and quality. Offered cheap for
cash. Store opposite the Drug Store.
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MRS i n SMITH

UTOULD ANNOUNCE TO THE PEOPLE OF
w Barton and vicinity that she is now prepared
do all kinds of Plain Family Sewing, such Shirts
Pants Vests, Dress Making, &c. Please give her a
call House over WOodman boot and shue store. .320y
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MADISON COMLES

MAUJSUN UUN les,
XTTILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND ALL
w the latest styles of ready-made Coffns, Caskets
Burial Robes and Trimmings of every description
Terms reasonable. West Albany, Vt.
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LSUCCEssOR TO VIM. JOSLYN & SONS. DEALER
y in Drugs, Medicines Dye Stuffs, Paints, Oils JAP
an, Turpentine, Varnishes Brushes, Window Glass.
Putty, Books, Stationery and Fancy Goods
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MANUFACTURER OF WOOD, METAL, GLASS,
vi Canvass and Paper Signs. Banner, Scene
ornamental Painting, &c. Proprietor Of Woods Star
Business Directories
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

G. A. ROBINSON & CO.,
nEALERs IN CHOICE BRANDS OF FLOUR.
| Depot Store.
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NJ. J. SMITH,
pROPRIETOR OF THE ORLEANS COUNTY
Marble Works, Foreign American Marble
Gruvestones, Monuments, &c.
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Al CUTLER,
zgILLINERY. DREssMAKING AND PATTERN
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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-05-29
LETTER FROM OLYMPIA.

To TIE EDITOR or THE NEW NORTHWEST:
As look around me and see the COM
motion Of nature; see its effects in the re-
newed activity of the minds of the peo-
pie; see the women Of the land aroused
to action, l feel, see and know that n
revolution is begun that will not cease
until error shall be uprooted, until rea-
son shall take the place of blind super
stition and every. one become an indi-
vidual with perfect freedom to think and
act for himself.
A new era is dawning upon the land.
The spiritual nature OF humanity is be-
ing developed, preparing the people to
understand the higher and more perfect
law of nature and natures God.
According to Biblical history, man
would have remained in a very ignorant
state, not knowing the difference be-
tween good aud evil, had not woman's
bravery tempted him to advance. And
If she once dared to disobey Gods COM
mands, will she hesitate to trample be-
meath her feet mans false law and shut
the door Of darkness and tempt him on
TO still higher plane? Will she not
seek to understand herself, that she NAV
become a well-tuned instrument, by
which the angel world can help elevate
the down-trodden, oppressed children of
man?
Woman has ever been ignored in all
the responsibilities of man-made Law
and now she is seeking to understand
Goods law" and see if that ignores her
power and existence. As she seeks for
true knowledge she finds to her amaze.
ment new field of light, a new way to
WORK her way upward; finds in the grand
oook oi nature teachings far beyond un-
developed mans.
Every day new truths are revealed
new light is given, and her whole soul
is absorbed in this better and more per-
feet way.
80, the ballot for woman is becoming
oi Importance. Nan can no longer ig-
more her equality. She is armed with
higher law that will compel cessation of
mans selfish rule. She is aroused and
in earnest, aud could not If she would
longer remain inactive. Everywhere
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REFORM"

Scarcely an hour, certainly not n day
passes, wherein we do not hear some
person, with elongated visage and dol
orous accent, prate of political corrup-
ton, which he affects to have discOv-
cred for the first time. These disgust
tions, long or short, according to the
time and mind of the speaker, or the
patience of the auditor, all converge to-
word single point, the fitness and
ability of the individuals pet candidates,
to put dishonesty to rout, reduce taxes
to a nominal figure, abolish intemper-
anee-in short, TO inaugurate the poIiti-
cal millennium and that right speed
lily.
1t makes not the slightest difference
TO these Jealous advocates Of reform.
that the self-same persons whose purity
he now so loudly proclaims, have only
raised the "stop thief' cry when they
find the public crib fastened with locks
that defy their picking; that the taxes
which have caused such audible NUT
terings OF discomfort, were levied TO
meet the necessary expenses for carry
ing forward the schemes of enforcing
the laws, which these would-be officials
have laid, framed, and endorsed. 1t
makes not the slightest difference that
experience has taught that it is in the
nature Of one-sexed politics to grow cor
rupt, because such government does not
contain within itself the elements of
publication or perpetuity. It makes
not the slightest difference 10 them that
the people know these facts. The news
papers are filed with the most disgust
ing gossip, the sheerest political clap
trap, of which the most ignorant and
most voluble woman would be ashamed,
all hurled against this and that "ring'I
candidate, and extolling this or that
covetous mortal, who wants TO pick the
Government locks in their interest, and
so it goes.
Men and brethren, we are sorry you
are all so wicked. We wall because you
are so obtuse and uncharitable. We
have no doubt but the blessed truth is
full bad enough about the best Of you;
but we should dearly love to see you
conduct one political campaign with
courtesy and fair-dealing. But we are
discouraged. Alas, you never will do
better till woman, your rightful help
mate, comes to the political rescue.
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DISHONEST JOURNALISM.

The other day Mr.. Turner, Of the
Temperance Star, issued an extra, In
which he came out strongly against Mr..
Hill, of tie Oregonidn. Mr.. II. retort-
ed, accusing Mr.. Scott, OF the Bulletin,
Of having "boughtn Mr.. Turner for po-
litical purposes. Mr.. Scott replied, de-
nying any knowledge OF the origin Of
the extra, and accusing Mr.. Hill of
falsehood.
"Now," we thought, sis golden OPP
portunity for Mr.. Hill to prove his mag
nanimity by acknowledging himself
mistaken. AS he constitutes the head
and brains of the self-styled reform
party, let us see if he will prove in one
instance that he deserves the position"
Here is what Mr.. Hill said in retort:
We can not for the life OF US conceive any
reason why the Custom House ring should az
feet such extreme modification over the dis
coyery that their seurrilOus little sheet Issued
last Saturday under the title OF "our Extra
was really Bulletin" extra. What new sense
OF the criminality OF bearing an assumed and
false name for the purpose OF covering up other
crimes has seized them now?
We print the above extract because a
few Of our subscribers who take the Ore
goniaH do not see the other partisan pa
pers, and they really think Hill Is hon
est.
To be plain and candid, we are COM
PEELED to say that for downright dema-
goguing we have never seen the editor
Of the OregOnidn equalled. We're not
partial to the Bullelin, by any means.
1t Publishes its share Of clap-trap, God
knows, but it makes no loud professions
Of morality" and "reform," while the
Oregonian styles everybody a rascal ex-
cept its own followers.
Dishonest journalism has grown to be
an abomination so great as to defy all
equity and set at defiance all justice.
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LETTER FROM SALEM.

To THE EDITOR or THE NEW NORTHWEST:
1t is evident to my mind that everybody
who is opposed to Woman Suffrage fails
to read the New NORTHWEST. We
know they do not read it by their argu-
ments, for they will call for answers to
objections which have been met over
and over again in your columns.
When was about four years old my
sister asked me why / did not learn to
sew. I answered, because my father
would not buy me book to learn
from" Then she explained that did
not need a book, but needle, thimble
and thread. In a few days she would
again ask why didn't learn to sew and
I would repeat the same answer. Then
she would have to explain it all over
again. These people who talk against
Woman Suffrage are no wiser than I
was at four years of age. But learned
better with added years of experience
and observation, and it is some conso-
lation to know that our opponents will
also learn in time. If they would only
read the NEW NORTHWEST they would
come to their senses much quicker than
learned to sew.
The numbers Of those who oppose US
are growing smaller every day. The
most Of them are getting advanced in
years and cannot as readily change their
views as younger people.
Let us not censure our opponents too
severely. Let US rather pity their ig-
norance and be as generous toward them
as possible, for they will be ashamed
OF themselves when their eyes are
opened.
There are some men who are so
true and noble that we can, for their
sakes, forgive the rest. 1 know q
mother who was left a widow with four
children, three girls and boy. The
girls were limited in education in order
to give the boy the advantages he
needed. The mother said that educa-
tion was not necessary for women, for
they would marry and then never have
time to make use of it.
The boy has always acted generously
by his sisters. He says their education
was limited on his account and now he
must do all he can for them. speak of
this young man because he has proved
faithful to his trust when so many 9TH
ers have failed.
Many young man will look down
upon his sisters, because he knows more
than they, when his superior knowledge
has been purchased at the expense OF
their own educational necessities.
Salem, April. 30. IS7I
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OPPOSITION.

From number of letters which we
have recently received attacking the
Crusaders, and intended for publication,
we select two which we lay before our
readers that they may have opportunity
to view all sides Of the Temperance
question.
The correspondent who advises the
ladies TO quit Crusading and go to rails
ing grapes Is evidently in earnest, and
If his assertion that there is almost no
drunkenness in grape-growing countries
be true-and we have often heard it be-
fore-the fact is entitled to due consid-
Grafton in solving the Temperance
problem. We do not agree with him
that any kind of fermented liquors are
necessary, even for hod-earriers and
painters, and we know he is mistaken
when he says clergymen do not labor,
yet we want the Crusaders to know the
opinions of wine-drinkers, that they
may know how TO meet their arguments.
If he will visit the Methodist Church
some evening during n ladies' meeting
and note the earnest words of the Cru
saders, and the way in which they are
sustained by Christian men, he will find
himself mistaken in his assertion that
their course leads to estrangement be-
tween the sexes. He would also see, as
would a lady correspondent who also
advances the same opinion, that these
ladies do not deserve to be called the
''pliant tools Of the clergy"
Yet there is just grouud for complaint
against all men, whether ministers or
others, who deny to women the only
legal way in which they can hope to
make the Temperance reform perma-
nent. We raise our voice against all
such men, and we are glad they are
daily growing scarcer. We declare that
they are either ignorant or insincere.
Last Tuesday evening we met noted
minister in the audience from a neigh
boring city, and asked why he had not
addressed few words of encouragement
to the ladies in the meeting.
Said he: al feel ashamed to open my
mouth in these places. Men make the
laws that license whisky selling. They
deny to women voice or power to amend
or abolish those laws, and am ashamed
of them when they urge women to go
out and pray with political manacles
on, that God would destroy the evil
work that they build up and foster in
their freedom"
We have listened to many q mans
public speech in that church, but never
to one that had the soundness of doc
trine conveyed in those words.
But to return to our anti-C Crusading
correspondent. He thinks women will
not get the ballot if they go on in this
way. Right here we know him to be
mistaken. They are learning in this
Crusade how badly they need the bal
lot. They will never get it from whisky
influence, and their present work will
compel Temperance men TO champion
their cause. They need some such re-
vival as this to quicken their dormant
senses and open their eyes TO their po-
litical nonentity.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

A dispatch of May 22d, from New
York, gives this item: y large mass
meeting was held by the Woman Suf-
frage Society at the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn, last night, for the purpose OF
discussing the relation of woman to the
moral, social and political questions OF
the day, especially in regard to Temper
ance and Suffrage. The speakers were
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs.
Mary A. Livermore. Mr.. Beecher, in
an impressive address, advocated the
right of woman to the Suffrage, and to
take part in all the affairs Of the COM
monwealth. Mrs. Livermore delivered
a lengthy discourse, and adduced many
reasons why women should be associ-
ated with men in the management OF
all public affairs.
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THE ELECTION.

Before the NEW NORTHWEST shall
again greet its readers the talked
Of State election will be over, thank
goodness, and then, perhaps the parti-
san press will stop at least a part of its
wrangling and settle down into short
spasm Of decency. The contest has been
fearful. II the men who are candidates
are one-half as corrupt as their oppo-
nents proclaim them, Mr.. Watkinds
ought at once to have charge Of them at
the State hotel.
When the women become enfran-
chised, they will see, erst, that no can
didates Of disreputable character are be-
fore the people, and secondly, that unau-
thenticated attacks upon public SER
wants are properly punished.
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THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.

This all-engrossing topic is still the
theme Of thought and conversation
everywhere. The women have changed
their tactics somewhat and now 20 to
the saloons in the evenings. Wedo not
hear any more about their being
roughly treated, and we are satisfied
that their appearance on the street
corners is doing good in accustoming
men TO the idea that the time is coming
when they must be always upon their
good behavior, for women will soon 20
everywhere.
We conscientiously declare to-day
that very few ministers who are op-
posed to Woman Suffrage, though in
favor ofwoman street drudgery, are doing
more TO retard the Temperance work
through a mistaken zeal which they
miscall religion than are any other class
Of men in this city. These men doubt
less mean we'll, but they are sadly in
error, and we pray that their self-will
may be soon made to bow before the ir-
resistible dawn Of that brighter day
that will be ushered in when they are
ready to say in regard TO Human Rights
as well as other great moral matters,
"Phy viii, not mine, be DONE" Nor
are the dear, heroic women themselves
blameless in. this matter. They refuse
TO put on the whole armor Of God, and
they will never see the travail Of
their souls and be satisfied until they
shall seek first the kingdom OF God and
His righteousness through voice in
the Government and then all other
things shall be added thereto.
Since the above was in type, the Cru
saders have been backed into by dray
and express wagon in front Of Mofietts
saloon, after having been driven into
the street by policemen. They had been
very careful not to obstruct the side
walk, but while courtesans and men
were allowed the privileges Of the pave
ment, unmolested, they had no rights
winch the police were bound TO respect.
We have indeed fallen upon evil times,
That will grow worse and worse till
woman gets the ballot.
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you see her awakening up to new lifer
and though she may not know what
this activity will lead to-though she
make mistakes-though some go to ex-
tremes and become fanatical and lose
their equilibrium, yet all shall in due
time become harmonized with natural
law.
Women will receive the ballot, and to-
day the Changers are preparing her for it.
An Eastern paper says: ''There are
twenty-five or thirty thousand women in
the eighteen hundred and eighteen
Oranges of Iowa, each woman having
vote equal to a man in the managerial
transactions Of the Order; and Iowa men
are thus learning the ballot force there
is in women, while the women are being
educated in parliamentary practice and
business generally. The Iowa women
are about one-third of the whole number
oil women in all the Oranges of the
United States, there being seven thous-
and Oranges, in which are seventy-fve
to one hundred thousand women mem
bers."
All this diversion from old-establisbed
rules and customs shows that the people
are thinking. Woman will yet become
power in the land. AS soon as she be-
gins to understand Gods ways and learns
TO obey His law she will become sover-
ign OF herself and ignore all false law.
Then will she shine forth in her true
character, that of pure and noble wom-
anhood, walking In the paths of virtue,
truth and honesty through which inspi-
ration can flow; and as inspiration
comes from pure source, SO will it seek
the same congenial soil and go straight
to the inner nature of humanity, awak-
ening the purer and better nature to ac-
ton.
There are women who are all the time
crying out against this movement.
They are the ones that, will create dis
order in time Of action; they are the
ones that will be without oil and find
their lamps have gone out because they
were not prepared. They know not
what they do, yet after all they will be
the first to cast the ballot.
would that all should understand the
higher law, that they may be able to
judge between right and wrong. We
cannot take the Church for our guide
because she has not established perfect
law.
Woman is disturbing things little.
The Church is beginning to awaken
from her lethargy, is beginning to feel
this moving power. If this be the work
of the devil, am afraid he is creeping
into the Church as well as into the
hearts Of the women workers, for the
spirit of Human Freedom is permeating
everything. CLARA +. SYLVESTER.
Olympia, May 20, 1874
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NOW Is THE TINE TO SUBSCRIBE.

A new serial story entitled "Amie ana
Henry Lee" or "the Spheres OF the
Sexes" is begun in this issue, and we
respectfully call our friends attention to
1t and ask them to circulate the initial
number for new subscribers. We will
furnish back numbers containing the
opening chapters to all that will SUBJ
scribe early. Friends, how many Of
you will put shoulder to the wheel and
help us? The cause Of Human Freedom
needs your patronage. Will you not
besfoY il?