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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

The barnacles on the bottom of the
steamship ''Great Eastern" form layer
six inches thick in places, and are esti-
mated to weight three hundred tons.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

"We read in de good book" says
colored Baptist brother down South,
''ob John de Baptist; nebber OBJ John
de Methodist" f,-. ....
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

Agassiz was once pressed to deliver
lecture for pay, and replied: 81 cannot
afford to waste my time for money"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

It is a saddenDing spectacle to see
people squandering money, and know
that you can't help them do it.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names to the
Editor, or no attention will be given to their
communications. ee
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

ENTERED, according TO Act of Congress, in the
year 1859, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, in the office Of
the Librarian of Congress at Washington City ]
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

Written in 1856 and first published by S. ]. Me
Cormick in book form in 1859.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

Very nearly twenty years ago the author of
the following story, having always lived upon
a farm, and being wholly ignorant Of all prac-
tical knowledge of the literary world, her asso-
Citations confined TO the illiterate and strug-
CLING pioneers of the land of her adoption, con-
ceived the idea of entering in some way the
worlds arena of letters. Being possessed of
fertile Imagination, imperfect education, affec-
tionate nature, feeble strength, and romantic
disposition, and having encountered many
strange experiences (which made her tired and
old before her time," Mrs. Duniway compiled
her crude ideas in the form of a novel, many,
and indeed all the important incidents thereof
being gfounded upon facts, so grouped as to form
a connected story. She has been induced to
re-publish the work in these columns, partly
because of a desire TO revise and correct the
original work of both herself and the publisher,
and partly because so often urged to do so by
subscribers, that she feels under obligation to
accede TO their demands.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01
Dedication.

To the Pioneers of Oregon, and to all friends
of the great NORTHWEST who desire 10 awaken
an interest in our State and Washington Terri
tory in the minds OF the thousands of dwellers
in the frigid climate of Eastern winters and
the torrid temperature of Eastern summers,
this revised relic of the "reminiscences of her
youth is respectfully dedicated, by
THE AUTHOR
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-01

Astoria, oregon. August, 1875.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
Another Venus in the Field.

Ancient Rome is gradually yielding
up to The light its art treasures. Dur
ing Christmas week some of the work
men employed in clearing away a guam
tity of fallen walls and debris for the
purpose of leveling the newly-marked
out streets upon the Esquiline, IN
earthed perfect treasure-trove of sculp.
ture. Among marble gods and god
desses, discovered in all stages OF frac-
ture, was Venus of the purest Parian
marble, which the London Times cor
respondent says is considered the gem
of the lot. The statue is perfectly
nude, and is the figure OF a lovely girl
of seventeen. She stands with both
feet upon the ground close together,
the left a couple of inches further back.
with the heel very slightly raised. A
moment before she was erect, but she
had dropped into easier position, with
the left knee bent forward and inward
against the right. Her left hand is
resting on the knot of hair at the back
of her head, while the right holds the
fllit she has already passed several
times round it. In doing this she has
swayed a little over and down to TIE
right, bringing the left side forward.
The shoulders are we'll set back, and
the face, is turned TO the right, and a
little downward, showing from the front
not quite three quarter view. 1t is
thought that the statue will take rank
above the Medicean Venus.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
CHAPTER ".
The Southern Society Girl.

A Washington correspondent writes
to the Chicago Tribune "This life
of gayety does not seem to embarrass
southern women in the least. They are,
from their tenderest years, educated in
social calisthenics up to this point OF
endurance. Southern children are
oftel er in the parlor than inmates OF
the nursery, and pass the hours which
should be cradle-rocked among the
evening guests, talking, eating, and
flirting with amusing grace and ma
turity. Their compilations suffer, as
does their health in the after years, and
the rush to cosmetics, to cover up de-
fc'e1cies in coloring, is as natural and
necessary as their use of quinine or
Misunderstanding medicines. But they
have the easy, elegant, unconsciously
graceful manners of well-bred women
of the world, whom no exigency sur
prises, and who look upon the world as
hung with roses for their special pluck
ing. You never see a southern society
girl act awkwardly, or look miserably
out of place, as did poor Joe Gargery
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
How to Advertise.

A writer in the New York Evening
Mail on the science of advertising says ::
GAS the object of advertising is to in
form the greatest number of people in
the most effective M nner, this end is
best attained by announcements in the
columns of the press. There are other
methods of advertising, and novel ideas
spring up every day, but such are for
the moment only; and tho experience of
all frst-class and successful houses in
duces them to do their advertising in
the newspapers, and there alone. Next
comes the question as to what is the
best method Of securing the attention
of newspaper readers. It is very simple
and consists in continuous advertising.
The retail merchants err when they in
sert large advertisement for one time
only, permitting weeks to pass before
the order is repeated. Such ftful, spas
modic announcements doubtless pro-
duce a certain effect, but it is the steady,
constant advertiser who prospers in the
end. The best way is to advertise lib
orally and continuously, and all who
have sufficient courage and capital to in
vest without stint have found them
selves rewarded even beyond their ex
pectatiOns. The secret of success lies in
uninterrupted advertising on a small
scale, varied by occasional spreads on
suitable occasions. Every paper has its
regular readers. and the continued ad-
vertisement familiarizes them with the
name and object Of the firm. Moreover,
the interests of firm and paper become
united the reader, who buys the paper
because he likes it, looks at the title of
the house day after day, and in time
comes to like the name. When an extra
announcement is made, he reads the
advertisement through with attention,
as the utterance of familiar friend,
and gives attention and consideration
to the matter discussed ?"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
Cretan LeperS.

An English physician who has been
visiting the islands of the Turkish arch,
ipelago with a view to studying the
cause and nature of leprosy, reports
that in the Crete singular villages exist
where every being is leper, and where
the population is increasing. There is
no description made public of the APP
pearance of things i'll these villages, but
the view must be strange one. A viii
lage where every person-man, woman
and child-is prey to the most loath-
some diseases; where there is marrying
aad giving marriage, must be a singular
as well as saddcning spectacle. That
such q condition of things should be,
that government should allow such a
horrible disease to be perpetuated and
extended, is a sufficient commentary
upon the character of the empire, and
perhaps a sufficient cause for interven-
ton by other nations, in the interest of
humanity
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
How to Secure Healthy Ventilation.

In view of the great difficulty of pro-
curing sufficient indoor ventilation,
without mourning rheumatiferous
| draughts under existing systems Of
house warming, an English sanitarian
has published a simple suggestion,
which, even if its hygienic bearing be
not fully appreciated, will commend
itself to all economical housekeepers in
this land of protected coal monopolies.
It is evident that heating by means of
steam or hot-water pipes, or still worse,
by means of alright stoves, gives no
opportunity for renewal of oxygen in
the air vitiated by respiration; it is
also evident that to supply the ventila-
ting out-current of an open fire place
chilling draughts will enter through
cracks of doors and windows, or if these
be carefully and effectually stopped,
sewer gas is likely to be sucked up from
drains and waste-pipes. On the other
hand, furnaces are ordinarily so
imperfectly constructed that the outer
air which they purport to introduce,
is charged with gases of combust-
ion from the fire. chamber. To
obviate al these troubles it is pro-
posed that we should acoustom our
selves to permit air to enter our
houses in sufficient volume TO avoid To-
Called currents, while the temperature
of the room is kept much lower than is
the custom, and the requisite body
warmth maintained by the wearing of
thicker clothes in the house." Aside
from the important matter of ventila-
ton, it is argued that this plan would
much diminish the frequency of dis
eases of the respiratory organs, which
in the winter season are commonly ex-
cited by the sudden transition from
heated rooms to the cold external air,
the change rather than the GOODNESS of
the respired atmosphere being the
source of danger. Mr.. RawIinson's
proposition has assuredly the recon
mendation of common sense, and, al
though our mutable climate presents
exceptional "cold snaps" when present
comfort becomes predominant above
potential healthfulness, its adoption at
all possible times may be benefcially
advised for the American public, whose
bronchitic tendencies are undoubtedly
largely due to the general fondness for
overheating and adherence of fresh
air.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
Physiology Of Eggs.

Every foul has two small organs near
the extremity of the body called the
ovaria. They are filed with elastic
tissue, and feel under the finger like
sponge. The eggs are started here, and
those which will mature year, or two
or three years hence are in embryo.
One is forced up, is seized by the
stroma, which is seventeen inches loug,
and passed rapidly through. When the
egg leaves the ovary it consists of yolk
ouly, but in its passage through that
short canal the yolk is surrounded by
enough albumen to perfect the chick.
The white Of the egg has in it all that
nature requires for making bones, mus
cles, blood vessels, connecting tissues,
skin and feathers.
Just before the egg leaves the body,
this canal has the power Of secreting
lime for the shell. This shows how
valuable the egg is as nutriment, and
also what demands are made for rich
food by hen that lays an egg daily.
Besides what she requires for her sus
tenance, she is called upon to secrete
the material for the body of the entire
chick, and also retains for the little
creature sufficient to last many hours
after it leaves the she'll. Tt shows also
that hen cannot make albumen so
rapidly except out of albuminous food,
such as wheat, meat and small animals.
It is not true that there is certain
number of eggs, and that this number
exhausted, no more can be expected
but it is true that secretions lessen as
old age comes on, and latterly the hen
fails to have sufficient force to carry
forward the process. The practical
bearing of this is, that we must see that
the fowl is always we'll kept. The way
to have good laying pullets is to quicken
the circulation and strengthen the sys-
TEN by liberal nutriment. The yolk is
food for the first three or four days.
Careful housewives make mistake by
attempting to feed them before the ex-
piration of this time. Let the mother
bird have charge and success will be
certain, for she knows better than any
man can what the chick requires
Poultry ReUieIO.
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Bleeding from Lungs, Catarrh, BrOn-
chttts, Consumption. Won
derfuI Cure
ROCHESTER,, n. Y. Jan. IS. 1874.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Jan. IS, 1874.
| r. Y. PIERCE. NJ. D., Buffalo. n. Y:
| Dear Sri had suffered from catarrh in an
! aggravated form for about twelve years, and
! for several years from bronchial trouble.
| Tried many doctors and things with no lasting
benefit. In May, 70, becoming nearly worn
out with excessive editorial labors on a paper
in New York city, was attacked with bron-
chitis in a severe form, suffering almost total
loss of voice. returned home, here, but had
been home only two weeks when l was COM
pletely Frustrated with hemori hage from the
lungs hGCjng four SeUere bleeding spells trithi1l
tL1O lceehS, and first three inside of nine d1Vs
In the September following, improved sufi-
GENTLY to be able to be about, though in very
feeble state. Ny bronchial trouble remained
and the catarrh was tenfold worse than be-
fore. Every effort for relief seemed fruitleas.
l seemed to be losing ground daily. con-
tinued in this feeble state, raising blood
almost daily, until about the first of March,
u.s. when l became so bad as to be entirely
confined to the house. A friend suggested
your remedies. But l was extremely skepti-
cal that they would do me good, as had lost
all heart in remedies. and began to look upon
medicine and doctors with disgust However
| obtained one of your circulars, and read it
carefully, from which / came to the conclusion
that you understood your business, at least
1 finally obtained a quantity of Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy, your Golden Med cal DiscoY-
cry and Pellets, and commenced their vigor-
Gus use according to directions. To my sur
prise, soon began to improve. The Discov-
cry and Pellets, in a short time, brought out
severe eruption, which continued for several
weeks. felt much better, my appetite i'm
proved, and gained in strength and flesh.
In three months every vestige Of the catarrh
was gone, the bronchitis had nearly disappear
ed had no cough whatever, and had entirely
ceased to raise blood; and, contrary to the ex-
pectation of some of my friends, the cure has
remained permanent. / have had no more
hemOrrhages from the lungs and am entirely
free from catarTh, from which l had suffered
SO much and so long. The debt Of gratitude
l owe for the blessing have received at your
hands, knows no bounds. / am thoroughly
satisfied, from my experience, that your medi-
cines will master the worst forms Of that
odious disease catarrh, as well as throat and
lung diseases. / have recommended them to
very many and shall ever speak in their praise.
Gratefully yours, WIN. H. SPENCER.
P. o. Box 507, Rochester, ny.
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What Constitutes Warm Clothing.

The London Sanitary Record has an
article on "Warm Clothing in which
the following appears Experiments
conducted by DR.. Krieger tend to show
that flannel and wooden materials
answer this purpose more fully than any
other manufactured materials. The
same series of experiments also demon
strate that loose fitting garments tend
to keep us much warmer than tight-ft-
ting ones. The reason of this is that
our clothing not only renders the air
still around us, but it also regulates its
temperature by the heat that leaves our
bodies. We heat our garments, and
they continually heat the air passing
through the meshes and pores of the
skin. We do not feel the loss of heat
which our clothing undergoes as we
should if the air were to strike our sur
face without having been previously
prepared by our dress, the differences
of temperature balance themselves
within the material we are clothed in,
and of which the ends of our cutane-
GUS nerves form no part. Inside our
dress our temperature average about 70
to 81 degrees Fahrenheit, which is best
kept in by rough, loose wooden textures,
while garments of silk and linen should
be avoided. Another correspondent
points out the value of hair as non.
conductor of heat from the body, and
recommends more general use of the
cheaper kinds of furs and skins, espe-
cially for persons obliged to be much in
the open air. A fur is so arranged that
the finer projecting hair intercepts all
the heat which flows from the surface
by radiation and conduction, and dis
tributes this heat through the air which
circulates between the single air-cylin
ders the finer the hair of the fur the
more it takes up the outgoing heat,
and, however cold the air may be, it
reaches the nerves of the skin as a
warmed air. Furred animals in winter,
when douched superb ially, give very
cold sensation. It is only near the skin
that their hair feels warm. In a severe
cold, certainly little of our animal heat
comes as far as the points of the hair,
from which it would radiate or be con-
Quoted into the cir. The current of air
in the fur cools the air from it's points
toward the roots, and a severer cold
penetrates only little further into the
fur, without necessarily reaching the
skin of the same. The researches made
all go to prove the soundness of the
conclusions arrived in favor of fur
clothing, and demonstrate beyond doubt
that all persons, old or young, feeble or
strong, who value the preservation of
their health or their lives should, as far
as possible, in inclement weather,
clothe themselves in flannel and the
lighter materials until the advent of a
more favorable season."
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
English Literary HonOrs.

Queen Victoria has rendered Thomas
Carlyle the grand cross of the order OF
bath, and Alfred Tennyson baronetcy.
Thus are two authors distinguished
solely for their literary attainments to
be rewarded for their triumphs by hon
ors that, as a royal recognition of liter
airy merit, are about as exquisitely ap-
propriate as the comforting Of the degree
of doctor of laws upon General Grant
by Harvard college some years ago.
Plain Alfred Tennyson looks better IN
its sweet simplicity than it would were
it given baronial significance, while
the idea of Thomas Carlyle wearing the
grand cross of bath seems as lu1icrously
absurd as the knotting of the equestrian
blue ribbon in the name of the lion.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
WOman's Attractiveness.

Personal attractions most girls pos.
sess- at any rate in a sufficient degree
to render them attractive to somebody
for, although there are standards and
models of beauty, yet these do not pre-
vail with all persons. There is some
thing wonderful in the difference of as
pect which the same face wears to diff
ferent beholders. Probably the phil
osophical explanation of this is, that
what is hidden to all others becomes
apparent to the eye of love.
Pow can a moderately good looking
girl increase her attractions? By Gull
ture. She must cultivate her mind.
An ignorant and illiterate woman, even
if she attract the attention, cannot re-
tain the interest of an intelligent man.
She must do this by reading, by study,
by reflection, and by familiar converse
ton with the best and most highly ed
ucated persons with whom she comes in
contact. w
But the heart must be cultivated, as
well as the head. "Of all things,
exclaimed q most elegant and refined gen.
tlenan, after nearly lifetime's famil-
iarity with the best society,"" of all
things, give softness and gentleness in
woman" A harsh voice, a coarse
laugh-trifles like these have suddenly
spoiled many a favorable first impress
sion. ~
The cultivation of the heart must be
real, and not feigned. A woman WHO
studies to appear. rather than to be
good and generous, seldom succeeds in
deceiving the opposite sex in these re-
spects. She who in truth seeks earn
estly to promote the happiness of those
around her, is very apt soon to obtain
admirers among men. No woman ever
otherwise so completely triumphs over
a rival as when she is in good earnest
to prefer that rivals interest to her
own.
Above all other requisites in a woman
is conscientiousness. Without this one
tombstone of character. no matter what
her charms and requirements, she can
not expect to command the lasting re-
gard of any man whose love is worth
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12

MARBLE TOP TABLES UNHEALTHY
1t seems strange that these elegant
articles of furniture should be consid
cred unhealthy. The Herald of Health
says of them:
"They are cold and rapidly absorb the
heat and vitality of the body, robbing
it of its life. We have heard of one
invalid whom the doctor could not cure,
till one day he noticed she used mar
bic stand, and suspected it had some
thing to do with her ill-health. So he
forbade her touching it. Soon she was
cured. We know healthy people who
feel the twinges of pain in shoulder
by sitting near one. They are hand
some, but unhealthy for all that"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12

A NATION OF DYsPEPTICs. We live
fast-dissipate in everything except
righteousness, and fill early graves. We
drink all kinds of poisoned alcoholic
spirits, and swallow, without mastica-
ton, pork, grease, and every conceiv-
able carbonaceous, soul WAR ing, life-de-
stroyinR, system -clogging, indigestible
food. DIR. Walkers Vegetable Vinegar
Bitters canuot stop this in a radical
manner-but it will remove the evil eff
fects, and the recovering patient, with
fresh, pure, vitelized, electrical blood
flowing through his arteries and veins,
will have clearer head and cooler
judgment, which, coupled with expe-
rience, will cause him to abstain in the
future. Good, nutritious, digestibIe
diet, which the most delicate stomachs
may take, can be found in cracked
wheat, corn bread, tomatoes, raw or
soft-boiled eggs, baked apples, boiled
rice, plain rice pudding, corn starch,
rare beef, mutton and poultry. With
Vinegar Bitters and moderation in eat
ing and drinking, there is no incurable
cases OF dyspepsia.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12

the fact that men and women of the
working classes have bought largely of
the comparatively worthless stocks,
which have risen alphabetically with
the stocks of the bonanza mines. There
is hardly an instance of specializing
depositors returning their principal
with or without profit. In one of the
banks aservant girl had 1910 on deposit.
She drew the money, and within week
lost it in the Phil. Sheridan stock.