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tie continued to wage until he settled
the matter to his own satisfaction, L
presume, by bringing DR.. McClintock, a
gentleman who has the houor of being
still living, for aught know to the con-
trary, to the rescue, this latter gentle
mans opinion being sufficient.
The tent meetings were set aside on
two of these occasions, that none might
be kept away from hearing.
The inhabitants of this place express
themselves as much pleased with the
open, straightforward course of Elder
Van Horn.
Elder J. H. Waggoner, who has re-
Gently arrived from Oakland, California,
to assist in lecturing and preaching, is
a logical, clear, and concise speaker.
The tent, which, when new, cost five
hundred dollars, is used because with it
the lectures are independent.
Yours faithfully,
Mt. SUPRA.
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WE ARE PUZZLED.

Our Democratic exchanges one and
all declare, with all the zest inspired by
a new and important discovery, that
Samuel J. Tilden was born in New
Lebanon, Columbia county, New York,
in 1874"
We suppose that rejoicing over what
in some mysterious way seems to be
thought by the exchanges aforesaid to
have been most suspicious event, is in
order. Now, we always like to rejoice
with those who rejoice, but We are lit
tie in doubt what point in the above re-
markable chronological discovery should
cause us to jubilate. Whether it is the
fact that Samuel J. Tilden was born, OF
that he was "born in New Lebanon,
Columbia county, New York." or that
he was born in 1914, shall be the cause
of rejoicing, is what puzzles US.
Will Brother Norton or Brother Nolt.
ner, or some other rejoicing brother, tel
us what is expected of every body in this
matter? We do dislike to laugh in the
wrong place, and to appear stolld con
cerning q great event is not to b,
thought of for a moment. Enlighter
US, brethren, we beg, for If left to our
self we will probably shock you BY
rejoicing, seeing the fates decided tha
Samuel J. was to be born in the count,
and State aforesaid, in the year 1914
that he was born of a sensible mother
whose common sense teachings an,
womanly example have caused Samue
J. to be Woman Suffragist, and if W
should even hint this, think of the con
sternation of many Of the faithful who
if they do not refuse TO vote for hir
upon this indictment, will have to cor
sole themselves by doubling our We
racitV
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OO.BDUOATION AT CORNELL.

At the eighth annual commencement
of Cornell University, which took place
on the 18th Of June, 1876, five ladies
graduated.
Women were first allowed to enter
this college in 1872, and the class re-
ferred to is the first through class since
that period. In the class of 1875 the
vote on co-education stood, Is for and 81
against it, while this year % were in fa-
vor and 20 against, showing a rapid gain
in its favor. Instead of the standard of
study being lowered by the presence of
women, it has been constantly raised
since their admission. In an open let
ter President White states that in but
one instance has lady failed to pass
required examinations; aud as regards
health, that of the young women has
averaged better than that of the young
men. A test of this character is more
than sufficient to refute the ''sex-in-ed-
ucation" theories so elaborately built up
! by DIR. Clark.
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II WISH I WERE A MAN"

Not an uncommon wish, yet withal a
very foolish one. We looked at the
wisher contemplative!y, perhaps Gu
riously, for moment, and thought, ''a
man, my dear, with no more energy
than you possess, would be dependent
upon chance for his meals and charity
for his tobacco"
A young man who would sit about
the house from day to day with no
thought of pecuniary independence or
responsibility, would be in all things,
except depositing his ballot, as much of
a nonentity as are girls who waste time
that should be given to energetic labor
in idly wishing for a vague something
that a transformation from one sex to
the other might bring about.
If it were not all too common to lay
the blame of everything upon women,
we might be tempted to blame the
mothers somewhat fer the aimless life
which so many girls lead. Girls should
be taught that it is the meanest selfish
ness to live upon the labor of others,
whether those others be fathers, broth
ers, mothers, or husbands, without CIV
ing an equivalent of some kind; they
should understand that life without an
object must always be a failure, and
that waiting for husband to come and
take them off of fathers hands, is, be-
sides being unwomanly and degrading,
often tedious, with nine chances in ten
of proving in the end-howeverit it ends
unsatisfactory. We would appeal TO
womanhood, to motherhood, in this vi
tai matter, to endeavor if possible land
in this day nothing is impOssible) to
give the girls an equal chance physic-
ally and mentally with the boys. Di-
rect the mind to some work; the labor
and study to some end. Weakness is
an accompaniment of an aimless life,
the curse of a purposeless existence.
When girls learn to despise and over
come the weakness that so many Of
them exhibit, they will learn to revere
their womanliness, to treasure it above
all Gods gifts, and as the basis of all.
Strong in purpose, and in the knowl.
edge of purity and truth and individu.
ality, no girl will cast the slur upon hel
womanhood by giving utterance to the
foolish expression, "I wish L were s
mon ~
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DEATH OF AN AUTHOR.

Harriet Martineau died short time
since at her homo in England, at the
age of "a years. She was descended
from a family of French Huguenots,
who fled from France on the revocation
of the edict of Nantes. In the best sense
Of the term, she was a strong minded
woman, and one who did much for her
generation by the brilliancy of her
genius and the depths of her sympa-
thies. Her first published work was de-
vQtional in it's spirit and aim, and all oI
her earlier stories were intended to con-
vey moral and religious lessons. AS
she advanced in years, she became Eaore
speculative and philosophical, and sew.
eral of her later works were undertaken
to Illustrate the principles of polltica
economy. In all her writings she dis.
played vigor and clearness of thought
conscientious fidelity to convictions
and careful regard for facts. Her ad
vanced age is another proof that intel
lectual labor is not detrimental to the
health or fatal to the longevity o
woman.
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WORSE THAN MURDER. "

One of the barbaric cruelties estab-
lished by the old Mosaic law of "life
for life," which is yet perpetuated in
the horrid and revolving system of hang
ing, is thus fOrcibly denounced by the
San Francisco Alta. Abiding to an
execution of criminal, in which vic
tim dropped eight feet and had his head
torn from his body, it says:
OF all the beastIy and abominaI methods
which society have at different times adopted
for taking human life when Justice demands
the forfeit, that of strangling a man with a
rope seems the most bungling and horrible.
When properly performed, the process is a
cruel one; when bunglingly, ii is abOminable.
And how often it is bungled. The victim
drops, the rope breaks, and he is forced again
upon the gallows to undergo all the horrors OF
death again. How much better the French
method, by means of the guillotine; and the
Spanish, by the garOte. The old system, by
the axe and block, was better If the law and
justice and the good of society require the sac
rihce of human life, surely human invention
might produce method of snuffing out this
poor, brief candle of ours without mashing and
/
the murder which it is intended to avenge.
Yes, worse; and for many reasons
among which is the fiendish thirst fol
vengeance displayed by law and it,
baleful effects upon the minds of those
who witness it. The law simply doei
with cool deliberatiOn, in a shocking
and barbarous manner, and in the pres
ence of witnesses, that which the indi
vidual did secretly, and perhaps in tn,
heat of passion. And all this is prac
ticed by a so-called Christian nation
whose book of creeds emphatically de
clares that Vengeance is mine, viii
repay, saith the Lord" Why such
law, the operation of which is so shock
ing aud so degrading to humanity
should blot the statute books of any en-
lightened commonwealth, is a mystery
or would be, were it not in comPan.
with so many other legal absurdities.
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PHRBNOLOGY---NOT DYSPEPSIA

A valued friend and occasional corre-
spondent sends the subjoined verses and
writes: "Poetry is not my forte, am
well aware, although o. S. Fowler told
me 1 could write it, and have had a
half unconscious desire to try to do so
ever since the old humbug examined
the bumps on the outside of my cranium.
This afternoon felt like rhyming, and
now send the trifle to you that you
may judge Of its merits. / have
been thinking of several subjects that
would be appropriate to discuss in the
NEW NORTHWEST, but illness has pre-
vented nae from preparing the papers.
I shall send you something soon, how
ever"
Oh NOT IN HOURS OF MIRTH AND GLADNEss.
Oh not in hours of mirth and gladness
Would 1 then remembered be;
And, oh less the hours of sadness,
I'd wish to bring thee thoughts of me.
Oh not when other friends are smiling,
Filling all thy heart with glee,
Shadows from thy brow beguiling,
Would have thee turn to me.
All thy soul to God revealing,
Then, oh then thy thoughts I'd share,
Name me, name me, in thy prayer.
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A NEW SERIAL STORY.

Those who have pursued the fortunes
of "Madge Morrison" throughout the
successive weeks of the past six months,
bid her adieu this week, happy and
contented. AS will be seen by notice
and advertisement elsewhere, Mrs.
Duniway's pencil will not flag, but is
already at work upon a new story en-
titled "Edna and John, A Romance of
Idaho Flat" the principal incidents of
which she doubtless collected during
her recent visit to Idaho. 1t is not pos
sible to tell just when the new story
will commence, as the advance chapters
have not yet come to hand, but il will
certainly not be long. In the mean
time, we hope friends everywhere will
bestir themselves and send in new
names and renewals, so that all may be-
gin with the new story and not be en-
numbered with back numbers.
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AT NEW ERA.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Though perhaps little out Of date,
would like to give you a short sketch of
our Centennial celebration at New Era.
1t was a celebration that gave to all
equal chance to be heard, and was, in
fact, one of equality, politically, socially
and religiOusly.
The ever glorious stars and stripes
were hoisted upon a pole 60 feet i'll
height, straight, white and beautiful,
and no prOuder piece of bunting waved
in the July breezes on that day than
this flag-the handiwork of an ardent
Suffragist-which fioated over the en-
thusiastic band here gathered to cele-
brate the great Centennial birthday of
the nation.
Mr.. S. Johns was President of the day;
Rev. ]. Caste Reader of the Declaration
of Independence, and Mr.. Foster, Orator
of the day. The three gentlemen named
are all residents of New Era or vicinity.
Mrs. J. A. Johns of Salem read an es-
say on equal rights for humanity, and
this was followed by fOrcible and elo-
quent suffrage speech by Rev. J. Casio.
Refreshments were now in order, and
all partook of a bountiful repast, with
out which no celebration, however i'm
bued with patriotism, is complete.
| After dinner resolutions were called
for and were responded to by Mrs. Johns,
who read one claiming political rights
for woman. This was signed by all
present except one woman and two or
three men. After some further discus
sion the company dispersed, each we'll
pleased with the exercises of the day.
That New Era is charming rallying
spot for the friends eff equal rights, is
the opinion of OBSERVER.
New Era, July II, 1876.
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Oregon City, July %, 1876.
LETTER FROM SOUTHERN OREGON.
L ONA9 AeA
Mt. SUPRA.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST
Situated as we are in a secluded corner
of Josephine county, thought perhaps
I might write you few items that
would be of interest to the many read
ers of your valuable paper. Although
women are but few here, we find some
that have the stamina to openly advO-
cate the right, and are making inroads
upon the prejudices of some of the peo-
pie, that awakens them to think of
things that apparently never entered
their minds before.
I am pleased to see the steady and
firm progress the Woman Suffrage
question is making in the different
States and Territories, and the consider
alton it received at the hands of the late
National Conventions of the two great
political parties of the day. It is con-
elusive evidence that ere the dawn of
another Presidential election, our moth
ers, wives, sisters, and daughters will
stand side by side with US, and will
have an equal voice in the nominating
and electing of the persons mot mem
who fill the various offices of our coun-
try.
The principal interests of this county
are the mines that are being developed
in quartz and gravel ranges. There is a
company now incorporated that have
commenced work oD the Great Yank
ledge, and from present prospects, it is
destined to become the bonanza of the
Pacific Coast. There are many other
lodges that prospect well, and will
doubtless be valuable in the near future.
The great gravel range and ditch for
merly owned by ]. H. Reed, of Portland,
is now in the hands of an English COM
pany, that have expended seventy-f1ve
or eighty thousand dollars in bringing
in ditch and putting on machinery.
1t is paying well, and will do much
, toward developing the gravel ranges of
Southern Oregon. Also the claim of
|, Courtney & Co., on the same range, has
yielded well. Though not worked on so
large scale as that of the English COM
pany, they have moved great amount
of gravel and opened up an old channel
from two to three hundred feet wide,
, that prospects better than anything L
have seen in Southern Oregon, and the
owners deserve great credit for the en-
ergy they have displayed in opening up
! their mine, and they will undoubtedly
: be we'll remunerated, as they have a
) splendid water right and plenty OF
) good ground to last them for many
years.
The farming in this county is very
limited, but crops, so far as they go,
/ look WELL
, That the time will soon come when
the immense resources of this locality
will be made to add to the wealth of en-
f terprising laborers, is the wish of
p A MINER.
a Galice Creek, July II, 1875.
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A HUMANE LAW.

A most humane law is to be found
upon the statutes of Massachusetts rel
ative to the employment of children in
circuses, shows, and public exhibitions
of various kinds, which our State Leg
islature would do well to initiate. The
Act was passed May %, 1874, and reads
as follows: ''No license shall be granted
by the Mayor, Aldermen, or select
men of any city or town, for any exhi-
bition at which children under fifteen
years of age are employed as acrobats,
contortionists, or in any feats of gym
nastics or equestrianism." The passage
Of such an act is a credit to any body Of
men.
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"a BILL OF ATTAINDER. "

One of the "Articles of Impeachment"
which the Declaration of Rights of the
women of the United States submits to
the impartial judgment of the people"
is this:
While making show OF virtue in forbid
ding the importation of Chinese women on the
Pacific Coast for immoral purposes, our rul-
ers in many States, and even under the
shadow of the National Capitol, are now pro-
posing the sale of American womanhood for
the same vile purpose.
Could sham protection and sham
virtue we'll receive a more scathing re-
buke-a more complete exposure? Some
persons should vince at this, or Shame
should abdicate her throne and retire
forever from their presence, taking with
her the bushes she is powerless to plant
upon their cheeks. Mock modesty Ill
becomes advocates of licensed prostitu-
| finn
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Kingsley's family had not yet break
tasted. Good coffee and golden cream,
glad faces and CHEEKY voices, hot cakes
and omelet for breakfast. What a
feast after such a glorious ride!
Then came delicious, dreamy rest,
and after it lunch and canvassing.
Again the Journal of Peace received
many added subscribers.
Evening came, and with it another
goodIy audience in the NJ. E. Church,
the good people listening gladly to the
gospel of freedom. Again good-byes
were spoken, and many friends bade US
God-speed.
Seven o'clock A. NJ, and stage time.
We are off for Boise. Again we traverse
the long mountain road described in the
last letter, the only important change
being in the dinner station, which we
reach when within twelve miles of
Boise. Here a tidy housewife sets a
dinner worthy of the appetite of tired
missionary. The station is kept by an
intelligent, industrious young couple,
who have earned themselves home in
Kansas within the past three years by
living here, to which they design re-
pairing in the spring. We knew we'd
get subscriber there when we stopped
to dine. Whenever we see tidy, in
dustrious, economical housewife, we
know she wants the woman's paper.
Three o'clock, and Boise. Dear Mrs
Kelly meets us at her gate, and wei.
comes home the missionary. A bath
and nap refresh us, and at night we
meet large and fashionable assembly
in the Methodist Church, a stately edi.
flee of brick, to which, (the good pastor
being now at home), we were vel
coined as becometh Christians. To
night we are to give the farewell talk ,
and are to have a crowded house. Or
the morrow we are off for Winuemucca
having chosen that instead of the Kel
ton line, as we had intended, because o
the intervening towns where we can ge
audiences.
What we should do, or whittier go, i
we should violate the laws made by tn,
protectors of women in this land of SOW
ereigns, we really do not know, 70
there is no spot on this green earth ye
visited by us where we have not me
old acquaintences.
In the printing Office of Judge Kell.
we were surprised to meet the sons G
. our friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Gaylord, for
, merly of Albany, and now residents c
Sparta, in Eastern Oregon. They ar
/ enterprising and steady young mer
well worthy of their parents.
r In Idaho City we were pleased t
meet Mr.. Jones, proprietor of tn
World, who crossed the plains with ou
) liege lord in 1850, and also worked wit
him in the Salmon River mines in Is:
t We might mention scores of othe
5 old-time friends, did time and spac
r permit. All greet us cordially, and al
/. ready at all times to render ever
e needed service. The gospel of freedoI
: finds no opponents among the people
well-developed mentality.
? But it is nearing lecture time, and "
v must close this hasty scrawl to make a
J, evening toilet and meet 3 sympathet
e multitude. A. J. D.
5 Boise, Idaho, July 13, 1876.
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N0sfNG ABOUT FOR A SKELETON.


NJ. H. Abbott, editor of the Oregon
Tribune, published at Dalles City, NOR
allies to an alarming extent in the last
issue Of his journal over domestic
trouble and iufecihty," and in man
ner that would lead his friends to hope,
did they not know the man so well,
that, if he had his life to live over
again he would really make a model
husband, provided he could succeed in
entrapping a woman into the matrimo-
nial moose with himself.
Taking up the bit of scandal fur
nished by the unhappy but temporary
alteration of mind of Sheriff Coffee, OF
Vancouver, and rolling it as a sweet
morsel under his tongue, he declares
that the domestic trouble" of the gen.
tlemen named, and which doubtless
never had an existence except in the
brain of some impertinent news monger
and eager scandal-dealer, CONSISTED in
the fact that Mrs. e. some weeks age
went to New York ostensibly to visit
friends; but, as subsequent events
proved, really to desert him." The fact
that "Mrs. c." returned home on the
last steamer, puts a quietus upon this
proof that must be somewhat en-
barrassing to this self-constituted guar.
dian of holy matrimOny.
One would think, to hear this di'
vorced editor moralize, that it is women
only who seek refuge from the turmoil'
of discordant wedlock in the divorce
courts, and that men were never known
to prove recreant to their marriage
vows, or leave their wives and children
to loneliness and disgrace "without as
signing justifiable reason for their con
duct, and substantially admitting tina
their wives were unusually lenient anC
confiding."
His theory regarding the imminen
peril in which the "sacred institution
of marriage is thrown by the ex
tremely reprehensible conduct of wive
who are faithless, causes not the con
sternation which he evidently designed
it should produce, but rather provoke
smile from persons who understand
that he sees said 'sacred institution
through the troubled glasses of recen
experience in a divorce court, wherein
he was doubtless proven anything bu
the kind and tender husband that h
should have been.
The Vancouver Independent, in
spirit directly opposite to the carping
fault-finding tone of the journal frs
quoted, says:
Domestic trouble is mentioned as one caus
of Mr.. Coffee's arrangement, which is a yer
unjust imputation to Mrs. Coffee, who is an e'
timable lady, and highly respected, not oni
by the community, but by Mr.. Coffee himsel
We would suggest to the spleneti
quill-driver of the Tribune, while nosin
around other peoples closets in th
hope to make gleeful discovery of
hidden skeleton, that he would bette
be careful, lest the whitened bones an
grinning skull within his own be, b
his own rashness, revealed.
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Mrs. Duniway, writing from Silver
City under date of July 18th, says: 'T
am getting along someW hat slowly,
but doing the best possible under the
circumstances. Have been gone from
home five and half weeks, lectured %
evenings, staged 500 miles, canvassed
every town, written four chapters of
story, and sent seven of Editorial Cor
respondence.' 1 will get to Phila-
delphia in ample time for the Conven-
tion, and get home in three months
from the time I started. Commenced q
new story entitled Edna and John, A
Romance of Idaho Flat and will send
you several chapters In a few days. l
lecture here tonight, and start for
Winnemucca tomorrow"
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Mrs. Lincoln is proved to be sane, if,
indeed, she ever was insane. A short
time since a brother-in-law, Mr.. Ed
wards, of Springfield, filed in the county
court a petition signed by Mrs. Lincoln,
praying that the management and care
of her estate, which was taken from her
one year ago by order of that tribunal,
might be restored to her. The conserv-
ator, Robert T. Lincoln, made no objec-
ton to the proceedings, and waived the
ten days notice required by statute,
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The Republican candidates for Presi-
Dental electors have decided to divide
the State for campaign purposes into
three districts, southern, middle, and
eastern. W. H. Odell will canvass the
first, J. W. Watts the second, and J. G.
Cartwright the third. Democratic can
didates have been notified of the ar.
rangement, and appointment for joint
discussion of political issues will doubt.
less be satisfactorily arranged.
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The Cherokee nation pays men teach
ers $225 per month, and women teach
ers $500. They set an example which
nations that make much more preten-
sion to civilization would do well to fol-
low, the wages of their men and women
teachers being more nearly equal than
in any other nation we wot Of,