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we looked up to Uncle Barnabas
and reverenced his opinions
"What do we propose to dc
about it r. Eleanor slowly repeated
lifting her beautiful jetty brows.
"Yes, that's exactly it," said my
mother, nervously; "because,
Brother Barnabas, we don't pre-
tend to be business women, and it's
certain that we cannot live COM
Portable on our present income.
Something has got to be DONE"
My mother leaned back in her
chair with a troubled face.
EYES," said Uncle Barnabas,
something has got to be done; but
who's to do it.9"
Another dead silence succeeded,
81 suppose you girls are educat-
ed" said Uncle Barnabas 81 know
l found enough old school bills
when 1 was looking over my broth
eSs papers," = Fv-s
"Of course" said my mother,
with evident pride "their educa-
ton has been most expensive. Mu-
sic, drawing, use of the globes"
eyes, yes, of course" interrupt
ed Uncle Barnaba. "But is il
practical? Can they teach p
Eleanor looked dubious. ] was
certain that l could not. Nine.
Lenoir, among all her list of accom-
plishments, had not included the
practical tuition.
"Humph y grunted Uncle Bar
nabas. "Queer thing, this modern
idea of education. Well, if you
can't teach you can surely do some
thing. What do you say, Eleanor,
to situation :"
"A situation T.
The color futtered in Eleanor's
cheeks like pink and white apple
blossoms.
81 spoke plain enough, didn't | y
said Uncle Barnabas, dryly. "Yes,
a situation"
"What sort of a situation, Uncle
Barnabas 7"
"Well, l can hardly say. Part
servant, part companion to an eld-
erly LADY," explained the old gen.
tleman.
"Oh, Uncle Barnabas, l couldn't
do that"
"Not do it And why not Z"
ats too much-too much" whis-
pered Eleanor, losing her regal Dig
nifty in the pressure of the emer-
gency, "like going out to service"
"And that is precisely what IL
is" replied uncle Barnabas nodding
his head. Service ! Why we're
all out to service, in one way OF
another, in this world"
ol "Oh, yes, / know" faltered Flea
nor, who, between her distaste for
the proposed plan and her anxiety
not to offend Uncle Baruabas Ber-
kelin, didn't quite know what to
say "but 1--we always been edu-
Gated to be lady
"So you won't take tie situa-
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ed Uncle Barnabas, nodding his
head sapalY. -

head sagely.
We took a hack at the depot
and drove through so many streets
that my head spun round and round
like teetotum, before we stopped
at pretty brown stone mansion
it looked like palace to my unac
customed eyes-and Uncle Barna.
has helped me out. "Here is were
Mrs. Prudence lives" said he, with
with chuckle. ..-.
A neat little maid, with frilled
white apron, and rose -colored rib
bons in hair, opened the door with
a courtesy, and l was conducted
into an elegant apartment, all gild-
ing, exotics, and blue-satin damask,
when plump old lady, dressed in
black silk, the loveliest Valencien-
nes lace at her throat and wrists,
came smilingly forward, like six
ty-year old sunbeam.
$50 you've come back, BarDabas
have you ?" said she, and brought
one Of the dear girls with you.
Come and kiss me, my dear"
"Yes, Susy, kiss your aunt, said
Uncle Barnabas, fiinging his hat
one way and his gloves another, as
he sat complacently down on the
sofa.
"My aunt :" l echoed.
"Why of course" said the plump
old lady : "don't you know ! I'm
your aunt Prudence"
"But ] thought gasped l, "that
/ was coming to situation"
swell, so you are" retorted I'm
Gle Barnabas. "The situation o.
adopted daughter in my family
Twenty-Five month pocket money
the care of your aunt Prudence's
cat and canary, and to make your
self generally useful
"Oh, Uncle I" cried I, Eleanor
would have been SO glad to come il
she had known it.
"Fiddlestrings and little fishes y
illogolically responded my uncle.
"I've no patience with a girl that's
too fine for work. Eleanor had
the situation offered her and she
choose to decline. You decided TO
come, and hear you stay. Ring the
bell, Prue, and order tea, for I'm as
hungry as a hunter, and / dare say
little Susy here would relish cup
of good tea"
And this is the way l drifted in
to my luxurious home. Eleanor,
in the country cottage, envies me
bitterly, for she has all the tastes
which wealth and metropolitan
home can crafty. But Uncle Bar
nabas will not hear of my exchang-
ing with her.
"No, no !" says he. "The girl
I've got is the girl mean to keep.
Miss Eleanor is too fine lady to
suit me-"
But he lets me send them liberal
presents every month, so I am hap
nv
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greese gridle, which is more'n
some folks can claim" retorted
the President, with anything but a
dreamy expression to her face
The tall lady's eyes grew shade
darker, and her lips shaped them
selves as if they were saying "hus-
sy," but it is probable they were
not.
GAS our two friends are so little
likely to agree" observed a lady
whose face showed that she was
about to metamorphose herself into
a barrel Of prime oil, and precipi-
tate herself onto the troubled wa
ters, 81 would suggest that take
the character"
"Humph!" calculated the Presi-
dent.
"Is there any objection to my
being Lady Washington ?" said
the new party, facing abruptly the
President, and emptying out the
oil and filing mp the barrel imme-
diately with a superior grade Of
vinegar.
81 don't know of any, if some one
will demonstrate that Lady Wash
ington had wart on her nose" re-
piled the President, with unblem-
ishing serenity.
cam l to be insulted :" hotly de-
manded the proprietor of the wart.
"The truth ought not to be in
sulting," replied the President
II suppose the President thinks
she would make a perfect Lady
Washington" ironically suggested
a weak faced woman who saw her
chance for taking tho character
dejectedly immerge from the small
end Of the horn.
81 don't know as | would be per-
feet in that role," replied the Pres
ident, "but, as there will be strang-
ers present at the party, shouldn't
want them to think that the near
est approach Danhury could come
to the dignity of &c was toothless
woman down with jaundice." And
the head officer smiled serenely at
tie ceiling.
"What do you mean, you insinu-
ating thing 2" hoarsely demanded
the victim of the jaundice.
"Keep your mouth shut until
you are spoken to, then,' severely
advised the President. -
''I'm not to be dictated to by q
mountain of tallow," hissed the
chromatic delegate, founcing out Of
the room. e...
~ think we'd better get another
President, before we go any farth-
err" said a sharp faced woman very
much depressed by the outlook for
herself.
at isn't hardly time for you
yet" observed the President, with
significant look at the sharp faced
woman we will have TO, arrange
for Lady Washington and George
Washington before we need tho
hatchet."
The sharp faced lady snatched
her muff without the fsintest hesi-
tation and rushed out doors to get
breath. She was Immediately fol-
lowed by the proprietor of the
wart, the thin lady disastrously
connected with the griddle, and
the toothless case Of jaundice.--
This left but the President and q
little woman who had yet said
nothing.
elias it occurred to you that you
would like to be Lady Washing
ton 2" asked the President, concen-
trating both Of her eyes on wen
just under the small woman's left
ear.
"Oh, no." gasped the small wom-
an, impulsively covering up tho
excrescence with her hand.
"Then / guess well adjourn sine
de- said the President, and, pull
ing on her gloves, she composedly
took her departure.
And the tea party became the
fragment of gloomy memory.
He is a nice little boy who lives
n r.
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He is nice little boy who lives
In Erie, Pa. They had perform
ance in the Opera House, and he
stationed himself at the head Of
stairway and said so sweetly and
naturally, "Tickets, please" and
they gave him the tickets, bot soon
they came to q big burly man at
the door who wanted tickets too,
and he wouldn't lot them in be-
cause they had none. And the
nice little boy went with bis friends
to the show, and they couldn't lind
him there to pay him for being
door-keeper. 5s# q svai
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Some one says Of certain con-
gregation that they pray on their
knees on Sundays, and on their
ncighbors the rest Of the week.w
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-04
LETTER FROM OANYoNvILLB.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
take pleasure in acknowledging the
receipt of the New NORTHWEST, and
also in distributing it at every point
where it is likely to SOW the seeds of en-
lightenment. God knows there is need
enough of it amid the blaekness of dark
est ignorance that surrounds this region.
With the commonest topics of the day
many are entirely unfamiliar.
a friend whois well posted in all lit
erary matters lately sent me from New
York a copy of Gospel Songs" as sung
by Moody and Sankey at all their meet
ings. He says they are upon the tongue
of every one, much as the war songs
were during the late Rebellion. I have
showed the book to many persons here
abouts, and they had never heard of
Moody and Sankey; didn't know but
they were some specimens of animals
lately discovered, and belonging to some
menagerie.
So it is useless to cast such jewels
as the NEW NORTHWEST before quad
rupeds of such an entirely porcine
nature, though they do take some in
terest in the fortunes of ftMadge Morri-
son." which shows that they are not al
together to be given over.
There are plenty of mines in this Sec
tion of the country, if the people were
not too utterly lazy to develop them.
The country about here is literally filled
with gold. I'm tempted to go to min
ing myself We look for the railroad to
be resumed through here this spring,
and if it is, think the country will be
explored, and will soon develop into the
richest mining region in the State.
When you get worn out with literary
labor, just come down here and we'll go
shares in digging gold, only l fear you'd
feel as L do, that "Not for gold or
precious stones" would you stay in this
community any longer than you were
compelled so to do.
Don't tell me Pm not Christian, my
dear friend, when 1 keep sending you
letters, hoping not to get one in answer.
[ don't know how you look at such
things, but consider it the height of
magnanimity and certain proof of
Christianity to give with no hope of re-
ceiving again. R.
Canyonville, Oregon, January %, 1875.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-04
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN
SCHOOLS,

The opinion is so prevalent as to be
almost universal at the present day,
that corporal punishment in public
schools is a relic of barbarism, and
should be banished entirely. Yet every
teacher, as well as every conscientious
parent, knows that from the depth OF
perplexity, compounded of desire to do
right themselves and have those under
their charge do right as well, they have
rarely it may be-been compelled to
the conviction that to entirely "spare
the rod was to spoil the child" Hap
PLY, these instances are rare in well-reg-
ulated families-so rare indeed in many
as to exist but in theory and vague pos
sibility-and, as children who are prop
erly disciplined at home seldom make
trouble in schools, so corporal punish
ment is of like infrequency.
The city superintendent of public
schools gives some statistics and views
upon this subject, which we submit,
confident that they will be of interest,
not only to the patrons of these schools,
but to those laboring in the cause of ed
ucation elsewhere:
The fact that there was, during the term of
five months, ending January 49, 1876, but one
case of corporal punishment daily average) to
every six thousand four hundred pupils, is
truly praiseworthy, and highly commend
able on the part of the teachers. zone
thousand three hundred and ffty-one pu-
pills attending school during the past term
of 100 days, is equal TO an attendance of one
pupil l35, 100 days. The number of cases OF cor
poral punishment during this time is p, there
fore there has been daily average of one
punishment to every 6,4OO pupils, as already
stately When all else has failed, corporal
punishment should be resorted to, and thereby
compel refractory pupils to obey, rather than
expel them and drive them into the streets,
where they would be surrounded by contami-
mating influences, which would very soon en-
title them TO scholarship in a reform school,
if we had one, or in penitentary. Obedience
to law-civil, moral and physical-is one
grand lesson that we must all learn. Ignor-
ance of law and refusal to comply with the
requirements of law are the causes OF all the
ills and the sufferings-moral or physical
which hang like pail over the world, shut
ting out the sunlight of love, happiness, and
contentment. Our pupils observe the rules of
propriety about the school buildings and in
the class-rooms from a sense of right and
duty, rather than from any of the consequences
| resulting from misconduct and wrong-doing
The spirit of the pupils toward their teachers
! is confidential and respectful
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-04
WOMAN.
BY AUxr CHARITY.

Woman, with particular stress upon
the first part of the word; how well that
defines her. Woman, ever since the
time of. Eve, has brought misery and
woe to man. With weak brain and
shallow mind she now dares attempt to
rise to the eminence that is the birth
right Of glorious man. Has her audac-
ity no bounds? Ah, mel what will she
not think of yet? Look well to your
laurels, lords of the universe; she may
attempt to snatch them from your brow
during their freshest and greenest
hours. Hold your power with strong
rein, men of America. Your honor,
your happiness, your superiority are
threatened. Women are inferior be-
ings, always have been since the crea-
ton, when Adam was given dominion
over the whole earth. Keep them in
ferior. Inferiority is slavery. Never
forget that. What should women do
but submit to the truest and kjndeSt of
masters, great and glorious man?
Woman, weak and foolish, why will you
vex the generous, grand, and noble
spirit of man with your puny cries for
equality? q? Brothers, heed her not Be
firm and do the right, keeping her in
subsection. While you mount to the
tOpmost round of the ladder, leave her
at the foot, shading her eyes as she
gazes upward at your dazzling splendor.
Sisters, have you SO far forgotten the
object of your creation {? You were only
intended to stay at home and keep
mans hearth-stone bright, his home q
happy and peaceful one; to ward away
all clouds from the horizon of his life
that life which Eve drove out of Para
disc. Do you forget the debt you owe?
you, who were the sole cause of the
downfall of man you, who brought sin
and death into the world? Woman,
woman, what base ingratitude Down
on your knees and plead for pardon
while yet there is time, or man will be
driven to desperation. Receive it while
you may. Surely mans patience must
give way sometime, if this constant
clamor is forever dinning in his ears.
Keep to your babies, housekeeping,
gossip, and fashions, sisters, and let
newspapers and politics alone. You
know nothing of such things, nor should
you know. Your husbands explanation
will suffice for you. Remember you're
nonentities. Your husbands will work
out your salvation. You will get to
heaven if you, by strict obedience to all
his wishes, win your crowns. 1 have
lived great many years in the world,
and understand such things perfectly.
1 have never known trouble to come to
any one but that woman was at the
bottom of it.
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POOR LUCE!

The woman question has turned his
head His poor brain, never the
soundest, and always the smallest, has
gone completely wool-gathering. This
week, after further airing his classic
lore at the expense of Webster's Una
bridged, he heads half-column of dia-
tribe against the editor of the NEW
NORTHWEST with the following para
graph, which we commend to all UNDER
graduates as model bellies lettres. Sorry
we haven't room for the whole. ..
You're a classic Tyre, A. ]. Henpecker, as
we'll as a modern. You're harp without a
thousand strings, or any other number, which,
when played upon, makes the souls of just
men imperfect. You're a regular-built wind
instrument, old gal-barring the instrument
In you the arithmeticians are all convicted IL
ars-two feet make yard You're a-buster :!
You're Uoter, Brother Luce, and a
EGaO-n1dker, and a protector Of a0OD1dn!
But the sheriff will carry you to DIR.
Hawthorne, soon.
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"HER SPHERE"

"Woman's sphere is home," said
sapient specimen of the genus homo in
our hearing the other day, stroking his
beard with complacency.
Now, inasmuch as woman rather
glories in the fact that at home no man
can usurp her place; that no one like
herself can give to home the subtle air
of refinement without which it is
"merely four square walls, though with
pictures hung and gilded;" that to have
and reign over home is the delight of
woman's heart, we ask why this senti-
ment, beautiful enough originally, must
be SO often repeated as to become a
hackneyed platitude.
The man who is always talking about
"woman's sphere" has in his brain a
confused tumble of-not ideas-but
myths, which occasionally take form
and bubble out in such words as "mas-
euline women" protection, " feminine
neglected homes" etc., etc., finally
winding up with the declaration at the
commencement of this article. 1t never
seems to occur to these "sperists" that
to many women this declaration is a
hollow mockery. Imagine one of them
quoting it to a widow who tolls away
from home from morning till night that
her children may have home! Or to
an orphan girl seeking employment
And will they have the hardihoOd to
say it to the drunkard's wife, as she sits
in her meager shelter with crushed and
blighted life? Will they say it to the
lonely toilers who have struggled on
from childhood to middle age without
love or sympathy or opportunity for
culture, maintaining all along a wom-
anly purity and achieving little else
than bare food and shelter?
Women who, to save their bodies
from starvation and their souls from
pollution, have dared to step outside the
circle of home duties and earn not pit
tance, but a competency, can bear the
sneers of the ignorant egotist regarding
their "sphere;" but mock not these
lowly and unfortunate ones with the
declaration which is to them as mean
ingless as an unwritten page.
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

c. H., Tangent: Communication will
appear next week.
CT. g., Harrisburg: Address changed
as directed. Name sent entered on our
books. Terms satisfactory.
w. c. NJ, Ashland: Remittance re-
eeived and paper sent as ordered. Will be
glad to hear from the lady named. Mrs.
D. will probably not visit Southern Or
egon until the roads are vastly i'm
proved.
G. P. B., Brownsville: Remittance re-
ceived and properly credited. Mrs. D.
will probably visit your locality and
make arrangements for the general
shaking up of ideas" thereabouts within
few weeks.
Yamhill County w. S. A: The editors
acknowledge the receipt of a kind invi-
tation from your Corresponding Secre-
tary to be present at the meeting of
your Association on the 10th inst, and
will endeavor, one or both, to accept.
A. a. s., Empire City: Remittance
received. We appreciate and return
thanks for your complimentary men,
ton of the NEW NORTHWEST. Wedo not
wonder that the Republicans of Coos
county are pleased with the, change in
the editorship of the Record. Should
think all respectable citizens would
congratulate themselves thereat.
G. W. E., Mill Plain, w. T.: Sorry
the good people of your locality were
disappointed at the time mentioned.
Mrs. DPS arrangements are not made
farther than the next week. She, how
ever, intends visiting Washington Ter
ritory as soon as possible, probably dur
ing the latter part of the present month.
She will write you privately relative to
| the meeting at Fishers Landing.
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OUR ANNUAL MEETING.

The energy and the enthusiasm which
the friends of equal rights display in
working up the Convention of the State
Suffrage Association, which will con-
vene at Salem on Tuesday, the 9Th
inst, show the sincerity Of their belief
in the doctrines they advocate and rem
der the success of the coming session
sure. Friends of justice, friends of
equality, friends of right, put each and
all shoulder to the wheel, and let US
convince our opponents that we are in
earnest. Remember, friends, we are
making history, and let US see to it that
this chapter is so brilliant, so logical, so
enthusiastic, so glorious, that each of us
in after years may read it with pride,
and exultantly say to our children's
children, 81 was there, and worked with
that convention"
Read the eloquent, forcible, and prac-
tical address of the President, Mrs. j.
DeVore johnson, that appears else
where; read the notice of the Core
SpObNihS bhC hoAA-
fare rates on the Oregon and California
Railroad; remember the meeting of the
Executive Committee at Reeds Opera
House, on Monday, the 7th inst, at II
o'clock A. M; remember the opening
session on Tuesday, at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
and be out in force, ready to take hold
Of the business of the Association and
accomplish it early in the session, so
that the latter part of the meeting may
be given to speeches, debates, etc. The
Association has secured the promise of
Professor McGibeny to give one or more
of his wonderful and delightful family
concerts during the session. There is to
be no olukewarmness about this meeting,
friends, but earnest, conscientious,
united effort instead. Remember, S0Lenl
is the city, Reeds Opera House the
place, Tuesday, the Sth inst, the time,
WOnldn's Enfrdnchi8en,eat the theme,
aOork the demand Of the hour.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-04
STATE TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE.

The annual meeting of the State Tenn
perance Alliance will be held in the
city of Portland on Wednesday, Feb
ruary 16, 1876, commencing at 10 o'clock
A. NJ, at Good Templars' Hall, corner
of Alder and Third streets. All tenn
perance societies, churches, Sunday
schools, and all organized bodies which
are known to be in active working
sympathy with the temperance reform,
are requested to send delegates. The
basis of representation is: One delegate
for the organization, and one for every
twenty members, and one for every
fraction over ten.
Arrangements have been made with
the various transportation companies
for the usual reduction of fare to dele
gates who attend.
w. r. DUNBAR, President.
January q, 1873.
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YAMHILL COUNTY W. s. A,

The seventh regular meeting of the
Yamhill County Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation will be held at North Yamhill,
commencing on Wednesday, the 18th of
February. There will be two or more
sessions. Prominent workers in the
field will be invited. Friends of the
movement are urgently requested to be
present, and we also ask our friends of
the opposing side to attend the meet
ing, as little opposition lends "spice"
to the performances. Come one, come
all, and we will endeavor to make the
meeting a pleasant one.
w. ]. LoUGHARY, President.
LILLIAN A. Cooke, Rec. Sec'y.