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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03
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Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis Funeral OBJ
seuuies,

From the Providence Journal, Aug. 29.1
The funeral services of Mrs. Paulina
Wright Davis took place yesterday af-
ternOon at 2 o'clock, at the residence of
her husband, on Gladstone Avenue.
A large cOncourse of friends, from this
city, Boston, Brooklyn, and New York,
assembled to pay the last tribute of re-
spect to the woman who was so emf
nently known throughout America as
an able advocate of Woman's rights
The services were conducted by the
Rev. A. Woodbury., of the Westmin-
ster Congregational Church. The OPEN
ing hymn, "Whilst Thee 1 Seek, Pro-
tecting Power" was most beautifully
rendered by a choir selected from diff
ferent churches in this city, under the
direction of Mr.. B. w. Hood. After
prayer, reading of portions of Scripture,
and short but very appropriate ser
mon delivered by the officiating clergy
man, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
briefly but very eloquently reviewed
the life of her late efficient CO. worker.
Her eulogy of Mrs. Davis labors in the
cause of right against wrong was not at
all too fattering. The speaker referred
to the efforts of the deceased toward the
abolition of slavery, of her espousing
the cause of the slave at time when it
was dangerous to advocate the abolition
of slavery. 'She was a woman" said
the speaker, "of the most distinguished
attainments possessing a character so
pure that it was never tarnished for a
moment with an unkind word or act,
and whose whole life was devoted to
the bettering of the condition and the
elevation of her fellow-women. She
was a woman of powerful influence,
and in her lifetime did more than any
woman living to elevate and advance
the interests of her sex. With a nature
of the highest order, refined and ever
sympathizing, with disposition gentle
and kind, and heart overlooking with
the best and warmest impulses, she
speedily became a leader in behalf of
woman's progress" Miss Susan B. An
thOny followed the last-named speaker
by reading a selection from the biogra-
ply of Theodore Parker, and concluded
her remarks by comparing the life of
the deceased with the man who said "I
would sacrifice everything rather than
my principles" At the conclusion of
Miss AnthOny's remarks, the choir rem
dered in excellent style, "Cast thy bur-
dens on the Lord" and after the con-
Guiding prayer, "Rest, spirit, rest"
| Three beautiful white wreaths, the fare
we'll tributes of the friends, were placed
upon the lid of the casket, and after the
conclusion of the services, the remains
were followed by mourners and friends
to Swan Point Cemetery, where they
were inferred.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

A LAW POINT.-There lived at one
time, in Merrion Square, Dublin, (the
fashionable quarter of that city, an
eminent lawyer, who afterward came to
occupy place on the judicial bench.
He was man of high professional at
tainments, but of testy and irritable
temper. His next-door neighbor was
retired major noted for the eccentrici-
ties of his habits. Between the two
there was anything but friendly feeling,
and they did all in their power to an
noy and harass each other. One night,
memorable in Ireland as "the night of
the great Storm" the majors chimneys
were blown down. Crash they went
through the roof of the lawyers house,
and thence down through floor after
floor, carrying havoc in their course.
The man of law was in no good humor
as he contemplated the destruction, and
what made matters worse was that it
was the majors chimneys that had
caused the wreck. His mind was ac-
lively engaged in devising some process
by which he could get satisfaction from
his arch enemy, when a missive arrived
from the latter couched as follows:
"Send me back my bricks Immediately,
or Pll put the matter iuto the hands of
an attorney"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

The ANNUAL MEETING.-The eighth
annual meeting of the American Woman
Suffrage Association was one of the
most successful and interesting that we
have ever held. Twenty-Five States
were represented by delegates, which
were more in number than those at the
great gathering in Cleveland, when the
Association was formed. They had
come from long distances, some of them
leaving the cars only on the morning of
the day when the meeting assembled.
Delegates were there from Oregon, Col
oradO, Maryland, Texas, Kentucky,
West Virginia, and Minnesota-States
which had never before been represented
at our meetings-California Iowa, Mis-
souri,, and the far Western States met
Maine and Massachusetts and the New
England States, and with these were
the great Middle States of Ohio, New
York, and Pennsylvania. The meeting
was success pecuniarily and in every
other way Wonldn's Journal.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

WEARING MOURNING.-A movement
has been set on foot in England to abOl-
ish the custom of wearing mourning for
all relatives, far and near, and thus, if
the connection happens to be a large
one, of passing large portion of life in
felt or feigned woe. A sOciety-every-
thing moves by societies nowadays
has been organized, whose members
pledge themselves to limit mourning to
the heads of the family, except that
children may wear it for their parents,
brothers and sisters. This is very Sc
we're troubling of customs stagnant
pool. Does it not seem too absurd for
a whole family to go into mourning
for their great uncle's wife's sister, and
not only put on "inky cloaks" them
selves, but to array their servants, as is
the custom in England, in black? Ex-
travagant, silly, ridiculous, are few Of
the adjectives which are applicable to
the custom, not only in England, but at
home, where, if story once current in
this city may be believed, young lady
went into mourning for the child of an
intimate friend. Mourning does not
make people mourn. Even if it did it
would be out of place in a world where
there is sorrow enough already. 1t is
not always a sign of real grief, and
therefore donning it often partakes of
the nature of hypocrisy. For all these,
and many other reasons, its use ought
to be, and when people learn to live less
artificially, will be, without doubt,
abolished.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

Ida Lewis now has the charge of the
Lime Rock Lighthouse, and lives there
with her mother and her dogs. She
has not much regard for the tyrant sex,
although she has saved so many from
drowning. When complimented upon
the walls of her house, which she tinted
herself, she said: ''The Government
gives US men to do this, but we'd have
to board them, and I'd rather do any
thing in the world than have men in the
lighthouse L like dogs better" And
she patted affectionately an immense
Newfoundland, and glanced lovingly at
her pet terrier.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

WOMEN's WORK.-If women ask
men for work, remarks Miss Emily
Faithful, they will get what they always
gOt-that kind men do not want to do
themselves. They will get hard work,
rough work, coarse work, pOOTly-paid
work, hopeless work, all the cant about
sex Notwithstanding. But if they really
want to be Independent, if they want to
make home for themselves, if they
want to help others, let them be neither
afraid nor ashamed, but begin with any
honest labor for which they are paid,
and work up. The difficulty with
women is not that they are idle, but
their habits are so desultoTy and their
work so cbiectless. If the wretched lit.
tie child's play which women call
"fancy work" could at once be blotted
out of their existence, it would be an in
calculable blessing. What would be
thought of a man or grown boy who
could deliberately sit down day after
day and be content to kill time by work
ing ridiculous little pen wipers, bead
napkin rings, and the like, which no
one dreams of ever using? He would
be considered, and rightly, as either
fool or crazy. If women claim intel
lectnal equality with man, they must
be content to be judged by the same
standard. AS for work, the majority
have not begun to know what it means.
They have thought of it as a necessity
from which they hoped some time to
escape, or they have thought of it as a
degradation which the poor, for wise
purposes, have to endure, but which is
not proper for the delicate or refined to
come in contact with.-NetO Century.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03
Lady Charlotte Linsday, who died at

Lady Charlotte Linsday, who died at
a good old age in 1919, used to give an
amusing account of her marriage. 1t
took place in the drawingroom of her
fathers house. The clergyman brought
no prayer book with him, thinking
there would be no difficulty in finding
one in the mansion Of an English noble
man, a member of the Established
Church. But not prayer book could
be found, and the clergyman was forced
to perform the marriage by memory.
The novelty of the situation so confused
him that he forgot the words of the SER
vice, and came frequently to a dead
stop. Then some one in the company
would prompt him, and thus the cere-
mony was pieced out by fragmentary
"reminiscences. "Somehow or other"
said Lady Charlotte, "I do not think
that was ever rightly married at all"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

1t is a sign of the times that ladies are
giving themselves to scientific reading
much more than formerly. The POpu-
Tar Science Monthly, we are informed,
has large circulation among the culti-
waited class. Draper's "Intellectual De-
velopment of Europe" just issued in a
new edition, is favorite, even in mid
summer, when the trashiest novels
have usually been supposed to be the
most solid reading practicable. A lady,
a great novel reader, writes in private
letter: 81 have just finished one volume
of Draper's intellectual Development of
Europe / cannot remember when l
have read more interesting book, or
one from which / have learned so
much"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03
NO STORY THIS WEEK.

Owing to circumstances which are
doubtless unavoidable, and to US at
present unaccountable, Chapter V. Of
"Edna and John" has not yet come to
hand. We regret this exceedingly, and
ask our friends to be patient, as all will
be made right in due time.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

A REAL HELPMATE.-John Flax
man, the sculptor, had made considera-
BILE progress in his work when he mar
ried Anne Denman, noble-spirited, in
telligent woman, full of love for art,
and with an intense admiration for him
as an artist. 1t happened that soon af-
ter the event he met Sir Joshua Rey-
nOlds, in whose opinion no man could
hope to become an artist who did not
devote himself entirely to art, and who
had not studied patiently and reverently
the works of the great masters in Italy
itself.
"Well, Flaxman," said Sir Joshua, "I
hear you are married. You are ruined
for an artist :"
Faxman went straight to his wife,
and said to her:
"Anne, l am ruined for an artist !"
"Who has ruined you, John ?"
at happened in the church." he
replied, "and Anne Denman has done
it"
He then told her what Sir Joshua had
said, and added:
81 should liked to have been asgreat
artist"
"And so you shall be-and go to
Rome, too, if that will make you one p'
"How? ?" said Flaxman.
"WOrk and econOmize n she replied.
81 will never have it said that Anne
Denman ruined John Flaxman for an
artist"
And so the brave couple did work and
did ecOnOmize. They worked very
patiently and hopefully for five years
never asked help from any one, never
mentioned their intentions to any one
and at last went together to Rome
where Flaxman studied and worked tc
such purpose that he achieved bott
fame and competency. His success was
not shared to the full, however, by hi:
faithful wife-for she died many year!
before him.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

A couple who have always lived in
Epping, n. H., have had eleven chill
dren, eight sons and three daughters.
The father, now living at the age of S6
years, has been an inveterate smoker
and chewer of tobacco most of his life,
and his wife a snuff-taker more than
fifty years, and yet not one of the eleven
children ever used tobacco in any form.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

Scolding woman, Ito husband num-
Der two)-"Oh! if you only knew the
difference between you, you wretch, and
my first husband ~ Husband-"I do
know the difference. He is happy now
that he has left you, aud l was happy
before / got your
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

The loss of our strength is much
oftener occasioned by the vices of our
youth, than by the ravages of age. 1t
is early intemperance and licentiousness
that eonsign to old age worn-Out con-
stitution. -COnfuciuS.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

Quite a number of the schools in the
vicinity of Keene, n. H., are thinking
of having male teachers the coming
winter, "because they can be hired as
cheap as women" Others are in favor
of having professional female teacher
rather than a man who teaches because
the "hard times" have thrown him out
of a job, or because he can earn more
by teaching than anything else.-NelO
England Journal Of Education.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

When the war of the Revolution be-
gan, there was but one man in Massa-
chusetts who was worth more than
$50, 600; there are now forty-fve worth
more than q million.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

Saws an Omaha obituary: HE was a
splendid penman, a systematic book
keeper, and systematic drinker." 1t
explains everything.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

Harvard College has received an
anonymous gift of $12, ,S75 81 for the use
of the college.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-03

Best invOCatiOn-keeping a h0tel.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
Bristow will ..sticix. !"

Washington Special to N. Y. Herald.l
Meantime, so far as can be ascer-
tanned, Secretary Bristow has no
idea of resigning. Why should hep
He has been engaged in a very
troublesome, but very successful ef-
fort to unearth monstrous conspi-
racy against the revenues, in which
many influential politicians, some of
them unfortunately the Presidents
personal friends, were engaged; he
has destroyed the whisky ring in
st. Louis, Indianapolis and Evans
Vile; sent TO State prison a good
many of the chief conspirators and
thieves, and recovered large
amount of money. But the work is
not nearly done. In Chicago, Mil
waukee, New Orleans and San Fran
cisco it is only halfdone. Who can
complete it so eaeetually for the
public interest as he2 1t would be
n very serious matter for the Presi-
dent to demand Mr.. Bristow's resig-
nation or to interfere with him in
any way in his efforts to bring
rogues to justice. But, on the other
hand, it would be a serious matter
for Mr.. Bristow TO resign now while
his task is unfinished. The public
would rightly regard him as a de-
serter from his post, and would re-
quire of him his reasons, and very
good ones, for such a course. That
is what a good many persons here
are saying.
The House of Representatives is
ready>to demand the papers in the
whisky fraud Investigations and
trials, but it waits to see what will
result from the Babcock trial. II
the President should make radical
Cabinet changes it is possible that
the House may make its inquiry
cover a wider field.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
slisreIIaneans.
Mans Thoughts.


1t is said of man, as he thinketh
in his heart, so is he. A mans
thoughts form his character. A
man may; to all public appearance,
be pure man, and yet. il he is in
dulging unclean and unholythoughts
in his mind, he is forming a base
character and is becoming a base
man. If a man be intending to do
wrong, though he may not utter it
with his lips; though he may rot
communicate the conception to his
dearest friend-he is destroying his
own true character. The world is
oftentimes astonished by base ac-
tions on the part of men supposed
previously to have been good. 1t is
an old saying that no man becomes
suddenly base. 1t is by entertain
ing wrong conceptions, by indulg-
ing wrong thoughts, dy familiarising
himself with improper scenes, and
by harboring wrong purposes. that
the barriers against are finally
broken down, ard he is lead to the
commission of evil; and wherever
there are influences favoring such
thoughts, society is unsafe.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
Don't Tell all You Know.

1t is a bad plan to place unre-
served confidence in man or wo-
man. Never tell any one everything
about yourself-let there be a lit
tie mystery and reserve; if your
friends, they will like you all the
better for it. A book that you
''know by heart" mustainevitably be
cast aside for a fresh volume; so
will you be served il you allow your
self 70 be thoroughly read. But
be prepared, in any emergency, to
look your own life and acts square
ly in the face without ever finch-
ing. or mark yourself q coward.
1t is not necessary, to publish TO
the world all that is strictly per
sonal, unless ridicule and fritteriRg
of power are desired, but il gossip
makes itself busy with your name,
do not be aggrieved if s grain of
truth is spread over a dozen lies.
Pass them by in silence. and do not
even then forget your habitual reti-
cence. Justice will be done you in
time, never fear, and the less clamor
for it the better. Don't talk too
much.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
FalIacious and True Reasoning.

In our experience we have found
by closely watching results that
those who pay 800 in judicious ad-
vertising get three times the benefit
that those do that pay only fifty
dollars. Merchants and others who
arc doing a business of $4,000 a
year are apt to think it a great out
lay if they pay $50 ayear for adver-
tising. When viewed in a practical
light, any one can see that the sum
of fifty dollars a year is a small
outlay to give tone and vitality to a
business of ten thousand. Go where
we will, it will always be seen that
these business men of a town, who
having a good newspaper in their
midst, patronizing the same steadily
and literally, will improve their
trade steadily and place it on a
sound footing. If times are hard,
trade will drop off some of course,
but then, the same ratio over.neigh-
boring towns will be maintained,
gradually but surely will flow to
that town that, all things being
equal, advertises the best, and what
is very important, the stsodiest. Some
merchants have an idea that steady
advertising is no account; that the
effect is better if it is done Of a sud
den, uncertain manner, rushing out
with a great light to-day and then
leaving the people in utter dark
ness tomorrow. This view is op-
posed to the experience of every
noted advertiser. Ali the men of
experience agree that the effect is
gained only by steady and per-
sistent effort. In the sharp rival
ries and competitions between DIFF
ferent towns but few realize how
important an adjunct to the pros
perity of trade is a good newspaper
and its advertising pages.-Wau
kesha wis Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
Professor.

The day OF Professors seems to
be at hand, and our only uneasiness
is that good men will be unable to
escape the disastrous deluge. The
day was when the term denoted
great attainment in some learned
department of life. Nowit is tackled
on to every itinerant vender of horse
collie medicine, or bear creased dan
dy who can torment eat-gut with a
handful or horse tail hairs, or it en-
bellishes some charlatan who affects
to load children without capacity
with his ramrod of learning in five
lessons. The term is getting disrep-
utable, and we arc not surprisd that
men of true worth are getting sen
sitive of its being pitched at them in
social salutation. The mountebank
rabble hold possession of the high
sounding term, and this in law is
equivalent to a nine tenths title
Let good and meritorious men pre-
pare to capitulate. They are DOOM
ed. .-Er.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02
For the CITIZEN.
TO ssHTAY."

A few more months and we shall part
To meet, perhaps, again;
Though absent from you, still my heart
Una,tered viii remain
And wan 'dring by proud England's streams
Where / in childhood played,
I'll oft indulge in waking dreams
Of one fair Southern maid;
Her sparkling eyes, and queenly air,
And Intellectual brow;
Her artless smiles, and ietty hair,
/ shall see them as now.
By retrospection's potent means
III view, betimes. the past,
And through its twilight see lov'd scenes
Bright scenes that could not last
And when at home, should Fate decide
To make me Misery's heir,
Or freeze the feelings that abide
In hearts that love me there;
I would not be oppressed by grief;
The mem'ry of my love
Would light its darkness, bring rehei,-
A pure nepenthe prove.
But should my path be painless, bright,
And smoothe as heretofore,
I'd turn from Splendor's calm delight
To Memory's realm for more
And there behold my Southern maid
AS radiant as of yOre,
When We by sparkling streamlets strayed,
Ger Natures page to pore.
And that t0ued haunt viii meet mine eve,
Where oft we've met IN Giles
| Mid wood-clowned hills illumined by
The day gods parting smiles.
But should my dark-eyed beauty, when
Pm absent, fait thless grow,
II would defy Lord ByrOn's pen
To picture halfmy woe. LEO.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

The Springfield Republican
points Gen. Grant to the fact that
melancholy days are coming: "One
short year more, and Grant will
yield up the political ghost. Re
signed or reluctant, willy-nilly, he
viii perforce take his journey to that
country from whose bourne no eX-
president returns. In a very little
while he viii be as dead, so far as the
living world of politics is concerned,
as Millard Fillmore or Franklin
Pierce, or James Buchanan. The
public will be busying itself
about the words and acts of his sue.
cessor; the present eye desires the
present object 1t may or may not
be a consolation to him, as he reflects
that he is sure to reappear presently
more or less idealized and maguided
on the canvas of history"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

If you cannot speak well Of your
neighbors, don't speak of them at all.
A cross neighbor may be a kind
one by kind treatment The true
way to be happy is to make Others
happy. To do good is a luxury.
If you are not wiser and better at
the end of the day, that day is lost
Practice kindness, even if it be but
to spell one word. Do not seem tC
be what you are not. Learn to
control your temper and your words
Say nothing behind ones back that
you would not say to his face
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-02

A farmer, whose cribs were full of
corn, was accustomed to pray that
the wants of the poor and needy
might be supplied; but when any one
in needy circumstances asked for
a little of his corn, he said he
had none to spare. One day, after
hearing his father pray for the poor
and needy, his little son said to him
'Father, 1 wish 1 had your corn. .
'Why my son, what could you do
with itY' asked the father. The
child replied, II would answer your
PRAYERS ~