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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24
NUMBER 80.
Temperance.


This is a good cause, simply for the
reason that it promotes health, wealth,
longevity, and happiness. Intemper-
ance ruins all four; everybody knows
that fact, and hence the necessity of
keeping men sober. But as good as
temperance is, and as Indispensable,
there is yet mixed up with it's advocacy
so much priestcraft, bigotry, and super
stition, that it hardly seems to gain
much ground, and the following re-
marks on the subject by Wendell Phil
lips are the best we have lately seen.
They are extracted from his late speech
at meeting of the ''Refor1n Clubp in
Faneuil Hall: . ..fs ss VaetIra1 rI9F
He said he was glad to see Faneuil
Hall crowded, as he had not seen it
crowded more than once for many years,
on the question of temperance, one OF
the most important that demanded the
attention of to-day. The, command,
"Bear We one another's burdens,n links
all classes of society together, to be one
great force helping each other; the
strong should help the weak and try 20
bring all to the same level. Hethought,
therefore, the Washingtonian aspect of
the reform was one of the graudest and
noblest. The Christian world, the high
principled men, did not begin to be as
active as the devil; the good men are
not as bold, decided, and aggressive as
the wicked. He went through the
streets of New York in the nighttime,
and while he could not buy hat or a
shoe, five hundred doors were open to
sell him grog. The saints had gone to
sleep; the devil was always awake.
The corner grog-shop is open from the
Ill Il L. \
makes a good resLing-place for a man
less to preach as it is to attempt to make
the Legislature contented by smoothing
down the dome of the State House.
The rum-shop must be destroyed, like
a pernicious newspaper. He would take
q million dollars from the Christian
church that would spend half of it for q
useless steeple, aud make a better and
more attractive paper. He would con-
quor by making the saint half as active
as the devil. He would destroy the
corner grocery by opening a more at.
tractive room, which should be opeI
night and day upon the opposite corner
The Christian wealth of this city was 6
thousand millions of dollars, and il
should lay $500, 600 of this on the ALTA
of its fellow-men and crowd this drink
curse out of the country.
1t was long time before they coulC
4 get the Public Library open on Sunday
a man could drink liquor, but be mus
not read book. Some said, "Why moi
send these men to the Young Mems
Christian Association or the Young
Mems Christian Union ?r but thesC
were too grand for many, and a maj
must go there we'll dressed. He woulC
meet this enemy where it was and es
,tablish thousands of Holy Tree Ipns OF
the corners of the streets, and when tht
church was as'loyal to its Master as tn,
grog-seller was to his, this would b,
/ done. r......
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John G. Whittier.

A musing farmers boy, working in
the fields, and ignorant of books, he early
felt the poetic instinct moving in his
soul, but thought his surroundings were
essentially prosaic, and could never be
sung. At last, one afternoon, while he
was gathering in the hay, a peddler
dropped copy of Burns into his hands.
Instantly his eyes were unsealed. There
ia the neighboring field was "Highland
Mary" '"The Cotter's Saturday Night"
occurred in his own fathers pious New
England home; and the birds which
carOled over his head, the flowers which
grew under his feet, were as poetic as
those to which the Scottish plowmRn
had given perennial interest. Burns
taught him to detect the beautiful in
the common, but Burns could not cor
rupt the singularly pure soul of the lad
by his enticing suggestions of idealized
physical enjoyment and unregulated
passion. The boy grew into a man, cul-
tivating assiduously his gift of song,
though shy of showing it. The anti
slavery storm swept over the land,
awakening consciences as we'll as stim-
ulating intellects. Whittier had always
lived in a region of moral ideas, and
this anti-slavery inspiration inflamed
his moral ideas into moral passion and
moral wrath. If Garrison may be con-
sidered the prophet of anti-slavery, and
Phillips its orator, and Mrs. Stowe its
novelist, and Sumner it's statesman,
there can be no doubt that Whittier was
its poet. Quaker as he was, his martial
lyrics had something of the energy of a
primitive bard urging on hosts to battle.
Every word was blow, as uttered by
this newly-enrolled soldier of the Lord,
''The silent, shy, peace-loviug man" be-
came "fiery PARTISAN" and held his
intrepid way
against the public frown,
The ban of church and state, the fierce mob'S
bounding down."
He reused, condensed, and elevated the
public sentiment against slavery. The
poetry was as genuine as the wrath was
terrific, aud many a political time
server, who was proof against Garri'
sons hottest denunciatiOnsa and Phillips
most stinging invectives, quailed before
] Whittier's shifting rhymes.-EdI0in p
WhippLe, IN Harper's Magazine JO'
/ 1fOrcb ".-
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White Bread or Brown,

In the East great -four reform has
been initiated recently, and is obtaining
foothold even in the army and navy
bakeries; also in the public hospitals
and asylums. Comparatively few peo-
pie in the West are aware that the flour
and bread which they admire for white
ness, are devoid of all the strengthening
properties of the wheat. "Bread Is the
staff of lifen only when it contains a
nutritive constituent. There is no nu-
triment in starch; or, if any, only a
small percentage; and yet it is only the
starch of wheat that is used in the
manufacture of the -four in general
use. Directly under the woody fiber
composing the skin of the wheat ker-
mel, we find the real meat of the grain.
AS in the case with animal meat, it
contains phosphates which, taken into
the stomach, assimilate with the sys-
TEN and strengthen it. Shall we throw
away, or give to our live stock, this
most valuable portion of every kernel Of
wheat, because it is not white and fine
like the starch at the core }? Discarding
it, the staff of life is not worth a straw
as a support. 1t is. a vegetable meat,
serving as a tolerably good substitute
for fiesh-fOod; hence, in those countries
in which it is retained in the -four oil
meal, the people snbsist much less upon
animal food than we are compelled to
do in this country by our foolish adher-
ence to the exclusive use of the emascu-
lated, fine, white products of our mills
and bakeries. In cake, certainly, the
cooks and bakers do put in a little
something that is nutritive, viz: sugar
and fruit; hence, no objection exists
perhaps, to the use of the popular toul
in making those luxuries. Griddle.
cakes, mullins, waffles, and all that
class, on the contrary, (unless made
partly of Indian maize or corn meaD
ought to contain all the virtues of the
wheat. Made skillfully, of attritioT
-four, they are not only healthy, but de
liciOus.- Chicago appeal. I.E'
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

A GENTLEMAN.-Wha is meant by
these familiar expressions, "He is gem
tleman,n "He is no gentlemanW They
do not mean that the man has or has not
a grandfather who is somebody; or that
he is dressed or not dressed by an artistic
tailor; that he is wealthy or poor, fluent
or halting in the use of certain eonven-
tional phrases. What do they mean =?
Here is an excellent definition:
A gentleman is just gentle man; no
more, no less; diamond polished that
was first diamond in the rough. A
gentleman is gentle. A gentleman is
modest. A gentleman is courteous. A
gentleman is slow to take offense, as be-
ing one who never gives it. "A gentle-
man is slow to surmise evil, as being
one who never thinks it. A gentleman
subjects his appetites. A gentleman re-
fines his taste. A gentleman subdues
his feelings, A gentleman controls, his
speech. A gentleman deems every other
better than himself.
The following description of gentle
n1an.was written about eighteen hund-
red years ago, in a letter to certain per-
sons at Phillippi, and, in our Judgment,
is just as accurate now as 1t was then
Whatsoever things are true, whatso-
ever things are pure, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are OF
good report, if there be any virtue, and
If there be any praise, think of these
things"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24
ABIGAIL Adams.

There was one woman a hundred
years ago who is perhaps the most
famous woman of the Revolution, ad-
mirable in every capacity of weman's
peculiar sphere, and equally fitted for
the common sphere of men and women
in human society. This was Abigail
Adams, the wife of one President, and
the mother of another. She at least was
reasonable and logical, whoever is not.
Writing to her husband, who was in his
seat in the Continental Congress, on the
3lst of March, 1776, this typical Ameri-
can matron says: OF "'.i %
''I long to hear that you have de-
clared an independeney. And, blythe
way, in the new code of laws which /
suppose it will be necessary for you to
make, desire you would remember the
ladies, and be more generous AMI favor
able to them than your ancestors. Do
not put such unlimited power into the
hands of the husbands. Remember, all
men would be tyrants if they could. If
partieular care and attention is not paid
to the ladies, we are determined to fo-
ment a rebellion, and will not hold our
selves bound by any laws in which we
have no voice or representation. That
your sex are naturally tyrannical
is truth so thoroughly established as
to admit of no dispute; but such of you
as wish to be happy, willingly give up
the harsh title of master for the more
tender and endearing one of friend.
Why, then, not put it out of the power
of the vicious and the lawless to use US
with cruelty and indignity with i'm
punity ?" 'ot'
Again, in the following May, she says:
81 cannot say that 1 think you are
very generous to the ladies, for while
you are proclaiming peace and good
will to men, emanCipating all nations,
you insist upon retaining an absolute
power over wives"
The tone of affectionate gayety and
feminine dependence does not affect the
deep and sweet seriousness of passages
that show how penetrating was the
glance of this admirable woman. In
deed, she but expresses the Instructive
feeling of most of the nOblest minds and
hearts of her sex. But Mrs. Abigail
Adams would have pleaded in vain be.
fore a committee of the Congress in
which her husband sat. The smiling
and affable chairman would have heard
her courteously, and would then have
ISplcu' ......
"Dear and respected madam, wher
women show that they feel the depriva'
ton of the ballot to be grievance, thi:
Congress will take the subject into seri'
Gus consideration. You must excuse us
if we cannot regard your individual
views and wishes as those of your sex
We are inclined to believe that most o
them would consider the ballot to be ar
oppressive burden imposed upon them
not desirable privilege. Home, no
Congress, is the desirable sphere o
women, dear madam-at least that i!
our opinion, and that seems to have
been the universal opinion and practice
of mankind. You and your fellOw-peti
toner's dear Mrs. Adams, have leave Il
withdraw. ."-Editor's Easy Chair, "a
HarpeT's Magazine for March.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

1t is a noteworthy fact that notwith-
standing the activity of the Roman
Catholics in England, the Catholic pop
ulation does not greatly exceed / 900, 600.
The hierarchy in England and Wales
comprises one cardinal archbishop, one
archbishop an pqrti6uS, sixteen bishops,
and l772 priests-an increase of fifty-two
priests in 1875. There are 1061 churches
and chapels-an increase during the
year of twenty. There are 2l5 monastie
communities in England and Wales.
In Ireland there are four provinces,
with four archbishops, one of whom is
a cardinal, and twenty-eight dioceses.
According to the London Tablet, the
Roman Catholic population of Ireland
is now 1900, 900, which is less than that
of the United States (6,O00,0 1000. The
English Catholic Directory for 1875 re-
ports that there are thirty-six Roman
Catholic peers, seven Roman Catholic
members of the Privy Council, and! fifty
Catholic members Of the House of Com
mons, ..r... g..
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

LAPLAND BABIES IN CHURCH.-I
want to tell you how the mammas away
up in Lapland keep their babies from
disturbing the ministers on Sundays.
Poor babiesl 1 suppose it is growing
bad style everywhere to take them to
church. And 1 suppose, too, the minis
ters are privately as thankful as they
can be. But the Lapp mammas don't
stay at home with theirs. The Lapps are
q very religious people. They 60 inn
mense distances to hear their pastors.
Every missionary is sure of large au-
dience and an attentive one. He can
hear u pin drop-that is, should he
choose to drop one himself-his congre-
cation wouldn't make so much noise as
that upon any consideration. All the
babies are outside buried in the snow.
AS soon as the family arrives at the lit
tie wooden church, and the reindeer is
secured, the papa Lapp shoVels a snug
little bed in the snow, and mamma
Dapp wraps baby snugly in skins and
deposites it therein. Then papa piles
the snow around it, and the dog is left
to guard it, while the parents go decor
ously into church. Often twenty or
thirty babies lie out there in the snow
around the church, and / never have
heard of one that suffOcated or frOZe-
smoke-dried little creatures 1 suppose
they are tough. But how would our
soft, tender, pretty, pink-and-white ba-
bies like it, do you think ?-sErchdnge.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24
Licensing LioentiOusness.

The Legislative committee on, crime
have made their report, and il regard to
the vice of licentiousness in the cities,
they recommend its regulation by law,
as in Paris, and other cities Of cOnti-
mental Europe. The details of such laws
are not to be stated in q family newspa-
per, but they are generally understood
by moralists, philanthropists, and Tegis-
lators, being substantially the same in
all States that have unwisely adopted
them. They proceed upon the principle
that the vice is necessary evil in hu-
man life, andit cannot be suppressed; it
should be regulated; that restraint is
better than unbridled indulgence, and
licensed evils are better than evils with
out license,
To this plea there are two objections.
alike powerful and unanswerabfe. o3 ~
1. The license system makes iindul-
gence in the vice more safe, and there
fore acts as an inducement, a tempta-
| tion, an encouragement to the sin and
! shame. The dangers attending the sin
are the checks, warnings, cautions, fear
full penalties nature has imposed to pre-
vent criminal Indulgence in an admitted
vice, as sin never in any conceivable case
Justified by the laws Of nature, but al
ways and in all circumstances a crime,
sin per Sc. Therefore to make it more
safe for the transgressor is to invite
| trsnsgression. --4IaL i'a7'l
2. The result in those cities where the
license system minlieentiousness prevails
! is precisely in the line of our first prop
osition. 1t is more perfectly devised and
executed in Paris than in any other city
in the civilized world, and Paris Is the
most thoroughly. licentious city on the
continent Of Europe. In no city is vice
more scrupulously and successfully ex-
cluded from public observation, and no.
where is the sepulchre more completely
filed with all uncleanliness. st - !.
1t is never right to do wrong. It is
never expedient to do evil of any kind.
Because alcohol and other poisous are
good things and useful in the arts and
sciences, but seourge and curse If left
unguarded, their sale must be regulated
by law, as that of gunpowder and nitro
glycerine is. But Hcentiousness is only
evil, and never right, and therefore
never ought to be lawful. No human
law ought to make it safe or less danger
Gus to do what nature has ordained to
be wrong. Therefore, the Legislature
is morally bound to abstain from any
Legislation tending to license licentious-
ness. And the men who lose sight of
the great, underlying, and everlasting
principles of the divine and social econ
omyC will entail upon the present and
succeeding generations of their race un-
mentionable woes by making human
law the minister of systematic disobe-
dience of the law of God.-EtcbdRg
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

If anybody doubts that some women
are smarter than some men, let them
read the following: When Mrs. Whit
tIesey, the Northampton cashiers wife,
saw the burglars take her husbands
gold watch, she kicked hers under the
bureau and saved it. And when her
new cloak was in the robbers hands,
she said, "Give me that old thing; Pm
cold,u and saved that likewise. If this
woman had been at the bank when the
vault was opened, she would have per-
suaded the robbers that half those pa
pers were nothing but family milk bills.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

Belva A. Lockwood, attorney aud So
licitor at law in the District of Colum-
bia, has large practice in the local
courts, having over forty cases set down
for the ensuing terms Of the various
courts. esquire Lockwood" as they
call her, is a great favOrite among her
brethren at the bar, who have much re-
spect for her energy and talents,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

A class of ragged boys in school had
learned to answer the questions in the
catechism by rote. One day stranger
entered to examine them; but unfortu-
nately, the boy who was always at the
head of the class was absent. The
stranger asked: "WhO made you ?"
And the boy answered: "The dust of
the earth" "Oh, no % was the remon-
STRANGE, "God made your mo-" was
the res sponse, "the boy that God made
isn't here % .
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

Macaulay could repeat all Demosthe-
mes by heart, all Milton, great part of
the Bible in English, and the New Tes-
lament in Greek. He took great de-
light in the Bible, and there were few
better biblical scholars than he. And
yet he couldn't shovel the snow off a
sidewalk without putting his foot in it.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

Miss Olive Harper, the writer, says
that she once knew a young prince,
whom she exalted mentally and in the
most sacred corners of her heart; but
one day he called at her fathers house
and-must she say it?-managed to
surreptitiously "fascinatep a dozen OF
her fathers best cigars into his inside
vest pocketi Olive acknowledges that
this was only rsmall thtng'n for a
prince to do, and yet she became imme-
diately disenchanted. y,rsay aa
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

T. At San Jose, California, a few days
ago, twelve acorns retaining their orig
nal forms, and some of them having
cups, were found In the heart of red
wood tree ten feet in diameter. They
are supposed to have been placed in the
tree by birds centuries ago.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

The Emperor and Empress Of Brazil
will arrive in New York in April.
Their Majesties intend to travel through
out the United States iHeog., and will
give special attention to the common
School system, with view of stirring
up the Brazilians in an educational
sense when they go back home.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

Miss Wood at the Washington Com
vention thus defined the legal residence
of the two sexes-a mans is where he
has lived long enough to be entitled to
vote a woman's where she has lived
long enough to qualify her for entrance
to the poor-house. 'if' 't7f'
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

The Old Elm on Boston Common is
no more. 1t is wonderful how such
Landmark will weave itself into the
memories of childhood and the associa-
tions of life, so that its disappearance is
like the loss of q friend It hardly
seems now to have been an advantage
to be a "Boston boy" ..... -...-- D..
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

: A, New York belle who was purchas-
ing some gloves, told the clerk she
wanted them of '"'subdued mouse
color.n The. clerk said they were all out
OF that shade, but suggested 'infuriate
rat" as a substitute. He was discharged
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

ID, Why should the beehive be taken as
symbol of industry?' Nota bee is to be
seen all winter long, while the cock
roach is up at five o'clock in the morn
ing, and never goes to. bed until mid
night. Let's change this thing.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

Correspondents writing over assumed sigma.
lures must make known their names to the
Editor, or no attention VIII be given to their
communications.
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the
year 1875, by Mrs. A. j. Duniway, in the Office of
the Librarian of Congress at Washington City. ]
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"A New Hampshire man sends four
teen of his children to one school, and
when they combine against the teacher
he knows hecaD safely bet on the result
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

There is no part of a plantwhich may
not become tendril. There is no part
of the character which may not, by ex-
cess or weakness, lose its Independence
and become burden or a snare to the
rest. a3i
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-24

The people in San francisco show q @
growing fondness for reading. Twenty
thousand books have been stolen from
the Mercantile Library in one year, ~
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journal for the People.
Devoted to the Interests of Humanity.
Independent In Politics and Religion.
Alive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
of the Masses.
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CASTORIA.

Is pleasant and perfect substitute, in all
cases, for Castor OIL. Castoria is the result of
an old Physicians effort to produce, for his own
practice, an effective cathart,c, pleasant to the
taste and free from gripping.
DR.. Samuel Pitcher, OF Hyannis, Mass, sue
ceeded in combining, without the use of alco-
ho, apurgative agent as pleasant to take as
honey, and which possesses all the desirable
properties of Castor OIL.
IL is adapted to all ages, but Is especially re-
commended to mothers as reliable remedy
for all disorders of the stomach and bowels OF
children. 1t is certain, agreeable absolutely
harmless. and cheap. 1t should be used for
wind collie, sour stomach, worms. costiveness.
Group, etc., then children can have sleep and
mothers may rest.
Il IL, Rose e. 10 - 80 nnu Straet Nav yorl
are The Sole preparers or Castofia, ~, III u T.
Pitchers recipe.