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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-07-27
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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-07-27
HE ARKANSAS WEEKLY HERALD

is published every Wednesday, con taining all the news of the Daily in d condensed form.
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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-18
Opinions.

And now, as to opinions. Opinions
are troublesome. have had the mea-
sles, mumps, whooping-cough, matri-
mony, and nearly all the earlier ills
that life is heir to, but now I have got
opinions, and they make the most tedi-
Gus, uncomfortable disease I have yet
suffered. l do not know how an opin-
ion gets into fellow, but once in, it is
assiduOus always. Once out, it is bold
opinion; it becomes covered with myr-
lad parasitic additions, comments,
sneers, fieers, jeers, and then pestilently
flies home to roost and riot in the brain
where it was Matched or housed.
Yet a fellow must have opinions
everybody has them-or the indulgent
world will say: "Ha! hal out upon
such a fellow. He has no opinion of his
own" As if one man in nine hundred
ever had an opinion of his own, or was
capable of honestly and fully adopting
the unmarried opinion of his neighbor.
tell you, opinions are terrible things.
If a fellow-I say "fellow," instead of
man, because we have in the world of
opinion fellow sisters, have we not ?-if
fellow has opinions and expresses
them, he will, by his very nature, be
sensitive about them; and then all the
callOus, ingenious, thick-skinned plod-
workers will lift up their voices and cry
out: "Go to. He hath opinions-he
hath expressed them. Now, verify,
shall he live up to them" Alas ! for
this poor fellow, the days of his peace
are numbered; his "goose is cooked"
the enemy surrounds him, demanding
not honorable surrender, but, dancing
in critical war-paint and feathers, shouts
for his continual slow torture The in
consistent world clamors for consistency.
Ah, me ! what blk "the world" is.
job ''o'd" for two things-namely, an
answer from the Almighty, and a book
written by his adversary. Now, Job
was several thousand years younger
than am, and in his inexperience failed
to express himself. What we should
have said is this: Oh that mine ad-
versary had written an opinion! Then
l would have had him. Write book
Why, there are books written which
even Solomon in all his glory" could
make nothing of, as against friend or
foe. But, mark you! No sooner did
Elihu the Buzite Whose tribe is num-
berless on California street, arise and
even verbally proclaim his opinion,
than down went the Buzite, and from
that hour Job warmed into health,
strength, and prosperity.
Opinions must be supported, or they
perish. What opinion had the fellow
who bossed the contract of building the
Sphinx? No doubt he had opinions
running through his head, as he ordered
about the busy swarm of Egyptian on
ion-eaters, while they hewed, hacked,
chipped, cut, and carved the mysterious
image; but he left his opinions unsup-
ported, and now, like himself, they have
perished. 1t takes money to support an
opinion. It costs more to SUPPORT an
opinion than to carry on an ordinary
Dutch family. An opinion without
courage behind it is as stiIl-born baby
no hope in its early beauty, and a
mere excuse for funeral. With cour-
age and plenty of money a fellow may
support an opinion-otherwise not.
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Progress Among 0ongregatiOnalists.

Less than forty years ago, when
"CarOlina's high-souled daughters,1'
Sarah and Angelina Grimke, having
emancipated their own slaves, were ap-
pealing with marked success to the
women of Massachusetts in behalf of
their sisters in bondage at the South,
speaking to crowded audiences of their
own sex in halls, vestries, and private
houses, wherever they could gain a
hearing, the Massachusetts General AS
ISOLATION, in pastoral address, written
by the Rev. Nehemiah ("SouthsideuO
Adams, warned the churches of the
State of the awful danger of women
getting out of their sphere. The au-
thorlty of Paul was cited, and the old
simile of the vine twining around the
oak was used to enforce the obligation
and illustrate the beauty of womanly
subordination to man. This address
furnished the text of one of Whittiers
most stirring lyrics, which is good
reading even now. But what marvellous
changes time does bring aboutl At the
meeting of the Massachusetts General
Association recently held at Amherst,
the Rev. D. o. Mears read a paper on
''The Primitive Diaconate," in which
he asserted that there was Scriptural
authority for comforting this office upon
women, citing Alvord and Lange in
support of this view, and contending for
the measure as one called for by the
present condition and needs of the
churches. The Rev. Addison P. Foster
gave an account of the practical work
ing of the Office of deaconess in his
church In Chelsea, where six ladies are
designated for that service, and have,
for more than a year past, rendered
most efficient assistance. Then came a
general discussion, the drift of which
appears to have been strongly in favor
of the proposed measure. One brother
inquired "What was to be the cuImi-
mating point in this introduction of
woman to new duties Was it to end
in Woman Suffrage?" Strange to say,
nobody seemed to be frightened by this
awful question. Another brother
thought that If women would but take
hoId and speak in our meetings, we
might nave 100, 600 added to our churches
IN year, instead of but 10000. Another
remarked that ''if the present move
ment, bringing forward women in the
church, is of God, it will prosper; but if
not, it will soon come to naught.n Rev
e. ID. Barrows gave an account of the
successful work now carried forward in
his own congregation in Lowell by
means Of q female city missionary, who
gives herself up to these duties, and acts
as connecting link between the church
and the community. The Association
finally voted to print Mr.. Mears' paper
in the minutes of the meeting, and also
to strike off a separate edition for gen.
eral circulation among the churches.
The vote also included a, request. that
Rev. Addison P. Foster furnish the
statement which he made of the practi-
cal working of the Office of deaconess in
the First Church in Chelsea, to be
printed with the essay, and as supple
meptary 10 it.=-Christlan Union. i-iell.
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The Law Of Newnpapers.

!. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary are considered as wishing to
continue their subscriptions.
2. If any subscribers order the discontinuance
of their newspapers, the publisher may con-
tinue TO send them until all arrearages are
paid.
8. Ifsubscribers neglect or refuse to take their
newspapers from the offices to which they are
directed, the law holds them responsible until
they have settled the bills, and ordered them
discontinued.
4. If subscribers remove to other places with
out informing the publisher, and the newspa-
pers are sent to the former direction. they are
held responsible.
D. The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers from the Office, or removing
and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie
evidence of intentional fraud.
8. The postmaster who neglects to give the
legal notice of the neglect of person to take
from the Office the newspapers addressed to
him, is liable to the publisher for the subscrip-
ton price.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-18
SUMMONS.

IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE STATE
i Of Oregon for the county of Multnomah.-
Z. W. Davis, Plaintiff, VS.. John Oderkirk, De-
fendant.-To John Oderkirk, Defendant above
named: In the name of the State of Oregon,
you are hereby required to appear and answer
the complaint filed against you in the above
entitled action within ten days from the date
of the service of this summons upon you, If
served within this county, or If served in any
other county of this State, then within twenty
days from the date of the service of this sum-
mons upon you, or If the same be served by
publication, then you are so required to appear
and answer by the first day of the next regular
term of said Court, which will convene after
this summons shall have been published once
a week for six consecutive weeks, the first pub
licattOn thereof being made on Friday, the 2lst
of ofJanuary, 1876; and If you fail so to answer,
for want thereof the Plaintiff will take judg-
ment against you for the sum of three hundred
and seventy-three dollars in U. S. gold coin,
with interest thereon in like coin at the rate of
one per cent per month from the 3Ist day of
December, 1875 until paid, and for the costs
and disbursements of this action.
This summons is published by order of Hon.
j. H. Woodward, Judge of our said County
Court made at Chambers this 10Th day of jan
uaTy, 1876. CAPLES & AIULKEY,
5-H Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-18

THE MISERY OF UNCERTAINTY
However painful death may be, there
is a compensation in the terrible GER
tainty which attaches to it. When
friend dies and is buried, there's an end
of him. We miss him for a space, out
of our daily existence; we mourn for
him by degrees that become mercifully
less; we cling to the blessed hope that
we shall be reunited in some more per-
pect sphere; but, so far as this earth is
concerned, there's an end of him. How
ever near and dear he was, the time ar
rives when he does not form a part of
our daily thought; he ceases to be even
an abstraction. We go no more with
flowers and tears to the quiet cemetery.
Only the rain and the snowflakes fall
there, and we leave it for the fingers of
spring to deck the neglected mound.
But, when our friend vanishes unac-
countably in the midst of a crowded
city, or goes off on a sea-voyage, and is
never heard of again, his memory has q
singular tenacity. He may be, to all
intents and purposes, dead to US, but
we have not lost him. The ring of the
door-bell at midnight may be his ring;
the approaching footstep may be his
footstep; the unexpected letter with
foreign postmarks may be from his
hand. He haunts US as the dead never
can.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-18

The THEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
The humanity of to-day, compared with
the humanity of our earliest acquaint-
ance, three-quarters of a century ago,
clearly demonstrates that the world
moves. Men that were men then,
would be mere children now. With
the increase of facilities for intercom-
munication, we have increased mental
expansion. However beneficial the the
ologies of the past, they cannot be the
theologies of the future. To enable hu-
manity to increase with the increase of
the age, liberation from prenatal and
early educational proclivities is sine
qua non. Diversity of minds and di-
versity of opinions require diversity Of
instrumentalities. With some, the
sledge-hammer of the iconoclast alone
will suffice. OF others, the gentle hand
most successfully sewers the umbilical
cord. In the theology of the future, the
UicdriOus will not be found. Religion
will be practical. The sovereignty of
individuality will be the cardinal plank.
Each Individual will stand, with form
erect, before the burning throne of
God, in his and her own soul. The
Sdnctunl Sd1lctOrItn1 will not be desecrated
with thought impure; nothing hidden
there, nothing that will not bear the
scrutiny of angels, women, and men.
Is such condition attainable? Such
condition is attainable-dnd gOe SPEAK
ddUisedLy.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-18

CARPETS IN 1S00.-Seventy years ago,
carpets were rarely seen in American
families of the middle classes, and they
are now rarely found in Germany. DR..
Lyman Beecher gives an amusing ac-
count of the autobiography of his first
carpet at East Hampton, L. 1. His
wife spun bale of cotton and had it
woven. Then she fitted it, sized it, and
painted it in oils, with bright border
around it, and a bunch of roses and
other flowers over the center. She also
took common wooden chairs, and cut
figures of gilt paper, glueing them on
and vanishing them. The general ef-
feet was very beautiful. The East
Hampton people were quite startled by
the novelty. One of the old deacons
called at the house, but stopped at the
parlor door, as if afraid to enter. "Walk
in, walk in" said the minister. ''I
can't, 'thout stepping on it," was the
answer. Then, surveying it with evil
dent admiration, he gasped out, "D'ye
think ye can have all this, and Heaven
too ?n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-18
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

CLALLAM COUNTY.
Neah Bay, New Dungeness, Port Angeles.
CLARKE.
Battle Ground, Brush Prairie, Fourth Plain
Martins Bluff, Pioneer, StoughtOn, Union
Ridge, Vancouver", Washougal.
CHEHALIs.
Cedarville, Chehalis Point, Elma, Hoquiam
Montesino, Oakville, Satsop, Sharon.
CoWLITZ.
Castle Rock, Freeport, KalAma, Lower Cow.
litz, Monticello, Mt Coffin, Oak Point, Pekin
Silver Lake.
Coupeville, Coveland, Dugally, Utsalady.
JEFFERSON.
Port Discovery, Port Ludlow, PoIt Townsend.
KING.
Black River, Dwamish, Fall City, Seattle
Slaughter, Snoqualmy, Squack, White River.
KITsAP.
Port Blakely, Port Gamble, Port Madison
Port Orchard, Seabeck, Tecklit.
KLICKTTAT.
Block House, Columbus, Goldendale, KIicki-
tat, White Salmon.
Algernon, Boisfort, Chehalis, Claquato, Cow
litZ, Glen Eden, Little Falls, Meadow Brook
Messy Rock, Napavine, Newaukum, Skookum-
chuck, Silver Greek, Winlock.
MASON.
Arcadia, Lightville, Oakland, Skokomish.
PACIFIC.
Bruceport, Brookfeld, Knappton, Oysterville
Riverside, South Bend, Unity, Woodward's
Landing.
PIERCE.
Elhi, Franklin, Lake View, New Tacoma
Puyallup, Steilacoom City@, Tacoma.
SAN JUAN.
San Juan, Topaz, orcas.
sNoHoMIsH.
Centerville, Lowell, Mukilteo, Snohomish,
Tulalip.
sKAMANIA.
Cascades.
Crab Creek, Four Lakes, Fort Colville. Hang
mans Greek, Pine Grove, Rock Creek, Rosalie,
Spokane Bridge, Spokane Falls, Union Ridge,
Walkers Prairie.
THURsToN.
Coal Bank, Beaver, Miami Prairie, Olympia,
Tanalquoit, Tenino, Tumwater, Yelm.
wAHKIAKUM.
Cathlamet, Eagle Cliff, Skamokaway, Water
ford.
wALLA wALLA
Aipawa, Burksville, Dayton, Patahi, Patahi
Whitman.
Cedar Grove, Guemas, La Conner, Lehmhf.
Lummi, Lynden, Nootsachk, Point William,
Samish, Seahome, Seiahmoo, Ship Harbor,
Ship Island, Skagit, Truder, Whateom.
WHITMAN.
Cedar Greek, Colfax, Evansville, Owensburg,
Palouse, Steptoe, Union Flats, Walton.
YAKIMA.
Konnowock, Nahum, Pleasant Grove, SeIah,
Yakima.
"Money Order ofices.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-18
THE PAsF.


The past, the sweet, unclouded past,
On memory deeply craven,
Sweet Joyous days-too bright 10 last
Why were ye ever given
Twas but a sunbeam on my path,
To make its shadow darker;
Twas like the gentle winds sweet breath,
To wait my Sorrows nearer.
Those joyous days, they come 10 me
With tears and fond regret;
No evils then-no weary ing cares
No thorns my path beset
OH love TO linger o'er thy scenes,
Tho perished, dear blessed days of youth;
They bring back all the fond bright dreams
/ cherished then as truth.
o, my ardent heart, thou hast builded oft,
A future bright and fair,
But thou hast seen thy future, foolish heart,
And thy idol perished there.
1 will dream no more of better life
In this world OF sin and care, - s D..
But will think Of the life in the other world
And hope to be happy there.
NAN
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-18

A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.-Al lawyer,
having some legal business to transact
with lady, took occasion to inquire
her age. The matron,. who had long
since DOTTED the "widow's weeds,u at
tempted to look prim and much younger
than she really was, as she replied:
''rhirty-fiye, SIR"
Then turning to the daughter, he said:
MAY be so bold, miss, as to inquire
your age ?" assoc III
Certainly; lam a little past thirty
two-most three years younger than
mother %
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A Blade Of Grass.

Gather single blade of grass, and ex-
anime for minute, quietly, its narrow,
sword-shape strip Of f1uted green. Moth
ing, as it seems, there of notable good
ness or beauty. A very little strength,
and very little tallness, and few deli
cate long lines meeting in point-not
perfect point either, but blunt and un-
finished-by no means a creditable or
apparently much-cared-for example of
natures workmanship, made, as it
seems. only to be trodden on to-day,
and tomorrow to be cast into the oven;
and little pale and hollow stalk, feeble
and fiaecid, leading down to the dull
brown fibers of the roots. And yet,
think of it well, and judge whether of
all the gorgeous flowers that beam in
summer air, and of all strong and good
ly trees, pleasant to the eyes or good for
food-stately palm and pine, strong ash
and oak, scented citron, burdened vine
there be any by man so deeply loved,
by God so highly graced, as that narrow
point of feeble grass. And well does it
fulfill its mission. Consider what we owe
merely to the meadow grass, to the COW
ering of the dark ground by that glori-
GUS enamel, by the companies of those
soft and countless and peaceful spears.
The fields! Follow but forth for a
little time the thoughts of all that we
ought to recognize in these words. All
spring and summer is in them-the
walks by silent scented paths, the rests
in MONDAY heat, the joy of herds and
| fiocks, the power of all shepherd life
and meditation, the sunlight upon the
world falling in emerald stTeaks, and
| falling in soft blue shadows, where else
| it would have struck upon the dark
mould or scorching dust-pastures be-
side pacing brooks, soft banks and
! knoll of lowly hills, thymy slopes of
down overlooked by the blue line of lift
ed sea, crisp lawns all dim with early
dew or smooth in evening warmth of
barred sunshine, dinted by happy feet,
and softening in their faH the sound of
! loving voices-all these are summed up
in those simple words, the fields; and
these are not all.
! We may not measure to the full the
depth of this heavenly gift, in our own
land; though still, as we think of it
! longer, the infinite of that meadow
sweetness, Shakspeare's peculiar joy
would open on US more and more, yet
we have it but in part. Go out, in the
spring-time, among the meadows that
slope from the shores of the Swiss lakes
/ W Iue IOOIS Oh Iue lower HlOuuJdluS.
There, mingled with the gentians and
the white narcissus, the grass grows
deep and free; and as you follow the
winding mountain paths, beneath arch
ing boughs all veiled and dim with bios
soms-paths that forever droop and rise
over the green banks and wolds sweep
ing down in scented undulation, steep
to the blue water, studded here and there
with new-mown heaps, filling all the air
with fainter sweetness-look up toward
the higher hills, where the waves ofever-
lasting green roll silently into their
long inlets among the meadows of the
pines, and we may, perhaps, at last
know the meaning of these quiet words
of the 147th Psalm, ''He maketh grass
to grow upon the mountains. John
! RuSEin.
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THE OREGON CENTRAL R. R. co.
ITO TAKE EFFECT ON MONDAY, MARCH
i %, 1875.
Trains will run between
PORTLAND AND ST. JOSEPH,
Daily Except Sunday
AS FOLLOWS:

AS FOLLOWS:

Portland.....2:3O P. NJ. St. JOseph......6i30 P. NJ
st. Joseph......6:30 A. NJ. Portland....l0:3OA A. M
Connecting at Cornelius with stages for Forest
Grove; at st. Joseph for all points south and
west Lafayette, McMinnville, Amity, Mon
wallis.
B8- Passengers received at Fourth street sid
ing on signaling the train, but are prohibited
from getting on or off the train at any other
point on the street.
Passengers getting on the trains at Ticket
Stations without tickets, will be charged twen-
ty-five cents extra.
no Freight received at the Company's New
Warehouse, but will not be received for ship
ment after P. NJ. ]. BRANDT, JR.,
4-Hu superintendent.
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Officers:
YOUNG MEN

Who are suffering from the effects of youth
full follieS SOrindiscretion will do well to avail
themselves Ofthis the greatest boon ever laid
at the altar of suffering humanity. DIR. SPIN
NEY will guarantee to forfeit $500 for every
case of seminal weakness or private disease
of any kind or character which he undertakes
and fails to cure. He would, therefore. say to
the unfortunate sufferer who may read this
notice, that you are treading upon dangerous
ground when you longer delay in seeking the
proper remedy for your complaint. You may
be in the first stage; remember you are ap-
preaching the last If you are bordering upon
the last, and are suffering some all of its i'll
effects, remem ber that if you persist in pro-
crastination, the time must come when the
most skillful physician can render you no as
sistance; when the door of hope will be closed
against you; when no angel of mercy can
bring relief. In no case has the Doctor failed
of success. Then let not despair work upon
your Imagination, but avail yourself of the
beneficial result of his treatm tment before your
case is beyond the reach of medical skill, or
before grim death hurries you TO a premature
grave. Full course of treatment, SIS. Send
money by Post Office order or Express, with
full description of case. Call on or address
DR. A. B. SPINNEY,
SIS No. II Kearny street, San Francisco.
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Portland. Oregon.

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n ing, designed, in I combination of TheOret-
ical and Practical Methods of instruction, to
impart in a short space of time that knowledge
of Business Theory and actual Business Rou-
tine which requires years of experience 10 9TH
erwise obtain.
tendence of an Experienced Teacher and Prac-
tical Operator. PHONOGRAPHY under the
superintendent of a Practical Shorthand Re
porter.
Ladies' Department now organized, and lady
students now in attendance.
For full particulars, send for n. B. College
Journal.
Address DEFRANCE & WHITE,
SO Lock Box l04, Portland, Oregon.