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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18

A GUEST AT A HOTEL WANTS TO
HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING night
or two ago a chap about thirty-five
years old, looking as though he had
crawled out of a cave to commence life
anew, entered one of the hotels, and,
waiting at the counter until the clerk
was at liberty, he asked:
CTS this hotel ?"
"Yes, sir" was the reply.
"Good living, good beds, and the
most courteous attention ?"
"Yes, sir"
"Well," said the stranger, after a
long look at the railroad table, 81 sup
pose you don't trust ?"
mo, sir"
''That's what I wanted to know. I
always like to have an understanding
about such thugs, for, if anything
makes me mad, it is to have a great big
hotel clerk jump in on me and kick me
down stairs on account of my straitened
finances"
"You'd better find some other place"
suggested the clerk.
"Oh l SHALL" replied the stranger.
"The outside of this hotel seemed to
smile welcome at me; but, as / said
before, my present policy is to get along
without being kicked. Ive got mental
feelings as well as anybody else, and
Pm getting so worn in flesh that a mere
common grand bounce from a heavy
hotel clerk upsets me whole day.
Farewell, young man. Don't bile any
extra taters for me-"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18
The Influence of Home,

When the gates of youth close behind
a young man, and he is about to go out
alone into the battle of life, he should
be rich in all the wisdom that father
and mother have to give, for, if they
have been true to him, his whole life
thus far has been spent in gathering
from the rich fields that their great
love has opened. He has stood upon
the mountain-tOps of their lifelong eX-
perience, while they have pointed out
the winding way across the perilous
plains below. He is rich in all their
added years of wisdom. His pilgrim
scrip is filled with kindly words of
counsel and advice, and hopes and
prayers shed their fragrance upon him,
and, when the parting hand is given,
he feels in his parents anxious hearts
the words that may be unspoken: "My
son, if you fall, even among the thieves
of temptation, and in the ways of sin,
and if, in the darkness, you cannot find
your way, arise and come back to your
not waste in sinful ways all the best
years of manhood, cannot do anything
that is not noble, true, and manly, for,
wherever he may be, he can see the
home lights and the loved faces pressed
against the windows, looking out
toward him.
The daughter needs yet more of the
home influence, for in her heart must
an ideal home be reared to be wrought
out in all the years of her life; and she
is always daughter, though her chill
dren come with her to visit the old
home that grows more and more beau
tiful in memory's golden light as the
years roll on. How often must the
young girl go to strangers, or go alone,
when word, an hour, or a step may
change the destiny of a life forever !
How the cries of the lost come up to US
because home was not home to their
hearts hungry yearning and the young
souls deepest needs Homeless might
be written on the record of every sinner
as the cause of the shame that curses it.
More than all, should children have in
their tendeTest years the sweet nf1u-
ence that can only be found within the
sacred walls of hOme-hOme in its deep
and broadest meaning. Without it the
buds will never come to fruitage, even
! if there should be flowers, and "might
! have been" must be the Judgment.
! This home power is mighty in its in
fiuence for the world good; yet, faith
ers and mothers stand careless and in
| different as day after day waits before
them, full of grand and glorious oppor-
tunities that reach down to generations
and ages yet unborn; toying with the
gilded trappings of an outward life,
they do not see the gates closing up to
be sealed forever.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18

"You seem to be very fond of Mr..
Nye, Zilpha."
81 am," said she, with feeling. 81
have great reason to be-"
A long pause, occupied by Zilpha In
Strengthening the coverlet, by the doc
tor in frowning at the bed-post; and
then he cried abruptly:
"They say you are going to marry
your cousin Harvey, Zilpha. Is it
true ?"
''How can l." laughed she, blushing,
"when I'm to be bridesmaid at his we'd
ding?"
His face frightened as if he had stepped
into a sunbeam.
"You are not going to marry him
Truly, Zilpha? Blessings on you, child
Then will you marry me? ?"
Miss Wentworth shook her head, her
finger on her lip. The widow was wax
ing. DIR. Rodman precipitately retreat
ed to his stand by the rocking chair till
she dozed again.
"You haven't answered me, Zilpha," +"
he said then. "Will you be kind and
assume the responsibility of this saw
age, cross-grained man ?n
She met his eye smiling.
"You are forgetting official labors,
SIR"
DR.. Rodman made a quick gesture of
impatience.
"What have they to do with the ques-
tion, Zilpha? Can't you spare the time
to care for me ?"
"If you wished it, might-perhaps.
But you know you detest ladies engaged
in public duties. You said"
"Pll take you, if may be permitted,
public duties and all, ," said the doctor
with such abjeet humility that ZiIpha
was quite touched, but replied, mis-
chievously:
"Oh! 1 thought if there was any
thing you abhorred, it was strong
minded woman"
"Well, so do, when her strong mind
edness overshadows her feminine graces.
And 1 assure you, Zilpha," added DR..
Rodman, with a twinkle in his eye,
"yOu won't catch me marrying any
other lady supervisor"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18

How INDIAN NAMES ORIGINATE
The Sioux Indians name their papOoses
after events transpiring at the time of
their birth. AS illustrative of this pc
culiar trait, Red Cloud is known to have
taken that name from the fact that the
western sky was overspread with red
clouds at the moment of his birth,
while the bringing in of captive horse
with spotted tail gave the now great
chief the singular cognomen of Spotted
Tail. Sitting Bull received the name
because buffalo bull was, by lucky
shot, thrown upon its launches in plain
sight of his mothers tepee at the natal
hour, while the cavortings of a fractions
pony furnished name for the redOubt-
able Crazy Horse.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18

lowing Sunday, and, at the conclusio1
of his discourse, repeated the story Of
wrong, adding:
"Had this woman really been poor
and friendless, as supposed, what would
the end have been? Deprived of heR
good name, and, in consequence, of all
means of earning her livelihood, sha
would have been discouraged and de-
spondent, and sunk down to the grave
a victim of the scandal of those falsely
calling themselves Christians; but whoy
in the sight of Heaven, would not only
have been classed among liars, but
murderers. Virginia Gazette.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18

A citizen of Dakota took Turkish
bath in Omaha a few days ago, and died
within an hour. The verdict of the
jury was HE hadn't ought to have
got so much of the mud off of him at
one time.n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18

Hard times illustrated-a man en-
deavoring to restore a soiled paper col
lar to its original whiteness by the use
of rubber or piece of bread.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18

Troubles are not always in proportion
to their size. What gigantic nuisance
single mosquito Is,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18

Correspondents writing over assumed sign a.
lures must make known their names to th0
Editor, or no attention will be given to thatk
communications.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-18
gbe Aew a3ortbwest.

A 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.
, 1876-02-12
How Alcohol Enters the Systtm.

When taken in by the more ordinary chan
mel, the stomach, it finds its way by two
routes INTO the circulation. A ccrtnin por-
ton OF 1.-THE greater portion ofit--is ah-
sorbed by direct veins OF the almentary sur
face, fluids its way straight into the larger
veins, which lead up to the heart, and on
ward with the course ofthe blood. Another
portion is picked upby small structures pro-
ccedng from below the mucus surface OF
the stomach, and from which originate Sc
ries OF fine tubes that reach ut last the lower
portion of common tube, termed the tho
racic duct--a tube which nsccnds in front OF
the spinal column, aud terminates at the
junction Of two large veins IN the lett side
of the body, at point where the venous
blood, returning from the Lett side ot the
head on the way to the heart. 1t is so
greedy for water that it will pick it up from
all the watery textures OF the body, and de-
prive them of it, until, by its saturation, it
can take up no more, its power of reception
being exhausted; after which it diffuses it
self into the current of circulating fluid.
When we dilute alcohol with water before
drinking it, we quicken its absorption; and,
if we do not dilute it sufficiently, it is dilut-
ed in the stomach by the transudation of
water in the stomach until the required re-
duction for its absorption is Effected Wei.
come.
, 1876-02-12
Detroit Free Press Currency.

Henry Swan, OF 0tscgo New York, called
his wife to him as he was dying aud said
MARY Jane, when you feed the hogs to-
morrow night you'll be the widow Swan !"
And she was. s.H B.. h.tfr.t
They are going to put up "a headstone at
the grave of Capt. Cook just as soon az
anybody can be found to point out the
grave. Meanwhile, the committee will hold
your subscriptions. |fFHl r.m
We can't all Of us beat the English an
Irish at target.shooting but most Of us Gu
get chosen on county fair committees to
award prizes to the best hogs aud the big.
gcst melons.
When Maine man can cut of his wife's
head and get off with ten years sentence,
should any of us be afraid to hcavc q rock
at an aldermanS front door1
There are twenty.eight brands Of teas
known to the trade, and almost any grocer
can sell one dollar tea and twelve shilling
tea from the same box.
When one gets mad at an arstocEat in
Washington it comes very handy to say to
him II know you-you sold gingerbread
during the war"
Bayard Taylor says that there is alcohol
in fresh bread, but one has to eat one hun
drcd and eighty loavcs before he imbibcs
enough of the liquid to feel happy
The next Legislature of Ohio is going to
make law which will blister tramp from
heel to ear in just twenty-five seconds.
Any one who hasn't been invited to de-
liver an agricultural address has a right to
be mad,
You can clear Il barn Of rats in less than
ten minutes by setting fire to the hay in the
NOV.
, 1876-02-12
sNOEHOgEsEE CITY, W. T., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY H. 1876
thing that will stop all aches and pains at

thing that will stop all aches and pains at
once.
1t is y real pleasure TO enter the sick room
of an intelligent family; how carefully the
nurses watch How still and quiet the room!
Windows open hut the bed shielded from
draft No one in the room unlcs; their SER
vices arc needed. Curiosity hunters Nrc
turned from the door coprtcously but firm
ly. Beside the sick bed is no place to spin
yarns. A dozen neighhors, talking all at n
time, laughing, or gazing into the face oFthe
sufferer with staring eyes, open mouth md
elongated faces, are not to be found in well
ordered sick room. No excitement; no com.
fusion no loud praying for miraculous in.
terpos!tion as though the Lord was deaf, or,
"hGd gone on journey" is now tolerated
among intelligent medical practitioners.
Those who pray for the sick should do
do it in srcrct--in the closets--thosc kind
of prayers always 90 higher than those ut
tered with n loud voice ut the street corners
and on the house tops; those that come up
from the heart tcrvently breathcd, arc the
medicinal kind. Cheerful faces, CHEEKY vol
ccs, gentle touches are great helps IN the
healing art.
Then learn Anatomy; read phy,iology and
obey their teachings and when i'll obey your
physician nnd don't be anxious to fill your
self full, like jug, to the very neck, with
drugs that you can do without. Don't take
things at random because you feel ill., is no
reason you shonld empty a medicine bottle,
for no other reason than TINT the label and
the advertisement in the newspaper says it is
II wonderful discovery with an unpronoun.
sible name. Something nils me, don't
know what; we'll find out or go to some
one who does know more than you, and not
take the first thing you can lay your hands
on and trust to luck to for the result These
tew hints, carccs,y thrown out, If carefully
read and remembered, may keep some poor
walking opothccnry shop or dosing mother
from giving the undertaken job
, 1876-02-12
Stlrttrl( a,urnt.
The story OF diincVrn.

-She=Yas an only child her uamc Gneyrn,
The JOY the pride, Of an indulgcnt father:
And in her fifteenth yem became bride,
Marrying an only son, Francesca DORM,
Her playmate from her birth, and her first love,
She was all gcntlCncss, ull guycty,
Her pwnlis the flyortc theme Of every tongue,
But now the day has coue,-- the day the hour,
Now frd~ning, smlnug, for tile hundrrdtb tInic,
The NURSE that ancient lady, preached dccoruln ;
And, in the lustcr of her youth, she gave
Her hand, with her heart in it, to francesca.
Great was the joy, but at the nuptAl feast,
When all sat down, the bride herself was wanting;
Nor was she to be ionnd Her father cried
"'Tis but to makea trial OF our lover
And filled his glass to all, Du, his hand shook,
And soon from guest tu guest the panic spread.
" was but that Instant she had left Francesca
Laughing and looking back, aud flying still,
Her ivory tooth imprinted on his Ingcr;
But uow alas she was not to bc fouud
Nor, from that hour, coudany thing bcgucsscd,
But that she was not
Weary of his life,
francesca flew to Venice, and cmbArknig,
Flung 1t away in battle with the Turk.
The father lived and long you might have seen
AM old man wandering in quest OF something,
Something he could uOt find, he knew not what
When he was gone, the house remained while
Silent and trnautlcss then went to strangers.
Full iifty years were past, aud al forgotten,
When on IN idle day., day Of search
Mid the old lumber in the gallery,
That moudcrng chest was noticed and twas
said,
By one as young, as thonghtless as GiHcvp,
Why lot remoyeit from It's lurking phceW
Twas done as soon AZ said but, on the way
1t burst - II fell; and 10 n skeleton,
With here and there q pear, an emerald stone,
golden clasp clasping shred Of gold.
All else had pcrishCd, save a wedding ring
And small seal, her mothers legacy
Engrnvcn with namc,- the name Of both,s-
"Gncvra."
There then she had found grave!
Within that chest had she concealed herself
Fluttcrng with joy. the happlest Of the happy,
When spring lock, that lay in ambush there,
Fastened her down for ever! Samuel Rogers
, 1876-02-12
The Nronnd.B nlQtlers.
TRACES OF THEIR WORK IN MrssrssIpPr--RE
MARKAsLE PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY.

Prof James B. Gage, of Washington City,
on eminent geologist and mineralogst, who
has recently been engaged in making extern
sive explorations regarding the works Of
the ancient mound builders, reports the dis
covcry Of q very remarkable wall in Clai-
horne county, eighteen miles east Of Port
Gibson. Miss. The discovery has been incl
dentally mentioned in several papers within
the course of a few days, but they do not
appear to have realized a tithe of its anti
Quarian and archaeological interest and i'm
portancc. We condcnsc the particulars Of
the discovery from the Professors state
mcnt in the Washington Republican 1t ap-
pears that blocks of the stone have been
taken by the farmers for building purposes
for many years, and it has formed general
quarry for furnishing large blocks Of stone.
But the farmers have never, it seems been
aware Of the antiquarian importance Of this
wall, which is claimed to be coeval or ante
rior to that of Hadrian's famous wall in
England. Prot. Gage employed laborers
and uncovered a portion Of the wall 90 feet
in width and iT5 feet in length; but on re-
moving the soil here and there he traced it
600 feet. The workmcn uncovered the wall
to a depth of six feet, but lower than this
the excavations were not continued. Large
forest trees Of pine and oak. several hundred
years old are growing on top Of the wall
The blocks are limestone, and bclongto the
tertiary formation They were bewn out of
this formation and are three feet in length,
twenty inches in width and twenty-five
inches in thickness One of these blocks has
been shipped to Philadelphia for the Cen
tcnnial. The wall from which it was taken
forms two sides of o rcctangle, one part
running east and west and the other north
and south. The excavations we're made
near the angle. Three miles due south from
this point another portion of the wall reap.
pears on the banks Of Bayou Pierce, owing
to the washing out of the creek, making it
large exposure, and it is therefore judged
that this is continuation of the ancient
wall The wall was built on the side Of
ridge overlooking swamp which, nancient (
times, was evidently the bed Of u lake, and
the inference is that the wal was erected by
the ancient occupants as barrier against an
enemy, or possibly us an ancient levee or
dyke erected for the protection of the in
habitants against the encroachments of the
lake or the waters of the Mississippi From
other evidences of the wide extent of this
WALL as described by Prof. Gage, it appears
that it included large area Of land, cover
ing probably 400 square miles, and extend
ing to the Mississippi river. The locality
where the wall exists is in the neighborhood
of the Natchez Indians, who were found in
u state of considerable civilization when
irst visited by the French, and these re-
mains it is conjectured by Prot. Gage, had
some connection with the occupation by the
warlike ancestors of this interesting and
famous tribo.- Sunday Welcome
, 1876-02-12
CuriOsitics Of Color.

An English magazine writer, writing Of
cOlors and their durability in reference to
dress, gives some interesting particulars Of
the infinite diversity of shades. Although
1000 different shades of color can de dyed
at present, this numbcr gives but a faint idea
of the effects that might be produced by a
continually varying mixture of one hue with
another. SNX.bue counts fiom twenty to
,twenty'four shades produced by mNnutact-
ureTs in printed cottons, linen, and SILKS, and
still greater variety may be furnished ii de
manded. In royal blue, there are this season
from twenty.four to twenty.eight varieties
in the light middle shades. Scarlet has from
thirty to forty shades; crimson the same
number. Yellow has from forty to fifty
shades.
The writer adds: Scarlet. so rarely seen
in ladies' dresses, may be termed the empe-
ror OF colors, and is very beautiful in its
light middle, and rich and dazzling in its
middle shades, and IN certain combinations
looks elegant in connection with u silver
grey or an olivc.-HOWseh0M.
Something to boot Tightening rod ped
dlcrA
, 1876-02-12
Mistellantnns.
Health and Disease.

Health and Disease.
1t is almost universally the case that it re-
qures the best part of mature manhood 10
eradicate impressions received in early child
hood Unless memory is constantly cult
waited the impressions Of youth are treshcr in
old age, than those received in the meridian
of life. Perhaps it is for this reason that we
glide through life utterly reckless ofthe laws
that govern human life and health. The
Impression has taken fast hold ot the human
mind, that all diseases have specific remedies
that for every allment, pain, ache or irrcgu-
lurity nature has provided n remedy Moth
ing is farther from the truth. Diseassalways
causes a lesion somwhcrc in the system. II
it fstens upon one or more organs of the hu
mal body, it is nearly impossible for natn re
to expel it before it has lessenel the
power OF the affected organ to perform
afterwards its legitimate functions. A large
majority of the diseases incident to child
hood are inherited; often they come down
10 the innocent victim from remote anaos.
, 1876-02-12
KnisinG NaP on velvet.

Our lady readers may, perhaps, thank us
for process which is said to be successful in
bringing up again the nap of spotted or fiat
tened velvet. For this purpose chatng-
dish or warming. pan is to be used, contain
ing u quantity Of well ignitcd live Goals, over
which is to be placed q sheet Of copper thick
enough to have certain degree Of soldity'
When the metal is quite warm, a napkin
folded several times and immersed in boiling
water is to be placed upon it, the coal in the
dish still continues to increase the tempera'
lure. The wrong side OF the velvet is to be
laid upon the moist and smoking cloth, and
very soon thick vapor will be seen olsen
gagged, and u soft brush is then to be passed
lightly back and forth over the velvet, which
is TO be removed after few minutes,
and allowed to dry fat upon table. When
completely dry, it will be found to have De-
come almost as soft and regular rs the new
material household,
, 1876-02-12

A Dctroiter was called on as witness in Il
case before one of the Justices lately, and,
when the oath was administered, he raised
both hands and said II shall spoke nod
ding what ain. drew if ever hope to die 50
quick rs aminute ~ lie was 50 earnest and
solemn that the lawyers let him alone.
A good kick out Of doors is better than u
rich uncle.
, 1876-02-12
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