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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
sELF-RRLIANOE.

Although none dispute the value of
self-reliance, nor, in fact, its indispensi-
bility to success, yet it is one of those
strange and anomalous virtues which
boys are exhorted to cultivate and girls
are admouished to shun. The state
ment, if not made in so many words,
practically amounts to this: Boys,
learn to depend upon yourselves. NO
success or honor is attainable without it.
Girls, be content all your lives to de-
pend upon others. Be parasites, non
entlties-anything, in fact, but self re-
liant individuals.
In the common acceptance Of the
term, after you have called man par
asite, you can defame him no farther.
The success of an individual in life is
largely owing to his ability, natural, or
acquired, to rely upon his own resources.
That the young men of the rising gen.
Grafton are many of them lacking in
this essential element is not perhaps tC
be wondered at when we consider thai
| they were born of mothers who have al
their lives been taught to regard self-re
lance as something to be ashamed of il
| themselves.
A sprightly young miss who ATTENDED
the Sunday school concert at one of ou
city churches last Sunday told how elo
quently and earnestly one speaker ex
horted the boys to. good and nobl
works, reminding them that in thei
hands alone would soon fall the desti
nies of the country; urging them to b
honest, upright, industrious, ETC.; the
turning to the girls, he said, in blan
and patronizing way: "And you girl
must grow up to be eOiUeS for these con
ing men,"
OF course the average schoolgirl
ten years of age would Immediately as
herself, 'Tf I must spend all the yeal
till I am grown, preparing myself for
wife, hadn't some boy better be told
fit himself for husband, so that ma
not have to waste my virtues and a,
mplishments upon somebody VII
neither appreciates nor is worthy
, them? ?"
When will teachers and preachers ar
, people generally take a commOn-sen
view of this matter and encourage cir
to good works, not in the hope of catcl
y ing a husband, but because they, as we
2 as boys, have grand and noble part
play in the great drama of life, one a
of which may or may not be matrimon
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
RECENT EVENTS.
Boise City, I. 7.

Admissions 20 the Centennial on Sat
urday were $4,000.
A fire occurred at Chester City, Pa,
on the 4lh. Loss, $4,000.
There was 5000 men in the procession
on the 5th which followed to the grave
the remains of VIM. Foley, ex-Fenian
convict.
About 200 Sioux Indians under charge
of the commissioners, passed through
Omaha on the 81 en- route to the Indian
Territory, OF tour of inspection.
a special to the Republican from
Monroe, La, under date of the 7th, says:
"Colored people coming here to vote are
stopped by armed men and their regis
tration papers taken from them.
Francis Thompson, notorious negro,
who has for years figured as a woman
and imposed on the Congressional COM
mittee in connection with the riots Of
1885, died in the hospital at Memphis
Oh the 81 after Il long illness.
A Democratic procession was attacked
by negroes at Raleigh, n. c., on the
night of the 7th. The police interfered
and were also assailed. Two policemen
were badly injured and several whites
badly hurt before order was restored.
Second class cadet midshipman Chas.
w. Garrett, of Indiania, and Frederick
\. Woodworth, of California, were .On
the 1st inst, dismissed from the naval
academy at Annapolis for hazing. So
far Il cadets have been dismissed for
this Offense.
In the matter of the application Of
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood for admission
to practice as an attorney and coun-
selor of the Supreme Court, the Chief
Justice announced, as the decision of the
court, that none but men are admitted
to practice before it as attorneys and
counselors.
The Weaverville and Redding stage
was stopped on the night of the 9Th
near the latter place by two highway
men, who demanded Wells, Fargo q Co. IS
box, which the driver handed down /;
but as the treasure was in an iron box
fastened to the coach, they got nothing
but few letters.
There was an effort made on the 1st
inst. to repIevy the property of Brigham
Young that had been sold at auction by
the commissioner. The judge forbade
the clerk OF the court to issue and file
the necessary papers, but recOnsidered
his action and the papers have been is
sued, and the property is now in charge
of the U. S. marshal.
The California and Oregon Stage Com
pany's coach, carrying the U. S. mails
and Wells, Fargo & CO'Sexpress, was
stopped by three masked highwaymen
at Il O'Clock on the night of the 9Th,
three miles north of ReddiDg, and Wells
Fargo & Co.'s treasure box taken, con-
. tanning 81, 100, and also the registered
mail pouches, all of which were cut and
broken open and handed back to the
driver. Ben Holladay and party were
, passengers, but were not molested
Parties are in pursuit of the robbers
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
IRREVERENT.

The Christian Messenger is responsible
for the following:
The Centennial abounds in pictures and
busts of George Washington in every place
where there seems to be room for either. One
artist has shown his taste in making a bust of
Christ with George Washington on one side
and Henry Ward Beecher on the other. There
is the "Father" of his country, and the "Son,"
but we hardly think Beecher's late reputation
would entitle him to be called the "Holy
Spirit"
A person guilty of such irreverence as
is displayed in the above would proba-
bly,, if officially empowered and called
upon to administer an oath, adopt the
style of one of our late county officials
and require the person to "solemnly
swear in the presence of Ne and AL
mighty God"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
FROM MRS. DUNIWAY.

Mrs. Duniway, in a recent letter,
thus excuses her apparent neglect of
promised and long-due editorial Cor
respondence," and prolonged absence
from home. The delay in the arrival of
Chapter V. of "Edna and John" is per-
haps owing in part to the same circum-
stances: "I am driven to death hurry
ing up my work, to get home again.
1 spend my days away down town
among the foundries and everything
else dingy and unpleasant, trying to
hurry my work. The poem is in type
and stereotype now, and the engraving
will be finished in few days. 'Oh, that
mine enemy would print a bookr ]
cannot write Editorial Correspondence
before next week, as go to-day (Octo-
ber 22d) by invitation to South Man
chester, Conn.,, for the purpose of lectur.
ing and examining the great CLANCY
silk works. I have taken large mum.
ber of orders for my poem, and am anx'
iously awaiting the day when its Gle
CANT new dress will be finished and tht
creation of my fancy be ready for intro
duction to company"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
THIS QUILT FOR SALE..-ONLY SIX
DOLLARS"

DULIAhS.
This announcement was conspicuously
placed on a tedious marvel of muslin
and calico that had been cut into infin-
itesimal pieces and sewed together
again, that hung in the pavilion of the
State Agricultural Society. We read
the announcement slowly, and slowly
surveyed the work. A patchwork
quilt-a "scrap quilt' the good dame
called tit was made from pieces of
every hue and figure. The dark mot
tied center of this square was left from
grandmother's dress-the one she wore
to the Centennial celebrations; the white
with dainty blue spots was pieces of a
dress which, despoiled of much of its ma
tive freshness, was fitting here and
there about the fair grounds; the bright
pink was like rollicking Johnny's
aprons, and so on all over the quilt one
might interpret the history of the family
wardrobe.
'How long did it take you to make
it ?" we enquired of quiet matron who
stood near, evidently anxious for its sale.
'I was working at it all my spare
time for about three months, and il
took me two weeks to quilt it," was the
reply.
We stood aghast.
''Six dollars for three months work
besides furnishing the material, anG
the six dollars very uncertain at that
we said, soliloquizing.
at does seem too little" said thu
clever and industrious artisan, "bu
then it would be better than not t,
make anything. 1 thought 1 woulC
like to have little money of my own
The same old story, we thought
Nothing is woman's own unless sh
can make it entirely independent of he
husbands labor, while almost nothing
is has own but what she helps him t
earn. A strange anomaly, truly. Di
as hard for independence as any her
who ever perished upon his country
battlefield?
The quilt hung and hung ther
through all the days of the fair, scanne
by hundreds of persons, but bought b
no one; for who cares to pay Sc 90 for
patchwork quilt of all shades and hue
when a fresh white spread, infinitel
more beautiful and desirable, can /
bought for half the money?
Certainly women, mothers especial.
could better afford to rest during the
spare time than to stitch, stitch upo
, patchwork, which for home III
, amounts to nothing, and to make f,
. sale is worse than time wasted. On
9 six dollars for three months work
o dear at that price to the buyer, discou
o agingly cheap to the energetic work
- who counts labor and time as nought
. it only brings her something she C,
> call her own. Save your strengt
f mothers, for the duties that you owe
your children, instead of frittering
= away in this unsatisfactory mannt
# and quietly appropriate as your rig
/. the money you need from the fami
- purse. That's our advice, and we gi
4 it-good as it is-gratis.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
sPBOULATIONs SCIENTIFIC AND
OTHERWISE.

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
1 am pleased to notice that you give
place to scientific correspondence in
your paper. In this connection wish
to make few inquiries
What is the cause of the earth's revO-
luton on its axis? May. it not be the
same force that causes wind, viz: the
expansive force of beat?
1t is a well known fact that heat de-
stroys the attraction of cohesion, and
NAV it not also destroy the attraction of
gravitation? 1t evidently does in the
case of gaseous substances. Now, the
after part of the day being the hottest,
the repulsive force of the SUMS rays act
ing on that part of the globe east of the
meridian would cause it to revolve in
that direction, while it would be forced
back in space in an opposite or westerly
direction, around in its orbit, the clip
ticity of which would be caused by the
fact that water absorbs more caloric
than land. When the southern hemis-
phere is inclined toward the sun, the
earth is attracted to its perihelion, and
when the northern hemisphere is in
clined toward the sun the earth is re-
pulsed to its aphelion, in consequence of
its greater radiating power.
If this theory is not tenable, let US
have one that is. The old theory is not
tenable, for if the force of gravitation
could arrest the earth in its onward
course of it's apheliOn distance, and cause
it to pass to it's perihelion distance, it
would never be able to regain its
aphelion, for 1.-THE less the distance the
stronger the attraction" The increased
velocity of the earth's motion at its
f perihelon is the product of the aug
mented power OF attraction. There can
. be no effect without an adequate cause.
, All motion is the effect of force. If the
D undulatory theory is accepted, and l be-
y lieve it is generally, there is constant
resistance to all bodies in motion, con-
n seuuently there must be a constant ap-
f plication of force to keep up perpetual
motion. If light and heat comes to us
A by wave motion, intervening space
q must be filled with a material substance
G capable Of being vibrated.
= The Universe, containing innumera-
Il BILE globes, and all hanging loose in
O space, and all governed by the law o.
It attraction, must some day collapse, and
, would have done so long ere this
There must be some other law affecting
their condition; it is possible there is s
repeIlent force. The ball from gun il
! forced in the direction of least resist
'S ance by the power of heat. Then let u
apply the same theory to the motion o
% the globe, and we shall find that the
i most intensely heated atmosphere il
ie from II NJ. to 6 P. NJ, and the direction
of least resistance about 6 A. NJ. Thr
~ ~ northern hemisphere would be forced I
as little the fastest, as it contains the mos
I'd land on it's surface, causing it to trave
re- in a circuit. ID. BACON.
Iv Boise City, l. t.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
Business Women.

The Saturday Evening Post thus SEN
sibly discourses concerning "Business
Women" term synonymous in the es-
nation of "woman's sphere" shriekers
with everything that is unlovely, un-
womanly, and coarse. Let sensible
people "pause, wonder and pronounce:"
The idea still prevails, though not to
so great an extent as it used to, that
women have no concern with business
affairs, and that business habits and
qualifications relate to men only. There
never was greater mistake made, we
need hardly say. To possess a capacity
! for business is not only compatible with
true womanliness, but it is in measure
! indispensable to the comfort and we'll
being of every properly governed family.
| The management of family and house
| hold is as much a matter of business as
the management of a store or an Office,
and requires method, accuracy, organi-
zatiOn, industry, economy, discipline,
tact, knowledge, capacity for adapting
means to ends.
All this is of the essence of business
and hence business habits are as neces-
sary to be cultivated by women who
would succeed in the affairs of home
in other words, who would make home
happy-as by men in the affairs of
trade, of commerce, or of manufacture.
Method, which is the soul of business,
is of essential Importance in the home.
Work can only be got through by
method. Middle flies before it, and
hugger- becomes thing un-
known. Method demands punctuality
another eminently business quality
The unpunctual woman, like the un'
punctual man, occasions dislikes, be-
cause she consumes and wastes time
and provokes the reflection that we are
not of sufficient Importance to make hel
more prompt. To the business man
time is money; but to the business
woman, method is more-it is peace
comfort and domestic prosperity,
Hence it is important that our girl;
should receive a practical, business
training as we'll as our boys. It's bene
fits will be apparent every day through
out their lives.-SdturIdy EUeninG
| Post
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
SALOONS CLOSED ON ELECTION

The law enacted two years since, by
which saloons are closed throughout the
State on election days, is one of the
most judicious and benefcent that
adorns the statutes of Oregon. From
various localities come reports of the
election, and all bring the tidings that
it "passed off quietly" This law we
regard as one of the paving-stones for
the peaceful and orderly advance of
Woman Suffrage in the State. Hereto
fore one of the objections which Oppo-
neuts have most delighted to urge was
that women could not force their way
through the crowd of drunken men
about the polls without receiving insult.
Surely this objection must vanish when
there are no drunken men about the
polls, or any to speak of in the city or
community. This ruffianism on cleo
tion days among voters has long been
held over our head in terror-though,
truth to tell, it never did terrify us
much-so on Tuesday we resolved to go
up town past some of the polling places
and see if voters were the "roaring lions
going about seeking whom they might
devour," that men had often told US
they were.
AS we approached the polls at the
corner of A and Third streets, we saw
some twenty-five or thirty men there
assembled, some with their hands in
their pockets, others whiting, and all
chatting in non-combative way, while
two grim guardians of the peace stalked
up and down the street in smiling con-
tentment. We are quite certain that we
could have stepped up to the ballot-box
and voted in silence without receiving
more impertinent stares than any
woman is liable to receive on going UP
First street. O.,
Up and past the closed doors of the sa-
looms we went, and found everything
quiet and orderly. AT the corner o.
Morrison and First a considerable
crowd was gathered, intently regarding
the bulletin board. They gave room a!
we came up, and halting for a moment
read the returns so far as had been re
ceived, and in which we were as muct
interested as any voter in the city, anC
passed on, not hearing a word that wa
disrespectful. And thus it was all owe
the city. Now, whether our brethren
have been msligning their sex hereto
fore just to scare women out of the idei
of becoming voters, or whether the sa
! looms being closed makes what was one
, noisy and disreputable mob now a re
= spectacle gathering of citizens, we d
= not know, and wishing to be charitabl
5 to our infOrmants of years gone by, W
s will give the entire credit to the lay
? closing saloons on election days, an
! express our thankfuluess to the law
) makers who enacted it for removing, b
f this wise measure, great bugbear fEor
Y the fancy of opposers to Woman Su
= frage.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
Oregon Fruit at the Centennial.

Hon A.. J. Dufur, the indefatigable
Centennial Commissioner for Oregon,
writes to Messrs. Luelling & Son of
Milwaukee concerning the fruit sent by
them to Philadelphia as follows:
Your favor of October 5th, with fruit,
received. The fruit arrived in most ex-
cellenU condition, in fact, in better con-
dition than any received heretofore.
Owing to its being received after the re-
gular day for examining fruits by the
pomological judges, it will not be ex-
amined until tomorrow, though the
judges have not as yet made any report
TO the commission for awards on fruits.
1 can confidently state that you will re-
ceive an award. 1t is to be regretted
that the Legislature had not sufficient
| foresight and liberality to make an ap-
preparation to cover the expenses of q
complete pomolgical display for the
! State, but such as I have been enabled
to make, through you and few more
has attracted universal admiration anC
done an inestimable amount of good fol
the State. Hoping that all who have
assisted me in making a name for oul
State by their contributions will receive
the credit and rewards that are thei
due, am yours, respectfully,
A. J. DUFUR.
Philadelphia, October %, 1876.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
ADMITTED TO CITIZENSHIP. -

The reports of the proceedings of the
courts have for the past few weeks been
made up of the names of natives of for,
eign countries, Of Prussia, of Bohemia,
of Lichtenstien, of ireland, of Hanover,
Of Bavaria, of, indeed, almost every ma
tion and principality of the old world,
supplemented by the words that head
this article. Men born and bred in for
eign countries, whose interests and
sympathies are all with the country of
their nativity, who know nothing and
care nothing for the institutions of this
Republic, whose sole interest in the
country of their temporary adoption is
to make what money they can out of it
and return to their native shores, to
whom even our language is meaning
less jargon and our literature but blot,
can, by application to the courts, be-
come citizens of this nation, and with
its ballot in their hands, become q
power in its regulations and laws, while
women born upon the nations soil;
women whose every sympathy is with
the institutions of liberty; women
whom the sable plumes of war for the
preservation of the nations life have
overshadowed with a blackness worse
than night; women who have learned
how much the heart may bear and YET
not break, as they with dimmed eye
sight have scanned the long lists o
killed and wounded for the names o
those whom they have sent forth to bat
tie for freedom and right; women, thu
loyal daughters OF the Republic, mus
stand in sorrow and humiliation Will,
these men are marched at the behest o
party leaders to the ballot t-boxes, wher
their ballots are received smilingly ant
unquestioned, so long as the paper
bearing the cabalistic words, "admitte'
to citizenship" are produced.
We know that large number of ou
foreign-born population have interest
closely identified with our own. Th
country of their adoption is their cOun
try, and such they Loyalty consider il
Myriads of these were found at the bat
ties front, bearing arms for the defens
of common liberties. The blood c
hundreds of them made crimson man.
hard-fought battlefields, where the ban
ners of the free led men to hard-earne
victory; and than this devoted and loys
class none are more justly entitled
speak by the ballot.
But who believes that among tn
hundreds of foreigners who have bee
admitted to citizenship during th
closing weeks of the late campaign, eve
the most trifiing proportion have, by il
forming themselves of the great issue
at stake, become voluntarily imbue
with desire to be admitted to citizei
ship that they might give their nit
toward perpetuating institutions the
had first learned to revere?
Have not nine-tenths-yes, ninet!
nine one-hundredths of them-sougl
the boon of citizenship at the behes
or, to put it more mildly, at the solicit
tion of political demagogues? The
can be but one intelligent and consciel
tious answer to this question. If al
one attempts to answer it in the neg
tive, let him accompany his answ
with at least plausible reason why
is that these wholesale naturalization
of foreigners take place just before il
portant elections, which it is absolute
certain that they take no voluntary
terest in.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

A person who was looking up house
the other day in Newburyport said he
couldn't afford to pay much rent.
"Well, look at the neighborhood," re-
piled the owner. "You can borrow fat
irons next door, coffee and tea across the
street, flour and sugar at the corner, and
there's big pile of wood belonging to
the school-house right across the alley"
He closed the bargain at once.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10
Philadelphia, October %, 1876.

The experiments undertaken by the
United States Fish Commission, several
years ago, to stock the waters of Utah
with anadromOus fish promise fair
measure of success, the California sal
mon introduced in 1874 now measuring
from seven to twelve inches in length,
while those of 1879 are from five to seven
inches long. These have been placed
in the waters of Salt Lake county, as
also those of Rich, Utah, and Davis coun-
ties. Of the cells introduced several years
ago, only few inches long at the time,
one of two feet in length was recently
found dead in Salt Lake, and another
was taken in the Provo River two feet
two inches long, and weighing four
pounds two ounces.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

HarpeT'S Magazine for November is a
bright and beautiful number, rich in
the variety of it's contents and pictorial
illustration. The number opens with a
poem by the author of John Halifax,
Gentleman" entitled "Magnus and
Norma, a Shetland Fairy Tale" A
new story by Miss Thackeray is begun
in this number. GA Woman-Hater," +"
which has reached its fifth part, in
ereases in interest with each installment
of the story. Interesting short stories are
contributed by the best writers. AS inter.
esting as story is the powerful char.
acter sketch, by an anonymous author
entitled "a Grand Business Man of the
New School," The editorial depart
ments are unusually full and interest
ing, including the pleasant social gossip
of the "Easy Chair" an interesting
"resume" of important recent books
the summaries of scientific progress anC
of current events, and an entertaining
"Drawer." The Bdzar and Weekly are
filled with choice illustrations of pass
ing events and the fashion.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-10

"What do you sell these fowls for ?'
inquired a person Of man who was at
tempting to dispose of some chickens of
questionable appearance. 81 sell
them for profits" was the answer.
"Thank you for the information that
they are prophets" responded the quer-
ist; 'I took them to be patriarchs."