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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
BRICK WALLS

T Our red color is usually preferred, as one coat
is equal to five of any ordinary paint. For
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
YOUNG M EN-

Who are suffering from the effects Of youth
full follies or indisCretion 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 orcharacterwhich 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 ill
effects, remember 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 treatment before your
case is beyond the reach of medical skill, or
before grim death hurries you to a premature
grave. Full course of treatment, S25. Send
money by Post Office order or Express, with
full description of case. Call on or address
DIR. A. B. SPINNEY,
55 No. IL Kearny street. San Francisco.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

The NEW NORTHWEST is not a Woman's
Rights, but Human Rights organ, devoted
to whatever policy may be necessary to secure
the greatest good to the greatest number. 1t
knows no sex, no politics, no religion, no party,
upon the rock of Eternal Liberty, Universal
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

Other parties desiring to act as Agents will
please forward their names. We want Agents
at every postofice throughout Oregon and
Washington Territory.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

MRS. A. J. DUNIWAI Editor and Proprietor.
MRS {. A. GeBURN. Editor.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

MANAGING HUsBAND.-A Pennsyl-
vania lady has most romantic and in
genious way Of managing the gentleman
so happy as to be her husband. Ex-
asperated by her persistent conversation,
he ungallantly boxed her ears the other
day. The wretched woman cast but one
lingering, reproachful glance upon her
lord and fed, simply observing as she
departed that the briny deep should wash
Aawa~" insult. Leaving behind every
thing most dear to her-the home OF her
ma. led life full of beautiful and cher
ished .aemories-this heart-broken wo-
man rushed frantically to the canal, and,
with one parting sigh, threw in q large
stone with mighty splash. Then she
hid herself in the bushes and gig
gled, while her husband and twenty
other men hurried up, with horror de-
picted on their countenances, and wildly
dragged the canal for her body. When
the injured wife became convinced that
the wretch had suffered enough, she
appeared from behind the bushes and
led him home, a resigned and willing
victim.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

grip me? And remorse sat on me, and
l beat my breast and pulled my hair.
Bewailing my wickedness, I determined
to purge myself of the unholy thing.
Would have so thought and so
done had I held the strate- phlush. and
the accursed bellows member the four
aces? do not know"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

It's CAusE.-A railway accident oc-
CURED lately, caused by the axle Of a
tender giving way, which detained q
train several hours. A lady inquired of
a gentle passenger why it was SO de.
layed he gravely replied, Madam, it
was occasioned by what is often followed
by serious consequences-the sudden
breaking of a tender attachment"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

A LITTLE MIxED.-Young Grogerson
got little mix after supper at the
Centennial party, the other evening,
and was heard to remark to brother
swell, "Zis Cyllydelphia Penitential s
big thing, but they ought to Bell old
Shootknap fore it comes off; s Andrew
jackson said. + any man flags down the
American hauls, spot him on the shoot"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08
An AMERICAN GIRL's EXPERIENCE.

An AMERICAN GIRL's ExPERIENcE.-
CHANGED to meet, short time since, q
>. ,ntful young lady, who went to
allan, Italy, last Summer, to complete
her musical education. She tells some
hard stories of the manners Of foreign
ers. She was in company with q young
lady from Ohio, and says that the life of
q young, unprotected female in Milan is
worse than bondage. She is never free
from insult in the street, and 10 obliged
to keep herself shut up all the time to
avoid insults in the house. She says
that the universal verdict of those who
have tested the resources of musical ed
ucation in Italy, is, that the advantages
over New York and Boston are inappre-
ciable. The prices of instruction are
exhorbitant, the practice very slight,
and the mode of living disgusting. The
only protection from being swindled in
everything is the constant presence of
male relative, and willingness to sub.
NIT to the scandal which O public resist
ance to such swindles will bring. She
says there are q hundred American girls
taking singing lessons in Milan, three
fourths Of whom regret the journey,
but are held to it by pride and the fact
of being laughed at if they return with
out the culture afforded by teachers in
ferior to those found in our own coun-
trv.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CRAFT.-
It is rarely that a poor person will re-
fuse proffered reward for the return of
lost property. Some time ago gentle
man of this city dropped from his
pocket an envelope containing twenty
two hundred dollars in bank-notes. He
advertised his loss, and on the following
day the sum was returned to him by a
young compositor in one of the city
printing offices. The money was found
on Dock street, near Third, and mum.
Der of vehicles had run over the envel-
ope, which was cut and the notes ex-
posed to view. The gentleman at once
offered the young man the very liberal
reward of two hundred dollars, which
he refused to take. He then handed
him his valuable gold watch and chain,
which he also refused. He then prof
fered an order for the finest suit of
clothing q fashionable tailor could make
This was rejected. Finally he prevailed
upon him to state what reward he would
accept for his honesty, and was sur
prised to hear that he considered " five
dollars for q Fourth of July spree
quite sufficient remuneration. It was
we'll, perhaps, for the finder that he
did not accept larger sum to throw
away in dissipation.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

here came to the Buddha, one day,
oman who had lost her only child.
She was wild with grief, and with dis
consulate sobs and cries called frantic
ally upon the prophet to give back her
little one to life. The Buddha gazed
on her long, and, with that tender SYM
pathy which drew all hearts to him, re-
piled: "Go, my daughter, bring me
9 mustard seed from house into which
death has never entered, and I will do
as thou hast bidden." The woman took
up the dead child and began her search.
, She went from house to house. saying,
:" Give me mustard seed, kind folks, a
mustard seed for the prophet to revive
my child" And they gave her what she
desired. And when she had taken it
she inquired: "They are all gathered
around the hearth here, father, mother,
and the children is it not so? They
are sound, in health's bloom ?" But the
people would shake their heads mourn
fully. And, far as she wandered,
through town and village, in the crowd
ed thoroughfare and by the lonely road
side, she met the same experience still.
There was ever vacant seat by the
hearth, which remained untitled though
all were gathered. Then gradually, as
she went on, the outbursts of her grief
abated, and the meaning of Buddha's
words dawned upon her mind. Gradu-
ally, as she learned to know the great
sorrow of the race everywhere around
her, her heart, ceasing to dwell on its
own selfish pang, went out in strong
yearning to the companions of her suf-
oe fol
and fast, passion slowly melted away in
compassion. From passive suffering
she turned to active helping, sought re-
demption by redeeming. She had
learned the highest virtue which the
Buddha taught, maitri, the conscious.
ness of wide fellowship, the love of
mankind, the perfect remuneration of
self in behalf of the eternal interests.
Calm, unswerving self control to avoid
pain, acts of sympathy to enlighten
= s.ain such was the Buddha's answer to
the great question of the origin and de-
struction Of suffering. These were the
two solid pillars of his church. If he
had paused there he would have ex-
hibited to the world an example of COM
bined soberness and enthusiastic ideal.
ism nowhere trrnscended in human his
tory. But his faith in the doctrine of
the transmigration compelled him to
pass the limits which his strong ethical
Sentiment seemed to prescribe into a
nebulous beyond. This present life of
ours is but link in the great chain of
existence. OF what advantage is it,
therefore, to destroy the suffering of to-
day if, in the ceaseless cycle of new
births, that suffering is destined end
lessly TO recur? To be true deliverer,
the prophet said, must free men from
the fear of resurrection, teach men to
battle fate. With the end Of existence
alone can come the end of pain. Hence
arose the mystic doctrine of Nirvana-
the third Of the great principles on
which the Buddhist system rests
Professor, Adler, in the Atlantic for June.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08
"Compositions."

The following truthful criticism is
uttered editorially by the National
Teachers Monthly: " For people who
have been apparently so well drilled in
writing compositions during their school
life it is strange whcta small percentage
of Americans can write simple letter
with ease or correctness. The cause,
in our opinion. is to be found in the
way in which composition is taught in
the great majority of schools. In the
first place. it is commenced too soon.
Before the child has either ideas or vo
cabulary. he is called on to write com
position. In the absence of any ideas
of his own. he borrows them from the
most accessible source. The result is,
that in nine cases out of ten the compo
sition is number of unmeaning
phrases. blended in such way rs to he
token industry if not honesty on the
part of the pupil, and culpablc ncgli-
gence or downright ignorance on the
part of the teacher who does not detect
the plagiarism and prevent its rccur-
renee. Another cause-and this is pc
culiar to high schools and colleges. so
called-is the use Of false cloqucnce
and highly wrought rhetorical flour
ishcs. Schoolmasters must give con-
mon sense topics on which to write, and
where the subject is left to the choice
of the pupil he should he directed to
choose such. No such topics rs the
Higher HIsthetics. Talks with Angels.
Nights with the Gods. Travels in Ju-
piter,' or Visits in the Moon should
be permitted. and least of all should
they be subjects of essays for Com
mencement day
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

DUMAS AUToGRAPH.-Lucy +. Hooper
tells this anecdote of the elder Dumas :
Some one asked him one for his auto
graph. my autograph he cried, you
can find plenty OF them floating about
in the shape of notes, and you will
know they are genuine by their being
all protested.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

BRAIN OF APEs.-Professor Owen is
quoted as saying, before the Anthropo-
logical Society, of London, that the
brain of man is more complex in its
organization than the brain of inferior
animals; it is more subject to injury,
and more liable to experience the want
of perfect development; that instances
of idiocy occur among all races of man.
kind, and that extreme smallness of the
skull indicates want of intellect APP
preaching to idiocy. Abiding to the
attempts that have been made to find O
link of connection between man and
apes, he remarked that it was possible
that an idiot with an imperfectly devel-
oped brain, might wander into some
cave and die, and in two or three years
his bones might be covered with mud,
or imbedded in stalagmite, and, when
discovered, such skull might he adj
duced as atfording the long-looked-for
link connecting man with the inferior
animals. He expresses the opinion
that the difference in question is alto
gether too wide to be bridged over by
the skull of any creature yet discovered.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

In September, 1774, the delegates
from eleven Provinces assembled in
Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia, the
State House being occupied by the As
sembly. The venerable Peyton Ran
dolph was chosen President, and the
Man of Truth, Charles Thomson, Sec
rotary. There was much hesitation as
to whether the Congress should be
opened with prayer, or what form of
prayer would suit Quakers, Churchmen
and Presbyterians. Mr.. Duche was
finally chosen to open the session, and,
in full canonicals, read the usual petit
tions and the thirty-fifth psalm. The
news of the cannonade of Boston had
Just reached the Assembly. Itseemed,"
writes John Adams, in a letter to his
wife dated September IS, 1774. las if
Heaven had ordained that Psalm to be
read on that morning" When its sub
lime invocation of Gods help in ex-
tremity had been read, Mr.. Duche
broke into an extemporaneous prayer,
which brought tears into the eyes of ev-
cry man present, and made them one
by an electric sympathy. Charles Thorn
son afterward related that profound
silence ensued after the prayer, so deep
was the sense of responsibility upon
each man present. A grave-looking
man, in an unpowdered wig, coarsely
dressed in gray, ut last arose and began
to speak, to the annoyance of the Secre-
tary, who regretted that country par
son, as he supposed. should have mis-
taken the occasion for display of his
II Il,,k <>f
gument, and singular impassioned
eloquence, soon electrified the house,
and an excited whisper passed from
man to man, Who is it? There were
but few present who knew Patrick
Henry.
The members of the Congress were
entertained by the gentlemen of the city
ut grand banquet in the State House,
at innumerable stately feasts ut private
houses, and finally by the Assembly in
o public dinner, where the first toast
was the King, and the next Mr.. Han
cock. John Hancock comes early to
the front as a most noticeable figure,
against the background of this blurred
and confused time, not only from the
steadiness of his loyalty when so many
paused irresolute, but from a certain
dramatic instinct in the man which lift
ed him to the hight of every occasion
as on pedestal. He was about thirty
nine at this period. but looked older,
being enfeebled by the govt; was tall,
thin, and dressed with scrupulous eye
to effect. A visitor describes his morn
ing costume at home as red velvet cap
with band of fine linen, blue damask
gown, white satin embroidered waist
coat, black satin small clothes, scarlet
shoes, and white silk stockings with
jeweled clasps. 1t is likely that Han
cock in mind or body was never found
en- dishabille; and his dramatic exclama-
ton two years after, as he signed the
Declaration. and the dramatic boldness
of the signature itself, we're due, not
to a fervor of loyalty nor to vanity, but
to keen aesthetic sense of each passing
moment.-Ha,per.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08


A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENr.-Thef fol
lowing beautiful sentiment was recently
uttered by Judge John L. II. Snecd, Of
Western Court:
"The idea that the judicial officer is
supposed to be vested with ermine,
though fabulous and mythical, is yet
more eloquent in its significance. We
are told that the little creature called
ermine is SO sensitive to it's own clean
illness that it becomes panlyzed and
pOwerless at the slightest touch Of de
Element upon its snow-white fur. When
the hunters are pursuing it, they spread
with mire the pass leading to its haunts,
which they then draw it, knowing that
it will submitto he captured rather than
defile itself. And like sensibility
should belong to him who comes to ex-
ercise the august functions of Judge"
REMEDY FOR ScRATCHES.- Scratches
may be prevented by keeping the horses
heels free from mud or snow by wash
ing in warm water, and then wiping
them dry with a towel, and by rcgu-
lating the bowels by laxative food, or
mild laxative medicines so as to keep
the system cool. To cure this disease
when established is often very difficult.
Repeated doses of salts, followed by
doses of an ounce of sulphite of soda
daily, with the substitution of crushed
oats, bran, and linsecd meal for corn;
together with continued washing of the
heels with warm soap and water, and
then rubbing them with glycerine. has
frequently resulted in permanent cure.
MY DEAR" said wife to her hns-
band, won't You just step in again and
get me some worsted as you come home
this EVENING"" "With PLEASURE" re-
sponded the husband 81 like to deal
with that pretty girl who tends the
worsted counter" He was never asked
to stop again for worsted or anything
else
We have 500, 600 worth Of generals
year in these United States. Generally
speaking it is to much.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

SOME VERBAL BLUNDERs - Verbal
blunders of the Mrs Malaprop and Mrs.
Darlington kind, says the New York
Tribune, have been invented al nonseam;
but they are never so funny rs the sim
plest originals. The Indiana Congress-
man, some years ago, who wrote about
his speech having been damnahly mu-
cilated by the press. did better than
either of the old ladies'. There is II
Western New Yorker. who always
speaks of Hcrcnlancan strength and
stopping at the " Mctrollopan Hotel =
and man in Michigan who suffers 40
from the " moralogy that he sometimes
becomes nearly nnconshcwons y and
n lady in Connecticut who ordered her
house built with refrigerator in cv
cry room," as size wanted it thoroughly
warm during the Winter. But all these
examples fade into nothingncss beside
the havoc made with scientific and med
zeal phrases by the common people Of
Parjc, according to the last number of
lie ".mps. They cannot all be tran
slated, but few of the most comical
are equally Ineligible in English. For
instance, balsam of opodeldoc il called
" balsam of Paul dc Kock," an emol-
lent cataplasm u ''humiiant cataplasm,"
and polypus Of the nose Hippolytus
of the nose" Miie de ricim castor oily
addresses the common ear us "huile
d'Henri Cinq,' and ~ there has been no
Henry V. yet, they correct the supposed
blunder by calling it the " Oil of Henry
w." Sirup of ipecacnanha, through
q resemblance of sound to certain ab-
hraviatod French words is known M
" sirup of pips cooked at Naples The
browning instance, however, is de-
lirium tremens," which term the pco
pie, not comprehending, have under
took to explain for themselves AS h de-
lire dhOmne Tres mince-" the delirium
of % very lean man y
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

We have 500, 900 worth Of generals
year III these United States. Generally
speaking 1T is to much.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-07-08

ENGLISH CLARION the road to Ep-
som, a moustached youth, on the top Of
O drag, evidently ambitious of being
mistaken for IAN officer" thus saluted
fat coachman, who was gravely driv-
ing his master and family: Holloa,
you sir ! where's your shirt collar =?
How dare you come to the Derby with.
out O shirt-collar ?" Jehu growled
forth, without lifting his eyes from his
horses, Sow the dooce could l have q
shirt collar when your mother has not
sent home my washing?"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1876-03-02
Cares 9: Family Stores.

Flour slould be kept in barrel. with a
nolr scoop 10 dip il. sieve to sift it. and
pan TO hold the sifted -four either in the
barrel or close at hand. The barrel should
have light cover TO keep OUT mice and
vermin.-C nbolted -four should be stored
IL kegs or covered tubs. and always be
kept on hand 81 regularly IS fue -four. In
d.aa meal should be purchased in small
quantities. say fifteen or twenty pound. at
time. aud be kept in covered tub or
key. II i always improved by scalding. 1t
must be kept very cool and dry. aud II &C.
casionaly stirred is preserved more surely
from growing sour or musty.-Fresh
ground Is best. Buckwheat. rice. bor1inv
and ground rice must be purchased in small
quantities, and kept in covered kegs or tubs.
Several of these articles are infested with
small black insects, and examination must
occasionally be made for them Arrowroot
taeioca. sago, pearl barley, pearl wheat.
cracked wheat, American isinglass. macar-
onl, vermicelli and oat meal are all articles
which help TO make an agreeable variety.
and 1t is just as cheap to buy small guam
tity OF each as It is to buy large euantity
of two or three articles. Eight or ten
pounds of each of these articles of food can
be stored in covered jars or covered wood
boxes. and then they are always on hand
TO help make variety. All of them are
very heslthful food, and help to form many
delightful desserts. Some of the most
healthful buildings are those made of rice.
tapieca. sage and msccsroni, while isins.
lass or American gelatine forms elegant
articles of dessert, and is also excellent for
the sick. Sugars should not be bought by
the barrel, as the brown is apt to turn to
nolasses. and run out on the floor. Refined
loaf for tea. crushed sugar for the incest
preserves and to use with fruit, nice brown
sugar for coffee. and common brown for
more common use. The loaf can be stored
n the paper on s shelf. The others should
,e kept in close covered kegs. or covered
wooden articles made for the purpose. But
er must be kept in the dryest and coolest
lace you can find. in vessels OF either