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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06
A LESSON TO BE LEARNED.

A writer in Scribner says: at is
really pitiful to see a good conscientious
little mother resolutely shutting her
self away from so much that is best and
sweetest in her children's lives, for the
sake of tucking their dresses and ruff
fling their petticoats."
Pitiful, indeed, for before the boys
and girls are half grown they will come
to regard mother-not as the sharer of
their joys, the consoler of their griefs,
their mentor and companion and guide
but as a sort of convenient appendage
to the household, a sewing-machine at
tachment, useful mainly in making
their bodies presentable.
Far be it from us to speak in terms of
reproach to or of those mothers who
must work in order to feed and clothe
their children; who from Monday morn
ing early, until Saturday night late
and sometimes without the blessed rest
of Sunday-must toll unaided and un-
appreciated at necessary labor for the
comfort of their children. They need
sympathy and encouragement, for rest
and recreation are impossible to them.
These have been censured dozens of
times 10y well-meaning friends for work.
ing constantly beyond their strength,
when the truth was just here: The
work was to do-nlltst be done, and
there was no one else to do it. Censure
only adds additional weight to these
burdens, already too heavy, and the
dreary, hopeless WEAKNESS that it in
duces, none may know but those who
have staggered under the load.
But there are hundreds Of mothers
who make drudges of themselves need
lessly, because of this tucKing and ruff
fling mania which causes them to sit
with aching limbs for hours at the sew
ing-machine; brain confused by the
nothingness of their work; lungs COM
pressed by constant STOPPING; liver tor
pid from the want of proper exercise in
the open air; minds narrowed and tenn
pers soured; heads dizzy and hearts
sick. And for what?
Simply that their children's garments
!. may be dainty tucked, ruffled and
braided, and the children themselves
} become arrogant and vain. Garments
} clean, whole, comfortable, and of be,
coming colors, need no other adorn'
! ment than bright and happy child
hood bestows, and lovely childhood
J needs no other adornment than suct
garments. Embroideries, tucks, anC
the like are only commendable wher
/ their manufacture gives work to th,
: toiling poor and adequate compensation
, therefor, and no mother of young chill
s dren is justifiable in wasting time, vi
s tality, and strength upon them.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06
A REMONSTRANOE,

A remonstrance to Woman Suffrage,
gotten up by four persons, one man and
three women, was heard on behalf of
the demonstrators" at Representatives
Hall, Boston, on the 9th of March. A
specimen of the arguments used to
strengthen the remonstrance is the fol-
lowing. Hon. Russell H. ConwelI, the
only if not the best man of the four,
said:
"1here are s., ,453 more women old enough to
vote in Massachusetts than there are men old
enough to vote. If these women vote, it will
turn the State with one sweep over to women.
Massachusetts would be governed by women"
he added, asking, "Who wants to say Massa-
chusetts is ruled by women? A wife is not re-
quired to do anything to support her husband;
she can turn him out of doors, break his head
with a broom-stick, ETC.. ETC."
In all the long and windy argument,
not one word was uttered in response to
the charge that it is gross injustice to
compel majority to be governed by a
minority.
One of the strangest arguments we
ever remember to have seen advanced
was by this gentleman brought forward
in his endeavors to "make the worse
appear the better reason" Quaking
with fear lest his question as to whether
"women should rule Massachusetts,
should be answered in the affirmative
he says: "There are many more male
than female paupers, criminals, Hitter.
ates, ETC., so that we find the actual
number of male voters to be only 351 :
113, while the number of women voters
because of their greater thrift, moral
ity, education, etc. would be a little
more than 500, 900; hence, to give wom
en- the ballot would turn the State owe
to them bodily, by a majority of 149,
$751;" Now, have we not here an argu
ment against ~ the political equality
of the sexes? 1t would pay the suffra
gists of the Old Bay State to give thi
man q salary for six months and lie
him stump the State against them, 70
just so sure as the common people o
Massachusetts have common sense, jus
so sure will such statements as the abov,
bring forth victory for the woman
cause.
The petitions fer suffrage had abou
: ten thousand signatures; the remon
: STRANGE had four. After the adjourn
ment, the gentleman whom we hav
quoted asked of the ladies who appeare,
in behalf of the petitions, defending th
position that women are already pro
tected by the law, "What wrongs are t
t be righted ?" to which was replied
s ''The great wrong which always exist
r when one class has unlimited powe
S over another class.n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06
NEWS ITEMS.
STATE AID rERR1roR1AL.

There is talk of a wooden mill being
built at Dallas.
Seventy-five pupils attend the public
school at Bethel.
Hon. L. F. Lane has opened law
office at Roseburg.
The Hood River settlement numbers
about fifty families.
There are 1859 pupils in the public
schools of Jackson county.
The Christian Messenger, published at
Monmouth, is to be suspended.
The recent high water damaged the
basin at Oregon City to some extent.
Damascus district in Clackamas
county reports 122 children of school
age.
The Hood River peach trees were in
full bloom two weeks earlier than last
year.
Captain C. B. Crandall is expected to
return to Oregon during the present
month.
Twenty-Five deaths from diphtheria
have occurred at Dallas during the past
winter, all under ten years of age.
Jackson county has 2,73S children of
school age. Fifty-three teachers were
employed in the county during the year.
The contract of building the new
bridge across the Molalla has been
awarded to A. s. Miller & Son, of Eu-
gene City, for the sum of $500.
Levi Leland has accepted call from
the Good Templars of California to en-
ter the field in that State as Estate
Lecturer" and departed thence last
week.
The new Secretary of Washington
Territory, n. II. Owings, is from Indi-
ana formerly, more recently from Colo
RADIO. He served in the army during
the war.
There will be larger acreage of grain
sown in Goose Lake valley this year
than ever before. In one neighborhood
there will be 1000 acres sown, whereas
there were but $50 acres sown last year.
The graduating class of the William
cite University will be an unusually
large one this year, numbering some
. twelve or fourteen students. The ex-
: aminations are, we learn, about COM
pleted.
Steam was raised for the first time on
the new steamer "Mountain Queen'i
last Friday. Boiler and machinery were
found to be in first-class condition. The
engines worked to a charm, and the
steamer is now ready to take the line a:
far as that department is concerned.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Brother Acton's backbone" is not
just the thing to sustain his subscrip-
ton list, as may be proven by more
than one good sister in this city who
has entered into a covenant with her.
self to pay no more of her earnings to-
ward sustaining paper that scouts at
the ability and intelligence of women.
AS the brother has evidently been
dwelling upon certain sayings of st.
Paul to the exclusion of the rest of the
Scriptures, we beg leave to call his at
tention to a certain proverb which says:
'He that hardeneth his neck shall sud-
denly be destroyed, and that with rem
edy," and to suggest that he regulate
his backbone" thereby, and save the
further defacing of his mail books.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06
"HE WHO RUNS MAY REAp.u

The old-fashioned patchwork, now
happily almost obsolete, has been the
winding sheet of many a mother and
left heritage of lifelong ills to humid
reds of children. One of the saddest
sights we ever remember to have seen
was one of these intricate patchwork
quilts, formed Of myriads of infinitesi-
NAL pieces, hanging in the frames,
about half of it quilted, and swung up
over head to make room for the kindly
neighbors who had come to place in her
coffin the worker who reposed therein
with her still-born baby upon her
breast.
"Ready not to do, at last, at last" she
lay, a suicide without suicidal intent,
the immediate instrument in her slow
but sure destruction the bits of dimity
and calico sewn together in quaint de-
vices and daintily quilted in imitation
of feathers and flowers.
"She should not have done such work
at such time" said we to the mother
in-law, one of the iron-framed women
of decades agone who,
Formed in natures sternest mould,
Are slow to feel and strong to bear"
And who boast of the prodigies of labor
that they performed in the early years
of their own motherhood needless of the
keen retaliation that nature has made
upon the degenerate bodies of their chill
dren therefor.
'fIt was her time to die" was the grim
and stolid answer. "Work never killed
anybody yet"
And so the long evenings that tshe had
bent over her needle, depriving her
body of sorely-needed repose, and the
yet longer days that she had stitched
with aching arms and bosom close
pressed against the stubborn frames
that held the quilt in place, depriving
herself of Gods pure air and glorious
sunlight and the gladstone music of the
birds-alI this counted for naught, and
Fate, if not the Infinite Himself, was
arraigned for the premature death o.
this mother and child!
The toil-worn hands, the finger tips
bearing the thousand imprints of the
needle, the weary smile with which
kind Death had wreathed the lips, the
pinched face and dwarfed body of the
silent baby upon the silent bosom, TOLD
story that, though mute, spoke with {
thousand tongues to those who woulC
listen, and their dumb utterance wa
convincing to the understanding.
Less fortunate than this tiny slum
berer are many children, dwarfed il
body and narrowed in mind, who tax
up the ungodly heritage of bodily ills
,, and ills of spirit which ignorance ha
, bequeathed to them, and carry these ill
up the sleeps and down the slopes @
life-always tired, irritable, and work
, ing at disadvantage. The lives of thes
: plead all around US for the enlighten
, ment of mothers; for their exemptio
from drudgery during the early years c
their motherhood; for the cultivation {
their minds, and for the judicious car
= of their bodies. These pages of life his
q tory burdened with pain and disappoint
n ment are so plainly stereotyped upo
hundreds of lives around US that "h
q who runs may read"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

The WomdR'S Journal supplements
the notice of the death of Judge Ames,
of Massachusetts,, with the following
tribute to his labors for woman: "Being
a reformer, Judge Ames was constantly
seeking to improve the laws. Among
others, those relating to the disabilities
of married women were often brought
to bis notice while on the bench. Con-
sequently he felt the wrongs done the
other sex more keenly than most men,
and became a most Jealous, persistent
and able advocate of the legislation for
improving the condition of wives and
widows, which during the last quarter
of a century, though still inadequate,
has done so much honor to Massachu-
setts. He was inevitably in favor Of
giving suffrage to women. Earnest
and eloquent in urging these reforms
his loss is deeply felt and lamented by
his surviving associates"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06
WILL WOMEN VOTE 2

Hundreds of men who stood about the
polling-place on Monday afternoon can
answer this question in the affirmative.
Do women take an interest in school
matters?
Again comes an affirmative answer,
for every woman whom the laws of men
permitted to do so testified to her inter-
est in the cause of education by sending
her ballot to speak for her. Let US not
hear again, if you please, that women
would not vote if they could, for they
have proved to the contrary.
Don't try to frighten US again, we
pray you, by telling us what horrid
crowd of irresponsible roughs surround
voting places, waiting for chance to
insult women who would venture to de-
posit a ballot, for women have wit
messed the fact that men can behave
themselves at such places as well as
elsewhere.
We know there is some foundation
for the taunt which women who pos
sess, and are proud to possess an indi-
viduaIity so frequently meet, that
"women themselves are Indifferent con-
cerning political privileges" but an op-
portunity to become interested is all
that sensible women need to enable
them to take an interest in matters OF
public moment.
Hop,norad oc vuoo,oy, ara In a,,orr ,,,o y,
by thrice three-fold walls, the outer
three formed by custom, the second oi
Ignorance, and the third of prejudice
have been for centuries impenetrable tc
any force that they were empowered tc
bring against them; hence it is little
wonder that women have become indif.
ferent and supine. When, however
the magic wand of justice is stretched
over these barriers, and the light o
knowledge dispels the gloom that hal
hovered over them, they will crumblt
to the earth and be builded nevermore
One thing is plain. If women viii
not vote, no harm can possibly come
from striking the word "male' frou
our State Constitution, and anothe
equally plain is that justice demand
that opportunity for women to repre-
sent themselves, if they choose to do so
be given them. Whether they woult
make use of the opportunity or not i
another question, and one that can onl,
be proved or disproved by actual test
This test was furnished in a limitet
way last Monday, and the presence G
women at the polls decided the question
in the affirmative. Thus we move along
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

The confession of John D. Lee re-
hearses no new horrors in the Mountain
Meadows Massacre, merely confirming
the revolving details that his long trial
brought out. The silence of two de-
cades has at last found a tongue, and
this weak and wicked tool of cruel and
mereiless fanaticism received the death
shot which sent him to the land of souls
upon the very spot where, twenty years
before, he had conspired against the
hapless band of emigrants known as the
Arkansas Company" and led them 10
their fearful death.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

There has been an interest manifested
concerning school. elections quite unu-
sual throughout the State. This we are
extremely glad to see, and further, we
are pleased to see that nearly all of our
State exchanges have called attention to
the fact that "widOws having children
and taxable property" are allowed to
vote at these elections. 1t is needless to
add that women so situated very gener-
ally availed themselves of the privilege
of voting.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Speaking of that greatest legislative
abomination that ever blotted the stat
ute books Of any State or nation, the
"Social Evil Laws" and its possible re-
enactment, a writer in the st. Louis
Globe Democrat says: "We shall never
be able to eradicate vice or remove its
penalties, but we may at least keep law
on the side of virtue, and save ourselves
from the disgrace of licensing and pro-
tecting iniquity."
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Mrs. Duniway has commenced to can
vass Portland in the Interest of her new
poem david and Anna N 5tson." She
has thus far met with acordial reception
from our citizens and most flattering
success. She will endeavor to make the
canvass as thorough as possible, and all
of her old friends may expect to receive
a call from her within the next two
weeks. She will, as soon as possible,
visit Salem, Albany, and other points
upon the same errand.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

We never knew man who publicly
boasted that he was "head of the fam
ily," and as publicly expressed thanks
that "his wife was not strong-minded
woman" but what his bifurcated gar
ments were the only emblem of his
headship and authority. A man who
finds it necessary to boast abroad that
he is "master in his own house." finds
it equally necessary to speak of tour
breeches' when mildly limiting to his
weak-minded spouse his wish to have a
missing button replaced.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

In the department "Woman's King
DOM" in the Chicago Inter Ocean, we
find the following on "Women as Dent
ists:" A wise friend asks, "Why do
not American women learn to be dent
lists ?" There is an opening for hund-
reds of women in this profession. In
every large city and large town there is
certainly a demand for women who
could care for the teeth of women and
children. A German lady, who studied
and practiced dentistry in Philadelphia,
lately returned to Berlin, where she has
met with a signal success. Having
been appointed dentist to the children OF
her Royal Highness, business was at
once secured. 1--WE suppose if the chill
dren of royalty have the toothache, the
plebean chicks all make haste to have
their teeth pulled) This woman dentist
is said to have "great strength In her
little hand, excellent health, buoyant
sDirits, and works ten hours day."
But we need not go to Berlin to find
successful women dentists. We have
them here in Chicago.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

That men will, when opportunity Of
fers, be very glad to avail themselves Of
the assistance of women at the polls
was clearly demonstrated in this city
last Monday. No less than three car
riages were sent after one lady who
lives in the southern part of the city to
convey her to the voting place. She
was, however, satisfied with voting
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Procrastination is the thief of life as well as
of time. Don't coquet with Cough, a Cold, or
any lung or throat complaint. Without even
an hours delay procure HALE's HONEY OF
HoREHoUND AND TAR. There's no discount on
its operation. A cure is the inevitable result.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Brother Carter of the Gazette "can't
see what good will come of the joust
between the NEW NORTHWEST and i'd
Uocate." We know how to sympathize
with him exactly, for we have been
long unable to see what "good" can
come of much of the matter with which
he fills his columns.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Efforts are being made to take the
Chicago pension agency from Miss
Sweet, the lady who was the innocent
victim of an official blackmailing job
which was exposed last year. Strong,
burly men are working for the place,
but Miss Sweets most formidable rival
is Mrs, General Mulligan.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

The want of the South, says Harper'S
Weekly, is an army of gentle and ac-
complished school-mistresses who can
alone extirpate barbarism in Georgia
and soften the children of Texas into
humanity and civilization.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06
MRS. B. A. OWENS. NJ. D.

Office and residence, east side First street, be-
tween YamhiII and Taylor Special attention
given TO women and children's complaints.
Also, gives MEDIcATED VAPoR BATHS, COM
bined with Electricity, in treating rheumatism
and chronic diseases. 5-S2
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

How now, Mr.. School Clerk ? Don't it
"amount to anything" to publish the
law concerning the rights of widows to
vote at school elections, and sDon't they
avail themselves of the privilege?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Mrs. Blewett, of Walla Walla, has
sued the Northwestern Stage Company
for $4,000 damages for injuries received
by being thrown from one of the Com
pany's stages.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

EB- The National Gold Medal was awarded
to Bradley & Rulofson for the best Photographs
in the United States, and the Vienna Medal
for the best in the world. 429 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06
NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon us TO pay express charges upon
small sums. and they will confer great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Thompson, who was to have been
hung at Seattle last Friday, obtained
reprieve, as the case has been appealed
to the Supreme Court.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-06

Poor old Grandmother AbbottI Be-
cause we will not tolerate vulgarity, he
is compelled to bid us "adieu."
g o. muse, pervide han,kercber and weep ,p
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-11-08
HOW. THE FRENCH WORKMAN LIVES.

The French laborer probably gets more
for his wages than any other. His food is
cheaper and more nourishing. His bouil-
lon is the liquid essence of beet at a penny
per bowl. His bread at the restaurant is
thrown in without, any. charge, and. is the
best bread in the world, His hot coffee and
milk is peddled about the streets in the
morning at a sou per cup. 1t is coffee, not
Stops. His half bottle of claret is thrown in
at a meal costing twelve cents. For a few
cents. he may. enjoy an evenings amusement
at one of the many minor theatres, with his
coffee. free. Sixpence pays tor a nicely
cushioned seat at the theatre. No gallery
gods, no peanuts pipe, smoke, drunkenness,
yelling or bowling. The Jardin DIES Plan
ties, the vast galleries and museums of the
Louvre, Hotel Cluny' palace of the Lnxem-
bourg and Versailles are free for him to en-
ter. Art and science hold out to HIM their
choicest treasures at small cost, or. no cost
at all. French economy and frugaliry do
not mean that constant retrenchMent and
self-denial which would deprive life of ev-
erything which makes it worth living for.
Economy in France, more than in any 9th
e country, means a utilization of what
-Amariiccal throws away, but it does not. mean
sSpinchi!ng process of REDUCING life to a bar
rem existence of work and bread and water.
--Sx. Louis Republicans.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-11-08
POTATO III CURE.

Many different means have been tried. to
destroy the beetle, but without effect, until
the present method was found, and this
method is sc, efactixe and4so cheap, that he
must be a very careless farmer who still lets
his potatoes he ruined. It is the following +:
Take 10 TBS. Of lime and mix it well with l
ID. of Paris green, which is in no way dele
FERROUS to the potatoes, giving II lbs. of mix
ture for each acre. Get a small wooden
box, 10 inches by 8 inches, and 6 inches
deep, and nail a piece of millcloth, as used
for. sitting by wheat mi|Hers, instead of a
wooden bottom, beneath, also a piece of lath
across. the middle of the open top as. a ham
Ole for. shaking the box. Every morning
from 5, to O'Clock or longer, as, long as the
dew is on the plants, this, mixture has to be
applied. Children of s to u years can east
" Go it, by putting about one pint into the
box and sprinkling it as dust by slow shak-
ing on the leaves, OF the plants. I.guarantee
that if this is done at the beginning Of the
growth in spring, az soon as the first insects
are seen, the plants will remain perfectly
free. Within two days all the beetles will
have disappeared, and this result is quickly
arrived at, even if the field has been already
completely devastated, and only the stalks
remain covered with the insects and their
Larvae. The cure never fails, and it has al
ready been proposed by our. farmers. in the
papers. to compel all potato growers by law
to.apply thi mixture OH all their fields, for
then, within two years, the bug would be
entirely DESTROYED.