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ITO be continued.I
An Ounce of Prevention.

From all sections of the land comes
the cry of distress. Men canrfind moth
ing to do. Women are III despair. Chill
dren wonder at their insufficient food.
So long as hard times were confined
chiefly to the South, people at the North,
although naturally sympathetic, bore
the infliction philosophically-the boil
being on the other mans neck. But
now THAT the whole country is in part
nership of distress, the more thoughtful
publicists perceive a danger, the very
idea of which is calculated to stir the
most sluggish blood. Now men steal
who never stole before, and women are
forced into the byways of dishonor to
seek the crust of shame and the shelter
of infamy. What will be the develop
meuts of this winter, which begins so
seasonably, Heaven only knows. The
Scriptures tell us that "The Lord tenn
pers the wind to the shorn lamb" but
practical observation shows that if a
shorn lamb exposes his fieeced hide to
the bitter piercing of a cold east-wind,
the Lord interpOses neither blanket nor
ulster, but permits the natural law to
work its will. So here we are taught to
| believe that Heaven protects the weak
and cares for the poor, but unhappy ex-
! perIence cOnvinces US that the strong
4 man misuses his delicate Deighbor, and
! the poor suffer now as they never did
before. All the preaching in Christen-
dom won't fill one human stomach. All
the prayers of all the faithful won't
give a single quilted petticoat to the
child of sorrow, nor provide the over
coat of comfort to the back of trouble.
Hard times are here.
There is no question of the fact, anC
there is no remedy. The nation is un
prepared for the strain. Individual!
are crushed. Communities are disabled
We fail to see that legislation can be o
any practical aid, and the single avenue
at present apparent is actual pecuniarN
relief, to be furnished by civil officers il
behalf of towns and cities. We mus
come to it sooner or later, and the sOone
the easier. Otherwise there'll be
saturnalia of riot all over the country
An ounce of prevention is better than
grape-shot.-Er.
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A Prodigal Son.

The strange vicissitudes of fortune are
evinced in the career of a young man
who is now selling five-feet tape meas
ures on State street, near Madison. He
is the son of wealthy parents. y few
years ago he was an attendant at col
lege, graduating with all the hOnOrs of
his class. His promise for the future
was very bright. His parents had re-
sided in West Virginia, where his father
had accumulated vast property. He
removed to Pittsburgh with his family,
where he became identified with her
great iron and coal interests and added
TO his wealth. He lived in plain but
comfortable style, in what is known as
"The Hill,n on Franklin street. The
son did not show any desire for profess
sionaI life, but rather inclined to be
tradesmau. Some four years ago the
father established his son, with another
young man, in a hat business on large
scale on Smithfeld street, Pittsburgh.
The store was one of the largest and
most elegantly fitted up in the city. For
awhile things ran very smoothly. Busi-
ness did well, and both men were on
the road to fortune. But an evil day
came.
Boon companions of a questionable
character misled the wealthy fathers
sou. Wine and gambling took the place
of business, which was neglected. The
career downward was rapid. He went
from bad to worse, until the promising
young man of but a few months ago was
almost a total wreck, socially and finan-
cially. The father tried to reform his
erring son, but he spurned him, ald, in
order to raise money, forged checks for
small amounts. These were settled, but
at last the father discarded him. 1t was
then that he realized his position. A
few months ago he managed to make his
way to Chicago. Without friends or
money, and homeless, he was uusuccess-
| full in procuring employment. His old
/ habits of dissipation he had thrown
aside, bat no one cared to employ him
/ because he looked so shabby, yet he was
always clean.
! At last he managed to raise a stock of
/ tape measures, and these he is now SELL.
| ing on the street. Yesterday he met
one of the Tribune reporters, who had
known him in his prosperity.
/ "Ah," said the scribe, land you are
selling tape measures ?"
"Yes," said he, 81 had to come to it
at last. 1t is hard, but it is my own
fault. You know the chances and home
/ had, but l scoFned them all. When [
fell, my friends fOrsook me and left me.
But 1 am determined to do better. [
shall endeavor to get along, and hope
that something better will turn up for
me-"
This young man, in the bitter, biting
blast of yesterday, had barely sufficient
clothing upon him to cover his naked
ness. He has ability and business tact,
and he may yet again find the road to
honor and wealth. Chicago Tribune.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

SELF F-DEGRADATION.-N Othing hurts
man more than to seem ignOble in his
own eyes. 1t is the enslayish feeling
that degrades the enslaved A base
ambition makes the man that cherishes
it, base. No one can debase you tut
yourself Slander, satire, falsehood, in
iustice-these things can never rob you
of your manhood. Men may lie about
you, they may denOuuce you, they may
make your failings the target of their
wit or cruelty; never be alarmed; never
swerve an inch from the line your judg
ment and conscience have marked out
for you.
They cannot by all their efforts take
away your knowledge of yourself, the
purity of your motives, the integrity of
your character, and the generosity of
your nature. While these are left, you
are, in point Of fact, uuharmed. Moth
ing outside yourself can ever make you
smaller shan you are to-day. If you
shall lose what makes you an ornament
to that rank and order of intelligence to
which you were bOrn:the loss will be
a self-inflicted one. Self-degradation is
the only degradation man can know
| Golden Rule.
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PURITY FOR PURITY.-Girls! listen to
this, and with virtuOus resolve demand,
as your right, a pure love:
Young men of bad habits and fast
tendencies never like to marry a girl of
their own sort, but demand wife above
suspicion. So pure, sweet women, kept
from the touch of evil through girlhoOd,
give themselves with all their costly
dover of womanhood into the keeping
of men who, in base associations, have
learned to, undervalue all that belongs
to them, and then find no repentance in
the sad after years.
There is but one way out of this, and
that is for you to require in associations
and marriage, purity for purity, sobriety
! for sobriety, honor for honor.
There is no reason why the young
men of this land should not be just rs
virtuOus as its young women, and if the
loss of your society he the price they are
forced to pay for vice, they will not
pay it.
This is plain, sensible talk, and just
such as ought to be needed by all oul
| boys and girls, till the much needed
reformation is fully established. Toe
much of the happiness or misery of Oul
children depends on this for it to pass
without producing deep reflection anC
action in the right direction.
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die for principle, than for any other
boon that could be given to the world" !"
"There are plenty of such women, sir,
plenty of them," said Edna.
'T confess have not found them"
because, sir, excuse me, you have
not tried. You consider gold the most
precious of metals. 1t is precious only
because it is so hard to find. If it were
as easy to procure as the powders on
yonder mountain, would you strive to
possess it as you do ?"
The stranger had not thought of that.
"Now," continued Edna, "you say
you are satisfied that you possessed your
lady loves affections; yet it seems by
your own confession, that when an OBJ
stacles came in the way, you helplessly
abandoned the field. Suppose, after you
have bored and blasted and striven as
well as you know how to find your pay
ing quartz you come suddenly to great
obstruction, previously unlocked for.
Do you abandon the enterprise, or do
you not, all the more earnestly work
and wait?
"Of course, madam, I should be COM
pelled to remove the obstruction"
"But it seems that, when an obstruc-
tion came in your matrimonial way,
you yielded the field, like a coward, to a
rival who had no moral right in the
premises, and then went your way, be-
moaning the fickleness of woman. Why
did you not say to her that if her heart
was yours her hand was also, and no
other claimant had prior right? You
didn't give her a chance to be true. You
recognized her fathers prior claim, and
consoled yourself by finding fault with
her. Sir, women will do more, and suffer
more, and sacrifice more for principle,
thousand to one, than men will ever
think of submitting to. know whereof
[ speak"
AS Edna spoke, the thought of what
she was now enduring for principle
although that principle began to look
to her awakening enlightenment as q
false one, came before herin its horror
And, as if to fill her cup of bitterness tC
overliowiug, her husband came stagger'
ing in from the grOggery hard by, a:
maudlin and silly as chain-lightning
! elixir could make him.
az was not aware that was protract
ing my visit so much, good ladies; pray
excuse me-" said the stranger, as ht
placed the change for his lunch in Aun
Judy's hand and departed.
TO be continued
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

A PECULIAR MARRIAGE CEREMONY.
On the wedding-day in BorneO the
bride aud bridegroom are brought from
opposite ends of the village to the spot
where the ceremony is to be performed.
They are made to sit on two bars of
iron, that blessings as lasting, and health
as vigorous may attend the pair. A
cigar and betel leaf, prepared with the
areca nut, are next put in the hands OF
the bride and bridegroom. One of the
priests then waves two fowls over the
heads of the couple, and, in long ad-
dress to the Supreme Being, calls down
blessings upon the pair, and implores
that peace and happiness may attend
the union. After the heads of the affi-
ances have been knocked against each
other three or four times, the bride
groom puts the prepared sirl leaf ane
cigar into the mouth of the bride, while
she does the same to him whom SHE
thus acknowledges as her husband
! Philadelphia Ledger.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

The poorest girls in the world are
those who have never been taught to
work. There are thousands of them.
Rich parents have petted them; they
have been taught TO despise labor and
depend upon others for a living, and are
perfectly helpless. The most forlOrn
woman on earth belongs to this class.
1t belongs to parents to protect their
daughters from this deplorable cOndi-
tiun. They do them Il great wrong if
they neglect it. Every daughter should
be taught to earn her own living. The
rich as well as the poor require this
training. The wheel of fortune rolls
swiftly around-the rich are likely to
become poor aud the poor rich. Skill
TO labor is no disadvantage to the rich,
and Indispensable to the poor. Well
to-do parents must educate their daught-
ers to work; no reform is more impera-
tive than this.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

Care for ones self and his own, though
it be SELFISH is the law, and the law is
life, and life is duty. Neglect may be
disaster and death. 'If any man pro-
vide not for his own, especially those of
his own house, he hath denied the faith
and is worse than an Infidel." The
subject is but just opened; a sermon lies
before. Most reasoning men can, how
ever, see the leading and most sugges-
tive points. There is a tremendous
scope in the unfolding. And as you
take up life and its vast responsibilities,
and consider here little and there a lit
tie out of the whole field of human pos
sibilities, we beg that you will not make
the fatal mistake of overlooking the
precious gifts indicative of good judg-
ment, thoughtfulness for the future, and
wise regard for the comfort and happi-
ness of the family circle.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

THE NEW ENGLAND FISHERIES
During the present. season not less than
10000 men have been engaged in New
England fisheries. In the single branch
of mackerel fishing, Massachusetts,, the
preseut season, has sent out over 500
\ SAIL carrying some $500 men. The
mackerel fleets are now in for the sea-
son, and the returns are definitely set
tied. The present year would seem to
have been just about an average one-a
little better than rs, and somewhat
poorer than IA. There has been re-
ceived at Massachusetts ports, thus far,
about 10000 barrels of mackerel,
against l55. 900 in the year 1872, and
against 600 in the year of 1874.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

An Eastern exchange makes the fol-
lowing mention of a blind musician
who resides in Jersey City: "The life of
Miss Alice a. Holmes affords an in
stance of peculiar interest. She lost
her sight at nine years of age. Totally
blind she pursued the study of music
and fitted herself for teacher of the
piano. She uses no raised notes, but in
reading a new composition, sister
names the Key, the Time ana the
Movement. Then the notes aud their
value are correctly given. The blind
musician plays as the notes are named.
Miss Holmes mode of teaching does
not differ materially from that in Ordin-
ary use. She has a class of twelve pu-
pills and resides at % Wayne street.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

SPEAK KINDLY.-Speak kindly in
the morning; it lightens the cares of
the day, and makes the household and
all other affairs move along more
smoothly.
Speak kindly at night, for it may be
that before dawn some loved one may
finish his or her space of life, and it will
be too late to ask forgiveness.
Speak kindly at all times; it encOur-
ages the dOwn-cast, cheers the sorrow
ing, and very likely the earnest resolves
to do better, with strength to keep
them.
Kind words are balm to the soul.
They oil up the entire machinery OF
life, and keep it in good running order.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

The will of Fred. Rose has been adj
mitted to probate in Brooklyn. 1t con-
tains this clause: "Slnce | believe that
married life is the best for mankind, [
beg my dear wife to try not to be him
dered by any false, romantic ideas from
remarriage after my death, if she finds
man worthy of her, and request her to
accept as a wedding gift from me, her
first husband, who loves her more than
he can express ia words, the sum of
$4,000, to hold and own forever"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

Miss Clara Morris has that excellent
thing in woman, a soft, low, and pa
thetic voice. 1t has so impressed cor
respondent of the Boston Gazette that
he writes: 81 believe that if Clara Nor
ris should simply say, May L trouble
YOU for another piece of that beefsteak"
I would burst into tears. There is some
thing in the quality of her voice that
unIocks the flood gates, in'the slow pc
culiar pronunciation she givesto every
word.n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

A devil could not help pitying Mrs;
Tilton, who faulty or not, is spoken OF
by her nearest neighbOrs, friends and
enemies, as most loving and devoted
wife and mother, with heart always
open, and hand always ready to miu-
lister to the sick and the sorrowing. Yet
she is left to fate million times
worse than death, while the men who,
by their egregiOus egottsm, vanity, sell
fishness and wickedness, were the cause
of all the trouble, draw crowds of SYM
pathizers, make money, and seek con-
ISOLATION in any way that seems to them
best.-JeRnje June.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

The National Library of France is the
largest in the world, and contains
l,7OO, 900 volumes, $4,000 manuscripts,
100000 engravings and maps, and l2O,
600 medals; the Library Mazarin, 1000,
600 volumes, 1900 manuscripts, and SO
relief models of Pelasgic monuments in
Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

An Eastern paper says: "Miss Ellis,
the young lady at Wesleyan University
who was forced to resign her post as
class poet because her brother students
thought woman ought not to hold it,
may comfort herself with the reflection
that it was all matter of prejudice,
and not of brains"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

The staid old Rocky Mountain Ne1Os
has column edited by the "Colorado
Woman's Suffrage Association" and
devoted to the advocacy of woman's
rights. 1t is as interesting and as ably
edited as any column in this substan-
tial pioneer journal.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

Such is the productiveness of the cas-
sava plant from which the tapioea of
commerce is manufactured that it has
been calculated that one acre will yield
more nourishment than six acres of
wheat.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-19

Woman's degraded, helpless position is the
weak point of our institutions to-day-a dis
turbing force everywhere, severing family ties,
fllng our asylums with the deaf, the dumb,
the blind, our prisons with criminals, our cit
les with drunkenness and prostitution, our
homes with disease and ddeath.-[Nationai Cen
tennial Equal Rights Protest.
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the
year 1876, by Mrs. a. ]. Duniway, in the office of
the Librarian OF Congress at Washington City.l
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If you don't bride your tongue, sad
die be your fate.
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EDNA AND JOHN:
A Romance or Idaho Fiat.

BY MRS Al. DUNIWAY,
AUTHOR OF JUDITH REID" "ELLEN DowD,"
"AMIE AND HENRY LEE" THE HAPPY
HOME" GONE wOMAN's SPHERE"
"MADGE MORRISON"
ETC, ETC, ETC.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-11-14

on account Of the terrible gales,
AMI the Detroit steamers are all OF
of time. On Thursday night OF
last week the wind seemed to howl
a perfect hurricane, and many IN
fortunate vessels were caught in
the gale and driven ashore, while
Others we're dashed to pieces or
sent to the bottom OF the lakes.
The steamer Dunlap, which left
this port on Thursday afternoon,
succeeded in weathering the
gale, which Capt. Brown informs
US was the most terrific he ever
experienced, until she arrived at
Tawas, where he was compelled to
lay until Nidsy night, when she
sailed for Bay City. During the
same gale, the Sunny Side, loaded
with coal, was driven ashore at
North Point, where she still re-
mains, and is being unloaded by
the wrerking ting Monitor; not be-
ing very much damaged. The
schooner Empire State also went
ashore some distance from the
Sunny Side, and will prove a total
wreck. She is loaded with iron
ore, and has broke in two. She
has been stripped of her rigging,
which is now at this port. The
schooner Chas. HiDcklev. also load
ed with ore, is another of the unfor-
tnnate, and lies hard aground in
sight of the above two. Her main
mast and fore top mast were carried
away, and she sustained other dam
age. She lies in very fair shape,
and can he lightened off.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-11-14
Patents.

Patents granted to residents Of
the S tate of Michigan, in the last
issue, bearing the date of Oct. 8
1877. Reported by Paine and
Grafton, Patent Attorneys, Wash
ington, d. c.:
w. j. Perkins, Grand Rapids,
single saving machine.
John j. Winsor, East Saginaw,
nut lock.
Z julius o. Antisdale, Lake Har.
Dor, plant and tree protector.
George Kator, Worthwhile, butter
package.
John B. Baugh, Detroit, draw
bar for rail way cars.
James Flo wler, Detroit, fire by.
drant.
William s. Lawrence, Kalama-
zoo, pillow.
Jarvis G. Train, Lowell, beehive.
Artus A. Wilder, Detroit, bolt
lock for rail-joints.
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Lake Freights.

The following charters of vessels
for carrying lumber, etc., from AL
pena to other ports, are reported:
Propeller II. c. Schnoor, hay and
-four, full load, Detroit and St.
Clair, to Altoona and Alpena, at So
per ton.
Bark John Breden, lumber, Os-
sine'se to Tonawanda, at SO per m,
on rail.
Schooner knight Templar, lnm-
her, Alpena to Chicago, at S1.T5
per m, on rail.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-11-14

On Friday and Saturday even
ings of last week the ladies of the
Catholic Church entertained their
friends with grand oyster supper
and festival at the Catholic School
House, and were very generously
patronized. The affair proved such
a success and gave such general
satisfaction that it was continued
during Monday and Tuesday even
ings of this week, with good re-
suits and very fair proceeds.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-11-14

EPISCOPAL-Rev w. W. Rafter. Services in
Trinity Church, on First street, every Sunday
morning and evening
BAPrIST-Rev w. G. Learned Services in
SoGietv's Church, on Third street, every Sabbath
morning and evening.
CATHOLIC-Rev. Z. M. Dekierc. Services in
the Catholic Church, on Chisholm street, every
Sundays at $50 A. M, 1880 A. NJ, and ut p II.
vespers-evening service. Sermon In English AT
10. 80; in French ut 1880
CONGREGATIONAL A. b. Allen. Ser
vices IN the Societys Church, on Second street,
every Sabbath morning and evening.
METHODIST-Rev. ii. G. Northrup' services
in society's Church, on Dock street. every Sabbath
morning and evening.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-11-14
Secretary.

Judge Tenant, of East Sagin-
aw, presided over the Circuit Court
of this county, part Of last week,
and gave great satisfaction. The
bar speak of him in the highest
terms. and such of the citizens as
were present at Court, were very
favorably impressed by his i'm
partial rulings and his ability as q
iurist.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-11-14
A DMINIsTRAToR's SALE.

State Of Michigan. county Of Alpena ss
In the matter OF the estate Of James Benson,
deceased
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance Of an
order granted to the undersigned. administrator
Of the estate of said deceased, by the Hon Judge
o Probate for the county of alpena, on the 9th
day OF November, A. u. 1871 there will De- sold at
rublc vendue, 20 the highest bidder, ut the front
door OF the Potter Block IN the city of Alpena in
sud state, on The 9TH day Of January, A. d. 1873,
NJ two o'clock in the afternoon Of lhat day, sui
iect a. all encumbrances by right OF dover of the
widow OF said deceased therein the following
described real estate, to wit The east half Of
the southwest quarter OF section thirty, in town
thirty-one north. range six east.
THOMAS McGlNN
32T Administrator Of said estate.