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Smother the Girl Babies.

Even before the Centennial EXPOSE
ton, enlightened nations had begun to
discover that they do not mOnOpOliZe
all wisdom, and that barbarOus and
semi-civilized peoples are not necessa-
rily and altogether fools. What If we
can learn from them the solution of our
greatest modern problem-the woman
question? Well, we can do so.
They can teach US how to end at once
and forever the whole wOman's rights
business, Woman Suffrage, the social
evil, the intrusion of starving and des-
perate women into mems spheres of la
Dor, the tattling and meddling of the
ignoble army of old maids, the draiu
upon young mans energies of unmar-
ried sisters to support, the bankruptcies
and defaieations caused by the silks and
laces and costly evening parties OF pet
ted and extravagant daughters, or of
mothers eager to marry their daughters
off; we can stamp out blOOmerism, lady
doctors, wOmen's newspapers; we can
women, mark this whisper! do not let
men hear it!-we can so thin the
crowded ranks of pale victims to the
needle and the school-bOOk that men
cannot get their shirts made for six
cents apiece or their children taught for
WdSeS JudL just hGSp Tue LCiClitI dllNGs
And how is all this TO be done? Why,
by tenderly smothering every female
child that shall be born for year to
come, and every third female child in
the years hereafter. No trouble. Only
to press a pillow for two minutes on the
little face-and the helpless Innocent
is spared all the miseries of this life.
Women do not disturb society and in
convenience mankind because they like
to do so, but because they are here and
cannot help themselves.
Wrong would it be? So is war wrong;
and yet, even since Christ came, sover-
eigns calling themselves the Most Chris
tian King, the Most Catholic King, the
Defender of the Faith, popes claiming
to be the Wears of God on earth, repub-
lies choosing the motto, 'In God We
trust" have made war occasionally.
And which is wOrse-to kill in one bat
tie 10000 men with all their sins upon
their heads, leaving their families starv-
ing, their homes burned, their land dew
asted with famine and disease and
| decentralization to follOw-Or to send in
one year $4,000 girl babies straight to
heaven, rescuing them from life of
unpaid toll and vain struggle, lonely,
anxious, aimless, unpitied, jeered, and
ending, perhaps, in vice and misery?
| Yes, China and HindOstan are kinder
| to their superfluous females than Chris
tian Europe and America, where mill
| lions of women live to wish they had
been flung down baby-tOwers IN help
less infancy.-IribIule.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09
Sixteenth Amendment in the Senate.

That women will, by voting, lose
nothing of mans courteous, chivalric
attention and respect is admirably
proven by the manner in which both
Houses of Congress, in the midst of the
most anxious and perplexing Presiden-
tial conflict in our history, received
their appeals from twenty-three States
for a Sixteenth Amendment protecting
the rights of women.
In both Houses, by unanimous con-
sent, the petitions were presented and
read in open house. The Speaker of
the House gallantly prepared the way
yesterday, and the most prominent Sen
atOrs to-day improved the occasion by
impressing upon the Senate the import
ance of the question.
Mr.. Sargent reminded the Senators
that there were forty thousand more
votes for Woman Suffrage in Michigan
than for the new State Constitution,
and Mr.. Dawes said, upon presenting
the petition from Massachusetts, that
the question was attracting the atten-
tion of both political parties in his
State, and he commended it 10 the early
and earnest consideration of the Senate.
Mr.. Cochran, of Missouri, merrily de-
claEed that his petitioners were the most
beautiful and accomplished daughters
of the State, which of course he felt
compelled to do when Miss COuZins'
bright eyes were watching the proceed
ings from the gallery.
! Mr.. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, sug-
gested that it would have been better to
| put them all together and not consume
| the time of the Senate with so many
| presentations.
The officers of the National Woman
| Suffrage Association held a caucus after
the adjournment of the Senate, and de-
cided to thank Mr.. Cameron for his sug-
| gestiOn, and while they had not anxiety
| lest Senators should consume too much
| time attending to the interests of the
women whom they claim to represent,
and might reasonably anticipate that
ten millions of disfranchised citizens
would trouble them considerably with
petitions while this injustice continued,
yet they would promptly adopt the Sen
ator's counsel and roll up such a mann
moth petition as the Senate had not
yet seen from the thousands of women
who had no opportunity to sign these.
Accordingly they Immediately prepared
the announcement for the friends of
Woman Suffrage to send on their names
to the chairman of the Congressional
committee.
They naturally feel greatly encour-
aged by the evident interest of both par
ties in the proposed Sixteenth Amend
ment, and will work with renewed
strength to secure the cooperation OF
the women of the country Washing
ton Chronicle.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09
A Terrible Ride.

We have often heard how persons
who were trying to steal their way over
the Union and Central Pacific railroads
had secreted themselves on brakebars,
under the cars, in the fire-boxes and
boilers Of new engines, and in other
perilOus positions, but the experience
of man who was recently attempting
to dead-head his way from the East to
this State eclipses anything of the kind
that has ever come to our knowledge.
1t seems that he boarded a train at
Omaha, and after having been elected
from several trains, he succeeded in
getting to Green River, in Wyoming
Territory. Here the train men became
more vigilant, and the man saw that
he would have to find very secure
hiding-place. Accordingly, while the
train men were busily engaged, he
erawled into the fire-bOx of a stationery
engine that was standing on a fiat car,
and which was going through to San
Francisco. Soon after the train started
some one, purposely; or not, we do not
know, shut the engine door, and the
man was a prisoner. The mans posi-
tion was terrible one. He could not
sit down, and could scarcely turn
around, and in this way he rode for
four days and nights without mouth
ful of food or drink, excepting a few
crackers he had in his pockets. When
the train arrived at Virdi, Nevada, a
distance of nearly nine hundred miles
from Green River, the man managed
to attract the attention of the conductor
by scratching on the inside of the en-
gine with his finger nails. He was lib
Grated from his awful situation, and
I - 1 II i
and from remaining so long in a
cramped position. He was properly
cared for at Virdi, and at last accounts
he was in fair way to recover. 1t is
safe to conjecture that he will walk
after this rather than attempt to beat
his way over railroad.-Truckee (NeU.)
| ReI1ubLic0n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

ONE FORM OF RUDENESS.-Af fragrant
breach of politeness, and one which is
most annoying to refined and sensitive
people, is the very general practice of
interrupting ones conversation. The
impunity with which this is done has
degraded rational conversation, which
ought to be the greatest charm of social
intercourse, into a provoking farce. A
man or woman who has anything to
say which is worth saying, desires to
say it in their own way; and they who
have brains to appreciate it will be
equally desirous of hearing it without
interruption. Yet it is a common thing
for a parlor conversation to partake
more of the nature of a tower of Babel
than a conversation among rational be-
ings, who are supposed to know and ap-
preciate what each other says. One be-
gins to relate an incident, and before he
has two sentences finished, some parrot
in fine clothes chimes in with her
senseless gable, breaking the thread
of discourse, and compelling the
narrator to begin again or abandon
the attempt to instruct or enter
tain. This is the grossest of impolite-
ness, as common an occurrence as con-
versation itself. We suggest to young
people, and old ones, too, for that mat
ter, that here is a promising field for
social reform. Never interrupt social
conversation by interjecting remarks,
however appropriate or witty they may
seem. All sensible people will respect
you, and conclude that you have good
sense and know how to use it to the best
advantage.
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STARERs.-There are several grades
of starers, all of whom are accomplished
in the art, and are equally disagreeable
to their neighbors. There is your bold,
unblushing starer, who will look you
out of countenance in a moment. He
will take in every detail of your face,
dress and appearance, and no amount
of dignity you can assume will prevent
his looking at you as long as he pleases.
Then again there is your intermittent
starer, who pauses between the acts to
gain strength to look again. Then there
is the nervous starer, who will give you
sharp glance, and then just as you
think he has forgotten you back come
his eyes with sort of spasmodic mo-
tion. The genteel starer is the pleas
antest of his race; without exactly look
ing at you, he cOntrives to see every
thing you are doing. If one has to be
stared at at all, his method is the best;
but it is no accomplishment to be a
good starer, and refined people will
avoid the habit.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

Money was scarce and time had to be
given to the crippled father and mother,
so dependent on their children's care.
But down in the old parsonage the
white-haired minister married and
blessed them, and they turned home
wards to united labor as we'll as united
love.
You ask about the sequel? Well,
Louise Ellery Morse did not prove to be
anything like an angel, after all. Ow-
ing to his fathers business reveTses, the
young man was obliged to accept a
book-keeper's position, at a salary OF
fifteen hundred dollars year, and to
give his father some assistance out OF
that. The young couple could not sup
port the fine style in which they had
begun to live, so they gave up their big
house; and as Mrs. Morse could not con-
sent to live in small one, they ''did
not live, they boarded" in a shabby
genteel way.
There was one child, a wretched little
thing, suffering from the mothers tight
lacing and ignorance of hygienic laws.
1t cried feebly for two months, and then
stopped forever. The mother was not
sorry-"it had always been such care, "
and the father tried not to mourn or
miss it, because he knew it was "betteT
Off" There is a discouraged, strug-
CLING husband in the downtown store;
fretful, discontented wife in the up
town boarding-house, and no help OF
happiness for either, anywhere.
Mr.. Robinson "gOt about again" a
few months after his daughters mar
riage, but Rogers mother fingered for
three years, trial and discipline to
the true hearts who loved and cared fol-
her uncomplainingly to the end. One
of the old arm-chairs in the family sit
ting-room is vacant, but on the knee Of
the grandfather who sits in the other
there sits a chubby, red-cheeked little
girl, listening gravely to his funny sto'
ries of when her mother twas little, just
like mel"
There has been poverty, sickness
debt and hard work. for them; there
has been also the love which has sane
titled and blessed it all.
Between the extremes lies the mean
There must be center as well as surface
to both life and love, and truth is the
essential element of the love that lasts
Hrs. c. b. LerOJU IN WOnldn's s Journal
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Mr.. Stewards First Attempt to Make
Speech.

The autobiography of the late Will
liam H. Seward, from 1901 to 1884, ed
tied by his son, w. H. Seward, just
published, contains, in a letter to his
wife, the great Secretary's account of
his first essay to make speech in the
Legislature. He wrote:
might before last / said to myself,
Henry Seward, you are fool to be
afraid of your shadow. Show yourself
a man. Bring up the salt business, and
prove to those who misconstrue your
diffidence into meauness that the one
shall not seal your lips and that the
other attribute don't belong to yOu.' So
l drew my resolution, which you will
see in yesterdays paper. made
out brief of what | would say in favor
of it, screwed my courage up to the
sticking point consulted Tracy and
Maynard. They approved, and L went
to the House, took my seat, paper in
hand. By the time that could prop
erly offer the resolution, grew faint
hearted, thought I would postpone it
till Monday-let the opportunity almost
pass-thought once more of it, and, with
motion of uncommon energy, found
myself on my feet.
"'Mr. President,' said I, and thick
darkness was before. me, Il offer the fol-
/ lowing resolution Imagine my con-
sternatiOn when 1 heard the President
announce in the usual form, THE Sem
otor from the seventh district offers the
following resolution 1t was read
while 1 was endeavoring to recall one
word of what had meant to say. To
make my embarrassmentte tenfold greater,
discovered the Regency men took
alarm. Two or three were on their feet
at once, and moved that the resolution
be laid on the table. felt relieved, be-
cause was released from speaking upon
it for one day. l sat down after con-
senting to the postponement. In the
evening the Regency men came to know
what 1 meant. The newspapers re.
ported the offering of the resolution
and I was hailed by all the anti-Re.
gency men as a hero for my bold deter.
mination to bring to light the pecula'
tions on the treasury"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

Mr.. Glover, by unanimous consent,
introduced the following bill to relieve
the legal disabilities of women, in the
House of Representatives, January Is,
1877, which was read twice, referred to
the committee on the judiciary, and or
dered printed:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
any woman who shall have been a
member of the bar of the highest court
of any State or Territory, or of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia
for the space of three years, and shall
have maintained good standing before
such court, and who shall be a person OF
good moral character, shall, on motion,
and the production of such record, be
admitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of the United States.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

ETIQUETTE IN TURKEY.-Turkish
court etiquette has undergone a great
change during the last three months.
First, at recent interview the Sultan
bowed to Mr.. Foster, NJ. P, and re-
mained standing, looking attentively in
his face during the whole interview.
Formerly the Sultan was invariably
seated; bow was never accorded even
to Grand Vizier, and the only salute
given was regard which lasted about
five seconds. Mahmoud Damat Pasha,
the Sultan's brother-in-law, who acted
as interpreter, remained standing and
made no sort of Obeisance whilst -ad-
dressing the sovereign, and Saadoullah
Bey, the first secretary of the Sultan
Murad, did the same. But formerly it
was the etiquette to kneel on both
knees and to bow the head to the south
at each sentence when addressing the
Sultan. This was carried to such an
extent that the most intimate friends,
or rather companions of Abdul Aziz
were forced to kneel while playing
besique with him.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

Miss Martineau's "Society in Amer
lea" contains MANY good stories.
Among them are the following: A lee
turer discourslng on the characteristics
of woman, is said to have expressed him
self thus: "Who were last at the cross
Ladies. Who were first at the sepul-
chre? Ladies'" An epitaph on a ne
gro baby at Savannah begins: "Sweet,
blighted lily"
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Over the tiny grave of the only body
that of an infant-washed ashore at
Lydd, near Dugeness, England, from
the ill-fated emigrant ship, the NORTH
reply of the parish constable when he
was appealed to by the undertaken as to
what name should be engraved on the
coffin-plate.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

Paupers suffer less than mixers do
the man who don't kno WHARF he il go
ing to git hiz next dinner, suffers less
than the one who il anxious to kno
how much it il going to kost him.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

'I never complained of my condition
but once" said an old man, "when my
feet were bare, and 1 had no money to
buy shoes; but 1 met a man without
feet and became contented."
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09

1 hav finally cum to the konklushun
that the best epitaff emmy man kan hav,
for all praktikal purposes, is a good bank
ackOunt.
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UNITED STATES BONDS.
WATTS,

The alleged ineligible Oregon elector,
is still here basking in the warm SUM-
light of our city, patiently awaiting to
testify before the electoral commission
when the Oregon case shall be called be-
fore that BODY.
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THE PATENT OFFICE.

Secretary Chandler denies the pub
lished report of the morning papers that
this building is to be used for the inaug-
'uration ball, and says he will not permit
it, as 1t would seriously interfere with
the business of his department.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
The work of examining the founda-
tion strata is still in progress. The ex-
animation so far proves the solidity of
the strata underlying the monument.
THE WASHINGTON POLICE.
The House committee, which recently
Investigated the board of police of this
District, held meeting to-day to con-
slider their report, and decided to hold
another meeting on Saturday, as the re-
port was not ready for signatures.
THE CoRCoRAN BUILDING,
Opposite the United States Treasury,
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NAVAL.

Rear Admiral Goldsborough is seri-
ously i'll with typhoid malaria at his
residence in this city. Secretary Nor
rill, at noon, was slowly but steadily
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Between the extremes lies the mean.
There must be center as well as surface,
to both life and love, and truth is the
essential element of the love that lasts.
hrs. c. b. LerOlO IN WOnan'S Journal.
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THE BLACK HILLS.

The President was at the Capitol some
two hours to-day urging action upon the
Indian bill before adjournment, as inn
migration would be very great this sum-
mer to the Black Hills.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-11-21
Public Sale.

Tutorship of minors, Eliza and Thomas
Pilgreen.
State Of Louisiana, Parish Of Claiborne.
DY virtue Of commission issued out Of
ID the Parish Court of said parish and
State, and to Inc directed, l will "eil on
Saturday, the LIST day Of December, 1877,
to the last aud highest bidder, on the prem
Uses, All the Personal Property belonging
to the above named minors, consisting Of
Corn, Mules, Hogs, Sheep, Cattle,
Household and Kitchen Furniture,
&C., &c.
Terms of sale, cash for amounts under
Ave dollars; above that amount, twelve
months time, with approved persoal secu-
rity. GEORGE ID. klLLdORE,
Nov. Z, lS7.-l2ts Tutor.
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Succession Sale.

Succession of II. S. Goodenough, deceased.
State Of Northumberland OF Claiborne.
DY virtue of commission issued out of
ID the Honorable the PHish Court of said
pal ish and State, to me directed by Drew
Ferguson, Clerk of the District Court,
will proceed to sell to the last and highest
bidder, within the legal hours of sale, at
the Court i.crse door in the town of Homer,
On Saturday, the cath November, 1877,
the following described property situated
in said parish and State, belonging TO said
succession, tn wit:
The southwest quarter of the northeast
quarter, the southeast quarter of the north
west quarter of Section ~, Township ~,
Range ,, the northwest quarter of south
east quarter, the southeast quarter of the
southeast quarter, the northeast quarter Of
the southeast quarter, the northeast quar-
ter of the southwest quarter, the northwest
quarter of the northeast quarter, the north
east quarter of the northwest quarter, the
southeast quarter of the southwest quar-
ter, and the southwest quarter of the south
east quarter of Section 30, and the west
half of the southwest quarter of Section -,
same Township and Range, less strip one
hundred and sixty-fve yards i'll width
across the north end of the eighty last
nulnt1, ana u Ntrlp NNutH h'i'N' 'hN
northeast quarter of the southeast quarter
of Section 30-containing As acres-witl
all the improvements thereon.
Also, one Gin Stand.
The property will he sold on credit OF
one aud two years-thc purchaser giving
notes with approved personal security
bearing eight per cent. per annum interest
from day of sale, and mortgage retained OF
the land sold to pay the purchase price.
w. +. GOODENOCGH, Tutor.
Oct. "a, lS77. lost
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Minden Upper Landing.

uAvING LEASED THE MINDEN UP
III per Landing, I invite the attention Of
Shippers and Consiguees to my commodious
WAREHOUSES; aud the thorough repair
of the road leading thereto; and returning
thanks for past favors, respectfully solicit
further consignments of cotton and freight
As my personal care will he given TO the
business, my patrons may rest assured that
it will receive prompt attention.
II. A. BARNES.
Oct. }, 1877. 7:0m
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SEED POTATOES.

THE Brazilian Van, and Mobile
/ Market POtatO-For sale this Fall
by the undersigned. These varieties arc
superior in flavor aud quality to any other
potato raised in this country. FIVE HUN
DRED BUSHELS TO THE ACRE 10 not
an uncommon crop. They arc froa fsur to
six weeks earlier than any other variety.
Win be delivered In quantities to suit
purchasers any time sitter digging.
w. ]. MERCER, Homer, Il.
Aug, y, 1877. liam
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Notice To My Customers

HAVE YOUR NOTES AND OPEN AC-
| counts. Notes are all due, and those
that don't pay may look out, for mean
MONEY! must have IL. give you fair
warning. II the money is not paid by LIST
January, 1 shall proceed to collect by law,
and mean what say. will give good
prices for cotton in settlements.
A. MCCRANIE.
Sept. 10, 1877. 5:f
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Succession Of Jsues r Waller, peeeased.
STATE Of Lssiaiss, Rwtsa y CIstssvse.
ny virtue Of . ccwmiasisa issued oat Of
u the Parish Court Of saia parish and
state, and 10 me directed, will sell "a ths
last and highest bidder, between The 1s4al
houB Of saie, ct the late residence Of dc.
ceased, on
Saturday, s4th day sf Hsv., A. D. 1877,
all the Personal Property belonging TO tho
succession Of J. r. WALKER, DECD, lsSe a
said pariah and STATE; ed We f6llowiSg
described land belonging 10 saia deocPss&
The northeast quarter a Sss&iss nips-
teen, leus fourteen acres O weDt - -
half Of southeaat quarter q 6eetioQ nlue-
teen, and tho west haAf d Section tweaty,
and the northwest quarter OF the northcoss
quarter Of 6esoDoa twenty, In Township
nineteea north, q Range ssvea wese-
northwest Quastss q n0gthwess auaseefi
and north half e Sosthwest enaEesr q
northwest quarter Il 6ectiea tweasy-a1,
Township twsuty go, 1an4s s4ne weoh
and poFthsast quarer = ssasevee leesees
Il Section twssty-tvo, Township nsnsssea1s
| RanGe oovGn vo68
I'm e(sn1e g., - ~ 49, = =.
| n. W. xlRKRAf1S
oss. ~ 1871. tpfN -
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DELINQUENT LIST

NJ Taxpayers Of the Parish
SfCiaIborne, on the lst on-
Ssv Of November, 1877, on
Tabjeau Of 1875: