The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-08
AN HOUR WITH CORRESPONDENTS.


The first letter we open halls from
Tillamook, and says, "Please print the
accompanying lines. ] found them in
an old scrap book, and they are well
worth preserving. They were insti-
gated by your criticisms on an anna
teur's attempt to portray the same, or
similar fancy, in her own language,
few weeks since:
"'Ye glittering orbs OF the gladsome night,
Who mirror your faces in waters bright,
And cheerOur hearts with the pleasing sight,
As muse ON my impotence.
For know, though you charm my senses
quite,
BY your quivering glance from ethereal
hight,
That you cannot but pity the plgmy night
OF the mortal who halls you with glad de-
light,
As you measure his feeble sense
"Where the fragment came from / do
not know, but thought of it when the
NEW NORTHWEST of two weeks ago
came to hand, and looked it up, and so
you have it. Let not the lady you crit
ieised so plainly be discouraged. The
way will yet open for her If she will
work and wait"
Thanks, friend. Now fer the next
one. 1t halls from Astoria, aud is as
follows:
"I have seen papers that like better
than the NEW NORTHWEST, aud do not
want your paper longer. The New
York Ledger prints more stories than
you do, and it tells all about the right
person to choose for a husband"
We cheerfully give place, gratis, to
our friends advertisement for the
Ledger, though such a notice Of the
NEW NORTHWEST in that model pa
per's columns would cost US many a dol
lar per line. But we are not envious, be-
cause we can afford to be charitable.
The Ledger is milk for babes, and we
would not furnish the meat of logic for
minds that cannot digest it, therefore
we think our friends resolve a wise one.
Let her take the Ledger, by all means,
till she gets the wisdom teeth Of her un-
D
it, but can come higher and partake Of
the NEW NORTHWEST aud be fed. We
are not surprised, once 10 a while, to
meet such cases. Indeed, the wonder
is that so many young women like the
writer above quoted, who have always
been mentally fed upon the watery pap
of sensational love stories that end with
marriage and felicity, have taken so
kindly to the writings Of this journal,
which treat of the practical side of life's
experiences, with the romance and fact
and folly all thrown in.
Here is a letter in rough, brawny
hand, indicative of strength, decision,
and courage:
Enclosed find nine dollars, for which
send me the New NORTHWEST for
three years. 1 found stray copy in
the Clarendon Hotel when l was in
town, and like the ring of it,"
We cheerfully comply with the re-
quest of our strange farmer friend, and
will wager a lead pencil that he's proud
Of his wife and not at all afraid that
she'll get ahead Of him If she has an
equal show. None Of your "head Of the
family" nonsense about that subscriber.
A dear old lady, who scribbles in the
round, painstaking chirography of the
long ago, is exercised lest our doctrine
about family heads isn't Scriptural.
Her letter is long, and our readers have
so often heard its style of argument that
I it is not worth while to print it here, as
it would not be read. But we beg leave
to say that we'd rather be right than to
be ''Scriptural," though a fair construe-
tion Of Bible language, as applied to
Bible times, would by no means prove
her conclusions sound. The Golden
Rule is as good Scripture as we want,
and comes from authority that Chris
tiaus ought to consider superior to Paul.
We are compelled to postpose the con-
sideration of many other letters for the
present. Let correspondents be patient.
They shall all be attended to in their
turn. But do not let the letters lag.
We like to get bushel every week.