The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-19


'I am sure don't know what shall
do. What can do 90 replied, almost
savagely.
"Sure enough. Poor child, what can
you do? 1t seems you can't get rid Of
your incubus, for he follows you, no
matter where you go. I believe that
every man whom rum has conquered is
as unfit to run at large as raving
maniac"
But there was no insane asylum in
Oregon Territory then, nor is there now
a refuge in the State for the cure Of in
ebriates.
Ah, me!
1 have never been considered what
the world would call strong minded.
But ! cannot help knowing that Il I
were law-maker, as we'll as a law-sup-
porter, I should leave no stone unturned
till bad provided an asylum for inc
briates, and compelled all sufferers from
the cup to enter it and remain until
cured. But, alas, am not law-maker,
and sometimes fear that men are so
stolid and so fearful OF losing power
over women that will be too old to do
my country very much public service
before shall become one.
"Is that you, Ethel?" said Gerald,
making a frantic attempt TO reach me
with his pinioned arms.
''Yes, darling, it is l." I exclaimed,
again. Nobody shall hurt you. These
are not hobgoblins, but men, your
friends and neighbors. You won't be
afraid OF US, will you ?'
"Runlg for Gods sake, give me rum !
There are a billion demons in my blood,
and they're all demanding rum! Give
it them, or 1 shall diep' he cried, his
voice a pitiiul wall that fairly froze my
hearts blood.
"NeighbOrs, he must have rum ~
shrieked. "You walked the sleeping
demons in him yesterday when I would
gladly have died to prevent it, and now
you must nurture the fiends Of your own
creating"
Latterly I have learned that my then
wly-discovered or imagined theory is
sometimes authoritatively pronounced
a scientific one. The medical world is
gradually solving the problem OF the
cause Of mania pOtu. And when the
present researches are crystalized into
demonstration, am sure it will every
where be understood and acknowledged
that the frantic thirst OF the drunkard is
the insatiate demand of a billion para
sites, which are coursing through his
blood during their running season, after
the manner Of salmon coursing through
p, & stream.
Let the doctors who deny this propo.
sition laugh if they will. If one OF them
should live for third Of a century a,
the wife of drunkard, he'd reach the
3 same conclusion that did II he'd allow
himself to think and observe at all.
: The men were afraid to bring my hus
= band rum, but one of the women rar
, with hot haste to the house Of the neigh
= Dor who supplied the fluid to wake th'
demons the day before, and she soon re
= turned with a sufficient quantity Il
J. stupefy the monsters and reduce them L
e docility. Then we led my husband Il
e our home without difficulty, and sObere'
z him Off by degrees.
Il My neighbOrs then entered into a sol
3 emn compact that they would neve
d again, under any circumstances, b
guilty of putting the bottle to thei
u neighbor's lips.
's Gerald could not remember that h
u had driven me out Of doors, nor did b
% recollect that he had fled from imag
e mary devils to the woods with my chill
y dren. He only realized that he wa
J. sick and tortured and weak, aud that b
l. felt like a miserable sinner.
E. All, if l could only have induced hir
ie to remain away from liquor, even afte
AZ thatl But there was no use in hoping
Ina little while the immigration froI
y all parts of the world began to pour int
TO the Willamette Valley; mines were dii
n covered in Southern Oregon that a
II tracted vast crowds in that direction
" the community that had been 50 stai
D. and reliable that could depend upon
p to protect my husband from his infirn
/ ity, had no influence over the enterpri
1 ing but INSCRIPTIONS man who opene
q, a store, hotel, and groggery at the ne
n, village, only a mile from our HON
ID and my peace Of mind was Of short dur
as tion.
Maternity was again my portion, al
IN this time I was the mother Of twins.
a. Every one who has observed the phi
H. nomena that accompanies the settlir
in of new countries has remarked the e.
cessive Increase of the settled Populatio
Z Go where you will in the new settl
ed ments, and you will find that the bu
deps of motherhood are grievous to
ey borne. There is philosophy in this u
,ir conscious effort of the earth to replenii
ot its sparse population, but it is exec
sively trying to the health and temp
ur of pioneer women to endure IL.
TO be continued
ie- An Illinois freshman has the repul
le tion of having thus outwitted p