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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

GOOD ADVICE To READERS II you
measure the value Of study by the in
sight you get into subjects, not by the
power Of saying you have read many
books, you will soon perceive that no
time is so badly saved as that which is
saved in getting through a book in a
hurry. For il to the time you had
given you had added little more, the
subject would have been fixed on your
mind, and the whole time profitably
employed whereas, upon your present
arrangement, because you would not
give little more, you have lost all.
Besides, this is overlooked by rapid aud
superficial readers-that the best way Of
reading books with rapidity is 20 acquire
that habit Of severe attention TO what
they contain, that perpetually confines
the mind to the single object it has in
view. When you have read enough to
have acquired the habit Of reading
without suffering your mind to wander,
aud when you can bring TO bear upon
your subject a great share Of previous
knowledge, you may then read with
rapidity; before that, as you have taken
the wrong road, the faster you proceed,
the more you will be sure TO err. -
Sydney Smith.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16
Married Politeness.

"Wiil you ." asked a pleasant vni-e ;
and the husband answered
"Nes, my dear, with pleasure
10 was quietly but heartily said the
tone, the manner, the look, we're per
fecily natural and very aiiectionate. 81
beg your pardon" comes as readily TO
his lips, when 10y any little awkward
ness lie has Disconnected her as it would
in the pr, seuce Of the most fashionable
stickler for etiquette. This is because
he is most thorough gentleman, who
thinks his wife in all things entitled to
precedence. He loves her best-why
should lie hesitate 10 show it not ia
sickly, maudiin attentions, but in pre-
ferring her pleasure and honoFing her
in public as well as private. He knows
her wOrth-why should he hesitate to
attest it?
"And her husband he praised her."
saith Holy Writ; not by fulsOme adula-
lion, not by pushing her charms into
notice, but by speaking as opportunity
occurs in a manly way Of her virtues.
Though words seem little things, and
slight attentions almost valueless. vet
depend upon il they keep the flame
bright, especially as they are natural.
The children grow up In better moral
atmosphere aud learn to respect their
parents as they see them respecting
each other. Many a boy takes adyan-
tage Of mother he loves, because he
often sees the rudeuess Of his father. In
sensibly he gathers to his bosom the
same habits, and the thoughts and feel
ings they engender, and in his turn
becomes the petty tyrant. Ouly his
mother-why should he thank her p
father never does Thus the home be-
comes the seat Of disorder aud unhsp-
piness.
Only for strangers are kind words eX-
pressed, and hypocrites go out from the
hearth-stoue fully prepared to render
justice, benevOlence, aud pOliteuess to
any one and every one but those who
have the justest claims. Ali give Us
the kind glance, the happy homestead
the smiling wife and courteous children
Of the friend who said so pleasantly:
"Ges, my dear, with pleasure" -
GOdey.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16
irsly Willie Fliror puiriiy pa, on cloak

iugiy while Elircr uui,iiy pat on cloak
an Sees atl iuri..a O" tie iiunr.
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ih, hu~hnuI ,no..-tty Mafr'il O."
iren @i-l, shore. nrsr il,i~ ius- N"u
mustn't Gei hard. mun.; So only hog
way, shes So drc.df':i n,rvnu~. ~
powerful bad thing lp lev rerves," hr
continued. s;ghiag deeply. "S!e's he'd
'em more er less ever since we suz mar
ried, hut it's bin a-gitiiu' wuss or her
sinee size got go reaiiu' 20 much. Shes
too smart, she H. She reads So much
il makes my head swim To think Of it;
it's no wonder she hez the nerves so bad,
she gifts so excited a-readin' these 'ere
books" and he pointed TO a pile Of yell
low-colored "iiierature" on the table
beside the hickering ial'ow candle as he
paused for breath
"T fear / can do nothing for your
wife. sir" said Eliuor. "nothing she
would consent 10, even il she were will
ing 10 receive my advice, which you see
she is not. II / were to prescribe for
her. should say: Burn those books,
take a bath every morning, take plenty
Of exercise, eat good, nuurishiug food,
dress comfortably, aud let medicine
alone. She has had too much Of ii a.
ready. Good-evening
And the young doctor turned aud
passed out Of the door before the aston
ished vixen who listened 10 her had
time to pour forth the vials Of her wrath.
When she found her voice, she screamed
out:
"Air ye man. wonder, TO stand by
an hear yer own wife abused that way
by sich dreadful hussy, au' never open
yer stupid head?"
al b'leeve she talked sense, DO, ole
woman, an Pm drafted ef go tearin'
round huntin' doctors fur ye TO insult
'em an drive 'em Of any more" said
the patient but reused husband. can
ye kin jest pick up yer duds to-morrer,
aud we'll start back to ole Pike. Ketch
me foolin' round this way any longerw
The scene that followed must be left
TO the Imagination.
Eiinor placed herself under the care
Of a friendly policeman, aud reached
home safely, much amused 10y her adj
venture.
TO Doe continued
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16
The Loss Of a Wife

Tn comparison with the loss of q wife,
all other brreavemeuts are tritiing. The
wife she who fills so large space iu
the domestic heaven; she who busted
herself 50 weariedly Tor the precious
ones around her; bitter is the tear which
falls on her cold clay You stand beside
her coffin aud think Of the past II
seems an amber-colored pathway, where
the sun shoue upon beautiful flowers, or
the stars hung glitteriug overhead
Faiu would the soul iingeT there. No
thurus are remembered save those your
hands have uuwillingly planted. Her
noble, tender heart lies open To your in
most sight. You think Of her now as
all peutleuess. all purity, all beauty
But she is dead. The head il laid upon
a pillow Of clay. The hands that have
miuisteTed 50 uutiringly are folded he
meath the gloomy portal. The heart,
whose every beat measured an eternity
of love, lies under your feet. The flow
ers she bent over with smiles, bend now
over her with tears, shaking the dew
from their petals, that the verdure
around her may he Kept green and beau
t-lul
There is no white arm over your
shoulder, no speaking face 10 look up
into the eye Of love, 10 trembling lips
10 muTmur, "Oh, IL Is too sad" - There
IL so strange a hush ia every room; no
smile To meet you az uighifail. And
the old clocS ticks and strikes-it was
such music when she could hear IL.
Now 10 seems To kuell on the hours
through which you watched the shadow
of death gathering on her sweet face (;
aud every day the clock repeats that old
story. Many another tale it telleth, too,
OF beautiful words and deeds that are
registered above. You feel-oh, how
often-that the grave cannot keep her;
that she will live again.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

You, O man! who with your honey
words and your tender looks steal away
a young girls heart, for thOughtless or
selfish vanity, do YOU know what il Is
you do? Do you know what il is "a
turn the precious fountain Of womau's
first love into a very Marah, whose Bit
terness may pervade her whole life's
current, crushing her, if humble, be-
meath the torture of se,f-cOntempt, or, If
proud, making her cold, heartless, re-
vengeful, quick to wound others AS she
herself has been wounded2 And II she
marry, what is her fate? She has lost
that instructive worship Of what IS no
ble in man, which causes a woman
gladly to follow out the righteous altar
vow, and in ''honoringn and "Obeyiug"
her husband to create the sunshine of
her home; and this is caused by your
deed Is not such deed a sin? Ay,
almost second to that deadly one which
ruins life aud fame, body aud soul! Yet
man does both toward woman, aud goes
smiling amidst the world, which smiles
at him again.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

PREMATURE WOMEN. When girls
midway in their teens throw of their
natural girlish habits aud attire, don
long skirts, shoot up the hair, and affect
the airs aud dress of young women,
they would often be surprised to Know
what their elders really think OF the
improvements. One such miss went to
the depot recently to meet an aged
friend OF the family, and was surprised
IN find herself not recognized on greet
ing the visitor as she stepped from the
car "Dnn't you know me, auntie ?'
"Whv, this isn't Maria, is it?'' Ger
tainly; don't you think l look better
than I did last Summer when you were
here ?' NO" replied the honest soul,
looking the girl over; "to tell the truth,
I don't. Go home and let down your
hair, and be young while you eau, for
it will not be many years before you
will be glad enough to have people to
take you for a girl % Springfield Re
publican.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

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Ir flte ,.ttf. -f- ...tit and irul-i.l tHtut.
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lr iI.. I.I.I ti ,i.y sud ihr tlidu'eiif'f -inum.
fI.. FL. f.....- a.,, fu. liiIs rit .luli i.tIr,
snd ti.- ,.uHl b, wound i'i iiic harH a. Fa'e
tTlrI-. cIir' r,-- o. fhr7.d of love ,ro.e iu;
s. o rI.rgt .fu-litI u. t.iau- --Ii~ u!
81 -Itar 3. aflclfrl.d hing ft.i~ I.It. trtIl Doe,
when $50 -,.t Do uufoiied lu ctcIuity!
Time. with "a ftrc like mystery,
Aud hand, ais busy as hands can De.
$. go fh- inouI with arms oufsuread,
To catch iu its mcshCs each glgnciug thread.
When shall this wonderful web be done
Iu o. thousand years, perhaps, or one,
or to- morrow. Who kuowethe Not you or /.
But the wheels turn on aud the shutiles fly
An. sad-eyed weavers, the years are slow,
But each one iS nearer the end. know
And some day tie last thread shail be woven
Iu-
God grant q Dee love instead of sin.
Arc We spinners of wool iu this life-wch, say .
iIn We furnish the weaver a thread each day ?
10 were better, then, %. my friends, 20 spin
4 beautiful thread, than thread oi sin-
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

CONSERVATISM "A British manufac-
turer complains that his workmen will
not adopt improved processes, and that
he cannot compete with American
wares for this reason. For instance,
he sent to Sheffield an American axe,
with an order for large number "tO be
made like the sample" but the work
med refused to make that kind Of axe.
The pattern they had always worked
from was good enough, they declared,
and they would not make the new
shape anyhow.
a Glasgow furrier objected to place
further back the ear-laps Of some imita-
tion fur caps he was making for Mon
treal firm, because his workmen had
never done them that way before" +"
Masons have refused to work stone that
has been purchased at local quarry.
The workmen insist on labOring in the
ruts worn by their predecessors, and
their masters, instead OF encouraging
inventions, do all they can to stop IT,,
aud charge exorbitantly Tor experiment
tai work. 4 poor man who is pro-
fessed inventor is looked upon AS a sort
Of romantic idiot.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

TRUTH.-Truth, then, is not always
apreeable2 Indeed il is not. Truth,
taking il as a whole, is not agreeable.
Every man, woman and child dislikes
il. There are agreeable truths and dis
agreeable truths, and IL is the province
of discretion or sound judgment to make
a selection from these, and not to en-
ploy them indiscrimiuately. Speaking
the truth is not always a virtue. Con-
eealing it is very often judicious. 1t is
only when duty calls upon you to reveal
the truth that it is commeudable. a
tale-teller may be a truth-teller; but
every one disiikes the character Of a
person who goes from one house to an
other and inter-cOmmunicates all he
sees or hears; we never stop to inquire
whether he speaks the truth or not. He
is perhaps all the worse for speaking
the truth, for truth is particularly often
sive in such cases, ami never fails to set
families at variance. Silence is discre-
tion, and concealment Of facts is judi
ciOus.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

THE LITTLE SWEEP. Several years
ago All effort was made to collect all the
chimney-sweepers in the city Of Dublin
for the purpose OF education. Among
the Others came little fellow who was
asked il he knew his letters.
"Oh, yes, sir,n was the reply.
"DO you spell ?"
"Oh, YES, sir" was again the answer.
'Do you read ?"
"Oh, yes, sir" 49,,
uAnd what book did you learn from?"
"Oh, never had a book in my life,
sir"
"And who was your schoolmaster "
"Ob. | never was at school,"
Here was a singular case boy could
read aud spell without a book or master.
But what was the fact? Why, another
little sweep, little Older than himself
had taught him to read by showing
him the letters over the shop doors
which they passed as they went through
the city. His teacher then was another
little sweep like himself, and his book
the sign-b boards on the houses. What
may not be done by trying ?-Chitds s
] World.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

BoOKs.-Bo1ks are not made for fIrui-
ture, but there is nothing else that 80
beautifully furnishes house. The
plainest row Of books is more significant
OF refinement than the most deliberately
carved sideboard. Give us a home fur
uished with books rather than with
furniture-hoth If you can, but books at
any rate. To spend several days at a
friends house aud hunger for some
thing To read, while you are treading on
costly carpets aud sitting on luxurious
chairs aud sleeping upon down, is as if
one was bribing your body for the sake
of cheating your mind. Books are the
windows through which the soul looks
out. A house without them is a room
without windows. M man has a right
to bring up his children without sur
rounding them with books, if he has
the means to buy them. IL is a wrong
10 his family. Children learn to read
through being in the presence Of books.
The love Of knowledge comes with read
ing, and growing upon it; aud the love
Of knowledge in a young mind is almost
a warrant against the inferior excite
meuts OF passion and vice.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16
How Queen Victoria Receives Her Mail.

The train, which we may assume is
bound due north, aud which contains
the royal messenger and his precious
freight of mail boxes, has crossed the
border, and before it has arrived al
Perth, day has broken over the Scotch
mountains Balmoral is reached at
last IL is a sweet Summer day, and
the Queen is seated in the tent on the
lawn, where she frequently breakfasts
in the warm weather, and remains for
hours by herself or with her ladies'
The sorting of the contents af the colos-
s.l mail-bags will take upward of an
hour, aud then Her Majesty will be iu-
formed that all is ready. Many letters
are left for the royal hands TO open
Thus, foreign sovereign, or one Of the
Queens children, or IL may even be one
OF her subjects whom she hOuOrs with
her friendship, has addressed An epistle
10 Her Majesty, I'm the same way that
friends, acquaiutauces and connections
write TO each other in ordinary life.
But even this communication only
reaches its proud destination by a
slightly circuitOus route. The auto
graph communication OF the Car or
Kaiser would first go to the Russian or
German Embassy in London; would
AliFl Nt NEAA AlWAAl tue II " c. - OAAAkG III
Whitehall, and would travel from the
Foreign Office to BalmOral in one Of the
above mentioned boxes. In the same
way will be treated the letters Of those
members Of the royal family who may
from time to time be abroad, or, for the
matter Of that, at home. The Prince of
Wales may employ the penny-post 10
writing to an acquaintance. His Royal
Highness has resort TO the state boxes
when be addresses his august mother,
aud the letter is usually enclosed under
cover 10 the Queens secretary. There
is not one paper in these boxes which
the Queen will fail to examine. On
many she will ask for more informa-
ton; on some she will give definite
opinions, which cannot be confined
within the limits Of a sheet Of nOtepa
per.-Edmumd Yates iH London Times.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

How TO HAVE \ LOVING WIFE. II
you would have loving wife, be as
gentle in your words after as before mar
riage; treat her quite as tenderly when
matron as when n miss; don't make
her maid Of all work, aud ask her why
she looks less tidy aud neat than when
you first knew her; don't buy cheap,
tough beef, and scold because IL does
not come on the table "pOrter-house :"
don't smoke aud chew tobacco, and thus
shatter your nerves, spoil your temper,
make your breath a nuisance, and COM
plain because your wife declines to kiss
you; go home joyful aud cheerful to
your supper, and tell your tired wife the
good news you have heard, and not ST.
lently put Oh your bat and go out to the
club or lodge, and let her afterward learn
that you spent the evening at the opera,
or at a fancy ball with Airs. Dash.
Love your wife be patient; remember
you are not perfect, but try to be; let
whisky, tobacco and vulgar company
alone; spend your evenings with your
wife live a decent life, and your wife
will be loving and true-if you did not
marry a heartless beauty, without sense
or worth; II you did, vino is TO blame il
you suffer the consequences?
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

CULTIVATED To DEATH.-An Indiana
lady, who has been keeping a book Of
college statistics for more than twenty
years, says that thirty-seven per cent Of
sweet girl graduates die within two
years after they take their diplomas. It
may be worth recording that the aver
age American girl graduate is some
what less than eighteen years of age,
that the French girl is twenty-five, and
that the English girl is more than
twenty-five.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

NEGLECTED CHILDREN. - Many a
mother has wept over the sins Of her
child, little dreaming that, while she
pursued her round Of idle pleasures, her
child was taking its first lesson In sin
from the example Of a vicious nurse.
The ruth Is, parents take upon them
selves too many unnecessary burdens,
and consider themselves bound 10y duty
To perform too many tasks, which are Of
much less consequences than the teach
ing aud training Of their children. The
father has his trade or profession, and
his few leisure hours he must spend in
social pleasure. The mother has her
hnushold cares, and the comforts OF her
family to study; aud, besides, there is
much time TO be devoted to fancy
visitors, and TO amusements II one kind
aud another. Her children are mere
secondary considerations, aud depend
upon the kindness of hirelings. Their
dresses may be miracles of putting,
rutlles aud embroidery, but what does II
count when their minds are dwarfed
through neglect? Her house may be a
model Of ueatness, her bread excel that
Of all her neighbors, her jellies and pre-
serves enough 10 tempt the most faslid-
ious; but If, in all this, she has kept
aloOf from her child, has chilled his
heart toward her, what does it count? p
Rural Press.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16
Washington September 2l, Is

There are few cases in which we have
ground to conclude that all goodness is
lost. AT the bottom of the character
there may lie some sparks of piety aud
virtue, suppressed, but not extinguished,
which, kept alive by the breath Of
heaven, aud gathering strength in secret
from reflection, may, on the first favor
able opening which is afforded them, be
ready TO break forth with splendor aud
fOrce.-Bidir.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

In New York it is one month in
prison and $50 fine to attempt TO kiss a
lady and fail. Out here we kiss iem for
nothing, but we don't go fooling round
the wrong One.-SeymOtT Times.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

Although kings may possess almost as
much virtue aud sobriety as newspaper
men, yet we cannot let this providential
opportunity pass without stating that
they are total rex.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

Bracelets are Of Roman or dead gold,
in heavy bands, and are handsomely
engraved aud ornamented with storks,
shells, fans and scroll patterns. Pom
tards and arrows Of the same are worn
in the hair.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

Fashionable ladies who wish the very
latest styles and designs in costumes
rummage the garret for the Oldest Iasn-
ion plates and have their dresses maue
after them.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

The Saturday afternoon train on the
Long Island IN. " Railroad Is called
the Husband train" by the bIOoAtyh
ladies' occupying cottages at ohei'e1
Island.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

Chicago has three hundred and forty
three churches. She's bound TO have
the same things as other cities, even II
she has no use for them.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16

The most treacherous memory in the
world belongs to young man with a
new watch.
New-York tribune., 1879-06-10
VETO FROM MAYOR HOWELL.

Mayor Howell yesterday sent to the Brook
Iyn Board of dermen elaborate message yetoing
the action of May 20 III giving tie Kings County Ecva
ted Railway Company the priyie Of erecting elevated
roads IN all parts Of the city He reviews the history Of
rapid transit Ia Brooklyn the work Of the Rapid Transit
Commission appointed by himself in 1878, and the ac-
ou taken by the Commission recently appointed by the
Supreme Court, which Is still awaiting confirmation
by tue General Term. 4" hold" he says, :" that no
individual property-owuers should sucr any great loss
even in that the general interest OF the city should
be promoted. II the company watch obtains the fran
cnise cannot afford fully compensate those whom IL
ujufes, then hold that the city Itself should do
oppose your action because you have not secured
COMPENSATION worth speaking OF TO private owners who
may be injured | respectful ~ suggest that 10 your
duty To do the resolutions before make cOnces-
slOnr TO the Kings County Elevated Railway Company
which the representatives OF that company never pub
lcly asked for."
After discussing the question OF compensation at
length the message IL Is needless tU that
am, with fclOwcitz ns, I'm favor Of rapid transit.
not for this reason IN favor OF turning Brook
over the mercy of single rapid transit corporation.
Cities built order TO prov de for rapid transit
rapid transit companies IL seems TO clear that
the bestOwa OF one rapid transit route at time all
that we shOrld undertake"
The injunction which was obtained from Judge Pratt
on Saturday restraining the Brooklyn Elevated aIl ny
Company from resuming its work Oh Lexngton-ave..
New-York tribune., 1879-06-10
EX1MINATION or KEEPER ADAMS.

The examination of Keeper Michael Adams,
now confined in ibe Fftysventh street Police Station,
charged with having caused the death or the Blackwes
Is'aud convict Chnsty Snyder, was begun yesterday
morning before Justice Klbrcth The evidence of
Patrick Traynor, who first held to answer for sny
der's death. was taken He told in straightforward
manner the same story Of Keeper AdamSs assault on
SNYDER as when tesfyng his defence. in spite Of
the rigorous Examination Of Senator Ecciesne,
counsel for Adams.
The next witness called John Rruth, who said
that he was charge OF the barces which took dirt to
Wards Island on tie day Snyder injured. lie
SNYDER while he standing ont for punishment on
tr hill aud was told by him that lac had been kicked
twice by TraynOr in the fight the boat There being
no OF witnesses present tie jOurned unt
O'c ock In The afternoon No urthcr Witnesses were
produced 1T that time and The investigation again
douiucd untn tCiay. The counsel for Adams intends
10 recall all the cOuylca who testified cyiOusly III the
case and 10 subject them 70 cTOss-eXdIniuatOu.