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Lueretia Mott.


Lucretia Mott has just passed her
eighty-sixth birthday, loved aud hon
orrd as few people ever are. Her long
public career shows that a wOmanlV
woman may not be rendered less so be-
cause she takes into her active interest
and sympathy questions of the public
welfare.
Mrs. Mott was among the very earli-
est of the abOliiionists. She travelled
far and wide 10 speak for the slaves.
She has been minister OF the Society
of Friends siSty-siX years; and is now
president of the Pennsy lvania Peace
Society. She has taken AN active part
IN the Woman Suffrage cause, having
been present at the very first couveu-
ton ever held i'm this country in the
special interest Of women. Her hus-
band, dear, good James Mott, went with
her almost everywhere, aud in long
rides in the ears always took the out
side seat, 10 keep OF the bores, who
would have worn out the life as well as
the lungs OF Mrs Mott, ifJames Mott
had not resoiutely sat between her and
them.
At her late birthday, her children,
her grandchildren and her great-grand-
children gathered with loving rever-
ence for this world-renOwnsd woman.
who at eighty-siX is pattern of in
dustry, activity, and freshness of spirit
which cannot grow old. Outside Of her
home circle, a still larger mum mber Of per
sons whose privilege il has been to know
this rare woman will wish her still
"many happy returns Of her birthday ~
-POmdR's s Journal.
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Womaa,. Fitao.s f9r egEernmantal AfIi.iir.

Womau's Fitness for Governmental Affairs
The minority report Of the committee
on privileges and elections, upon the
sixteenth amendment to the constitu-
tion makes the following historical slate
ment relative to woman's capacity as
ruler:
The lessons Of experience favor the
conclusion that woman Is fit for share
in government. Il may be true that i'm
certain departments Of intellectual effort
the greatest achievements Of women
have as yet never equaled the greatest
achievements of men. But il Is equally
true that in those same depart uents
women have exhibited an intellectual
ability very far beyond that OF most
men who have shown very great politi-
cal capacity. But let the comparison
be made in regard 10 the very thing with
which we have 10 deal. or men who
have swayed chief executive power, a
very considerable proportion have at
tained it by ursurpati0n or by election,
processes which imply extraordinary
capacity on their part as compared with
other men. The women who have held
such power have come 10 10 a s0vereigns
by Inheritance, or as regents bv the
accident Of bearing particular relation
10 the lawful sovereign when be was un-
der some iucapacity. Yet it is an uudis-
puted fact that the number of able and
successful female snvereigus bears a
vastly greater proportion 10 the whole
number Of such sOvereigns than does
the number of able and successful
male sovereigus to the whole number Of
men who have reigued. An able, ener-
getic, virtuous king or emperor is the
exception and not the rule in the history
of modern Europe. With hardly an ex-
ceptiOn the female sovereigns or regents
have been wise aud popular. Mr.. Mill,
who makes this point, SAYS:
We know how small "A number Of
reisuiug queens history presents in COM
parisou with that of kings. or this
smaller number, "a far larger proportion
have shown talents for rule, though
many Of them have occupied the throne
iu difficult periods. When to queens
and empresses We add regents and vice
rOys OF provinces, the list of women
who have been eminent rulers Of man
kind swells To a great length.
Especially Is this true If We take into
consideration Asia as well as Europe.
II a Hindoo principnlity is strongly,
vigilantly, aud economically governed;
If order is preserved without oppression;
if cultivation Is extending and the peo-
pie prosperous. in three cases out Of four
that priucipality is under a woman's
rule. This fact, 10 me an entirely uneX-
pected one, have collected from a long
official knowledge of Hindoo govern
meuts.
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The EFFECTS OF WORRY.-That the
ELECTS of worry are more 10 be dreaded
than those of simple hard work is evil
dent from noting the classes of persons
VINO suffer most from the effects of men
tai Overstrain. The case book of the
physician shows that it is the specu-
latori the betting man, the railway
manager, the great merchant, the su-
perintendent of large manufacturing or
commercial works, who most frequently
exhibit the symptoms Of cerebral ex-
haustion. Mental cares accompanied
with suppressed emotion, occupations
liable TO great vicissitudes Of fortune,
and those which involve the bearing ON
the mind Of multiplicity of intricate
details, eventually break down the lives
OF the strongest. In estimating what
may be called the staying powers Of diff
fereut minds under hard work. IL is al
ways necessary to take early training
into account. 4 young man cast sud-
denly into a position involving great
care and responsibility will break down
in circumstances in which, had he been
gradually habituated TO the position, he
would have performed its duties with
out difficulty. lt is probably for this
reason that the professional classes gen
orally suffer less from the effects Of
overstrain than others. They have a
long course Of preliminary training, and
their work COMES on them by degrees:
therefore, when it does come i'm exces-
sive quantity, it finds them prepared for
10. Those, on the other hand, who sud-
denly vault into "A position requiring Sc
we're mental toll, generally die before
their Chambers Journal.
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LANE LAW-MAKING.

Z 10 THE EDITOR or THE NEW NORTHWEST;
The Chinese restriction bill has been
framed, argued, passed and vetoed, SC
that it seems now to be beyond discus
sion; but there was about its provisions,
as about many other laws that have been
enacted amid scenes Of stormy debate,
aud then either abrOgated by the Su-
preme Court or clrcumvented by tech
nical Interpretation, a lsmeness that
would have rendered amendment neees-
sary at once. For instance, it is said that
the bill only restricted the arrival Of Chi
nese into the territory OF the United
states by steamer. Now, in case this
bill had become a law, would not eva
sion Of the restriction imposed been
easy enough? ? Had the Chinese govern
ment deemed il expedient 20 do 80
would it not have been easy to have
landed within a few months half a
million Of her subjects on this CONT
neut by way Of British American and
Mexican ports, and might not these
with no great amount OF fatigue or
trouble have made their way across our
borders? This will compare favorably
with a section in "Deady's Code" where
ia all citizens Of Oregon over q years Of
age are declared entitled to the fran
chise, aud then when test is made, the
intent is declared to be "male" citizens.
The Supreme Court decided the black
man was not citizen because he was
not a voter, and when by constitutional
amendment all 'persOns" were declared
to be citizens and entitled 10 the fran
chise, it took this same high tribunal
to again decide that women were not
persons" in the intent of the said
amendment, aud though a citizen,
woman had no right 10 vote. Tue black
man could not be a citizen without the
ballot; woman, though citizen, is not
entitled TO the ballot Such diserepan-
cies are clearly either quibbles to keep
woman in political serfdom. or our law
makers, from the lack of natural ability.
do not themselves know how to interpret
theirowu laws. Il may not, most prob
ably is not, wise to allow our land to be
flooded with an inferior race, yet if this
boasted restriction bill had become law
which the Supreme Court of the United
States had found without legal flaw, it
would easily and surely have been
evaded by the simple landing of cargoes
of coolies at the foreign ports Of the
aud then would come our law
expounders with the declaration that
the intent Of the bill was 70 prevent the
of more than Is Chinameu
on vessel bound to any American port,
an intent in which both the govern
ments of China and Great Britain
would doubtless have aequiesced with
out question. JULIA A. JoHvs
Gervais, Oregon, March 5, 1879.
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at must be done. Though, for my
part, I shouldn't care farthing who
knew it, if the fact Of its being known
would awaken Alonzo's dormant honor
You're a strange girl, Grace"
q know il. Let Us 20 at once to the
orphanage and get the child. Then we
will go to the county court and comply
with the requirements Of the law to make
it mine"
'But you cannot act without the con-
sent Of your husband. He is your legal
head. yon know"
"My legal fiddlesticks I'll act, at all
events. He may aflerward demurr If
he dares"
But ] cannot comprehend your mo-
tive, Grace"
"My motive, sir, is 10 % right. Do
you suppose that / would, for any con-
sideration, live as the wife OF a man aud
the mother Of his lawful children.
knowing that he had another. who had
every claim Of consauguinity upon him,
whom he and and the world discarded?
Let's order hack and be OFF directly"
The kind-hearted matron of the or
phauage willingly complied with the
legal requisition Of Captain Emerson
and yielded up the child, a tiny, vail
ing waif which Grace pressed to her
bosom with such genuine motherly
tenderness that the good woman more
than half suspected her to be other than
its putative mother. But she did not
know, and ia her position it was con-
venient for her 10 remain as nearly az
possible, oblivious to great many Of
the legitimate, as well as the illegiti-
mate facts and fancies that fate, whether
luckless orlucky, was continually bring
ing under her observation.
To be continued
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Matrimonial Ouarrsls.

-
IL Is very commonly observed that
tne most smart pangs which we meet
Win are IN the beginning of wedlock,
Wnicn proceed from ignorance of each
other humor, and want Of prudence 10
make allowances for a chance from tb.
most careful respect to the most nm
bounded familiarity. Hence il arises
that trifles are commonly occasions of
the greatest anxiety; for contradiction
being thing wholly unusual between
newly married couple, the smallest
instance Of il is taken for the highest in
jury; and il very seldom happens that
the man is slow enough in assuming
the character Of a husband, or the
woman quick enough in condescending
to that of wife. IL Immediately fol-
lows that they think they have all the
time of their cOurtship been talking in
masks to each other, and therefore be-
gin 10 act like disappointed people Phi
lauder finds Della ill-natured and i'm
pertinent, and Della, Philander surly
and incOnstant.
have known a fond couple to quarrel
in the very honeymoon about cutting
up tart; nay, I could name two who,
alter having had several children, fell
out and parted beds, upon the boiling of
leg OF mutton. My very next neigh
Oors nave not spoken to one another
these three days, because they differed
ln tneir opinions whether the clock
should stand by the window. or over
the chimney. II may seem strange to
you, who are not a married man, when [
Ieli you how the least trile can strike a
woman uumb fora week together. But,
you ever enter into this state, YOU
VIII hnd that the soft sex as often ex-
press leeir anger by an obstinate ST.
lehce AS by an ungOVeruable clam0r.
Those, indeed, who begin this coursa
oi life without jars at their setting ont.
arrive within few months at pitch of
benevolence aud affection, of which the
most perfect friendship is but a faint
resemblance. As in the unfortunate
marriage the most minute and iudiffer-
ent things are the object of the sharp
est resentment, 50 in happy one they
are the occasion of the most exquisite
satisfaction. For what does not ObIige
IN one we love? What does not offend
IN one we dislike? For these reasons. L
take II for rule that in marriage the
chief business is TO acquire a proposes
sion IN favor Of each other They should
consider one auother's words and actions
with secret indulgence. There should
be always an Inward fOudness pleading
Tor each other, such as may add new
beauties TO everything that is excellent,
give charms to what is Indifferent. and
cover everything that is defective. For
want OF this kind propensity and bias
mind, the married pair take things i'll
OF each other which no one else would
take notice Of in either of them.
But the most unhappy circumstances
OF all IS where each party is always Law
ing up fuel for dissensiOn, and gathering
together magazine of prOvOcations, to
eXasperate each other with when thev
are out of humOr. These people, in
common discourse, make no seruple to
let those who are by know they are
quaTreling with one another; and think
they are discreet enough if they conceal
from the company the matters which
they are limiting at.
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On the third Of March, proximo, Mrs.
Belva A. Lockwood was admitted TO
practice before tie Supreme Court of
the United States. Congressman,
hero Of the safe burglary
prosecution, aud present District Attor-
ney, Hon. a. G.. Riddle, presented her
name The bill, making woman eligi-
ble 20 practice before the highest and
most august court in this hemisphere,
has been pending I'm the Senate for three
years, and its final passage must not be
credited to any great revolution in pop
ulaT or Congressional sentiment, but To
the indomitable persistence Of Mrs.
lockwood, the lawyer. The bill bad TO
a appearances been stified by two ad-
verse reports of the judiciary committee.
10 had been voted down ANONYMOUSLY
whenever 10 dared TO show its face in
the Senate. All the great lawyers Of
that body, Thurman, Eimunds, COnk-
ling, were opposed To IL. But Mrs. Lock
wood was iu favor Of it, and her place at
the bar is won. What she knows from
about lobbying would make
"A mighty interesting little book. The
popular idea Of tine successful female lob
byist Is pretty little woman, half We
nus, half Psyche, and all brass, or a gor-
geous, magnetic, voluptuOus creature
like the ideal heroine OF the 'Gilded
Age" Mrs. Lockwood is neither kind
of woman. She forces rather than
wins her point, but never by the dint of
The devil aud assembling looks.
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FRETTINGS.-One fretter can destroy
the peace of a family, can disturb the
harmony Of a neighborhOod, can unset
tie the councils Of cities and hinder the
legislation of nations. He who frets is
never the one who mends, vino heals,
who repairs evils; more, he discourages.
enieehles and too Often disables those
around him, who, but for the gloom and
depression Of his company, would do
good work and keep up brave cheer.
The effect upon sensitive person OF the
mere neighborhood of fretter is iudr-
scribahle. It Il TO the soul what cold
icy mist is to the bOdy-more chilling
than the bitterest storm. Aud wh IN tie
fretter is one who Is beloved, whose
nearness of relation to Us makes his fret
ting at the weather seem like personal
repr0aeh 10 Us. then the misery of it be-
comes indeed insupportable. Most men
call frettiug minor iault-a f0ible and
not a vice. There is no vice except
drunkenness which so utterly destroys
the peace, the happiness of a home.
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Cloves are unopened flowers Of a small
evergreen tree, that resembles in ap-
pearance the laurel or the bay. II is a
native Of the Molucca or Spice Islands,
but has been carried to all the warmer
parts Of the world, and is largely culti-
waited in the tropical regions o. America.
The flowers are small in size and grow
in large numbers in clusters at the very
end of the branches. The cloves we use
ar he flowers gathered before they are
oucued and whilst they are still green.
After they are gathered they are smoked
rs wood fire and then dried IN the sun.
Each COTS SIS Of two parts, around head,
which is the four petals OF leaves of the
flowers rolled up, inclOsing a nu mber of
stocks and filaments The other mart of
'he Glove is terminated with four points.
aud - in fact, the flower cup and the
nuripe seed vessel. All these parts may
he distinctly shown if few spikes are
soaked a short time in hot water, when
the leaves soften and unroll.
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GRANTS GRANDCHILD. - General
Grant has left Paris for his tour iu
Ireland. Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sar-
toris are stopping az the Hotel Liv-
erpool, and will await there the Gener-
ais return. Mrs. Sartoris is looking ex-
tremely well, and is even prettier than
she was as Nellie Grant. She accnmpa-
MED by her husband aud child, the latter
a most lovely boy not quite , wears old.
lie - lair goiden-haired little crea-
ture, wilh large blue eyes, aud is not in
the least shy or spoiled, mauifesting a
very natural, but rather un. English. da-
votion 20 General Grant. "Graudpspau
Is evidently an institution Of great i'm
portance ia the young gentlemap's eyes
Mrs. Sartoris intends 10 pass the winter
In Rome, with her mother-iu-law and
il is there that the birth OF ber exnects,l
infant will take place.
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The elevated railway i'm New York
carries nearly 100000 passengers day,
and the trains run, on an average. 2T. =
900 miles. The financial showing is ia
yorable. On May Is, 1877, IL had less
than $4,000 in cash, aud owed S27S 900.
Now IL owes not dollar, and has $685.
OOO in bank. This road, its presiden {
says, pays tax TO the city Of five per
cent on its net annual income, which
tax now amounts to IRON S25, 600 to S3O.-
900 a year, and will OF course increase
with the increased income OF the road
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"Are you sure you are not newspa-
per psragrapher 2" said benevolent
old Philadelphia Quaker to tramp who
had solicited him for aims. "I never
did nnthln' to be sent to the penitenti-
airy Tor IN my lite," protested the tramp
with tears in his ewes; and when the
Quakerdropped half-dollar in his palm
ne walked OF with countenauce as
oeamlng as a new brass kettle.-An-
dre3rs' Bdz0r.
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Happy is that man who, nearing the
borders of life's sunset, finds himself in
the care aud compauionship of a loving
and tender woman, whom he regards
and has ever treated as an equal, aud TO
whom all his life he has been faithful
and true.
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The most gifted Of the young authors
In Holland is a young lady who writes
under the pen name Of a. :. c. Wallis.
She has just published an historical
novel Of the days Of the Eighty Years
W.
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New south Wales orders her mowers,
reapers, rakes, hoes, shovels, pltchiorks,
spades, aud chewiug-gum from the
United States.
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We don't know exactly how it is, but
there is usually trouble where there is a
man in tight place, or tight man in
a place.
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National morality can never prevail
in exclusion Of religious princinla.-
Washington.
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Our dead are never dead to Us until
we have forgotten them.-GeOTge Eliot.
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The total number Of prisoners in the
California State prison is ,539.
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a volume Of Hans Christian Ander-
sens letters has appeared 10 Denmark.
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Professor Wilson is about to publish q
Journal Of his tour IN Norway.
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No one has ever found fault with a
music-box for putting on airs.
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Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names TO the
Editor, or no attention will be given 10 their
communications.
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FACT, FATE AND FANCY;
OR.
More Ways of Living than OEo.

By Mrs. A.J.DUNIwAY.
AUTHOR oF "IUDrrH REID.r "ELLEN pownr
"ANrE AND HENRY LEE" "rHE HAPPY
HOME" "oNE woMAN's SPHERE"
"aikDGE ,foRHIsoN,r
Erc., ETC, Erc.
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G5e Aa@ 8ott5west.

A Journal for the People.
Devoted 10 the Interests OF Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive 10 all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical In Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
Of the Masses.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-11-20
Notice to Bridge Builders.

A5# :
. The undersigned board of supervi>
sors of the town of Bellevue will re-
ceive sealed proposals for building a
bridge across Platte river, at Royaltou,
in said town, until Saturday, the Goth
inst at one o'clock P. NJ. The'board
reserves the right to reject any and
all bids that are not deemed for
the best interests of the town, and a
bond of one thousand dollars will be
required Of the person to whom the
contract is awarded. The contractor
will be required to have the bridge
completed by March 18th, A. D. 1880,
and the said bridge will be paid for in
cash on completion, $4,000 by Morri
son county and the balance by the town
Bids must be left with J. 3. Lam,
bert, chairman of said board, at whose
house the plans and specifications of
said bridge may be seen, and the bids
will be opened by the board at bis
house on the Goth inst, at one O'Clock
P. M.
Dated at Koyalton. Nov. 18th, 1879.
J. B. LAMBERT, Chairman.
STEPHEN MUNcY,
j. s. BoUCK.
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From the Brainerd Tribune.
The Little Falls Transcript in an.
nounc'ng the Serio>Conic Troupe from
Brainerd, which visited that place
this week, very properly remarks :
''1t is no 'Wbich>ta> Which affair like
that which visited the Falls from
Brainerd last spring." The Trans,
oript erred, however, if it ever held
this place responsible for the dead beat
""hich>ta~Wbich" gang referred to.
The fact is they were not from Brain
erd They centered here to organize
their fraud. and have long since flown
to greener fields. ::
We are informed by DR.. A. 8.
Campbell, coroner, that the name of
the man found dead at Grow Wing.
this week was J. o. Philips He
came here from Dakota and worked
a few days on the section, and one day
piling Ium Der at tho mill. He was
very thinly clad, and is reported to
have laid out. doors several nights.
The doctor says he died from expos
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killed Kolway more because Of his
standing between him and this woman
than for anything else. Both John
and Mike have families in Germany,
and their sister said they both had
committed murder there and escaped
to this country. John has been a, res
ident Of this county for eight or nine
years and has been growing worse each
year. Mike emigrated to this country
last spring aud together they made a
dangerous pair in a community. There
is one of the brothers still left, named
Joseph, but he is Of different turn
aud is good citizen, and expresses no
sympathy for his bad brothers. The
woman is still at the hotel, but we
have not learned what will be done
with her.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-11-20
From the Sank Rapids Sentinel

From the Sank Rapids Sentinel.
By reference to an advertisement
elsewhere. 1t will be seen that the
Methodist church property is to be
sold. under decree Of foreclosure on the
31st; Of December next. 1t Is fine
PROPERTY. and we hope that the society
will be able to redeem 1t.
The track layers laying the new
steel rail between St. Paul and Sank
Rapids. have reached this side Of
Breen & Young's quarry, and will
s'on be at Sank Rapids. With the
new steel rail between Sank Rapids
and St Paul, this piece of railroad
will be as good as is in the west.