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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02
In Search of a Candidate.

/ In open letter 10 all "TemperdBce" ana
"Equal Rights" Associations:
The world will utterly fail to compre.
bend the breadth, depth or strength oi
/ the sO-called "WOman Movement" un-
I al IL is crystallized Into some aggressive
sction or demand; until the confined
forces adopt one platform aud rally
around one leader; aud in the rapidly
growing conviction everywhere mani
/ fest among women, that such a COM
biuation Of forces might speedily be-
come the balance OF power, iucliuing
the scales Of government TO justice and
morality, we discover the prophecy OF
victory.
Whenever the rapidly organizing
forces Of the Temperance and Equal
Rights Associations are ready 60 unite
under some leader, they can become the
balance Of power able to dictate the
nomination aud secure the election Of a
genuine representative OF the best type
OF American manhood.
"Are you ready To unite with tie
Temperance women Of the country, ia "a
determ med effort To defeat the re.e,ec-
tiou Of Gen. Grant % was the question
asked, officially, few weeks since, 10
which we reply. "Would il not he n
better work To pledge whatever iufiu-
euee, ia the lyceum, on the platform OF
in journalism, we may posses, to aid in
electing such a representative as Gen.
Beujsmin Harrison ~
It will be the fault Of American wom-
en- if the oath Of Office is ever again adj
mini~tered To a chief executive who
shall permanently ignore in every Off
cial message, not only the rights, but the
very existence. of one-half the citizens
Of the United States. Political parties
are al work; IL is time for the philan-
thropic, earnest, patriotic women Of the
country to decide upon their represent
tRtive. We would respectfully suggest
10 the different Temperance and Equal
Rights Associations about To assemble
IN executive session to appoint a dele
gate or delegates to attend 'CODfer-
euce," TO be called to decide upon
woman's duty as a citizen in eonnec-
tion with the approaching Presidential
campaign.
ELIZABETH BOYNTON HARBERT.
Evanston, III.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

How NUTMEGs GROW. - Nutmegs
grow on little trees which look like
young pear trees, and are generally over
twenty feet high. The flowers are very
much like the lily Of the valley. They
are pale and very fragrant. The nutmeg
is the seed Of the fruit, and mace is the
thin covering over the seed. The fruit
is about as large as a peach. When
ripe It breaks open aud shows the little
nut inside. The trees grow ou the
islands Of Asia and in tropical America
They hear fruit for seventy or eighty
years, having ripe fruit ulOn them at
all seasons. 4 fine tree in Jamaica has
over four thousand nutmegs on it yearly.
The Dutch used to have all this nutmeg
trade, a. they owned the Banda Islands
and conquered all the other traders and
destroyed the trees. To keep the price
up, they once burned three piles Of nut
megs, each Of which was as large as a
church. Nature did not sympathize
with such meanuess The nutmeg pig
con, found in all the Indian islands, did
for the world what the Dutch had deter
mined should not be done-carried those
nuts, which are their food, into all the
surrounding country, and trees grew
again, and the world had the benefit
Boston Journal Of Commerce.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02
THE HOME.

I ti"i' Impairment OF the NEW NoErIw s-sr is
/ TO DE devoted 70 the household, lawn and gar
"en- Correspondents having new and tried
recipes Tor any department OF domestic oecu-
p'uon will confer "a public favor by contrfbu-
ing TO This column
fEACH BUTTER Pare the peaches.
and boil them with sufficient wafer 10
Eeep from sticking, until they are auite
SON then pass them through a coIIaud-
er. To one quart Of peach add one and
one naI pounds OF sugar, and boil
slowly for one hour, stirring il oftsn
Put in jars and cover tightly. Tire
above recipe we have not tried, but are
told IL is very nice.
CABBAGE PICKLE - One large white
cabbage chopped fine in a ehopping
tray, two qarts of cider vinegar; lake
one teaspoonful Of ground cloves, and
the same OF cinnamon, allspice and
mace; tie these in a piece OF cloth. and
put them into the vinegar, with a table,
spoonful of salt and oue-half ounce Of
whole cloves; place the vinegar in a
kettle or pan with the spice aud cab
hage, and boil five minutes put away
IN jar TO cool.
RICH, LIGHT WAFFLEs.- Put half a
cloth, and pound it till quite soft then
put II into a dish and beat il with large
silver fork til il becomes rich cream.
Beat the yOlks of six eggs to a stiff
cream and stir in them half pound Of
hour till smooth, then add the beaten
butter and half pint Of rich, sweet
milS. Beat all well together, adding.
the 1esieu whites Of the eggs the last
thing, aud bake
GRAPE JELLY.-Take perfectly fresh
grapes, remove the stems, aud put the
berries over the ire in an earthenwaTe
pan or pnrcelain-iined kettle; crush Il
ieN berries Oh the bottom Of the pan 10
prevent burning; let them boil up. and
remove from the fire and hang up in the
jeily-hag 10 drain; when the Juice is all
drained of, weigh il and return TO the
kettle and fire hoil il twenty minutes,
skimming when necessary; then add
three quarters of a pound of sugar to
every pound Of juice, and boil il till
thick enough to suit.
SWEET PICKLES. Take good, sound
fruit, apples, peaches or pears, and pare
them stick into each one or more
cloves; hll three-gailon Jar fulI of
iruiti take one gallon of good apple vim
egar, six pounds of sugar, pulverize a
tauieSppoilui OF cinnamon, one OF mace
aud one or two nUtmegs; tie this in
muslin and put il into the vinegar and
sugar; boil and skim; pour into the jar
1f fruit let it stand until next day aud
drain of ) boil and pour back on the
fruiti the third day boil all together
until the first is well scalded; take it out
of the jar and boil the vinegar and sugar
to a thin syrup; pour over the fruit aud
put away, and you have splendid
pickles, that will keep a long time.
Sweet apples are very nice picked in
This way.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

and am quite sure that my colleagues
all unite with me in endorsing all the
remai * of our esteemed President"
Captain Talbot uttered cnar-e
chuctle. meant tn expires sareasnl :
I Frank Sioddard smiied "a little - Eq
looked over ~ I'r. Bnfr- twinklirg
eygs, AID the polireH,an gave IA know .
Ing, aau r,i look. at tl4e evident ,nii ar
ras-,neil Of poor Professor Grimshy.
"Now, ! suppose you don't care 10 en-
| joy my society auy longer. do you p"
said Talbot, mockingly, to Frank.
I've will dispense with you soon,"
said he, shortly, looking meaningly at
DR.. DUH, who nodded, aud then said:
"Siuee you are satisfied as to the
truth Of what told you last Winter,
suppose, Of course, You will do Miss
Norton the simple Justice to apologize
TO her for the treatment she has re-
ceived, aud invite her to take an honor
able place in the next class"
The President WINGED, aud Professor
Grimsby began to "Ahem" aud wipe his
forehead with his flaming silk handker-
chief; hut Professor Marston, who had
been shsnking hands with Frank aud
DIR. Duff, turned around and said. heart
lily;
"Of course, gentlemen, we will apollo
gize and invite tire young lady back.
We could DO nothing less, as gentlemen,
alter what we bave just listened to-"
That's so; We really can do nothing
less" said several aud even Professor
Grimsby aud the President agreed to
this.
Frank, satisfied, now took his leave
with his prisoner, followed 10y DIR. Dufi
and Professor Marston, and snon buzz
OF voices filed the room.
To be cOutinued.l
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

THE INFERIOR RACEs.-It NAV be
stated with all the force Of a law that
all tue inferior races of mankind will
ultimately disappear before the fair
skinned white race from all those re-
gions Of the earth Inhabited by them.
Sentimental humanity has nothing to
do with the result. The decree il iuevi-
table - advance or perish Philsn-
thropy, with praiseworthy motives, has
engaged in teaching the children of the
wild, forcing them in "a few years over
the distance the white race has been
countless centuries in passing, hut the
results are not encouraging. On the
Sandwich Islands, and all the Islands OF
the Pacific, Tasmania, and the vast con-
tineuts of America, extinction aud not
progress is the fate Of unprogresslve
man.-HudSOn IIttte.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02
The Snbieotion Of Wnman.

When we ask why the existence Of
one half the species should be merely
ancillary To that of the other-wIy each
woman should be a mere appeudage to
a man, allowed TO have no interests Of
her own, that there may be nothing to
compete in her mind with his interests
and his pleasure-the only reason which
can be given is that men like it. IL is
agreeable to them that men should live
for their own sake, women for the sake
OF men and the qualities and conduct
in subjects which are agreeable to
rulers they succeeded for long time in
making the subjects themselves con-
slider as their appropriate virtues Hell
vetius has met with much obloquy for
asserting, that persons usually mean by
virtues the qualities which are useful or
convenient TO themselves.
How truly this Is said Of mankind in
general, and how wonderfully the ideas
Of virtues set afloat by the powerful are
caught aud imhihed by those under their
dominion, is exemplified by the manner
in which the worlds were once per
suaded that the supreme virtue Of sub
jecis was loyalty to kings, and are still
persuaded that the paramount virtue Of
womanhoOd is loyalty to men. Tn Ter
a nominal recognition of a moral code
common to both in practice, self-will
and self assertion form the type of What
are designated as manly virtues, while
sbnegatiou Of self, patience, resignation,
and the submission to power, unless
when resistance is commanded by other
interests than their own, have been
stamped by general consent as pre-
eminently the duties and graees re-
quired Of women. The meaning being
merely that power makes itself the
centre of moral obligation, and that a
man likes to have his own will, but
does not like that his domestic COM
Ianion should have a will different
from his owu.-John Stuart MI.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

The largest bridge IN Europe will be
completed next year. IL will cross the
Volga in the government OF Samara,
Russia, on the Siberian Railroad. The
river at the point of crossing is four
miles wide in the Spring, aud 732 feet
wide in tie autumn. The cost of the
bridge will be 3. 500 600. Twelve piers,
50 feet high, at a distance of every 36i
feet, will support the structure.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

\ TRUE GENTLEMAN. 81 beg your
pardon o. aud, with touch Of his hat,
Harry Edmond handed to an old man,
against whom he had just accidentally
stumbled, the cane which he had
Knocked from his hand. 81 hope / did
not hurt you. We were playing too
roughly"
Not a bltl" said the old man, cheer
fully. Boys will be boys, and % is
best they should be. You didn't harm
men
"Pm glad to hear it!' aud, lifting his
hat again, Harry turned to join the
playmates with whom he had been
froiicking at the time OF the accident.
"W hat do you raise your hat to that
old fellow for % asked his companion,
Charles Gray. "He's only Giles, the
huckster :"
"That mskes no difference said
Harry "the question is lot whether he
is q gentleman, but whether / am oueif
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

An editor being asked, "Do hogs
pay ?' says great many do not. They
take the paper several years, and then
have the postmaster send it back marked
nIefusrd y
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

THE COMPANION TO CHOOSE. The
most agreeable OF all companions is
simple, frank man, without any high
pretensions to an oppressive greatness (;
one who loves life, aud understands the
use Of il; Obligiug alike at all hours ;
above AL, Of a golden temper, aud
steadfast as an anchor. For such
one we gladly exchange the greatest
profOundest thinker.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

Pearl necklaces of several rows are
worn with high dresses in Paris.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02
E5e }ieo nort5ape9t

a Journal for the People.
devoted to the Interests of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposingthe Wrongs
Of the Masses.
correspondents writing over assumed signs-
lures must make known their names 10 tire
Enit"r, or no attention will he given 10 theii
communication.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-02

lhis department the NEW NoErHw EST is
10 DE deFo'ed TO the household, lawn and gar
uen- Correspondents having new and tried
recipes Tor any department OF domestic oecu-
patton will confer public favor by contrfbu-
ing TO this columnJ
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-14
The japanese Shampooer.

turn on my side and make prepare
tons for going to sleep in good earnest.
No more dallying with tired natures
sweet restorer. Ifeel that l have the
whole night before me for undisturbed
repose, without the haunting cares of
to-mOrrow's work, and am going to
to make the most of it. begin to see
nothing but jinrikishas, then rows OF
houses, then quite a procession of people
passing, one of whom stops before me
and startles me by calling out in q voice
of unearthly shrillness: +" Gonaen nasal"
Then comes that inexplicable return
from the land of dreams to a waking
existence, when the mind is something
like a slightly incomplete dissolving view,
the faint outlines of the dream-picture
being not quite obliterated by the, more
powerful tones of reality. Again =" &C.
men nasai.' Then l come to myself
completely, and ask rather sharply,
"What is it?'' "Please excuse him,
but it is the shampooer will / have q
few rubs?'' 1 answer angrily, "NO!"
"Truly and indeed he has been very
impolite. He had thought it might be
that the gentleman was tired, and would
ike to have his haporable body rubbed
a little. No! did the gentleman say?'
The gentleman had said MOI" and
had further strengthened the NEGATIVE
by short but potent phrase. He had
most humbly understood; good night,
and may the gentleman sleep well. p
AI the Year Round.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-14
why the Law is Uncertain.

Language is an imperfect instrument
for the expression of ideas. Not a few
of its forms are ambiguous; that is, they
speak in two ways. Reader and nearer
are left in old Isaac's perpleXity. The
voice is that of Jacob, the hand is that
of Esau. Many of the terms of language
are equivocal. They have two mean
ings, so that the reader is in doubt as to
the mind or intention of the writer.
Those who draft statutes know how diff
ficult it is to frame a law which shall be
free from ambiguous expressions or
eguivOcal terms. Judge Story once
told personal incident, which illus
trates this difficulty. He was employed
by Congress to draft an act. So inn
pOrtant was it that he spent six months
in trying to perfect its phraseolOgy.
His purpose was to make the statute so
clear that the most astute lawyer should
not be able to cast the shadow of a
doubt upon its meaning. The draft,
proving satisfactory to the lawyers in
Congress, became law. In less than
a year, a suit, involving the interpreta-
ton of this very law, came before the
Court over which Justice Story presided.
Having heard the arguments of the able
attorneys, the Judge confessed that he
| was unable to decide upon the meaning
of a statute which he himself had framed
He, of course, knew what he had meant
to put into the law. But the criticisms
of the two lawyers showed him that HI
had used such ambiguous expression!
that it was doubtful if he had said wha
he meant to have said.-Hoxth's Com
panion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-14
Soups: All vegetables are available

Soups: vegetables are available
for soup. The fayorite vegetable soup
made from fresh tomatoes, corn and
Lima beans is almost as good when the
canned vegetables are employed. For
chicken soup with rice and milk, no
herbs but parsley should be used. The
shin of veal or beef is the legitimate
soup-bone; but any other bone may be
used. Crack the bones before boiling,
for the sake of the marrow, and do not
put salt in until the meat has been well
boiled-it has tendency to harden the
fibers and prevent the flow of the juices
of the meat. You can not well boil il
too long, short of the time when the
meat bOils into rags and strings. i
kept where they will not sour, and heat
ed slowly SO rs not to scOrch, most soup:
are better the second day than the first
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-14
Medical Uses of the Carrier Pigeon.

DIR. Harvey j. Philpot, in letter to
the London Daily Telegraph, writes as
follows:
81 have made valuable use of the car
rier or hOming pigeon rs an auxiliary to
my practice. So easily are these winged
unqualified assistants reared and
trained that 1 am surprised they have
not been brought into general use by the
profession l belong to. My nsodus
operandi is simply this: take out half
a dozen birds, massed together in a
small basket, with me on my rounds,
and when I have seen my patient, no
matter ut what distance from home, l
write my prescription on a small piece
of tissue paper, and having wound it
round the shank of the birds leg l gent
ly throw the carrier up into the air. In
a few minutes it reaches home, and,
having been shut up fasting since the
previous evening, without much delay
it enters the trap cage connected with
its loft, where it is ut once caught by my
gardener or dispenser, who knows pref
ty well the time for its arrival, and re-
lieves it of its dispatches. The medi-
cine is Immediately prepared and sent
on Dy the messenger, WHO Is CnuS SaNc4
several hours of waiting, and am ena-
bled to complete my morning round OF
visits. Should any patient be very i'll,
and am DESTROYS of having an carly re-
port of him or her next morning, leave
a bird to bring me the tidings. A short
time since took out with me six pairs
of birds. sent pair of them off from
each village 1 had occasion to visit,
every other one bearing prescription.
Upon my return l found all the pre-
scriptions arranged on my desk by my
dispenser, who had already made up the
Medicines
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-14

cause they did not know any reason for
fear from proximity to man; and Sec
ondly, because they have really no
means of escape; they stand from one
and One-half to two and One-haf feet in
height, and their nests are little fat
clay erections, about two inches high,
the bird laying one and sometimes two
eggs, to hatch which she sits upright on
the nest; acres are sometimes thus COW
cred by them, and again, as many as
thousand of them will be seen deliber-
ately walking to the sea. On getting in
to the water, they act Just as if they
were fishes; the gray groove in their
backs is occasionally seen above the
surface, but it is scarcely possible to
imagine them to be birds. Having fished
for short time, they return to their
nests by regular path; the whole is
carried out by most orderly system;
the birds going to sea by one path and
returning by another. Sometimes they
will stand and have q talk for while. q
regular chattering going on among
them; then, all Of a sudden they will
tand at attention and each one of the
great multitude proceed to its own par
ticular nest.
Of very different class Is the world
famous sbird of PARADISE great
flocks of which are found in some of the
islands of the Southern seas, and the
hunting of which, in certain neighbOr-
hoods, constitutes aprincipal occupation
of some of the inhabitants. Even by
these semi-savage tribes, this bird is
much admired for its exquisite appear
ance, having, as it does, a most mag
nificent plume of feathers, of a delicate
yellow color, coming up from under the
wings and falling over the back like a
jet of water, the breast showing q beau
tiful emerald green, and the body a
charming yellow. They are about the
size of small pigeon, and have voice
not very unlike the jackdaw; they are
restless, peculiar birds, flying about the
branches of great trees, and are con-
stantly chattering, but, being much
hunted, they are extremely wary, and
are with difficulty shot. In order to get
them, the natives 60 up into the bOughs
of tree which the birds are known to
frequent, and, collecting a number of
the branches, conceal themselves so as
scarcely to be seen, then, when flock
comes, they pick off the birds with
blunt-headed arrows, the latter being Of
course, quite nOiseless; the bird is SIM
ply paraly zed and falls, and in this way
the natives sometimes get large num-
Der of the flOck.-St. Louis Republican.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-14

g The King of Siam, approaching the
results of the English education Of his
childhood, is giving the same advan-
taecs to his own children. Princess
Civil, his bright, clever little 1O-year-
old daughter, receives from an accom-
.plished English lady regular instruction
in French, English and German, music,
dancing and drawing. The Queen. her
mother, takes great interest in the les
sons, and is so pleased with foreign
ways that she talks of adopting the Eu-
ropean dress.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-14
Odds and Ends.
u


An old salt-Epsom.
Easily got wind OLA fan.
-Wrcstlers work when they wrest.
Miss Braddon's 35 novels have been
written within % years.
No use trying to rouse any enthusi-
asm in a carpenter; he always keeps his
spirit level.
-"Then, l suppose, Miss Strong
mind, you and Mr.. Sparrow are soon to
be man and wife?'' "No, sir; woman
and husband
-"That's the first hop of the sea-
son. remarked dancing master rs his
young hopeful sat down on tack.
Then the music started and the bawl
bcgan.-OI city Derrick.
Says the New York Mail: "Keep
the young men at home" Oh, fudge !
give the girls chance. Keep. the old
men at home, brother; that's more to
the purpose.-BostOn Transcript.
Porous plasters were marked down
to Is cents by Danbury druggist yes
terday. This is much cheaper than an
undershir., to say nothing about the
saving in washing. Besides, you always
know where it is.-Danbatry News.
Language of the Nose: Lightly
striking it with the right forefinger-I
love you. Blowing it-Keep away from
me, or I'll holler. Turning it up
can't help it; it grew that way. Wiring
ing it with thumb and finger-My hear,
is broken, and l be got code i'd by ed
-"Oh, he'd lose any thing" old Mr.
Meredith of West Hill growled, wher
the boy came back from an errand ant
said he'd lost the package entrusted tt
him, "he'd lose any thing. One day
last week l sent him to take a pickle
barrel to customer, and before he 60
the barrel to the house, hope to die i
he didn't lose the bung-hole, clear out o
it, and had to send for cooper to pu
in Il new one. "-Burlington Haankeyc.
How brilliant the woods in October!
Like the nose of a man never sober;
Like the red of the juvenile mitten,
| On the coat of a calico kitten;
1 Like the variant hueS of a nice dream,
Or the tints of a harlequin ice cream;
Like changeful Ger changing mosaic,
With nothing stale, dull or prOsaic,
But everywhere cleaning in splendOr,
Like the sky in the west mt days end, or
The posters whose charms never INK us,
That tell of the forthcoming circus;
Like the nose of a man never sober,
How brilliant the woods in October!
-ROsfOn Transcript,