The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-31


Polk COZ ty Is ncs gonfned to one nor TO
neo women al ne, but is tle eutgraStb of,a
princgle that Is blpader nd gFapder thin section-
alisu 81 any sort. Ns tt4r4I
On; work was not haH over in Dsllas, but our
tim. up We had promised to yeturn to Inde-
pc en,e on Nednesday, and . we're up ana of
betiness bound for Derry Station, where W,e were
compelled to Nait.in solitude for six mortal hours
for thekouths Qund train. The waiting was over
at last and AZ three O'Clock we were at our place
Of desinato4t ard comfortably ensconced in the
Belt House, a new hotel that would do honor 10
any town in the State. ~
Ne had not been long at the hotel before we
Ferecalled upon by two gentlemen, one OF whom
Informed US that the story was going the rounds
that We had forwarded a roll of papers for new
subscribeiS 10 a certain prominent lady Of he
place for di tributioI. and that her husband ia
dignant at what he deemed n Insult. had resented
the impudene by returning them to the NEW
NORTHWEST flee by express marked &C. O. d..
value S53 00n We laughed at the report @nd as
sured the gentieuen that IL must be wholly witb-
out foundation. as we had sent no such instruc-
tions to the home Office nor anywhere else. We
also made the same statement at the lecture in
rthe evening. But were surprised to find in the
hNyning that part of the report was true, for the
4 postnaster ba delivered the package OF papers to
the busbsnd Of of our lady subscribers instead
/ Of distributing them himself, as ne was bound hv
PAW to do and the said husband, upon whom the
wise (. postmaster had attempted to pass eithera
joke or an insult, had returned the package a.
above stated. We then called upon the postmas-
ter who said the papers came to the Office adj
dressed to the lady in question, and that he had
delivered them to her husband because he had no
authority TO do otherwise; whereupon we ad-
dressed 70 the home Office in his presence the fol-
lowing, oa postal card: "IIow came Won to adj
dress the package IF papers to Mrs -? The
postmaster says youdid it. 1t Of course made Mr..
-- angry, Explain nIistake If you made it, and
if not, fna Il outN fFhepostmaster mailed this
! aiieF 5rading it, Vad ~ card is in our Ollie
now. y
Still W'ndering' ana IAN doubting the po-t'ias-
ters story, - repaivsd to the store Of ouss1..s1
Poppletou tlhere the usb,nd ~, b.., lcsurned
the packf 4 Is employed we found him
the clerk Hery ndignet lot he'suse the papers
had come t'in 5 81 ihut because we had solicited
her subsc.las FFbs New Nor INVEST, after,
t u stleges, ia cod Us he di..'t feel able to
( ets IL! This then was the head anogfyont Of car
IofendiR! We leave our f. His.ent Fegders to
Judge Of thHt BIRD and mass right to be
of ..te'iy Nhenthe lad5.rube, flled forthe paper
We didn know ter nus, Ai,,,s such, rom Ataui,
and So9le'h.t now II he hadn't allowed the post
master ana ro2pleton TO make n fa4f "a upon
an imaginary p'eyocaiion. lie has ye, ~ learn
PEELED to do without, n be doesnr, d,sire sat
too We assured him ga, ,,.. c,,,id not in,a.f,so
how it was possible that tn gamers had bean -.
trusted to his wife for diss T,,,ion. but n tba
fault were with our Office, u',,olo,,v wa. due ~
her, and if the error were Nit, ,ir,solf lac co,Id
Judge as to what was due 10 as r., y,e ones.
toned closely about thegnpI Is,--f .agebes-
ing been returned fIpm Iortlan an, d Z ,f,,a
But it was not fouIrt H. SAID il ~ white poper.
We insisted thafour wrappers were inv.riably.of
MANILA paper, When he appealed {, the q'oresaid
Poppleton, who coTrobora' "a our st,terltt. Their
the Poppleton mate II hs b0sine. oNounteer
the following advice:
''alrs. D.saiwalse With $50, .nss. I'd adgiss
you to keep stW abou this "a iarl TLere's been
too much said aboul 'teu 'sol f-r yorf ou1l good
This comfhSnty loeisf d ,his .5aat .er mis- wav,
You caps 1ieres said AL this MN 70 subscribe
for ~o'aehs 4g''fs Df,per''.s snes- Sc lmpanied
tLe-wors,s agsin5
= Equal rlgnc& Asse venurcd % explain
"A womaRs fights paIerr continued the pro-
fectcr rf sonon. "ADi when he said he didn
fe ci abls4take it ~, weht aud got .,s ,r;fe 10 |
-abscrihes and tier, e. show your rita, nxer I
him, yousent ~ the Whole package VOW, =,
n'y doteiee! and Seer eiU about this mater, Tor
that's the way cis ciDsnta,ity looks at tn 81
still hoping ths isllow had a modicun Of com
mon honesty in Tite Of bis exhbitica oi tyr
amy, we explained that we were merely hunting
the origin OF misak and seeking o. opportn, (
nifty to amend n that we hadnlt Fiipwn this
man, who had pisaded poverty, v, 4 ae Hasbald
n the lazy ~ho bad subscrhef I'd y Ne had
known we shbuldn't have eonsj red t IL fight
to deny hs-tterightof judgmeh, eoncs5 her I
own affairs h-fe, = l