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Year: 1877

4 very clever editorial in the Sun. upon the diet and cooking of the American pe0- pie, asserts a gastronomic hcresv which must not be allowed to go unrefuted The writer of that editorial states that nothing can be more barbarous than to cook any kind of flesh immediately after the slaugh- ter of the animal w.iich furnished it, when religiously observed that, when possible, all flesh should be upon or before the fire before it loses its natural animal heat If this cannot be done then it should be kept as long as possible, without the risk of it becoming tainted, before it is cooked. Any woodsman who has subsisted on the fruit of his own chasU win testify that venison is never so tender and toothsome as when cooked before it cools, and any veteran member of CarrolPs Island will testify to the same thing as regards the canvass back duck. The rule among the hospita- ble bon vivants of the Piedmont country, Virginia, who eat the sweetest mutton in the world, is to cook the meat before it has lost its natural heat, or to bury it in the ice house for two or even three weeks.

 Many of our readers in Virginia and the District of Columbia must remember the delicious fried chicken at old Uncle Billy Goodings', wh) kept the inn at the inter- section of the Alexandria and Warrenton pike and the gravel road which led 10 Washington. The place was a favorite meet of the Washington hunt, the mem- bers of which were as much attached to il by old Mother Goodings' succulent break lasts of batter cake and fried chicken a by the capital hunting with the Chichester hounds over the Ravenswood estate. The old lady made a mystery of her method ol cooking her chickens, and never would give her recipe until it was coaxed out oi her by the writer, and her,' it is. Tie tow. to be killed, plucked and eviscerated in the shortest possible time, on no account is it to be washed, but 1t must be wiped dry with clean napkin and cut into six parts -the breast, the two wings, the back and the two legs. The whole then to be thrown into frying pan with butter, cream and mush Small cakes of Indian meal dough-; the whole to be done before the flesh loses
Year: 1877

Gold, Silver, Copper or Lead, will be made at highest possible rates for account of owners. My long experience and con- ncction with buyers in the different mar kets give me very decided advantage over any one in the Territory in making such sales to the profit of those entrusting them to me. Correct and responsible assays obtained and submitted when desired.
Year: 1877

are composed is never at rest.
Necessarily millions of ages must
elapse before the surface of the
planet is prepared to support any
sort of life, either vegetable or ami
NAL.


After that comes period when
life in its various stages becomes
possible and exists. Then, as a
family left to enter-communication
dies out, SO does organic life become
extinct ON any world. The period
of organic life is, comparatively
speaking, but moment when COM
pared with the whole life of the
stars, and therefore, in looking over
lists Of planets, the chances are
thousands to one against the pres
ent age being the habitable one in
any Of them. The fact that the
life state is now prevailing in our
own planet is no proof that it also
prevails in the other worlds. I'm
told ages passed in the history OF
the earth before it was prepared, by
cooling, TO receive us, and similar
ages will roll away after the human
family has perished from the earth
1t will gradually cool, so that the
average temperature Of the yeal
will become lower and lower, until
finally the earth will be like the
moon, barren, cold - the oceans
frozen, and all life extinct.


In more closely considering the
various planets of the solar system
we fnd'that none of them, except
perhaps Venus, affords those condi
tions which are essential to life.
Organic life on Mercury would be
impossible on account of the cx.
treme heat, since there water can
not exist save in the form Of steam
Mars has oceans, and at certain
times of the year these are liquid
but in general they are frozen, and
SHOWS prevail over almost the whole
planet. Jupiter and Saturn are out
Of the question. Every indication
points to the certainty that they
are themselves secondary suns, diff
fusing intense light and heat tC
their minor statillites. While Mar,
has passed the liGe-bearing stage
Jupiter and Saturn have not
reached it, Venus, having a yeal
nearly equal to our own, having
seasons similar to ours, and a day
and night, is probably the only
planet that is now at the stage in
which life is possible.
Year: 1877

of voluntary and orderly self con-
troll. In truth it viii be found
that where American representa-
tives abroad have drawn obloquy
and just censure or contempt upon
themselves or their country, it has


been caused by some Ignorant at
tempt at ostentatious display, or
the unworthy pursuit of private


gain, in both of which the dignity
of their position was forgotten or
disregarded, and the fault was not
" Americanism," but the absence Of
Year: 1877

Action OF Tobacco on the system


Some years ago the French gov
ernment directed the Academy of
Medicine to inquire into the infu-
ence of tobacco on the human sys-
tenn. The report of the commission
appointed by the Academy states
that a large number of the diseases
of the nervous system and of the
heart, noticed in the cases of those
affected with paralysis or insanity,
were 10 be regarded as the sequence
Of excessive indulgence in the use
of this article, and it is remarked
that tobacco seems primarily to act
upon the organic nervous system,
depressing the faculties and inhuen-
cling the nutrition Of the body, the
circulation of the blood, and the
number of red corpuscles in the
blood. Attention is also called to
the bad digestion, benumbed intel
ligence and clouded memory of
those who use tobacco to excess.
Year: 1877

Eastern architects may get some hints
Of things to follow or avoid from . de-
seription which the Virginia City Ckro.i-
Gle gives Of the structure erected by the
Cinnamon in that city: Between fights
the Chinaman is an industrious animal.
Just now he is turning his energies 70
building. and like his fighting, some Of il
is contrary to law and also shocking to .
correct architectural taste. On the
Northwest corner OF | and Union streets
John has created marvellous affair. II
is built out far enough 10 occupy third
Of the roadway. The front elevation
(height five feet is composed of odds and
ends Of stone picked up in the neighbor-
hood. The one window Is formed OF
three oil eans--two upright and the
other laid across the top. The roof Of
this ediHce- which has frontage Ok
about twenty-five feet and 8 depth VI
thirty or more would make a handsome
playground for school, as it is perfectly
fiat and composed Of estth. The interior
which the reporter doubled himself up 10,
enter, is divided into numerous little
dens and one spacious saloon, with
earthen floor and one oil-can window
The place is shortly to be opened as
restaurant, provided the police don't in
terfere, which they should do. The idea
of utilizing oil-cans for building material
has been eagerly seized by other Celes-
tials, and the consequence is numerous
Hreproof shanties. The cans, filed with
earth and piled one upon another, make
. solid wall, and no bullet can penetrate
them not slight consideration these
times. Underground residences are also
popular. A big square hole is dug into
the hillside, covered in with sticks, straw,
and an occasional plank. The door Is
naturally furnished by the Eastern slope.
Although such trihes As light and air are
left out Of consideration, the bomb-proof
character Of the underground structure
has charm for the Chinese inhabitant.
The only drawback to such q house Il
the probability that on some rainy night
an enemy may take il into his shaVen
head to dig trench and direct the water
Of the street down the chimney
Year: 1877

his ruin. Wasting his time away at
some game of chance, or in endless mis-
cry and crime, he at last finds himself
dangling in the air to the end of a rope,
where all his deeds end with him. And
see her whom he may call wife, mother,
sister, how with sorrow she is stricken
down, and her social relations blasted
for life. She is crushed by the hand
which should have given her succor in
this, her time of need. The arms that
had encompassed him in love and kind
ness; the hands that marked out for him
his baby steps; the heart that throbbed
at the lisping of his tongue, his delight
has been to crush. And upon all this
he still adds insult to injury.


He would withhold from her the
right of suffrage. He takes from her
her birthright, returning therefor not
even mess of pottage; but binds her
down in bondage, and would have her
to believe, 81 am your lord and master.
In me rest might, majesty, and domin-
ion."


This question is political question,
and is in great degree agitsting public
sentiment, and the day is not far dis
tant when woman will have her rights;
when she will march up to the polls and
there deposit her ballot the same as
men do; when her voice will be heard
in argument in the halls of our conven-
tions; when she shall understand the
cause of her paying taxes, and when she
shall be recognized as citizen of these
United States, with the right to govern,
as we'll as be governed.


"Not till she shall learn to be citi-
zen indeed will she learn to obey" l
do not say or wish to convey that alb
surd idea of taking the woman away
from her domestic sphere. The exercise
of the franchise need do this no more
than it takes man away from his duties.
Let her be able to help frame law that
will keep her husband at home at
proper and seasonable hours. Give her
key to the fountain of Bacchus, that
she may control her lords appetite. 1t
is for these reasons, if no other, that she
asks the right of suffrage.


In conclusion I must say from princi-
pie, and from principle alone, do 1 ad-
vocate this cause, namely, that woman
shall have the right of suffrage, and by
all that is near and dear to me, shall
help her to obtain it.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:


Your card of recent date, together
with paper, received. Many thanks for
your kind words. l think few people
long for and appreciate kind words as I
do, probably from the fact that have
for years hungered for them. "Weak-
ness" do you call this? Perhaps so.
But know before you judge, that these
things that would have far outweighed
the cares of wifehood, the pains and
trials of motherhood, and have sunk
into utter iusignificance the petty an
nOyances of everyday life, have been
through all the years of my womanhoOd
denied to me.


d" Some hearts go hungering through the world


And never find the love they seek"


And naught but suitable and genial
ompanionship will improve and ele-
vate character and enable us to go
through life with songs Of thanksgiving
instead of murmurs of disappointment
upon our lips.


believe in marriage; in the union of
one man and one woman in "holy we'd
lock-" and almost every day of my life
am forced to exclaim inwardly, "Alas,
that the marriage ceremony so seldom
unites persons in holy bonds"


l would like to say few words of en-
couragement, and must tell you how
much 1 admire your courage and your
brave, outspoken defense of what you
believe to be right. am far past life's
meridian, yet [ hope to live to see the
triumph of right over might in the
question of equal rights.


Just here let me say that have a re-
quest to make of every man in Oregon
who may read these words. Let each
one ask his wife this simple question !:
''If the question of allowing women to
vote was submitted to the people, and
women as well as men were asked to
vote upon it, would you vote on it at
all, or would you leave it for the men to
decide ?'


Ask this question without argument
for or against the proposition, and en-
close her answer to the editor of the
New NORTHWEST, and that journal
will then be able to inform US with re-
gard to two disputed points. First,
whether men are willing to grant po-
lite request made by woman when it
looks to the latter's enfranchisement;
and second, whether a majority of wom-
en- want to vote or not. For myself,
am quite certain that the last point will
be decided affirmatively, and hope as
much for the first. NJ.
| Yamhill county, May 20, 1877.
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST


So quiet have political matters be-
come, that now the President and Cabi-
net can take time to leave the city. In
his assisting last week in the opening
ceremonies of the National Exhibition
at Philadelphia, and this week partici-
pating in New York in the dinner fes-
tivities of the annual banquet given by
the Chamber of Commerce, he shows US
full indication that the cares of State
rest lightly upon him, and that the in
tense application to them during the
first two months of his Presidency now
gives away to a certain degree of per-
sOnal enjoyment and association with
the people. 1t is but right that the
President should share in the ceremo-
nies of the people on public occasions
Such is the course of the kings and
princes of Europe, and there can GER
tainly be no sound reason for cooping
our President up in the White House
under the speciOus plea that the public
veal demands his constant presence
here just as it did that of Mr.. Lincoln
during the war. While it is not advis-
able for the President to remove him
self and family from the White House
for months, yet good only can result
from his presence on great public festi-
walls or ceremonies throughout the
country. The people elect the Presi-
dent and have right to see him in
their midst, while he has no right to
make himself exclusive and to demand
that the people must journey to the
White House if they desire to pay him
their respects.


We are glad to note General Grant
has been the recipient of high honors
wherever he has gone, quite as many,
| if not more, than those extended to Mr..
Hayes, and thus disproving the Oft-re-
peated assertion that the ex-office-holder
is summarily forgotten. We have a
warm admiration for General Grant,
though we have In the past widely
differed from him on many points, and
have freely and strongly condemned
his course therein. But the fact re-
mains that he has been a true patriot,
meaning and having at heart only the
best interests of his country, and his
errors have been those of judgment, not
willful, obstinate dereliction. He was
drawn into the San Domingo swindle
by friends in whom he had the most
implicit confidence. He put and kept
Columbus Delano into his Cabinet, be-
lieving him to be an honorable man.
Above deceit himself, and with hand
untarnished by corruption or dishonor,
be never could realize how Mr.. DeIauo
made political life merely a stepping
stone to personal emoluments, from his
lighthouse swindle in 1852 at the time
he brought the only tarnish which ever
dimmed the luster of the name of that
great statesman, Tom Corwin, down to
the Indian rings in 1875, for which he
was unceremoniously kicked out of of,
flee by General Grant, and that too in
the face of the assertion that he-the
President-wOuld dismiss no man while
under fire. General Grant clung tena.
ciously to his friends, and it required
overwhelming evidences of unworthi-
| ness to compel him to abandon them,
Year: 1877

TIME.-Of our gold and our silver
most of us are careful; but of time,
which once lost can never be recalled or
regained, we lavish large portion even
while we are uttering complaints of the
quantity allotted to US.
Year: 1877

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 Exposing the Wrong
of the Masses.
Year: 1877

Some remarks made at the recent banquet
Of the Chamber Of Commerce by Mr.. Eyarts
i'm regard to the shipping interest have
aroused not little discussion. few Jealous
free traders clamor vigorously for "fIce
trade in ships" while Jealous protectioni,ts
feel called upon to protest lest, by this 'in-
"troduction Of the thin end of the wedge"
the entire tariff may be ovcrthrown. We fail
to see the pcrtinency Of appeals to estab-
lishcd beliefs for or against the general sys-
fem of protection. When American shipyard5
are turning out vessels which foreign pur-
chaScrs prefer at the price to any they can buy
elsewhere, there seems to be little reason
either to hope or to fear that Americans, if they
were permitted, would make haste to supply
tie deficiencies of our merchant service 10y
buying inferior ships at a higher price. APP
parcnty old habits of Thought have led to
curious misapprohcn~iOns as to the real cause
of the decline Of our shipping. Ii is not
quite clear that freedom to purchase ships
would remove the causes of that decline.


The dccadcnce OF American commerce did
not commence, as some have imagined, with
the escape Of the first Confederate cruiser
from a British port. For some years before
the war the decline of shipping and ship
building in this country had been noted with
surprise. The cause was the introduction Of
steam. When the Baltimore clipper smTcn-
dcrcd 10 the mail steamer, the work began
which the Alabama finished. Commerce, as
every one must realize who carefully considers
modern methods, depends upon speed and
regularity of communication, not merely in the
movement Of goods, but far more in the ear
rying Of mails. The merchant who can get
in his order, bis oilcr OF his remittance most
promptly gets the cream of the market. Keen
appreciation of this fact, not less than pride
in mastery Of the seas led Great Britain to
eXpend money layishly for the establishment
Year: 1877

After this fashion we go on, buying from all
the world, and paying in goods shipped to
England. As long as these great currents OF
trade continue to follow the channels now worn
so deeply, we fear that no change in our nav
igation laws, whether desirable or undesirable
otherwise, will restore the supremacy to Amer
lean commerce.
Year: 1877

The proposal to nominate Alderman Purroy
to the Police Commission is an allront to the
good citizens of both parties. They are in no
hurry to see pot-housc politicians put in the
one department where they can do the most
harm.
Year: 1877

The visit Of Richard Wagner to London seems TO
have been reasonably successful in n pccuniary
SENSE but it led to some curious manifestations of
that Philistusm in music which is even more
marked in London than it is IN Paris In France
hostility 10 the new school of art takes the form of
a violent and passionate dIslike in England it is
not so much an active antipathy a5 IN adamantlne
resistance to new Impressions, an utter inability To
comprehend what IS contrary 10 established prccc-
dent Ihc Dailg Ncrs, almost the only one of the
great London newspapers which has treated the
Wagner question nationally, says of the second of
the concerts in the Albert Hall, During the greater
part of the evening the composer was seated near
thc front row Of the chorus, and had there excel
lent opportunity of watching the noscess and grad
ua departure of the audience from the amphitheater
and arena stalls while the best portions of the mar
ycous love and Spring-time music Of The NaIkyr
were being performed. SO vast an ncapacity to
appreciate his music probably never before re-
yealcd to the composer How different would it
not have been in America! If Wagner could be in
duted to come here under proper auspices he would
have no reason to complain OF such extraordinary
lack of appreciation.
Year: 1877

Straw hats went suddenly out Of fashion ycster-
dav and light oyercOats were not found uncom-
Portable. Yet the fall Of temperature, measured
bv the thermometer, was not great. In upper rooms
Of The TRIBUNE building, the difference between
the hottest hour of Sunday and of yes
terlay was only 6 or =. change
in the direction of the wind and in the amount of
moisture it carries has usually quite as much to do
with the sensation of cold as the variations Of
the thermometer In fact the change of the
wind late on Sunday night was the chief
Indication Of approaching alteration in the
weather, on which was based TIE TEIBUNr'S pre-
dicion of yesterday that il would be cooler though
n small rise Of arpfessure which took place on Sun
day evening also favored such a view. But neither
the rising barometer, the falling thermometer the
dryncss of the air, nor the few thin clouds in the
upper sky that evening. indicated approaching
rain the wind alone showed by its change that
there might be something of the much-nccded ram
fail yesterday. There is no one of the weather
proverbs that has a better basis in experience than
the one which throws doubt over all signs during a
drouth.
Year: 1877

What official information Superintendent
Ellis had about the Third Avenue Savings
Rank six months before he was forced into
closing it. we already know; but a letter
nrinted elsewhere shows also what private
Year: 1877

A pressing reminder from the French author
tiles of the necessity Of taking prompt meas
urcs TO secure a representation Of the United
States in the Paris Exposition, seems likely to
result in the adoption of the plan suggested
bv THE TRIBUNE some time since. This Is
simply 10 follow the precedent set in the case
of the Vienna Exhibition, and form pro-
yjsional commission whose appointment Con
gress may ratify upon its meeting
Year: 1877

There has never been a time when the
thorough examination Of life insurance COM
panics by the State Superintendent was mat
ter of so much pubic concern. This work Is
now about half finished. There is danger that
II will be stopped altogether The Insurance
Department has now no power to collect from
conpauies the expense of examining them, and
cannot have till that is granted by legislation.
The bin authorizing the department to collect
these expenses passed the Senate without oppo-
sition more than month ago. and the Assem-
bly has approved it 10y nearly unanimous
vote. Having gone again into the hands OF
the Assembly Committee, they have instructed
their chairman to report it fayoraby 1t
awaits his motion only. There is no excuse
for delay about it. If this bill is held back,
and the work of examining life insurance
companies is thereby stopped and postponed
for a year. the public will be slow to forgive
the man whose neglect, whether intentional or
otherwise, inAicts such harm.
Year: 1877

TIE canvass for Road Overseer is
pretty lively in our sister burg Of Doug
las City. The Democratic candidate ia
working like beaver" and the way
Joe Bradley and the Electoral Com
mission has to take it is IA caution. The
strength Of the pedro" element is di-
vided between the rival candidates. We
stand ready to bet that one or the 9TH
er of them will get elected.
Year: 1877

FEEDING THE DEAD.-The Chinese
ceremony OF feeding the dead was duly
celebrated this week, and the defunct
heathcns around Weaverville were re-
galed with baked hog and other tooth
some edbIes. There was rather less OF
the fuss and fire crackers than usual.
Year: 1877

Low WATER" Chilt" Woods re-
ports very low stage of water in the
main South Fork of the Trinity River
There are, he says less than two hundred
inches Of water in that stream, and on
the rifles man can cross dry-tooted by
stopping from rock to rock. When we
reflect that the South Fork heads away
up in the /" VOLTA bally," or Great Snow
Mountain, and in some years carries
nearly as much water as the main Trini-
ty itself, it will be seen that this is indeed
season Of low water.
Year: 1877

VOTE FOR THE BEsr.-The election
VIII be held before another issue of the
JOURNAL will reach some Of its readers.
10 them we say again-compare the quail
ifcations Of each candidate whose name
Is before you, and support the one you
conscientiously believe best fitted for the
place to which he aspires. 1t will be
small satisfaction To gain political victo-
ry' and know you nave done so by defeat
ing The best man of the two. Vote for the
one who in your estimation will best per-
form the duties of the office, for every
place, from County Clerk down to Road
0verseer.