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Year: 1871

The arguments advanced by Mrs.
laura DeFOrce Gordon in support Of
woman suffrage have won for her, in
this community at all events, the more
thoughtful consideration of those who
heard her. We were unable to attend
on Saturday evening, but have been
informed by one or more who were there
that she elucidated the point clear
enough, showing some of the advan-
tages to be derived by extending the
right Of suffrage to woman, chief among
which was that il would give her
standing among men, and enable her
the better to demand, among other
things, a Just recOmpense for her ser
vices; showing that woman was not
paid DrOpOrtionately with man for any
work performed by her The argument
that the ballot is a potent charm for
bringing upward any class to whom IT
has been given was substannated by
number OF proofs, and the fair speaker
might have added, in support OF her
view, that of one of the leading judicial
minds of our own Oregon, who, few
years ago, when Agent Barnhart of the
Imatilla Indian Reservation had eX-
posed at the State Fair in Salem a very
choice variety of vegetables raised by
the Umatilla Indians, took the press of
the State to task in a well written letter
to the San Francisco Bulletin, in which,
according to the best of our recollection,
it was said that the reason for this
could not be explained except upon the
theory that "Indians were not voters, 1"
and consequently their productions
amounted to nothing in the estimation
of reporters. "GiVe everybody the bal
lot, and then eshall be free and equal, -
is the cream Of the argument.


The above, which we clip from the
Portland bulletin, is evidence enough to
convince the most skeptical reader OF
that able journal that its editor is con-
verted to the principle of woman suf-
frage. The "sturdy oak and clinging
vine'' theory has lost its strong hold
upon him, and permitted him TO escape
into the atmosphere of common sense
therefore we look to hear no more from
him concerning his pet theories and
pretty talk that amount to nothing but
nonsense.


We have been deeply gratified at the
fairness and candor of the public press
in regard to Mrs. Gordon. Ten years
ago, nay, five years ago, had she essayed
to lecture in Portland on this mooteC
question the press and people would have
been hOrror-stricken; but their preju'
dices have been so far overcome thai
they are gravely considering this vita
issue, and the day is not far distant wheT
all will wonder that they ever were op
posed to it.
Year: 1871

ARRANGEMENT OF RooMs.-Give your
apartments expression - character.
Rooms which mean nothing are cheer
less indeed. Study light and shade and
the combination and arrangement of
drapery, furniture and pictures. Allow
nothing TO look isolated, but let every
thing present an air of sOciability. OBJ
serve a room Immediately after a num-
ber of people have left il, and then, as
you arrange the furniture, disturb as lit
tie as possible the relative position of
chairs, ottOmans and sofas. Place two
or three chairs in a conversational atti-
tude in some CHEEKY cOrnor, an ottoman
within easy distance of a sofa, a chair
near your stand of stereOscopic views of
engravings, and one where a good light
will fall on the book which YOU NAV
reach from the table near. Make little
studies of effect which shall repay the
more than usual observer, and do not
leave il possible for one to make the
criticism which applies TO so many
homes, even of wealth and elegance
/ Zine carpets, handsome furniture. n
/ few pictures and elegant nothings-but


how drearyw The chilling atm9sphere


is felt at once, and we cannot divest our


selves of the idea that we must maintain


n stiff and severe denleanor. TO accord


with the spirit of the place. Make youI


homes, then, so coy and cheerful that


if we visit you, we may be joyous ana


unrestrained, and not feel ourselves Out


of harmony with our surroundings.
Year: 1871

A few nights ago n funny scene
occurred at one of our hotels. The beds
of the house are covered with white
Marseilles spreads. a visitor from the
frontier was shown to n bed at the
proper time. Towards morning the
guest walked up the landlord, and with
chattering teeth begged for some cover
to put on his bed. Landlord thought he
would inspect the room. Approaching
the bed he turned over the cover and
revealed plentiful supply of blankets.
Guest inquired, whats that white
thing on the ouside?" Landlord replied,
That's spread, and here's plenty OF
cover" ''Do tell" replied the guest, 81
thought that white thing was a sheet,
and have been laying on top of it ali
night, thinking what mean cusses YOU
tavern-keepers were" The stranger sci
'em up before breakfast.
Year: 1871

An afflicted woman among the Nor
mons writes to her brother at Bellevue,
Ohio, that she wants to come home.
Her name is Lucy a. Wardle, and her
history is a remarkable one in some
particulars. Twenty-Five years ago she
started with her husband for California.
The couple stopped at Salt Lake City for
a few days, and there the husband was
waylaid and murdered by the Saints, and
his property was eOnfscated by the same
parties. The lady found herself penni-
less and friendless, and unaware of her
husbands death, finally married Nor
mon. For time she was quite happy
but her husband commenced taking to
himself new wifes. At the present time
he has fourteen wives, and there is every
prospect of his getting more. With
every new conner Mrs. Wardle's troubles
were increased. The following is her
letter:


MIDWAY, Utah, June 4, 1871.


Dear BrOther-I am well, and hope
this will find you the same. I am
blessed with good health, and that is all.
My troubles have no end, but keep
coming, one after another, until my cup
of bitterness is running over. The time
has come when must leave my country
and my home. / cannot endure it any
longer. / must become a wanderer in a
strange land, unless you send me more
money to leave this woman's hell. My
husband has got another little red
headed imp that he calls his wife, and
she says she has got Just as good right
to everything as have, and he tells her
the same, and then because / cannot
submit to il he whips me like dog. l
cannot stand it; so, dear brother, pity
me, and help me away, and then l can
tell you of troubles that cannot write.
| cannot stand whipping.
No pen can tell what l suffer. | cannot
wear the yoke any longer; and now,
dear brother, for the love of heaven, help
me away, and / will thank you more
than can tell. Help me away from
tyrant who never loved me, only once
in awhile, ard then with the love of n
brute. My tOrmentor, for | shall never
call him husband any more, tells this
little red-head that he got her last, that
she is boss over all, and that she needn't
mind anything / say, for / am nobody.
There is one thing more in this beautiful
programme: / once had a man that
loved me: but these blOod-thirsty de
mons murdered him, and then took
everything / had away from me, and
this brute in human form got good
deal of it, by being sealed to me for
time, and assuming to take care of me.
| have had quite number of rivals, and
have managed to put up with all until
/ the last one came, and now forbearance
| has ceased to be a virtue, and being
abused beyond endurance, / must and
will leave this den of infamy, and hope
to live a few of the last days of my life
in my native land among my friends
| Laramie Sentinel.
Year: 1871

Mrs. Jane Swishelm is i'm favor of men
as cooks, and by way of illustration re-
lates the following: az never knew the
significance of the impulse which leads
all boys to want to bake griddle-cakes
until / saw French half-breed from
Selkirk, beside his ironless cart on the
open prairie, preparing his evening meal.
He had a large fish boiling on the Goals
without any Intervention of grid-irOn.
His batter and his 'fiapjaeks' were in a
bucket. He heated and CREASED long
handled sheet-iron frying-pan, poured
in enough batter to cover the bottom,
set it over the fire, kept on serenely at
tending to other matters, as though no
'flapjacks' were i'm danger of being
burned, as it would have been if any
woman had set it to bake; but just at
the right moment he came up, looked in
the pan, took hold of the handle, shook
it gently, then, with a sudden jerk, sent
the cake spinning into the air, caught it
as it came down, square in the center,
with the other side up. The cake was
turned as no woman could have turned
it, and with an ease which showed that
the man was in his proper sphere"
Year: 1871

The Convention on Chart er Amendments In Jersey
City held another meeting last evening. AS 1t was
understood by OF the delegates that this would
be the final meeting OF the convention previous to the
introduction OF the charter the Legislature there
was very liberal supply OF amendments on hand.
The proceedings were not quite satisfactory
raj delegates whose efforts TO take the business out OF
the hands OF .Ting" have been unsuccessful 1t was
also complained that the four republican members
OF the Legislature from Hudson county voted Tor the
Erie Railway candidate for Speaker, and that this
act has created q very bitter feeling among the
people who elected them for the very opposite pur


pose. Three OF the delegates who have assumed
undue prominence, seem TO have taken the matter
OF preparing the charter into their own hands en-
tirely and have already laid the wires In Trenton
the passage OF such amendments as they think
proper. in total disregard OF the wishes OF other
members OF the convention. 10 checkmate THIS
Clique, Aldermen Thsmas and Tafrey and other lead


Ing oitizers will proceed TO Trenton on Tuesday
morning and press their views behalf OF the tax.
rurp.
Year: 1871

would NOT ne 30 much In the construction OF IT, II
would IN the purchs = Of the property through
which II would be rul or course 10 would have the
eject OF depreciating Whatever blocks II would be
cut into, and property owners knowing THIS, VIII
light 10 save themselves from loss. That Is but
natural. They look 70 their own pockets, and not
TO the general welfare"


..Then You mean that the great cost would be In
the buying up of the property the blocks through
which the road would rum"


EXACTLY: but we know once the property owners
would nnd out where the road was TO be run tney
would hang on to their own to the bitter end and TO
run the road you have got to buy them out There's
no getting around thato


s'And Is there no remedy for thisY',


The Governor smiled blandly and remarked-"I
think there Is. The way TO get the best OF this


DIFFICULTY WITH PROPERTY OWNERS
would be for those who propose to run the road 10
buy up whatever parts OF blocks they would desire
TO run through without, when they make their pur-
chases letting the owners know but they were buying
the houses to DO used for dwellings, You see by TINS
means the persons whose property would adJOn Inc
portion sold and which would be deprecated by the
proximity OF the road, would thus be blinded 70
what was going and they could not aid IA putting
false value on the property that would be DESIRED"


You are then under the impression, Governor,
that this could only be accomplished by whoever
gets the right to run such a road not allowing the
route of the road to be made known before he had
purchased sufficient block way to answer oil pur.
poses.u


Exactly"


AT stage of the conversation the train arrived
at the Thirieth street depot and the Governor got
into carriage and was driven to the Clarendon.
The reporter felt satisfied In his mind that his
''interviewn had not been without good results.
Year: 1871

water, and its recovery will be
as steady as the growth OF a
greenhouse plant, if well treat.
ed. Of course if the child was
already dying, nothing could
save 1t, or it it has already ef-
fusions in the lining of The
heart or brain, it is much bet
ter that it should die. But il
the above is applied in due
time, under the eyes and d.
rection of a competent physi
clan, | will guarantee that not
one in a hundred children will
ever die of scarlet fever. /
know this will start!e some oil
my readers, especially those
who have lost children already,
but | shall go still further.
maintain that a child will new.
er get the scarlet fever if prop.
erly treated. If a child has
correctly mixed blood, it will


not catch the disorder if put In
bed with a sick child. This is
still more startling, but moth


ing is easier Of proof GOo0
Health. H,f .amoII ara.
Year: 1871


THAcKERAY never uttered a
more prophetic truth than
when he said "France will new.
er be politically regenerated
while the social notions Of the
French are so degraded" With.
out morality in the family
there can be no morality in
the State. When the iounda
tons upon which the State
rests are rotten the politically
elifice can not stand.
Year: 1871

1t always begins with loss Of
appetite; then fever and sore
throat; then red patches; then
recovery, or otherwise quick
or slow death, according to cir
cumstan ,es To arrest its course
and prevent itsravages, medi-!
cines and nanipulations 0d Ill
ttum have been tried in vain;.
for more children die of scarlet
fever nov than one thousand
years ago. But Why? Because
hat nothing, absolutely moth
ing, is as yet knOwn as TO what
scarlet fever is; and, what is
still worse, there. was, until re.
Gently, no need felt of such
knowledge.


1t is unnec essary for a child
TO die of scarlet fever as it is
that it should be blind with
cataract, Let us see: At any
time before the body has fin
ished its Intellectual struggle,
we are able to help 1t, not by
wonderful medicines, but by
the knowledge OF anatomy, and
the application of common
sense. We coasult the sym
pathetic nerve, and do what it
commands US TO do. We must
give this child salt when ii
wants it; we must give it acid
when it has fever and anxious.
ly Graves it-not vinegar, but
lemon juice, because the first
coagulates albumen,, the latter
does not, OF account Of the sur
plus Of oxygen which it con-
tains. To initiate the soothing
mucus in the inteslines, which
is now wanting, and to give
some respiratory food at the
same time, we add some gum
arabic. To restore and relieve
the injured nerve, we apply
moist warmth.


In practice We can fulfill al.
this with the following simple
manipulatlons; Undress the
| child and bring it TO bed at the
very first sign of Sickness
Give it, if it has already fever
no,h;ng but sourish warm lem
cnade, with some gum arabic
in it. Then cover its abdomen
wi h som , dry flannel. Take {
well folded bed She It, and pu
it in boiling hot water; wiring
it out dry by means OF dry tow
els, and put this over the fan
mel on the child's ABDOMEN
Then cover the whole, and wait
The hot cloth will perhaps re-
quire repeated heat. Accord
ing to the severity of the case
and its stage of progress, per-
spiration will commence in the
child in from ten minutes tc
two hours. The child then il
saved; it soon falls to Sleep
Soon after the child awakes, i
shows slight symptoms Of re-
turning inclination for food
help its bowels, if necessary
with injections of oil, soap an(
Year: 1871

A YOUNG lady with a very
pretty foot, but rather large
ankle went into a certain shoe
store to be measured. The
admiring clerk, who is of Gal


lie extraction, complimented
her in the following queer way:
"Madam, you have one beau-
tiful foot, but re legs COM
mence too immediately"
Year: 1871

~


Be self reliant, and never
lean upon others, either tor
support or advice. Half al
least of the disappointed men
we meet are victims of ill
grounded hopes and expecta.
tions, persons who have tried
to lean on others, instead OF
relying upon themselves
This leaning is poor business.
1t seldom pays. Energetic
men (and they are generally
the class looked up to for aid)
do not like to be leaned on. If
you are ridingin a railroad car,
and a great hulking fellow lays
his head on your shoulder and
goes To sleep, you Indignantly
shake him off. 1t is the same
in business. The man who does
not at least attempt to hoe his
own row need not expect any
one to hoe it for him. 1t is
nonsense for any man 10 pre-
tend to the dignity of being
unfortunate who has depended
upon others, when he NIGH
have paved a way to fortune
himself. ..--, ...
Year: 1871

r The symptoms Of Liver
Complaint are uneasiness
aud pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the
shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costive, some
~time5 alternating with lax
d with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


Of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hay


ing left undone something
which ought to have been


done. Often complaining o.
weakness, debility and low
spirits. Sometimes many OF
Year: 1871

Italian opera collapsed suddenly last night
a the Fourtecnthst. Thcater. after performance Of
Il Ballo in Mascbeca," Which, having been arranged
i&proriso Is herdy fair subject for severe criticism


Our cn: duty present is TO record the failure of this
attempt TO make opera company without material
and without preparation The season has consisted Of
three evenings matinee and there has been little
opportunity for praise at any OF these representations
Last night new prma donna, Mime. Vardi-Marti made
her first appearanceteking the role Of Amelia in place
OF Mmc. Czllag She has a voice Of fair quality
but imperfect culture and uncertain intonation,
and we cannot say that she made very dstihct
impression Of any kind The most successful npersona
ton OF the evening that OF oscar the Page, by Mss
Rosa Cooke who disguised herself for this occasion
under the stage name Of Rosel In the first at she
suffered nervousness, but later in the evening rho
did very nicely, and her sdper rorreSie was encorod
Ie Franc was Ia pretty good voice. Reyna was eyen
worse than usual; Nine dc Gebelc was the sorceress
J7rica and signor Ncoao, and tho prompter between
Them made more noise than all the rest OF the company


In the breaking up OF the enterprise we have at least tho
comfort OF knowing that these two gentlemen VIII Tor
season, be quiet.
Year: 1871

BY special telegram from the HERALDs COR
respondent in Havana we have later advices
from the city Of Mexico What picture Of
spatch we have received! TIE Congress Of
the republic has convened, but for what pur-
pose? Not to consider and enact measures
that will be of benefit TO the country; not TO
counsel peace in preference to war and blood
shed; not to strive and raise the State
from the Insignificant position it now occupies
among the nations of the EARTH No; it has
been assembled to add fuel to the fame Of dis
cord that now prevails; to strengthen the op-
position party, SO that in the civil war that is
considered certain it will prove strong enough
to render 1t victorious in the field; to secure
the army against those who now control it;
TO incite the people of their side Of the ques-
ton to become more bitter against those who
oppose them-in fact to do everything in its
power to cause another dark and bloody
Mexico. What prospect for the future! A
bankrupt treasury; o civil war that will in
volve the entire country; rulers without honor
or honesty; the highways infested with rob-
bers and assassins-in fact in such a cOndi-
tion that we cannot see one redeeming fea-
ture, not ray of hope that Mexico will ever
be more than she is at present-the home of
anarchy and revolution.


When by reason of the influence of the
United States the French were compelled to
leave Mexico, aud when the empire ended by
the defeat, capture and execution of the unfor-
tunate Emperor Macmillan, it was hoped
that Mexicans, proiting by the severe expe-
rience of the ordeal through which they
had passed, would endeavor to maintain
peace at home and strive to regain
thought that some good men could be found
among those having influence with the masses
who would exert themselves to strengthen home
institutions to preach peace, honesty and
industry; to encourage all that would tend to
elevate the people; but these hopes have been
dspelled, blown to the four Winds and
we see now Mexico fallen almost to
the deepest depths Of degradation, untitled to
occupy place among nations, and brought to
this melancholy condition by the acts of those
INSCRIPTIONS men who, instead Of consider
ing the wel-being Of the republic and their
native land, prefer to plunge her deep into the
mire of anarchy, and look on calmly surveying
the wreck they have caused with no other
feeling than that Of how much profit they will
make by it. Poor Mexico What is to be
her fate?
Year: 1871

Ing our republican institutions just rs they
are at this hour was put to vote of the Catho-
lie citizens of the country ninety mine out of
every hundred would vote aflrmatvely; and
not only so, but they would vote the fullest
and most perfect liberty to Protestants. We
are rather afraid to hazard similar prophecy
for the latter toward the former. II there Is
80 much vitality in Professionalism as its adhe-
rents insist there is (and we are willing to
concedc all that they claim for t), and 80 little
10 Romanism as they also assert, why, may we
not ask are they SO anxious to destroy tha.
little with the sword2 We cannot conceive
any other purpose to be served by the fierce
and fiery speeches and sermons of our neigh
bors and the editorials of some of our contem-
poraries than the creation OF public SEN
timent which must result in religious hos
tility; provided always, however, that
those utterances carry with them one
half the weight and Importance which
their authors give them. But seeing that,
after 80 many attempts Of this sort by the
pulpit and the press, we are still at peace
among ourselves, we are inclined 10 think that
the community attach very little Importance
to those diatribes According to our simple
faith the vitality of Professionalism or of Catho-
licity does not lie in lots or houses or legisla-
tive enactmen!s, but in the hearts of believers.
And if Catholcity takes hold of the human
heart with firmer grasp than Professionalism
then it deserves to succeed and IL will succeed !;
but II Professionalism has in it that which
appeals to every man Is conscience with greater
force 1t will and must succeed. 1t Is all


child's talk to suppose that church which
possesses the largest farms and the most
costly religious houses is going to live longest
and rule the world as with a rod of iron. The
church and the creed that will have the
mightiest sway in this world in all coming
time is that which has, or will have, the great
est degree of purity, the most of truth and
the simplest mode of presenting the same to
the heart OF humanity. This is our faith, and
on this we are willing to rest the future of our
own republican institutions aud the perma-
nence of civil and religious liberty In this
land, and all who think with us will frown, as
we do, upon those hypooritical croakers who
would foment religious war among us.
Year: 1871

SENATOR SU.Vr& is establishing reputa-
tion as good aer. Since his first misun-
herstanding with the President he has suf-
tered no opportunity to pass unemployed to
vent his spleen upon General Grant and his
Cabinet, and seems even willing 10 sacrifice
The republican party, If by SO doing he can
fnjure the President. Ii is announced that
the Senator contemplates at an early day maxi
Ing a speech or the condition Of affairs at the
South, in which he will erraign the President
ss false TO his party and his country, in con-
sequence of his neglect, at the beginning OF
the present session, to call the attention of
Congress to matters requiring lis attention
particularly TO Southern outrages, of the exist
ence of which the President was officially in
formed.