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FRIDAY. ...SEPTEMBER 24, 1875, JfOTICE. Agents will plcaso tako notico (bat it Is a great tax upon us to pay express charges upon small sums, and they will confer a great Javor by remitting to us through money orders or registered letters. TBIALS OF A "PEOMISOUOUS' WIPE-HUNTER. Nowcomethonewhowasa"promlscu ous" hunter of wives In "ye olden time," and doth a tale of woe unfold. A certain section of tho Oregon land law having "completely demoralized" him, he added another to the ranks of the soft- pated brigade in their unseemly' race through the counties of "Yamhill and Polk" In the year of grace, 1853, propos Ing matrimony indiscriminately to tear ful widows of a fortnight, and little girls busy with mud pies; and now, at a ma ture age, he not only has the cheek to minutely describe the pell-mell chase of which he, mounted on a "tall bay mule," leu me van, hut he possesses also the ef frontery to boast of it, and the hardi hood to attempt to palliate It. "Utterly demoralized by the land law, or the climate, or something else," Is the testimony offered in palliation of the self-confessed fact that during one enure year he, mounted on mule-back, gave matrimonial chase to the women of at least two counties of the State. The spectacle presented by a man so vi olently enamored of a quarter-section of land as to ride post-haste from bouse to house with a proposal of marriage upon bis lips in order to secure the real estate coveted, Is too ridiculous to contemplate. As If to tax credulity to tho utmost, our correspondent, after describing his persistent ana impartial manner of wooing, and supplementing this with the Information that he "gladly got the first one that would have him," declares that his subsequent ill-favored marriage was founded in love. "A worshiper of woman's lovelinesss !" A worshiper oi a quarter section of land, we should say, jf we were to judge tho merits of the case from the testimony of the only witness. "Marriage is honorable In all," but the man who, regarding it merely from an animal stand-point, drives right and left In search of a wife, proposing matri mony to every woman who treats him with courtesy, Is a nuisance equaled only In contemptlbility by a woman who regards every man who approaches her In the light of a possible "catch." Regarding the question as to "violated law," the land law which is arraigned as the primal cause of all the trouble our correspondent hints at, is fully ex onerated from blame; for never did loy al subject ride harder with a message in his mouth, than did this witness, in order to fill the condition the law Im posed. "Ben Franklin's law" regarding early marriages' will do for those who regard women according to their ability to add to the census report. The thous ands of women "old before their time," and the yet other thousands to whom the grave gave untimely shelter, are sufficient answers to tho assertion of one selfish sensualist, who founded his theory upon the belief that woman was made for man. That the "business husband so fre quently outgrows the plodding house wife," is no argument for an unnatural discrepancy In age, but a strong one in favor of allowing the wife equal oppor tunities with the husband to enlarge her mind not warp and dwarf it with petty cares. we are sorry Indeed If even one woman has read the New Northwest with so little judgment anddiscrlmina' tion as to practice the opposite of what it teaches. Having, however, no power to control or Increase the mental capac ity or moral stamina either of "Demo cratic friends" or weak-minded women, we snail not argue the point We know that tho Holy Soriptures can be and frequently are perverted and made to sustain tho devil's own work, by his imps and emissaries. The idea that men's laws and the cus toms of society alone prevent women from rushing Into prostitution, is not new, nor does J t belong particularly or exclusively to "Democrats." It is ad- vanced, and has been for years, by men "in whom all evil fancies cling like ser pents' eggs together;" who never look upon a woman but with libidinous eyes. and see in her but a.creAture who should be subject to man's will In all things. Menwho will Btand upon the street, or congregate In a saloon and declare "they are looking for numerous victims" to follow In the wake of an unfaithful wife, are paragons, of propriety, certainly, and eminently fitted to expound St Paul, define woman's sphere, and de vise plans ror keeping her In the path of rectitude. These lepers In saintly garb never tire of descanting upon tho virtue and mod esty of women, while using every art to triumph over one, and trample the other in the dust "Vile hypocrites ac cursed" are they who with this specious cry or "protection," think to hold women In social bondage. Naught but the foul fancy of one lust to all virtue and manliness could whelp so black an insult to womanhood, "The fortunate B. C. D." begs leave to stale for the Information of this cor respondent, that he owned and held a half-section of land in his own right, and needed not a wifo to perfect his title to the same. Consequently, the Eola Bcbool-mistres3 did not marry for land, and obtained none by the transaction. Twenty years ago, Mrs. D. wrote and published in violent denunciation of the "demoralizing" practice of "marrying for land;" and she will doubtless be very much surprised to discover that any person should be so devoid of judg ment as to be such a length of time In ilnding: out that the practice was "demoralizing." "PBOPEEODESTr." We find the following In the San Francisco Examiner of recent date: A notable incident on election day deserves narration, as indicating the Inborn decency and natural gallantry of our cosmopolitan pop ulation when duly sober. On "Wednesday last Mrs. Emily Pitts Stevens, In company wilh Mrs. L. M. Wilson and Mrs. Marlon Mil, all candidates for the position of school director, appeared at every precint in the county.except the Ocean House, and were everywhere treated with respect. No cry of "women's righters,"or "strong-minded women,"orany word offensive to tho sensibilities of tho most reflned members of the weaker sex was uttered. On the con trary, they were in several instances greeted with cheers, as female candidates lor school directors. This tends to show the progress of public opinion in tho new direction. Thous ands of men who are opposed to the appearance of women at the polls, sanctioned by the law of the land as voters, are perfectly willing that tney shall be chosen, If they will act with proper modesty, to be occupants of positions in which they may control the education of the young and rising generation. So it seems that Callfornians, when "duly sober," are perfectly willing that women shall be chosen for impecunious positions, providing they act with "proper modesty." Now, we should like to know when "proper modesty' eame to be reckoned a necessary quali fication for the office of school director? We are quite confident that we have in times past known many school directors of the masculine gender who were noted more for coarse, brusque ignorance than for "proper modesty;" yes, and have known them to be re-elected more than once, without the slightest reference to the quality considered so essential in women who aspire to the office. And further, who is to be the judge relative to what constitutes "proper modesty,' tho cosmopolitan population when "duly sober," or, as most frequently happens on election days, unduly drunk, or the women of whom these ex traordinary qualifications for office are required ? It strikes us that the "inborn decency and natural gallantry" of tho male population would, if they possessed a modicum of the same, and were "duly sober," teach them "that the appear ance of women at the polls, sanctioned by the law as voters," would be a most natural, just and sensible procedure, prompted and upheld by every principle of common sense. If these members of the "cosmopolitan population" afore said would take care to keep themselves "duly sober," and keep as sharp a look out for an exerclse'of "proper modesty" In themselves as they do in women, it would not be deemed necessary to com mend them, as If they were puling school-boys, for their good behavior in refraining from uttering words "offen sive to the sensibilities" of women, in public places. THE DIFFEEE2T0E. An incident recently occured in Eng land, which has givon rise to much sur prised comment on this side of the At lantic. An officer In the British army, of high social position, well connected and of good reputation, has been ex pelled from the army and subjected to fine and imprisonment for an indecent assault upon a young lady who was a fellow-passenger in a railroad car. Per sons who are usually slow to admire anything relative to the institutions of Great Britain, have been in this in stance forced to pay tribute in adniira tion of the prompt severity of the sen tence. Women of the class to whom this young lady belongs, in England have rights that men are bound to respect. They, like men, vote upon a property qualification in municipal and parochial elections, and the women who thus ex erclse the franchise are better protected than women In any other country in the world. Hence, the swift retributive justice that overtook this officer. To. show clearly the difference between the protection accorded to the ladies who own property and cast votes, and their sisters from whom poverty with holds the franchise, it is very necessary to state that in many localities, any poor woman, upon the affidavit of a po liceman, may be registered as a prosti tute, and thereby be subjected to shame ful indignities. This wide disparity between the per sonal rights of the enfranchised and dis franchised women of England can not fail to strike tho most casual observer as an argument In favor of putting the ballot as a means of self-protection into the hands of the masses of working women, who can now be trampled upon without hope of redress from laws, and are, without this potent weapon, totally unable to defend themselves. A HAETYE'S "WAIL. ' Judging from the tone of Rev. G. Washington Dimlck's private (?) corre spondence, as revealed to us by Brother Turner through the Star, we should say that the first-named gentleman is ex ceedingly desirous of .furnishing a mar tyr's corpse for a first-class funeral pageant, and that his brow is even now aching to feel the thorny pressure of the martyr's crown. Hear him and deplore again the ingratitude of Republics: In the name and interests of tho suffering millions of my country, I leave the quiet and peaceful farm and loved family for a season, and enter Into the turmoils of a political can vass. Alas! that such heroic self-sacrifice is never rewarded in this world. Wo are sure that this candidate will wear the coveted crown of martyrdom with dally Increasing grace, and hope Brother Turner -will furnish and adjust the same without needless delay. Brother Turner says: We heard of a good man who said he Would not vote the Temperance ticket, because he wanted to reprove the "Temperance Star." Of what good will such a reproof be to the "Start" Besides, Judging from the support giv en, the temperance people from the beglnnine have been reproving us for ever starting the Star." "He that being often reproved hard- eneth his neck, shall suddenly be de stroyed, and that without remedy." AH IEATE SUSSOEIBEE 8PEABBTE Eugexe Citt, Oregon, September 10, 1S7S, Mm. Dusiway: I wish you to discontinue the If. K. W. I believe my timo is not quite out, but don't wish it any longer. I And women politicians can be as dlshones' as men. Yon can try to lguore"W"hitney" as much as you please but I don't want to be viewing your dishonesty every time I look at your articles. G.J. Gill "Whew 1 What are you going to do now, Chief?" writes our sago Associate in postscript at the bottom of tbo abovo effusion, as she incloses and forwards it from our home office to our temporary place of retreat from angry politicians, in the shades of Junction City. "Why, print and reply to it, to be. sure," we mentally respond, as we read It aloud to friends, who join with us in a hearty laugh at the expense of an irate subscriber. Aud so hero goes for the reply: My very "honesV friend: Your letter is received, and contents noted. Very sorry to refuse to obey your angry be hest, but I learned long ago, from the example of your "Independent" favor ite, Horace Greeley, now deceased, suffl dent "honesty" to fulfill my business obligations whenever possible. So will not discontinue your paper till your subscription expires; and I think you will by that time have recovered your wonted equanimity, and become so thoroughly ashamed of yourself over the above outburst, that you will renew your patronage like a gentleman. Wondering what "ignoring Whitney' could mean, I have searched the back numbers of the New Northwest for several Issues, and can find no solution to the mystery. Indeed, that gentle man has received special mention every week since his nomination. If, some times, some of the statements made have appeared in print after a new and sudden change in his mind, it has been because his partisans have failed to post me in regard to such changes long cnoughahead for me to order the type dis tributed before going to press. If you friend Gill, knowing of these changes. failed to advise me of them in season and thereby led me into making any statement which the gentleman veered from before I could overtake him with substantial print, I must accuse you of such criminal negligence in regard to your candidate as throws tbeblameof my alleged "dishonesty" upon your devoted self. "Whom the Gods destroy they first make mad." Brother Gill, your auger is the strongest possible proof that you are in the wrong and feel conscious of it that any one could give. Those who are on tho right track can afford to laugh at tho impotent rage of those who persist in getting stalled on political switches. I freely forgive you for coloring my motives witli the taint of your own mental optics. Such demonstrations 'are not new. The man who steals vour money will cry "stop thief" in louder tones than anybody else; and many a thief is caught by experts, through their knowledge of this fact. So, the politician who is always impugning the motives of every person who fails to be come a gudgeon to be caught on bis po litical hook, but proves his affiliation with "the ways that are dark and the tricks that are vain," of which he im agines his hoped-for victim to be guilty. A word now, friend Gill, upon the po litical situation, i ao not Know your partisan antecedents; but, from your de sire to slaughter Mr. Whitney in the in terests of Mr. .Lane, I judge them to be Democratic, and therefore in opposition to the real principles of Mr. W., who, as you will remember, proclaimed himself a Republican, desiring the nomination oi mat party, as your letter proves you to be guilty of the political dishon esty of which you frantically accuse me, allow me to say that your "dodge1' to divert half-votes to Mr. Lane, over the devoted head of deluded Whitney, is (to speak "classically") decidedly thin. Were Mr. W. half as wise In political intringue as his bad advisers, he would see through the plot and turn abruptly trom the utter ruin In store for him. A man whose reputed friends, from Inter ested motives, attempt to corrupt him from the highways of a good preacher into the byways of a poor politician, is sadly to be pitied. Mr. Whitney does not lack honesty, but he is badly defi cient In political Insight, else he would not suffer himself to be led by the nose by men who are only using him to de feat, if possible, his own ends. Person ally, I should not object to his election. Indeed, were his election even possible, should not hesitate to throw the mighty influence of the People's Paper in the scale In bis favor, provided" I would be certain he could abide long enough by an one decision to make the effort worth while. Jiut I know that you, and every other politician of the land, knows well that he Is simply be ing used as Mr. Iiane's cat's-paw. Were he anything but the devout Christian preacher that he is, you couldn't fool him so easily. But you have led him into -strange pastures and gotten him bewildered by your Bo-called - "Inde pendent" sophistries, and nothing but tne sober advice of a sensible woman will save him. This I now proceed to give cheerfully : "Brother Whitney, are you blind. that you do not sea the Democratic bait upon the political hook of G.J. Gill? Beware! When you tread upon theo logical heights you walk sure-footed, and make much headway; but when you essay to wander upon the summits of politics you become a very stumbling block, against which you are in great danger of dashing yourself to pieces and overthrowing your own principles." Now, friend Gill, be kind enough to Brother Whitney to call his attention to this document. Of course an honest- man, like yourself, can be trusted to do the deed handsomely; And now, thanking you for past favors, and confi dently expecting their continuance, be lieve me, in spite of your accusation, xtonesuy yourjrtena, Mrs. A. J. DrjNrwAY. Junction City, Or., Sept. 10, 1875. ED15SEIAL 00EEESP0NDEK0E, D3ar REAljeits, op tiieNew Ugrtijwest: lao meeting alluded to last week, wherein discussion of the woman ques tion was invited, took place at Jefferson on the evening of the 15th inst., and though a success in point of numbers and interest, was a total failure so faras tho discussion was concerned. Not gentleman could bo prevailed upon to utter a word In opposition, and when we remarked that we would report them all converted, oue gentleman said they had never been unbelievers, 'thus prov ing, as we have often- prophesied, that the day was not far distant when men would forget that they had ever been opposed to woman's, freedom. e forgot to say in proper place that the sovereign who objected on this occa sion to our using the M. E. Church, and upon whom, therefore, devolved the im portant task of protecting God from the women by lock and key, was an Indian Of course we could not dispute his "right" in the premises. What woman would?DoubtlessOmnIpotencebreathed more freely when His dusky protector sprang to the rescue, but we were not ,abie to see just what the Indian gained when everybody went over to the other church and blessed Brother Longs worth in the nameof God for having sufficient faith in bis religion to believe that we would not be able to overtum.it, even if disposed to make the attempt. The good people of Jefferson sustained the reputation for liberality and public spirit that was fairly earned at our pre vious visit. We nowhere find better friends or more liberal patrons. Mr. Thomas, whose ware-house was lately destroyed by fire, keeps on in dis pensing merchandise, as of yore. John Metzler is still in the chair bus! ness; the Rolands go on in the saddlery and harness line ; Brother Campbell's family still carry on an excellent school aud Mr. RIgdon prospers finely in the drug business. We're a little suspicious that the latter gentleman contemplates "Susan-side," which very bad pun doesn't half express it. He has added a new apartment of considerable preten sioDS to his store, apd indulged in a gen eral fixing-up that suggests matrimony We heard something, too, about i "Roland for an Oliver" under this bead but merely give It here as a pun. You don't catch us telling tales. Miss Clara Meacbam is here, canvass ing for her father's book, and meeting with success. Dr. Herndon, late of Scio, Is very busy with numerous victims of typhoid malaria, and Brother Conser, whoso elegant residence is here, Is in business In Salem. The hose factory is idle, from some unknown cause, and wo did not learn when it is to "resume." There are a few other enterprises in Jefferson which we'll tell the public about when their owners subscribe for the People's Paper. Having gathered up the foregoing Jefferson Items too late for insertion In last issue, they are carried forward as a preface to this letter, which, in Its be ginning, hails from Junction City. After leaving Jefferson, we journeyed on by rail- to Albany, where, the train halting for a few moments, whom should we meet but our old friend, Judge Baber, just returned from a trip to Virginia, his face as bright and voice as cheery as ever, and so full of talk about scenes and experiences of his visit that we exceedingly regretted the little time at our -disposal to listen to a full rehearsal of his wanderings. The Judge is a"n ardent Woman Suffragist, and, of course, a gentleman. We're strongly tempted to tell our numerous marriageable lady , readers how good looking he has grown, but they might persecute him too. much with matrimo nial importunities, so we forbear. With a longing gaze at the elegant homes of a host of Albany friends, and a single glance at dear Mrs. Foster, who, from her' upp'er verandah, failed to recognize us in the car, on account of the distance, wo hurried on, reaching Junction before two o'clock, where we were welcomed, first at Berry's Hotel, and afterwards at the pleasant abode of brilliant little Mrs. Roach, who enter tained us hospitably and (this is for the benefit of G. W. Lawsonj fed us like any preacher, upon the best of chicken fixings, sweet pickles and cream. Two fine audiences greeted us here, also a goodly number of new subscribers. Junction is improving rapidly. Many persons are buying corner lots, antic! patlng the completion of the west-side railroad, and contemplating a fat specu lation in, real estate. The amount of grain constantly coming in for trans portation by rail Is surprising. If wheat, at its present price and so much of it does not soon make all the farmers rich, It ought to. But how the country women toil and' drudge. Look upon tho street at any hour, and you will see a bowed and careworn object of man's protecting gentledess, in scant calico dress and ample sun-bonnet, lugging a load of butter and eggs from the wagon to the store, to exchange for saleratus, concentrated lye, fruit cans, coffee, demins, calico, bed-bug exterminator, candle moulds, bed-quilt materials, erockery, wash-boards, carpet-warp, etc., etc.,-everything she buys only add ing to her means of toil, while her ickly baby frets' In the lap of an older child, and her rich husband's favorite brood mare roams at will in the Sep tember shades of the great farm pasture, 'raising a blooded colt." Talk to one of these horny-handed, hopeless, weary women about the New Northwest and she'll sigh or sneer, owing to her mood, and shake her head and find fault with you, because you appear healthier and more hopeful than her self. Get her out to a lecture, though, and you have her, Qnce let her even dream that there Is a balm In Gilead, and her eyes will brighten apd her languid step growquiek; and then she'll 'wish she could get the paper; but he must have tobacco, and he-takes several papers, and the children need so tpany things she can't afford Jt," 3?ut she grasps our hand, at parting and says, "God bless aud speed you," as she mounts the high seat in the great wagon aud takes the baby in her lap and the little girl beside her; and while her hus band touches tho. well-kept horses with an elegant whip, she ties up her sunken jaws to keep her decaying teeth from the draught, and we watch them till the rising dust enshrouds and hides them, and then walk on, repeating to ourself the hollow, mocking words woso often hear, "Women are protected and supported by men." In canvassing the town we find that threo months have wrought a marvel ous change in public sentiment Every body is glad to sco us, and brim-full of talk about the lectures, urging us to rer peat our visit, and prophesying a speedy triumph for our cause. If the Republican parly were not as blind as a bat, it would swim.upon this rising currentof popularity and speedily reach a safe haven. But we fear it is in Its dotage. If it fails to avail itself of its proffered opportunity it must suc cumb to Democratic sway and abide the consequences. Tho consolation we shall havo will be, "We told yon so." Our next destination was Roseburg, which we reached on Friday at 8 P. ar., and were ushered into a lumbering coach, among mail-bags, baggage and tourists, aud driven to the hotel, where we wrestled through the long hours of tne night with the hungriest bed-bug: imaginable big, voracious monsters whose bites ugh ! Like "Yours Truly,' our language fails us, and we give it up, we were sitting in the parlor the next morning, dolordus and forlorn, dis gusted with bed-bugs and flea-botomy when who should call but the little son ot our old friend, Mrs. M. J. Hail, with an Invitation to one of the coolest, dear est, cosiest suburban suffrage homes you you ever saw, reader; and as we sit in her pleasant parlor and look abroad over the glories of the autumn landscape off this balmy Sabbath morning, await- Itlng the hour of eventide, when we are to address the public, a drowsy restful ness becalms our senses, and our dreams of home and lovad ones there are sweet and longing. Tho pencil drops from our languid fingers, ideal, distant voices reach us, and and and good-bye. A. J. D. Roseburg, September 19, 1875. A PEOTEST OF DISFEAHOHISED TAX-PAYEES. A large number of the women resi dents of San Jose, California, entered a forcible and sensible protest against be ing disfranchised on account of sex, at tne recent election in that State, and re ceived the following endorsement from the San Jose Mercury: We publish elswhere tho protestor a number of woman citizens of Santa Clara county, against uisirancnisement. Tax-paying men would ihlnk-ltrather rough to bo taxed. and at tne same time denied all voice In the govern rnent; and yet there are hundreds of tax-paying women in this county who are served in that way. It is profitable, sometimes, for men to apply to themselves the rules whereby they wouiu measure others. L. JB. Luce, of the Hiilsboro Inde pendent, was one day last week seized with a periodical spasm. Tho pulp that tloes duty for a brain in his cranium "prodigious motion felt anil rueful throes." At last, after considerable frothing at tho mouth, he managed to sputter out "Duniway," "smattering egotist," "strong-minded epoch," and divers other choice and relevant ex pressions, and laying the bantling com pounded of this Incongruous mass care fully down upon the Independent, he Immediately subsided into his cus tomary state of maudlin idiocy. At last accounts his condition was unchanged, while his. bantling was being smothered with the disgust of his decent readers. A statement showing the estimated annual production of gold and stiver in the twenty-five years from 1840 to 1873, has been prepared by the bureau of sta tistics. The annual average production of gold, according to this statement, is 530,300,000, aud that of silver for the fif teen years from 1859 to 1873, $13,000,000. The production of gold has, with the ex ception of one year, been annually in creasing since 1856, and the production, of silver has, with the exception of one year, been Increasing since 1859, the production of gold and silver in 1873 be ing almost the same. The Legislature of Washington Terri tory- convenes at Olympia on tho 4th day of October. The political complex ion of this august body is as follows: Council Republicans 4; Democrats 4; Independents 1. House Rcpublians 17i Democrats 13. We- hope the Woman Suffragists of that Territory are prepared with a proper petition, numerously signed, asking for women equal politl- rights and privileges with their brethren. Persons exist in every locality who daily grow eloquentover the turbulence of women who disturb the'soclal order of things by- clamoring for "more rights.'-' If asking and insisting on the right to live as comfortably and easily as men is a crime, then Woman Suffra gists are great criminals, and these alarmists should redouble their efforts to save the social fabric. The Coos Bay Literary Society dis cussed the question of Woman Suffrage before the largest audience they have had since their organization, on the evening of the 10th inst. The Coos Bay News says the. "debate was very ani mated, and the speakers well up In the subject." The decision, of the fudges In the premises Is not stated. : We have received a copy of A. B. Meacham'8 book, "Wigwam and War path," a mammoth volume of 700 pages, neatly bound, profusely illustrated, and finely printed. When time permits us to examine it sufficiently to speak Intel ligently of its merits, we will give it more extended meption, j BAtiSK QOEEESPGHDEHOE, TO TltE EmTOtt OF TUB NEW XoitrnTCEST: Permit one,; who shall b& nameless, (as you have all aversion to publishing names lrrsuchcases), to make a few re marks in regard to.thearjy marriage case alluded to by you In .your letter of last week from this place. Perhaps I owo an apology to tho good people of Portland for that marriage; ami if so, I claim one from the Government of the United States to me and to .many another poor madman in Oregon, focin sertlfig In Sec. 5 of the public land laws the fallowing words f'Ohe quarter section of laud if a single man, or if he shall become married in one year, one half-section of land," etc. Was not all Oregon demoralized, by that law twenty odd years ago ? I recollect of men of fifty marrying girls of twelve, with consent of parents at that; and. several men married girls but eleven years of age. All Oregon was married off In 1853, and I had to wait for a new crop, and could not wait long o"r somebody else would suapthemup. May I remind you of an incidont ? You were teaching school in Eola. One morning in July a man looking very much like myself rode up to your school-house door, called for the mistress, put a. letter of proposal in her hand, waited nearby till noon for an an swer, was then very courteously in formed that "he was too late," and, only two weeks after that, the more fortunate B. C. D. carried the schoolmistress off to the miuister, and from there on to his double laud-claim, while I only got a cold quarter-section. But I was out of luck. That year I rushed around all over Polk and Yamhill counties. I only found eight single marriageable women. I asked them all, and was "too late" with all except one, and with her I was too early. She was a widow and Idid.n't know it, having only heard of her as a single woman. I asked her how it was that sho being full grown was a single woman in Oregon. She replied : "Oh, I have been married, but my husband is dead." "Would you like to marry again?" said I, looking her honestly in the face and meaning that I was the man. Then her dear blue eyes filled with tears, a shadow came over her sunny face, and she answered : "Oh, it is al most too soon to talk about it yet; my husband has only been dead two weeks.'? I felt awfully, apologized, mounted my tall bay riding mule, and went over to Eola. I know I became, with the rest of the people of Oregon, utterly demoralized by the land law, or by the climate of Oregon,- or something else; for three years before, in the States, I refused to propose to a very accomplished, large, une, lovely blondo who seemed very fond of me, just for tho reason that I was thirty-six and she only eighteen. I came to Oregon, saw them marrying without regard to age, got over my prejudices, or discretions, as did every body else, and gladly got the first one that would have me. I shall bear the consequences, or charge them to Uncle Sam. You speak of some "law vialated," as the cause of my trouble now. Do you mean Uncle Samuel's land law of that time, Ben Franklin's laws of early mar riage, George Washington's father's marriage, he being forty-six and his wife sixteen when married? ,the uni versal-fact that in cases of marriage of equal ages the business husband out grows tho plodding housewife by from ten to twenty years ? Let me give you another law that some of our Demo cratic friends, distinguished at that. havo had the kindness to suggest to me as being violated. They lay the whole blame of my wife's defection to the per nicious teachings of the New North west, unsettling in the minds' of women thasacredness of the marriago relation, constantly urging them out of their happy homes and household ways into the ways of men, -where their modesty must become unsexed, and their virtue be constantly assailed, unless they are indeed both "strong-minded" and hard featured; that my wife, being neither, fell early in the engagement; that they are looking for numerous victims to fol low; that nothing but the good old Democratic doctrines of Jefferson and Jackson, and the, equally sound dogma of Paul, "Wives, obey your husbands," can save the country. Some of them urge me to vote for Lane because you ad vocato. Warren I cannot admit your inference "that to atone for that marriage I treated my child-wife well." Oh, no. It was be cause I loved her, and she loved me. was a physiologist, and abused not the youth of my beloved. I was a wor shiper of woman's loveliness, if of any thing under heaven. I found her Hebe. I would have developed her into a Sappho and Lucretia in warmth and virtue. She may go beyond my guld- ance, and become as an Aspasla or a Nimon de Enclos. I know not the ca pacity of a full-fledged woman's soul, I confess to the visit of a simoon, where I was not even, looking for a storm, When I was a youth, we boys and girls used to form a circle, and swinging around it would sing, "There's a rosey in the garden foryou, young man." Howjs i t wi th 1 ife ? In later years, we each of us gather our rose, and 'fasten it on our vest, and wear It as our own. But it's odor; can wo prevent-that from exhaling unto all who approach it? Howisitwith love ? There was but one Joseph In all the Scriptures of a million men ; one man who could say, Thou rose expand hot; thou love exhale not, in my direc tion. I ask room next week td note you what my Christian and Spiritualist friends say of, -some laws -'Violated, etc", etc. ... - The commissioner of the, , Pension Bureau states that recent disclosures convince - him that the' government pays annually from three to four mill ions of dollars to fraudulent claimants of pensions. AXSWEEl TO - O0BBESP.OKDENTS. N. C, Salem : Paper changed as di rected. Hope you received it in season. E. C. F., Olympia: Remittance re ceived. Credit to No. 35, Vol. 5. Thanks forpromptness. H. S., San Francisco: Book received several days since. Will examine aud. notice as soon as timo permits. Mrs. N. M. W., Skokomish Reserve: Thanksforremittanceand compliments. Hope to hear from you at length before long. Mrs. M.F.'C., Lafayette: Remittances received' arid properly credited. Gave you credit for subscription forVol.5Iast month. Many thanks for kindly wishes and substantial tokens of regard for the "People's Paper." Mrs. A H. 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The Beecher-Tilton case has been pub over to the next term of the court, by consent of counsel. .Officers of the wrecked.steamer "Sar anac," have been ordered to return home and await further commands. Terrible storms raged in Texas from ihel5th to the' 19th inst, causing dam age to the amount of $200,000. Emperor William will leave Germany certainly by October 3d, to visit the King of Italy. Prince Bismarck will probably attend him. Barber & Stout's tobacco factory at Cincinnati was burned on the 19th inst. Loss on building, stock and machinery, from $75,000 to $80,000. A fire at Qulncy, Illinois, on the night of the 19th inst, destroyed D. D. Merri mau & Son's lumber yard, and half a block of buildings. Loss estimated at $60,000. Tremendous storms have prevailed all through New Mexico for the past tea days, and the town of La Cruces wa3 nearly destroyed by tho bursting of what is called a water-spout. Much damage Is already done to the wheat crop by the continued wet weather. The jury in the Westerveli case re- turn-a verdict of guilty in the last three counts of tho indictment. The first two counts, on which he is acquitted, charge a participation in the actual abduction of Charlie Ross. The last three, on which he is convicted, charge a con spiracy to conceal, and a guilty knowl edge. His counsel moved for stay of judgment and a new trial. The annual annouueement of tbe Medical Departmentof Willamette Uni versity is at hand. A brilliant array of competent M. D.'s are numbered among the faculty, while facilities for instruc tion in "the healing art" appear to be complete. The tenth regular course of lectures wilL commence with a public address on the evening of December 7th, The Cincinnati Zoological Garden opened on the 18th of tbe present month with appropriate ceremonies. This gar den contains sixty-five acres finely laid out in walks and drives, and has a num ber of fountains and small lakes. The collection of animals, birds, etc.,. is very large, and the various appointments are unsurpassed. The Wtfstervelt trial, from which so' much was expected, has failed to throw any light upon the abduction or where abouts of little Charlie Ross. NEWSITEMS. STATE AND TERRITORIAL Acrand harvest ball is to be criven l"ltnhol lot nf-. TnnnMnn l"'lf. " Hop-picking in Lane county is about over. The yield is very trooU. The Corvallls College will liegln the fall term next Monday, with a corps of competent teachers. A letter from Wasco connty says the weather is' fine, harvest over, stock all fat, and tbegeneral health good. Lareenuantttles of wheat from Uma tilla couuty are being hauled to tbe Walla Walla and Wallula Railroad. It is thoueht the taxable Tjronertv In Marion county, according to the assess ment roll, wilt be $1,000,000 more this year than it was last. Eight threshinor machines were in op eration one day last week, in the fields by the side of tbe road leading from In dependence to Dallas. The second session of the Lane county Teachers' Institute will be hed In Eugene City on Friday and Saturday, tbe JSC ana zu uays oi uctooer, laio. General Milroy has been officially no tified of his appointment as agent of the Nisqually, Puyallup aud Chebalis Indi ans. He fills the position recently held by the late H. D. Gibson. Mr. E. A. Stevens has been annotated operator of tbe Western Union Telegraph Company at Olympia, in place of Miss Corts, who has been asslcned' to tlia pharge.of the Tacoma office. The Puget Sound Baptist Association is makiDK an effort to establish a hJrii school, aud material aid has been offered by the citizens of Seattle and Olympia for that object The location of tbe school has not yet been determined. Mr. Victor, the husband of Mrs. Fran ces Fuller Victor, the Pacific coas't auT thoress, is golug to start a fishery in Quartermaster's harbor, near Tacoma, on quite a large scale. Besides: putting up nsn ana maKing on, ne intenci3 W make isinglass and glue.