THURSDAY..
..MAY 13, 1880.
A JIa Sleeting; Tor All Women lib
Wnut to Vote.
A Man Meeting for all women who want to
vote will be Held at Farwell Hall, No. MS Mad
lson street, between Clark and La &Kle, Chi
cago, m., Wednesday, Jane 2d, 180, at 10 A. x..
iao ami 8 p. nf
Kverj woman In the United Stales who sees
or bean of this call Is isost earnestly Invited
to be present at the meeting, irthls l impos
sible, ne l urged to aend a letter or a postal
card, with her name and wlah expressed In her
briefest and strongest manner, addressed to
Euuhth Cast Stamtok,
President W. & A.,
No in 'West Lake St., Chisago, IIL
Letters or postals sore to reach Chicago on
June M, can be addressed to Farwell Hall
Now, let as reeetTe at least SUM metals. and
let) them be tent In ample time to reach our
meeting at Harwell Hall In
The best speakers In the United Slates will
be present. Oar delegate will proceed from
this meeting to the Itepabllean Nominating
Convention, to present oar demand for their
Insertion of the following plank:
Resolved, That the right of suffrage inheres
In the dtlaen of the United States, and we
pieugs ourselves io secure
res to secure iioUeliua In the
b right to all eitlseas. Irrespective
mendment to the National Uou-
exercise ot wis ngni to ail
of sex, by an amendment
bihuuoo.
Let ns meet together, and by overwhelming
force of numbers show our earnestness and
our determlnatioB to secure for ourselves the
acknowledged right of self-coversment.
SCSAX B. AsTKOKY,
Vlce-rres. at Large, N'. W. a A.
. Matilda Jositn Qaqu,
Chairman Kiecutlve Coco. N". W. S. A.
All papers friendly to woman's demands are
requested teeopy this calL Women are avsry
where urged to give It wide circulation.
PEOGEESB OPJTHE P0E1HMJE.
The political porridge in the different
State kettles is already growing Lot
enough to badly burn the Queers of
some of tbe candidates who fain would
eat of it. There is evidence, too, that-
many of tbe ingredients are so badly
raised as to form an unwieldy sediment,
which h being rapidly soorohed against
the sides of one of the kettles ; for there
arises a nauseating odor from the depths
of the simmering mess in the Supreme
Judges' cauldron which proves clearly
that Purchaser Kelly and Imbecile l'rim
hare already stuck fast to the sides of it.
A huge spoon, labeled, "Must Purchase
Republican Elector," is vigorously om
ployed by Moss of the Mercury in press
ing Purchaser Kelly against the sides of
the kettle, while Imbecile Prim is puz
zled with a tribulation that worketh no
patience as he sticks fast to tbe bottom,
weighed down under a toad of unpalata
ble truths' which he cannot dislodge,
and which, aB the fires burn hotter and
hotter, will scorch him more and more
severely, till his porridge, will surely be
ruined. It already has a distinctive
odor of stale eggs and bad effigies about
it, and more than one good Democrat
has assured the writer that he will
never eat porridge in which a Judge is
cooked who slanders ladies and then
pelts them with eggs for retorting with
the truth.
The porridge of Messrs. Waldo, Lord
and Watson is cooking splendidly, and
that of M. C. George is almost done.
Whitaker is so busily engaged in oppos
ing the rights of women in the balls of
Congress with his unwieldy ladle tbat
he has no time to join in stirring his
part of the porridge ; but his aid is not
needed, as the ingredients he furnishes
are so light tbat they are all babbling
away In empty froth.
A great many cooks, good, bad and
indifferent, ore engaged in preparing
tbe general porridge, and, with I lie ex
ception of tbe unsavory mess in the
Prim and Kelly kettle, the prepared ar
ticle bids fair to be palatable, no matter
which mess may be accepted first at tbe
public table.
"SPAKE THE BOYS."
Under the above heading, the Stand
ard of Tuesday morning sounds a nole
of alarm, calling the attention of the
public to the uses to which messenger
boys are pat. Reference is specially
made to the habit of sending them with
messages to and from houses of ill
repute. They are also used for running
errands for the occupants of these bouses.
While such services ofe in . demand,
and payment therefor Is promptly made,
yet children are not the proper ones to
aat as messengers, and the matter
should be attended to. While going to
and from the bouses, tbe boys have
phases of life revealed to them to which
they should be strangers. It Is bad
enough for those who have arrived at
years of discretion to know of tbe glided
sins that lure the youth of every city ;
but "do one has a right to corrupt the
morals of h young boy by thrusting him
on the path of immorality at an age
whs such a step may prove tlie down
fall and eternal ruin of one who other
wise would have proven an honored and
respectable man." Tho Oregonian also
denounces the messenger system.
A year ago the Standard was remark
able for vulgarisms, low wit, and double
enteadres; but it has made great lot'
provemeut, and is now found chart)
pioaing a movement for moral reform
Readers of the Oreffonian and tbe Bee
will entertain strange fancies about tbe
veracity of the former Journal, which
went out of its way to advertise the
latter a ? -, f.,r debt, and then made
no attempt to corrwjt its misstatements
when tbe Bee appeared ou time, as us
ual. Tbe Ortgcmian is a aliens; paper,
uscaeu oy a uank and a i u other
monied monopolies of the .t. , hut It
will yet find that it Is t,ol ... ,
enough to thrive by taking UD(,r j
vantages of a competitor iu Journalism
Its fiat, that tbe "weaker must co to
tho wall," oaunot always prevail ; for
there is snowier iaw-tuat quite as often
triumphs "the stone whieh the bulk!
era rejected balb become tbe head of
the corner."
E S. McOomas, of the Mevalain Sen
Unci, retires from the newspaper bus!-
Ha has been a racy and inuepend
cut wrller.wbose editorials weshall miss.
A "SET-BAOE."
Saye the Olyinpla Standard :
The question of Woman Suffrage had an un-
expteted set-back In Albany, New York a
short time ago. Tbe legislature of that State
had extended the right, to women to vote on
school matters, and, when the i l eel ton was
held, less than forty females cast ballon.
Whether the Standard means cattle,
oats or women by tbe term "females,"
we do not pretend to decide. Neither
can we understand how It Is that Wom
an Suffrage lias had a "set-back" in
Albany, New York, by the vote of "leas
than forty females" oa tbe school ques
tion.
Really, Uie New North we.-t is en
couraged. One of tbe heaviest bludg
eons which our orrnouenU bavo ever
wielded has been the cry that women
would neglect everything else if onee
allowed even partial possession of the
ballot, and, rushing pell-mell for the
polling plaeea, spend tbe remainder of
their days in voting, voting, voting!
Pictures of aeh-strewu hearthstone, no
kempt children, frenzied hueba. J( neg
lected socks, buttonlesa shirts aud poor
dinners have been painted oft upon our
fancy, while women, with hair dishev
eled and voices at doable key, have dis
turbed the erewhile serenity of tbe
ballot-box, which would never more
rest in its primal harmony and peaceful
silence.
Bat a change comes over tbe spirit ol
our vision now. The proof has been put
to thereat, and lo and behold I this bar
rowing vision Is but a myth, and "less
than forty females east ballots," and,
for ought we know, even these were not
women !
It our opponents possess their souls
iu patience. Let all eneb "set-backs'
reassure tbem. Tbe halluciouflon un
der which they long have labored need
worry them no more forever. They
have but to remove the obnoxious laws
that restrict tbe exereise of every worn
an's inalienable right to use tbe ballot
or let it alone at her option, ami Woman
Suffragists will be satisfied. The next
Legislature of New York will give
Woman Suffrage a grander "set-back"
yet; for tbe revolution, once begun, can
never go backward, and tbe "right to
vote on school matters" will be so
amended as to Include tbe right to vole
on all questions. Let tbe "set-back"
go on.
Later. Since the above was in type,
the telegraph bring news of a further
"set-back" by the present New York
Legislature, the Senate, by a vote of 17
to 14, having "pasted the concurrent
resolution to amend the Constitution so
as to extend tbe electoral franchise to
women."
WOMElBEAD.
We to-day publish the call of the
National Woman Soffrage Association,
to which we iuvlte special attention.
Qalte a number of ladles have asked us
to give tbe form of the petitiou to be
forwarded on their postal cards. The
following is sufficient, though of course
any lady can use her own language:
To the National Rkptbucak Nohtxat-
aa Dsxbgatioh, tjj Convnmox Assoc-
blsd :-The undersigned respectfully entreats
you to Insert a plank In your platform, declar
ing that women citizens should be allowed tbe
electoral franchise.
blOKED. ,
Posto91re, (County), Htato
Dated , .
In addressing the other Conventions,
use tbe word "Democratic" or "Green
back Labor," Instead of "Republican.'
Direct all these communications, wheth
er by letter or postal card, to Elisabeth
Cady Stanton, No. 476 West Lake street,
Chicago, III.
Now, ladies, when you read this, dou't
delay one minute, but go to work at
once ami write and mail your card or
letter. A thousand such should bail
from Oregon and quite as many from
Washington Territory, iou will hear
from tbem if yon will write. Let Cali
fornia do Iter duty, and from Nevada,
Idaho and Montana let tbs still but
earnest voice of your pleading reach the
central strongholds of the law-making
power. No time Is to be lost, but if you
write at once the card will reacb tbe
Conventions.
From the Walla Walla WatcJnnan of
the 7 lb instant we get this pointed par
agraph : "Two respectable looking
middle-aged women met us last Friday
evening and almost sadly asked, 'Mis
ter, can't you tell as where we could
get a room to stay at least over night
We tried to rent one all day, but railed.'
We were at a loss to know wbitber to
direct them, at the spur of the moment,
but had they beeu women of bad re
pute, dressed up to kill, they would no
doubt have been snugly quartered fif
teen minutes after they arrived. Bat
let us build another church and praise
Him from whom all blessings flow."
An exchange says tbat "Miss Lenia
Ambrose of Applegate has just oom
pleted a quilt which contains 0,220
pieces." While Miss L?nla might have
put in her time at something more
hurtful, she certainly could have found
something more useful aud lets foolish
to occupy her spare minutes. Her in
dustry and perseverance are worthy, but
the object to whieh she applied ber good
qoalities is trivial.
B. A. Morton. President of the Na
tional Liberal League, ha been arrested
in Bl. Louis ou a charge of forgery,
He claims that it is a case of mistaken
identity. The religious press will now
have an onnortuuitv to reply to IUC
Liberal patters, which have freely crltl
eieed the short comings of erring minis
ters.
We acknowledge the receipt of tbe
wedding cards of our good friends, Chas.
B. Hopkins, editor aud publisher of the
Palouse Gazelle, and Miss J.,k- Daven
port, daughter of John Djvenp rt, Eq ,
all of Colfax, W. T. The y.iung c .ople
have our hearty congratuiti. :. ai-d
beet wishes for their Iisj.i.;-.. and
prosperity.
WOHAN 8LTFBAGE KILLED.
At tbe conclusion of tbe Democratic
County Convention at Union on tbe 1st
Instant, tbe nominees for the Legisla
ture were called upon to express their
views on the 'question of Woman Suf
frage. Tbe fourth-termer, D. Wright,
candidate for State Senator, belched
forth such a brilliant oratorical effort
against tbe demands of women, and so
effectual ly showed the absurdity and
proved tbe fallacy of their claims to In
dividuality and consequently to equal
ity, that tbe woman movement, which
has been constantly growing lu power,
will now immediately collapse. A cor
respondent at Union sends us a verbatim
report of the e!-qnerrf and Injir- that Is
to render the name f Wright famous,
and to make Susan B. Anthony, Elisa
beth Cady Stanton, T. W. Higglnson
and other lights of tbe Woman Su ft rage
cause mourn their blunder in having
espoused the heresy of hunan freedom.
Uueasy must rest the corpse of Garri
son, having for three score years borne
the spirit of a fauitic; and troubled
must bs ibe Uut of the framers of the
Declaration of Independence, they hav
ing declared all men created free and
equal, without excepting "big niggers"
even. We yield unconditional surren
der to tbo sage of Union, and, that
others may no longer grope in darkness,
we give bis eflort to tbe world. It is
racier aud more convincing than the
late attempts of his colleague, Francis
Parkman, ta the same direction. It is
a eootrlbulion to literature as well as to
political oratory. Here It is:
Mr. l'rlsidlnt, Gentleman and Wlmmln I
have boon called upon to give my views upon
the wlmmln question. Mr. l'rlsidlnt, I am a
IHmecrat, always has been a Dinieerat, and,
feliur-clUsens and wlmmln, I expect to die a
Dinieerat. 1 am in favor of widen with coll
dren voten in school meetens. In llquer meet
ens, and slch. But, Mr. PrUldlnt and gentle
man, I is aposed to my wife waiken up by the
side of a big nigger and voten. I dont want
my wife degraded In no slch way. Mr. IrUl-
dint, I lore the wlmmln because my aunt's
uncle was a wlmmln, but I cannot degrade
them by given them the filthy ballet. No, Mr.
Prlsidint, no, never! 1 hope every person un
der tbe sound of my votes will be satisfied that
I am aposed to wlmmln voteu.
WOMAXjS WOBK.
A lodge of Good Templars was organ
ized in this city on Tuesday evening,
which is claimed as peculiarly woman's
work. Mrs. Rosa M. Martin, well
known in this city iu temperance work,
was the moving spirit in the orgaulsa
tiou. Tbe elegant officers' regalia was
prepared by ber hands, 'the cost being
borne by two voung men, whom, in
company with a number of others, Mrs.
Martin designates as her "boys." The
charter list contained 29 names, and the
applicants were for the greater part of
foreign birth, being Danes, Swedes aud
Germans. Most of them are steady and
industrious young mechanics, who feel
the need of social amusement and en
joyment, and seek It in this organisa
tion. By particular request of the can
didates, Mra. C. A. Coburn was organiz
ing officer, and the ceremonies, which
were carefully and intelligently con
ducted, were witnessed by a large num
ber of the members of tbe Order. Tbe
Lodge is known as Pace Vale Lodge
No. 349, aud will meet on Tuesday even
ing of each week at Good Templars'
Hall, corner of Third and Alder streets,
Tbe co-operation of all good and earnest
temperance workers Is cordially solic
ited. Tbe following members were in
stalled In the various offices for the
ensuing quarter: Mrs. Roea Martin, W.
C. T. : Mrs. M. A. Howe, W. V. T. : T.
E. Rockfellow, W. 8. ; H. Filzpatrick
W. F. S-; CO. Thompson, W. T.
Mrs. A. Freborn, W. C. ; G. Webster,
W. M. ; A. A. Holbereon, W. I. G. ; G
Feasting, W. O. G. ; B. LandreUi, W.
R, II. S. ; C. Marlon, W. L. H. S. ; T.
M. RIggeu, W. A. B. ; Mrs. M. Smith
W.D. M.; J. Freborn, P. W. C. T.; Mrs.
N. S. Rockfellow, L. D.
F0EEIGH NEW8.
Tbe distress in Ireland continues.
Persecution is driving the Jews from
H,us6la.
Tbe Albanians have issued a declare
tiou of Independence.
Beieium objects to receiving; the ex
peiieu lteneu Jesuits.
An unknown steamship is reported
wrecked on Prince Edward's Island.
The greater part of West Hunirarr
bus beeu devastated by a hall-storm.
Turkey fears England will Insist on a
complete execution of tbe Berlin treaty.
No onncregallon in France has yet
applied for authorization under the uew
laws.
The Y. M. C. A. of London lias nur-
chased Exeter Hall for the Central As
sociation.
The King of Slam makes the sadden
ing assertion that he will stay at home.
and not go visiting.
English operatives In eottou goods
will strike unless a ft ve-per-cent ad vance
is granted in wages.
The men have resumed work at a re
duction of five per cent In moat of the
strike centers of England.
Beetles and locusts In a larval state
have been found In Russia, and have
caused great alarm for tbe crops.
Tbe Union steamer American, from
tbe Cape of Good Hope to Southampton,
has foundered, but no lives are reported
lost.
Turkey's treasury Is empty. Tbe
Porte has been compelled to seize tbe
pension funds for foreign, postal and
telegraph employes.
Tbe British have bombarded and cap
tured Batanto, on tbe west coast of
Africa, because of ill-treatment of Brit
ish subjects by natives.
While Bismarck's foreign policy has
made bim near to tne rrussiaii people,
yet his domestic actions prevent bis be
ing in uarmony wuu uis countrymen
Tbe neonle of Bltlls, Turkey, have re
belled, because tbe eereals In the town
have been ordered to a famlnustrlcken
district Bitlls is but poorly supplied
itself.
A duel in Mexico bctwien Sffior Paz,
oAttnr nf thn Patria. and S-fior Sim,
editor or La IAbertad, resulted in the
tatter's death. Tbe former is a member
of Congress, and the latter was Secretary
of the Senate.
Tho Ashland Tiding speaks very
highly of tbe effort of M. C. George as
au orator in tbat city.
"YOTJES TEULY" ON HOUSE-!
0LEANIHG.
To tbo readers of the New" Nokth-
wiitrr who may have oscaslonally in
quired for tho undersigned during her
long absence from the field of newspaper
correspondence, Yours Truly comes with
her profoundest oblesance, battered
hands, aud a chapter on house-cleaning.
The Governor had been rheumatic and
cross, and Jim (who is tbe proud father
of two boys now) had been cautious
about Yours Truly' health, nnd mother
had been ailing, and baby number one
had been teething, nnd baby number
two had hail the colic, nnd it never
would stop raining and, taken alto
gether, It k cased as iftj f?.r'.r,.,".r
eleauiog would ie delayed till the Au-
tumn, with a fair prospect then of post
poning it indefinitely. But the carpets
were dusty aud the paint was soiled,
and some of the door-knobs were off,
aud tbe rugs were getting ragged, and
the kitchen tloor-step was broken, and
the pump was out of order, and the
cook-stove was ohoked lu the flue, and
the stove-pipes In the up-stalrs looms
were all rusty, and the windows nil over
the house were smoked, nnd the cur
tains were dingy, and tho ceilings were
ditto, and the plastering was cracked,
and the wall paper was soiled. And
yet would you believe It, Mrs. D.?
the men folks, from the Governor in tbe
best room to tbe Chinaman In tbe
kitchen, aud from Yours Truly's adora
ble Jim to Dentils O'Flaherty, the chief
of the gangof "wur-r-kin'-men" who've
been nursing a job of "slashing" all
Winter, at the price of a dollar per day
to the hand, with board and lodging at
the expense of tho carpels and the taint
aud the smoked windows, and the
broken door-step, and all the other
etceteras thrown in tliesousof women,
as you sometimes call 'em every one
declared up aud up, every time the sub
ject was mentioned, that the house
dldu't need oleanlug that there wasu't
any dirt to speak of, and they didn't be
lieve lu upeettiug everything just to
please the whims of women.
Yours Truly bore It for a whole month
after the house-cleaning fit was on her,
just to see if tlie men could ever learn
to acknowledge the presence of dirt
But they didn't, and the last Monday in
April came round, and the reigning
powers showed no signs of yielding, and
Yours Truly-grew desperate and brought
dowu her foot 1 Not that she's a terma
gant, Mra. D., but she's determined not
to live in dirt if she can help It, for it's
bad enough In all conscience to look for
ward to being buried iu it after you're
dead.
"You'll hove the whole house upset
for a month, aud there'll be no sueb
thing ns comfort anywhere!" growled
the Governor, lu response lo the em
phatlc foot.
"See here, Governor do you think
I'll clean the house for fun ?" deliber
ately asked Yours Truly, looking Into
hi- eyes with a quiet dignity that would
have made Samantba Allen blush with
envy.
"Of course you do I" was the unrea
sonable reply. "Women are a queer lot
auybow never happy unless they're up
lo their eyes in soap suds and splatter
work, and driving the tired men to the
woodshed to take a bile of cold vlluale
off the heads of old pork barrels."
"Then, sir, please be charitable
enough to give us up for one week in
fifty-two to tbe enjoyment that will
bring us pleasure," replied Yours Truly,
as she tied up her Irisaes in a towel and
rolled back ber sleeves and began tbe
annual raid that makes the sex happy,
Mother agreed to keep the babies in
her room while the rest of the houso
was being upset a very easy matter in
regard to number two, but quite tbe r'
verse In number one's case, as was
many times proved before the week was
over.
Yours Truly has long had a theory
about house-cleaning, and on this occa
sion was firmly resolved to put it in
practice; bo it was decided that tbe
work should begin in the kitchen and
back parch and woodshed. Calcimin
ers, palntersand carpenters were engaged
to begin the work at once, and, In order
that they might uot be hindered in
their labor?, the cook-stove was cleaned
and pat up temporarily iu the dining.
room, and overy movable article was
carried by Yours Truly and the China'
man (against the latter's protest) from
pantries, sinks, closets and cupboards
aud placed at haphazard on the side
board, on the floor, on the window-sills
aud on tho mantel-piece, lou never
know how much a kitchen contains till
you undertake to give It a thorough
cleaning.
When tho field men came In to dinner
tho first day, they were disposed to be
philosophical. Thoy ate their dinner in
a hurry, and were soon out of the way
of tho renovators, who dldu't come
Maybe Youra Truly wasu't mad ! But,
according to the Governor's logic, she
was "happy," and she tried to endure
the ecstasy of the situation io silence,
Aud she washed the windows and upset
the rooms iu tbe second story to hurry
the work along ; aud at the end of two
days tho oalcimlniug was done in the
kitchen. But the mint was not dry,
and it was two days longer before the
cook-stove was up again and tbe pantry
shelves In place and the doorstep
mended and the pump rejwlred and the
new dootlock put on. By thnt time
the diulug-room was In obaos and the
parlor and first floor bed-rooms like
wise. The paper-hangers could not af
ford to make two jobs of tbe rooms, they
I said, and so for two days more there
was not a settled snot except the
kitchen, and that was overrun with din
lug-room furniture aud paint bucket,
"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday I" roared the Governor, 'and
notbingdono! Women are never happy
unless they keep a house-cleaning job
like this lu soak for a month or mors!
I'll bet myhead you won't get through
with this muss before Juno !"
Mother looked on in meek silence, as
she bad done for a third of a century
whenever tbe Governor was ou a tirade;
but Yours Truly, who is a ohlp off the
paternal hloek, wasn't meek to any ex
tent, so sue brought down her foot again.
"Ill have you to understand, sir," she
said, loftily, "that this delay is not the
fault of Yours Truly, but of tho sex that
by your showing never procrastinates."
"But you said you'd only tear up one
room at a time," said tbe Governor;
"and here's a dozen iu a state of prime
val chaos !"
"Never mind him, dear," exclaimed
Yours Truly's adorable Jim, who provi
dentially appeared at this juuoture;
''tho meu have their part of the work
well on the way now, and they'll have
it finished by to-morrow evening."
But I can't get tbe carpels cleaned
and nailed, the wirdow curtains washed
aud up, aud tbe pictures hung and
tbe beds aud furniture in place in one
day, Jim."
Why not?" growled the Governor.
There's not an hour's work iu tbe
whole of it !"
"Suppose you try it, then, and give
me a chauce to get a bath ami shed this
old toggery and rest myself and relieve
mother of tho care of the babies 1"
Tiie Oovernor did uot eondeseeml to
reply to this gentle hint ; but he limited
away on bis gouty footolt still makes
him furious to call it gout and
slammed the door after htm.
What with beating carpeU, washing
windows, running errands for the paint
ers, driving tacks, polishing stair-rods
and andirons, cleaning picture frames,
arranging furniture, aud overseeing
everything, Yours Truly had ber hands
full. Baby number one would dodge
everybody's vigilance and dabble iu
paint, ami number two would catch
cold and cry with the colic; the China
man was too thick-headed to go ou with
his regular cook lug aud dishwashing
without a great deal of spasmodic help
from Yours Truly, and taken altogether
her work was harder much harder
than anybody but a woman would en
dure for the sake of living in peace and
Cleanliness, isut it was all over in a
week, Mrs. D., though (softly be it
whispered) there was a terribly busy
Sunday thrown in.
Wonder what tbe women will find
lo make 'em happy fqr the year to come,
now the house-cleaning's done!" said
tbe Governor, when the long dining
table was spread on Monday morning,
with everything about it and in the
room as neat as a new needle.
We'll tie having tbe satisfaction of
making our fathers and huabands com
fortable, and giving them lees to grum
ble about than they've had for a sea
son !" hotly answered Yours Truly.
"But where's your theory about clean-
log one room at a time?" asked Jim,
gently.
"Gone to tbe winds, with ail my
other pet fancies," replied Yours Truly.
"Theorists may write books on the art
of house-cleaning till doomsday, but no
theory will ever bring calclmiuers to
time, or hurry paint in the drying, or
keep back the rain, or hang the wall
paper, or beat and lay carpets, or bur
nish stair-rods!"
"Look at tbat ! It's advice lo hoose-
keepers!" exclaimed the Governor, as
he thrust a newspaper under Yours
Truly's nose. "See how easily you
might manage your business if you'd
be methodical like a man."
Babv number one kieked loose from
his patent chair at this oriels, and
bumped his nose on the table, thereby
u peett 1 ug the Governor's temper through
his lusty cries.
Yours Truly believes she'd have hit
somebody if she'd read that "advice to
housekeepers" liefore the men got away
and permitted her to quiet number one
and coo' her temper. Here's what she
read: -
It wives aad mothers would render the
house-cleaning season endurable to their bus
bands and fathers, Ibey should remember that
It is very trying on their nerves and tempers
to come home to an unsettled, disorderly
house. Let them when house-eleanlng upet
only one room at a time, leaving all tbe rest
In their usual order till their separate turns
come. Many a man has been driven to
drunkenness, or worse, by the discomforts of
his home In house cleaning season. Ladies,
never let your husbands know there is such a
season. If you would preserve their love and
constancy.
Stufl and nonsense, Mrs. D. ! Yours
Truly thought of her weary days and
comfortless nights, of ber aching bones,
and her general discomfort and annoy
ance, of which men know comparatively
nothing. She looked with oommiee ra
tion upon ber worn and battered hauds,
and thought ruefully of the delays that
meu had subjected her to lu failing to
be on time with their part of the work;
cud then, while the fit was on her, sat
down In the ohimuy corner and penned
tue following auvioe to nuaoauus ami
fathers:
Keep within your sphere. A little more
modesty wouldn't hurt you. House-cleaning
is a thousand times greater trial to women
than lo yourselves. The work Is too haid for
tbem, and In Justice to thera you should mar
shal a small company of men to do, not only
the painting, papering and ealeimlning (the
easiest part of It all), but the scrubbing, scour
ing, lining, carpet-beating, nailing, tacking.
window-washing, curtain and picture hanging.
emptying old barrels, washing bedclothes and
cleaning up back yatds. Too much advice to
women, and too little help, is what's killiug
us. But, If you cannot or will not take the
above to heart and profit by It. you can, at
least, avoid one fatal error that Is fast driving
women to suicide. You can cease meddling
with your advice in matters where your assist
ance would be far more acceptable. It is bard
enough in all conscience lor women to endure
the wear and worry of bouse-eleaaing.witbout
being beset annually by a re-bash of impracti
cable advice from masculine writers who
conldnt tell a cob-web from an oil stain, or a
stair-rod from a poking stielc.
"Let us have peace," Is the parting
Injunction of Yochs Truly.
Beaver Dam Farm, May 8, 1890.
After the wives and mothers of men
have become enfranchised, the Oregon-
ion will speak as favorably of their
"cawse" as It no w speaks of the Inalien
able rights of negroes.
Maryland's delegation to Chicago Is
not instructed for any candidate.
PB0H" THE CAPITAL.
Salkm, May 8th, 1SS0.
TO tbi Kbtios or thi .NW SoimnrBi :
Perhaps a few items from tne wij oi
Churches may be acoeptahlo to your
many readers. The warm days of last
week brought forth vegetatiou rapidly ;
and the bloom on the fruit trees, and
tho many beautiful flowers iu the gar
dens and at dwellings here, present a
charming sight. Tho recent rains and
high winds have been rather disagreea
ble, aud mud again predominates In our
streets and ou the highways. About all
the Spring grain is sown, and it and the
Fall wheat now present a fine prospect
for an abundant crop.
SILVERTOX AXD SALEM UAILCOAD.
For over nine weeks past, surveyors
and engineers have beeu running pre
liminary lines between tbe two points,
Salem and Sllverton. Reports were out
for various routes, but no work was done
on any one of them. Last week the O.
A C U. It. magnates were here for an
hour or two, and left without enlighten
ing us on tlie road case. Three days
afterward they ordered away their sur
veyors and engineers, and that seems
tbe last of the Sllverton and Salem Rail
road. We have but little hope that this
road or any part of it will be built this
year or ever. There is really no need of
two railroads passing Sllverton. One,
well patronized, will be enough.
TUE STATE FA IB.
The prospects for the enduing State
Fair are bright indeed. It is lo be
hoped that this Fair can be held between
showers, sud that the people iu attend
ance will not be drenched in rain, as
they have been for three years past.
Tbe wise policy of tbe managers of the
fair to exclude all whisky dens and
lager beer saloons from the grounds da r
in'g tbe week should encourage all tern
perance folks aud all orderly persons to
attend tlie fair this season. I hope tbat
we shall have tbe very best fair this
year tbat has ever been held on these
grounds. The fine walks, parks and
pavilions are in complete condition ; tbe
chapel does credit to the Y. M. C. A
of
Portland in its fine new arrangements
the grand stands and booths are In floe
repair, and the whole presents a charm
ing appearance. Tbe large increase of
visitors from the States, umier the ef
forts of Rev. Isaac Dillon, will add
tbe revenues of tbe society, and it is
hoped that all indebtedness against
wilt be paid off at this fair. There are
lots yet vacant for houses on the west
encampment, aud plenty ot lumber at
low rates to lie had for anyone wishing
to build between now and the 1st of July
and workmen ready to do the work.
POLITICS.
Polities is booming. In a short time
the slander factories will be in working
order, and charges will be brought up
against each man for each office cer
tificates and affidavits made to order
and the candidates will hardly know
themselves by the lime of the election.
Some are too old, some are too young,
and some don't know moeb, and so it
runs.
Some are afraid that our friend, M. C.
George, if elected to Congress, could not
be beard or noticed in tbat body, amidst
each a galaxy of bright luminaries
there, until his time would expire. Bat
we will risk tbe case and elect him.
Tbe factory has already manufactured
the report tbat Hon. W. P. Lord, of this
city, who is nominated on the Republi
can ticket as obe of tbe three candidates
for Supreme Judges for this State, Is in
temperate. Those who have raised and
circulated this report would seem to
think that too much "tanglefoot" is an
impediment to the success of a candi
date for office in Oregon. This is like
Satan reproving siu. But I can assure
my friends tbat the report concerning
Mr. Lord is false. While in the Union
army as a brave soldier, be, as well as
many other officers, indulged in tbe use
of wine and beer. After he left the
army, I am told, he occasionally in
dulged socially, but not from any fixed
or depraved habit, and for tbe last three
or four years has abstained entirely
from all Intoxicating beverages. He
had taken a firm stand ou total absti
nence previous to his late nomination.
A due regard was had to the wishes of
the great body of temperance and moral
people of Oregon in the nominations of
candidates. The temperance people bold
the balaoce of power in this State, and
their votes will tell at tbe eusniog elec
tion. We want tempera nee legislation
here at the next session in Salem. We
waut tbe ballot plaeed In tbe bauds of
our ladies on the liquorqueetiou. With
tbat power at the ballot-box we shall
win. It is not for me to enter Into a
comparison of the diilerent candidates
for office in both parties lu our State.
My private opinions concerning some of
them would uot perhaps change a single
vote. But I hope tbat every temper
ance voter in this State will be true to
bis pledge not to vote for any one of tbe
whisky ring for any elective office in
this Stale this year or hereafter.
David Nswaous.
A trial wm made at New York last
Friday of a newly-discovered proeess of
making fabrics water-repellant. Goods
of various kinds, Incliidlifg silks, bon
net trimmings and kid gloves, were
Immerenl In a solution of certain
hydro carbon gums, and then dried in a
high temperature without a fleeting tbe
color or lustre of the fabrics. Tbe ar
tides so treated were drenched with
water in the presence of prominent citi
zens, and were rendered neither damn
nor limp. Goods which have received
this treatment will receive ready sale
In Oregon.
The Purcell case shows that the Arch
bishop and his brother, Father Edward
Purcell,. while probably free from any
intentional crime, were ignorant of all
banking rules, and that their careless
ness was so culpable as to be almost
criminal.
H2V8 ITBM8.
SI TK A3(D
Tbe railroad "boom" hat reached Solo.
Tbe Blue Ribbon dob at Seio is
nourishing.
Dr. Chas. Herxoc, 0f w.iu Walla.
died on tbe 1st lest.
A ehurn factory is in operation at
Dexter, Lane county.
The lumber interests of Klickitat
county eoutinue to increase.
Tim fruit cron of the Sound country
promises to lie unusually large.
Tanttr'i & Sou. oi scio, nave receive i
a 30-iuch Burnbam water wheel.
Ti'nrtv.eiirht convicts are now lu tbe
Territorial penitentiary at Seatco.
imn iiulnatrv near Port Iwn-
send is reported as improving rapidly.
Twt a Stuart has been eounrmed
ai receiver of public moneys at Olym-
pia.
Polk county will be canvassed by tbe
Greenback candidates for the Legisla
ture.
Mr. Francis A. Fowler, an Oregon
pioneer, died In Columbia county iaet
week.
A Kentucky colony of six families and
twenty-flve persons baa arrived at Van
couver.
A Chinaman at Astoria tried to kill
A. J. Donaldson wtin a eieaver a iew
days ago.
At tbe Tscoma ( W. T.) town election.
a few days ago, tbe old trustees were all
re-elected.
His iaWranh line is completed from
Celilo to Day's place, along the O. R. A
N. Co's roan.
D. S. Baker and othef capitalists have
sent agents into Spokan to boy great
tracts oi land.
The residence of Casper Hinkle, situ
ated two miles west of Needy, was
burned last week.
A post office- is established at Helix,
Umatilla eounty, with Mrs. Mary A.
Simpson as postmaster. .
Tbe narrow guage will be extended
from Dallas to King's Valley If a sob
sidy of $10,000 is raised.
Freight on the bpper Willamette,
from Independence to Portland, has
dropped to $1 50 per ton.
Tbe narrow gosge will reach Browns
ville by tbe 16th of October, if $10,000 is
presented to tbe company.
C. F. Yeaton's store at Spokan Falls
was recently burglarized to the extent
of $330 in cash and $600 suttler's-ebeeks.
Rev. B. T. Sharp, of the M. . Church
(South), has just come out from the
ast, and is engaged on the Dallas cir
cuit. Tlie Attorian, in footing up the re
sults of the storms of last week, finds
tbe number of fishermen drowned to be
thirteen.
In Josephine county tbe miners are
all busy and expect to do well. Tbe
crops look well and promise an excel
lent yield.
At Astoria, on Tuesday, Wm. Wil
liams shot Charles Mitchell twice, in
flicting wonndd from which be can
hardly recover.
V steadv niw of population into
Southern andKastern Idaho Is reported.
It exceeds anything wbicn Ibe Terri
tory has before known.
The contract for building a court
house at Walla Walla has been let to J.
R. Addison for $44,310. It will be com
pleted by November 1st.
If tbe county seat of Polk county is
moved to Independence, tbe eitizens in
and near the town mentioned will do
nate $10,000 to tbe county.
A disastrous collision occurred off
Cape Flattery on tbe Stb. between the
barks Rainier and C. L. Taylor. Both
are considerably damaged.
The Democrats of Washington county
have nominated W. H. II. Myers, Ira
Purdin and J. C. Wethered for Repre
sentatives in the Legislature.
George Collins, for killing Clark
Hamilton at Molalla, has been con
victed of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to the penitentiary lor
life.
An article from a welt informed
source, in speaking of hops, says tbe
most that can be boped for ou Puget
Sound will be from 30 to 33 cents per
pound.
Mr. T. D. French, a sheep-raiser of
Umatilla county, and said to be a quiet
and peaceable citizen, was shot on the
Ttb, by a herder named Murphy, and
there is no hope for hie recovery.
Three ladies have been appointed in
this .State as census enumerators Annie
M. Merrill, of Columbia county ; Aunie
B. Reed, of Liiin county ; and Mrs. O.
M. Murray, of Multnomah county.
Ex-Governor Newell, of New Jersey,
recently appointed Governor of Wash
ington Territory, will not leave his
home at Bordeutown for the Pacific
Coast for several weeks, having import
ant private business to transact.
Ritzville, the uew town on tbe N. P.
R. R , is named after Philip Ritz, Esq.,
a gentleman wbo has done very much
In developing tbe interests of the North
Pacific Coast. The location is 81 miles
from Ainsworth, apd is in tbe heart of
one of the finest wbeat growing sec
tions of Washington Territory. Mr.
Ritz himself has a farm of 8,000 acres
uear the new town. There is a strong
probability that the place will be made
tbe eounty seat of a new county. A
post office, with store and hotel, will be
established at once. Mr. Ritz has the
contract for grading ten miles of tbe
road, amounting to some $35,000. He
has purchased machinery auu com
menced work with a targe force of men
and teams.
THE ltr.ON KIDNEY TEA.
Read the following testimonials, not
from persons 3,000 miles away, whom
no one knows, but from well-known
and trustworthy citizens of Oregon,
whose names, written with their owu
hands, can be seen at our office:
Pendleton, dr., Jan. 12. 1880.
Having suffered with my kidneys, 1
was induced to try tbe Oregon Kidney
Tea, whieh relieved me iu a short time.
I take pleasure in recommending it to
the public as a safe remedy for kidney
difficulties. Geo. W. Bailey,
County Judge of Umatilla.
Salem, Or., Jan. 20, 1880.
Some time ago I boagbt a package of
Oregon Kidney Tea, and after using
t felt better than I bad for years, aud
bought two boxes more, being unwilling
to be without so valuable a medicine.
My wife prorouncea it the beet kidney
preparation in use.
Alfred Stanton.
The St. Louis anti-third term conven
tion was a quiet ami dignified body. A
committee of five was appointed to
present resolutions to'tbe Chicago Con
vention. It is positively asserted thattbePenn
sylvania delegation to Chicago will pay
no attention to their Instructions for
Grant, but will vole for Blaiue.
Ohio Democrats instructed for Thar
man for the Democratic Presidential
nomination.