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FRIDAY., FEBRUARY 23, 1872. PEOTEOTION AKD IEEE TEADE. The Orcgonian aud Herald have late ly been holding lengthy discussions over Protective Tariff and Free Trade. As we feel that the principle upon which we have builded is so strong that the influence these man's rights journals may gain through getting their papers mentioned by name in our columns will not ruin our circulation, we do not pro pose, like them, to Ignore their journal istic existence, while fighting them over the shoulders of other folks; so when we talk of them we'll talk to them, and risk the consequences of thus advertis ing them into notice. Both of these journals are right, and both are wrong. Each views the same object from a dif ferent standpoint, and therefore they naturally arrive at different conclusions. The Orcgonian claims that Protective Tariff is needed principally to raise a revenue for the Government; and fur ther claims that labor being higher in new countries than in the half-starved regions of the Old World, where cheap commodities are manufactured, it be comes necessary to heavily tax foreign articles in order to enable home manu facturers to carry on their business without los. The Herald claims, and justly, that all these taxes ultimately come off of the consumers; that were universal free trade the rule of faith and practice, the manufacturer would not become a mon ied aristocrat through the heavy taxes borne by the people, from which they reap no benefit; that the Orcgonian, as a mouth-piece of the Republican party, whose idea a few years ago was univer sal suffrage, from which it has unac countably backslidcd of late, yet favors monopoly and Protective Tariff, is not more wonderful than that the Herald, which as an exponent of the Democratic party, an open and avowed party of caste, should favor Free Trade. Both journals and both parties are badly in the fog. Each sees half of the truo theory, and half only. Universal suffrage and universal free trade is the vital principle which must ultimately prevail. "When the civilized world shall be governed by the regulations of free speech, free press, free trade and free progression, universal peace will follow as a natural consequence; and now when we see our brethren wrangling over the different halves of a great, vital principle, we only pity both of them be cause their ideas of government, being one-sexed, one-sided, and consequently only half developed, fall so far short of the true principle or ethics of govern ment when considered in all its hear ings, that we do not wonder that they make mistakes. SAMTJELDODGETH. e know that she lias openly pro fessed that her advantage consisted in the fact that while men would be obliged to treat her with courtesy she is at liberty to assail them and they dare not resent it. bite Jias evidently acteU on this idea of woman's privilege while advocating woman's equal rights. statesman. We know that you know that "Mrs. Duniway" has "professed" no such thing. "We have said, aud repeat it, that gentlemen havo always treated us withrespect; therefore we proudlyrefutc the slander that is sometimes cast at them by the opposition, who say that men will not respect women who are politicians. Rut that our advantage consisted in the fact that men would be obliged to treat us with courtesy on account of our sex, and that they dare not resent it when we assail them, we not only never did say, but now most emphatically deny. AVc propose to deal with intelligence when we can find it; with imbecility in your case, and with sex nowhere. AVc ask equal rights, and those only. "When a man is in such straitened needs over an argument as to give utterance to such palpable false- floods as the above we pity him almost as much as we pity our crippled State finances When he gets Intsh money with out equivalent.. A EEVIEWEEJiEPLIED TO. Some badly frightened biped, over at Harrisburg, who was "providentially" prevented from hearing us, nevertheless attempted a "review" of our well at tended, well received and remarkably successful lecture In that place; and in so doing shows how "gullible" the gams homo can sometimes -become. He de votes a half column of the last week's Democrat to misrepresentation, which he qualifies by "I fear," "if I mistake not," "I guess," and so on. He further acknowledges, by his signature, that his report -was all in his eye. He, however heard us in person on the second even lug, and thought "her address in its hotter parts cast a new ray of glory on her crescent fame." If he'll send us his name, we'll send him the New North west gratis for six months; and, after he has read us for that lengtli of time, he'll learn that the mists of prejudice and mock modesty which now befog him are but the excrescences of a wrong education, which lead society to strain at gnats and gulp down camels. We judge from his writings that he docs not mean to misrepresent anybody; therefore we have much hope for him whenheshallcast thebeam from his eye. THAT NIPPIHG PEOST. airs J. B. Frost, who has been lectur ing along the Sound and in Victoria upon the downfall of the American' Government, has gone to San FranchS, We pity the latter place.-JfcroW. Our readers who remember the culo gisms upon this anti-suffragist in the columns of the Herald last fall am requested to "mark the contrast" be tween thai and note. Is the Frost thatccd, eh? brother Ike? Wanted an independent daily news paper in Portland. THE SILENT MAN OP DESTINY. While at Vancouver the other day, enjoying a social dinner with a number of Republican friends, the conversation turned upon the mighty Ulysses, who is well known in that community, as in deed are Generals Ingalls, McCIclIan and Sheridan.; Said we: "Is it true that tho 'silent man of destiny' used to be a drunken debauchee ? I have heard so many men express tcrror-sinuKuu horror at their professed belief in the wickedness of 'the "Woodhull that I am interested about their wise and silent I-" ..... ... Said one gentleman: "It Is well Known in Vancouver that Grant, while here, was afflicted more than once with the worst stages of delirium tremens. And further, a man named Lovelace, who was in his employ, used regularly in the evenings to take him to the worst type of Indian ranches in a carriage and go after him next morning. His profligacy while here was common talk among the boys on the streets." "Did you think it all right that such a man should be elected President?" "O, ves, we couldn't do any belter then. He was a fortunate accident. He had 'lucked' into a great national vie tory, aud seemed to be the only man whom the Republicans could elect; so we held our peace, thinking that be tween a libertine and a traitor, he was the lesser evil." "But he was a 'free lover!' ' "I grant it ; but lie was a man ; -if he had been a woman it would have been different" "How different?" Our informant smiled and continued his story: "General Ingalls, now Quar termaster General, was one of General Grant's Vancouver chum. He had mulatto and half-breed children here; but while he gathered them up and ed ucated them, and has lately taken them home, General Grant leaves his aborig inal offspring to hunt and dig camas." "You astonish me!" "The citizens of Vancouver many of them know that he speaks the truth," said a lady, while her fine, expressive face burned with indignation. "General Alvoid, now Paymaster General at "Washington," continued our friend, "was well acquainted with the fact that General Grant, while here, was unable to account for a deficit of some six thousand dollars, due the Treasury Department. Grant professed to have lost his vouchers, showing that this sum had been paid, while at sea, but we who know all about him believe that he was half seas over when he lost them ; that is to say if he lost them at all." "You see," said another, "General Grant is sharp enough to keep his old confederates who knew his character in those days in places now, where they have strong selfish motives in conceal ing his former wickedness." "It detracts much from the glory of the 'silent man of destiny' to hear his old-time neighbors vent their opinions about him," we said, lightlj-. Oil ! tllA Hrrnnn tllG Stafexninn snh ml iUn 7.,iiz nv Jiiiuum ttilll when we speak of Grant as the great iNational horse jockey. Has the Repub lican party indeed fallen so low that it lias no leader but a man whose oflsnrimr dig camas? whose drunken brawls are well known? and whose whisky bills In Vancouver remain unsettled to this day? Have they no men of merit? None VANCOUVER OHIT CHAT. Going aboard the staunch and neat little steamer at the foot of Washington street at half past two r. m., on the loth lust., we soon found oursclf cn route for Vancouver, whither we had tent letters and circulars, announcing an appoint ment for a lecture. Arrived at the place or destination at half past four p. sr., where no letters and posters had been received, although mailed three days previously. Postofllccs are so conven lent in this. Enterprising gentlemen, learning of our arrival, circulated the appointment on the day following, and the announcement brought out a large, orderly and intelligent audience, who treated us with that courtesy of which we are everywhere a grateful recipient Saturday evening being excessively stormy, and also being the time of the Methodist quarterly meeting's regular appointment, the audience, thougli good, was not so large as that of the previous evening, but the order and at tention could not be surpassed. We were in Vancouver with Laura DeForce Gordon in July of last year, and hence, during this visit, had ample opportunity to note the advance of public sentiment on the subject of equal rights, and we may safely predict that after another year the few that arc now left in Van couver who scoff at the movement will want to make believe that they were always Woman Suffragists. Vancouver is the most beautifully lo cated town on the Columbia. While we do not agree with some of Its citizens that it is destined to become the metrop olis and leave Portland in the shade, yet we do believe that it will become a place of much local- importance; and we strongly advise our citizens who wish to purchase sites for homesteads to note the advantages of Vancouver for sub urban residences before they agree to pay ruinous prices for town lots in Port land, that arc unwisely held so high as to seriously retard the city's best inter ests. who was among us last summer, is train - imrouitoa renutntinn at IVnalilmrfmi She Is there styled the "YouthfulStanton of the Pacific Coast" Mrs. Gordon will make her mark in the world. Rumor bath It that a compromise has uec agreed upon between the Court House Ring and tbe 0ro Fi0 CHquc by wuieu me latter are to have. the Sheriff m me rormer all the other county offices. We give it for what it is worth. "Z. H. TjE. 0. S." Wo repaired to the public library a few days since, and finding the "River of the West" proceeded to search its pellucid depths, as per -direction of Olive I Sreek, for information In re gard to the cabalistic letters on the beaver coin of early days, which Infor mation we desired to collect on behalf of the State Department, as well as for our own and our readers' cdllicatton. Near the right outer bauk of this Useful "River" we found the object or our search. Says Mrs. Victor: "One of the last acts ot the Provisional Government had been to authorize the weighing, as saying and coining of gold an act which was rendered necessary by the great amount of dust in circulation aud theinfluxofthedcbasedSouthAmcrican coins. An association of gentlemen tak ing the matter in hand, bore all the ox penseof the dies, machinery and labor, coining only about ten thousand dollars the summer of '49: They succeeded m raising the price of dust from eleven to sixteen dollars per ounce, and stopping the influx of South American coins. The gentlemen who thus conferred a great benefit on Oregon wercKIlboume, Maerudor. Rector, Campbell and Smith." There, gentlemen, we've solved It. Of course we're all wiser now. Only there's a T. on the coin we saw in the Treasury that is not explained in the above. A Corvallls correspondent, how ever, informs us that it Is the first letter of Col. Taylor's name. This gentleman, all know, is one of Oregon's pioneers, and we believe resides near Astoria, There are also the initials A. W. on the coin represented in the "River" which are yet unexplained. Will somebody enlighten us further? A QUESTIONANSWEEED. Will the Xkw XoKTinvEST please in form us just how interest is to be ob tained on the school moneys for tho sup port of education in this State if those moneys cannot oe loancu s jiercitry. Certainly those moneys should be loaned, good Mercury. Rut they should be loaned on real estate security of twice the value of the sum loaneti. And when the State takes old pots and pans for such security, it commits crime. When we pay taxes our receipt is always given for State, county and school tax. State money is not negotia ble as a loan, and when State funds come into the hands of State officers they have no authority to loan them with or without Interest. Nobody says that tlie county may not loan school money. It is properly placed In the hands of county officers for that pur pose, but it is made obligatory upon such officers to see that proper and legal security is given. EEMAEKABLEHNANIMITY. The daily papers of Portland, especial ly since the Herald has come under the control of "Boss Halloek," are remark ably unanimous. The Oro Fino Clique, the Court Houso Ring aud Mr. Holla uaJ seem to understand One another very well. This explains tho reason why all the dailies arc in favor of the city vacating G street Each one of the interests mentioned, it will be observed plays into the hand of the others when ever occasion or opportunity suits. In fine, the better portions of botli the Re publican and Democratic parties in this vicinity arc without organs to represent them. How iuuuh longer will the peo ple suffer corrupt cliques to feed at the public crib? WHAT MEANETH HE ? Our obtuse brother of the Albany Democrat accuscth ua of giving "unkind digs" to the wives of Oregon Senators when we rejoice that they, being but average Oregon women, are nevertheless such a social success in Washington as to become justly fnncd for their beauty aud Intellectuality when placed in contrast with the women of other lo calities. And he further says we "affect to despise" sister Senator Corbett, be cause we are proud of the attention she. as an Orcgonian, receives from the Jen kins' newspapers. What our "husband1 vote" has to do with the case in point either directly or indirectly, we cannot imagine. ANOTHER GEANDJUEY EEPOET. Another Grand Jury has reported, and although It did not have time to exam ine the county finances (which is one of the duties prescribed by the law), it rec ommends that a committee lie appointed for that purpose. This, of course, will never be done under the present regime. The great mogul of the Orcgonian, who. in the absence of Mr. Mitchell, has the direction of thing in the Republican camp hereabouts, ridicules the idea of such a proceeding. Would he not court investigation did ho suppose that every tiling connected with the finances Multnomah county was correct? WOUlfDED POLITICIANS EAVE. If we could afford room inourcolnmns for the various kinds of balderdash that are going the rounds of the man's rights press about us, we should be pleaseif to disli it all up for our readers that they might sec how those ioliticIans who get hit do wriggle, writhe and squirm But as our object is to convey our Ideas to the better elements of society, only stopping occasionally by the wayside to clear out the floating garbage, we shall not freight our trim and tidy little bark with other than passing notices of the 1 distortions and grimaces oi inose vwio make mouths at us and howl Tim nn niw revelations about Joa- mill. niw. It. niinears from a San Francisco letter to the "ireka Journal that he has with him at the first named n rlrl fntll-twll or fiftCCU VCaTS Old, trim, ho s.iv.. is his daughter, her mother helm? a Modoc Indian. What new sensation about Joaquin will next appear? 22r. What do "Joaquin's" admirers think of that? THE WOMAN QUESTION NO. 5. Portland, Feb! 10, 1S7 " Editou New Nootiiwest: It will now be attempted to point out some benefits to the general welfare of mankind which may be very fairly expected to flow from those changes in the status of woman which are proposed in connection with Woman Suffrage. To improve the general welfare is the great struggle of an enlightened civili zation. It is in accordance with that enlightened selfishness, which perceives In tho general good the surest benefits resulting to self. It is also the utilitar ian philosophy of the age tho greatest good to the greatest number which, on account of too much greed and enthusi asm for wealth, has been much pervert ed. There has, hi consequence, been en tailed great extremes of poverty aud lg noranco in the midst of great wealth and intelligence. These perversions have been of detriment to all classes, for the struggles of greed and the extrava gances of luxurious plenty have warped and vitiated human nature as much as poverty and Ignorance have stifled it The first and greatest struggle of man kind aud the first problem of science ind art is a simple one. It is merely to feed and clothe mankind well and com fortably. Tills accomplished, the prog ress of intelligence and the arts aud sci ences would be unfettered and, of conse quence, rapidly spread. To supply the necessary wants of mankind there should not only be produced great wealth, but it should be directed in proper channels so as to obtain fair and equal distributions of it. When there is a great abundance, the poor may derive benefits from the fat of the land, and so may others, but the greatest obstacles which now lie in the way of due bene fits of wealth to the general welfare are that upon the one hand it is wasted by extravagances or hoarded by greed, and upon the other It is made to support too many nrtiticial wants and unnecessary burdens. The costs of crime, immoral- ix i t i ... y, mieness aim ioousii vanities ex haust much the greater proportion of the wealth and labor of the world. The substantial means of progress arc great ly choked by thick growths of worth less weeds. It may be fairly reckoned that two-thirds of womankind arc pure burdens upon labor and production at any rate a very large proportion, what ever may be said of their labors at home. Then the extravagance of senseless fash ions and displays, that arc beyond all limit of true taste or elegance, which are the natural results of the idleness of women; and the Ideal worship which their fictitious position in the world gives them, besides the great wastes en tailed by the hundreds of thousands of the demi monde and other dissipations of passion, which certainly are the re sults of great social defects somewhere, most probably in the condition which womankind are held to; should these enormous wastes of labor and wealth be turned toward tho supply of tho necessa ries of life or to other useful and sub stantial wants, it would certainly add greatly to the general welfare. What ever will make woman more useful without injury to her; whatever will lessen tho frivolous wants and extrava gances of society and foolish wastes of fashion, or will lessen the dissipations of immorality, will certainly brin about such results. These changes are expected to flow from Woman Suilra; because the reason and spirit of suffragi is freedom and equality, so that Its very proposition is that she shall be emanci pated from au inferior position to rank, act and to bo held responsible in com mon with other human beings, among whom God has given no Inherent right or title to or over her. Nor is she unlik except in sex. It proposes to change her status and to regard her in relation to the substantial affairs of life just like other human beings. Therefore, when Woman Suffrage is accepted, the new notions upon which it Is based will, of course, be accepted, too. She will re ceive the new convictions in common with the rest of mankind; hence will ensue tho changes which are expected to flow from the act of Woman Suffrage, The character of these changes arc dis covered in the reasonable results of the new convictions; and these changes must and will readjust the social state, or, in other words, change the social structure, as was pointed out in former letters. Now, if society and woman herself re ceive the conviction that there should be no distinctions of rights, duties or re sponsibilities between the sexes which nature intended, in all those affairs of life upon which the material and moral welfare of humanity depends, the world would exact, and she would feel, that she should take a like part with him ; and hence would follow her change: she would be no longer a child of frivolity and fashion, no longer a tiling of mer chandise, nor such a pauper as to be forced to the sale of her heart aud soul for a life support, and no longer an idle burden upon wealth, and consequently on the poor. Instead of destroying her purity, it will give her a better chance to be pure. Instead of hardening her modesty, her increased self-reliance will be a better protection to It. That true delicacy which springs only from puri ty of soul, high self-respect and an In telligent cultivation, will take the place of that delicacy which now springs too much from weakness and Ignorance. The Ideal womanhood of to-day is the natural result of her condition, having, of course, all the defects incident to that condition. She is considered a most delicate piece of furniture, designed only for the use and ornament of luxury. From being accustomed to her present condition and relation, she has grown Into certain peculiarities. Forinstance, as her life is less practical than man's, more ideal, she is in most cases endowed with a stronger imagination, and as her experience is more in the affairs of the heart, she is more under the control of feeling or impulse than he. From her acquired weakness and want of self- reliance, caused by want of contact with the-worldshe is more timid than manT and this is frequently mistaken for deli cacy. But she has neither more delicarv nor modesty than man. It may be no ticed that man is as timid in her pe culiar world as she In his. The world is too apt to-regard the present condition of woman aud her peculiarities as her normal state because such has been handed down to us from former ages. Because certain tilings have been is a poor reason that they should continue. Wo study the past to cull wisdom from its errors, instead of receiving authority merely from tlie stamp of its custom. If this wcro not so there could be no such thing as progress. As there is no slavery of form or arbitrary rule for the elements of nature, neither is there any lixed condition of Ideal womanhood. The elements of human character are susceptible of all phases, and come near to the intentions of nature when they lake the practical phases of the most proper social adjustments. That ideal of delicacy which is the result of the weakness and tenderness of woman and that inferiority of mind which be long to the ideal beauty of the age are the worst relics of barbarism. Whv to the lovely charm of the heart could there not lie added the splendor of intel lect? Is the world better off with a Julietto than a Portia? Then let the ideal womanhood change as it ever lias done and ever will do imperceptibly, for nothing in nature stands still. There is no danger that tho remarkable ehanges proposed in connection with suffrage will affect man's love for woman. The oppositeness of the sexes will ever supply lively ideals. Woman will be taken out of her fictitious condi tion. The institution of passion and sensual sentiment, of frivolities and extravagaut luxury, will be demolished, and there will follow a condition more rational and a nearer approach to the useful and substantial tilings of life. There will be less waste, more labor and more economical adjustments; less artificial want and less of that barbar ous love of wealth and luxury, which ;ire the necessary concomitants of the. worship of weak women, and the dissi pations of passion and vanity. Neither time nor space will now al low further pursuit of this subject. There are many phases- m which it may be discussed, and perhaps a less theoretical one than in this and former letters might reach more understand ings; but it was thought that as here presented certain minds would be readied which are preferred, and to which a hint is sufficient; nor was there opportunity to do more than to niorely touch upon several branches of the subject. Yours, etc, Tactus. Tlie Herald admires our magnificent police system. Of course. Its "boss" only clears altout twenty thousand dol lars peryear from it. Woman Suffrage in Congress. Gen. Butler has introduced in tlie House of Representatives a bill confer ring sulfrago upon women. This is af ter ills true stylo of dealing, ami logi cally consistent with the views lie an nounced in the last gubernatorial can vass in this State, that under the amended constitution, woman already possesses the right to vote. It seems that he has since become convinced that legislation is still necessary to perfect their claim, and hence this proposed measure in Congress. Tlie women lead ers in tliis suffrage movement ask for tlie ballot as a right, on tho ground that those who obey the laws should have a voice in making them; for the further reason that the mental aud moral quali ties in which women differ from men are. imperatively needed in government; because the equal co-operation of men and women Is alike essential to a happy home, a reformed society, a Christian church, and a republican State; and be cause woman suffrage, as it implies equality in the home, means also greater purity, greater constancy and greater permanence in marriage. These are, all of them, good and sufficient reasons for abolishing at once, through Congress, political distinction on account of sex. We were glad to notice that a journal liko the New York Times addressed it solf to the consideration of this much needed social and political reform with an appearance of sincerity, acknowledg ing the perfect propriety of granting the ballot whenever woman unmistakably demands it for hcrscif. But, true to its old and ingrained habit, the Times professes, after all, to discover a lion in the way a bugbear of its own ingenious conjuring. It has set up a man of straw, in the form of its liberal profession on woman suffrage, only to show people how easy it is to knock it over. It urges further inquiry and investigation. What it particu larly wants to know is, Whether it will not bo necessary, before positive legisla tion is entered upon, to ascertain what number of women in tlie country actu ally ask for thesuffrage? Next, it would be informed how "women proposo to deal with tlie thousands of their sex who infest great cities, and live by tlie most shocking of all trades!" It feels certain that respectable women would stav away from the polls if they were to be elbowed by this degraded class of their own sex; and it demands to know what restriction it is proposed to place uikjii this danger. An educational test it knows would not do, and a test for virtue would be hard to find, and harder still to apply. Let the Times reflect a moment; were women to bo admitted to the voting privilege, it could rely on It that none would cure the Social Evil sooner than women themselves, and through the ballot-box, too. Suffering what they do Horn the consequences, they would not be dull in discovering a remedy. The very outcasts themselves would soon come to know the meaning of their own power, and would lend their co-operation for the overthrow of thecaU5esoflicenUou.qinffnniirsi u-lilnli it now seems impossible to reach under Jsanncr oj Ught. r.. m . " , , mSLfiS8" ' ?' alul" - itVe41M won,la" laTcr ever ad- milled to the bai of the United States. A bad marriage is like an electric ma chine; It makes you dance, but you can't let go. Twenty-five Confederate orphan girls are giving concerts throughout the South. 'Tis but a little faded flour-boarding-house bread. Polite Thieves. If you have anv curiosity on the sub ject step into a dry goods store and ask me mercnant or a cleric, "xo inicvcs ever come in here?" Nine times out of ten he will answer, "Wlryi yes; that's our greatest trouble." So a merchant answered our reporter Saturday, and then proceeded to explain what he meant. In law there are only two grades of thieves the big thieves and the petty larceny ones. Outside of law there are several grades of thieves, and the worst ones to guard against are the criminals with white fiugers, the ones who "shop" for two hours without purchasing fifty cents' wortli of goods. Take an instance which occurred in a Woodward avenue store last Thursday, A lady calltd in and asked to be shown some velvets and some laces, and the gentlemanly and obliging clerk soon laid a large stock before her. She turned over the goods, held them up to the light, viewed them over and over, and finally went away without making any purchases. She had scarcely closed the door when acasli boy informed the clerk mat lie saw the lady pocuet two pieces of velvet trimming nnd a lace eollar, and an examination showed that he was right. But the matter ended right there, or it went no further than to re port tlie occurrence to the proprietor. He had a hundred reasons why he should not arrest the lady, or charge her with the theft, the most prominent beiiiff that she was a re-'iilarcustomerat the store, sometimes buying a bill of goods amounting to two orttireo Hun dred dollars. It is a fact, of which all people are aware, that merchants and their clerks are invariably on the watch to detect these "kleptomaniacs;" but an arre seldom follows a detection, nor is there a word to give tlie thief a suspicion that she has been discovered. Suppose that a lady sits down to tlie counter and has the space before her piled up with valu able notions she has asked to sec. Be she ever so sly, she can seldom pocket an article without some one seeing Her. But no one says a word, anil she goes out. feelimr that she lias escaped with her booty without any one being the wiser. Next time she conies in tlie elnrk will be hist as wlite and just as prompt, but she will find that lie does not hand the coods down as before, merely handing down one box or one article at a time, and, if convenient, an- otlierclerkwill stand near him and give tin? Iadv to understand that he has nnlliiii" to do but keel) watch of her, but yet she doubts if they suspect the former theft, and so is too prudent to commit another offense. A few days nirn ;i mprliaiit. staiidiii'T at His uesK, saw a. woman roll up two costly lace veils and secretly work them under ner cloak, having called the clerk's atten tion to the ton slieives ior a momeiii that he might not see her. The mer plmiit know hnr well as a irood customer. but vet did not want to lose the costly iironertv. Therefore, when she had fin ished her trading, he approached her aud insisted that sue should taKc a iook at some new dress goods, and after that some cloakings, and then finally asked her opinion of some cloaks ready-made, and lie thus kept the victim in the store for an iiour, meanwiiiie giving me His tory of a clerk who had been discharged from tlie store a short time before for stealing goods. "We always detect every theft, no matter how small," he added, and then excused himself and returned to the desk. The lady went back to a pile of dress goods, hauled them over a little, and then departed. The merchant went to the pile and found the two veils crushed in between someoi tho bolts of cloth. The easiest thintr in a store to steal is a pair of gloves. A lady is not content with seeing ten pairs, and sometimes not with secinsr tifty. She must hav the whole stock down, and with her own gloves nulled down off the hand to the llncer joints, she has thus two little pockets where she can stow away a pair of gloves. Not lomr ago, after a merchant had linmn fnr ;i wlinta vo;ir with the annro- priutions of a certain woman, he deter mined to frighten her out of making any more thefts in his store. She came in, a clerk begun waiting on her, when tlie merchant crossed over to the clerk and said, in her hearing. "Harry. I havi reason to believe that one of the ladies back there is a thief, and is here to rob us. I wish you would step up to tlie Citv Hall and ask the Chief of Police to send down a detective." He made a splendid hit. She was so frightened at the idea of his having sus picioued any lady that she purchased $30 worth of goods to avoid suspicion, her general purchasing never going above a few shillings before. Detroit Free Pi-css. Woman vs. Female. The term "female" as a symonym for woman, is a vulgarism that ought to be scourged out of good society. As it is equally applicable to one-half of the brute creation, its use instead of woman, lady, or girl, tends to lower the dignity and position of womanhood. When it is used without the proper substantive, one is sometimes provoked to inquire whether it is the female sheep, or bear, or swine, that is. intended. Those who have a true respect for woman would never employ a term so indelicate and objectoiiable as this, if they realized how bad it was. There may be occasions when its use is correct and unavoidable; but to sneak of schools foryoung women as female seminaries, or female colleges, is not only ungrammatical, but essenti ally vulgar. Gail Hamilton holds up a young lady to ridicule because she ob jects to being called a female teacher. Tlie objection is reasonable and just. We do not say "male" teachers, "male" schools, "male" colleges, "male" clubs; certainly the great army of patient, hard working, underpaid women, should nan- me privilege oi oemgcatied "wom en," and not be set down as females." Jtow absurd it would seem to hear people say, Harvard male universiy? et is that any more ridiculous than to say, Rutgcr's female institute, or Troy female seminary ? How often we hear men speak of meeting "females" in the street. otild they leel complimented or insulted, were the ladies to pass them iy as -maies V" The use of this term is another evl deuce of the low estimate placed upon woman for these long weary ages. It is the result of the harem idea which re garded her ns a mere human animal, created for tlie sole purpose of pleasing the fancies of her master. Woman is now struggling to free herself from a de li.mltic (hralldom. Yet custom Is so powerful that even her friends constant ly, but thoughtlessly, use this epithet, wliiM. ioikIa to deirrade her. Lsually, when one makes an effort to win tlie condemnation. But tho Bible, whose I teaching are thc foundation or the !womenSca, s a model in respect i0 tho ,1Se of t his objectionable epithet "s i -V' UJL thid "female" used when woman, or maiden, or damsel, can Ik; employed. Those who desire to have its authority on theirside, should follow its example in this respect Jane. O. DcFrost. A bill now before the Illinois Legisla ture proposes that women shall not be debarred from any occupation except the military. Phantom Limbs. It has lomr been known to surceons that whun a limb has been cut off the sufferer does not lose the consciousness of its existence. This has been found to be true in nearly every such case. Oniy about five per cent, of the men who have suffered amputation never have any feeling of the part as being still preseut. ui me rest, mere are a lew wlio in nine come to iorgei ine missing member, whilo the remainder seem to retain a sense of its existence so vivid as to be more definite and intrusive than is that of its truly living fellow mem ber. person in this condition is haunted, as it were, by a constant or inconstant fractional phantom or so much of him self as has been lopped away an unseen ghost of the lost part, and sometimes a presence made sorely inconvenient oy the fact that while but faintly felt at times, it is at others accutely called to his attention by the pains or irritations Inch it appears to sillier from a blow on tlie stump or a ciiauge in the weather. There is something almost tragical, something ghastly, in the notion of tiicse thousands oi spirit iimiisnaunting as many cood soldiers, and every now and then tormenting them with tlie dis appointments whicii arise wiien, the memory being off guard for a moment, the keen sense of the limb's presence be trays tlie man into some effort, the fail ure of which of a sudden reminds him of his loss. Many persons feel the lost limb as ex- sting the moment they awake from tho merciful stupor of ether given to destroy the torments of the knife; others come lowly to this consciousness in days or weeks, and when tlie wound has healed; but as a rule, the fliore sound and service able the stump, especially if an arti ficial limb be worn, the more likely is tue man to leei laintly the presence ot Ilia shorn member. Sometimes a blow on tlie stump will reawaken such con sciousness, or, as happened in one case, a reamputatiou higher up the limb will summon it anew into seeming exist ence. In many, tlie limb may be recalled to the man by irritating tlie nerves in its stump, livery doctor knows that when any part of a nerve isexcited hyapinch, ..... . . i i i - i - - i ;i ijijj, ui uy vii-vinciiy which is an al together Harmless means the pain, n it be a nerve of feeling, is felt as It were really caused in the part to which the ner7 finally passes. A familiar illus tration is met with when we hurt the "crazy-bone" behind tlie elbow. This crazy-bone is merely tlie ulnar nerve, which gives sensation to the third and fourth lingers, and in which the latter parts we feel the numbing pain of a blow on the main nerve. If we were to ad- vide this nerve below the elbow, the pain would still seem to be in the fin gers, nor would it alter the case were the arm cut off. When therefore, the current of a battery is turned upon' the nerves oi an arm stump, the irritation caused in the divided nerves is carried to the brain, and there referred at once to all the regions of the lost limb from which, when entire, those nerves brought those impressions of touch or pain which the brain converts into sensa tions. As tlie electric current disturbs the nerves, the limb is sometimes called back to sensory being with startlinc re ality. Un one occasion the shoulderwas thus electrized three inches above the point wucre the arm nad been cut on. i?or two years the man had ceased to bo conscious of the limb. As the current passed, although ignorant of its possible effect, lie started up, crying aloud, "Oh, ine iianu, tueiianiiv" and tried to seize it with tlie living grasp of the sound fin gers. No resurrection of tlie dead, no answer of a summoned spirit, could have been more startling. As the current was broken the lost part faded again, only to bo recalled by the same means. This man had ceased to feel his limb. With others it is a presence never ab sent in sleep. ZijipincoWs Magazine. SPECIAL NOTICES. TKSTIMOXIAtS.- We, the nmlenrt--neiI, lmvlnz been tho recip ients of the services of Mrs. 31. C White la teaching the seienc of Music on the Piano forte, take pleasure In glvln; a hearty testi monial that we have employed her In our families as a teacherof her "New method of in struction," nnd tlmt It has proven superior to any method we linve ever known; and that al though the flrt cost may boa triflegreaterthan some others, we believe It to be In the aggre gate much cheaper, besides being a great econ omy in point or time. We therefore take great pleasure In recommending her to the patron age of all who may be desirous of obtaining a musical education as a very superior instructor. To those who desire to know more about It before Incurring any expense, we give a cordial invitation to call at our houses and interview her pupils. (Signed) F. DII.LARD IIOL3IAN, N. W. oor. Seventh and Colleee Sis., Portland. OKO. W. niLUIAN. 3B Second St., Portland. NAT. 11. USE, East Portland. East Poktivnd, Jan. 3. 1S71. Mns. 51. C. White Respected Madam: Having heard of your System of teaelilngthe Pianoforte, known as tlie Robin's American Method, anil havins been present a few day since at tho exercise of one of your pupils, Miss I.iiif, of East Portland. 1 was much surprised nnd cxceedlnsly cratlfled, at the jierfect per formance of the most difficult pieces, (such as (.'otseliulk llanso, etc.! ami this niter the short term of six months tuition. Allow me to express my approbation of your System or Instruction, ami with my best wishes for your success allow me to subscribe myself, Yours Respectfully, TIL iwmtivr, Prot of Music, nr. and tender of the Kast Port'and Rami. Lectures in the Valley Towns. DIt. ROITRXK, distinguished during nearly twenty years In San Franclsco.for his great success In curing Chronic and Acute Diseases, wmiouTTHE vsk or mkmcixbs, being on his return from a northern tour, will vlsltthetowns -In theWUIamctte valley within a rewweeksind will endeavor to increase the measure of useful knowledge aniongthe people by lectures upon "Health -lis preservation aud restoration when impaired bv disease, without the use of medi cines:" and o1m upon Physiology, etc. His professional sen-ices may be obtained by those who have failed tosecure desired relief through tlie ordinary modes, and who are "sick and tired" of medicines and medical quackery, and none others, as Dr.Rourne will have no time to waste upon those who think medicinal poisons necessary to the cure ol disease. If any desire to eorresond,iny address is DR. GKOltfiE 31. 150URNE, ii32tf Portland, Oregon asthma, mtoxnirris, CAT,vnun; Aflections of the Lun-rs, Deafness, Discharges from the Kars. Xenons nr f?pnersl nebilltv. Sore Eyes, Granulated IJd, Opacity of the Cor- nni, rums, eic., are suceessiuiiy irenieu oy Dr. ivm, comer i nini anil Morrison sireew. CHRONIC DIKRAKKM. PsiMviiilli- such oases as have resisted thc ordiuarr modes of treat ment, arc the class of maladies which Ihv Almm treats with unparalleled success. SO CIIAROK for Consultation. Terms Moderate nnd agreeable to the cir cumstances or the patient, so that all who are amid til can procure his treatment If they wish. 32tf COBURN & McCABE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, 5 WASHINGTON STREET, P-STA1RS, Portland. Orejroi. Woik done at REASONABLE ! E RATES, nl l V I