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FRIDAY. .MAY 3, 1S72. HO, TOE THE PEOPLE'S CONVEN TION! The Finance Committee, upon whom devolved the duty of raising the requis ite funds with which to defray the trav eling expenses of the delegate elect, were ready to report success. Being oureelf anxious to serve the good cause of Human Rights in every honorable capacity, wo concluded to ap ply to the railroad nabob for a pass, and consequently sent him the following letter, which was returned unanswered: Portland, Saturday Morning, April 27th, 1S72. J Mr. Ben Holladay Dear Sir: Al though the daily papers are silent over the fact that I am Delegate elect to the People's Convention in New York, you have doubtless seen, in your New NoirrmvEST, a full account of the pro ceedlngs. Friends have raised me the sum of S200 towards defraying my ex penses. Now, I want a paw. If I go must be off on the Oriflamme this even ing. I have cheerfully paid your roads and steamers, in money earned with my sewing machine, the sum of nearly $400 since I began my newspaper enterprise. This visit to the cast if I make it will be of much pecuniary benefit to you, as I shall lecture in the cities on "Oregon, ner climate, developments, resources and people," and I ask this pass to New York if you can give it and of course I believe you can but to San Francisco anyway as a matter of business, in which you are, to say the least, as much interested as myself. Hoping to hear from jou before noon to-day, I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. J. Duniway. AVe were not disappointed at the re sult, for we had before tried the same experiment and failed. But the steam er was going. Our friends had raised the sum of $200, being half of the least possible amount for which we had agreed to spend six weeks' time, at a pecuniary sacrifice of at least six hund red dollars. Something must be done, and there was no time for dodging. Con cluded to start at all hazards and depend upon our tried and zealous friends for funds to bring us back. Can take sec ond rate car and save something. Be fore Fred Douglas was emancipated he couldn't get passes in his missionary work. IJVi be a voter, too, some day, Mr. Holladay, and will then be politic ally equal to the "nigger" orator or James O'Mcara, your man Friday. At seven o'clock p. m. the steamer left the dock, and as we stood upon the deck, tired and tremulous, waving good bye to our dear ones, we began for the first time to realize that we were off for New York. Now, men and women of Oregon and AVashingfon, who believe in Human Rights, Temperance, Morality and Pro gression, we have gone at your bidding. The New Northwest, child of our ex ertions, hopes, struggles and victories, is left in your care. Will you not sus tain it? Many of your subscriptions are about to expire. Upon your exer tions will depend the success of the Peo- pie's Paper. "While we were at home, to be both wheel-horse and leader, this work was difficult. Of course, now that we shall be absent for a few weeks, the financial friction will be greater than before. Pot shoulders to the wheel, we entreat. Send In your subscriptions to keep up expenses and your contribu tions to enliven and enrich the columns of the only independent, journal in the New Northwest. In the meantime we shall not be re miss in duty, but shall write, in season and out of season, of every incident of public interest which may come under our observation. We shall use every possible endeavor to so represent Oregon that hereafter she may be recognized as one in the great galaxy of States. Hitherto we had individually borne the full financial load of. the "Woman Movement in Oregon, rendering value received for every dollar which man or woman had paid to us for its advance ment, and now the fact that the good people of Portland and Albany have contributed the funds to "defray our ex penses to the Convention leads us to trust that they and others will see that means are forwarded to bring us back. Remember the New Northwest, dear friends of humanity. "Write for it, work for it, talk for it, and keep it go ing. You shall not regret the effort. BY THIS SIQNWE C0NQUEE. It is often sought by well-meaning but ovor-zealous and short-sighted per sons, who are in favor of the Human Rights Reform, to make the movement carry along with it in its onward march to victory their own peculiar ideas and idiosyncracies. Some wish Woman Suffragists to vindicate the Divine in spiration of the Bible ; others wish the Bible entirely thrown away. Some wish the doctrine of "No Divorce" to be pro mulgated, while others are in favor of the largest marital liberty. And so it goes. But the truth is that, like every other great reform, this one embraces men and women of every shade and va riety of opinion. Universal Suffrage is the grand principle for which we fight the sign by which we conquer. At tempts to introduce or incorporate any thing else into our platform are injudi cious in the extreme. "WOMAN SUPPEAGE IN IOWA. A bill granting women the right of auuiage came to a voie m the Iowa Sen ate a few weeks ago, and was barely de-feated-the vole standing twenty-tivo yeas to twenty-four nays. All hail to' progressive Iowa ! What cause Is there for discouragement witli such results occurring all around us ? No reform in America ever made such progress among the masses as the cause of Human Rights is now achieving. 0TJB PATE0NS AND PEIENDS. Office New Northwest, April 27, 1S72. Last week we published the call for a People's Convention, to be held in New York city, May 9th and 10th. Our friends of Portland immediately re sponded, selected us as a Delegate, and appointed a Finance Committee. The Committee met to-day, and find ing means sufficient had been raised to pay expenses to New York, determined that their Delegate should sail imme diately, there being no time to lose be lieving they would be able to raise sufii- cient means to defray returning ex penses and telegraph the same to us in due time. It was determined by the Committee that a few of our friends in the principal localities of Oregon and "Washington be solicited to act as agents and assist the Committee in raising the needed funds. "We hope our friends will promptly as sist A small sum from each locality will greatly aid the Committee. We regret the short notice we had of the Convention. "We would have much preferred a general convention of dele gates from all parts of Oregon and Washington, but time would not suffice. We hope, therefore, our friends will feel that the best thing under the circum stances has been done. Yours for the right, A. J. D. ME. HOLLADAY LIBEEALITY(?) The attention of Mr. Ben Holladay, the Railroad and Transportation king of Oregon, is called to what follows. Mr. Holladay, you and your satraps prate much of the benefits you are conferring upon Oregon and its people. To read your organ, the Bulletin, one might al most suppose you were putting fortunes into the pockets of every man, woman and child in the Willamette valley. Now, with all this we have no fault to find. You pay your satraps to blow the trumpet of praise for you, and they, as in duty bound, blow most lustily. Neither have we any fault to find with the material you have selected to do your trumpet-blowing, as it was un doubtedly the lest you could procure for the purpose. But, as so much has been said about your liberality, we wish to let the people of Oregon know just how far it extends. Mrs. Victor, a lady of pre-eminent talent as a writer, is now and has been for some time endeavoring to place be fore the reading public her book, enti tled, "All Over Oregon and Washing ton" a work which will benefit you much more than it will the author. And yet you refused to grant her a pass to and from San Francisco, what do you suppose the people of Oregon will think of such action? But perhaps you don't care what the people of Oregon think. The time may come, however, when the opinion of the people of Oregon will be a matter of serious concern to you. x our conduct in this and other matters goes to show that you have no favors to bestow except upon those who sell themselves soul and body to do your bidding. We need not now refer to your refusal to grant a pass to the editor of this paper. You knew she would lecture on Oregon and Its Resources in the Eastern States, thereby largely benefitting you, whether you granted her a pass or not. Your policy in this and various other matters is in singular contrast to that of the O. S. N. Company, who extend en couragement and aid, to the extent of free travel at least, to those who are con tributing to the growth and development of this western country. How much is such liberality'?) as yours worth, Mr. Holladay? CLOSE OP THE SECOND VOLUME. With this number closes the first vol ume of the New NoRTirwEST. Al though our enterprise has been more successful than we dared to hope, yet we would remind our numerous patrons that it takes money to keep a news paper in good financial condition. To make this paper what we wish it to be, it is highly important that subscrip tions be renewed promptly. A hint to the wise is sufficient. The New Northwest has already a very large subscription list, and every day new names are added. AVe hope to double it before the close of the Second Volume. Friends, one and all, we ask you to go to work in earnest and make our enter prise not only a success, but a triumph. MES. VICT0E. This lady departed on the steamer last Saturday for San Francisco, intending to proceed to the Eastern States soon to make arrangements for printing a large number of copies of her latest work, "All Over Oregon and Washington Ter ritory." This publication, if circulated through the Eastern States, will do much toward bringing this far western country into notice aud repute. We earnestly wish Mrs. Victor abundant success. THE NEW Y0EZ CONVENTION. This body convenes on the the 9th instant. Mrs. A. J. Duniway started east by last Saturday's steamer to attend it. Delegates from every portion of the country will be present. We hope a po litical organization may be effected which will sweep the present corrupt parties out of existence. So mote it be. MES. DUNIWAJS MOVEMENTS. The following dispatch from Mrs. Duniway was received Wednesday : San Francisco, May l, 1S72. Arrived here Tuesday night at 12 p.m. Start Thursday for New York. A. J. Duniway. MES. DUNIWAY'S ADDEESS During her absence is 151 East 51st St., New lork City, care of Charlotte Wilbour. TO THE SIGNS 0FTHE TIMES. The signs of tho times clearly point to a coming change in political affairs. Republicans and Democrats alike are repudiating the old party ties. The honest people of the count ry wish, a change of programme. The Republi can party, at best a forced executor of good deeds, has planted itself athwart tho pathway of reform, and its temerity will in the end bo sorely punished. Strange that a party proclaiming Uni versal Suffrage as its creed should fold its hands and stand silently by while one-half tho entire population of the country is unrepresented in the Govern ment! Strange that the party which gave the ignorant black man the ballot for his protection should refuse Intel ligent, educated and refined women the same priceless boon! The truth is, the Republican party has missed its grand chance for political ascendancy. It has now no creat reform to battle for. Its only platform in the coming Presides tial election is Grant that of its oppon- ents antl-Graut. To such a pass have our politics come! The Democratic party has outlived its day and generation, and is now in an advanced state of dotage. It has noth Ing to hold it together but the prowes3 of its early history. It will very soon go the way of all the earth. A party of principle, progress and re form is needed. Such a party we hope and believe will bo organized at the New York Convention. . AVith the broad platform of Human Rights equal and exact justice to all, without distinc tfon of race, color, religion or sex It will develop surprising strength in the Presidential election of this year, and achieve a glorious triumph in '7G. EDIT0BIAL NOTES. Happy Family the Multnomah Re publicans. Remember that wo commence tho publication of "Sonora Hewitt," Mrs. Withereil's serial story, next week. Tho "local" of the Orcgonian has been announcinjr for tho last three or four weeks that this paper was in its Second Volume. All a mistake. Our Second Volume commences with the next number. The Rev. Colwell is still rampant The poor old man is in a very bad way. His memory is evidently failing him and his sense and discretion arc well nigh gone. We condole with him in Ills misfortune. The Walla Walla Union wishes to dis cuss the private character of a worthy citizen of Marion county, and yet dreadfully horrified when anything said about President Grant's early ca reer. Consistency, thou art a jewel! Oregon, it seems, sent a delegate to the Cincinnatti Convention, in the per son of Gen. J. W. Johnson. Gen. Grant' friends, no doubt, could they have had the choice of a delegate to attend that Convention, would have made tho same selection. The Pacific Slope Woman Suffrage Convention will convene in San Fran cisco on the ISth of June next It is highly desirable that Oregon should be represented. Will the Woman Suffra- gists of Oregon take somo action in the premises? Selucius Garfielde ha3 been rc-nomi nated by the Washington Territory Re publicans for Delegate to Congress. Will he now explain his position on Woman Suffrage? The women of Washington wish to know who are their friends in tho campaign just commenced. The canvass of the two candidates for Congress is going on. Each side appears confident. John Burnett, the Demo cratic candidate, is no match for his competitor on the hustings. But this will make little difference in the result of the campaign, as few votes, probably none, will be changed by anything either candidate may have to say. Bro. Brown will have it that "Sister Duniway has gone over to the Republ cans." You are very much mistaken, dear brother. We are neither Republi can nor Democrat. If the Democrats had nominated a wide-awake, progress ing man for Congress in opposition to Joe Wilson, we would have supported him heartily. As it is, we care but littl who wins in the contest, it being merely a scramble for office. On the strength of the Rev. Colwell' asertion that Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan ton is the widow of tho late Hon. E. M. Stanton, President Lincoln's Secretary of war. a citizen of Lafayette made wager with J. H. Upton, of the Courier, that the poor old preacher was right Unton. we didn't think you'd take au vantace of unsophisticated ignorance in Hint wnv. Tf. is twill v too bad. But then 'twas ever thus. "Man's inhu inanity to man makes countless millions mourn." The "smart" fellow who docs the lo cals for the Orcgonian says the peopl of Portland are to bo "inflicted with serial storv writtpn bv an Oregon lady, in a short time. And this is the way home literature by lady authors is received by the man's rights press! Had some man, with a high-sounding title, come before the public with a lit erary production this same reporter would have lauded it to tho skies. What a queer tiling this aristocracy of sex is, to be sure! SocietywlU not tolerate a woman who objects to live with a drunken, brutal husband. She married for better or worse, and though the man becomes worse, she must pay the penalty. Ir Nelson. wif nf-irnii TCoIson. a black- I smith, living near Sedolia, Mo., unable 10 live with her lawful husuanu irieu to live away from him. Society said nay. Joseph said no, and made her re turn. On Sunday, the 17th ult, after she had returned home, ho killed her. Enlightened society! Exalted husband or ought to be! Happy wife in a better world! JPomcroy's Bemocrat. Mrs. Grant and Miss Nellie Grant have gone to Europe with ex-Secretary Borie and family. BOYS, LOVE Y0TJE M0THEE ! by mus. cumin r. yocng. This morning at five o'clock we helped to dress and prepare a dear old grand mother for the stage, and a long, lonely ride. If sho lives till near September shewillbesixtyyearsoId.Ninctcenyears ago her husband died. Ten davs after his death a little baby boy was born. She had seven other children," but this one, Having no father to pet and care ior it, came closer to the lonely mother's heart than any other child. She had a small farm,! u a new country : but so man v little mouths to feed, and little bodies to uress, and feet to buy shoes for, caused ner to work very hard. She rose early and sat up late, to spin yarn and weave cloth; to make butter, and raise chick ens and pick geese. She took in sewing and worked out by the day to provide for her children. Long, dreary years, full of hope and sorrow, of love and fears, passed by. Tho oldest children went out to make homes of their own, The little ones irrew to be men and women. The price of laud came up, The old mother said her fingers were stiff aud head gray, but she thoucht. 'Well, in my old age I can go to church and have many comforts that we could not have when the country was new." Her boys took the Idaho gold fever, and persuaded her to sell out and cross the plains. They met with the losses of stock usual to peoplo Unaccustomed to travel, and arrived late In the fall, when people were plenty and work scarce. The old mother said, "I could get wash ing aud patching to do when the boys could not find a day's work of any kind I earned tho food and cooked it for my cimurcn anu my son's wire all one long winter, and it made me happy to be able to help them when they needed itso much. Then my girls both mar ried. Then the boys did not like tho Idaho country, and went to Walla Walla. They said I must go to cook for them. I did go, and worked very hard and haiTn stroke of palsy. Then I had to live witli my son's wife. She had good deal to do, and didn't want me. I could not dress myself or do anything. cried aud cried, all day and iu the night." Folding her poor crippled hands over her bosom she added, thought my heart would break. Then the boys would swear at me and curse my boys, my little boys, that I loved so much and would die for if it would make them happy." Then her poor old bent body would shiver and sway witli trembling, while the tears flowed over her poor wrinkled face and anguished sobs choked away words. Then sho wailed, "Oh! Mrs. Young, it didn't hurt my body, jt hurt my feelings! It broke my heart!" These boys, who were so tenderly cared for in their years of helplessness, packed the dear helpless old mother off with a bundle and bed, gave her a stage ticket and nine dollars in money, left her at tho stago house to be lifted by strangers at midnight to the cold, cheer less coach. No tender hand or tearful good-bye. The night had sleet and rain and gusts of wind. With our warm blood aud inspiration of energy to sustain us, we suffered with cold, though warmly dressed aud wen wrapped. Klie was dressed iu thin cotton clothes an old shaker bonnet without lining, no cap, no hood ; a handkerchief tied over her ears; and a coarse gray blanket about her shoulders. Her little shawl had not the warmth of a child's breakfast shawl At tho foot of the mountain we first saw her. Tho bronzed, rough-handed stage-driver lifted her very tenderly and supported her to the fire. From this point she was in our care two days aud nights. She had to bo dressed and un dressed and waited upon like a two-year- old child. Her gratitude and helpless ness touched all hearts. "Oh!" sho would say, "strangers are hotter to me than my own boys." How easy for the strong-handed boy to have furnished their mother a little room, or cabin, and open fire and loving words. Pleasant voices saying, "Good morning, my mother, my darling moth er," would have been more precious than gold to her. The plainest food, with loving care, would have warmed and cheered the faithful old mother's heart, lighted up her declining years and smoothed her path down to the grave. Aye, more the glorious ray shining through the gates of pearl, when she passes in, would have rested on their heads. The world, seeing it, would hav said : "Seo how theso young men loved and honored their mother. Ave can trust them." But they did not do thl Remorse must come to them. Their cheeks must some time tingle with shame. Sorrow will surely come to their hearts. They connot claim tho promise, "Thy days shall be long in the land." In this world we believe as they have measured out to their old mother it will be meted out to them. Mothers everywhere, and wives, never part witli the homestead roof or give up to your children the control of your hard-earued and patiently-saved homes, Every mother, every wife, owes it to herself and society to retain the control of something money at interest or home however small, in which to rest from her labors and enjoy even if very poor the consciousness that her bed and chairs and fire and the roof over her are her own. However small the wages earned, by saving aud economiz ing a mother will accumulate comforta blc things and make a homo home-like. Husband, if you have not made pro vision for the mother of your children that shall secure her against helpless pecuniary dependence In her old age, do so immediately. If you have an old mother not thus provided for, wo beg you, by your hope of dutiful children in your old age, make the provision imme diately. Young men anu brothers, if your mother is homeless, set apart a portion of your wages, however small, and de posit It in her hands, with which to pay for and beautify a home. Never, never ask your old mother to leave a home she loves and desires to occupy till the angei of death leads her out to a better Home in the Summer Laud of the Eternal World. COEEESPONDENOE. This department of the New North west is to be a gcueral vehicle for ex change of ideas concerning any and all matters that may be legitimately dis cussed in our columns. Findingitpractl- cally impossible to answer each corres pondent by private letter, we adopt this mode of communication to save our friends the disappointment that would otherwiseaccrue from ourinability to an swer their queries. We cordially invite everybody that has a question to ask, a suggestion to make, or a scolding to give to contribute to the Correspondents' Column. Mrs. A. B., Salem: Your note of April 23th has been received. Your premium will bo attended to Immediately on Mrs. Duniway's return from the Eastern States. D. N., Salem : Your letter has been forwarded to Mrs. Duniway at New York City. J. H. U.. Lafavettc: The "Lives of Eminent Women," a work in the Port land Library, settles the question. ou will find a synopsis of Mrs. Stanton's life In the hist New Northwest. Of course you are right . B., Port Garibaldi : We are sorry to inform you that by some means or other your MSS. has been misplaced and lost. One of the poems we had in tended to publish, but of course cannot now. We leg your indulgence in the matter, and will endeavor to prevents Its recurrence. Gipsy, Corvalli3: You must identify yourself before we publish any more for you. ELDEE COLWELL'S GEEAT BUEDEN. Lafayette, April 29, 1872. EniTon Ni;v NoimtwKsr : The great trouble with Elder Colwell in this AVoman Movement seems to be that there are some women advocating AVoman Sufl'rago whom some people have tried to slander. He seems to for get that the founder of Methodism, in America was a woman, and that the scorpion stings of envy, malice and slander were thrown at her, but all in vain. Her name will live iu history as long as Methodism stands. And there was the great Mrs. Fletcher, of England. She stands conspicuous in the history of Methodism, aud how was she treated? Driven from her father's house, slandered, persecuted, till in the anguish of her heart she gave vent in writing to the beautiful lines beginning with : Jesus, I my cross have taken, All la leave nnd follow thee; Naked, loor, despised, forsaken. Thou Iroin hence my all shall be." Now, would anyone dare to impugn her motives iu this age of enlightenment and free speech? Now while I, from my standpoint, be lieve that Methodism is a mere human institution, witli no more semblance of Christianity than have the Masons, Odd Fellows, or Good Templars, I would not, for any consideration, call into question the honesty and uprightness of those two women who fought for Methodism in its infancy; nor would I call into question any of the motives that govern the advocates of that system of religion the "dogstar," is at such a distance from ... , , , - . .. the eartli that light requires fourteen at the present day. I respect every per- vears to travel from it to the earth, son's religious belief, and while I may 1 vhcn we reflect that light travels at the combat what I think are errors, and not j rate of 190,000 miles in a second, we can in unison with the AVord of God, I shall form a conception of this distance, which ... i i , i i i would be impossible if we made a mile respect the persons who hold them. I U)e uult ofl measurement But this Now-1 have a proposition to make to I distance, large as itis, israpidlyincrcas all anti-AVoman Suffragists, both Re-'ing. It has recently been computed publicans and Democrats, Elder Colwell and all. If they will exclude every man from their parties who does not have a pure, moral character, and is not a member of the Church of Christ, the AVoman Suffrage party will too. I am sure that proposition is fair enough to suit tho most fastidious. AVe pause for a reply. Sister Mary. AVOMEN AND THEIR AVORJC. As a rule, money paid to women for work, goes for better purposes than that paid ment over the instances whicn COme under our own observation, and we call and we rill i some to the counter as saleswomen, I o wonder that this grand study has some to tho manufactories where their . attracted to itself and appropriated the exquisite handiwork may be seen in I best talent of every age, and that those quantities of beautifully wrought ar- who "nightly assault the heavens with tides which delight the eyes and open I the artillery of science," are humbled the purses of the more favored of their with the sense of their own weakness as sex; others to the art galleries, to the , they contemplate the stupendous ma cashier's desk, and to many more places ( chincry of tho universe. nil1 mn T whSKtClmnl 1 WlFS, MISTRESS AND IiADY. AVllO- flll as men; and whose every hard-, . 'iM f lnv t.,kPo - ,vjf ...tlri iSrvMltcS SXfo? fortune0 take? a mk tress" vot .m, novor fors.ai.PS lior-Jlin strotiirti, ! ou are Io ed by your tj ife, regarded by nf r rnnmnlv nature on.Inros th!?0!"- niistress, and tolerated by your more, the more toils on. her chief from the knowledge that she is using the lacuiucs given to ner ior a noble purpose. Can the brothers of a depend ent household, as a rule, say as much? It may not be known to many, that the most expert telegraphers aiirt phono graphers arc to be found among women. They readily learn to be first-class type setters; indeed wherever there is indoor work to be well done, where sobriety and strict intcgirty are essential, there women ought to be employed; and for the number engaged, we firmly believe they will prove to be more reliable for the faithful performance of the duties Incumbent, than men. ! Slurs on Women. At a dinner, at which no ladies were present a man in responding to the toast "Woman," dwelt almost solely on the frailty of the sex, claiming that the best among them were but little better than the worst, the difference being iu their surroundings. At the conclusson of the speech, a gentleman present rose to his feet and said: "I trust the gentleman, in the appli cation of hi3 remarks, refers to his own mother aud sisters, not to ours." The effort of this most justand timcly rebuke was overwhelming with confu sion and shame. A young, lady translates the C. O. D. on express packages, "Call on dad." From the People's Paper, Clermont, Iowa. Hunting a Home. Portland, Oregon, March 25. The day was charminjr. and its sweet ening and soothing influences maybe! made us the luore in haste to find that spot of earth, where in the future we might sit unuer our own vine and ng- tree, when it did not rain. To prepare for the hunt I put on water-proof and easy shoes. Our destina tion was East Portland, but we would look along, and may-hap a sharp-sighted real estate agent would kindly help us to cheap property. To reach Jiast Port land we must trust ourselves to a ferry which sometimes works, and oftlmes parts cable, and if the crew of three are unequal to emergencies, those on uoaru may be compelled to take an ocean trip if the winds and waves do not compass their destruction on the classic Colum bia. AVhen I razed uoon the broad AVillamette, and the boat like half a cu cumber on a wheel-barrow, though we arc strong-niinded, I slipped my hand over Dodcka's coat sleeve. AVe gingerly picked our steps down the steep bank wet witn the recent tide, thinKing oi an the wealth and fashion which must pat ronize this very shabby vegetable, as the ccmeterv. the State Insane Asylum, etc., are across tho river. A big dog was swimminir and diviner in the water, and when he came up from his bath we learned he had been dulv anointed with soan. The water-works draw most of thnir sunnlv from the AA'illamette. and wo are not surprised at the complaint of snakes In the hydrants. The boat wheeled us over for live cts, per head, which our escort paid while we mentally proiesieu against, me purse being carried by the stronger arm on so danirerous a voyage. jiast Portland is uroau ami long, one of those cities of ios8ibililie$. We waiKed up tue river banu on a double planked street, laid on piles above high-water mane, ior nan a nine; met but one woman with two children,) clad in red blue and green betrayinir her nationality, possibly hunting her lot. She looked satisfleil as if her for tune was sure, and she might enter in and possess. Saw a very small house, with a cow corralled near; recalled Abra ham called to go to a land he had not seen. The prospect brightened, but ah! the weary way must be retraced. A saw mill buzzing near and logs and lumber indicate what East Portland now is. Climbed a long hill, planked and pali saded on cither side with giaut firs; the ring of the woodman's axe, and the buzz, buzz of the cross-cut saw arc near, while "just across the river," Portland tlie metropolis of Oregon, with spire turret and dome emphasizes her en lightened aspirations. Evidently these lots are sold and we leave the plank and strike cross-lots. No improvements im pede our progress. Dodeka had hunted the crounds. learned the terms of sale, etc.. before essaying to pilot us. East of the Scandinavian church, south theritato Insane Asylum, adioiuimr law yer Jones, of New York city, we found one hundred ft. souare for 5500.00. AVi build the house, plan the jrarden, crade those comforts that make the heart of home the school, the church, and well, we turn our faces cityward, and look farther. Abby of Portland. From the Scientific American. Conceptions of the Infinite. Try all we may, we fail to get even tlto most dim conception of the abso lutely infinite that which has no bound, uo measure of comparison. We will cease to make any effort to conceive it as soon as wo realizo the fact that all our ideas are comparative. Size, color, form, weight, all the qualities in which material tilings differ from each other, are judged by comparison witli some thingelse. A unit of comparison which answers well as a measure of some ob ject or distance, may be found to be in adequate for the measure of a larger ob ject or distance. To estimate the dis tance of very remote objects, as the fixed stars, it becomes necessary to take a very large unit of comparison, say the distance light travels in a single second. Thus it has been estimated that Sirius, mat sinus is moving away iroin tho eann ai mo rate oi i4,,wu mucs per hour. The method by which this mo tion has been dctcrmind, leaves no room for doubt as to its reality, although it may well be doubted that the rate of re cession is anything more than a rough approximation. These illustrations, although they do disprove the statement that the human mind cannot conceive infinity, show that the nearest approach to such a conception Is in the study of that sub lime science, astronomy. No wonder that the devotees of astronomy are the most laborious of all the divisions of the grand army of science. No wonder that they wlp nightly gaze upon the mighti- est oi uou-s wurhs, buuuiu nave ever been the most unwilling to doubt the ex- I istence of a hicher creative intelligence. a a lady ior the world and society. Your wife will agree with you, your mistress will rule you, your lady will manage you. lour wile win taKo care or your household, your mistress oi your hou3c. your lady of appearances. If you are sick, your wile win nurse you, your mistress win visit you, your lady will innuirc after your health. You take a walk with your wife, a ride with your mistress, and go to a party with your t.i. - -.. . . sr. : 1 1 .. ! w iauy. juur uc nu siiaru your gnci, your mistress your money, your ladv your debts. If you are dead, your wife win weep, your mistress lament, and your lady wear mourning. AVhich will you have ? Constantinople. Eurydiec is the name of a beautiful little paper which now forms one of the weekly ornaments of old Stamboul. Both editor and con tributors are ladies. This seems rather a rousing circumstance in the heart of f t i . i i - . ... uriuuuiiism. n Kiiowieuge is ceiestiai, and ignorance the reverse, no more ap propriate title could have been selected; since, ardently as the spouse of Orpheus longed-for the sound of his footsteps and his lyre, no less eagerly does woman in tho East listen for the coming of those wno snau deliver her from enforced cn nui, enervation and despair. bail Hamilton has been entraped ns one of the editors of Wood'sIIouschold jiagazmc, at a salary oi !3,000 a year. "SlaU'H Vote. - ' - g What a Mlly lot or fellows! - . Mind, vou don't repeat a wordl Hal-Ins such a noise and rumpuB, If a woman's voice Is heard! Bios me, don't they talk In meeting! - Can't they pray and talk a way Talk, according to my notion, t Good as men do any day? Foolish men! we're votirtfrnlway; Klndersly, but votlnssllll. - i There's my filah he's rontented, . Caue he thinks he has his will ; But, la! bless me, when 'tis 'lection, - Don't he always come to me, . Asklns who he'd better vote fort iSo he votes for me, yon &ee. Now I have a kind of notion, I'm not rich or lamed: but then. All this talk nnd sreat commotion Comes from Just this kind of men; Like my 'Siali, he's fond ot rendlngr. Hut he'd rather hold the plough; So I read and tell him of It That's the way most men vote how. Slab comes In to supper hungry , i So he asks me "what's to pay?" Then I sit and tell him mostly What I've read 'twist whiles all day, Lection times lie savs, "You settle On the names you like the host; Pick out men of pluck and mettlo I'll attend to all the rest." Now It seems to me if "Siali Don't keep posted, and I do, I'm the one to do the votlns Neighbor, how It looks to you? There's my doctor, he can't read none Iatients running night and day; But his wire she reads It for hlin She's the voter, I should say. There's my maim in Sleepy Hollow, PSys more taxes twice than "Shih Mann's an awful learn for working. Can't no men folks come a-nluh hsr. All her darkies vote; but marm, lr, Sho can work just like a man, Mind the laws, but never make them, Pay big taxes aud be calm. "Take It home, how would you like 11?" 5o you saiil about the slave; Tell you what, when women vote, sir. They'll vote honestly and brave; Won't calch woman hliirkinic voting, Catch her voting forascamp! No, sir! when we get to voting, .Drunkards, rascals, thieves will tramp. Slab, he would vote with me, sir! 'Slah's sister, like her man; It would all come out Just right, sir Takes rt woman's head to plan. "Vote for you. sir, when we stet it?" Not ifl can keep my mind! Cnnt buy women's votes Just yt, Mr Women voters ain't that kind. No, sir! If I do lack laming. I can teach the boys and 'Slali How to vote at our town meeting; ; Other women can look higher, But I ask, and stick to asking, Ifl know enough to tell Other folks Just how to vote, sir, Can't I vote, myself, as well? Truths for Our Girls. Almost oven- newspaper or periodical we take up contains some kind of advice ! M. 1. to young women, uniu you must ue tired of the theme, -much is saui mat is excellent, but before you rely upon it implicitly, I wish you would notice whether it is the auvice ot a man or u woman. Neither sex can understand tho wants of the other as well as they can the wants of their own, and a great many men who write for the newspapers know less about the female understand ing than they do of the mysteries of dress-making, or the management of a cross baby. You have enough of advice, certainly;. . I shall only tell you a few well-known truths. Do not make matrimony the sole end and aim of your existence. Now that colleses. schools of art, and the learned professions are being opened to women, you need not accept the first man who offers himself, whether you love him or not, because you have to be supported somehow, anil it is not re spectable for a lady to earn her own liv ing. It is better for the moral condi tion ot society that cms should become doctors, artists, telegraph-operators, oooK-Keepers, or any thins: that win sup port them honestly, rather than become the wives oi men they cannot love. Girls, never marry for the poor boon of either a home or a husband. Do not sell yourselves for gold, for a marriage without love is an inferno more terrible than Dante ever pictured. It is better to be a cheerful, contented "old maid," than an unhappy, discontented wife. bomeot me nooiest women wno ever existed have never married, for they preferred "sititrle blessedness" to "wed ded misery." Of course it is better to be married if the right one comes; but if he does not, do not fret about it. There is no greater mistake than to af firm cither that matrimony is the uni- sour temper and discontented spirit are inseparable trom the condition ot single life. There never was au unhappy "old maid" yet, who would not have been quite as unhappy as a wife, and would. have created doubio misclnet, Tor sho would have made two people miserable instead of one. Ada Metcalfe Brown ing. If one wants to experience an earth quake, from a safe place, he should read the graphic description which Grace Greenwood gives in the New York Times, of the late disastrous earthauako in California. She says: I dreamed I was at sea. and that thn ship suddenly struck upon a rock, and shuddered and shivered and creaked fearfully. I woke to feel the rockinir. straining motion of the ship, and tho ioar ui mu wmu anu waves, x nan ac tually some moments of vamm riisrrnaa and terror before I realized where I was, ;um Muau was me strange tumult anu shock, and knew that the fearful power that was shaking the great, solid house, and rattling the windows and swinging m uiiuuuuuera uuuut me was neither ot the air or sea that the dull, appalling roar was neither the sound of -i "michtv. rushintr wind." linr flirt of many waters" though it was like to them both nor could- it be taken for thunder, or the rumble of cars, or tho tumult of battle. It was something pe culiar, strange, terribly unfamiliar, yet impossible to bo mistaken a nameless horror of sound, muflled, portentous and all-pervading. It did not seem to me to ueiong to the earthquake. It seemed in the air, not under the ground it was not the growl of imprisoned thunder out the ominous, defiant roar of some unknown element of death and destruc tion, "flying all abroad." It was more terrible to mo than the rocking aud trembling all about me. Tlicro was somethingso mysterious, so stupendous, so almost grand in that shudder of tho solid globe, that nightmare of the sleep ing earth, moaning- and tossing under the still bright heavens! AVe were hushed and humbled; with a sense of the most utter helplessness we could but JJ7 to look beyond nature to nature's Uod, silently to appeal from her pitiless nes3 to his pity, from her restlessness to his rest. Nothing Leaves Us as it Found t s. -if a sheet of paper upon which a Key has been laid be exposed for somo minutes to the sunshine, and then in stantaneously viewed in the dark, the key being removed, a faded spectre of the key will bo visible. Let this paper bo put aside for many months where nothing can disturb it, and then in darkness be laid on a plate of hot metal, the sceptre of the key will appear. This is equally true of our minds. Every man we meet, every book we read, every picture or landscape we see, every word or tone we hear, leaves Its image on the brain. These traces, which under ordi nary circumstances are invisible, never fade, but in the intense light of cerebral excitement start into prominence, just as the spectral image of the key started into sight on the application of heat. It is thus with all the influences to which we are subjected.