Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1876)
FRIDAY.. .NOVEMBER 10, 1876. KOTICE. Agents will please take notice that It is a great tax upon us to pay express charges upon uraall sums, and they will confer a great favor by remitting to us through money orders or registered letters. "ADMITTED TO CITIZENSHIP." THE SUPEEME GOJJET VS. WOMEN. A dispatch published elsewhere in forms us that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at "Washington has an nounced as the decision of that Court that none but men are admitted to prac tice at Its bar as attorneys and counsel ors. The decision was rendered in the case of Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, an en- terprising and highly educated lady lawyer of the District of Columbia, who at infinite labor and expense has fitted herself for the practice of law as her chosen profession. We presume the opinion of the erudite Chief Justice will The reports of the proceedings of the courts have for the past few weeks been made up of the names of natives of for-, due tlmebe published at length. It is useless, however, as it will bebutarehash eign countries, of Prussia, of Bohemia, of LIchtenstien, of Ireland, of Hanover, of Barvaria, of, indeed, almost every na-! tion aud prlucipalityof the old world, supplemented by the words that head this article. Men born and bred in for eign countries, whose interests and sympathies are all with the country of their nativity, who know nothing and care nothing for the institutions of this Republic, whose sole interest in the country of their temporary adoption is to make what money they can out of it and return to their native shores, to whom even our language is a meaning less jargon and our literature but a blot, can, by application to the courts, be come citizens of this nation, and with its ballot in their hands, become a power in its regulations and laws, while women born upon the nation's soil; women whose every sympathy is with the institutions of liberty; women whom the sable plumes of war for the preservation of the nation's life have overshadowed with a blackness worse than night; women who have learned how much the heart may bear and yet not break, as they with dimmed eye- tight have scanned the long, lists ot killed and wounded for the names of those whom they have sent forth to bat tle for freedom and right; women, the loyal daughters ot the Republic, must stand in sorrow and humiliation while these men are marched at the behest of party leaders to the ballot-boxes, where their ballots are received smilingly and unquestioned, so long as the papers bearing the cabalistic words, "admitted to citizenship," are produced. We know that a large number of our foreign-born population have interests closely identified with our own. The country of their adoption is their coun try, and such they loyally consider it. Myriads of these were found at the bat tle's front, bearing arms for the defense of common liberties. The blood of hundreds of them made crimson many hard-fought battlefields, where the ban ners of the free led men to hard-earned .victory; and than this devoted and loyal class none are more justly entitled to speak by the ballot. But who believes that' among the hundreds of foreigners who have been "admitted to citizenship" during the closing weeks of the late campaign, even the most trifling proportion have, by in forming themselves of the great issues at stake, become voluntarily imbued with a desire to be admitted to citizen ship that they might give their mite toward perpetuating institutions they had first learned to revere ? Have not nine-tenths yes, ninety nine one-hundredths of them sought the boon of citizenship at the behest, or, to put it more mildly, at the solicita tion of political demagogues? There can be but one intelligent and conscien tious answer to this question. If any one attempts to answer it in the nega tive, let him accompany his answer with at least a plausible reason why it is that these wholesale naturalizations of foreigners take place just before im portant elections, which it is absolutely certain that they take no voluntary in terest in. of the personal "objections" dictated by the prejudices of His Honor, Interlarded with a little angel soft talk about his admiration of the womauly purity and delicacy that will be tarnished by con tact with legal duties We mustered sufficient patience and forbearance to wade through an "opin ion" delivered by a Wisconsin judge upon the application last March of Miss Lavina Goodell to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court iu that State. It took this great legal light just three months of steady incubation to hatch this opinion, and when it was all done SALOONS CLOSED ON ELECTION DAY. The law enacted two years since, by which saloons are closed throughout the State on election days, Is one of the most judicious and beneficent that adorns the statutes of Oregon. From various localities come reports of the election, and all bring the tidings thai it "passed off quietly." This law we regard as one of the paving-stones for the peaceful and orderly advance of Woman SuJTrage in the State. Hereto fore one of the objections which oppo nents have most delighted to urge was that women could not force their way through the crowd of druuken men about the polls without receiving insult. Surely this objection must vanish when there are no drunken men about the polls, or any to speak of in the city or commuuity. This ruffianism on elec tion days among voters has long been held over our head in terror though, truth to tell, it never did terrify us much so on Tuesday we resolved to go up town past some of the polling places and see if voters were the "roariug Hons going about seeking whom they might devour." that men had often told us they were. As we approached the polls at the aud printed, it was but the prejudices of comer of A and Third streets, we saw his great-grandfather resurrected and placed in legal binding for the guidance and check of ambitious, energetic, and learned women. The maiu count iu the indictment will be that "women are the mothers of the race;" because a large majority of women are mothers, women who are some twenty-five or thirty men there assembled, some with their hands in their pockets, others whittling, and all chatting in a non-combative way, while two grim guardians of the peace stalked up and down the street iu smiling con tentment. We are quite certain that we could have stepped up to the ballot-box not must be prohibited from entering and voted in silence without receiving THE ELECTION. Tuesday, the 7th day of November, 1876, decided one of the greatest and most momentous contests ever settled at the ballot-boxes of the great Repub lic. Questions of the greatest import were at Issue, and whether the choice of the nineteenth President has put them to rest for even a period of four years, is for the next few months to decide. Re turns indicate the election of Samuel J. Tilden, the boasted champion of reform. While the general result is disastrous to the Republican cause, the contest in our own State resulted in a manner highly satisfactory to the Republican party. The Republican electors and member of Congress are chosen by a majority of from 500 to 700. In Mult nomah county the majority for Repre sentative to Congress is 575; for Hayes, , 592. This is much better than even their moat ardent friends predicted. It is impossible to give accurate returns at present. Later. Since the above was in type contradictory dispatches have been re ceived rendering the election of Hayes and Wheeler almost certain. Election is very close, but Democrats give It up. Oregon wheeled nobly into line and saved the nation from Democratic rule. Honor forever io Oregon! the legal profession. If one thing is more outrageously insulting to the women of this nation than another, it is the assumption of those who seek to cir cumscribe their sphere and retard their progress lest, forsooth, they neglect their maternal duties. This idea that men must set mete aud bound to the efforts of women to keep them in the right path and compel them to perform the duties that every wom an's nature leads her voluntarily to dis charge, permeates all classes of men from the Chief Justice of the United States to the hod-carrier and rag-picker of her cities. The former winds up an elaborate harangue upon maternal duties with the declaration, which, unfortu nately, judicial power renders effective and the pompous words, "the motion is denied." The latter, when the public work of any woman and if she Is child less it makes not the slightest differ ence iu either case is mentioned in his nresence. dumps his mortar or leans with au air of conscious superiority upon his crook, as he ejaculates, "She'd better be homea-tendin1 to her childer." Whv these solicitious guardians of children never see cause for anxiety concerning them, unless the employ ment of women brings honor or emolu ment, or both, is a little puzzling. A woman forced to earn her own and her children's bread, may lock them iu their cold and bare apartments and leave them ail day while she toils at the wash-tub or sewing machine for enough to feed them on the morrow, aud we hear not a word about the little ones be ing neglected or the mother heartless and unwomanly. But if by her energy aud ability as a lawyer or doctor she earns enough to leave them comforta bly housed, clad, and fed, with au at tendant to care for them during her necessary abseuce, "she is neglecting her children, and ought to be at home with them." After a few more fossil Chief Justices have recorded Dred Scott decisions aud opinions to bar the legitimate progress of women in law practice, these relics of the dark ages will have passed into deserved oblivion, and the judicial er- mine be not loncer the insignia of tyranny and injustice. God speed the day. more impertinent stares than any woman is liable to receive on going up First street. Up and past the closed doors of the sa loons we went, aud found everything quiet and orderly. At the corner of Morrison- and First a considerable crowd was gathered, intently regarding the bulletin board. They gave room as we came up, and halting for a moment, read the returns so far as had been re ceived, and in which we were as much interes'ted a3 any voter in the city, and passed on, not hearing a word that was disrespectful. And thus it was all over the city. Now, whether our brethren have been maligning their sex hereto fore just to scare women out of the idea of becoming voters, or whether the sa loons being closed makes what was once a noisy and disreputable mob now a re spectable gathering of citizens, we do not know, and wishing to be charitable to our informants of years gone by, we will give the entire credit to the law closing saloons on election days, and express our thankfulness to the law makers who enacted it for removing, by this wise measure, a great bugbear frm the fancy of opposers to Woman Suf frage, FB0M MBSTJNIWAY. Mrs. Duniway, in a recent letter, thus excuses her apparent neglect of promised and long-due "Editorial Cor respondence," and her prolonged absence from home. The delay in the arrival of Chapter V. of "Edna and John" is per haps owing in part to the same circum stances: "I am driven to death hurry iug up my work, to get home again I spend my days away down town among the foundries aud everything else dingy and unpleasant, trying to hurry my work. The poem is In type and stereotype now, and the engraving will be finished in a few days. 'Oh, that mine enemy would print a book!' I cannot write 'Editorial Correspondence' before next week, as I go to-day (Octo ber 22d) by invitation to South Man chester, Conn., for the purpose of lectur iug and examining the great Chaney silk works. I have taken a large num ber of orders for my poem, aud am anx iously awaltiug the day when its ele gant new dress will be finished and the creation of my fancy be ready for intro duction to company." ENTHUSIASM FOB THE CAUSE. We often hear it asserted sometimes by the professed friends of Woman Suf frage, but usually by its avowed ene mies that the leaders in the great movement display too much enthusi asm for the cause. Any one who has ever tried to do bat tie in the broad field of reform will tes- tify that it is absolutely indispeusible to success, or even to tne worK itself, to create in the mind of the reformer fair share of enthusiasm. No oue could have the courage to meet the obloquy which such labors at some point in thei career are sure to encounter, without building up their flagging hopes and spurring on their acts by enthusiasm Work without it is dead and accom phshes nothing. Enthusiasm is neces sary to the accomplishment of all great work, and especially so in reform work. True, it amounts to very little if left to Itself, though even then it occasionally sets some persons to thinking, aud any thing, that makes people think is not to be lightly regarded. Coupled with en ergy, activity, and perseverance, and guided by right principles, enthusiasm moves the world. It, however, occa sionally overreaches itself, and by pre senting and urging objects it seeks to advance iu an untimely or over-zealous manner; it causes principles and truths whose ideas are firmly grouuded in right, and whose duration shall be eter nal, to be received and regarded with impatience and distrust. Enthusiasm, wrought to a white heat in the fierce furnace of war, abolished slavery; forged In the same furnace, it saved the country from ignominious dismemberment, and the time will come when it will carry before it the preju dices of men and the bonds of custom, and overriding ridicule and obloquy, will establish the great principle of equal rights. Constant agitation will bring this about, and already the begin ning of the end is in view. MAEEIED WOMEN AS TEAOHEES. In the New York Observer of recent date we find 'discussed at considerable length the propriety or-expediency of employing married women as teachers. We quote : The public school circles In this city are agi tated by the question, "Shall married women be employed as teachers V At first view, It seems to be a question with only one side to i t, and that married women are Just as suitable teachers as married men. It may be so. But the objectors are at no loss to find grave argu ments against their employment, and these are urged with so much feeling and force that the subject has become exciting. As the natu ral right of married women to such positions Is obvious, it is necessary only to stato some of the objections. L Married women have husbands whose duty it is to support them; their employment as teachers deprives dependent single women of the situations lor which they have been quali fied in the Normal Scllools. 2. Married women are necessarily oflen un able to discharge their duties at .school, the higher law of maternity compelling them to be at home. 3. The order of nature is tbatwomcnshould, on assuming the marriage relation, devote themselves to domestic and social cares, and not to public avocations which look to the sup port of the husband and children. The old argument, that marriage is the eud and aim of woman's existence, and that consumated, she should sink whatever Individuality she may have possessed and become thereafter for aye dependent upon her husband's bounty, is, we presume, the theory upon which the agitation referred to is based. The writer goes on to say that "a husband is bound to support his wife," yet we are sure tnat it mis is so ins uonus are in ery many instances forfeited and he himself is a perjurer. Everybody who has given the matter even slight atten tion knows that among the workin classes nine-tenths of the married women work hard and constantly for the priv ilege of being "supported," and this support comes not as a right, earned by faithful performance of marital duties. nor yet as earnings to which the womau partner to the matrimonial contract is ustly entitled. Thousands there are who, in addition to the daily round of unpaid duties that they perform, con trive and work at this aud that to gain a few dollars, or even cents, that they may spend without having first to beg for it. Some whom we have personally known have achieved a little independ ence and very much enjoyed it, by spending every spare moment at a great unwieldy loom, wherein, by their skill perseverance, and labor, a web of sub stantial rasr carpet grew; others have spent the long winter evenings knitting socks for sale after their supporters were asleep and dreaming of the fine sums realized in the sale of wheat, which the pauper partner had toiled early and late through fierce August heats to help place in market; some have saved eggs and raised chickens and made butter and dried fruit (though the proceeds of these have usually gone to pay grocer's bills or been added to the wallet, which the woman never dares touch without first obtaining the supporter's consent); some nave maue uainiy murveis iu crochet and sight-destroying tatting and embroidery aud sold it for a pittance toward ekinc out their support. Not a few have taken in washing and sewing to obtain means to replenish their purses and renovate their dilapidated ward robes. Aud as if such pitiful shifting and toilsome application" were not enough, each and every one of these have met and constantly contended with the objection set forth in the "agita tion" referred to above, always clinched with the combined declaration and question : "She has a husband ; why don't he support her?" Say, rather, why isn't she as much as he entitled to . r . r I n a support irom me common iuuu j Regarding the objections mentioned :igaiust the employment of married women as teacheis in the public schools, we would say that nothing could be more absurd than to employ or reject teachers upon this condition. It is pre sumable, at least, that married women who are bearing aud rearing children will not of their own accord seek employment outside of their homes. If they are compelled to bear the man's curse, "Iu the sweat of thy face," etc., in addition to their own, they certainly have difficulties aud hardships enough to encouuter, without being opposed by essays mythical in theorj and impossi ble in practice, written in somo ele gantly furnished office by a lily-fingered divine or egotistical editor, relative to "woman's sphere," and exhorting all to "discourage the employment of married womeu." A married woman has the same right to seek anfl obtain and re ceive pay for work that a married man has. Whether iier private affairs will permit her to do the work is another matter, oue of which she is the best, if not the only judge, and the details of which were doubtless canvassed and settled before application for the em ploymeut was made. THIS QUILT P0E SALEONLY SIX D0LLAES." SELF-EELIANOE. SPECULATIONS. SCIENTIFIC 0THEEWISE. AND Although none dispute the value of self-reliance, nor, in fact, its indispensl bility to success, yet it is one of those stranee and anomalous virtues which !,. .i ,. i . .i i,o , oviir,rirr? tn rnliivfito and cirls your paper. uicuca tuu. ouitcu lUKKiuci uwjo ic i.""".- "I. i r . , , 1 7 t, . I I te moL'o n falV ItiniliriPH Z . .Jnnt. ioH tn (.llHtl. '1116 State- I 1 Ibi U UiUUlOll,. - ment, if not made in so many words, practically amounts to this: Boys, learn to depend upon yourselves. No success or houor is attainable without it. Girls, be content all your lives to de pend upon others. Be parasites, non entities anything, iu fact, but self re liant individuals. In the common acceptance uf the term, after you have called a man a par asite, you can defame him no farther. The success of an individual in life is largely owing to Ills ability, natural, or acquired, to rely upon his own resources. That the young men of the rising gen eration are many of them backing in this essential element is not" perhaps to be wondered at wheu we consider that they were born of mothers who have all their lives been taught to regard self-reliance as something to be ashamed of In themselves. A sprightly young miss who attended Thlsannouncemeut was conspicuously placed on a tedious marvel of muslin and calico that had been cut into infin itesimal again, that hung in the pavilion of the State Agricultural Society. We read the announcement slowly, and slowly surveyed the work. A patch-work quilt a "scrap quilt" the good dame called it it was made from pieces of every hue aud figure. The dark mot tled center of this square was left from grandmother's dress the one she wore to the Centennial celebration; the white with dainty blue spots was pieces of a dress which, despoiled of much of its na tive freshness, was flitting here and there about the fair grounds; the bright pink was like rollicking Johnny's aprons, aud so on all over the quilt one might interpret the history of the family wardrobe. "Hbw long did it take you to make it?" we enquired of a quiet matron who stood near, evidently anxious for its sale. I was working at it all my spare time for about three months, and it took me two weeks to quilt it," was the reply. We stood aghast. "Six dollars for three months' work, besides furnishing the material, and the six dollars very uncertain at that," we said, soliloquizing. It does seem too little," said the clever and industrious artisau, "but then it would be better than not to make anything. I thought I would like to have a little money of my own." The same old story, wo thought. Nothing is a woman's own unless she can make it eutirely independent of her husband's labor, while almost nothing is its own but what she helps him to earn. A strange anomaly, truly. JJid not tills woman, in a small way, work as hard for independence us any hero who ever perished upon his country's battle-field ? The quilt hung and hung there through all -the days of the fair, scanned by hundreds of persons, but bought by no oue; for who cares to pay $6 00 for a patch-work quilt of all shades and hues, when a fresh white spread, infinitely more beautiful and desirable, can be bought for half the mouey ? Certainly women, mothers especially, could better afford to rest duriug their spare time than to stitch, stitcli upon patch-work, which for home use amouuts to nothing, and to make for sale is worse than time wasted. Only six dollars for three months' work dear at that price to the buyer, discour agingly cheap to the energetic worker who counts labor and time as nought if it only brings her something she can call her own. Save your strength, mothers, for the duties that you owe to your children, instead of frittering it away in this unsatisfactory manner, and quietly appropriate as your right the mouey you need from the family purse. That's our advice, and we give it good as it is gratis. To tiie Editor of the New Northwest: I am pleased to notice that you give place to scientific correspondence in In this connection I wisu What is the cause of the earth's revo lution ou its axis? May.it not be the same force that causes wind, viz.: the expausive force of heat'? It is a well known fact that heat de stroys the attraction of cohesion, and" may it not also destroy the attraction of gravitation? It evidently does in the case of gaseous substances. Now, the after part of the day being the hotest, the repulsive force of the sun's rays act ing on that part of the globe east of the meridian would cause it to revolve in that direction, while it would be forced back in space In an opposite or westerly direction, around in its orbit, the ellip ticity of which would be caused by the fact that water absorbs more caloric thau land. When the southern hemis phere is inclined toward the sun, the earth is attracted to its perihelion, and when the northern" hemisphere Is in clined toward the sun the earth Is re- the Sunday school concert atone of our ?"lsed l ils pben, in cousequeuceof mtv ciiiirnhns last Sundav told how elo- ,la '""""'"S fc. quently aud earnestly one speaker ex horted the boys to. good and noble works, reminding them that Iu their hands alone would soon full the desti nies of the country; urging them to be honest, upright, industrious, etc.; then turning to the girls, he said, in a bland and patronizing way: "And you girls must grow up to be wives for these com ing men." Of course the average school-girl of ten years of age would immediately ask herself, "If I must spend all the years till I am grown, preparing myself for a wife, hadn't some boy better be told to fit himself for a husband, so that I may not have to waste my virtues and ac complishments upon somebody who neither appreciates nor is worthy of them?" Wheu will teachers and preachers and people generally take a common-sense view of this matter and encourage girls to good works, not iu the hope of catch ing a husband, but because they, as well as boys, have a grand and noble part to play iu the great drama of life, one act of which may or may not be matrimony. Business Women. THE ELE0TI0NJN THE EAST. Election day throughout the East and middle West passed off for the most part quietly. A very heavy vote was polled iu all quartern. The States that proved loyal to the Republican party, Maine, Massachusetts, R'-xode Island, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minne sota, Wisconsin'Illinols, New Hamp shire, Vermont, Iowa, Nebraska, Kan sas, South Carolina, Colorado, Nevada, California, and Oregon, came up with more than accustomed majorities for the Republican "nomiuees. Indiana, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, and Kentucky, together with the- Southern States except the Carolinas and possi bly Florida spoke forTildenandHend ricks. Enou election of Hayes rate figures showing majorities In the various States are at present out of the question ONE VEBTEBEATE, AT LEAST. Hon. W. R. Higby, of Benton county, is the only man to whom we have lis tened during the recent campaign and we have heard all the great lights on both sides who has addressed the worn en as though they were an intelligent and deeply-interested portion of the peo ple of the State and Republic. It is everywhere conceded that he has made the most effective speeches of the cam paign, and their effectiveness is largely owing to this. All must admire and respect a man who is not afraid to deal fairly with a real and living issue, and orators who are themselves too weak kneed to espouse a cause which is un popular with the mass of ignorant voters, yet respect a man whose words IBBEVEBENT. The Christian Messenger is responsible for the following: The Centennial abounds iu pictures and busts of George Washington in every place where there seems to be room for either. One artist has shown his taste In making a bust of Christ with George "Washington on one side and Henry Ward Beecher on the other. There Is the "Father" .of his country, and the "Son,' but we hardly think Beecher's late reputation would entitle him to be called the "Holy Spirit." A person guilty uf such irreverence as is displayed in the above would proba bly, if officially empowered and called upon to administer an oath, adopt the style of one of our late county officials and require the person to "solemnly swear in the presence of Me and Al mighty God." Mart. Brown declares that it is "uo wonder Georgia gives large majorities in opposition to Radicalism." Of course not. Everybody expects th is rebel State ch is assured to render the dearly demonstrate that he belongs to to go largely Democratic. It would be ayes almost certain. Accu- Uh vertebrate class of animals. When "a wonder" If It did not. so many are classed with mollusks, It is a relief to hear a vertebrate deliver an opinion, hence even mollusks enjoy it. It is remarked that an Irish stew can' be got in all countries except Ireland Harper's Magazine for November is a bright and beautiful number, rich in the variety of its contents and pictorial illustration. The number opens with a poem by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," eutitled "Magnus and Morna, a Shetland Fairy Tale." A new story by Miss Thackeray is begun in this number. "A Woman-Hater," which has reached its fifth part, in creases iu interest with each installment of the story. Interestingshort stories are contributed by the best writers. As inter esting as a story is the powerful char acter sketch, byan anonymous author, entitled "A Grand Business Man of the New School." Tho editorial depart ments are unusually full aud interest ing, including the pleasant social gossip of the "Easy Chair," an interesting "resume" of important receut books, the summaries of scientific progress and of current events, and an entertaining "Drawer." The Bazar and Weekly are filled with choice illustrations of pass ing events and the fashion. P0STINGA V0TEE. A lady teacher In one of the public schools being, although extremely pa triotic, in tho woman's, pauper's, Idiot's and criminal's boat, hence disfranchised, determined, as women always will, to coax: a "free white male" to deposit his ballot to suit her. Being unmarried, clever, and intelligent, she had no diffl cuity iu selecting a youug man who had no opinion of his own, and secured the coveted promise. All was duly ar ranged, and as a parting reminder when the intelligent voter arose to leave, she said : "Don't forget, now, that you are to vote for Hayes and Wheeler." "How am I to vote for both of them,; said he, with a look of bewilderment, "wheu one is ruuning upon the Demo cratic, and the other on the Republican ticket? Tiie boys will laugh at me if I split my ticket up that way." Explanations followed, aud Hayes and Wheeler got the vote. Says Professor Huxley, "Skepticism is the highest duty, blind faith the unpar donable sin." Here Is much in a little The Saturday Evening Post thus sen sibly discourses concerning "Business Women," a term synonymous in the es mation of "woman's sphere" shriekers with everything that is unlovely, un womanly, and coarse. Let sensible people "pause, wouder and pronounce:" The idea still prevails, though not to so great an extent as it used to, that women have no concern with business affairs, and that business habits and qualifications relate to raenouly. There never was a greater mistake made, we need hardly say. To possess a capacity for business is not only compatible with true womanliness, but it is in a measure indispensible to the comfort and well being of every properly governed family. The management of a family and house hold is as much a matter of buisnesi as the management of a store or an office, and requires method, accuracy, organi zation, industry, economy, discipline, tact, knowledge, capacity for adapting means to ends. All this is of the essence of business; and hence business habits are as neces sary to be cultivated by women who would succeed in the affairs of home in other words, who would make home happy as by men in the affairs of trade, of commerce, or of manufacture. Method, which is the soul of business, is of essential importance in the home. Work can only be got through by method. Muddle flies before it, and hugger-mugger becomes a thing un known. Method demands punctuality, another eminently business quality. The unpunctual woman, like tiie nn punctual man, occasious dislikes, be cause she consumes and wastes time, and provokes the reflection that we are not of sufficient importance to make her more prompt. To the business man, time is money; but to the business womau, method is more it is peace, comfort and domestic prosperity. Hence it is important that our girls should receive a practical, business training as well as our boys. Its bene fits will be apparent every day through out their lives. Saturday Evening Post. If this theory is not tenable, let us have one that Is. The old theory is not tenable, for if the force of gravitation could arrest the earth in its onward course of its aphelion distance, and cause it to pass to its perihelion distance, it would never be able to regain its aphelion, for "the less the distance the stronger the attraction." The increased velocity of the earth's motion at its perihelion is the product of the aug- mented power of attraction. There can be no effect without au adequate cause. All motion is the effect of force. If the undulatory theory is accepted, and I be lieve it is generally, there is a constant resistance to all bodies in motion, con sequently there must be a constant ap plication of force to keep up perpetual motion. If light and beat comes to us by wave motion, intervening space must be filled with a material substauce capable of being vibrated. The Universe, coutaining innumera ble "globes, aud all hauging loose in space, and all governed by the law of attraction, must some day collapse, and would have done so long ere this. There must be some other law affecting their condition; it is possible there Is a repellent force. The ball from a gun is forced in the direction of least resist ance by the power of heat. Then let us apply the same theory to the motion of the globe, aud we shall find that the most intensely heated atmosphere is from 12 M. to 6 P. ir., aud the direction of least resistance about 6 A. 3T. The northern hemisphere would be forced a little the fastest, as it contains the most land on its surface, causing it to travel iu a circuit. D. Bacon. Boise City, I. T. EEOENT EVENTS. A driveling, besotted voter who sat near us, much to tne disgust oi our ol factories, on Monday evening, upon hearing several ladies express their re gret at being deprived of the privilege of depositing their ballot on the next day, remarked, in as lordly a tone as bad whisky would allow him to assume, "I can do the votin' for my woman; I wouldn't let her go to the polls among all the men." We controlled our dis gust sufficiently to give hint another glance, and mentally asked ourself if auy company could degrade a womau whose sensibilities were sufficiently blunted and sense of sight and smell so utterly demoralized as to permit her to consort with such a loathsome specimen of voting humanity as the one who pro claimed himself hi duty bound to pre serve her from contaminating influ ences. His first step in this laudable directiou should evidently be to absent himself at once and forever from her presence. Oregon Fruit at A person who was looking up a house the other day in Newburyport said he couldn't afford to pay much rent. "Well, look at the neighborhood," re plied the owner. "You can borrow flat irons next door, coffee and tea across the streel, flour and sugar at the corner, and there's a big pile of wood belonging to the school-house right across the alley." Ho closed the bargain at once. "What do you sell these fowls for ?" inquired a person of a man who was at tempting to dispose of some chiokens of a questionable appearance. "I sell them for profits," was the answer. "Thank you for the information that they are prophets," responded the quer ist; "I took them to be patriarchs." the Centennial. Hon A. J. Dufur, the indefatigable Centennial Commissioner for Oregon, writes to Messrs. Luelling & Son of Milwaukie concerning the fruit.sent by them to Philadelphia as follows: Your favor of October5th, with fruit, received. The fruit arrived in most ex cellent condition, in fact, in better con dition than any received heretofore. Owing to its being received after the re gular day for examining fruits by the pomolocicaliudces.it will not be ex amined until to-morrow, though the judges have hot as yet made any report to the commission for awards on fruits. I can confidently state that you will re ceive an award. It is to be regretted that the legislature had not sufficient foresight and liberality to make an ap propriation to cover the expenses of a complete pomolgical display for the State, but such as have been enabled to make, tnrougu you anu a lew more, has attracted universal admiration and done au inestimable amount of good for the State. Hopiug that all who have assisted me iu making a name for our State by their contributions will receive the credit and rewards that are their due, I am yours, respectfully, A. J. Dufur. Philadelphia, October 23, 1876. The experiments undertaken by the United States Fish Commission, several years ago, to stock the wafers of Utah with auadromous fish promise a fair measure of success, the California sal mon introduced in 1S74 now measuring from seven to twelve inches in length, while tho3e of 1875 are from five to seven Inches long. These have been placed in the waters of Salt Lake county, as also those of Rich, Utah.and Davis coun ties. Of the eels introduced several years ago, only a few inches long at the time, one of two feet in length was recently found dead in Salt Lake, and another was taken in the Provo River two feet two inches long, and weighing four pounds two ounces. The Tilden reformers assessed $400,000 for election purposes on the $3,000,000 Admissions to the Centenuial on Sat urday were 81,000. . A fire occured at Chester City, Pa., on the 4lh. Loss, $30,000. There was G.000 men in the procession on the 5th which followed to the grave the remains of Wm. Foley, ex-Fenian convict. About 200 Sioux Indians uuder charge of the commissioners, passed through Omaha on the 3d en route to the Indian Territory, ot: a tour of inspection. A special to the Republican from Monroe, Lu., under date of the 7th, says: "Colored people coining here to vote are stopped by armed men and their regis tration papers taken from them. Francis Thompson, a notorious negro, who has for years figured as a woman and imposed on the Congressional com mittee in connection with the riots of I860, died in the hospital at Memphis on the 31 after a long illness. A Democratic procession was attacked by negroes at Raleigh, N. C, on the night of the 7th. The police interfered and were nlso assailed. Two policemen were badly injured and several whites badly hurt before order was restored. Second class cadet midshipman Chas. W. Garrett, of Iudiania, and Frederick A. Woodworlh, of California, were .on the 1st inst., dismissed from the naval academy at Annapolis for hazing. So far 12 cadets have been dismissed for this offense. In the matter of the application of Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood for admission to practice as an attorney and coun selor of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice announced, as the decision of the court, that none but men are admitted to practice before it as attorneys and counselors. The Weaverville aud Redding stage was stopped on the night of the Ctlt near the latter place by two highway men, whodemanded Wells.Fargo&Co.'s box, which the driver handed down ; but as the treasure was in an iron bos fastened to the coach, they got nothing but a few letters. There was an effort made on the 1st inst. to replevy the property of Brigham Young that had been sold at auction by the commissioner. The judge forbade the clerk of the court to issue and file the necessary papers, but reconsidered his action aud the papers havo been is sued, and the property i3 now in charge of tiie U. S. marshal. The California and Oregon Stage Com pany's coach, carrying the U. S. mails and Wells, Fargo & Co'sexpress, was stopped by three masked highwaymen at 12 o'clock on the night of the 5th, three miles north of Redding, and Wells, Fargo & Co.'s treasure box taken, con taining $1,100, and also the registered mail pouches, all of which were cut and broken open and handed back to the driver. Ben Holladay and party were The more you contract debts the more 8aiarle3 paid o Democratic office-holders passengers, out were not, raoiesteu. fhpvtfinand. In JSeW XorU State. irarucsaiBiupuui.u. .u. v.-