MCOBSDAY- JANUARY , 1ST.
A BILL OF EXOEPTIOMS.
Several gentlemen have taken excep
tion toourstateuienls of last week un
der head of "Truth, however Unpalata
ble," one characterizing tbem as "se
vor,'' another ns "sour aa hottetmllk,"
another as "sweeping," ami another
rotiroily declaring, with the niy&tie air
assumed by men when speaking to
women concerning secret orders, that
we "know nothing about Masonry."
Now, we bad some trouble ia heading
U article referred to to our satisfae
lion, and the strictures above named
have eonvl need us that au Inspiration
must have guided our pencil when,
after some ruinates of deliberation, an
imperative can lor "copy" loieeu a
sudden transcribing of the words above
quoted. To the first class of objectors,
or, to coin a necessary word, "wlneers,"
we reply: If what we have said is not
true, refute it; if it is true, in your own
Individual eases even, correct the gross
abuse and share equally and fairly Ufa's
VretsBttude with the women who
"Cheer pear meager hearth, who b!n an
Tear poverty and meet Its harsh demands
With unvarying patience, and perf.M-m
Ita menial tanks with stained and battered
J low many eveiiiugs would you spend
in homes devoid of luxury, aud in many
Instances hare of even the comforts of
life, the children your only company,
while your wives were passing pleasant
liours in luxuriously furnished halls in
the companionship of other women, a
per capita tax accruing that, however
small, could not be spared without a pit
iful sacrifice of family comforts ? ltut
you will tell us, perhaps, that there is
another side to this. That the brother
hood watch In sickness, bury the dead
and render aid whan necessary to the
survivors. We reply that common hu
manity eauees the first doty to be per
formed in any neighborhood that we
ever lived in; that iu the case of utter
impeeunioslty a pitying commonwealth
wilt defray the expenses of the second,
and as to the last, "a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush," and it must cer
tainly be as gratifying to have the ne
oouoltloa of life from day to day as to
have their possible supply in case of pos
slide future stress guaranteed. As to
Masonry in the abstract, its mystic rites
and ceremonies we of course "know
nothing," asour friend has charged, and
without desiring to be rude, we will add,
we care leas. But the things we have
relative to the injustice done
i in the middle aud lower walks
of life especially, the contributions of
motley needed for family expenses to
ward building up and sustaining secret
orders lu whieh lliey have neither lot
nor part have no, veil of secrecy drawn
between them and the outer world.
They speak not in symbols, aud need no
Interpretation, and their plain state
ment (s "truth, however unpalatable."
A PLAIN PACT.
The terrible prevalence of the crime of
inf&Hlleide and its cowardly and revolt
ing confederate, ante-natal murder, in
our large cities, 1ms been proclaimed,
lamented over, and its causes discussed
for years and yet it grows and thrives.
Statistics are given aud comments made
upon this subject by our New York cor
respondent, whose letter appears on the
fourth page of this issue. Every woman,
and it seems to us every humanitarian
who rem is this will see bow far short the
remedies proposed for this crime fall of
touching the cause or of even hiutiug at
a cure. Why any one cannot bee that
the bodily subjugation of women as
wives, as mendicants upou the financial
bounty of men, is the cause of uine
leetiifs of this most abhorrent murder, is
a mystery. It is outraged nature turned
wgainet herself that prompts aud exe
cutes this disnatured crime, aud noth
ing not eulightened and perfect eompli
nuce with nature's laws will eradicate
ft. To talk of controlling such a thing
by special and striugent legislation
while women are possessed of strong
wills to resist by violence If necessary,
too tyranny which says to them, "mater
nity shall be yours whether you wish It
or Hot," is like " children bab
bling nonsense in their sport." The wis
dom of all the law-makers, coupled with
toe vigilance of ail the doctors of medi
cine of Ibe uuiverte, eauuot mitigate,
certainly cannot abrogate this erime
while its prime cause, the subugatiou
of mothers as mothers, continues.
Those who, willfully blind are deter
mined not to see this may exeot in the
final summing up ot human things to
hear the dread pronuuetameuto, "ye
knew your duty but ye did it not."
A PLAIN STATEMENT.
Ool. T. H. Cann publishes the follow
ing statement and declaration: "As a
a" of Justice to myself, I desire to
that on the 8th day of October the
heoke and papers of the land depart
ent were taken charge of by the legis
lative investigating eommittee, and ou
M day I deposited wut, Mr. K. Hirseh,
folate Tre:,.tlrei, all the mooey on ha ml
belonging to the laud department, for
eefe keening, until the report of the
committee should be wade. The money
Is still in his safe, aud E. . ti,
board of laud oomrnfawtonets -xara-1
iao the report the money will u, applied '
where it belongs, and an honorable set
tlement will be made, so far as I am coo-!
oerned. I have to ssy that each leglsla-
tu re s! u tie 1S70 b as ex a m I n ed m y aecou n ta
unit mmln nnnronriations for m v nav
j r i r,!i .i,o,,,.'
est.
1 "" " -"""IsutulngTas good wives always do, all
pah! me, and have earned every dollar; the blame herself. As the matter now
of it, and neither Slate or private dti- stands, we have two olllelsl notices to
have lost a cent by me."
The funeral of Caleb Cushlng was as
plain as that of any common citizen in
a rural towu.
A H0U3IMGBENEnT. i
We have often bad occasion to refer I
to the despicable eoodoet of certain men I
who assume the responsibility of decid-1
lug what their wives mav and mav not I
subscribe for and read. We have,sinoe 1
" 1
we Isecan the publication of this journal, I
by this unwarrantable jurisdiction !
which pompous men assume, and their
wives for the sake of peace iwrmit, lq?
not only many subscribers, but dues to
the amount of several huodred dollars,
the husband in many instances not ap
pearing in the role of dictator until in
arrears for one or more year's subscrip
tion. In view of this, we resolved
a while ago to give the next petty ty
rant who thus defrauded us financially
and Ills wife mentally, a rousing bene
fit. There can be no more uusploious
time for the inauguration of a good
work than the first of the year, and the
occasion is not wanting, so we will now
call upon Mr. (we suppress
wmes this time for the wife's soke)
Ui"oome into court." Of course he will
plead 'not guilty," but let facts be sut-
iiiltted to a candid public or a num
ber of years part, the name of Miss
- has been enrolled upon our
list of subscriber, now at one lowu
him! now at another, the energetic, ami
able ami accomplished ipchoolma'aiii
who answered to it taking, reading aud
promptlylpaying for the New North
west when the yearly bill was pre
sented. This lady took it into Iter beau
a few months since to marry, and the
husband we now arraign was the lucky
roan. We had known something of the
animu of this man upon the equal
rights question, he being the same who,
when superintendeutofeounty schools in
a certain eouuty u few years ago, insulted
Uie intelligence and underrated the ser
vices of the lady teachers within his
iuri-dietlon so eioselv. Thinking of
this, we made out Miss
bill (whieh had through over
sight been allowed to run a year and
half) ami sent it with others some weeks
ago to our ageut to collect. The
agent iu due time remitted one
year's subscription to be placed to her
credit, ami with it came the expected
order from Hr. to discontinue.
We replied by postal card, stating that
the order would becomplied with wbea
the halt year's subscription still due
was paid. This elleted the following
letter from the wife:
To the Eomior tub Xw HorrHwnrr:
Please do not discontinue the
my address until the present subscription year
expires.
The paper was accordingly sent as
usual, and the week following an official
notice from the postmaster announced
that it was "refused." Not proposing
to recognize Mr. iu the transac
tion so entirely out of "his sphere," w
addressed the following letter to his wife,
enclosing the aloresaid official notice
My Dear Fkiesd: Sums ten days ago we re
ceived a note from you. reuuesUag that the
Northwest be not discontinued till the doss
or another, or the current no ascription year,
This waa quite satisfactory, aa we all know
that while you wens unmarried your credit
was perfectly pmd; and we are willing yet
trust your honor about anything. But your
order conflicts with your husband's flat, as you
will ace by the enclosed, which yon will please
I ask him to explain, lie is not the Unit man
, who has married one of our sensible subscrib-
era and then refused to let her have tbr N KW
Northwest. But he will learn by and by
that brains are not to be ownedeeen by man
right votaries who are ever ready to attempt
it If conscious ofa UUle weakness in their own
upper story. I am exceedimtly anxious lo be
lters tost you have married well, as foa cer
tainly deserve a good husband, and I know
you would make a capital wife tor a man with
a blc enough heart to appreciate you. But,
till Mr. explains bis reasons for thus
attemptlnc to cat off your postal matter,
must, at least for a season, reserve my Judf
ment. What would he think of you were
to thus attempt to rule his newspaper affairs
If he really will not let yon have your paper. I
suppose you must submit; but be must In that
ease remit balance due (KjOO), or gel a lilUe
cralultous advertising in a way that will not
salt him. A.J. IrsiU Ai.
Portland. January 2. ItT.
To this letter the man responded, as
before, by a peremptory order, unac
companied by tbe cash for arrears, to
discontinue the paper immediately, and
we, seeing that he so sorely needed a
public benefit, resolved to give him one.
The motive that prompts this is by no
means a personal one. For the lady we
entertain the highest respect, aud for
the man, iu common with other narrow
minded tyrants, the most supreme con
tempt; but It Is tbe principle underly
ing such an act that we censure, aud
feel should be exposed and dealt with
according to Its just deserts. Such un
warrantable jurisdiction over the indi
vidual business of another bears not
only the impress of tyranny, but the
fruit of falsehood, for nine women out
of ten will, to shield the tyrant from tbe
obloquy which such conduct merits,
smother their humiliation and stifle
their conscientiousness aud declare that
"they did it," even when tbey know
that we have in our jioaseseion their
own written statement to the contrary.
It is the bane of the race at the present
day that tbey were born of mothers
who were forced to petty lying in order
to screen that which it would be open
humiliation to acknowledge, ami com
pelled to resort to petty larceny every
day of their lives in order to keep their
own and their children's wardrobes pre
seutable. Tbif state of thiugs will con
tinue until a woman's individuality
eeaeee in man's estimation to be merged
into his own by the marriage bond; and
we will hereafter regard it not only a
privilege, butour bounden duty to write
down in tbe "Blank" list, the names of
men who deserve to be so catalogued,
aud If occasion requires, give tbe same
to tbe public, covered with the odium of
their own acts.
Since the above was iu type, we have
received a second notice from the lady,
ordering the paper continued, and as
j discontinue from the "head" of the fam
j ily, one of tbem savagely imperative,
aud two contrary orders from the only
1 ff!" w h?? a "f1 right to decide
the matter. Meanwhile, we shall obey
tbe latter
menU.
party, aud await develop-
"PALLIATION, THOUGH BX0TT8E BE '
IMPOSSIBLE."
The Ban Jose Mercury, always the j
friend of. woman, the ehnmpion of the !
weak and the uusparinit denouncer of '
wrong, in ooninieuting upou the infa-
mous transactions of the California
State Board of Education in peddling,
for a stipend, the questions proposed to
test the qualifications f teachers, puts in
the following sensible plea fur ttie
women teacher w ho were unpin aled In
the dishonorable business : "It is Uite
apparent tnal me sale 01 uesuons ami
of positions has been going on for a coo-
Iderable time, perhaps for many years,
The applicants for certificates and I
sehools suspected, if they did not know.
that au iuliuenee was at work that gave
to the few those advantages that should
have belonged only to capacity and in
dustry. They must have seen that ap
plicants of limited attuinmeut were en
abled to secure substantial advantages,
through means that they may have
suspected but dared not expose, aud
could only know when they were them
selves implicated with them. In most
instances, poor and friendless, they
oould hut know that there was a secret 1
power potential for good or evil, thai
awarded priien ami position, upon con
siderations altaiHtibbt only to the fa-
orcd few. That this was acoouiIMied
through the connivance of men of au
thority, whose word was law, whose iu
liuenee was all powerful, and whose
actions' were beyond either appeal or In
quiry. All this they must have t-een
and known. Is It strange that these
unknown ami friendless girls shrank
Irom attacking such a power? That
they did not care to assail influ
ences thus iutienched, that would have
replied by attack, by insu It and by rutu
to themselves, Is it to be wondered at
that these helpless aud depeudent teach
ers, In sheer deseratiou, availed them
selves of menus thus tendered and
shrank from a contest thus desperate for
themselves ? Before them was urgent
necessity, want; around them the
usage, the traetiee; beside them the
tempter; and we question whether there
be many men who, thus urged and thus
tempted, would not have also thus fal
len. For the wretches who create this
necessity, who trafficked upon the urgent
needs of these helpless women, we have
not words to express our strong loath
ing; but for these victims, misguided
as they weie, we have much of commis
eration."
A TIMELY SERMON.
Rev. Mr. Eliot preached at the I nlta- j
elan Church In this city recently
sermon ou the "Death Penalty," which,
was most timely. No oue could listen !
and cordial sympathy at least with the
speaker's most humane and practical
vlews. We would like to give place to
toe entire sermoo, out space loforas.
space
The follow lug were the concluding
words: "With ibis testimony, I con
elude what yon will bear me witness
has been no sentimeutal argument, nor
a question as to the right of tbe State,
nor an attempt to interfere between the
menace of death in particular cases and
the fulfillment of that menace. I have
simply shown in dry light the de
ductions of experience. I have simply
tried to break tbe popular fallacy that
hanging laws deter criminals or human
ise society. I have eodeavored to show
that reform iu tbe whole system of con
viction and penalty is our best hope of
security, and I express the belief that
such reform will be followed by a slough
ing off of the de.th penalty' as use
less, and an encumbrance, a confusion
of moral perceptions, rather than a vin
dicator of right."
CAPITAL PUlflSHaffEirr. AKD iir-
TEMPEKAM0E.
.Aaron Payne, an old gentleman
ninety years of age, who resides In
Yamhill county, preachex the following
temperance sermon in connection with
discussions of plans for the abolishment
of capital punishment: "I can, however,
propose a plan that would avoid capital
punishment in perhaps nine cases out
of ten; and that plan is to stop tbe
manufacture aud sale of intoxicating
drinks. This would rescue from the
poerjhouse, the iusaue asylum, the Jien
iteutiary and the gibbet nearly all their
victims. Ami the cities could dispense
with most of their police; their sinks of
iuiquity would be dried up, taxation
and crime would be greatly reduced,
disease aud death would be robbed of
more than half Its victims, aud your
police courts would be almost dispensed
with, and the tnaurauoe on all proiterty
greatly reduced. And any city is capable
of doing this by her incorporated Mwer.
Will
you dolt? Till then we eanuot
dispense with the death penalty. All of
which is respectfully submitted to tbe
public geuerally, and to the clergy es
pecially." THE LA8T DEVICE.
The last device fr laying the drunk
enness of men at the door of women Is
given upon the authority of an emineut
Knglish physic! an win .I,
I "ereat immiaii..
" i ui tans alcohol arises
from bad cookery." if he wou, teJI
famished wlees with empty larders just
bow under the circumstances to prac
tice "good cookery," they would doubt
ess appreciate the results, equally at
least Wth lhe me wbos( orlm,,,
yielding to the "great temptation to
drink alcohol" has, by depriving their
families of the barest necessities of life,
caused "cookery" of an hi.i i., .lir
Ldomlcils to be almo-t numbered amoug
.,las. we rail to see how a cook
book recommended In this connection
as a proper study for vom bv
any possibility pla tempting vladds
upon the drunkard's table
The Xew England
Rave a tea ttartv in
Woman's Club
honor of Lucy
tone's sixtieth birth-day, ou the 4th of
November.
WOMEN AND 0HHBOHB8.
A ,,te,ngtellej Methodist preacher
once said: "But for the interest awl
devotion of the women of onr ehorebes,
one-balf of them would die the first
year, aud the other half the eecoud.'
If a woman had said as much,
it
would have been considered an exag
geration, yet all women who have lu
boied iu ebiuub interests know, that
there i- much truth iu the statement.
Vet often Hie very laiiiisters who are
Compelled to acknowledge to similar
conviction, discourse eloquently from
the text, "Let women keep silence in
your churches," ami oommit the pious
theft of tskine to their own credit before
the world what Is due to the women of
their congregation who zealously work
iu silence. From the time wheu 1'aiil
preached his first missionary sermon iu )
Kurojie to a little company of Jewish i
women who met outside the city of
l'hlllipe, to the present, wheu two
thirds of every coiigregutiun assembled
on Sabbath, and nine-tenths of those in
attendance at the weekly prayer meet
ings are women, woman has composed
the rank and file of church member
ship, officered ami often clumsily ma
neuvered by men. Said ISuekmiuiater
seventy-live years ago: "If the time
should ever coma when mir churches
shall be closed, the .Sabbath no longer
mude a day of rest ami worship, but of
toil and pleasure, and Christianity Itself
cast ofl" as a worthless superslilillou,
the last congregation will be a group ol
children gathered about their mother,
and the lust altar a woman's heart." I,et
us hope, should such a time ever arrive,
that no jiompous minister who has
faithlessly dotted his sacerdotal robes
will Intrude upon the little circle with a
proposition to the woman to get up a
fair and pay oil an ancient church debt
or back salary claimed by himself.
TOBACCO AND KJTE2JPEBANCE.
It Is no uncommon sight, as all who
have attended our excellent Saturday
eveulug temperauce meetings kuow, to
see an advocate of this cause take an
enormous quid of tobacco from his
mouth wheu he arises to exhort the au
dience to eschew the use of stimulauts,
aud we have, never heard but one man
at those meetings declare tobacco what
it is, the close ally of alcohol, urging its
discontinuance us a necessary auxiliary
measure iu overcoming the appetite for
strong drink. They have iu Washing
ton Territory a temperauce advocate
who does not shrink trout the duty of
makitiiif till nl&ttrtiriitutmii. nil this ad-
VOCJlU, u Houor Ju(,ge Jjew8 WD0
,, reported by the Port Towns. nd rffus
M MluWH. ..,., , TjwU r
; eently delivered an address, showing by
t faots and rias rhtit tha f-il at intaun-
MnWie ,uacJ, IUOfB ellor((HHj than is
,.., M1 H fa.d tm-
! ienloee , tbw IM.r uilneco as well as
,inlulr Thll in-i ..i
that about
niu-tenths of ult the cases which came
up before the courts in this judicial dis
trict, where the people are taxed to pay
tbe euotmuus cost bills, are brought
about through the influence of liquor.
Many complain at high taxes they are
called upon to pay for school purposes;
and yet, asked tbe judge, what tobacco
user in this district dues not auuuully
ly more tobacco tax than school tax 7"
AN APPBOPBIATE GIFT.
Oue of tbe most satisfactory Christ
mas offerings of whicli we have heard,
gratifyiugalike to donors and recipieut,
was made at Forest.Grove ou Christmas
day. This was an elegant aud luxurious
es-y chair, a joint gift from friends at
Forest Grove, McMiniiyille and Oregon
I City to Elder Chandler, whom paraly
sis about four years ago rendered dumb
awl helpless. The appropriateness of
the present will be seen when It is un
derstood that Mr. Chandler sits day
after day scarcely changing his position
for hours, and the friends whose
thoughtful kindness prompted the gift
realized, perhaps as never before, the
troth of the declaration, "It is more
blessed to give than to receive," as the
venerable and stricken man accepted,
with every demonstration of mute
thankfulness, their beautiful present.
Mr. Chandler in the years now gone
has labored in church aud educations!
Interests In the places above named,
with a zeal aud energy unsurpassed, and
this token was tendered as an evidence of
the esteem iu w hich he is held by those
t ho know him best, and would fain
render :i pleasant as may be his patieut
waiting upon
" The silent, solemn sbore
Oftbaivastoeean be mast sail w soon."
SOTLIMATEDJ5ELPISHKE8S.
What a world of fanaticism, blind to
subjugatiou to creed, cant which teaks
to obliterate tbe holiest sentiments of a
womanly soul and exhortation to strug
gle against a natural feeling upon which
rests the purity of the marriage rela
tion, is contained lu the following brief
paragraph, dipped from a Salt Lake pa
per that advocates the revolting doc
trlne of plural marriages. If the feel
ing that causes thetrue woman instinct
ively to rebel against the Invasion ofl
her sacred domain of wifehood is tetf- j
ithnen, then certainly it Is a sublimated
Hclflshness that should t-e accorded all
honor: "The great cause of trouble in
pluralily is the selnshuess of women.
It is natural not to like to see another
loved by the object of our devotion.
We are selfish and narrow-minded in
this, and thluk of ourselves aloue, but
if we open our hearts to tbe Spirit of
God we will overcome this spirit of evil,
and If true love exists in our hearts for
our husbands the hurdeu will be eaey,
and we shall be desirous that our hus
bands should obey tbis command of
God, and reap a rich reward."
Rev. T. F. Campbell has again as
sumed editorial charge of the Chriitian
jrestenger, D. T. Stauley retiring. Miss
Mary Stump labors quite acceptably
' upou that journal also.
KBOBNTEYENTS.
There is skating at Atlanta Ga., for
the first time In tweuty years.
Caleb Gushing died at Newbury port,
Mas.,'tHi the night of the 3d Inst.
A slorm raged at East Buffalo ou Uie
3d with such fury as to cause all suspen
sion ol Dusinose.
A bill providing for the taking of the
tenth census has been introduced. Three
million dollars Is fixed as the maximum
cost of the work.
A Imln of the New York Central ar
rived in uuimto ir.'m Albany on the
4th, due on -the ai, drawn by thirteen
engines with snow plows.
me mercury shim a -zr uetow aero
at Chicago on tlteSd. Kxtremeiy oold
weather is reported Iu Central aud
Southern
Kansas.
Illinois, Missouri ami
The second Baptist Church at St.
Tiouis, an Imposing edifice of rough
hewn stone, which cost $1.78,000, was de
stroyed by fire ou the morning of the 3d,
the walls alone remaining.
Resumption continues to work
smoothly. The amount of gold mll
out at tlie sub-treasury on Saturday wus
SaO.OUU. ami the amount taken in ex
change fur leg:il tender notes, $2U0,0UO.
.Secretary Schurz has affirmed the de
cision of the eommissloner of the laud
office in the ease of Orson It. Willurd vs.
the State of Oregon, involving title to
land iu lloseburg, Oregon. The decision
as affirmed rejects the claim of the
State.
The requisition ou the post office de
partment ou Saturday, for postage
stamps, stamped envelopes and postal
eards amounted to $516,5S9, included in
which were -1,796,500 postal eards. The
requisition wus more than double that
of any single day in the history of thv
department. ,
A large number of petitions were pre
sented to Oougre?s on the 6th, many
from women, asking that effect be
given the anti-polygamy law of 1S63;
and otlters protesting against the so
called patent law bill and against the
transfer of the Indian bureau to the
war department.
The Vice-President, on the 7tli, laid
before the Senate a memorial from the
legislative assembly of the State of Or
egon, praying for modification of the
treaty between the United States and
the Km pi re of China, so as lo stop and
prohibit the the importation or immi
gration of Chinese or other Asiatic la
borers to the Pacific coast; referred.
FOSEINKEWS.
A diplomatic rupture between Ger
many and Deiimark is feared.
Great destitution and distress prevail
throughout Alsace ami Loraiue.
Onan Moneasl, the attempted assas
sin of the King of Spain, was executed
by gar rote at Madrid on the 4th Inst.
A plague has appeared amoug the
Cossacks of Astriehan, which is terribly
fatal. Out of 193 attacked, 113 have
died.
Tbe Cornish bank, established 110
years ago, lias suspended. Terrible dis
tress among the traders of West Corn
wail will result.
Oue hundred and twenty Rulgarian
villages have been Irarned, and 6,000
persons maseaered during the suppres
sion of the insurrection. Foreign em
bassadors are petitioned for deliverance
from Turkish rule.
All the societies in England, con
nected with the engineering trade,
unite to resist any prolongation of the
hours of labor. Demonstration have
been mude at tbe principal cities, aud
Strikes among freight-train guards are
reported.
THE DIFFERENCE.
The mails of the Unite.! States have
been burdened to the extent of tons In
weight by asiiig the mall matter of
men free through the use of the frank
ing privilege. It Is a matter of history,
however, that women have always paid
for transporting their mail-matter, there
being but one exception on record, that
of Martha Washington, who, after her
husband's death, was allowed the free
use of the malls for the rest of her life.
This was ordered by act of Coiigreo",
April 3d, 1900. Of course this was oot
'intended to be a reenniese for any
privation and toll which site endure I or
a just reward for services she rendered to
the country during the dark days of its
sore distress, when in muuy a bleak
i winter's camp
-The homesick soldier knew ber cheer
And blessed her from his couch of pain."
Hut because of the faithful service her
husband had given to the country
There is not the slightest doubt that
many a Congressmau has had free use
of tbe United States mails for the trans
mission of any amount of buiicome
speeches to nu admiring constituency,
whose wives in the far rural district have
not been able to raive a postage stamp
to let melr lords know that the children
were down with the measies.
A L07ELY 8IGHT.
Workers in the woinau movement
have cause to think with jsride and
t pleasure n( Lueretia Molt, brilliant, vl-
vaclous, lovely though the frosts of
eighty-seven winters have left their
rime upon her hair, ami the tolls of an
active life of four-score years have left
their lmnress unoii her features. As an
illustrious ex urn pie of the impress, a
woman may make upon her posterity,
is mentioned the fact that her daughter,
Mrs. Davis, her graud-dutighter, Mrs.
Hallowell, and her great-grand-daughter,
May Hallowell, now eighteen years
of age, are each and all women of re
markable beauty and mental endow
ment. These four women in a group
make a lovely aud luspiring sight.
The Weekly Standard has entered
upon ita fourth year.
-jrwTSJTBIta.
SEaTE AND TmUU-rnaUAI.
Wheat Is qootad at 84 cents at Indo-
peotleoee.
The "BMW JCibbon Ulnb" at tjeaiue
numbers H6 members.
Ttt Coos Ita v comI mines are increas
ing their working forces.
A stern-wheel steamer for tbe Stiek-
eeu River will shortly be built at Seat
tle.
A telegraph office will soon be opened
at Phenix, with Miss I Sargent as op
erator.
The colored citiseo of Snlem cele
brated the anniversary of the emanci
palion proclamation in an enthusiastic
maimer.
A Teachers' Institute, to begin on toe
16th and continue several dsys, is an
nounced to be hew at llnsohurg by irol.
L. J. Powell.
General Howard's new resJiVauee at
Vancouver is said to be the finest north
of tiie Columbia. It is completed, and
win so hi be occupied.
T. !. Iteck.of Willow Spring while
receutly cleaoiuK un the bed rock em his
mining claim, picked up a nugget of
gm welgbiug I8 To.
Tbe iron for tbe first ten miles of tbe
Yaquius Bay Railroad has been bought
In Aew York, ami will be shipped about
uie zuiu m tins utoutii.
The Catholic fair reeenUv held at
WhIm Walla netted tte sum of $1,o60m
wmrn win oe use I to pay oB the debt
on u ratrtck's church.
Tbe delightful custom of makiue New
Year's calls was very generally observed
In Eugene City. It has been mentioned
as a noticeable fact that very few ladies
offered wiue to tbeir guests on this oc
casion.
Over fifty teachers were in attend
ance at the recent session of the' Teach
ers' Institute at Oregon City. Excel
lent work was done by some of tbe lead
ing educators of the Stale. The friends
of education are much encouraged at
tbe result.
The nuptials of Captain O. C. Apple
gate, formerly of the Asbistud Tiding,
and Miss Eliza Anderson were cele
brated with great eclat at Ashland at
Christmas time. The happy couple
departed for tbeir home at Klamath
Agency on the 28th ult. Our best
wishes atteud them.
The upper part of Kebaleni Valley is
reported as the best body of vacant land
iu Western Oregon. There is ample op
portunity for settlers seekios homes to
Mod them here, where the soli Is fertile,
the country well timbered, the climate
healthful, aud no fear of molestation
from Indians, as in Eastern Oregon and
Washington. ,
Sex ia Industry.
Tbe Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, re
cently preached a powerful sermon npon
this topic, from whieh we obtain tbe fol
lowing statistics:
In 1873, tbe Massachusetts Labor Bu
reau received statements of personal
earnings and expends from 15,25
women depending for support upon
daily wages.
Many more than 15,000 returns were
received, but the Iwtard struck out of
the aecouut all the statements that were
in any way imperfect. Over la,0UU good
ones remained, complete In every essen
tial particular, i undertake to say tbe
world never saw as many budgets of
poor working girls opened as ere ex
amined officially in this commonwealth
in ItST-i.
Toe average number of days these
working women were employed in a
year was 258.
The average earnings wereeigbty-two
cents a day. They worked on tbe aver
age more than ten hours a day; that is,
more than sixty hours a week.
Ouly one in a hundred owned a house.
These women were paying on an aver
age S'Jif a year rent.
The cost of living of the working
women was reduced on the average to
$lS2Soayear.
You are not interested iu these fig
ures? Jo, but they may be family sta
tistics for your descendants?
These propositions represent the con
dition ot workingmeo iu Maseaehusetie.
In the year 1875 the same bureau re
ceived returns from 55,516 men engaged
lu the industries of this common wealth,
and depending for their support umii
daily wages.
The average number of days they were
em ployed lu the year was ril.
Tbeir average earnings $2 01 a day,
against S2 cents for women.
Only oue in a hundred, however,
owned a house.
These men were paying on an average
$108 a year as rent.
The coat of living of workltrgmen
was reduced on the average to $4&K W a
year.
Tlie following sonnet, from TiOngfe'
low's new volume, will find apprecia
tion amoog literary workers:
"Once upon tee land's solitary strand
A poet wandered with his book and pen, '
Seeking some Una! word, soma sweat tsnea.
Wherewith to close the volume in bis hand.
Tbe billows rolled and plungsd npon the sand.
The circling seagulls swept beyond his ken.
And from the parting cloodraCks,' now and
tnea
Flashed the red sunset over sea and land.
Then by tbe billows at his feet was tossed
A broken oar; and carved thereoa he read,
Oft was I weary when I tolled at thee;'
And like a man who nndslh What wss Ion
He wrote the words, then HfUd up his bead
And dung bis useless pen Into the sea."
A royal unkase proclaimed that Indies
attending tbe first reeeition of Her
Royal Highness, Princess Ijouise, at Ot
tawa, must wear low-necked dresses un
less they present a doctor's certificate of
III health. Such ridiculous assumption
of authority may be well enough in Old
England, but it excites supreme con
tempt iu America. Think of a woman
braving tbe rigors of a Canadian winter,
her ouly ermit to cover Iter shoulders
aud ehesl in the presence of royalty be
ing a physician's certificate of ill health.
Faugh !
Indian Police. By the last Congress
provMou was made for the organization
of a native police force on each of the
Indian reservations, for the purpose of
preserving onier, encouraging agricul
ture, etc
prescribed by law, aud they are to re-
celve a small salary each. The design
I DH IIHTIIWr 111 I I1U bSru In
of tne organisation Is not ouly to assist
the civil aud military authorities in
quelling disturbances, etc , but also to
encourage the Indians in their eflorts to
acquire a knowledge of tbe useful arts of
civilization, and to alii tbeir advauce-
tnent in every way. With a proper se-
lection of men from thediUereiit tribes,
it is thought that much good can be ef- I """ ln c. Mioui.iers, Hips, and
feCted by the force. Captain O. C. Ap- I 1 best. Headache, Nr..l,l,i, ll.art Disease,
plegHte is about to organize a company Kheumatism, chronic and u-utt Female DJ
at Klamath ageucy. Athland 7diny. e.i.esaud Irregularities, -,r, an. 1 Weak Eyes,
lieafnes., Kiiiinz In the He.i.l. linnMhlal Af-
Letters from China state that during ttaitiuus, uirom. t nii,..n.i i.toerai Debit
the receut famine, 7,000,000 tieople died, '' y o1 "e above affliction-, at
.it ,, w rooms, Houttiv-it coriirr ol Washitifi,..,
0,000,000 in the single province of and Vl,,ulllvv owr WVunllu "ore'J'.
sjbansti. ' suir
The Voavu's Xprkftv
The following account of, and appeal
in behalf of this worthy institution,
which has for several years been main
tained by tha exertion of a few cour
ageous women, appears in a recent is
sue of tbe Oregoaian:
Our first object is to furnish home
for homeless women. During tbe last,
ten mouths, we have received over titty
boarders, their time raugiog from a siu
gle tiay to several inoulua. We have a
comfortable house plainly furnished;
eotu(orl:! i- tit-tie, ana plain, wholesome
food for o per week.
We have one sewing machine, and
good conveniences for washing and iron
ing. Our aim is, -moreover, to help
such working women as are willing lo
help themselves. o encouragement
is giveu auy to remain in idleness. If
any are sick, they are properly cared
(or, ami wheu able to work, we assist
tbem iu finding places as soon as possible.
Since the middle of last February, we
have hn'i two huudred applications for
sllusii u.a. Vte have bad tbe poor, tbe
feeble, the old, the young, tbe lame, tbe
biiud, tbe partially insane or imbecile,
aud one deaf aud dumb; aud iu nearly
every lustaoce have been able to tind
homes and suitable employment.
Furthermore, we try lobelp the stran
gers who are flocking to our towu, from
all pins of tbe world; to keep our giris
out of hotels where they are subject to
sbcb fearful temptations, aud out of the
way of "ber whose steps take bold on
hell "
We also help the working woman
who may be temporarily disabled, or
who requires a season of rest, or who is
ontof work, to a home; to girls learn
ing trades, to seamstresses, teachers, or
auy who may be in ueed, a cheap board
ing place which shall be quiet aud com
fortable; such a home as may be found
in many of our eastern cities, and which
lor obvious reasons is especially needed
here. As yet, the enterprise is iu its
iufaucy, but we hope by persevering ef
forts that it may grow with the growth
of our city, and finally become an en
during monument to tbe Christian phi
lanthropy of all who have heretofore,
and all of who may in tbe future cou
trinute to its success.
We are struggling along with inade
quate means, and with little help. We
need more mooey and more furniture.
Above all, we ueed the assistance of
good women; we need their symp-athy
and help in various ways, which can
ouly be lully understood by those in the
work. We most earnestly implore the
co-operation of all the benevolent men
and women in Portland. Shall we not
have it?-
Tbe TimeJ Seranton our respondent
says these are dark days in cabins of
tbe Pennsylvania coal mines. Tbe
wolf crouches at every door, and if the
combination companies outlast this
month, tbe miners eao see nothing
before tbem but starvation. Tbeir
words furnish Christmas tide reading
for the country whose barns and grain
elevators are bursting with tbe greatest
harvest ever seen even in tbis teeming
new world
A man writing from Kittitas Valley,
W. T., of tbe probable Indian disturb
ances in Eastern Oregon nnd Wash
ington next spring, snys: "A great
many settlers are building forts of
tbeir own for protection, as in ease of
an outbreak the Indians are so close
to them that they would not have time
to remove tbeir families to places of
safety."
Good Indian. Aps, tbe Indian mur
derer, on being asked by Judge McAr
thur, before sentence of death was pro
nounced, if be bad anything to say, re
plied: "You talk to me ouly as dirt;
my body is as dirt to yon now; but you
should talk to the spirit that goes from
my body. That's all."
The little daughter of a leading physi
cian in a certain country town pre
sented the following as ber first essay -"There
was a little girl and she was
very sick; aud they sent for my nana
and -Hie. lied very quick." '
Xw is tbe time to make up clubs.
Tfce U. S. Signal .Service.
Gradually the wUd and ungovernable forces
of nature are, through science, made of use to
ma. FWMwlag la tbe wake of the Ingenious
Invention Aw the oof steam and electricity
oomes toe organization or Ue U. H. Signal Ser
vice. Is it not wonderful that a system eoulj
be originated and perfeajed whereby an oper
ator can accurately predict the weather ot a
distant locality? And yet experience prove,
our storm signals" to be relWll& lu i
great are me advances made In the science oi
medicine. Step by step, uncertainties and
doubts have given way to absolute certainty
Vae discoveries of Harvey and Jumer have
been succeeded by IheGotden Medical Discov
ery of Dr. K. V. fierce. So longer need peop le
despair because some physician has pr.
nouneed the lungs unsound. Hundreds or tes
timonials are on Bis In the omee of Dr. Pierre
from those who bad abandoned all hope, an u
had been given up by physicians and inemls
todie. Incipient consumption, bronchitis, ana
erofolbas tumor, speedily, sorely, and jier
sanenatjr yield to the healing influences oi
the Dl-oovery. If Ue bowela be constipated .
use Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets.
For full particulars, see Pierce's Memorandum
Book, given sway by all druggists.
Wo4ler of MnsTMetlHiH.
Dr. C. M. Wood, tbe celebrated healer, will
heal the sick of chronic diseases at the corner
or Washington and Front streets, Portland
All eatable diseases sneer fully treated wheu
every other method fails. Dr. Wood cures by
animal magnetism, and can point m the most
wonderiul cures ever performed by tins
method. No medicine, no surgical instru
ments, no pain whatever.
Axomsaor h. wood- naa-raxors cures.
To theclUxensof Portland Imake the follow
ing statement (or pablluaston: Un the J2d r
February. 1878, my little boy William, then :
yean sad S months old, was stricken with to
tal paralysis at 12 o'clock at night, for whieh I
coohl assign no reason whatever. He rental ner
totally helpless from the body down for two
dsys. He hud a high fever, limbs badly
swollen, ate nothing, and so great waa his pam
that tils nittlit clothes could not be removed
from him, ai the least movement caused the
roost e.xeruciatlng pain. In this hopeless n,
dltion I took him to Dr. C. M. Wood, Maenei ..
" j -1 v - sms pviieciis restored
our buy iu six treatments 'coiiseeutlvslv,
! " wi,i,i i . ii.uii i.n nnm , V. .... .
I T.V!" "H ? sffloU'"!
i s.penckk sammovC'
Portland, April 23, IsTS.
This is to certify that niy little bov i .,, .
tun-, and has been weU since von ... .
I I. -mslni fast. . ""'eu
Dr. Wood cures the follow!n dtsi
'uses: Dys-
' Pepsla. Indigestion, t hrooic Liver Complaint
I '-ease ot the Kidneys, Spinal Oonptalnu,'