The New Northwest from Portland, Oregon • Page 2

W7 IS, 1871. HEALTH OFJAEMEBS. There are seven reasons vliy farmers are healthier than professional men, viz i 1. They work more and develop all the muscles of the body. 2.

Thev take cxerciHS in the open air, and breathe a greater amount of oxygen. 3. Their food and drinks are common-v less adulterated and are far more simple. 4. They do not overwork the brain as much as professional men.

5. They take their sleep during the hours of darkness, and. do not try to turn night into day- 6. They are not ambitious, and do vnot wear themselves out so rapidly in the fierce contest of rivalry. 7.

Their pleasures are simple and less exhausting. Exclianqc. The above is delightful theory, and we should be glad to see it proved by practice. But statistics prove that there are more lunatics and hopeless maniacs among farmers than all other classes of people. They prove that the lives of professional men and women are longer than the lives of farmers and farmers' wives, and they prove that, notwithstanding the farmer's advantages, he is a verj slave to his occupation.

Especially is this true of the farmer's wife, who rises long before the dawn thus turning the best part of the night into day tliat she may thereby have meals in readiness for a band ot workmen. Then farmer's wives have little or no exercise in the open air. They too often rise from a couch of pain, after their sleep has been broken by the restlessness of a puny infant, and proceed forthwith to the kitchen, where, amid the stifling odors of burning grease and steaming collee, they prepare the morning meal. So much for woman's delightful season of sleep, and so much for her exercise in the open air. "Vc know whereof wc speak, for we tried it faithfully for half a score of years.

Now, it is folly to expect women to bear and foster a healthy generation under such regime. Therefore far mers, in spite of the "seven" above enumerated "reasons," arc not healthier than professional men, though they ought to be, and doubtless trould be were it not that the mothers of men arc denied the opportunity for the healthy exercise and refreshing sleep which men unanimously accord to the lower ani mals during the gestatory and nursing period. This is a grand subject, euv uracing uic lunuamentai princjnic-s upon which the world must act if we physically humanity. rni- TEHPEBANOE AND EIGHTS. WOMAN'S The Pacific ClirMlan Advocate has re ceived from the ofilce of Mr.

Morgan, Assistant Assessor of the Third Division, District of Oregon, the following table Liquors. Xo. Wholesale Retail Dealer" By the Bottle-nnd not by the is H7 Total nnmlier oTLtauor Dealers Tobacco and Cigar Dealers r. ITS. Thlnk-of these, figurey-ye niothersof growing sons! Arouse yourselves lo knowledge of your moral obligations, and, by the love you bear your children never let us hear you say again, "you have all the rights you want," until the rum-fiend, who stalks stark and grim through our streets and byways, and through palatial business houses of brick and stone and marble, as well as through houses of less pretension and huts of filth, shall have become by the magic of your might and influence the abodes of temperance, morality and so cial harmouy, Never let us hear you say again that government is not you legitimate sphere.

Man needs you by his side as his lielp-meet in our municipal regulations as well as in the home, the church and the social circle. Cannot you see that ho makes bad work of government without you? One hundred and forty- nine liquor dealers in Portland Only think of it! Have you "all the rights you want" so long as these pits of intemperance are allowed to lure your sons to ruin while your voice is powerless to say them nay? Upon you, mothers of America, devolves the moral responsibility of this great curse of in temperance. We pray you to no longer foster, by your apathy and indifference, this rapidly growing evil. You may shirk your duty, but your children must endure the consequences. Assert your right to the ballot, acknowledge its power, and prove by your example that you know your duty and dare to perform it, and wo shall see tf this scourge, with its twin companion, prostitution, is not speedily banished from our city limits.

HISTOETJOP 0EEG0N. Wc are the favored reciplunt of a copy of W. 1L Gray's History of Oregon, which we have delayed to notice from time to time for several weeks, in the hope that -nechould have timo to give the work a thorough perusal. We have lately had time to examine the book, and find that it will amply repay a studious investigation. The style is simple, unconstrained and natural, and though the author's prejudices crop out very forcibly in some places, yet we think he clearly substairtiates good rea sons for them.

We wjBitrtlcularly interested in the acegmy. jjthc fir 'Territorial Tdiich nlci- at irrammMaOTit of 1 95 twit- Any fn he mlspij HiV WUhtfVLf fnrfi.rt mi vivl ami lli'liullted mMLWmtZmTioniShM a remarkable precoc jdteIith.ieriefi'aK)0(isiu Lif J. jlffiffraianYf tratne'om tulrty, wiUi oW uToyrarid smirching her childish feminity, is nt and the balance used as a gran-' so horrible that we can only realize arj'i frm which it derived its Jnamo." Passing through a page or two of min utes, etc, we come to Jvewell's resolution: "Robert Newell' moved and was seconded, that a committee be appointed to prepare a paper for the signature of all persons wishing an organization." It seems that a majority of the citi zens were In favor of an organization and reported accordingly, whereupon our friend Newell took the floor and ex postulated. Said he "Wall, reely now, Mr. Chairman, this report is a stumper.

see from the report of this 'ere com mittee that you arc going on a leetle too fast I think we had better find out if we can carry this thine before we co too far. Wc have a good many people that don't know what we're about, and I think we'd better adjourn before we go too far." "Most of the committee were in favor of universal suffrage, and as Dr. Newell had a native wife, it was naturally sup posed' he would be quite as liberal as those who had full white families, but the Doctor demurred in the following speech: 'Wall, now, Mr. Speaker, I think we have got quite high enough among the dark clouds. I do not be lieve we ought to go higher.

It is well enough to admit the English, the French, the Spanish and the half-breeds, but the Indian and the negro is a little too dark for me. 1 think wc had belter tton at the half-breeds. I am in favor of limiting the right to vote to them, and going no further into the dark clouds to admit the negro." We produce the above matter of his tory to show that equality before the law was a mooted question in Oregon nearly twenty years ago, and also to show the quality of the opposition it received, and the causes for the same. WOODHULL AND OLAPLIN. On our first page is a letter from Mrs.

Belle W. Cooke, to which we call the attention of the public. We have not seen the article in Wood- hull and Clajlin's Weekly to which our friend alludes, but we have seen many commendable things in their very able journal. Mrs. Woodhull says and does manv singular tilings simply because she flares to do so.

AVe regard her as a sensational rather tlian a wicked jour nalist. Mrs. Beechcr Hooker, who per sonally knows her, pronounces her a pure woman. The sad phases in her early married life have had a tondency to pervert her ideas of the marriage bond, and there are thousands of women under the yoke of wedlock to-day who secretly nurse just such sentiments against the restraints of matrimony as are openly proclaimed by this unfortunate and intelligent, fearless and remarkable woman. Woodhull and Clajliii's Weekly will be read, upheld and sustained by the very attacks which would seem to hinder it; and, while wc by no means endorse its theories upon the marriage relation, yet we do emphatically declare that its able exposition of many of the glaring wrongs that curse society far more than compensate for the mischievous tendency of its axparciit doctrine of free love.

of the people who the paper are acquainted with it except upon hearsay evidence. Our friend, Mrs. Cooke, has been reading sorao of its articles, however, and we like her candor in denouncing what she cannot indorse. Like herself, we simply desire to "prove nil things and hold fast to that which is good." THE "BULLETIN MOBALIZETH. Wc arc pleased to sec that our friend of the Bulletin has become aware of the existence of the Day's Doings and Police Gazette; and wc are rejoiced that he is using his influence, as the first fruit of conversion to woman suffrage, to urge the Interposition of the law to prevent the circulation through the United States mails of such publications as are a libel upon decency and an outrage on the purity of humanity.

Doesn't our brother know that if the mothers of growing sons could have a voice in making andrcgulatingourlaws this prurient pestilence would be prohibited, and that right speedily? Doesn't he realize that a reading and reasoning and thoughtful woman, who spends the best part of her life in "training her children in the doctrines of truth and chastity," to be sullied bv man-made as sociations as soon as they are old enough to a picture, is like a carrier dove with her wing clipped, or a wise governor with Ills power gone, or a counselor in chains, a very helpless grapplcr with the corruption under whoso influence her sons must soon be brought, and where her influence has no power to reach? Again, our brother'ii strictures upon the nude drama are gratifying in the extreme. Who believes that the wise and pure and conservative mothers of this city would permit the enaction of such an outrage upon delicacy as wc were mortified to sec but recently upon the stage in this city, in which a young girl danced, whirled, kicked and cavorted in a disgusting and scant undress of gauze, the only covering(?) which her otherwise entire nudity. To call things by their right names is the aim of a reform journal, and we hope the local of the Orcgoman, who has gono into rhapsodies over the exhibitions of the Nathan troupe and whose description thereof induced us to enter, will not blush over-much when we assure him that wc failed to sec the won- ih.rfiil rrr.iiilitr nml hrvlllfv of the ills such an undress, audience of girls and boys, of this troupe, the child should be taught to enact the character 1 1 CI 1 uiisv-xiiig uerscu pangs of solicitude for the little victim or her parents' imprudence and cupidity. There are statutes against cruelty to au- lmais, out wo know of no statute prohibi t-ingthc turningof this poorehlld's nights i into uays, taxing her brain to remember messes of ridiculous rubbish, imposing upon her nervous system, crowding her already alarmingly premature development, and thereby rendering abortive the attempt of nature to make of her a truly remarkable, wise, prudent, pleasing and useful woman. To sacrifice such a child, or indeed any child, upon such an altar is terrible.

Those who sow the wind must reap the whirlwind, and we greatly err in prophecy if that child's after life docs not bring a reproach upon her ignorant parents, which will teach them a bitter lesson after it shall be too late to rectify their present unfortunate mistake. The other and older children of this troupe develop no remarkable precocity. The girls are pert, disagreeable and affected; the boys arc boorish, great, insipid mushroons; the mother is dowdy, and the father well, wc couldn't place him. That a public journal of the standing and respectability of the Orcgoman should find nothing but praise and commendation for such a troupe of cheap and dirty Shams shows clearly that the public taste to whlchitpandersisalarm-ingly prurient. Wc are glad that the Bulletin has found thecourage to oppose these thing, and wc hope and trust that the other Portland dailies will go and do likewise.

HOME ANDITS QUEEN. There is probably not an unperverled man or woman living who does not feel that sweetests consolations and best reward of lifearu found in the loves and delights of home. There are few who do not feel themselves indebted to the influences that clustered around their cradles for whatever of good there may be in their characters and conditions. Home, based upon legitimate marriage, is so evidently an institution of God, that a man must become profane before ho can deny it. Whereverit Is planted, there stands a bulwark of the State.

Wherever It is pure and true to virtuous idea, there. Pvcs an institution conser vative of all the nobler interests of society. Of this realm woman Is the queen. It takes its que and hue from her. If she is in the best sense womanly if she is true and tender, loving and heroic, paticntand self devoted she consciouslv or unconsciously organizes and puts in operation a set of influences that do more to mold the destiny of a nation than any man uncrowned, by power and eloquence, can possibly cfl'ect.

The men of the nation arc what their mothers made them, as a rule: and the voice which those men speak in the expression of their power is the voiceof the women who bore and bred them. There can be no substitute for this. There is no other possible way in which the women of the nation can organize their influence and power that will tell so beneficently upon society and the State, Neither women nor the nation can nlTord to have home demoralized or in any way deteriorated by the loss of her influence there. As a nation, we rise or fall as the characters of our homes, presided over by women, rise or fall, and the best gauge of our prosperity is to be found in the measure by which these homes find multiplication in the land. In true marriage, and the struggle after the highest ordeal of home-life, is to be found the solution of more of the ugly problems that confront the present generation moral, social and political than wo have space to enumerate.

Am. Odd Fellow. The above is copied from the Willamette Farmer, a really valuable newspaper, but a very weak worker in the woman movement, as its selections from other man's rights pajwrs conclusively prov5. We wish the Farmer and all other man's rights journals to distinctly understand that wc indorse every wonl of the foregoing; but If these wiseacros will go a step further and permit the ''queen of home" to exercise her inherent rights which they wantonly usurp thereby enabling her to bring her purity and good sense into the counsels of the nation, she will not longer feel the mortification which at present distresses her when she beholds her labors of love and self-sacrifice brought to naught as soon as her sons grow out of the reach of womanly influence and begin to tike part in onc-scxed and inharmonious government "JOAQUIN" HEABD PEOM. Wo learn that Mr.

William Davidson lias received a letter from the poet Miller, 'accompanied by one addressed to Mrs. Miller. The letter to Mr. Davidson requests that gentleman to do him the favor to find the address of Mrs. Miller and forward his letter to the same.

Mr. Davidson is also requested to write to Mr. Miller at once, giving particulars as to the whereabouts of his wife, and all about the children. Wc are pleased to be able to give Mr. Miller the credit of having at last remembered his babes, and wc hope ere long to sec him prove liis regard for his children in sonic substantial manner.

Wc hopo that ho will also pecuniarily reward their heroic mother for her devotion to her helpless family. LETTEE PEOM MES. 0. T. DANIELS.

H.yi.um, Oregon, Aug. 11th, 1871. Dear Mr. Duniicay Believing as I do, that woman's power should be equal with man's to make and control her own social conditions, I cannot refrain from sj)eaking on a subject which, to me, seems perfectly horrible. Not many months since the press of this State pub lished a full account of the true character of Jas.

D. Fay. At least we have as yet none of the proof which he says he can bring to gainsay the charges against his character. But I notico that the same papers which published full accounts of his atrocious and worse than brutal act arc speaking of him as Hon-orablc. My heart burns with contempt and indignation! Why should a man T.

J- I lu Yllllll 11 oc canuu iiuiiuraBic known that he did not scruple to rob a poor, weak, dependent girl of her virtue, which is more than life itself? In the name of humanity, do you thinfc that there is a virtuous man or woman who can consider him worthy to be called honorable? Think you that the poor victim of his wiles and false promises the misled, the hopeless, heart-broken, forsaken, ruined girl will call him honorable? Yet, despite the fact that' the villain Fay has proved himself unworthyof every attribute of noble manhood, the newspapers call him honorable, and many of them are willing to accord him position ofllce! Cash and brains make for him a free pass everywhere, while his poor victim and her shame-stricken friends are left to bear the burden of his disgrace, their ruin and the world's bitter scorn. Woman is powerless so long as she eats the bread of dependence to prevent the aggression of man. Were the tables turned to-day were man dependent upon woman for his subsistence and rep resentation, and she thereby possessed of power to control his whole moral condi tion lie would very soon find himself compelled to square his life to a new code. In moral rectitude woman herself should not demand less of woman, but of man sliu should demand more. There should be no law or usage which recognizes or for a moment tolerates a privileged class, which is nothing less or more than an aristocracy of sex.

Public opinion must abandon its liberal pardon of the vices of men. I pray that the unequal and debasing standard of morality may be cut short, and that may no longer he a protection for the libertine or a clonk for the honorable. Mrs. O. T.

Danikls. OUB CELEBRITIES. A letter just received from Hon. John A. Collins, of San Fraiicisco, brings the welcome news tliat Susan B.

Anthony will leave that place forl'ortlaud on the next steamer. It is thought that Mrs. Stanton cannot come; but hundreds of the citizens of Portland have signed a petition urging her to visit us, and It is hoped that wc shall not be disappointed. OUE NEIGHBOR EEJ0I0ETH OUB HEAET. Upon beholding the equal rights article that appeared in yesterday's Herald wo were rejoiced to be able to add to the editor's grace of courtesy the cardinal virtue of gratitude.

Another evidence that men arc not the brutes they pretend to be when arguing equal rights witli women. THE S300 PEIZE ESSAY. The Board of Real Estate Agents of this city on May loth, 1871, nade the following offer for a prizo essay on Oregon: A prize given by the "State Board of Ileal Estate Agents" for the best Essay on Oregon, its Advantages as an Agricultural and Com mercial State, Inducements it presents to Capitalists, Emigrants, etc. The Essay not to exceed one hundred pages of printed matter, the size of the phainplct published by the Labor Ex change. The decision to be made by a commit tee consisting ot tli6 olllcers of the State Agricultural Society and the following named gentlemen: J.

C. Ainsworth, Hon. M. P. Dcady, Dr.

W. II. Watki'ns, L. White, W. S.

Ladd, Gen. Canby. The manuscript to be handed in with in sixty days from date. Address all communications to C. P.

Fkhkv, Secretary. OitHoox Stati: Boaiid ok Es-tatk Agents The undersigned Committee to whom was referred the Essays written for the $300 prize offered by the Board of Ileal Estate Dealers for "the best Essay on Ihcltcsoureesand Advantages of Oregon," report that, of the live essays submitted to them, the ones written by Mrs. A. J. Duniway and lion.

Quiuii Thornton, respectively, are in all respects superior to the other three; ami that, as to these two, they have dillcrcut merits and faults, but upon the whole arc so nearly equal in merit that the Committee is unable to say that either is absolutely better than the other, and therefore recommend that a moiety of the prize Ihj awanled to thu author of each. (Signed), J. C. Aixswoutji, W. S.

Lad i), M. P. Dkady, W. H. Watkixs, L.

WltlTK, E. It. S. Cajthy. l'QUTLAXD, AugUstO, 1871.

Portland, August 1871. C. P. FEmiY, Secretary of the Boartl offiealFsUtlc Agents, Portland-Dear Sir: The undersigned, having read ami considered the decision of the Committee to whom the Board you represented referred the five Essays on the Resources and Advantages of Oregon, submitted in competition for the $300 prize oflered for "the. best Essay," consent to the award as made.

We are respectfully, J. Quixx TnonxTON. Mits. A. J.

Duniway. A Visit Fkom ax Editor, We had the honor of a call on Thursday last from Mrs. Duniway, the talented editor of the Nkw Nortj i wist. Mrs. D.

is an excellent conversationalist, and talks with so much sense and cogency that it makes one forget that she is a "weaker vessel." Her visit to thlsclty wascouplcd with business, and from that wchear, the already bulky edition of her paper will be considerably iucrcased thereby. The "shrieking sisterhood" have an earnest and iowerful auxiliary in the pen of this lady, and she is sure of readers and admirers even among those who believe that such tilings as woman's rights should be done- away with. No pun i ntended. "aiicotirer Jicghtcr. There is said to be a vast deal of destitution and suffering in Paris, 240,000 leople being dependent on charity.

For The Xcw Xorthvrcst. Morning lu the Hotiiitaiu. Crnjii the mountain'), brow ltcxxl, And gnzeU upon the tall, green wood Tliat ercir adovrn the nigsetl nlde, lk-arln; lis hcadi with lony pride Far, far above the babbling stream. That rushing, dancing la the beam Of rising sun, -nrhich glories threw Deep In the valley gemmed with dew; The laughing watent oft were hid Behind come rocky pyramid. That, ntcrn and cold, half-blocked Ihe way The gurgling waters chose to play.

I gazed with deep, lntene delight Upon the awe-lnsplring sight. lleneath the broken mountain chain Kxtcnded lay the valley's plain. And -westward, far aseye could reach, Were mountains, rising each o'er each, Seeming to circle 'round again And Join th rugged, loftier reign 01 others, soft with morning light And misty vapors of the night, That rising 'round me, half-concealed The beauty that the sun revealed; While to tho north, so plainly seen, White with her cold and frozen sheen Of deep and never melting snows, Mount Rainier stood in calm ix-jkw; And eastward, toward the rising sun, With grandeur that Is all his own, Seornlng the warmth tl.eunbeamscast lib; snow, as In thu past, With sunlight slanting o'er his side, Mount Hood aroe In solemn pride. I thought how centuries had flown, And time was speeding swiftly on; And yet it seemed an if no trace Ot fleeting years wa on the face Of nature, silent, wIM and grand. The work of the Almighty hand OfO'reat Omnipotence.

With tolemu awe. At nature's altar lowing low. My soul was filled with holy thought, And purltled, I left the spot. August, 1S7I. Jsola Woimr.

A Magdalen's Death. A TlIItll.I.IN'O SC15NK ON A FAIX HIVElt STK.UIK1U "Fisk's is the Fall Ilivcr line, is it uot 7" "Yes: and tho way he tries to beat everybody else and make his the only line Boston is astonishing. Why, I'll tell you something about Fisk. One- day just as we were starting from New otk, a trim little girl stcppeti aboard and took a state-room, saying she was jroimr through to Boston. She dressed loud, but mighty neat and rich, wearing a lurKlsu nat, velvet saeK trimmed with lace, a drcs.4 with a lot of scallops and trimming artTund it, and about the most bewildering foot I ever saw on a human.

She was pretty, sassy, and called me 'old father at supper, and carried on in a way that soon showed what she wis, though she deceived incut lin-t with her baby face and girlish manners. was standing on deck about 7 o'clock, after havingliorrilied the ladies and amused the gentlemen by her rollicking manner, and became quiet for a few minutes, while she looked far out at sea. She turned round to the captain, and putting up her small white hands and taking him by the whiskers on each side of his face, she looked up to him, and says she, very solemnly, 'Did you ever want to die. 'Well, says he, 'I don't think 1 ever 'And if vou said she, 'what would you do 7' 'Well, in that said the Captain, loosing her hands and turning away, 'I think as I have plenty of opportunity, I should jump Into the Sound and drown "The words were hardly out of Ids mouth before she tunied round like a Hash, and putting one hand on the railing, leaped overboard. She was gone before a person could stir to catch her, and a terrible scream arose from the jKissengers who saw it.

"I was standing aft when I heard the shouts, and looked out and saw her come to the surface. She had taken oil' her hat, and her splendid brown hair, which she wore looe down her back, floated in a mass on the water. I fancied she looked straight at me with her girlish face as she came up, and there was nothing wild or struggling about her, but she seemed to smile in the same jaunty way that she did when she was plaguing me half an hour before. In another moment she was swept rapidly astern and disappeared. Wc put about and lowered the boats, but we never found her.

"It is strange how the women who hail been so shocked at her conduct before, now pitied and even wept for the little girl when they found what a load there must have been in the foolish child's heart whileshe was laughing the loudest. "She had left a small reticule in the cabin, and when wc opened it we found some verses, written in a little cramped hand, on a folded sheet of note paper. They ran about this way, and were headed: JlAOllAI.ES'S "lean no longer enduro this KlIutIug, This festering breath: Kladly I fly to the refuge lhal'j lea me Merciful death: Xot stHlly, tearfully, lint gladly, cheerfully, Go to my death. "Priests may refuse to grant sauctltled burial There unto inc. Father, I thank Theet a blessing Isalways held Over tho sea.

Aye, In Hk wildest foam. Aye, lu Its thickest gloom, lJk'ssctl Is the sou. "Weleonio, oh! sea, with thy breakings and daslilugi That never shall cease; Down In thy angriest, stormiest waters, Oil, hide nic In pence! Kay to the weary face, Come to thy resting place, Slnmbcrln To Young Mux and Womkx. The following rules are worthy of being printed in every newspapcrand engraved on the heat of every young man anil woman in the land: Make few promises. Always spenk the truth.

Ever live within your means. Never speak evil of any one. Keep good company or none. Live up to your engagement. Be just before you are generous.

Never play at any game of chance. Drink no kind of intoxicating liquors. Keep your own secrets if you have any. A good character Is above all things else. Never borrow if vou can possibly help it.

Keep yourself innocent if you'd be happy. When you speak to a person, look him io the lace. Make no haste to be rich if you would tirrwnor. When you retire to bed think over wnat you nave uoue uuruig me uay. Your character cannot be essentially Injured except by your own acts.

If any one speaks evil of you, let your life be such that none will believe him. Never be idle. When your hand cannot be usefully employed attend to the cultivation of your mind. The two-headed child, sometimes called the one-bodied children, is that is to say are dead. It lived in Boston, and at the time of their birth it created oultc an excitement.

Their father and its mother feel the sad bereavement 1 keenlv. But a child like those could not bo expected to buffet the storms of i the tumultuous world. i How Mosquitoes Bite. The mosquito has a proboscis like an elephant, only not so large. It will, however, look nearly as large under a good microscope.

Hecannot do as many handy things with it as the elephant can witli his, but he can cause a good deal of annoyance In a small war. with It. It is hardly the thing to srfy that the mosquite bites us, for lie has no teeth. Tho microscope reveals the fact that he carries a-pair of scissors Inside ids proboscis the neatest and sharpest little cutting tools you ever saw. He gets his living by these.

They are two delicate little blades, and are placed alongside of each other. AVhen he is ready to make a meal off us, he first buzzes nrouud witli these beautiful wings, and sings a pleasant little song. If we let him quietly settle down, he nicks out a place on our skin which is just to his liking. He is very delicate about it. When he gets ready, ho puts his proboscis down and pushes the little scissors out and makes a neat cut, so that he can suck the blood out.

Then he drinks as much blood as he wants, and is done his dinner. But he docs not leave vet. He is going to pay his bill. He has taken our blood, and he win leave us something in exchange for it. With all his faults lie is an honest little fellow after his fashion.

He lias the pay in his iocket ready to squeeze out Lvfore he goes. It is poison, but that makes no difference to him. It is the best he has to give. His poison pocket is at the head of his proboscis, and at the lower end of his proloscis he lias ano'Ver littlo pocket, into which he puts ioison enough for one dose. This poison is very powerful.

A very little of it makes the place where the mosquito puts it very sore. After lie has sucked our blood he puts the drop of poison into the place he took the blood from. It is not the "bite" or the cut that tho mosquito makes, that hurts us. but it is the dropping of this powerful poison into our llesh. If this mosquito were large enough to give a powerful dose of this poison it would be bad for us.

If he were as big as a kitten, and his poison as strong in proportion, a "bite" from him would kill us. Signs and Tokkxs. The Gridiron. To take down the gridiron from the nail where it is hanging with the left hand is a sign that there will be a broil in' the kitchen. The mirror.

If the mirror is broken itIi a sign that a good-loking-lass will be missed in the house. A Funeral. To meet a funeral profession is a sign of death. Pocket-book. To lose a pvckot-book containing greenbacks is unlucky.

Nails. If 'a womm.o her nails every Monday it IsIucKy far her hus- UUIJU Boosters. If you lieiru rooster crow when you aro iu tho clock strikes a few times at uk- same instant', is a sign of lipvi iruiitg. An Itching Ear. If you liave an itching ear tickle yoir nose and you will have an itching there, and ill luck will bo averted.

A Cat. When a cat prepares to wash its face it isa sign that one in the house will shortly receive a licking. Spirits. If a married man, while his wife is in the room, takes up a bottle of spirits with his right hand, it is a sign that she will shortly be out of spirits, and that he is going to liquor. Stock Raising.

If a onc-cyed bull-dog Hies at a stock raiser's legs, it denotes that a misfortune will Happen to lus calves. Bridal. If you get on horseback on Monday morning before the sun is up it is a sign that you will haveyourhand iu a bridal. Marriage. If you are in a house and hear a baby cry it is a sign of a marriage or if it isn't, it ought to be.

Bed Hair. If a red-haired man falls in love with algirl who dislikes hair of i i I 1 1 color lie in vcrj nivcij uju uciuic he gets married. The above signs and portents may be relied uimii. They have never been known to fail. WILLIAM DAVIDSON, It ii 1 Estate Dealer.

omCE-No. 64 Front Street, roitTivxn. onrr.ox. -TKAT. ESTATE IX T1IIS CITV AND KAST XXi l'ortlantl.

In tho most desirable localities, consisting of Lots, 1Iai.k Blocks and Blocks, iiolsi unu niuura. Also, Improved Farms nnd Valuable Us- ccltivatkii lands, locaieu in an pans oi Hie hitaie, ior saic. Kkal Kstate and other lroperty purchased for Correspondents In this City and throughout the States and Tkukitouies, Willi great care, and on the most Advastaoeocs Tkhxs Houses ash stohim Leased, Loans Nego tiated ami claims of all UEScmrrioKs Collected, and a uexehal ixax cial and Agency Kusiness Transacted. ARKNTSofthls Office In all the Cities and Towns In the State will recclvodcserlptloiis of 1- aioi ritoi'EinYaiui lonraru tne same loine above nuurexK. Parrish, Atkinson Woodward, REAL ESTATE AGENTS Corner Aliler uutl Front Street, HAVK l'UOI'EKTY FOR SALE IX IJOKT-laiul and througliout-Oregoii generally.

We can offer SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS to rurcha-sers of Ileal Estate. IIoiihph ICciitril, Rent Collected, Money Loaned, Tnxc l'nld. And everything that pertain to the Ileal Es-tutc IlualncvM attended to with promptness. ICGAl PAPERS WRITTENAND AMHOWIEDGED. J.

L. ATKIXSOX, Xotary rubllc jr. p.inniMii. I TYLER WOOMVABD. EMPLOYMENT OFFICE! Xo.

80 Front MU, American Exchange Untitling. COXTltACTOItS, Hotel Keeper. Farmers, Carpenters and HaUdem, Families, and In fact all who require help or any fclnd, will nnd It to their advantage to call and leave their ad-Urest. J. It.

WITIIERELL. p. I have also some Good Farms and Iitf for sale. n2 J. M.

AV. NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE! Unparalled Inducements to Clubs! The New Northwest, A JOUIt.VAI. FOR THE PKOP1E, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTETESTS OF HUMANITY. Our Intensely Interesting Serial Story, "JUDITH REID, A I'lnlit Story or Plain I now being published from week to weefrtnnd I attracting universal nttention. A limited-supply of bnek numbers yet on hand.

Arrangements hav been made to seeure the Services of a COMPETENT CORPS OF WRITERS upon any and all subjects or Public InterSlP The Xew Xohthwtmt Is not a Woman's night, but a Human Illghts organ, dcttt to whatever policy may be neceHsary to the greatest good to greatest nnmtK-r. It Knows noses.no politics, no religion, party. no color, no creed. It foundation Is fa upon the rock of Eternal Liberty, Universal Emancipation and Progreassoo. OUR PREMIUM LIST.

As an Inducement lor our friends to exertions to secure large clubs for the lit XoimiWEifr, we offer the following list of valuable premiums ror twenty subscribers, at S3 GO each, accompanied by the cash, we will give the HO.MK SHUTTLE KEWIXG MACIIIXE, without tabic, beautifully ornamented. Price, 9W. For thirty-five subscribers, lit Go eaeh, accompanied by the cash, we will give a HOME SHUTTLE SEWIXO MACIIIXE, with Iltaek Walnut table, bronzed and nicely finished Price, Hi For forty subcriliers, at 33 ft) each, SEWIXG MACIIIXE, finished In extra style, with IJIack 'Walnut table and cover. Price, The above Sewing Machine, whleh are warranted nrst-elaw in every particular, can be seen tho olttee of (Jeo. AW Traver, 112 Front street, Portland.

For fifty sulxcriber, at js () eachaccom- punieu uy the live, a MASOX i uamlln foufjj jingle reed, with Mac wa oriiows swen. two blow pe mpral er prere reed valws, eu SiC ff wventy-flT -a criber. GOeMeh, accompanied -'ie cuAli.a donb reeti afASOK A II AMU OIUSAX; resembh-s the am except that It has also a knee stop. Price, $73. ror seventy-nvo subscribers, at SS 00 eaeh.

accompanied by the cash and twenty-five dollars additional, we will give a MAbOX HAMLIX OIIG.VX, of five octavkh, one stop, self-adjusting heed valves, im- ntOVED 11BLLOWS, TREMULANT AND KNEE- SWELL. Price, $100. For one hundred subscribers, at S3 66 each. nnd twenty dollars additional, we will give a ilASOX JIAMLIN- OIIG.VX, five octaves, FIVE STOI-S, rWO SETS OF KI1IKATORS TIinOl'GH- OUT, IMI'KOVED UIIADUATHD SElWaDJUSTINO REED VALVES, IMfltOVED AND KNEE-SWELLS. VIOLA, DLVPASOX.

FLUTE, TltEMULAXT. Price, bi Those who desire to work for these premiums can sond the names and money as fast as received. The subscribers will be placed to theh credit, and If enough names are uunng the year to procure the premium Mred they can choose a feserpremlum, or th win uceiuiueuto receive twenty-five per cem In cash of the amount remitted for their labor OUR NEW PREMIUM LIST. As The Xew Xorthwest has already proved a popular success, we are decided thntltsbai: aNo prove RTiilUMPit. To enable our friends who mny decide to canvass for our paper to benefit both themselves and us by increasing our Subscription Lists, we projwse tp give tho following additional Premiums to canvassers Any subscriber who Is In arrears for the Xew XoBTHTVEST.who villi send us his or her own subscription fee, and one new subscriber, accompanied by the cash 6 00 we will five A pair rarian Marble Vases: Or a Bohemian Glass Vase; Or a llohemlnn Glass Card Receiver; Or J4 dozen Ivory Xapkln Rings; Or dozen Plated Ten Spoons; Or I pair Alexandre's Kid Gloves; Or a spangled Lady's Fan.featlteml edge; Or a Bird Cage; Or an Album for holding M0 pictures; Or an Album (extra) for holding ft pictures; Ora Fancy Letter Case; Or a box Toilet Artleles, Including soap, chalk, perfumery, Ora Britannia Tea Pot; Ora KeroseneLamp; Or J6 dozen Glass Goblets; Or J4 dozen Glass Tumblers; Or a large Glass Fruit Dish; Ora Work Basket; Or Fine Embroidered IIandklUjf; Or dozen Linen Handkerchiefs; Or a Woolen Tablo Cover; Or dozen Table Xapklns; Or dozen Towels; Or an elegant Portmonlo.

Any subscriber who Is In arrears for a year's subscription, and who will send lifcr or Iter own subscription fee.and two new subseribers, accompanied by the cash-making Jft 00 we will send: A set of Rogers' Table Forks, triple plated, on white metal, warranted; Ora sctoritogers'TableSpoOHs, triple plated, on white metal, warranted; Ornsetor Rogers' Tea Spoons, triple plated, on white metnl, warranted; Or dozen Rogers' Jfc Russell's Table Knives, best quality, warranted; Or handsome Bird Cage. Any person in arrears for subscription to The Xew Xoktiiwest, who will send his or her subscription feo and three new sutxerilxtrs, accompanied by the cash, making 9ti in, we will send A handsome Marsallles Qnllt; Ora handsome Woolen Quilt, red and white, or blue nnd whUe; Or a palrofTable Cloths; Or two pairs of Xottingliam Lure Curtains; Or three pairs Alexandre's Kid Gtove, any color or size: Or a Japanese Inlaid Work Box; Or IS yards test yd. wide Sheeting. For seven subscribers at 00 each, amounting to S21 00, wo will send An oxtra Custor, tripleplnted.on whlta valued at $9 00; Ora Lady's Writing Desk, of ciurI value; OrnCablnet.Jupuiiese Inlaid; Or an Extra Japanese Inlaid Work Box. Those articles are ail valuable, and are warranted to be Just as we represent them.

Persons living In this city or who can visit us can receive these art icles from ourown hands at an hour's notice; or ir not convenient to visit we will send the articles by express to any address. Xo order of this kind will receive attention unless the cash accompanies It. Send money In rostoftico orders at the customary rates or currency, or send draft If preferred. All orders promptly attended to. We sincerely hope that this unparalleled offer, which Is a new feature In the newspaper business In Oregon, will meet with a hearty response from the many rriends of our paper, who up to this time have seemed to Tall to realize that THE XEW XoirrnWEsT cannot be run without money.

Xow is the time to makeup clubs. Begin before some other person gets the start or you. See whatyoucan do for Public and The Xew Xoiitiiwest. is I.