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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09

Hazlitt entered q room as II he had
been brought back to it in custody. He
shuffled sidelong to the nearest chair,
sat himself down upon one corner of it,
dropped his hat and his eyes upon the
floor, and after having exhausted his
stock of small talk in the words, cts q
fine day." whether it was so or not,
seemed to res IN himself modify to his
fate. and il the talk did not take turn
that reused him, thus he would sit, in
tent and half-absorbed, for half an hour
or half a minute, as the case might be,
and then get up suddenly with a "Well,
good morning" shuttle back to the door
and blunder his way out, audibly NUT
tering curses on his folly for willingly
putting himself in the way OF becoming
the laughing stock OF the servants, for
it was of that intellectual grade of per-
sons that Hazlitt stood in awe. There
was no reaching drawing-room with
out running the gauntlet of the servants
hall; and this it was that crushed and
COMPOUNDED him. lam certain that Haz
lit never knocked ut door without
fearing that it might be opened by new
servant, who would wonder what so
''strange" person could want with
their master or mistress.
And this ''poor creature" as he used
to call himself, apparently with scarcely
energy enough to grapplc with IN in
FAINT or face shadow, was the launcher
forth of words that could shake the
hearts of princes and potentates, and
make them tremble in their seats OF
power. This effigy of silence was the
utterer of floods of indignant eloquence
that could stir the blood like the sound
of trumpet. and the writer of the eel
ebrated invectives of the Catalogue
Raisonni," the essays on "The Spirit OF
Monarchy" and ''Ihe Regal Charac-
ter"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09

of continentals. An officer led the way,
waving them on with his sword.
The blacksmith loaded his rife; with
that eve, bright with death, he took the
aim. THAT'S for Washington !" he
shouted as he fired. The officer lay
quivering in the roadside dust. On and
on came the British, nearer and nearer
to the cherry tree-the continentals
swept through the pass. Again the
blacksmith loaded - again he fired.
"That's for mad Anthony Wayne y he
shouted. as another officer bit the sod.
The British now came rushing to the
cherry tree. determined to cut down the
wounded man, who, with his face to-
ward them, bleeding as he was, dealt
death among their ranks. A fair.vis-
aged officer, with golden hair waving on
the wind, led them on.
The blacksmith raised his rifle; with
that hand stiffening in death he took
aim-he fired-the young Briton fell
with sudden shrek.
"And that" cried the blacksmith, in
voice that strengthened into shout,
land that's for
His voice was gone! The shrek died
on his white lips. His head sank-his
rifle fell.
A single word dubbed up with his
death groan. Even now methinks hear
that word echoing and trembling
there among the rocks of Brandywine.
That word was-Mary
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09

The mother-hen, if cooped, cannot
scratch for insects, minute larvae, ETC.,
that form the appropriate food for
young chickens. Therefore for the first
three or four days they should be fed
with yolks of hard -boiled eggs, chopped
fine, and mixed with an equal quantity
of good sweet bread crumbs. This will
pay, as it is we'll to give the chicks
good start in life ut the commencement.
Then, for about a fortnight, feed with
two-thirds of the best corn meal; add
to this a boiled potato or handful Of
tender grass; chop the whole together
Calves lights; hearts will do, or any.
thing else cheap. II the spot where the
chickens run affords insects, then grad
ually leave off the meat, feeding with
meal, cracked corn and wheat. But il
in city yard or other place where the
forage is scarce, then continue the
wheat all through. The old-fashioned
way of feeding nothing but corn-dough
answers very we'll in place where
there are great quantities OF insects.
At first feed six or eight times day,
and less often as they grow older. Feed
enough Mt time to have little, and
and but little, left, and when this is
gone feed again very soon. Give whole
corn as soon as they are old enough to
swallow it, and as great variety OF
other things as possible-bmn, wheat,
screenings, oatmeal, etc.; all they will
eat. There should not be the slightest
parsimony in feeding chickens. You
cannot make them grow too fast or make
them too fat while gaining their growth.
With adult fowls the case is different
in respect to fattening. Growing chick
ems must be supplied with pounded
shells, bonedust, or lime in some form,
if strong frames are desired. - LIRE
Stock Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09
Thy Name.

told the rose thy name; 1t blushed and stirred
It's petals trembled. as in ecstacy;
I cried thy name aloud. and 10! the bird
Burst into song within the thick-ieaved tree.
| smoke II when the moon was gray ana cold,
And STRAIGHT from out the east upshot the sun;
spoke it in the night-the clouds that rolled
Above, dispersed; the stars came one by one
should any whisper 1t when ON my face
The black earth lies. calm sleeping underground,
I think nv silent heart would beat a-pace.
And that my lips would trembie ut the sound
And II before the gates of Heaven came.
And could for my own worth no entrance viii
think that then II ! could name thy name,
The eternal doors would stir. and let me in.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09
A Story of l776.
THE LAST SHOT OF THE MECHANIC HERO
OF BRANDYWINE.

Near Dilworth Corner, at the time OF
the Revolution, there stood quiet cot
tape somewhat retired from the road,
under the shade of stout chestnut
tree. 1t was quiet cottage, nesting
away there in the corner OF the forest
road, IL dear home i'll the wilderness,
with sloping roof, wallis OF dark gray
stone. and easement hidden among
vines and flowers.
Here. at the time of the Revolution,
there dwelt a stout blacksmith, his
Young wife and her babe. What cared
that blacksmith, working away in that
shadow nook of the forest, for war?
What cared he for the peril OF the times.
80 long rs his strong arm, ringing that
hammer on the anvil, might gain bread
for his wife and child?
All. he cared little for war, he took
little note of the panic that shook the
valley. when. some few mornings be-
fore the battle of Brandywine, while
shooting the horse of Tory refugee, he
overheard u plot for the surprise and
capture of Washington. The Ameri-
can leader was to be lured into the tolls
of the Tories; his person once III the
British camp, the English general might
send the "Tr.itor Washington " home
to be tried in London.
Now our blacksmith, working away
there in that dim nook OF the forest,
without caring for battle or war, had
still sneaking kindness for this Mister
Washington, whose name wrung on the
lips of all men. So one night, bidding
his young wife hasty gootl-by, and
kissing the babe that repOsed on her
bosom, smiling as it slept, he hurried
away to the American camp, and told
his story to Washington.
It was morning ere he came back. 1t
was in the dimness of the autumnal
morning. that the blacksmith was plod-
ding his way along the forest road.
Some few PAGES ahead there was an aged
oak. standing out into the road-a grim
old veteran of the forest, that had stood
the shocks of three hundred years
Right beyond that oak was the black
smiths home.
With this thought warming his heart
he hurried on. He hurried on, thinking
of the calm Young face and mild blue
ewes of that wife, who the night before
had stood in the cottage door waving
him out of sight with a beckoned good
by-.hinking of the baby that lay smil
ing as it slept upon her bosom, he hnr
ried on-he turned the bend OF thu
wood-he looked upon his home.
ALI what sight was there
Where the night before he had left
peaceful cottage, smiling under greer
chestnut tree, in the light OF the setting
sun. now was only heap of black ant
smoking embcrs, and Il burnt and blaste1
tree.
And there stood the blacksmith, gaz
ing upon that wreck Of his hearthstont
There no stood with folded arms and
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09
The OLD Couple.

1t stands in sunny meadow,
The house 80 mossy and brown,
with its cumbrous old stone chimney,
And the gray roof sloping Iwn,
The trees fold their green arms around it,
The trees q century old;
And the winds 60 chanting through them.
And the sunbeams drop their gold.
The cowslips spring in the marshes,
And the roses bloom Oh the hill;
And beside the brook in the pastures
The herds go feeding at VIII.
The children have gone and left them
They sit In the sun alone;
And the old wifc's ears are failing,
And she harks to the weli-known tone
That won her heart in her girlhood,
That has soothed her in many care.
And praises her now for the brightness
Her old face used to wear.
She thinks again of her bridal
How, dressed In her robe of white,
She stood by her gay young lover
In the mornings rosy light.
Oh! the morning is rosy as ever,
But the rose from her cheek has tied
And the sunshine still Is golden.
But II falls on u silvered head
And the girlhood dreams, once vanished,
Come back in her winter time,
Till her feeble pulses tremble
with the thrill of spring time prime.
And looking forth from the window,
She thinks how the trees have grown
Since, clad in her bridal Wilderness,
She crossed the old door-stone
Though dimmed her eyes bright azure.
And dimmed her hairs young gold
The love in her girlho1d pliehted
Has never grown dim or old,
They sat in their place in the SUNSHINE.
Till the day was almost done;
And then, ut its close. an angel
stole over the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together-
He touched their cyelidS with balm
And their last breath iiuated upward
Like the close Of II solemn psalm.
Like a bridal pair they traversed
Tn. unseen mystic roat
Tina; leads to the beautiful city.
Whose builder and maker - God
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09

PorAToEs are standard article of food
OH most tables, but they are often SO
badly cooked that they are neither pala-
table nor wholesome. AS breakfast
dish they are excellent. We like them
prepared thus: Select the smaller ones,
leaving the larger ones for dinner:
scrape off the skins of new potatoes,
put them into cold water for ten min
utes, have water boiling and cook them
twenty minutes; pour off the water and
add cup of milk or cream, and thicken
it with little -four and butter rubbed
together. Butter never floats on the
surface when mixed with flour thus,
nor does the -four trouble you with
Jumps.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09
Thoughts by George Elliot.

Who supposes that it is an impossible
contradiction to be superstitious and ra-
tional at the same time?
The emptiness Of all things, from pol
itics to pastimes, is never so striking to
us as when we fail in them.
Honor comes from inward vocation
and hard won achievement; there is no
honor in donning life as livery.
What, in the midst of the mighty
drama in life, are girls and their blind
visions? They are the yea or nay of
that good for which men are enduring
and fighting. In these delicate vessels
is borne onward through the ages the
treasure of human affections.
A human life, think, should be we'll
rooted in some spot of native land,
where it may get the love of tender
kindship for the face of the earth, for
the labors men go forth to, for the sounds
and accents that haunt it, for whatever
will give that early home familiar, un-
mistakable difference amid the future
widening of knowledge spot where
the definiteness of early memories may
be inwrought with affection, and kindly
acquaintance with all neighbors, even
to the dogs and donkeys; may be spread
not by sentimental effort and reflection,
but as a sweet habit of the blood.
Poetry and romance are as plentiful
as ever in the world, except for those
phlegmatic natures who, in any age,
would have regarded them as dull
form of erroneous thinking. They ex-
st very easily in the same room with a
microscope, and even in railway carri-
ages; what vanishes them is the vacuum
in gentleman and lady passengers.
How should oil the apparatus of heaven
and earth, from the farthest armament
to the tender bosom of the mother who
nourishes us. make poetry for the mind
that has no movement for awe and ten
derness, no sense of fellowship which
thrills from the near to the distant. and
back again from the distant to the near?
WRITING BY ELEcTRICITY.-An cleo
trio pen has been invented. 1t consists
of Il small electric engine on top of a
holder, which is used as q pen. The
machine works needle that pierces the
paper, making 5000 or 5000 holes u
minute, and in writing the machine
moves so fast that it does not drag Or
tear the paper. The piece of paper is
placed in a frame where the holes are
filled with ink; then u sheet of paper is
put under it, it is rolled, and perfect
fac smile of the writing is obtained.
These fac SMILES can he produced ct the
rate Of five or six a minute.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09

THERE are two words in the English
language that contain all the vOwels in
regular succession, and if person is
willing to live abstemiously, and not
regard this statement facetiOusly, he
will see what the words mean.
The ghost that troubles the business
man nowadays, is the ghost Of Bank
owe Whitehall Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-09

DUTIES OF MoTHER.-She should
be firm, gentle, kind, always ready to
attend to her child. She should never
laugh ut him-at what lie does that is
cunning-never allow him to think of
his looks, except to he neat and clean in
all his habits. She should teach him to
obey look; to respect those older than
himself; she should never make COM
mand without seeing that it is perform
ed in the right manner. Never speak
of the child's faults or foiblcs, or repeat
his remarks before him. 1t is sure
way to spoil child. Never reprove q
child when excited, nor let your tone of
voice be raised when correcting. Strive
to inspire love, not dread; respect, not
fear. Remember You are training and
educating q soul for eternity. Teach
your children to wait upon themselves,
to put away thing when done with it..
But do not forget that you were once q
child.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-12-22
Portland * Worcester Line-Ad-
ditiOnal Accommodations.

The managers of the Portland ( Worcester Line
New York and New England Railroad, and the
Boston & New York Air Line Railroad, have
completed arrangements by which not only Port
land but the State of Maine is to have a all
rail line to New York and the Soath and West.
Commencing last Monday, the Washington
night express leaving Portland at 80 p. NJ, tax
on at Nashua sleeping car for New York via
Worcester Putnam, Willimantic, Middletown and
New Haven, arriving at Grand Central depot in
New York at 5.43 the next morning.
A sleeping car will leave the Grand Central de-
pot New York. for Nashua at IL 30 +. NJ, ar
irving in Worcester 7.3O A. NJ. stopping half an
hour for breakfasD and will be attached to the
Bangor Express leaving Worcester at 8 A. NJ.
Passengers by this train reach Portland 100 2.
NJ. and Bangor 7.3O P NJ. This new line shortens
the distance between New York and Portland
about twentyfour miles and saves all transfers.
These trains run in connection with the Phila-
delphia & Washington through express train, and
by this arrangement passengers make no transfer
in New York, as the cars run through to Philsdel-
phia and Washington. and it is now expected that
they will run still further south during the winter
months.
The Boston & New York Air Line Railroad
from Wllimantic to New Haven) forming the
short link in the new line is a new road. 1t has q
first class road bed, good track rolling stock
and everything to make the route pleasant and
desirable.
This road is now under the management of Mr.
Fl. B. Hammond, Genl Manager, and VIM. II.
Turner, Superintendent, formerly of Portland. and
it is owing to their perseverance and business en-
ergy, in connection with that of Genl Manager
Clark, of the New York s New England Railroad
who supplies the link between Worcester and
Willimantic, that this short line to New York is
now open to the public
The above arrangement, in addition TO the pop
ular route via. Norwich line and steamers. gives
to the people of the State of Maine and the Prov
inces better facilities for conve uient and rapid
transit than have ever before been offered. Berhs
in sleeping cars and state rooms for Sound steam
ers can be procured 10 Portland and of conductors
on trains.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-12-22

In Maine and Vermont, the decisive
elections were held in September, and the
republican vote in both States was larger
than ever before, though the Presidential
vote was not quite full. In every other
Northern State, without exception, the re-
publican party polled at the November
election not only more votes than it cast
at the last Presidential election, but more
than il had ever cast before in any con-
test. In the aggregate, the greatest num-
Der of republican votes ever poled in the
Northern States was 2,603, AZ But at the
late election, although several counties
are lacking III the returns above given,
the aggregate was 2,940 ,422, and the gain
over the largest vote ever cast before in
each State is 357 ,00j-about Is per cent.
1t certainly cannot be claimed that the
cry OF "Tilden and Reform operated to
weaken the republican party in any
Northern State; if that party lost any of
those who sustained it during the war; or
in the struggle of 1872, it gained many
thousands more than it lost. While this
is the fact at the North it is an espec al
ly important and TO many will be very
surprising fact that in nine Of the six
teen Southern States the republican party
poled more votes than ever before. Not
outstanding the tremendous effort of the
Southern democrats, who own large
part of the property, and employ nearly
all the hired labor, to control the colored
vote by all the influences which property
and intelligence can exe.t; notwithstand-
ing the use of violence, terrorism, and
assassination. in few of the Southern
States, to drive republican voters from
the polls, and to overcome by arms that
attachment of voters which threats of dis
charge from labor, and all the other in
huences which property can WELD, had
failed to weaken: still the number of re-
publican votes was larger than ever be-
fore in nine of the Southern States
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-12-22
From the New York Tribune.
Election Figures.

The official returns of the late election
are not quite complete, but they suffice to
establish two remarkable facts. The re-
pubicanparty was stronger at the late elec-
ton than II had been before in nearly every
State. Mr.. Tilden's popular majority was
entirely due TO the peculiar tactics by
which the republican vote was reduced in
three States. As these facts are of the ut
most Importance in their bearing
upon an equitable settlement OF the
pending dispute, we proceed to estaoilsh
them in detail. using the latest hgures
published, which, though not in all eases
complete. will approximate very closely
to the official returns. In the following
the Presidential vote of the republicans
in the twenty-five Northern States is con-
trasted with the largest vote ever before
cast by that party in those States;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-12-22

more votes than they lost. Argument,
persuasion, wheeding. and even coercion
failed in nearly all the Southern States ;
the republicans either polled more votes
than ever before or nearly as many. But
in Alabama Mississippi, and Georgia, we
are told, from one fourth to one-half of
the republicans were converted by argu-
ment or persuasion, and voluntarily voted
the democratic ticket Who believes the
impudent assertion? We pity the man
whose reasoning faculties are so warped
and whose conscience is so dull that he does
not Indignantly denounce the monstrous
crime against self government which these
contrasts reveal
These three States gave Mr.. Tilden a
majority of 172,4l7, and his popular ma
jority in the whole country is less than
$50, 000-according to the latest returns,
1884. We congratulate him upon a
majority obtained by dilligent use of
knives and revolvers, whips and rifles.
Many men would scorn TO countenancc
such terrible crime by claiming an office
as its fruit. Mr. Tiden, it seems, raises
no more objection now than he did in
1868. when the State of New York was
robbed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-12-22

The Maine Standard in an article on the
"Oregon Election" invites our attention to
the following words from the Revised
Statutes of Maine; Blank pieces OF
paper and votes for persons not eligible
to the office shall not be counted as votes >
The legal wisdom of the Standard does
not appear to understand that though the
Oregon law may be the same as the law
In this State, it does not follow that Cronin
the minority candidate was elected An
article in this paper on democratic pre-
cedents in Congress may give the Stan
dard some light.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-12-22
GENERAL Ne VS..

Jane Goldsmith, grand-pece of the clever Oil
yer, has just died at the Home for the Aged in
Halifax, \. S.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has given up his lecture engage
ments on account of the recent death of his moth
err who left so large an estate that it demands all
his attention.
Great suffering is reported among the miners in
the Pennsylvania coal regions, caused mainly by
the stoppage of work. Efforts are being made in
Philadelphia AMI other cities for their relief.
Sad, but true, that promising young lawyer of
the city came out Of the library at the Court House
and asked in evident Ierplexity who this Ibid was
whose reports were so frequently referred to in
the catalogue. Springfield Republican
There was flash Of lightning during the snow
storm on Monday at the Hub One of the Boston
papers describes it eloquenty; ut shoue out of
the gathering darkness tongue of fire, and was
gone in an instant eaving its trace on many build
ings and its image on half million minds, but
without so much as an echo to modify the start
ling abruptness Of the visitation" flash that
id not bave $50 much echo" must certain
ly have been a remarkable electrical phenomenon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-12-22

In seven Southern States the republican
party lost votes, although it polled more
votes than ever before in the other South
ern States, and in all the Northern States.
But the loss of five per cent. of its total
vote in Delaware, 5 - per cent. in Vir-
gina, and six per cent. in Arkansas is not
so large as to compel conclusion that the
vote was not free. Even in Texas, where
it lost ID per cent. of its total vote, that
conclusion is not quite Irresistible. But
is there a single honest man in this coun-
try who will pretend that q per cent of
the entire republican vote in Alabaml 81
per cent in Mississippi, and 4 per cent in
Georgia failed to vote or voted the demo-
cratic ticket voluntarilyP Is there n sane
man who believes that in those States,
and not anyohere else, republican voters
by the thousand became anxious for re-
form Is there a decent man who will
pretend that all the natural influence of
property and intelligence. employed in
vain elsewhere, caused this revolution ?
All manner of argument. failed in every
Northern State The republicans gained