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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
AT last, after a strike of sixteen weeks

AT last, after strike Of sixteen weeks
continuance, the operative potters OF
Trenton, N. j., two thousand in number,
have yielded to the force of circum-
stances, and have determined to resume
work at the old prices. Stories have
been in circulation Of assistance sent to
the Trenton potters by their fellow-crafts-
men both in this country and England,
but the amount contributed, small or
large, has not been large enough to sup
port two thousand men in idleness or to
keep their families from want. At a
meeting Of the strikers on the 18th inst,
the president announced that supplies
had been exhausted, and that debts were
accommodating, with but little prospect Of
their payment. Under these circum-
stances, it was absolutely necessary for
the men to 60 to work again. Unfortu-
nately, this is more easily said than done.
During the strike the employers obtained
new help from abroad, 90 that there is
now work for only about half Of tho
strikers.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
The Sea Thrasher.

was very much interested in Captain
Nemo's letter on the thrasher, which
appeared in a recent number Of the Sun.
He is doubtless right in saying that the
thrasher has been frequently mistaken for
the sea serpent. AS few are perhaps
aware, right whales frequently find their
way into the Bay of Fundy, and are there
captured. The Bay is also a favorite re-
sort for the thrasher and the swOrdtish. l
have heard old coasters say that they had
seen thrashers forty-live and fifty feet
long, moving with great velocity on the
surface of the water, their heads raised
ten and twelve feet above. Bay ofFundy
fishermen, in speaking of them, say they
are the greatest of STA villains. Twenty
odd years ago, one of these monsters got
caught on a sand bar, where he was left
by the rapid falling of the tide III the
Cumberland branch of the Bay of Fundy,
and was killed by the people on shore
after an exciting struggle. He measured
forty-six feet in length. AS Capt Memo
says, the head is flat and serpent-like, the
eyes almest red, with ugly white circles
over them. Indeed, nothing could be
more repulsive than the head of this sea
monster. The only other sea villain 1t Is
known to fraternize with is the sword
| fish. Both are well-known to old coast
ers and fishermen as the deadly enemy OF
the whale; and it is the common belief
that they hunt in couples, and on finding
the whale make immediate war, the
sword-fsh attacking beneath and the
thrasher on top.
The common belief is that the thrasher
has huge weapon, very like sledge
hammer, protruding from his mouth, with
which he administers on the whales back
those terrible blows you can hear ten or
twelve miles distant. have myself stood
on bluff overlooking the Bay of Fundy,
and witnessed three of these terrible bat
ties between whale and its enemies, the
swordtish and the thrasher. The sword
fish did its deadly work underneath,
while, as Capt. Memo says, the thrasher
coiled himself half over the whale, and
applied the blows with his ponderous tail.
In the distance, however, the thrasher
seems to raise and let his weapons fall
very much as blacksmith's helper han
dies his sledge. You could see the weap-
on rise and fall; you could hear the blows
distinctly, although the distance was be-
lieved to be not less than ten miles from
shore, and you could also hear the whale
below and see him blow. On one of
these occasions the terrible contest lasted
nearly three hours, the water in the vicin-
ity being red with blood. About every
fifteen minutes the whale would disap-
pear in an attempt to escape from his en-
emies, but they would quickly pursue
him and force him to the surface, where
the combat would be renewed.
These two sea villains, the sword-fsh
and thrasher, invariably kill the whale
when they get him into close quarters
and as soon as the combat ceases, which
can be clearly seen by the whales body
floating motiOnless, the thrasher will pro-
coed to clear water, where, raising his
serpent-like head in triumph ten or fifteen
feet above surface, he will continue some
times for twenty minutes flashing the sea
into foam.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
WashingtOn's Idea of Civil Service.

In January, 1889, four months before
he was inaugurated, he wrote to Samuel
Hanson that if he entered upon public
life again, he meant to be ''not only un-
fettered by promises, but even uncharge-
able with creating or feeding the expec-
tation of any man living for my assist
ance to office" He said 'the ear of the
pominator ought to be open to the COM
ments on the merits of each candidate,
and to be governed primarily by the abil-
tiles which are most peculiarly adapted
to the nature and duties of the office
which is to be filled" He was determined
to go into the chair Of government per-
fectly free; and in March, 1889, he writes
to Benjamin Harrison that in making APP
pointments, ga due regard shall be had to
the fitness of characters, the pretensions
of different candidates, and, SO far as is
proper, the political considerations. He
constantly repeats this principle, adding,
or one occasion, the distribution of po-
sitions of importance to various parts Of
the Union is indispensable to the happy
beginning of the government. But fit
ness is always the foremost condition.
When Washington had entered upon
the office of President, he felt that nom
nations for appointment were among the
most delicate and difficult of his duties.
One of his earliest letters upon the sub
ject is to the widow of General Wooster,
the hero Of the action at Danbury, dur
ing the Revolution. The letter is very ten
der and considerate, but firm and self-re-
spectful. "As public man, acting only
with reference to the public good, l must
be allowed to decide upon all points of
my duty without consulting my private
inclinations and wishes" And in the
same letter: "All that require is the
name and such testimonials with respect
to abilities, integrity, and fitness as it
may be in the power of the several APP
plicants to produce. Beyond this, moth
ing with me is necessary or will be of any
avail to them in my decisions" In No
vember, 1889, he writes to Joseph Jones ::
''In every nomination to Office have en-
deavored, SO far as my own knowledge
extended or information could be OBJ
tanned, to make fitness of character my
primary object" In February, 1901, af-
ter honorably and faithfully following
this course, he writes to General Arm
strong: ain a word, to a man who has
no ends to serve nor friends to provide
for, nomination to office is the most irk-
some part of the executive trust" Max
ing the just distinction between political
and non-political offices, he writes to
Timothy Pickering in September, 1895:
IL shall not, whilst have the honor to
administer the government, bring a man
into any office of consequence knowingly
whose political tenets are adverse to the
measures which the general government
are pursuing, for this, in my opinion,
would he sort of political suicide."-
Editors Easy CHAIR, in Harper's Maya
zine.
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"That Leetle Tim"

The boy with the basket of apples was
half an hour late yesterday, for the first
time in six months, and when he came in
he was without his basket, and his eyes
were red and swollen. He's been such a
straight, square boy, that he has made
many friends on this corner, and he was
at once asked if the bootblacks had been
cobbing him. mo, not that" he said,
'but don't you remember that Leetle
Tim,' who came here once in while
with meg" "Little Tim! Yes-he is
your brother" That's what he was, and
I was breaking him in to sell apples and
make change. Well, leetle Tim is dead y
"No2" "Yes. When l woke up at day
light this morning he was cuddled up to
nv back, cold and dead. The Lord took
him in the night, sir, and wasn't it awful,
sir, that wasn't awake to put my arms
over him and hug his little head up under
my chin!" ats too bad-too bad"
ats awful on us all, sir. Fathers sitting
in corner, crying like child; mother
weeping and wailing, and the children
are smoothing little Tins curls and call
ing on him to wake up. That's why l
haven't brought the apples, sir, and that
why l won't be here for two or three
days. We've got to bury leetle Tim, we
have, and l don't see how we can ever
gather around the stove of an evening
and he lying in the graveyard. I'm big,
sir, but can't help crying, and father
cant help but cry, and l wish-I-l'
And may the Lord seat little Tim at his
right hand and give him crown of glory.
Detroit Free Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21

THE OLD HORsE.-The old horse re-
uuires more time to eat his meals and rest
his nerves. Of all animals, the horse is
the worst abused. Although he has been
our most faithful and profitable servant,
vet in his old age the lash is applied to
force out his youthful vigor. The older
he grows the more be feels the lash. He
is often turned out of doors to give place
to colts. Too often the neglect and abuse
he is subjected to, because he is little
old, results in a greater loss than is made
up in the care for the young horse. The
last part of a horses life may be more
profitable, if rightly used, than the first
part. There is more comfort and less
danger in working old horses. We un-
derstand them, and they understand us
and we should be as willing to conform
to their natures as they are to conform to
our wishes. 1t would be more humane
as well rs more profitable to use them as
they should he, as long as it would pay,
and then take them out and shoot them
down. But the wicked practice is to
knock them about rs much as they will
beer and pay we'll, and then trade them
of to some more inhuman wretch than
themselves. The old servant Is gone
among strangers, and he receives no sym
patty in his last extremities.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
Fashion Notes for Ladies'.

Sicilian dolmans and silk fichu-mantels are
among the novelties just arrived in New
York. The silk sacque has again come in
favor. 1t is cut somewhat shorter than the
sacque of last spring, and is made OF heavy
LYONS silk. Those goods are to be found a.
Harrison a. Mackenzie's, under Palace Hotel
San Francisco. We have seen some OF the
above garments, and We must confess them
to be the prettiest thing introduced this sea
son. The prices are very moderate. There
are many styles of cloaks and suits OF every
shade and texture; also, linen suits OF every
kind-all prices; busters and wrappers in
endless variety, at Harrison d Mackenzie's
This firm import directly from New York ano
Paris, and as matter of course, can undersel
all others.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-06-21
A Point on Which the Doctors
Agree.

Physicians who have tested Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters concur in representing it to
be an eminently safe stinulant, far preferable
to the ordinary liquors of commerce, not only
because it is medcated, but because 1t is in
finitely pure. Its alcoholic basis is the finest
old rye, and this is tempered and rendered
medicinal by the curative ingredients of
botanic origin which it holds in solution. 1t
has often been initiated, but never rivalled,
and is to-day the leading tonic. diuretic and
aperient, of America. Malarial fevers are pre-
vented and remeded by it, and it is thor
oughly reliable medicine in cases of dyspep-
STA, constipation, liver complaint, rheuma-
tism, govt, nervousness, urinary and uterine
affections. 1t improves the appetite, in
creases the bodily stamina, checks prema-
ture decay, and as a sustaining and comfort
ing cordial for the aged and inirm is I'M
equalled.