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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30
The Romance of a Rose.

A story comes fresh to us from the
coal mines of the 1ackawanna Valley-a
simple story, but Fish with immense pos
sibilities. In the diamond" shaft there
was no steadier, harder worker than jim
Gardiner. What he did with his money
was long a mystery-he had. no wife, no
family, no expensive habits, no relatives
that any one knew of, and yet no savings
bank account. 1t was learned later that
all but the little needed for his daily
wants went for charity-found its way
quietly, unobtrusiveiy, into the huts OF
women and children whose husbands and
fathers had gone down in the crush of
falling timbers or come forth black and
crisp from the scorching fire damp. There
was something about Gardiner that sug.
gested former life of a higher grade.
He talked but little, but that little was
in words we'll chosen and OF choice
dialect. His dress was as rough as the
toughest, but he carried it as man who
had been used to face the world smil
ingly. They called him GENTLEMAN
jim" in the mines, but they all liked
him as a man who always played fair and
asked no odds. In the accident Of last
April, when the roof of part of the
mine fell in, Gardiner was killed. 1t APP
peared in the evidence that there were
few seconds during the crack of timbers
before the roof fairly came down, and in
that brief time, in those few beats of the
pulse, "Gentleman jim" had caught two
boys with his lion-like strength, aud
tossed them clear out of the fatal cham
Der into the safe main alley. Then he
went down with the roof. When his
body was recovered the next day they
found him with his right hand thrust in
side his vest and clasping tight little
pocket-book. There was nothing in it
save card, on which was fastened adrop
of sealing wax on the stem, all that re-
NAMED Of rosebud and two geranium
leaves. Underneath was written in
woman's hand, "Harie-Toute a TOT
June 4, 1867" Just below was written
in q mans hand, "June, 187O-dU cith-
ered-srcept the th<rn."
1t is tale for poet--we have given
the barest outlinesas they came to us.
| But our informant adds that the face OF
the man as they found him unmarried by
the cruel rocks which crushed his chest,
was placid as that Of sleeping child
Cincinnati Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30
The Cross and the Crescent.

1t is usual, among recent writers, t.
name 1.-The Cross" and "The Crescent" t.
distinguish the respective creeds in The
present Turco- Russian war. In fact these
several symbols plainly mark the Chris
tian and the Ottoman faiths. The ques.
ton when and why the Ottomans adopted
the Crescent has been much discussed
long before now. 1t was alleged that
Mohammed broke the disc of the moon
and caught half of it falling from heaven
in his sleeve-this is stated in the Koran,
and seems to indicate that Moham med
made the young moon a sign OF his d.
vine authority. The crescent, or bali
moon, with the horns turned upward, was
religious symbol, however, long before
the Turkish empire began. 1t was re-
ported that Sultan Gilman, founder OF
that empire, A. d. 1899, dreamed that he
saw crescent moon which waXed until
its splendor illuminated the whole world
from east to west; that he then adopted
the crescent and emblazOned it on his
standard with the motto, Donec Reptedt
Orben, or until it fills the world" But
the crescent moon bad been symbol
we'll known to the ancient worshippers
of Diana in the ancient mythology OF
Greece and Rome. There are old statues
of her with an appointing crescent over
her brow. Another account is that Philip
of Macedon, father of Alexander the
Great, was engaged one dark night In
undermining the walls OF Byzantlum,
which he was besieging, and his opera
tons were discovered to those within by
a sudden appearance of young moon,
and that in gratitude for this timely light
the Byzantines commemorated the frus-
tration of Philips hostile design by Great
ing a temple to Diana, and by adopting
her crescent as a symbol OF the State. 1t
has also been alleged that in 1446, when
the Turks took Byzantium, they adopted
the crescent standard which they found
there, and which the Janizaries had borne
for more than century previous. Un-
doubtedly then the crescent was the en-
blem of Greece previous to the superiority
of the Turkish rule. Oddly enough, at
the present day the crescent is to be seen
on and in churches in Moscow and other
parts of old Russia, generally surmount-
ed by the cross, thus unquestlonably
marking the Byzantine origin OF the Rus
sian church. In 1901 the Sultan Selim
I'LL, having previously presented Lord
Nelson with a crescent richly adorned
with diamonds, founded the order of
the crescent which, as Mohammedans
are not allowed to carry such marks OF
distinction, has been conferred on Chris
tians alone. The Turkish order of Med
jidie, founded by Abdul Medjid in 1852,
and literally conferred upon French,
English and Italian officers after the Cri-
mean war, bears a crescent and a silver
sun of seven triple rays. Assuredly the
crescent dates from the time of Endy-
mion.-Philadelphia Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30
The Delights Of Base Ball.

The only son of a widowed mother in
the vicinity of Douglas Park is member
of an amateur baseball club. On Satur-
dav he had his hair cut and oiled, and &C.
coutred himself for the fray, and his fond
mother tied one of her best lace trimmed
handkerchiefs round his throat, and put
a clean handkerchief, with some cologne
on it, in his belt, and kissed him, and he
went About quarter past he returned
that is the most of him-and the fol-
lowing conversation ensued
NV son, where is the lace handker-
chief you had round your neckf"
Here, ma, tied round this finger. l
picked up a daisy cutter. l think the
finger is only out of joint, not broken"
MY son, VIII, do you not speak plain
err Surely, surely you have not been
drinkingl"
No. ma, but in the latter half of the
seventh inning our catcher's hands gave
out, and went behind, and l stopped a
foul tip with my teeth, that Is all"
my son, your nice new uniform is all
blooded in front. What ever can you
have been doingl"
Nothing, ma, only was trying to
scoop in aSnigh one at third, and the sun
got in my eyes, and muffed it, and the
ball came on my nose, but l put it over
first and gotIhim out"
my son, your white flannel pants are
all green behind"
THAT, ma, was in the third inning when
| tried to steal to second, and had to throw
myself down and slide in. l got the
base anyhow, and came in on two-baser
to the left field"
"Alas, my son, l fear that you have
had an unpleasant day. Let me send
for surgeon and dentist, and get
some arnica, ice water, lint, raw beef
steak. splints, sticking plaster, vinegar
and brown paper, Railways Ready Re-
lief, Perry Davis Pain Killer, compress
SEES, sings, leeches, clean cloths, opodel-
doc, horse liniment, and in a few days
you will not know yourself"
"Oh, ma, it was the bulliest game ever
was in-ten innings, and the score : to 6
If die give my bat to Billy Humph'
! reys, and my spiked shoes to Charley
Gross" exit, led out by his ma. Cur
tain falls. )-Chica9o Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

OIL YOURSELF LITTLE.-There is
true humor in the following story: Once
upon "a time there lived an old gentleman
in a large house. He had servants and
everything he wanted, yet he was not
happy, and when things did not 60 as he
wished, he was very cross. At last
his servants left him. Quite out of tenn
per; he went to y neighDor with story
of distress.
at seems to me-" said the neighbor, sa-
gaciously, "'twould be well for you to
oil yourself little"
"To oil MYSELF"
eyes; and will explain. Some time
ago one of the doors in my house creaked.
Nobody therefore liked to go in or out by
it. One day oiled its hinges, and it has
constantly been used by everybody ever
since"
Then you think am like the creak-
ing door," cried the old gentleman
"How do you want me to oil myselfs'
That's an easy NATTER" said the neigh
Dor. "Go home and engage servant, and
when he does right, praise him. II, on
the contrary,he does something amiss, dc
not be cross; oil your voice and words
with the oil of love-"
The old gentleman went home, and nc
harsh or ugly words were ever heard in
the house afterwards.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30
arson at Home.

Ralph waldo Emerson, the most orig
inal of li1ag thinkers, has had for many
years as ID ghtful a home at Concord
Mass, as D be found anywhere. He
has been Mice married-when he was
twenty-seyen and when he was thirty two
| His first wife, who was Helen Louisa
Tucker, of Boston, lived but few months
and his second wife, Lidian Jackson, of
Plymouth, Mass, has borne him three
children, two girls and one boy, all liv-
ing, and ranging from twenty eight to
| thirty-five in age. Although one Of the
severest of students and most abstract of
philosophers, he always emerges from
his library to the family circle with evil
dent satisfaction. Notwithstanding a
certain gravity of manner, he is full of
geniality and 6onhoannaie, and is never
more eloquent and charming than when
away from his books and manuscripts.
He is very fond of children and young
people; loves to talk and walk with them,
and listens to them as if they were re-
vealing the oracles of the gods. No man
in Concord is more popular or accessible
than he. He is fully in sympathy with
the old town; he reveres and honors it,
and says he would not exchange it for
New York, Athens, Rome, or Paris. To
get clear and adequate conception of
Emerson, one must see him at home, in
undress, so to speak, if he may be con-
sidered as ever in uniform, who is the
soul of simplicity and sincerity. He is
the kindest of husbands, the most con-
siderate of fathers. 1t is related of him
that when thought strikes him, when any
suggestion occurs, or any pat quotation
is recalled, he invariably stops the thing
he is doing and jots down the thought or
suggestion for future use or reference.
Even in the middle of the night he OBJ
serves this habit, knowing that a good
thing may be lost forever unless recorded.
Before his second wife got used to his
ways, she would ask him, when he rose
to strike light, "Are you i'll, husbands"
mo, my DEAR" he would reply, ''only an
idea" Some women might object to
men prowling about in the nocturnal
watches to fix intellectual points on
paper, but they would be unamiable, in
deed, if they were not modified by so
serene and courteous phrase as mo,
my dear, only an idea" The Yankee
Greek, as he has been called, is model
husband. Nobody has ever seen him out
of temper, or even ruffled. He is the
embodiment of calm courtesy, of placid
refnement-the very reverse OF the su-
premely nervous, irritable being an author
is believed to be, and often Is, in truth.
Feminine friends of Emerson are unani-
nous in the opinion that he is one of the
most comfortable men possible in home,
and that he deserves to go to special
heaven, because he is never disagreeable,
and never interteres in the woman's
duties of the household.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

WHILE half dozen persons were roll
ing along in Michigan avenue horse-ca
a man leaned across the aisle and said to
another: Excuse me, but didn't big
bug crawl down behind your collars"
"Ooh! Ouch" exclaimed the other, as
he leaped up and hauled off his coat. He
looked the garment all over, but there
was no bug to be seen. "Perhaps it
crawled down under your vest" suggest
ed the man. Off came the vest, and 1t
was closely inspected without making any
discoveries. The attentive stranger then
made the victim turn around two or three
times to see if the bug wasn't hidden un-
der the suspenders, and when thorough
search had been made the stranger sat
down and said: ut was probably a
shadow fitting across your collar, but l
felt sure it was bug. You can put on
your coat and vest again" The more
the victim thought about it the madden
he got, but before he put on his coat the
other man left the car and slid down
Twelfth street as if he had grease on his
heels.-Detroit Free Press.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

THE Poor Docs There has been a
great slaughter of dogs in this city. I'm
licensed, uncollared, and unknown ours
are gathered up daily by men appointed
for tie purpose by the mayor and taken
to the pound, which is large enough to
accommodate Thousand or more. The
dogs are kept few days, to allow owners
to redeem them, if they desire to do so,
and then they are drowned. Thus far
several thousand dogs have been inn
pounded, including one belonging to the
mayor. Of these, nearly all have been
drowned. A few have been redeemed.
Although the dog-catchers and their as
sistan,s are frequently bitten, they have
no fear of hydrophobia. When catcher
is bitten, he Immediately sucks the
wound, then soaks it with a preparation
made Of chloride Of lime and water, two
tablespoonfuls of the former to pint Of
the latter, then covers it with coat of
caustic. The catchers are very jealous
in their duties, receiving good fee for
every dog they present at the pound.
One of them caught 10S in one day.--N.
Y. Independent.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

WASTE NO TIME.-Time lost can never
be regained. After allowing yourself
proper time to rest, don't live an hour of
your life without doing exactly what is
to be done in it and going straight
through with it from beginning to end.
Whatever it is take hold of it at once,
and finish it up squarely, then to the
next thing without moment dropped
out between. 1t is wonderful to see how
many hours prompt people make out Of
a day; it is as if they picked up the mo-
ments the dawdlers lost. If you ever find
yourself where you have so many things
pressed on you that you hardly know
where to begin, let me tell you secret.
Take hold OF the first one that comes to
hand, and you will find the rest will all
fall into file, and follow after like COM
pany of well-drilled soldiers, and though
work may be hard to meet when it chal-
lenges you in squad, it is easily van.
pushed if you can bring itinto line.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30
DiMdence.

Pm afther AKIN, Biddy dear"
And here he paused while
To fringe his words the merest mite
With something of smile,
A smile that found its image
In a face of beauteous mold,
Whose liquid eyes were peeping
From eroidery of gold.
i've come to ak We, Bddy dear,
If" then he stopped again,
As if his heart had bubbled DER
And overlooked his brain;
His lips were twitching nervously
Ger what they had to tell,
And timed their quavers with the eyes
That gently rose and fell.
"Pve come" and then he took her hands
And held them in his own,
ITO ak" and then he watched the buds
That on her cheeks had blown,
me purity dear" and then he heard
The throbbing of her heart,
That told how love had entered in
And claimed its very part.
"Och don't be tain me-" said she,
With just the faintest sigh,
''Ive sinse enough to see you've come,
But what's the rayson why?"
ITO ak" and once again the tongue
Forebore its sweets to tell,
ITO ax-if Mrs. Mulligan
Has any pigs to sell"
-Yonkers Gazette.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

ENCOURAGING TUNERAIs.-The New
England undertakers are reducing their
rates in hopes that the number Of funer-
ais will be greatly increased thereby.
Their prices have been SO steep hereto
fore that very few persons of ordinary
means had the courage to die. They
couldn't afford it.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

In the Alps the snow line is $500
feet high on the northern side, and 200
feet on the southern, giving the northern
side an advantage of 300 feet over the
southern to any man who may feel in
clined to save his ice bill by reaching
down little of il with pole.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

enough to go round, and that she could
get all she wanted at DelmOnico's and
he'd pay for it.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

MEN are frequently like tea-the real
strength and goodness are not properly
drawn out until they have been in hot
water.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-08-30

GERMANY employs $4,000 women in
the manufacture Of cigars.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-01
Wisconsin Gentlemans Curiosity Abundently
Satisfied.
FROM the View Yew York Tines

From the View Yew York Tines
Laterly the ghost market has been
unusually dull. Owing, possibly, to
the repeated exposures Of material
izing mediums, the demand for ghosts
has largely fallen off, and dealers have
lacked courage to bring forward new
and attractive styles. A novel and in
interesting ghost has, however, recent
ly made its appearance at Walkersviile
Wis, which really deserves to be
brought to the attention of ill enter
prising ghost collectors.
For a long time young gentleman
Of Walkersville, whose identity may be
concealed under the name of Smith,
cherished desire TO make the ac-
nuaintance of few selected and at
tractiye ghosts, with view to mu-
tual improvement. To this end he
placed himself under the tuition of a
Chicago medium, who undertO ok to re-
tine his spiritual vision to that extent
that he would be able to see any speci-
fed sort OF ghost as any time or
place.
With the medium Mr.. Smith had
daily sssittings' for several weeks, ut
the low rate OF IS per sitting; but
when his first quarters tuition was
ended. and he had rot seen 50 much as
the glow of democratic ghosts nose,
he became indignant. denounced the
medium as an impostor, and returned
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-01

In many Of the classes of the animal
kingdom there are species which are
unable to maintain the struggle for ex-
istence without help from others.
Some Of them live entirely at the ex-
pense of their neighbors, and are
merely parasites. Others simply en-
joy the protecting companionship Of
those more favored than themselves,
and are called messmates, or common
sails, because they share the food of
their hosts. Mr.. Fritz Muller has late
ly discovered at Itajahy, Brazil, a new
case Of cornmensalism in two caterpil-
lars, which he describes in q letter
published in Nature. "The large cat
erpiilar,, he writes. awlth red head,
protected by long, branchy singing
hairs or thorns, lives on mulberry and
other trees. Like other caterpillarS
protected from enemies by odor, sting
ing-hairs, or otherwise, it sits on the
upper side Of the leaves, and is light
colored, the head red, the horns
white. Across its back, between its
thorns. there sits small blackish cat
erpillar, protecting itself by the thOrns
of the large companion. took of the
small caterpillar from the large one,
but it soon occupied again the same
place. In order to take a photograph
of it, the large caterpillar was anBs-
thetized with ether; i5rec0vered again
somewhat, but after two days it died.
The smaller caterpillar has now left
its place and taken refuge on another
caterpillar in the same box on this it
sits somewhat farther forward. ON the
base OF the abdomen. In its former
post. the place where the small cater
pillar sat looks pale, as ii 1t had been
secured. The small caterpillar from
above eats small holes in the leaf On
which the larger one is sitting As
far ~ / know, no similar case has
hitherto been observed"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-03-01

"A Wisconsin Zimmerman offers $50
in cash for "a rafting good wife-oDe
who is not tooshigh nosed to grow fat
on bean soup"
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-08-03
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WAsHINGToN, August depart.
ment statements: Decrease for the
mouth, $SlS,000 coin in treasury, near.
ly $l0OO0000. The receipts from in.
Iernal revenue were reduced at least
$l,0OOO0O by the strike. Receipts from
customs for the month, $l0OO0,OOO:
from Internal revenue, $S,75O,OOO.
The President has countermanded
his order for Gen. Sherman's imme.
diate return TO headquarters.
The Republicans at the Cleveland
Republican State Convention, nomi.
mated VIM. IL. West, OF Belleiontainr
for Governor.
WASHINGTON August | Hayes, Key
and ochurz were at be Schn,zenfet,
last night Secretary SChurz smoke
and in concluding, cautioned his own
counlrymen against drinkin too mucb
Postmasler-General Key also spoke.and
IN the course at his remarks, saving Of
M Hayes. lie wasa singular Pre.I.
dent"
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-08-03
RAILROAD TROUBLES.
Mail Trains Running.

HhzLEroS, Aug. 1.-The first passen.
ger train from the East arrived here this
morning from Mauch Chunk, thereby
breaking the blockade, aud returned on
schedule time with mails and passen-
gers ftr New York and Philadelphia.
Another train arrived later in the day
with twelve msi pouches and full
complement OF passengers. Both trains
were run by crews belonging 10 the
main line, as the men of The Hazleton
branch are still out.
BALTIMORE, August 1.-The Bati-
more and Ohio officials ct Camden
station report tonight as follows: We
moved about l30 trains on the various
divisions to-day, and all worked.
NASHVILLE August 1.-The strike on
the ST. Louis and South Eastern road
has collapsed, and trains will run as
usual tomorrow. Engineers express
a willingness TO resume work, though
no concessions have been made them.
COLUMBUS, Asgustl.-Freight trains
were moved out in all directions under
guard oi military to-day, without the
slightest interruption from strikers.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-08-03

CANros, the COmmander-iu-Chief Of
the Spanish forces in Cuba, makes
a most morliiying confession,
N embodied in q letter semi-offi.
cial in Ito character, lately published.
/ Contrary to oil Spanish official reports,
| Il has iranspired that instead OF uuin.
ieFrupted successes in their military
operations against the gallant little
Cuban army, they are, and have been
for months, at 9 complete stand-still
So far ls Campo discouraged that be
presents to the consideration Of The
Government propositions for s"irie.
menG with the insurgents, on the bssis
Of the recognition Of Cuban il de-
pendence, with 9 shadow Of & pro'ect.
crate, and coupled with advantage 3u'
commercial relations with the
mother country. He says hat
the strike 10 Q most unequal one, be-
cause the Cubans have such an admir-
ably organized system OF espionage
that they can at any moment assemble
or scatter their forces as may be most
convenient. He asserts that, without
exaggerAtiOn, it requires a command
Of 500 Spaniards to cope with each
squad Of ten insurgents that the wal
could not be ended unless an army Of
at least 10000 men were sent out al
once that the shipment OF reinforce
ment Of 1900 men would hardly en-
able him to keep the rebellion within
itS present limits, and certainly nevel
to suppress it; and that If Spain car
furnish him with no further aid thar
1900 fresh troops, be prefers 10 re-
turn to the peninsula. Campos is thu
ablest Of the Spanish Generals, and BIZ
opinion will have great weight with
the Home Government. Uuless the
most foolish obstinacy prevails in the
Spanish Cabinet, Cuba must soon bC
free. Surely, nine years OF fruitlesI
warfare ought to prove that the Cubani
are determined to gain their indie
pendence, or suffer determination il
the attempt.