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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
Household Hints.
EVER start your fire with oil.

NEVER start your fire with oil.
RIBBONS of any kind should be washed
in cold suds and not rinsed.
If fiat-irons are rough, rub them we'll
with salt, and it will make them smooth.
If you are buying carpet for dura-
bility, you must choose small figures.
A BIT of soap rubbed on the hinges
of doors will prevent them from creak
ing.
TAKE cold boiled salmon, pick it into
shreds, bake it in paper cases or AS a
pate, and serve with mushrooms.
NEURALGIA REMEDY.-Prepare horse
radish, by grating and mixing in vine
gar, the same as for table purposes, and
apply to the temple when the face or
head is affected, or the wrist when the
pain is In the arm or shoulder.
FRUIT STAINS IN LINEN.-To remove
them, rub the part on each side with
yellow soap, then tie up piece of pearl
ash in the cloth, ETC., and soak we'll in
hot water, or boil; afterwards expose
the stained part to the sun and air uatil
removed.
STYE ON THE EYELID.-Put tea
spoonful of black tea in q small bag {;
pour on it enough boiling water to
moisten it; then put it on the eye pretty
warm; keep it on all night, and in the
morning the stye will most likely be
gone; if not, second application is
certain to remove it.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
The Advantages of Early Poverty.

1t is far from being always disadvan-
tage to young men that they should com
mence life in poverty. In explanation of
this the Examiner and Chronicle says:
The worst thing that can happen to
young man in college is to have father
or mother so injudicious as to keep him
amply supplied with pocket-money. 1t
is fatal to studious habits, and in the
end generally fatal to good morals.
This is equally the case with a young
man in business, who is made to feel
to him "salary is no object"-that
wealthy fathers purse is always open to
his most extravagant demands. Moth
ing develops young man like fighting
his own way in the world. Some spur
of necessity, some bracing air of adverse
surroundings is needful to most men, if
they are to put forth their whole power.
The rich mans heir, nursed and petted
from infancy, and shielded from bat
thing with the world, never fairly learns
to stand erect and walk alone. If by
any chance he is stripped of his inherited
wealth, and has to learn to give and take
hard knocks like others, he nearly al
ways goes under in the struggle-at any
rate, he seldom regains by his own efforts
the fortune he has lost.
Nearly all the wealthy and effective
men of this country are poor mems
sons. Nearly all of the scholars, poets,
orators, Statesmen, are poor mems sons.
Wealth has its advantages, 1t is true,
but, after all, the son of rich man be-
gins life with the odds against him. The
poor mans son has all the odds in his
favor. He must work or starve. He
has nothing to lose and everything to
gain. The rich mans son has already
social position and everything that mon
ey can give him. There is much less to
strive for and infinitely less inducement
to strive.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
Home Attractions,

How sweet the word "home," with its
many and varied attractions. sounds to
those who have had pleasant one. They
can tell who have known and enioyed
the inestimable blessing of home train
ing-who have been reared under the
guidance of a devoted father and mother.
whose sole aims were for their children's
welfare, and whose desire it was to nour-
ish the gems of virtue and nobleness I'M
til they had grown and produced what
nature recognizes as perfect manhood
or womanhood.
AS our homes have been to us in our
childhood, so in great degree will be
the future course of our lives. If we
have been early taught the principles of
honesty, sobriety, geutleness, and the thou
sand and one other most desirable lessons
for child to have as part of himself, when
he has arrived at mans estate and starts
out in the world to battle for himself, he
will be apt to be governed by these early
taught lessons, coming, as they have,
from the lips of dearly loved parents.
Temptations may assail us, yet COM
munion with our own better natures will
ever prove safeguard and a shield, and
will safely carry us through, enabl ing us
to successfully resist the insidious en-
croachments of temptation. While it
should be the desire to inculcate the les
sons of morality and wisdom, and teach
by precept and example each desirable
lesson, how much more desirable it is to
second this by making home attractive9
Children are far more apt to learn and
remember what they see than what they
hear, and generally what pleases the eye
makes lasting impression. This being
the case. how necessary it is to make
home and its surroundings attractive.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
A Light i'm the Window.

Off the coast of one of the Orkney Is
lands, and right opposite the harbor,
stood lonely rock, against which in
stormy nights the boats OF returning fish
ermen often struck and were lost.
Fifty years ago there lived on this IS
land young girl in cottage with her
father; and they loved each other very
tenderly. One stormy night the father
was away Oh the sea in his tishermans
boat, and though his daughter watched
for him in much fear and trouble, he did
not come home. Sad to tell, in the morn
ing his dead body was found washed
upon the beach. His boat, as he sought
the harbor, had struck against the
Lonely Rock" and gone down.
. In her deep sorroY, this tisherman's Or
phan did not think Of herself alone. She
was scarcely more than child, humble,
poor and weak; but she said in her heart,
that while she lived, no more boats would
be lost on the LONELY Rock" if light
shining through her window would
guide them safely into the harbor. And
so, after watching by the body of her
father, according to the custom of her
people, until it was buried, she laid down
and slept through the day; but when
night fell arose, and lighting candle,
placed it in the window OF her cottage,
so that it might be seen by any fisher
man coming in from sea, and guide him
safely into the harbor. She sat by the
candle all night, and trimmed it, and
spun; but when the day dawned, she
went to bed and slept
AS many hanks as she had spun before
for her daily bread, she spun still, and
one over, to buy her nightly candle; and
from that time to this, for fifty years,
through youth, maturity and I'D age, she
has turned night into day, and in the
snow-storms of winter, through driving
mists, deceptive moonlight and solemn
darkness, that northern harbor has never
once been without the light of her candle.
How many lives she saved by this can
die, and how many meals she won by it
for the starving families of the boatmen,
it is impossible to say. How many dark
nights the fishermen, depending on it,
have gone forth, cannot now be told.
There it stood, regular as lighthouse,
steadily as constant care could make it.
always oiiSHtei WITCH uoyiShe ""heu,
the fishermen had only to keep it con-
stantly in view and were SAFE there was
but one thing to intercept it, and that was
the Rock. However far they might have
gone out to sea- they had only TO bear
down for that lighted window, and they
were sure of a safe entrance to the harbor.
But what do the boatmen and boat
mems wives think of this? Do they pay
the poor woman! No; they are very
poor; but poor or rich, they know better
than that Do they thank her! No. Per-
haps they think that thanks of theirs
would be inadequate to express their
gratitude; or perhaps long years have
made the lighted easement so familiar,
that they look upon it as matter of
course, and forget for the time the patient
watcher within.-Jedn Ingeloto.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07

RYE AND INDIAN BREAD.-I saw re-
ceipt for making rye and Indian bread,
which was too modern to suit some. |
will give mine, which is as our grand
mothers used to make it: Take two
pints Indian corn meal, and one pint rye
flour, or middlings of wheat flour; one
spoonful of sugar, one cup yeast; mix
with warm water; let it rise quite light,
then mix again, and put in the baking
dish; let stand some fifteen or twenty
minutes, then bake in hot oven two
or three hours. We used to let it stand
in brick oven over night. Such ovens
are not often found now.-Correspondsnt
Toledo Blade.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
Weighing the Thanksgiving Turkey.

"Here, sir Please take this bird around
to Albro's, and see how much it weighs
The idea What would the folks over
the way say, to see the "Professor"
walking out with big turkey under
his arm9 That was the way the thing
presented itself to the good-natured col
lege student acting as private tutor in
the family. But Mrs. Simpson, the
portly and practical housewife, had no
such idea of the fitness of things.
1t was the day before Thanksgiving,
and the farmer who had agreed to sup
ply her with turkey had brought 1t,
but had not weighed it, and, of course,
they could not agree on its weight, all OF
which ended in the startling proposition
with which we began.
swell, if you amt the LATEST man!
Just as though it was going to hurt you
any to take this bird to the corner and
back ~ she went on a. she saw me look
ing apparently for hole to crawl into,
but, in reality, for the broom, which,
when | found, l made use of in putting
into execution plan had formed for
weighing turkey at home.
l hung the broom handle to the gas =
jet by wire loop, and slid it along in
the loop until it balanced. By this time
all were curious to see what was about.
| then fixed wire to the turkeys
feet and hooked it so that it would slide
on the broom-handle. Next got flat
iron and fixed it in the same way.
When the broom was nicely balanced,
hung the turkey on the broom end OF
the stick, two inches from the balancing
loop. Then l hung the hat-iro on the
other side, and showed it along until it
balanced the turkey. Next measured
the distance of the turkey and flat-iron
from the balancing loop, and found that
the turkey hung two inches and the flat
iron eight inches from the balancing
loop. That was all. | had found the
weight of the turkey, and told them:
Twenty-four pounds.
$40 you s'pose I'm going to believe
all that tomfoolery! 1t doesn't weigh
more'n twenty, l know. Here, Maggie!
Take this out and ask Albro to weigh it
for you
'I'm blamed if he hasn't hit it about
right said the farmer who had brought
the turkey. "How did you find out9"
swell, you see said |, "the flat-iron
has a figure six on it; that shows it
weighs six pounds. Now, if the turkey
had not weighed more than the lat-iron,
they would have balanced each other
the same distance from the balancing
loop; but the turkey was the heavier,
so had to move the flat-iron out fur
Their. AT the same distance from the loop
AS the turkey 1.-TWO inches), the ilat-iron
pulled six pounds weight, and at every
addition of that distance it would pull
six pounds more. Thus, at four inches
it pulled II pounds; at six inches eight
cen pounds; and at eight inches, TWEEN
ty-four pounds. At that distance it
inst balanced the turkey, thus proving
that it weighed -"
"Well, Maggie, what does Albro say9"
"Twenty-four poun', num-" replied
Maggie, coming in.
well, give up, said Mrs. Simpson;
and she did, and so do It'll next time.
g. VI. ShHo, in 81. Nicholas.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
A Water Lily at Evening.
Sleep, lily on the lake.

Sleep, lily on the lake.
Without one troubled dream
Thy hushed repose to break,
Until the morning beam
Shall open thy glad heart again,
To live It's life apart from pain.
SO still is thy repose,
Sopure thy petals SEEM,
As heaven would here disclose
Its peace, and we might deem
4 soul in each white lily lay,
Passionless, from the hands of day
Yet but flower thou art,
For angel ne'er, or saint,
Though kept on earth apart
From every earthly faint,
A life so passionless could know,
Amid a world of human woe.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
No selfish man or woman was ever yet

No selfish man or woman was ever yet
completely happy. They may cheat
themselves into belief that they are, for
thought and conscience are lost in the
mad whirl and rush of life. But it is
mere delusive happiness, which disap-
pears at the moment We think to clutch
it; and like the willy ignis: fdtuus, leads
us an endless dance over bog and moor,
to escape us at last. Then, weary and
spent, we lie down, and perchance that
most terrible experience, the remorso of
wasted and mis-appled life, comes in
and takes possession OF us forever
COSY.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07

"THERE will be livelier times in the
agricultural districts" remarked citi-
zen of nocturnal habits, as he ignited
modicum of sulphur under an alien hen.
roost at the witching hour, ",he move
ment of the crops has begun"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07

THE more enlarged is our mind, the
more we discover of men Of originality.
Your commonplace people see no differ
ence between one and another Pascal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-07
Uncle Sans Ledger .

The following comparative statement
of the condition of the Treasury January
1, 1877, and January 1, 1878, was issued
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Mr. MOODY will spend the winter in
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