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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-04-27

III hoDA1 u PIII II IHt HUUSt, III
committee of the whole discussed the pension APP
preparation bill, Scales, Chittenden Fort and Hew-
lit advocating it, and Hanna, Foster, Thompson
and ONeill opposing it. Powers moved to strike
out the section which changes the mode of paying
the pensions and inserting in lieu thereof provs-
ion fixing the salary of pension agents at S4 900,
and allowing them fees for vouchers and actual ex-
penses for rent clerk hire, etc. Adopted. Rice of
fered resolution that from and after July l. 1878,
offices Of pension agents shall be filled by wounded
or disabled union soldiers. Adopted. The COM
mittee then rose and reported the bill, and all
amendments being concurred in, it passed. Ad-
iOurnpd
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16
Mr.. Beecher's New Position.

The New York Tribune says: The an
nouncement that Henry Ward Beecher
was to begin his duties as the chaplain
of the 18th Regiment called together
more than 3 900 persons at the battalion
drill and dress parade Friday even
ing, in the armory at Hanson place and
Flatbu>h-avenue, Brooklyn. Many hold
crs of tickets were turned from the doors
because there was not standing room for
them. Mr. Beecher, coming from his
prayer meeting before o'clock, entered
the room during the drill and was
greeted with hearty applause. At the
conclusion of the parade, he took the
oath of Office and was introduced to the
regiment. He said:
FELLOW SOLDIERS: | am not acquaint-
ed with soldiers tactics or Il soldiers
life, but in the performance of the duties
which you have put upon me shall
strive to be worthy Of the soldiers name
The time was in this country when the
duties of the miiitiamen were for mere
display and show. The ordeal that we
have passed through within the last
twenty wears has sobered the minds of
the people, and taught them to prize the
worth Of good citizens ldiery. In all
the old countries of Europe the standing
armies have been constant menace to
liberty; they have been mockery, a
waste and corruption. In our country
we have permitted Il small army to con
tinue its existence as protection against
foreign invasion and as the nucleus Of a
larger force that may be needed in great
emergencies. The militia of the States
are not likely to be called upon for pro-
lection in another civil war; but it is
upon you that we must depend largely as
the police force to guard US against do
mestic uprisings and disturbances Of the
peace. I. is scarcely possible to exag-
gerate the importance Of having we'll
trained militia, well-commanded, to sup
port the civil magistracy in the enforce
mcnt of the law. Your reputation for
bravery and loyal devotion is such that
you cannot afford to have it furnished in
the future by any hesitancy in the per
formsuce of any duty. May | not hope
that you will put such energy. and sense
of honor into your work that it will
grow more and more illustrious.
| tender to you my services and aid by
every means that lays in my power. |
am ready to obey your request on every
occasion, when you see fit to call upon
me for my assistance, work, and coop
Grafton
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16
A Sneezing Actor.

While Ton, Flynn, the comedian, was
at the Bowery Theatre, New York, the
celebrated Junius Brutus Booth played
an engagement there, during which
JuliuS Cesar was prOduced-Booth as
Cassius; llamblin (the manager, Brutus !;
and John Woodruff as Mark Antony,
now all dead. Uamblin, after dressing,
repaired to the green-room, and having
bad cold which somewhat impaired his
speech, asked Flynn what he could do
for it. Tom, who never lost his chance
for a joke, let it hit where it would, said,
Use my remedy" whats thatN asked
Hamblin. "Why, get some vinegar in a
tea-cup, put some snuff in it, mix the two
together, pour it into your hand and in
hale it through your nose" Hamblin,
not thinking Of the consequences, to * a
sufficient quantity to produce fit of
sneezing, which he found very difficult
to overcome. After going upon the stage,
he saluted the audience with a sneez.,
and struggled hard to smother the eff
fects of the snuff, but without avail He
began: "What is that you would (sneeze)
mpart to me- If it be aught toward the
general good d the snuff set honor
in one eye (sneeze) and death in the
other; and will look (sneeze) on both
indifferently. For let the gods so speed
me rs love (sneeze) the name of (sneeze)
honor more than | fear death Course that
Flynn All his efforts to check the eff
fects of Flynn's remedy, which proved
worse than the disease, were unavailng.
The sneezing became contagious with the
Bowery boys, for Immediately after one
of Brutus's commissions, an immense
sneeze would echo from the audience
Flynn sat in the boxes enjoying Hamb-
Inns discomfort. What rendered the af
fair more ludicrous was that Hamblin
several times attempted to sneeze, but,
failing, the audience did it for him, and
then, when they expected the actor would
remain quiet, he would give another sneeze,
which would cause the whole house
to roar with laughter, thus converting
the tragedy into a laughable farce. After
the play, Hamblin rushed into the green
room, and said to Flynn, "What in the
name of Heaven did you advise me to
take that Internal mess forf' Tom,
standing before the CRATE with his hands
under his coat tails, replied with the ut
most GOODNESS, why, it always cures me
Of cold in the head, Mr.. Hamblin,
when take it," and as the sneezing
Brutus left the green-room, Flynn turned
to Booth, who had been standing in one
corner of the room enjoying the joke,
and said-"Why, Junius, my boy,
never thought before that your perform
ancc of Cassius was to be sneezed at
O,oen Faucet, IN the Era almanac.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16
Masked Batteries.

II you'll keep it sccret-aonor bright
III tel you little story, Joe;
Something that happened TO me last night
Here at the masquerade ball, you know.
You may have noticed I've spooned Of late
On Laura Clyde-nothing else to do
She's rather pretly-at any rate,
Fond Of flirting, and am, too.
Laura's friend Of my sister Fan;
Her rooms jim mine and the walls are thin
SO I, by accident, heard them plan
Their dresses for masquerading in.
The ball was lovely, the costumes fine,
And either dancing or iced champagne
Can't say which, but expect the vine
Just a little confused my brain.
so, meeting LAURA gypsy maid
Knew her at once by her dress, you see
took her out for promenade
On the piazza alone with me.
Flirted: Said was deep in love,
Msdly worshipped the ground she trod,
Vowed it by all below, above.
Did she return it,-a word Il nod,
The fair head dropped in assent, aud
Snatchcd off the mask-with rapture kissed
her;
\ peal Of laughter was my reply,
By Jove, old boy, it Was my sister.
Laugh at me, Joe. Don't spare my pride,
Nor mind my feelugs-I feel SO glad
II was my seter-uot Laura Clyde;
Heavens. What an escape had,
-Idnity Verse;.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

wife. Il could not have chosen better
myself" was her verdict.
Maurice stuck to his determination to
go into business instead Of playing the
fine gentleman all his life, but readily
agreed to his fathers proposition to buy
him an interest in the only wholesale dry
goods house in the town, saying that he
certainly preferred that to his former oc-
cupation, "but then l wa. poor, and beg
gars must not be choosers, you know. =
Practical Farmer.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16
A Double Surprise.

While Mr.. and Mrs Enright are agreed
upon most all other subjects, they do not
exactly agree as t. how tramPs should be
treated. That is, they didn't until yes
terday. His heart was tender enough
for him to say;
Every time you feed hungry person
you lay up treasures in Heaven
II can't have them annoying me, and |
won't" was her spunky reply.
docs it annoy you to have hungry
man ask for foodi'
Yes, it does!'
"I'd be only too glad to feed and con-
verse with score of them" he continued.
I'D like to ask them Of their past deeds
and future intentions; find out II they
realize that there is another world; put
new and better thoughts into their minds.
Oh. Hannah, be good to the unfortu-
nate!'
I'll fix you, old man - she said to her
self, as she leaned back to rock, and she
meant to DO it. Next morning, when he
had been gone an hour, a tramp called
and asked for sandwich. The fellow
was invited into the parlor to warm and
wait for dinner. At ten o'clock, there
were three in there. AT eleven there
were seven. Half an hour later she
| smiingly seated two more. About noon,
while waiting for her husband to arrive
and ask them of their future hopes and
fears, and chuckling over her scheme,
she heard one tramp calling out
Let 90 my harry
"Give it to him. shouted second.
" 'Rah for me" screamed third, and
then the crashing and smashing drowned
their voices. The whole crowd fought
across and around the parlor, out into
the hall, and two or three were being
dragged down the front steps as Mr.. En-
right came up.
Mother of US. Go for him ~ yelled
big tramp, and the good man was hit on
the ear, pitched into the snow and didn't
come to until dozen camphor bottles
had been collected. He entered the
house leaning on his wife's arm.a They
stood in the parlor door and gazed on the
panorama. 1t was gorgeous.
How much treasure in Heaven do you
think has been placed to our credit this
morning. she mildly inquired.
He slowly reached for the campbor
bottle, and took a long sniff, and replied:
Hannah, let us feed the poor-we are
the poor .'-DetrOu Free Pres.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16
Cloud Land.

Fools Paradise, where the rich soil
yields generous harvest with just
enough tillage to serve as pastime;
where profitable markets are always at
hand liberal of reward to pleasurable eff
fort; where the weather can be had to or
der and health instead of disease is
catching; where the neighbors are all de-
lighttul, and ignorance, uncouthness and
turbulence are unknown; where sucking
pigs, baked an appetizing brown and i'm
paled with convenient knives and forks,
trot briskly around delighted to afford a
slice of hot pork and savory cracking at
moments notice, and where all other
viands and grateful beverages are equally
handy, is "A place which many emigrants
all the world over, are restessly in search
of. IT'S the only spot, even in dream
land, where Adams descendants are ex-
empt from the hereditary penalty i'm
posed on Adams transgression-tha in
the sweat of their brows he and his chill.
dren should earn their bread.
Among the myriad toilers of other
countries there is a vague notion that
this delectable locality, or at least re-
gion approaching it in attractiveness
can be readily stumbled upon within the
broad bounds of The Land of the Free
and the Home of the Brave" while the
inhabitants of this favored country, des-
pairing of finding this elysium among the
struggling crowds around them, seem,
many of them, TO imagine they can hit
upon, or soon create, fac simile of it,
somewhere in the sparscly settled wilder
ness along our civilized frontier. a
search for it there, however, would be as
vain as Ponce de Icons pursuit of that
sparkling treasure of Fools Paradise
the Fountain of Youth. Indeed i. would
be well for all about to emigrate, es-
! pecially farmers, to bear in mind that
success in new location would inevitably
nccessitate cautiously prudent selection
an energetic spirit, and, at least at the
outset, an increase Of labor, privation
and hardship. Nor would it be unwise
to reflect whether the voluntary practice
/ of these requisites among the friends and
scenes endeared by familiarity, would not
I be likely to win a. fair measure Of flu
ture prosperity as could be reasonably
expected from their compulsory endur
ance amid the miserics in-eparable from
the condition of a stranger in strange
, lsnd.-RsraL Ne17 Yorker.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

A GIRLS ECCENTRIC ACTIoNs.-A Buff
falo paper says: about six months ago
the police of the Sixth Precinct were
called to take charge of a young woman
named Hattie Euchre, aged % years,
who was employed as servant in the
family of gentleman residing on Della
ware street, near Cold Springs. She had
been conducting herself in such re-
markable manner that it was supposed
she was insane. She was placed in the
Providence Asylum where she remained
a short time, when she was removed to
the house Of her uncle, Charles Vogt, on
Delaven avenue. We now come to the
curious part OF the story, and give the
facts just as they were received from
good and reliable authority. 1t is as
serted that for about twenty weeks past
the young woman has lain in bed with
her eyes closed and both hands clenched
and pressed up to the sides of her face,
and further, that she has not spoken Il
word during all this time. gentleman
who visited her states that he attempted
to open one of her eyes, but it was i'm
mediately closed again. He also straight
ened out one of her arms, but it returned
mechanically to its former position.
When food is placed in her mouth she
eats 1t, but does not ask for any"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

To GIRLs-Never marry man who
has only bis love for you 20 recommend
bin. 1t is very fascinating, but it does
not make the man. If he is not other
wise what he should be, you will never
be happy. The most perfect man who
did not love you should never be your
husband. But though marriage without
love is terrible, love only will not do. If
the man is dishonorable to other men, or
mean, or given to any vice, the time will
come when you will either loathe him or
sink to his level. 1t is hard to remember
amidst kisses and praises, there is any
thing else in the world to be done or
thought of but love making; but the
days Of life are many, and the husband
must be guide to be trusted-a com
panion, friend as we'll as lover. Many
girl has married man whom she knew
to be anything but good, 'because he
loved her So And the flame has died
out on the hearthstone of home before
long, and beside it she has been sitting
one that she could never hope would lead
her heavenward-or who, if she followed
him as wife should, would guide her
steps to perdition. Marriage is a solemn
thing choice for life; be careful in the
choosing.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16
Brought TO Terms.

.N,u are Surply MT in earnest ia tbpr ?"
~ as.pr. ,on am viii no, oive INV
consent ~ v1nr msrriaye win tL6t r:rI"
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,ou knoy rotbing % bcr".
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rei,bar no NOR bis .,Iiitrcn ara io,rors,,.
So,,hia ba. sc good an edpc.tin1 a.. INV
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ton, Why couldn't YOU have had sense
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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

NINE. PATTI recently made her first APP
pcarsnce in Florence for ten years i'll the
"Traviata.' She was received somewhat
coldly and without the usual compliment
tary salute of applause but at the end of
the first act had completely won her au-
dience, who burst out into "bravos" and
gave her two recalls.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16
BY All Means Be an Editor.

An editor is the happiest being on
earth. He has little or nothing to do,
and his pay is all that heart could wish
His sanc,um, with its Persian rugs and
Turkish carpets, its costly rosewood fur
niture, its magnificent mirrors, its beau
tiful pictures, its complete library of
Splendidly bound books, its silver bell TO
summon an attendant, and, in short, with
its everything that human ingenuity can
devise for his comfort and pleasure, is
perfect little paradise, where be sits or
lounges aud reigns a young lord, with the
world of fashion and pleasure at his
feet And then anybody can be an edi-
tor-no study, no preparation, no brains,
nothing but Il little money to start with,
aud once started the money pours in upon
you in u steady stream, and the chief la
Dor Of your ~iie is to spend it. As for
the labor of cliiing newspaper, that is
mere moonshine \ mere glance at the
column OF newspaper is enough t. con-
vince you ,hat it requires no labor TO edit
it, and less brains. 1t is certainly glo-
rious life, that of an editor;a life of luxu-
rious ease and of elegant leisure-a life
filed, like that of the young lover in his
first dream of requted love, with flutes
and rose leaves aud moonbeams. That
all men are not editors is one of the
strangest things beneath the stars. True,
there must be doctors and lawyers and
merchants and shoemakers and peanut
dealers and the like, and all these callings
must be filled by somebody, but there
are enough to ill them, and why they
don't become editors and lead the life of
opulent princes is thing that staggers us.
But after all it may be a mere matter of
taste. 1t may be repugnant to some ma
lures TO become editors. The life of ease
and elegance aud luxury, and the cxemp-
ton from all care and tolls and debts and
duns, would soon become bore to him,
and he would spend his nights in dream
ing of ploughs and pitchforks and reap
ing machines, and squander his days in
devising some plan for swapping places
with blacksmith's apprentice or astreet-
car driver.-LOuiscale Courier-Jouraal
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

DoING RIGuT WELL.--A Mrs. Baker,
of Flint, Mich, who gave birth to triplets
a little over year ago, which are chris
tened Faith, Hope and Charity, and for
which an elegant triplet baby carriage
was ordered from a Detroit mandatory,
and paid for by public contribution, has
become a mother again, this time to
twins.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

MAKING BUTTER IN BRAZIL - There
are four native modes of making butter in
the Empire of Brazil. The first is by put
ting the milk in common bowl and
beating it with spoon, as you would an
egg. The second by pouring the milk in
bottle and shaking it until the butter
appears, when it is removed by breaking
off the top of the bottle. The third,
where the dairy is more extensive, is per.
formed 10y filling hide with the milk,
which is Justify shaken by an athletic
native at each end until butter is pro-
duced. The fourth, which is considered
to indicate vast progress over any of the
preceding methods, consists in dragging
the hide or leather vessel, filed with
milk, on the ground after galloping
horse, until it is supposed the butter is
formed. The milk is never strained and
the butter never washed.-Neso York
Commercial Adrertiser.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

Nor QUITE THE CHEEsE!'-British
Farmer; What sort o. cheese do you
call thisi Full o. holesm Waiter
''Grew-yere, sir" British Farmer (sus-
piciously): Then just bring one that
grew somewhere else ~ Punch.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

REV s. DUsBAR, Of Adsir, Ky, is a
constable, and whenever the services
# his sanctuary are interrupted he
closes his Bible, marches down from
the pulpit, collars the disturber and
leads him to prison.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-05-16

THE New York Pnst-officc sold sol,
oo5 worth Of stamps last week.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-11
CITY GLOBULES.

Ex-Gov. G. K. Davis will repeat his lecture
upon MADAME Roland in Waseca on the
Goth inst.
An accommodation train between this city
and Benson, Swift county, will be put upon
the st. Paul & Pacific railroad about the 18th.
AS the meeting of the Fire Department.
association tonight will be one of extreme
Importance, full attendance is urgently de-
sired.
Two sisters of charity from this city have
recently visited Kasson, soliciting aid for the
House of the Good Shepherd, where they re-
ceived liberal contributions for their praise
worthy object.
The arrest of the man who was thrashed
at a saloon Saturday night, and the non
arrest of his assailant, is solemn warning
that if you would avoid trouble you must
not get licked.
There were no arrests up to late hour
last night, which is reminder of the fact
that Minneapolis, with it's rigidly enforced
Sunday law, has by far larger roll of Sab
bath smashers on its Monday mornings
police coure docket than ever st. Paul has
occasion to be ashamed of.
David Affair died in Osseo, Anoka county,
on the I'd. The deceased immigrated to
this State from Canada over thirty years ago,
first settling in this city, when it consisted
of but five or six log shanties. After a resi-
dence in st. Paul of some years, he lived in
Shakopee, then in St. Peter, and finally re.
moved to Osseo two years ago. Mr.. Abai1
left a widow and n1ovon chi11rnn