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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-04
Henry Ward Beecher's Age

1t having been stated in the Bangor
Wing and Courier that Henry Ward
Beecher was seventy-three years of age,
that gentleman wrote as follows to that
journal This would make my birth
year to have been 1905. But the great
family bible says l was born on the oath
of June, 1913, and ny most reputable
parents have always assured me that
their acquaintance with me began then.
Were they mistaken? Was l eight
years old when they took me into their
arms 1t must be so if your paragraph
list is right, and have always regarded
an editor AS infallible rs is the Pope.
Pardon my natural curiosity in desiring
to know something of those obscure and
silent years in which must have been
far less noisy than III any subsequent
period. When | was ten OF twelve
years old should have heen thankful
for the gift of years. But l do not need
them now. l have enough already, and
am sure OF earning more without de-
pending on charity. Give them to some
lad too big for boy and not big enough
for a man, who would like to be pumped
into full manhood at once, without the
kicks and cuffs so often employed in
ripening youth. You speak of my visit
to Bangor as probably the last. Do not
be too sure What merit has Bangor
that it should he exempted from the in
evitable ills of lifei
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-04
4 Sg's fsEH AFTERNOON.

The sunlight sleeping on the hills
In drowsy splendor dreams away
The long slow hours as if it felt
The rapture of perfect day.
The mountain stretch, broad waving line
OF purple light along the sky.
While at their feet rich shadows yelled,
Serene and fair the shadows lie.
There comes to us the hum of bees;
A bird fits by on startled wing,
And through dim arches in the woods
We hear the swaying breezes sing.
With ripping laugh and silvery sheen.
Through cool, green haunts of moss and
fern,
The brook betrays its hiding place,
And clearer grows at every turn.
The wild rose lifts its blushing face
Above the wayside grasses low,
While pale wood lilies in the shade
Their snow.white bells swing to and fro.
o, golden Summer afternoon,
We rest content; we ask no more
Only to hear the wind repeat
The self-same story o'ev and o eI.
Only to breathe the fragrant air,
To wstch the lights and shadows play.
To quaff the nectar that the sun
In trimming beakers pours to-day.
1t is enough to be, to feel
The tranquil mood of field and wood,
To know Gods blessing everywhere
Hath made so much that's fair and good.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-04

SUNFLowER SEEDslFoR POULTRY.
Many farmers look upon the sun
flower as simply worthless weed, and
never dream of the valuable qualities
the seeds of this plant possess. For
several years they have been used by
breeders of fancy poultry as food for
choice birds; in small quantities they
are mixed with the other food, and
the peculiar properties of the seed
impart beautiful gloss, which no
grain will give to the plumage of the
adult birds. For those who raise
fancy fowls for exhibition, Is is essen
tial to perfect success that the plu-
mage should be in perfect condition,
and to attain satisfactory results we
can recommend no more valuable aid
than judicious feeding OF this seed.
1t has long been known that the oil
extracted from sunf1ower seed makes
a dressing for the hair which is very
beneficial, imparting smoothness
and vigor highly appreciated by all
who have tried it. 1t grows very
readily, and poultrymen should not
forget this cheap and useful help to
their labors.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-04
Sensible Women.

A White Mountain letter tells how
the school teachers in New Hampshire
and Vermont utilize their Summer va
cations by waiting on tables at White
Mountain hotels. The correspondent
was impressed at the intelligent and
lady-like manners of these walters, and
on inquiry found that nearly all taught
school during the school season. lie
discovered, also, that some young men
walters We're students, also bent upon
turning their vacations to account No
one will contend that the young girl
waiting upon table at fashionable
Summer hotel is not as worthy, in every
respect, as the same young girl, few
months earlier or later, when engaged in
teaching school. Yet such absurd no.
tons prevail in some quarters, that one
would be met as an equal and the other
looked upon as in some way inferior. 1t
is this unjust discrimination which
keeps American girls out of occupations
which are suited to them and in which
they are wanted Without doubt ten
thousand good American housemaids
could find homes and fair wages in this
State if they should offer themselves.
But very few American girls fit them
selves to become good housemaids. They
prefer the store, the shop, even the fac
tory, to the comparatively Independent
occupation as domestic. 1t is not the
work they shrink from so much as the
inferior position which the domestic is
falsely assumed to occupy. The young
girl who stands in u store twelve hours
a day and waits on customers, is spoken
of as young lady She always looks
upon herself as q young lady, and
rightly, too; # she is honest, polite and
attentive, as most of them are. But
the young girl who accepts IL position as
domestic is not SO sure about her social
standing. She thinks she is II young
lady, but is not certain that other
people think she is She is addressed
by her Christian name by the
family and guests without the prefix
"Miss," which reconcilcs young ladies to
such familiar use of their home names
But the average domestic is more indie
pendent, enjoys comfort, and is more Sc
cure from temptation than the average.
Of her sisters who earn their living in
stores, shops and factories. She is bet
ter off in all essential respects, and has
quite as good chance of having some
day home of her own. The sentiment
to inculcate is, that occupations only re-
feet honor as they are heartily filed.
The honest, modest and intelli-
gent table waiter is better member of
society than any of her sex who do not
possess these qualities, and so society
should regard her. The frivolous as
sumption of superiority on the part of
some society ladies and gentlemen in
their intercourse with chance attendants,
is no evidence of true refinement or Of
good breeding. On the contrary, the
true gentleman or the true lady will so
deport themselves to attendants that
neither will feel embarrassed if the
chances of life should throw both into
the same circle Of society. II this rule
was established there would be less
reluctance on the part of girls to be-
come domestics.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-04
Adeiiua.


cold, clear Tuesday morning-thst l dis
consolately wendell my way to school,
wishing that holidays came oftener and
staid longer, and regretting that out of
fifty-two there was only one of uninter-
rupted pleasure.
The old red school house stood at the
junction of three roads, and as | Iaised
the little hill just before reaching it, l
saw, coming from the opposite direction,
a little black-clad figure that looked like
a moving blot On the unbroken white
ness of the snow-covered landscape.
l never could tell what actuated me
to linger on her movements as l did, but
from the first, think l must have
loved the child, even before l was old
enough to rightly understand the mean
ing of the word.
We reached the worn old door-stone
together, and, being a boy, not at all
afraid to speak to any one, much less a
timid little girl, very coolly asked her
if this was her first day at school.
Eyes; and dread it so much"
at was the sweetest voice l had ever,
heard or have ever heard since The
peculiar rising infection on the last
word was like the short, clear, low notes
of bird, and as purely natural.
''Do you come every day?'
Haven't missed day this Winter"
''Oh, l am so glad.
''Why are you so glad 7
Because you are good boy. Won't
YOU please tell me your name e
Edward Durand"
81 like the name," she said sweetly,
and, boy as l was, | wondered how any
mortal ever came by such an angel
smile. Ali this time she had been try
ing to unite the round worsted strings
of her hood, but had only succeeded In
drawing them into harder knot.
won't You please unite it for me,
Eddie T.
She held up her little cold chin, and
without moments hesitation l bent
down and did as she requested. 1t was
sucl, tender, coniding little face-who
could help loving it patted encour-
agingly the rose-red cheek, turned to-
ward me in gentle truthfulness, and babe
her not to be afraid, for SIZE had as good
a right to come to school as any one.
"Halloo where did that little black
bird come from p cried kind hearted Ben
Phillips, as we entered. "Come along,
little girl, and &c. warm, for you look
half frozen"
A general tittering and nudging fol-
lowed Ben's energetic seating of the new
scholar, and one sauey little mink, not
understanding its significance, asked
pertly
"What are you looking so like crow
forl l hate black dress"
"Hush I" reproved an older girl, who
overheard the remark. "Hush, Sue !;
don't you see she is in mourningT
The voice that had so charmed me in
the entry answered the question in a
strangely quiet way.
my father is dead p
A hush as OF death fell upon the
noisy group gathered around the old
cracked stove The unwonted silence
was broken by the entrance of the
teacher, who Immediately raped us to
order, after which he briskly called up
tho new scholar.
"What is your nameT
"Adelina.
Mr. Pike looked wise.
"Adelina Lagrange, | suppose, and
You are the daughter of the lady who
has recently taken the Baldwin cottageP
Eyes, sir"
swell, you may take this seat, point
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-04

"George has had great many pull
backs in life" said the young wife to her
lady friend. And when the friend said,
eyes, l saw him with one yesterday"
the young wife didn't know what she
meant by it.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-04

Always add line or two on the mar
gin Of letter to lady. You can't
imagine how much satisfaction woman
obtains in turning letter upside down
to read postscript.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-04

Some Ian are captivated by wom-
ans laugb, just as some men predict q
pleasant Cay, because the sun shines out
clear for a moment. They forget the
chances for squalls.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02
Words Of Wisdom.

Hewho is starving does not look to
see If the proffered loaf be fresh OF stale.
Those who have made mistakes and
suffered for them are the ones to help
others; to show that any error can be
stoned for.
You may mand q rent in q damaged
reputation so that il may not show, but
you can never make the reputation quite
whole again.
Beauty may attract love at first, but
it alone cannot retain affection. 1t is
the sterling qualities of the heart and
mind that win in the long run.
Ne love our friends all the time
when we are so absorbed in working for
them that we seldom think of them, as
well as when telling them of our regards.
We do not, in our own minds, have q
secret contempt for the work of the
great man we do not know intimately,
but we have for the work of the one we
do know.
How beautiful is youth Alittle moon
shine, few musical water drops, the
strain of q song, and the. young heart
experiences poetry as it never could be
entrusted to paper.
1t is q dreary sensation to find ones
self wholly forgotten by mere acquaint-
ances; but to find that we have no place
in the thoughts of those we love, seems
in certain sense like being annihilatsd.
The profoundest calm always seems
to come just after the most terrific
storm. The exaltation of spiritual rap.
ture follows fast after far descent into
the gloomy Hades of the soul. Life il
a series of alterations at best and he
who mounts highest to-day sinks deep
est tomorrow.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02
A True Hero.

The city of Marseilles in France was
once afflicted with the plague. So ter
rible wab it that it caused parents TO
desert children, and children to forget
the obligations to their own parents.
The city became as desert, and funerals
were constantly passing through its
streets. Everybody was sad, for nobody
could stop the ravages Of the plague.
The physicians could do nothing, and as
they met one day to talk over the mat
ter and see if something could not be
done to prevent this great destruction
of life, It was decided that nothing
could be effected without opening 8
corpse in order TO find out the mysteri-
GUS character of the disease. All agreed
upon the plan, but who should be the
victim? it being certain that he would
die soon after. There was a dead pause.
Suddenly one of the moEt celebrated
physicians, g man in the prime of life,
rose from his seat and said:
''Be it so; devote myself to the safe
BY of my country. Before this numerous
assembly I swear, in the name OF hH-
manity and religion, that tomorrow at
the break Of day will dissect corpse,
and write down as proceed what OBJ
serve"
He Immediately left the room, and as
he was rich he made will, and spent
the night in religious exercises. During
the day a man died in his house Of the
plague, and at daybreak the following
morning the physician, whose name was
Guyon, entered the room and critically
made the examination. He then left the
room, threw the papers into vase of vim
egar that they mightnot convey the dis
ease 10 another, and retired to a con-
venient place where he died in twelve
hours.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02

I couldn't help it--boy in that neigh
borhood, he was so clever, 80 obliging,
and not bit ''sassy."
"De Lor' works in funny ways, sho'
enuf," said Peteona, one April day
about a year after the return of Miss
Peppard's pocketbook. "Who'd b'lieve
me and Miss Peppar' ebber wanted
Dick drug to the lookup by de heelsp
An all the time he was a-bringin' me
an Miss Peppar' de lubliest chunk of
sugar, the sweetest honey-bug of chile
dat Ibber ooaxed ole Peteona for ginger
snaps. She shall hab more, de Lor'
hress and sabe herl"-pouring them
from the cake box into the little uplifted
apron. ''Peteons II bake dem de hull
liblong day, for ebber an ebber, for de
blue-eyed darlin'-wid little time lef'
out for her odder work. ."-Hayper,s
WeeklU.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02
A GrOcer's Trick,

This happened long ago-in the early
days of Minneapolis-an is related to
show that even in those days the grocer
was sup to snuff" A certain we'll
known individual, now o resident of st.
Cleud, was dealing in groceries in Min
neapolis then, and told the story himself
the other day, as follows;
SCI happened to strike four chests of
tea, which bought at bargain-twen-
ty-fve cents pound. These four chests
of tea was all I had, and of course, as
my customers expected variety of
prices, I accommodated them. turned
the tell-tale side of the chests toward the
wall, and marked the tea to suit GUS
toners. Deacon -, still a resident
Of the city, came in one day after some
tea, and wanted a good article. gave
him q sample from each of the four
chests to take home and try, stating
their respective prices as thirty five,
fifty, seventy-five cents and a dollar a
pound. Well, after testing the samples,
he returned and rendered his decision,
as follows
THAT thirty-five-cent tea is a very
fair article for the price the fifty cent
tea is muoh better; the seventy-hve-
cent tea is excellent, and the dollar tea
is a very superior article, can assure
you. But 1 can't quite go that figure.
Let me have ten pounds OF the seventy
fve-cent tea.
he was accommodated. How groeers
have changed since then.-&. Paul
Pioneer Press,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A hen with a clipped wing has de-
fective few.
There are but two cotton factories in
the whole Of Mexico.
A lady need not be an athlete though
she jumps at an offer.
When you have a family jar you can't
always preserve the peace.
A good motto for young man Just
starting mustache-Down in front.
A French physician says drinking
boiled water only will prevent yellow
fever.
Paris has municipal laboratory where
wines, beers and brandies offered for
sale are tested.
The debt of the city Of Paris is now
nearly 84O0, 900, 900, and the interest
about $40, 900, 900 year.
On leaving a room make your best
salaam to persons present, and retire
without salaming the door.
The hair-spring of a watch weighs
1-16, ,000th of o pound troy. On
straight line it is foot long.
From The debris of their coal mines
France makes annually 700, 900 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 800, GOO tons.
What is the difference between an
editor and his wife2 One writes things
to set and the other sets things to rights.
He lived above his income" -.
Was the dark reproach he bore,
Till at last 1t was remembered,
That he lived above his store.
In Copenhagen there is manufactured
from the blood of cattle q chocolate,
which is said to be the most nutritious
article yet known to science.
The man who married a whole family
lives in Traverse county, Michigan. His
first wife died, and he married her sister.
She too died, and then he married the
mother of his two former wives.
The editor of the Cincinnati Saturday
Night discovered that his girl wore two
sets of gold mounted false-teeth, and he
sat down and wrote poem entitled,
"lRich and rare were the gums she
wore."
To ascertain the length of the day
and night any time of the year, double
the time of the suns rising, which gives
the length of the night and double the
time of its setting, which gives the
length of the day.
At one of our schools recently, in
answer to the question: "What is the
difference between an island and a con-
tinent, and upon which do we live ?"
bright little shaver replied: "The diff
ference is that continent is much
larger than an island, and we live on
bread and meat and other things"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02
TIme's Panorama.

e needs no magic glass or mystic mutterings,
10 read the prophecy Of coming years.
b sage interpreter, TO solve the utterings
0e Eashor Time, the patriarch Of seers.
ail the worlds stage, and life drama,
Nhoso actors come and 60, but come no
more,
tl.e future but panorama
o ae1 70 be, but seen in thought before.
lot lhs bright play fash on, but do not lInger
ia ecntemplation of its changing huesi
instead where Times prophetic finger
pIalH, and behold the picture that he views,
decade hence-nay, two. 1t does not matter.
Hesb aEp the aelf-same stage, the same cid
plar
Now aoiore counterfeit tho hollow cIatter
Worn cut long since by actors passed away.
Here vice looks mockingly on virtue slain,
There Youth and Beauty plight their troth
together;
Rore Sorrow ats and there broods cruel Pain;
There, shadow chills the friendship Of fair
weather.
sincerity still sows the seed Of hate,
Candor and Truth go cautiously in mask;
Honesty pode; corruption noesin sthpei
Labor still bonds, complaining, to his task.
Stay y you exclaim, in accsnts discontented,
$ Is not your catalogue complete at last
1lils future, so infinitely represented,
Il bat the present, tempered with the past ]"
Aye, so it is Youth dreams Of bright Successes
Manhood begins to doubt perhaps to fear;
While Age his weakness faltering confesses;
And so the world rolls on, year after year.
Year after year beholds the same endesyor
OF puny men FOR wealth or fame, and sees
How history repeats itself forever,
And Fortune still from her pursuer iees.
One life there is worth living, and its beauty
Transcends all charms that hopes fulfilled
can bring;
He who does trustfully his honest duty,
Alone is happy, 10 he serf or king.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02
A Dog Story.

This comes from Charleston, Ind.
Mrs. Brandon tells it. She says: "My
husband had a dog which he brought
from Kentucky, which seemed to me to
have more sense than any animal ever
knew. She would look up when order
ed to do anything, as intelligently as a
child, and if she understood what was
said, would give pleasant bark, and
start off to fufill the order. have often
made her shut the'door after the chill
dren, and she would come in at the
kitchen door, opening the latch with her
foot, and always shut it after her. One
time she had half dozen puppies in the
barn, which were her glory and her
pride, but one morning when my. hus'
band awakened he heard great row at
the barn, and went out with his gun,
expecting to find $ horsethief.. AS he
opened the door Flora went by him like
an arrow, and though he called her loud
and long she kept right on toward the
village. In looking around the barn for
the tramp he expected to find, he dis
covered that everything was all right,
except Flora's nest. The puppies were
all gone.
"We did not see Flora for tht
when she came back bringing string .
about three pounds of sausage, which
she kept in her nest until they spoiled,
and she died of grief that summer. One
of our neighbors saw her; while she was
missing, hanging around a butchers
shop in Louisville. She had followed
those puppies fifteen miles-and re-
covered them"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02
Derrick. the Hanrman.

Derrick was the most famous or in =.
famous hangman in English history.
He is described by contemporary pens
as "prime villain, and succeeded Bull,
the earliest recorded English hangman,
somewhere about the year 1898. The
earl OF Essex took Derrick with him to
Oadiz. where, after hanging twenty
three prisoners, he was sentenced to be
hanged himself for an assault on a
woman. Lord Essex interfered and
saved the scoundrel's life. In return
for this, Derrick. in 1901, with much
complacency, cut off his preserver's head
at the command of Elizabeth. Sir Wal
ter Scott enlarges upon Derrick in the
Fortunes of Nigel" He throve on
his. dreadful trade lived to bad old
age, and died infamously rich, Just in
time to lose the intense satisfaction of
presiding over the judicial murder of
King Charles I. He is alluded to- as
still living in 1647 and as being dead in
1850. During his later years Gregory
Brandon was his assistant, and Gregory
succeeded him, only, however, to die
within year, leaving his Office to Rich
ard Brandon, his son. This estimable
creature was twice sentenced to death
for bigamy. he began his career as a
headsman by decapitating the earl of
Stafford, and in all probability he was the
masked executioner who beheaded King
Charles. The macb're now called a
derrick takes it's name from it's pleasing
resemblance to the horrible tree so long
kept in full bearing by the English
hRngmRn.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-02
The Dog as an Article Of Food.

By most people the dog is valued only
during his life; his skin is not particu-
larly valuable, and his flesh is little es-
teemed. This is by no means, however,
the case everywhere. 1t is well-known
that the Chinese use the dog as q regu-
lar article of food. Many of the North
American tribes look upon an entree of
dog as the greatest possible sweet NOR
sci they can set before a stranger. Sir
Leopold McOsintock relates that in the
Sandwich islands he had the most pro-
fuse apologies offered to him because
there was no pnppy to be had for feast
to which he was invited. The Esqui-
maux, too, look upon a dish of young
dog as q great treat, and it is related
that a Danish captain provided his
friends with a feast of this kind, and
when they praised his mutton, sent for
the skin of the beast and exhibited it to
them The Greeks and Romans also
used the dog as an article Of diet, and
many ancient writer's, such as Galen and
Hippocrates, represent dog-meat as q
highly desirable dish. - Cincinnati En-
QuiFer.