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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-04-17
NOTICE.

L. $. LAND OFFICE
Vancouver, W. r., March .SIh, 1879.
COMPLAINT HAVING BEEN ENTERED
~ at this office by Lewis d. Radcliffe against
Maurice Sullivan for abandoning his home.
stead entry No. 1876, dated April 9th, 1874
upon Lots 4, D, and &, of Section b. Township
north Range west in Wahkiakum county
Washington Territory, with view to the can
collation. of said entry: the said parties are
hereby summoned to appear at this Office on
the 3Oth day Of April. 1879, at . o'clock A.
NJ, to respond and furnish testimony con
corning said alleged abandonment.
W. ii. SMALLWOOD, Register.
S. w. BROWN, Receiver.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-04-17
New YORK, April 10 1879.
New YORK, April II.

INV UNIV, II Prr IT Z n
To Gen. j. ". Sprogue: Two full
parties will locate the road from near
the mouth of Snake river to Spokane
falls and explore the branch between
the main line and the Cascade range
by Priests Rapids.
GEORGE STARK, V. P.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27
Orchards.

Every farmer should set apart several
acres of his land for fruit growing. He
can make use of the land for various pur
poses while the trees are growing. Indeed
it is probably the better plan to set the
trees so far apart that they will never
meet and overshadow the ground so much
that a crop of some other kind cannot be
raised between them. After all that has
been said and written against raising
crops in the orchard. the opinion appears
to be that it is better for the trees and also
for the proprietor, to keep on cultivating
the soil and keep on raising tillage crops
than to lay it down in grass. Some
crops are more suitable for orchards
than others. Hoed crops of any kind
are beneficial, because the soil is kept
in fine state of tilth, weeds are BAN
ished, and the surface of the soil, being
shaded by crops, retains moisture, which
is grateful to the minute, sponge-like
mouths of the fbrous roots of the fruit
trees. The cost of fruit trees, even of the
best varieties, is comparatively small, and
the land need not be idle while the trees
are coming to bearing age, for the
orchard, by proper cultivation, may be
made to produce excellent crops of vari-
GUS kinds. When an acre of apple trees
is in its prime, it will produce about 400
bushels of fruit, and if these are of the
best variety they will be worth one
dollar bushel. There will be
windfalls and inferior fruit which
will be of much use feeding hogs
or cattle. Some orchards, it is
true, produce crops only every second
year, because, having borne very heavy
crop, they need recuperation. 1t is a COM
mon saying: "One year for wood and one
for fruit" but it is also well established
fact that, by proper management, such as
judicious pruning, and the application of
special manures, the trees may be caused
to yield crop of fruit every year.
Peaches and plunls are uncertain fruits !;
yet, if precautions are taken, fine crops
may be obtained. If peach trees of the
best varieties are planted in suitable soil,
and in favorable situations, they will bear
almost every year. They do best when
shaded from the morning sun and
| exposed to that of the noon and evening,
as in this case the frozen branches thaw
gradually, and the slender tissues Of
| the wood are not fractured by rapidly
thawing after being frozen. The best OF
all the remedies for the curculio is to re-
move the soil to the width of three feet
and to the depth of six inches from
around the plum trees, scattering it
thinly over the surface of the orchard or
garden, SO that the pup9 of the curculio
may be exposed to destruction. This
should be done when the trees commence
to blossom. The cavity around the trees
should be filed with rich muck or COM
post. In every large orchard considera-
BILE portion should be set apart for grow
ing peaches, plums and pears, as these
fruits find a ready market, and when they
succeed well are very profitable.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27
Dickens as a Pedestrian.

"Are you a walker? 2" inquired the
English friend who drove me to the sta
tion from which was to start for Gad's
Hill, on my first visit to Charles Dickens.
Pretty fair, l replied, with that Amer
ican confidence in my ability to do any
thing which has made my countrymen
famous. ''Al right" responded my
friend, with quizzical glance at the thin
soled CATERS affected by New Yorkers in
1S66-a glance which I did not thor
oughly appreciate until forty light hours
afterward, in my room at the Gad's Hill
place, when l endeavored to coax those
very CATERS off from my swollen, burn
ing and painful feet. During that inter-
val had met Charles Dickens, and we
had taken one of his walks together.
Professional or amateur, there was never
more enthusiastic pedestrian than
Dickens. He loved walking for its own
sake; he practised it for its beneficial
effects upon his health; he utilized it as
a means of observation; he preferred it
to any other means of locomotion; he
found in it rest, recreation and unlimited
enjoyment. 70 ask you to walk with
him, in town or country, was one of the
highest compliments which he, who raid
so few compliments, could offer. MANY
are the happy hours, along London
streets and Rochester roads, that
memory now tenderly recalls; but
these pleasures do not obliter-
ate the recollection of the exquis-
ite pedestrian pains that followed
my first walk with Dickens. There was
nothing, except my friends tentative
question at the station, to prepare me
for the sacrifice. A basket-carriage was
waiting at Cad d's-hill station to drive me
to the Dickens mansion in time for dim
ner. Next day the host himself drove
me about Cebham park. 1t was not un-
til the second morning, when we had be-
come better acquainted, that he proposed
that walk to Rochester, around Roches-
ter, through the marches, to Gravesend,
by Chalk church, that sent me back to
London footsore from unaccustomed ex-
ercise. but with head and heart full of
the genial and wise gossip of the great
novelist. Not quite twenty miles and
back, said Dickens, as we reached Gad's-
hill gate, 'sbut good walking for five hours
and half considering the country.
Considering, too, he might have added,
the stoppages for hearty laughter; the
episodes of flower gathering and STAIR
climbing; the visits TO roadside hosfel-
ries, old churchyards and curious ruins;
the talks with tramps, with children and
inquisitiye dogs, and the merry accom-
paniment OF anecdote, reminiscence and
remark. that made each mile miracle of
delight to one who was, for the first time,
alone with the Dickens of his boyhood's
alteration and his youthful dreams.-
Aqssatic monthly and Sporting Gazette,
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27
sGIrls', and "Young LADIES',

call you a girl. but it is not the FASH
ion any more. The girls are gone, and
there is nobody left but young ladies'.
like girls best. There used to be a flock
of Carolines in Lowville, and as fair a
flock as ever wore muslin. There were
Caroline Collins, Caroline Northrup,. Car
oline Devan, and ever so many more.
There were Cornelias, James, Elizabeths,
Marys and Paulinas. They were all girls.
and they never scorned the title. Now
they would be Carries, and Nellies, Lizzies,
Mamies, Jennies and Cornies, and young
ladies withal, every daughter of them.
Let us not end our names: 'ie." Let
US not forget that affectation is the act of
being a fool according tox rule. Let us
learn to work worsted cats of impossible
pink, if we must, but let us know how to
make Indian pudding and golden loaf
of corn bread as well. Let US talk French,
If we can, but let us avoid slang as we
would pestilence and famine. Pure and
undefiled English never sounds SO music
ally as it does from the unadulterated lips
of genuine girl. Let us learn the ex-
OF Roman ruins. ! think | have heard
Tyre, Tadmor and Thebes mentioned
once or twice, but there is nothing so
ancient in all this world as an old dilapi-
dated heart. 1t is everybody's duty.
especially every girls, to keep young.
Now, to you and your classmates
Dear girls, pray you read the book of Ruth,
That old love story beautiful as truth.
Of one who lives In everlasting youth;
And say with her Truth, forever thine"
THY God my God. and thy people mineW
so shall you keep In loving step with time,
And lffe's sweet cadence prove q perfect
rhyme,
And when at last the song 10 done,
And level shines the dying sun,
Another dawn will show its early light,
And bid Good mornf though you have said
"Good night"
BENZ +. Tdytor.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27

IsMAIL II SEARCH OF HoME.-For
some weeks past the ex-Khedive has
lived on board his yacht in our port. He
seems to have inspected, one after the
other, all the country seats in the neigh
borhood, and it has several times been
confidently reported that he had actually
struck bargain for the temporary use
of villa. One day we heard from
trustworthy source that he had offered
heavy sum to the Conte de Bulzo,
the owner of large house and
handsome grounds at Capodimonte,
bequeathed to him by Queen Isabella
Whose husband he became after the
death of Francis l., King of the two
Sicilies); the next it was asserted that
his Highness was in treaty for two ad-
joining villas on the other side of the
same village. Then the magnificent
property at Posilipo, formerly belonging
to the Bourbon Prince Luigi, and SUBJ
sequently inhabited by the Comte de
Haute, attracted his attention, and
within the last few days the charm
ing house and ground, we'll known to
our compatriots as the scene of the
summer hospitalities of the late Lady
Strachna were supposed to have riy-
eteu HIS eNeI-NaTy ing laHcy. IL Is, AOW-
ever, now fact that himself and sons
took up their abode at the Hotel Royal
on the 10Th inst, and the harem was
trans-shipped from the Mahroussd (or-
dered home) to another vessel sent ex-
pressly from Egypt for their aecommo-
dation. To-day's journals positively
assert that the ex-royal residence La
Lavorita, at Portici, will, through
the mediation of Count Aghemo,
be put at his Highness's disposal. 1t
is stated, however, that the palace
will be put in repair and furnished at the
expense of the italian Government, which
is already in treaty for the recovery of
the land alienated not long ago. One
cannot forbear smiling at concluding
paragraph in the journal from which
gather information. 1t is gravely an
nounced that the ex-Khedive has ap-
piled to the Sultan for permission to land
his harem.-NopIes Correspondence of
the London Times.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27
Humor in lne Family.

Good humor is rightly reckoned q most
valuable aid to happy home life. An
equally good a nd useful faculty is sense
of humor, or the capaIity to have little
fun along with the humdrum cares and
work of life. We all know how it bright
ems things up generally to have lively,
witty companion who sees the ridiculous
points of things, and can turn an annoy
arce into an occasion for laughter. 1t is
a great deal better to laugh over some
domestic mishaps than to cry and to scold
over them. Many homes and lives are
fdull because they are allowed to become
too deeply impressed with a sense of the
cares and responsibilities of life to reco-
ognize its bright, and especially its mirth-
full side. Into such a household, good but
dull. the advent of witty, humorous
friend is like sunshine on cloudy day.
While it is always oppressive to hear per-
sons constantly striving to say witty or
unny things, it is comfortable to see
what brightener little fun is-to make
an effort to have some at home. 1t is well
to turn off an impertinent question some
times. and to regard it from an humorous
point of view instead of becoming irrita-
ted about it. "Wife, what is the reason |
can never find clean shirt 2" exclaimed
a good but rather impatient husband, after
rumaging through all the wrong drawers
His wife looked at him steadily for a
moment, half inclined to be provoked,
then with eomical look, she said 81
never guess conundrums; | give it up"
Then he laughed, and they both laughed.
and she went and got his shirt, and he
felt ashamed of himself, and kissed her,
and then she felt happy so what might
have been an occasion for hard words and
unkind feelings. became just the contrary,
all through tho little vein of humor that
cropped out to the surface. Some children
have peculiar faculty for giving hui
morous turn to things when they are
reproyed. 1t does just as we'll oftentiines
to laugh things off as to seold them;
laughter is better than tears. Let us
have little more of it at home.-Mantt-
facturer and Builder.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27

BISMARCK AND MoLTKE. Bis
marck was present and in the best of
moods. Defeated at the beginning of the
session over the odious muzzle measure,
he has now succeeded in vanquishing his
foes and securing victory on oil points.
While the vote was being taken his High
ness sat waiting for the end on the raised
seat occupied by the Federal Council,
full in front of all the House, an arrange
ment which makes the German Parlia-
ment like crowded Court, with the
Judges sitting II, Dane. The Prince
leans back in his chair, and, throwing
one leg over the other, complacently
slaps the sole of his right foot with his
left hand, or playfulIy tits up his sword
and topsy-turvies the papers on the table
before him. And Moltke, who is stand
ing Immediately below, seeing that his
great companion In renown is not en-
pIoyed, mounts the few steps leading to
the Princes side-his sword hilt becom-
ing entangled in the rail and slightly i'm
peding his ascent--to offer his sincere
congratulations on the triumph won.
And for some minutes the two engage il,
an animated conversation, the great
strategist speaking with fulness and
animation quite unusual in his quiet and
silent nature. They stand in profile be-
fore the Strangers Gallery. and what q
pair Of heads! Through singular freak
Of nature, Moltke decidedly looks ii-
pIomatist and Bismarck q soldier Ber-
lin Letter.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27

GIRLS ON THE STAGE.-The young
women of Philadelphia never grow Old
A theatrical manager who advertised for
twenty-five beautiful girls complains that
old women who would pass for his grand
mother-and who is not spring chicken
himself-answered the call. These were
women who had capered before the foot
lights for years, and tossed their ringlets
at the front rows for q generation, and
yet they still fancy they are young,
sprightly and beautiful. II tell you,
remarked the manager in a confidential
chat with reporter, although this may
Seem to be an easy way to make living,
yet know the life is fraught with hard
ships and spiked with dangers know
it, and knowing it, act accordingly. Now,
the other day, two young girls called on
He-pretty little girls, too-and wanted
to go on the stage. They were willing
to go at just enough to keep them.
took those two little stage-struck girls
aside and talked to them like Sunday
school Superintedent. They said they
were working in shirt factory and were
only making 81 so a week, and could not
get along on their wages. When found
that ont doubled my argument, and I
think I have persuaded them that stitch
ing shirts at so o week is better for
them than to undertake the hardships Of
a life in tights and tinsel Women get
it bad sometimes. There is plenty of
fun with young man who wants to play
kings and tyrants by casting him for Q
policeman In pantomime, and whang-
ing him with stuffed clubs and property
produce. One week of this effects o per-
-. ~. rx,. J,Jt lxtaxl y0lInd xy0Ynayl
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27
smitten with the Circus Fever.

After the performance was over at the
circus, says Nevada exchange, a young
man called on Chiarini and said he want
ed to see him ON private business. The
veteran took him into his Office, and re-
ceived him with the usual politeness.
81 came up all the way from Carson to
see the show, and I'd like to join," said
the young man.
"Gh, see, said the circus man; eyou
are well formed, healthy looking young
fellow. and / like to encourage such as
YOU" The youths face frightened.
s.You don't chew, smoke or drink, /
hope?"
"Oh, no; honor bright-exeept soda
and beer.
They weaken the muscles and paralyze
the nerves. You can soon stop drinking,
but your salary will not be large until
you have overcome these tendencies. A
little lemonade circus lemonade-is all
the performers drink. Call at Ii o'clock
tomorrow morning and will see what
I can do. You mustn't expect over $50 a
week, though, at first. We never pay
high salaries until we know what a man
can do.
The delightful Carson1te went away
and next morning was on hand.
Chiarini took him to tent where three
immense Bengal tigers We're Gagged
Handing him curry comb and pair o.
shears, he remarked:
Your duties will be comparatively
light at first. You will go into the cagt
and curry the tigers down every morn
ing, and about once week eEt theil
claws; keep 'em down pretty short, 81
that when they attack the tiger-tamers
Mr.. Wilson, they won't lacerate hin
much. Sometimes, but not more thai
once month, you may have occasion t
file their teeth. You just throw the ami
NAL on his back and hold his head be
tween your knees. If he acts rough, bel
him in the nose few times. Keep pelt
ing him until he quiets down"
Haven't you got vacancy in the ar
department." asked the young man from
| Carson.
SIS art in your line?" inquired Char
ini.
'tYes," drawled the young man. II
the circuses / have always run with
was employed to print the stripes on til
zebra killed so many tigers keepir
'em straight that the boss wouldn't le
me handle 'em. He said used EN- to
rough"
Chiarini swears that the terror fro1
Carson shall have the first vacancy.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27

s70. STATE FAIR. 1876
REEDS OPERA HOUSE.

THE ATTRACTION AT THIS POPULAR
Il place of amusement during the coming
ever presented At this house during any SINH
lar occasion. being no less than The appear
from the Baldwin Theatre, San Francisco.
This immense company Is the most perfect on
the American stage. comprising only artists OF
superiority In dramatic art. The plays TO be
produced will embrace all the latest novelties,
put on the stage with entirely new scenery
OF the experienced actor and manager Mr..
John Mcguire, the lessee OF the Portland The
ater. Our readers will do well TO avail them
selves of this opportunity to enjoy the great
treat which will be presented TO them at Reeds
Opera House during the Fair. so great com.
pany as this can not fail TO pack the house to
It's greatest capacity nightly. A silver cornet
band in uniform will parade the grounds
daily JOHN MAQUfRE,
Prop. and Manager.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-27
julius Cesar the Second.

Many persons will be interested, and
many more, perchance, considerably as
tonished to learn that an efigy of julius
Caesar has recently been added to the
National Portrait Gallery. The pleasing
circumstance is duly recorded in the
twenty-second annual report of the Trus-
tees to the Lords Commissioners Of Her
Majesty's Treasury, and from this in
that the nation has come into possession
of portraits, among numerous others, OF
Lord Bacon, Richard Baxter, Thomas
Britton, the musical small coal man."
Geoffrey Chaucer, Archbishop Cranmer,
Oliver Cromwell, the Duke of Cumber-
land who is politely styled Hero of Gull
loden in the catalogue-Andrew Marvel,
st. Evermond, .'Cyclopedia" Rees, Hum
phrey Wanley Of the Little World
of Wonders;" General Lord Cults,
"La Belle Hamilton" who married
Count de Grammont; Thomas Holcroft,
the dramatist, and Lodowick Muggleton,
founder of the sect of pietists called
Muggletonians. But how, it may be
asked, did Julius Caesar obtain admission
to this miscellaneous but eminently dis
history that on the 26th of August, B. G.
SO, Julius Caesar, with the infantry of
two legions, cast anchor off the British
coast somewhere between Dover and
Deal. We have all heard how the stand
ard bearer of the tenth legion leaped
with his eagles into the sea, calling on
his comrades to follow him; how there
/ was fierce combat on the beach be-
ancestors; and how Caesar, albeit he
gained the struggle, found the ancient
Britons, all naked savages as they We're,
remarkable tough customers Looking
at the season of the year at which this
engagement occurred, Caesar probably
wore the full panoply of Roman gen
eral, minus only those pantaloons which
were subsequently introduced into the
imperial wardrobe by his nephew, the
chilly and rheumatic Augustus; but at
| the first blush it may be somewhat per-
picking to learn from the catalogue al
ready referred that the Julius Cesar in
| the National Portrait Gallery wears "a
tall cap trimmed with white lace receding
from the forehead, and an elaborate lace
ruff" 1t is added that the countenance
of Julius wears benevolent expression,
that he was celebrated for his charity, an
eminent antiquary, and was formerly
called Sir Henry Spelman. Mighty
Caesar was assuredly an eminent
antiquary, and sedulous collector
of the coins and objects OF
vertu of his time in the shape of booty
of war; and Mark Antony, in the cele-
brated funeral Grafton reported by
Shakespeare, claims for the hero whom
Brutus and company slew, the possession
of many benevolent qualities. He was,
again, called many names during his
time, but the historians omit to inform
us that he was ever mistaken for Sin
Henry Spelman. Our doubts, however,
may be at once resolved by ascertaining
from further reverence to the catalogue
that the Caesar in the National Portrait
Gallery is not Caius Caesar of the julia
gems, but Sir Julius Caesar, Master Of
Rolls in the reign of King James /. and
King Charles l., and whose last known
lineal deseendent was Colonel in the
Guards, and one of the many protectors
of Peg Wofington.-Er.