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Parrots.

The interesting sketch of the History
of my Parrot, which Doctor Wilks con-
tributes to the current number of the
Journal, of Memphis Science, deserves o
passing notice. The comparative study
of the facts of the intercommunication
among men and among animals necessi
tates the admission that animals possess
llnguage; and the mechanism and appara-
tus for articulate speech in those animals
which possess it do not differ from those
of a man. A bird learns to speak by lmi-
tation, through the organs of hearing,
and in a manner never similar to that in
which children learn words and SEN
tences, and the bird speaks on special
occasions in consequence of some asso-
citation or suggestion, ''the usual pro-
vocative for set speeches at all periods OF
human life" A new expression, after
having been repeatedly uttered before
the parrot, is practiced by it spontane
ously, indefatigably working at the SEN
tence by itself At first it is only able to
get out the first word or two, then more
and more, until it has the power of inter-
ing the whole. In just the same way
child will learn French sentence. A
sentence is soon lost by the parrot if not
frequently uttered, and the last words are
lost first; the first. .words-those most read
lily acquired-are lost last. Speech of the
bird on any given occasion is due to sug-
gestion--the presence of the person or
object with which the words were first
associated. OF this DIR. Wilks gives
several striking instances of ''half past
two" whenever the eoachman comes for
OILERS, ''go to sleep" when approached
after dark, give me Bit when dinner
appears, and ''cheese" when the cheese
is put upon the table, sound like water
being poured out whenever jug of water
is brought in. Thus the bird associates
words or sounds with objects, and where
the right names have been taught it,
may be said to know their names; more,
the bird inyents names, making a partic
ular sound, which had never been
taught, whenever nuts were brought
upon the table. The sight of cat
makes the parrot say '.mew," as the
sight of train makes child say "puff,
puff" DR.. Wilks concludes by remark
ing that the difference between animals
and children is much slighter than is the
explanation which, on the assumption of
instinct in the one case and reason in the
other, we put upon them, and suggests
that the chief difference between man
and animals is to be found in the small
ness of knowledge of the fine arts pos
sessed by the Inter
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04

EDUCATING IoRsEs.-Horses can be et-
ucated to the extent of their understand
Ing as well as children, and can be easily
damaged or ruined by bad management.
1t is believed that the great difference
found i'll horses as to habits of reliability
comes more from the different manage
ment of men than from the variance OF
natural disposition in the animals Horses
with mettle are more easily educated than
those of less or dull spirits, and are more
susceptible to ill-training, and conseauent-
iy may be as good or bad, according to
the education they receive. Horses with
dull spirits are not by any means proof
against bad management, for in them may
often be found the most provoking OBJ
stinaey, vicious habits of different char
acter that render them almost entirely
worthless. Could the coming generation
of horses in this country be kept from
their days of colthood to the age of five
years in the hands of good, careful man
ayers there would be seen Il vast difference
in the general character of the noble
animals.
If Q colt is never allowed to get an ad-
vantage it will never know that it pos
sesses power that man cannot control,
and II made familiar with strange OBJECTS
it viii not be skittish and nervous. If
horse IS made accustomed from its carly
days to have objects hit on his heels, back
and hips, he will pay no attention to the
giving out of harness or of wagon run
ming against him at an unexpected mo.
ment. A gun can be fred from the back
of horse, an umbrella held over his
head, buffalo robe thrown over his neck,
a railroad engine pass close by, his heels
bumped with sticks, and the animal take
1t all as natural condition of things, if
only taught by careful management that
he will net be injured thereby There is
great need OF improvement in the man.
agement of this noble animal; less beating
and more of education.-Ia Door and OW..
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04

The SPRINGFIELD GAS MACHINE :
Messrs. Johnston & Holden, of this city,
have been appointed agents for ma
chine for the manufacture of gas, which
reduces the price of that article to about
one-half of the present cost. This ma
chine is designed for lighting isolated
buildings or those situated beyond the
reach of the gas mains, 1t is very SIM
pie in its arrangement and requires but
little skill to manage it. The machine is
perfectly safe, as no fire is required in
its manufacture, and the gas made is of
pure, white color that does not injure
the eyes. Johnston d Holden have had
twenty years experience in California
and Oregon in erecting gas machines,
and they state that the Springfield Gas
Machine is the most perfect of any they
have ever had any knowledge Of These
gentlemen are practical plumbers of
Portland, and we can assure our readers
that they would not give their sanction
to anything that was not just what it was
represented.
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the middle of the room, where he
crouched before the pistol pointing at hls
head.
On being searched dagger was found,
newly sharpened. He confessed that the
servant was his accomplice, and had told
him of the booty which awaited him.
Nothing remained but to deliver both
to justice. Madame Aubrey, indeed
begged her husband to let them escape,
but the public interest demanded the
sacrifice Of private lenity, and they were
delivered up. During all the time the
unconscious child slept soundly. After
some little time Madame Aubrey related
the events of the evening.
81 did not think you had been 50
brave, said her husband, embracing her.
But in spite of her bravery the events
of that evening brought on nervous
fever, from which our little heroine did
not recover.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04

The London Economist. which has
been investigating the subject of Ameri-
can competition with England in agri-
that American wheat can be produced
cheaper than British wheat, even If the
British farmer had no land rent to paw.
As this journal states the situation.
American wheat is delivered in enormous
quantities in England at forty shiIlings
per quarter, whereas, at the much high
er prices which have generally prevailed
since the repeal of corn laws, the British
farmer has been barely able to live and
pay his rents. 1t adds, .other charges
on British products have certainly not
diminished, and the British farmer must
be helped somewhere, or succumb to
a competition of wheat sold in his own
market at the present rates; and no other
help than reduction being possible;
the conclusion is inevitable, and land
lords must give up some of their in
come
The American farmer, in addition to
his comparative freedom from rents,
which offsets the charges he has to pay
in order to lay down his wheat in Liver
pool, has an advantage which determines
the competition in his favor, in the cheap
mess with which he obtains his ccop.
This cheapness may be attributed to the
fact that the American farmer operates
upon western lands which are yet virgin,
and do not require to be manured 1t
is certain that, acre for acre, English
lands require more labor in their culti-
walton than the soils of the west. As
the Economist says:-''An English farm
er, accustomed to drive two or three
horses over a stiff clay, can scarcely i'm
agine the ease with which light plough
runs through the rich loan of western
State. Northern Missouri, Minnesota,
the Red River settlement is just being
opened up. A furrow may be drawn for
fifty miles across this alluvial prairie
without meeting hill, tree, or a
stone."
To be sure, the average yield to the
acre is only 20 bushels in the United
States, against 30 in England, but this
fact is not of sufficient Importance to off
set other advantages.
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SHORT Bits.

Drawn from the wood-A load of logs.
Ii were in the sun and YOU cut of it,
what would the sun beeome?-Sin.
A colony of twenty-five business men
from Quincy, ILL.,, is en- route to Wash
ington Territory.
Song of man with rope around his
neck and mob at the other end: s'I'm
saddest when swing
A suburban undertaken advertises that
he conducts funerals sin either the old
and rural, or the ecclesiastical and re-
form styles"
More than ,0OO, 600 fly traps have been
at work in this country this summer,
and yet you didn't miss your favorite fly,
did you?-Detrot Free Press. !.
''If there's no moonlight, will you
meet me by gaslight, dearest Juliana {"
No, Augustus, won't, replied she;
I'm no gas meter"
The chronological Journal says: SIN
choosing a wife be governed by her
chin" And that's the thing mans
governed by after choosing her.
In North Carolina duel the other day
twenty-seven shots were exchanged and
nobody hit There is hardly Socialist
or Nihilist who could do better than
that.
The stranger who talked eloquently in
Stamford Conn. prayer-meeting turn
ed out to be burglar, who had come to
town on business, and incidentally sought
amusement.
Remember who You are talking to,
sir" said an indignant parent to face
f,kI.
who's to blame for that?" said the young
impertinence, .ttaint me"
A subscriber to a southwestern news
paper died recently, leaving four years
subscription unpaid The editor APP
peared at the grave and deposited in the
coffin palm-leaf fan, linen coat and
! thermometer.
George: tom, would you like to
travel p Tom: Il would, by Jupiter!n
George: Then you'd go at q jolly
rate" Tom: ''How?" George: We'll,
1 if you went by Jupiter, her guaranteed
I speed is twenty-nine thousand miles an
/ hour"
In the sweet, balmy, delicious happi-
ness of loves young dream,'' says Jocki-
Milo, "a youth will not only insist on
cracking walnuts for his ghl, but on
peellng them as well. Two years after
marriage he will not even let her have
the nut cracker until he is through"
A man was found dead at Viewpoint,
Ind, with bullet in his head A hint
at the manner of his death was given by
the evidence of an interrupted game of
poker. In his hand were four kings,
while four queens lay near by, having
probably been dropped by his exasperated
antagonist and murderer
At the funeral of the late Queen of
Madagascar, the body was swathed in
500 silk lambas, in the folds of which %
gold watches, 100 gold chains, rings,
brooches, bracelets and other jewelrv, to-
gether with 500 gold colus, were rolled.
That deposit OF the remains ofroyalty will
make splendid prospecting for some fu-
tnre miner.
An Irishman, some time ago, was be-
ing examined as a witness in some street
quarrel in Bishop Auckland, when a
sharp attorney, trying to hrow-beat the
Hbernian concerning which side of
Newgate street he was ON, asked: (Which
side of the flags were you on?" "Bedad,
your honor, replied Pat, ''theres only
two sides to flag. an was on the top
side"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04
A Spelling X, form.

The Chicago Tribune has inaugurated
a spelling reform and will hereafter spell
according to rules of its own. These
rules are how in the hands of the
editorial and reportorial force, printers
and proofreaders, and no deviation from
them will be tolerated Here are the
changes:
Omit ne in &c nagog, catalog, pedagog,
synagog, lialog, decalog, and other words
ending in gog,le and logue.
Omit the supertiuous me in program,
gram.
Omit the second m in dilemma (di-
lena.
Omit the supei1iuous te in cigaret,
etiquet, parquet, coquct and other SINH
lar words, except Gazette when it is used
as the name of newspaper
Spell definite III all its forms without
the final e, thus, deinit-ly-ness, indeti-
nit-ly-ness.
Spell ipfnit without the final e; also,
intinit-ly- ness.
Omit final e in hypocrit, favorit; also,
opposit-ly-ness, apposit -ly-ness.
one from less, viz: Carelesness,
thanklesness, etc.
Omit the fourth in assassin assassin
and other forms of the word
Spell somerset, not somersault
Spell canon with Spanish n, or spell
it canyon.
Change ph to in fantom, fantasm, and
all forms of the word; in fonic, fonetic-
sal, fonograsy. orShografs, alfabet, dig
raj, difthong.
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THE INDEPENDENT.
NY poo. HBRo.e
MAY \. HAwLEY.


Deadl And you bid me not TO mourn
or the faithfulesl heart that ever Leaf:
Ouiy a d. g--let the days pass on
. mere are dogs TO be bad since he Is gone,
nd newer friends are sweet.
On. hut tue brave. brown eyes are shut,
! nd the silken coat Of black II rough,
nd the smooth, soft head that sought my
haud
with n quick obedience TO command
IL silent and still enough.
\ fuer friend no one ever had.
I onder, more faithful, guardAnt, or wise
i.ero, my dog with proud bead ana whitt
breast,
1'ollowipg lar on my steps unrest
with fond, u urquettIoning eyes.
head! by ar enemy 5 cruel hand
! lain for defending the one he loved.
d. fnIthiuiest friend! his life was more
srban the human life which triumphed o'er
lis dumb strength, braveiy proved.
1iay. hush! These are heartfelt teais she'd
9'hefe Is never a dog can take his place.
have nO room for less worthy frlends,
And only the years can make amencs
Tor The loss Of lis constant grace.
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1879. STATE FAIR. 1919.
REEDS OPERA HOUSE.

THE ATTRACTION AT THIS POPULAR
Il place OF amusement during the coming
state Fair will far excel anything of the kind
ever presented at this house during any SINH
lar occasion. being no less than the appear
ance Of Maguire's superb Dramatic Company,
This imm ense com pany is the most perfect On
the American stage. comprising only artists OF
su perlor excellence, specially selected for their
superiority In dramatic art. Tie plays 10 be
produced will embrace all the latest novelties,
put on the stage with entirely new scenery
and mechanica' effects under the supers isfen
OF the experienced actor and manager Mr..
John Magnire, 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 oe presented } them al Reeds
Opera House during the Fair. So eat om.
band In uniform will parade the grounds
daily, JOHN MAGUIkE,
Prop and Manager.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04

SHELTERED ORCHARDS. Many writer's
advise the selection of sheltered spot
for an orchard, and some have even ad-
vised the planting of belt of quick
growing forest trees in such a position
that it will screen the orchard from high
winds. A Maine farmer says: sWere /
to plant an orchard, and had two 1oca-
tions, one in valley surrounded by hills
except on the south side, aud the other
on high elevation, exposed to high
winds, would choose the latter Ia pref
erenee to the former. The same holds
good as regards peach orchards. The
great object is to keep back the blooming
as long as possible, and this can be best
done in northern exposures, without
shelter.a s. =
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04

EARLY IRON MAKING IN ENGLAND.-In
the reign of Edward III. iron was so
scarce that the pots, spits and frying
pans of the royal kitchen were classed
among the Kings jewels. Upto the end
of the fifteenth century, English iron
was not only dearer but inferior to that
manufactured on the continent. During
the fifteenth century, the manufacture of
IRON began to be extensive in Sussex,
where the ore and timber for smelling it
abounded, and iron mills soon became
numerous in the country: The landed
proprietors entered into the business
eagerly, ard not only were many ancient
houses enriched thereby, but several new
men acquired wealth and founded fami-
lies. In the forest of Dean also, where wood
was plentiful, iron was largely smelted
The land, however, soon became denud-
ed of trees in consequence of the exclu-
sive use of charcoal for smelling; people
were alarmed, and many edicts were full
minated restricting the manufacture of
iron. Eventually the feeling became so
strong that from the time of the restora-
tion the from manufacture of England
rapidly declined Coal was known, but
there was prejudice against it's use on
account of its supposed pestilential quail
ties. Coal, moreover, as then used. in
juriously affected the quality of the iron,
and it was not till the beginning of the
18th century that the first real steps for
overcoming the difficulty was taken.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04

NELLY GRAEr's MoTHER-IN-L Law Mrs
Edward Sartoris was lady better known
to an older generation as Adelaide Kem-
BILE, daughter of Charles Kemble-the
brother of John Philip Kemble-by his
wife Marie Therese, clever actress of
Viennese birth and French descent, who
began life on the stage as ddnseuse
Adelaide Kemble was the youngest sister
of Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble Butler and
of John Mitchell kemble, one of the
most eminent of Anglo-Saxon scholars
and historians, who died in 1857, leaving
his great work on the "Saxons in Eng
land" unfinished. Adelaide Kemble,
who was gifted with singular beauty and
with voice of exquisite quality and rare
opefatic artistic, and on the stage of
Covent Garden Theater-during her brief
but triumphant career as prima donna
won great distinction by her dramatic
force as well as by her vocal endowments
and her artistic training. The best judges
of the day pronounced Pasta to be her
only superior in the role of Norma. She
married while still very young Edward
Sartoris, the son of Greek merchant
established in France, who had married
in England and who had purchased prop
erty there, and retiring from the stage
became one of the recognized leaders of
the most brilliant and intellectual if not
the most fashionable society in London.
A few years before her sons marriage tc
the daughter of President Grant, she had
contributed in serial form to one of the
English magazines some charming papers
on social life in France.-Nep York
World.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04


NEATSEss. is a personal
quality, and belongs to refinement OF
character. Cleanliness is something an
other can do for you; the laundress, the
barber, the tailor, the bootblack, cham
bermaid and housemaid may keep you
Immediately clean. But this is not a
moral quality. Many children are kept
clean by two, three or more suits day,
making vast amount of work for others.
but not educating the children to be neat
in any sense-a life long disadvantage to
every child so treated. Teach your child
rem to keep their clothes, their hands and
faces clean, to be neat in habit, to avoid
making any unnecessary work, and you
have given them a passport to the high
est society, developed quality that will
insure refinement and delicacy, and the
highest consideration for others; the ele-
ment of true gentleman or lady.
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Whom Victoria Has Ontliycd.

And now she looks back on the two and
forty years OF her reign, what changes
has her majesty seen in the personnel of
her priyy council, her parliament and
her cabinet ministers, to say nothing of
her judicial and episcopal bench! She
has outlived every bishop and every
Judge whom she found seated on those
benches in England, Scotland and Ire
land. She has witnessed the funeral of
every premier who has served under her
except Lord Beaeonsfield and Mr.. Glad
stone. Not a single cabinet minister OF
her uncle and predecessors days now
survives; and of those who held inferior
offices under her first and favorite pre-
mier, Lord Melburne, she can find among
the living only Lord Halifax then Mr.
Charles Woodl and Lord Howick (now
Lord Grey.
Of the members of the privy council
which sat at Kensington palace on that
bright summer morning in June, 1887,
to administer the oaths to the girlish
queen, can find in the land of the living
only four individuals-Mr George s.
Bying tnow Lord Stafford) Lord Robert
Grosvenor (now Lord Ebury), and the
veteran Earl of Wilton.
Indeed, it may be said that her majesty
has lived to receive at court, IN very
many, perhaps in most, instances, the
successive wearers of the same coronet,
and she has been four Lords Beauchamp,
four Lords Aberdeen, four Dukes OF
Newcastle, four Dukes of Northumber-
land, and five Lords Rodney. She has
received the homage of four Arch bishops
of Canterbury, of four Archbishops of
York, and five Bishops of Chichester,
Litchtieid and Durham, successfully.
She has filed each of the three Chief
Justiceships twice, at least; she has re-
ceiyed the address of four successive
speakers of the House of Commons; she
has entrusted the great seal iof the king
dom to no less than nine different Lord
Chancellors. and she has commissioned
eight successive Rremiers to form no less
than thirteen different administrations.
How TO TEAcH.-Children hunger
perpetually for new ideas. They will
learn with pleasure from the lips of people
what would be drudgery to learn from
books; and even If they have the misfor-
tune to be deprived of many educational
advantages, they viii grow mp intelligent,
if in childhood they hear daily the con-
yersation Of intelligent people. Hence,
the Importance that the teacher should
be an Intelligent person, The child comes
home and says. .'What do you think my
teacher told us to-day y The daily ef-
fort Of the teacher should be to render
himself fresh and bright, to meet with
the young minds that form the class; not
to think, aHow shall repress and bottle
up all The energy?"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04

GoosEBERRY JELLy.-Pick the frHit
before halfripe; put intoa dish and place
in a kettle Of hot water; cover closely
and boil until the fruit is tender. Strain
the same as currant jelly, and to each
pint of juice allow a pound of sugar;
boil twenty minutes; turn into jelly cups
and set in the sun for several days or
until stiff. Protect from insects and
dew.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-10-04

It is said that three presidents of q
Philadelphia gas company have died
within year. They will be judged ac-
cording to their meters in this world
Aels Orleans Picayune.
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SALT FOR PoULrBY.-The question as
to whether salt is injurious to poultry
has often been mooted. To get at the
true facts, have been feeding salt to all
my poultry, young and old alike, and
closely watching the result I have fed
it in cold mash and in hot; in bran and
in everything else, all the spring and
summer tso far with the following re-
suit: The poultry will eat all kinds of
salted food III preference to unsalted;
they ere better in general health; not a
louise of any kind in young or old, tthe
first year had not been able to say sol
and they are all beginning to moult.
many of them laying as though not
moulting. Eggs are cheap now, and the
hens will be ready for laying when the
weather is cold and eggs scarce, This
may or may not be the result of feeding
salt largely to them, but / am compelled
to believe this to be so, as are some other
peculiarities. I have noticed one feature
which may not he in favor of salt-the
hens have seemed to be more persistently
inclined to sit. it being very difficult to
pfeak OF the inclination; they sit closer
than usual. All seem yoraciously fond
OF green food of any kind. and have
eaten large quantity of clover. grass.
young corn, and other similar food. Nv
observations lead me to the Conclusion
that salt is q needed condiment for all
our poultry, and in all points is beneficial
to them.