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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
An Ancient Love Letter.

A Litchtield, Conn, correspondent of
the New York Evening Post publishes
the following ancient love letter, dated
more than hundred years ago, written
by a former Chief Justice of Connecticut
to the lady whom he afterward married,
and is of class always interesting:
"My Lovely Sallie: When | was in New
Haven / wrote to you by your Aunt
Fannie, which l suppose you have re-
ceived before this time; if you have not,
this will serve to inform You that l did,
and that am never forgetful of my dear
Sallie. The bearer is going this minute,
and | cannot detain him. | did not
know until a moment ago that he was
going, and therefore l can only inform
you that ] am well, and of that which
you very well know, that want to see
my charmer. If you remember, in
formed You that | had a letter in my
possession which | had never
sent, and which l now enclose to supply
the defects of this If Aaron is with
you, give him nv kindest love. pro-
pose to come to Fairfield as soon as /
hear that you are got there"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
Marriage, Health and Morals.

1t has been shown from statistics that
in general married people have less
mortality than the unmarried or widowed
Among the facts indicating the relation
between married and physical health, it
has been proved by M. Janssens, of Brus-
sels, that at all ages widowers are twice
as liable to phthisis as other men, but
that married people are generally more
liable to this disease than celibates This
law is constant for women; with men it
holds good only before twenty-five years
of age and after forty-fve. Such facts
ana their meanings are discussed by M.
Bertillon, in paper following the one
on Statistics of Marriage" which we no
ticed lately. M. Bertillon goes on to
show the influence Of the family state on
morals. Not only do married people
die less than others, but they show less
tendency to suicide, 10 mental derang-
ment, to assassination, to theft, or other
evils or crimes. Widowers commitsuicide
much oftener than married men. AS
regards crime generally, they MAY be
said to rank between the single (above)
and the married (below). 1t is remark
able that men who have families commit
less crime (including suicide) than those
(married men) who have not, AMI the
same applies to widowers. The presence
OF children recalls them, doubtless, 10 a
sense of duty. The influence Of children
further appears TO be greater than that Of
wife, and it keeps back married men
from crime more than widowers In all
social situations women are found to be
much less disposed to crime than men,
and the presence OF children greatly in
huences the morality of married women.
Those who have children show only
about half the tendency to crime of the
others. Widows, on the other hand,
seem - be more often inspired with crlm-
inal thoughts where they have children
than where they ale without them. Is
this from misery or some other cause:
AS regards suicide, the presence OF a
young family exercises, a peculiarly well
marked influence. Both in the case Of
married men and in that Of widowers this
presence diminshes by about one halt the
tendency to commit suicide. Women
are generally less disposed TO suicide than
men; but, whether in the married state or
widows, they show much less tendency
TO take away :heir own lives where they
have children than where they have not.
Some OF these results are contrary to COM
mon noiions.-London Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
Commonplace Looks.

The seal of commences, the stamp of
vulgarity, written upon the greater
number of physiognomies we meet with,
is chiefly accounted for in the fact of
the entire subsection of the intellect to
the will; consequently, the impossibility
of grasping things except in their rela-
ton to the individual self 1t is quite
the contrary with the expressions Of
men of genius or richly endowed ma
lures, and herein consists the family
likeness of the latter throughout the
world. We see written on their faces
the emancipation of the intellect from
the will, the supremacy of mind over
voli.ion; hence the lofty brow, the clear
contemplative glance, the occasional
look Of supernatural joyousness we find
there, in perfect keeping with the PEN
siveness of the other features, notably
the mouth.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
A Painful Scene.

Yesterday morning, while seven or
eight old and reliable citizens were hold
ing down chairs and boxes in a down
town grocery, and unanimously agreeing
that this was the greatest country on
earth, a stranger entered and said
Gentlemen, l suppose you are all
familiar with politics =
"We are" they replied in chorus.
"And you know all about the funda-
mental principles of libertyl'
ave do"
"Well, I'm glad on it, for I've made
a bet with Teller back here as to how
the reading of the Constitution begins.
One Of YOU just write me down the first
ten words"
While he felt for stub Of pencil
every man began scratching his head
and cautiously cycling his neighbor. One
began muttering, "Now l lay me-
and second said something about IRE
solved" and third wrote on the top
of cracker box, "On motion, it was
voted that" There was great
deal of coughing and sneezing and nose
blowing, when boy came in and said
the strangers horse had run away. He
rushed out, and seven faces frightened
up and smiled, and seven men took fresh
chews of tobacco and tried not to look
too important, when the grocer said
"The Constitution Why, every one
of you can repeat it by heart with your
ewes shut of course YOU can"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
Why Clairvoyants are Success
full.

The practical success of clairvoyants,
public and private, is the result of three
factors: |. Guess work reduced to science
and an art. 2. Coincidence. g. Trick
cry Guessing is at once a science and
an art-a science because it may be reg
ulated by certain principles. The ia
miliar guessing game illustrates what
can be done by guessing, scientifically
carried out with the privilege to the
guesser of but twenty chances, he may
yet, beginning with the kingdom to
which the article belongs, reach the
most minute object before his list is ex-
hausted. Success in this game, as all
who have played it know, depends much
on practice. Clairvoyants devote their
lives to the practice of this game, for
they play it with every victim that they
meet.
The subject of condolences is one
that has excited far less attention among
the students of history or human ne ture
than it deserves; little, indeed, has been
written upon it. Among those who
have given the subject any thought, the
most erroneous impression prevails that
can be brought under the laws of pure
mathematics. In the life of every
active human being are frequent,
almost daily occurring condolences,
which those who give any attention to
them may, if they choose, make the ba-
sis of most absurd decisions. Usually
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currences than an exclamation of sur
prise, and then forget all about them.
We are talking Of person whom, per-
haps we rarely meet, and have not seen
for long time suddenly he appears.
A thought-out of the ordinary course,
it may be-enters our mind we express
it, when behold the same thought has
Just been passing through the mind of
our friend. We meet with certain ex-
perience, and then we remember. or
fancy we remember, that the same expe-
rience has happened to Us in a dream.
OF all these daily and hourly happening
condolences, clarvoyants skillfullv avail
themselves, and in that direction they
are aided by the ignorance ana eagerness
of their victims.
The trickery of clairvoyants consists
mainly in the arr of making their vic
tins unconsciously reveal by word or
look facts of personal history. and then,
at the proper time, in reimparting the
information to them. In this way they
gain the credit, even among persons of
keen intellect, of being endowed with
divine powers. -Scribner's Monthly.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
Man from Monkey.

The difficulty, whatever it amounts to,
of conceiving how such a being as man
can be descended from All ape, the ape
from fish, and the fish from protozoon,
is paralelled by the life of every human
being. The child, before it learns to
speak, appears to have no higher mental
nature than that of an intelligent dog;
for some time after birth it appears to
have no mental nature at ell, and i'm
mediately after conception it has no
higher organic nature than that of a
protozoon. The development of the in
dividual is in the highest degree mystic
rious, but the mystery is only repeated,
and the difficulty is not increased, if it
is true, as the doctrine of evolution
teaches, that the development of the in
dividual, from the structureless germ up
to the mature man, has had its parallel
in the development of the race The
relation of mans spiritual to his an
imal nature is no doubt one of the
greatest of all mysteries, but the relation
of life to matter, though lower kind of
mystery, is equally mysterious. No
physical science can elucidate the relation
of the spirit to the brain, but the fact
that mans brain has no superiority to
that of the highest apes from which his
spiritual superiority could possibly be
guessed, so far from giving support to a
materialistic view OF our spiritual ma
ture, rather tends to cut away the
ground from under any materialistic ar
gument. The question, what point in
the development, either of the individual
or of the race, is that where the spiritual
nature comes in cannot be answered,
but it is not an important one to answer.
1t is, however, in accordance with all
the apologies of creation, if the same
creative power which at the beginning
created matter and afterward gave it
life, finally, when the action of that life
had developed the bodily frame and the
instructive mental powers of man, CON-
pleted the work by breathing into man
n breath of higher and spiritual life
Murphy on Habit and Intelligence
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24
The Fall River Strike.

The present strike in Fall River can
not be understood by persons who are
not conversant with cotton manufactur-
ing, without an explanation of some of
the processes of making cotton fabrics.
There are four distinct departments in
the manufacture : lst-The opening,
picking and carding; 2d-Warp and
welt spinning; 3d-Sizing; 4th-Weav-
ing. Aside from these principal de-
partments, a small proportionate number
Of persons are employed in the packing
room and in the repair shop. In most
factories only the welt, or filling, is spun
upon mules, the warp being usually spun
on rings or throstle frames. In Fall
River much Of the warp as well as welt
is spun upon mules.
In a factory of $4,000 spindles, Civ
ing employment from $50 to 600 opera
tives (about one-fourth men and three
fourths women), if all the yarn was
spun on modern mules, both warp and
filling, there would be from 80 to 35
mule spinners, all adult males. If only
the welt was spun on mules there would
be Is to Is, according to the size of the
mules. The proportion of the mule
spinners is, therefore, one operative in
six to eight in an all-mule mill, one in
twelve to sixteen in mill as usually
constructed.
1t will have been observed that it is
the mule spinners who are the chief pro-
motors of strikes in most cases. Why
is this They are relatively high-paid
men; their usual earnings are greater
than those of any other considerable
class of operatives in the factory; they
earn much more than the adult female
weavers, who constitute about one-half
the whole force in the factory. The
secret probably lies in this, that the
work, while not arduous, is continuous
and of most deadening monotony, They
must walk from morning till night, many
miles a day, mending the broken ends OF
the yarn. 1t is no wonder that they are
disconnected and ready for any kind of
excitement, and for this condition there
is no remedy except in complete
change. The only way to reform the
mule spinner is to abolish the mule.
This reform is in process, and may be
soon completed. The yarn spun on II
frame is in fact better and more durable
than that spun on mule, but not
qnite so soft; hence in weaving it does
not give quite so smooth an appearance.
Each frame spindle produces much more
than each mule spindle, and the frames
are tended by girls and women; they are
more compact and much more automatic
In many kinds of work frames are now
being substituted.
What will become Of the mule spin
ners They must take up other work
that will develop manhood or disap-
pear.
There used to be somewhat similar
class of men employed as dresser tend
ers who sized the yarn. They worked
continuously in a temperature CT about
100 degrees and an atmosphere impreg-
mated with sour starch. The sizing ma
chine, called slasher, was introduced
in 1866, and now one man and hoy
are at work in cool, we'll ventilated
room, doing the work that formerly re-
quired seven or eight dresser tenders
The management of the mill has been
much easier since the dresser was abol-
ished and the dresser tender vanished
Boston Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

A good s.ory is told OF a colored mint
lister OF Ballard country who was brought
to trial before his church on charge Of
stealing bacon. After a number Of wit
nesses had teen examined the deacons
retired. and soon after returned the fol-
lowing verdict; "The Rev Moses Buldso
am ackwit,ed OF de insinuaticns dat he
actual did stole de pork, as twas no,
shoded dat somebody else intent have
been wearin his cloze; bu, de brudder is
hereby fecnona,ely warned dat in de tu-
,ure he must be more keerful.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

A little fellow, crying halflhe nigh, with
the "eg ache, was much encouraged
mex, morning by finding tina, his head
achsd instead of his legs, The pain is
going up. and when it gets through the
top o! my head it will be all gone, Of
course" was his los,ca reasoning.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

The pen may be mightier than the
sword, but it doesn't rattle around the
heels Of militia colonel so vigorously
or trip him up so gracefully as the sword
does
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

Dancing masters seldom have any
money, but they're always taking steps
to raise some.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-07-24

A number of plscards, threatening
the life Of the Sultan and his ministers,
have been discovered by the police.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-11

On tfe right-hand side of the Champs
Elysees, as you go toward the Arc de
Triomphe, is a house, half hotel and half
maison bourgeoise. The second fat,
says the Partisan, is occupied by a we'll
known demi-mondaine, blonde as a
wheat field, who has been at st. Peters
burg for the last few years, and who re-
turned to her beloved Paris last winter
with the name of Russian Prince, but
not with the Prince in person. She is
very we'll known round the lake and on
the race-eourses, and aspirants to her
favors are not wanting, l.m s.,.. Il.
Her choice has lately fallen on a
French gentleman, also well known on
the turf, who has jealous wife. This
wife, having discovered that her husband
was most assiduous in the boudoir Of
Nine x, and that, at least twice week,
he staid there till day-aawn, filed a pc
tition or plainte en- adultere. The
commissaire de police who was charged
with proving the tlagrsns delictum knew
that the apartment Of Nine, x. was dis
posed in such a manner as to render il
very difficult to succeed in that delicate
operation. He therefore taxed his inge
nuity, and became wary and cunnin,
as a fox. On being received
by the valet de chambre, be ordere'
him to tell his mistress that the Coun
lde e., a Russian gentleman that the led
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-11
Stage struck.

Nym Crinkle, writing Of girls who are
impressed with an ambition to go upon
the stage, says: Not long ago an agent
showed me some of the letters he received
from what he called dramatic aspir-
ants" Most of the missives were from
young women in the country who desired
theatrical engagements, and they gave
their qualifications in measurements. One
Of them felt sure of her success because
she measured thirty-fve inches round
the bust. Another felt sure of playing
Pauline well because she had
the figure. II wear a No. l shoe" says q
third; "am rather voluptuous in form
and am said to have taking face" Thi;
young woman incloses her photograph
and expresses an ardent desire to appear
in a respectable troupe" One OF thu
most astonishing exhibits l ever saw wal
that made by a teacher of female aero
bats who recently went out Of the busi
ness. He had hundreds Of letters from
women all over the country who spoke o
their stalents" as il they were about II
have them fitted by a corset-maker
These women drift upon the stage with
out any knowledge aud very little Of tina
character which ennobies work. Thei
simple instinct Is that the world woul'
like to lock at them, and It Is a smar
thing to make all they can by the exhi
fbition. .stsd4s8 4Yao no s5o9sJ "a
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-11
Matrimonial Advertising.

When an American girl or woman
reaches the hopeless stage and resorts to-
the humiliating expedient Of advertising
for husband, she commonly, after a
brief but modest allusion to her charms
and advantages, states that she "would
like to make the acquaintance of an hon
Orable gentleman for mutual improve
ment;" or perhaps she goes SO far as to
add with view to matrimony." French
women, on the contrary, throw circumlo-
cution to the dogs and come to the
point at once, as witness this announce
from the Paris Globe: wants to Marry
A young lady, q years old, pretty,
with 500, 900 francs, and expectations Ad-
dress Roy" etc. Girls in this country
who have 100000 and expectations Of
more, and are pretty into the bargain,
don't have to advertise for husbands. 1t
ought to be unnecessary in France, judg-
ing from the countless-and penniless-
dukelings and princelets who are always
seeking the hand Of some American
heiress visiting the gay capital. This en-.
ticing meal doubtless cOnceals a highly
Objectionable cat. 1t may be an insane
father, robust and violent, who goes along
with the dot; or mother who coughs
nights, one of those dry, persistent
coughs that seem to prolong life; the pos
sible defects of the girl herself are tot
numerous even tor speculation to dwell
upon. Such advertisements are common
in the Paris papers. Matrimonial agen
cies often advertise in this way: "On'
young lady with $4,000 francs; charm
ing girl with 100, ,000francs; another witt
250,000 francs" and 50 on through tn,
list. Yet the French people are notet
for their exquisite taste.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-11
in adherence from such relics; now he
devoured them ravenously.

in adherence from such relics; now he
devoured them ravenousIy.
A few steps farther on, he saw flask
upon the ground; it was full Of brandy,
and he drank portion Of il eagerly.
Once more hope revived; he returned to
to the corpse; he drew off the long miners
boots, not without another shudder,
shook and rubbed them, then put them
on, and proceeded to reconnoiter the sur
roundings. In thought he said: :,
"The man has been murdered, robbed,
dragged in here, and left The road,
then, can not be far off; and it but
take pains enough, may find it again"
Here and there he broke branch
down, beheaded sapling, or clipped the
bark of young tree, by way OF blazing
something of trail; for he must not lose
sight of that lonely skeleton, which, till
the high-road was found, must serve as
La center whence to radiate and return.
And thus slowly and cautiously he went
to work, getting wrong oftentimes, and
more than once losing center, blazed
trail and all.
At length he stumbled on an old
crushed sombrero. Then he felt certain
he was on right track, and still more
cautiously and slowly groped along until
he came upon rusty bowie-knife, and
then quite suddenly it seemed to his
fancy as if the branches of maple raised
to give him the sight, the welcome sight
of tiny, irregular triangle OF dusty
road.
Oh, Joy! He rubbed his eyes ane
looked again: it was no dream, 1T wa
indeed the road, and as he pushed pas
the maple, long slanting ray of sunligh
streamed over him. Then straightway
he fell to the ground, and sobbed lik'
weakly child overcome by hysteria.
| After while scarce knowing what HI
did, he stepped out into the blessed sun
shine which for three days of twiligh
darkness he had not seen, and held VI
both hands towards the clear strip o
azure blue above his head, which seeme'
to the freshly liberated man like refresh
ing balm. Then, with the old, half-fol
gotten dread once more upon him, h
shrank back into the shadow, peepe'
cautiously to north and south, and Lis
tened for the sound of approaching foot
steps. yy.
No one was in sight, no one was With
J sound; he passed out into the open, an
, became again a solitary moving fgur
upon lonely road. Yes, he was rescue
from the bush, he was onward bound, h
was reshod after fashion, and the brar
} dy had revived him. But, ah, ominou
, but! he had lost three days of valuabl
r time, and where now was Abner Choate
Where, too, the man he feared?
: fro BE CONTINUED
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MatrimOny by Microscope.

The inductions of science, says The
New York Times, are fast being reduced
to such form that their application in
romantic fiction is only question of
time, and there will doubtless be novels
by and by, in which the fitness of the
hero and heroine for each other will be
determined by taking a drop Of blood
from the finger of each and subjecting it
to the optical analysis of the microscope.
In practical life, indeed, this has been
done already, and at least one happy
couple in this city have been joined in
wedlock on the testimony of the micro
scopist. Not long ago DR.. Charles Heitz-
mann, now of this city. but formerly Of
Vienna, was called upon by a
young man of large wealth, and wished
10 marry his cousin, but was deferred
from doing SO by the popular doctrine
respecting the issue OF marriages of con-
sanguinity. The lady was nervous, and
the affair likely to fall through unless
something could be done to leassure her.
Under these circumstances the family
physician suggested an examination OF
the blood by DIR. Heitzmann, whose pa
pers read before the Academy Of Medi-
cine and other learned bodies on the pri-
mary structure of protoplasm and other
learned questions have given him wide
reputation in microscopy. The doctor
was accordingly consulted by the pros
pective groom, who laid the case before
him in all its aspects, not forgetting the
lady's nervous apprehensions, and re
quested his good offices. 4
After some conversation, and some mis-
givings also, for the procedure was rathel
unprecedented in science, DR.. Heitzmanl
concluded that if the lady could be per
suaded to abide by the decision Of the in
strument he would undertake to deter
mine the question one way or the other
and to remove her fears, if consisten
with the testimony of the lens. Th'
young man agreed to this; the younl
lady was persuaded to submit her scru
pies to the decision of the microscope; th
pair visited the doctor at his laboratory
the circulation of each was CAREFUL,
studied with reference to corpuscular ant
other indicia, and the doctor decided tina
the marriage was proper one accordin!
| to the vital indications of each. Needles
to say, the drama closed with weddin
ceremony, for such would have been tn
case, probably, in any event.