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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
Seacoast Superstitions.

Old wives by the seacoast hold many
supersti.ions concerning the hollow
sounding and mysterious main. Thus,
Dickens tells MS that Barkis fingered in
his dying until the turn of the tide,
when, the tide going out, Barkis went
out with it. In New England it is IN
lucky to kill a pig in the wane of the
moon or at the ebbing of the tide; the
pork will shrink in the boiling. Water
in the dinner-pot evaporates more rapid
" over the fire when the tide is "dead
low" 1t is unlucky to eat. fish from
the head downward; it drives the fish
away from the shores. 10 tell the
state Of the tide without going to the
beach, Look INTO the cats eyes; the pupil
of every intelligent cats eye is elongat-
cd when the tide is at the flood.
Never count a days catch of fish until
the days work, or sport, is done; other
wise the sport is spoiled. Similarly the
seaside farmer never counts his lambs
until the season for their dropping is
over. But it is not alone in rural COM
munities that men and women keep up
customs and rites founded on pagan su-
perstition. Among the Ancient Greeks
and Romans it was a common custom
for the bridegroom to give his bride, on
the wedding night, a considerable sum
of money, by way of purchase of her
person. From this usage, no doubt, we
have derived the custom Of making the
wedding presents under which SO many
people groan. The ancient Saxons
gave a betrothal ring, Or other gift,
which was called "a We'd" and from
which we have derived a very charming
word. Fifth avenue throws an old shoe
after the departing bride. 1t Is because
our sterner f~orefathers ordained that the
bridegroom would tap his new-made wife
on the head with his shoe, as a token of
her submission to her lord.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
Lemons.

For all people, in sickness o rin health,
lemonade is a safe drink. 1t corrects
b~i.liousness. 1t is a specific against
worms and skin complaints. The pip
pins crushed may also be mixed with
water and sugar and used as a drink.
Lemon Juice is the best anti-scorbutic
remedy known. 1t not only cures the
disease, but prevents it. Sailors make
a daily use of it for this purpose. A
physician suggests rubbing of the gums
daily with lemon Juice to keep them in
health. The hands and nails are also
hoPt leon, white and supple by the
daily use of lemon instead of soap. 1t
also prevents chilblains. Lemon is
used in intermittent fevers, mixed with
strong, hot, black tea or coffee, without
sugar. Neuralgia may be cured by rub
bling the part affected with a lemon. 1t
is valuable also to cure warts, and to de-
stroy dandruff on the head by rubbing
the roots of the hair with it. In fact,
its uses are manifold, and the more we
employ it externally the better we shall
find ourselves.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
No Fun in Being a Princess.

The position of the Princess Of Wales
is TOO exalted a one to permit of much
social enjoyment, yet has not the splen-
did p~otentialities of reigning royalty.
The Princess, too, is peculiarly unosten-
%tatious, and evidently finds the magniti-
cent loneliness of her position an actual
trial. To be young and beautiful, and
idolized, and yet to be shut out from
most forms of social amusement, can be
by no means delightful. Yet there are,
of course, very few houses, even among
those of the highest nobility, to which
the Princess of Wales can so as an in
vited guest. And when she does so, an
awful state hedges her around. She is
~passionaiely fond of dancing, yet no
gentleman can ask her to dance. She it
is who signals out the parsonage whom
she desires as a partner, and, when she
stands up to dance, all other dancers
must sit down. After circling around
the room some half a dozen times, she
pauses and sits down to rest, and then
the remainder of the walters may take
a turn, but as soon as she stands up
again they must stop. This solitary
Grand Lama kind of performance can
not be very amusing to this kindly, gen
tie, amiable lady. She is, | am told, a
most accomplished dancer, despite her
slight lameness. But, of all the recrea-
tons of her life, shs most enjoys driving
in the park. In her little victoria, with
he dame de compagnie beside her, she Is
free to enjoy the testimonials of atfec-
ton and enthusiasm that meet her
everywhere, and no Il that notes the
gracious smile and bow wherewith she
returns every s~alutation can doubt her
delight at her own popularity.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
A Voiceless Wife.

Burdette leaves off his fun to write
this pretty little sketch While / was
leeturing at Washington l saw a lady
with an intelligent, pretty face and
bright, eloquent eyes that were rarely
lifted toward the speaker, and then only
for a flash Of time. They were bent
upon her husbands hands almost con
stantly. Brilliant and accomplished a
few years ago, she had gone down into
the world of voiceless silence, and now
all the music and all the speech that
comes into her life comes through the
tender devotion of her husband and, as
| talked, | watched him telling off the
lecture on his nimble fingers, while her
eager eyes glanced from them to his
sympathetic face. 1t was a pretty pic
ture of devotion. They were SO young
to have this cloud shadow the morning
skies of their lives but, as / glanced
from the voiceless wife TO her husband,
| thought how beautifully the sunlight
of his devotion was breaking through
these clouds and tinting even their afiic.
tons with a tender radiance. This dis
cipline Of attending upon suffering is q
good thing for a man. 1t rounds out
his life it develops his msnlier, nobler
Qualities it makes his heart brave and
tender and strong as a woman's.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
A Beautiful Extract.

The glory Of Summer has gone by
the beautiful greenness has become with
cred and dead. Were this all, were
there 10 associations OF moral de~solation,
faded hopes, hearts whitening in the
bosom of the living, connected with the
decaying scenery around us, we would
not indulge in a moments melancholy.
The season of flo wers will come again ;
the Streams will flow gracefully as be-
fore the trees will again toss their cum
broUs heads of greenness to the sunlight
and by NOISY stone and winding rivulet
the coming blossoms will start up at the
bidding Of their guardian. But the
heart has no change like that of nature !;
1t has no returning S~pringtime. Once
blighted in its hour of freshness, it bears
forever the mark of the spoiler. The
dews Of affection may fall, and the gen
tie rain Of sympathy be lavished upon
1T, but the stone root of blighted feeling
will never again waken into life, nor the
crushed flowers of hope blossom with
their wonted beauty.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
Mother Rules the World.

1t is hard for a young mother, who
has not vet overcome the wayward ten
denotes of her own youthful nature, to
realize the influence she exerts over her
own little ones. Shells constantly sur
roanded by critical imitators, who copy
her morals and manners. AS the mother
is, so are her sons and daughters. If a
family Of children is blessed with an in
telligent mother, who is delicate and re-
fined in her manners, and does not con-
slider it necessary to be n woman IN a
drawing room and IN entirely different
person in every day life, but who is a
true mother and always tender, charm
ing woman, you will invariably see her
habits of speech and perfect manners
repeated in her children. Great, rough
men and noisy, busy boys will always
tone down their voices and step lightly
and try to be more mannerly when she
stops to give them a kind word or a
pleasant smile; for a true mother will
never fail to say or do all the pleasant
things that she can that will in any way
help or lift up aud cheer those whose
lives are shaded with care and toll.
The mother of to-day rules the world of
to morrow.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

Philadelphia Times says "The New
York Times is one of the partisan oracles
that usually discusses business questions
with candor even in the heat of a Presi-
Dental struggle. In an elaborate re-
view Of the tariff question it ssum
that the protective features of the tariff
would be safer under Republican than
under Democratic rule, but it gives the
same admonitions to high protectionists
that the Times gave q few days ago.
The one great peril to the whole funda-
mental policy of protection il in the
obstinate demand for the continuance
of an incongruous and disjointed tariff
without any modification whatever, and
in the recent palpable abuse Of the pro-
tective features of the present tariff by
iron, paper and other manufacturers. If
protection is not to be utterly over
thrown, there must be a liberal and just
revision of the tariff and protection
must not be mistaken as g. license for
extortion.'
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

a portion of the artillery for lombard
ment and fertilization Is to be replaced
this. year in Austria by the new system
of Uchatius. The types adopted by the
Commission Of experts are the n of
brass and bronze composition, breech-
loading, of II to 10 centimetres callbre.
In the tests this metal has given salts
factory results, rs well for the great ar
tilery as for the campaign artillery.
The gun of II centimetres is very light,
but, for that reason, of easy transporta-
ton, and its discharge is excellent. The
cannon of Is centimetres serves with
efficiency at ordinary distances, not only
against earthworks or masonry, bat also
against the fragile plates of the armored
forts. The powder used for the tests is
composed Of grains, cubical in form.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
A nice little romance recently had its

A nice little romance recently had it's
denouement in Loring's book store at
Boston. A salesman had just put up a
box of fancy paper addressed to a young
lady in California, and left it on thecoun-
ter a few minutes. While it lay there a
young Englishman came in. saw the ad-
dress and it was that of his beloved girl,
for whom he had come to America on a
venture to search. He was a youth of
high degrse and she a gardeners daugh-
ter. His parents had sent the garden
er's family to America to get rid Of
them. The young man followed, though
ignorant of their address. He now went
to California, married his girl, and six
weeks later brought her into Loring's
book store.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
Princes and People.

The powerful and thrifty Germans
find it hard work to be arislocrats, auto
Gratis and despots, or even to put OH
airs in any manner. Prince Bismarck's
famous "blood and iron aphorism is as
much democratic as aristocratic, and has
as much OF endeavor as of privilege in
it. However patrician "blue blood"
may be, nothing is more democratic than
~cosmopolite and indispensable iron, with
out which it were equally impossible to
have swords or plowshares, spears or
pruning-hooks.
In this view, the recently recorded
example of the German Kaiser and the
German Crown Prince contain an i'm
p~ortant lesson, whether to the manner
born or of the army OF immigrants who
are coming to subdue our wilderness,
and so, in the end, contribute to the
universal welfare.
"A Southern contemporary groups the
following not unfamiliar Incidents in
the recent life of the Emperor and the
Prince. We have simply changed their
order
Emperor William is described as
looking better than he has for years, and
wearing a robust and hearty air. He
regards himself at Ems, as a soldier on
leave of absence. He seldom wears his
customary uniform, but generally ap-
pears IN plain dress, which is, however,
less becoming to him than his we'll
known regimentals. HIS mode of life
at Ems is rather monotonous. He rises
early, visits the 'Brunnen,' takes his
constitutional walk on the promenade,
and then sets to official work. ANY dis
tinguished fr~equenter of the famous Spa
may Measure Of an invitation to his
Majesty's ever hospitable board. The
evenings are usually spent at the Royal
Theatre, in the Kurhaus, where he sits
among the audience without any partic-
ular box being set apart for him. He
delights in listening to comedies and
%farces, whose wit never fails to evoke Il
smile or arouse his laughter, which,
ringing with unaffected pleasure, is
always u treat for the whole house.
"The Crown Prince is q wise and
thrifty gentleman. 1t is related that
the officers of Il regiment which is annu-
ally inspected by him have been in the
habit Of invitin. him to luncheon after
parade. Last year the entertainment
was Of the most elaborate and costly
kind. The Prince would touch nothing,
and even refused the wine offered him,
observing that che only drank cham
payne on extraordinary occasions The
reproof told, and this year when the
Prince entered the guardsmen's mess
room, after the inspection. he found only
a modest repast of sandwiches, light
claret and beer awaiting him. He at
once sat down, partook Of the frugal
fare, and, with the observation, This is
as it should be among comrades pro-
duced his meershaum, lit it and remained
for more than an hour, smoking and
chatting with his entertainers in the
most friendly and unceremonious man
ner Imaginable
Whether in town or country, IN civil
or military life, there are hosts of Amer
lean mimics, snobs and parvenues, who
ought to get a good deal of democratic
and republican food from these imperial
narratives. They, at least, will help us
to comprehend that men are men every
where, and that we must all work if we
would win.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

A Chicago girl seeing her lover enter
a saloon, followed him and fell senseless
when she saw him with a glass of beer
at his lips. Gracious, but the Limbur-
ger cheese on the free-lunch table must
have been awful strong.-Philadelphia
Chronicle Herald. That wasn't the rea-
son. She saw that he was paying FIVE
cents for a Coney Island zephyr, and be-
ing an economical girl, she tainted.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
to- m

Mr.. j. Enthotfer, an employee OF the
United States coast survey, residing at
69 / street northwest, has contributed
a curiosity to the Smithsonian institu-
ton, which, if it adds nothing to scienti-
fc knowledge, will be regarded with
much interest by all persons interested
in the habits, adventures and misadven-
lures of rats. Mrs. Enthoffer had been
annoyed for some time by a persistent
rat. She occasionally caught a glimpse
his ratship, and a surprised to see that
he wore what appeared to be a yellow
collar. This fact gave rise to much
speculation in the family as to how the
rat came into possession of the collar.
The mystery was solved a few days
ago, when the rat wearing the collar
was caught in a trap. Unfortunately
the rat was killed by a dog, but upon
examining the body it was found that
the collar was a ring of bone, fitting
tightly about the animals neck. The
theory is that the rat when it was small
had found a bone, and gnawing out the
centre, pushed his lead through and
was unable to extricate himself. AS he
grew larger the ring tightened about his
neck, and he wore it until death as a
badge of his enterprise in the search of
food. The rat and collar have been pre-
scented to the Smithsonian institution.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

The bakers cart was standing by the
door, minus the baker. Little cherub
climbed up, and looking into the boxes,
Toasted her eyes IN cookies and jumbles
innumerable. ooh Use a good mind to
take a cookie" "But that would be
very wrong" said nurse, %reprovingly.
"The baker won't see me- "But God
will, solemnly. 81 know; but He'll
never tell the baker"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

A Newport yellow dog has an unus-
ually benevolent owner. The said own
er having learned that the yellow dog in
question had torn a pedestrians panta-
looms leg, took the pedestrian to a cloth
ing store, presented him with a new pair
of pantaloons, and asked humbly if he
wanted the dog killed. He didn't want
the dog killed, and afterward explained
in private that he spared the dogs life
because he thought some other fellow
who was too poor to buy q new pair Of
~pantaloons might get them some day
through the agency of that dog.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

APPLE CusrARD PIE-Two eggs, four
or five apples, grated a little nutmeg,
sweeten to taste one-half pint Of new
milk or cream; pour into pastry.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

COULDN'T AFFORD TO SToP.-Mat
NJ was a queer genius. A neighbor
found him at work one day at an enor-
nous wood pile, saving away for dear
life, with an intolerably duh saw. '"Why
don't you sharpen your saw, Mat y
asked the neighbor. Looking up with
an inimitably droll expression, he re-
piled, 81 should think ! had work
enough to saw up this wood pile without
stopping to sharpen saws"
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