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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05
Good Lessons.

When was eleven years old (said
Mr.. S, an eminent American merchant,)
my grandfather had "a fine stock of sheen,
which were carefully tended during the
war of those times. | was the shepherH
boy, and my business was to watch the
sheep III the fields. A boy who was more
fond os his books than of the sheep was
sent with me, but left the work to me,
while he lay under the trees and read. l
did not like that, and finally went to my
grandfather and complained oft; shall
never forget the kind smile Of the old
gentleman, as he said:
"Never mind, Jonathan, my boy; if
you watch the sheep, you will have the
sheep"
"What does grandfather mean by
that p l said to myself. 81 don't expec.
to have the sheep" My desires were
moderate l could not, exactly make
out in my mind what it was; but he had
been in Congress in Washington's time;
so ! concluded it was all right, and /
went back contentedly to the sheep.
After I.got into the field | could not
keep his words out of my head Then
l thought of Sunday lesson: "rhou hast
been faithful over few things, | will
make thee ruler over many things l
began to see through it. "Never you
mind who neslects his duty; beye faith
full and you will have your reward. "
received a second lesson soon after /
went to New York as e clerk to the late
Mr.. r. A merchant from Ohio, whA
knew me, came to buy goods, and saiN
make yourself SO useful that they can
not do without YOU" took his mean
ing quicker than did that of my giand
father. Well, | worked upon these two
ideas until Mr.. r. offered me partner
ship IN the business. The first morning
after the partnership was made known,
Mr.. g., the old tea merchant, called to
congratulate me, and he said: "You are
all right now. | have only one word Of
advice to give you. Be careful whom
you walk the streets with" That was
lesson number three.
And what valuable lessons they arel
Fidelity in all things; do your best for
your employers; carefulness about your
associates. Let every boy take these
lessons home and study them well. They
are the foundation stones of character
and honorable success
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05
He Quits Politics.

Uncle Dobbs is the leading man Of
Roundabout, in the hill country, the
king bee of the party in the settlement.
Drives his turkeys to market on foot,
and deals in shingles, wild honey and
coon skins, and rarely ever comes to
town.
He was indicted last term for timber
cutting on government lands, and was
forced to come to trial before the United
States District Court, under the whole
some dread Of the august tribunal which
pervades the hill country. The case had
been investigated and submitted to the
Jury. who had retired to consider their
verdict.
The trepidation which had possessed
the defendant reached it's climax. His
lawyer, who had had great difficulty in
keeping him in the court room during
the trial, retired and left him alone with
his great fear and the deputy marshals
in the courtroom.
An hour passed off, and his suspense
and agony grew apace. He thought OF
the faxen-haired children and spouse in
his distant cabin in the pine hills and
he grew wild with fright. AT lasc the
ominous knock was heard from within
on the door Of the jury room. Uncle
Dobbs couldn't stand it any longer. He
broke and ran down the steps, through
the street, straight for the cypress swamp,
as q crow flies, toward his home.
The jury entered the box and We're
asked if hey had agreed upon their
verdict. They had, but where was the
prisoner He was non est. 1he law
yer was called; he knew nothing of his
client.
The marshals were ordered to bring
him into Court upon inquiry they
learned the route of his flight, and pur-
sued him on horseback. Soon catching
view of the game, the pursuit waxed
warm, and was about to result success
fully, when the quarry reached the
swamp and plunging through the briars
took water in the slough. The minions
of the law surrounded the cover, and
dismounting they close in upon his re.
treat. He is dragged out, tattered and
torn, reekins with ooze and water.
Returning to the Court room, Uncle
Dobbs was arraigned, a piteous sight, to
hear the verdict.
The foreman presented it to the clerk.
The clerk read it under the order OF the
Court. 1t was: eve, the jury, find
the defendant not guilty"
HIS lawyer tenders his congratUla-
tions, but they are ruefully rejected.
"No, Squire" said he, don't speak to
me. | amt ftten to be spoke to. I'm
no longer in politics. For forty odd
years I've voted the straight ticket, but
now I'm done. Anybody that's sech a
derned fool as [ have been amt ut to
go TO the polls, and l shall stay away
from this day on"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05
Johnny's Composition on the Tag
ger"

This is little Johnny's composition on
the "Roil Bengol Tagser :" "One time
there was a man which had tagger,
and the tagger it was sho, and the
man he TUX the money fur to git in.
The man he had big paper nailed on
to the taggers den, and the paper said,
the paper did : 'The Roll Bengol Tag
GER, sometimes called the Monnerk Of
the jungle The monnerk of the jun
gle it was always a-layin' down with its
nose between its poz, and folks which
had paid fur to git in they was mad
cos it wuden't wock and rore like dis
tant thunder. But the sho man he said
That's oil rite when git the new cage
done, but this is the same cage which
the ollie Teller broke out in Oregon,
time he ct up II men and their fam
lilies. Then the foxes they wud oil stan
back and took In whispers while the
tagger slept But one day a Teller
which was drunk he take to punchen
the tagger with the mast head of his
umbreller, which stampeded the oddi
ence wild; and the wimmin foxes they
stud in chair and hollered ike it was a
mouse, but the drunk chap he kept a
iobbin' the monnerk of the jungle
crewel. Pretty sumo the monnerk it
oellered ofile and riggled, but the Teller
KEEP pokin' like he wos fireman to a
steam edgin'. Bimeby he monnerk it
Jumped onto its hind feets and shucked
itself out of its skin and rolled up its
sleefs and spit onto its hands and spoke
up and said 81 beharg if l can't
jest woller the green-pea stuffin out the
gum dasted galoot which has been a
proddin' this ere tagger" and the oddi.
ence they was sstonished."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05
History Of Zero.

Zero, on the common thermometer
like the fanciful names of the constella
lions, is curious instance of the way
wise mems errors are made immortal by
becoming popular. 1t may be worth
while to say that the word itself Zero
comes to us through the Spanish from
the Arabic, and means empty, hence
nothing. In the expression 90 Fair,
the abbreviation Fair, Prussian mer-
chant of Dant1ee, on the shores of tie
Baltic Sea- His full name was Gabriel
Fahrenheit.
From a boy he was close observer of
nature, and, when he was only 10 years
old, in the remarkably cold Winter of
1909, he experimental by putting snow
and salt together, and noticed that it
produced cold equal to the coolest day
that year. AS that day was the coolest
that the Oldest inhabitant could remem-
Der, Gabriel was the more struck with
the coincidence of his little scientific
discovery, and hastily concluded that he
had found tho lowest degree OF temper
ature known in the world, either arti-
fetal or natural. He called that degree
zero, and constructed Thermometer, or
rude weather glass, with scale grad
uated up from the zero to the boiling
point, which he numbered 2l5, and the
freezlngpoint 80, because, as he thought,
mercury contracted the thirty-secona of
a volume on being cooled down from the
temperature of freezing water to zero ;
and expanded lS0th on being heated
from the freezing to the boiling point.
Time showed that this arrangement,
instead of being truly scientific, was AS
arbitrary as the division of the Bible
into verses and chapters, and that these
two points no more represented the two
extremes of temperature than " from
Dan to Beersheba" represented the
boundaries of Palestine. But Fahren-
heit's thermometer had been largely
adopted, with its inconvenient scale !;
and none thought of any better until
his name became an authority, for Fab
renheit finally abandoned trade and
gave himself up to science. Then habit
made people cling to the established
scale, as habit makes people cling to
their old system OF cumbrous fractional
money.
Our nation began to use Fahrenheit's
thermometer about the middle Of the
last century, or not far from the time
when old Style was exchanged for New
Style in the writing of dates.
The three countries which use Fahren
holt ere Holland, England and America.
Russia and Germany use Reaumer's
thermometer, in which the boiling
point is marked So above freezing
point. France uses the centigrade Their
mometer, so called because it marks the
boiling point 1902 from freezing point.
On many accounts the centigrade sys.
tenn is the best, and the triumph of con
venience will be attained, when zero is
made the freezing point, and when the
boiling point is 100 or !, 900 from it,
and all the subdivisions are fixed deci
mally.
If Fahrenheit had done this at first,
or even if he had made it one of his
many Improvements after the public
adopted his error, the luck of opportun-
ity, which was really his, would have
secured to his invention the patronage
of tho World
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05
Tired Women.

All through the country one meets
with tired. careworn women who seem
to have entirely lost health, hope and
ambition They are forced in the posi-
ton of drudges, and, too often, meet
with no sympathy from their husbands,
who sheer at the idea of womans work
being so burdensome when they remem-
Der their own laborious tasks. But
sneeling does not lessen the labor of
the wives to whom kitchen, pantry,
milk room, dining room, suggest drudg-
cry. The man has constant change of
scene with all the eXcitment incident
thereto. He goes from breakfast to the
pillow, the harrow, and the constantly
varying duties of the farm. His meals
are prepared for him, and after supper
he can enjoy his pipe in peace, his work
over for the day. But with his wife it
is different. Early in Che morning she
rises to kindle the fire, dress the chill
dren, cook breakfast, wash the dishes,
send the children to school, get the din
ner, wash the dishes-and if there is a
moment to spare between dinner and
supper, to spend it in sewinS-get sap
per, wash the dishes, put the children
to bed-and if momont more offers, to
sew, besides taking care of the morning
and evening milk, churning and working
butter, and a hundred things that must
be done every day, in exactly the same
way and order. She has no time for
pleasure. She does not attend any
lodge or society meeting; she visits
neighbor but very seldom, she's
so busy )" she does not walk
out after tea to meet friend
to drive away care by social con-
verse her duties vex her till bedtime,
when, anxious and careworn, it's long
ere she can sleep, or if she can, the
.eething baby or the sick child demands
her care; and she may spend half the
night in quoting it to be reused from
troubled sleep all too soon, to recon.
mence the weary routine. Is it any
wonder that farmers wives 50 often
leave the scene of their thankless toll
for the insane asylum
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05

A Sunday school teacher in this city,
has boy in her class who has not failed
in his penny contribution for more than
a year, and when he was found empty
handed last Sabbath the teacher observed:
"Why, Johnny. did you forget your pen
ny to day y "No, ma'am," he humbly
replied "but father says the Wabash
road will do this town more good than
any fourteen Sunday schools, and I'm
going to chuck my coppers into that EN-.
terprise for the next few weeks. "
won't the heather miss your penniesr
she queried. 81 'spose they will, but
we've got to como right down or this
town il busted.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05

A young lady who has been married a
short time lately told a "bosom friend
that there was only one thing more as
tonishing than the readiness with which
Ned gave up smoking when they became
engaged, and that was the rapidity with
which he took to it again after they were
married
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05

1t has become very fashionable to
have the walls decorated with worked
notices, but no eye ever sees that motto,
Base is the slave who pays" adjoining
the walls of beer saloon.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05

George, dear, don't you think its
rather extravagant OF you to eat butter
with that delicious jam y "No, love;
economical. Same piece OF bread does
for both"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05

The crown of William PENIS hat
which is to adorn his thirty-six foot sta
tue surmounting the lofty tower of the
new Philadelphia public buildings will
be Just 535 feet from the pavement
This is higher than any other tower yet
constructed. Trinity steeple in New
York City, which seems so imposing
with its height of 2Si feet, shrinks into
lnsignifcance in comparison with the
lofty spire which is intended to be the
GROWING glory of Penn square. The
highest towers which have yet been con-
structed are those of the Cologne Cath
edral, which have at present height Of
524 feet ! | inches, or 10 feet | inch De-
low Mr.. Penn's proposed hat. As, how
ever, the Cologne towers are still untin-
ished, and aim at an ultimate attitude of
576 feet inches, the Penn square tower
may never enjoy the distinction Of be-
ing the highest in the world.
Having asked his girl for kiss as q
%or;c .ha ranliad tint there WAS such n
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-08-05

Having asked bis girl for kiss as a
tonic, she replied that there was such a
thing as being too tonic.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30
Still They Come.

DIR. Van s. Seller, of Columbus, has
written letter renOuncing his alle-
glance to the Republican party, and
come out squarely for the patriotic
soldier and statesman, Winfield Scott
Hancock. -,... ....tf 81,
Hon. Lorenzo English, ex Attorney
General Of the State of Illinois, and
two years ago the Republican candi-
date for Congress against Hon. George
l.. Converse, in the Columbus district,
has declared his intention to support
Hancock aud Euglish.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30

In war it is indispensable TO repel
force with force, and overthrow and
destroy opposition to lawful authority.
But when the insnrrectiOnary ferces
have been overthrown and peace es-
tablished. and the civil authorities are
ready and willing to perform their
duties. the military should cease to
lead, and the civil administration re-
snme its natural aud rightfql domin-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30
That Great lsadical Scnre.

At the great Democratic meeting in
New York City on Thursday night
last at which were fifty thousand peo-
pie in the procession and two hundred
thousand spectators, Hon. Ren. Hill,
OF Georgia, was one of the speakers
and alluded to the great Radical scare
crow of the re-establishmert Of slavery
in fitting terms. He said: '.''.'
"Tbere was South of secession and
slavery that South is dead. There is
q south Of Union and freedom; that
South is living, doing, prospecting ev-
cry hour. 1 concede that this won
derful change has been accom- nplished
by a great revolution, and 1 am not
one Of those who think that the revo-
luton of 1851 wrou. ht no great results
for L think it wrought very great re-
sults-some of the greatest in history.
There have been three great revolu-
rions in our country. The first was
the differences between George the
III. and his ministers, which ended in
the independence of the Colonies the
second, that which began in the move
ment to amend the Articles of Fedora
the Constitution; and the third was
that which sprang out of the differ
ences of opinion On the subject of
slavery, and ended in its destruction.
In my honest judgment the third rev.
olutiOn will take its place in history
with the other two. l F. st; .l..4,--
7" Long after the war began the Re-
publican party almost unanimously
affirmed in the most solemn manner
that they had no purpose to extermin-
ate slavery in the. States but the
truth is that in the revolution of 1861,
IS in many other revolutions, there
was divinity that shaped our ends,
rough hew them how we wanted and
we, are indebted for the abolition of
slavery, not to the Republican party,
but to the Divine power which directs
human events contrary to human will.
And, looking at the result and effect
of this last revolution, /, a Southern
man and born STAKEHOLDER, lift my
voice to him and say, God of my
fathers, L thank theei' The Southern
people have been the most benefited
and are the most contented with the
abolition of slavery. have seen the
time when I would have given my
life to have prevented the abolition OF
slavery; now would give my life a
thousand times to prevent its restora-
tion." -- -,---
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30

to so beguile you, my dear fellow.
You won't pass for a blunderbuss; in
deed you will not. You may not be-
|iievs it. hut you are not pop gun.
Nc, sir, you are not even u ranlrod.
YOU migA do for u wiping-st,rk, on
account the immense quantity of
zcoarse~ -liair on your head, btit yol
ought not to have said that the pole
here was raised by a combined effort.
because some Of the boys proposed
using you 10 swab oyt the cannon that
Eday.4 You felt tiAttsred, no doubt, but
no one seriously thought of using you.
Not because YOU ~arsaa.suRspublican.
Neither was it, as you think, because
your head is too 1afges sThat bore is
four inches, SO your head is just the
| size, you see, but we feared its being
too soft, as such a coarse, rank growth
of fiber could be produced only on very
mellow soil. ..,'.i.,.-.
You ought not, my dear friend, to
fly into such passion when your lit
tile fellow pupils annoy or even harrass
you by throwing apples, for that is
just why they do it. The wit, how.
eyer, that is .eIfcited from you on these
occasions is sometimes very amusing
f9r instance, your challenging them to
deter you from telling the truth. The
idea is laughabfe. To deter one from
doing an impossibility; for you know
ftwOuld be; just as impossible for you
to tell the truth as it would be for your
friend, Eliza Pinkston, that pargon ol
unveracity.
r. You are getting impatient! Well
well, my friend be civil henceforth
perform your ab1utions, and "go thy
way in peace" but do please tell US
which donkey saluted the pole. Was
it the one kept at w. B. Wilson's
! mine, or was it the lame one that suf
fared the midnight attack while hitch
ed to Mr.. Collins peddling wagon.
! - ''''' '''''' X. l.. II.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30

The Union, comprising general
government with general powers, and
state governments with state powers,
for purposes local 10 the state, is the
Union which our fathers made, and
which has been respected abroad, and
10 beneticent at home.-[ Hancock.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30

u THE only Congressman from Ohio
who voted eyery time against silver as
money, and finally stood entirely alone
among Ohio COhgressmen, In voting
against remonetlzing silver and for
sustaining Hayes veto. of the Silver
Bill, is James A. Garffehf.- He was on
the committee thatsrer,orted the de-
,monetizing Coinage Act, afterwards
and aia'aysijustifying this act, and at
leYery step showed himself the COM
plete foof OF fthe gold rings and mon
opolists- Silver is emphatiealIyl the
mo ley Of the people, and Garfield did
] is Utmost to deprive the peoples OF it.
WnyL then should the people who
know, these facts fote for him? ..
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30

If called to the Presidency, should
deem 1t my duty to resist, with all my
power, any attempt to invade or i'm
pair the full force aud effect of the
constitution, which, in every article,
section, and amendment, is the su-
preme law of the eland.-[Hancock.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30

For AuA..sr-lHEERY.L OF Brim-
vo, sSsg,s --,ttiiIIssr a ER KU ssRi .of streets:
kof Snfs ff--T W -irtf1E Ssf liza Tltf
For 1;oil,o1,as.-rr AG GORGE n PRocTOIs. Of sbals
er,vfle.lo snss lEsi D. sg0fiErtY VIII u
For Con- p.aa.fsnere-L ID. BRQWN, Of Selson.
Tor Innrmary Director-M iAG Elk,. o.
Windhaes
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30

Il WHILE the Republican orators and
journals are accusing Democrats with
PERSONALLY abusing their candidates it
will be well to remember that. the
charges against Garfield in connection
with Credit Mobilier. DeGolyer pave
ment and eSalaEy-grab transactions are
not sprung since his nominationat at
Chicago but are old Republican
charges, snbstantiated by Republican
testimony, and reported as we'll found
ed by, the Committees majority of
whose members were Republicans,
while the charges against Arthur con-
sist only IN a reiteration OF the accusa-
-tions of sRutherfordd 3. Hayes and Sec
retary Sherman. ,,z.f a.,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-30
"A Change.

have bought Mrs. D. w. Days stock of
House Plants, and have adde,i a stock of Winter
Blooming Plants Also, fine stock of Wire
Work and Hanging Baskets.
Visitors respectfully invited.
Gents Button Hole Bouquets made to order
for we cents.
Floral Work made to order
A. HASBROUCK.
Ravenpa. Aug. II 1850. 1w