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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
A Queer Breed OF Children.

'There are the most curious children
in that coach that | even saw in my
life" said a gentleman standing on the
Union Pacific Depot platform. Gust
step in and look at EN-, and If you can
tell me what they are, you car have
them" With a view of accepting the
offer and starting a side-show business,
if the articles referred to proved to be
genuine curiosities, we mounted the
steps of the coach on a tour of investi-
cation. Surely enough, occupying four
seats on the left hand side, sat a China
man well dressed IN his national cos
tune, and beside him a full blooded ne
gro woman, holding two children on her
lap, while four others, under the charge
of a Chinese servant, rolled and tumbled
over the seats and down the aisles of the
car. There was nothing so peculiar in
the appearance of either the man or wife
for so the reporter found them to be
but the six children, the eldest of whom
was nine years of age, were the most
singular combination Of negro and Chi
nese imaginable. Their hair was crisp
and curly; their skin very dark, but
their face and the almond shaped eyes
proclaimed their paternity too distinctly
for any mistake. They jabbered away
with their father il. his native tongue in
the most artless manner, while at the
same time they kept the passengers con-
vuIsed with laughter with contortions
and grimaces which wonld have done
credit to the stage Of negro minstrelsy.
The reporter ascertained that the name
of She Chinaman was Hang Hang, who,
twelve years ago, went a coolie to Cuba.
While working in Cuba, he became en-
amored of a negro slave. He saved
enough to purchase her freedom and
married her. In the course Of a few
years he became a coolie contractor him
self, and lis now wealthy Omaha Bee.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
How to Manage a Kitchen.

CA clean kitchen makes a clean
house," is a saying which has a great
deal of truth in it. AS all the food of
the family has to be prepared in the
kitchen, and as most working people
have to take their meals and sit in the
kitchen-indeed, as the II day-room
has to be parlor, kitchen and all to many
honest families-it ought to he clean
and neat or it will not be comfortable
and healthy. First of all, the window
and fire place must be clean and bright.
No room is cheerful with a dirty fire.
place. Every morning the room must
be carefully swept, and any ~hearth-rug,
mat, or piece Of carpet must be taken
out of doors and beat daily. The hearth
must be cleaned every day, and The
stove brushed, the fire irons rubbed with
a leather at least once a week, the CRATE
must be black-leaded, and the fender
and irons thoroughly polished, and all
well secured down twice a week. Cup
boards want great care to keep them
free from dust, cool and neat. Suppos-
ing there are two %cupboards, enc on
each side of the fireplace, it is we'll
to keep one for stores, as groceries,
ETC., and one for '~crockery. Every
thing should be clean that is put in
the cupboards, and there should be
a place for every differint thing,
SO that if you wanted anything,
ever in the dark, you could lay your
hand upon it. Be sure whether you
keep the lids bright or not, to keep the
inside of every pot or pan used in cook
ing SO clean that it is perfectly dry and
sweet. If you neglect this you may be
the cause of poisoning yourself and your
household. Many families have been
poisoned by food being cooked in dirty
pans. Besides, even if food Is not made
poisonous, it is spoiled by not being
clearly cooked. Be very particular about
this. 1t is a good plan to have a jar of
soda i'll ONE handy place, where you
can, whenevS you wash up, take a bit
and put in the water. 1t is very cleans
ing, and both crockery and tins washed
in hot water, with a bit OF soda in, will
lie sure to shine and be sweet. All tins
should be polished once a week. Kitch-
en- towels require good management. 1t
is a very nasty habit to be careless about
towels. Tea things and glass should be
wiped with a thin, coarse towel kept for
that purpose. If you have a plate rack
over the sink, plates should be washed
in hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to
drain in the rack; but if you have no
rack you must wipe the plates; keep "A
good dish cloth to wipe them with, and
a good coarse towel to dry them With,
and use your dish cloth and your dish
towel for nothing else.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
Woman's True Source of Strength.

The strength of women lies in their
heart. 1t shows itself in their strong
love and instructive perception of right
and wrong. Intellectual courage is
rarely one OF their virtues. AS a rule
they are inclined to be restless and ex-
citable, allowing their judgments and
actions to be swayed by quick emotions
of all kinds, but, above all, their hope
fulness and their endurance that they
find their chief power. Who is the last
person to give up hope in the case of a
member Of the family who has appar-
emily gone altogether to the bad ?
What mother Or sister with deep OF AZ
dent 1--we for such will eyer cease to
cherish hope or to endure suffering on
their account2 Few people will deny
That love in one form or another makes
up the beauty Of life to woman. 1t
enters into all she does. Any work out
side her immediate circle is undertaken
most often from pure desire to help some
m else, to know something of the
mysterious happiness of love. Unlike
men,. women chiefly look for personal
intercourse with those for whom they
are working. If their interest lies
amsng the poor they are DESTROYS of
sympathetic personal acquaintance with
them i; and very little good work of a
lasting kind has been done by women
without their own influence of love be-
ing brought to bear on the individual
case. Without dwelling on the greater
physical weakness of women in general,
it is a fact that their brain is more east
ly deranged, and unless they change
greatly they are apt TO deteriorate in es-
sential womanly qualities if thrown
much or prominently before the world.
They are seldom fit to rule, emulation
and jealousy being generally strong in
their character, while their feelings and
judgments are often rapid in the ex-
IRENE. 1t is in the heart, therefore,
that Il woman will more especially feel
the effects of sgnosticism, whether those
effects be for good or evil. He. head
may grasp in logic and in clearness of
view; but if her heart, with all its
powers for good, is weakened and dis
couraged, she will gain little ultimately
by the spread Of the new views. When
the heart is dispirited, or thrown back
upon itself, the action that springs from
it tends inevitably to fall l~ifeless to the
ground.-Mrs. Lathbury, in Nineteenth
Century.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
Language Of the Mouth.

Some wiseaere proposes to read wcm-
ans character by her mouth. Here are
the rules to be observed {: If her mouth
is very small there is not much mind,
but overmuch shallow, sentiment. il
she has a very large mouth she will pos
sess a good brain, but the trouble is in
kissing it. Large mouths put a man to
an artistic test; he will be driven to his
wits end whether to begin at one corner
and conclude on the other, or to make a
heroic dash at the middle and endeavor
to reach both corners. But if you are a
kissing artist it can be covered nicely
enough. Ii your sweetheart has a
coarsely formed mouth she will be sens
ual and full of strong, coarse points Of
character, and will raise a 70. in the
family. II she has a delicately formed
mouth, with rounded lips and Of a vel.
vety color, she will have much sensibility
and perfection of character, but will not
astonish by her brilliancy Of conception
or execution. 1t is a good mouth be-
cause it is kissable and submissive.
Shun bluelipped Oh t~hin-lipped women I;
they will bore you to death with litera,
ture or women's rights, theorize while
you want your dinner, or spoil your tenn
per by their red-hot scolding tongues.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
An Orphan from New York.

One of the little lambs picked up in
the streets of New York and sent West
to find a home, was adopted by a Detroit
family about two months ago. He told
them he was thirteen years old, and
added:
"And if you don't believe it then
call me a liar That's the sort of spring
gun 1 am, and don't you forget it =
They didn't forget it. He gave them
no chance to. He ate with his fingers,
wiped his mouth on his sleeve, and gave
the family to understand that he didn't
come West to nave his hair sombed or
his face washed as a regular business.
On the first evening he slipped out, had
three fights, and stole a dog, md when
hunted up was about to take his beer in
a saloon.
The family expected to wrestle with
the boy for a while, and they didn't sit
down on him until it became a painful
necessity. During his first week he
stole So in money, a gold chain, a re-
volver and a pair Of earrings, and he got
drunk twice. When reasoned with and
asked to do better, he took a fresh chew
of plug tobacco and replied:
cob you Michigan folks are too
soft If a Teller can't have a good time
what's the use of being an orphan 2"
On Monday of the second week he
sold The family dog to a stranger for a
quarter, threw the saw and the axe into
the ally, and when locked up in the
closet he tore a Sunday coat to pieces
It was thought best to have a policeman
talk to him, and one was called in. He
put on his ~fiercest look, and lectured the
lamb for fifteen minutes, but as 1901 as
he stopped for breath the young sinner
replied.
"Now, see here, old buttons, you are
wasting time. l know my little gait, l
do, and if you think I've come to a vii
lage like this to be bluffed by anybody,
you've missed your train"
He vas taken to Sunday School by
the hand. He hadn't been there an
hour when he was taken out by the col
lar. He seemed anxious to punch the
head Of every good little boy within
half a mile of him, and he told the
teacher in his class that when she could
stuff Moses in the bullrushes down him
it would be after she had bleached out
her freckles. They gave him a Sunday
School book fitted to his case, but he
fitted it to a crack in the sidewalk on
his way home.
When moral suasion had no effect on
the wicked youth his guardian tried the
rod. He was bigger than the boy, and
he walloped him, but within three hours
two of the nuts were taken off his buggy
and thrown away. There was a second
seance in the ~woodshed, and before dark
a window glass worth SIS was broken.
A few days ago he was told that he
would be sent to the Reform School at
Lansing if there was any further trouble
with him.
That night he stole S. from the cook,
a butcher knife from the PANTRY, a pie
from the sideboard, and departed from
the house, leaving on his led Il note
reading as follows:
This town ar no place fur a N. York
orfun. I'm goin' out on the planes to
fte %Irjuns. 1t will be yuseless to foller
me, fur l can't be tux Alive"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23
Advice to a Young Man.

My son, if you do a mean thing, if
you are guilty OF a small, spiteful ac-
ton, if you wreak some paltry, shabby
vengeance on your neighbor, if you do
anything supremacy little and cowardly
and hateful, and still hold up your head
and want to be respected by the world.
just lay this fattering JUNCTION to your
soul-you are the only man deceived ;
no one is fooled ave yourself. If you
are mean, everybody knows 1.-THE rest
of mankind as well as yourself.
Your neighbors may mott is more
than likely they will not--tell you CT it.
They will not express their honest opin-
ions on che subject to your face, but
when you lie down at night and blush
over your by yourself, in the
dark, don't you add foolishness to your
wickedness by hngging to yourself the
flattering deiusion that nobody knows
it. They all know it, and they all talk
about it.
Don't you know every mean thing
your neighbors dol Don't they all tell
you all the mean things they know
about each otherl And do you suppose
they don't knew all your littlenesses, if
you have any,, just as welll My dear
boy, you must know that this shrewd
old world is too sharp for any of us, and
that you can't fool it. 1t will hold you
at your W estimate of yourself ; not
your publicly expressed estimate maybe,
but at your own private, honest esti-
mate the estimate you hold yourself at
when you have turned IL the light and
crept in,o bed, and know that there is
just one Being in all the universe that
is searching your heart as closely and
far more honestly and purely than you
can. And so, if you want the world to
think you really honest and manly and
noble, my son, you have got to be
honest and manly and noble. Other
wise, | don't care what it says it thinks
Of you.
Be honest with yourself, my boy, so
that when the day is done and the bless
ing of the night falls upon you, you can
shake yourself by the hand and say:
"Old boy, you have made a fearful mess
of it to-day you have stumbled and
faltered ; you have blotted the record,
you have just bristled with faults, but
you did it all in honesty, in human ig-
norance and willfulness, and you haven't
lied to anybody, and when you 60 out on
the street, no mans accusing glances can
make your ey IS drop
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

A Baltimore gentleman recently gave
an old colored man a quarter and told
him 70 go to a coal yard near the Phila-
delphia depot and tell them to hurry up
the coal hat was due him on an order
from a New York firm. After an alb
sence of three hours the colored brother,
full of liquor, stammered out 'Boss,
can't find de corner of Phillydelphy an
New York no(hic) whars."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

A girl Just returned to Hannibal,
Mo, from Boston high school said, upon
seeing a fire engine at work; "Who
would eva have dweamed such a very
diminutiye looking apawatus would hold
so much wattahl'
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

A pretty decoration for the corner OF
a o is a bunch of ripe wheat tied
with a scarlet ribbon; or divide the
wheat, cross the stems, tie, and hang
over a picture.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

From q bank in the sand a Newfound-
land dog belonging to a Boston man,
takes pennies and soes to a bakers
daily and buys warm rolls for his break
fast The neighbors give him pennies
which he buries in a place scooped out
under the stoop.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-23

Beauties often die old maids. They
set such o value on themselves that they
don't find a purchaser until the market
is closed.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-01-17
r OLD IA MIIY JOURN L.
Book NOTICES.


A Russianstory, Saved from Siberia"
by a. \. Hayes, Jr., is announced for the Feb
ruary ST. NICHOLAS
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps viii contrib
ute story to the February ST NICHOLAS -
The same number will contain the two new
poems by Tennyson, and a short story by Mrs
Burnett, author Of That Lass o Lowre's. "
Thesuccess ofrecentnmmbers Of SCRTB-
NER has been so marked. that the edition Of
the February number has been placed at 125-
600 This number will contain the first part
Of Engeue Schuyler's illustrated life Of Peter
the Great, which is said to be graphic aud IN
tcresiiug to an unusual degree; also Mrs. Bur-
nett's new story" Louisiana" which will pre-
sent some strong contrasts Of character; 4 roll
licking paper on Bicycling, entitled "a Wheel
Around the Hub ..sa1 other features.
VlcK's FLORAL ctIDE is before Us.
AMI those who sead fiye cents Is JahesVick,
Rochester, \. Y, for it will be disappointed.
Iusteal Of getting a cheap thing, as tie price
would seem to indicate, they will receive very
handsome work Of 100 pages, and perhaps 500
Illustrations cheap, bat elegant iilustra-
tions, on the very best OF calandered paper,
and as a set off to The whole. an elegant col
cred plate that we would judge cost twice the
price Of the book
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-01-17
saepAe.astown summary.

From the Register:
Criswells Cornet Band screnaaed lIr.
Thomas V. Co,krill ana bride on New Year rs
Day.
A house and lotion High street, belong
ing to tue estate Of the late Geo c. Erkle,
was purchased by Geo. NJ. Bsllzhooyer. Esq
at $3.50.
On Friday last, James Deck, son of
Mr.. VIM y. DooS of this town, and aged T.
bout u years, while wrestling with another
boy, iel and severely spraiacd and slightly
fractured Ills lelt leg, jast above tie ankle.
One nigh, last week, Mr. John 0. Ag-
l1uby hal killed on his place, abou, two miles
northwest a this town. which is managed by
M. Hamilton Davis Is sleep outright. and
some ten or G',ceu severely wounded, by dogs.
Mr. George Turner h2d en- the same night. on
,Ae place Of Mr.. Vanzlnt, adjoining SIR. Davis,
s or 10 kilei and a number wounded by tic
same dogs Four OF the dogs. lhounds. wcrs
KILLED by Mr. Davis, who shares with Mr. \.
toe proluct Of the sheep. The other dogs
made their escape. one biti4g Mr. Miller, caus-
ing him 30 let % lis hold upon him.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-01-17
Mlrtinsburg Matters.
From the Ma.p.adenl:

From the h3speadeet.
The Catholic Church Fair was sue
cess \ goll-headed cane was voted to Mr..
Alfred Beall, aud brought S27l.
\ horse, attached to a buggy, driven
by DE- J ". IeSherry, kicked the fore part
OF the vehicle to pieces, sinking the Dr.. up,
but not seriously niarins him.
Effort. torcorganize the Berkeley Light
Infantry having proved futile, C,l Faulkner,
according to orders from the Adjutant Gen1,
shipped the arms, &C., to Parkersburg.
From the Salesman
The passenger train due at Martins
burg at 1915 P. r., colideG with train Of
coal hoppers, just beyond the Opequon bridge
last Wednesday night The engineer in charge
of the passenger train, Abner Euslcs, when he
saw . collision was inevitable, reversed bis
lever, whistled down brakes, and then leaped
from his engine. In falling he dislocated his
shoulder. The fireman did not jump, aud
was not Injured. The engine somplely teles-
COPIED the caboose aud Eve coal boppers the
clb0cse aud the wood work on the hopPers
were burned. The hoppers had become de-
tachcl from The train in iront, and ran hack
up IN the passenger engine before warning
could be given.
\ farmer from West Virginia last
Spring went to Nevada, and purchased some
land, and he writes back that be has TO haul
his lrewool only fifty miles, taking four day:
20 make the TRIP.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-01-17
Judge sherrard REFLECTED.


Julge Joseph Sherrard, Of Winchester,
has been reelected by the Virginia Legisla-
ture. Il is the most commenlAJls act CT that
body as al present constituted. Ia secondiug
DIS nomination Mr. r. 2. D,al,i lgs said:
1lr. Speaksr,-The name Of Judge Sherrafd
,tirs in NY breast emotions near akin 20 those - e
Zee. when our wives og bsst loved ones are named,
saI ailh .ul. aud grateful heart rise @ thank
thc.Feul'culan from Rockingham Tor nominating
htm .or re election o. the judgship OF my native
county. I thank him tor this mcriigd tribute %
uoiest lut most exalted worth. The members OF
This % louise Will bear with me, know, sir, while
briefly speak of one who ior eleven years has
been uy valued friend. During that time have
known him as Intimately as t1c Disparity between
our ages would allow, aud rginicc thIt tue par
t,au g.y Oi the hour dteads aud refuses o. strike
Dian d1au. and thur the cln0c.astic spirit Of this
ni'i iis1I Itr-l time shrIuSs back aoasheo az The
mere mention ot his name. al. sir, wel may
thcr spare hiU- for Dee is venerable luI striking
representative and landmark OF the better times
and betl.rmtl chat once made This Commonwealth
hou,rci l5lv, 90. h,r Sisters. Ills life and char
acter arc ucIi nigh 4g.t,ess You may scan the
rct.Drs of hts daily sio with an tue Industrious
uia.ict oi foe. and alu-lt VIII meet your eve
save deeds oi honor. Isi' Chesterde.dian in his
crurtin-s, aud almost ctuCiiko iu thc simplicity.
.h, Innocence and it- purity ol both has private
and public BE-. his mini is essentially and
irtuitre.y fll-st, ana s.lyl.lriy Judicial 90 ITS
casts Oh .ltJrc. Do d. trer just 10 lls Judgments
Bus better than al, these, aye, sir, iuestlna0ly
h.glcr lud -rlEdsr cham an these high qualities,
IS lis Cr.lt warm, pure heart thai attracts and
attaches cur people 90 lim as tacy love and revere
20 other man uh3 1--we, iu Que midst. We ask
sou again OBJ place che sclies of Justice ln his
hands nr $50 know that there thry sill be not
Is. f-.-ly,' Due always "iieh- adjusted.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-01-17
WASHINGTON HALL!


The Fifth Public Free Lecture Of the series Of
this season under the auspices Of the Good fem
plars will b, delivered az " Charles Washington
Hall, in Charlestown, on
Monday Evening, January 25;h, 1850.
BY CD. HENRY KYD DOUGLAS.
Subject:
Y1e Foih ef he Crrs~ct and rs Prophet
Good music VIII enhance The interest ~ the
occasion. Admission free. l. p RS will be in
Attendance. W children admitted unless accom-
panied by parents or guardians. Doors open at
81 o'clock; Lecture % begin az O'Clock.
L. !. WILLIAMS,
j. Ed. DUKE,
DAVID HOWELL,
4. d. BARB,
January 10, l's6. Committee.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-01-17

The company for the construction of
the Panama canal is to have a capital Of 200. r
coo GOO francs $50 geo GOO
Senator Lamar Wa stricken with par
alysis Sunday night Considerable uuc1siucss
IS lelt as o. his condition Tie attending ply
siciaus pronounce his case hopial.
The Wheeling nail men, at meeting
Monday agreed TO pat nails up to S. a kog.
Pretty good raise from Sl9o-aud lew takers
of six months ago.
n liquor dealer at Allegheny, Pa, sus-
pected his ba,keeper Of pil:ering AMI got into
the ice box, intending 20 keep a watch through
81 small spisot hole lie gained the desired
information, bvt soon found himself sutpca-
tag. When taken out hs wls nearly dead.
The republican press Of Pennsylvania
has been polled on their choice far the presi-
3eucy. The replies oi sixty avowed republic
can newspapers are as follows: For Blaine 26;
Grant 30, Sherman 3, tbc field 8. the best man
3, thcu1miaco Of The national republican con-
ycntioa T.
AtCievcIand, Ohio, Friday a deed was
placed ou record. executed by The h;e Leon
ara Case, some tine before h's suicide. IN which
De donates property iu tie centre Of the city.
valued az - 500 G0o, for the endowment Of
40 institution 90 be called the Case School cf
Applied Science.
III Arthur Sullivan. TIM English COM
q.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-01-17
The Great Cause OF Human Misery.

"a. Jui P.b'i.Eed in Seaied Eare'oPe.-
- Pr,cc Sir Ccpt..
~ A Lecture nu The Nature, Treatment,
and Radical cure Of Seminal Weakness, or Spcr-
mstarriW1. Induced by SeifAbuse, Involuntary
Emissions, lnpa;ucy, Nervous Debility, and I'M
pedimeuts 70 Marriage generally Consumption,
Eri.cpsy. ard Fits; Mental ard fhv-icil Incapa-
civ. Gc.-By ROBERT j. CULVERW ELL, NJ
D..auihor Il the " Green Book" SC.
The world-rcnown,d author in this admirable
Lecture. clearly proves from bis OWN experience
that the awiiil consequences oi Scif-Abuse Day
be cnrctusliy removed without medicine, and
without dauecroas surgical operations, boucies,
instramcnts. rings, or coidials; pointing out a
mode of cure al once certain .aud cfrctnai, by
which every sufferer. 800 matter what bis condi
ton may be, may curc himsc!i chcaplE privately
al radically.
Til, lecture trW pso,c IaoH ~ @o"p"d' and
H9rabf
Sent. under seal in a plain cn-clore, to- any ad-
dress. ON receipt of Sis ceuis, coz two postage
STAMPS. Adjrcs. tic Publishers.
THE CULYEKW co.
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