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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06

There is very interesting story told
OF on artist of Cremona--Onorati Rodi-
ana-who, while still young maiden,
acquired such fame as O painter that she
was summoned by the Marquis Gabrino
Fondolo, called the Tyrant of Gre
mona, to decorate some rooms i'll his pal
ace.
One day, as Onorata was mounted on
ladder working at wall painting, q
young courtier passing through the room
began to tease her; but, his banter de-
generating into rudeness, she came down
from the ladder and tried to run away
from him. He pursued her, however,
and caught her, when, in her fright, she
drew dagger from her belt and stabbed
him fatally. Seeing what she had done,
and fearing the wrath of the Marquis
Fondolo, she fastened 10 put on the dis
guise of boys dress, and fed to the
mountains. There she fell in with
band of "condottieri;' the life of these
men, half-soldier and alf-brigand in its
character, so fascinated Onorata that she
at once consented to become one of their
numb Der, glad of the chance afforded her
to make herself acquainted with the
grand mountain scenery and the careless
jollity of life in its wilds. She soon
showed so much daring and skill that
she was made an officer in the band, and
held post of command.
When the "Tyrant of Cremona" heard
of the ARRAY between the courtier and
the maiden, and of her crime and fight,
he was furious, and threatened to hunt
her to the very death; but so skilfully
had she concealed her identity as to
battle all his efforts to track her. After
time, as he could find no other suit
able artist to complete the paintings
which Onorata Rodiana had begun, he
declared full pardon for her if she
would return to the palace and finish her
works. The news of this pardon wa,
spread throughout the surrounding
country, and when Onorata heard OF it
she gladly laid aside her sword to re-
sumo her palette and brushes She
completed her task, but the exciting life
she had led among the mountains had
taken such hold upon her fancy that
she returned to it, and to the outlawed
companions who had learned to respect
and love her.
Again and again she left them, only to
return each time, for her heart and life
were divided between her beloved art
and her romantic soldering. At last,
when her native village of Castelleonc,
near Cremona, was laid siege to, Ono
rata led her band to its relief, and drove
away the enemy But she rescued her
birthplace at the cost of her life, for she
was MORALLY wounded in the conflict,
and died soon after, within sight of the
home of her childhood. believe that
she is the only woman who has ever been
successful as both an artist and SOL
der, and am sorry that can find no
work of hers of which picture may be
given here. Her story is we'll authenti-
Gated in history, and she died about the
year 1472.- Mrs. Clements Stories of
Art and Artists in March St. Nicholas.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06

is the matter with Alice?" he soliloquized.
"Why her blood is poisoned by malaria, "
was the mental answer. "This malaria
is an Oregon disease and here is an Ore
gon remedy" was his thought. "'Blood
Purifier Blood Purifier, that is what
my darling needs" were the thoughts
that almost burst aloud from his lips.
1t came like divine inspiration, and
without prolonging our story we will
only say that the remedy was tried, and
as in thousands of similar cases, worked
like charm. The poison was entirely
eradicated from the fair girls system.
Her emaciated form resumed its SYM
metry and beauty, her step its old elias
ITCHY, her beautiful eyes their wonted
flashing loneliness, and her cheeks their
roses. What more can we add save that
the lovers have been happily married,
and the richest ornament in that family
residence in the estimation of the fond
husband, aside from his charming wife,
is bottle OF Plumbers Oregon Blood
Purifier"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06
Health In Middle Age.

At the age of thirty-fve, says writer
in the Family Doctor, mankind accord
ing to some eminent authorities, is said
to have reached the meridian of life,
while others name forty as the middle
years of our earthly existence. But be
the case as it may, no one who has taken
the ordinary means to preserve his
health in his youth, should feel other
than young at the age of forty-five, from
which period until sixty, If life be
spared to us, we shall do we'll to con-
slider ourselves middle-aged, and to adopt
greater precautions for the preservation
Of health and consequent happiness, than
might have been deemed necessary when
youth was ON our side. And il this
10 done, the period OF middle age should
be one Of the greatest activity Of both
body and mind. What though the hairs
are turning gray2 That but shows one
has suffered sorrow and disappointment
and survived il, or that, sorrow apart, he
10 man who thinks. And what though
the limbs be not quite 30 nimble? Calm
enjoyments foster thought and general
habits of that true temperance which
conduoes 70 long life and contentment
moro than anything else in this world;
and whatever some may say to the con-
tray, I maintain that the desire to live
long 10 inherent In every sane man or
woman. To die Of old age is the only
natural death, and II death may ever be
said TO b pleasant, the only pleasant
one. Though younger than some OF my
professional brethren still in harness, I
have nevertheless sean death in many
shapes and forms, and IN almost every
oase have found the aged more re-
signsd 70 tho inevitable than those lees
edvanoed inyoess. For well-spent life
LIE = hko . vii opoa1 day 81 u clooe
these = Viii * ~.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

|
Madame Celeste, the once famous
danseuse, has just died in Paris, at the
age of 81.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan confesses that
| Patience" is his favorite among the
| light operas.
Miss Annie Louise Cary contradicts
the reports that she intends to leave the
stage and marry.
A married woman in Robertson county,
KY, is six feet and half ip height, and
only fifteen years old.
Nine. Patti was 80 years old on Sun
day, and she celebrated the event by
giving quiet dinner to the members of
her company in Cincinnati.
The. total receipts of the Cincinnati
opera festival will reach 500, 900. OF this
Patti will get $14, 900, Mapleson $34 900,
and the College of Music 5000.
Sir Henry Parkes, Prime Minister of
New South Wales, predicts that in few
years the six colonies of Australis will
become vast empire and great power.
General Tom Thumb gave dinner re-
Gently at the Lindell Hotel, st. Louis, in
honor of the nineteenth anniversary of
his wedding day. The guests were the
members of his company, fourteen in
number.
The village of Little Falls has lost
prominent citizen in William Nj. Dorr,
who died on Saturday. He was conspicu-
GUS in business and political circles and
wrs held in great esteem by his fellow
citizens.
Stop singing "Are your windows open
toward Jerusalem" and ask the more
practical question do they open toward
some saloon, gambling den, or other
scene of vice. This is good time to be-
practical
A modest headstone with the words
Mrs. Surratt" has been placed over the
grave of Mrs. Surratt in Mount Olivet
cemetery, Washington. The grave was
formerly unmarked save by the corner
stone of the lot.
There is no accounting for tastes. A
negro man in Christianburg, Va, is q
habitual coal oil drinker. He says in
cold weather he often drinks pint or
more at one time, and that the sensation
produced is similar to that of whisky.
Jonathan Breisford. aged 81, and Miss
Elizabeth Kirby, aged 70, both of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, are soon to be married.
The giddy things! They quarreled
sixty years ago, and have just made up.
Same old story of never too late to
mend.
A Rome, Ga, man is preparing
unique directory. 1t will contain the
name, style, whether brunette or blonde,
address. and approximate age of every
young lady in Georgia who has of her
own, or as heiress expectant, proper " to
the amount of $4,000 or upward.
EYES," said the injured patty to the
owner of the dog, II knew the dog was
only in play when he bit about half
pound of flesh out of me! Certainly he
was only in play! And / was only in
play when 1 took the axe and made hash
of him. Only in play, sir. Nothing to
rat mad ahont"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06
Am arican Soc ETY..

The social instinct is dying, if not dead
within us. With the introduction of the
reception and the german or the cotillion
as the Gallomarics have il, the spirit Of
hospitality departed. We have never
yet realized that imported social customs
do not transplant we'll. The English,
French, German, Spanish, Russian and
Italian methods of entertaining arc all
surprisingly different, but the attempt
to introduce them on soils foreign to
them is seldom attempted. We may adj
mire the charms of an Italian saloon, and
find its simple hospitality delightful
and the lemonade and figs may have q
delicious taste In Italy, but as Thackery
feelingly observes, there is no hilarity in
lemonade, and Americans as we'll as our
English cousins require something
more substantial to express hospi-
atty. With insane folly We
have copied all manner Of for
eign customs, without rejecting for an
instant on the incongruity of things.
Because there was nothing better to be
done, the system of official receptions
was adopted, and thereupon q host Of
people who had not the least reason for
receiving, and no taste in doing it either,
found q pressing necessity to do so.
The monstronsity is upon us now, and
we cannot get rid OF it. So with the
German. Formerly a class OF intelli-
gent men frequented bathrooms, that
are are rarely seen there now. An
elderly lady is reported as saying;
Thirty years ago, at Saratoga, the
most distinguished gentlemen sought the
ball room Round dances we're unknown,
<ha Asht<o t<x-. hi, v.nIEa and
that was only danced by the hightiest
part of society. Such men as Benjamin
Harris Brewster. danced serene quad
rifles; Judges and Governors and Sena-
tors danced with the young ladies Of my
day." The remark was perfectly Just.
There 10 no dance now worthy the atten-
cers, that last stronghold OF dignified
dancing, has been invaded, and il is
now become free -and-easy romp
proceedings. The brainless part of
society appear to be having it all their
own way. 1t has inaugarated customs
that are pardonable with boys and girls,
but wholly unsuited TO men and women.
Nothing can be hoped for in the way Of
reform. As in everything else, great or
small there is necessity for a certain
amount of good sense, and il we have
had the bad taste to give up the admir-
able and graceful Inequalities Of our
fathers, for the brainless changelings We
now cherish, we will hardly have the
good taste 10 60 back 10 them. Revolu-
tions never 60 backward, and progress
Is mot improvsment, are two solid old
kuisns that show us how bad eur csc il
sooially. ana how impossible Il d 10
somedy i'll Washington Pest.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06
SHORT BITS.


Tennyson smokes an unpoetic clay
pipe.
Vaccination is a good deal like bap-
tism. Sometimes it don't "take."
David Dudley Field, of New York, is
the oldest practicing lawyer in the United
States. He is 7S.
In London Queen lady advertises her
wish to exchange her engagement ring
for black fur cape.
The Nebraska woman suffragists claim
eighty of the ninety-four newspapers of
that state as their advocates.
There is this to be said in favor of the
aesthetic knee breeches: They won't bag
at the knee.-Buffalo Express.
Said the lecturer THE roads up these
mountains are too steep and rocky for
even donkey to climb; therefore did
not attempt the ascent"
1t is now believed that the fixed stars
were placed so far away in order that
the patent medicine man couldn't get
there to paint the rocks.-New York
Post.
Another Indian war has happily been
averted. Two boys armed themselves
with seven. barreled revolver, and
were just about to depart to slaughter
Indians when nipped by the unromantic
police.
Mr.. Min says his church is to be the
church of the future, and then he tells
us in the same breath that there is no
future. What is he giving us?- Boston
Transcript.
Girls should be careful how they are
vaccinated with virus taken from low
er's arm. One at 81. Paul has taken to
swearing, sitting cross-legged, and smok
ing brier-root pipe.
"Man and wife are all one, are they?"
said she. Eyes; what of it?" said he,
suspiciously. why, in that case" said
his wife, II came home awfully tipsy
last night, and feel terribly ashamed Of
myself this morning." He never said
word.
If you could suppress the exorbitant
love of pleasure and money, idle curl
osity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton
mirth, what stiffness would there be in
the great cities! The necessaries Of life
do not occasion at most q third part of
the hurry.
A watch stolen from a San Francisco
lady more than q year ago was returned
to her last week, the singular fact in
connection with its recovery being that
it was sent back from China by some
person there who had received it as a
present, but was not satisfied with its
style.
The shares of the New York Chemical
bank, capital 100000, are quoted at
$4,000. This is probably the highest
quotation of bank stock in the country.
The bank has always been we'll managed
and has enjoyed the deposits OF James
Gordon Bennett, A. 7. Stewart and some
of the Astors.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06
Little Children's Watches.

Yesterday an old man entered Little
Rock store, and taking from his pocket
an old buck-skin pouch, he emptied two
coins on the counter, and then, after re-
garding the silver for few minutes,
said:
mister, want to buy some goods to
make dress"
"That money is mutilated, old gentle
mrn. This twenty-five cent piece has
notches filed in it and this fifty-cent
piece has been punched. You see, they
have been abused. can't take them"
ABUSED" said the old man."
ABUSED" and he took up the fifty-cent
piece and looked at it tenderly. "And
you won't take it on account OF the holes.
Heaven grant that did not have to Of
fer it to you. Years ago when my first
child was little girl, punched hole
in this coin and strung it around her
neck. 1t was her constant plaything.
At night when she went to bed we'd take
it off, but early in the morning she'd call
for her watch. When our John-you
didn't know John, did you? No. Well,
he used to come to town good deal"
"Where is he now?" asked the mer
chant, not knowing what to say. but de-
string to show appreciation of the old
mans story.
"He was killed in the war. say that
when John was little boy strung this
quarter around his neck. One day his
watch got out Of fix, he said, and he filed
these notches you see in it. He
and his sister Mary-that was the
girls name-used to play in the yard
and compare their watches to see if they
were right. Sometimes John wouldn't
like it because Mary's watch was bigger
than his, but she would explain to him
that she was bigger than him and ought
to have a bigger. watch. The children
grew mp, but as they had always lived in
the woods, they were not ashamed to
wear their watches. When young man
came to see Mary once she forgetfully
looked at her fifty cents. What are you
doing?' asked the young man. and when
she told him she was looking at her
watch, he took it as a hint and went
home. After this she did not wear her
watch in company. Well, Mary and the
young man married. John went off in
the army and got killed. Mary's hus-
band died, and about two years ago
Mary was taken sick. When her mother
and reached her house she was dying.
Calling me to her bed, she said: Papa,
lean over I leaned over, and, taking
something from under her pillow. she
put it around my neck and said: Papa,
take care of my watch" The old man
looked at the merchant. The eyes of
both we're moist. "Do you see that boy
ont there in the wason?' he said.
well, that is Mary's child. wouldn't
part with this money, but my old wife,
who always loved me, died this morn
ing, and have come to buy her q
shroud." When the old man went out
he carried bundle in one hand and the
watches" in the other Little Rock
Gazette.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06
A. Partisan Story.

A Paris letter contains this story: In
some parts of France manageable girls
are accustomed to pluck, as they return
from midnight mass on Christmas eve, q
sprig OF apple tree which they put IN q
vial full of water; the vial is hung in
their bedchamber in front of the window
if one bud blooms before Easter the
mistress is sure to be married before the
year ends. Among the servants of a
chateau near Alencon, was chamber
maid from Brittany. She was gentle,
good natured, quiet, pious-an excellent
creature every way ,but-she was hunch-
backed. Her name was Ursule. Taking
advantage of the dark night, she, too,
plucked sprig Of apple tree, sure that
nobody saw her. She was mistaken. A
fellow-servant saw her and made SER
wants hall ring with peals OF laughter at
poor Ursule's expense. Still they kept
the secret among themselves. They all
agreed to play q trick on poor
Ursule. Easter eve one Of the jour
neyman gardeners removed the
sprig Of apple tree from the vial in
Ursule's bedchamber and put in its place
q sprig covered with blossoms. When
Ursule went into her bedchamber she
could not believe her eyes. She return
ed to the servants hall; her face was
radient with delight as she showed her
trophy. the laughter, jeers, hootings of
her comrades revealed the trick put upon
her. She stood dumb. COMPOUNDED.
trem bling, scarcely able to restrain her
tears. just at this moment the mistress
entered the servants hall. The mistress
said: "Ursule. the apple-tree sprig may
be trusted; believe it, You will be mar
ried before Christmas next. Yod are u
virtuous girl; am sure you will make
virtuous wife. All you want to get
husband is money; Che money wanted I
will give you." As she spoke the mis-
tress twined 1000 franc bank note
around the sprig and returned il to
Ursule. A fortnight afterward the
journeyman gardner who had put the
trick on her asked her hand in marriage,
but she refused him lat which he was
greatly ieered) and married another.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06

A new form of window 10 being intro
duoed in London, England, for prevent
ing accident in cleaning and securing
ventilation. The two side bars Of each
Of pair Of ordinary sash frames are
divided into two parts vertically, and
the part carrying the glass is swiveled or
pivoted in the side pieces at point CEN
trail TO it, height. The frame with the
glass is held in position by two small
bolts in the top rail, which shoot into
the side strips. when this later fasten-
ing u effected the two sashes may slide
up ard down II he ordinary way. u
Will b seen That 70 olean this kind Of
window theeo 4 % necessity for servants
= g outside.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06
A YAMmILL ROMAHcE.

How Y0ung Lady WAS Rescued from
the Jaws OF Death and = Yeung
Man saved from Despair ~
Remarkable Manner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-22

rather to do what may be done to
guard against the disc ase, or at least
against its dangerous effects. Vac
cination is not a satisfactory pre-
ventiye, but it is the only thing
that has the right to claim
any virtue as a preventive. Quacks
and fanatics sometimes deny its
efficiency, and charge it with pro-
dueing rather than relieving dis
ease; but experience long since
proved the value of vaccination, the
discovery Of which las been of in
calculable worth to the human fam
lily. Vaccination has driven small
pox from the great cities of the
world, and has saved the lives of
thousands of people who, by reason
of it, escaped the disease entirely or
were but mildly attacked by it. In
this age of enlightenment it seems
hardly worth while to argue in
favor of vaccination, for all the en-
inent, skilled physicians of the
world are its consistent and intelli-
gent advocates. Yet, if one will
take the trouble to inquire, he will
learn that large percentage of the
people with whom he daily asso-
ciates have never been Vaccinated,
while the vast majority Of those
upon whom the preventive act has
been performed have not had it re-
peated for many years. Everybody
is careless. 1t requires smallpox
scare to induce even believers in
vaccination to take the preventive.
A prominent New York physician
says he regards the outbreak of
smallpox as good thing, inasmuch
as it teaches people their duty,
which nothing else will do. Vac
eination should be made compul-
sorry, just as a certain degree of
is required at the hands
of every member of the community.
Here at home coh1pulsion ought not
to be necessary, and especially at a |
time like the present, when the
danger is 500 great. There should
be a thorough vaccination of the
and especially of the
people in the cities and towns
through which railroads run. Ii
his be done the disease will present
fewer terrors when it comes and the
leath rate be materially lessened.