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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-10-26
RepuIsed by Factory Girls.

At Kirby & Brothers canning factory
Burlington, N. j., there is employed q
young girl named Sallie Cook, who re-
sides with her guardian, David Hughs,
in this city. She had previously made
her home with Mrs. Gill, who keeps a
SALON in Philadelphia, until ordered to
go behind the bar and wait on Gus
toners, when she left the house one
morning and fed tc her lawful protec-
tor. A few days ago a strange man ap-
peared at the canning factory making
Inquiries for Miss Cook. The other
employees in the factory took it into
their heads that the unwelcome visitor
was an emissary of Mrs. Gill, who had
come to carry the girl of, and they de-
termined upon a repulse. Forming
themselves into O solid phalanx, the fac
tory hands began the assault by bonn
harding the intruder with decayed toma-
toes and such other ammunition as was at
convenient disposal. 1t took but a few
minutes to convince the visitor that the
"Skinners, as they are termed in Bur-
lington, were in earnest, and would prob
ably knock him out before they finished
their fusilade. When he retreated ont
of the factory yard loud and triumphant
Sno Icnt tuc dhu iuooiCs SoiiCS-
ton OF old tin cans, worn. out shoes and
various odds and ends we're hurled at
the retreating stranger, who, as soon as
he gained the street, ran down the rail
road track in the direction of Beverly.
BRITISH POSTAL PRoFITs.-The blind
British postmaster general, Mr.. Fswcett,
has keenness of vision in matters OF
finance which many man might give
his eyes to possess. Although the
British Postal Department has been en-
numbered with the establishment of the
Postal Telegraph al the Postal Savings
Bank systems in recent years, its man.
agement has been so efficient that clear
profit of S13, $40, 300 has been reported
for the year ending with March, 1882.
This result should incite the admins
traitors of our own Postal Department
to efforts to increase its economy. It's
receipts are nearly equal TO those of tie
British Postal Department, as it trans
mits more letters and postal cards, and
nearly as many newspapers. Fortu
nately, it was self-sustaining last year,
and profit of 1000, 900 has been esti-
mated for the first quarter of the present
fiscal year. But it is perfectly evident
that il its management were as salts
factory as that of the British Postal De-
paatment it would yield handsome
profit regularly from year to year.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-10-26
Vancouver Independent

OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND County.
Vancouver. Clarke County, Washington
Territory.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-10-26

Wan OF THE RACES IN WASHINGTON
Schools. There il considerable local
excitement here in consequences Of the
admission Of the colored children into
some Of the white schools Of Washing
ton. Under existing regulations the
school funds are divided up in proper
ton TO the number Of white and colored
children and separate school houses have
been built for each. In some parts Of
the city the houses built for coloreti
schools are more commod,ous and costly
than those provided for the whites. For
some two or three years there has been .
persistent effort ON the part Of few col
ored persons 10 get their children into
the white schools. but thu school board
has Refused 70 sanction the proposition.
In one or two school diatricts ths school
truseeess without consulting The iull
board, gavo ins(Sucticns 10 admit col.
ored ohildrea. Troublo q approhendel
Il Waahingoua Ospilol.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-10-26

A tickle young female Of Omaha was
wiling to marry, but she did not like
the Episcopal clerg, man who had been
chosen to perform the ceremony. She
wanted a hard-shell Baptist. Finally
she was fully persuaded to let the Epis-
copal gentleman officiate. Though the
hour was late at night. the minister
donned his professional habiliments and
had the church brilliantly lighted. The
bridal party started up the aisle toward
the altar, when the bride broke away
from her lover and petulantly exclaimed
II can't stand this II you don't get an.
other preacher won't get married." In
stead Of wringing her neck, ~ he felt
like doing. the patient lover submitted
and went after another preacher. He,
when found, said that he could moi
serve, a. he was not fully ordained. De
termined 10 seal hts fate that night II
possible, the groom found still another
preacher. Him he got out Of bed and
persuaded TO pronounce the holy cere.
mony, aud the town clock struck IL.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-10-26

RIAL DISEASES,
vitaIize the syssem and arrest the ravages o
the Dreadful Alcohol Habit,
DIPsOMANlA.
AK your Druggist Wine Merchant for
them
WILMERD1NG ~ CO., Agents, SIM Fran
cisco. -
w. u. VAN SCHUYvER - CO.. Portland
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
Rust ON Wheat.

The yellow or orange colored dust
that forms on the leaves and stems of
wheat shortly before reaping time is
caused by minute fungus. The fun
gus plant attacks the wheat some weeks
before it makes its appearance, and fills
the interior substance of the leaves and
stems with its fine threads. These
threads act as roots, by means of which
the fungus or rust plant obtains it's nour-
ishment from the substance of the grow.
ing wheat plant. There is no remedy
for the rust after it has once appeared
upon the surface of the wheat. The
most effective preventive is blue vitriol
or blue stone (sulphate of copper), two
or three ounces of this salt to q bushd
of wheat. the wheat is soaked in the
brine for short time before sowing.
There has been much energy expended
in the endeavor to find some variety of
wheat that is rust proof. Prof. Brewer,
who has charge of the grain statistics in
the late census, finds many districts
where variety of wheat has sprung up
that for year or SO is almost rust proof,
but afterward it becomes infested the
same as other sorts. As precaution
burn the stubble, thus destroying many
spores that would otherwise terminate
and continue the pest. Ah.i-
culturist
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
Kaking in the Pot.

For several years many of the resi-
dents of a certain village in Pennsyl-
vania had been predicting that the old
man s. was slowly dying of consump-
ton, and in March last bets of three to
one were freely offered that he would
not outlive the summer. About the LIST
of April the old man went to Philadel-
phia to be examined by the doctors to
see if his case was as bad as thought
for, and after an abse,ce of several days
hereturned home very quietly and called
his eldest son in from the barn and said:
'sPeter, it is generally believed by our
neighbors that I have consumption
eyes, father"
"And that q few more weeks will
plant me under the daisies"
That's what they say, father"
"Well, you get up early tomorrow
and you go out and bet my watch and
my horse and my gun, and my buggy,
and this house and lot, and all the
money we can scrape up and borrow,
that don't turn up my toes for a year.
Bet even; bet two to one bet any way
you can, for Providence has sent us this
occasion as harvest"
"But we may lose, father p
close, you i'di't! Why, well scoop
in every dollar that this town can raise,
for seven different doctors agreed that
I've got the dyspepse instead of con-
sumption and good for q dozen years
yet p Wall Street NesUs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
The Wild Flowers OF Montana.

The wild flowers of Montana are rs
abundant as those of the Alps, and more
varied. Choicest of them all, because
most delicate and fragrant. is a white,
star-shaped, wax-lke- blossom which
grows very close to the ground, and the
large golden stamens of which Civ. out
an odor like mingled hyacinth and lily
of the valley. The people call it the
mountain-lily. There is another lily,
however, and q real one-yellov with
purple stamens-that grows on high
slopes in shaded places. The yellow
Towering currant abounds on the lower
levels, and the streams are often bordered
with thickets of wild-rose bushes. Dan
delions abound, but do not open in full,
rounded perfection. The common blue
larkspur, however, is as well developed
as in our Eastern gardens, and the little
yellow violet which in the States haunts
the woods and copses is at home in
Montana, alike in the moist valleys and
upon the bleak, dry hillsides. Small
sllnfowers are plentiful, the buebell is
equally abundant in valleys and on
mountain ridges, and in early June there
blooms unique flower called the shoot
ing star, shaped like a shuttlecock.
There are dozen other pretty flowers,
but could not learn their names
among them low-growing mass, the
clumps of which are starred over with
delicate white or purple blooms.-E. "
lSnaalley, in the Century.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
"Sallie's ElOpin'; Run, Pop, Run :"

Farmer Rice, whose fertile fields ara
near Danv1le, Va, had two things for
which to be Thankful claiming
daughter and a promising patch of early
vegetables. As it SO runs in this world
of worry, however, both treasures were
hard to keep. Sheep by day and prowl-
ing things by night caused the farmer
to fret for his peas, his turnips and his
whatnot, while Dan Cupid's dart had
struck home in the heart of Miss Sallie.
En- regard to the young woman, Mr.. J.
j. Barker, a youth Of the neighborhood,
had become her accepted lover, but MI.
Rice opposed the match and threatened
dark deeds with dog or dagger should
the young folks carry the nonsense to
practical issue. But Mr.. Barker was as
persistent as his sweetheart was true and
plot was laid against the old man.
About 9 o'clock on the morning of the
9TH inst, Mr.. Barker, in company
with several friends, drove to a piece of
woods some 800 yards from Mr.. Rice's
house. One of the friends slipped across
to the truck-field and opened q gate
through which several of the sheen
passed, with the tinkling bell of the
A0tsOcI pA1yuS q CCA.tdAc tuAc. MISS
Sallie shouted to her father that the
sheep were in the truck, and the poor
old man was thus decoyed from the
house. half way to the truck patch
Farmer Rice heard mis- younger daughter
shrilly call and wildly gesticulate for his
return. He saw Bankers buggy, with
the horse at a gallop, crossing from the
woods, and at the same moment caught
the sound of the faithful daughters :
.'Sallie's elopin' run, Pop, rum Mr..
Rice was in q predicament. At his left
hand sheep were despoiling his truck
on his right his daughter was running
away with an Objectionable man. What
should he do? Hesitating no longer
than second the old man seized q
pitchfork and started after the lovers.
Away went the buggy and after them
paced the farmers easy-going mare. AT
Pelham he drew rein, for the lovers had
slipped away. Mr.. Rice returned not
to the truck patch. He saw in the
bottom of his consoling cup that both
treasures, by which he had set so much
store, were gone forever.-Philadelphsa
| Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
.no 1rlcc VI a secret.

Freemasons in the year of ITO must
have been rather surprised and amused
to read the following announcement ir
the new Newcastle COur0nt of Jan. 4. of
that year "This is to acquaint the
public on Monday, the first in
slant, being the Lodge Tor monthly
meeting) Night Of the Free and Accepted
Masons of the Twenty-second Regiment,
held at the Crown, near Newgate New
castle), Mrs. Bell, the landlady, broke
open door with poker) that had not
opened for some time past by which
means she got into an adjacent room,
made two holes through the wall, and
by that stratagem discovered the secrets
of F44masonry and she, knowing her.
self to be the first woman in the world
that ever found out the secret, is willing
to make it known to all her sex. So any
lady who is DESTROYS of learning the Sc
crets of Freemasonry, by applying to
that well-learned woman MRS. Bell, that
lived fifteen years in and about New
gate), may be instructed in the secrets
of Masonry, Chambers Journal.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
Flowers and Insects.

All admire the colors and forms of
flowers, but these are only part of their
endless attractions. Close observers
have found out many curious things
which hasty lockers never see. That
close questioner of nature, Charles OAR
win, found that insects were attracted
to flowers by their cclors. and that diff
ferent insects choose different colors.
He cut the snowy petals off some of the
flowers in clumps in the garden. and
found that bees never went near those,
though very busy with the others. Sir
John Lubbock put honey in glass over
colored papers, and found that bees
readily Disseminated and always went
to the blue, as they 10 in the flowers.
Muller noticed that each kind of but
terfy visited only its own favorite color
of Lantana. Grant Allen shows that.
as nearly oil colored flowers depend
upon insects to brush the pollen on the
stigma and so cause them to produce
seed, their preference for the in
tensest color of their choice tends to the
production of the most from them, and
SO the full development of color. He
shows, too, that at first the only color
was yellow, as seen in the seed parts of
nearly all flowers still, and that white,
pink, red, purple and blue were devel-
oped in succession. Many flowers still
open with yellow or pink tinge. and
gradually change through this series to
some shade of rcd, or finally, blue.
Blue and purple are most common in
complicate corollas which only bees and
butterflies penetrate easily; moths only
see white flowers.-Vick'S Floral Guide.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
ADJUSTMENTS.

The Delta Sigma Society of the State
University will give its first entertainment
for the season this evening. The follow
ing choice programme will be presented:
Music.
Inaugural by the president. .... j. N. Vaughn
Inaugural by the vice-president Mr.. Manchester
Inaugural by the recording secretaryM Miss Brown
Inaugural by the corresponding secre-
tary. Mr.. White
Inaugural by the treasurer. 800. MIR. MOultOn
Music. s<ssS
Inaugural by Critic. Mr.. Bulls
Inaugural by Marshall. ....... Mr.. johnson
Essay. Observation-Disclosures. Mr.. 10y
Music.
The Hermean Society of the State Uni
versity will give its second entertainment
this evening. The programme will be as
follows:
News report. Observation-Disclosures. H. s. Abbott
Essay. Observation-Disclosures. Miss Pierce
Music.
Debate: Resolved, That immigration, if con-
tinued at the present rate, will result in evil to
the country.
Negative. Observation-Disclosures. E. Trussell
Reading. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Miss EmbOdy
Speech. Observation-Disclosures James Gray
Critical report. ................A.M M. Baldwin
At the Opera house "Hidden Hand" will
be put on the first three nights this week,
with Miss McAllister as Archie, the news
boy, and Capitola. in which she scored a
hit in Winnipeg. b. A. Ellis is cast for
Black Donald, and his portrayal of the
cunning villain in 'sNot Guilty" last week
vouchsafes excellent work in this role.
he font fho% dooc MT annoQr
will lend an attraction to many,
Mckee Ra akin and his DANTE company
is the next attraction at 1thes Academy. of
Music.
Miss HELEN Adele has been engaged to
fill the vacancy in Miss McAllister's COM
pany occasioned by the withdrawal of Miss
Cochrane.
The following is the programme for the
concert at Market hall this evening, which
will be given under the aus
pices of the ladies of the Catholic or
phan's asylum: 4 -
Opening overture. . Prof Danz's orchestra
Chorus-Tantum Ergo .Rossi
Catholic choir, E. D. tssD1
Piano sole. ........ German Triumphal March
Prof. Perry.
Song MISUNDERSTANDING The Children of the City
Miss Flora Dudley. ~
Selection Prof. Danz's orchestra
Bass solo-Shall I'm Mamr'es Fertile Plain p
IL From Handel's Joshua
c. E. Hasey accompanied by Prof. l.. F. Brown.
Song-Ely Mavourneen. Mrs. Perry
Comet solo .......... From Danz's orchestra
Double trio. Those Distant Chimes
Misses NJ. Sullivan, X. Hays, s. Coughlin, A.
j Danehy, R. King and NJ. Heating. ,:ssl
Song-The Mountaineer. 1850. Mons Baker
Crusaders quartet-Moonlight on the Lake. /
Messrs. H. Wood, T. Carroll, j. Dwyer and A.
D. Lennon.
Finale. .................Pr Prof Danz's orchestra
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
wALrnR OFT SHOT.
Size t In the Back By q ACKNOWLEDGMENT
MwrdeF Or AccidentaL

Size Ia the Back By q ACKNOWLEDGMENT
MxrdeF Or AccidesstaI.
Walter OFT, who lives at No. Gle north
Fifth street and who is a butcher, employ
ed in an Eighth avenue south butcher
shop, was shot in the back yesterday, and
seriously, if not dangerously, wounded
OFT had, in company with his employer.
started for drive into the country to some
place about fifteen miles distant. They
started at about o'clock u the forenoon
Arriving at large slaughter house few
miles from the city on the river road, a
party of men was met. They stopped and
iocular conversation ensued, when one OF
the party met by OFT drew revolver and
fired, the bullet entering his back near the
spinal column.
OFT was brought back to the city and
taken to his residence at about ] o'clock.
and was in a critical condition last eve
ming.
Adam OFT, the father of the wounded
man, told a GLOBE reporter yesterday, that
he made application to Chief Munger
for the arrest of the man.
who did the shooting, but the chief in
formed him that the man2had already been
before him, and explaining that the shoot
ing was purely accidental, was allowed to
60.
Mr.. OFT feels quite indignant and claims
that the shooting was an assault with In
tent to commit murder and thinks the man,
who is q stranger to him, should be ar
rested.
Owing to the absence of the chief, the
reporter was unable to ascertain the facts
relative to the accidental theory last even
ing.
The reporter found Chief Munger last
night. and from him learned that it was IA
man known as 'Whispering" Shaw who did
the shooting. Shaw lives short distance
from the city, and while shooting with his
revolver, accidentally hit OFT, who was driv-
ing past. Shaw, in company with two wit
nesses at Camptown, went to the police
station and made the above explanation of
the casualty. Shaw offered to deliver him
self to custody, but the chief, concluding
the statements were true. and knowing
Shaw. thought a warrant unnecessary
He will nevertheless give the matter a
searching investigation to-day.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
HEALTHIS WEALTH.

DR.. E. c. Vests nerve and brain treatment, .
specific for hysteria, dizziness, commissions,
nervous headache, mental depression, loss of
memory, premature old age, caused by over
exertion or over-indulgence, which leads to mis-
cry, decay and death. One box will cure recent
cases. Each box contains one months treat
ment. One dollar box, or six boxes for five
dollars; sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price
We guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With
each order received by us for six boxes, accom-
panied with i've dollars, we will send the prr-
chaser our written guarantee to return the money
if the treatment does not effect cure. Guar
antees issued only by Lambie & Co., corner
Third and Wabashaw streets, st. Paul, Mimi.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
Boy and Cobra.

I remember, says writer, a small
Mussulman boy, one of our servants,
lying in the veranda apparently asleep,
when, to our horror, we saw cobra
creep out of lot of boots lying near,
which the boy had been cleaning. The
cobra passed over his face, and actually
larted his fork in and out of his open
mouth. The boy never stirred, and we
remarked how provi1ential it was that
he was fast asleep. The snake after
time glided off, when the boy jumped
up, seized a stick, and killed it. He had
been awake all the time.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-02
rORNADORs.
And the Causes That Produce Them.

And the Causes That Produce Them.
Mr.. T. B. Maury, in an interesting ar
hcle on "Tornadoes and their Causes" in
the North american Revie,U, notes the
fact that the tornado is to be distin-
guished from the cyclone or thunder
storm, which has much less force, the
rate of speed of the cyclone being about
twenty-five miles an hour, while that of
the tornado is often seventy miles. The
one which struck Grinnell, Iowa, trav-
elcd 200 miles in four hours. The tor
nado belt lies between the tenth and
:iftieth parallels of latitude, although
countries having mountainous surface
are seldom visited by such storms. even
when they lie in the belt. The encounter
between the great anti-trade currents
and the polar winds in the belt specified
is the chief cause Mr.. Maury assigns for
tornadoes.
The Mississippi valley is described by
Mr.. Maury as q grand continental high
way III summer for the vapor-laden trade
Winds" Which, entering the Gulf of
Mexico, are arrested in their westward
current, and must find an outlet to the
northward. The anti-trades, which
form the equatorial" current, are SIM
ultaneously moving northward as an
upper atmospheric force. A chance
stoppage of either of the two currents.
causing a conflict between the cold air
force from the pole and the warm air
force from the equator, occasions the
formation of the tornado. Mr.. Maury
describes a tornado as o "mass of air in
violent gyration, within which there is
a center of rarefed air rising upward
and flowing out above, the velocity of
the surrounding atmosphere, drawn into
the vortex below, increasing immensely
as it .nears the vacuum" The funnel
shaped cloud of the tornado is caused
by the condensation of vapor carried
upward to colder regions.
Nh. Maury can find no reason for be-
ievipg that the Mississippi valley will
ever become free from tornadoes, since
they have their cause in the great air
currents which no transformation of
the surface of the country can interrupt /;
but he makes suggestion as to how their
fury may be escaped. With prompt
telegraph service, furnishing stimuli
taneous weather reports from the
threatened districts each morning, a
complete meteorologist could give the
public warning Of the existence of con-
ditions favorable to the production of a
tornado. MI. Maury also suggests that
by choosing sites for towns and build
ings with an elevation on the south
west side of them, protection from
tornadoes may ordinarily be secured,
since they almost invariably move from
south-southwest to north-northeast, and
a hill in their course will cause them to
leap over whatever is just beyond it..
A witness of the Grinnel tornado says:
ut did not always visit the earth's sur
face, but often passed so far above as to
infict no injury, but again would swoop
down with relentless fury, carrying ,des-
truction for few miles to every object
in it's path" This description of the
action of the tornado which destroyed o
large part of G1innell impressively ex-
plains why Mr.. Maury advises the sclec-
ton of building sites with an elevation
on the southwest side of them.