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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02
Thy We're All Poor Boys.

An exchange culls the following histor-
ical facts. which should encourage every
young man struggling under discourage
ment and poverty:
john Adams. second President, was
the son OF a farmer of very moderate
means. The only start he had was good
education.
Andrew Jackson was born in log hut
in North Carolina, and was raised in the
pine woods, for which the State is
famous.
James Polk spent the earlier part of his
life in helping to dig a living out of
new farm in North Carolina. He was
afterwards clerk in country store.
Mi.lard Fillmore was the son of New
York farmer, and his home very hum
bic one. He learned the business of
clothier.
james Buchanan was born in small
town in the Allegheny mountains. His
father cut the logs end built his own
house in what was then a wilderness.
Abraham Lincoln was the son of a very
poor Kentucky farmer, and lived in log
cabin until he was q years old.
Andrew johnson was apprenticed to
tailor at the age of 10 years by his wild
owed mother. He was never able to at
tend school, and picked up all the educa-
ton he ever got.
Gen. Grant lived the life of common
boy in common house on the banks OF
the Ohio river until he was II years of age.
James A. Garfield was born in log
cabin. He worked on the farm fro N the
time he was strong enough to use car
penter tools. when he learned the trade.
He afterwards worked on the canal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02
Crown, d by Stealth.

Perhaps the most extraordinary royal
ceremony that has taken place in Europe
in modern times, is the coronation OF
Alexander III. of Russia, supposed to
have been performed at Moscow some
time within the last two days. The cor
onation of monarch is ordinarily an
event of the most ostentatious and splen-
did character, and the coronations OF
czars of Russia have always been con-
spicuous among kingly shows. The cor
onation of Alexander H., the unhappy
monarch whose life was ended twenty
months ago by conspirator's bomb, was
the most brilliant display of royal splen-
dor and semi barbaric luxury ever seen
in Europe, and the glowing description
of it sent to the London Times,
has become newspaper
classic. 1t was advertised to the world
for months before the event, and nota-
BILE audience of kings and princes, state
men and litterati, gathered to look upon
its splendors. 1t took place under the
immediate eye of thousands and in the
face of the whole world. 1t is impossible
to imagine a sharper contrast to this
magnificent and snowy event than the
coronation of the son of Alexander il,
at Moscow 1t probably took place two
days ago, but the world knows nothing
of it with certainty. The date of the
event has been carefully concealed, aud
when prying newspapers guessed it, it
has been postponed from time to
time. Instead of invitations to
all the crowned heads of Eu.
rope, the attendance at the cere-
mony has been confined to those persons
whose presence Russian etiquette and
tradition made absolutely necessary.
The journey of the royal pair from their
prison house of refuge at Gatschina was
made in the most secret and stealthy
manner. The emperor and empress
passed through their realm like cpnvicts
escaping through penal colony, fear
| ing a sentinel or an executioner at every
roadside. The only crowd at the coro-
nation is a crowd of troops, assembled
there to protect the monarch from the
vengeance of his subjects. Moscow is
made, for the purposes of this corona
ton, a fortified camp, beseiged strong
hold 1t is filled with soldiers, and
isolated from the surrounding country.
The military are in possession of the
railroads and telegraph wires, and no
private messages are allowed to enter or
to issue from the city. And there, in
silence. mystery and almost in solitude,
out off from the subjects he fears, and
surrounded by the soldiers whose
weapons alone he trusts, filed with dark
recollections and still more gloomy fore
holdings, in hourly fear and danger OF
death by the hand of the assassin, the
car of all the Russias has probably re-
ceived the crown and precious unction
which will entitle him to tomb in the
royal Vault of the Romanoffs, when
Nihilist dynamite shall have accom-
| plished his translation from this world,
so full of trouble even for princes
Pioneer Press.
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A Girly.Girl.
"Do they edit in here?'

do they eu1C IN uefee
The several occupants of the room
looked around and discovered young
lady standing in the doorway. She nod
ded slightly to the horse reporter, and
that individual returned the salutation
with placid mile-and- half overweight
hurdles smile, whose grandeur OF ex-
panse would alone have made it notice.
able.
"You are right this time, madam" he
said. "This is the exact spot where the
seething brain of the trained journalist
proceeds to bubble, and the lances of
Thought that pierce with unerring aim
the helmets of Wrong are ever held in
couchant poise by strong arms ready to
launch them forth at the slightest signal
of danger"
"Papa doesn't know l am up here, !"
said the vision of loneliness, "but man.
ma does. The very minute told her
that was going to see an editor she said
it was the best thing to do; but when l
got right to the door I just thought 1
should de-"
"You don't appear to be in danger of
immediate dissolution" remarked the
horse reporter.
"Oh, of course, don't mean exactly
that" said the young lady; ''but I was
awfully nervous, you know; l always
was that way; and when l was q little
girl papa used to say that the only way
to govern me was by kindness"
"Well, we'll be gentle with you" re-
piled the personal friend of Rarus.
"Wpuld you like to read the Hawkins
Vile Clarion, or the Cohoes Freeman"
pointing to q pile of exchanges.
"No, I don't care about it, thank you, "
was the reply. ''You editors must have
hard time managing oil the people
who come up here?"
"There is managing editor for that
purpose" said the horse reporter.
"How nice! And do all these gentle
men edit?'
eyes"
"I'm going to be married next week, y
said the Young lady. ''Ain't it funny?"
"Quite ludicrous, no doubt" was the
reply.
''to see if you would put nice notice o.
the affair in the paper. Will you do it?'
Certainly" said the horse reporter.
"Would you like to have it referred to
as another one Of those delightful
events in which the happiness OF trust
ing love finds glad fruition in welded
bliss, or the marriage bells rang out
merrily last evening. telling to the star.
lit skies a joyful tale of loves final
triumph Both these sentences are
kept in type, and you can have your
choice"
II rather like the last one BEST" said
the young lady. sit is more tenderly
beautiful, and so sweetly. touching.
Don't you think SOP"
"Yes," replied the horse reporter,
"there is sort of curfew-will-not-ring
tonight tinge to it that lays over the
other one."
"Well. then, I will take that. And
will an editor be around to write it up.
Certainly"
ct will send you piece of the we'd
ding CAKE" continued the young lady.
"Co, said the horse reporter. "There
is dog up my way that needs killing.
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RaistOn's Summer House.

The Ralston house. at Belmont, now
in the possession of Senator Sharon, is
that perhaps having the greatest interest
of ali. The remarkable man who built
it was of the traditional California type
in its most astonishing, development.
Starting from an humble origin, he be-
came a forwarder of every brilliant
scheme of improvement, public and pri-
vate, and conducted. "a hundred projects
to success which in other hands would
have been sheer folly. He arrived thus
at an unbounded confidence in his star.
Entangled finally while cashier OF the
Bank Of California he handed in his
resignation to the Directors one day
and went kown to the public baths near
the Potrero. A strong, ath-
letic man, in the prime of life, he
swan ont half mile into the baylor
refreshment in his troubles, as some say,
but, the general opinion Is, with the de-
liberate purpose of suicde--and never
was again seen alive. The house that
was his is notched into hill side. in a
rolling country, much pleasanter than
the plain at Menlo Park. A pretty gorge
behind it is damned at certain level to
furnish the water supply. There are
gas works, = bowling-slleY and an elab-
crate Turkish bath among the outbuild-
ings, and q grange.hke barn Of solid
stone, ivy-grown now. which cost $780,
600. As ~ the immense residence itself,
that is Of wood, white, in the usual fash.
ion. With its numerous stories and
windows, il 10 not unlike large country
hotel without, but its peculiar arrange
ments and great spacicusness within
make it quite palatial. The principal
rooms open into one another by
glass partitions, which can be
rolled away. There is no crowding
through doorvAys. There is an arcade
in the story above, around the grand
staircase, with bAlustrade, and tribunes
projecting from the balustrade. in which
young women in pink and corn color 81
an evening party must look particularly
houri-ike. What in any other house
would be the ardinary ver.nda Is here .
delightful promenade. glazed in, pro-
vidsd with easy furniture and . par
quelry door. Then comes tier OF such
main apartments - . drAwing-room and
library; then . parallel tier. Of which
one q great gallery, entirely faced
with mirrors. There are . piano, man
to1a. end uGair-poste Of California laurel.
Nv s.. Biahop, u Harper Tor Oetobsr.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02

DEACON BRopIE.-The somewhat
famous trial of Deacon Brodie for house
breaking occurred in 1888, and Erskine
was his counsel. It was indeed Curl
GUS fact that an apparently respectable
member of the Edinburgh Town Coun-
Gil should have. been an habitual crimi-
nal, and should for so long time have
succeeded in maintaining his position
even after his delinquencies we're more
than suspected. His business as cabi-
net maker probably gave him peculiar
frcilities for his other occupation, of
which he was not slow to take advantage.
He was found guilty and executed, but
had very nearly escaped being arrested,
and it is said that arrangements had been
made for his resuscitation after he had
been hanged which did not succeed, and
80 the Deacon failed to ''cheat the
woodie." The story would make an ex-
cellent subject for such writer - Ga
Dorian ives, aud indeed, the incidents of
such duble life haye furnished in moro
than one instance, the material for .
sensational fiction. The Saturday Re-
view.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02

Inor0 ID marked unlIOfmlty among
the cities in the conduct of elementary
instruction, namely, that which precedes
the high school. 1t comprises generally
eighJ grades, each grade corresponding
to one year. The studies do not differ
materially in the different cities. Sew
ing has been made regular exercise in
three grades of the girls grammar schools
in Boston. The average age at which
pupils complete the course of elementary
study is fourteen years, which is the age
at which compulsory attendance termi-
mates in German speaking countries.
The most important fact in the recent
history of city schools is the increased
attendance given to the primary classes.
The disposition is everywhere manifest
to fix reasonable limit to the number
of children assigned to one teacher, to
appoint and retain teachers for these
primary grades who. can adapt themselves
easily to the child's nature, to impose
less constraint upon the natural activities
of childhood, to retain pupils fewer hours
in confinement lin some of the best sys-
TENS not more than three hours day. ,
to cultivate the perceptive faculties, and
to unfold the intuitions.
The average number of children to one
teacher is about sixty, but it is genarally
conceded that the number should not
exceed fifty. The committee Of Boston
allow an assistant in the fifth and sixth
classes whenever the number of pupils
exceeds fifty-six, the intention being to
have no more than fifty pupils to a
teacher.
Temporary expedients are employed
in other cities for the accomplishment OF
the same purpose.
In the revision of the Boston schools
in 1873 the same grade of certificates OF
qualification was fixed for the assistants
Of the primary as for those of the gram.
mar schools. In Philadelphia, the same
year, the term of service was made the
basis of compensation. Both OF these
measures operate to the advantage OF the
lower grades. In some cities special
care is taken to furnish primaries with
teachers of the rarest and best qualifica
tions.
Great improvement has been made
during the decade in methods of disci'
pine, and il, eastern cities, especially
those in the New England States, the
organization of truant service has re-
ducod truancy to the minimum.
Notwithstanding the numerous com
plants of poorly constructed buildings
defective ventilation, &C., the last ter
years have been marked by progress il
all the sanitary conditions of schoo
houses.
In many cities the care of these build
ings is intrusted to special officers, and
many reports include representation o.
the actual condition of school buildings
The lack of competent architects, tn.
indifference of the public, and the want
of funds are the main obstacles in thu
way OF the perfect adaptation of cit,
school buildings to the convenience O
the work and the requirements of health
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02

A PROFESSION ron WoxKN.- In
Europe young men and educated ladies
are studying electrical engineering. .
profession not overcrowded, and great
fortunes have been made in its pursuit.
The enormous extension Of the telegraph
telephone cables in every part Of the
world viii create great demand for
akilled electric engineers. We have too
many lawysrs, doctors, minister's and
teackers. Elsctrical engineering b ,
proeosuioa that educatsd women ere
eninsntly At>sd 1or. Boston Advsr
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02
School Statistics OF Cities.

The following is from the report of the
u, s, commissioner on education for 1880
just issued:
The statistics of public schools in
ga cities present the following to-
tails: Total population census Of
1891. 1O,7O0, 800; school population,
1851 .498; number of school buildings,
4.O42; number of sittings for study,
1.O29. 616; number of teachers, %, 264;
pupils enrolled, Ito. 461; average daily
attendance, 1,105, 1853; estimated real
value o. property used for school pur-
poses, $88, 914, ALB; total receipts. $27
489, 304; total expenditures, $25. O74 800.
The average expenses per capita OF daily
average attendance for instruction and
supervision vary from 80 So in Carbon
dale, Pa, to $25.S8 in Virginia City,
New, and for incidental expenses from
81. 02 in Carbondale, Pa, to $ll in Sac
ramento, Cal.
About one-sixth of the whole school
population, one-tenth of all the teachers,
and more than one fourth of the annual
school expenditure reported for the en-
tire country are included in the cities
enumerated. Their school affairs are
managed by boards Of education which
are variously constituted. The election
of women as members of city school
boards is noteworthy feature OF the his
- of the decade. The executive officer
in(nsarly all Of the cities is supeFinten'
dent
Twelve cities report one or more as
sistant superintendents. In . number
Of cities which DO not report such assis-
tants, the grammar masters, or supervis-
ing principals as they are sometimes
called, perform the duties OF supervision,
teaching in their school rooms but few
hours each week. No assistant superin-
tepdent is 'reported for Boston. bat the
COMMITTEES employ corps Of supervisors,
Who. 20 far, have not been subject to the
direction OF the superintendent, thus
presenting the mischievous anomaly OF =
double healed supervision. Philsdei-
phia il the only large city in the United
States having no superintendent.
Comparing the whole school popula-
ton in these cities with the entire enrol
mont in public schools and the estimated
enrolment in private schools, IL appears
thst a per cent Of the school population
arc not under instruction. The proper
Zion Of these Who are in danger Of grow
inR mn in ignorance aud vice 10 greatly
reduced BY the number above xix years
Of aee. Who arc yet, in the opinion Of
sheir narents. too young TO be sent ia
eohooi. ana the number above twelve
No are nsosanaxily put 70 work TO cid
n ~ support Of the family. The vest
naioritv a those enrolled In the public
esScols ere N The primary and grammar
Grodco. II ths figures could b extended
E1n 49, de1ails u would appear ~
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02
Bill Nye.Isms.

Somehow we feel as though we were
going into the present campaign without
having been sufficiently subsidized.
The Texas Siftings sage says that some
men are born bores, some become bores
and others have bores thrust upon them.
Sailing mines is no new thing. They
have found mine in Austria 1000 years
old that is nothing but salt. Well bet
some Egyptian tenderfoot got it in the
nose on thai mine.
A household journal heads health.
hint article with this, LAY fainting
person down." That's all right enough;
now bring on your fainting person, aud
don't be all day about it either.
Washington people are fleeing by hum
dreds from the miasna of the capital,
and it is thought there will be an cpl
demic and grand New Jerusalem hegira
il Guiteau's brain isn't buried pretty
soon.
Somebody wants to know whether
dueling is murder and we reply In
clarion tones that it depends on how
fatal it is. Dueling with monogram note
paper at distance OF 100 yards is not
murder.
The Eye is authority for the statement
that Wilbur F. Story has been denied
editorial control Of the Times. We are
sorry, Wilbur, and sympathize with you.
but If you want to come and edit the
croquet column of the Boomerang, we
will try and make room for you.
A letter from our private prospector
in North Park, relative to the condition
Of our Golconda property, states that he
finds upon . thorough examination OF
the mine that has been foot wall on
one side and an injunction ON the other.
This settles the fact that it is clearly
defined lead.
A mild-eyed youth wearing dessert
spoon hat and polka dot socks went into
Middle Park the other day and claimed
to be mining expert. The boys in
weighed him into driving q stick OF
giant powder into drill hole at the bot
tom OF shaft With an old axe, and now
they are trying 70 get him out Of the
ground with ammonia and . tooth
brush.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02

There is considerable sarcasm in the
following note from an Eastern ex-
change: THE Passsic river. the source
Of water supply Of Newark and Jersey
City, 10 never entirely pure and unde.
Aled. A little Of everything 10 aid TO
b. emptied into IL st different points.
Yet the inhabitants Of these two citiee
heretofore have not bean much moved
BY these thinGs-poasibly because they
have used - Httlo vetor. But the faoe
thaA ton Of arsenic has bean washed
into the pnonnic viii b iksly TO mate
evon ~ slronGoe1 tempennee men
paueo boDoeo ~ drinks. Owing % ~
}Dunxo1. ~ poioon, q coursos viii -
hiGh1y dl1u&G1; bat this vill nce bring
esn1sst - belisvsss h hsn0opashy."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02
AN AUTOGRAPH.
a NEW POEM by JOHN eREErLsAr WHITTIER.

write my name as one
On sands by waves o errun,
Or winters frosted pane
Traces record vain.
Obl:vion's blackness claims
Wiser and better names,
And well my own may pass
As from the strand or glass.
Wash on, O waves Of timel
Melt moons the frosty rime
Welcome the shadow vast,
The silence that shall last
When land all who know
And love me vanish so,
What harm to them or me
Will the lost memory be?
If any words of mine,
Through right Of life divine,
Remain, what matters it
Whose hand the message writ
Why should the "crowner's quest"
Sit on my worst or best ?
Why should the Snowman claim
The poor ghost of my name
Yet, as when dies the sound
Its specter fingers round,
HAPPY my spent life will
Leave some faint echo still.
A whisper giving breath
OF praise or blame to d ath,
Soothing or sahdening such
As loved the living much.
Therefore with warnings vain
And fond still would fain
A kindly judgment SEEK,
A tender thought bespeak.
And while my words are read,
Let this at least be said:
"Whate'er bis life's defeatures,
He loved his fellow creatures.
"If, of the Laws stone table,
To hold he scarce was able
The first great precept fast,
He kept for man the last
Through mortal lapse aud dizziness
What lacks the Eternal Fulness,
If still our weakness can
Love him in loving man?
cage broush hit him no despairing
OF the worlds future faring;
In human nature still
He found more good than i'll.
ITO all who dumbly suffered,
His tongue and pen he offered;
His life was not his own,
Nor lived for self alone.
"He loved the scholars quiet,
Yet interrupted by it,
Or poets dream of beauty,
He strove 10 do his duty.
"He meant no wrong to any,
He sought the good Of many,
Yet knew both sin and folly
May God forgive MIN wholly"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02

An indianapolis girl. forbidden BY ha
pareuts 10 marry the man Of her choice
appeared TO BE- abundantly c0nsoled BY
t6e promise Of . grand birthday party.
when al the guests we're assembled on
on that occasion she walled n on N
arm Of her lover, Who he'd within NJ
hour been made her huDband BY Z
clergyman round the corner.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02

GOLD AT MONTEREY The Monterey
Democrat, published at Salinas City, is
responsible for the following: Gold has
been found in the mountains behind
San Antonio Mission in quantities to pay
a dollar or two per diem for years and
years past, but nobody has traced it to
the mother rock. Now comes Mr..
Saunders, from San Jose, who for II
years has been practical miner, with
the belief that he has discovered gold
bearing quartz lodges on the west side of
the range behind San Antonio. He has
been prospecting for seven weeks and
finding gold in gu'ches below certain,
we'll defined quartz ledge, is convinced
that he has located the source of the
precious metal. Having taken up the
ledge, he is making arrangements to
work it scientifically.
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$685. and eticks ars Gung oaly a
hut hnnEing tRooa,--krom Ne Fersann'
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02

A TERRIBLE CRrMR.-Mrs. Margaret
Allen is in durance vile. She has been
arrested ON complaint of one Robert
Stein, charged with embezzlement. 1t
appears that Maggie was employed by
Stein to take charge of his bakery, No.
1887 Folsom street. for which service
she was to receive $40 per month, one
quart of milk and two loaves Of bread
daily. The ungrsteful wretch, after be-
ing treated 80 literally, actually put her
hand in the till and distracted three
dollars. which she spent in the wild dis.
sipation of providing medicine for her
sick children, and she never seemed to
realize her awful position and the fact
that she had much better have stolen .
railroad until abe was brought into the
awful presence Of the police Judge. May
God have mercy on her soull--lSan
Francisco Truth.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-02

DIR. Lamson, the Wimbledon poisoner,
had his life insured for $4,000, and prior
to his arrest on the charge OF poisoning
his brother in-law only one premium had
been paid. Immediately after his con-
viction, DIR. Lamson signed the policy
absolutely to w. A. Mills, the solicitor
by whom he was defended, and directed
that the money be used to cover the bal
ance of the cost of the defence. Some
years ago the House of Lords decided
that under circumstances like those of
the Lamson case policy was void, even
though the policy provide that death
at the hands of justice shall not vitiate.
In spite OF this, however. the company
have decided to pay the full amount of
the policy, although there might seem to
be no doubt that they might have sue
cessfully resisted payment.