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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-10-04
A ODDLY DEED.

What constitutes godly deed saw q child
With fevered, trem bling limbs and visags wild.
Extended on cal. seat, underneath his bead
a mans rough great coat, pillow both anu bed.
He was wee, small boy, . messenger by trade,
AS might be seen by jaunty cap aud braid;
The silver letters Ger the forepisoe small
Marked the wee man toiler with u all
And he was deathly sick; the swimming eye
Thruug jarring windows scanned the wtutry sky;
The cracked and parched lips with baby p0ut
Sent gasps Of pain or hurried breathing out.
30 baby.like he seemed in his unrest,
longed TO fondly clasp him to my breast.
Tear of the cap ana badge with angry cry
And sing the fevered boy lullaby.
And Is watched the face Of white and red.
saw gfizzled mai st0op DER his head,
And with great. horny hands caress bis face,
Then In the corner near him take his place.
Standing upright and swaying with the train
The " hole day through to save the SICK lad pain;
Weary and foot SORE ever on his feet,
To MAKE the lad = couch upon his seat.
Why should our artists always linn and paint
Some prekt woman as the pattern saintf
Lives there no love divine in coarsest clay.
Beat there no great, strong hearts in holden gray
The world lacks romance, but the laughing crowd
They thrOnged the cars and pressed to find place,
Instructive paused above the feveied face;
Then gszed with veneration on the man,
And turned and turned again his face to scan,
Like homage rendered at q coarse, rude shrine,
Which bears in wood or stone the form divine.
Ny destination reached, I turn and gaze
Down the long car and In the twilight haze
Erect and watchful stands the guardian form,
While the long train rolls onward In the storm.
Long on my heart the picture will remain;
The weary baby form and face Of pain,
The silent patience OF the great, true man.
Who gave himself as only true men can.
O fevered, restless sufferer. heir Of pain,
Who forms thy couch. or oohs thy burning brain7
Dost see above thee one majestic form,
A. onward thou art hurled in cloud aud storm?
A. T. WOIden.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-10-04

and hard it can be vanished with one or
two coats of copal or egg-sheu fiat
varnish. These floors require to be
busted daily, and to have little linseed
oil rubbed in occasionally. These re.
uuire less care than waxed floor, but
when they get shabby they are not so
readily renovated. A flannel bag, in
which the broom can be incased, is the
best floor duster and one most easily
nanaged.-Oil and Colourman's Jour
nal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-10-04

There is Prussian Law providing that
no person shall be admitted ta normal
school il . medical examination shows
him unhealthy or Of small chest dsvsl.
opment.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
Il MA1rHUsIAy ME7RoPoLEs.

There has never been a city whose
situation and construction are more I'M
favorable, not to say inimical. to prog
eny. They seem to be regarded here
as interlopers, certainly as impert-
inences. They do not belong, as every
body knows, in hotels or boarding
houses, and parents always experience
difficulty in having them received there.
In leasing houses, apartments or room
the landlord or agent invariably asks
the applicant, "Have you any children@
very much in the tone and amer that
he would ask, Have you committed
murder?" OF, "Are you afflicted with
leprosy?" If obliged to plead guilty to
one or two children, ven though they
be very small, he obviously does not re-
gard smallness either of number OF size
as any mitigation of your offense; he In
suits you with a glance of hatred or
contempt, and, if he-fails to reject you
altogether, accepts you with an air OF
protest, but only at an advanced rate.
New York is a Malthusian city. 1t
almost constrains the conditions which
the English political economist con-
sidered essential to REFRESHING popula-
ton. His positive andpreventive checks
are ever in action here-the former, by
shortening human life among adopted
citizens in the hideous tenement-houses;
the latter, by hindering marriage and
increase of family among native citi-
zens. Food is abundant here, but places
to live are for Anglo-Saxons totally in
adequate. In Manhattan there enters into
the theme of population a factor which
Nautilus had not taken into account.
Who would suppose that the shape of a
city would seriously interfere with
natural laws? The New Yorker looks
upon wedlock and its usual aocompani-
ments at a financial angle, and very
naturally, under the circumstances.
Why should o perfectly sane man as
sumo connubial Or paternal response
bilities when he is conscious that there
is no room for them? New York may
be an elysium for bachelors; but, for a
husband and a father with an ordinary
income, it is next door to Hades. Every
street, every house, every provision,
says to him: IF You would tarry here,
remaie singlel Transgress celibacy, and
we cast you out This island is re-
served for the very rich and the very
poor, for the needless and the home
less. Being hone of these, go else
where!s-Juaasats Henri Broaoase, III
Hnper's Magazine.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
PERSONALS.

Edwin J. Jones returned from the
cities Wednesday night.
Mrs. E. w. Leonard is in st. Paul
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. +. Darling and Miss
n. A. Kellogg, returned from st. Paul
on Wednesday night,
P. P. Bodeen is off on a flying trip
to-the cities.
Mrs. II. B. Wolff is in Browns Val
ley, being called from home suddenly
the early part of this week, by the ex.
pected death of her mother, Mrs. G.
E. Risedorph. Mrs. Risedorph fell
through a t%rap-door into a cellar and
sustained injuries from which it is
feared she cannot recover.
r. G.. Jefferson is in town.
E. w. Leonard was called to st.
Paul yesterday, by the illness of his
wife.
J. S. Featherstone arrived on Thurs
day night, from Red Wing, to look
after real estate interests in this vicin-
ity.
J. D. Good is in the cities ON bust
ness.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
'0Y SERTANTS FOR THE JUSTICES
OF THE SUPREME COURT.

One of the customs is that each JUS
tice of the United States Supreme Court
has a body servant. The Justices get
money for their own body servants, but
the custom is otherwise, and the body
servants are paid 1900 per annum by
the Government. Some of the Justices
want to select their own body servant,
but they are not allowed to do it by the
other body servants, for the custom is
that the newly-appointed Justice retain
the body servant of his predecessor.
The servants have never been known to
allow a Justice to violate this custom.
Mr.. Justice Woods, who was appointed
by Garfield, in speaking to some gentle
men of this custom, said: "My body
servant is the most annoying thing l
have yet experienced. The fellow is the
first man I see in the morning and the
asst I see at night. He forced his way
into my room at the ElliotHouse, ordered
me to go down to breakfast, and then
asked me what I would have for break
fast, taking my order to the cooks him
self. I could not get rid of him in any
way. He haunted me all the time. I
tried to find places to send him to get
rid of him, but he was back rs quick as
lightning. That fellow will be the death
ofme. Ihave this satisfaction, however,
the other Justices are tortured in the
same way" When Mr.. Justice Gray, of
Massachusetts,, went on the Supreme
bench, he had an idea he would do just
as he pleased; but after a trial he finally
had to yield, and is now as completely
in the power Of his body servant as any
of the others. He not only was not al
lowed to select a man for himself, but
was forced to accept the services Of a
fellow he does not like. They are death
on custom; they live on custom, and
not one of the body servants does a
thing different from what he did years
ago. As a rule, the body servants are
past middle age. The fathers and grand
fathers of some of them served in the
same capacity, for they never let a new
man into the ring.-Hdrtford Times.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
LETTER r O LONDON.

LONDON, April 4, 1883.
In my journey eastward, 1 met a
minister from England, as / think /
told you i'll my last, who particularly
requested me to go to Milton Mount
Collar, an establishment near Graves
end for the education of the daughters
of Congregational ministers, to see his
motherless child. We went there on
Monday and fortunately found the
college en- fete. Mywife accompanied
me to the beautiful place where we
had often thought our dear little girl
would most likely be trained. But
man proposes and He who is over all
disposes. The college is delightfully."-
situated on an eminence overlooking
on n side the Thames, on whose boz
som floats the huge merchantmen
freighted with precious cargoes and
still more precious souls, to and from
all parts of the globe. On the other
side lies the wide domains of Lord
Darnley, whose name may not be
familiar, since he is one of those who
may vote in the House of Peers, though
| do not remember of ever hearing a
sentence from his lips for any vote he
may have given.
The college is an admirable institu-
ton, and has done its work well. An
other wing is being added which will
afford facilities for the education Of
something like 200 girls. The trustee
OF the school, Mr.. Scrutton, was for
some time a member of the London
School Board, and in addition to his
interest in Milton Mount, established
a Reformatory School for the east end
OF London and got a training ship
to prepare boys who might otherwise
be jail birds" to become sons of the
sea. Miss Helen Taylor, step-daugh-
ter of John Stuart Mill, the philoso-
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
T ARRIVALS.
Metropolitan

WEDNEsDAY.-Henry L Prescott, L
V Nantt, Browns Valley; 1 E God
frey, P c Mclaughlin, Bert G David
son, Minneapolis; c F Washburn,
Herman; Henry Fake Jr, Albany, n
Y; F L Van Slyke, D T Stewart, Dan
Aberl, M A Bigford, c E Hinton, st
Paul; III M Simmons, Mrs w / Car
son, Mrs Simmons, Glenwood; w
A Travis, Cleveland; A L Webb,
Bozeman; Chas II Diener, Chicago;
A Peterson, Milwaukee.
THURsDAY.-H Stewart, Dubuque;
w III Williams, Geo S Falkner, A Os-
trum, CP White, A Amead, Frank
J G Mccarthy, VIM Carnes, Emery
Carnes and Wife, st Paul; ] G INDIE
rigston, Crawfordsvill, Pa; Chas Dom
aha, New York; G Moore, ] M
Cole, E B Carr, Minneapolis; III r
HRnson, Sioux City; Thos Allen,
Grand Forks; TIP Graves, Chicago;
JAS w Beaver, West Bend, Wis; J III
Colgan, Fargo; Geo Hardy, Stillwa-
ter.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21

pher, said some damaging things
about Mr.. Scrutton and a law suit for
libel was entered. Miss Taylor evil
IDENTIFY could not justify her statements
and she submitted to Judgment against
her with damages of Il ,000-that is
IS, 000-and withdrew all charges.
Some of Mr.. Serutton's friends met ON
Monday and presented him with an
address expressing their confidence in
him, and acknowledging his services
in the cause of education. There was
a most magnificent silver vase with
beautiful artistic figures enlbodying
their sentiments, but this be declined
to receive, so it was handed overto the
young ladies of the Milton Mount
School for their study, their admira-
ton and their care.
After q cup of tea, q stroll in the
gardens and an interesting CONVERSE
ton with the young lady we specially
went to see, and who seemed to cling
to my dear wife as though she would
fain cross over the ocean with us to
her Pa, we went over the room in
specting the drawings, needle-work,
&C., of the pupils. We went into the
gymnasium. A number of the young
ladies were attired in knickerbockers
and becoming blouses, going through
the varied exercises of the poles, the
spring-board, the ladders, and the
bars. It only needs these arrange
ments to be seen to recognize their
great worth as appliances in physical
training. Let us endeavor to train our
| children's minds to draw out all that
God has supplied them with of good;
to impart unto them the necessary
mental food, but let us also endeavor
to build up the material-to develop
muscle as we'll as brain, to see that
they have a sound mind in a sound
body.
write you this account because |
feel how nice it would be to have calls
themes and gymnastics exercised in
American public schools. And of all
places we are not going to be behind
in the land of promise-the glowing
west.
The mayor of Gravesend spoke at
the meeting to which l have referred
and said, that very day a poor woman,
a widow, had been before them for not
sending her child to school. The
mother went out to work and got
fourteen pence a day (2S cents). This
older child had to stay at home and
mind the younger ones while the
mother was earning them bread.
And they fined this mother, in de-
fault of payment she would be sent to
goal. The mayor appealed to the ed
ucationalist to solve this difficulty: /
am bound to record that subsequently
no reference was made to this ase-
which is only a sample of thousands
more. Daniel O'Connell used to say
| that he never saw an act of Parliament
through which he could not drive a
coach and six, and in justice to many
of our magistrates, / must acknowl-
edge that in cases where they can see
their way clearly, they hesitate to con-
Wet the industrious widow OF the un-
employed.
How many in this over-populated
land would find happier homes and
enjoy better times if they could but
wend their way to the waiting acres
of the ]wonderous west!
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
ANIMAL

It has been objected to those who
speak of the emotions" of an ant or q
bee, for example, that we are not
justified in applying terms derived from
human psychology to animals so remote
in structure from the human type. DIR.
Romanes replies to this objection by
showing that the ground of all inferen-
ces as to the mental processes OF ami
mails is an argument from the analogy
of their actions with our own. "NoW,
it is of course perfectly true that the
less the resemblance the less is the
value of any analogy built upon the re-
semblance, and therefore that the in
ference of an ant OF bee feeling sympa-
thy or rage is not so valid as the similar
inference in the case of dog or monkey.
Still it is an inference, and, so far as it
goes, a valid ~one-being, in fact, the
only inference available. That is to
say, if we observe an ant o. a bee
apparently exhibiting sympathy or rage,
we must either conclude that some
psychological state resembling that of
sympathy or rage is. present, or else re-
fuse to think about the subject at all;
from the observable facts there is no
other inference OPEN"
Assuming that we are justified in con-
Guiding hat the mental processes are
similar when there are similar external
appearances, we still need a criterion
of mental as distinguished from reflex
action; for we find both in men and
animals examples Of actions mind
like and not yet truly mental" cob
jectively considered, the only distinc-
ton between adaptive movements due
to mental perception consists in the
former depending on inherited mechan-
isms within the ervous system being
so constructed as to effect particular
adaptive movements in response to par
| ticular stimulations, while the latter are
| Independent of any such inherited adj
iustments of special. circumstances.
The criterion proposed is therefore
"Does the organism learn to make new
adjustments, or to modify old ones, in
accordance with the results of it's own
individual experience?" If it does, we
have evidence that the limit of nom
mental action has been passed; that is,
we are able to fix, by means of this eri-
%terion, "the upper limit of monumental
action" After distinguishing reflex
from mental action, it remains to dis
tinguish instinct" from reason" DR..
Romanes proposes to define instinct as
"refex action into which there is i'm
ported the element of consciousness, "
and treason or intelligence" as "the
faculty which is concerned in the inten-
tional adaptation of NEAR to ends" p
London Nature.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
SOUND ADVICE.

A stranger who had made a purchase
of a secondhand dealer on Chatham
street grew confidential and said he
would like some advice.
avhell, go aheadt.'
eff you were in my place and wanted
to go into business here would you lend
your money and live on the interest,
or would you go into the secondhand
clothing business"
"My trent" replied the other, with a
serious look on his face, "let me told
YOU shust like a ladder. Doan' go into
de secondhand peesness yourself, but
lend me your money and become a
silent partner"
"Are the profits larger
Large? How much you thinks ]
made on dot west / sold you for 81? !
make shust twelve shillings."
"Not by a blamed sight! for l haven't
paid for it and won't take it'll" exclaimed
the stranger, as he dropped the bundle
and walked out.
"vhell, vhell!" sighed Moses, as he
looked after him "efery time I tell der
truth l lose money, und efery time
tell a lie I lose a customer. How can
an honest man make a living in New
| York ?"-JFdU Street NeUs.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
EEMALE DRnMMERS


All the devices of drumming up trade
through the country have been tried
owe and over again by u metropolitan
merchants, with an ingenuity and liber-
ality that have resulted in great fnan-
cial gains and a booming sale of goods
each season. The travelling business,
however, has been rather overdone the
past two seasons. Every small concern
has its five or six commercial travellers
roaming through the country now, and
the novelty has quite worn off this
branch. The drummers swarm about
the offices of merchants throughout the
country in such numbers now, and the
rivalry has become 10 fierce, that the
business men find them a great bore,
and have. taken lately to the heroic policy
of showing them the door and rudely
slamming it in their faces. It will not
take long, at this rate, to bring the bus
mess of drumming up trade into such
disrepute that it will be worse than use
less to engage in it at all.
In their dilemma they are p~rudently
casting about for some al of adding
fuel to their fire or Of reviving the al
most defunct spirit of the palmy days
just after the war, when a drummer had
only to take fine quarters in a first-class
hotel, and get all the merchants in the
town boiling drunk, to be able to rake in
the orders for goods at the rate Of a cool
couple of thousand dollars a lick. Two
great firms, at least, In New York city,
think they have hit upon the very idea.
They have each taken two of their
youngest, ~bestlooking and checklist
salesladies, and sent them out on the
road with samples to work up the trade,
which, under the old system of drum.
ming, was fast slipping away from them.
The success of the ladies has been quite
phenomenal. We are informed that
hardly in a single instance have they
failed to secure large orders from the re-
calcitrant merchants who have gone back
on the drummerE Of the bifurcated gar
ments. Surely the astute tradesmen Of
Gotham are ahead when it comes to the
ways and means Of securing and hold
ing trade. -ZrsbMae and Farmer.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21
STATE E w

Hastings is to have a new cigar
mandatory.
Four elegant brick blocks are to be
put up in Anoka this season.
Arrangements are being made for
starting a bank at Sank Rapids.
The st. Cloud water power company
has been organised with a capital of
$500, 900.
st. Cloud parties have organized a
street railway company with a capital
of $1,000.
Robbers entered the Baptist church
at Anoka and stole the silk plush from
the pulpit.
Fergus Falls policemen make the
'drunks'' who are not able to pay
their fines work on the streets.
Last week George Bremr, of Little
Falls, had his team drowned by break
ing through the rotton ice of the river.
Severt Peterson, one of Hastings
| oldest citizens, was killed by the cars
last Friday, while attempting to cross
! the track.
A new iron bridge across the Red
River is in contemplation at Grand
Forks. 1t seems to find favor with
most of the prominent citizens.
A man under the influence of liquor
walked off a train running twenty-five
miles an hour, near Breckenridge, and
escaped without even a bruise.
During III evening thunder storm
in Faribault last week, the lightning
caused a loud explosion i'll the tele-
phone Office, and the switchboard"
"a set in fire.
Business at the Minnesota transfer
of forwarding emigrants and their sup
| plies to the Northwest is the largest
ever known since the transfer was es-
tablished.
The question of whether or not there
is gold in paying quantities at Granite
Falls is still agitating the minds of the
people there, and an expert is to ex-
anime the situation.
Business men of Austin have organ
lied a joint stock company with a
| capital of $4,000 with which to start
a canning factory. They expect to
can tomatoes and corn principally.
An incendiary attempted to burn
| Van Inwegen's elevator, in Hastings,
the other day. A timely alarm saved
| the structure. Mr.. Van Inwegen Of
fers a reward of $500 for the discovery
and conviction of the incendiary.
In Utica, Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Row
ley were surprised by friends on the
occasion of the fftieth anniversary of
their marriage, who brought for the
venerable couple a lumber of valuable
| golden ouvener of the event.
The body of Nels Larson was found
neal Grove City, Oh the 9th. Larson
has been missing since Dec. I'd. He
is supposed to have lost his way while
intoxicated and the snow drifting over
him, his body was not found until the
snow had melted.
Last week Jene Olstad residing near
Lake Hanska, was riding with his
daughter, when they were struck by
lightning. One horse was knocked
down, and Olstad and his daughter
were rendered unconscious. The girl
soon revived but her father was not
restored to full consciousness till the
next day.
Morris tribune., 1883-04-21

Numerous propositions have been
made to us and other publishers from
Campbell 4 Evans, advertising
agents" of Topeka, Kansas. Contra
ry to our usual custom, We inserted
one of their .'ads" without having first
ascertained knowledge of the reliable
ity of the firm. We afterwards sent a
letter of inquiry to the First National
Bank of Topeka, to which we received
the following answer:
"We should be glad to furnish you
with the information required if we
could, but we do not know of this firm
neither do our neighbors.
"Yours, ID. A. MoULTON.
Topeka, April IA, 1885,"
From this we naturally conclude
the firm to be a fraud. No more "adsn
sent out by Campbell & Evans" will
be inserted in these columns.