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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12
CHRONICLE CULLINGS.

Hereafter no patent medicine can be
sold in Italy unless its precise compost
ton is stated. 1t will be difficult for the
makers to do this if they use city water.
Lowell citizen.
A Philadelphia thief shaved off his
side whiskers with dull jack knife IN
hopes to avoid recognition. His face
looked as if dozen tom cats had pas
tured in it tor twenty days. Detroit
Free Press.
| The average stay of servant girls in
families is less than seven weeks, taking
the country over. II yours has remained
eight weeks You are entitled to wear
grin of triumph.-Detroit Free Press.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that bad
air, bad whisky and irregular habits keep
the doctors alive. He must be mistaken.
Those very things have killed several
doctors in this city.-New Orleans
Picayune.
New York pays 100000 year for
its religion. and 500 900, 900 for its
drinks, which goes to show that New
York is having more fun in this world
than it will in the next.-Rochester Post
Express.
No country member of the Legislature
will permit himself to go back at the
close of the session to the bosom OF his
constituency without having put himself
on record as seeonding motion to ad'
journ. Lowell Citizen.
Husband e A. M, after the curtain
lecture) -"Well, all I've got to say is, il
you are person of such refinement and
good breeding, you ought to be above
talking to drunken fellow at this time
OF the night.-Lowell Courier.
The Anti Prohibitionists of Texas are
thinking about esta blshing an organ.
We suggest that it be called barrel or
gan. If they don't like the name they
need not adopt it. We do not propose
to faucet on anybody.--Texas Siftings.
G.. has been married six months. His
mother. in.law rings, enters and embraces
her sop-in-law. Then taking him by the
hand she says: II wish you everything
that you desire" "You are very bard
upon yourself" replied G.-Brooklyn
Union Argus.
An Englishman shooting small game
in Germany said to his host that there
was spice of danger in shooting in
America. "Ah!' said the host, "you like
danger NIT your sport. Then you 60
out shooting NIT me. The last time ]
shoot my bruder-in- law in de schtomack.
Exchange.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12
Ancient ManOrs.

A manor six hundred years ago meant
something very different from II manor
now. The lord was petty king, having
his objects very much under his thumb,
but his subjects differ greatly in rank
and status. In the first place, there were
those who were called free tenants. The
free tenants we're they who lived in
houses Of their own and cultivated land
of their own, and made only an annual
money payment to the lord OF the manor
as an acknowledgment of his lordship.
The payment was triAing, amounting
TO some few pence an acre at the most,
and shilling or so, Is the case might be,
for the house. This was called the rent,
but it is q very great mistake. indeed, to
represent this as the same thing we mean
by rent nowadays. It really was almost
identical with what We call, in the case
of house property, 'ground-rent. and
bore no proportion to the value Of the
produce that might be raised upon the
soil which the tenant held. The free
tenant was neither yearly tenant nor
lease holder; his holding was, 10 all
intents and purposes, his subject.
of course, to the payment of the ground
rent-but if be wanted to sell out his
holding, the lord of the manor eZ ,cted a
q payment for the privilege; if he died
his heir had to pay for being admitted to
his inheritance, and il he died without
heirs the property went back TO the lord
OF the manor. SO much for the free ten
ants. Besides these were the villeins
or VILLAINS. or natives. as they were called.
The villeins we're tillers of the soil, who
held land under the lord, and who. be-
sides paying a small money ground.rent,
we're obliged to perform certain arduous
services to the lord, such as to pillow the
lords land for so many days in the year,
to carry his corn in the harvest, to pro-
vide a cart on occasion, etc. OF course,
these burdens pressed very heavily at
times, ard services of the villeins were
vexatious and irritating under q hard
and uuscrupulous lord. But there we're
other serious inconvenience about the
condition Of the villain. Once villein,
always . villein. A man or woman born
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12
THE FASHIONS.

The new muslins are soft finished,
without any starch or size.
French crepe, white and in colors.
makes exquisite ball dresses.
Ashes of roses has made its appearance
among the aesthetic colors.
Robe dresses with embroidered
founces appear among spring importa-
tons.
Ornamental combs of amber, coral,
ivory and conch shell are in great de-
mand.
Large dots, circles and moons bid fair
to be as popular as ever in the new
spring goods.
The draperies are much punched
around the hips, and even below that
point by some dressmakers.
The feature in new polka-dotted cotton
dress goods is the large size and close
proximity of the dots.
Checks, large polka dots, Greeks keys,
stripes an | shamrock leaves are among
the designs of the new sateens and
cambric5.
The first spring goods that have been
opened are fine Scotch and American
tweeds, with large plaids in admirable
mixture of colors.
The tunic or scarf to the dressskirt is
shorter than it has been worn of late,
covering the upper part of the skirt only
and draping i'll the back in poufs, more
or less dropping, but showing greater
portion of the trimmed skirt than for
merly. Of course this style of draping
Is suitable only to skirts cut short.
Worth and Pingot, the two leading
French modistes, are making the sleeves
of new costumes prominent feature.
A charming sleeve that sets off pretty
arm to perfection lie one that buttons
from shoulder to wrist with small but.
tons matching the color of the costume.
No sham button holes will do; the sleeve
must actually button.
Young ladies' evening dresses of pale
blue, pink or green surah, have Jersey
waists of silk that are cut half low and
round in the neck behind. Prfs and
white mousseline "de sole edge the neck,
tulle is folded inside it," and bouquet
of roses is worn round the puffs OF the
left side. The pulled paniers are gath
cred to the Jersey around the hips, and
the skirt is covered with ruffles of surah
and of lace.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

in villeinage could never shake it off.
Nay, they might not even go away from
the manor in which they were born. and
they might not marry without the lords
license, and for that license they always
had to pay. Let villeln be ever so
shrewd or enterprising or thrifty, there
was no hope for him to change his state.
except by the special grace of the lord
of the manor. Yes! there was ono means
by which he could be set free, and that
was if he could get bishop to ordain
him. The fact of man being ordained,
at once made him free man, and a
Knowledge of this fact must have served
as very strong inducement to young
people to avail themselves of all the helps
in their power to obtain something like
an education. and so to qualify them.
selves for admission to the clerical order
and to the rank of free men.-The Nine
teenth Century.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12
How Gould Does HIS work Easily

Oliver Anes asked Jay Gould few
days ago how, with such apparent frail
health, he could manage such a world of
business as his vast possessions repre-.
sent. Mr.. Gould family smiled and
replied:
rs it difficult for you to manufacture
shovels? Do you worry about each shovel
aud each mans work.
"Oh, no." said Mr.. Ames: Il have got
tina. so organized that the business runs
itself 1t doesn't give me any trouble. p"
Exactly" said Mr.. Gould. 1T gives
me no more trouble to handle my bust
ness than it does you to handle yours.
| have organized the whole machinery SO
that get results before me every day OF
what is being done, and the whole thing
is very simple when it comes into my
hands.-Atlsnta Constitution.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12
A Mystiffed Traveller.

care we on q down grader asked an
impetuous passenger, gazing first at the
conductor and then earnestly out of the
window.
"No, SIR replied the conductor, cold
ly. "This is perfectly level track.
There are no grades on this road"
"That is curious" mumbled the pas
senger, opening the window snd sticking
his head out.
IF anything" continued the conduc-
tor, exasperated by the mans conduct,
eff anything up slight incline
"That's wonderfully exclaimed the
passenger. II thought it was remark
able if we were on down grade, but
under the circumstances it's miracu-
lous!'
"What is?' growled the conductor.
"What you're talking about, anyhow
Il simply can't understand how that
COW should beat US going up hill, that's
ALL" sighed the impetuous passenger
sinking back into his seat to figure it
out.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

Under the new tariff bill the duty on
salt stands as at present, twelve cents
per one hundred pounds in bags. sacks,
ETC.. and eight cents in bulk. The salt
clause contains the old outrageous pro-
vision that the New England fish packers
can get their salt free Of duty, while pork
and beef.packers and other consumers OF
the article have to pay the enormous tax
This kind OF tariff legislation directly
discriminates in favor of one class Of
business men who should be taxed like
their iellow-citizens. The fish-pacxing
business is not as important rs the beef
and pork packing business, but New
England insists that her sons be subsi
died ut the country's expense. This
heresy must be sooner or later extin-
guished
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

A Colorado man who expected q gang
OF lynchers to come to him about the
middle of the night took himself to the
cellar, leaving pet grizzly bear in his
place in bed. The lynchers didn't bring
lights, but made plucky attempt to get
the bear out and lynch it, but gave it up
after three of them had lost an ear apiece,
two of them had suffered the loss Of
thumbs, chawed off, and the other six
we're more or less deprived Of skin. That
mau now has tremendous reputation as
a fighter. And the bear didn't mind the
work one bit.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

To prevent horse being scared, il dis
posed to it, when first put into harness
without binders, take him behind the
carriage and at the sides, and let him
touch these with his nose and smell them
we'll. II curtains inclose the carriage.
as is usual in rockaway, loosen and
shake them in the face Of the horse; then
stand him fronting the carriage, between
the shafts, and if a buggy, raise and
lower the top, to accustom him to this.
If these frighten him a little, repeat till
he gets completely over it and then at
tach him to the vehicle.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12
The Woman and the Fossils.

The woman did not ask for co-educa-
ton in Columbia College and that seems
to be reason why she should have no
education in Columbia College at all.
She modestly asked to slide in at side
door at stated times and in stated ways !;
but that would necessitate a new system
and new college, and they would cost
too much. Ii she had wanted education
along with the man that would have been
an easy thing to refuse-for precisely
what reason nobody knows, since young
men and women and old men and women
do have to associate, and there is really
no harm in the bare fact of association
but that she should ask education in an.
other shape is equally obiectable for very
Biblical proverb.
The colleges are managed by very old
men. They are men 80 old that they
ought TO be chalked on the back as Noahs
or Morgan Dixes. No man or boy, no
woman or girl, should appeal in vain for
the privilege of getting an education and
paying for it. The privilege ought to be
as free to one as another, as are town
pumps and summer showers. There are
men who argue that ordinary persons
should not be educate above a certain
point, lest they improve too much and
nobody will be left to do the hard work
that is necessary TO general comfort. Of
the same species of logic is the PROPOSE
ton that men should be made wise and
women should b. kept ignorant. St.
Paul said a foolish thing as to women,
and Solomon, who respected women
merely as they oficiated as concubines.
was equally unjust to the sex; and this
foolishness and this injustice have come
down to the managers of colleges as o
sacred Inheritance, without shadow of
reason to make it sacred.
What better right has man than a
woman to be educated? The intellect of
the one is as good as that of the other,
and it has right to be as good. Edu-
cation is in the market, as are CONNER
cial and other advantages. There is a
law protecting the civil rights of negroes.
1t seems to be necessary to have law to
protect the civil rights Of woman. A
man and woman have equal rights in
every grocery, every dry goods store,
every place of amusement, every hotel,
so long as they pay equal money; but
they attempt to buy an education and
the fossils of the college say that the
mans money is good, but the woman's is
not.
Can anybody imagine anything more
unjust than this? Is it political or COM
mercial or social fair play? What bust
ness have the trustees of college to say
that this person shall have an education
and that one shall not? What business
have they to talk of the danger of inter
course between young men and women
vino seek the advantages of their institu-
tions and are willing to pay for them,
any more than they have to talk of the
danger of the Intercourse that attends
the party, the ball. and the more social
gathering?
Women ask to be admitted to the Co.
lum bia College. and the privilege is re-
fused them! This will seem as strange
in 1900 as the fact that this country once
had slavery seems strange to us of the
presen: period.-N. Y. Graphic
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

II the summers are sufficiently warm
and protracted to mature the common
varieties of fruit, very low winter tenn
perature seems to have no injurious
effects on the growth and development
of the trees which produce it. During q
recent visit by Professor Budd, of the
Iowa Agricultural College. to northern
Russia, he passed through the extensive
region where great quantities of choice
apples, pears, plums and cherries are
produced, although in the winter the
mercury drops to Fifty degrees below
zero.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

The Bon Marche. the largest dry and
fancy goods store IN Paris, had field
day on the 12th Of last month. Its 5000
employees were kept busy from 8 o'clock
in the morning until nearly IL o'clock
in the evening. and its receipts on that
day we're nearly e4OO 600.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

| The next sensation at the Elite in Portlond is
the appearance of Ed. Nino. Eddie, the "Wonder
of the World and Alice Morgan. the "Queen of
Clubs ; Popular prices, rs and so cents.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

For the best photographs in Oregon, go to F.
G. Abel's gallery. 1877 First street, Portland. His
work will bear the most searching tests, for it is
made by genuine artists, who understand their
business.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

Visiting and reception dresses grow
moro ample. dinner toilets more slsb-
crate - the oa,on advances.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12
slaven.s yosemite Cherry roo.h Paste

An aromatic combination for the preservation
of the teeth and gums 1t is far superior to any
preparation of its kind in the market. In large,
handsome opal pots, price fifty cents. For sale
by all druggists Hodge, Davis Co., whole
sale agents, Portland, Oregon.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

Clinton, 8. c., 10 sending shirtings to
China. One of her cotton factories has
received an order for 900 balls.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

TURKISH RUGs.-Send to John B. Garrison
l67 Third street Portland, for catalogues Of ie
signs.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-04-12

DON'T BUY BOSS BOOTS UNLESS
YOU WANT THE BEST. SEE THAT
OUR NAME rs ON EVERY PAIR.
AKIN. SELLING & co.
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Take Nm. Plumber Oregon Blood Purifier.
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Vancouver Independent.

OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND County.
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Territory.
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-10

the earth revolves upon its axis than
that storm periods come and go with
well-defned punctuality. Quite as
sure is it, also, that the sun is the
starting point and the autocrat of these
cyclical disturbances upon the earth;
and by studying the sun it is possible
to conquer the mystery of the storm,
and anticipate its approach. So much
is past reasonable dispute. We cannot
yet fortel the exact date or place at
which the storm will strike, but we can
apprise ourselves that it is impending;
and in the matter of tornadoes, we
know that certain districts and confg-
urations Of territory are specially sub
ject to such visitations.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-10
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-10

The Texas Wool Grower says the
indications are that shearers are not
going to be as thick as autumn leaves,
in Texas. For that reason we fear
many Aocks will not be shorn until very
late in May. In cases where they are
clean and on good range they can stand
it perhaps, but in those cases where
they are not clean they cannot stand it.
This is the reason we repeat what we
said two or three weeks ago. DOM
put off the matter of shearing your
scabby sheep. Attend to it at once,
and as soon as possible get your aocks
clean and on clean range.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-10

THE TORNADO PROBLEM.

LIZ 1V1ONADV 1OVDAEAs
The following from the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat is an interesting de-
scription of the tornado:
The late sad and devastating storms
at the South have revived discussion Of
that peculiar and sinister thing, the So
called cyclone, which is not properly a
cyclone at all, but tornado. A
cyclone, correctly speaking, is sea-
storm, with characteristics differing
materially from the land phenomenon
familiarly designated by that name.
The course of cyclone, for instance,
is parabolic curve; its maximum
velocity ranges from sixty to eighty
miles an hour; and at the center of it
there is always dead calm. A tor
nado, on the contrary, revolves around
a central verticle axis, moving invaria-
bly, from southwest to northeast; and
its average speed rarely exceeds forty
miles per hour, though the whirlwind
motion at the vortex of the cloud,
which is the secret of it's destructive
force, is believed to reach sometimes
velocity of 500 miles an hour: The
diameter of cyclone often reaches
1000 miles or more, also, while the
path of tornado is frequetly but
few yards in width, and rarely exceeds
eighty rods.
It is as we'll established as such
thing can be that the tornado is electri-
cal in it's origin, and governed by dis
tinct and uniform rules. The records
show that it always appears at periods
of excessive solar activity; that it's
course, like that of the earthquake, is
unfailingly constant-that is to say,
from southwest to northeast; and we
know it is accompanied by displays of
lightning that make the heavens a
literal expanse of fame. AS an addi-
tional and direct proof in this connec-
ton, it has been found by repeated Oh
servation that brilliant aurora, which
signifies an extraordinary commotion
on the surface Of the sun, is an almost
Invaluable forewarning of tornado, or
some similar violent storm. The terri
BILE tornadoes of last year in Kansas,
Missouri and Iowa followed closely up
on two very remarkable auroral mani
festations of April 16 and June Is,
thus indicating clear relation Of cause
and effect; and these instances were
merely repetitions Of numerous others,
all agreeing in their main features.
Itfolows that these fantastic storms,
quick and appalling as they are, and
impossible as it Is to measure their fury,
may be scientifically classified, and
their coming predicted while the sky is
vet serene and the wind securely re-
strained. Nature, like history, repeats
itself; and these seasons or conditions
of extraordinary solar activity, in
which tornadoes and the like are
specially prevalent, occur in definite and
systematic ranges and cycles of time.
The records on this point, reaching
back for hundreds of years, are as
exact and convincing as the data upon
which we rely to prove the orderly re-
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-10

G. M. HOOVER, President,
R. w. EVANS, Cashier.
DIRECToRs-G. NJ. Hoover. r. w. Evans,
h. L. Sitter, W. H. Harris, H. j. Fringer.
CORREsPONDENTs-New York: Donnell. Law.
son & Simpson.
St. Louis, Mo-: Continental Bank.
Kansas City, Mo: Bank of Kansas City.
Does general banking business. Accounts
OF individuals. firms and corporations solicited.
Buys and sells exchange. Will extend to it's
banking.