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ARCH II. STUART,

ATTORNEY for Soldiers, Bountiss and PEN
sions. Real Estate and Locating Agent.
Money loaned. Call at office of Ryan Bros.
kimball, Oak.
Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-13
P. Il. RYAN.
w. IL. SMITH,

Al ATTORNEY AT Law. Land and Loan Agent,
flal;klngton Ar1oa Coun -. ..l. ALI
KINGS OF land business attended to. Money
on real estate. dsedetl claims md feiin.
quishments for sa!e
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18
Mark Twain's Historical Game.

The recent newspaper reports of Mr..
Clemens illness at Elmira, where he ia
spending the summer with his family.
are entirely without foundation. Writ.
ng to friend in this city, under date of
July 20, he says: "For the time that
has elapsed since I came here I've q
days work to show tor every single
working day. I'm not suffering in any
way that know of, except the old diff
Guilty, only twenty-four hours in the day
anu not enough days In the week" In
the interval of his work Mr.. Clemens
has invented new game, of which he
gives the following account: DAY be-
fore yesterday, feeling not in conditioh
for writing, left the study; hut I
couldn't hold in had to do something,
so spent eight hours in the sun with q
yard stick measuring of the reigns of
the English kings on the roads in these
grounds, from William the Conqueror to
1888, calculating to invent an open air
game which shall fill the children's heads
with dates without study. I give each
kings reign one foot of space to the
year, and drive one stake In the ground
to mark the beginning of each reign, and
make the children call the stake by the
kings name. You can stand in the door
and take a bird 's-eye view of English mon
archy from the conQueror to Edward
w.; then you can turn and follow the
road up the hill to the study and be.
yond, with. an opera-glass. snd bird's.eye
view the rest of it to 1883. You can
mark the sharp difference in the length
of reigns by the varying distances of the
stakes apart. You can see Richard H.,
2 feet; Oliver Cromwell. 2 feet; James
H., 8 feet, and so on-and then big
skips; pegs standing 45, 46. so, 56 aud so
feet apart, elizabeth, Victoria. Edward
Ill, Henry III. and George III.-by
the way, Thirds lucky number for
length of days, isn't it?) Yes, sir; by my
scheme you get realizing notion of the
time occupied by reigns. The reason it
took me eight hours was because. with
little J.'s interrupting assistance. had
to measure from the conquest to the end
of Henry VI, three times over, and be-
sides had to whittle out all those pegs.
I did full days work and third over
yesterday, but was full of my game
after went to bed, trying to ft it for
indoors. So I didn't get to sleep till
pretty late; but when I did go off had
contrived way to play my history game
with cards and cribbage-b board. -
Hartford Courant, July oath.
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husband. but very good soldier. The
princess followed Maximihan-to whom
her husband, as the son of the Prince of
Salm-Braunfels, was distantly related
to Mexico, and was with him as
nurse confident and cher annie dur
ing the siege of Queretaro,
where the bogus emperor was
captured, and remained at his bedside
during his captivity and illness until he
was shot. She and her husband, be-
lieve, accompanied his remains to Aus
tria, and it was Immediately after this
the prince died and the gay widow mar
ried the late Duke of Oussuna." "She
must be quite matured now" Forty
five is not old for such woman, for her
charms of conversation were as great as
those of her person. Age could not have
withered her much and her infinite vari-
ETY. of arts has evidently increased with
her years. Max was about her own age.
and Alfonso, her latest conquest, is
about twenty years her junior" The
latest previous publications devoted to
the Princess Salm -Salm. who figured
here as this army correspondent states,
represented her as being in Canada, but
that was several years ago. Henry @.
Clark, lately private secretary to General
Green B. Raum, and now clerk to some
commission in Washington, was also in
Queretaro at the time Maximilian and
Salm-Salm and his wife were captured !;
and some years ago published an account
of their behavior at that trying time.-
New York Tribune.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18
The Greatest Beer Drinkers.

An mp town man, who was great oh,
server, told reporter OF the Kingston
Freeman that the greatest lager beer
drinkers were the common house fly;
that as long as they could get st beer
tap, glass of beer, or even an empty
keg, they would stick to it as long as
there was drop left. Don't they get
drunk" inquired the reporter. NO."
the other said, "they don't appear to.
They don't appear to get filed; up man
undoubtedly would in short time.
Why" said he, those flies sit and drink
beer all day long, and seem to grow fat
on it," This explodes the basis of one of
DIR. Franklin's rules against drinking
stimulants. The doctor claimed that an
imals would not drink stimulants. The
doctor claimed that animals would not
drink liquor, and gave that as reason
why man should not drink it. No doubt
there are people to-day who read in the
old spelling book DIR. Frankiin's story
about man who filed a trough with
liquor and drove his cattle, horses and
hogs to it to see if they would drink It,;
also trying to get his cats and dogs to
take sip of it, and neither beasts nor
insects would touch it,. From this the
doctor argues that as animals would not
drink the stuff man should not. But
here, flies drink lager beer in most
vicious manner, and now if the doctor
was alive some one might ask him if the
animals had degenerated or the beer be-
come better.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18
Changes in the Tea Trade.

The opening of the Suez canal has
quite revolutionized the tea-carrying
business by greatly shortening the pas
sage to China and thus enabling the
merchants to calculate on the date when
they may offer their customers the car.
goes ahoat. The numbering old iunks
lorchas, and square-rigged vessels are
disappearing upon the coast before the
finely equipped steamers which ply reg
ularly to the ports between Hong Kong
and New Chang. Nor is life any longer
so easy in the far east as it used 20 be-.
Once on time the lad who was willing
TO enter the service of one of the great
firms whose "Hongs" monopolized the
commerce of China might safely calcu-
late-if he abstained from drink and es-
capped yellow fever and cholera-to re-
turn with fortune as some compensa.
ton for his parehment.colored and long
exile. In this expectation he may no
longer indulge. Profits are cut so
closely that it is only with economy that
the smaller firms can make ends meet;
and even the great houses are forced,
however humiliating may be this neces-
sity, to compete with the thrifty Germans
who have invaded the territory once left
almost entirely to the English and Por.
tuguese. The assistants in the old houses
still live well, and are more hospitable
than they can afford. But the times will
NOT admit of the old luxury; and are
new men, unweighted by old habits. then
reconciling themselves to the ways oi
life forced on them by the "interlopers.
who, OF late years have been compelled
every one to arrange his menage on q
less lavish scale. In what seems now fal
away times, before the steam and tele-
graph were known, the merchant and
his clerks led placid existence. They
were many leagues from home, but they
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Small beets cut in rings form pretty
garnish for salads.
String beans cut in small pieces may
be served with roast veal or lamb in
place of peas and mushrooms wit good
effect; in fact, many people who do not
like them in any other way find that they
give good relish when cooked with
the meat.
Stewed cucumber will be new dish
to some cooks; peel and cut in length
wise strips. either halves or quarters Of
the cucumbers. Let them boil in water
with salt and pepper in it; when tender
serve on toast with little butter. This
will sometimes tempt the appetite of q
convalescent.
A handsome little lambrequin for q
bracket is of black satin out in points.
Trim the edge around the points with
short and fine silk or chenille fringe.
Across the top paint vine with green
leaves and red berries, and on each
point put q rosebud or tiny spray of
forgetnenots or of heliotrope.
If it is possible so to arrange the or
der of dinner getting. do not shell the
peas until few minutes before they arc
to be cooked. They lose much of their
fine, distinctive favor if shelled some
Tina before cooking; and do not wash
them. What water is so clean as the
lining of the pod?
To expedite the making Of lemon
pie use hot water in place of cold, stir
the cut-up lemon, the sugar and corn
starch or -four, and eggs together, as if
you were making pudding sauce; then
pour in hot water; if the pail or basin
containing this is then placed In a vessel
of boiling water it will cook in five
minutes.
II you are an amateur, and wish to
paint on satin at home with oil, and are
troubled by the oil spreading, try this
method of preventing it: Dissolve some
shellac with alcohol, and rub il over the
wrong side of the satin; then il the pre-
caution is taken to take any of the oily
paints out on blotting paper. you need
not fear to proceed.
without using soda is highly recon-
mended: One pound of sugar (either
granuiated or pulyerized), half q pound
of butter. eight eggs (the whites and
yolks beaten separately, ten ounces Of
-four; for fayoring, one whole nutmeg
grated. This cake should be baked fol
an hour and quarter in q moderately
hot oven.
Young carrots are an appetizing addi-
ton to dinner of boiled beef. Do moi
scrape the tender skin from the carrots
bnt wash them in two or three waters
| and after they are cooked rub the Skin
of with coarse towel. These:if quite
small, may be arranged around the beei
on the platter; if not. serve in vegeta-
BILE dish, with little butter. cream, and
pepper and salt.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18
Alfonso's Amnity.

do you understand" was asked Of
an old army correspondent by former
officer of Gen. Rosecrans' staff, "that
the Duchess OF Ossuna, who is mention
ed in the Tribune's Paris letter as the
cause of the breach between the King
and Queen of Spain, is the Princess
Salm- Salm, who figured for time so
prominently in Nashville while General
Rousseau was in command there?'
"Yes; I understand that it is the same
woman" was the answer. "She was
about 25 years of age then and one of
tho most beautiful women / ever saw.
She was very tall. graceful. and daring
rider on horseback. She was as reckless
of reputation as of life in those days.
Salm-Salm was poor-spirited sort Of
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18
Moths in Carpets.

Numerous are the preparations rec-
commended for the preservation of car
pets from moths. Some are altogether
Intellectual; others of an odor so over
powering that the remedy is worse than
the disease; others are as destructive to
the carpets as to the moths. A better
and simpler method is after thoroughly
cleaning and airing to scatter powdered
camphor plentifully between the lining
and the carpet, particularly about the
outer edges and the dark corners, where
the destructive little insects love best to
nest. When house is to be closed for
the summer, several folds of newspapers
laid over the edges, will add greatly to-
the protection of the carpets, as the odor
Of printing ink employed is particularly
offensive to moths. Many persons take
no other precaution in the case of WOOL
ems then to beat them thoroughly, wrap
them in newspapers and lay away.-Dec-
orator and Furnisher.
Another authority SAYS: Moths may be
partially kept out of carpets by washing
the floor. before the carpet is laid, with
spirits of turpentine or benzine.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18

made themselves all the more comforta-
able on that account, and looked forward
to the coming years in the cheerful con-
fidence that fortune would favor them.
Between the dispatch of one mail and the
arrival of another there is lull in work
and plenty of play. But this no longer
the case. The telegram which may ar
rive at any moment, disturbs their sleep,
and instead of the competence on which
the tea trader could reckon in former
years, the chances are that unless he
works nearly as hard as in London, his
successor may make an uncomfortable
acquaintance with the consular court or
the Hongkong Gazette. There are, how
ever, hne incomes and most respectable
fortunes still to he made in the tea trade
if man knows his business and is not
more unfortunate than the average of
his pecies.-London Standard.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18
Every Farmer His Own Agent.

We have been informed by the Port
land branch house of G.. Westinghouse
& Co., Schenectady. N. Y, manufac-
turers of threshing machines, engines,
etc.. that they contemplate doing bust
ness in a new manner, providing the
farmers give them proper encouragement
in so doing. their method is for the
farmers to order goods direct from the
Portland house, and in that manner save
the large commission paid local agents.
We should think the farmers should take
the opportunity of showing the above
firm that they appreciate this new move.
We would advise farmers with old worn
out machinery to lay it aside and pur-
chase new Westinghouse machine.
Always bear in mind that an old worn
eut machine of any kind is detriment.
They fully warrant all machines sold by
them, and they guarantee their engines
to run with one-third less fuel and water
than any engine in the market. Their
thresher is Incorporating machine,
and is making friends wherever known.
Write to them at Portland for prices and
terms
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18

Poison IN PoTAToEs.-N person
should buy their potatoes of grocery
men who let them stand in front of their
stores in the sun. Potatoes belong to
the "Solanum" family. of which the
deadly night shade is one of its full
brothers. All branches of the family
contain more or less of that poisonous
narcotic called "solanine." The bulb,
or potato, contains the least of this, un-
less they are exposed to the sun. which
rapidly develops this element. Long
exposure to the light, without the direct
sun, will develop the solanine in the po-
tato and make an article unfit for food.
But exposure to the sun is SO injurious
to the potato, making it not only un-
palatable. but actually injurious to
health, that any grocer for the offense of
selling potatoes which have been exposed
two or three days to the sun ought TO be
indicted for selling unhealthy and dan
gerous human food.-AlbanY Journal.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18

A DEAF WIPE.-Mrs. Bell, wife Of
Professor Graham Bell, the electrician,
was one of the deaf pupils of DIR. Gallau-
det in Washington. Professor Bell met
her at reception given at the college,
and 80 expert was she in reading speech
by the motion of the lips that they con-
versed together for some time without
his discovering her infrmity. At last,
walking through the conservatory where
some of the Chinese lanterns had gone
out, he made some remark requiring an
answer. But none was forthcoming, it
being not light enough for her to see the
movements of his lips. He repeated the
remark and again got only silence for re-
ply. Mystifed, he soon escorted. her
back to the parlor. and then. in the
brilliant light, asked her why she had
not answered him; but his amazement
was redoubled tenfold at her ready re-
ply, ST have never heard 8 sound in all
my life. IN. Z. Tribune.
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The war department is just now puz-
xled how to dismiss Major Nickerson from
the military. Charges have been pre-
ferred against him as deserter, but he
complies with the law by reporting his
address to the department at the regular
intervals prescribed. When the depart
ment looks for him at his known address,
it finds that he has flown and left no
trace behind. The case will be reported
TO congress.
A London dispatch of Aug. 18th says:
DR.. Robert Moffatt. father-in-law of the
late DR.. Livingstone, the celebrated At
rican traveller, and who was himself for
many years missionary in South Africa.
is dead.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18

A Chinaman bet $3 that he could swim
across the Sacramento river with his
clothes on. When he failed and went
under, his opponent clapped bis hands
in great Rlee, bat suddenly turned pale
and staggered. The drowning man had
the stakes in his pocket. Burlington
Free Press.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-17

made, but signed at once Her fathsr's pe- saniary difficulties, it seems, had been brought about by his efforts to enlarge his l scope of operations as 0 boniface. He
 had settled at Msnchester-by-the-S Sea, near Boston and had opened
 he wanted wss the means to extend it. Some time after his visit to his daughter it was as- certained that he had sold the Kearney street property in San Francisco, and had used the proceeds in building the Mascono- mo House at Manchester-by-th Sea, and furthermore that the paper which Marion had been induced to sign was an entire and complete conveyance to him of her one-half interest in the Kearney street property. The friends of the young lady immediately took steps to have her rights protected, and her father was eventually induced to pay her $15,000 which. he said, was the full value of her half ownership in the estate in question. Before long the discovery was made that this property had really been sold for $59, 1000, and that Marion was entitled in fact to $14,- 500 more.
 While matters were in a temporary stotus quo the one time popular tragedian, and lat terly the really popular Boniface, died, his death occurring on the 2d of last September. At the time of his death he was citizen of Massachusetts, and his property subject to its laws. In addition to his widow, Mrs. Ag- nes Booth, he left three children. Marion and two Doys, stlu minors, py the Gn1ro marriage By his will Booth left his entire estate to his widow, and absolutely omitted all reference to his children. Under the Massachusetts law 8 man cannot thus disinherit all his chill dren, and therefore Marion Booths counsel is to bring the suit for her next week. This will preserve the rights of all his children. It is understood further that Marion's coun- sel will also bring suit to recover out of the estate, before the division under the testate laws, the balance of her share in the Kearney street property.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-17
EGYPT.

A Threat From the Khedfve-Bound to
 Abdicate Unless England Comes to the
 Rescue.
 LONDON, Dec 16.-Ths khedive has not yet taken the final step of resignation, but he has threatened that unless England will furnish him with guarantee that she will send troops to reeonquer the Seudan, or at least consents to allow the Turkish troops to suppress the Mahdi, he will abdioate his throne. After the cabinet council at Cairo Thursday Cherif Pacha, foreign minister, informed Sir Evelyn Barring, the British commissioner in Egypt, that tn emajority of the council had thrown it's support in favor of the khedive and Turkish intervention. It is reported that Sir Evelyn Barring, upon hearing this, argued that the decision was premature in the ab- operations of the Mahdi and his position and that of Hicks Paehe if the latter still sur wives. The Porte has advised the khedive of its readiness to dispatch ten thousand Turk ish regulars the expenses of the expedition to be defrayed from the Egyptian treasury The sultan insists that the khedive shall maintain his position of refusal to abandon the Soudan.
 General Sir Evelyn Wood estimates that in order to make reasonably sure of the defeat of Fl Mahdi an expedition containing fifteen thousand Anglo Indian troops will be neces- sary and that they must not only be sup piled with mountain artillery, but must have ample means of boring wells in the desert. Such an expedition would cost England e2O,- GOO GOO.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-17
PENNsYLVANIA

Breaking a WiII-JunIus Brurus Booths
 Estate to be Carried into Court by His
 Daughter Marion.
 PHILADELPHIA, Dec 16.-It is announced on good authority that Miss Marion Booth, the daughter of Junius Brutus Booth, the tragedian, will, through her attorneys, bring her fathers will on the grounds of it's inva- lidity. The executors of the estate of the late Junius Brutus Booth and Mrs. Agnes Booth will be the plaintiff. Miss Marion has, of late, virtually retired into private life and settled in New York. She is best re- membered for her support of John Owens in sfThe Cricket on the Hearth as Bertha, the blind girl, and as C1cely Homespun, in t'The Heir at Law" Miss Agnes Booth is now playing the part of MathiIde in that lurid melodrama, ''The Strsnglers of Paris, at the Chestnut Street Opera Honse, this city.
 The history of Junias Brutus Booths mar- ried life and the causes that led Miss Marion to make this effort to break her fathers will are interesting, though complicated. Junius Brutus Booth was married first to Miss De Bar, from whom he was separated, and his second wife was Harriet Mace. With her he visited California in 1851, and met with so much popularity in his profession there and made so mnoh money that he prolonged his stay to 1864. During this period Marion Booth was born, and this child. under the laws of California was entitled te the moth CTS full share of all landed property of which the father became possessed in that State upon the mothers death. When the mother died in 1859 the daughter, by the operation Of the law, thus became the half owner with her father in very valuable prop erty on .Kearney street, San Fran cisco. Upon Junius Brutus Booths return East he married the third time, his bride being Mrs. Harry A. Perry, the widow of very versatile comedian, who was native eff this city, and who began his theatrical career in the important character of call boy at the Walnut in IS46. Shortly after this marriage Marion Booth was brought to the Academy of Notre Dame on RittenhouBe Square in this city, where her education was conducted When she was in her eighteenth year and still in the convent her father paid her visit and represented that he was in great pecuniary distress and that she could aid him if she would only sign certain doc ument which he brought already prepared with him. The iIiaI affection of the young lady wes thoroughly aroused and she did not hesitate nor question when this appeal was
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-17
WANTED.

WANIEIY0
 LOAN of 6, 300 central city property f A which per cent win be given. Address
 de15 St WOOSTER this ofice.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-17
Death of Congressman Hasks1l

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Dudley c. Haskell, representative of the Second district of Kan sas, died here at 4:30 o'clock this morning from Brights disease. Mir. Haskell had been sick for several weeks. but his demise was rather unexpected and sudden. Only on Fri day Speaker Carlisle had under consideration the question whether he could constitution. ally administer the oath of office at Mir. Has keIls residence. Mir. Haskell was born in Washington county, Pa. June 6, 1s34.- He was first elected to Congress in 1878. He took prominent part in the debates on the tariff last year.