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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A Plea for Little Men,

Surely the anthropometrists will do
harm if they encourage the craze of
tallness. It seems one ambition of
mothers that their boys should be tall.
Napoleon and Wellington and Nelson
were short. The Romans dominated
Italy because individual physical in
feriority made them perfect their or
ganization. TO say that the English is
the tallest race is simply to say that
they are hewers of wood and drawers of
water for the rest. The tallness of
Saxon invaders proves little. Although
reach was of more Importance in the
days Of sword and ak than now, the
tall Saxon did not in point of fact oust
the shorter Celt or Neolith except in
places where command of the sea gave
him power to concentrate rapidly. It
is to organization, sanitary education,
etc., and not to tallness, or even to
weight, that one race must look to beat
another now, as in the days when Rome
beat the mountaineers. But if we are to
admire physical condition, surely we
should be taught to look to size round
the chest in men, and to size, where
size is wanted in women, and not to
taIlneSS in either case.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A Bankers Family Travelling Coach.

A coach in which @ banker of Penn
sylvania is travelling with his family is
described as follows: The outside has
seats for three in front and two back !;
two large lamps ore on each side of the
front seat, and one large headlight is
on the dashboard. Here also are
clock, an ak, a knife, pistol and other
things. On the left side of the coach,
near the box, is private locker con-
tanning viands. On top is large
willow trunk, Immediately back of
which the tent, camp chairs and
blankets are stored. Undsr the back
step is d place for another large willow
trunk, hanging behind which is step
ladder to be used by ladies when taking
seats on the outside of the coach. In
side the boot all kinds of cooking uten-
sils are packed. On the side of the
coach are willow cases for canes, UNI
brellas, fishing rods and guns. Inside
are two roomy seats facing each other,
accommodating six persons. In the
cushions of the doors are map pockets,
and on the cushioned walls hang ther-
mometer, a barometer, a compass, a
clock, night lamp and match box, and
near the top are racks filled with note
paper and envelopes. The vehicle
weighs only 1870 pounds, and the reins
are handled by the owner, who generally
makes from twenty-five to forty miles
daily. The party go into camp at 70
o'clock. The horses are then picketed
and the camp fire is kindled.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A SEb-.larine Balloon.

At the for5ncomIng international ex-
hibition of Naples will be exhibited in
action submarine observatory, or bal
loon, which will sink people to the bot
tom of the Mediterranean shore waters,
where they can enjoy the natural
aquaria there to be seen. It is bal
loon of steel, with three compartments
one for the actuating mechanism and
heating bladder. one for the captain,
and one for the passengers, to the num-
ber of eight There are glass windows
for looking out at the fishes, shells and
weeds, and the height of the balloon in
the water is regulated at will by means
of collapsible bladder. A telephone
connects the balloon, which is captive
and can not float away, with the shore
or o boat above.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Fault of Our school System.

We school the children too much
that is to say, we keep them at school
all the year round; we continually force
their perceptive and memorizing facul-
ties, and give no time for the play OF
their reflective faculties. In other
words, they don't reflect upon what they
have learned or attempt to apply it in
their own minds. We cram them with
too many studies. How else is
the fact to be accounted for that a
child in the country, having but
four months schooling in the year, will
come to Boston more matured in his
education than one who has had nine
months schooling in the year? In our
city schools there is too much teaching
and too little learning. By that mean
to say that the great press of studies
placed upon the young mind by
oral teachings for few minutes
at time, and different study most
every hour in the day, tend to break
up the continuity of the pupils thought,
and the oral addresses and lectures re-
ceive but little attention from the tired
minds of the pupils.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
The Authorship Of -Old Grimes.

The New York Tribune has been
trying to fix the authorship of the pa
thetic ballad. "Old Grimes" The
weight of the testimony is in favor of
Albert G. Green, a graduate of Brown
university and author of "The Baron's
Last Banquet" There is pretty well
authenticated claim, however, that the
author was student of the Vale col
lege during the presidency of DR..
Dwight. In those days the ianitor of
the institution was an eccentric charac-
ter, who wore IAN old brown coat" and
was called by the students Professor of
Dust and Ashes. He died, and the
claim is that one of the college rhym-
sters wrote the lines in question, which
were sung by lot of heartless students
who assembled for that purpose on the
roof of the college building.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
An Old Physician's views.

believe, however, that it is not the
liquor alone which produces the diseases
generally attributed to it. It is rather
in the fact that those who are supposed
to fail in physical health by its use, or
who use it to excess, do 80 because they
create by their course of life or labor q
morbid demand for the stimuIant
have already shown how board of
trade man may rush off to get a drink
to prevent q reaction from excitement.
It is SO with many other vocations.
Take q compositor on morning paper.
He will work all night, and have his
slumbers broken in the day. He rises
unrefreshed. He must work again,
and, utterly prostrated, suffering from
nervous losses, he drinks to restore him
self. He continues this course for years.
and becomes a wreck. Whether from
the drink or the work for which he may
have been constitutionally untitled I
could not say, unless I could determine
what would have been the result had he
followed either course and left the other
alone.
/ am inclined to think, however, that
eAto OhOSt0 "a AtquOI OA person
following nervous and exhaustive vo-
cation, especially if it be used to brace
up to greater efforts and harder work,
is far more injurious than when used
by such men as those who first peopled
the west, and who drank it frequently
and sometimes to excess. Their sys-
TENS were strong enough to throw off
its effects. Their occupations did not
cause nervous prostration, hence they
did not develop seeming necessity in
the system for it. It is not the peculi-
arity of modern liquor or the depravity
of the present generation; it is the ex-
haustion induced by the terrible outlay
of vitality in exciting business that
makes drinking what it now is with
large class. My advice to all workers
is to go slow. Do not brace up that
you may overwork. Rest; that is ma
lures own magnificent and unri-
vailed remedy, that will cure when
nothing else will. Take to the woods.
the fields, the open air. Throw physics
to the dogs, and do not sell your health
for money, for you cannot buy 1t.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Cunning Conjurors.

The performances by the Davenport
brothers and other spirits are clumsy
compared with the acts of the far north
west Indians. The conjurors are legion
that will permit themselves to be
bound, not merely hand and foot, but
the whole body swathed with thongs,
withes, ropes and rawhides, and after
ward tied up in net, and then release
themselves almost instantly on being
placed in little medicine lodge" Of
skins, constructed for the purpose, the
bonds being thrown out through an
opening in the top, without knot being
apparently disturbed.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A MARYLAND ESTATE.
How the Negroes Were Provided FOR
Their Allowance or Food and

How the Negroes Were Provided for
Their Allowance or Food and
Clothing.
Fred Douglass, in his autobiography
thus describes the management of a
Maryland estate, in the times of slavery
The men and the women slaves on
Col. Lloyd's farm received as their
monthly allowance OF food eight pounds
of picked pork or their equivalent In
fish. The pork was often tainted and
the fish was of the poorest quality
herrings would bring very little
If offered for sale at any northern
market. With their pork or fish they
had one bushel of Indian meal, unbolted,
of which about Is per cent was fit only
to feed pigs. With this one
pound of salt was given, and this was
the entire monthly allowance of full
grown slave, working constantly in the
open field from morning till night
every day In the month except Sunday
and living on fraction more than a
quarter of pound of meat per day and
less than peck of corn meal per week.
The yearly allowance of clothing con-
o1oeNo VI INo E1lIDS. SUCH bS
the coarest crash towels are made of !;
two pairs of trousers, one for summer
and one for winter; one winter jacket,
one pair of yarn stockings, and only
one pair of shoes. The slaves entire
apparel could not have cost more than
So year.
"The little boys and girls were nearly
all in O state of perfect nudity. A
coarse blanket, such as cover horses,
was their only bed. The little children
stuck themselves in holes and corners
about the quarters, often in the corner
of the huge chimneys, with their feet in
the ashes to keep them warm. More
slaves were whipped for oversleeping
than for any other fault Neither age
nor sex found. any favor. The overseer
stood at thequarter-door armed with the
stick and cowskin, ready to whip any who
was few minutes behind time. Young
mothers who worked in the field
were compelled to take their children
with them, and to leave them in the
corner of the fence to prevent loss of
time in nursing them. But in the great
house of Col. Lloyd the table groaned
under the heavy and blood-bought
luxuries, gathered with painstaking
care at home and abroad. Fields, for
ests, rivers and seas were made tribu-
tary there. Fifteen servants waited on
the groaning table, some armed with
fans to cool the heated brows of the
alabaster ladies there. Splendid
coaches were in the stable, beside gigs,
phatons, barouches, sulkies and sleighs,
silyer-mounted harness and thirty-fye
fine horses,".
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Only the Hired Girl.

A little 3-year-oId was out in
the garden, when she stepped on a
beetle and killed it. The gardener, in
q sympathetic tone, said to her: Per
haps that was mother beetle gather
ing food for her children at home, and
they may suffer with hunger" when
Ida replied with apparent honesty, Il
guess, Uncle Frank, it was not the
mother / killed, but was only the hired
girl.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Round to stick

remember how the jockeys used to
ride in the olden days. They had no
saddles, md each man who mounted a
horse was required to wear homemade
linen pants. A vial of honey was
poured on the back of the horse, and
the honey coming in contact with the
raw linen, formed an adhesion suffi-
GENTLY strong to keep the rider in his
position and enable him to ride with
safety.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
frances Fighters.

1t has always been thus in the history
of the country. Paris makes revolu-
tions, but it is France which has to bear
the consequences. Paris cries, TO Ber-
lin!" and then skulks behind its fortifi-
cation, leaving France to fight out the
quarrel. To defend herself from the
mob of the capital, France accepts any
king. emperor, or dictator, and finds
herself few years afterward engaged
IN war dictated by Paris journalists
and wits.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A Useless Habit.

The act of putting lead pencil to
the tongue to wet it just before writing,
which is habitual with many people, is
one of the oddities for which it is hard
to give any reason-unless it began in
the days when pencils were poorer than
now, and was continued by example to
the next generation. A lead pencil
should never be wet. It hardens the
lead and ruins the pencil. This fact is
known to newspaper men and stenog-
raphers.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Another Fashionable Craze.

just now it is said to be craze
among the fashionable ladies of New
York society to own valuable cows,
paying for them sums varying from
$4,000 to $4,000. They affect glass
of milk night and morning, which is
quite as expensive as the masculine
cocktail at that rate of investment.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
! arisian Pavements.

Payements in Paris are made in this
way A bed of lime concrete is made
for base, and on this are placed, narrow
side up, blocks of pine wood previously
stepped In tar, and of the size of ordi-
nary bricks. Between every row an In
terstice is left, one-quarter of an inch
wide. filed up BY gravel and sand; well
rammed in, the whole being coated
over with another concrete where tar is
the binding medium.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A Warning.

A Boston editor became So walking
encyclopedia of historical and bio
graphical knowledge and then died.
People should not try to be encyelope-
dias unless they expectto be soon laid
on the shelf.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
The High school Translatlon.

"You ought to be in our room now
said Amy; 1--WE have o teacher that rules
the roost.' "Well," replied the high
school girl, I'D be ashamed of myself
You should say, Governs the horizontal
perch on which the fowl reposes,' not
rules the roost.'.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
The Coming Trottcr.

When the world sees a trotter cover
mile in one minute and forty seconds,
a feat accomplished by more than one
thoroughbred, it will see wholly new
type, SO different from the present ami
NAL that the theory of evolution will
never stretch far enough to cover the
prodigy
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

The number of old arms on hand in
the government arsenal at Washington
will aggregate 100000 of all kinds.
They are being sold at prices ranging
from % cents to 81 each.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Fright. Handed,, Animals.

Right-handedness extends very far.
along the animal series. Parrots hold
their food by preference in the right
foot, and, though we cannot speak pos
itively. wasps, beetles and spiders seem
to use the right anterior foot most com
monty.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
siddons as queen OF Tragedy.

My aunt used to relate the following
anecdotes of Mrs. Siddons: One day,
while seated in well-known draper's
In Bond street, busily engaged with her
purchases, my aunt, as they say in the
old ballads, suddenly became aware"
OF a voice of extraordinary tone and
pathos. The speaker was lady seated
close behind, and with her back turned
to my aunt. With the genuine intona-
tlon and slow utterance of the deepest
tragedy the customer demanded of the
bewildered shopman: 'Will-this-
gown-war-sh ?" and on being answered
in the affirmative, and that the color
was fast, reioined with still greater
dramatic solemnity: "The color, then,
fadeth not? All it's welll" "Oh, oh, .
thought my aunt, "the queen of tragedy
alive!' In moment they were shaking
hands and exchanging greetings, and in
another discussing the respective merits
OF cottons and prints, of which Mrs.
Slddons showed herself keen Judge,
when she could lay aside-which was
rare indeed-her dramatic affectation.
On another occasion my aunt was
seated opposite to Mrs. Siddons at a
dinner party. Some salad was brought
to her, which she declined; but the host
loudly extolled its very special merits,
and urged her just to @try it." Scatter
a little hesitation the great tragedian
turned round to the footman who stood
behind her with the salad, and extend
ing both her hands with genuine theat-
rical air Ga la Queen Katharine before
Henry Wild, and throwing her head
back in the true tragic style, exclaimed
In her deepest tones and most popular
manner: I must-obey ;-then-bring
me-the how'll" The company were,
OF course, deeply impressed. =
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

Voltaire: Inever was but twice IN
my life completely on the verge of ruin
: first, when lost lawsuit; and, sec
ondly, when I gained one.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
BEWARE, PROUD WORLD.

Beware, proud worldl now thou despisest
The humblest of thy creatures, lest
In melancholy's sunless mine
be chance upon steel divine
Whose edge shall cleave your torturin,
chain,
And break your sceptred gods relentles
reign
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

There are people SO cross, grained
that they wouldn't like things If they
suited them exactly.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

Baron Nathaniel Rothschild tax.
dinner on golden plates.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

There is man in New York who
manufactures diamonds for actresses to
lose. They are sold at so much quart
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A Earfnna Waifa

A fortune awaits the man who will in
vent a penholder that you can't stick
into the mucilage- bottle. and mucilage-
brush that won't go into the inkstand.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Gen. Grants once.

where is Gen. Grants Officer" is a
question often asked by sightseers.
Nearly every person familiar with Wall
street is competent to reply: I'm the
United Bank building" This tall
structure, at the corner of Broadway
and Wall street. is generally known by
the title of Fort Sherman" In q
1Ox12 room on the seventh floor the
ex-president attends almost daily to
his duties as president of the Mexican
Southern railroad. 4 new circular top
mahogany desk stands near broad
window which overlooks Broadway
From his chair Gen. Grant bas mag
nifcent view across Trinity churchyard,
out into the bay, and over the river
intoANew Jersey. A dark-hued Ak
nj carpet covers the floor of the
CO 1e. rich mahogany wainscoting
reae half way up to the ceiling, and
the intervening space is covered
by thick golden paper stamped
In imitation of Aztec metal. The
door frames and ceiling are of highly
polished Georgia pine Along one side
of the room are solid mahogany book
cases, and in one corner is an old-fash-
ioned brick fireplace. The few pic
lures that ornament the walls all relate
to Mexico. There is fine large map
of the City of Mexico, and also birds
eye view of the place. A large glass
box on the window-sill contained some
choice specimens of Mexican silver.
For those who come to see him, the
general has ordered three solid looking
cane-seated arm chairs of polished ash.
The conductor of one of the smoothly
running elevators il this building has
been asked SO often where Gen. Grants
office was that in anrouncing the floors
as he goes up or down he now call out
the seventh floor thus:
'Seventh-Gen. Grants Office
"How many persons that inquire for
Gen. Grants Office really want to go
there?" asked the reporter.
about one in ten," was the reply.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-04-25
THE WINNEDAGO RESER-
VATION. ss4

-.Tho foliUwlng letters win be
of interest to many efour read
ers who have frequently oaes.
toned us as to the Winnebago
Reservation.
WARRINGTON, d. c., APR. 16, 'S3.
Messrs. Page and Hanke,
$40 f. SC. N. w.
Gentlcmen:-This Office is in
receipt of your letter of the 11th
instant. enc losing one from
Messrs. Miller Bros, of Miller,
Dakota, asking to be advised as
to when the "Winnebago reser-
vstion in Buffalo county, ID. T.
will be open to settlement"
In reply, | have to state that
under authority of Congress ne
gotiatlons are now being con-
Quoted with the various bands
of Sioux Indians, the result ot
v hich may be that some portions
of the Great Sioux Reservation
will be ceded to the United
States. and thereafter opened to
settlement. OF course it is inn
possible to foretell what success
will be met with in the pending
negotiations, or what portions ol
the reservation will he cedea, or
whether Congress will ratlfy the
agreement that may be executed,
| can only say that whatever the
nature of the agreement, it mus
be ratified by Congress bcfo re !
can be carried into effect, anC
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-04-25
DIR NEW PARTNER.

We do not hesitate to say that one of
he hest printers this side OF Chicago has
,eeome avictiin Of snispiaeed confidence.
has snceumbed to the wiley wag Of our sa-
/, nic tongue and assumed one half the re-
{sopsibilities Of Publishing the HAND
|corSTY PRESS This gentlssnan's name
ISL A Bushfield, for number of years
foreman of the Daily and Weekly HTele-
|praph", Of Atlantic. We have known Mr..
|Bushfield for long time and know that
among the printers craft he ranks MS one
of the very best. For neat, artistic job
work done With dispatch, wa defy the
shops all along the line 10 beat Mr.. Bush
as!a. AZ soon as he can get matters in
ship shape, YOU may not be surprised to
discover certain radical changes in the
make up Of the PRESS. Mr.. Bushfield
has been in the country looking up claim
this week and has had but little time in
consequence 10 devote to this weeks paper.
Under our new partners suggestion we
have ordered several fonts of job and dis
play type when we will certainly be able
to compete with the best job offices in
Southern Dakota. Parenthctically speak
ing, We have raised sTo0. or $500. on the
PRESS outfit since Mr.. Bushfeld has taken
a hand in managing it and feel willing to
wager anything from government sock to
IL quarter section of Dakota dirt that the
PRESS will be the cock of the walk from
Huron TO Pierre.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-04-25

TERRITORIAL NEWS.
DAVIS county owes s27,992.

DAVIS county owes $27,392.
Carpenters are IN demand at
Salem. a. E
Salem bss a monthly fair as
soclation.
The creamery craze agitatcs
Brookings.
Work cattle are IN demand at
Mt. Vernon. 81
The population of Beadle
county is 5000.
Sioux Falls anticipates busy
luiilipg season.
Sulphur Sp,ings, Buffalo eoun-
ty, is II coming town.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1883-04-25
LUMBER.

To parties who expect TO pr owe up on
land and to land agents, he following no
tees may be worth while considering:
This paper win hereafter, in connection
with the Dakota State Journal. charge
$500 for every Final Proof notice for the
following reason, to wit, viz:
United States Land Office.
Huron, ID. I. Apr. 2l, 1888.
Ed. PREss, Miller, ID. T.
Dear Sir:-By recent ruling of the
Department final proof notices must be
published 6 weeks. This does not affect
notices now being published.
Respectfully,
G.. b. ARMSTRONG,
Register.