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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
A ROWING PEOPLE.
Love, Courtship ana Marriage Amoas
the ARABIA

the ARABIA
TCol. De Funk in Courier@Journal1
The girls have little to do with se-
lecting their husbands. The men nearly
always fix that up among themselves.
A bold warrior sees girl whom he
loves in another tribe. He rides up at
night, finds where she is sleeping,
dashes up to her tent, snatches her up
in his arms, puts her before him on the
horse and sweeps away like the wind.
If he happens to be caught he Is shot.
Ifshe is not, the tribe from which he
has stolen the girl pays him visit in Q
few days. The dervish. priest of the
tribe, Joins the hands of the young
man and the girl, and both tribes join
in the merriment.
All the bravest men steal their wives,
but there are some who do not. Their
method is little different. OF . calm,
moonlight highland moonlight in the
tropics is far more beautiful than here
you may see an Arab sitting before
the tent of his inamorita picking q
stringed instrument something like our
banjo and singing song of his own
composition. This is his conrtship.
Lucy are tu6 LuOo1 mu51C6A p0Op40 AZ
the world. They talk in poetry, and
>extemporization is as easy with
them as it was with the Scalds of old.
If the girl is obstinate he goes else
where and seeks to win another girl by
his songs and music.
Sometimes the fathers make up the
match, but always the girl is the obedi-
ent slave. Her religion, her people,
her national instincts, the traditions OF
| her ancestors, all teach her to be the
slave of her husband. The power oi
| life and death is in his hands, and she
bows before his opinions with the most
implicit obedience. It is only when the
fair-faced Frank comes, with his glit
talk of woman's highest duties and
grander sphere, with his winning man
ner, with his marked respect, so fatter
ing to a woman's soul, that she leaves
her husband, forsakes the teachings o.
her childhood, gives up home and
friends, and risks death itself to repost
in his arms. They are as fine riders al
the men, and as fearless. They can g
| almost any distance without fatigue
They are fine shots, and don't know
what personal fear is.
The women of these people are mod
est and far more faithful than the
women of civilized life. Indeed, it i
the rarest thing in the world to hear o
coniugal infidelity. The women matur
at IL and IL, and are old at 35. Whel
young they are beautiful. They hav
soft, dark skin, black, flowing hair, ant
soft, languishing eyes. They are pas
sionate in their loves, but after marriag
all their affection is centered In thei
husbands. If woman is found to b
untrue to her husband she is instantl
killed, together with her lover. Bu
this seldom happens.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26

A Novel Matrimonial Experiment.
The Biographer has an account q
the eccentric Thomas Day, author Of
"Sandford and Merton" who under
took to raise o wife TO order. When
Day, who was precocious lad, came OF
age. he succeeded to an ample fortune,
and began to look about him for wife.
He met one lady who suited him, but
he did not suit her. Then he conceived
the notion Of educating girl to be his
spouse. He chose two girls, in order
to have better chance Of success; one
from an orphan school, daxen-haired
girl Of IL, named by him Sabrina
Sidney, after the Severn and Algernon
Sidney; the other from the foundling
hospital in London, whom he named
Lucretia. He took the girls to France,
where he hoped in quiet to discover and
discipline their talents.
In the course Of the process they all
three quarreied, and, 60 add 10 the diff
ficulties, the girls caught the smallpox.
When they recovered, he was glad to
return to London, where he spprenticed
Lucretia to a milliner. Subsequently
she married linen draper, and Day, In
his gratitude, gave her dowry of $500.
Sabrina was given further chance of
educating herself to become Mrs. Day,
but it was impossible to eradicate her
sense of pain. When melted sealing
wax was dropped on her arms she
flinched, and she started and
screamed when pistols were fred
at her garments. When Day tried her
fidelity by telling her pretended
secrets, she divulged them in gossip
with her servants. He sent her to q
boarding-school for three years, but,
although she fell far short of his ideal,
he was not altogether pleased when she
married his friend Bicknell.
Day finally fell in love with Honora
Sneyd, who was engaged to the un-
fortunate Maj. Andre. She didn't want
Mr.. Thomas Day; neither did her
sister, to whom he proposed. At last,
however, he met his reward in the
person of Miss Esther Mines, lady
of wealth and culture.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
Cooled Hin, Down.
ATLANTA Constitution. ]

A gentleman of Athens, Ga, once
had a lovers quarrel with his sweet
heart, who gave him back his engage
ment ring, $3.50 diamond. Deliber-
ately walking to the hearth. he threw
the memento of his blighted happiness
on the stone and with his heel ground
it to pieces. He then returned the
lady a ring she once had given him.
But she was guilty of nj such outburst.
Calmly placing it on the manteI, she
remarked, well, I'll need it for my
next beau" The quarrel was soon
made up, and the hasty lover had to
invest in another ring.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
Cents by the Carload.
rm11-5 H.1ST


AS is well known, certain western
and southern cities scorn to use any
coin less tLan a nickel. When a news
paper corporation started cheap even
ing paper in st. Louis it bought and
circulated in that city several barrels of
cents.
It would surprise the reader who has
never investigated the matter to learn
how many cents have been coined. At
the close of the fiscal year of 1881 the
total coinage of cents equaled SO, 071,-
039.59. "You have no adequate idea
what such bulk of cents would be-"
said the cheerful statistician who i'm
parted the facts. Granting that they
were all of the size now In use,
although many of them were much
larger, they would fill over 104 cars
carrying twenty tons EACH"
The first American cent was author
lied to be coined by an act of congress
of July 6, 1887. It was first coined by
James Jarvis, Of New Haven, Conn.
The weight was 264 grains, which was
reduced to 208 grains in 1893, and,
being still too large, to 1853 grains two
years later. The coinage was discon-
tinued in 1857, after $1,b62, 1897. A
worth had been made.
In 1867 the nickel cent was first
coined. It was smaller than the old.
fashioned predecessor, weighing ~
| grains, S8 per cent. of copper and IL
per cent. of nickel. In 1854 the coin
age was discontinued after $4,000, ,72s
worth had been made. The bronze
cent of the present time came into
being in 1854. It weighed only AZ
grains, of which 81 per cent. is copper
and per cent. tin and zinc. The total
amount coined at the end of the fsca
year ending June 80 was $3,077, 100
The grand total of all the cents coined
up to the close of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1881, was Sc. OH, ,O39.59.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
WendeII PhilIIns in COLLEGE.

A correspondent OF The Worcester
Spy, in an account of a conversation he
once had with Wendell Phillips, says:
aI asked him If he had any pleasure in
fighting; If contest gave him any salts
faction. He said not bit. that he
hated fighting, and was the very last
man who ought to have to do it, but ;
he added, when I was in college one OF
nv classmates found fault with me for
always standing up for any person or
thing that was denounced;' he said:
"Say anything against man, and up
jumps Phillips to defend him, no mat
ter whether the man is right or wrong,
or whether Phillips knows anything
about him or not, It is enough for him
that the man is attacked" Now, said
Mr.. Phillips, 4 thought that the best
compliment ever paid me; and I sup
pose it was the bent of my character
to defend anything that was attacked !"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26

Statistics show that Tennessee has at
least 300, 900 dogs. The food for each
dog would raise 100 pounds of bacon,
which would be 10000, ZOO pounds OF
bacon. This, at 10 cents per pound,
would be worth $3.000,00O. This is
not all. These dogs probably destroy
$4,000 sheep, worth 50 per head, and
they prevent the raising of 81, 900, ,00C
worth of wool and mutton that other
wise would be raised. Thus it costs
more than $4,O0O,000 to feed these
worthless dogs. The food of these dogs
would feed 100, 900 able-bodied laborers,
and the wool lost would olothe 1,500, ,00t
people.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
KEEPING THEIR END Up.

HOW THE GREAT VESTS MARvELs ARB
APT TO MULTIPLY.
Denver Tribune.
AS last Tuesdays west-bound train
passed Cape Horn, q large party of
Englishmen, of the "direot-from-Lun
nom variety, crowded out on the plat.
form and loudly expressed their dissat-
isfaction at the scenery, which was "not
at all up to the guide books, you know,
by Jovep
AS they returned no their seats to en-
Joy . jolly good British all-around
grumble, entirely oblivious of the indig-
nant glances of the native passengers, a
meek-looking, gentle-voiced journalist
from Frisco approached from the other
end of the car aud volunteered to give
the tourists some valuable facts con-
cerning the country. In an ingenious
and plausible way, he answered their
questions In manner that reduced our
critics from oyer-the-pond to condi-
ton Of profound amazement, not to say
awe.
The next morning the journalist was
informed by the reporter that COM
mittee of gentlemen wished to see him
in the baggage car. AS he entered the
latter he found a dozen travellers, all
native and to the manor born, waiting
to receive him hat in hand. The spokes-
man advanced and said:
"You are the party who was giving
those globe trotters in the rear sleeper
some points about the coast, I believe %
81 am, sir" said the quill-driyer, mod.
estlY.
"You told them, understand" con-
tinued the chairman, that Mount
Shasta was 10000 feet high?"
"The same"
"You divulged the we'll known fact
that trains on this road ere often de.
tanned four days by herds of buffalo, and
that they frequently have to use Cat
ling gun on the cowcatcher to prevent
the locomotive being pushed off the
track by the grizzly bears?"
"Yes, sir"
"You further acquainted them with
the circumstance that the Digger Indi-
ans live to the average age of 204, and
that the rarefcation of the air on the
plains is such that an ordinary pin
looks like telegraph pole at the dis.
tance of forty-two miles"
Il think I wedged that in," re-
sponded the newspaper man.
And We are informed they all made
memorandum of your statement that
at the Palace hotel an average of two
walters per day were shot by the guests
for bringing cold soup-eh?"
"They did,"
"And, finally, we believe that you are
the originator of that beautiful-tha
beautiful regarding tha
fallen redwood tree up at Mariposa-1
mean the hollow one into which the si1
se-stage drives, and comes out of {
knot-hole 165 feet further along?"
'I told them all about it."
"Just SO! just sol" said the com
nitteeman, grasping the patriots hant
and producing well-flled buckskil
bag, "and I am instructed by this com
mittee of your fellow-countrymen t.
present you with this slight token O
our appreciation of the noble name
in which you have vindicated the homo
of our noble land; God bless you
sirp
Gentlemen" said the true Califo1
nian, much affected, ST understan
your feelings, and although I blush t
be rewarded for simply doing my duty
I accept the gift as sacred trust to b
devoted to the further exaltation of on
common country"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
old I'm New York, Hut New In Chicago
indianapolis Sentinel.


As. Mr.. Dewitt G. Pease, Of New
York, stepped from a Michigan Gen.
tral train Ia this city yesterday hand
some young lady skipped up to him,
threw her arms rapturously about his
neck and kissed him many times, say
ing:
"Oh, papa, I'm SO glad you have
come"
Mr.. Pease threw both arms around
her and held her firmly to his breast.
Soon she looked up into his face and
horror stood in her eye.
ooh, my! you're not my papal" she
said, trying to free herself from his en-
brace.
"Yes am," insisted Mr.. Pease, hold
ing her tightly. you are my long-lost
daughter, and am going to keep you
right in my arms till get police
man."
When the officer came and found Mr..
Pease's diamond pin in the girls hand
he said: "That's new trick here"
as it?" said Pease. We'll, it's old
| in New York"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
INST Hight.
IBrooklvn Eagle. !


Madame, you've destroyed Ave dol
lars worth of merchandise" angrfly
remarked dude to q lady, as she seated
herself in chair in which he had de
posted new Derby hat. SERVES you
right, she replied, slowly rising from
the ruin, "you had no business to buy
a $5 hat for 50-cent head"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
HE WO OULDN'TBE Sd TLSFIED EITHER
WAY.

Boston POSb.
A man in Judge Goddess district in
Ohio was in the habit of visiting a
neighboring town and getting drunk.
One night on his return home with
several sheets in the wind he ap-
preached his house, saw no light, and
suspected that his wife had gone to
bed. Now, Mary has gone to bed," he
said, "and hasn't anything for me to
eat. I'll make it warm for her" But
in moment he saw light, and then
said: "I'll be blessed if the extravagant
thing isn't sitting up till this hour of
night burning out my oil. Now, durn
me if I don't make it hot for her."
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
Boyesen's SLID Of the Tongue.

lSyracuse fN. Y.) Standard.
The presentation of 81. 81. Boyesen's
play, "Alpine Roses" at the Madison
Square theatre, in New York, recalls a
story told by students at Cornell about
the talented Norwegian, who was for
several years professor there. Pro-
fessor Boyesen used to lecture upon
German literature to the students at
Cornell. He was at the time writing
his "Goethe and Schiller" having be-
come Goethe enthusiast; and he WIS
also--a fact that was familiar to the
students with the lady who
has since become his wife, and who was
the daughter of o New York banker.
The professors voice has q peculiar,
rotund, impetuous quality. and it was
never poured forth In greater volume
than when be said, in one of his lectures !:
About this time Goethe fell in love
with rich bankers daughter in New
York city" There was 9 roar from
the students, while boots and canes
ratified upon the floor like an avalanche
of cobble-stones in q shot-tower.
Boyesen covered his crimson face with
his hands and turned his back to his
class The lecture was resumed on an
other day.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
NLAGARAiS PO WEIR
Naru York Enn

New York Sun.
A Boston engineer has been turning
his attention to the power going to
waste in the Niagara river. He esti-
mates that a motor could be submerged
in the river which would furnish half q
million horse power-suficient to run
all the machinery in Buffalo and pump
all the city's water. His plan is to
place giant iron wheel in the river
perpendicularly, SO that it shall be
turned by the current. The power
would be taken from the shaft of the
wheel by either belts or gearings, O,
would be sent through electric cables
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26

New York Independent: The one
lesson which, more than all others, is
being taught by the progress of sani-
tary science and art is that most of the
physical evils of this life are the direct
result Of breaches Of law.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26

Animals dwelling at high elevations
resemble those of colder latitudes. The
same species of insects are found on
Mount Washington as in Labrador and
Greenland.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26

At the recent sale in Baltimore of the
effects of the late w. w. Carter hair
from the head OF Henry Clay was sold
for 80 cents, piece of the towel used
in stanching the blood from Abraham
Lincoln's death wound for $1.35, and
an autograph of Chief Justice John
Marshall for 55 cents.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
The Love story OF Wendell Phillips.
TT G. Appleton to an Tnterviewer.l

IT. g. Appletop to an Interviewed
suppose you are familiar with the
story Of Mr.. Phillips marriage how a
gentleman asked Mr. Sumner to act as
escort to young lady who was going
to the convention ct Albany, and MI.
Sumner. being unable to go, resigned
In favor of Mr.. Phillips; how Mr..
Phillips acted as her escort and lost
his heart to her before he got back I;
how he called upon her often In this
city, but was not admitted, owing TO
her feeble health, but finally he almost
broke his way to her and offered
her his hand. She said she
would never marry man unless he
would swear eternal enmity to slavery; /;
but it was not necessary for Mr..
Philips TO take that oath-he had AL
ready sworn it il his heart. So they
were married.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26

Chesterfield: look upon Incidence
as sort of suicide; for the man is eff
fectda1ly destroyed, though the appetite
Of the brute may survive.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26

Inter Ocean: The word whisky" is
a corruption of the G@lic words "uisge"
and "ber tha," signifying "water of life.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26

If eggs keep on getting much higher
in price millionaires will wear them as
shirt studs.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-09-23
Preston. Sent. DIST. 1889.

IlcSIOll, 'Dcpt' -Ist, 1000
My Dear SiI,-Iour Syrup and Pills
are still very popular with my customers,
many saying they are the best family
medicines possible.
The other day Il customer came for
two bottles of Syrup and said "Mother
Seigel" had saved the life of his wife,
and he added, zone of these bottles l
am sending fifteen miles away to friend
who is very i'll. | have much faith in it,"
The sale keeps up wonderfully, in fact,
one would fancy almost that the people
were beginning to breakfast, dine, and
sup on Mother Seigcl's Syrup, the de.
mand is so constant and the satisfaction
so great.
am, dear Sir, yours faithfully,
(Signcd) w. Bowker,
To A. j. White, Esq,
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-09-23
THE lIHUE PHYSICIAN.

EDIToR BuLLETGN:--ln your re-
port of Legislative proceedings
published in your issue of August
9Th, you make the Hon. Paul lsen-
berg say, "They paid doctor in
Lihue Sl00 n year, and if he (thc
speaker) wanted him to go long
distance he always shirked." And
in your quotations from the cores
pondence published under the head
ing "a Report Questioned in the
issue of the 9TH inst. Mr.. Isenberg
says that what he did say, rs far rs
he recollects, was, eff the natives
shall be benefited it requires that
the Government physician goes
from place to place to visit the sick
in their own houses, and if | should
ask the doctor TO do this he would
shirk."
The implication in the first in
stance would be that the doctor
habitually refused to perform the
duties for which the Lihue Planta-
ton Co. paid him, whenever such
duties demanded q little extra exer-
ton. But Mr.. Isenberg in effect
denies having made any such state
ment, and explains that he was
referring merely to the public duties
of the physician, and to the, prob
ability that the doctor would decline
to notice any unauthorized requests
he might make touching the dis
charge of such public duties. 1t
would therefore appear that your
concluding statement that your first
report was accurate $50 far as it
went" is both misleading and UNI
just.
We have known DIR. Walters for
upwards of two years, and can
testify both to his rare skill as a
physician and surgeon, and to his
unfailing promptness in responding
to any professional call, he it in his
public or private practice, by day
or by night, from native or white,
and even though it came from the
most distant part of the Island.
GEO. III. DOLE,
G.. n. WILCOX,
Rev. Il. WAINWRIGHT,
A. $. WILCOX.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-09-23

Hcnsingham, Whitehavcn, Oct. 1G, 1882
Mr. A. j. White-Dear Sir,-I was
for some time afflicted with piles, and
was advised to give Mother Scigel's
Syrup n trial, which | did. am now
happy to state that it has restored me
to complete health.-I remain, yours
respectfully,
(Signed) John II. Lightfoot,
7G5 1y 3
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-09-23
A SKILFUL SURGICAL OPERATION

The American Ambassador at Vienna,
Mr.. Kasson, has lately forwarded TO his
Government an interesting account of
remarkable surgical operation lately
performed by Professor Billroth, of
Vienna, which, wonderful to tell, con
sisted in the removal of portion
Of the human stomach, involving
nearly one.third Cf the organ-and,
strange TO say, the patient recovered
the only successful operation of the
kind ever performed. The disease for
which this operation was performed
was cancer of the stomach attended with
the following symptoms The appetite
is quite poor. There is a peculiar indcs
cribable distress in the stomach, a feel
ing that has been described Us II faint
"dU g0nc' sensation II sticky slime col
lccts about the teeth, especially i'll the
morning, accompanied by an unpleasant
taste. Food fails to satisfy this peculiar
faint sensation but, on the contrary, IL
appears TO aggravate the feeling. The
eyes are sInken, tingcd with yellow; the
hands and feet become cold and sticky
cold pcrspiration. The sufferers feel
tired ali the time, and sleep does not
seem TO give rest. After time the pa.
ticnt becomes nervous and irritable,
gloomy, his mind filled with evil fore.
budings. When rising suddenly from
u rccumbcnt position there is Il dizziness,
whistling sensation, and he is obliged
to grasp something firm to keep from
falling. The bowels costive, the skin
dry and hot at times; the blood becom-
ing thick and stagnant, and does not
circulate properly. After Il time the
patient splits up food soon after eating,
sometimes in sour and fcrmentcd con.
dition, sometimes swedish to the taste.
Oftcntimes there is II palpitation of the
heart, and tie patient fears he may have
heart disease. Towards the last the
patient is unable to retain any food
whatever, as the opening in the mites.
tines becomes closed, or nearly so. AL.
though this disease is indeed alarming,
sufferers with the above named symp-
toms should not feel nervous, for nine
hundred and nnety.ninc cases out OF a
thousand have no cancer, but simply
dyspepsia, II disease easily removed If
treated in proper manner. The safest
and best remedy for the disease is
Seigel's Curative Syrup, a vegetable pre-
paration sold by all chemists and medi.
cine vendors throughout the world, and
by the proprietors, A. j. White (Limit-
cd), II, Farringdon.rood, London, E. c.
This Syrup strikes at the very founda-
ton of the disease, and drives 1t, root
and branch, out of the system.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-09-23
September Sth

September Sth, 1888.
Dear Sir,-I frd the sale of Scigel's
Syrup steadily increasing. All who have
tried it speak very highly of its medi-
cinal virtues: one customer describes it
as II "Godscnd to dyspcptic people" |
always recommend it with confidence.
Faithfully yours,
(Signcd) Vincent 4. Wills,
Chemist.dcntist, Mcrthyr Tydvll.
TO Mr.. a. j. White,
Seigeps Operating Pills arc the best
family physic that has ever been dis.
covered. They cleanse the bowels from
all irritating substances, and leave them
in healthy condition. They cure cos
tivcness.