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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19

The Brooklyn Eagle "Man About
Town says matching is in vogue for
everything imaginable, from peanut
to billiard table. 1t was particularly
rampant i'll Wall street. [ know a
broker who matches his bootblack
every afternoon whether he shall pay
him 10 cents or nothing, and it is no
unusual thing to see men of rnques-
toned wealth matching with each other
at the elevated railroad station to see
who shall pay the fares uptown. Fully
one half the men yell something about
head or tail" when they approach the
bar at Delmonico's, and it is common
sight uptown at night to see three or
fonr men in the Brunswick or Hoffman
house matching phlegmatacally for
81 clip for an hour at time. |
know an Office clerk IN q well-known
brokers' firm, who returned from Eng
land month ago, who has, by match
ing dollars, cleared over 5000 in three
weeks. Men match for luncheons, hats
canes and theatre tickets.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
Fred Douglass and His Bride.

I'CTeSS' IN lnUeT Ocedn
The other daY I met on the train Fred
Douglass md his bride making a pilgrimage
to Harper's Ferry. With them was we'll
known literary lady from Cam fridge, Mass,
who, under their guidance, was about to col
lect the material for an article on the his
toric little town. I had never seen Mr..
Douglass before, but there was no mistaking
that powerful swarthy face, with its bril-
liant eyes and magnificent bush of white
hair, which would make him a striking fig
ure anywhere.
"Yes," he said in answer to question, sit
is three years since I have been to Harper s
Ferry; the last time it was to deliver an adj
dress on Decoration day, with "John Brown"
as topic. The first face that caught my
eye in the front eow of the audience was that
of John Hunter, the prosecuting attorney in
the great Br own trial"
Later, when told him was going through
the south, he said rather mournfully: "Pre-
pare to find 1t quite fifty years behind the
times"
AS to Mrs. Douglass, on being introduced
to her l came to the conclusion that between
fulsome praise and absurd abuse she has
been more misrepresented than any white
woman I know. She is, I should think,
somewhere between 35 and 40 years of age,
rather tall, very slight and ladylike looking.
Her most attractive feature are her eyes,
which are large brown, and most intelligent.
Her travelling costume was we'll fitting and
becoming, and, to turn to something of more
Importance, her manner exceptionally mod
est and refined. Altogether, Mrs. Douglass
struck one as a women having the courage
of her convictions, but at the same time one
who must have felt most painfully the no.
toriety given to her marriage. She seems
very devoted to her husband and he very
fond of her.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
Father and Son.
nT n.oli, ot+7

I want my boy to rub against every
day life little while he is bov. II
be has the idea that hunters life is
full of juicy buffalo steaks and victories
over grizzlies, Pm going. to send him
into the woods for week to live on
woodchuck meat. carry cold in his
head and be jumped out of his booss the
first time an owl boots. If he asks for
money I'm going to give it him, but
| want to st down of a Satu day ght
aud see how he spent it, and show up
some OF his fool sh bargains. If he
wants to sail the bounding billow ]
know of lake captain who will take
him on trip from Detroit to Saginaw
and if he can't cure him in just one
voyage nobody else need try.
Sit down and talk to your boy as you
would to your brother. Don't bulldoze
because you happen to be his father
and have the bulge on him. Argue and
reason. Don't expect to make asser
tions and have him swallow them as
gospel truths unless you have backing.
Teach him what to avoid, and what te
cultivate, and turn him loose for while
If he seeks the good he has the right
instincts; if he runs after the bad, don't
walk him into the woodshed for {
pounding until you have asked your
self if he doesn't come naturally by tina
faiiino
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
A sultan,s New York Mail.

New York Cor. N. o. Times Democrat
The doing up of a mail for the sultan of
Turkey chances to come under my observa-
ton in the Office of the Turkish consul.
There were numerous letters, which were
none of my business; but Iackage of papers
seemed public property, and SO it is not
an improperly to tell about them. What
do you suppose they were2 You will exclude
religious papers from your guess, because
you know that his majesty isn't likely
to care for reading praise of Chris
tianity. 1t is impossible that you will
presume that the secular newspapers of
America do not contain much to interest
him, a potentate who knows little of this
free country. But, after all, you will never
hit upon the kind of ephemeral printing that
is collected by order and sent to the sui
tan. The bundle was composed wholly of il
lustrated police weeklies, of the kind ex-
cluded from several of the states, and the
publication of which here has bee. followed
by the Indictment of the owners. I was un-
able to learn whether it is altogether his own
taste which he consults in this selection of
American journalism, and gallantly refuse
to believe that the pictures are liked i'll his
haren
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
A Good Institution.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Anovel and salubrious institution has
been establ shed in New York city. Ii
is known as the New ork Labor Ex-
change and Lodge" It's manager is
Mr.. d. NJ. Davidson. We may gather
its purpose from the following "bill OF
fare"
Absolutely clean square" meals. -. 10 cents
Clothes cleaned by funigation. $3.50. cents
Hot soda or sulphur bath. .......... cents
Shave or hair cut. t................... . cents
Absolutely clean beds. ..............15c Is Cents
Fumigation and bath compulsory the first
night and every week to insure cleanliness.
It is intended to assist honest men
who have hard luck in finding employ
ment. 1t is said people cone there in
horrible condition of filth, but the
compulsory bath for their persons and
the sulphur fumigation of their cloth
ing is purifying process that restores
a sense of self-respect, and they start
out in the morning in search of work
with renewed spirit of manhood.
Although not a self-supporting enter
prise, yet Mr.. Davidson thinks it soon
will lie, but its bene6cent effects are
such that it has the sympathy and sup
port of the best PEOPLE in the city.
Davidson claims that it has already
saved hundreds of men from ruin.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
The Glory of an "Ancestor.n

Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
But day before yesterday they buried you,
then yesterday they buried your son, and to-
day his son was buried. and you are great,
great grandfather And, oh, to hear them
talk about you now. Your station in society
was only little lover than the angels; you
sat in the seat of the giants and judged the
city at the gates; you owned all this land,
from the creek here up to the top of the ridge
and six miles up the valley; you used to dine
with the president on Sundays: you would
have been knighted had you remained abroad;
you were as handsome as Apollo, and twice as
good Christian; yes, this is your portrait
"a fancy study, painted by an artist who
never saw YOU; there are fifteen children
named for you; see, dear, this is cane the
Queen presented to your great great grand
father and it has descended to you; never
forget, my child, that you are Gubbins, de-
scended from the great Jacob Gubbins, your
great great grandfather, who fell at the siege
of Babylon, l.. l.
All, my boy, you may only be corporal
now, five feet, two inches short, cross-eyed
and red haired, with a hare lip. bow legged
and wart on your crooked nose. But when
you get to be great great grandfather you
will be general, six feet five inches, and a
combination of Hercules, Adonis and Croesus.
Where is the beauty and glory of the spring
tima2
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
AForenoon,s Engagement.
New York Graphic. I


Oscar Wilde, among his various stories
told ia the United States of which he was
always the aesthetic hero, related that once,
while on visit to an English country house,
he was much annoyed by the pronounced
Philistinism of certain fellow guest, who
loudly stated that all artistic employment
was melancholy waste Of time.
"Well, Mr.. Wilde" said Oscars bugbear
one day at lunch, "and pray, how have you
been passing your mornings"
20! have been immensely busy" said
Oscar, with great gravity. al have spent my
whole time over the proof sheets of my book
of poems"
The Philistine with growl inquired the
result of that.
"Well, it was very important" said Oscar
IT took out comma"
"Indeed, returned the enemy of literature,
'is that ala"
Oscar, with a sweet smile, said; "By no
means; on mature reflection put back the
comma"
This was too much for the Philistine, who
took the next train to London.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
where Were Doll. First NADER
re- ngregationa s


No. ody knows, but they have been
used s.nce very early times, and by
children in all countries, savage as well
as civilized. The largest manufactures
for dolls are in England, and, as in
other trades. there is very minute di-
vi ion of labor. Some carve the heads
and the lodies, others paint the faces
and necks. others prepare legs and
arms, and still others cut out, sew, and
put on the dresses. The extent to
which dolls glass eyes are manufac-
tured is surprising. One firm in Bir-
mingham received single order for
over $1,000 wcrth. It is said that the
blue-eyed dolls are the favorites in
England and black-eyed ones on the
continent of Europe. Black dolls are
made of gntta-percha to export to thii
country, where they are in demand by
the colored people.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
some Fact. Concerning Australia,

Some Facts concerning AUSTRALIA.
ECincinuati Times-St Interview
Sydney is very handsome city in
deed. The structures are built of stone
and brick, the streets are wide and
clean. The houses are not made four
or fl stories high, for there is no oc-
casion for it. Ground is not so scarce
yet. 1t is sad that Port Jackson, its
harbor, is the most beautiful in the
world. In this harbor you will find
vessels from all nations; also men-of-
war Of most all empires 1t is the
center of export ng and importing. The
city itself is growing very rapidly be-
sides. Last September another medical
college was opened in Sydney, now
making two in Australia. The other
one is in Melbourne"
What do you mainly import and ex-
port
"We export great deal of wool,
mostly to , ngland, and also meats,
then copper, tin and other minerals,
skins and tallow, etc. We import,
however. from all countries. from
England we get cotton, silk, woolen
goods dry-goods, et,.; from Germany
we also get wooden goods. From
America we import rural implements,
machinery of all kinds, espe cially tools
formerly wheat from California. Dried
apples and canned goods are very
largely imported from your country.
Tobacco also come, from here. The
best cigars and tobacco in Australia
are American. You may believe me,
jokingly remarked DR.. Faithful, L
cannot get as good cigar here as in
Australia; especially the tobacco itself
is much better in Australia. For a
good American cigar we usually pay
there from II to 18 cents.
general?"
"N ell, the country is as large, sup
pose, as is the | nited States, with the
exception of Alaska. The main occu-
patton is grazing. The mines are
known as quartz and 'alluvial' The
latter are situated near rivers. Mining
is a very dangerous business. It is
something like gambling. Sometime
you may strike a good thing, and at
other times again you lose all you have
in ested. The wages are as high in
Australia as here. while the cost of liv-
ing is much cheaper. The population is
mostly composed of Fnglishmen, or oi
English descent, but the merchants are
of all nations. The climate is about the
same as n California. We have good
many schools and they are free for al
who cannot afford to pay. At preseni
school-houses are being built all over
We have new; papers, quite number
of them They are cheaper than il
this country. For instance. Sydney
Morning Herald, the be in the city, {
twelve-page paper, and much larger
than your papers, costs only cents
Cur street-cars are propelled by steam
and cost Il cents; but if you purcha
ticket, which you can get on ever,
corner, it will only cost you cents.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
CATERING FOR WOMEN.
New Wrinkles Adopted by ShreWa
@ Landlords of Swell Hotels.

New Wrinkles Adopted by Shrewd
@ Landlords of swell Hotels.
cincinnati Enquirer.l
The hotel keeper of to-day is artful. He
caters to woman for his popularity; and
wherein twenty years ago her comfort was a
secondary consideration, today it is stu
diously consulted and placed foremost Whyl
Because women travel both alone and with
their husbands much more than they did for
merly, and, quick to perceive any Difference
to their own tastes and convenience, they in
sist upon going to the same hotel until they
become familiar habitues 1t is amusing to
note the different lodges employed by the
managers of the great city caravansaries.
At the most exclusive hotels in Boston il
takes the shape of beautiful flowers
in vases and jars scattered about the
room, and in the latest numbers OF
Harper's The Century, and Atlantic
| Monthly ready to the hand. At a New
! York hotel, facing on Madison square, at
| lunch, when dessert is brought on, plate of
choice confectionery is put before you, and
while making use of finger bowl the deft
handed waiter whips out sheet of fresh
white paper, twists it with a turn of his
hand into cornncopia, empties the bonbons
into it, and presents it with an Oriental
obeisance for upstairs consumption. There
is really cleverness in this, for it has put q
stop without vulgar remonstrance to the
practice of women carting off to their rooms
plates loaded with fruit cakes, and candies
to nibble at between meals
At another hotel on Madison square, wher
a lady is seated in the dining room the waiter
has ready for her feet dainty tapestry
covered hassock. No one but short woman
who has spent a portion of her life in sitting
on the edges of chairs, dangling her feet in
the air, can fully appreciate this comfort. Al
this hotel a rose or few violets are alway:
found floating in the water Of the finger bow
and lend it pleasant fragrance.
The proprietor of a hotel on Union square
has availed himself of the suggestions of hi
lady guests in improving the table appurten.
ances. For example, instead of the cruet
full of black or white pepper. generally 81
adulteratsd that deluge is required to flavor
the food, is substituted tiny and pretty sill
yer mill filed with the whole pepper corns
Two or three turns of the handle and yol
realize the delightfulness of pepper in reality
In place Of the customary SALTS" as the,
are called, small bisque cupid has a sprinl
in MS back, which, if you press, causes fin
sprays of salt to fling from the points of hi
cunning arrow. The fruit at dessert is put OF
in the French fashion, dressed with flower
and leaves, few sufficing, and the effect i
most pleasing, as at this season there is
monumental stiffness about a stack o
| md ban
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
LIGHTHOUSE BIRD cATcHERs.
studies For the Ornithologfst-Dazel
and Frenzied Birds.
FPhiladelpbia Press.1

Philadelphia Press.]
"Run, wifei Go below OF they'll be
dashed to piecesio
The keeper of the Atlantic City lighthouse
was watching the hydraulic floating lamp in
the top of the tall tower one night lately, and
had just brushed speck from one Of the
plate glass sashes through which the intense
rays from the great fixed light that warns
off all floating ocean life from destruction,
were streaming, when, turning his head in
answer to strange Tapping and whirring
noise, he uttered the exclamation.
"What shall dos" asked the plucky little
woman, who is in the habit of keeping him
company during the early part Of his vigils.
go for the neti Drive them off Take
my overcoat with you and save all you camp
In the almost white heat glow of the lamp,
outside of whose radius everything was inn
penetrable blackness, spectacle was pre-
sented unequaled in any of Dore's grotesque
| imaginings Through the light, like notes
in Sunbeam, and thicker than mosquitoes,
hundreds of dazed and frenzied Birds of vari-
Gus sizes, were circling and gyrating per
forming a mad aerial dance round and
round the lantern.
| Mrs. Wolf came in directly. II can do
nothing with them,n she said; "there are
thousands and thousands of them" From
out the bulging pockets of the'overcoats birds
began to fly, now dashing at the windows as
If to get out again, and the three or four pal
pitating feathered mites she held in each
hand began fiuttering and struggling to get
free. They were of many hues, these south
ern travellers thus arrested and carried out of
their northward migratory course, although
in the fierce splendor of the illuminated arc
outside they had all appeared luminous and
white. There were robins, flickers, mud
hens, and a few rail birds, and one poor little
pee-wit. perching itself sociably on it rescu-
er's shoulder, uttered its peculiar note.
"Did you notice that scarlet tansiger in the
house as you came ups" asked Abraham
Wolf, the keeper, of his guest, the scribe.
"Well, that gorgeous fellow got here from
the West Indies somehow. picked him up
in the net one night during heavy thunder
storm The net, you see, is on the land side,
where all the birds come, and keeps them
from spattesing their blood on the glass. But
the wild ducks, they tear the nets to shreds.
We have had a few spring birds the last
week or two, but this is the first large flock.
Our house during the summer is nearly al
ways full of them. We leave them loose and
let them go where they want to. One night
my wife and I took over 300 birds alive and
let them go next morning. Rail birds, cat
birds, wood thrush, missel, thrush, thistle
birds and all the soft billed fiy-catchers are
the most numerous, but we get almost every
sort. / keep a record of their visits for the
American Ornithological society to help
throw light on migration. like to threw
light on anything, you know-it's in my
line"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
The Child Who Got Padded.
["Gath's Letter. .

Twenty-Five or thirty years ago, think, at
Marysville, CAL, which was then an estab-
lished, yet shanty- like, town, lived Judge
Stephen Field, and in his law office was
young fellow named George Gorham, who
boarded with plain family, and at the table
another guest was horid, Welsh-looking
stranger. In the same house, or the next
house, lived an Irishman named Murphy,
who had bright, interesting daughter, but
he was fond of padding her when any thing
went wrong with him. This padding had
been going on some time, and one day the
boarders held an indignation meeting and re-
solved to go next door and see old Murphy,
and tell him that if he did not stop correct
ing that child on every and all occasions
they would take him down to the stream and
duck him, etc. None of the guests were es-
pecially brave, but they put on very brave
front and held the indignation meeting.
Several years afterward one of those par
ties, Field, was called to be jlstice'1of the
supreme court. Still later by several years
the Republicans in California nominated
Gorham for governor, and they put on the
ticket with him the present United States
Senator Jones. When Jones met Gorham
he said: "Are you the little fellow from
Long Island who boarded at Marysville with
mea Don't you know me" "No, I don't
think do" "Why, Pm Jones, the Welsh
looking fellow who formed one of
the posse to go in and make old Murphy
stop keeping that child screaming. y
They shook hands warmly, and then Jones
said: "Gorham, do you know what has be-
come of that Mary Murphys" "No." "Why,
she is now Mrs. William Sharon"
My informant says that consequently
there met at Washington City Jones and
Sharon in the Unjted States senate, Gorham,
secretary of tho Senate, and Field on the su-
preme bench-all brought out of that board
ing-house Mary Murphy grew up to be ar
interesting woman, and the padding was
only temporarily disadvantageous
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
wanted to Write a cars.
Exchange.

"I want to write card. I'm from New
Port, KY, sir, and I may be exceedingly
green, but when a lot of giddy girls pin a
card on my back with keep off the grass
written on it in big letters, and go around
town all morning with it hanging to me, I
think the limit has been reached and the
matter becomes subject for newspaper
comment Therefore, desire to write a card,
and a strong one."
He backed out when informed that it
would cost him 25 cents a line.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
A Case Of Vertigo.
fno&.os& E.o Dnor,y, =

Judge, were you ever a victim to YER
tigof"
swell, didn't call it by that namo, Mr.
Rogers"
"Ive had it for ten years"
81 presume so. The sentence is for thirty
days"
"Great Scotsl But what have done!'
"Had the vertigo"
"And is that against the avs of Michi
gan?"
at is, unless you have it in a lumber-yard
where the police can't find you. Prisoner
fall back, and let Bjah check you for the
work-hOuSen
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How Circus lemonade I. Made.

Philadelphia Record.l
Signalling that it was all right, the circus
man lifted up the flap of the tent for the re-.
porter to enter, and quickly followed him in
side.
'This, he said, ais where all the circus
lemonade is made, and" glancing at his
watch, 'if you will wait few moments you
will see it done"
In the center of the tent stood large box,
and on one side two huge barrel-shaped
tanks each with e. spigote was placed on
strong rests somewhat similar to w-horse.
In short time three men entered and one
of them proceeded TO unlock the box, the
sides of which at once fell apart, dis
closing very compact and solid-looking
engine, the steam for which was conducted
through pipe leading to one of the boilers
in the cooking tent, while the other two
brought large tub, which they laid on the
ground and nearly filled with filtered water
drawn from one of the tanks. A steel lemon
squeezer was then attached to two iron arms
of the engine, and a very worn and dilapi-
dated-looking half of lemon placed in it,
the squeezer then being lowered into the tub
Steam was turned on, and the squeezer be-
gan its work, the lemon emitting the most
narrowing groans of agony from nd r the
water as the pressure became more and more
severe. Gradually these doleful sounds
ceased, and the liquid assumed an ambsr-like
hue, while faint odor of lemons filled the
air of the tent.
@That'll do; take it out, said he engineer
shutting off steam, and the dripping squeezer
was Withdrawn from the tub, the unhappy
half lemon being carefully dried in clean
| cloth and placed in small iron safe which
| was then locked. The liquid in the tub was
then stirred vigorously with an hermetically.
sealed glass bulb fastened to the end OF
stick, the bulb being filled with the best
white sugar. The man who stirred the mix
ture stopped at intervals TO taste it, and,
after remarking "there, guess it's sweet
enough, let's get u out Bill with the help
| of his companion carried the tub away.
"This machine is the only one in the
world" said the engineer proudly, as he
patted the engine in a loving way, @and its
secret couldn't be bought for $4,000. Why,
with this here machine l can make more
leNtonade with one lemon than any other
| ciEcus man can with 500 bushels of 'em. The
| pressure on that squeezer can be graduated
from one pound to 250,000 pounds to the
square inch, and one lemon will make lemon
| ade for six months at the rate of 100 gallons
1 dav