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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-08-21

The papers are telling ofa lawyer
who heard "Macbeth" rehearsed,
and was struck by the answer Of
the witches when asked what they
were doing: ga deed without a
nam,.'' "Why, that's void, ex.
claimed the lawyer, "I1l bust a deed;
without u name in any court IN
Ghristanaonf.S
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
The Mexican People.

IChaS. A. Dnna in ". Y. Sun.
The population of Mexico is commonly
estimated at nine or ten millions. No census
has been taken, but this estimate is probable
not exaggerated. The great mass of the
inhabitants are Indians, and in race and
habits they are similar to the Pueblo, Zuni,
and Navajo Indians of New Mexico and
Arizona. They are generally small in stature,
sober, honest, Industrious, temperate and
intelligent. A more valuable peasantry can
scarcely be found. Their virtues are their
own; their vices are of European admixture.
School education. has done little or nothing
for them; but of late years efforts have been
made to establish schools for their benefit.
They seem very capable of being instructed
and if, as we trust, there is bright future
for Mexico, it lies in the DEVELOPMENT and
education cf the native race.
The ruling classes in Mexico are mainly of
Spanish and mixed blood The late Pre-
sident Juarez was a pure Indian, but the
number of educated people with nothing
Spanish in their origin, must be very small
indeed. Among the civil and military func-
tionaries the Spanish element appears to
predominate; and the political usages of the
country are decidedly Spanish in their
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
Dynamite in Europe.


Dynamite, in fact, has put a tremend
Gus power in the hands of individuals,
and has reinforced all revolutionary and
seditious tendencies enormously, max
ing mere folly and fanaticism seriously
dangerous, and increasing the natural
bent of all lawless movements to gather
strength as they go on. And while a
philosophy which discerns the fatuity
of international quarrels has become
widely diffused, the international pre-
parations for future fighting Cat least in
Europe) have never been so extensive; !;
so that governments engaged largely in
celebrating machinery for wholesale
slaughter find it difficult to present the
usual front desirable to the people who
uphold the right of private warfare.
What measures can be adopted to
meet these important changes is as yet
undetermined. Governments are be-
wildered, and show their perplexity
only too plainly. And though the use
of dynamite for the furtherance of po-
litical or other ends may be shown to
be futile, it is evident that pure reason
will not control those who resort to it,
but that in this as in many other cases,
"the sight of means to do i'll deeds,
makes i'll deeds DONE" The ind;ca-
tions are that the new problem forced
upon the world by the fertility Of
modern invention will give it serious
trouble in the future.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
Dog Trains I'm idaho.

ICor. San Francisco Chronicle.
During the day of my arrival l saw a few
men sweating under the labor of pulling two
sacks of flour on a toboggan, and several dog
trains These dog trains are amusing, if not
admirable, as means of transporting freight.
They are made up of Indian dogs, collies,
mongrels, scrub yelpers. Newfoundlands, and
mastiffs, with now and then a bulldog. The
driver goes behind and urges them ON with
snowbals, now and then finding it necessary
to go forward and make lazy cur work up
to his collar by giving him the blight of a
packing-rope. Poor brute! Probably it is
his only bite of any kind for many hours I
asked one dog-team man what he fed to his
dogs, and he sad:
"Tallow and Indian meal"
"Are they trained?'
"No; we pick up all sorts of dogs and work
them in very soon by putting good dog on
the lead"
"Do they never balk2"
"No: dogs is the biggest fools in the world,
while they is the sagaciousest animals. Why,
when them dogs near about pull their toe
nails off comm up steep hill, they bark out
their delight when go up and pat them on
the head and call them good dog Horses
nor no other animals won't be fed on such
Ldnys why, oHeSc Jugs Will III IL ~ Uc
cussed for miles and then be tickled to death
at pat on the head.n
So he ratified on about the dogs The mer-
chants say the dog teams spoil goods like the
mischief They are all the time tipping over
and rolling them around. The latest method
of packing has been developed to-day. Two
fellows came into camp with two sticks and
| crosspiece, upon which were piled flour
sacks and bacon, the ends of the sticks rest
ing upon the shoulders of the carriers. The
| days of the toboggan are pretty much ended
There is snow enough, but it is not evenly
enough distributed to be of any use The
| toboggan has loomed up during this Ceul
d'Alene excitement, and has found its way
| into literature to remarkable extent. The
men who have been most intimate with il
will cuss the toboggan for the renal 'oi
| their lives
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
His First Onense.
tl'exus SlIFtlngs.1

Guilty or not gu1ty?" asked an
Austin justice of the peace of colored
culprit, who was accused of stealing a
whole line full Of linen.
DAT ar 'pends on you, jedge. Hits
for you to say
"You must either plead guilty or not
guilty. l have nothing to do with it. +"
"Yes, you has. If you is gwineter let
me off with muffin but reprimand, like
you did las time"
"Well, suppose l do let you off with
a reprimand, as did last time?"
"ln dat case I pleads guilty to six
shirts, foah pilly slips, and about a
dozen udder pieces"
"But Pm not going to let you off so
easy"
"Den, eff yer is gwineter sock it ter
me, I'll glib liar one OBJ de shirts, and
we will try this case by jury"
"All right. I'll enter plea of not
guilty"
This did not seem to suit the culprit
very well, for he spoke up:
"I say, boss, I don't keer to put de
court and de sheriff to trouble on my
account. Jess lemme off ag'in w.d a
repriman', as you did las week, on &C.
count oh hit being my fust offense, and
I'll plead guilty ter five chickens /
pulled las week, an hog / stole las
winter, an pair OBJ shoes from de
store, and a wood pile Use gwineter haul
off tonight"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23

though impressed with the ap-
parent hopelessness of her search,
resolved to accompany her to
some of the hotels in the
neighborhood, as he knew the locality
to be a great resort for railroad men.
He examined notebook after hotel
book for the name of Thomas, and at
last he found one which did contain
that signature After asking the clerk
some questions about Mr.. Thomas and
communicating the results to Mrs.
Thomas she never said word nor
moved muscle, but went up to the
desk and engaged room for the night.
Shaking hands with her friend, she
and her child went to the room she
had paid for and remained there
so quietly that the clerk had forgot
ten all about her until he was
reused at midnight and chased down
the corridor by woman whom he took
to be veritable maniac. The half
breed lady from the west had taken
the usual method of cosnarSag her hus-
band by arousing every man in the
house until she found the one she
wanted. In her simple way she had
argued that Mr.. Thomas, caught with
his day-clothes on, might run away
and leave her again, but that Mr..
Thomas, cornered in his night-clothes,
would be very different person to deal
with and she was right, for he neither
attempted to run away nor to deny
that he was the missing husband and
father.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
Sport at Washington.
chicago Times. !


Washington, it seems, can be made Just as
much a paradise for the sportsman as it is for
the statesman. The Potomac, forty miles
below Alexandria, is famous for its ducking
shores. From the middle of November till
the 1st of May canvasbacks, redheads. black
heads and whistlewings feed on the wild
cherry beds which line the shores. The great
forests of Stafford County, Va, are alive
in the fall with wild turkeys, and the bot.
tom lands along the river with quail. The
bass fishing of the upper Potomac can't be
excelled. The fiuest woodcock ground in the
world-the glades of Garrett county, Mary
land--is within a few hours ride. A fair
days sport is a dozen brace of as fine birds
as ever delighted the eye or tickled the pal
ate of an epicure. Blackwater, days ride
from Oakland, Nd, is the greatest trout
stream south of Maize.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
Learning Wisdom.
Detroit Free Press. ]

A Peasant who had Seven Daughters
wearing out sole leather for him went
to the Cave of Wise Old Dufer, and
besought his Advice as to how to bring
them up.
Marry them off as soon as Possible,
andyou can then Break up Housekeep-
ing and go Boarding among them"
After few Months the Father Re-
turned to the Cave and his phiz had
such Lonesome Expression that the
Wise Man cried out:
"Ah, you must follow my Advice to
learn Wisdom!
"The Trouble is that did follow it,
but instead of having seven places
to board around at I have seven Sons
in-law to board on me"
Moral-However. the Peasant had
the Wisdom.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
THE GERMANS OF PENNSYLVANIA
In the Magnificent Valleys--FamiIy
Names of the Old Stock.
["GathSn Letter J


In Pittsburg and its vicinity are about
81, 600 Irish, IL, ,00o English and 40, 900 native
Germans. Pennsylvania is the great prolific
hive of the well-mixed American races.
The natural increase of the German-deriyed
people i'll that state is enormous, and con-
sidering the number imported at compare
lively recent period, they have probably in
creased much faster than the New England
stock. The Pennsylvania Germans only be-
gan to arrive at the beginning of the
eighteenth century, and they continued to
come till the beginning of the Revolutionary
war. The New England races came in from
the first third of the seventeeth century. and
they had numerous centers of population and
interest at that time much superior to
Pennsylvania
The Germans were fortunate enough to get
into the magnificent valleys of Pennsylvania
and to understand the cultivation of the lime
stone, and so they have slowly advanced on
ward by natural lines, keeping down the val
ley into Maryland and Virginia and overflow
ing it into the lap of Maryland, and taking
up the smaller limestone valleys toward the
main Allegheny, and this old class of Ger
mans, unlike the more recent Germans, who
came in during the intestinal connections of
Germany, adhered to the southern side in the
war. Atzerodt, one Of the assassins with
Wilkes Booth, was of the old stock, and al
though he spoke broken English, was born in
this country. l think Imboden, one of che
Confederate generals, was also of this blood.
It is both refreshing and depressing to look
into these old German towns of Pennsylvania
and see how like Europeans they take up
their little pursuits, find meat for living in
the small range of their experience, and pre-
sent an extraordinary contrast to the more
energetic races we have. Among the names
you will recognize as characteristic of this
old stock are Heintzelman, Rittenhouse,
Bookwalter, Hartranft and Menhelenberg.
In the higher ranges of professional life and
in the highest honors it is seldom that old
Germans of unmixed blood are found.
think that not one of them has ever been on
the supreme bench, though Justice Miller
probably derives his name from an old Ger
man family. Abraham Lincoln is believed
to have had some of this stock in him. and if
so, it would account for his mingled steadi-
ness and humor. The acquisition of money
is very characteristic of this race, and,
though not many OF them become famous in
finance, they are generally well-to-do race.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
WORKING THE HOSPITALS.
scheme of a Burial Company's Ageui
Quick Sales and Small Profits.

(Chicago Herald "Meddler. y
A man with decided stoop in his
shoulders and pair of before-the-war
saddle-bags walked into the dice OF
the warden of the county hospital and
asked to see the captain. :" I on mean
the warden?" inquired the young man
at the desk.
The man that runs the whole b.ldin'
is what mean" answered the visitor.
II don't know what newfangled name
you may have for him."
you want to see Mr.. McGarigle,
then"
"If that's his name, that's the man"
In response to shrill whistle up
tin tube, which caused the visitor to
make tighter grip on his baggage,
Warden McG arigie came in. Is this
him p asked the visitor. "I want to see
you privately" The warden led the
way into his private Office and the
visitor began TO open the luggage.
Cost much to run a hospital?' 2 in.
quired the curiosity, who began to fish
in the bottom of the saddle-bags. The
warden grunted. Sick folks lots
trouble, amt they-e ever SICK SOS you
couldn't hold up your head? Ever
hang out of the bed and feel as eff you
wanted to tare up the floor and throw
it out of the Window"
you are very impudent. Now, what
are you driving at what have you got
in them saddle-bag
"Crsmpers; dead sure shot.
"Crampers? What is cramper p
@Tell you, now that We are ac-
quainted; I'm an agent for a new burial
company that's just been organized.
You know that competition is the life
of trade-quick sales and small profits
"a nimble shilling is bettern a slow
sixpence-three aces beats two pair.
See? Now, what we want is dead men.
in the business w're in. Mighty poor
show SO far. But here here's
cramper. We raise m; they are our
own, and are the lvance agents. You
take one of these crampers, size of this,
and cut it into slices the sicker the
man the smaller the slice. Man eats it,
thinks it's wafer-dies; there's
lemme see-three times four are twelve,
and three times three are nine, and one
you had left over makes ten, and four
that l forgot to count, that makes 106
don't it. Well, one of these cramp-
ers that We give way in Peory harvested
us 1906 think of that OF course, you
understand give you these cramp-
ers on condition that the company gets
to furnish the burial case. We thought
we'd work the hospitals frst-give you
fellows first show. This is the first
hospital I've been to in the city"
That's new name for it." laughed the
warden, that's cucumber. We cal
'em crampers; they do the business,
don't they? But see it's no use Of
wastin' time with you. You look to me
like a man who didn't believe in dyin'-
whi, way dol get out?"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
LITTLE GIFFIN.

EDr Frank TcknorI
Out of the focal and foremost fire,
Out of the hospitals walls as dire;
Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene,
Eighteenth battle and he sixteenD
Specter. such as you seldom see,
Little Gifiin of Tennessee.
"Take him and welcome" the surgeons said; |;
Little the doctor can help the deadp
So we took him, and brought him where
The balm was sweet in the summer air,
And we laid him down on wholesome bed
Utter Lazarus, heel to headl
We watched the struggle with bated breath
Skeleton boy against skeleton Death.
Months or torture, how many suchi
Weary weeks OF the stick and crutch.
And still a CLINT Of the steel-blue eye
Told OF a spirit that would not die.
And A. did not; nay more, in Deaths despite
The crippled skeleton learned to write:
Dear Mother at first, of course, and then
"Dear Captain, /" inquiring about the men.
Captain answer. aOf eighty-five
Giffin and / are left alive"
Word Of gloom from the war one day:
Johnston is pressed at the front" they say.
Little Giffin was up and away;
A tear-his fiIst-as he bade goodbye
Dimmed the CLINT of his steel-blue eye
"Ill write, if sparedF' There was news OF
the fight,
But none Of Giffin- he did not write.
I sometimes fancy that were I King
OF the princely Knights of the Golden Ring,
And the tender legend that trembles here,
/ would give the best on his bended knee,
The whtest soul of my chivalry,
For Little Giffin of TENNESSEE
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
The Unconscious Flirt.

w. NJ. Donnelly IN texas SiIGlngS.
The unconscious firt is frank, gen.
erous. warm hearted girl; young, i'm
pulsive, and with little knowledge OF
the world. If she likes you. she let's
you see it very plainly. She does not
love you, nor has it ever entered her
head to marry you. You are man of
the world, and at once, not understand
ing the girls simple nature, you con-
clude that she has either fallen in love
with you, or is most consummate fiirt.
So she is fiirt, but one of the uncon-
scious kind.
Another unconscious firt is the girl
who wants to convert you. She is sc
earnest, so pleading; her soft blue eyes
look SO tenderly into yours, as she lays
her hand upon your arm and urges her
cause, that, if your heart is free, it is in
serious danger,
A third variety of the unconscious
firt is she who bushes and looks down
when she meets you. She draws her
hand from yours hurriedly. Her voice
falters when she speaks to you, and if
left alone with you by any chance, she
makes some excuse to get away. And
yet you sometimes catch tender ex-
preston in her eyes as she looks at you,
that proves it is not dislike that causes
avoidance. You draw your own con-
clusions, and are perhaps led to love
the girl unawares. Then comes a pro-
pqsal, followed by refusal, bitterness of
heart, and disappointment; and for ever
after you regard the girl as firt
The simple fact was, she had been told,
or in some was led to believe, that you
were in love with her. She liked you
but would not marry you. and hence
her avoidance and the pity you mistook
for love.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
Last stage of Royhood.

The Providence Journal says of the
high opinion held of himself by the
boy who has reached 16, the last stage of
boyhood: There is no question of which
he has not confident and all-dispos-
ing Judgment. Why, if we were all 16,
there would be no need of congress nor
of the supreme bench. We should each
know it all. In religion his opinions
are equally deci i've. But do not UNDER
stand me, my friends, that in making
fun of the boy, at this or any other
period of his life, mean to deprecate
or discourage his aspirations. Ear
from it. would not give penny for
the boy of 16 who did not try to be a
man."
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
kissing q Senorisa.
Perral Mex Letter.

"Senorita, kiss your feet, diosi"
This is the parting salute contained in
note just finished to a young Mexican
friend. Of course I do not intend to
kiss her feet, but it is the proper caper
here, and I have conformed to it. Why
should kiss Zenobia's feet, even meta
phorically? True, ] would, and perhaps
have, kissed her hand and lips, her fore
head, cheeks, and probably the back of
her neck. but, although Zenobia is a
sweet girl, / must be excused from os-
culatory contact with her pretty foot,
dressed in high-heeled and arched-
instepped gaiter. Like all the Mexican
girls, she is rather slouchy about her
hosiery, and / happened once to have
observed that her white stockings were
not of the very cleanest, and hung in
folds over the tops of her CATERS in
stead of being braced up. The appear
ance reminded me of collapsed con-
certina, and the dear girl fell 30 per
cent. In my esteem.
By the way, the senoritas have but
faint idea of kissing the art which SO
few possess the capacity of extracting
the most available eestasy-and / one
day offered to show dark-eyed, raven
haired young lady how los Americanos
performed the act. She laughingly
agreed-it is unnecessary for me to say
that the male members and duenna
were out of the way-and / advanced
upon her; my left arm .encircled her
waist, extending over the right shoulder
downward; my right arm, bent at the
elbow, afforded my hand an oppor-
tunity of accumulating her dimpled
chin. Gently holding back her head
and throwing alook, or rather rapid
series of looks of unutterab1e nothings
into my eyes, I gazed clean through
hers for a moment, and then, with q
long g-drawn breath tapped her lips. It
was a revelation to her; she quiyered
visibly, but, instead of returning my
kiss, she broke away from my embrace
and ran off to lock herself up, fright
ened, pleased, but astounded. ] was
satisfied that I had done myself and
country proud, although, to be candid,
it was merely mechanical operation
with me, done for the sake of effect, as
| did not really care for the girl. I
think she remained in maiden medita-
tion for two days, but at last saw her,
and she told me. with deep blush, that
she W, shed she had been born an
American, to be kis1 ed like that.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
Devotee. Buried Alive in India.
I'M. D. Conway's letter.

III. ~. SOn"df 6CbtCIs1
At last approached village, whose
name was given to me as Daharwanga.
It must be four or five miles from ALA
habad. Having passed through it I
came to sort of common, where !
got out of my carriage and walked. I
had not mo, ed far before came upon
a human head lying in my path on
the ground. Starting back / perceived
that this painted and ashen head,
though its eyes were closed. belonged
to living man, the rest of his body
being buried in the earth. A small
tent had been raised over another head
farther on to keep the sun from beating
upon him. Scenes like these began to
multiply. I came upon several naked
bodies, apparently decapitated, their
heads being buried and the gravel
smoothed fat over them. There were
number of children in this situation,
stretching out their hands and eyi-
dently expecting gifts. So Ii tie re-
spect, however, dill their young COM
panions feel for those infant devotees
that they sometimes put bits of tin or
flint stones in the hands, which were
promptly thrown away.
came to point where young
woman was just burying child ap-
parently her own-up to the neck.
She indicated to me her expectation of
pice for that performance, which, how
ever, she did not get perceived that
I was in some comparatively unil-
lumined spot which supplied habitat
for the fatal self-burials once so fre-
quent in India. The feeling stole over
me gradually that in this uncanny
Daharwanga these half-buried children
might, not 50 long ago, have been
really decapitatel, even if aseyere vig-
lance might not discover some horror
of the same kind now.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
Europe's slow s'Pauper Labor.
TSt. Louis Republican


A man will accomplish twice as much
in an average lifetime, in this country, as
anywhere in the Old World and this
is true of men in all positions, the
lawyer in his Office, the physician in his
chaise, the mechanic in his shop, and
the operative in the mill.
An American workingman who re-
Gently returned to Pittsburg from q
visit to England expresses his surprise
at the comparatively small amount of
work done by laborers in that country.
They move slowly and leisurely, they
take their time about everything and
seem never in hurry-all in striking
contrast with the fierce, unsparing
vehemence ith which men pursue their
vocations in this country. There is no
doubt that Americans oyerdo them
selves. They accomplish as much in
side of so years of age as Europeans ac-
complish inside of 70; and if life were
measured by the amount OF work done,
our people are the longest lived in the
world. One reason for this is the i'm
mense amount OF work to be done in
this country, and the comparatively
small number of skilled persons to
do it.