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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09

locks on his head and the pointed gray
Whiskers on his chin is also q self
made man. That is Mr.. George Pull
man. I have known him ever since he
left the little village of Albion, in this
state, to seek his fortune After his
fathers death young George was left
with large and penniless family on
his hands. His father had earned liv-
ing raising and moving houses. George
took the few traps that the old man had
used and started west with them. The
next heard of him he was in Chicago
rapidly accumulating wealth moving
buildings there. I believe he was the
first man to undertake to move q brick
building in that city. How much is he
worth now? That cannot tell you,
and guess he does not know himself.
He is is certainly entitled to be called q
millionaire. All, here he comes, Gen.
Horace Porter, the vice president of
Mr.. Pullman's company. What's that?
Well, yes, he does look little like the
portraits of Louis Napoleon. but the re-
semblai CO is mainly caused by his way
of wearing his mustache and goatee.
The general lunches here regularly and
is generally the centre of jolly party.
He is full of fun, and tells story with
rare effect.
s'How do you do, colonel; are you
receiving proper attention" ?" This
came in genial tones from neatly at
tired and very energetic little man, and
without waiting for an answer, he con-
tinued "We have been overrun with
patrons to-day and have got to pre-
pare for the Twilight club, which dimes
here one evening each week. Perhaps
you have heard of the Twilfghts
There are fifty or sixty members, and
they have jolly meetings. Judge
Albion Tourgee is member. I have
just been making cup of coffee for Mr..
Samuel Sloan, who cares but little
what he eats as long as it is wholesome
and there is enough of it. There is a
party of ladies in the corner room, and
am going to give them dainty lunch.
When Sir Henry Tyler, president of the
Grand Trunk railroad, was up here he
was very much surprised to see so many
aristocratic ladies in a down town
restaurant The wives and daughters
of Wall street men, think, rather like
the novelty of coming down here once
in a while. Well, there is Mr.. Austin
Corbin waiting patiently for somebody
to serve him, and must attend to busi-
ness. Good-day gentlemen.
The colonel nodded pleasantly, and
as he lit cigar he said: "That is
d'Orville, the proprietor. He is a
clever fellow"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
"DlME NOVEL" AsYLuMS
A New Bcnevolent institution for the
Reformation OF Romantic Boys and
Girls.

Detroit Free Pressl
The various benevolent institutions
of the country are gradually filing mp
with young women who run away from
home to escape what they regard as the
ill-treatment of their parents. A South
Caroline girl has just been discovered
in 8 Georgia deaf and dumb asylum.
Like Miss Churchill, of ST. Louis, she
tried service In hotel, but abandoned
it for the institute. When charged with
reading too many dime novels she did
not deny it, but laughingly admitted
that she liked adventure.
These recurring vagrancies of dis
contented girls, and the frequent vaga-
bondage of boys. who are the victims
of the dime novel and the .spclice
papers," suggest the propriety of erect
ing asylums devoted especially to the
cure of dime novelism and the restraint
of its unfortunate devotees. There are
hospitals or asylums for nearly every
form of physical trouble and mental
disease--for lunacy, idiocy, deafness,
blindness, imbecility, nervousness
there are water-cures, movement cures
and electromagnetic cures. Why not
institutions for the cure of vagrancy
and Jesse Jamesism? Real Indians and
cowboys, frontier settlers, miners and
others into whose tender mercies
these romantic boys fall, should be en-
ployed under proper restraints, short of
killing the patients, to teach them the
realities of life on the plains.
| For the girls there should be an as
sortment of false counts and barons
| dashing young fellows, drunk half the
time, and bent on living off of their
| wives earnings; men with other wives
elsewhere, and ready to steal the last
cent of their latest victim. run away
with it and abandon her. There should
be also some of the thirty three German
barons who married American girls and
| whose history United States Consul
Potter, of Cresfeld, has just been in
vestigating, with the result OF finding
that not one OF these marriages turned
out happily; that the German mobiles
have beaten their American wives; even
made them black their boots and do
other menial services; left them penni-
less and helpless, or extorted money
| from their relatives on promise of per-
m1tting them to get divorce.
In scores of ways boys and girls who
leave comfortable homes with unsollnd
and romantic ideas of lawless and ir-
regular life might be taught the delusion
of it, by experiments only, which would
not go 30 far as to be final and irretriev-
able, as is too often the case when chill
dren voluntarily abandon their homes
and take missteps which cannot be re-
1 tracad
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
Won't Learn the English Language
lCroffut in Chicago Tribune

lSTOnuI III SuicdSO ITlDuu0.
Is it not odd, by the way, that Pere
Hyacinthe, the distinguished Protestant
convert, does not understand English,
and will not learn it? 1t is so with
most French people. They are the
most provincial people under the sun.
I attended one of Victor Hugo's recep-
tions in Paris last summer, with score
or more of other Americans, and found
that the eminent poet and scholar could
not speak English. He had lived in
Great Britain for fifteen or twenty
years, and never learned ten words OF
the language of the nation that was
giving him an exiles shelter. He can
say "Howdo?" and "Good-by," and
almost nothing else.
And here is Mr.. Loyson, excommuni-
Gated from the church of the Latin ma
tions, yet he does not know ten words
of English after living in England and
America for years content to address
American audiences in an alien Ian
guage, thus diminishing his influence
and belittling his work
The Germans are not so self-compla-
cent. How was it that Kossuth learned
the English language in six months SO
as to rival Webster and Everett in ele.
CANT and eloquent speech? Nine. Lem.
brich told me a month ago, "Yes, ]
speak English. I first began the study
of English three months ago. But ]
learn languages very readily-almost
intinctiyely.''
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
Hot water. Not WARM. for Medical
Popular Science News. ]

lTOpuldT 6clouC9 NoWs.J
The therapeutical uses of hot water
may be varied; but it would seem that
It's beneficial employment is pretty well
established in those diseases arising
from unhealthy alimentation. In these
affections, the stomach and bowels be-
come distended and obstructed by the abb
normal acetic, butyric, hydrosulphuric,
Tactic, and saccharic acid lamentations !;
and the idea is to wash away these Of
tending matters, and thus aid In intro
ducing normal functional action. Cold
water is in most cases inadmissible, as
it is apt to produce distress in sensitive
stomaehs, as has been stated in former
article. Hot water is well borne In most
cases; but it must not be lukewarm, it
must be hot. And here is distinction
it is well to observe.
Tepid water, if taken in considerable
quantities, will sometimes produce vom-
iting; but, If the water be raised to q
temperature of from 100 Deg. to 100
Deg. Fahr., it produces downward
movements of the bowels, instead of up
ward. Tea as drunk by dyspeptic tea
drinkers is preferred at temperature
of about 120 Deg Fahr., and this de-
coction at this temperature affords
great relief to persons of weak stomachs.
The demand by dyspeptics for tea 'hot
and weak" is founded on observation
that in this form it affords genuine re-
lief. If the tea-leaves were left out
altogether, the agreeable relief would
follow from the use of the hot water
with little milk and sugar added. By
hot water is meant water which is so
warm that it can only be slipped slowly,
and not poured into the stomach as q
draught. In the absence of thermom-
eter, the proper temperature may be
determined by the. effects upon the
tongue and fauces; it must not be
"scalding hot" but so warm as to be
swallowed without inconvenience or
danger.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
Dying to Finish q nook.

IL
And I conclude that the good Dumas
has lost none of his freshness since the
time, alasl rather long, when he was
near causing the death OF one of our
schoolfellows. He was Spanish boy,
q boarder at Massin's. He had lost his
appetite, ceased to sleep, and was
slowly wasting away, Like one suffering
from home-sickness. Sarcey, who was
in his class, and who had struck mp q
friendship with him, said to him one
day: You want to see your mother ?"
no." replied the child, "she is dead.
"Your father 7" mo, he would beat
me" sWhy, then, do you want so
much to go back to Spain r. 70 I'm
ish q book ] began during the holi-
days. what was it called p Los
Tres Mosqueteros. /" The poor boy,
gentlemen, was home sick for The
Three Musketeers.v He was easily
cured.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
Decay OF the English Watch Trade.
London Letter,

t1%JuIOu lICutGTs
Cheapness has gained the day. The
Swiss and the American can beat the
Englishman in price and do. They
turn out as good watch as most peo-
pie care for, at cost which puts Eng
lish competition nowhere. The Ameri-
can learned the secret of organization
and the use OF machinery, which the
English cannot or will not learn. Here
things go on much as they did 100 years
ago, save that the movements of great
part OF the cheaper English watches are
simply imported from abroad. A dozen
trades contribute to the making of a
single watch, carried on under different
roofs by separate firms, often at long
distance from each other.
In America, as you know, they have
been combined, and to this combina-
tion with the added advantage of ma
chinery and the mathematically accu-
rate production OF precisely similar
parts of innumerable watches, is due
the surprising fact that single Amer.
can firm now turns out annually as
many watches as all the English makers
together-200, 900. The Swiss are said
to make the enormous number of $780,
900. France produces over million
80 per cent of them from Besancon. So
that, if we leave England behind we
are very far indeed from driving Switz-
erland and France out of the worlds s
market, as sanguine Americans not
many years ago predicted we soon
would. The Swiss are said to make
now million watches more annually
than they did five years ago. The
French business has grown ten fold
within thirty years. But the English
are not idle, and, on the whole, not de-
spondent, although The Times thinks
watch making, as q great industry
doomed.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09

Herr Schlumberger recommended
that bottle of ammonia should be
placed in each barrel of petroleum. On
ignition, by accident or otherwise, the
bottle would break, and the ammoni-
acaI vapors would at once extinguish
the fire. DR.. Pietra Santa proposes to
apply this method to collieries liable to
fire-damp. Tanks filed with ammonia
would, il is said, stop tie combustion,
as it could not continue in an ammoni-
acal atmosphere.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
The s.. Hopper and the Amt.


A Grasshopper, meeting an Ant when
the biting wind of November was mas
ticating its way over the Plain, humbly
requested Pecuniary assistance until
next Saturday.
@Why should share my Store with
you?" inquired the Ant; "Here I have
passed the entire Summer in laying up
Roots and Grain, and collecting Bad
Debts, and making deposits in the Saw
ings Bank. What. may ask, have you
been doing during the Heated Sum-
mer?"
@May it please you," responded the
Grasshopper, 9 have been dancing"
very well, . said the Ant; NOW You
may sing"
fright you arel" exclaimed the
Grasshopper: it is Big scheme"
And he at once went and got an En-
gagement to sing in Grand Opera at
Five Thousand Dollars night.
The Moral of this Fable teaches us
that Flooding Industry is not only a
Bore, but occasionally gets Left.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
A Very Hot Country.
Exchange.

A recent official report says that the
mercury in South Australia often rises
in summer to lis degrees in the shade,
and this has been exceeded on several
occasions. In January. 1862. it reached
Lie degrees. and in January, 1882, it
was $50 degrees-only 80 degrees be-
low boiling in the sun.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
A Notable difference.
Progress

It is scarcely too much to say that
there never was a girl who ran away,
and who, within week at farthest, did
not regret her course. Miserable as
may have been her former surroundings,
it is q thousand chances to one that she
proves again the old theory of the fry
ing pan and the fire. Boys. have run
away and become powerful and rich,
holding their heads high among their
fellows; but I never heard that to occur
with a runaway girl.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
Theory and Practice.

A graceful writer one day wrote. 3
beautiful and sublime article showing
how easy twas to die. But when the
cholera morbus struck him that night
he had four doctors called in, and the
druggist on the corner took his family
on an excursion with the money paid
for the heautiful article.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
The Mystery solved at Last.
[Exchange. /

Ethel" said the teacher, whom do
the cents say supported the world
on b s shoulders ?" Atlas, sir" you're
quite right" said the teacher. ATLAS
supported the world. Now who sup
ported Atlas?' 81 suppose, said Ethel,
softly, II suppose he married rich
wife"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09

The Louisville Post editorially as
serts that '.to be a Kentucky horse is as
dignified as in olden times was to be a
Roman citizen"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
What "Dime Museum" CurIOsities
cost.
[Chica2o Herald.

Are they expensive? Yes, indeed.
Curiosities think good deal of the al
mighty dollar. We pay Herr Hagg
$3.50 week. his hotel bill, and provide
an interpreter; Mrs. Tom Thumb and
her party cost me $3.50 week; our
Botoindos are worth 5000; the Nubians
we now have here cost us 5000 week
and hotel bills; Tripp and Bowen name
5000 as their figure when Mile. Chris
tine was here she cost us $598 for her
weeks stay; giants are worth $50,
but Bates and Swan cost us $500 q
week; good dwarfs are scarce now, and
Major Atom and Admiral Dot, the two
best known little people outside of Mrs.
Thumb, are worth $3.50 week; large
fat people command about $75 week.
and so do living skeletons; Chang and
Che-nah, the Chinese giant and dwarf,
have formed partnership at $400
week; ordinary albinos cost $40 o
week, but those with red eyes come q
little higher; female snake -charmers
bring $400 and have q strange fascina-
ton for every one: Aztecs are worth
$3.50 and Zulus the same, so that you
see it costs quite sum to run dime
museum.
How Japanese smokes.
lBoston Transcript.
The interior of the bowl of Japan
ese tobacco pipe is about tho size of a
pea A little pellet of tobacco as big
as pea is put into the pipe, the fire
applied, one Whit of smoker
more than two-is drawn into the lungs
and expelled through the nostrils, and
fnll satisfaction is gained. The prepa-
ration and lighting of the pipe is leis-
urelv done 10 load and light this pipe
takes Japanese ten minutes; to smoke,
two seconds. They smoke often, but
an average American college student
would use as much tobacco In one day
as a Japanese student would in two
weeks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-26
The Railroads.

Chicago, 25. = The general
passenger agents of lines in.
terested in business between
Chicago and Kansas City met
to-day, for the purpose Of ad-
jnsting rates east from the latter
city, which has been somewhat de-
moralized since the trouble between
the sesboard trunk lines and the
Missouri river lines, growing out of
payments of commissions by the
latter at New York on business to
the Missouri river. Representatives
of the Bari ngton road are not will.
ing to enter INTO any temporary ar.
rangement, but insisted On soil :,
substantial agresme ct to secure the
maintenance Of rates westbound
from Chicago, as well as eastboahd
from Kansas City. Withou reach
ing conclusion, adjourned till the
31st inst, when it is thought such
an agreement will Do reached.
The Burlington announced its
ultimatum to the other railway
managers this afternoon, upon the
proposition to pool trains on Mis-.
souri, business, aud upon its rejec.
ton quilted the conference, and the
session was adjourned.
Ottawa, Is The papers in con.
nection with the recent guarantee
of Canadian Pacific railway stock
land before Parliament, include a
communication from President Ste
pheR, stating that the capital Of the
company has been fixed at slice 600.
geo, of which S5o,OoO,0O is already
Issued The compsuy needed more
money to prosecute the work, but
owing to the state of the money
market and public feeling, found it
to dispose OF a further
amount of stock. The proposed
company should deposit with the
government securities sufficient to
pay the semi annual dividend OF 3
per cent. for ten years.
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Inspection service, from entering
pilot houses while boats are under
way.
Fehrenba' Oh, inspector of the It'll
district, proposed the following
amendment to rule thirteen. relating
to life boats and river steamers: Pas.
sengers on steamers navigating
rivers must be supplied, in addition
TO the boat required by the first
paragraph Of this rule, lin proportion
to tonnage, with boats as follows:
Steamers between 100 and 300 tons
burden, one boat; between 800 and
600, two boats; 900 and 900, three
boats; 900 and !, 200, four boats; l.
zoo tons and upwards five boats.
Provided, no steamer embraced in
the rule shall be required 10 have
more life boats or greater capacity
than sufficient to carry the passen.
gers allowed by the certificate Of in
spectors, including the crew.
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HOUSE..
Friday, Jan. 25th, 2 pm.
TWELFTH DAY,


House called to order at 2 O'Clock
| p m.
A message was received and read
from the Council, giving notice of
concurrence in q re- Olution of the
House, in reference to petitions for
change Of names.
Mr.. Farnsworth presented a petit
ton from citizens Of Piute County.
asking aE act Incorporating the
town :ef Koosharan. Referred to
committee on municipal corpora
tions and towns.
Mr.. Taylor presented q report
from the committee on claims and
public accounts, recommending
that the petition of Ben Baehman
be referred back for approval of the
Territorial Auditor. On mot1Ln so
ordered.
Mr.. Boyden introduced 81. F. No.
Il, q bill fer an act defining the
duties and liabilities of ranchers.
Referred to the committee on agri
culture.
Mr.. Boyden introduced 81. F.No
800 1AOA GIL all W HDCOuIdQ6
the mining, milling and smelling
or other reduction of ores in Utah
Read and referred to the com nittee
on mines and mining AID 25O copies
ordered printed.
a message was received from the
Council giving notice of adoption OF
Z. K. No. z, and amending CIR. No,
on com pilation and revision. and
asking the House to concur. On |
motion of Mr.. Clark the House COZ
CURED.
On motion of Mr.. Dhsenberry a |
recess was. taken for three fourths
Of an hour.
On calling to order a message
from the Council was read giving
notice OF the passage of H. F. No.10,
changing the name of John NJ.
to John M. Hurst.
Mr.. Llewellyn was granted leave
OF absence till Tuesday next. /
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hers and as vigorously reasserted bv
Ray. It was not till the removal OF
Mcclellan was known to be deter
mined on that the charges were pre.
feTred.
Miller, of P.nnssIvan'a, wanted
to know by what authority Raw
asserted that Pore poisoned the
mind OF the President.
Ray replied that he could prove
it beyond controversy from the re,
cords Of Congress and the files of
Pope's report.
Before the conclusion of RAYS
speech the committee rose.
The Senate bill p ,ssed, providing
for the removal of the remains of
the late General Ord from Havana
to Washington.
The Speaker laid before the House
the response of the Secretary of the
Navy to resolution, stating that
he has no knowledge Of any service
rendered by American officers or
men to the British navy at the
Commandment of Alexandra. Re.
ferred. Also a letter from the Post.
master-General in response to the
House resOlu ton in regard to ex
penditures in the Star Route cases.
requesting the names Of persons in.
debted to the government and wit,
nesses on whom the government ex-
pected to rely for the prosecution of
such persons. Referred.
The Postmaster-General informed
the House that an itemized list Of
expenditures is being prepared, but
it is detrimental to the pnbl;c inter-
est to give the names Of persons in
debted to the government and its
proposed witnesses.
Adjourned.
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HOUSE..

Washington. D. c., 25.-The
morning hour was dispensed
with, and the House went into com.
mittee Of the whole, Springer in the
chair, on the Fitz John Porter bill.
Taylor, Of Ohio, took the door and
concluded his speech began on Sa-
turdsy on the Fitz John Porter bill.
He denied the statement that the
bill was based fupon a resolution In.
troduced by Garfield.
Bsyne, q member of the commits
tee on military affairs, epoke in cup.
port of the bill, holding that the
question uld not be made a polit-
zeal one. He held that Porter exer-
cised wise discretion in disobeyinz
Pope's order. While quoting from
General Longstreet's testimony,
Bavne was int rrrupted BY Herbert,
who said he belonged to Long
streets corps, Wilcox's division,
and was deployed in line before
noon and never knew the reason
for delay in being pushed into
the fight till be read the testimony
IN this case. He does not believe
Porter a traitor to his cause. Ii he
did he would be the ve7y last man
to excuse him.
The committee rose informally to
permit the Spesser 10 appoint a
committee On the Greeley bill.
The com uittee resumed its seq
sion and Keifer spoke in opposition
to the bill and defended the mem.
berS of the court marital from asper-
1ion for their verdict. saying they
were the psers, and more than peers
of the board of review. He reviewed
The case, quoting from dispatches
ana Letters to show that Porter was
1isloyal to Pope, became Of his
loyalty to Mcclellan.
nay, OF New York, supported the
Dill. asserting that the charges were
loC preferred against Porter till long
sIter the alleged disode Hence OF
'rders. This statement was vigor-I
'usiy c ntToverted by some mem
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Neither mental nor physical labor
cen be accomplished satisfactorily
unless the system is in order. When
YOU feel tired, lapguid, wearled
without exertion, the mind slow to
act, and requiring great mental
effort, you can rest assured that
your liver is not acting properly,
and that nature requires assistance
to help throw off impurities. There
is no remedy that will accomplish
this so mildly and yet efectually as
"Prickly Ash BitterS." A trial will
satisfy you Of its merits.