The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-10-21
MAN ABOUT TOWN.

Seldom indeed are large mountain towns composed o.
= better satisfied set than Idaho. Fortune may have
drowned on u.s. and the fire has snged us raw, but still
we who are left are content and somewhat grateful
While the trader ties up ribbons sugar, the arch
tect studies over his geometrica propositions, and the
professional Younger imbbes bis allowance OF regular
whisky; let us consult the future
While the carpenter is driving his spikes, the miner
digging the underpinning from houses the black
smith toiling over white heat res etus try and
study ND some plan to get the best of the food of an
silent" which will pour III upon again next spring.
While our lawyers and doctors search carefully every
alley and pulch for patients and clients and thecapalists
dwell long on the contemplative cost of quartz MILL
fast freight line us not forget the trap in which to
ensnare the first discomfort WHO returns
While our politicians wrange and weep over the poor
Niger count his prospective ballots let US endeaVor
to crack the she'll of the golden egg to dive into the u
ture surroundings and pluck forth Incentives to
the study of ingenuity and usefulness.
Gold is the handspring and silver the balance wheel OF
our machine s,Eestward' the STAR of our empire
much further very conveniently travel and this
presents subject the study OF winch may possibly epen
new fields for exploration, rebound to public good anl
our future greatness
In the working of placer mines the spirit of invention
lies dormant. Hydraulics sluices rockers give not way
to anything better stripping the ground is not
as yet aided by any machinery to lessen human toll but
the time may when these huge banks of dirt which
single shovel-fuI will melt before the Ingenuity OF mI
like snow before chinook wind
Ways and me;lns been superinduced by ne
ceSsity Whenever tbOfing will fully realize that
within their own lies grand deSueratum that
they must not depend the professions and other voc
lions to invent great Improvements, then we can hope
Tor more general prosperity
Our intelligent politician doesn't know how long time
1t requires shovel ton of gravel cord of dirt
doctors doesn't pretend to explain what Kind OF oil Is best
adapted togunlocks, our lawyers to know whether
square inches Consequently it dcv0Ves upon the miner
to give full sway to his inventive faculties if he would
benefit his class. He need not lay down the shovel
to enable him think; brain aad muscle Work to
gether; reason control thoughts and bring them in
70 the desired channel is the study Of what we have
read that expands the intellect hen men snail study
cause and effect instead of depending entirely upon the
discoveries OF the past the pages OF their hidden know
ledge will be opened
The bill at the upper end OF halua street. tells That
It IS no more expensive than frame building and fan
durable and comfortabe and that the white bedrock
substance found in the creek is good substitute for
inc.
We should be pleased to see Mrs. Gezler the boards
gam with good little company; and yet have flick
ring hope that the winters will be inter-
uded with something this sort
The awe inspiring MANTLE which hides the physi-
ghomy OF your fair correspondents 4 still admits
mall ray OF sunlight into the eyes of the eyernduI
tent and .chutable7 Man ABOUT who in token of his
nanalInity, reres gracefully, from the contest with
ut losing an iota of his confidence" J
OOAA'
efrltofy OF Idaho, of Wall and Main in {
as cty ana opened it as first class billiard saloon The
ost was about twelve thousand dollars.
owners OF stoves already filling Main street with
food Tor winter use Last winter it somewhat i'm
ossIple Tor horse and sleigh to climb round the wood
lies NOW II the watclmen cannot induce proprietors
Wood 10 cord up in very neaeSt and latest style
hey ought to be discharged 1t is said that where the
oou lies scattered the street in such careless
tanner there Is no violation Of law right in going in
ne hght ana carrying of all you please oft snail
hdraW my patronage entirely from those houses where
ne wood is not either put of sight least very
eatly and closely corded up. II
They say where there's will there's a way This 4
not entirely true. know of wills in this town r
here there's meier way Il
friend ofmine Buena Vista Bar has five roosers n
u no hens yet he has eggs enough doa small but
spectacle family.
me shades lager beer cellar, corner of Commercial
ia NAN, being portion Of the freproof in which
eSSrs 1saacS store is located is the comfortable
re Ior winter that there is in town. They Keep music
u pretty waiter girls" am told; fcourse 1 never
sit such places
staple goods continue to arrive in large quantities.
VeFything comes via Umatilla THE Chico route may e
sud TO have fairly pegged out. The government has
lnshed any Quantity OF troops to protect the route
,seht, ana ought to be praised for doing that.
Inc weather has been, Tor month, the most mag nf
mt that one could DESIRE and almost precisely similar
"Lt IL was TWO years ago There is sickness of II
y KIND lnthe camp and the doctors all starving TO
AN Everything porJends an open winter and mild Y
Gather. )