The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-06-17
MAN ABOUT Town.

j their health Some do not like the climate OF
Idaho city and delare their intentions of leaving
The truth is they do not succeed il having a
healthy purse. Some men constantly growl.
know man here in town that always makes
money You couldn't put him in position where
he wouldn't make money and still he grumGles
He probably never said an encouraging word to
any body in his life, but always insists upon il
that the town has almost run its race that placer
mining is played out that little spur of the
Gambrnus has failed, that quartz is not to be con-
! fided in anyhow that the town will bum down
again that people will not pay their debts van-
not pay their debts /; do not want to pay them :
| and it you talked with him an hour you would
hear nothing but one continued stream of growl,
grumble, whine, Scold fret stew oh how 7
IOue such cha, ncters And know another man
whom to think of is happiness There is always
smile ON his genial face--he is the very persona.
hcaton OF good nature and encouragement If
ever you have the blues come to me-and I'll intro
duce him to you: ten minutes will make you hope
full and quarter of an hour wiki dispel any nm
happy visions of future woe that may have settled
TOWN ever your grim visage. These two men are
tue anup0des, and both represent classes of socie
ty which actually. exist here. Look about: Won
can lind them easily and you will ind them lust as
iell you. There is another class who are so easy
and SO idle and so careless and so good and SO
sweet to everybody that they never will make
dollar NOR have an enemy, nor ANYTHING eise--let
them go-they are not worth thinking about :.
they belong to the scrub family-distant rela
tive. There's another class-uIdustrious enou0b
perhapsi too credulous too suspicious believe
every idle tale they hear; tell again-take some
PRIDE sometimes iii exaggerating if considerably
they Will open their ears very wide and elongste
their necks at least three inches to hear a sweet
mOrsel of news about anybody and when they ret
hold OF it they chew it and swallow it and d.
gest II, and It does them good than any little
0lt OF "mlndlng their own business" they ever
did in all their lives.
Sunday night last we had the play of the soc.
toroon" at Mr.. Potters pleasant little nlaoe of@
amusement. Mr.. g, B. Waldron takes the charac,
ter OF the piece, Jacob McCloskey. and II is trna
That we have heard of him he does it fright nm tn
the handle 3 splendidy, magniicently. If there
are any more expressive adjectives in the Ian
guage whereby we can exhibit our admiration of
the manner IN winch he impersonated the charac-
ter tell US and We'll use them. Mr. Graham as
the Yank' Salem Scudder was eminently suc-
cessful he really played it first rate Just in the
style it should be, to make it attractive. and we
thank him for thus amusing us. As for sweet
Dora Sunnyslde we don't want to be any better
suited than we were with Miss Douglas in that Ca
paclty. Mr. Leslie did not do SO well but no mat.
ter its only for this tne it is not often that he does
not excelleatiy. During the last two weeks Mrs.
Julia Dean Hayne has given us her beautiful im>
presentations OF Evadne, Media, Lady Macbeth
etc. with her usual energy aud elegance: we
could devote whole column to her praise and
only be doing her that Justice which has been
done her time and again by all the best theatrical
critics in the land but our space is limited and
dislike to start on a journey with probability
of being drought up with round turn"
New buildings, large ones and better ones, APP
pear to be the order OF the day in town. Every
man who has got dollar more than he wants Is |
building fine house. l have only one fault to I
lind with all this, bnt in that respect have not
got much influence, and THAI is they are not fire
proof. Citizens ought to know by this time that
if house is worth building in this town it is
worth building so well that it cannot burn down
The only difference now is we build a large wood
en- structure at about two>thirds the cost of
lire proof, and by taking the fire risk ourselves we
save that other third. II We don't burn down we
have made money by the operation 1t we do
burn down we Lose much more in proportion It
merely shows that We are not permanent enough
IL our ambitious ideas of the future. We are too
anxious TO sell out and leave We are too sure
We can induce some new conner who has money to
)uy our improvements fre,risk aud all and let us
)ut OF the country. This is all wrong gentlemen
III wrong. 1t yon only consider for few mo-
nents that he who comes next year will be lust
IS anxious to be safe as wesare and more willing
han Lot to invest in reproof buildings, it strikes
ne that there eau be no question of the true poll
y of building such tenenlents az will stand the !
est of fire. Ii there ia any truth or reality at all
the whole theory of rich quartz mining regions
his Basin is a permanent institution; one that :
Vil grow better for the next ton years at least,
nd If people don't want to prepare to stay here
t least ten years they had better leave now 4
hey only retard and niure the prosperity and
rowth OF the country and do not benefit them :
elves except when they make scratch. Dive
car! Get OUT of tho|way make room for ener. c
y aud capital or else reform The time for l
ulldnS hen-toops and pigeon lofts on Main street
ught to have ended with the fire. ShaILit take
hother one or two to bring us to. our senses /
xpect 1t will.
In the meantime trade and traffic go on about
usual The travel is brisk from and to all parts
the country South Boise and Yuba districts
re STRIVING hard to distance US in the race for the
Ioden Cup and to all appearance they stand some '
how Of winning. The antelope is another r
lch discovery In the 1uba, and to hail from l
hat country now is to be treated with all the con-
Iteration due.to wealth and fame.
l see we have some good correspondents over in :
Iocky Bar. l hope they will try and tell their
arms as small as possible. know one of "Yours =
-uly" over there who is ,occasionally'a snlendid
entleman and the soul of friendship and honor. 9
Whatever he says III indorse in accordance. with,
ut looking at it. I;
The Irwin theatrical troupe has arrived in town.
wish everybody liked amusement as well as do:
lere would be no empty benches at the theatre,
lere'd be no complaint OF want OF patronage :
ler'd be no aches nor pains, nor lack of ways
nd means to raise the needful or useful or the :
eautlful. Everybody would only want money to
rculate it around. Everybody would give them
hoo Eaf4l Tho rrr,.0.k