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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

CONSIDERABLE mud and water is COM
ing in at the back end of the Eisler
tunnel, impeding operations to some
extent. 1t is the general opinion that
they-will soon tap the ledge.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

FRESH GooDs.-Thomas Barry has
just received from the railroad a large
supply of groceries and provisions.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

BUYING CATrLE.-We are informed
pat some outside parties have been
|urchasing cattle of ranch men on
gamas Prairie, for the eastern market,
Pa paying for two year-olds, $40; for
Pree-ycar-olds, $l4; and for four
'ear-olds, $l8. We are told that they
i've succeeded in obtaining some
Fl'ng over 1000 head at those fig
'res.-IeUer.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

We return thanks to Rev. A. J. A.
Archambault for the invitation to be
present at the baptism of the bell
at Pioneer next Sunday.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

HE Chinese opened out their New
ear Sunday night by exploding a
II" thousand lunches of fre-crack-
f. and placing bright lanterns in
FOht Of their business houses. They
Fey are extremely liberal with cigars
% essence of corn during their holi
Us and many Mclean man will
'Slt them during the week..
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

EVERYBODY should attend the lecture
at the Court House tonight. Mr..
Henderson has been wantonly perse-
cuted, and everybody should know the
facts.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13
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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13
PIoNEERvILLE. Feb. IT 1917

Ed. WoRID:--Please accept my in
vltatlon to be present at the baptism
OF the bell in this place. Please ad-
yertise in the World of Tuesday and
Friday that I and the people Of Pi.
oneer City invite cordially all to the
ceremony. 1t is the first time that
such a ceremony is performed in this
country. Yours, thankfully
A. j. A. ARcHAMBAUIT.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

II WILL LECTURE IN THE
Dust HOUSE THIS TUESDAY
|EENING J Att OCLOCK-SUB-
|FcT MY PERSECUTION.
S. J. HENDERSON.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

THE weather continues warm.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

EIGHT men are at work in the drift
Pg claims formerly owned by Julien
lOurot, Oh the north side of Bear Run,
b Gold Hill.
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The warm weather at Lewiston has
|elted the ice on Snake and Clearwa-
pr rivers, and put an end to skating.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

We received the following letter
day:
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

SAN Weller, of Placerville, spent a
Nv days in this city during last
eek.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

AN inch and half of snow fell here
unday night.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

There are 25O.OOO,OOO unmarried
'omen in the world. Ship some OF
lem this way
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

DISTRICT COURT meets in this city OF
le fourth Monday in May.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

The AUalmche advises men without
|oney to stay away from Owyhee.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

JIM WHITE, although not we'll, is
D the streets again.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

HANK THOMPSON, of CentervilIe, spent
Bveral days i'll this place last week.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

SNAIL change & scare in Idaho
tty, and large change too.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

Mrs. MARTIN is able to be up.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

Snow is two feet deep at the head
More creek several days ago.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

SMALL pox is prevalent at Oregon
lily and MaSon's valley, Oregon.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

WAR has again been declared be
Eeen the Statesman and Avalanche.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-13

The Oregon mail now arrives on
ne.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-22
WASHINGTON.
serious Charges of Misappropriation Made
Against Ben. Flanders, when Special
Agent Of the Treasury.
The President Proposes to Defer His Ap'
pointments in Louisiana for Time.
A Full Hearing OF All the Charges Against
Candidates for Office TO be Made.
Especial to N. o. Democrat. ]

WASHINGTON, d. G., May N.-Serious
charges have just been lodged at the
Treasury Department against Ben.
Flanders, Assistant Sub-Treasurer at
New Orleans, and a commission to in
yestigate them will be organized to-
morrow or next day. He is charged
with having perpetrated gross frauds
upon the government some years ago
when acting as Special Agent for the
Bureau of Captured and Abandoned
Property. The fraud consisted in seiz-
ing and selling about 100000 worth OF
cotton in Texas and pocketing the pro-
ceeds of the same without making proper
returns to the government. tbs claimed
by parties preferring the charges
that they have the dead wood on him.
The President to-day explained why the
Louisiana appointments had not been
made. He says that 80 many charges
and counter charges have been made,
and there is such war Of factions, that
he has determined to give all Of them 9
full hearing before he acts. He must be
more than ordinarily fond OF CHR
music. BUELL..
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-22

The general massacre" of gensiles in Utah,
predicted by the New York Herald, is doubtless a
stretch of imagination. The Corwine (Utah)
Record, Gentle journal, has sent a reporter all
through the Territory, and the emissary was un-
able to find any evidences OF Mormon rebellion,
and was assured by Gentiles that the story was
utterly absurd. The only drilling" discoverable
was that OF some boys in little town, who were
in the habit OF "playing soldier ard going
through military evolutions. -rCotrier Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

long lasting. In the early days of the
honeymoon the large fortune vanished
into air. Then the bridegroom began to
spend the slender earnings which the con-
tiding bride had intrusted to him "to
keep for her" He treated her kindly,
however, and never came home tipsy
and she delighted in his erudite and pol
ished conversation. The poor woman
would, perhaps, have chung to him to
this day had it not been that, one bright
morning, he was rather earnestly called
for by the police. He had been at some
of his old swindling trick, and was cap
tured before Anne Elizabeth's own eyes.
Then the horrible truth came out that he
had another wife. and that there were
some reason to believe that there was an
indefinite number of Mrs. Seymours scat
tered about the globe. At least it was
proved that he was married at South
amptOn, in 1861, to one Alethea Thomas,
which Alethea was still alive, mourning
her faithless lord.
Such character as this is certainly
worthy of being called, as Coleridge says,
"a psychological study" He was evil
IDENTIFY a man of liberal education and
fine social accomplishments. He had
clear head and active intellect, capable
of cunningly combining intricate
schemes, and carrying them out with
cool precision and skill. Of the ordinary
vices of the adventurous villain he seems
to have been quite free. He never ate or
drank to excess; was not, as far as could
be learned, an ha6itue of Baden or Mo-
naco, or of any other of the great gamb-
ling centres; bis language was always
scrupulously proper and elegant; his at
tire faultless; his manners were at once
gracious and dign flied. He seems to
have pursued career of constituencies
fraud fora period of nearly sixty years,fo
the mere cool love of mischief; and, at
threescore and fifteen, found delight in
dipping young woman for the sake of
the few pounds she had been able to col
lect by hard and honest labor. Were he
to write, as he could do with ability, his
adventures during that long half-century,
what tale it would be!-AppletOns'
Journal
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
Nutritive Value of Corn.

The prejudice existing against the use
of maize as an article of human food
among certain classes of people is sur
prising, and this prejudice is based on ig-
nOrance.
Indian corn is one of the most import
ant and healthful articles of human food
that abeneficent Providence has bestowed
upon man; and to its highest nutritive
value is due in large degree the strength
and vigor of a race of men who laid the
foundations of this great republic. 1t
was much more largely used fifty or one
hundred years ago than now, as fine
wheat flour, for some not well-fOunded
reason, has usurped its place in bread
making. In the several forms, however,
of hulled corn, popped corn, hominy,
samp, corn starch, maizena,, etc, Sast
quantities are consumed by all classes of
people.
Meal from Indian corn contains more
than four times as much oleaginOus mat
ter as wheat flour, more starch, and near
ly as much heterogeneous material; conse-
quently, in all cold climates it is admira-
Lly adapted to sustain the system by fur
nishing heat-fOrming compounds. The
OH gives war mAu, Tic uiIoSeuous PIInCi-
pie gives muscular strength. The COM
bination of alimentary compounds in In
dian corn renders it alone the mixed diet
capable of sustaining man under the most
extraordinary circumstances. 1t holds
the elementary principles which consti-
tute the basis Of organic life. In this par
tcular it is more remarkable than any
other vegetable production known to
man. There is large number of dishes
Of which corn meal forms the basis,
which are exceedingly palatable.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
Give the Names.

Tendcr-hearted reader, do not waste
your tears and pity and indignation over
the heart-rending articles that describe
the ruin which some fend in human
form has wrought in one of the wealth..
est and most refined families of any par
ticular city, in which names are kindly
suppressed by the magnanimous reporter,
on account of the high responsibility of
the parties or the anguish of the lady s
family. Bless your simple souls, never
suffer yourselves to feel sad or indignant
or pitiful over any article in which the
names are kindly suppressed. For the
man who writes these things would get
up at two, o'clock in the morning, with
the thermometer one hundred and ninety
degrees below zero, and walk barefoot
from here to the Rocky Mountains, to dis
cover and print the name of the slightest
offenders in such cases, aud when he says
he suppresses the names you may know
he has never suppressed anything but the
truth. That's one reason why people
love this column SO dearly. They know
it's all sober truth, solemn fact, because
We always give names and places and
dates. You never catch us suppressing a
painful fact about Mr.. Bilderback OF
Middlerib or Dresseldorf or Bostwick
because its publication may hurt their
feelings. Never. Truth always for us
Truth before anything. Truth before
breakfast; like cocktail. Then it lasts
all day. That same early truth.-HaUk-
Eye.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
Sweeping.

Every hOusekeeper or servant-glrl
thinks she knows hou to sweep. Be this
as it may, there are few who pursue it in
an enlightened and systematic manner.
There is no necessity for raising cloud
of dust-enough to choke the sweeper
to settle upon walls, furniture and car
pet; for after some sweepings the carpet
is dustier, that is, on the surface, than be-
fore it is swept. Cover all articles of fur
niture that you can with papers or dust
ers; throw open the blinds and open the
windows. Remove cobwebs from ceiling
and walls; brush down with a clOth-or
better still, feather-duster, if you have
one-picture-cords, frames and curtains.
Use pointed stick and whisk-broom
for cleaning the corners of the carpet;
divide the room into four sections; re-
move the furniture from one and sweep
from the corner toward the center with
light stroke, drawing the broom care
fully along to avoid dust. Go. over the
carpet two or three times, increasing the
strength of the stroke each time; care
must be observed as the centre of the
room is neared. After the section is
swept, replace the furniture and sweep
the rest likewise. In this way, with a
little care, large room may be swept
with but little dust, and it will be clean,
too. Many advise sprnkling the carpet
with bran, coffee grounds or tea-leaves;
but in our experience we have found
them, in one way or another, more both
ersome than serviceable. When car
pet is cory dusty, rock salt or little bits
of wetted paper, strewn over it before
sweeping, answer very WE'LL then, when
all is cleaned, wipe off the carpet with
cloth wrung as dry as possible from
pail of warm water, to which a spoonful
or 80 of ammonia has been added. Do
not wi pc more than half yard without
rinsing the cloth; change the water fire.
qrently. When carpet becomes dusty,
why not take it up and shake it! 1t
would surely be saving of strength and
labor, and we believe if housekeepers
would shake those carpets which are in
constant use four times instead of but
twice year, they would find it not only
an improvement in cleanliness, but a
great saving in their carpets.-Rural NeD
Yorker.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
The Empty Cradle.

Sad is the heart of the mother,
Who sits by the lonely hearth,
Where never again the children
Shall waken their songs of mirth.
And still through the painful silence
She listens for voice and tread;
Outside OF the heart-there only
She knows that theyare not dead!
Here is the desolate cradle,
The pillows so lately pressed,
But far away has the birding
Flown from its little nest.
Grooming the lullabies over
That once was her baby's delight,
All through the misty spaces
She follows its upward flight.
Little she thought of moment
So gloomy and sad as this,
When close to her heart She gathered
Her child for its goodnight kiss.
She should be tenderly cherished,
Never grief should she know;
Wealth, and the pride of princess,
These would m other bestow.
Aud this is the darling's portion
In heaven-where she has fled;
By angels securely guarded,
By angels securely led.
Brooding in sorrowful silence
Over the empty nest,
Can you not see through the shadows
Why it is all for the best?
Better the heavenly kingdom
Than riches of earthly crown,
Better the early morning flight
Than one when the sun is down.
Better all empty casket,
Than jewels besmirched with sin;
Safer than those without the fold
Are those that have entered in.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
How TO MAKE BUCKwHEAT CAKES

How TO MAKE BUCKwHEAT CAKES
The season for buckwheat cakes will soon
arrive, and our experience is that the
finest, tenderest cakes can be made by
adding little unbolted wheat Cor Ora
ham) -four TO the buckwheat. Less than
a quarter will do. Mix with cold sour
mix, or fresh mot sweet buttermilk,
which is best. Tie soda (emptyings are
dispensed with, when put in cold water,
will not act satisfactorily. Bake at once.
The heat will start the etfervescepce, and
as the paste rises it will bake, thus pre-
venting it from falling. Hence the cul-
minating point of lightness is attained.
The batter rises snowy aud beautiful, and
the pancake will swell to almost undue
Dimensions, absolutely the lightest and
tenderest that can be baked, with not a
touch of acid. More salt, however, must
be added than usual, to cOunteract the
too fresh taste, when soda alone is used
Thus the bother of emptyings is all dis
pensed with. Pancakes in this way can
be baked at any time, and on the shortest
notice.
ORANGE SHKRBET.-Take the juice of
a dozen oranges, and pour pint Of boil
ing water on the peel, and let it stand
covered, half an hour. Boil a pound of
loaf sugar, in q pint Of water, skim, and
then add the juice, and the water in the
peel, to the sugar. Strain it, and cool it
with ice or freeze it. The juice Of two
lemons and little more sugar improves
it.
HUCKLEBERRy BREAD.-One quart of
-four, one pint sour milk, one tablespoon
full soda, one and half pint berries; mix
Is stiff as biscuit dough.
In cake-making, beat the butter to
cream before adding sugar or eggs.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

LIFE AND PHILOSOPHICAL college
professor was being rowed across the
stream in a boat Said he to the boat
man, do you understand philosophy o.
NO; never heard of it," "Then one
quarter of your life is gone. Do you un-
derstand geology" "No." Then one
half of your life is gone. Do you under
stand astronomy" "No." Then three
quarters of your life is gone" But pres
entity the boat tipped over and spilled
both into the river. Says the boatman,
Can you swiml" "No." "Then the
whole Of your life is gone"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

HUMEs doctrine was that as the circum-
stances vary, the amount of happiness
does not; that the beggar cracking his
fleas in thesunshine, and the duke roll
ing by in his chariot, the girl equipped
for her first ball and the orator returning
triumphant from the debate, had differ
ent means, but the same quantity Of pleas
ant excit. Emers0n.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS SoLACE.-The
Russian soldiers are said to live and
fight almost wholly upon tea. The Cos
sacks often carry it about in the shape of
bricks, or tiles, which, before hardening,
are soaked in sleeps blood and boiled in
milk, with the addition of flour, butter
and salt, so as to constitute kind of
soup. The passion of the Russian for this
beverage is simply astonishing. In the
depth of winter he will empty twenty
cups in succession, at nearly boiling
point, until he perspires at every pore,
and then, in state of intense excitement,
rush out, roll in the snow, get up and go
on to the next similar place of entertain
ment. So with the army. With every
group, or circle of tents, travels the in
variable tea-cauldron, suspended from a
tripod; and it would be vain to think of
computing how many times'each soldiers
panikin is filled upon a halt. 1t is his
first idea. Frequently he carries it cold
in copper case, as solace upon the
march.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

BosToN has been looking at mammoth
cheese of 1,lOO pounds weight.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
Anomalies of English Spelling.
HOW THE ALPHABET rs TORTURED TO
GIVE OVER FORTY SOUNDS.

One of the principal difficulties in
learning the English language is the in
explicable manner in which most of the
words are spelled, the twentysix letters
of the alphabet vying with each other to
represent the forty or fOrtytwo sounds
of the language in the most bungling
and disorderly manner.
Be the capacity of a child ever so good,
yet he must spend years in learning these
'curiosities of literature" while a for
eigner can only master our noble Ian
guage by vast expense of labor, pa
thence and time.
The Protean nature of the vowel sounds
is familiar to all. A few amusing exam
pies will show that the consonants are
nearly as bad:
B makes a road broad, turns the ear to
bear and Tom into tomb.
makes limb climb, hanged changed,
a lever clever and transports lover to
clover.
d turns bear to beard, crow to a
crowd and makes anger danger.
+ turns lower regions to flower regions.
q changes son to song and makes
one gone.
H changes eight into height.
X makes now know and eyed keyed.
L transforms pear into pearl.
n turns line into linen, crow to a
crown and makes one none.
metamorphoses lumber into plumber.
Q, of itself, hath no significance.
S turns even to seven, makes have shave,
and word a sword, pear a spear, makes
slaughter of laughter, and curiously
changes having hoe to shaving shoe.
T makes bough bought, turns here
there, alters one to tone, changes ether
to tether, and transforms the phrase "al-
low his own" to "tallow his town"
w does we'll, e. g., hose are whose, are
becomes ware, on won, omen women, so
SOW, vie view; it makes an arm warm,
and turns hat into-whatl
Y turns fur to fury, man to many, to
to toy, rub to ruby, ours to yours, and
lad to a lady Moses Patterson.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-05-17
Cut This Out.

Our readers will find very handy
the following simple rules for computing
tho interest on the principal of any note
or commercial paper for any number Of
days. The answer in each case being in
cents, separate the two right hand fig
ures of the answer to express it in dol
lars and cents:
Four per cent.-MultipIy by the mum
Der of days, and divide by seventy-two
Six per cent.-Multiply by the rum
Der of days, separate the right hand fig
ure, and divide by six.
Eight per cent.-Mu!tiply by the mum
Der Of days, and divide by forty-five
Nine per cent.-Multiply by the mum
Der of days, separate the right-hand fig
ure, and divide by four.
Ten per cent.-Multiply by tho mum.
Der of days, and divide by thirty-fve.
Twelve per cent.-Multiply by the
number of days, separate tie right-hand
figure, and divide by three.
Fifteen per cent.-Multiply by the
number of days, and divide by TWEEN ty
four.
Eighteen per Multiply by the
number of days, separate the right hand
figure, and divide by two.
Twenty per cent.-Multlply by the
number of days, and divide by eighteen.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-05-17
RIISSIA,S POSITION.

Politischo Corresponds has semlofiic
ial letters from ST. Petersburg. One com
muuicatlon Of this nature says: "Rus
sian troops, under General Kaufman
will cross the Pamir into India in tho
event of England taking part in the
Turkish war" This is the first time the
Russians have spoken semi officially OF
tho possibility of military operations by
way of Pamir and the accessibility OF
India in that quarter. Lc Nord, Rus
sian oragn, publishes letter from ST.
Petersburg containing the following
"Russia has but one aim, namely, the
amcrioration of the lot of the Christians
but If at the end Of the war she claims
more extended guarantees Europe must
blame herself, not the ambitious designs
whereof it gratuitousIy suspects Russia.
Russia, after the war, will give fresh
proof of her moderation by consulting
Europe respecting the conditions to be
dictated of Turkey TO prevent further
massacres."