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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30

ion-is, we conceive, the segregative-
ness of the Englishman, the disposition
he has cultivated in himself
to be himself, and not yield
to the contagion of emotion. He
likes a separate compartment even
when he is frightened. He is himself
by himself there in his separate house,
and Is not member of crowd, talk
ing, exag operating, communicating fear
by contact and unreasoning discussion.
We all know how a crowd can cover,
and shrek and fly, though each indi-
vidual is brave-remembe the scene in
the Ring Theater at Vienna some years
ago-and in these southern cities every
one is a unit in crowd, accustomed to
gregarious ut-of-door life, habituated
to respect neighbors' opinions, untaught
to consider that he must, as self-re-
specting human being, be in all mat
tiers not settled by law his own guide
and master. He has sought help from
his fellows, from their ideas, their SYM
pathy on certain subjects, all his life :;
and when they get frightened he gets
frightened too, with fright which, like
that of crowd in theater on fire,
shortly develops into mania of selfish
panic. In that horrible scene, the
burning of the great theater of Vienna,
only one man retained reason enough
to remember that the hot smoke which
was choking all around must, by the
law of its being, rise. He threw him
self under the benches, ordered his
sister to lie down too, and both were
saved. The rest flung themselves, like
wild animals in terror, into passages
already blocked by impossible heaps
of dead. The Marseillase or Neapol-
itan lives always in theaters and, like
the member of a packed audience, is
liable always to be carried away by the
contagion-of any great emotion, fear,
of course, being the most strong. Panic
in such circumstances frequently par
takes so closely of the character of in
sanity that even in the condemnation
which is essential to society some pity
should mingle.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30

it. 1t is not solid enough, and never
can be with its epidermis Of mere cop
per and sand. If it could not be in
solid metal, like the older works, il
might have been in masonry or wood
covered with copper plates. But this
is question for engineers rather than
for artists, and the engineers are quite
convinced that "Liberty' will resist the
Atlantic storms.
A word should be said about the
artistic merit of the statue, and this, in
spite Of its size, is very considerable.
Bartholdi is used to working on large
scale, and he knows his craft. 1t is i'm
possible, perhaps, in our day to make
anything quite dignifed of such a sub
ject. The figure must pose, and pose
Electrically; and some people have
found fault with the stride and gesture.
But the general merit is incontestable.
The drapery is both massive and fine
some parts, where the sleeve falls under
the right arm for instance, are as deli
cate and silky in effect as if they had
been wrought with fine chisel on the
smallest scale, and in others the folds
lie in great imposing masses. The face
again, while classic in general treat
ment, is not without expression. The
most Objectionable thing, perhaps, is
the coronet branching out into star
rays, each of which is to be point of
electric illumination for the universe,
or at any rate for New York bay.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30
The Elections Of 1884.

All the states will elect presidential
electors on Tuesday, November 4. The
electors then chosen will meet at their
respective state capitols on Wednesday,
December 3, and cast their ballots for
president and vice president of the
United States.
Alabama3 elected state officers and
legislature on Monday, August 4; con-
gressmen on Tuesday, November 4.
Arkansas will elect state officers and
legislature on Monday, September l.,
and vote upon an amendment prohibit
ing the levying of any tax or the MAX
ing of any appropriation to pay certain
railroad and levee bonds of the state
will elect congressman on Tuesday,
November 4.
California will elect part of its legis-
lature and congressman on Tuesday,
November 4, and vote upon proposed
constitutional amendment providing for
State Board of Education.
Colorado will elect state officers,
legislature and congressman on Tues
day, November 4.
Connecticut will vote upon an amend
ment providing for biennial elections
on Monday, October 6, and elect state
officers, legislature and congressman on
Tuesday, November 4.
Delaware will elect legislature and
congressman on Tuesday, November 4.
Florida will elect governor, lieutenant
governor, legislature and congressman
on Tuesday, November 4.
Georgia will elect governor and legis-
lature on Wednesday, October l; con-
gressmen on Tuesday, November A.
Illinois will elect state officers, legis-
lature and congressman on Tuesday,
November 4.
Indiana will elect state officers, legis-
lature and congressman on Tuesday,
November 4.
Iowa will elect minor state officers
and congressman on Tuesday, Novem-
Der 4.
Kansas will elect state officers, legis- |
Iature and congressman on Tuesday,
November 4.
Kentucky will elect congressman on
Tuesday, November 4.
Louisiana elected democratic state
ulcers and legislature on Tuesday,
April 20, and voted on several amend
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30
THE LONG FELT WANT.
Bill Nye's Experience In Toying With a
Daily Paper.

Robert j. Burdette, having related
his experience with young and strug
Cling daily, L move that the Other
brethren present relate their own little
history. / think it is sometimes re.
lief to unburden the soul by COMES.
sion.
toyed with daily once which was
incorperat ed to fill a long felt want.
did not know it was loaded. There
was a rival daily that had been running
two years, and we entered the arena,
hoping to win great victory over this
paper and become great power In the
west. We made it our business to
boom everything that was boomable
and sheer at the lack of enterprise of
our adversary. Wa got specials by
mail, press reports by slow freight, and
showed a style of fearless enterprise
that was the envy and the admiration
of many large metropolitan journals.
We thought that our adversary would
not last over month after election,
but Thanksgiving came and went and
found the Evening Squawker still on
deck. The editor would come and bor-
row print paper of us and then use it to
call us the slime bedecked and putrid
exponent of still more banefel polit-
ical faction. We would borrow a font
of BREWER of him and characterize his
paper as the wailing fondling, dying in
the poisonous vapors of the deadly
swamp of political filth, wherein it had
chosen its bed, edited by the bitter foe
of the laundress and Lindley Murray, a
man who had evaded justice for forty
years, and, not content with the out
rage of moral sense, had declared war
on the spelling book.
Thus we kept up spirited contest
for long time. Sometimes we could
not get our paper out of the freight Of
fee, and sometimes he couldn't, but we
would loan each other the last quire
we had and keep friendly, while through
the columns of our respective papers
we spoke of each other in language
which might have been construed as
reproachful to some people.
1t was an exciting time. One day
the Squawker would offend a subscrib-
er, and he would come over to US, and
the next day we would unwittingly
tread on the toes of one of our great
army of subscribers, and he would go
over to the enemy.
The editor of the other paper and
myself saw that it was going to be a
war of determination. We ground our
teeth and our shears and sailed in. At
The end of he first year he had dis
charged his servant girl and my paper
owed me $500 salary. At the end of
the second year he had blown in his
fine brick residence .and l had taken
my salary as police justice and thrown
t into the rapacious NAV of my little
longfelt want.
One day the little, muddy, measly,
ong suffering features of the Evening
,quawker failed to appear. We kept
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30
Abyssinian Soldiers.
Letter to Loudon Daily News.

! Letter 10 LOudOn Daily News.
The Abyssinian army of 40, 900 infan
try and cavalry that is now on its way
to the relief of Kassa'a is composed o.
the right material to cope with the fol.
lowers of the Mahdi, and if, after re-
lieving the city, they are invited-for
they are willlng-to cooperate with us
in the relief of Khartoum or further
discomfting the Mahdi, we shall have
better chance of quieting the Soudan
than working with Woods invincibles,
or even with Indian troops, for the
Abyssinians are on the spot. The ma
jority of infantry and horsemen are
excellent shots, only requiring to be
better armed. Their comissariat ham,
pers their movements as little as that
Of the army of the false prophet. A
bag of flour slung over the shoulder or
tied up in one end of the shemma or
toga will last them for days. A slab of
stone will serve whereon to mix the
flour, and with a little water (the quail
ity of which they are not particular
about,) they will make paste; fair
ly round stone heated in the camp
fire will make center round which the
dough is built. This kind of stone
dumping is then placed on the embers
of the fire, and occasionally turned,
and in few minutes is cooked suffi
GENTLY to serve as bread. A strip of
sun-dried meat, or the raw flesh of an
OK, makes the substantial meal of the
day, occasionally favored with little
red pepper, which one in ten will carry
in small horn attached to his girdle
for himself and comrades. Of luxuries
the Abyssinian soldiers have few;
smoking is not allowed, and the break
er of this rule is liable to lose his nose
and lips by order of the king. But
each man carries his little tin pot of
snuff stuck in his belt. A pinch of this
tobacco powder he will place between
his neither lip and bottom teeth, which
he eventually elects in soluble state,
much after the manner of a sailor and
his quid. A pair of drawers, cut short
below the knees and fastened at the |
waist with the assistance of cartridge |
belt, and toga or oblong piece of cot
ton cloth, generally with red center
stripe, which acts as waistcoat, jacket,
overcoat and blanket, are his only |
wearing apparel. A sword, which he
invariably wears on his right side, he
draws with hlJ right hand In q very
dextrous and rapid way. He is also
armed with fowling-piece or rifle,
slung across his back; in his left hand
he carries his shield, and in his right
spear foot or two longer than that of
the Hadendowah, the metal head gen.
orally made of soft iron, being sharp
ened to a narrower and quicker pene-
trating point. They are as brave and
clever with the spear and sword as the
followers of the Mahdi, with the advan-
-age of being better marksmen. The
only drawback is that in the extreme
not weather they cannot stand the sun
10 we'll as the natives of the plains, but
his could be easily obviated if they
we're persuaded to wear some kind of
leadgear to lessen the effects of the sun
md to keep the scorching sand from
burning their feet.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30

ments, some for and some against, in
GLIDING among the latter one providing
public debt; will elect congressman OF
Tuesday, November 4.
Maine will elect governor, legislator,
and congressman, and vote upon pro
posed prohibitory amendment to it,
constitution on Monday, September
Maryland will elect congressman OF
Tuesday, November 4.
Massachusetts will elect state officers
legislature and congressman on Tues
day, November 4.
Michigan will elect state officers
legislature and congressman, on Tues
day, November 4.
Minnesota will elect legislature and
congressman on Tuesday, November
Mississippi will elect congressman or
Tuesday, November A.
Missouri will elect state officers, legis.
lature and congressman on Tuesday,
November 4.
Nebraska will elect state officers,
legislature and congressman on Tues
day, November 4.
Nevada will elect supreme judge,
legislature and congressman on Tues
day, November 4.
New Hampshire will elect governor,
railroad commissioners, legislature and
congressman and vote upon the ques-
ton of holding constitutional conyen-
ton on Tuesday, November 4.
New Jersey will elect legislature and
congressman on Tuesday, November A..
New York will elect two judges of
the court of appeals, assemblymen and
congressman on Tuesday, November A.,
and vote upon a proposed amendment
to the constitution of the state prohibit
ing the loan or use of public money for
private purposes and restricting the in
debtedness of counties, cities, towns
and villages for any purpose whatever
to 10 per cent of their valuation.
North Carolina will elect State Off
GERS, Legislature and Congressman on
Tuesday Nov. 4.
Ohio will elect minor State officers
and Congressman on Tuesday October
IA.
Oregon elected Republican Con-
gresham and Legislature and Demo-
cratic Supreme Judge and defeated a
woman's suffrage amendment to the
state constitution on Monday June 2.
I6QQ5ylVdnld Will olcCI lcS iointuiO
and congressman on Tuesday Novem-
Der 4.
Rhode Island elected republican
state officers and legislature on Wed
nesday, April 2; will elect congress
men on Tuesday, November 4.
South Carolina will elect state Off
GERS, legislature and congressman on
Tuesday November 4.
Tennessee will elect governor, rail-
road commissioners, legislature and
on Tuesday, November
4.
Texas will elect state officers, legis-
lature and congressman on Tuesday,
November A.
Vermont will elect state officers, leg |
stature, and congressman on Tuesday,
September 2.
Virginia will elect congressman, on
tuesday. November
West Virginia will elect state officers
legislature, and congressman on Tues
lay, October IA, and vote upon a pro-
posed amendment to change the time
If the general elections to November.
Wisconsin will elect state officers,
legislature, and congressman on Tues
lay, November 4.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30
GEMS OF THOUGHTS.

Every mans ability may be strength
ened or increased by culture j. Alb
| bolt
We often meet with more instances of
true charity among the ignorant and
poor than among those who profess to
be Christians NJ. Bandello.
Silence is the wit of fools and one of
the virtues of the wise.-[ Bonnard.
He who lives but for himself, lives
but for little thing.-[Barjand.
Education begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company and reflection
must finish him. II. Locke.
There is gentle element, and man
may breathe it with calm, unruflled
soul, and drink its living waters till his.
heart is pure, and this is human happi-
ness N. P. Willis.
Any man may do casual act of good
nature, but continuation of them
shows it is part of their temperament.
-[Sterne.
No grace is more necessary to the
Christian worker than fidelity; the
humble grace that marches on in sun
shine and storm when no banners are
waving, and there is no music to cheer
the weary feet.-[S. ]. Nichols.
Who could live surrounded by calam-
tiles did not smiling hope cheer him
with expectation of deliverancep-[
Hamilton.
Scholars are frequently to be met.
with who are ignorant of nothing say
ing their own ignorance.-[Zimmer-
man.
The sting of every reproachful speech
is the truth of it; and to be conscious is [
that which gives keenness to the invec-
tive.
Let children know something of the
worth of money by earning it; over pay
them if you will, but let them get some
idea of equivalents if they get distorted
notions of values at the start they will
never be righted.-[ Talmage.
Infinite toll would not enable you to-
sweep away mist, but by ascending a
little you may often look over it alto
yether. So it is with our moral i'm
orovement; we wrestle fercely with a
vicious habit which would have no hold
Upon US if we assembled into higher
moral atmospheric Helps.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30
Cholera Panic.


Southern races, even if they do not
feel pain more than the northern
which in Europe they seem to do
yield to the human dislike of it much
more readily. They cultivate self-pity
as essential to a keen perception of life,
and consider stoicism as regards them
selves, and especially as regards the
expression of suffering, as evidence of
insensibility. Their whole literature
acknowledges liability to tears which
Englishmen do not feel, and to express
sions of sef-regarding emotion which
seem to the harder races childish.
Then, no doubt, the southerners think
precautions legitimate which English
men do not. The southerner thinks
more of the duty of protecting his fam
lily, and less of his duty to the remain
der of mankind, whose suffering, in
deed, if it protects himself, he regards
with. something of callousness. An
Englishman hardly knows how to bear
the suffering inflicted on others by
forcible isolation, even if isolation pro-
tects himself, and this more especially
when the isolation is directed against a
disease which often begins with death.
He feels as if he might have helped to
cause it, and listens with an inner ap-
proval to the argument-which is, we
believe, quite sound-that a quarantine
lazaretto is often, probably always,
focus and generating cause of the dis
ease. The congregation of the par
TALLY infected triples the strength of
the infection. The callousness of the
east to Others sufferings does not, it is
true, extend to southern Europe; but
sympathy is not yet perfectly devel-
oped. We see this every week in the
different treatment of animals, and the
almost entire absence in Italy of the |
semi-religious adherence which exists
in England against the infiction on
Them of needless pain. But the main
cause of the difference-apart from the
difference in his attitude toward relig-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30

An idiotic son drove q nail into the
head of his helpless old father at Balti-
more last week. The nail was three
inches long and the father still lives.
The summers sport at Block Island
is swordfishing. Frequently the game
shows fight, and in such cases the ex-
element is intensh. The swordfish
caught in those waters weigh from POO
to 500 pounds, and the swords are from
two to three feet in length.
In Cornwall women are commonly
employed as painters and paper-hang-
ers, learning the trade from each other
without serving a regular apprentice
ship and following it as constantly as
or milliners pursue their
calling.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30
A RISING TIDE.

The west wind clears the morning.;
The sea shines silvery gray;
The night was long, but fresh and strong
Awakens the breezy day;
Like smoke that flies across the lift,
The clouds are faint and thin;
And near and far along the bar,
The tide comes creeping In.
The dreams of midnight showed me
A life Of loneliness,
A stony shore that knew no more
The bright waves soft caress,
The morning broke, the visions fed
With dawn new hopes begin;
The light is sweet and at my feet
The tide comes rolling in.
Over the bare, black boulders
The ocean sweeps and swells;
Oh, waters wide, ye come to hide
Dull stones and empty shellsY
/ hear the floods lift up their voice
With loud, triumphant din;
Sad dreams depart-rest, doubling heart
The tide comes foaming in
From Good Words.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30
Dogs Strengthening Sheep.

fhu mil 0uLette-
Although the rabbit plague still vexes
the Australian squatter, he is threatened
by another plague even more deadly
This time it is a once cherished friend
who has gone astray. Four hundred
and fifty useless dogs, said Sir Samuel
Davenport at recent deputation of the
royal agricultural and horticultural So
ciety to the commissioner of crown
lands, had been destroyed in the vicini--
ty of Adelaide. All these culprits had
killed sheep, some of them being eQp-
cerned in the wholesale slaughter )of
$50 wethers. Such is the degradation
of the Australian canine race that not
only ferries, spaniels and Newfound-
lands do the mischief, but sheep, cattle,
and watch dogs join the ranks OF the
destroyers, and bite and worry and de-
stroy in their nocturnal attacks. The
commissioner agreed with the deputies
that "something must be DONE" that
something" taking the form of stricter
enforcement of the police regulations
and a higher tax for keeping dogs,
especially sporting dogs. 1t is a pity
that the supernumerary dogs cannot be
employed in keeping down the num-
bers OF the'superfluous rabbits.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30

dki ng the Office boy why the Squawker
hidn't come. He didn't know. Finally
de went to the publication Office. The
DOR was locked. A map of Dakota
was hung over one window and prin-
ter's towel over the other. The office
boy raised the map and stole in. The
uncertain light here and there broke In
struggling rays through the threadbare
places in the towel. On the desk lay q
letter from the advertiser of a collie
eraser in which he offered to take a
column in the Squawker year, follow
ing pure reading matter with 1000
lines of reading notices to be strung
along through the editorials from day
to day, in bold-faced type, and in con-
years to the editor, or his order, fifty
bottles of the collie eraser at the pub
lisher's price, delivered on board the
cars.
Everything about the Office showed
that the work had been going bravely
on when the summons came. In fact
the summons lay there on the desk
among other papers, along with writ
of attachment for $253.85. This shows
what hold a paper gets on its sub
scribers, and also what hold the sub
scribers gets on the paper. The sheriff
had been subscriber to the Squakwer
ever since it started, but we didn't know
his attachment for The paper was so
great.
We won the day, but it was a sacri-
fee. The smoke of conflict cleared
away and showed that the victory was
not worthy of the carnage. We had
survived, but we were not proud. The
Squakwer had fought US bravely, and
now its, still, cold form lay in the base
ment of the chief creditor, and the
usual notice of attachment was tackled
on the door.
The editor and myself met on the fol-
lowing day, and he was the more cheer
full of the two. He said he felt sorry
for me. 81 can use what get here
after on my family" said he, shut you
can't You will feel guilty if you buy
barrel of flour for your own use,
knowing that it may imperil the next
issue of the paper. I have passed all
that" And he was right. The quicker
a man decides to cease publishinga
daily paper where it is not needed, just
through high moral sense of duty, the
sooner he will become ight-hearted and
joyous. paid $4,000 for the privilege
of knowing this, and l present it to
every paid-up subscriber of the Free
Press without money and without price.
don't know very much, but if there's
anything do know, and know it hard,
and know it with one hand tied behind
ne, it is that.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-08-30

A California Indian recently took over
81, 900 worth of gold from q ''pocket"
county.
A 12-year-old mother in California
has baby that weighs a trife oyer a
pound.