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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-12-01
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

Friedman is open.
Go to Mrs. Cumbo's for bargains.
Imported cigars, at Tracy Il Foote'S.
At Humphrey's, oysters by the can,$l
Bache, the tailor, once moro in the
Geld.
Bache, the tailor, cleans and repairs
clothing rs usual.
Strictly bonded liquors at Merchants
Hotel. Old Hermitage.
Exsh oysters, any style, at Hum ph-
reys Nevada Chop House.
The finest Ladies' Russian Circulars
and others at S. J. Friedman's.
Smoke fresh Imported and genuine
Key West cigars ut Merchants Hotel.
Go to the Merchants Hotel for some
Of that 1875 old Hermitage whisky.
Bache, the tailor. takes orders for
business aud dress suits. as he used
to do.
Go to 1000 Main street for fruit,
vegetables, tobacco, cigars and no.
tions.
Good lodgings and neat roc rs, at
Mrs. LeGrande's, next door to Hal
Icy Theater.
Fresh roll butter, eggs, vegetables,
fruits, ETC., at L. n. I.isle's-for cash,
after December LIST.
No. l lime-guaranteed-one cent
= pound, delivered in HALEY. Apply
At VIM. Rabjohn's.
Genuine family mince meat
fresh supply--just arrived and for sale
by the Idaho Forwarding Company.
Fresh cranberries and pitted cher
ries just received by Idaho Forward
ing Company, successor to l. Morris
l. Go.
Tho Hailov Brewery Is prepared to
deliver beer, in quantities to suit, in
any part of HALEY, or in any place on
Wood River.
Limburger, Swiss cheese and nome
less ham just received by the Idaho
Forwarding Company, successor to l.
Norris l. Co.
Leave orders at Merchants Hotel
Tor city omnibus and baggage trans
fer to and from depot, and between
Bellevue and HALEY.
A new assortment Of latest styles
Stetson hats, and gents fine furnish
ing goods, just received by the Idaho
Forwarding Company.
Bache's ability IS cutter and tailor
is so we'll known III this community
that it is almost useless to fill this
paper up with advertisements.
c. w. Schwamb, the cabinet maker,
upholsterer and general undertaker,has
his shop ON Carbonate street at pres
Ant, two doors East of Main. tie IS
prepared to fill orders on the shortest
notice, and with satisfaction. Coun-
try orders solicited and given prompt
atteRtion.
Mrs. Bradley the artist, has returned
to Haley for the win+er,and will open
.pr,vate clearinghouse at her resi-
denee, on the northeast corner OF "a
lena and Main streets. Her accom-
medatioas being limited, those who
desire first.clsss family board should
apply 1t once. Mrs. Bradley will!
assisted BY her three daughters, do all
the work.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-12-01
Cl0sinI Ont Sale.

q will sell all my goods--suct
E as diamonds, jewe!ry, watches
o clocks, silverware, "tc.-at cast
- l an retiring from business.
JONI ARNoLD, Haley
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-12-01
xots! Nuts3! Nats!!!

A carload Of nuts for seed will be
brought here in about one month.
All who Will need any. for timber
cultures. shoald apply II once'to
J. S. WATERS.
Receiver q. S. Land Office, Haley.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-12-01
We Mast Have 0Oney

We Mast Have 2eney!
All accounts due us must he PAID
IMMEDIATELY.
LAS. II. BLOSSOM l. Co.
HALEY, November 26, 1884. mi
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

only a moderate idea, for he isn't
there to pull your head down lower
than nature ever intended 1t should go
whenever you show the slightest in-
clination to straighten it up. The pain
across the back of your poor neck be-
comes excruciating at once, but you
soon lose sight of it. The moment he
begins to skin your jaw against the
grain, you forget all about the back Of
your neck. He flourishes the razor
above your head for n moment, makes
feint or two, so as to inspire you with
terror, and then swoops down on you
suddenly and sends you off into spasms.
Spasms are nothing to the German bar
ber. He pays no attention to the con-
tortions of your face nor the writhing
of your body, but llourishes his razor
once more, and as he hacks the short
hair on the tender part of your chin
you drop gently into cOnvulsion,
from which you recover only to see
him packing up his tools preparatory
to flight. Then as you straighten up
in the chair, bewildcred as one who
has Just awakened from a horrible
nightmare, he smiles, thanks you, bids
YOU good morning, and is gone. ."-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06
Elk Hunting In CeylOn.

The finest sport in Ccylon is elk
hunting on the hills, which are 5000
to 1000 feet above the sea level. The
hounds are mixed pack, comprising
four or five couple of English fox
hounds, three couple of mixed breed,
and some "seizcrs," " viz, thorough
bred Scotch deerhound, a strong grey
hound, perhaps kangaroo hound,
and crosses of these breeds with mas
tiff and bloodhound After an elk had
been found the run is very fast, and it
is generally impossible to keep near up
with the hounds. Occasionally one of
these is snapped up by leopard lurk-
ing on the hillside. When at last tho
elk comes to bay, it is generally in a
strengthening watercourse, and the
seizers then rush in, aided by the hunt
ing men, whose only weapon appears
to be the knife, with which tho quarry
is stabbed as he faces his four-legged
foes, The elk weighs sometimes as
much as % stone clear.
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The Railroad War.

The real question at the bottom of
the present deplorablc railroad war is
not one of rates. Along with the pro-
blem of transportation goes the puzzle
of the territorial rights OF corporations.
Destructive competition must be abOl-
ished-that is sure. The recent truce
of few years abolished it only tenn
porarily. Let us examine another
great institution: The postoilice, by a
wise and unscliish method, prohibits
any rivalry, and by that means gives
us the cheapest service we havr-and
the best. To work for the postollicc is
to have good place. Strikes are un-
known. 1t is almost Utopian. Either
the government or some private citi-
zen must apply this principle to tine
railways. Nothing is more brutal than
large corporation-mo more selfish or
more stupid. Therefore, the people
must not attempt to reason with the
railways. 1t would not be a bad idea
for the people of the United States to
elect Mr.. Fink or Mr. Vining, or some
like parsonage, national arbtei. with
the power Of the people behind him,
TO run the railroads on the principle Of
the pOstoilice. He could devise plan
which would be no greater invasion
of private rights than was considered
necessary in the Irish land act of
1882 Nowadays, when line n hun
dred miles long cuts rates, the scalpcrs
manage TO apply the cut to nearly
every road in the union, and the whole
bargain of the kings shakes and is
ready to tumble. Under the Napole-
onic plan, which the future must
evolve, the arbiter would punish the
small road, and nothing else would
happen; under that plan he would pre-
vent the building of the Nickel Plate
and West Shore; he would prevent the
action of the Pennsylvania in trying to
hurt the Baltimore and Ohio; he would
consolidate the two Northwest roads
in name, as they are already consoli-
dated in fact; he would make their
property tangible by preventing the
incursions of western lines. In short,
the policy of assassination would
cease, and the swinish propcnsities
which go with competition would
gradually disappear. Mr. Fink, or
some such man, could make the rail
way capital of this country pay from
three to six per cent, according to its
degree of moisture and the men
employed could be paid better wages
and have shorter hours. Take this
West Shore Road: The folly which
built it pushed the boom that much
further, and urged every capitalist into
still more foolish ventures; now, when
the pinch comes, that same folly is at
work to make the times harder, and to
urge on those disorders of 1877, which
we all remember with horror. Tho
Current Chicd1O.
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BARRIERS in Germany.

"The first time ever got shaved In
Germany" said a barber, yesterday
afternoon, 81 thought should die. 1t
beat anything l ever experienced be-
fore. The BARRIERS over there are pretty
smart looking fellows, but they don't
know the first thing about the profession
as we understand it in this country.
The better class of people, as rule, do
not 90 to the barber to get shaved
the barber goes to them. If you take
up your residence in German town,
one of your first callers will be bar
ber soliciting your custom. He will
under take to shave you three times q
week for about 81 per month, four
times for about S1.50, and daily for
about $3.50. He will call on you on
shaving mornings just as you get out
of bed, and you can make yourself as
comfortable as possible in a straight
back chair, and have your neck broken
in any manner that suits your taste
best.
"The barber carries his implements
of torture in u little morocco case,
something like a corn Doctors. In a lit
tie patent Leather roll he carries his
apron. When lie enters the room he
dances around like a daddy long-legs
Gil a hot griddle, and lays his traps
wide open on the wash-stand or table.
He mixes bis lather with his finger, and
when you have screwed yourself up in
the chair he looks at you steadily for
moment to sec If your nerves are all
right, and then he daubs you. He never
uses a lather brush. No, he scarcely
knows what q lather brush is. He
smears suds over your face with his
fingers, and doesn't seem to be par
ticular whether he lets you taste it or
not.
"After he has smeared you with suds
he comes at you with the razor. Then
he commences. There is no rest for
your head, but he doesn't mind that.
He puts his strong, cold, clammy left
hand on your forehead and bends your
neck back as though il were construct
ed on the universal joint system. If you
will sit in q straight-back chair and
throw your head back, keeping 1t in
that position for about two minutes.
you will be able to form moderate
idea Of the torture the barber in Ger
many subjects one to. But 1t will be
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A National Debt Study.

A Washington telegram to 81. Pan
Pioneer Press says: The general news
paper reader, who on the second day
of each month reads the treasury an.
nouncement that the public debt has
been reduced during the preceding
month by so many million dollars,
does not, perhaps, pause to reflect that
this steady decrease of national obli-
cations means steady, permanent de-
cline in expenditures, and that it indi-
Gates constant growth in national re-
sources and prosperity, Nor is the
general reader, perhaps, aware of the
magnitude of the national debt and of
the remarkable swiftness with which
it is being paid, In August, 1865,
when the highest figures were reached,
the total debt of the United States
was 81, 1856, 43l ,57l, the annual inter-
est upon which was nearly Slj0,O0O,-
900. Since then, period of nineteen
years, the debt has been reduced near
ly one-half, and the annual interest
charge is now few thousands more
than one-third what it once was. On
June 80 last, the total debt was 81 ,43S,-
542, 1896, and the interest actually paid
for the year ending that date was s5i,-
57s,S7O. 1t is only when these figures
are arranged so as to show what was
done monthly or daily in this direction
that the average reader can be made
to fully comprehend and appreciate
the magnitude of the aggregate sum
paid. Since August, 1865, there has
been paid down to June 80, 1854,
S1.317, ,sSS, ,j76, which Is equal to 800.
1862, ,5j7 each year for the nineteen
years. Reducing these figures to
months shows an average monthly re-
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06
Progress in Electrical Science.

Perhaps we have arrived at that
stage in our study of electricity where
our instruments are too coarse to
enable us to extend our investigations.
Yet how delicate and efficient they
are! Compare the instruments en-
ployed by Franklin, and even by Fara-
day, with those which are in constant
use to-day in our physical laboratories.
Franklin, by the utmost effort of his
Imagination, could not conceive,
probably, of mirror-galvanometer
that can detect the electrical action of
a drop Of distilled water on two So
called chemically pure platinum
plates, or of machine that can devel-
op from the feble magnetism Of the
earth current sufficiently stlong to
light the city of Philadelphia. Let
him who wanders among the historical
instruments of many of our college
collections stand before the immense
frictional electrical machine of Frank
Inns day, or gaze upon the rude cleo
trometers and galvanometers of that
time, and contrast Franklin's machine
with the small Toepler-Iloltz electrical
machine which, with n tenth of tho
size, gives spark ten times as strong
as Franklin's or the electromcters and
galvanometers of Faraday with the
mirror, galvanometers and clectrome-
terS of Sir William Thomson. Yet,
at the same time, let such an observer
think of the possibilities of the next
fifty years, for the advance of science
in a simple proportion to the time,
and the next fifty years will probably
see a far greater advance than the
one hundred years since the date of
Franklin's electrical work has seen.
Is not the state of our Imagination
like that of the shepherd boy who lies
upon hi back, looking up at the stars
of heaven, and trying to imagine what
is beyond the stars? The only conclu-
sion is that there is something far
more than we have ever beheld. Pop.
uldr Science MORthlV.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

A tremendous blast was fired near
Santa Cruz, CAL, few days ago. The
object was TO remove piece of mount
ain to make way for railway road
bed. There were $4,000 cubic yards of
bluff to be removed. This was covered
with trees that have been there for
ages; rocks that have stood the ravages
Of time for decades; brush that had be-
come solid mass, defying the pickax
to remove. To fulfill the contract and
have the road completed in a certain
number Of days looked like losing
proposition to the contractor. He de-
cided to employ powder. A tunnel
fifty feet long was run into the mount
ain and formed into q L. The powder
was put in three magazines, connected
by a battery sixty feet in the rear of
the mountain. At least 1900 people
gathered on the surrounding hills to
witness the explosion. At given
moment the blast was touched of.
The bluff upheaved, and tall trees and
huge rocks went helter-skelter, like a
lot Of school boys, from the mountain
side into the river. In an instant tho
great mass formed dam and inpeded
the progress of the river, and forced it
into an old channel Tho quantity Of
powder used was 4,500 pounds, and 1t
did the work SO completely that not a
particle Of sand, rock, redwood or pine
was left to show what had seemed o.
rock Of Gibraltar,
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Could Not Load It Again.

An Irish contractor with large
gang of laborers is engaged in re-
moving huge ledge of rocks In Tenth
avenue near Eighty-second street. He
is very irascible person, and Is con-
tinually berating the men for slowness
and stupidity. Yesterday morning n
hole was filed with powder and fired.
Instead of shattering the rock the
charge simply blew the tamping out
with sound like the explosion Of a
gigantic fire cracker, doing no execu-
ton save a slight, almost impercepti-
Bile crack. The contractor fairly
danced with rage.
"Load the hole ag'n, ye divil, ye.
Fwot dye name by wasting the powder
for, Load it ag'in, l tell you. Dye
hareP"
The blaster went about his work
calmly, paying no attention to the
order.
"Load the blasht ag'in, quick, "
shrieked the boss.
The answer came drawlingly: ITO
the divil wild your loading It ag'n.
Shure, 1 can't, tho holes broke. "
NeU York Times.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06
MOTHERS WORK.

Baking, stewing, and brewing,
Roasting, frying, and boiling,
sweeping, busting, and cleaning,
Washing, starching, and ironing,
Ripping, turning, and mending,
Cutting, basting, and stitching,
Making the old like new;
ShOestrings to lace,
Faces to wash
Buttons to sew,
And the like of such;
Stockings TO do,
While the children play;
Stories TO tell,
Tears wipe away,
Making them happy
The liyelong day.
II Is ever thus from morn till night;
Who says that a mothers work is light
At evening, four
Little forms In white;
Prayers all said
And the last goodnight,
Tucking them safe
In each downy bed,
Silently asking
Der each head
That the dear Father
In heaven VIII keep
Safe all my darliDgs,
Awake or asleep.
Then think the old adage true ever will prove
ut Is easy to labor for those that We loyc.n
All me! dear me! | often say,
AS hang the tumbled clothes away;
And the tear drops start
While my burdened heart
Aches for the mother across the way.
Where, oh, where are
Her nestlings flowni
All, all are gone,
Save one alOnel
Folded their garments
With tenderest care
Impressed the pillow
And vacant the chair,
No ribbons TO tie,
No faces to wash,
No hair all awry;
No merry voices
To hush into rest
God save them!
He took them,
And he kuowcth best!
But, ahl the heart anguish the tears that fall
This mothers work is the hardest Of all
-PhilddeIphid Sunday Republic.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

NJ. DEBovE, distinguished French
physician, said recently that certain
patients-parIcularly those having
sciatica-may often be cured by slight
ly cauterizing the lobe of the ear. Not
that there is any connection between
the lobe and the disease, but some peo-
pie have powerful imaginations.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06
InYAted by Insects.

New Orleans is suffering from an in
vasion of insects. They come at night
and are everywhere, but are most
numerous around electric lights. The
pests are so thick that people in the
streets are obliged to steer clear of the
lights or dodge under them. Millions
of little insects cover the sidewalks, in
some places deeply, making a most
disagreeable sound as they are crushed
to death under foot. Not only this,
they fill the eyes and nose and drop
down in ones neck, with an un-
pleasant wriggling and tickling. At
the theaters and other places one
night last week it became necessary to
extinguish the electric lights in order
to end the insect attack. They are
said to come from the swamps around
New Orleans, borne in by the wind.
The Times-Dcmocrat says the plague is
increasing every year.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06
The Devil in the Theatre.

The belief in the possibility of a
supernatural appearance on the stage
existed about the beginning of the
Seventeenth Century. In the "Sorccr-
cr," Il celebrated pantomime produced
by Rich, at Lincoln's Inn Fields, a
dance of INTERVALS was exhibited. They
were represented in dresses of black
and red, with fiery eyes and snaky
locks, and garnished with every APP
pendage of horror. They were twelve
in number. In the middle of their per-
formance an actor of some humor, who
had been accommodated with a spare
dress, suddenly appeared among them.
He was, if possible, more devilish-
looking than the rest, and seemed to
the beholders as if designed for the
principal character. His fellow furies
became alarmed. They knew he did
not belong to them, and they judged
him an internal in earnest, Their fears
being excited, a general panic ensued,
and the whole group fled different ways
some to their dressing-rooms, others
to their hOmes-in order to avoid the
destruction which they believed to be
coming upon them for the profane
mockery they had been guilty of. The
odd devil was non inUentHS. He took
himself invisibly away, through fears
of another kind. He was, however, seen
by many, in imagination, TO fly through
the roof of the house, and they fancied
themselves almost sufliocated by the
stencil he had left behind. The confu-
sion of the audience is scarcely to be
described. They retired to their fami-
lies, informing them of this appearance
of the Devil, with many additional cir
cumstances of his exploit added. So
thoroughly was this believed, that the
explanation given by Rich himself, in
the presence of his friend Bcncraft, the
actor of the part, that it was only de-
signed as an innocent frolic to confuse
the dancers, did not entirely counter
act the idea.-Me Current, Chicago.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

PARIsIANs declare that the sceptre
of the day is a needle, and that the
millionaires are tailors, dressmakcrs.
and milliners; but the needle in the
hand of great Partisan tradesman is
different sort of weapon than that
sceptre in the hand of working
woman.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

IMPRISONMENT has improved the
physical condition of the Tichbornc
claimant. When he was sentenced
eleven years ago he weighed 364
pounds; his weight when he stepped
out of his compulsory residence was
only 2j2, but he may still be eligible to
fat mans club.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

A BAND of six housebreakers who
have long infested Passy, Anteuil, and
Neuilly, were cleycrly tracked to a
low wine shop at Grenelle, where they
were all captured at supper, not, how
ever, without violent Struggle with
the police. The burglars all pulled
from their pockets loaded revolvers
and poignards.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

G. P. r. JAMES, the prolific creator
of "thc solitary horseman' in the
English novel, was for some years
British counsul at Norfolk, Va, when
he visited Washington several times,
He was promoted by a transfer to
the consulate at Venice, where he
died
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

ANingenious Frenchman has applied
a cushion of red india-rubber to the
bottoms of series of household OBJ
jects in earthenware, porcelain, glass,
ETC., so that they can be inclined at an
angle of from 40 to 60 degrees without
falling over. Ocean steamers may
profit from the use of such an inven-
tinn nc this
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

SCHAEFER can do anything with bill
lard balls. AT the exhibition at the
Grand Union billiard hall he knocked
his ball of the table and it went spin
ming along the floor. Let it be-"
yelled Uncle Bill TO spectator who
stopped to pick it up, "it will come
back upon the table and count
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

MR. DIT TOIT, on behalf of the South
African republic, has conveyed to Karl
Blind message of thanks for his
efforts to aid the restoration of the in
dependence of the Transvaal common
wealth
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

THERE is no truth in the widely
circulated report that Miss Mackey,
the step-daughter of the American
"silver king" is betrothed to Prince
Colonno, The whole story is pure
fiction.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

Many centuries ago the ethical idea of pure
and simple humanity has been expressed by
our teachers, and yet the new apostles Of
ethical culture claim for 1t the right Of inven-
tion, and attempt to pass 1t on the present
generation as their own original IDEAS for
which they hold letters Of patent The 0cci.
dent on le Hdrbest Feast.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

DR.. CuMMINs, of Boston, has been
held in $1,000 to answer charge of
man-slaughter in having caused the
death of patient by carclessness in
prescribing.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

THERE is a complaint in France of
overpressurc in the secondary schools.
Too many studies are forced upon the
pupils. The minister of public in
struction has reduced the hours of
study.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

The Rathskeller, restaurant al
Bremen, has had continuous eXis-
tence of over seven centuries. 1t is
the oldest restaurant in Christendom.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IS editing Il
paper in Kalamazoo, Mich, and says
he has heard enough rot about his
name being Francis Bacon.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

The lighthouse at Aogishi, in tho
prefecture of Wakayama, Japan, is
said to have been DESTROYED ON Aug. 25.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

THERE were twenty-six cases of chol-
era in Toxic, Japan, during August,
and three of them ended fatally.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

Mr.. EDWIN LOWE again advocates
the use of explosives for bringing
about an increased rainfall in New
South Wales.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

THE death of Charles de Groote, Bel
gian minister plenipotentiary to Japan,
took place at Yokohama on Sept. II.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06

A LONDON tobacconist displays
Isaac Newton's pipe in his window as
an advertisement.