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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
ANCIENT RUINS IN MEXICO.


Description of a Uonde'Tid Pyramid in
Sonora.
Ancient ruins have recently been dis
covered in Sonora, which, if reports are
true, surpass anything of the kind yet
found on this continent says the Chihu-
ahua Enterprise. The ruins are about
four leagues south of Magdelena.
There is one pyramid which has a base
of 1850 feet, and rises to the height of
$50 feet. There is a winding roadway
from the bottom, leading up an easy
grade to the top, wide enough for car
carriages to pass over, and said to be
twenty-three miles in length. The outer
walls of the railway are laid in solid
masonry. Huge blocks of granite in
rubber work, and in circles are as uni
form and the grade as regular as they
could be made at this day by II best
engineers. The wall is only occasion
ally exposed, being covered over with
debris and earth, and in many places
the sahuaro and other indigenous plants
and trees have grown up, giving the
pyramid the appearance of a mountain.
To the east of the. pyramid a short dis
lance is a small mountain about the
same size, which rises about the same
height, and, if reports are true, it will
prove more interesting to the archeolo-
gist than the pyramid.
There seems to be a heavy layer of a
species of gypsum about halfway up the
mountain. which is as white as snow,
and may be cut into any conceivable
shape, yet sufficiently hard to render
its shape after being cut. In this layer
of stone a people of an unknown age
have cut hundreds upon hundreds of
rooms 16x8 to 16X1S feet square. These
rooms are cut out of solid stone and so
even and true are the walls, floor and
ceiling, so plumb and level, as to delay
variation. There are no windows in
the rooms, and but one entrance, which
is always from the top. The rooms are
but eight feet high from floor to ceiling,
the stone is so white that it seems al
most transparent, and the rooms are
not at all dark.
On the walls of these rooms are num-
erous hieroglyphics and representations
of human beings cut in the stone in diff
ferent places. But, strange to say, all
the hands have five fingers and thumb,
and the feet have six toes. Charcoal is
found on the floor ofmany of the rooms,
which would indicate that they
built fires in their houses. Someimple-
ments OF every description are to be
found in and about the rooms. The
house or rooms are one above the other
to three or more storys high, but be-
tween each stories there is a jog or re-
cess the full width of the room below,
SO that they present the appearance of
steps leading up the mountain.
Who these people are, what age they
lived in, must be answered, if answered
at all, ''by the wise men of the east"
Some say they were ancestors of the
a race of Indians who still in
habit southen Sonora, who have blue
Eyes, fair skin and light hair, and are
said to be a moral, industrious and fru-
gal race of people, who have a written
language and know something of mathe-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24

home, and by the time that the chore:
were finished the clock struck ten. The
next morning was a bright one, and
Caleb declared that he felt better than
he had for many months.
at seems so much better to use your
own things he remarked.
''You are right" assented his wife.
By the time the month had passed
Mr.. HAYNES had bought another horse,
subscribed for the weekly paper and
furnished the house and farm with the
necessary implements and conven-
fences.
At the next Grange meeting Mr.. and
Mrs. Haynes answered promptly when
Jonathan Fuller came to their names on
the roll, and when there was order and
quiet, Caleb arose and said he would
like to say a few words. The whole
audience was silent. They seemed to
think that they were in the presence of
a man whom they had injured.
Ladies' and gentlemen" began
Caleb his voice coming out with an eff
fort, II was not present at the last
meeting, and / am glad of it. You
have done great good. l don't want
anybody to feel bad because he might
have talked about me behind my back.
l am cured of the miserable, beggarly
habit of borrowing, and that is enough.
| move We speak upon another sub
ject."
At the conclusion of this brief speech,
which was uttered with a great deal of
feeling, Mr.. Boynton stepped forward
and pressed Caleb's hands. Every one
in the room followed the example of
the agile old man, and Haynes felt that
he was honored beyond his merits.
AT the end of the unusual perform
some n suggested that singing
should be next thing in order.
Not an objection was offered. so
Jonathan Fuller hunted around a while
for his tuning fork and started, There
is rest for the weary" in as high a key
as he could maintain without r%upturing
his windpipe. To be sure some said
''we-ar-ry'' and others let the melodi-
ous strains pass through their noses, but
heir hearts were e%nraptured, and their
souls aspiring above the sordid earth.
Even the little black spider came out of
lis dark chamber with three other little
and listened intently to the
music, and did not seem half so dis
as during the last meeting, when
hey raised such a dust.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24

His particular pet is an enormous
mustache, which waves over his Shout
ders like a pair of suspenders.
Its natural color is red. but his enc
mics solemnly state that he gives it the
somber shade of a ravens wing.
If that be true he is the only candi-
date who has ever dyed for his country
without shedding blood.
He is a good man, but his weight is
not known.
AT present his campaign is conducted
without spirit.
The result is already an established
fact.
The original st. John lost his head by
having it served up on a charger.
The present St. John will probably
lose his in a water spout
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
RAYS of MIRTH.

STOPPING over to pick up a fair lady's
handkerchief loses its joy when it sacri-
fees a suspender button.
Talk about a mar turning a woman's
head! 1t is passing another woman
with a new bonnet that does it.-Cin-
cinnati Saturday Night.
While it is better to be born lucky
than rich it is better to marry a poor
girl with a sweet temper than a rich
one with a red-headed one.-Phitadet-
phid Cronicle-Herald.
sixteen feet make a rod" says the
old arithmetics. But then the Chicago
girl did not figure so largely in litera-
ture then as she does now.-Burlington
Free Press.
At marriage the bride always meets
her betrothed at the altar with gloves
on, but after marriage she generally
handles her husband without Gloves
Yonkers Statesman.
An English. clergyman, waxing sar-
castle in the pulpit over the enormities
of the age, exclaimed: And these
things, my brethren, are done in the
so-called nineteenth century. Anon
Il lost my dog" said Mrs. Rarity.
''Why don't your husband look for
himP" some one asked. "Who, JimP
Why, you know Jim's or the detective
force. He can't find anything
ArkdnsaW Traveller.
Husband-''The Browns are still liv-
ing in New York. Very nice people,
and we are under obligations to Them"
Wife-"I'd ask them here to spend the
summer with us if l was certain they
couldn't come.-Puck.
Parent-''You have been in the water!
You were fishing!" Son-"Yes, ma'am,
l was in the water; but | got a boy out
who might have been drowned Parent
Indeed, who was itP" Son-"My-
self. "-Judge.
A man whose knowledge is based on
actual experience says that when call
ing on their ~sweethearts young men
should carry affection in their hearts,
perfection in their and confec-
ton in their pockets.-Boston Journal.
IN. f-stu- ..lo.u Er;1okatb El1fa - AIha-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24
Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.

The numerous uses to which cleo
tricity is being put promises to remove
a cause of many secret disagreements
of married life. Before long. by SIM
ply pressing a button on the side of the
bed, the electric spark will light the
fire in the range, or shut up the stove
and put on the kettle, and thus no
longer necessitate an early trip to the
kitchen on a cold morning, when the
thermometer is below zero, and the oil
cloth feels as if it had been hanging
out over night on the north pole.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24

Dairying in Great Britain is growing
with great rapidity. 1t employs $780,
600, 900 to 81, 900, 900, 900 of tenants
capital, and Sc, 500, 900 600 to $780,
600, 900 of landlords. Yet the weekly
consumption of milk is but 8 pints per
inhabitant; of butter, 81 ounces; of
cheese, 4 ounces.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-24

The family of widow Elizabeth Ellis Of Able
vile county, South Carolina, numbers 1876.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11
SgritattnFal department.
SOWING GRASS SEED.

Ny experience and observation is
that it is wasteful practice, at least,
to SOW grass seed early enough inthe
fall to have it make some growth be-
fore the ground freezes. In all cases
when l have done so some portion of
the grass would be killed by the late
fall and early spring freezing, and
these spots would have to be re-seed-
lin order to get agood stand of grass.
have seen several pieces of grass
this spring that were sown last fall,
which were badly killed.
= If i were going to seed down land
to grass in the fall, should delay
sowing the seed till just before the
ground froze, so that it would not
terminate till spring. | have had
good success seeding in this way on
land free from weeds, but on land
badly infested with them the first
crop is liable to be injured to GER
tain extent. One fall fitted two pieces
of land all ready to SOW. About the
first of the next April the snow went
off so that the ground was bare, and
l sowed these fields with grass seed.
The same day snow fell again to the
depth of several inches, and the
ground was not bare again till early
in May. On both of these fields l
had good crops Of grass that summer.
At another time, having my land
all ready TO SOW in the fall, / sowed
my grass seed the last of April. On
the field were patches of snow, and
the ground was wet and soft. When
the grass began to grow l could see
no difference in its appearance where
the ground was bare when the seed
was sown from where il was covered
with snow. That season was n dry
one, and light crop was the result.
The latter part of the season we had
more rain and the grass got good
stand, and the next year there was a
good crop.
For a number of years past [ have
sown all of my grass seed in the
spring, and have obtained the best
results from that method. AS early
in the spring as my land is dry enough
10 work, it is we'll worked with q cul-
tivator and harrow, and the seed sown
on the fresh soil. The first rain will
cover the seed sufficiently, and with a
favorable season the crop is ready to
cut in twelve weeks from the time of
sowing. This year l sowed my grass
seed the first of May, and as we had
wet weather up to the first of June
the grass has made q full growth,
and there is prospect of heavy
crop if the weather should continue
favorable.-C. T. AlUord.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11

The STRAWBERRY BED.-As soon
as the fruit is picked the vines of the
old bed should be ploughed under
and the land set with cabbage or tur-
hips or some other late crop; thus
not only utilizing the land, but what
is of still more Importance, destroy
ing the weeds and grass before they
ripen their seed. He who permits
his old strawberry bed to remain un-
til next spring, fills his garden with
seeds that will take several years to
eXterminate.
The new strawberry bed should be
carefully looked after and kept per-
fectly clean of all weeds and grass.
In hoeing care should be taken not
to disturb the runners that are to fur
nish plants for next years crop of
fruit. The first two sets of plants
being of the most value, should be
carefully hoed without disturbing
them. Every man who cultivates
five rods of land should have two of
it in strawberries, which if well cared
for will furnish all the fruit a small
family would care to eat.-PIough
man.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11
ALL SORTS.
CaStOrI1.

Castoria.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Il Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she was "a Miss she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children. she gave them Castora.
The rising of the tied-turning out to build the
fire and cook the breakfast.
butchers Extract of Roots for home made beer.
25 cent bottle makes 10 gallons root beer 'Such
mother used to make" 1t is a fine spring Tonic
and is palatable refreshing and healthy at any time
butchers ready cleaner Datcher's dead shot for
bed bugs Butchers fly killer-sold by Dutton,
Barton. Hildreth, Barton Landing. Newland,
Irasburgh, and at stores generally
Never cry over spilled milk. 1t is easier to buy
some chalk and make
Cramps and pains in the stomach and bowels,
dysentery and diarrhea are very common just now
and should be checked at once. Johnson's Anodyne
Liniment will positively all such and
should be kept in every family.
The most distressing case ofscrofua blood poison
that we ever heard of cured by Parsons Purga-
tive Pills. These pills make new rich blood, and
taken one night for three months viii change the
| blood in the entire system. sae ~ ~ 49,
I Four prisoners have escaped from Sing Sing
lover the garden wall.
/ A Rope About our Necks.-A weak stomach Oh
enfeebled circulation is like rope about necks
We strung up and unstrung alternately till ex
istence becomes unbearable. Burdock Blood Bit
ters will arrest all this misery. Burdocks BlooC
Bitters are boon to the sick. Let us remem
Der this fact.
Blessed is the that has thermometer; 70
he shall never know how hot he is.
Il
That weak back or pain in the side or hips 70
will find Immediately relieved when a Hop Plaste
is applied. 1t strengthens the muscles, giving til
ability to do hard work without suffering TAX
none but this, tits
As they passed a gentleman whose optics WEI
terribly the bias, little Dot murmured: ssNI
I he's got one eye that DON'T go.''
I'll Vegetine will cure the worst of Scrofula fl
4 which no medicine has attained such a great rep
taton.
I'll Nothing is heard Of David Davis. 1t is rumor,
n 4 that he has placed himself on barbed wire fen
A and found it incohvenient to move. az,
: Ayers Hair Vgor is safe, agreeable and benc
i cal. -Itisthe nIoste elegant, and its effects
:. lasting, making it the most economical of tot
preparations. BY its use ladies keep their. hi
abundant and natural in color, lusre, and texture
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11

MORE CATTLE AND MORE GRAM
Cattle are the basis of all good hus-
bandry. Our pioneer farming, in this
country, is grain after grain, crop af-
ter crop, draft after draft, until Ma
lures Cashier writes, Enthusiastically,
"No funds in bank" and then the
pioneer often sells and moves on, to
the ruin of more fresh fields.
In the States where dairying has
largely increased within the last two
decades, good dairy farmers have
found their capacity for grain-raising
increased instead of diminished. In
many of the most compact dairying
districts of Ohio, New York, and
Pennsylvania, more wheat is now
raised than years ago, when less stock
was kept. Where farmers have
learned the value of manure, and how
best to save and apply it, they are
able to increase their cattle and theil
crops. There is a gradual change
for the better coming over the agri
| culture of the older States, based up
on increased cattle husbandry.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11
Religions department.
THE SAVIOUR'S LOOK UPON
PETER.

We do not remember to have seen
picture Of the Saviour's look upon
Peter, when, at the time of his third |
denial of Him, Immediately the cock
crew. We are told that at that in |
teresting moment ''the Lord turned |
and looked upon Peter Not every |
painter is competent to put that look |
upon canvas just as it was. Nor may
any pen be any more competent to
the task. 1t was, doubtless, look
of blended significance. There must
have been in the Saviour's counte-
nance an expression of mingled emo
tons. At a single glance there may
have been conveyed to Peter what
would have required many words to
express.
1t doubtless spoke to him reproof.
1t was to him an impressive reminder
of the great wrong that he had done.
And it had its designed effect in this
regard. ''And Peter remembered
the words of the Lord, how He had
said unto him, Before the cock crow,
thou shalt deny Me thrice. And Pc
ter went out, and wept bitterly.
1t was, too, g1.ieged look. 1t
was probably such look as that
which kind mother turns upon
Maynard son who has wronged her.
1t seemed to say to Peter, GLOW
couldst thou have had it il thine
heart to do thus unto Me? How
couldst thou thus have wounded Me
in the house of My friends?''
1t was at the same time a pityi,ag
look. For all that Peter had fallen
so low and SO basely, the Saviour had
it in His heart to compassionate him.
He felt for him in his wretched con-
dition. Forgetting His own great
impending sorrows, He had it in His
heart to sympathize with poor, unhap
by Peter. He knew that, notwith-
standing all he had done, he was u
genuine deciple, and that the time of
reflection would soon come, when he
would be overwhelmed with grief
And by that timely glance the gra-
cious Saviour would pour soothing
balm into that wounded and bleeding
heart.
And still fun ther, it was a soTroaC-
ing look. The Saviour well knew
that when Peter should come to him.
self, he would be exercised with such
a deep sense of his great sinfulness
and unworthiness, that he would re-
pent with the deepest contrition.
His heart would be broken and con-
| trite. He would feel that he could
never forgive himself, and that he
was too great sinner to be forgiven.
By that kindly look the Saviour would
inspire him with hope. 1t was
prompted with the same thoughtful
kindness that directed the angel to
specify Peter in particular in the
message to the deciples, answering
them that he would go before them
into Galilee, where they should see
him. .4
These four elements, reproof, grief,
pity and forgiveness, we think, were
all mingled in that look upon Peter.
1t doubtless made deep and last
ing impression upon him. Often did
it occur to him in his after life tc
humble, to cheer, and to quicken him
|
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11
LUCKY AND UNLUCKY FARM
ERS.


1t is quite amusing to hear, as one
frequently does, farmers say that
such and such ones are always lucky,
while they are always having bad
luck. Now nothing is more absurd
than such talk. 1t is true that with
some farmers many things 60 wrong.
A COW will get choked eating roots;
cause, carelessness on the part of the
owner in not cutting the roots. The
cattle will get through the pasture and
into the corn OF cabbage field and do
considerable damage cause, want of
care in building or keeping the fence
in repair. A horse will get loose in
the stable and eat too much meal and
perhaps die; cause, carelessness.
We might go on and give long list
of bad luck (?) that is likely to come
to the careless farmer each year.
There is no such thing as luck in the
matter. Some farmers spend some
time and a good deal of breath in de
nouncing their ill luck, when, if the,
would only be more careful, the,
would have no such trouble. The,
seem to envy their fortunate neigh
pors who have only good luck. !
they would only ask these sam
neighbors, they would find that thos
they termed lucky were only save
from losses of cattle and other thing
by the care they take.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11
ESTATE OF DAN. o. SARTWELL.
Notice

The undersigned, having been appointed by Hon.
Probate Court for the District of Orleans Commis-
sioners, to receive, examine, and adjust all claims
and demands of all persons against the estate of
Dan. o. SartweI late of Glover, in said district de-
ceased, and all claims exhibited in offset thereto
hereby give notice that win meet for the purpos-
es aforesaid, at the Town Clerks Office, in Glover,
on the 18th day of August and 18th day of january
next, from o'clock, p. m, until 3 O'Clock, p. M,
eachof said days. and that six months from the 18th
day of july A. d. 1884, is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors to present their claims to us
for examination and allowance
Dated at Glover, this 10Th day of july A. d. 1884.
IS e cAAPfN sIIM HoNRR:n Commissioners.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11
STRAWBERRIES

Setting potted strawberry plants is
of comparatively recent introduction,
and therefore brief description of
the methods of growing and planting,
as we'll as the advantages gained by
setting them, may be of use to our,
readers at this time. Like many
other advances made in horticultural
pursuits, pot-grown strawberries have
been warred against increasingly by
those who should have welcomed
their advent as new source of reve-
nue.. The advantages they possess
over layer plants are too plainly seen
to admit of any long discussions
against them.
InygrowIng potted plants, as in all
other stock, there are nurserymen
who send out plants not properly
grown nor properly packed, and, I'M
der such circumstances, they are not
worth so much as well-grown layer
plants. .
The naodus operandi of growing
ported strawberry plants is as follows !:
After the fruiting season is past, and
when the parent plant puts out run
hers, prepare number of two-inch
pots filled with fine earth /; select the
strongest runners and sink the pot in
the ground to the level of the earth,
press the crown of the runner into
the pot, when it at once commences
to throw out roots. In the course of
ten days to two weeks the pot is COM
pletely filed with well-grown and
healthy roots the runner is then sep
arated from the parent plant, the pot
taken up and the new plant removed
from it, with the ball of earth adhe-
ring to the roots, and set out.
Any one who has strawberry plants
can, after little practice, grow al
the ported plants needed at a small
expense, and that will answer theil
purpose full as well as those obtained
from a nursery.
The advantages of pot-growr
plants over layers, is that they ma,
be set out at any time desired-in th'
hottest and dryest weather-with th,
loss of scarcely plant; and a gooC
crop of the largest and finest berrie
can be had the following season. w
advise our readers to try them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-08-11
Let no young farmer start out with

Let no young farmer start out with
the idea that success or failure is a
matter of luck and chance. 1t is said,
"God helps the man who helps him.
SELF" and it is true. 1t is very sell
dom that one fails to succeed who
starts right and with the determine
ton to succeed. The lazy and shift
less generally talk most about luck
the Industrious man says pluck rather
than luck.-F. C. Hyde an Congrega-
fjOn0ZiSt.