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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-12-12
Closing Exercises

| SAO5n48 I9AOKC1D06
OF School district NJ. II MARBLE From
on Saturday svering. 18th inst, at 7
o'clock,
Singing by the school.
Introductory address by Miss Carrie
Wootan.
DialoEuc-Know-noshing, by D. j.
Wootan, G. T.. Cook and A. L.
| Potts.
RecitauOns-
Besntiss Of Nature, by Cora C,ok.
My Little Doll, By Veronica A.cpher-
s1n.
D.alogue-The Man and Not the Money,
by D. j. WOotxn. Mrs Maggie
Potts, Annie Cook and Chariotty
Jtbe.
Rscitation-What I'd Like 10 b., BY
Lillian Evans. Carrie Wontan.
Birdie Cook .Mlntis lobe. Eucebie
Aacpbt rsOn, Amelia Thomas. Va
lsria Macpherson, Ethel Crsxson,
Cora Cook.
Dialogue English Traveller. BY, d.. j.
Wootan and A. L. Potts.
Rscitations--
The Man cfsWords. by Willie lobe.
Inc W,nther, by Ethel C sasor.
Dialot ue-Hole in tho Carpet, BY ID. J.
Woctan. Gillian Evans and A. b.
Maepnerson-
Tho L ~ Lad, by Lac Thomas.
he Biggest Pic. Of Pie. by Mintis
AL is Action, ny Eucsbie Macr hersoc.
Dialogu, = The Way to John Smiths,
ny u. j. WoOtan, Ira Cook and |
G. (. Cook.
Little Qitstioner, by Aunis Cook and |
e Urgs WootAn.
The Puzzled DCichman, BY Gaorys
Thomas.
Little Acts Of Love, BY CharIotty job.
DialoEu TIE G,idiron, by A. l.. Potts.
G. !. Cook and A. B. Ascpher-
son.
The Boys Dream, bv Charles Cook.
NobOdy's Guild, by Lillian Evans.
Nav Teacher, by w F
Wootan, Ira G. Cook and L %
Creason.
&ocitatirns-
A Eadj OF Talent, by Lillian Evans.
Bndio's Creed, by Birdie Cook
A Disappointed Lover, by Ira Cook.
)ialos us- rhe Reconstruct Man, by
d.. Wootan, Lillian Evans and
ANNE Cook.
{ scitxt;ons-
Tho Young Tyro, by Carris Wootau
and George WootAp.
The Boys Troubiss, by Lse Ores son.
Visit from the Smith Fam
ilv. by Maybe Potts, Lillian
Evans, A. L. Potts. ID. J. Wootan,
Ira Cook. w. F. Wootan, Aunie
Cook and Carr is Wootan.
ong by the soho oil.
'slsdictory BY Annie Cook.
Como one. come all Admission free.
4. B. MACPHERSON,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-12-12
CORRESPONDENCE.

Ne mute correspondence from all
rarts Of the county and sci1 make salts
factory arrangements Wit6 parties ,eho
will aorite regularly. Send for particu-
lars
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10

ii rottiag badly IN the fields, or be
compelled to let it be still more injured
BY further exposure 10 The dews and
rains. Sugar cane, rice and potatoes
are al doing well
Lafayette Aavertiser Judge j. g.
Parkerson, acting for Mr.. c. z. Hunt
ington the well-lsnown general manager
Of the Central Pacific Railroad system,
purchased this weel, aconsiderabletraet
Of land ID this parish for excavation
purposes in INC building Of the Lonis-
lana Central road. The land in ques-
ton is Mr.. J Z. Torrence's place
about three miles northeast of town,
containing about two arpents, and a
small adjoining place acquired from
Mr.. Alcidc Monton II is rolling and
admirably adapted for the use in
tended, and The price paid for the
whole = SIX thousand five hundred
dollars--is reasonable, if not cheap.
Everything indicates the building of
the Louisiana Central road within the
next year, which will not be any too
soon.
Iberia Farmer: We are informed
Of fatal mistake (cansing the death
of two OF hischiidren) made last week
by Mr.. Yalsin Simoneaud, living near
the town of Jeanerette. The particu-
lars, as learned, are as follows: The
children were sick and doctor was
called in, and prescribed separate rem
edies for them. The druggist filed
the prescriptions properly, but in ad-
ministering them the remedies were
changed, owing no doubt to the lack
of necessary instructions on the labels,
and the effect was that, as above
stated, they succumbed from the error.
As matter Of course, no blame can
be attached to any one, but such sad
misfortune, aseribable to innocent
carelessness, will serve to caution
others who may have two or more sick
persons at home.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10
The Vernon Log Business.

Vernon Condenser.
The log business is destined to be
in the near future leading industry
of the parish. There are now several
Ioggeries in the parish which are do
ing fine business in the way ofrrnn-
ming timber.
Orange, Texas, is now the market
of our timber men. The logs are cut,
hauled and placed into Anaeoco and
its tributaries and fioated into the
Sabine river, thence down the Sabine
to Orange
There is one of two places destined
to be the Grand Rapids of the South,
and that place will either be Lake
Charles, La, OF Orange, Texas. The
decision rests with railroad constrnc.
ton. If road WAS constructed
through the vast pineries of Vernon
and Calcasieu parishes to either place
it would cause a revolution in the in
dustry of our parish.
We see from the New Orleans Pea
yatae that a road would be surveyed
from Niblet's Bluff to Alexandria
We do not know If this is correct /; ye
our New Orleans contemporaries hayl
recently given publicity to the timbe'
resources of our section, and the pub
lie mind is being directed hither, ans
things that may seem vague will prov
realities.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10
WE,MTRE.

II IST Of Jurors drawn 10 serve for the
j Regular November Term OF the Four
teenth Judicial District Court, IN and for Cal
easieu Parish, La, beginnlng Monday, No
vember 49, 1886
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10
saII ON Deck.
orange Tribune.

Orange Tribune.
Some people are apt to suppose
from the tone of newspaper articles on
the subject that the lumber industry
Of Eastern Texas is dead, but such is
not the case. Orange, Beaumont and
Lake Charles are still shipping and
receiving orders, and while the outgo
would most assuredly be much larger
with more favorable rates Of trans
portation, the real cause of the hub
bnb is probably speculation as to the
future. Any rejecting person can per
ceive at a glance that the railroad
company cannot afford to continue q
policy which would inevitably squelch
out so lucrative a business as the three
towns named afford. They pay, in
the way of freight alone, an average
of more than $4,000 per month .
Railroad men are not fools, however
grasping they may be, and when the
developments of any new policy be
gins to show up detrimental to their
Interests a change is certain to follow
---and such a change may be expected
with reference to rates from our lum-
Der centers, for the shrinkage in ship
ments will soon unfold to the sight of
the railroad people facts which they
now refuse to credit. Competitive
rates with other points are sure to
come, and Orange, Beaumont and
Lake Charles will soon occupy their
former position as to the interior mar
ket. But this is no argument against
continuing the effort to secure otEer
means Of transporting our products
and finding a new market. We can
do this without making war on the
railroads. Let us accept the terms of
the railways, make the best of them,
and while trusting to the outcome of
policy that is new and untried for
better things, concentrate our efforts
and energies in securing deeper water
and trade in other countries.
We consider the above very sensi-
bic argument. Let us go to work and
take care Of ourselves. Help comes
to those who help themselves.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10

Not one of the least signs of indus
trial and business depressions abroad
as well as at home is the decline in
immigration. The total immigration
of the eight months of 1885, ending
on the 3lst of August was 94l ,035, a
decline of 61,999 from the immigra-
tion of a corresponding period Of 1884.
The immigration from Germany, the
greatest European contributor to the
population Of the United States, fell
from III ,766 in the eighth months Of
1884 to 80,722 this year, decline of
upward of 8 | per cent. In the eight
months Of this year the migration from
the United Kingdom was 1920,
against SO 1854 for the same months
of 1884, the decline in Irish immigra-
tion being a little more than 1000.
From Italy alone there is o slight in
crease iii immigration, the number
rising from II ,481 in 1884 10 IL ,53e
in 1885. The mueh-abused Hnnga.
rians and Bohemians contributed only
1921 10 the population Of the United
States ii the last eight months, against
1896 in The same period last yeaF.
NJ. o. STATES.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10

Here is wealth. Wealth means indie
penaenee. Tie Keynote IS Or. Boaan.
kos Cough and Lung Syrup, the best
Cough Syrup in the world. Cures
Coughs. Colds, Pains ii the Chest,
bronchitis and Ffimals onannaption
ssaSse Ssa g;saA TSiieg i'll every ease.
Take no ether Price 30 oants and q
Samples free Sold - gm, Meyer.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10

Polypaaay viii moi Be tolerated IN
AIexicp
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10

Watches, with chains. far sasiIa,
at ] ". BRSANs
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10
special Notice.

.WrfH Il Il
N WOULD RESPECTFULLY, , ya1Iis
attention 81 ny friend. as,A H
this parish to the patron IA zalig ,'ss x usis
FLYNN. Having reeenly X IL n
Treatment Tor an affection y SssiF h 4
spine, apprOximating close y NJ 1ss|
under dispensatien Of supls XIX lssllal
his skillfuf exertiens, 4 Wss n M WA ia
health. Also, my son-ln- ias WIKI X X
fer 4 long time prostralea. r ,a,.isst
rising on Ills groin and 2 cons,,, ,.seiIsE
not able 10. work, but hourly e L .s1I.ll
has been, through bis inssIrs ssisSi
stored to health, and can now az ~
support OF his family by llis ~ w, ise \ II
III testimony of the an Isln u MI III sAl'
recommend him to the notice. Y
be aimiiarly Affected. !, = 4 gIlIl''
nav-I Ito mar4fst,l z. 2. y -
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-10

Are yon Bili0usl Are yoatron-
bled with Sick Headache, Indigestion,
Costiyeneas, Torpid Liver Or Janndicea
lf VS.. I1.E. Liver pills viii cnre yon.
For sale by Or. w A. Knapp, Lake
Charles. nov22-ly.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


Imperfect compact of the soil around
the Seed in which is included undue
hardening OF the surface by rains, is the
chief cause of failure in seed termination.
In planting seed corn we have often
found difference of one or two days in
The time for corn to come up in favor of
that where the seed was pressed into the
ground with the foot after being covered.
In very dry time some of the corn not
stepped on never came up, and the diff
ference of one or two days was where
conditions were apparently favorable.
A kernel of corn is large and swells to
twice its bulk before the seed shoots
starts to grow. The smaller grain seeds
are more liable to injury than corn.
Probably on most fields large proper
ton never comes up, or grows so feebly
that it makes only weak plants. This is
one reason why very thin seeding often
produces extremely large crops when
other conditions are favorable. One of
the heaviest oat crops ever reported had
only a bushel and peck of seed per
acre. But the soil was in fine filth and
just moist enough. Probably il this
case nearly every seed grew and was able
to stool so as to entirely cover the ground
five weeks after sowing.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
Planting Cut Potatoes.

The common way of dropping cut po-
tatoes is to drop the pieces cut side
downward, and of course with the eyes
up and ready to grow. But great i'm
provement on this is to be particular to
have the cut side up and the eyes down
ward. AS each piece is dropped step on
it to press it farther into the loose soil.
The roots start from the base of the eye
and needs lrmer soil than is usually
scraped over them. If there is hollow
space under the potato set the hill will
suffer from drought all the season and
cannot amount to much. Many failures
from planting on newly-turned sod re-
suit from this cause. After potato is
planted cultivation does not much affect
the character of the soil under the hill.
Hence all the greater necessity that the
planting should be just right. 1t is
possible to use merely the eye of the po-
tato with only the skin attached, as
seed. In such case the ground should
be in fine filth and fertile, so that the
roots, as soon as formed. may get nutri-
ment to push the plant with vigorous
growth. In the ordinary large sets the
first growth of the potato is from starch
decomposed in the potato itself.-C ulti-
Gator
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
Oil on the Water.

A correspondent sends to the Scientific
AmericaH the following letter relative to
the effects Of pouring oil on a rough sea:
On the evening of August /, 1888, | and
two companions in adventure were
thrown on one of the Santa Barbara
islands, about one hundred and fifty
miles northwestward from San Diego oil
the California coast. Two days later we
were picked up by an Italian fisherman,
and carried to Santa Barbara. In our
passage across the channel which sepa.
rates Buena Ventura from the island of
Santa Cruz, we encountered gale, and
the white caps ran pretty high. Our
boat was pretty small, and the flying
spray drenched everything on board In
called our attention to smoother sea
ahead, and went on to explain that it
was due to oil on the water, and that the
oil came up from natural wells in the
bottom of the ocean.
BY this time the boat was gliding
through the calmer sea. ! noticed that
the waves were running as high as ever,
but the crests of them remained unbro-
ken, and no white caps were to be seen.
The tumbling and roaring of the white
caps, the flying OF the spray before the
wind, and the crests of the waves blown
off, were no longer to be seen or heard;
but the size of the pillows was not other.
wise diminished. The waves were now
huge swclls of the ocean, following each
other regularly and silently, and the
wind appeared to glide smoothly along
the surface of the sea, unable to rutile or
disturb the water
The oiled water was only narrow
strip, running nearly east and west.
should judge that it was less than one
half mile. l could not observe its
length. The oil field is just fourteen
miles north of Santa Cruz Island Per.
haps the attention of the public has been
called to it long ago, but did not know
of its existence until saw it, and have
not heard of it since.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
HOW TO PrcserXc Fences.

There are several methods of prepar-
ing fence posts for the purpose of in
creasing their lasting qualities. 1t has
been learned by experience that posts
thoroughly seasoned when set will out
last those put into the ground when the
wood is green, and it has also been
proved that those set with the tops in
the ground will remain sound long after
others from the same quality of wood
set with butts down have decayed.
Charring the ends of the posts set in the
ground drives out the sap contained in
the wood, and closes the pores so as to
prevent the moisture in the soil from
penetrating it. This is probably the
cheapest method known, and has proved
very satisfactory. A paint composed of
linseed oil and finely pulverized char
coal is very highly recommended. To
prepare this put quantity of oil in
strong kettle, place over the fire and let
remain until it boils, then stir in the char
coal until it is as thick as ordinary paint
and apply liberal coat to the pos;s.
Coal tar is used by some instead of lin
seed oil, equal parts of pulverized char
coal and quicklime being used instead of
the charcoal alone. The proportions
recommended are live gallons of coal tar
to one pound each of finely pulverized
charcoal and freshly Stacked lime. The
coal tar should be brought to a boiling
heat in an iron kettle, when the charcoal
and lime should be added. Apply while
hot, either with brush or by dipping
the posts into the mixture. Another
very cheap, durable paint is made as fol-
lows: Take fifty parts Of resin, forty
parts of finely pulverized chalk, 300
parts of clean, hard sand, four parts of
linseed oil, one part of red oxide of lead
and one part of sulphurc acid. Place
the resin, chalk, sand and oil in an iron
kettle over the fire until the resin is
melted; then add the lead and acid,
slowly stirring the mass until thoroughly
mixed. Should it prove too thick 10
spread conveniently, add linseed oil
until brought to the proper consistency.
Apply while hot. This method is used
in France, and the paint when cooled is
said to be very hard and durable.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
Care OF Horses Feet.

Horses in civilized lands suffer more
from ailments OF the feet than from any
other cause. The feet of horse are sub
ject to many injuries, both from bad shoe
ing and from ill-kept roads, aud it is i'm
portaut for owners of horses to study well
how these causes of diseased feet can be
avoided. But in the consideration of this
question there are some points not well
understood. The London Stock keeDer
gives a statement that a horse weighing
sixteen hundred pounds, when drawing
a load, bears a weight upon the feet of
two tons, the extra pressure being caused
by the downward force Of the act of draw
ing. Now, an average horses draft power
amounts only to forN ard strain of one
hundred and fifty-seven pounds. AS the
horse is only eXerting this forward force
by pressure upon the collar, it is clear,
the feet cannot press with any more
force upon the ground, so that the above
explanation of the cause of injury to the
horses foot, is imaginary. 1t is not the
force eXerted by work at all. A wild
horse, galloping at the top of his speed,
presses upon the ground with his feet
more than horse moving ton in a
wagon upon a road at the rate of two
miles an hour; and yet wild horses have
excellent feet and are never lame. But
they have choice OF a smooth path, and
have no black smiths to cut away the frogs
of their feet. and so deprive them of the
very means nature provides for the pro-
lection of the foot If the roads were
kept in good condition and free from
loose stones, and the frog of the foot
were never pared, horses would rarely
suffer from foot lameness. Frog pressure
expands the heels, toughens the horns,
cures corns, and does much toward giving
a horse sound fee. -Americdn AqricuL-
turiSt.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
What the Brain Does.

1t is we'll known fact that people
whose limbs have been amputated tell
you that they can feel their fingers and
toes for long time afterward-for years,
sometimes-and will even describe pains
and definite sensations affecting certain
joints of individual digits. This is
readily understood when we remember
that the brain is the only part of the
body that feels, all sensations and i'm
pulses being conveyed to it from differ
ent parts by nerve fibers Feelings of
pain, heat, cold, touch, and the func-
tions of the special senses are telegaphed
to it; and when the connecting nerve is
divided it may be some time before it
learns to localize truly the seal of the
sensation it appreciates. When we knock
our 'fuDny bones" we experience thrill
in the little finger and the inner border
of the hand; the fact being that we
have stimulated the bundle of telegraph
wires-known as the ulnar nerve
which transmits sensations from that
finger and part of the next, in the mid
die of its course, as il winds round the
joint of the elbow.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
An Army Routed by Locusts.

OF all destructive foes none are more
dreaded in most eastern lands than the
locusts, whose dire visitations may we'll
be national calamities. In point of fact,
the lands which are exempt from their
occasional presence are the favored few.
A very few details of their invasion in
Southern Russia in the years 1879 and
1880, will give US some idea of their multi.
tude. They fell upon the province of
Caucasus, utterly destroying vineyards
and gardens, blockading the streets so
that traffic was suspended, filing the
ovens so that for several days baking was
quite out of the question, and so choking
the water courses that not cup of water
could be drunk until filtered.
In Georgia they fairly routed detach.
ment of Russian troops, who, not liking
to turn aside on their march repealed by
mere insects attempted to face the locust
army, although reports said it covered
twenty square miles of the country. So
the soldiers advanced, but soon found
themselves literally covered by the cling
ing, creeping insects. which crawled all
over them, until finally the men fairly
turned and fled, slipping and sliding as
they ran over the crushed and oily bodies
of their martyred foes. For forty 5ht
hours they were were detained, taking
refuge in village, and assisting the in
habitahts to kill millions OF the invaders,
whose corpses they carted off to manure
the fields, which, however, were in the
meantime stripped of every blade of grass
or corn, and the trees shorn of every
green leaf
On the road from Tifis to Poti the
locusts lay SO thick on the line that the
trains were INSTRUCTED. Large districts
of Southern Russia were swept as bare
of all vegetation as if fire had ragged
over the land, and hundreds of peasants,
utterly beggared, abandoned their homes
to seek bread wherever it might be
found. In the province of Chersom
alone, $4,000 roubles was voted by
government for expenditure in the effort
to free the land of this plague in another
district 10000 persons were employed
daily for three months in the same work
the government expenditure on the whole
organization was estimated at 200, 900
roubles, without any calculation Of the
loss on crops of all descriptions.
Another notable scene Of locust plague
was Algeria in the year 1866, when the
damage done by these insects was esti
mated at so, 900, 900 francs, and resulted
in famine so appalling that 200, 00O
natives died of starvation. AL tile Year
Jouo1
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03

How much is Edison worthl ! do not
know. lie certainly does not own him.
self, for he has been public property
now, 10! these many years. One OF these
hydra headed correspondents of half a
dozen newspapers declares that he is
worth nothing" that nc has lost "a
pile of money lately; that his stocks are
of no value. whereas they were formerly
worth two millions, and that he is dis
appointed and depressed" Now, the
fact is that Edison is what most people
would call rich man, even in these
modern days. lie has regular annual
income from the Western Union
Telegraph company of $4,000 in
royalties on old patents. He is
the principal stakeholder in five
manufacturing companies that bear his
name, with an aggregate of $500, 900
capital, and all of them pay large divi-
dends every six months. He has put
$50, 900 in cash into the Downtown
Electrical Illuminating company, which
has earned dividend, Notwithstanding
the large expenditures which experiments
required. Since the death of Mrs. Edi-
son he has moved with the three chill
dren into a flat on Eighteenth street,
near Broadway, where the inquisitive
could probably ascertain that he pays his
rent with scrupulous regularity. In
fact, Edison has very practical side,
and | suppose he receives an income of
from $75, 900 to 500, 600. W A. Crof-
tut, in Nelo TOrb World.