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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09
A Plethora of Capital.

Capitalists are evidently Warrington
something to turn up. Never before
has there been such an excess of re-
serve. On Saturday the New York
banks held $40, 246, $50 above the LEGAL
equirements. an increase of abont
three millions week since the first Of
the month. and thirty-ive millions
SIM since con one year ago. A surplus of &c.
OoO,00O is considered sufficient for the
requirements of business, while twice
that has been held to indicate a pble-
thora; and now we see the embarrass-
ment of riches is four times as great a
surplus as the business of the New
York banks requires. They now hold
a reserve of 1921, 900, against $84.-
OOO,O0O year ago, and $67, 900, 900 in
1885,. Times.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09
Crossing on MerinOs for Wool and
Mutton.

Following the lead of Mr.. G. Hills, ]
venture to offer few remarks as to
the best mode of crossing on Merinos
for mutton sheep. scarcely think the
Downs, any of them, would answer
we'll, as they are not very large, and
they approach to near the Merino in
denseness and tineness of fleece. I
have used the Downs on Leicesters
and their grades with advantage in
producing finer wool = for family use,
and also superior mutton; but the sheep
thatlpleased me most of all for general
use was obtained by using pure Cots
void ram on pure Southdown ewes.
The result was finely formed sheep
OF excellent quality of mutton, with
dense, moderately long, crinkled wool,
of great lustre and fneness. The
fleece of a lamb accidentally killed by
dogs in the falD weighed, when well
washed in warm water, eleven and a
half pounds. Now l feel confident
that the cotswold would cross equally
well on the Merino, giving the produce
the size and aptitude to fattcn desired
for mutton sheep, and producing a
fleece OF good, serviceable and lustrous
wool, which, if produced in sufficient |
quantity, would surely find a market
for the manufacture of certain classes
of goods. The whole region interested
should adopt one standard of crossing
so as to make the produce of wool uni,
form. 1t won't do for one county to
use Down rams, another Cotswolds.
and still another Lincolns or Leicesters.
as a nondescrip clip will result that
buyers will not care to handle. Mr..
J. Harris, OF Rochester, used Cotswold
IN Merinos with the very satisfactory
'esult mentioned by Mr.. Hills. If in a
ew generations the sheep get too
coarse to suit the market. cross back
IN a Merino or a Southdown cross
you'd do the work and add to the
uality of mutton. 1 write from per-
onal experience, having handled
ross-bred sheep for twenty-five wears.
red simply for good mutton and wool
Or family, use. But mind one rule.
ever use grade rams. If you do,
gu will not be able TO name the pro-
eny, they will be SO various.
s. Gazette.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09

Sundays gale was godsend to the
umbrellamakers of Albany, there
were so many umbrellas and parasols
wrecked by it. One concern claims to
have taken in 220 10 be repaired. The
BUSINESSES very profitable, and good
workmen are never out of employ.
ment. Said one of the fraternity to a
reporter: Eyes, there are eccentric
people who buy umbrellas as well as
anything else. An old man came in
this morning with an ivory handle and
requested me to put an umbrella on it.
OF course we will comply. We could
attach our umbrellas to button. A
man will sometimes come with an old
stick which has history, or deer's
hoof which came from the North
woods. They desire an umbrella pat
on the stick, or want the hoof mounted
and attached to an umbrella handle.
A soldier in the late rebellion handed
us an old willow stick, used by him as
q crutch at Gettysburg. For durability
The alpaca umbrella is the best,
though very particular young men pre-.
Ter silk, because it makes up into tidy
orm."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09
A Veterans Story.

II was in Washington in 1912; ant
while visiting over in Alexandra II
that year 1 saw the first troops callee
out to fight the British as they entered
Washing ton to be armed. l remem
Der it as well as if it had been yester
day, for 1 stood on the street as the
boys marched by with beating drums
and flying banners. Washington was
a staggling little village then. and
Alex andria was one of the great cities
of the country"
The speaker was Col s. D. Betton,
now of Cuthbert, Ca, but recently Of
Butler county, Alabama. He stood
and talked to reporter for an hour
at The Union depot Sunday night, and
his conversation was most interesting.
Betton is 70 years old, and is still hale
and hearty, as spry as boy Of 20.
81 went with Lafayette to France in
1926" continued the old gentleman.
"How we'll remember it. We sailed
in the frigate Bradywine from the
mouth OF the Potomac river Sept, II,
1926. There were forty-two officers on
board, and 1 can tell you their names
and their fate-what became of each
of them. Oil we had a big time then.
''In riding on horseback from Mill
edgeville, Ca, to Hartford, Conn,
once travelled sixty-fve miles in one
day, and stopped at big wedding,
where we danced all night. went to
school in Milledgeville in 1917 with 1853
boys and girls, and of that number
only three are living to-day, 1 can
give you the names of all the people
living in Milledgeville at that time,
distinguishing between males and fe-
nales."
Col. Betton was q stockholedr in the
irst railroad enterprise ever inaugu-
ated in this Countrywide Baltimore
nd Ohio in 1927. He was then in
and subscribed for stock
t the very outset of the enterprise.
low there are $4,000 miles of rail-
Dad in the United States.
Col. Betton was an officer in the
'nited States navy some fifty odd
ears ago. He is a wonderfully we'll
reserved old gentleman. He says: Il
ever had any pains at all. 1 am per-
'ctly well, and have worked like a
ave all the year" And with that
} held up his hands to show they had
'come horny with work. He is just
jolly and full of fun as any boy, and !
DIS fair to live to be a hundred years
montgomery (ALd. advertiser.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09
The Garden of Eden.

The only vegetable life on the repu
ted site of the Garden of Eden, at the
junction of the Tigris and Euphrates, is
ciump OF date trees near very small
and dirty village called Gurda, where
the Turks MAINTAIN agarrison and a
telegraph office. The inhabitants
point out to strangers the tree Of
knowledge-a most sickly specimen,
bearing small green berry which
would cause even goat to turn away
IN disgust. Boston Journal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09
THE REAPER'S SONG.

When the harvest moon is rising,
And the shadows fill the plain,
Like the sound Of far-off bugles
Comes the reaper's glad refrain.
As he journeys from the binding {
OF the ripe and yellow sheaves,
Like the swallow, speeding homeward
To the humble cottage caves:
And the bearded wheat stands silent,
As 1t lists, with bated breath,
To the song that rings with giadness,
Yet betokens naught but death;
For the moon glints on his sickle,
As on warriors bladed steel,
And the ripe wheat on the morrow
Oft Its keen-edged thrust will feel.
-Inos. Il. Smith. in The Current.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09

Much OF the comfort of living in q
FAMILY hotel is spoiled in New York by
the tyranny of the janitor, who dupli.
Gates the insolent doorstep tyranny Of
the Paris concierges.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09

America is becoming Germanizsd-
rochester, N. Y. has a wooden shoe
factory. 'A''
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-21
HARVESTING ALL THE YEAR.

1t is familiar principle that famine
happens among isolated people. The
case of Irish falnines is the onIv
exception and it is explained
by moral isolation and its re-
suit. But even in Ireland the evil was
removed as soon as it was fully known.
In India the tamines have occurred in
regions physically and morally isolated.
But steam has shown its power to re-
move both forms of isolation, and it is
gradually effecting the union of man
kind Just now attention is called to
complementary fact. Wheat harvest
goes on all the year round. In No.
vember they are harvesting in Peru,
South Africa, and North Australia.
December is harvest time III Chill, the
Argentine Republic, and South Austria
iia. In January wheat Is gathered in
New Zealand; in February and March
it ripens i'll Egypt and south India; in
April the old wheat fields of North
India, Asia Minor, Persia, and Cyprus
yield their Increase. And SO the reap
er marcles through the year. Our
American reaper is going from May to
| September inclusive. II ls not pussi.
bic for drought or other calamity to
affect III one year more than fraction
of the perpetnally ripeninG grain. We
gain the security of this continual har-
vest by obeying the spirit OF the origi-
nal order 10 multiply and repleuish the
earth, and the value of the promise
that harvest shall not fail is secured to
us by obedience to the command. The
more the race is one, and alert to the
opportunities of the earth, the surer
are we of abundance. Then an honest
division of the loaves will secure
enough to each, beneficent laws having
secured us in the possession of enough
for all.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-21
THE OKLAHOMA LANDS.

While the Intelligencer desires to see
the Oklahoma territory opened to
white settlement at an early day, and
will think congress very remiss in its
duty II it does not mature steps in that
direction before it adjourns, vet i.
would not advise its readers to un-
thoughtedly plunge into q movement to
enter and possess the country unlaw-
fully.
There are many reasons why such
action would be uuwise. Undoubtedly
wrong is being perpetrsted by the
sufterance of the occupation OF the ter
ritory by the cattle companies. But
two wrongs cannot make right. And
there cannot be question that yiola-
ton OF our treaty obligations toward
the Indians would be grave wrong
| 1t may be true that there are no good
indians but dead Indians, still we cal
hardly establish a reputation for good.
faith by q forcible rupture of treaty
stipulations.
This is Senator Vests view of tn,
question, as exemplified when in tn,
senate, January %, she took occasion
to say that there could be no doub
whatever that, as the laws stood, tn
Oklahoma lands were not at this tim
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-21
PAY OF CIRCUIT AND CRIMINAL
JUDGES.

EDrToR INrELLIaKNcER:-I see by noticing
ahe proceedings of the Legislature that Mr..
salisbury, Of Charlton county. has fiered a
bill to increase the salary of circuit Judges to
% 500. This Is move in the right direction.
The Judges of our state not paid enough.
Missouri Is the Fl rth atate In the Union in popu-
iation, and the business interests Of the state
have kept pa -e witt its population The amount
of labor peri armed BY our judges has also great
ly increased. and the salaries paid than. has
n ,t been correspondngly increased There is
no overestirnating the imp ortance of the judc-
ary to the welfare OF the people Their COM
peDsaton should he such tc commund the
best talant and J'stify them in devoting their
whole time and talents TO the di.charge OF their
duties. Many OF the states, both east ard west
OF Missouri pay their judges bett salaries than
she. There IS no go reason fer this. While the
lie 1slature is increasing the larry If the Gil cult
ju tges. let them also ra'se the salary OF the
Ju ige OF our or m'nnl court. lie only receives
now, a salary of 81 500, while he p.rform. labor
equal TO that Ci most Of the circuit judges, and
In some instances even more. When this Office
was frat created, ten years ago. it was suppOs-
ed, that the Judge could supplement his salary
by being allowed TO practice law IS any other
attorney in civil cssas But this prlvil Ee is al
most rendered nugatory by the TACT tnat the
business Of the criminal courr has go greatly IN
creased as to necessltse the absence OF the Judge
from his home and law olce the greater por-
ton of his time, and no one will employ law
yer who may or may not be at home when his
services are needed. What might have been q
fair salary for the Judge vixen the court was lrst
organized. is utterly inadequate now. The
salary of this Office should be rqual to that OF The
circuit Judges. and trust that the members OF
the legislature from our county anil the other
counties composing the district of the criminal
SQUIRT will Sc. TO it that the salary of the Judge
of this court raised to that of the circuit court
Let the needed reform In this m after OF paying
our Judges go or, and Missouri Will soon take
the same rank In point 0I the judiciary with t! .
other states, that she now duea in population. {.
CITIZEN
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-21
THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

E5iioa lSTkLLIGkN GkNCEg:-LsSt Sun6xy in
conversation VIII Two pembsrs OF the legisla-
tnre asked: How are the Normal sCsso0ia com
ing cut this timer This answer was, .'Weli l
guess We will let them through on half pky sr
let Them half through Or something OF that
kInd.''
ITm fully aware that there 10 sone opposition
to Our Sormals. AN aware they have not done
euch work AS the people have expected OF them,
nor ) ct such work the faculties OF the several
schools and the boards of regents have desired
they should do, Thi, has given some ground
for tie objections rAised, but does rot lay the
Charge at the proper threshold. instead OF tack
Ing this rhsIge on the door -poet OF ihe Normal
school it belongs To tire main entrance Of the
capitol building. The schools have done ali
they could with the means Ut their Disposal.
The Normal school system Is not nn expert
In~hi, ii { II G,hrUoIn growth. Compared with
our government IL 10 patrarchsl. When tie
college Of Wiliiani and Mary was iounde. 10
America. til. Normal school had lone dscai.
OF work In Germany. For Two hundred years
the Normal syst m has been doing It's work In
the land oil free schools. America founded Ii,
arst Normal In 1897. To-day tue grand old
Bay State" the mother OF the Normal system In
America, ror the better INSTRUCTION o: ner $50,
.2l school children. is supporting five more,
N king six all told, at an annual olt!sy sI
s:s SIS For ~ years they have tried them and
| II re IS nostrGggle tor existence th,re.
happen to have been Tor the past three years
peculiarly and most fuverably situated 10 OBJ.
serve The demand Tor Normal trained teacher.
IL fss htsn my business to SECURE teachers l.r
vacancies and TO find vacancies for teachers ou,
| OF emp oyment. This work has extended o, er
Miss, nj, iowa, Nebraska, Kansas Colors @
New Mexico. Arkansas, kentucky, Tenn..,e,
| and Te%as. And the demand Tor Normal train.
ed teachers over tnis territory has never br,
satisfei. have repeatedly called upon til,
graduates oi the state SoIIaals in person and By
| letter and have never Yet .ucceeGsd IN dndln,
but three that could place. One Of these pu
in charge Of Er: de-, school in Missouri a
s!5 Per month; another superintendent of tovr
third superlntend, nj Of town schools ainT x., q
ss3 per month. haze elsaiedly called upo,
Tie Wa.rensburg school tor teachers, ana N
stead of havi ing them sup, ed have bean pointe,
to vac cincies, some of which 1 have been tn
mesnsot filling by Normaltes from other stst,s
l have taken Normal graduates from ONO An
placed item in Colorado. Such is the depsn
for Normal trained teachers throughout til
country. Nor is this ell that stands in fsvor c
Normal trained teachers. l have letters in m
possession containing such statement. as. ..W
= want u teacher OF not less than three years q,
perlence, or Normal graduate - or the tw
the Normal graduate Is favored by the mo-
3 points. for ''sxperience serves to confirm bs
habits as we'll ~ correct them,r and there
greater probability oi bad habits being formed b
AZ unframed teacher than BY one who hss hs
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-21

learned much as to the prevention of
the disease, the treat mcnt is not more
successful than il vas when IL first
visited us. The mortality is sti l fear
fully large, reaching % per cent. III
moderately severe cases, and 80 or 80
per cent. in the very severe. In WaV-
erly. in 1919, of those attacked on
certain day, all died. and every one
that yentured from the country into
town on that day had the disease and
died. In short and sharn visitation of
the disease at independence i'll tl,e cpl
demic of 1854, all attacked Oh a cer-
tain day died, while of those attacked
some days later none died.
The mild form of the disease ,ctole,Iac
as 1t is called, aud indeed all cases pre-
ceded by diarrh9a of some duration,
constituting the slow cases, are very
amenable to treatment, and with prop
er care. and absolute rest, furnish very
few deaths. To walk about with the
disease even in mild form is to 90 in
search of death.
Those that set In with the severe
symptoms of the disease attended with
early collapse, constituting the rapid
cases, are nearly all fatal.
J. Il. ALEX AMBER, NJ. d.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-21
A Few Home Truths.
ILohdOn Punch j

tLohd0n PUNCH
In spite Of all the progress now sscr,bed to NOD
srn culture
The habits seem to be unchanged Of tiger. ser
The ci occdie Is what be was ten thousand years
-saga,
And ever Will continue 10 be thus, for ell We
The bulk Of creatures an,mate stlli prey on one
another;
The rabbit ea,s her Offspring up--tla monkey
bites his mother.
Beneath tne SUP. II would appear. there's really
'Tis irae~'a. pity; pity tits. ii. true,
Nor have mems and women's characters or phy-
Suffered cham 9 to any great extent through Lat
ter Day tuition.
Seeming passes ter reality as freely as of gore,
Clever vice LOOKS down or stupid virtue, slarv-
Ing at la door.
When ambition prompts 10 vilsress, conscience
shrlnks into her shell.
And infamy allied 10 wealth, gets on extremely
we'll.
OF COURSE. the many still sre badly governed by
IT'S tiue-'tis pity, pity 'us, tits true.
The ''cultuIe i" too, Of the asthstics, with ali
Its hacct nams,
Iis tur2ld affeclaLlons and Its silly sckly shame
but vir.da d1G', solS Gf srunmaxe~ compared with
When matched against the visorou. realities Of
old.
Our rnaIron. and our girls ..make.up'' with
powder bismuth, dye
Figures a. well rs irocks, oblixlng utllinera
supply
Alas, the Il rest cheek. are sta,p>a With ar,ia
cisl hue:
IT'S tru.-':i. pity pity It's. tits true
Is il well that justice shoud d be a word, and
nothing NOR.
With meanin for the rich but none whalev 81
for tine poor
purchasab,s article. but only ct a rae
That makes it unstta;na5le tor those OF IoSly
statep
The law. as now dispensed, is but hollow
| gain pretsnse
For trading IN Injustice and d.fyins common
| sense.
Who NEEDLES with 1t, rich poor. has amp!
! Cause to rue;
| IT'S iru.-'tis pity; pity it's Ills true
Whilst hambus and mendac.ty, unchallsnset
rule he roast,
Our vsunted ''moral progress' IS despicab
| boast.
Society lles prone beneath the rhstoricisn
ban,
nd glibness, tits that-even more than money
makes the man.
The age is one of chatter. for the most part IL
| sincere;
Mere phrases from tn. bs,,. of prospero
| career.
The talk.r gathers laurels that should be t
thinkers Cue:
Ills Il s-'th pity, Pity 'iis. 'tis t1asl
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-21

came, and some others doubtless en-
tered lands who never became residents
oil the county.
aAllow me to say that the most vol
luminous history of our county, that
one published by the Missouri Histor
ical Society in 1881, is as inaccurate
and unreliable as such work could
we'll be. Its account of the Presbyterian
church in Lexington is a disgrace to
the book. j. A. QCARLEs.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-21
four yesrs of training under the best instruc-


four yesrs of training under the best instruc-
tors.
With this much in ressri TO the standtBg and
demand for Normal gradnstes 1 wish 10 call at
tention 10 some ststi :;ics. and will preface the
matter with the statement that Missouri has
graduated or is graduating her Normalites At less
per cspits expense. Of enroilmsnf, thsn other
and Older states where the sSst'm ID as osep
seated as the public school system itself.
From Circular Of Information No. g. 1884. and
the report OF tue commissioner of education Of
1882 and 1853. find there are in the United
States % Normal schools with total enrolment
900 students; there arc also sss 2s4 teachers
In the pubiis rcnoois' now 'ns 90 SCHOOLS
could graduate theiI entire enrolment each year
they could not Gil the vacancies created by the
sweet little school ma'arns thet Ket msTri' and
tbs decrepit old school masters who die In the
hsrnesa- the approximate rate OF both being 70
per cent. Fla.
How il it with Missour9 we had IN 1889 over
II 500 teachers In tho pub schools. Ihe three
Normsls enrolled e9s now II tne en'ire en-
roliment could have aiaous,to 'nss year sho
boen placed In the rank ana nio oi Inc pubic
school teachers OF the slate thes "ouio NOT nave
dlled s"s piacss made Vacant py- oeatn ano nat-
rimonS-tbe two aFcn eosnIes OIL 'ne esoiession.
in compa1issn WIZ otner stA'ss me Anu
Assass hnsetts nas t"o ~ piMe .Ne "
80 yeAh Akoi oue oiAan -" ~ 9SNs .Hs - "AN
tnree osnels oTeahi-So s:ncs S.s up.
Wy ole 10 run mem. an !ee1 one enioiieu 'i'
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