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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

HENRY M. STANLEY is pushing to its
completion the manuscript of work
on his African labors. The work will
bear the title, Congo, or the Found
ng OF State; a Story of Work and
Exploration" 1t will consist of two
good-sized volumes, and it is expected
that the manuscript will be ready for
the printer within month.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

MISS ALGER. of Boston, says that in
her experience as visitor for the As
ISOLATED. Charities.she finds no drunken
less among the Italians, and the
greatest fastidiousness coupled with
economy among the French.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

PRINCE METTERNICH has written the
libretto and one of the Rothschilds the
music of an operetta which is present.
" to be produced on the private stage
at the princes chateau of Konigswart,
in Bohemia. The Princess Metternich
and her daughters will be among the
performers.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

The March Century will contain an
article on the Soudan, written by Gen.
II, f. Colston, formerly of the confed-
crate army, and later on the general
staff OF the Egyptian army. In the ~
ter service he commanded two expedi-
tons of exploration in the Soudan, trav-
cling on all the principal caravan
ioutes, and spending two years in the
towns and among the tribes which are
frequently mentioned in connection
with Ell Mahdi's rebellion. The article
will be illustrated with more tha1
twenty pictures.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

GUsTAvE DORE left about one hun
dred finished plates and innumerable
sketches and studies for the illustra-
ton of Shakespeare. Dore spent about
100000 on the work, which death cut
short.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

MEssRs FLOOD AND MAcKAY will. it
it is said, erect two business blocks in
San Francisco the coming summer to
cost 1880, 900 each.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

woman is brought before police magis-
trate and asked her age. She replies: "rhir-
ty-hye." The magistrate says: "a have heard
you nave given that same age in this o)nrt for
the last five Y, arsn The woman's renly Is adj
mrable: mo doubt, your honor. I'm not,
one OF those females VINO says one thing to dap
and another tomorrow"
Mr.; Crofut, correspondent, declares
that Thomas Jefferson, in spite of his
'Jeiiersonan simplicity" bought dur
ing his iirst term $500 worth of red
um.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

SERGEANT MASON, who shot at Gui-
teau, is living quietly on his Virginia
farm with Betty and the baby. Lis
museum experience yielded him near
ly 1926, 600 in cash.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

The Princess Louise of England is
modelling a statue in bronze of her
royal mother, which is to be placed in
the Lincoln cathedral.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

KING HUMBERT, of Italy, has under
taken the task of effecting a reconcile
alton between Plonplon Bonaparto
and his wife.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, in Florida
for a month, says that he is going to
pass the time 'as lazily as possible ~
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

Mr.. VANDERBILT, with party Of
ton, is at Mobile, whence he will 60 to
New Orleans.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

The marchioness of Lorne is an in
veterant cigarette smoker.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

GEORGE M. PULLMAN's subscriptions
for the benefit of the New Orleans ex-
position amount to $4,000.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

SIR HENRY BEssEMER has lately cele-
brated his seventy-second birthday
anniversary.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06
Gould,s Stock IToidinas.

The New York Mall and Express, Mr.. Cyrus
W. Fields paper, publishes an article In
which may be considered an authoritative
statement of Jay Gould's stock holdfng$ It
says: It is learned on what is considered good
authorities that Mr.. Gould at the present time
holde stock in the following companies to
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

We find in the columns of an ex-
change the following quoted as
the remarks of lawyer in an adj
dress to farmers:
If q wasting contest in court be-
tween two business men, two trad
ers or two spectators is TO be de-
plored, how much more to be pre-
vented, if it be within the range Of
effort to do so, is q lawsuit between
two farmers-two farmers who ar
ray their neighborhoOd into hostile
factions, who turn their golden
sheen of peaceful sunlight into an
cry lightning over a dispute whelh-
er a line fence should stand five
feet that, who 90 down to the coun-
ty court in battle array over the
course of a little creek, which is
dry One-third of the year, frozen up
another third, and which has hardly
enough water in it the remaining
third to sturn a boys toy wheel;
who come to the county temple Of
Justice with their respective co
horts Of witnesses and spend whole
days, under the generalship Of cost
~ lawyers, to get a decision, about
as apt to be wrong as right, wheth
er a COW committed a trespass,
when ell she destroyed is not equal
to the fee of the lawyer on one
side, and she is herself perhaps not
worth half the fee that will be paid
to the lawyer on the other side.
How much better than this it would
be, simply in the consideration of
dollars and cents whether you
spell this last word cents or sense
if one of those farmer would cut up
an acre Of corn in addition to the
one destroyed, and haul it over and
present it as a gift to his fsvorite
lawyer, and if the other would fat
ten the COW, and skin her, and
dress her nice and clean, and dump
her down as a free offering in the
kitchen of his favorite lawyer-and
have no LAVISH it
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

and by and by he is a human en-
cyclopedia. He msy read love sto-
ries and adventures all his days and
be no better off. Indeed, he will be
far worse of.
"Well, what shall boy readY'
There are one or two boy papers
of good moral tone. The heroes
are not exaggerated, and the ad-
ventures are not improbable. If
the story is Of inning, the author
gives some valuable information in
regard to minerals and how to mine.
If it is of hunting, you are taught
how to make snares and traps, and
are given the principles of taxider-
my. If it is of boating you are
Taught the principles of sailing and
rowing. II it is Of the sea, you are
given the correct names of ropes
and yards and sails, and the habits
and traits of people Of other coun
tries are correctly stated.
There are a few boy books which
are true to every day life. Read
these, and if you have further time
take history, or something else
which is certain TO return some ben
eft-a daily paper-with its news
from every foreign country-its
home happenings--its discussions
of all matters of interests-its in
cidents and accidents, is geogra-
ply, history, grammar and orthog
raphy combined.-Ex.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
A Teachers Notion.

MR.. EDITOR will you permit
me to say a few words through the
Advocate on edUcatIon2 Why is il
that so many Of our colleges and
even universities turn out young
men with their A. B. and A. ii
degrees, q superficial knowledge OF
Latin, Greek and French, vague
idea of higher mathematics" who
are unable to solve readily the or
binary questions of practical
arithmetic" or analyzs intelligent
ly page of plain English
1 think that the fault lies not in
the instruction given at college,
but that the student enter the Lat
in and Greek and geometry and
trigonometry classes when hs,ought
to be in purely English branches,
spelling included and written and
oral arithmetic. l have no war
to make on Latin, French and
Greek, and would advise all to
study them who have time and
means after they thoroughly under
stand the English language and
have completed all the sciences and
other branches in a really practical
course. Butte start children from
twelve TO sixteen-and l have new
er met any one yet under sixteen
whe had thorough English edu-
cation-in these lang to the
neglect of what they need every
day, is worse than folly.
To write the English language
correctly is an accomplishment that
r great many college graduates do
not possess. SPsIling, l think, is
sadly neglected, but L think 1t is
the only basis of a thorough educa-
ton. Should not colleges and uni
versities carefully examine and
thoroughly drill their students on
the above studies? 1t is not the
fault in the primary education and
in the rush to higher studies? Can
not some one invent Z remedy for
the SAX state of things? Let US
hear from same live TEA..HER.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
THE DEVIL,

Men don't believe in a devil now, as their
fathers used to do;
THEY'VE forced the door of the broadest creed
to let His Majesty through.
There isn't print of his cloven loot, or a
ferry dart from his bow
To be found in earth or air to-day, for the
world has voted so.
But who is mixing the fatal draught that
palsies heart and brain
And loads the bier of each passing year with
ten hundred Thousand slalns
Who blights the bloom of the land day
with the fiery breath of hell,
If the devil isn't and never wasl Won't
somebody rise and telll
Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint and
digs the pits for his feeti
Who sows the tares in the field of time
wherever God sows His Wheatl
The Devil is voted not to be, and, of course,
the thing is true;
But who is doing the kind of work the Devil
alone should dog
We are told he does not 60 about as a roar
ing lion now;
But whom shall we hold responsible for the
everlasting row
To be heard in home, in church aud state, to
the earth's remotest bound,
If the Devil, by q unanimous vote, is no.
where to be foundl
Won't somebody step to the front forthwith
and make their bow and show
How the frauds and the crimes of a single
day spring ups We want to know.
The Devil was fairly voted out, and, o.
course, the Devil is gone;
But simple people would like to know who
carries his business on,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
Edison's Inventions.

More applications for patents
have been fled by Thomas A. Edi-
son than any living individual in
this or foreign countries. Edison
made:his first application tor patent
July 1, 1869. He was then barely
% years old. 1t was rather clev-
er continuance for registering au-
tomatically the votes of legislative
bodies. Since that time he has fill
ed GAL applications, out of which
number 155 have already been
granted. There has been a steady
decline in the applications for sew
eral years past. The largest num-
Der for any one year was 132 in
1882. In 1883 the number dropped
to 81 and last year 1t WAS only %.
"How do you account for this de-
cline,'' asked a correspondent of the
examiner in charge.
"Edison's contracts with the cleo
trio light syndicate keeps him so
busily engaged that he has no time
for outside matters. He received a
retaining fee of $25, 700 a year from
the Western Union telegraph COM
pany. They agree to pay HIM this
sum for an indefinite number OF
years in return fer which Edison
assigns to them the full owners hip
in ali patents relating to telegraph
improvements. His royalty from
the same company for the use OF
his quadruplex instrument is prob
ably $4,000 per aRnum, and he nc
doubt receives a like sum from the
directors of the New York Electric
Light Company. Fifteen years ago
he was following his aEocation as
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
u. Quad ou Novel Reading,

"Does it hurt 3 boy to read
novels?'
Take clean sponge and dip it
into a running gutter and what is
the result? The sponge can be
cleaned and purified again, but at
ter much labor.
The human mind, nay lad, is a
sponge, and it soaks up the good,
bad and indifferent with the sams
relish.
The great trouble with novels is
the false ideas and vicious theO-
ries. 1t is the same with all serial
stories in the so-called boys papers,
and it is so to a certain extent in
many of the boys books. In the
first place the boy, ne matter what
his age, is always mEde to perform
feats of valor which common sense
teaches you is impossible. He new
er acts nor talks like 3 boy. His
adventures az hunter, detective
or runaway are improbable.
Nevertheless, as you read you
! find Yourself half believing, at
least, and the next thing is to won
der why yOu cant be a hero. The
story makes you dissatisfied with
school and home and family gov
eminent. and the first thought is to
run away or plan some adventure.
Even if you say to yourself that
YOU won't believe a word of the
story, the mind will soak up many
of the false theories and absurd
ideas, and later on in years it may
cost you something TO get rid OF
them.
Let me ask you how much better
off YOU would be to sit down in a
grocery for three hours each eve
ming and listen to some man tell
ing lies, knowing all the time they
were lies. Would that improve
your mind? Many of the novels
are no more improving than such
grocery tales.
Now let me ask you what makes
an intelligent, well-posted mani
School education, to begin with.
If we learned nothing after we left
school the world would slip back
wards. His mind goes on day after
day, week after week, picking VI
scraps Of history, politics, travel
botany, astronomy and so FORTH
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
Gen.Grant.

The legal ordeal through which
Gen. Grant passed on Friday, ano
in the course of which he was fore
ed to relate allithe Notifying details
of the lamentable business connec.
ton which has wrecked his life
appears to have resulted in a uerv-
Gus sreacation which has radically
modified the pathology of his case.
Whether the legal examination was
at his instance or not, it was of ne
cessity most hurtful to him, pouring
into.his gloomy and detected mind a
fresh infusion of gloom. The phys
ic which the old general most needs
is light and cheer and hope, and
the doctors drugs can be OF little
avail to "cleanse his stuffed bosom
of that perilous stuff which weighs
upon the brain" There is, of
course, malignant ulcer eating IN
the direction of his vital forces; but
this toxic efflorescence strengthens
its roots and spreads it's branches as
the patients powers fail, the pow
ers OF disease naturally increasing
as those of health diminish, largely
by reason of his mental depression.
He lies and thinks on what has
been and is to come, and it must
be granted that the pictures which
pass before his mind must be pow
erful allies of the disease which is
tugging at his vitality. A more
painful spectacle than this, which is
held up day after day by the press
reports, was never known to the
people of this country. His sad
plight must acutely touch the sym
pathy and sadden even the most in
different.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
a Nilkman's Ifathamatioa.

When Thomas drove up to thu
house on Elizabeth street the Other
day to deliver the usual quart Of
mixture, the gentleman of The
house kindly inquired:
How many quarts Of milk dc
you deliver now?
Ninety one, sir"
Glow many cows have you?"
''Nine, sir"
THE gentleman made some re-
marks about the early spring, state
of the roads, etc, and then asked
"Say, Thomas, how much milk
per day do you aversge?"
"Seven, sir"
"Ah-um," said the gentleman,
as he moved off
Thomas looked after him, scratch
ed his head, and all at once grew
pale as hs pulled out a sport pen
Gil and began to figure OF the wag-
on cover
mine cews is nine, and I set
seven quarts down under the COWS
and multiply. That's sixty three
quartz Of milk. 1 told him l sold
ninety one quarts per day. Sixty
three from ninety-one leaves TWEEN
ty-eight, and none to carry. Now,
where do 1 get the rest of the milk?
I'll be hanged il I haven't given
myself dead away to one of my
best customers by leaving a durn-
ed big cavity in these figures to be
filed with Waterr'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
eLEVELAND's REToRT.
The Reply Made by the President to
Senator Harris.

The New York Herald's Wash
ington dispatch says: The nomi-
nation Of Mr.. Porter, of Tennessee,
to be assistant secretary of state, is
regarded here as = blow at what is
called Mahonism in southern poll
tics. It is a notice to southern
democrats that the administration
has opinions on the question of
scaling debts. Mr. Porter has been
a leader Of the men in tennessee who
favored honesty.
It is told this evening that Sena-
tor Harris said to the president to
day that Mr.. Porter's appointment
was favored by 1000 and opposed
by 100000 democrats in Tennessee.
"W hich do you intend to recogn-
ize, Mr.. President? he asked.
The president replied: 'You say
there are 1000 and 13O,OOO-weIl, L
mean to recognize $4,000 demo-
Gratis in Tennessee"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

A result of the past severe winter
and one which, of them all, is not
the least regretted, is now being re-
allied in Pulaski-the turnips were
nearly all killed and our appetites
are crying aloud and in vain for
greens" In this connection the
experience of a certain farmer in
Giles was related on the streets the
other day by an ex-leglslator oil
Tennessee. The farmer had 8
patch OF winter turnips which
with favorable weather might have
furnished salad for the whole of Pu-
laski, but on one morning last win
ter after one of those bitter cold
nights, such as we have in this eli
mate once in a hundred winters, he
discovered that his turnips were
laying spread upon the ground as
wheat behind the reaper. The frost
had actually lifted them out of the
earth. Another farmer, according
to the same distinguished anecdoter,
had turnip patch and in this in
stance the frost took hold of the
fence posts and pulled them out of
the ground. Of course the fence fell
down and stock devoUred the tur-
nips. 1t is due to the gentleman
to whom reference is had here to
state that he did not vouch for the
truth of the last anecdote, nor the
one in which many of the trees of
said to have been uprooted by the
freeze. All we can vouch for is
that Pulaskians want salad.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

The horse that contracts bad
habits readily is generally one that
can be taught the most useful traits
with the least trouble. 1t is not in
frequently the case that the cid fam
lily horse is the first one to get into
mischief when turned loose in the
field or farm yard. A horse that
has sense enough to open = gate,
lay down pair Of bars or unite
himself, is one that is generally sus-
ceptible of any amount OF training
for a useful life. While these uA-
desirable habits are to be avoided
as much as possible, and are an
noying, they often indicate good
sense, which ia one Of the most de-
sirable features of any kind in a
horse.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

The New York Commercial and
Financial Chronicle OF Saturday
says: ga dispatch to Mr.. John B.
Manning says that Tennessee new
settlement 3s issued to date under
the new funding act are $3,86O,OOO;
settlement 5s and 6s about 5000, 900,
retiring about SO, 100000 old indebt-
edness, which is about one third of
the entire debt. The necessary doc
umsnts to place the bonds on the
New York Stock Exchange have
been applied for to the state off
cars -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
A MITE SONG,

Only drop in the bucket,
But every drop will tell;
The bucket would soon be empty,
Without the drops in the we'll.
Only poor little penny,
1t was all had to give,
But as pennies make the dollars,
1t may help some cause to live.
A few little bits of ribbon
And some toys-they were not new
But they made the sick child happy,
Which has made me happy, too.
Only some outgrown garments
They were all had to spare
But they'd help to clothe the needy,
And the poor are everywhere.
a word now and then of comfort,
That cost me nothing TO say;
But the poor old man died happy,
And it helped me on the way.
God loveth the cheerful giver,
Though the gift be poor and small;
What doth he think of his children
When they never give at ala
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
DUNCAN'S COUGH BALSAM.
THE ONLY INEALIRLE
THE ONLY POSITIVE CURE

This great remedy, now widely. known
and extensively used, stands without an
equal and it's sterling merits so well estab-
lished to need no praise to those who
have used il or known Of it's remarkable
cures Thousands of sufferers who found no
relief from any other source are willing wit
nesses to the great Medicinal virtue and re =
markable curative power of this Medi2ine.
Many certificates ofits fne effects and ex-
preseions of gratitude for benefit received
reach US from all sections. 1t is not claimed
that the Balsam will cure consumption IN it's
last stages. but that will efcctuslly check
this terrible disease in its iuciPiency and pal
late sufarinqs all through it's stages. there
can be no doubt; and for all forms Of
Coughs arising from colds and bronchial at-
fictitious, throat trouble, it is without par
allel A positive and rapid cure for Group,
which so often resists all medical treatment.
The medicine is pleasant and does not sicken
the patient. For sale by all druggists. 90
cents per box.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

Dogs and wolves are q greater
detrimsnt to sheep breeding than
any other one thiAg. Wolves com
mit their depredations in the west,
especially in Texas. Dogs are the
bans Of the flock in every wool
growing section of the country.
The Prairie Farmer thinks that q
stringent dog Law is needed in every
state. Now is the time for farmers
to see to it that their legislators do
their duty ia this respect. Thou
sssds Of sheep are annually killed
in every state by free bsoting dogs.
Tax the CANNES according to the
food they consume, and add enough
more to cover the average damage
done by the sheep-killers. Create
an insurance fund upon the pro
ceeds, and pay losses incurred by
them. This will have a magical
effect. The same paper also says
that if all the dogs in the country
had but enc tail, it would cut that
tail of close behind the ears, which
would be the best thing that ever
happened for ths foeks.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

Blaine was EoL such = fabrieator
after all. He said the Democrats
were conspiring to seize the govern
ment and they have done it. 1t is
to be feared that they are even now
cOnspiring to hold on to it. They
seem determined TO so administe
the government that no good citi
zen will be in favsr Of taking it out
Of their hands, and what is worse
for Mr.. Blaine, it appears that kC
will not be able to do anything tc
prevent it. Exchange.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09
telegraph operator and earning SIOC

telegraph operator and earning 500
& month.
''ls Edison the most successful of
the latter day inventors?'
scientifically he is far in advance
of all others. Brush, his principal
competitor in electric lights, has
made the most money. His income
is $4,000 a day. He is probably
the richest of any inventor. He has
made every penny Of it since 1879.
Edison and Brush are both very
young men. Edison is thirty light
and Brush tnirty-six."