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Morris tribune., 1885-09-16
Decreasing Snowfall on the Sierras.

The snowfall on the Sierras has been
very light the past Winter. At the
Summit and Cisco the greatest average
depth falling at one time this year has
not exceeded six feet. The average fall
in former Winters has been over twenty
feet. In the Winters of 1868, when
Cisco was the terminus of the Central
Pacific Railroad, the snow there fell to
depth of over forty feet.
This was before the snow-sheds were
built-when the railroad company had
over 1000 men employed in shoveling
snow from the deep cuts between Blue
Canyon and Cisco. The passenger
trains at that time consisted of only
two coaches and one baggage car, and
were drawn the last eight miles-from
Emigrant Gap to Cisco-by eighteen
ten-wheel locomotives 300 tons of
metal-driving snow-plow as large as
two-story house in front of them. At
that time the line of the road wound
through a trackless forest, over forty
miles in length, stretching from Truckee
ON the east to Alta on the west, trains
frequently being brought to a standstill
by fallen trees obstructing the track.
OF the vast forests that then covered
the sides and crowned the SUBMITS OF
the Sierras along the line of the road,
scarcely a vestige now remains. Since
the building of the road a swath over
twenty miles in breadth has been
moved through the ancient forests bor-
dering the track, whose dark recesses
obscured by thick foliage had never
been penetrated by the rays OF the sun
before the advent of the iron horse.
The decrease in the snowfall is said to
date from that event, and is mainly at
tributed to the fact of that portion of
the country being entirely denuded of
timber. -1ugsnia city Chronicle.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16
Mary and William as Names

Mary was shown to be the commonest
name of all. 1t distinguished 6,S19
girls out of the $4,000 called as witness
es, and designated larger number of
individuals than any other appellation,
male or female. William came next,
naming $3.50 out of the number men
toned. The predominance OF these
two names may ere this have been rem
dered somewhat less striking than 1t
was; but it is unlikely to have been
largely modified. 1t forcibly exempli-
fes the way in which the passing on OF
prannomina for personal reasons will
efface their original associations. Mary
is the great saint name of the later
Middle Ages, owing It's original popu-
larity to the exaggerated reverence
paid in those days to the Mother OF our
Lord Yet the Reformation itself, fol-
lowed by PuritaniSm, was powerless to
dislodge it from the position which pre-
Reformation views had assigned to 1t,
for it had already become deeply en-
deared to the people by family usage.
Hence the UNCONVENTIONAL expression OF
Mariolatry was lately, and probably is
now, the comnonest name in Protestant
England. William came to this coun-
try as baptiSmal appellation with the
Conqueror. whose might made right
800 years ago 1t was pre-eminently
unlikely, considering the conditions of
its Introduction, to secure popular APP
prevail But in time personal assocla-
ton won for it victory as decisive as
its drlcal bearer had won for Normandy
at Hastings. The many leading men
who bore the Conqueror name passed
it on largely no doubt to those OF lower
rank who loved their service; the same
went on in humber circles still. At
last, by repetition, William became SO
common that it originated, as it is said,
more surnames than any other baptis-
NAL appellation. A statement of its
chief cognominal derivatives may inter-
est some readers. There are Williams
and Williamson to begin with. Then
the abbreviation VIII has produced
Willes, Willis, Wills, Wilson, and Will
son. The diminutiye Guillemot or
Gwillot has led to Gillett, Gilliat, Gill
lot, elliott, and other forms, while
Wiliamot, the more English version of
that diminutive. has given Wilatt, Will
let, Willert, Willott, Wilmot, Wilmott,
&c. Again, in connection with the pet
shapes of the name are the surnames
Bill, Billson, Bison, Weeks, Wickens,
Wickenson, Wickerson, Wickeson, Will
cock, Wilcockson, Wilcox, Wilcoxon.
Wilkins, Wilkinson. Wilks, Willcocks,
Wiley, Willy, and Woolcock.--Good
Words.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16
Getting Rid Of Stupid Guardians.

suppose ! am not by nature disposed
TO think so much us most people do OF
constitutions" The Americans think
and talk very much of their ''lnstltu-
tions;' am by nature inclined to call
all this sort of thing machinery, and to
REGARD rather men and their characters.
But the more l saw of America the
more found myself led to treat ''lnstl-
tutionsn with increased respect. Until
| went to the United States had never
seen people with Institutions which
seemed expressly aud thoroughly suited
to it. l had not properly appreciated
the benefits proceeding from this cause.
Sir Henry Maine, in an admirable es-
say which, though not signed, betrays
him for its author by its rare and char
aeteristic qualities of mind and style
Sir Henry Maine in the Quarterly Re
giev adopts and often reiterates q
phrase of NJ. Scherer, to the effect that
''democracy is only form of govern
ment." He holds up to ridicule SEN
tence of Mr.. Bancroft's history, in
which the American democracy is told
that its ascent to power proceeded as
uniformly and majestically rs the laws
of being and was as certain us the de-
crees of eternity Let us be willing to
give Sir Henry Maine his way, and to
allow no magnificent claim OF this kind
on behalf of the American democracy.
Let us treat as not more solid the asser-
ton in the Declaration of Independence
that ''all men are created equal, are en-
dowed by their Creator with certain in
alienable rights, among them life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
Let us concede that these natural rights
are tigment; that chance and circum-
stance, as much as deliberate foresight
and design, have brought the United
States into their present condition; that,
moreover, the British rule which they
threw off was not the rule of Cypress
ors and tyrants which DISCLAIMERS sup
pose, and that the merit of the Ameri-
cans was not that of oppressed men ris-
ing against ,tyrants, but rather OF sensi-
BILE young people getting rid of stupid
and overweening guardians who mis-
understood and mismanaged them
MuttheU Arnold in the Nineteenth Gen.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16
Up in q Balloon.

Gold? Well l should say so,' said
Sergeant Hammond, of the United
States Signal Service Department, when
questioned about his serial voyage with
Professor Samuel A. King. 1--WE wore
two suits of clothes and plenty of over
coats and fur gloves, but it was snap
ping cold away up there. We hardly
expected to start, on account of the
temperature, but the balloon limbered
up in the afternoon, and We decided to
try it.
..How did 1 stand the flight? I was
bit nervous as we began to shoot up
and my heart was uncomfortably near
nv mouth, but that wore off in a few
minutes, and was able to take obser-
vations and look over the side. We got
I'D only $500 feet on account OF APP
preaching darkness, though we ex-
pectcd to rise distance OF two miles.
The scientific result was disappointing.
We started too late. l took readings
of the various instruments at different
heights on the way up, but was unable
to see the instruments on the descent
because of the darkness. The next trip
we make l I'm going to have an electric
light along, so that it shall not matter
if we are up all night, as far as reading
the instrument goes. ''-ihst0detpf'aa
Press.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16
Baby's Meals.

The seasons of baby's meals should
be household habits by the time he is
allowed to partake of cooked food. Do
not blunt the zest which he ought to
bring to the consumption of regular ra-
tons by intervening nibbles and lunches.
He will learn to expect and depend
upon these, and be discontinued when
they are withheld The practice of ap-
peasing him when restless, from what
ever cause, by thrusting cracker, a
slice of bread, or, worse yet, hunk"
of gingerbread or a ''cooky" into his
hand is discountenanced by wise moth
ers. He besmears his face and clothes,
drops crumbs on the carpet and makes
continual want for himself. When
the hour comes for feeding, give him his
auantum of proper food, properly pre-
pared. Let him eat it leisurely, and as
soon as he is old enough to sit at a
table serve his meal neatly in plate, cup
or saucer, set on neat cloth, his own
spoon, china and fnger-napkin laid in
order. These are not tritles. More
Americans would breakfast, dine and
sup in healthful decorum, and fewer
s.feedn if they were trained from infancy
to consider a meal as ceremonial OBJ
servance, and the need of popular es-
saws on s.Table Manners would be less
urgent. - From Babyhood.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16

Joaquin Miller's Mother.

On farm among gently undulating
hills four miles from Eugene, Oregon,
on the east side of the Willamette River,
resides Mrs. Allison Miller, mother Of
Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Ser
ras. Over a year ago, despite the pro-
tests of her sons, she married Joe Ali
son, a farm hand, some nineteen years
of age. As Mrs. Miller was upward of
sixty-five, the marriage proved anything
but happy one The boy deserted
her. and during the recent dreadfully
cold weather she lived all alone, strug-
Cling through the snow two or three
times day to feed her horses and cat
tie. 1t is on this same farm that the
poet grew toward mans estate, save
when he was living in the wild woods
with the Digger Indians, enjoyingcamp
life and the pursuits of the chase. The
house is plain and unpretentious. The
fences are in poor repair, although the
owner is reputed rich among her neigh
bors, having many hundred acres.
$50 this is. the place where the COM
panion of Bret Harte spent many of his
days?" Mrs. Miller was asked.
"Yes, this is the place; but, bless
YOU, Tn as much of poet myself as
Joaquin" she SAID, producing from the
depths of an aged trunk Il roll of manu-
script which made me inStinctively feel
uneasy. Here's an epic, and here's
another in sixteen cantos that | wrote
myself Oh, yes, we all dabble little
in poetry
Glow long ago did your son begin to
write?'
ooh, he was always at it, He was q
little bit of boy when he first began
scribbling verses, and he's kept it up
with tolerable regularity ever since. L
used to try to make him quit 1t. think
ing no good could come of it, but l
couldn't succeed. He's off now at New
Orleans writing up the Exposition for
the Eastern press. Here are several
letters lately received from him." said
she. reaching toward convenient
shelf. I'm glad, on the whole, that
Joaquin didn't take my advice, and that
he continued to do as he pleased and
write poetry. The first poem he wrote
that attracted attention was one on the
planting of the class tree at the old
Lane County Academy, where the State
| University now stands. 1t was copied
in all the papers. He ran weekly in
Eugene during the war. 1t was red
| hot abolition Sheet, and the Missouri
roughs from Long Tom Creek over here
swooped down and demolished the Of
flee. Then he practiced law awhile at
Baker City, and afterward he wrote his
Songs of the Sierras,' which brought
him into prominence.
Mrs. Miller is tall and somewhat an
gular. Her hair is well silvered over
with gray, and her eyes, once dark, are
now dimmed True to the habits of the
pioneer she braves her difficulties, reso-
Iutely dries her tears over recent matrl.
monial infelicity, feeds her stock, and
roughs it uncomplainingly in her work
| on the lonesome farm.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16
Rather subdued.

"Them English are havin' a right
smart of trouble over there in Africa,
hain't they?" remarked an old farmer
from up in Michigan.
Eyes, indeed. y
..I'ye been a-watchin' of 'em all win
ter, and d we know what their campaign
over there reminds me 6f? Mop Wall,
sir, / usedter have big Berkshire shoat
what had the durndest appetite ever you
heerd tell on. The hitler shoats had to
git out of his way every time. Iput him
In a.lot all by hisself, and there was
plenty of feed and wallow there for
him, more'n he could ever use, but, dunn
me, if he would stay there. Down went
that fence and away went that shoat in
to fields where he had no business to be.
Wall, he kept this up all summer, but
bimeby he broke into a little patch o.
timber an got to foolin' round. What
dye s'pose he stirred up? Wall, by
gosh, he run his nose right inter a hor-
nets nest 1t took him long time to
git out O them woods, but when he got
out he was the most subdued shoat ever
you seed! Chicago Herald.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16

The "a o'clock system is opposed by
some persons on the ground that, while
the system has its special uses, the fatal
objection is that the human eye, which
can tell twelve marks made round cir
cular space one from the other at a
glance, without reading or counting
them, cannot do SO with twenty-four
marks, and that in looking at clock of
which the short hand went round only
once in the twenty-four hours it would
be necessary to find out at what figures
the hands stood either by reading the
figures or counting from the nearest
multiple of six.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16
Literature About Lent.

Among the curious old English GUS
toms followed in Lent was the peltlng
of a puppet called Jack O Lent, the
origin of which cannot be discovered.
Ben johnson, in 1.-The Tale of Tub,
refers to it:
ON an ash Wednesday,
When thou Gid'st stand six weeks the Jack o
Lent,
For boys to hurl three throws penny at thee.
The fourth Sunday is termed mid
Lent, or Passion Sunday; it was for
merly called Carl Sunday, as on that
day beans or peas, called earrings"
used to be given away or eaten. The
following appears in translation OF
French book on Lent, published In 1865:
CATER the salad (eaten in Lent at the
first service) we eat fried beanes, by
which we understand confession. When
we would have beanes well sooden we
lay them in steepe, for otherwise they
will never seeth kindly. Therefore, if
we purpose to mend our faults, it is not
sufficient barely to confess them at all
adventure, but we must let ouS confess
sion lie in steepe in the water OF medi-
tation."
The old English poet Shelton, in his
"Colin Clout,' writes:
In holy Lenton Season,
Ye will neither Beanes nor Peason,
But yc look to be let loose
To pigge or to a goose.
Among the ancient Greeks and Ro-
mans the forty days Immediately pre-
ceding Easter were set apart for fasting
and prayer, beginning with what is now
the first Sunday of Lent and ending on
Holy Thursday. Various periods of
fasting, from thirty-six to seventy days,
were observed by them till the year A.
D. $50, when Gregory the Great order
ed that the fast should begin the sixth
Sunday before Easter, and that all the
weekdays between that time and Eas
ter should be fasting days. But as this
gave only thirty-six days. the last four
days of the preceding woek were added
by either that Pope or Gregory the Sec
ond. Thus the solemn fast began on
Ash Wednesday.-Boston Globe.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16

Hugh Conway's story Ozark Days, !"
has attained a larger circulation than
his ..Called Back" two hundred thous-
and copies of the former story having
been sold. No novelist has achieved
two such remarkable successes in SO
short period of time.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16

New Zealand, with population OF
only half million, supports 100 news
papers, thirty of which are daily.
In Auckland, place of 10000 people,
the Star Of that city has 10000 circula-
ton.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16

A gargle of strong black tea used
cold night and morning is now fashion
able in London as preventive OF sore
throat.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16

TTTTRTmore money than at anything else
iii III by taking an agency for the best SELL
wv 1 III ing book out. Beginners succeed
w grandly. None fall Terms free.
HALLETT Book Co., Portland, Maine.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16
Som s. s: IS f:

value, that will start you in work that will at
once bring you in money faster than any
thing else in America. All about the $780,
600 in presents in each box. Agents wanted
everywhere of either sex, of all ages, for all
the time, or spare time only, to work for us
at their own homes. Fortunes for all work
erS absolutely assured. Don't delay. H.
HALLETT & Co., Portland, Maine.
Morris tribune., 1885-09-16

This new institution lately established in
Morris, Stevens County, Minnesota, is stu
ated in q healthy and delightful spot near
Lake Crystal, and has for its object the train
ing of young ladies in all the branches of q
refined and useful education.
The school year has two sessions of five
months each. The first commencing the
first Monday in September, and the second
the first Monday in February.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
To Newspaper Men.

The TIMES is prepared to bind newspaper files.
with leather backs, board aud marble covers, in
the style in which such work IL usually done, at
Eastern NET cash rates, including expressage both
ways. jyl2
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
Child's Snow Flake.

Every lady, wishing a clear, delicate complex
ion, should use Child's Snow Flake. 1t nourishes
and freshens the skin: removes tan and sunburn.
and the natural appearance impaired renders 1t
impossible to detect its use. Warranted perfectly
harmless. Sold by all druggists, or by the manu-.
factnrers, JOHN A. CHILD 4 CO, Druggists,
Portland. Oregon. Mail orders promptly attended
to. Price so cents. alm3w
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
Art Decorations.

MISS MAY BENTLEY has just received a choice
collection Of French Tr ,nsfer Designs, suitable
for decorating Fiie Screens Lamp Shades, Toilet
Sets Silk Quilts, Cushions, &c. Also, \ Rustic
Alphabet.
Those wishing materials Of this sort, please call
at her home. a9tf
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
Sherif's Sale.

the Justice Court of HALEY Precinct of
the Territory of Idahe, in and Tor the
County Of Alturns. and to me directed and de.
said Court, Oh the 21th day of February 1885. in
favor of John Arnold. and against the Davitt l.
Silver King Mining Company, have levied
all of the right, title and interest of the above
scribed real property, to-wit
Thst certain lode mining claim. located the
Sd day of June. 1882, by Moses Wiley. Thomas II.
Bentley. Patrick Flynn and James p. Motherwell,
Of Haley Idaho Territory, and known as the pa.
witt Lode Mining Claim, situate on Deer Creek.
about one .MIle southerly from the Warm Springs,
and being 1900 feet in length by GOO feet in width.
AlsO all of the right. title and interest Of the
known Ms the Far West Mine. situate on Deer Greek
about i mile southerly from the Warm Springs.
and is 1900 feet In leng by GOO feet in width and
located and recorded by Stephen Mulveyhili and
being in Mineral Hill Mining Disirict. Alturas
county, Idaho Territory. Also. all of the right.
title and interest of the above-nxmed defendant
in and to the mining claim known the Silver
King mine. being 1870 feet in length by GOO feet
in width and situate on the south side Of Beaver
gulsh about miles in a southwesterly direction
from the town of Sswtooth. and about 4 ths of
mile south from the Columbia mine. recorded In
book lO pages 452 and 453. of the Quartz Records
of Alturss county, Idaho Territory.
Notice is hereby given that ON the 3Oth day Of
March. 1885. at II O'Clock .. M. Of that day. in
frSnt Of the Courthol SO in HALEY, County OF Al.
turas. will sell the right, title and interest Of
said Davitt Silver King Mining Company in
and to the above described property. at PUBLIC
AUCTION. for cash In hand 10 the highest and best
bid der. to satisfy said Execution aud all costs.
Dated the 9th day Of Nsrch 1ss5.
c. II. FUREY. Sheriff.
A. F. MoNrANDoN. attorney for plaiirtif. m9
Notice.
The aboye aale ia herelv uoaf roncd until Nhs
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
For Sale.

One undivided half interest in a saloon, billiard
parlor and Theater, will sell, for cash. The
best bargain that has been offered on Wood
River Reason for selling: Other business to at
tend to. Apply ut once,
H. WARD, HALEY Theater.
N. B.-This is the best paying property in
HALEY. al1tf
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
THE DOLLAR COLUMN.

Advertisements not exceeding an inch Tor ten
lines of small type) in length will be inserted in
this column for dollar per week, or fifty cents
sks frst insertion aud twenty-five cents each ad
ditioEal insertion--payable in advance.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
Notice,

The above sale is hereby post poncd until the
18th day OF April, 1895. 1t 10 O'clOsk .. M.
Dated this I'd day of April. lSss, at HALEY,
Idaho. e. H. FUREY, Sheriff.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
The Baxter Hotel, Ketchum,

PAUL P. BAXTER, proprietor, is the Oldest
and best kept hotel on Wood River. The dining
is the largest in the Territory, and the tables
are supplied with every thing the market affords.
The rooms IRE large. airy and well furnished.
Charges very moderate. This is q HOTEL, and
when in ketchum don't fcfget the fact. the loca.
tion Main street, below First National Bank. s2ti
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20

Unsurpassed accomT odations for thirty horses,
and the turnouts and teams are Rrst-class,
n|Prompt attention paid to all orders.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
Dividend Notice. No. 6.

A dividend (No. 6) of two per cent has been de.
clared on TIE paid-up stock of the Alturas Water
Company. The same will be payable On the 18th
instant.
The transfer books will be closed from the l3tl.
to the 18th, inclusive, of each month.
A. J. MCGOWAN, President.
ALEX. WILLMAN. Secretary.
HALEY, Idaho, December i, 1884. o14y1
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-20
Attention, A. O. u. w!

Stated meetings Of HALEY Lodge, No. l, A. o. U.
W. are held every Monday evening, at 100 o'clock
All visiting brethren are cordially invited to At
tend.
BY order Of
THOMAS BELL, NJ. W.
HOMER L. POUND. Recorder.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-08
HuyuenofS 10 Celebrate.

Paris dispatch to the London Times.
The 18th Of October next will be the
bi-centenary of the revocation Of the
edict Of Nantes, and the descendants of
lluguenot refugees in Prussia, Holland.
and Switzerland contemplate holding
celebrations, not so much Of the
revocation as Of the hospitality
offered abroad to its victims. The
French Protestant Historical So
ciety has issued a circular dissuad-
ing French Protestants from attending
such celebrations, and suggesting spe-
cial religious services on the day in
question. Ii thinks that French Pro-
testants, while grateful for the kindness
Of foreign nations to the refugees, could
not attend without feeling bitter regret
for what France lost. 1t is not for
them to remind France OF faults so
dearly paid for while they live in
countries which have benefited
by her misfortunes or to min
gle an accusing voice in their
brethren's legitimate thanksgiving. A
commemorative service at home would
be an act OF humiliation and mourning,
and fervent prayer should be offered for
the enlightenment which France so much
needs, for the diffusion Of a new spirit
rendering the repetition Of past mistakes
impossible, and for the triumph Of ideas
Of liberation and justice, which are the
best safeguards Of liberty.