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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
BAKING POWDER TRAMPS.

The danger to the public health
from the indiscriminate use of the
many lime and alum baking powders
of commerce has been so fully exposed
that every body desires to avoid them.
AS forewarned is forearmed," house
keepers will thank us for apprising
them of the special efforts at present
being made to dispose of such pow
ders in this vicinity.
The proprietOrs of some of the
worst of these powders are now going
from house to house, trying by means
of a trick, or so called test, with heat
and water, to show that their article
is as good as the Royal Baking Pow
der, making the comparis on with this
brand because everybody recognizes
it to be absolutely pure and wholesome,
the object, of course, being to supply
their own goods in place OF the Royal,
which housekeepers have for so many
years relied upon to puff up the morn
ing biscuit, and to make the light,
palatable, and wholesome roll, cake,
and pastry for which it is famous.
The housekeeper will do well to be
on her guard against these baking
powder tramps. Every intelligent
person knows that any goods peddled
from house to house in this manner,
or that are given away in samples, or
sought to be introduced by secretly
traducing the character of other goods
we'll known to be pure and reliable
have no merits of their own, and have
failed to find purchasers through legi-
innate means.
We .are' informed, as a matter oil
fact, that one of these tramps is trying
to introduce a powder that has been
found by the Government chemist to
be 11.S5 per cent lime, while the other
peddles powder that is 20 per cent
alum-one a powerful caustic, the
other corrosive poison.
No such tricks or jugglery will bt
apt to deceive any intelligent person
The housekeeper who has used hel
Royal Baking Powder ever since she
discarded cream of tartar and soda
knows more about its qualities thar
all the tramps in the country car
teach her. The crucial test to which
she has put the Royal Baking Powder
the test of actual and successful
work in the preparation of pure ant
wholesome food, under which it hal
never failed--is entirely satisfactory t.
her. She has always had "good luck,
with it in making light, sweet, and de
licious bread. biscuit, and cake, anC
has placed it, to stay, at the head o
her housekeeping favorites. She know
that it has been officially approved by
the Government chemists as the best
and we imagine that the baking pow
der tramp who attempts to supplan
its place in her confidence will fine
this bad year for his business.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
Horse-Flesh in England.

Hippohagy is now seldom heard of.
"A few years ago it was strongly advo-
Gated in many quarters; but the British
public, although ready to swallow al
most any thing in the way of food put
before it, never took kindly to horse
flesh, and turned deaf ear to the per-
suasons vi those who recommended
the adoption of this kind of diet. 1t is
probable, however, that horse-tlesh is
often eaten unawares, and that its con-
sumption is far more common than is
generally imagined. Butchers whose
conscicnces are not tender occasionally,
it is feared, sell horse-flesh as ordinary
meat to unsuspecting customers. An
attempt Is about to be made to put mat
tiers in this respect on more satisfacto-
ry footing. At a meeting held for the
purpose of eliciting an expression of
opinion from the butchers of Manches-
ter and Stafford with regard to the sale
of horse-flesh as human food, it was de-
cided to appoint committee for the
purpose of getting anact of Parliament
passed to compel butchers who sell
horse-fesh to label it as such.-St.
James Gazette.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
Holding Down a Powder-Keg.

A young man in North Amherst, o..
took mid air ride under peculiar cir
cumstances. With several others he
was hunting woodchucks. The expert
ment Of smoking the animal out was
unsuccessful until the Amherst young
man bethought himself of brilliant
plan. An empty powder-keg was pro-
cured, more leaves and straw piled on
the smoking heap at the south of the
den, and the keg turned bottom up over
the fire to keep the smoke in. The
young man now proceeded to sit on the
key to hold il down. He did hold it
down at the rate of twenty feet per
second through tho air. With his eyes
like hat hooks and with hands and feet
outsprcad he demonstrated beyond the
possibility of a doubt that empty powder
kegs can explode. The woodchuck es-
capped. - Chicago Times.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
THE INCURARLFs.

. They are a large army. Homes and bo.
pitfalls and a>yums are built for them us
many private household has its so,r aau
full individual members who, w In ola
chronic diseases, are given up by the do'
tors as hopeless cases.
Happily the army o incurabl ia not =.
large as some people think. Tharo
are many people who have been given ne
so but are vet alive and happy. ,Judn.
Flanders Of Ne,o York was so lar gone ths s.
when he came to inquire if Compound
Oxygen could. do any thing for him. the
doctor h. rdly dared to express the faintes,
hope. Yet Judge Flanders is now daiIv
attending to business The Hon. William
ID. Kelley thought his life work was done
over ten years ago He says now that be
owes the proongation of his life to Com
pound Oxygen. w. II. Whitley, ESQ. Of
Philadelphia, considered himself one Of
the great army of ''in, urables," yet Com.
pound Oxygen made him a new man. And
so with hosts of others. Don't despai
however long you have been i'll, or how
ever hopeless may seem your case, but
write to Drs. STARKEY & PALEN, l529
Arch ST., Ihila., Pa. for their treatise on
Compound Oxygen 1t will be sent flee
Orders for the Compound Oxygen Home
Treatment will be filed by Ii. A. Mathews
6l5 Powell Street, San Francisco.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
TAXABLE PROPERTY.
Theodwinkle Goodfornought's Tax Dupli-
cate for the Current Year.

Theodwinixle Goodfornought's Tax Dupli-
cate for the Current Year.
Mr.. Assessor, the following statement
of my taxable property l am ready to
swear Qike smoke) is too true:
PLEASURE CARRIAGES One baby
buggy; but consider it far from being
a pleasure carriage to me.
LIVE SToCK-One cat and four kit
tens. One wife's mother; mine by
right of storage.
STEAM VEssEIs-One teapot and one
full-rigged wash-boiler.
MONEY ON HAND-Silver half-dollar
with hole in it; worked three days to
invisibly plug it, but failed. In bank,
5000, 900, less $135 | owe there.
NOTES -Seventy-six; but other men
hold them.
Ds-Matrimonial; $40 invested;
subject - excessive taxation. Non
transferable.
LJMBER-Half-box matches.
REAL EsTATE-One corner lot-in
graveyard, one patch in potatoes, two
patches in elbows, one gained
in this State.
MONEY LOANED ON PLEDGE-None;
but plenty borrowed on it.
VALUE OF ARTICLES HELD THIS YEAR
Held horse, valued at 81 900, few
minutes one day last month, while owner
went into store.
JEWELS = Set superbly mounted
clothes-pins. Richly embossed Etrus-
can dray-pn. Set of imitation brass
cuff-buttons. One elegantly inlaid black
eve, warranted to wash.
MUSICAL INsTRUMENTs-One combi-
nation, over-seaming, duplex, eight
octave, high-pressure jewsharp. One
no-stringed, self-tuning, upright wash
board. One high-toned, long-range,
base rocking baby.
Total valuation ...................-.S127,S61
Deducting amount of debts. 1877, 288
Amount left-very far left. $9,4U
-Iit-Bit
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
A CoIlegian's Qualifications.

Bowdoin College has student named
Soule, who appears to have been ad-
mitted to one of the classes solely on his
qualifications as baseball player. The
college clubs have rule that the MEM
bers shall be bona-lida students, and
Soule's case was investigated. 1t APP
pears that he was admitted without ex-
animation, took history and physiology
as his special studies, but seldom APP
peared in the classroom. Soule tcsti-
fled that he had not been at school for
four years before entering Bowdoin but
could not remember the name of his
last teacher. President Hyde declared
that he could properly be regarded as a
college man, and the Investigating clubs
were forced to accept him as ball play
EN- Y. Post.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
THE LATEST AND GREATEST DISCOVERY

IR. j. DE PRATPS HAMBURG FIGS
"A crystalli led fruit cathartic A discov-
cry of the greatest interest to the Medical
Profession. a boon to every household.
A most delicious laxative or pu x tive,
prepared from fruits and vegetables. So
perfect y harmless that they may b. ad-
ministei ed with entire pfety to an infant.
So efficacious to adults that a single dose
will prove their value, and so elegant
preparat on that it needs only to be pre-
sented to the public to become necessity
in every household throughout the land.
For liver complaint, habitual constipa-
ton. indigestion. dyspepsia and piles,
they are specific. 10 travellers by sea
and land they are invaluable; they are
positively unfailing in their action, and
this is the only medicine ever offered to
the public that is acceptable to the taste
and so pleasant that children will eat the
figs as eagerly as candy. For sale by
every druggist throughout the world.
Price rs cents a b x. j. j. Mack & Co.,
proprietors, 8 and IL Front street. San
Francisco Cal
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
THREE OF A KIND.
Ananiss Outdone by a Trio of Passenger
I'm the Smoking Car.

Ananias Outdone by q Trio of Passengers
I'm the Smoking Car.
They were snow-bound on Western
railroad, and killed time-and truth
with stories which, by the antipodal
law of contraries, related to pherome-
nally fast trips on the rail. Some of the
passengers in the "smoker" confined
themselves to their experiences, while
others, less conscientious but equally
generous, ''chipped i'm anecdotes that
would have made the hair of \ sane To-
connective engineer stand on end. FL
nally, when it was officially announced
that the train was 'stalled" for another
twenty-four hours, competition in the
Ananias business waxed SO warm that
only three men "Stayed in" Said the
first:
Il had the good luck to get on the
special train of Presidential candidate
in 1884, during the heat of the cam
paign. He had to open one meeting
and close another on the same evening,
and the two were sixty miles apart. l
was on the train that did it, and we
went so fast that the mile-posts ran to-
gether like a picket fence-so close, in
fact, that the only man on board who
got the figures correct was an instanta-
neous photographer"
No one smiled. In point of fact, at
this stage of the game beverages were
at a premium, while the second gentle
man remarked, with the faintest sus-
picion of contempt:
'By coincidence not at all curious
/, too, had ride with Presidential
candidate, and special dispatches which
he received showed that he must make
an awfully previous sort OF trip to
reach the next town before the enthu-
siasm for him should get away. We
had train of three cars and, l give
you my word of honor, we went so fast
that, part of the way, by actual meas
urement, the rear of the last car was
only four feet behind the front Of the
cow-catcher."
Gentlemen" said No. 8, coming up
with radiant courage, ''your old fOgy
experiences remind one of the good old
days of stage coaches and canal-boats.
But it was my good fortune last fall to
make fairly quick trip from Bangor to
Portland. I'm giving you the straight
Kennebec river ice-house tip, when
say that in four minutes from the time
we fairly got under way the ice IA the
water tank was boiling and melted Lead
from the seams of the cooler were burn.
ing holes in the car floor"
1t is but fair to add that at this awful
crisis some phlanthropist produced 6
bottle of total abstinence antidote.-
BRAKES Travellers Magazine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
telegraph Poles.

In England the Norway spruce is
employed, known we believe in the En-
glish lumber market as "deal. ~
Larches, of English growth, formerly
employed, were found sadly wanting in
durability. In America cedar is used
where they can be had tall and cheap
enough, but nothing is found better than
chestnut, cost and durability both con-
sidered. Ten or fifteen years is the
average duration of an American tele.
graph pole. The English are talking OF
iron posts. though it is conceded they
cost four-fold those of wood Garden
srNs MontAtu.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
TEA DYSPEPTICS.
The Effects of Tea and Coffee on the Diges
tive Organs.

The Effects of Tea and Coffee on the Diges.
tive Organs.
1t has occurred also to the writer to
cumstances under which tea and coffee
are found to agree or disagree with diff
ferent persons; in the first place, as Sir
w. Roberts has pointed out, tea, if
food. is much more likely to retard its
digestion and cause dyspepsia than if
taken little time after eating; and the
custom adopted by many persons at
breakfast, for instance, of eating first
and drinking their tea or coffee after
ward is sensible one; so also it is bet
ter to take ones fve-o'c clock tea with
out the customary bread-and-butter or
cake than with it.
be said against cup of hot tea as a
stimulant and restorative, when taken
about midway between lunch and din
ner, and sOithOut solid food, it may. on
the other hand, be q fruitful cause of
dyspepsia when accompanied at that
time Nth solid food. 1t is also curious
fact that many persons with whom tea.
under ordinary circumstances, will agree
exceedingly well, will become the sub
iects of tea dyspepsia if they drink
this beverage at a time when they may
be suffering from mental worry or emo
tional disturbance.
Moreover, it is well-recognized fact
that persons who are prone to nervous
excitement of the circulation and palpi-
tations of the heart have these symp-
toms greatly aggravated if they persist
in the use of tea or coffee as beverage.
The excessive consumption of tea
among the women of the poorer classes
is the cause of much of the so-called
'heart-complaints" among them; the
food of those poor women consists
largely of starchy substances (bread and
butter chiefly, together with tea, i. e..
food accessory which is one of the
greatest of all retarders of the diges-
ton of starchy food.
The effect of coffee as . retarder of
stomach digestion would probably be
more felt than il is were it not so con-
stantly the practice to take it only in a
small quantity after very large meal;
it is then mixed with an immense bulk
of food, and its relative percentage pro-
portion rendered insignificant; and to
the strong and vigorous the slightly re-
tarding effect on digestion it would
then have may be, as Sir w. Roberts
suggests, not altogether disadvantage;
but after spare meal and in persons
of feeble digestive power the cup of
black coffee would probably exercise a
retarding effect on digestion which
might prove harmful. DR.. j. Burney
Yeo. in Popular Science Monthly.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
A MYSTERY.

How the human system ever RECEIVERS from
the bad effects of the nauseous medicines often
literally poured into it for the suppositive re.
lief of dyspepsia, liver complaint, constipation,
rheumatism and other ailments, is mystery.
The mischief done by bad medicine is scarcely
less than that caused by disease. If they who
are weak, bilious, dyspeptic, cOnstipated or
rheumatic, would oftener be guided by the
experience of invalids who have thoroughly
tested Hostetters Stomach Bitters, they would
in every instance obtain the speediest aid
derivable from rational medication. This
medicine is n searching and at the same timeA
BILE sources. and possessing, in consequence Of
its basis of pure spirits, properties as medical
stimulaut not to be found III the fiery local bit.
tiers and stiInnlants often ressrted TO by the
debilltated, dyspeptic and languid.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
NOTHING LIKE 1T.

No medicine has ever been known so
effectual in the cure of al! those diseases
arising from an impure condition the
blood as SCOVILL'S SARSAPARILLA
OR BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, the
universal remedy for the cure of Srofula,
While Swellings rheumatism, Pimples.
BIotches, Eruptions. Venernal Sores, and
Diseases, Consumption, Groitre, Boils,
Cancers, and kindred diseases. There
is no better means of securing a beautiful
complexion than by using SCOVILL'S
SARSAPARILLA,O OR BLOOD & LIVER
SYRUP, which cleanses the blood and
gives permanent beauty to the skin.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
TERRIBLE WORK.

Some of the Devices Employed in England
to Keep Convicts Busy.
The convicts were marched into a
large yard and formed three sides of
square, standing about five feet apart,
facing inward. Near one end of the
line was pyramid Of twenty -four pound
cannon balls. In the center of the
square stood the officer or guard.
When all was ready he gave the order,
"One," when every man moved side
ways five feet to the right, which
brought the man at the head of the line
opposite the pyramid of balls. 1.-TWO"
Every man stopped down without bend
ing the knees, the first man taking a
ball from the pile, the others going
them. Three" The men moved
back to their original places. "Four."
They stopped and placed the ball upon
the ground, not being allowed to drop
it. And so on the movements con-
tinued, the orders quickened at the will
of the guard till the balls were all con-
veyed through the line and piled up at
the other end. 1t required but a few
minutes of these rapid movements to
bring every man into state of profuse
perspiration, showing that the. labor
was of the severest kind. A short time
was allowed the men 70 rest, when they
were again called to order, and. by the
same movement the balls were returned
to their original place, and so on
throughout the day these cannon-balls
were passed forward and back, with
no object only to furnish labor for the
men.
In the prisons established upon the
solitary or separate plan, where the
convicts work in their cells, they have
what they called the "crank labor" an
iron cylinder or drum two feet long and
eighty or twenty inches in diameter
resting upon legs. A spindle or shaft is
passed through the drum. with crank
on one end for turning it. Attached to
the spindle within the drum, which was
filed with sand, were fiat arms, making
1t necessary to use considerable force to
turn it--a dull, heavy drag. A dial attach.
ed to the machine registered the number
of revolutions the convict had made.
From eight to ten thousand was tho
usual daily stint. Can one imagine (;
more terrible situation for human be
ing to be placed in than to be shut Vi
alone in cell ten feet square, and iron
morning till night compelled to turn :
crank attached to such an internal ma
chine, with no results, nothing accom-
plished, no object, no hope excep
complete his task, for upon that az
nends his supper of gruelP-C0r.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
VALUABLE VASES.
A Pair of Cappa dI Monte Gems that Sold
for q Fabulous Sum.

A Pair of Cappa oil Monte Gems that Sold
for a Fabulous Sum.
A pair of vases which fetched $17,-
500 came very near being owned in this
city. These exquisite pieces of pottery
were of Cappa di Monte ware. and had
been picked up in Rome by a oonnois-
seur travelling in Italy commissioned
by several friends to make some pur-
chases for them of art treasures. The
vases were bought for j. Forman Will
kinson, of this city. The cost in Rome
was about $3.50. Anything of the kind
entitled to the mare of Cappa di Monte
was easily worth that amount. and.
though the purchaser felt assured that
he had not been deceived. he submitted
the vases to leading experts in Lo~Aon
on returning thore. The ware bore
every test shought of 10 e.5certain
its genuineness. One OF the experts
whose opinion was asked was 80 confi-
dent that the vases were rare bargain
that he then and there offered 81, 800
for them. The proposition was tempt
ing enough to bring about trade.
The next mail brought Mr.. Wilkin-
on DIR It for nearly $4,000. the profit
IF the transaction, with an explana-
ion of the circumstances. The
purchaser refused to be reimbursed for
his trouble. With some curiosity, how
ever, he afterward watched the vases
as they came into fame in the circles
where fictpe manufactures of antique
and curious workmanship are sought
for. One day the vases turned up in
the collection Of a dealer whose
customers are among the money kings
and btsod royal. The owner had set u
price ~ his treasures which made the
Ease the cynosure Of thousands of
covetous eyes. 1t was not long before
collector, who never stops to count
the cost, walked into the shop and paid
SIT, 800 for the vases. Six months had
not elapsed since Mr.. Wilkinson's con-
noisseur friend housing a.ound the
neglected magazines of the ancient city
had brought the vases out into the
light of day to play part in the art
fancying Of the period.-Syrocuse (N.
Y Standard.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22

1t is said that lady's sta, ding in
society can easily be determined by her
dress at the breakfast table; an responsive,
snowy costume Indicating that the wearer
has not yet learned the prophet les. But
no one need be afraid of being called
" shoddy" if her loveliness is as apparent
by daylight rs at the hops. Perfect beauty
is never the atter dant of disease; above
all, of those diseases peculiar to women.
and which ind a ready cure in DIR.
Pierces "Fayorite Prescription. Price re.
duced TO one dollar. By druggists.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22

Texas has new industry. The Clear
Creek Crab Canning Company has been
organized in Galveston Co unity, and is
doing big business in catching and
canning crabs. The shells are removed
entire except the claws, ground in a
mill, and shipped to France, where
they are manufactured into dentifrice.
The oil that arises on the watts where
the crabs are boiled is used IN making
soap, and is said TO be equal to cocoa
nut oil for this purpose. The crabs
themselves are packed in fye-gailor
cans. and are reckoned good.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22

English Methodism is beginning to
protest with great earnestness against
the the three years limit of its pastor
ate, and prominent London Journal
says it is successfully emptying the larg-
est chapels in city and country, and con-
dennis it as being no longer necessary.
and totally un-Wesleyan.-C Christian
Union.
AS an example of the confidence
that some professors have in their stu
dents, it is said that prominent Cor
nell professor, leaving town before a
few of his students had taken the exami-
nation, generously sent a set of ques-
tons to these students to be answered
10 their rooms.-M Y. Mad.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-22
The greatest depth yet found in Crater
Lake, Oregon, is 1852 feet.

Above all other earthly Ills,
hate the big, oldfashl oned pills:
BY slow degrees they downward wend,
And often pause, or upward tend;
With such discomfort are they fraught,
Their good effects amount to naught.
Now DR.. Pierce prepares pin
That just exactly fills the bill
A Pellet, rather, that is all
Pleasant Purgative, and small:
Just try them as you feel their need,
You'll find that | speak truth, indeed.