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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
Hes Lrrrle nam.

Her little hand, 50 soft and white.
Like an imprisoned bird tonight
held within my own.
The beauteous maid long had wooed
And for that little hand had sued
Till hope had almost flown.
At last in mine it trembling lay,
/ felt its fiuttering pulses play
Sa1ndless melody;
For liberty it scarcely fought,
1t was prisoner, thought,
That wished TO be set free.
The trembling captive caressed,
The velvet fingers softly pressed,
While her fair face scanned,
Then, as her color rose and fell,
What joy was mine to hear her tell
I'd won the little hand.
oh little hand, so soft and white,
Whose touch can thrill me with delight,
Oh! will ii ever be
That that tair hand, with satin skin,
Armed with broom or rolling-pin,
Will terrors have for me !?
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
A Disguised Soldier.

An Irishman serving in the United
States army in Texas and belonging to
the infantry was in the habit of stand
ing with his toes pointing inward, to
remedy which the Sergeant continually
addressed him while on parade with.
Stick out your toes, Patrick 1t took
Patrick years to acquire the habit OF
sticking his toes out. just about the
time he had succeeded he was transfer
red to the cavalry. where his habit of
sticking out his toes interfered much
with his usefulness as a horseman- The
Sergeant was continually calling to him;
stick in those toes. Patrick, much 70
This disgust. and he exclaimed with some
emphasis: ..Divil take such service
| For five years it was nothing but stick
out your toes. Patrick. and now its
stick in your toes. Patrick; There =
| no plazir' the blackguards' - eras
| SiJfings.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

An Iriahman, eating his first green
cora, handed the cob TO the waiter and
asked, aWill ye plaEe put some more
banes upon me sthick r
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28

Hn- Rutington, spaaking of one Who
d1ed from hard drinkf1E, remarked
Yes, IL, diasoEa1ioe has brought many Z
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-28
The Cheerful Man.

Edmund Ktrke, in Harper
cine for March.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-25
The Preachers Mistake.

"Whats become Of Parson jerks. who
came out here to preach ?" asked
friend of Dakota man.
well, you see, he made a sort of
bad break, and we Just firmly passed
him along to some other community.
We didn't like his style somehow"
why, am surprised at that; he
was considered very able and earnest
worker down in our country"
Don't know anything about that,
nut we found it necessary to help him
out of the neighborhood on a rail.
Il am astonished You did a great
injustice to. a worthy man, L am certain.
What were the charges against him ?"
Why, in his sermon one Sunday he
got gOin' ON about the Holy Land, and
said they could raise bigger wheat over
there than we could IN Dakota, and
then went on to quote something that
/ don't believe was ever in tine Bible,
about the seed falling in some par
ticular kind of sile and increasing q
hundred fold. Just as soon as he said
it | and Dea on Penny rose right up
and went out and got rail, and Deacon
Jones and the members of the choir
brought the reverend gentleman out
and set him on. | tell you no man can
preach to us who goes to rejecting on
Dakota's wheat raising. "-EStql!ine
DeU
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-25
WOman's Refining Influence.

Merchant o, Mrs. Tipriter, excuse
me, but where is that item l requested
you to charge against Johnson X Co.
Lady bookkeeper Why, you see,
sir, there wasn't any more room on
their page of the ledger, so 1 had to
put it on the next page. Wasn't that
right? (Anxiously, but cNquettishly)
Don't tell me I've made another
error
Merchant Goudly)-Why, you
(sweetly)-Not quite right; you see
this page is headed Robinson & Forbes,
and-(retires out of ear-shot, where his
language becomes unfit for publication.
And yet they say lady employees have
such a soothing and refining influeace
in an Office. Puck.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-25
THE WORLD.
by pERTINAx.

Who contemplates this world OF ours,
And thinks OF all its wondrous changes,
Its patent and its latent power
Thnt through all nature 3 vista ranges.
The broadening plain, the rushing river.
The valley and the mountain top,
All things but man 30 on forever;
The natural forces never stop.
The ocean wide, the mountain lake,
The awo-inspiring summer So lrln
The varying changes that they make
As they their wondrous parts perform.
Man is puny STRIPPING here,
The sport of every wind that blows;
The changes in each coming year
Are mans hereditary foes.
The mind that set this world in motion
And gave TO every force its laws,
That set the boundaries to the ocean,
In Herbert Spencer's great first cause
Wow the sky so bright aud clear,
L see the beauties of the sod
The great firs5 cause that / revere
Is king of heaven and earth. our God
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-25
When Grant Was Moved.

In the course of chat with your
correspondent an old army officer who
was on Grants staff during tho war
said that during all the negotiations
between Grant and Lee, Grant never
once showed the slightest trace of ex-
element or eXtiltation. "He had the
most reINarkable control over himself
of any man L ever saw. Never but on
two occasions have 1 seen him give
way to his feelings. The first occasion
was the greeting of the public-school
children of San Francisco upon the
occasion of his arrival from his tour
around the world. Grant was passion
ately fond of children. Their welcome
touched his heart, and the tears flowed
down over his face. He made no effort
to conceal his agitation. The other
occasion was when he was notified that
an old comrade who had served with
him during the war had been killed in
3 railroad accident in New York. This
was after his first nomination for the
Presidency and before his election.
He was at his headquarters, on the
corner of Seventeenth and L streets,
when the dispatch containing the sad
news was brought to him. He read il
slowly and carefully. Then he
leaned on his desk, with his head in his
hands, and cried like child. -
Washington Letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-25
Fair Americans ms Foreign Wives.

There were counted the other day in
one OF the most exclusive salons of the.
Faubourg Saint German thirty-seven
American ladies, all bearing names be-
longing to the French noblesse. Paris
FIGARO.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-25

Our first parents in the garden were
full of good resolutions they turned
over new leaf every morning. p. s.
1t was the only way they had to put
on their Sunday clothes.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16
Sheriff Is Sale.

By virtue of execution issued out Of the
District Court of the Second Judicial District Of the
Territory of Idaho. in and for the County Of AL.
turas, and to me directed and delivered, for a
judgment render,d and entered In said Court, on
the i4th day of July, 1886, in faver Of Z. NJ.
Bartlett and against VIM. @. Seamands. have
levied on the following property. 10 wit:
The mining claim known as the "Snow Storm
mine, the mining claim known the Susie
mine or lode; the mining claim known as the
War Eagle" mine or Lode the mining claim
known az the "Porcupine" mine OF lode; the
Crescent" mine or lode: the Lark" mine or lode
the "NcGee" mine OF lode; the ANYTHING" mine
or lode: the "Mulidi" mine or lode; the "sea.
mands" mine or lode. and the scorpion" mine
all Of the above mining claims being situate on
Antelope Creek. in the Lava Mining District, Al
turas county. Idaho Territory.
Notice is hereby given that on the seth day OF
August. 1885, at 10 O'Clock q. m Of thst day. in
front Of the Courthouse in HALEY. County OF Al
turas, I will sell the right, title and interest Of
said VIM. g. Seamnnds in and to the above de-
scribed property, much thereof shall
satisfy the demands Of he above named T. NJ
Bartlett. at Public Auction, for cash. lawful
money, in hand TO the highest and best bidder
10 satisfy said execution and sll costs.
Dated the and day Of August. fss6.
aa3 c. II. FURRY, Sheriff.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16

One of the amusing things in this
preparatory skirmish for delegates to
each convention is the fact that each
candidate for Office has a list of the
delegates who will support him. No
delegates have yet been elected, and
God Almighty only knows who will
be under present circumstances.
The excursion yesterday to Ketchum
was a most pleasant ono. About
thirty persons from Shosbone and
Bellevue and forty odd from HALEY
composed the party. Those from
HALEY returned just before dark, and
all expressed themselves in glowing
terms of the Springs and the occasion
generally.
Judge V. S. Anderson and family
returned yesterday from their pro-
longed visit to Red Fish Lakes, Saw
tooth and the up-country generally.
Rumor has it that the Judge will
throw away the SUPPLEMENTARY OF
school ma'ams and misses, and tackle
that of dead mems estates-if he is
able to get there, Eli.
J. c. Weston has just discovered
another ore bearing vein on Della
Mountain. 1t runs parallel with the
Hidden Treasure and seems we'll de-
fined. In running for the ledge he
found three of four Jumps of galsna,
but they were not sin place" Now,
however, he is getting to where the
ledge is compact and regular
Speaking OF the effort of the Boise
people to have separate meeting OF
the Republican Territorial Committee
at Caldwell, the Idaho Reporter says:
"From this distance it looks as though
the Caldwell call for the 10th OF
August had laid them open to their
enemies, and the outcome of the whole
business would be that they and their
friends would emerge from the little
hell Of their own creation either fried
stewed or roasted"
II the proposition to select men at
the primaries who have no preferences
and are not pledged to anybody sue
ceeds, the "hgh joints" will deserve
two chromos. But all experience tell,
that no such thing was ever known
and it is not difficult to see that thi:
pretty pretense is but sham to ge,
delegates who, at best, are not pledged
to the humble workingmen's crowd
Laborers must stand back before self
styled "respectability."
If the laborers of Alturas (by which
all salaried and wage men are in.
cluded) let few upstairs, who clotht
themselves in calico gowns of mush
room responsibility and shoddy arts
tocracy, elect the officers of Alturas o.
her Legislators, they deserve to bt
stamped beneath these peoples fee
forever. In the ranks Of their fellow
workers they can surely find as good
probably better material than among
these pretended "somebodies," anc
they will be foolish to pass their fel
lows by and kneel to the mushrooms
feet.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16
SheriH's Sale.

By virtue Of decree of foreclosure and order OF
sale issued out of the District Court of the
Second Judicial District of the Territory of
Idaho, in and for the County of A1turas and to
me directed and delivered, for Judgment rem
dered and entered in said Court. on the 18th day
of May 1886, in favor of Henry w. Smith, and
against George W. Goodman, have levied on the
following property, to wit:
The undivided south half of lot numbered two
t2) in bio X lettered "F" in the city of Bellevue,
County of Alturas, Territory of Idaho. being the
lot of land on which stands the building known
Goodman's saloon, situated on the west side Of
Main street in said city and county aforesaid.
Notice is hereby given, that on the 10th day of
August, 1886, at 10 o'clock q. m. of that day, in
front Of the Courthouse in HALEY, county Of Al.
turas. will sell the right, title and interest of
said George W. Goodman in and to the above-de-
scribed property at public auction, for cash law
full money in hand, to the highest and best bidder.
to satisfy said decree and all costs.
Dated the 18th day of July, 1896.
jy17 @. H. FUREY, Sheriff.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16

either party quarrel after the nomina
tons are made, it will likely be de-
fested. Light is breaking on the
Republican side of the Dial, which
seems to foretell Republican success.
1t is yet dark on the other side of the
Dial. THIS appears to augur Demo
cratic defeat. The Dial seldom mis-
tells a political future, and gives this
sketch as a picture of the promises
to-day.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16

Young, old, and middle aged, all
experience the wonderful beneficial
effects of Ayers Sarsaparilla. Young
children, suffering from sore eyes, sore
ears, scald head, or with any scrofu-
ious faint, become healthy and strong
ny the use of this medicine. Six bot
tles, IS.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16
NAILS CLOSE :


All msils from Maldoon, Stanton, Crichton, Sol
der. Corral Greek, Atlanta and Rocky Bar arrive
hsrr ad
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16

Don't fiji the system with quinine,
to prevent or cure Fever and Ague.
Ayers Ague Cure Is the specific for
this disease, and leaves no poisons to
produce dizziness, deafness, headache,
or other disorders.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16
REPUBLICAN CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION And PRE-.
CNCT PRIMARIESi
To the Republican Voters of Alturas County:

At meeting of the Republican held
3s,
Republican County Courthouse
s.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1885,
at 2 o'clock d. m.

m.
This called
members Of the Territorial Council four the legislative Assembly and
District Attorney Auditor and Recorder Probate Judge County and
before convention Delegates have been apponed the various precincts
holding
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16
HALEY POstORce.


HALEY POst01ice.
MAILS ARRIFE:
From the Sopth-' ....-........ 1890. 1Do I'm
From the NORTH IL n and 4 81 PM
Fx0In Bnll1oh.. s..-.-.,..s...-... sll'So A.
Fs8E NAILS CLOSE
tu-s- a.
For the Eexth ,...>, v. u. and 39o
All mails from Maldoon, Stanton, Crichton, Sol
der, Corral Greek, Atlsnts aud Rocky Bar arrive
sna depart by railroad.
OFFICE HOURS
cfsce always open to owners Of lock boxes.
Gcperal Delivery and Gall Boxes open from 80
A. M, until 500 p. m. Sundays, from II, noon. to
MONEY Order and Registry Department open
from $50 9. IN. until p. u. All registers must
be in by D. NJ, they vil not leave that day.
No Money Order or Registry business transacted
o. sundays or legal holidays.
- +, aa IT IL. BEWS. Postmss
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16

will be held
acandidte
districts.
hours clock Saturday 2 1885, the places deg
which designated by
which will posted the precinct by said Judges before August 10TH
the primary.
Your Committee following
Resolved
will Republican
l." P. ANDERSON ABB Charm
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-16

Notary Public and convsyaneer.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-09
Thinrs To Do and 10 KNOW.

The Iowa Register informs farmers that
there are ten lawyers where there should be
one.
Seventy-Ave loads Of barn yard manure, or
1000 to 1900 pounds Of the best commercial
fertilizers to the acre are necessary for
market gardens.
A colt should be halter broke when a week
old, and when allowed to follow the mother
should be led at her side, A colt thoroughly
halter broke before it is weaned is half
broken. Feed colts little corn but plenty Of
hay and oats.
Some Of the best corn lands in Indiana are
the bottoms Of ponds which have been
drained, but in certain of these the working
of the soil on warm days causes an intolera-
BILE itching, followed by burning pain in the
skin for some days. The cause Of this is found
to be the minute spicules of fresh water
sponges which once grew in the pond and re-
main in enormous abundance in the dust.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-09
A Kinri in His Own Domain.

What a king is a man in his own do
main? He turns the key in his office
door, locking his cares temporarily
within, and strolls leisurely home to his
MONDAY meal, that climax of a morn
ing's work. One or more women may
have been dashing about the kitchen one,
or more hours to bring about this same
climax. If he has a poor digestion he
glowers but indifferently at the food
spread before him; if the world uses him
well he smiles ~approvingly. Well he
may smile. His fingers are not smarting
with recent contact with red-hot uten-
sils, his eyes are not filed with smoke,
and his hair is not redolent with beef
stake; he hasno perspiration IN his brow,
no dust on his shoulders, no rebellion, no
resignation, no warfare of any sort in his
breast. Even though laboring under
the somewhat depressing effects Of onion
odor in his front hall, he may still smile,
and that smile not be automatic. He
has decided to imbibe some of the phil
osophy of life, and why be irremediably
annoyed by onionsS-Haryot Holt IN
Chicago Herald.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-09
New Agricultural -

This is the name of a good many schemes,
some of which are humbugs. Hon. A. N.
Cole, of Wellsville, N. Y, gives the title to a
large book he has written on the subject Of
draining lands by the trench system. He
claims that there are millions in it, and there
may be really something in it.
The method is to dig deep trenches in the
land and put in to these tile drains of peculiar
pattern. Then they are covered over. But
the rains percolate the soil, the water "seeps"
through the tiles. Instead of being carried
off as in the ordinary way, it remain stored
in the earthen receptacles, as a steady foun-
tain, to be drawn on by the roots Of growing
crops as they want it. Then thare is no
drouth, no matter how great the lack of rain.
BY irrigation in the California and the west
larger, surer crops are raised than in the
eastern and middle sections of the country, in
which the rainfall is depended on for water.
Mr.. Coles system is explained in his
book called "The New Agriculture" He
AYERS that he has raised 900 bushels of po-
tatoes from one acre Of ground by the trench
ing drainage plan. His own small farm, he
says, was ~nproductive because Of poor soil
before he tried the new agriculture. After
that he raised large crops. Below are men
toned the especial advantages he claims. By
"hard pan" he means the hard clay subsoil
which underlies so much Of our country. The
trenching is deep enough to penetrate the
hard pan. Mr.. Coles plan is Endorsed by
Professor Roberts, Of Cornell university, and
by the president of the Elmira Farmers
club.
The system and the book are worth investi-
eating, never losing sight, Of course, Of the
"hard PAM Of ones own good common sense
and Judgment. Don't be carried away with
anything, and investigate new things to the
bottom before you go into them. The writer
of "The New Agriculture" says in support of
it:
l. Cereal crops are increased more than
fourfold.
Q. The size, flavor and enhanced production
Of fruits and vegetables are in proportion as
five to one under the old system.
s. Vegetation of all kinds is rendered abso-
lutely free from disease, more especially that
arising from fungoid infection.
4 The ground worked under this new sys-
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-09

q ohsmIsal A~naIy...-ma.

Results OF Chemical Analyscs-uInea
Caused by Arsenical Wail-PapsE.
The Massachusetts, board Of health
published, about a year and a half ago,
the results Of analyses Of wallpaper
made by Professor Edward s. Wood
Twelve years earlier the same board had
published a report upon the use Of arsenic
by manufacturers Of wallpaper, pre-
pared by DR.. F. w. Draper. In that re-
port the presence Of this poison in green
papers was pointed out, and green pa
pers became questionable. But Pro
lessor Wood showed that arsenic was to
be found in papers Of every hue and in
those sold at high prices as well as in the
cheap patterns. The quantity carried
ranged from half a grain to nearly seven
grains a square yard. Many green pa
pers contained no trace Of this poison
Glazed and plated papers, prepared for
the use Of children in kindergartens, car
ried from twenty to twenty-five grains
on a square yard. Toys and candies
were covered with arsenical pigments
and the white papers used in covering
and lining small boxes was SO heavily
charged that a square foot yielded forty
five grains, or enough to kill fifteen mem
Professor Woods rPeprt was accom-
panied by a record of Torty-two cases Of
illness caused by paper charged with ar
senic.
There have been several hearings i'm
Boston before the Legislative committee
on public health. Testimony has BEEN
given by chemists, doctors and professors
connected with Harvard university. The
evidence submitted is cumulative. Pro-
fessor Lyon described fourteen cases Of
illness caused by arsenical wallpaper, alH
Of which came under his observation.
In one case-several members of a
clergyman's family having been affected
the symptoms were described as fol-
lows: "Numbness in shoulders and
arms, weakening of digestive organs
sleeplessness, nervou ~prostration." I'm
other cases the symptoms were "a pr
culiar sore throat" bronchial infamma-
ton, loss Of appetite, castle ~irritabilityy
headaches, a metallic taste in the mouth
soreness of eyeids, cold extremities, de-
preston Of spirits, extreme lassitude and
fatigue in the morning. In these cases;
careful examination and experiments
proved beyond a doubt that arsenic car
ried into the system from heavily charged
wallpaper was the cause of illness. In
one house, whose owners wife had suf-
fered severely, analysis revealed eleven
grains of arsenic per square yard on ths
wall-paper.-New York Times.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-09
Lawn and Yard Grasses.

Don't forget your grassy lawn or door
yard this spring. If you have not time fol
many flowers you certainly have leisure for
making a beautiful bright green grass plot
about your house.
Seedsmen sell what they call mixed lawn
grasses. W. j.. Beal, professor of botany and
forestry in the Michigan Agricultural col
lege, has struck CONSERVATION into the hearts
of nurserymen and seedsmen by Analysing
the mixtures they send out, neatly labeled
and sold for from "a to $3.50 a bushel. He
found, without exception, that the com
pounds contained quantities Of weed seeds
and plants that were a detriment to a lawn.
Some contained eggs of insects. Look out
for them.
From careful study and experimenting
Professor Beal finds the following to be the
best wearing lawn grass mixture to plant
Sow at the rate of two bushels of Kentucky
blue grass, poa pratensis, to two bushels Of
some small bent grass, known as Rhode
Island Bent, Brown Bent. or Creeping Bent,
or as red top. A few ounces of white clover
may be added, if one wishes. AS to the SOW
ing, Professor Beal writes:
"If not so already, make the soil strong
drain thoroughly, deeply pulverize, harrow
and hand rake the surface carefully. Ii
early spring, Or in early autumn if not dry
sow, without any wheat or oats, three or foul
bushels to the acre of June grass or red top
either one or a mixture of both i'll any pro
portion"
April is q good month in which to SOW
lawn grass. Never mix any timothy, rex
clover, meadow fescue or other large gras
or clover, but only the finest perennial
grasses and clover.