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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06

truth with regard to the development of
her people. His hook, .'The History of
the English People," was written while
he was struggling against mortal ILL
ness. He had collected vast materials
gland, and had begun to write it, when
progress, and he was told by his physi-
clans that they could do nothing to ar
rest it.
I'm the extremity of ruin and de-
feat" says his wife, in her record of
him, ''he found higher fidelity to his
work. The days that might still be left
to him must henceforth be conquered,
day by day, from death. Thus, under
the shadow death. the Making of En-
gland was begun"
The writing occupied five months, in
which time his doctors declared that his
life was prolonged from day to day by
the sheer force of his own will and his
inflexible resolve to finish this work. He
lay, too weak to lift book or the pen,
debating every word, sometimes through
hours of intense suffering. Yet so con-
sclentious was he that, driven by death
as he was, the greater part of the book
was rewritten five times. When it was
finished he began the Conquest of En-
gland" wrote it, reviewed it, and then,
dissatisfied with the work as it stood,
Cancelled it all, and began again. As
death laid its cold fingers on his heart,
he said:
Il have still some work to do that 1
knosO is good. will try to win but one
week more to write it down" 1t was
not until he was actually dying that he
said: Il can work no more"
The simple story of this mans last
days is like the blast of a bugle call.
How many of us in strong health inccs-
sanity yawn and dawdle over the work
God has given us, or leave it altogether
undone!- Youths COMPANION.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06

be taken lest he cut away rigging,
braces or guys with his terrible jaws, or,
for a change, snapped off q mans arm
or leg. A scantling from. the ships
dunnage was found and thrust in his
mouth. This two-inch pine piece was
snapped in twain like a match. Then
one of the great iron pump-bars took
its place and the sharks jaws set upon
it like a wise. At short intervals he
cavorted the deck with this iron bar
crashing against things promiscu-
ously, all on board sud-
denly finding it more agreeable
alongside the rails, or fore and aft. In
time he was made fast to the fife-rails
and then subdued by a five-hundred-
pound ''skid being got across his back
with couple of sailors at either end OF
the timber, as the old boards were
mounted in the ''see-saw" tile of your
youth-tide. Then the rest of the crew
quickly dispatched the monster with
their sheath-knives, and l never wit
messed such qualification and JOY as were
shown by the sailors in taking the life
of this their deadliest enemy. 1t APP
preached delirious human tiendishness,
and the cutting and slashing were sick
ening. The shark-which measured
sixteen feet in length, its liver alone
filing ten gallon cask-being done for,
its remains were cast into the sea, save
the backbone, which, on being boiled
and cleaned, was divided into precious
souvenirs of victory whose kind no
one on board had previously happened
to share. E. l.. Waterman, IN Chicago
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
PICTURED ROCKS.
A Source of Wonder and Speculation for
Over One Hundred Years.

A Source of Wonder and Speculation for
Over One Hundred Years.
The famous Pictured Rocks on the
Evansville pike, about four miles from
Morgantown, w. Va, have been a
source of wonder and speculation for
more than century, and have attracted
much attention among the learned men
of this country and Europe. The cliff
upon which these drawings exist is of
considerable size, and within a short
distance of the highway above men,
toned. The rock is white sand
stone which wears Little from expos ure
to the weather, and upon its smooth sur
face are delineated the outlines of at
least fifty species of animals, birds, rep
tiles and fish, embracing in the num-
Der panthers, deer, buffalo, offers,
beavers, wildcats, foxes, wolves, rae
eoons, opossums, bears, elk, crows,
eagles, turkeys, cells, various sorts of
fish, large and small snakes, etc. In
the midst of this silent menagere of
specimens of the animal kingdom is the
full length outline of a female form,
beautiful and perfect in every respect.
lnterspersed among the drawings of ami
mails, etc, are limitations of the foot
prints Of each sort, the whole srace oc-
cupied being one hundred and fifty feet
long by fifty wide. TO what race the
artist belonged, or what his purpose
was in making these rude portraits,
must ever remain mystery. but the
work was evidently done years ago. -
Boston Budget.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The bridal dress of the Princess Eu-
Ialie, of Spain, cost $4,000.
Experiments in steering balloons
are to be made in all the fortified places
in France.
Queen Victoria's household, in
which there are / 200 persons, cost near
1y $2,0O0,OO0 year.
An inventor in Solothurn, Switzer-
land, has patented steam velocipede
which attained speed of about twelve
and half miles an hour.
"A lady in the Queens service, who
made the mistake of wearing cherry
ribbon during recent term OF court
mourning, has been deprived of her po-
sition for two months.
An English paper, speaking OF the
launch of new vessel says: 1.-The
christening ceremony was performed by
Lady Campbell. Her tonnage is 1910,
and she can carry six guns
The largest pharmacy in Europe,
says the Vienna Medisinische Zettatng, is
at Moscow, and is that of Woldemar
Ferrein, where about seventy or eighty
assistants are employed and seven to
eight hundred prescriptions are prepared
daily.
Arrangements are being made in
England and Scotland to establish dam
ger signals, in connection with the
weather service, for the purpose of max
ing known such atmospheric changes
as may affect the working of the mines.
The massive iron chest in which the
manuscript of the Doomsday book was
formerly kept is still preserved in the
British Office of public records, and il
will be an object of curiosity at the
coming of the eight hundredth Dooms-
day anniversary.
In London the problem of disposing
of snow in the streets is said to have
been practically solved at comparatively
moderate expense. Pits are provided
with steam coils at the bottom, and the
snow is shoveled into them, when it is
rapidly melted and run off by the
sewers.
The Danes do not propose to have
any receptions in the butter supply. A
law enacted in Denmark last year com
pels all makers and sellers of adulter-
ated imitation, and bogus butter to pack
it in elliptical tubs, conspicuously mark
ed margarine" and Furnishes in
fractions of the law by a fine of
from 200 to 1000 kroners (about
$54 to $540). The enactment was forced
by the agricultural element of the country
despite the opposition by the bogus but
ter people.
There is stir among musicians in
Europe at a little story from Naples
When Bellini died his brother Carmelo
came into possession of all of + llini''
autographs. Carmelo kept the writings
shut up in chest, and never even unto
the day of his death, last year, so mucl
as lifted the lid. But the othel day
Carmelo's heirs, more curious, opened
the chest and there found the origina
"Ernani''-a precious gem in the eye
of the famous musicians admirers.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
AN HISTORIC CANE.
A Bewildering Collection of Relics EN-
bodied In a Walking Stick.

Bewildering Collection of Relics En-
bodied In a Walking Stick.
Mr.. Robert Yale, of Norwich, N. Y,
recently visited the Star office, bringing
with him beautiful historical cane,
which it took him five months to make.
The cane proper is made of wood taken
from the coolest tenantable house in
America, the Fairbanks residence, built
in 1880, in Dedham, Mass, now occu-
pied by the seventh generation" The
head is made from piece of the tree at
Crown Point, to which General Putnam
was tied after being condemned to death
by the Indians. The entire cane is in
laid with more than two thousand pieces
of wood, the head alone containing five
hundred pieces, all of which are taken
from historical points and cut symbol
ical of the places from which they were
taken.
Among the pieces which are most i'm
portant are "a piece of wood from John
Browns scatfold, Charleston, Va; one
from the old bingham church, built i'll
| 1851, probably the oldest church in
| America; another from the spring where
| Jennie McCrey was murdered by the In
| dians; piece from the Charter Oak;
| another from the house where Hancock,
the first signer of the Declaration of In
dependence, lived; one from the house
in Salem where witchcraft originated,
and one from the building where the
victims of that craze were tried; piece
| from relics which came over in the May
| flower; piece from the church where
Roger Williams preached; another
| from the tree beneath VIII CHI Jonathan
Edwards preached to the Indians at
Stockbridge, Mass. There is also a
piece from a curbing of well in Scitu-
ate, Mass, which was COMMUNICATED
by the poet Woodwork in his poem
1.-THE Old Oaken Bucket" piece taken
from the place where the massacre oc-
Cured in Deerfeld, Mass, two hundred
and ten years ago, in which one hum
dred and sixty were killed; another from
the stairway where Colonel Ellsworth
was shot in Alexandria, Va; one from
Ethan Aliens grave. near Burlington,
Vt; also piece representing Benedict
Arnold hung in eff gy, taken from the
well situated on the pl ice where he was
BORN another taken from the house
where Hawthorne was born, in Salem,
| NldSS., dlltl diSo Oiit ii yin biiC iouSC VI
the seven gables; pieces taken from diff
erent forts; Ticonderoga, Crown Point,
Fort George, Fort Gage and Fort Ed
wards; piece from the magnolia tree,
the last tree planted by Washington at
Mount Vernon; piece from the Old
South Church, Boston; and small
piece of Plymouth Rock. Set in the
cane are portraits of Washington, Lin
4 n n Al L
of the cane, also wreath of hair from
the head of Rebecca Bates, one of the
heroines whose strategy drove the Brit
ish to their shipping after landing to at
tack Scituate, Mass. The only foreign
relic in the collection is piece of wood
from the Tasso oak The cane is one of
remarkable artistic beatty and attractive
ness and is valued by the owner at five
hundred dollars, although as histori-
cal work there is no limit to its value
Providence Star.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
ILL REPORTS.
Beware OF Cutting Up the Character OF
Your Acquaintances.

Beware OF Cutting Up the Character OF
Your Acquaintances.
Keep clear of personalities in general
conversation. Talk of things, objects,
thoughts. The smallest minds occupy
themselves with personalities. Person
alities must some times be talked be-
cause we have to learn and find out
mems characteristics for legitimate OBJ
jects; but it is to be with confidential
persons. Do not heedlessly report i'll of
others. There are times when we are
compelled to say: II do not think
Bouncer a true and honest man." But
where there is no need to express an
opinion, let poor Bouncer swagger
away. Others will take his measure,
no doubt, and save you the trouble of
Analysing him and instructlng them.
And as far as possible dwell on the
good side of human beings. There are
I nily boards where constant process
OF depreciating, assigning motives. and
cutting up character goes forward.
They are not pleasant places. One who
is healthy does not wish to dine Mt
dissecting table. There is evil enough
in man, God knows! But it is not the
mission of every young man and
woman to detail and report it all.
Keep the atmosphere as pure as posi-,
bic, and fragrant with gentleness and
charity DR. John Hall.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
ANDORRAN CUSTOMS.
La W. Making in the Sleepy Little Republic
of the Pyrenees.


When the air is clear of revolution
Andorra is happy valley indeed. There
are no written laws: every man is bound
by his honor-a truly Spanish arrange
ment. Serious crimes are practically
unknown, and during the past hundred
years only one criminal has been push
ed over the precipice on the Catalonian
border-that being the Andorran form
of capital punishment. Education is
gratuitous: lawyers are unknown, and
no mans land is mortgaged. This little
territory is the paradise of the law of
primogeniture, for many properties
have belonged to the ancestors of their
present owners for eight hundred years.
Beyond Magma Charta and the records
of births, marriages and deaths, the
state archives are exceedingly meager;
for in land where the
pledge of honor has been
observed with such scrupulous nicely
there is little necessity for wasting time
by putting things in the bond. The Cen
eral Council meets in the "cty" of An
DORA every Sunday and holiday. The
sessions are held in the ''Domus Con-
sill, sedus justitia," very ancient
piece of architecture, adorned with the
sovereign arms of the republic. This
and the old church near by are the only
two buildings of interest in the country.
A meeting of the council is a most pic
turesque sight. The members arrive
with the utmost punctuality, and are all
arrayed alike in gray knee-breeches, red
wooden waistcoats, light blue stockings,
shoes with silver buckles black silk era
watts, and cooked hats. Over all they wear
long black mantles lined with
crimson. The captain mag
istrates'' are arrayed, like
Ham ct, in black velvet; and, in virtue
of their position as judges and COM
subjects of the republic wear swords.
Nearly every decision is arrived at
unanimously, and the debates, if report
cd at so much per folio, would not keep
a shorthand writer in pencils and note
books The Domus Consilii is at once
legislative chamber, town hall, prison,
school and hotel, for it contains a large
dormitory, in which councillors from a
distance sleep when stress of weather
, prevents their immediate return home.
The average Andorran toilet is much
less brilliant affair than that of members
of the council. Spanish ideas of clean.
illness prevail, and it is no,
usual-except among the half
dozen noble families-to sleep il
{ sheets. Indeed, save on state oc
casions, when he brings out his finery
, the citizen of the Andorran republic is
/, somewhat sordid person. When there
is a great function, however, he consid
: ers it due to himself that he should max,
a brave show, The Andorrans are sale
to be very hospitable, but they are suf
ficiently unsophisticated to be suspicion
of tourists, whose ways are dark ant
mysterious to them. Andorra is pre-
, sumably the only civilized State in tn
world without newspaper. 1t offers
! peculiarly promising field to enterpris
), ing journalists who can write Spanish
for, although firearms are almost to-
: plentiful, there is not marksman il
the republic who can hit COW standin,
+ at a couple of hundred yards. Cor. Chi
: caoO Times.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
CATCHING A SHARK.
The Monsters Resoiute and Terrible Strug-
gle for Liberty.


Our captain, being man of caution
and prudence, as this incident clearly
shows, determined to cast anchor on the
banks that night, us We had not yet
reached deep-sea room in the gulf, and
there might be somewhere along the
edge of the banks bad places the hydro
graphers not set down in the charts
Sails were furled, the anchors cast, and
Cuba-ward. 1t was a glorious tropical
evening. The sea was like a plain of
marvelously colored shell, polished and
luminous. Ocean and sky were alone
visible, save where the sailor-dreaded
Orange bays thrust their gruesome black
shoulders out of the sea half a score of
miles to the northwest. Suddenly one
of the crew sang out.
"a shark! A shark, STRIP =,
'sWhere awayP' I'll
amidships, sirp'
There was lively scramble of us all
down the port side to the main rigging.
The rays of the setting sun reflected
from the ships side lit up the water
strangely to the white coral bottom but
three fathoms, below, giving every OBJ
iect in the sea a weird, unnatural size
and appearance, and there, not foot
from the vessels side lay monstrous
shark, resting just underneath the sur
face of the water, perfectly motionless,
looking at us with almost human eyes
of unctuous, sublimated maleyolence
The cook bounded to the lazarete for a
piece of pork and the mate for the
shark-hook-a murderous iron hook
like an ordinary fish-hook, but as thick
as your thumb and fully two feet long
and in less than IA minute the bait was
placed alongside the sea-fiend tempt
ingly. He retreated bit, seeming to
contemplate both us and the fine piece
of pork musingly. Then, as if rumi-
mating: II would have preferred that
whitehead, literary gentleman, or even
that fat, chubby little Nova Scotian
commands sea price in these lati-
tudes''-he advanced leisurely.
'.Stand byr' said the mate, quietly
Eight of us "stood by" with the line
half as big as your wrist, graspec
firmly. Then the shark moved littl,
closer, and of sudden turned bell,
upward Immediately under his antici
pated evening meal, and instantly hi
awful under jaw rose and fel
with a crash on that pork an,
tremendous barb. Then what "a foun
dering, and pulling, and hauling ane
cursing were there. We pulled lik,
heroes, but could scarcely get him on
of the sea. No description could con
vey the sharks fury. We got hin
alongside finally, and then began
drowning him by bringing him into In,
air and dropping him open-mouthed bacl
to'fiil him with water. Then how gran,
he struggles again! Fully quarter O
an hour elapsed before we landed hin
on deck; and the greatest care had tt
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
A HORRIBLE DEED.
A Black Crime Illustrative of the Use of
the Knife in Sicily.

Black Crime Illustrative OF the Use of
the Knife in Sicily.
A horrible deed of blood committed
near Girgenti gives an ILLUSTRATION of
the use of the knife in the island of Sici-
ly. Two butchers, father and son, of
the name of Indelicato, who kept shop
in that town, not long since took two
brothers named Alfonso and Giovanni
Cannetoni into partnership. Before
long the Cannetonis began to trade in
lambs carcasses separately on their
own account, and disagreements arose,
which ultimately led to collision be-
tween Baldassare Indelicato and Alfonso
Cannetoni. They drew their butcher s
knives from their belts on each other
Alfonso aimed well-directed blow at
Baldassare. He parted it with his left
arm, which was cut to the bone, and at
the same instant drove his knife into
the heart of Alfonso, who fell dead on
the spot. At that moment young son
of Alfonso, aged nineteen, came up
with bludgeon to his fathers assist
ance. Baldassare struck him to the
ground, and then cut his throat across,
''as he would have slaughtered sheep. "
Mad with rage, Baldassare then rushed
into the shop, and taking Giovanni, the
brother of Alfonso, by surprise, killed
him with slash across the abdomen.
Turning then to leave the shop, he in
fiicted serious wound on a person Just
entering. All this occurred within the
space of four minutes, the result of the
collision being three persons killed and
Two wounded.-N. Y. Sun.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
DIVISION OF LABOR.

The Uncomfortable Degree of Minuteness
Into Which French Trades Are Divided.
The manner of carrying on business
in France has much to do with the sui
fering caused by commercial depression.
Labor and trade are divided to an in
conceivable degree of minuteness. The
variety of goods that one person sells,
whether at wholesale or retail, is ex-
ceedingly limited, in order not to trench
on the business of another. 1t is rule
that books and stationery must be sole
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-06
CONQUERiNG THE BODY.
A Lesson Taught BY the Life OF Grea
English Historian.

y
English Historian.
Young people who use as a textbook
in their schools Green's Conquest OF
Es gland" will find in the history oil
thr writing of the book an example o!
zeal and courage as remarkable as any
which it records. Mr.. Green gave al
the best years of his life to the close
study of the history of England. He
had passionate love for his native
land, and believed that God had put in
his hands the task Of setting forth the
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-05-04
SAMPLE TREATMENT
TRUSTEES SALE

Whereas James NJ. Byler and Emma S.
Byler, his wife, by their certain deed of
trust, dated April 3, 1884, and recorded
in the recorders office of Pet
tbs county, Mo-, In trust deed, record book
No. p, on pages Gil, els and 619, convey
ed to the undersigned trustee, the follow
in. described real estate, viz: Beginning
one hundred and thirty-five feet south of
the northwest corner of block seventeen
az, in Cotton Bros. addition to the city
of Sedalia, Mo-, running thence south
forty-6ve AS feet, thence east one
hundred and thirty (130) feet, thence
north forty-five (45) feet, thence west one
huHdred and thirty (130) feet, to the place
of beginning, otherwise known as lot 4,
block seventeen Q7), in Cotton Bros. addi-
ton to the city of Sedalia, and also the fol-
lowing shares of stock in said association,
viz: Shares Nos. 49,, 42S, 429, 43O, 33l
and $50, in trust to secure a certain note
or obligation therein described, and
whereas it is provided in said deed of trust
that in case of default in the payment of
any interest, dues and fines or penalties
then in that case the whole of said note or
obligation, fines, penalties and interest
thereon shall become due, and whereas
default has been made in the payment of
said note or obligation according to the
tenor and effect thereof, by reason whereof
and at the request of the legal holder OF
said note or obligation, l will, on
MONDAY, THE 18th DAY OF MAY
1886,
at the west door of court house, in Sedalia,
Pettis county, Mo-, proceed to sell the
above described real and personal property
to the highest bidder for cash, to satisfy
said debt and the cost and attorney fees OF
this trust w. LEE PORTER,
5-27w3t Trustee.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-05-04

qnarter OF section one (D, and the south
east quarter of the southeast quarter of
section twelve (l2) in township forty-six
49,, range twenty-five (22), also south
half and all that part of north half of the
southwest quarter of section thirty-six
1861, that lies east of the Lexington Il St.
Louis railway, in township forty-seven
40, range twenty-five (22), and ] will on
THURSDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF MAY,
1886,
between the hours of Q o'clock a. m. and )
o'clock p. m. of said day at the west door
of the court house in the City of Sedalia.
Pettis county, Missouri, and while the cir
cult court of said county is in session, sell
the above described real estate at public
auction, to the highest bidder for cash in
hand to satisfy said executions and costs.
l.. s. MURRAY,
4-20w4t. Sheriff of Pettis county, Mo.