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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02
IN A WELSH CHURCH.
A Congregation Whose simple Earnest,.
Proved to He Couta pious

A Congregation Whose simple Esrnestnes.
Proved to He Contagious.
When You are In Rome, do as the
Romans do: which, being interpreted,
means, when you are in Wales, 90 to
the Welsh church. When Sunday
came. as the long, peaceful day drew
near its close, we went down the shady
road and over the bridge, in search OF
the parish church. There is also an
English church, much finer and more
exclusive, we were told. But we
abided by our first choice, The build
ing irself Il modern, but the grounds
look so old that it is probable 1t occu-
pies the site of an older structure. 4
pavement OF broad slate tagging runs
around it, bordered with shrabs and
flowers. Some very old graves were
in the inclosure There were several
doors. and it was question at which
we were expected to enter. Two
chubby-faced boys came round the
corner in great haste. Choir boys"
| said, and was fain to ask for guild
ance; but they vanished like two
flashes of lightning. At length, by ones
and by twos. the worshipers began to
assemble. and we followed the crowd.
1t is a curious place. to American eyes,
that low Welsh Church-long, mar
row. with stone walls, immense stone
columns, brick paved floor in the nave
and choir, and tiled floor in the chan
Gel. lmperishable it looked, even
though it is the product of our ephem-
eral to-day as If it might outlast the
pyramids; and it is as severely plain
as any flagstaff. The congregation,
made up as 1t was of the common peo-
pie, the working classes. interested us
greatly. There was hardly a person
in the seats who would have been
called, in common parlance, a lady or
a gentleman. The clothes were rough
and plain, but generally clean and
comfortable. Many of the men were
in their shirt-sleeves. Behind us sat
an old woman in black, the oldest of
apparitions, who stared at us as if we
belonged to another world. So small. so
withered, so weather-beaten was she,
In costume that belonged to the past
ages, that we certainly felt as if she
did not belong to ours. A surpliced
choir of men and boys-alas that
should say it, but those SUPPLIES badly
needed soap and water!-discoursed
sweet music, singing to Hamburg and
other familiar old tunes their wild
Welsh hymns. The air of the place
f was revecent. The voices in tue re-
Spouse we're low and earnest. The
young men and maidens were quiet and
attentive; their elders were devout.
As for the sermon, | understood but
three words of it: Apostle Paul. and
"Galatia;" but it was, after all, as in
teresting as any | ever listened to.
Earnestness is contagious, and the pale,
earnest speaker held our absorbed at
| tention from first to last. But 1t was
| easy to follow the service, which was
| that of the Church of England, and
prayer is prayer, whether the tongue
be Welsh or English.-Jtalta c. r.
| Dorr, in atlantic.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

A young lady and gentleman were
married on the top of the Blue noun
tains in Pennsylvania recently, Ihey
had marriage license from the court
of Schuylkill County and were in berks
County. The nearest point where the
license was valid was the top of the
mountains between the two counties.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

1t is estimated that 80, 600 mooking-
birds are caught monthly in the I'M
mediate vicidity of New Orleans. lnere
are so many of these birds caught IN
Louisiana that it is thought they VIII
soon become extinct.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

A woman in Walton County, Ga.
claims TO have performed laparotomy
upon the craw of sick hen. taking out
the organ. cleaning and washing il. and
restoring it to its place; the stitches he
ing afteeward sewed up and the hen set
free. The bird is said TO have reeos-
cred
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

The Indian school at Carlisle, Pa,
has the oldest pupil OF any educational
institution in the United States. He is
more than sixty years of age. Crazy
Head is his name, and he was once
Chief of the Crow Nation. He was a
bold warrior and an able ruler. lie is
anxious to learn the ways of white
men, and is now receiving instructions
in blacksmithing. During the coming
winter he will attend school. He is a
man in vigorous health and has a
more refined face that is often found
in his race. He is docile and patient,
and there is something almost pathetic
about his longing to learn the GUS
toms of civilization before he dies,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

"A mason 'employed man as ten
der to carry brick and mortar, who
frequently asked for money in advance
At the end of the week the mason said:
John you have drawn fifty cents too
much. y Don't mention it, sor. It's
a shmall thrihe, and you're Welcome
RI il -
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02
- . -
An ALASKA VENDETTA.
Sfaieai bravery of Condemned Indians and
Their Friends.

Thefr FRIENDS.
q terrible trait of the Alaskan In
dams Is the vindictiveness and deter
nliuation with which the various tribes
avenge the death of d single warrior
continued Mr.. Hamilton. THE slayer
must either be killed or the blood of
some member of his family be shed in
his stead Although Sitka George was
MORALLY wounded he knew he would
be killed by the rival tribe. So he
went home and painted his face to meet
his doom. When a dozen Chilehat
warriors approached with their rifles,
ii trader tried to save George, but the
latter would not allow him, tell
ing him TO see how Sitka
coula die, Then he arose, drew his
knife, and singing his death song stag
gered-weak from the loss of blood
toward his enemies. They fired and
he fell, pierced with many bullets.
The Indians then went away and ira
ders carried the wounded man into a
shack. Strangely enough. he was yet
alive. Later in the day the Chilchats,
learning he was alive, came back and
dispatched him with knives.
Another Indian pretended to be
dead, but, at an opportune moment,
ran away. He knew he was doomed
by the Chilchats. His mother offered
her life to save him. She came run
ming toward the enemy, her arms aloft,
CRYING: See how Sitl1a woman can
die for her SON. She was shot dead.
Then the towards sister stood erect
over her mothers body. See how a
Sitka girl can diel she called to the
bioodthirsty rabble. A dozen bullets
ended her life.
another Indian, Tum-Tum by name,
who was Il victim to the avengers, was
encouraged by his wife to keep strong
until his death. which they knew was
sure to come. She painted his face for
! him, because he was too weak from
| loss of blood. Then she sat him up
against q tree ready to be shot. She
piled all his good clothes upon him be-
/ fore this. Then she helped him to sing
his death song and staid by him until
he was killed.
Il accompanied the bearer of this
news to the residence of the brother
in-lsw of Sitka George. When we
told him of his relatives death he
never moved a muscle. He was so
stolid in receiving the news of the
massacre that it was hard to believe
him human. He motioned for us to
tell his wife. She was no more az
fected by the news than he had been,
The barbarism and superstition of the
Indian are .pitifuI."
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

Mint Sauee.-Take some tender
punches of mint, wash all sand or grit
from them in several clear waters;
then remove the stems and chop the
leaves fine in the best cider vinegar,
adding sugar. The sauce should De as
thick as horseradish sauce. and 1t IS
best to put it in little dishes By each
plate.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

A Maine deacon on his return from
quarterly meeting one Sunday not long
ago, saw string of trout lying on a
bridge. He sprsng from his wagon.
seized the trout and drove on, itly
Furnishing the Sunday angler for his
wiclra,}n.a.-
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

The good news comics from the
Yellowstone National Park that there
are still a few hundred buffalos and
several thousand elk. deer, and mount
ain sheep left in the Rocky mountains
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-02

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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
Mormon Colony in chihuahua.

The Mormons have within the past
three years seen the advantages of cheap
grazing and farming lands in this coun-
try and the opportunity to escape perse-
cution in the United States. The results
are seen in the ilourishing colonies of
Juarez and Diaz the former adjoining
us, the latter about seventy-five miles to
the north.
Each colony comprises from 200 to
300 souls They are recognized for their
fair dealing, honesty and thriftiness
The country owes them debt of graft
tude for introducing high grade live
stock of all descriptions, farming nipple
ments, seeds, trees. saw and flour mills
and industries hitherto unknown to the
Mexican but in its most primitive form.
Though polygamy is against the law in
this country, the Mormons are tolerated
and encouraged and up to the present
time have been of immense benefit to the
country III educating the natives to a
more advanced class of work Some
PROSECUTING has been dbne by their mis-
sionares i'll the southern part of the re-
public. mostly in and about the City of
Mexico.
the converts to form part of the Juarez
colony, but after bringing about thirty
families they were obliged to return them
to their homes. The Mexican converts
could not amalgamate with the Ameri-
cans The Mexican, though converted
in belief, could not be converted to the
E1nanners and customs of the American.
Besides, they are great people for
forming attachments to the land of their
birth. They rarely leave the home they
were born in. This is decidedly SO among
the lower, half Indian class that COM
prised the majority of the converts. To
this fact the Latter Day Saints, as they
prefer to be called, attribute their fail
ure. The colony of Juarez is laid out in
rectangular form, divided into streets
and lots. In the latter their little
wooden houses are erected, the only
wooden houses in this portion of the
country, surrounded by gardens and
trees. In case of plural wives" two
or more houses are seen in the same lot.
Louis Ross in New York World.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
Artist Versus Cattle Dealer.

Artists can, in the course of summer
mornings walk in the country, find ma
terial for their best landscapes, and their
training has been such that the knowl-
edge SO found can be applied to the
best advantage. With eyes that see
everything in nature, judgment that re-
jects the commonplace and takes cog
nizance of all that which is valuable, and
with memory that is as faithful to re-
tain every effect as is the sensitized plate
IN the camera, such artists represent the
highest type of Natures pupils. A few
pencil memoranda of subjects, taken
hastily during the walk. is all that is
needed to fix the scenes and locality. and
serve in the reproduction of these in the
studio. The opposite type is found in a
worthy Plttsburger, cattle dealer, who
recently sat for his portrait. He had
just returned from a trip that extended
through the grandest and most impress
sive scenery of the great west, and the
artist-a devout lover of nature-hoped
to extract from his patron some fresh
ideas of the grandeur of the Rockies and
the canyons of Colorado. 1t was hope
less longing. The cattle dealers mind
was an absolute blank as Ito nature IS
handiwork.
He was OVERLOOKING with knowledge of
quite a different order. He filled the
artist with details of the cost of raising
cattle in every state and territory of the
west, of the best places and the poorest
of the cost that each marketable steer
repre-, ented, and OF the cost of shipment
of cattle from every western point to the
nearest market. The artist was wearied
with surfeit of cattle knowledge and
was constrained to ask about the noun
tains and the lakes and the scenic Won
ders of the land of cattle and canyons. 1t
was useless. His patron, outside of his
own narrow but practical field of obser-
Walton, had seen nothing and could only
reply, mountains? Really l did not
notice them except to think that they
seemed a good deal in the way of the rail
roads. "-Pittsburg Bulletin.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
An Ancient Powder-Horn.

There has been presented to the JEFF
ferson County Historical Society
powder-horn which, from the devices
engraved upon it, was evidently car
ried in the campaigns of the old French
and Indian war. 1t was presented to
the late Norris M. Shepardson. of Belle
vile, by his uncle, Darius Shepardson.
who traded powder-horns with soldier
in the war of 1872 and obtained this
one. 1t has been presented to the His
torical Society by Eunice, daughter OF
Norris Shepardson, through his execu.
tor, +. Williams. The most prominent
object engraved on this powder-horn is
the coat-of-arms of Great Britain, the
lion and unicorn, and within the circle
of the motto of the order OF the Garter
is inscribed: William Spornhein-
1752-His Horn" The other engraving
represents the Hudson river, the
forts, and places where battles were
fought Some of the engravings may
have been added afterward, as the old
powder-horn has evidently been
through three of the great wars OF
early American history-the first or
French war, the revolution, and the
war of 1912. 1t is an interesting relic
- W0tertoaoa N. ~ Times.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
BLINDNESS.

<,.,I, 7 he ready when the shadow falls,
When up my heavens blue walls
r,s fafal darkness creeps and must go
So STILL so slow.
When each dear loving face
Must veil from me its hourly smiles tears,
Its joys or fearss
u-ben wayside plumes of golden rod shall flame
For other eyes the sameg
r-ben autumn's burning boughs shall Haunting
hold
Their red and goldS
when pitying hands shall take from mine the
task
Unfinished-and ask
r. II be night, that threads run so untrue?
When am through
with sunshine and the light of solemn stars,
When through my dungeon bars
T reach gultless captives hands, and grope
Without a hopper
Shall be ready for that silent blow?
This truth feel and know:
THAT must work while yet the pulse of day
Beats on my way;
That must weave while still the threads min
true
If many threads or few:
That must strive, till on my darkening walls
The blackness falls
Helen T. Clark.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
The Poison of Tobacco.

1t is very unusual to find in great
smoker healthy appetite for plain food,
and medical opinions may be had in any
number as to dyspepsia caused by smok-
ing. To whatever degree the habit affects
the nervous organization, it appears to be
certain that the process which is regarded
as soothing is really destructive. Sir
Benjamin Brodie must have known what
he was writing about when he declared
that 1.-The poison of tobacco acts by de-
stroying the function of the brain. In
Russian hospital in 1866 a DR.. Chad
nowski took the liberty of examining by
means of pump the digestive powers of
six smoking and as many non-smoking
soldiers, and he recorded that ''in the
former the time required for digestion
averaged seven hours, while in the case
of the non-smokers the mean period of
digestion was only six hours With the
present enormous consumption of tobacco
the social consequences, apart from those
concerning the bodily and mental powers
of the consumers, are important. Pail
Mall Gazette.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
Character of Dreams.

ANY marked increase in the number or
change in the character of dreams should
be seriously considered. They are some
times the precursors of general ner-
vous and mental prostration. In such
cases habits of diet and exercise, work
and rest, should be examined. If dreams
which depress the nervous energies and
render sleep unrefreshing occur fire.
quently, medical counsel should be taken.
The habit of remembering and narrating
dreams is pernicious; to act upon them
is to surrender rational self CONTROL
NJ. Buckley in The Century.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
- COLONY OF LEPERS.
The Island Set Apart for Their Use by the
Hawaiian Government.

The leper community is on the
island of Molokaia, in the Hawaiian
archipelago. On this island are a
number of precipitous peaks, and at
the base of one of these, which
is three thousand feet high, lie the
Kaluapapa plains, stretching seaward,
and wholly without communication
with the rest of the island, except by
sea, as the wall of rock stretches on
either side to the waters edge. To
this plain, thus isolated by nature, all
lepers are banished as soon as the first
symptoms OF the disease appear. This
settlement was formed by order of the
King in 1866, for it was found that in
spite of stringent commands to secure
the isolation of individual cases, these
could not be carried out while the lep-
ers were allowed to live with their
families and friends. Outside of the
fact that the lepers are debarred from
any direct communication with non
infected persons, no restriction is laid
upon them. Their village, which has
usually an average of about eight hun
dred inhabitants, has its churches.
schools, and stores as the other vii
lagos have, and also Government offices.
The Government provides all with
shelter, necessary clothing, and daily
rations of good food, for all luxuries
they must depend upon their own re-
sources or the generosity of friends.
Medicine and the attendance of ply
stefan are provided by the Government,
which also appropriates 500, 600 year,
a certain proportion of which is to be
given for every instance of actual cure
in the case of leper. All officials on
the island are lepers: the teachers,
and the ministers, with the exception
of Roman Catholic priest, are lepers.
These unfortunates employ themselves
in various ways; have band of music
and military drill. There is large
hospital, kept in admirable condition,
in which the more advanced and more
serious cases are cared for. The lepers
of the Sandwich Islands are not ''lepers
white as snow" Their disease is the
Chinese leprosy, in which the flesh be-
comes discolored and decays. - Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The most ancient known coins are
OF the fifth century b. c., and are
Macedonian.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
New York and FOREIGN Cities.

there is no palpable New York in the
sense IN which there is Paris, Vienna,
Milan. You can touch it at no point.
~ II Is not even ocular. There is instead a
rum avenue, a Broadway, a Central
PARK, Chatham square. How they
nave dwindled, by the way. Fifth ave-
nne might be any one of dozen London
streets in the first impression it makes on
ule retlna and leaves on the mind. The
opposite side of Madison square is but a
9Ssep away. The spacious hall of the
ruth Avenue hotel has shrunk to sitting
proportions. Thirty fourth street is a
.ane; the city hall bandbox; the Cen
s ndl park a narrow strip of elegant land
ecape, whose lateral limitations are con-
99'dhtly forced upon the sense by the
relo1 library on one side and the mon
I 1 apartment house on the other
frinceton Review.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
Arsenic as q Cosmetic.

The deleterious effect of arsenic upon
the skin was recently discussed in the
Pathological society of London, after a
communication had been read by Mr..
Jonathan Hutchinson. The skin is the
tissue on which arsenic has, perhaps, its
most marked influence. The poison may
spoil the complexion instead of improv-
ing it, by making it muddy and unsightly.
a similar action is exhibited in all parts
of the skin, and may lead to the devel-
opment of soft corns. not warts, on the
palms of the hands and soles of the feet,
where roughened condition also grows
up under its influence. Mr.. Hutchinson
also expressed the belief that arsenic can
produce epithelial cancer. Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
The Worlds Highest Mountains.

Every once in a while we discover that
some mountain peak mast give up the
undeserved distinction conferred upon it
of holding its head higher than all other
submits. For a long time Mount Chin
borazo was supposed to be the highest
mountain in the world until in the prog
ress of the Himalayan surveys Mount
Everest was found to overtop it. Four
years ago w. w. Graham, who has been
higher above the sea than any other
mountain climber, asserted that Everest
must yield the palm of supremacy to an
unnamed peak about seventy miles from
it. We long supposed that Mount st.
Elias was the Hottest mountain of North
America, but we now know that that
honor belongs to Mount WrangeI, which
is about 500 feet higher than ST. Elias.
1t was also supposed that Mount Kilima-
Marc, 1900 feet high, was the greatest
elevation in Africa, but now comes Count
Teleki, the Hungarian traveller, with the
assertion that this mountain must play
second fiddle to Mount Kenia. about 200
miles north. He is the only man who
has yet assembled Kenia.-New York
Sun.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
The Women of bulgaria.

At home the Bulgarian woman is a
sturdy, horest housewife, helpmeet tc
her husband in ali that the term applies.
Beside attending to the care of the
household, she performs not less Of the
hard. grinding drudgery of the field than
her husband does, and often more. Nor
does she rebel at this or think it hard
ship. From early youth the Bulgarian
maiden is accustomed to share with her
brothers the labor and exposure of the
fields, and at marriage her husband is
required to pay her father a sum of
money to recompense him for the loss of
her services as field hand. She is lit
orally purchased from the father by her
husband, the consideration ranging from
100 upward, according to the means of
the wooer. AS mere matter of course
she then performs as much farm drudg-
cry for her husband as she did pre-
viously for her father.-Thomas Stevens
i'll Woman.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21
The CITY of Quito.

If it were not for the climate, Quito
would be in the midst of perpetual
pestilence; but Notwithstanding the pre-
yailing filthiness, there is very little sick
ness, and pulmonary diseases are un.
known. Mountain fever, produced by
cold and torpid liver, is the commonest
type of disease. The population of the
city, however, is gradually decreasing,
and is said to be now about $4,000.
There were 500, 900 people at Quito
when the Spaniards came, and hundred
years ago.the population was reckoned
at double what it is now. Half the
houses in the town are empty, and to see
a new family moving in would be a SEN
sation. Most of the finest residences are
locked and barred, and have remained
so for years. The owners are usually
political exiles who are living elsewhere,
and can neither sell nor rent their prop
erty. Political revolutions are SO COM
mon, and their results are always so dis
astrous to the unsuccessful, that there is
a constant stream of fugitives leaving
the state. Curtis in American Magazine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-12-21

According to DIR. Pesetty Cevera,
writing in Spanish journal, if blood be
mixed with a little bile, small crystals
are formed which are of different shapes
in different species of animals. In man
they are right angled prisms, in the
horse cubes, in pigs rhonboids, in sheep
rhomboidal plates. in dogs right angled
prisms very similar to those seen in
human blood, and in chickens more or
less regular cubes. Brooklyn Eagle.