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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24

at am my painful dooty to inform dis
club dat Brudder Arbustus Jenkins has
passed from airth away" said Brother
Gardner when the triangle had ceased to
toll. Gle was an honorary member of
dis club, libin' in de staff of North Caro-
liny, an he was only Is cents behind on
his dues. 1t kin not be said of Arbustus
dat he was either statesman, poet,
philosopher philanthropist or scholar
He was simply an eberyday man, who
did not shrink eandwise when he got
wet.
'As citizen of de United States he
did not go braggin' aroun' about our
bein' de greatest nashrn on airth but he
had n hickory club laid away for any
country which might knock de chip off
our shoulder
CAS- an elector he went to de polls cherry
time dar' was chance to vote, an some
times when DER wasn't, an if he split his
ticket it was bekase he was deeply inter
ested in de matter of honest guy ment.
LAS laborer he was worthy of his
hire. When he wasn't workin' he was
thinkin' fur de benefit of his boss. If de
boss didn't know dis it was his own fault.
GAS a naybur he nebber borrowed
coffee an sugar widout maxim a mark
on de tin cup, so he could return good
measure.
''As member of de community in
which he dwelt he upheld de law in de
daytime an stole watermelyons under
kiver of darkness, thereby settin a good
example for de young
''As church member he prayed soft
an low, an he was half line behind all
de rest in de singin' In case he happened
to be cotched wild ham belonging to
somebody else no reflechuns could be cast
on de church
GAS husband he bossed de cabin. an
as father he brung his chill'en up to
fear de law an respect ole aige.
1--WE shall hang out the usual emblem
Of mourning on de outer doah. an we
shall feel bit sorry dat a fair to medium
man has passed away. Dat will be all,
We shant pass no resolushuns to send
to his wife, who knowed him better dan
anybody else, nor will we claim dat our
heartfelt sympathies go out fur de chill
Ten, who am probably no better dan any
body else's. 1t am huff for us dat we
Kin say Arbustus was up to the aiverge,
an dat death could have token wusser
man an not half tried. detroit Free
prnSc
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
The Gateway to Good Health.

To the gold hunter Pixies Peak proved
to be the gateway to the wealth of the
Rocky mountains. To many an invalid
it has proved to be the gateway to new
life. Here, 5000 feet above the sea, the
pure, dry air, the strong, warm sunshine,
the beautiful surroundings, have drawn
together n town of 1000 inhabitants.
Strangers frequently remark that our
mountains are so forbidding in aspect
have so little beauty, that one could never
learn to love them. In short time this
opinion is changed or forgotten, and it is
noticeable fact among our townspeople
that in the matter of liking or disliking
their mountain home there is no half way
measure, they love 1t strongly or not at
all. To lover OF nature the barrenness
and seeming impenetrability of our mount
aims prove an irresistible charm, fasci4,a-
ton and study that becomes every day
more interesting. From dawn to dark
they are constantly changing; Pixies
Peak, more than IA, 900 feet high, signals
the coming sun long before the city at his
feet has awakened to the new day .-Cor
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RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS.

Two ladies in Philadelphia have offered 20
head roll of fifty Presbyterian women to
give $1,000 apiece toward tho Million Relic
fund.
Tho Church Army, an organization Of the
Church of England similar to the Salvation
Army, has just dispatched three missionaries
10 India.
The Lutheran Church consistory OF Ores
den, Saxony, has passed a resolution that
persons known to DO adherents Of spiritual
ism shall not DO admitted to tho holy com
munion
Rev. DR.. Judson Smith reports cheering
prospects for Christianity among the Mon
gols. The fact that the number of converts
In China has doubled within ten years, and
now exceeds $4,000, is at once proof that
Christian work is grandly successful there
and Is u powerful stimulus to more abundant
labo-s.
At tho twentieth anniversary of Wome Z
Board Of Missions Congregational. Boston,
40 delegates were present from various parts
of tho country. The reports show that the
society has lle missionaries with mission
schools in largo numbers, in various parts Of
the world. Tho receipts for the year werl
sl23, 30, and tho expenses SI20,S35.
Tho Goth of February Is the day designated
In tho Presbyterian church for recounting
tho past hundred years in tho Sabbath
schools. The board OF publication and Sab.
bath school work has prepared a suitable
special exercise for that day, historical, doe
trinal and practical. collection for the
81 900, 900 for tho relief fund will be taken in
the schools ON that day.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24

1t Is the genial, lovabe men, the men Of
fine sensibiities and winning traits of char.
acter, who usually succumb to the stern
tests which speculation imposes on its vota-
ries. The men OF. coarser fiber, of stee
nerves, are, as a rule, the only men who
withstand the moral shock which follows q
turn of the fatal ticker which SO monoto-
nously ticks out the grim intelligence that
the victim must step down from his seat OF
wealth, sell his houses, horses and carriages,
give up his club, opera and hundred
other social comforts and enjoyments, which
have become III n sense necessities and take
his place among the innumerable host of the
hopelessly poor, Many a man has left a
brokers' Office, his slow footsteps timed as
TO mutiied drum beats. And it will be SC
as long as men have u passion for specula.
ton, as long as human nerves are of feshy
fiber and not of steel.-Cor Kansas City
Times
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History of a Locomotive.

There lately entered the Grand Central
depot the other day a locomotive with a
tragic history. 1t was the locomotive
which drew a train to the first frightful
railroad accident that ever occurred. Up
to 1913, while there had been some catas-
trophies on the railroads, there had been
none accompanied by great slaughter, but
that year this engine drew part of a
train on the New Haven road into an open
draw at Norwalk and caused great loss
of life. The accident was the sensation
of the year The engine was fished out
and repaired, and has been running on
the road ever since.
A singular circumstance connected with
this accident is that it indirectly proved
the fortune of the man whose incorrect
signals caused it. He fled and settled in
western Pennsylvania, and was the vic
tim for many years of remorseful reflec-
tions on his carelessness. But it was this
man who first dug an oil well in what is
now the oil region and developed this
colossal industry.-New York Evening
SIN.
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Tho business of KuiIroStlin a

The business of railroading has one great
drawback, which more than anything else
detracis from the fascination OF the life and
operates as the greatest argument against
embracing it, This is the uncertainty Of ten
ure to which every position, from that OF the
general manager to clerk, whether elective
or appointive, is susceptible, and which, il is
needless to say, is nowise rendered more at
tractive by that commonly seductive factor,
tle element of chance. This uncertainty is
but comparative, he who holds an executive
position being but subjected to the annual
proposition of to be or not to be, while he
whose being hinges on appointment must be
continually hanging on the ragged edge No
matter how faithful, how efficient or how
trustworthy one may be deemed or how much
attached to the road to which these qualities
are devoted, some fine day there comes a
transfer of officials, following which no sub
ordinate head is secure from decapitation.
Sometimes it may be friend of the newly
arrived chief who wants your place; again,
the net earnings may have decreased and a
man is wanted capable of bringing forth fruit
from the watered stock; but whatever the ex-
cuse, the coming event has cast its shadow
before, and no man can say that he is safe
Railroad Official in Globe Democrat.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
Snoring and Dancing.

A pair of lunatics disturbed all the sa"'
dancers tremendously. Each put al am
behind the other and each leaned DacA W ~
this support. This gave them a SORT =,
purchase so that they could whirl arouila
with their bodies leaning far ou'"a.
from each other. I have seen little giris
play at game something IKE ,',.o sa email
effect, and go rushing around nke 1s a.
windmills This pair of dancers u'' Cost
about among quieter couples III "% ana
headlong and ungraceful way, saw and and
or two couples simply stop dallcll D'sa
run away when they saw them CONN" rslt1
was told that this was new kina Vi "S,
called the ''Kensington whlri' Oh 1 ,o
thing like that. 1t bears the same iei Sisan.
to true dancing that snoring does 70 'N~f
ing,-Philadelphia North Americap'
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
Going to Might Quarters. Z"

The operation known as "going to nirht
quarters" consists in preparing ship for
Immediate action, and the CELEBRITY with
which it can be carried cut is so extraor-
binary as to be almost incredible IL il
nearly midnight; the flagship is blowing
her way across the calm sea- and the regu.
lar humping Of her screw is almost the
only noise that is audible on beard Of her.
The officer of the watch passes like
shadow backward and forward along the
bridge. On the poop the marine sentry
and few chastity looking signalmen move
silently hitler and thither. A light shines
| from the skylight of the admiral's cabin;
but if you look down you may see the I'D.
miral asleep in his armchair with book
upon his knees. On the dimly lighted
main deck there is steady murmur caused
" the concert of several hundred snores,
md the officers, like the bluejackets and
marines, are in the arms of Morpheus.
but, unfortunately for the peace Of the
ship, the admiral has given orders that he
,, Is to he called at midnight, and shortly
before that hour the little midshipman OF
the watch steals softly below and wakes
the flag lieutenant, who in his turn wakes
the admiral.
Then the admiral suddenly appears on
the poop. followed by a few heavily coated
subordinates, and the order is given In
an instant the ship from stem to stern
leaps from sleep. Men drop from their
hammocks and partially dress themselves
| with q haste which could scarcely be ex-
ceeded with their lives in jeopardy. Inc
hammocks, which interfere with the hght-
ing arrangements, are dashed up, and are
placed on the upper deck abreast OF thelf
proper MEETINGS, and ready to be stowea
| and covered. All lights which show out
side the ship are extinguished, ana tne
| fighting lanter: are lighted. Electric
search lights are got ready for use All
| water tight doors are closed, the maya
zines are opened and lighted, fire engines
and hoses are prepared, and the guns Hls
cleared away and made ready Tor ac,loh'
When n ship is over 10000 tons dlspla soo
ment, has complement of more than Nv
men, and carries n number or guns the
operation of going to night quarters ~.
wolves an amount of work and pus'ie
which might well make civilian despair
Of accomplishing the business IN uas
Yet In five minutes and hall altel NV
giving Of the order an officer reports 'ii nv
the guns are clear, and that, IL 1acl' 'H'
ship is in all respects ready for ac''oh'-
Court Journal.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
HINTS FOR HOUSEkEePERs.

In sewing and winding carpet rags double
them with the right side up.
Clothespins boiled few minutes and
quickly dried once or twice a month become
more durable.
Nice table cloths and napkins should not be
allowed to become much soiled, so that they
will require vigorous rubbing with soap or
in hot water.
Bronze may be renovated and recolored by
mixing one part of muriatic acid and two
parts of water; free the article from all
grease and dirt, and apply the diluted acid
with cloth; when dry polish with sweet
oil
To take rust out of steel rub the steel with
sweet oil; in a day or two rub with finely
powdered unslaked lime until the rust all
disappears, then oil again, roll in wooden
and put in dry place, especially if it be
table cutlery.
The little white worms which sometimes
make the earth in plant jar look as if it was
alive, can be driven out by stopping the hole
in the bottom of the jar and covering the
earth with water in which you have dissolved
a little lime Let this stand for several
hours, and 1t is not likely that you will be
troubled with the worms any more.-New
York Mail and Express.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24

The best trade to learn is one that can
never be handicapped by machinery. In
ventive genius has well nigh driven the
shoemaker to the poor house, for shoes
can be manufactured so cheaply by ma
chinery that many cobblers have been
driven into other pursuits. And it is the
same way with the carpenter, tailor, black
smith, saddler and others For while
typesetting was thought to be safe from
the inroads of progressive machinery, but
now see that some genius has invented
an instrument that is calculated to drive
the printer from his case. 1t is doubtful,
however, if any machine will ever be CON
structed to lay brick, paint carriages or
upholster lounge; and SO these trades
are the best for young men to learn.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
Finding Rest In Gotham.

Distinguished men must find New
York restful, as so many come here to live
after they have passed middle age and
been for years objects of interest in small
or places. Here even the great man is
one of crowd. There are distinguished
soldiers, engineers, DOCTORS merchants.
writers, scientists who come to the me-
tropolis to spend the last years of their ex-
lstence after the battle of life has been
fought and won elsewhere Such men as
Gen Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert
Collyer, Benjamin II. Bristow, Whftelaw
keld, Roscoe Conklng, with the whole
world from which to select, choose New
York as the most fitting and desirable
place for home. In any other CITY n
distinguished man is conspicuous but
here he can walk the streets and attract
no attention, he can take a seat in a street
car without being stared out of counte
nance by all the other passengers. he can
ENJOY life. for distinguished men are com
mon on the streets, and the inhabitants
OF New York are broad and cosmoDolitnn
ana believe in each man attending strictly
to his own business unmolested bv ali
2thers.-New York Cor. Cleveland
Leader "
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
No. GO. the Staxer.

"Thc oldest locomotive now in use any
where near Chicago" remarked rail-
reader, ais No. 60 on the Illinois Central,
still making regular trips down the road
She has been in use thirty-three years.
It is estimated that in that time she has
travelled 1,650,000 miles, or equal to
sixty-six times around the globe. She
has hauled passenger trains, freight
trains, special trains, pay cars, gravel
trains and done switching. She has been
in several accidents, but was never badly
damaged. She has killed her man half
a dozen times. The average life of q
locomotive is ten or twelve years, and so
you can see that old No. go Is a slayer. F"
Chic ~ Herald
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
A Singing Beach.

Many people have heard of the singing
beach at Manchester Mass, where the
sand, when driven over or stirred, gives
ont peculiar and not unmusicul sound,
but few, very few people know that near
Pescndero beach exists much larger,
giving out sounds in no uncertain manner.
The beach near Manchester is said to be
one-1lfth of mile in extent, but here the
writer and small party of friends lately
investigated the matter, and found the
sounds very clear, though varying in
loudness, for distance of one and a half
miles along the coast line The sound is
loudest and most distinct where the sand
is dry on top and damp beneath. A light
vehicle driven over it gives a clear.
musical sound, footstep not quite So
loud and even the hands or a stick stir
ring or hitting the sand causes it to Sing
quite plainly. What causes the sound |
do not attempt to explain.
Perhaps the strangest thing about this
sand IS that persons who have lived in
fescadero Tor many years seem to know
nothing of it. 1t is out of the way of the
celebrated Pebble Beach road, and the in
habltants and the pleasure seekers seem
to think that is enough of Il good thing
Tor one place, leaving this really wonder
fui and beautiful beach to few fishers
ana hunters who go there occasionally for
the excellent surf fishing and sea fowl
shooting, and never think that the lofty
cliffs, with their faces carved as if in
Egyptian hieroglyphics and pierced with
caves, forming rs fine a scenic effect as
the palisades of the Hudson, q thing worth
noticing, San Francisco Chronicle.
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SURPRISED THE SNOBS.
The Way In Which a San Francisco MIL.
Iionnire's Wife vanquished Them.

few DAYS AGO a Indy from San Fran.
cisco who had very solid bank account
| went to Lake Tahoe on a pleasure trim
| with her dauobter She concluded that
she would have good time. and accord
| inrly took along some plain, serviceable
| clothes and no iewelry. When she struck
\ one of the fashionable resorts she found
herself in the midst of lot of people max
ing vulgar display of clothes and dia-
montls, and every time she turned around
she was the subject of the most unmerciful
snubbing She was put off in an obscure
corner to eat, and not one of the fashion
| able guests condescended to show her the
| slightest civility. The lady bit her lips
! for n few days; took in the situation and,
with true feminine instinct, decided on re-
venge. She dropped a line below, and
presently there were deposited ut the hotel
twelve Saratoga trunks waybilled to her
| address. She and her daughter retired to
their rooms, and that evening came down
to the dining room in blaze of lace and
diamonds that took everybody's breath
away. No such gorgeous or tasty toll
cts had ever bewildercd the guests Mt that
hotel before. 1t blinded the eye to look at
the pair ns they quietly entered the room.
The steward, after recovering his poise,
rushed forward and pulled out two chairs
from the most fashionable table in the
hotel. She shook her head and replied:
Tine old table Will do" and went to the
obscure corner where she had eaten all
the time.
The utmost CONSERVATION spread about
the dining room. and the low hum OF
voices rose to fashionable buzz as they
warmly discussed the situation. Wasn't
II awfuf They had been snubbing
woman and her daughter all the week who
could outdress them all In the evening
they attempted to hedge, but couldn't to
any considerable extent. The dudes tried
to shine mp to the girl, but she wouldn't
have 1t, ana those who tried to scrape an
acquaintance with the mother found IL ike
trying to run tunnel into an iceberg.
For while she flashed like come,
through that hotel into constant change
OF rav'Jhing toilets, each more costly and
bewildering than the others, until, like the
kings who predcstrlaniZed in Macbeth
they threatened to stretch out till the
| crack of doom.
AT the end of the week 1t was learned
from the chnmbermaid that she had only
gone through half OF her immense sara
toSas There were several women there
who had displayed at least a dozen differ
ent toilets, ana they felt that they would
Just lie II she beat their record. But she
kept right on, and when she was three
ahead of their score they packed up and
left. One by one she vanquished the
leaders and the rank and file capitulated,
displaying the rarest generalship imagn
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Blludiy Written Signatures.

1t may be the proper thing for bank
presidents, cashiers and congressman to
scrawl their names in the hen track
fashion, but men who write for a living
read enough writing to know better than
To puzzle correspondents with blindly
written signatures. If man is consti
tutionally unable TO write his name and
address plainly. he should use letter paper
with u printed heading containing the de
siraOle Information. Bad writers Often
forget that while a dubious word In the
middle OF a sentence may be deciphereo
with the help of its neighbors, nothing
goes with the signatu on which to haS'
even 50 much as surmise The Writer
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SEMI WEEKLY WORLD.
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

A New York woman is making shirts fc
seven cents dozen.
Belva Lockwood expects to make SINAI
fortune from her lectures in defense of Nor
monism.
They say that the queen regent of SPAN
has asked President Cleveland's wife for he
photograph.
In Morocco women who talk scandals ar,
punished by having cayenne pepper rubbet
into their lips.
Mrs. Lewis and her husband have been do
ing Europe on a tricycle. They are Ameri
cans, of course.
Ex-Queen Isabella has packed her carpet
bag and left Spain once more on an "intirna
ton by the government.
Mrs Charlotte Cain, Of Milton, Mass, Is
81 years old, and has green parrot which is
not less than IS years of age.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe in spite of her
advanced age, is fond of outdoor exercise
and walks from five to seven miles daily
Imitation is the sincerest flattery in Eng
land as elsewhere London girls have taken
t. dressing their hair la Mary Anderson
One of the ladies present at u recent fancy
costume ball in Denver wore a dress Of white
satin completely covered with copies of a
local newspaper
There is a rumor that DR.. Mary Walker
will celebrate her jubilee year by returning
to the costume of her maternal ancestors, but
IL hacks confirmation.
Miss Sibyl Sanderson is an American who
promises to make n name for her voice Sho
is now in Paris, and Massenet has become
greatly interested in her.
The x-Empress Eugenc had the remains
OF her husband and son removed to Farm
borough privately IN orda.' not to give Piop
Plon chance to exploit himself
Mrs Henry Ward Beeoher has been very
liberal to the soldiers no No asfeavenworth,
having presented it with 1000 books from
tho great Henry Wards library.
There are more ladies In Washington at
present trying to get into the departments
than there have been for many years. There
are about fifty applicants for every position
Mrs. Reid, widow of Mayne Reid, the nov
elist, is engaged in writing her husbands
life and Is searching for information of his
life and adventures here before and after the
Mexican war.
Miss Frances Lord was for years supcrn.
tendent of the kindergarten system in Eng
land. She claims to DO the only living woman
who has held public office in that country,
save Queen Victoria.
Mrs. Charlotte Simonton, OF New Rich
mond, Wis, has reached the full term of 100
years. Her only care is that her young SON.
he was 81 last birthday learn to smoke,
like tho other bad boys.
Miss Meuk Meyer, grandnieco of Anton
Rubenstein and pupil of List, Is tho m,lsi-
cal prodigy OF Vienna. She is not yet IS
years old, but she has composed the music and
written the librotto Of an opera
Miss Louisa NJ Alcott does most of her
writing in Boston There she takes u room
where sho can be perfectly retired and quiet,
and with n bottle OF ink by her side and hap
tablet on her knee, She writes until her task
u done.