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, 1888-01-29

The southeastern Fart Of the tcrri.ory,
from lcirS tlIo Iaoat accessible. i, IL
nogt Frequently visited anil TIE IaYgt
co-lmclly rcfc- 81 10 q, ~, j,;l'' 10 =
consequence, lhoIGh really los &c f!.:!:l
y = Alaska IL of the Gated G1ltcs.
Fully four-fifths Of lis ,av. il cutie
dcnsely wooded, and the othcr fift.l il
composed Of water, which winds in in
nuracrahle channels Like SO many rivers
crossing each other 1T all .ngic8, but CON
Meeting with the sea; their watcr1 are
salt, and ocean steamers C@n Fly Their de-
vious ways. For this reason ..hl2gIa"
Il. c. southeastern A'2sLa) Is eccarci
the reputation of being = wei wooded
country, when, in fact, fer every zero OF
land tho sumnlcr t-avg!c: has seen il G.iI
part, densely crowded with timber, thur1
arc cquaro miles Of Uatiubcrcd t:act3 in
the vast Arctic E2:t termed tundra. thai
have never ucIn plant life larger than tho
leaves Of mess upon ii, with perllaps an
exception hero and there along thu low
water courses Of q stdnted WILLOW o fow
inches high that the whole family of
SaliX would repudiate as black eheep in
the fold, while there arc square town
ships elsewhere OF land 60 apcrsely for
ested, or with such Indifferent timber,
that from all ordinary useful standpoints
they might have Utmost been tundra, and
give a little moro grazing land to tho
reindeer thereby.-Frederick Schwatka.
, 1888-01-29
CLAD IN SHELLS OF STEEL.
Manner in Which the Finest Armor,
Were Made by Skilled Artisans.

Manner in Which the Finest Armors
Were Made by Skilled Artisans.
The finest armors were made from
1440 to AGO. They were marvels of
suppleness, lightness and elegance. The
iron shell was modelled on the body be-
meath it and followed every movement
Of the torso and limbs, protecting with
out combining them; the steel envelope
had become individual and was, like hose
and jerkin, made for its wearer, instead
of h clumsy greaves of the Fourteenth
century, made to fit any man.
In these leg pieces, carefully articu-
lated at the thigh and above the knee,
personal peculiarities appear-legs slightly
bowed and more or less heavily muscled
at the calf; in the flexible corselet the
body enjoyed comparative freedom;
under the armet or round helmet the
head turned easily; the pointed toes of
the sollerets could be unfastened in
a moment if the knight was obliged TO
dismount; the gauntlets were as supple
as silk gloves, and the weight of the
whole armor, composed of very thin
plates of well tempered street, was so
carefully distributed that it appeared
comparatively light. This armor, nodded
on the forms of the body beneath it, COM
posed of polished steel, was the ''white
harness SO often mentioned by the
chroniclers. In France it was worn with
out ornament, but the Italians decorated
it with lions heads and antique masks; a
little later the armorers of Nuremberg,
then very popular in France, introduced
tluted steel-it was stronger, not heavier,
and offered more resistance to lance
thrusts than the smooth metal. Many
beautiful specimens remain of this Maxi
milan arnor, as it was called.
No further progress was possible; COM
parative lightncss, resistance, conven-
fence and clegdnce of form had been at
tanned. After this time the shape of
helmet and corselet was varied according
to individual caprice or the latest fashion,
and the steel was gilded and ornamented;
but armor, having attained its complete
Development, steadily declined.-Scrib-
ncr's Magazine.
, 1888-01-29

Another of those Englishmen, how
they are bizarrel Sir William Draggs
hailed a cab at Brighton about a year
ago and told the driver to take him to
the pier off which Sir Draggs had his
yacht. He told the cabman to wait for
him, meaning to cruise about off Brighton
for an hour or two, but changing his
mind he determined to go around the
world. The cabman waited and waited,
and finding that his fare did not come
back, he obtained leave from the NUM-
cipality to erect n shelter for himself and
horse.
Hero he waited for moro than q twelve
month, when the other day Sir Draggs
returned with his yacht, and was not at
all surprised to find the cabman waiting
for him. GLOW much do I owe you2"
he said, and upon the cabman handing
him n bill for 5000, he tore n check out
of his book, filled it up for the amount
and told the man to drive him to his
hotel. To illustrate the extortionate char
acter of cabmen, the man asked Sir
Draggs for his fare from the pier TO the
hotel.-Paris Gaulois.
, 1888-01-29
a Mexican Kitchen.

A typical Mexican Kitchen has neither
stove, table, chair nor cupboard, the
clean swept clay floor, an adobe shelf
against the wall and o few hooks and
pegs answering every purpose. In tho
houses of the rich an adobe range is built
into the wall, which is really 4 long, mar
row box, made of sun baked clay and
partitioned Off into little compartments,
within each of which a handful of char
coal may be consumed. The middle
classes use a big clay jar or pot, in lieu of
q range, in which charcoal is also burned,
while the poor have ''all outdoors for
q kitchen, and build their tiny fire of
sticks wherever it is most convenient.
The cooking utensils are seldom Of
iron, because here that metal is very
scarce and dear, but earthen pots are al
most universally used, instead of the ket-
ties and frying pans to which northern
lrousekeepers are accustomed. 1t seems
incredible that a dinner of several courses
can be prepared over a charcoal pot not
much larger than a peck measure, the
various edibles all cooked in smaller pots
set within it.-Philadelphia Record.
, 1888-01-29

He might not make another visit to the
place, but it was hoped he would. There
was n stout chain attached to the trap,
and this led to n small tree and was made
fast with n paddock.
1t was nearly n week before anything
unusual occurred, A bell had been fixed
in the housekeeper's room, with a cord
running to the head of my bed, and it
was arranged that when l gave n certain
signal she was TO run to the kitchen and
send a native after the captain, provid-
ing that he was not at home. That sig
nal would mean game in the trap. If
any one came at night, all the people
would be at home, and could do a di-
rected by the captain. / could not leave
my room, and must certainly be a good
sentinel if awake. If asleep, any noise
out of the routine would arouse me. The
captain did not come home, after leaving
in the morning, until 1 o'clock. We had
begun TO despair of luck in trapping a
thief, when one morning about 10
O'Clock, just after / had opened my eyes
from a nap lasting half an hour, 1 saw
the head of a native as he peered from
behind the summer house. 1t was a
thief spying out the land. l got hold of
the bell cord, but waited to see what the
fellow would do. In two or three
minutes he stepped out in full sight, and
l was quite sure he was the same who
came before. He came boldly up the
path, as if bent on an errand, and walked
directly over the trap. l was so aston
ished that / forgot to ring until he had
turned into the stables.
The h~ousekeeper had gone to the
kitchen and was %wrangling with the
cook, and SO my signal was unheard.
The fellow was out of my sight seven or
eight minutes, and when he reappeared
he had n sack of horse feed on his shout
ders. He had caught the stable men
mapping again. 1 rang and rang, but no
one came. He went down the path bent
over and seeming to glide, but as he
reached the trap the dirt and leaves flew
in n shower, the fellow seemed to spring
into the air, and next instant l saw that
he was fast in the jaws. He pitched
forward, and 1 could see his right ankle
was held in the wise. lie quickly scram-
bled up, however, looked sharply around
him, and then uttered a low whistle. In
side of thirty seconds four natives came
from the thicket to assist him. The trap
puzzled them. If they had ever seen
II before, they did not know how to
manage the springs. The prisoner must
have been in terrible agony, for the teeth
went to the bone on each side of his leg;
but he V brought a groan. While the
five were consulting / rang again, and
this time the housekeeper came and sent
for the captain. Long enough before he
came the affair was ended. When the
men found they could not liberate the
prisoner they designed to cut his leg off
above the trap. He refused to agree, as
it would doubtless have been the death
of him. They had nothing with which
to break the chain or lock, and, doubt
less fearing that the prisoner would
peach on the gang, the four plunged
their knives into him and ran away. By
the time the captain got home the man
was dead. -tNew York Sun.
, 1888-01-29
Some Curious Sensations.

Under this head DIR. U~rbanschitsch, of
Vienna, reports some curious expert
ments, the value of which must be left to
future research to decide. His general
conclusion is, that the excitation of one
sense organ increases the acuteness of the
others. If n disk be regarded at such a
distance that its color is indistinct, the
hearing of n sound will bring out the
color. The beating of n watch is heard
more clearly with the eyes open than with
the eyes closed. Red and green increase
auditory perceptions; blue and yellow
weaken them. The fact that we listen to
music with our eyes closed is due to other
reasons, and also to the fact that the
ensemble appears best when the tones are
not at their clearest. Smell, taste and
touch are open to the same influence.
Rcd and green increase the constituencies
of each of these senses; yellow and blue
weaken their s~ensitiveness. Touch and
temperature have n reciprocal influence.
If one tickles the skin and plunges it into
warm water the tickling ceases; if into
cold water, the tickling brings ont the
feeling of cold. These observations are
regarded as showing the same re-enforc-
ing action between sensations as has been
shown to exist between motions, and as
offering Il mode of explanation of those
curious associations between colors and
sounds SO insistent in some minds. -
Science.
, 1888-01-29

Unless the differences from q very
large amount of experimenting are en-
tirely at fault, many people buy a great
deal more food than they need. The ex-
cess is generally of the most expensive
kinds of food, meats and sweetmeats. In
q number of dietaries that have come to
my notice, including those of sensible
people who really desired to economize,
if half the meat, dairy products and
sugar had been left out, and the rest of
the food economically used, it would
have supplied considerably moro nutri-
ment than accepted standards call for.
We buy needless quantities of these
things because they taste good, and we
have got in the way of thinking we must
have them. Part of the excess is eaten,
to the great detriment of the health, and
the rest simply thrown away.-Professor
w. o. Atwater in The Century.
, 1888-01-29

In the editorial fraternity tho tragic
element has been particularly conspicu-
Gus. During the past twenty-five years
there have been several violent deaths,
any number of fadings into poverty and
obscurity and n number of forced trans
fers into other phases of life. OF the
tragedies this, perhaps, is no place to
speak, but it may not be inopportune to
say that of the managing editors who
were prominent, deservedly so, not by
any ''pull" they might have had upon
the proprietors of the papers upon which
they worked, but by reason of ability
and metropolitan experience, n majority,
who have held the rein of power during
the past twenty-five years, either died in
poverty and obscurity, are living in pow
erty and obscurity to-day, or transferred
their allegiance to some other phase of
labor ere it was too late.
In other words, they forsook the SER
vice of fame and entered that of self.
Joe Howard in New York Graphic.
, 1888-01-29
An Amati violin, which originally be-
longcd to King Louis XIV, has recently
been sold at Buda-Pesth for So, 800.

IT Won't BAKE BREAD.-In other
words, Hoods ~Sarsaparilla will not do
impossibilities. Its proprietors tell plain
ly what it has done, submit proofs from
sources Of unquestioned reliability, and
ask you frankly if you arc suffering from
any disease or affection caused or pro-
NOTED by impure blood or low state of the
system, to try Hoods ~Sarsaparilla. The
experience of others is sufficient assurance
that you will not be disappointed in the
result.
, 1888-01-29
THE END OF THE STORY.

You werc standing alone in the silence
When I passcl down the stair that night,
Alone with your thoughts in the shadow,
Away from the fires soft light.
And never a greeting you gave me,
Not n word your lips let fall,
As came from the light to your side, dear,
That nj :ht, in the Old oak hall!
But ! knew, ali, so well, the secret
You faucied you kept unseen,
And hat Il tn pride that was standing
Like n shadow our hearts between.
s. toll you, that night, n story,
And you listened as in n spell,
Till | saw that You guessed the meaning
of the story / trie to tell
You faia would have silenced me then, dear;
To leave 1t untold were best
Too lat, for learned, as YOU dncw me
To your heart, that you knew the rest
And the shadow passed by from between US
Forever, beyond recall,
As you Whispered the end of the story
That night. in tine old oak hall
C Clifton Bingham in Chambers Journal.
, 1888-01-29
THE MIRAGE.

They tell us what when weary travellers deem
They view through quivering heat across tho
sand
Great rocks for shadow in a weary land,
And clustering palms, and, fairer yet, the CLEAN
Where smiles in light to laugh in sound the
stream,
This is network Of some enchanter's wand,
But that reflected here true visions stand
Of far OF things that close beside them seem.
So, worn with life's hot march, when near at
hand
A happier world we see upon us beam,
Where death and parting need not he our
theme,
Hone there by toll forethought, by grief un,
manned,
Prophets Of science, hush your stern command,
OH bid us not TO hold it all a dream.
II. 7. r. in The London Spectator.
, 1888-01-29
A Costly Sowing Machine.

A sewing machine of solid silver and
enriched with sapphires was recently re-
ceived by the empress of Russia. 1t
was n present from the Society for Pro
noting the Use of Russian Materials.
The czarina has taken great interest in
this organization. Her enthusiasm, how
ever, will not cause her to use the sewing
machine in all probability New York
World,
, 1888-01-29

Tho people of Japan have made vol
untary subscriptions OF 50, 100, 900, some
5000, 900 more han was desired, to the
coast defense fund. The sum in excess
of that called for will be used in the
manufacture of cannon, that industry
having been recently established in Japan,
at the Osaka arsenal. They are already
experimenting with the new Italian COM
position metal in casting guns. Frank
I es1ip,s.
, 1888-01-29

There is still plenty of big game left in
the wilder portions of Tennessee. a party
of five sportsmen who recently spent q
few days hunting in Dyer county bagged
nineteen deer and one bear. They say
that if they had given all their. time to
hunting deer they could have killed fifty.
Chicago Herald.
, 1888-01-29

A tinid woman comes home one night
pale and CHASTITY with fright, having en-
countered a specter clad in white, which
she calls q "ghost." In a day or two
sho develops q cold, for which .sho can
not in any way account. Fear acts as o
depressant to the nervous system,
Gripping its powers of resisting tho ac-
ton of cold, hence the phrase, ''shiver-
ing with fear" Similarly, innumerablo
events of daily life tend to ~irritate, de-
press, or excite the nerves, and render
them unfit for maintaining the body tenn
p%eraturc against the fluctuations Of
weather and climate. During these I'M
guarded moments @ trifing exposure to
cold or damp is sufficient to induce
catarrh.-Contcmporary Review.
For fine watch repairing,
DAVID MILLER. idelman block.
, 1888-01-29

GLOW is this, my son; you write and
tell me that you're up and dressed every
morning in time to see the sun rise, while
the president informs me that you lie in
he'd till 0 O'Clock and after?"
"Well, you sec, father, the SUN rises
till noon out here. n-Harper's Bazar.
, 1888-01-29

The first apple orchard in Kansas, con
sisting of $50 trees, was transported all
the way from Illinois in q wagon and
planted in Douglas county in 1865. To-
day the state has 80, 900, 900 fruit trees.
Chicago Herald.
, 1888-01-29
Dnrbys PropnyIactic FLUID.

Use it in every sick-room. Will keep
the atmosphere pure and wholesome;
removing all bad odors from any source.
Will destroy all Disease Germs. infection
from all Fevers, and all Contagious Dis,
eases. The eminent physician, j.. Marion
Sims, NJ. d., New York, says: Il am
convinced that Prof. Darbys Prophylactic
Fluid, is a most valable disinfectant,"
, 1888-01-29

MINT Inc oklGiNAL ABlEIlNE olNl-
~, N T horol Is . Od'S put ~ up aR. IN large on ,~o for nIG
sores burns, wounds chapped hands and
kinds OF piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold by DR..
w. n. Hunt, at % cents per box-by mail
30 cents.
, 1888-01-29

The largest stock of fine Bro indies, old
Whistles, choice Hqtctrs and superiinc
cigars at George Masten's well known
house. corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets
, 1888-01-29
Dr.. Vagaer&cp.
@R IC1AAIsTs.

We oiier 40 apology Tor deyuttus 90 nucn urur
ana attention 10 this mech neglected class 81
Is too wTetcilcd to merit the sympathy and best
services oI the profession To which we belong
ms many are innocent sufferers, and that
Tue physician who devJtcs hiIrEelf
70 reviewing the afflicted and saving
philanthrOphist and u beneiactnr to his rac,
THAI She surgeon or physician who toy cluec an
plicaiiun eX3els in any other branch Of his rr,,-
ieSSi"n and. fortunately for humanity the day
is dh~ning when the false phiIsnthruptty I,rat
condemned the victims vt folly Of crime. H.
the lepeTS under the Jawish law T., die HGcstrtl
for, has passed away.
, 1888-01-29
MEN.

There are many men Of the age OF 30 to GO WIG.
are troubled with too frequent excavations 90
the bladder, often accompanied by IA aIighE
smaTtlng or burning sensation and a weaken;rr,
OF the system IN a manner the patient cEiiuCE
account for. On examining the urinary deiostii
a ropy sediment will often be found. and some.
times SINAI, particles Of albunen will appear, cE
Tile color Will be OF akin or mllkts hue, again
There are many men who die of this d.nicnifs
Ignorant OF the cause, which Ia the second STAGE
OF seminal weakness. DIR. Wagner Will guaran-
tee a cure in all such cases and a healthy re3toIa.
ton OF the Genlto-urinary organs, Coiisaltation
Tree. thorough examination aud advice. s5 10,
See the Doctors additional advertisements in
the Denver Daily News and Tribrne-iteputti-
can.
, 1888-01-29

VINO may u" suffering from the ELECTS OF Youth
lul fOllieS or 'ndiscrettuGs, Will do well to- avail
themselves 0t TINS the greatest boon ever LAD
AZ tho alter Of suffering humanity. Dir. NAU-
NElt viii guarantee to forfeit Eve hundred do
lars Tor every case of seminal weakness or pft-
yate disease of amy Kind or character which e
undertakes and fails to cure.
, 1888-01-29
oN> OF tho good things of this

N"S1 life are sorrowfully let
alone on account of Dyspepsia. Acker's
Dyspepsia Tablets will cure Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and Constipation; sold on a
positive guarantee at % and 90 cents, by
DR.. w. N. Hunt.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-01-26
HALEY, IDAHO, THURSDAY JANUARY 26. 1885
ORDER IN INSOLVENCY..

In the District Court of the Second Judicia, Dis
trict of the Territory of Idaho, County Of
Alturas.
In the matter of the Estate of Edwin Bartsch, an
insolvent debtor.--Order of transfer, etc.
Upon reading and filing the petition of Edwin
Bsrtsch. an ihsolvent debtor, and sufficient
therein appearing. petitioner is hereby declared
and adjudged to be insolvent debtor; and there
upon 1t Is ordered that the Sheriff of Ahurss
County take possession Of all the estate real and
personal Of the debtor. except such as may by law
be exempt from execution, and of all his Deeds
vouchers, books of account. and papers; that said
Sheriff keep the same safely until the appoint
ment of an assignee; that all and every creditor
abstain from paying said insolvent any debts
owing to him, and that all persons holding prop
erty belonging to said insolvent abstain from
delivering the same to him, to any person for
his use and said insolvent abstain from transfer
ring any and all property OF his to any person
sOever
1t Is further ordered that meeting of the cred
itors of said insolvtnt be held at the Court rooIa
of the above-entitlsd Court, in HALEY, the first
day of February, A. d. 1888, to prove their debts
and choose assignees of the estate of said insol-
vent, and that notice of the time and place Of
said meeting be published In the daily Woop
RIVER TIMES. newspaper published in the town
of HALEY, and hereby designated az the news
paper best calculated to give notice to said
creditors.
Dated December 8, 1887.
CASE BRODERICK.
ds District Judge.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-01-26
ORDER IN INSOLVENCY.

In the District Court of the Second Judicial Dis
trict Of the Territory of Idaho. in and for the
county Of Alturas.
the matter of the Estate Of A. NJ. WEIGERT
All insolvent Debtor.
Upon reading and filing the petition of
A. Nj. Weigert, an insolvent debtor, and
sufficient cause appearing therein, said
petitioner is hereby declared and ad-
judged to be an insolvent debtor; and it
is ordered that the Sheriff of Alturas
County take possession of all the estate
of said debtor except such as is by law
exempt from execution, and of all his
deeds and vouchers books of accounts
and papers; that said Sheriff keep the
same safely until the appointment of an
assignee; that all and every creditor alb
stain from paying said insolvent any
debts owing to him. and that all persons
holding property belonging to said insol-
vent abstain from delivering the samc to
him or to any person for his use, and
that said petitioner abstain from trans
f"rring any property ofhis to any person
whatsoever.
1t is further ordered that meeting Of
the creditors of said insolvent be held at
the Court Room of the above entitled
Court, at HALEY, on the 26th day of Jan
uary, "A. -. 1908, TO prove thelr debts,
and choose Assignces of the estate of said
insolvcnt, and that notice of the time
and place of said meeting be published in
the DAILY WOOD RIVER TINES, news
paper published in the town of HALEY.
hereby designated as the newspaper best
calculated to give notice to such credi-
tors.
Dated December 23d. 1887.
CASE BRODERICK,
District ,JlllUp
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-01-26
Notice of Forfeiture.
To N, J. BRowN, HALEY, Idaho:

To N. J. BRowN. Hailey, Idaho:
You are hereby notified that l have expended
the sum of one huRdred dollars $780, in labor
and improvements on the
NEW YORK BOY
Lode Mining Claim. situated the Dry Fork of
Antelope, in Antelope Mining District formerly
Lava district) Alturas county, Idaho Territory.
required by Section 1924, Revised Statutes of the
United States, being the amount required to hold
the same for the year ending December ~, 1887
that your proportion of the same is s33 33's being
one-thrd and if within ninety t90) 0)days after this
notice by publication you fail or refuse to cen
tribute your proportion of such expenditure as
co-owner. your interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber under said Sec ction
1924, Revised Statutes Of the United States.
First publication, January 4, 1883.
HARRY C. SCNWAMB.