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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-18
THE TERRITORIAL CONVENTION.
How the Representation In that Body
Is ApportiOned.

Following is the apportionment Of
delegates to the Republican Territor-
ial Convention which will be held IN
HALEY, August 20, 1888, at IL O'Clock,
noon: ,
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-18

tW Blank Proofs of Labor for
sale at this office.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-18

The Primaries ordered to be held in the
several precincts, ut tho PLACES which may be
selected by the voters of the precincts, between
the hours OF and s O'Clock p. m
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-07-18
@ a LII FOR
Republican County Convention
AND
PRECINCT PRIMARIES.
Wednesday, August %, 1888

at o'clock p. m. This Convention is called for
the purpose of electing ten 1O) delegates to rep
resent Alturas County at the Territorial Conven-
ton to be held in HALEY, August 20, 1888. Dele
gates have been spportioned to the various pre-
cincts as follows
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
Beecher's ) unday Schools.
TRroOklyn Eagle

The members of the three schools con-
nected with Plymouth church are making
arrangements to have special exercises
on Sunday, June "a, the anniversary of
Henry Ward Beecher's birthday. 1t is
only once in six years that the date falls
on a Sunday. 1t comes this year on the
last Sunday Of the quarter when there is
no regular lesson and in most all schools
there are general exercises. In most OF
the schools it is the closing session of the
season previous to the vacation. so
many things centering on this one Sunday
makes it an appropriate day for
some such celebration. The three
schools propose to assemble at
the usual time, o'clock in the afternoon,
in the church, where there will be appro-
pirate music and sermon from the Rev.
DIR. Lyman Abbott and possibly addresses
from other speakers. A special and very
interesting feature will be the exhibition
of Commits wonderful portrait of Henry
Ward Beecher on the pulpit, which will
be loaned for the occasion by the Hon. ).
V. White. Contributions will be solicited
for Beecher memorial bed in the home
for the consumptives The collections in
Plymouth Sunday school during the month
will be given, as has been the custom for
years, to the Children's Seaside home at
Coney Island.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
Brief Religious Items.

A women's Christian association in Oska,
Japan, has about 1000 members.
1t is stated that over fifty presbyterian minis
ters in the United States and Canada were at
one time Roman catholic priests.
The Presbyterian says that the magnificent
sum of 100000 for foreign missions last year
encourages the assembly to ask for the coming
year 81, 10000.
Among the many who rose for prayer in the
January meeting at Bonita, was a sorceress, or
fetch doctor, known far and wide. She
brought the implements of her art and burned
them publicly.
The total abstinence society in connection
with Mr.. Surgeons tabernacle in London, OBJ
tanned 527 pledges last year. Mr.. Spurgeon
says that he has never thought that man
could not be saved without the pledge but he
does think that a man might be put in the way
Of being saved through 1t.
They were contributing toward a fund for
the extinguishment of the church debt in a
New jersey town the other evening. III con-
tribute $50" said one ''In 60 $50 better and
make il $50" said another. And then the first
contributor, in the excitement of the moment,
shouted: "Ill call you; what have you got"
Shoe and Leather ReUieW.
The new cathedral at Albany promises to be
eminent among cathedrals for its memorial char
acter. Not only will there be ten stained-glass
memorial windows but the twenty-four main
pillars. no two of whose capitals will be alike,
are TO be memorials smaller pillars to COM
memorate dead children; and one hundred
stalls, the altar, altar rail, front, ecturn, and
other parts of the auditorium will be gifts in
memoriam.
The fact is undeniable that while the demand
for the new revisions has been steadily decin-
ing, that for the commonly received version
has been as steadily advancing. There must
be some cause for this. What is it? We have
no doubt that it is to be found in the fact that
every new revision has only deepened the con-
viction that the blessed old book, which has
been the Christian guide and comforter through
eight generations is, as a whole, a surprisingly
faithful version of the word of God.-The En-
dnltner.
Plymouth church contemplates making bold
step this year by revising the roll and striking
off from the list the names of all those persons
whose addresses have been unknown for several
years. This will reduce the number on the roll
to about 800 from $500 A circular letter is
to be issued to the members of the church liv-
ing in all parts of the country, asking that they
take letters of dismissal to the churches where
they are now residing. The desire is to have
the membership of the church at the beginning
of DIR. Abbott's pastorate bear a closer relation
to the actual numbers than it has done for a
long time.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
He Was a Dangerous Man.
Detroit Free Press.

A big man and a little entered a saloon
on Michigan-ave., near Third-st, the other day
and called for drinks. While the little man
fingered over his the big man called the bar
keeper aside and asked:
ever see him beforep
NO"
THAT'S Texas Dick. He is the man who
grabbed grizzly bear by the ear and broke its
neck. Don't rile him, for he Is on tear and
very dangerous"
When the little man received change for
quarter he looked at it in surprise and said:
81 gave you s.
''NO, sir"
'What! Call me a liarl I want the change
for my two-dollar bill"
The big man winked vigorously at the bar
keeper not to engage in dispute with the
dangerous man, and as a consequence change
was made on the new basis and the pair went
out to tackle another place. They found it
not far away, and it was in charge of a con-
sumptive-loOking young man, Everything
went smoothly until Texas Dick claimed TO
have laid down two-dollar bill. Then the
young man fished up club and went for the
two, and they got out doors so fast that they
unhinged the hy-screen. The other saloonist
saw them, as they went down the street, neck
and-neck, fleeing from the wrath of a ninety
pound man, and he kicked himself and NUT
tered:
Twenty years of experience and still fooll
1t was put up job on me-"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
WRONG QUOTATIONS.
Some Common Errors Which Are Hardly
JustifiabIe.

SOlne GODlluOn ITIOEe w 1IC AldAuAg
JustifiabIe.
The infrmity of human memory finds
no better exemplitication than in the mat
ter of quotations, and the changes made
by the quoters are not always for the best.
Nothing is more common than to hear:
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still.
An impossible condition of mind for
any person, for no one can be convinced
of one opinion and at the same time hold
TO an opposite one.
What Butler wrote was this:
He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still.
A very different thing.
Some of the commonest passages of
scripture are often misquoted, even in the
pulpit.
He that is without sin among you let
him cast the first stone," is the ordinary
way we hear that famous passage, but it is
''let him first cast a stone"
So, too, we hear The wayfaring man,
though a fool, shall not err" Whereas
the prophet said: 'The wayfaring men,
though fools, shall not err"
Sometimes we are told, Behold how
great a fire little matter kindleth, as If
it had the sanction of Holy Writ, but st.
James said: Behold how great matter
little fire kindleth"
Some of the common proverbs do not
escape mutilatiOn. We often hear that
"Hell is paved with good intentions" but
in Spain, where the proverb comes from,
it is, "The road to hell is paved with good
intentions" a very much more forcible
expression.
We also hear that "a miss is as good
as a mile" which is not comparable
IN sense and force to the proverb as it
should read: "a miss of an inch is as
good as mile"
Look before you leap" should be:
"And look before you ere you leap"
Next to our happy faculty of misquota-
ton, comes the general easy going way
we have of ascribing one mans writing
to another. Generally speaking, what
ever is written in Hudibrastic verse is as
signed to Butler, and whatever is written
in English heroic meter is assigned to
Pope.
For he who fights and runs away
May live TO fight another day.
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again.
Though generally ascribed to Huidbras,
these lines are not to be found in that
poem. The nearest approach to them is /:
For those that fly may fight again.
W nlcu nc CdH utAti uO tilat > eAdAi-
The verses were written by Goldsmith,
and are paraphrase from some old Latin
apothegms.
Immodest words admit Of no defense
For want of decency is want of sense
is usually quoted as by Pope, though it
would puzzle anyone to find them in his
writings. They were written by the earl
of Roscommon, who died before Pope was
born.
Comparisons are odorous," is some
times, though not often, put in the mouth
of Mrs. Malaprop instead of Dogberry,
What Mrs. Malaprop said was, mo capar-
isons, Miss -, caparisons don't become a
youLg woman"
Franklin has the credit of having FORM
ulated the maxim. Honesty is the best
policy" but it may be found in Don
Quixote." and is OF Spanish origin.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
THEPULPIT AND THE PRESS.
BOTH DO GOOD WORK FOR HUMANITY
DR.. TaImage Believes That the Secular
Press May Be Made a Great Force
in the Spreading of Christianity
Throughout the World.

AVING taken as his text ''The
- children of this world are in their
i generation wiser than the children
of light" st. Luke, xvi, s, DIR.
Talmage said: ga marked illus
tration of the truth OF this maxim is found
in the slowness of the Christian religion
TO take possession of the secular printing
press. The opportunity is opened and
has been opened, but ecclesiastical courts
and churches and ministers OF religion for
the most part have allowed the golden OPP
portunity to pass unimproved. That the
opportunity is opened prove by the fact
that secular newspapers are glad to print
all religious facts and statistics. They are
grateful for all news IN regard to the
churches. If there be wrong done g
Christian church or a Christian institu-
ton you may go into the secular newspa-
per Offices and have the truth fairly
stated. Dedications, ministerial or
dinations, pastoral installations, corner
stone laying of churches and charitable
institutions In their anniversaries will
have reasonable space given in the col
umns of secular papers if previous notice
be afforded. The daily secular newspa-
pers during the course of the week give as
much religious information as do the re-
ligious newspapers. If were suffering
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
AN INDIFFERENT SCHOLAR
BEEcHER WHEN A VERY LITTLE BOY.
His Duty as He Saw 1.-two Humorous
Church Incidents-No Favorable Signs
Different systems-The Wrong Pill
grim-Knotty Problems.

HEN Henry Ward Beecher, as
NJ very little boy, says Youths Com
W. panion, pompously read aloud
the sentence, 1.-TWO monstrous
lions came out" as two ''nons-
trofdlous great lions came out" he must
have made sensation.
Later, when he was placed under the
care of his older sister, who was teaching
a Young ladies' school in Hartford, he had
apparently retained the power of creating
general diversion. A teacher was one day
giving him private lesson in grammatical
definitions, beginning with the following
illustrations:
"Now, Henry, is the indefinite article,
you see, and must only be used with
singular noun. You can say man, but
you can't say men, can you?"
eyes, l can say amen, - was the ready
rejoinder. "Father says it always at the
end of his prayers"
"Come, Henry, don't joke. Now decline
he NOMINATING 'he,' possessive his
objective him. You see his ispossessive.
You can say his book, but you can't say
him book.
eyes, do say hymn-book," returned
the incorrigible scholar Each of these
sallies made his teacher laugh, and that
victory was the one he sought.
"Now, Henry, attend to the active and
passive voice. Il strike is active, but L
am struck is passive, because if you are
struck you don't DO anything, do your"
eyes, I dol strike back again.
Sometimes his views of philosophical
subjects were gratuitously offered. A
class in natural science was one day
stumbling through the theory OF the
tides.
81 can explain that" said Henry, from
his place at his sisters elbow. "YOu see.
the sun he catches hold of the moon and
pulls her, and she catches hold of the sea
and pulls that, and this makes the spring
| tides"
"But what makes the neap tides?"
ooh, that's when the sun stops to spit
on his hands," was the brisk reply.
After six months Henry was returned
to his parents hands, with the reputation
of an inveterate joker and an Indifferent
scholar
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
Two Humorous Church Incidents.


A little girl who was taken to the epis-
copal church, for the first time heard the
clergyman read the text:
On these two commandments hang all the
law and the prophets.
Grandma" said the little girl after she
got home, "do they hang the prophets on
the commandments just the same as they do
presents on the Christmas tree?"
1t was another little girl who, going to
the episcopal church, and happening to
turn around just at the moment when the
congregation bow their alteration to the
creed, took it into her head that they
were bowling to her And so, as she was
polite little girl, and not inclined to re-
ceive salutation without returning it, she
bowed very respectfully, and exclaimed:
"Good morning, peOplew
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
KIND WORDS FOR MRS. CLEVELAND.
The Modest Bravery of Her Womanhood
Commends Her to the People.
Cincinnati CommeTcial-Ciazette-rep

Commends Her to the People
cincinnati CommeIcial-Gazette-rep.1
We are all pleased with and proud of Mrs.
Cleveland, because she illustrates in her very
conspicuous and trying position the delightful
capacity of the American woman, called TO any
high place. to meet with her own happy re.
sources and winning qualities the requirements
OF the station. Mrs. Cleveland was a very
young woman to become the lady of the White
house and her youth and innocence plead for
her not in vain. She has been chivalrously
treated by the American people, and she has
rewarded their self-reSpecting courtesy and
decorous devotion, by doing her duty with nat
uralness and the dignity of delicate woman
hood. There is a dainty touch in the little
letter that so aptly defends her husband, who
has been charged with the objectionable crime
of treating her roughly. The few words that
have reached the public from her are just
enough.
Still, she should not be exalted as a wonder.
She is just one of our good, bright American
girls, called suddenly TO walk before the world
in a role of the greatest distinction, and whose
footsteps we regard with the tender interest that
we give TO our own wives and sisters and
daughters. 1t is the modest bravery of her
womanhood at an elevation where the frivolous
grow dizzy and foolish, that commends her to
the people. There are thousands and tens of
thousands of our countrvWomen who in her
situation, would win hearts by simplicity and
truthfulness and the gentleness of native grace
as she does: and the best wish all her friends
and all are her friends-can bestow is that
when the glamour of the adventitious circum-
stance that had glorifed her is gone-when the
exciting and perfumed atmosphere in which
she has blOOmed like flower has passed away
in the harsh and chill winds that watt changes
TO all-she may find those deeper, diyiner re-
sources of happiness, that will not fade when
the applause of the multitude is hushed. These
each heart and brain has to find somewhere In
the universe for Itself, il they are found at all
and it is the Hottest fortune that they survive
the Indifference of the world, and are unex-
tinguishable by the ocean of oblivion.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
Some Good Advice.
Tho Church at Work.

The great political conventions, state
and national, will soon be over; the can
didates selected; the struggle fully on.
For months the contest will be waged.
Then disappointment will come to nearly
one-half the people and the inevitable
will be accepted as gracefully as possible.
Let us try and conduct ourselves as Chris
tian people through it all. The issues are
not of sufficient importance to justify
estrangement between friends; neglect of
Christian duty; entrapment into positions
inconsistent with Christian fidelity. The
daily paper must not crowd out the bible;
the political meeting must not do away
with the prayer meeting. Let us not In
the heat and excitement do what we must
affarnN.ard rncrret
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
His Duty as He Saw 1t.
TRosfon Times I

The editor was much interested re-
Gently in a small boy, his opposite in one
of the uptown cars. 1t was hard to de-
eide whether the boys companion was
his mother or elder sister, but presumably
the former. At any rate the little fellow
was in good company, and the lady, who
ever she was, was apparently pleased
with her charge. The conversation was
about a book, and after they had been
talking little while the lady said to him:
81 am sorry you lent that book Of
papa's. You know he is very careful OF
his books, and that one came home in
such dreadful condition. You should
never lend what is not your own"
81 know" said the little fellow, 'but
what in the world are you going to do
when you have got to do as you would be
done by?"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
An Answer by Comparison.
lHarper's Young People.l

Harry is one of those favored children
who are permitted to sit at table with their
parents, and being of an investigating
turn of mind he has to taste everything
that comes on OF add wailing to the Gus
tomary crashing of teeth. His last ex-
ploring expedition was into the mysteries
of the salt-cellar. Having put spoonful
of salt upon his tongue in difiance of his
fathers warning his expressions OF dis
appointment were more than ordinarily
vociferous.
"Well, Harry" asked his father when
the uproar had subsidized, chow does it
taste?"
Like sugar don't" was the fearful re-
spouse.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
RED HAIR AND WHITE HORSES.
Origin of the Popular Superstition as to
Their ContiSuity.
IAmerican Notes and Queriesl

lAultllIdu -futNo anu Qut4Ato+l
The popular Jest about the necessary
cOntiguity of red-headed girls and white
horses is by no means modern, though in
Its recent revival it has swept over the
country as a novelty. Some OF US remem-
Der that ouregrandfathers used jocularly
to assert it to the wondering ears of youth
as well-attested fact. In all likelihood
the saying took its origin in the old En-
glish game called sometimes the "game of
the road, but more often ''ups and
downs" which is still a favorite among
children and travelling statesmen in Great
Britain. One party takes the ''up" side
OF the street or road; the other the
down" counting one for every ordinary
object and one for a white horse, a piebald
one counting as white, till a certain num-
Der agreed upon carries off the victory,
but a red-headed woman or a donkey wins
the game at once.
Another explanation refers the phrase
to North OF Ireland superstition that the
sight of a red-headed girl brings ill-luck
to the beholder unless he retrace his steps
to the starting point; but if he meets a
white horse at any stage on his backward
progress the spell Is ipso facto averted.
In the midland counties OF England, on
the other hand, it is ill-luck to meet a
white horse without splitting at it. In
Wexford an odd cure for whooping-cough
is suggested by current superstition. The
patient trudges along the road until he
meets a piebald horse, and shouts out to
the rider: Hello, man on the piebald
horse, what is good for the whooping
cOugh?" and no matter how absurd the
remedy suggested he will certainly be
cured. In Scotland to dream of white
horse foretells the coming OF letter.
The prejudice against red hair Is as
widespread and deep-rooted as it is I'M
accountable. Tradition assigns red hair
to both Absalom and Judas. Thus Rosa
lind complaining of her husbands tardi-
ness) pettishly exclaims: His own hair
is of assembling color" and is answered
by Celia: Somewhat browner than Judas"
Marston, also, in his 'Insatiate Countess"
saws: 81 ever thought by his red beard
he would prove Judas here am bought
and sold"
But Leonora de Vinci, it may be noted
in passing, paints Judas with black hair
in fresco, ''The Last Judgment"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
No. 2, 411.-Anagram.

This STORY Is A FACT, and few
Will dare assert tits not true.
Once on a time a ship, en- route,
BY wind and waves was tossed about,
Until it seemed no power could save
Those on the boat from watery grave.
The sailors thought they had on board
man by Deity abhorred,
And they resolved upon the spot
To find the sinner out by lot.
The one discovered by this plan
Owned that he was the guilty man,
And told them he deserved to be
Plunged headlOng in the raging sea;
And so, TO quell the wild connection,
They tossed him in the briny ocean.
Then stopped the fury of the gale
The man was swallowed by a whale,
That bore him safely TO the land,
And gorged him out upon the strand.
He then, ''atoning' for his sin,
Resolved a new life 10 begin,
And il Is irhols for me 10 say
That he repented on that day,
And from that time it's understood
He led life upr.g ht and good.
NFIsONIAN.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
No. 2.4na.-Enirma.

Search for me if you will in gilded halls,
And find me dwelling between cottage walls,
In ocean steamer, OF in palace car,
In crowded city, or in desert far,
In lonely tent on the battlefield
keep my place, though even death may yield
Time, place, nor circumstance controls me not,
Without me dreary is the fairest spot.
The happy farmer singing at his toll
Smiles, for my presence glorites the soil,
Without me wealth bestOws no welcome boon,
With me the poorest feast but ends too soon.
In richest raiment clad, fed dainty fare
Upon her marble brow sits moody care.
In plainest garments, with me for her guest
She smiles at toll, and counts herself as best
Nainly the burdened one to win me tries,
The useless semblance like a shadow flies.
With me dull care finds no abiding place,
without me dark despair fast gains the race.
TRANZA
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27
The Wrong Pilgrim.
TDuR,fo T~,rogs

A bright little youngster had heard her
mother read aloud from Bunyan's CPL
grim's Progress, book which the present
generation seems to hold in lighter es-
TEEN than did our forefathers. The child
had become greatly interested, the burden
of poor Christian evidently making a deep
impression on her mind. One day re-
Gently, as she stood at the window, a
hunchback passed, Mammal" she
cried, there's Mr.. Christian going by,
but'-after moments inspection1''his
boots are clean, so | guess he hasn't got to
the mud slough yeti"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27

part of the bible is the work of reporter,
| conclude that that profession of report
ing and stenography is to be mighty and
an overmastering power in the great work
of this worlds salvation. The stenograph-
ers and reporters of America are coming
in solid body into the kingdom of our
God yet. Though their profession has
tendency TO skepticism, through an
earnest, common sense invitation, organ
lied invitation they will come to the very
front of Christian endeavor.