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The Delta independent., 1888-02-07
slowly Starving To Death.

READING. Pa, Jan. 27.-Jacob Hol-
lcnberger, 10 years old, about two months
ago while working In stove foundry in
Philadelphia was injured by an explosion
| OF molten non. The explosion killed one
man. and quantity OF the molten fluid
flew In young Hollenberccr's mouth. The
theory of the physicians is that a por-
,ion of the molten iron slipped down his
throat aud in cooling closed up tic pas
sage leading IN the stomach, rs since then
1t has been impossible TO give him any
nourishmeat except by injecting It In a
liquid form. When In good health the
young man weighed 40 pounds, bat his
weight has now bcen reduced to siSty-tive
pounds. When he arouses himself from
the influence OF the opIates which are
given him he constantly appeals for food.
Every means has been tried to remove tho
obstruction which shuts out the food from
his stomach. but all have failed, and 1t Is
thought that starvation will finish its work
In few days. A few days previous 10 the
accident he was married to young woman
OF this city, who has spent her honeymoon
In nursing him him during his terrible su;-
fering.
The Delta independent., 1888-02-07
The hoy Pianist.

NEw York, Fob. 2.-Joseph Hoir-
man, the boy pianist, underwear, an exa,ni-
nation at the mayors office to day, as re-
suit OF tho complaint that he was ing
overworkcd, made by President Gerry, of
the Society for Prevention OF Cruelty to
Children. Tho doctors concluded the
tile boys ply steal and mental conditions
were In good order. His nervous orgauiza.
tions were not to be Judged MS that of an
ordinary child. Manaker Abbey sand he
was willing to abide by any decision tho
mayor might make. His honor decided
that the young player shouldbc allowed to
givo four performances week. After
wards Mr.. Gerry announced wealthy gen
tlcman, whose name ho was not Mt liberty
10 give. had authorized him to offer lioT.
mans father $4,000 Tor the education of thu
boy, provided hc were withdrawn trom
public performance until hc became of aye.
Hoffman replivd that he thought 100000
would be necessary for tho purpose, and he
and Gerry will confer ON this mat,cr
again,
The Delta independent., 1888-02-07

penses amounting to more than $4,000 be-
fore leaving West Point, Virginia, and by
force prevented United States Marshal
from boarding his ship. He will not be like
Iy to return to an American port soon.
The National Tube Works at Nc
Keesport, Pa, have decided to reduce
wages ten per cent or close their establish
ment. They employ 1000 men. Other
works have taken similar step. The men
say they will not submit, and a general
shutdown will throw out 600 men.
The Ottumwa Development COM
pany struck an additional flow OF water
last week at a depth of ], 400 feet equal to
2, 500 gallons an hour. This, with the big
flow of !, 100 to ], 200, makes the flow nearly
2, 900, 900 gallons every twenty-four hours
and the largest artesian well in the United
States.
An official bulletin regarding the
Crown Prince, Frederick William, says
that partial thickening has superyened in
the interior part or right side of the larynx,
but in consequence of the detachment of
dead particles the swelling on the left side
mas uiIliulsHtu. uc IlhcS . sSeuciai Cou-
diiion is normal.
Aspecial from Reading says more trou-
Bile has occurred in the coal regions. Some
twenty-five foreigners who were on their
way to work at the William Penn colliery
were shot at and driven back home. The
coal and iron police are on duty heavily
armed with carbines, and this force will be
doubled to protec the nonunion men
while on their way home.
A Paris correspondent of the World
announces that Isabella Blanche Singer,
the daughter of Isaac Singer, is soon to be-
come the Duchesse de CaZes. Her fiancee,
Eli de Cazes, is the son of the celebrated
| minister of whom Bismarck said: THAT
man is like an ivory ball in perpetual mo-
ton. l never succeed in hitting him twice
in the same place" Miss Singer is worth
about e., ,OoO,0
A special from Providence, Rhode
Island, says that that city and other bay
side towns were badly shaken up last night
by dynamite explosion in Newport har-
Dor where, in many places, the shock re.
sembled an earthquake, and reports from
various points speak of it as genuine
earthquake, the cause not being known gen
orally. The explosion was heard for dis
tance of over thirty miles.
The Delta independent., 1888-02-07
found to be ere of very high grade.

iouhu " oe eTe VI very HIBn eiauc.
The black soil in the grass roots assayed
2sG ounces per ton and the apparently bar.
ren rock runs away over 100 ounces per
ton, while the pay-streals, II the expression
may be used In connection with such n
property, runs into the thousands. This is
streak of black stephanite ore eight feet
thick. Eight men to-day turned out thirty
eight tons Of orc that will return close to
10000. Tomorrow more men will be at
work, and they will he crowded into the
quarry, for that is just what 1t is, as fast as
room can be made for them. In three days
the mine will be producing $4,000 day
and before Mr.. Eames' lease runs out, on
the 27th of this month, he and those inter
ested with him will have added $1,000, 900
to their aggregate wealth. The people of
Aspen are used to rich mines, but this
eclipses anything ever found here or any
where else, and it has fairly set the town
wild
The Delta independent., 1888-02-07
r,g strike In Aspen.
Special TO tho beaver i'prumIe@

AsrEN, Colo. Fob, 2.-rho discov-
cries maic In tho Bonn,bcl mine during
the past twcniy-iour hours are believed to
be the most remarkable ever made In the
world. II Is impossible to tell the extent of
the ore body that has been opened. Three
days ago Your correspondent reportcda u rich
find OH thls claim il5 feet south cf the old
workings which have produced so wonder
fully, The discovery then reported was
nisde IN the bottom OF q shallow shaft and
sllce ,ilsn al open pat has hesn run ~ de-
Yrlop tne find and everything In sight Is
The Delta independent., 1888-02-07

The Wolftone Small Hopes aud Robert
T.. I.oc mines OF Leadvitie, have LATELY rs
duced their working forces, in the aggnl-
gaieahonr two nundred iasn. The seduc-
,isu, 1t is stated is no. entirely due, as has
hs,c,oiore been reported, 60 thn refusal u
iacller, /, en;er into now cuitracss for
the oreprodacli y VI these mlneS ~Minisg
Industry
The Delta independent., 1888-02-07

"A LITTLE town in Texas has started
lying match to secure funds for !,
public library. just now it's nip and
tuck between tho editor of tho county
paper and tho oldes. Mhablsapt
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09

First Have you heard the
latest about that ar Bismarck, of Ger
many?' Second Texan-..No. What
is ite" They say he is going to ask
France to disarm." s'IVell, he may be
able to play it on France, but let him
come over and try it on Texas, that's
all. "-1eras SLiings.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09
THE VANDERBILT TOMB.
A Description of the Mausoleum and IL
Beautiful SURROUNDINGS


Beautiful Surroundings.
The mausoleum, as it is now, repre-
sents an outlay of over $250.OO0. 1t
is built into the crown of hill-the
highest point in plot of twenty-five
acres, which is being converted into
very beautiful park under the personal
direction of Frederick Law Olmstead.
the designer of Central Park. All
the woods which concealed the
front of the tomb are cleared away,
and the workmen are now engaged in
cutting. filling and grading and other
wise completing the approach to and
surroundings of the tomb. A force of
landscape gardeners are also at work.
and the result will be the conversion of
the twenty-five acres of hill and dale,
woodland and meadow, into the finest
park in America, at an expense of over
100000.
Protiting by the unfortunate expert
ence of A. T. Stewards family, the
Nanderbilts have taken every precau-
ton to guard against their dead being
interSred with in any way. Besides
placing them in so strong a tomb, the
combination of whose lock is known
only to member of the family, they
long kept half dozen of Pinkerton's
men in constant duty at the tomb. One
of the guards watched during the day;
the other five took turns during the
night. They carried time clock fitted
for twelve keys, and every fifteen min
utes during the night the guard visited
different points about the mausoleum,
inserted the little keys fastened at each
place and gave the turn that registered
the exact time of his visit. Twice day
the little slips of paper were taken out
of the clocks and forwarded to the New
York office.
The view from the front of the tomb
is one of the finest in the world. II
faces the east. and looks out across the
Narrows and to the ocean through the
Narrows, seeming almost at your feet,
streams an endless procession of vessels
of all kinds, from the coasting sloops
to the great ocean steamers. Directly
from in front of you stretch the green
lawns of the cemetery, with the white
tombstones glistening in the sun. and
beyond that are the waters of the bay,
dotted by the white wings of the ships,
and fretted and crossed by the curling
smoke from the steamers. In the dis
lance you can just make out the build
ings massed about the Battery. Over
all this moving panorama of sea and
sky, of land and air, comes the strong,
fresh wind of the ocean, filling your
lungs with health and your soul with
gladness at every breath. One could
not ask a fairer spot to lie in death than
this wind swept summit, looking out on
one hand to the life and turmoil, the
smoke and CRIME of the harbor. and ON
the other to the free, unknown, I'M
solved ocean. Surely a royal resting
place have the Vanderbilts chosen for
their dead.-Cor. Cleveland Sun.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09
MAKE YOURSELF FELT.
Bob Burdette Gives Some Practical Ad.
vice to Young Men.


vice to Young Men.
My son, you may not be missed a
great deal by a very wide circle OF
people when you die. 1t won't be nee
eesary for you to leave much money for
tombstone. The few people who love
you, who tenderly and dearly and truly
love you, will know which mound covers
your sleeping figure, and they can find
it just by the ferns and grasses that
wave above it, and monument ninety
feet high won't make strangers care for
you, or make them love you, or make
them remember you. You may not be
missed a great deal by very many peo-
pie when you die, my boy; but that
isn't what you want to think about
You want to make yourself felt and
noticed while you. are here. That S
what you want to do. And that is
more than most men do. just run
your eye over this paragraph again,
If you have time, and think over it a
a little while you are waiting for morn
ing service to begin. Now and then
you will meet a man who actually re-
joices, in a mean envious sort of way,
to think that in a few years his more
popular, prosperous, successful neigh
Dor will be dead and forgotten. 1t may
be true. The big, wide world is so
busy with the living, that she does seem
to forget her children when they fall
asleep But you will notice that the
man who rejoices in this is really a
man whom she has forgotten while
he yet lives; who is not felt or heard
in the world at all. Now, do you go
ahead, my boy, and don't stop to won
der if the world will remember you and
miss you one hundred years from now.
Little you IL care for this old world in
a hundred years from now; Heaven
grant it may be under your feet then!
You just go ahead and make yourself
felt now. When you are gone the world
will get along without you, my boy; but
while you are here do you make it I'M
derstand that you are running part of
this show yourself, if it is nothing more
than standing at the tent-door, and d.
recting the people to pass to the right,
and move along in front of the cages.
r. j. Burdette
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09
TIE SUMMER BOARDER.
Some of the Pleasant Reflections in which
lie Is A ut to InduIre.

lie Is Apt to Indulge.
Where there are no mosquitoes there
are apt to be bed bugs.
The prettiest boarder is always
mashed before you get there.
The boat always capsizes when you
have your best clothes on.
smile from the landlady's daughter
has protracted many vacation.
The religious girl doesn't miss going
to church as much as she had thought.
Never lend to the young widow
whose funds did not arrive when ex-
pected.
The old maid may be near-sighted,
but She doesn't miss much that is going
on.
The mother always likes to go to the
place where you have asked her
daughter
The landlord who can interest his
boarders in farming soon has his crops
gathered.
The landlord who doesn't call his
well mineral spring must get his milk
very cheap.
Il is generally long ride to the
house that is only few minutes from
the station.
The landlords pretty daughter will
nibble at any bait, but she is very hard
to catch.
The house whore no children are
taken is generally already filled with
the landlord S.
1t is always the cat belonging to the
next house that catches the boarders
canary bird.
The man who telegraphs home for
more money is probably spending it on
some one else.
The timid boarder who never gets
enough to eat is apt to attribute it to
an increased appetite.
Unless you want to make an enemy
never ask boarder if he has summered
at the place before.
The homely girl can never get enough
swinging or boating, but she never likes
to carry the basket.
The cows are always long way off
when you go out with the landlady's
daughter to bring them home
The pretty boarder never uses a chair
to get into the hammock unless her
pretty stockings are in the wash.
You may think yourself very shrewd
to discover that the fresh milk and veg
etables are purchased in the city, but
the knowledge won make you any the
happier
The man who goes to place where
good fishing is announced is apt to lose
faith in human nature when he finds
that none of the country boys ever try
to catch any.-Jan,es jay o. Cornell, IN
Judge.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09
TEMPERANCE IN EATING.
The Vice of Overlooking the stomach and
It's Terrible Consequences.


The vice of inordinate liquor drink
ing is open and above-board and it's
evils are SO palpable that any one may
see them. Over-eating, on the other
hand, is accompanied by evils that none
but the sufferers and their physicians
know much about. Some years ago no
less authority than Sir Henry Thomp-
son declared that be had been COM
PEELED by the facts constantly coming
before him to accept the conclusion
that more mischiefin the form of actual
disease, of impaired vigor and OF
shortened life, has occurred to civilized
man from erroneous habits in eating
than from the habitual use of alcoholic
drink, considerable as he knew that
evil to be. He also declared himself in
doubt whether improper and inordi-
nate eating were not as great moral
evil as inordinate drinking. The fabri-
Gators of our food have much indeed to
answer for. They make digestible raw
material into indigestible finished prod
ucts and we eat them and suffer. But
the cooks are not alone to blame. Peo-
pie eat more than they should and they
eat what is agreeable to their palates.
knowing that it will not be relished
by their stomachs.
The habit of over-eating is commonly
made in childhood, when ignorance and
sensation override moderation of ap-
petite and reasonable caution; the
child should be restricted to the food
that it naturally needs and should not be
allowed to make hog of itself. When
the growth is attained and the system
no longer easily eliminates the waste
material not necessary for the ordinary
purposes of repair, then the body be-
gins to store up fat beyond what is OF
use and Tags out the muscles in carry
ing it around; or. if there is no fatten-
ing with over-eating, there are dyspep-
STA, fevers, govt, rheumatism, bilious
ness and other ills. A temperance or
ganization which should lay down as
its fundamental law abstinence from
excessive eating, would do away with
the greater part of the ordinary sick
nesses among persons who should live
up to the law. Good Housekeeping.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09
An EXPENSIVE LUXURY.
Wnar 1t Costs to send Cable Messages to
Various Parts of the Globe.

Various Parts of the Globe.
The charges for cable service are so
outrageously out Of proportion to land
service that inexperienced persons are
staggered. Now u ten-word message,
with its direction and signature. costs
only 81 to SIN Francisco. and, count
ing the address and signature seven
words, not less than $117.95 to Aspin-
vail, and yet the distance is about the
same. The American cable companies
are not responsible for these terrific
rates, for they have to charge the rates
prescribed by the governments or com
panies they connect with.
Now, to send anywhere across the
Atlantic it costs, first of all, II cents
word. That is the rate to Great Britain.
ireland, France and Germany, but YOU
nave got to add to this cents a word
to send to Algeria via Marseilles, 81. 20
a word to Alden via Bombay, Ia cents
10 Bulgaria. $1.20 to Cape Verde
Islands, -. 05 to 81. so to various points
in China, ~. 81 to Corea, 10 cents to
Denmark, "a to sc cents to Turkey, 5
ooHVo W oWlIAeFldIlu, ana so on. III
costs more to send to South America
than anywhere else. the tariff to Co.
lombia being $66S word, Ecuador
1886. Peru, from 1886 to So As, and
Uruguay $2.71. You can get an idea
of the difference in rates by comparing
the rates to China and Australia. 1t
costs S4.05 to send to Northern Aus,
tralia, and only$2 05 to 81. so to Chinese
cities.
Some people think the present rate
TO Great Britain high at II cents IA
word. There are some interesting
facts connected with cable charges.
The first cable tariff between New
York and London during August, Sep
TENDER and October, 1866, was 800 for
twenty words of not more than one
hundred letters. Twenty words now
cost 81. 40. Then you had to pay for
twenty words anyway. During the
latter part of 1866 the rate was cut
down to $50 for twenty words of 100
letters, and since that time it has come
down steadily. By looking over the
old cable company's tariffs we can find
ny, INT ti,,fr t,,h1
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09
ANANlAS OUTCOME.
An Old farmers Yarn Causes LuII on
the Fishermen's Bench.


East of Newport, and all within
sound of the guns that boom now and
then, may be found a delightful resort
dear especially to the bass fishermen
and the lovers of repose. The long
summer nap may be relieved only by
the bleat of calf, the tune of the
rooster or the lies of the fishermen.
against the corn-crib of the primitive
clearinghouse stands long, low
bench, known for many years as the
Liars Retreat" where yarns are
spun that would shame the most ele-
CANT prevaricatoc and obscure a mid
day sun.
One day deep lull fell on the fisher
mems bench. Some one had caught
bass before dinner that fouled the
anchor rope, and dragged boat, anchor
and every thing three miles against
wind and tide, with the boats nose so
far under water that the man had to
climb halfway up the mast to bail her
out The field for bass stories grew
suddenly circumscribed, so the CONVEX
sation drifted
What is the effect" asked the
writer, in a general way, ''of the salt
grass around here on cattle, milk, etcp''
WAL said an old farmer present,
whose stock all fed on salt grass, Eve
wouldn't s'pose 'twould have s much
as it does; but I've ben a-makin' tons
an tons O. butter for the las forty
years, an never had to use a pint O.
salt in it in my life." The fishermen
all looked up. AN what's more,'
continued the Yankee, II can ALWAYS
slaughter my cattle, cut EN- up jes as
they air into corned-beef, and sell it,
as I've ben adding for years an years"
When the writer came to, only the
farmer and himself were on the bench.
The fishermen were down on the rocks,
butting thei" heads against the cliff.
"B'goshr' said the farmer, shutting
up his jackknife and moving off, ''them
city fishermen carn't stuff emmy of their
darn nonsense daown my throatr'-
Jumpers Magazine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09
TnE FRIEND OF AGES AGO.

SHOULD auld acquaintance be forgot"'
Yes if you'd just as lief as not.
JOHN PAUL.
There are several things that trouble ones age,
And work tor a man much woe.
such as gout-and doubt-debts that arW run.
And rhyme that will not flow.
But when all has been said. do we not most
dread
OF the many borcs TINT we know,
That ubiquitous ban. the woman OF man,
Who knew ore lagos agor'
In youth-you were young: end foolish perhaps;
You fiirted with high and with low,
Had one love on the hill and one down by the
mill
Yet never were wicked, an. no,
And this friend knew you in a far-away way
In a way that was only so. So
Just enough to give hue to the cry about you
20. knew him ages ago
You are married now and quite circumspect,
Your pace like your speech, is slow; I
You tell in y bank, keep Silent in church.
Are one it is proper to know:
But this vigilant friend will never consent
That your virtues upchallenged shall go
Though she never demurs, but only AYERS
That she knew you lagos ago."
And sure am that il ever win
To the place where hope to 60
To sit among saints-perhaps the chief
In raiment as white as snow,
Befer r. me and busy among the blest-
Perhaps in the self same row.
shall find my ban. this woman or man,
Who knew me lagos ago.
And shall hear the voice SO o II have heard
Do you think it is sweet and lows
As il whispers still with accent shrill
The refrain that so well know:
90 you needn't be setting much store by him,
This new angels not much of a show,
He may fool some saint who isn't acquaint-,
But knew him lagos ago.
Charles Hurry Webb in Confirm
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09

"A large establishment in Pitts
oofgh has been using petroleum resell
vent In its boilers for three years with
oet spending cent for repairs, while
previously the boilermakers' gang were
al work on them every Saturday night
IN the year. Worse scale could scarcely
De found before the use of the resell
vent while now their condition is pro-
nounced by the inspectors as the clean
est boilers in the country.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09

Then the rate came down steadily to
IS cents, 81 cents, so cents. 40 cents,
% cents, and finally to II cents, MAX
ing the rate for ten words with direc-
tons about one-third what it used to
be to San Francisco. Boston Herald.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-09

Publisher of Sunday Paper-"How
did this happen to occurp" News Ed
itor--"How did what occur?" Publish
er OF Sunday Paper-"Yesterday's pa
per had ten lines of religious intelli-
gence in it." News Editor-"It got in
by mistake, sir. I'll see that it doesn't
happen again.