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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
FOREST GUARDS.
I'ooriy- Paid But Enthusiastic Servants Of
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Poorly Paid But Enthusiastic Servants Of
European Governments.
The forest guards, both of France
and Germany, sort OF half-military
public servants. of description UNI
known in this country, where the pub
lie forests have no system Of protection.
The European forest guards are mostly
old soldiers. who are likely to be re-
called to military service in case of war.
They do not take care of the trees;
that work is performed by the forest
crs, who belong to the civil. not the
military. service. They simply act as
sort of police for the public woods.
The forest guards of France are
remarkable body of men. In order to
qualify themselves for the service, they
have to spend two years in study ut the
forestry school at Nancy, and their pay,
after they are sent 10 their posts in the
forests, is only 800 francs-sl60-a
year. The foresters are much better
paid, and have, besides. the privilege
of cutting all the wood they need for
fuel, and of cultiyating one acre OF
land.
Each forest guard has certain dis
trict which he looks after, and it is said
that, so familiar do they become with
the ground. and so accurately do they
know the aspect of the trees, they at
once miss limb that has been cut
away.
This love Of the forest" said an old
guard, sis sort of fever; it comes
over you little by little, but it comes
fast, and when it has once got yoa there
is no getting over it. 1t doesn't make
any difference about the wages or the
hard life. You have got to lead it."
Several old forest guards in the
French service have declined promo
tons which would take them away
from the frontier, so eager are they to
do good service as scouts and guides il
a war should break out. They are, for
the most part the bravest of men.
An old guard was attacked one day
by poacher. who, setting traps in the
woods, heard the guard coming, lay in
wait for him. tripping him up. and
leaped upon him. The poacher was
of gigantic stature, and succeeded in
overpowering the guard. Selling him
firmly. the poacher put his knife to the
old guard throat
"Swear to me-" said the poacher,
THAT you will not inform against me,
or you are dead man.
''If am dead man." said the
guard, 81 shall not inform against you.
But if you do not kill me l shall Ger
,ainly bring you to trial"
The poaeher taken aback by thu
mans extraordinary GOODNESS, ant
ashamed of his threat, let his knif'
drop to the ground and took to flight
The guard was as good as his word
He informed against the poacher WIFI
sfterward, however. settled down to al
honest life, and told the story of tn
guards brave response to his threat
The guard himself had never related
. his own defiant speech. Cor. Chicag
| NpMS
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
TRUTH OF WEATHER-LORE.
The Reverence for Tradition Entertained
by the Average Moral.


The persistent survival of weather.
lore in these days of intellectual eman-
cipation is not ut all remarkable when
we consider the extent to which the
vulgar sayings embody real truths A
few years ago Messrs. Abercromby and
Marriott embarked on an extremely
interesting inquiry with view to de-
termine, by actual comparison, how far
the popular proverbs express relations,
or sequences, which the results of me-
neurological science show to be real
The investigation proved that some
thing like hundred of the more popu-
lar savings are, under ordinary con-
ditions. trustworthy. Such being the
case, we need not be surprised that
simple country folk prefer familiar
couplets to all the ''isobars," ICY
clones,h and "synchronous charts" in
the world. If "hills clear. rain near"
means the same as 1.-THE presence of
wedge-shaped area of high pressure.
accompanied by great atmospheric
visibility. is likely to be followed by
the advance of disturbance with
rain and southerly winds" which
for all practical purposes it does,
the preference is justified on the mere
ground of breath economy. The thir-
ty-one words demanded by science
stand no chance against four
But it is unfortunate that, along
with the limited number of folk-say-
| ings founded on truth, there has sur
vived very large number founded on
| the grossest error These latter have
| borrowed credence and respect from
the proved credibility of the others,
and apparently they are all destined
to sink or swim together. Hammer as
we will at certain favorite proverbs
which we know to be based upon error.
it is all in vain. The reverence for
tradition is too much for us. And of
all the superstitions, pure and simple.
which defy our attempts at destruction,
the most invulnerable are those ascrib-
ing certain effects TO the influence OF
the moon.-John WestWood Oiiuer, IN
Popular Science Monthly.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
LEPROSY IN EUROPE.
The Awful Disease Being Gradually Prop
agated by Chinese Emigrants.

The warning voice uttered by the
rector of Greatham, as to the spread OF
leprosv, brings us face to face with a
terrible danger, as little understood or
experienced by Englishmen as is the
black death or sweating sickness. To
most of us leprosy is happily only
name, associated mainly with Scrip
tural incidents which seem scarcely
more remote from ourselves than the
disease itself. Yet there can be no doubt
that this malady. one of the most hid
eous that afflicts mankind, is actually
among us at this moment. that its tend
ency is to keep firm foothold wher-
ever it shows itself, and that it is con-
stantly widening the area of its dread
full influence.
According to ArchdeaconWright, the
disease is being spread all over the
world by Chinese emigrants. They
have carried it to California, New
Brunswick, the Cape of Good Hope
and the Sandwich Islands, where it was
previously unknown; and either they
have brought it into Europe themselves
or it has been brought by Europeans
who have been in contact with them.
All the specialists in skin disease in
Paris are said to have lepers among
their patients soldiers, sailors, mer-
chants, sisters of charity. missionaries
and others. Epidemics of leprosy have
broken out in more than one of the
provinces of Spain, the disease having
been brought home by sailors. There
are lepers in the hospitals of London,
Dublin and Glasgow, and Archdeacon
Wright mentions, on authority he does
not doubt, that short time ago there
was case of leprosy in an English vii
lage. In fact, the two points to be
borne in mind are themselves suffi
GENTLY suggestive of grounds fol
alarm, the first being that the disease
itself has of late years increased in &C
tivity, and the second that, in more oil
less degree, it is to be found all ovel
the world. Any accidental eircum
stance which might develop its viru
lence would at once produce a world
wide epidemic. The train is laid SnC
needs only to be fired
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03

The colored school at Hawkinsville,
Ga. to be known as the Dempsey
Clarke Institute, was named after
Dempsey Clarke. who years ago was
sold as slave on the block by the
sheriff at HaWkinsville. He ran away
from his new master. took to the
swamps, and for years lived as runa-
way slave. He was at length captured
by dogs. but again ran away. His
owner sold him while yet in the woods.
Dempsey was pleased with his new
owner, and became his most trusty
servant. After the war he became a
landowner, prospered. and is now one
of the most prominent planters OF
Houston County, and his liberal gifts
have resulted in the new school.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
THE QUAvERING VOICE.
A Pernicious Habit TO Which Many Sing
ers Are Addicted.

ers Are Addicted
Many singers. esp, cially young sing
RS. fall into the habit of using the
"tremolo" or ''vibraio." The former
is, as the word implies, trembling of
the voice, and may be dismissed as
simply vulgar and offensive. The
"vibrato" stands on a different foot
ing l, is impossible to pass sweep
ing condemnation upon it, seeing tina.
it is adopted by nearly the whole
Italian school-that school to which
we are accustomed TO look for the
proper produc ion If the voice. W here
i, does not arise from an uns readiness
iue to straining the open tones IN
large theaters and music halls it would
appear. upon analysis. to be an exa9
ueration of the ordinary vibration
which is essential TO every well-pro-
duced note. II enables The singer to
OBJ ain much greater power, desidera-
tum in opera singing aud in the large
concert halls aud. if kept within
bounds. is not open to objection. But
some singers use it to such an exag-
gerated extent that it is sometimes
difficult 10 tell on what note the singer
intends TO dwell. The voice is swayed
backward and forward instead OF
resting on the note, and this exag-
geration produces most unpleasant
sensation on Il sensitive ear. There
is one of our leading sopranos at the
present day who will make nervous
person with sensitive ear tidget on
his chair from the irritation her sing
ing causes; and yet her singing is al
ways spoken of with enthusiasm by
the entire press. -Loa9maas Aaga-
zinA
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An Accommodating Climate.

pretty cold out your way, winters,
isn't it? Mercury twenty below, and
all that sort of thing?"
"Why, yes" said the Minneapolis
man. lit is kind o cold; but then the
fact is, the cold sort o strikes right in
and takes hold. and stays there; and
you really aren't conscious Of it till it
begins to thaw out of your system in
the spring. And then the weather s
warm, and You can stand it. Puck.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
Got Used to Him.

Happy Man Ito widow of three hus-
bandsl Whom shall ask to perform
the ceremony, darling? That matter,
If course, l shall leave to you.
Widow (hesitatingly)-.Well, dear.
haven't any very particular preference,
although I've always had the Rev. Mr..
Goodman. Y Sun
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
THE WOMAN HE MARRIED.
Marriage the Pivot on Which Mans Des
tiny Turus.

Marriage the Pivot on Which a Mans Des-
tiny Turns.
The pivot on which Il mans destiny
turns, either for good or for evil, for
happiness or for misery, is marriage.
Ii YOU live to see the end of his life. he
will perhaps confess to you-or per-
haps he will not, but he will know it
all the same--he will tell you that the
magnet which first attracted him, and
then guided him with master hand
either to the one or to the other, was
the Woman he Married.
remember many years ago hearing
of the death-bed of a very distinguished
man. General whose military career
had been so brilliant and so invariably
! fortunate that the world looked upon
him as a perfectly happy man. He had
/ earned his honors, he had served his
country well, and he knew on his death
bed that he had done his duty His
Queen had rewarded him, and his hon
ors had fallen thick and fast upon him.
yet what were his last wordsP
As he gave the friend who was with
him the last clasp of his hand, and the
last look of his dying eyes, to that
friends intense astonishment he said ;
II thank God that my miserable life is
ended" There was one in his regi-
ment who had known him from boy
hood, had been educated with
him, had served under him. and
was supposed to know every thing
about his past life; to this man the
friend who heard the dying words APP
pealed. How could he have been mis-
cradle? Did you ever suspect that his
life was not one series of triumphs and
perfect contentment? Flattered, fol
lowed, praised and enved, how could
he have been miserable?" ITO the
outward world" was the answer, "he
appeared all you say, but there was ar
inner life that no one saw, and few
knew of. That life WAS blighted ant
is happiness wrecked, his affections
chilled and his temper soured by thu
woman he married. She was cold, I'm
sympathetic and selfish Two year
after she had accompanied him to In
dia she declared the climate didn'
agree with her, and she came home
She protested openly that she woul'
} 70 her own way, and he might go his
She spent his money, she kept him
, poor man all his life, and she broke hi
| heart. That is his story, but he neve
told it, and if the near approach c
death had not wrenched it from him
, YOU would never have known the stat
, of mind in which he went to his vel
earned rest. ~ LOndon Queen.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03

Senator Bate, of Tennessee, was a
Confederate officer, and one of his
peculiarities is the carrying of an UNI
lighted cigar in his mouth. 1t is re-
lated of him that he was standing on n
field of battle in conversation with his
brother, and as he was in the act of
lighting 4 cigar his brother fell dead at
his feet, picked off by a Federal sharp
shooter. Since that time it is said that
General Bate has lighted a cigar.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03

A gentleman, who recently retired
from business, has succeeded in wind
ing up all his affairs successfully, with
the exception Of his Waterbury watch
he is at work on that now. taking only
twenty minutes for meals -EpocA
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03

Mrs. Mulligan. pension agent at
Chicago, reports $1,000 pensioners on
her rolls. of which number two are
widows of soldiers of the revolution,
thirty-five survivors of the war of 1872
and ASP widows of veterans of that war
Last year she dispersed nearly $1,000.
OOO
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03

"A rubber ball, two inches smaller
than the pipe, was placed in one end OF
new natural gas main in McKeesport.
and five pounds pressure suddenly
turned on. The ball turned several
sharp corners, passed through two I
joints up six feet to the top of the regu-
lator and landed nj The other end of
the main, mile distant in forty live
seconds, actual time.
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patron-"The portrai

millionaire patron-"The portrait
i. excellent, Mr. Tubes, but you've
left out one essential feature. Mr..
Tubes-"EXcuse me, sir. but l thought
YOU wouldn't care to have thc-er-er
-wart reproduced. Millionaire pat
ron -'.Confound you. sir! I'm talking
about the diamond pin, not the warti'
- IuHne
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03

Because wife does not speak out
against some of your habits is no proof
that they do not make her unhappy,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03

1t ought always to be borne in mind
in this dyspeptic age that not every one
can eat biscuits at night, be they hot or
cold. and plate of bread, not neces-
sarily fresh, should always be on the
table, that the guests may have the OPP
portunity of making a choice.-Good
Housekeeping.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03

Mrs. Cleveland has the reputation
of being an exceptionally good house
keeper, and tits told that in the privacy
of her life at Oak View she will some
times don big white apron. and with
feather buster in hand go over the
house putting the finishing touches to
the already wel.-dusted corners. She
invades her kitchen when she thinks it
necessary and some of her admirers
even 90 so far as to say that if worse
came to worse she could make pot OF
coffee or bake a pie fit fora President
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-03
UNDERGROUND WONDERS.
subterranean Lakes Connected by a Strong
Continuous Current.

At Zirknitz, in the Austrian Alps,
there is an intermittent lake. that is a
basin which at one season of the year
is filled with water. at another is dried
up and cultivated by the farmers OF
the neighborhood. The imperial for
ester has just examined the construc-
ton of that basin and found in one
part of it an immense cave called Kar-
lovca, which, when the surface of the
water in the basin has reached a GER
tain height, begins sucking up the
water until the basin is empty. This
cave leads to a long series of under
ground lakes, all connected with one
another by a continuous current. The
forester navigated the first five of them.
Immense fields of sand and gravel ac-
cumulate and alternately stop the cur
rent or are carried off by it. The roof
of the caves in which this system of
waters is located at many places comes
down very low, almost touching the
water, and in such places the moving
gravel beds frequently close the pass
age and cause the waters to rise in the
higher cave. The forester, with three
companions, was in one of the lakes
when the entrance was suddenly closed
by mass of rubbish tumbling down
from the roof. For more than eight
hours they worked as hard as they
could until they succeeded in opening
passage by the side of the main en-
trance, which was happily still found
dry, and they were enabled to reach
the surface unharmed. But their boa,
and tools were left behind, and will be
recovered again after the water shall
have subsidized. - Christian at Work.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-02-02

mutations, ces depossessions ct ces
transfers. forces de propri6t6 qui
dissent toute une historic d'6preu-
YES, de d6placements ct de miseres.
St.Jean. Baptiste, paroisse coura-
geuse ct laborieuse, aussi vailIante
apres la guerre qu'avant la guerre,
simon plus, est rest6e ma1tresse
dele meme. Ellie ma point pass6
dams DIES mains 6trangeres. Ses
enfants ne FONT point a%bandonn6e,
on men ont pas etc proscrits. Ellie
prodult aujo2rd'hui plus qu'elle ne
produisait avant la guerre, ct la
misere y est 1nconnne. Et nous
dlsons, sans vouloir abaisser la mo-
ralit6 DIES autres, que sa moralit6
est incontest6e ct que son docket
de cour criminelle est rarement
volumintu TX ct dramatique, nous ne
dlsons que la verit6.
Mails 81 la parolsse st Jean Bap
tiste salt tout ce qu'elle doit au
temps ct progress, 81 ses braves ha-
bitants, qui ont l'habitupe du ira
vail, mont pas moins de PATRIOTS
me ct d'americanisme que leu1s
voisins, nous r6petons que cette
vleille paroisse a pieusement gar
de lie cutie du souvenir, qu'elle ne
s'est trempee dams aucun L6th6
pour perdre la m6moire, ct que les
ancetres, en- y revenant a cette
heure, apres un demi steele de
sommeil, y retrouveralent leurs
fills, leurs m@urs ct leur langue.
lis n~'auraient pas besoin d'inter-
pr6tes pour etre compris. lis SO
sentlraient chez eux, en- fami]le,
dams la maison hospitaliere ct
louis;analse, nj inconnus nj d6pay.
s6s, CONNIE au temps jadis Oh lie
bon able Nina 6tait lie meilleur
pasteur du mellleur troupeau.
Nous savons bien que tout lie
merita men est pas au Meschac6b6,
mais lie Aeschac6b6, pami de Ia
paroisse, le conseiller precieux ct
sans haine, lie journal qni JUICE q
propos d'etre modesto ct sans pas
sion, democratic dams la large ct
bonne acceptation du mot, c'est a.
dire sans Intolerance ct l'injustice
des parts, a etc lie 6dele garden
DIES honnetes coutumes, des proc6
DIES sinceres ct vrais, ct dune Ian.
que quill nous importe d'aimer, dc
]respecter ct de ne point abandon
ner.
Que voulez-vous? Cest la Ian.
que de notre race, ct nous croyons
que cette lace nest point mauvai
Sc. &c nest pas nous qni l'abais'
serons ponr plaire q qui que &C
soft ct 81 nous entendons humiIi
personne en- 500 nom, quill nous
soft au MONS permits de dire qu'el'
lie a 6crit plus dune belle, brlllan
te ct couragense page de l'histoire
de la Louisiana. Dams l'h1stoire
dun pays, celui ci CONNIE tout au
ire, ce sont les premiers, ct les co
Ions ont la noblesse incontestable
de la croix plant6e, de la maisor
constitute ct de la civilisatlon fai
tie. lis ont conquis la foret avet
la hache, la terre avec Ia charrue
ct phonneur avec la famille.
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Avis a nos abOnnes.

Nous commeneons auj ourd'hul q
expedier des complies a tons nos
abonnes.
Nous esperons que l'on s'empres'
sera de sastisfa;re s notre juste de-
mapae. II fault absolument que
tons les Averages soient pages.
Nous prions done Instrument
ceux qui ne sont pas en- reggie ayec
administration du jouanal. de
nous faire tenir immedlatement lie
montant quill nous doivent atm de
ne pas nous placer dams Ia p9nible
necessite d'svoir q remettre leurs
complies entire les mains de nos col
lecteurs.
Tout argent deyra nous etre
transmits par lettre enreglstree
on par mandat sur poste don't le
cont sera d nos charges ct que nos
debiteurs %pourront dedulre du
montnn! qu'ils nous dolvent. Nous
accepterons aussl DIES tlmbres-pos.
tes de III GU deux centins.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-02-02

ia torpeur ct indifference rempla
cent Ienthousiasme DIES premlers
moments.
Et nous devons lavouer lei
T~'abstention chez nous, VOLTA penne-
mi.
Une soci6t6, un club, ont lis Pin
tentiou de donner une solr6e, dor
g%aniser un bazaar; s'agit il de prem
Dire DIES measures pour la c6lebra-
ton de Ia fete rationale? Une as
semb]6e generate est convoquee,
mails le tiers GU lie quart settlement
de ceux qui devra1ent y asslster,
daigne Sc deranger.
Qu'arrive t il ensuite? Cest
que ceux qui Sc sont abstenus das-
sister aux deliberations sont les
premiers a b!amer lie plus haut les
decisions prises par la minorit6.
Que n'assistaient-ils aux debats
pour 6clairer du hambeau de leur
Intelligence les quelques membres
devoues qui ont fait du mleuz
quilts ont pu.
Done, faisons partie de nos so,
ci6t6s, c'est notre devon, c'est no.
ire interest, ct l'honneur de notre
nationalite lie demande, assistons
aux s6ances, prenons part aux dc
bats, laissons de cote les jalousles
de clocher, oub|ions nos dissen
sions intestjnes, st au lieu de per
Dire notre temps en- discussions fu-
tiles, appliqucns nous a ne pas
nous laisser devancer dams la vote
du progress par uue autre nation,
augmentons notre influence, com
mandons par notre union ct no
ire condu>te lie respect a tous
meme a nos ennemis; tel doit 6tre
notre but.
f. r. LERoUX.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-02-02
LOIISIANAIS Ell FRANCAIS.

Nous lisons dams lie Messenger de
Lewiston, Maine.
Nous avons solvent occasion de
lire dams les journaux americans
que la Louisiana Fraucnase sen va
q la derive, que sa population di
minue en- nombre ct en-. influence,
ct que la langue de nos peres y
perd du terrain tous les jours.
Cette id6e est g6neralement re-
pandue meme parmi les Canadiens
de la Nouvelle An2leterre. On SO
demande solvent comment il Sc
fat que les L%ouisianais; francais
CONNIE nous, ayant fa1t nos luttes
au steele d rnier, ayant a peu pres
la meme organisation polit!que ct
reljgieuse que la n0tre ct qui meme
sont rest6s sous Influence de la
mere-patrie jnsqu'au commence
ment de ce steele; comment Sc fait-
il, nous demandons- nous solvent,
qu'ils n'aient pas su r6sister Fab
8 orption 6trangere ct qu'ils perdent
d. leur influence au lieu den ga
gner?
LIE Meschac6b6, journal francais
de la parolsse Saint JEAN Baptiste,
Louisiana, que nous avons solvent
Gu occasion de reproduire dams lie
MEssAGER, r6pond pour rous, d'u-
ne voix autoris6e, a e questions
que les patriotes du Nord %n'osaient
pas resoudre. Voici &c qu'en dit
l'organe do DOS freres de Ia has
prouvant que lie sang francais ne
ment ]amais ct que son influence
Sc fait toujours sentir en- dept des
hasards de la guerre ct DIES NAL
hours de ia conquete:
Vons n'avez qua prendre ct lire
les vieilles l%iasses du Meschac6be,
ct vous ny trouverez pas, CONNIE
dams nombre de ses confr4res 9th
eiels, a la page DIES sh6rifs, des
ventes ct des avis judiclaires, ces
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-02-02
ITO ADVERTISERS.

The Echo de pOuesthas a larger
circulation than any French paper
published in the Northwest.
1t is three times as large as that
of any French paper published IN
the city Of Minneapolis.
Advertisers may at any time
examine our subscription lists.
We are also ready to substantiate
this by proper certificates from
the superintendent Of mails: