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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A contented spirit is the sweetness
of existence. Dickens.
Much fashionable extravaganza is
maintained at the expense of unpaid
bills.
Doubt is the vcstibdle which all
must pass before they can enter the
temple of wisdom.
Some temperance men are so pune
tilious that they will never permit them
selves to appear in good spir. is. Dos
ton Post
If the regrets which too often lie
at the end of life coud be put into firm
resolutions at the beginning, they
would alter the affairs of life
ALI the possible charities of life
ought to be cultivated, and where we
can neither be brethren nor friends, let
us be kind neighbors and pleasant
acquaintances burke.
Each man sees truth for himself;
no two see it in precisely the same
way. The people who require absolute
uniformity can not get it without a
change of human organizat ton. = United
Presbyterian. .-.....
The good-mannered person does
not tell us our failings. does not lect-
ure us; he does not merely wear his
manners because they are becom-
ing or polite. but because he can NO
more exist without them than without
air.
-Exaggeration, which often springs
from vanity and love of Importance,
soon breeds worse mischief, and should
be gravely checked. Integrity in the
very smallest thing should be strictly
inculcated. 1t is the touchstone of man
hood.
"A great deal of sorrow and suffer-
ing might be averted if the confidence
of children continued through life to
run to their parents; if the time never
came when there were words and
deeds that they would not like mother
or father to know. -h'SA
NO one can hurry through early
and middle life, filling his days with
exciting business and much of his
nights with exciting pleasures and
hope to enjoy vigorous and valuable
old age. Moderation. temperance.
calm mind and an unburdencd con-
science are among the first essentials
The best possible care of the physical
system is also requisite. -Montreai
Star.
When great man dies--one who
has nobly fought the battle of life
who has been faithful to every trust
and has uttered his highest, nobless
thoug!t-one who has stood proudly
by the right in spite of jeer and taunt
neither stopped by foe nor swerved by
frietd-in honoring him. in speaking
words of praise, and love above his
dust. we pay a tribute to ourselves
How poor this world would be without
its graves, without the memories OF us
mighty dead Only the voiceless
speak forever. Intelligence; INTEGRITY
and courage are the great pi lars NAV
support the State. --IngersoA =;
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-14
OLD SCHOOL READERS.
How Would 1t DO for the Ex-Scholars to
Go Over Them?


Speaking of old reading books. the
thought occurs to the Listener that it
would be decidedly interesting to get
up a sort OF symposium of experiences
of the older generation with their
early reading books, for there is
scarcely page of an old reader which
has not a lot of "reminiscences cluster
ing about it highly illustrative of the
old days of instruction. The INA
tional Readers were the standbys
ono following, perhaps, the old
American First Glass Book" which
senses than the one claimed. A long
time ago the eaders did not change
for a generation, and then they began
to founder, so to speak, and the suf-
fering children used to have to take up
new reading books every two or three
years.
In good many respects the readers
were better in 1860 than they are now,
They had not so many meaningless lit
tie narratives about Johnny and Edith
and Mabel and their pleasant visits to
their uncles and aunts in the country,
but they had more standard literature
# an inspiring sort that it was good to
have children know and remember.
The Listener has in his hand at the
present moment an old book called
THE Art of Reading" published in
Boston in 1S14-it is a tenth edition,
and its preface is dated 1S02-by Dam
iel Stamford, A. NJ. which has not a
bad treatise on elocution, and a good
deal of good literature, joined with a
good deal of turgid stuff to be sure.
There is great deal of
Columbian oratory. and Washing
tons farewell addresses is cheek
by jowl with much sententious
flubadub from "Pizarro." Our readers
got out of the "Pizarro" period after
awhile, however, and there were
many excellent ones. By the way, the
advance which the art of choosing
declarations has made, is no more
plainly marked any where than by such
selections as the Chauncy Hall school
pupils recited at their exhibition.
Classical examples were by no means
rejected, and yet there was enough of
dive terature" represented in the Sc
lections to make it plain that the pupils
are kept well abreast of the literary
developments of the time. Boston
Transcript.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-14
THE MODERN GREEKS.
A Race Remarkable for Shrewdness and
Intellectual Brightness.


Race Remarkable for shrewdness and
Intellectual Brightness.
Athens is in many respects more like
an Asiatic than an European town. and,
rs such, abounds in dogs. Every SAIL
ing-boat in the harbor has on board an
Unlocking cur, who banks angrily over
the taffrail at the passengers in every
boat that passes. The Greeks have
not good reputation among other
Europeans, being thought tricky. un-
scrupulous, intriguing and sadly dis
honest But these Impressions of the
nation are chiefly derived from the
sailors, who crowd the ships of the
Levant and who certainly are not fa-
vorable specimens. We should rather
take rs types the simple, honest peas
nts who live in the inland towns and
villages, each on his own little plat of
ground. The latter are the Greeks
for whom Byron stirred up so strong a
love, and for whose sake he died fight
ing in the cause of Greek indepen-
dence at Missolonghi. The Greek
peasants are kind and hospitable to
strangers, and inspire the traveller with
a much higher notion of their trust
worthiness than the villains who crowd
the Levantine ports. The Greeks are
the most intensely d mocratic nation
in Europe. The patent of gentility
among them is to have fought in the
war of liberation from Turkish domin-
ion. No distinction of classes is adj
mitted. The muleteer is gentleman
and sits in the room at meal times and
contributes to the conversation. 1t is
true. the Greeks have foreign King,
but that is because they can not bear
thatone of themselves should be their
superior Unfortunately, they have a
reputation for dishonesty. but unkind-
y critics have exaggerated this defect.
While under Turkish sway many of
them were pirates and bandits. and
thus kept alive their traditions of lib
erty.
1t is curious that among them the
men are more particular of their APP
pearance and vainer about their beauty
than the women. In Greece, it is the
men, and not the women, who pinch
in their waists. 1t is also fair to say
that their young men are the more
handsome. AS race they are temper
ate, and do not drink much wine, for
the climate is so warm as not to r, quire
it, and further, they believe that much
drinking produces insanity. They are
not a passionate people, but are re-
markable for intellectual brightness.
They are very clever ut business, and
have got into their hands all the trade
of the Eastern Mediterranean, while
Greek merchants hold their own among
all other European nations. They are
very quick Mt learning trades and lam
guages. and also very apt in all that
tends to the making of money. Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-14
WOMEN AND WAGES.
Lady Teie 'rapher's Complaint of UD-
Just Discrimination

Just Discrimination
Said pretty telegrapher: 81 wish
you could tell me why it is that the
young man who sits next to me gets
$50 month, and / get only $50. when
do three times as much work as he
does. You see, our dispatches are num-
bered, and there have been times when
had 800 day against his 60. work
steady. and he is resting every half
hour. At any rate. have often beg
ged him to change wires with me. but
he won't"
There must be some good reason.
Perhaps it is because he can do night
work."
If he does he is paid 40 cents an
hour for overtime. I'll do it gladly for
that l am an expert as much rs he is
an expert. No; they say it is because
men have family to support. But so
do have a family to support. l don't
blame the man, you know. l dom
want to drag him down to my level. 1
want to raise myself to his"
perhaps women are not desired in
telegraph offices.
Yes, they are, if they are experts.
But it is getting very difficult to be-
come an expert. You see, the first few
years you are not very capable. and
nobody wants you. But without prac-
tice you can't become an expert One
of the first rules of an organization is
to hinder students wherever you find
them. There is injustice again. Now.
personally, l am sure l have no such
feeling against the girls, but it seems
we must do that for elf-protection.
but doesn't the organization help
you who are members in sustaining
your w"gesP"
mo; when it becomes a matter of
business the women are voted down
every time have thought about this
great deal. and don't see any way
out Tell me. am almost afraid to
ask it Do you suppose the ballot
would help usP For sometimes l have
thought it may be the fact that the
young man who sits beside me has a
vote gave him more pay for less work
than | do. Now. do tell me just what
you think. Chicago Mail.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-14
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A contented spirit is the sweetness
of existence. Dickens.
Much fashionable extravaganza is
maintained at the expense of unpaid
bills.
Doubt Is the vestibule which all
must pass before they can enter tho
temple of wisdom.
Some temperance men are so pune
tilious that they will never permit them
selves to appear in good spir.ts.-Bos-
ton Post
If the regrets which too often lie
at the end of life could be put into firm
resolutions at the beginning, they
would alter the affairs of life.
All the possible charities of life
ought to be cultivated, and where we
can neither be brethren nor friends, let
us be kind neighbors and pleasant
acquaintance Burke.
Each man sees truth for himself;
no two see it in precisely the same
way. The people who require absolute
uniformity can not get it without a
change of human organization. - United
Presbyterian.
The good-mannered person does
not tell us our failings, does not lect-
ure US; he does not merely wear his
manners because they are becom-
ing or polite. but because he can no
more exist without them than without
air.
-Exaggeration, which often springs
from vanity and love of Importance,
soon breeds worse mischief, and should
be gravely checked. Integrity in the
very smallest thing should be strictly
inculcated. 1t is the touchstone of man
hood.
"A great deal of sorrow and suffer.
ing might be averted if the confidence
of children continued through life to
run to their PARENTS; if the time never
came when there were words and
deeds that they would not like mother
or father to know.
No one can hurry through early
and middle life. filling his days with
exciting business and much of his
nights with exciting pleasures and
hope to enjoy a vigorous and valuable
old age. Moderation, temperance. a
calm mind and an unburdencd con-
science are among the first essentials.
The best possible care of the physical
system is also requisite. -Montreal
Star.
When great man dies-one who
has nobly fought the battle of life.
who has been faithful to every trust.
and has uttered his highest, noblest
thought-one who has stood proudly
by the right in spite of jeer and taunt.
neither stopped by foe nor swerved by
friend-in honoring him. in speaking
words of praise. and love above his
dust. we pay tribute to ourselves.
How poor this world would be without
its graves, without the memories of it's
mighty dead. Only the voiceless
speak forever Intelligence, integrity
and courage are the great pi lars that
support the State. -I,sgersOM
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-14
1t Woke Him Up.

You seem thoughtful, this evening.
Bodily, said the minister, who was
making call.
MIR. Goodman, inquired Bobby.
rousing himself, "what is vocabu-
laryP"
The minister kindly told him.
81 heard it this morning." BODY ex-
planned, land didn't know what it
meant Ma said she had no idea what
vocabulary pa had until she heard
him taking down the parlor stove. -
Hdrper's Bazaar.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-14

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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-13
THE FACTORY. TIE MILE AND
THE MTEH

Air Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.
on protectors the bulwark OF labor;
Meath its shelter the country win thrive,
For it shuts out the goods OF our nsighbor,
And 20 make them at home doth con-
trive.
Old England may cry up its free-trade
And Democracy fall into line,
Forgetting the men it's deceiylng
IL the factory, the mill and the mine
CHORUS.
Oh. the factory, the mill and the mine,
The factory, the mill and the mine;
Oh, well may the Democracy trembfe
At the factory, the mill and the mine.
while the masses Of England are noiiing
For a pittance that scarce brings them
bread,
zTAe sons Of America toiling
blEAre housed we'll, and clothed well, and
fed.
Il DO YOU think they will barter their places
u With their brethren over the brine'
The answer is read on the faces
4 At the factory, the mill ana the mine.
#rhen down with free trade legislation,
# And the party that favors the bulls
Thai will steal from our hands occupation
And close up our factories and mills.
IN YOU think We'll consent to such measure
e. Without protest or murmur or sign,
AZ election you'll learn the displeasure
~ OF the factory, the mill and the mine.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-13
A Constant RssuIt OF Free Trade.

Henry Carey, the great IRISH
American political economist, in his
"Principles of Social Science thus
speaks of one of the effects Of Free
Trade 1--WE find the Government
of the United States contracting
debts in the Free Trade period from
1918 to 1895, paying them off in the
Protective one from 1895 to 1884
recontracting them in the Free Trade
one from 1885 to l842, paying them
off from 1843 to 1S46-recontracting
them again between l847 and 1850"
This has all along been the result OF
Free Trade. Under Protection the
country has been invariably prosper
GUS and the Government, just like
the individual, has found it easy to
liquidate its obligations. Free Trade
has always led up to hard times, dur
ing which it WAS hard to pay debt of
any kind.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-13
Industrial World.

The7e are 10000 colored Knights
Of Labor.
Three Wisconsin Mayors have
been elected on labor tickets
Three million women in the Uni
ted States are working for wages.
The Northern Pacific is having 100
hov cars made At Troy, n. v.
Agricultural labor is in demand in
the far West, but AZ tow pay.
a BIG chemical abre paper mill is
to be built at Huntingdon, Penn.
The $4,000 harness makers Of the
United Safes have formed y National
union.
The nrick-makers strike in Chica-
go is estimated to have cost nearly .
million dollars.
The PAPER makers all over the
country are increasing the proluc-
tive capacity Of their mills.
Que half OF the brass workers OF
New York city arc Ont Of work be-
cause Of . duiness in trade.
A lime crusher has just been in
vented at Johnstowa, Penn, which
viii do The work OF hundred men.
The entire out put Of c Lisbon, n.
H., shoe peg mill-3,600 bushels for
the past seasons shipped to Ger
many.
If men we're employed to furnish
the power to carry on the Industries
of this country, 1t would require 81 )
900, 900.
The cedar shingle mills of Oregon
and Washington Territory have uni
ted. The production is worth S4,-
600, 900 a year.
The employees of the Laclede mill,
at st. Louis, will let Que third OF
their wages stand back in order to
run the mill on a cooperative basis
4 huge pumping engine has just
been ordered by Welch mine owners
from q New York house, because
none Others can be had which are
safe from bursting.
York, Penn, is said to have the
greatest rag carpet works in the Uni,
ted States. Six hundred women and
girls make carpet rags and there are
one hundred weayers and spoilers.
Trenton, n. j., has over $4,000
900 invested in potteries, and the
army of workmen employed receive
in the aggregate $1s, 900 p week. The
average earnings Of the employees are
about $3.50 week.
A Providence Or. ID foundry is
engaged in casting the largest min
ing pump in the world, for the Calu-
met and Hecla, of Michigan. A sin
gle section Of it has been completed
and weighs twenty tons.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-13

A few years AGO the English gave
the name OF Mount Everest to that
peak in the eastern Himalayas which,
as far as vet known, Is the highest
mountain In the world. In May last
they gave the name of Mount God
win Austen to the peak in the west
ern Himalayas which is supposed to
be the second loftiest summit. Most
British geographers adhere to the
laudable rule to give to every geo
graphical object its true native name,
but here are The two highest noun
tains in the world bearing the names
Of two Englishnlea distinguished as
surveyors. There is, however, an
excellent reason why these stipend
Gus heights win never be known by
native names.
Each of these mountains is sur
rounded by several satellite peaks
that are nearly as high "a the pima
cles which lift their snowy heads y
little aboue them. These surround
ing mountains entirely cut off the
view Of the loftier SUBMITS from the
nearest inhabited regions. The ma
lives have given names to these sa-
tellites, but they have never seen the
higher SUBMITS, which have conse-
quently been unnamed until foreign
explorers. revealed them to the world
-Netc York Sun.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-13
,
Resting in the Mud Since the War.

Yesterday afternoon while the
dredging ship Reliance, under Pilot
Captain john FL. Aukers, was on her
trip cleaning out the channel in the
lower bay, one of the pipes drew up
a bomb shell from the bottom of the
ocean. The shell is loaded and ready
for action.
From Captain Auker's statement
the she'll must have been where it
was sucked up since the war as it was
imbedded in over ten feet of mud.
Many curious things are sucked up
from old oceans bottom by the sixty
feet tubes which are cleaning out the
channel in the lower bay. About
two years ago a piece Of Spanish
money about the size of $40 gold
piece was brought to the surface, be-
sides other curious things which have
been dropped by passengers on YES
sells at various times. The motley
collection is reserved by the captain.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-13
Prosperity asa A&versity.

Yhe coxditfeps ard surroundings
of life sre largely what NO make
them. This is the case, first OF all
through our direct influence. Pros
perity aad adversely are often the
simple effects OF conduct. Industry,
thrift, skin, discretion and principle
underlie the one; extravaganza, self
indulgence and foley the other. As
general thing, we reap that which
we have sovn. But where it is not
so, where circumstances over which
we have no control come in the form
of trials or joys even those are nodi-
fed by the spirit in which they are
received. Who has not seen power
tv or sickness or bereavement borne
so heroicaliy and cheerhllly that the
affected one seemed rather an object
of envy than of compassion /? On the
other hand, who has not seen one
with every outward advantage that
earth hiss to bestow, render himself
and others miserable by fretful COM
plants OF troubles 800 petty 80 de-
serve a moments notices The faith
full endeavor to do right and to bear
quietly what must be borne, is OF it
self a fruitful source OF happiness
and serenity, while murmuring and
disconnected spirit may poison the
richest blessings and turn them into
hitter evils.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-13

DEs MONIES, IowA.-Edator IRISH
World The Democratic National
Convention of June 2, 1855, which
nominated James Buchanan, resolv-
ed 49,
/. Opposition to Americanism.
This, like Cleveland's Fishery Mes
sage, was intended to catch the Irish
vote
9. No more revenue than is neces-
sary to defray expenses.
8. No general system of internal
improvements.
5. No National Banks.
G. No interference with slavery.
At the election Of 1856 the South
ern States--who are now Democratic
cast 479,s5s KNow-NoTHING votes.
The Northern States, with larger
population, cast only 4,642 Know
Nothing votes. In 1850 the South
ern States cast 5l5,41 Know-Noth-
ing votes the Norther States IT,
207. Maryland cast It's full elector-
al vote for the Know-Nothing candi-
date.
The causes which led to the organi-
cation of the Republican party are
as old as the world. 1t is the never
ending warfare Of right against
wrong. It is the outgrowth of all
that is good, fair, and honorable in
the American character. 1t is the
party of progress, Well do re-
member the days Of Democracy.
was boy then and worked on the
railroad for the princely wages offlf
ty cents per day of sixteen hours.
/ am a Republican because the
Democratic party is Free-Trede
party-because it is England's party
and Grover Cleveland is England Is
candidate. And / am an Irishman
DANIEL FORD.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-13
saving Thousands Of Years

1t is interesting to try and figure
the actual extent of the advantages
reaped from modern Improvements
advantages which some people are
bold enough to call in question.
Does rapid transit, for instance, real
" save any great amount of valua-
BILE time
Take city like New York, where
there are perhaps 100000 who go
each day to and from their work.
Remember the distances travelled by
some, it will surely be within limits
to suppose that five minutes, ON the
average, is saved ON each journey by
the various means of rapid transit of
which most avail themselves. This
would make an hour on the twelve
weekly journeys, and fifty-two hours,
or say five working days, in year.
For $4,000 people this means a
yearly saving Of l,250,0O0 working
days, or, reckoning 500 working days
to the year, An annual economy of
4,166 years.
Time is money and these are sig
nifcant fgures.-Gordea Argosy.