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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-09

The Chinese, as well as the Japa-
nese, now have the complete Bible
printed in their own tongue. The
Chinaman is said to be the most i'm
itative person in the world. He can
prove his right to the title by at once
initiating every Christian whom he
may chance to see reading the book of
books. - Interior.
In Paris there exists society
whose object it is to provide, for the
time being, for all priests who, for con-
science sake. have left the Roman
Catholic church and professed the
Protestant faith. Within two years
past six such converts have entered
the Reformed Church as ministers,
whilst others have been aided to pursue
secular callings.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-09

employed In making the l,rst Water
works reservoir, a few miles above the
city and at the base OF one OF the rocky
cliffs, In digging down wenty-eipht
ieet below the surface OF the earth and
about level with the low-water marx
In the Ohio river, found an iron buckle
attached to about two feet OF rawhidc-
leather strap, also hewn sycamore
log about two feet square.
Many other discoveries OF a like
nature have been made around the
TAILS during the past thirty-fve years.
all going to prove that this section Of
tne country was inhabited when the
OHIO river was probably nothing but q
"spring branch
Now, at the time the owners of these
relics, who sat around the fires, upon
the hearthstones, made and laid by
human hands, inhabited these wild
forests, where was the Ohio river? Its
mighty current and broad bosom were
not where they are to-day. Now it
appears that the city of Louisville ia
situated on huge sand-bar, left here
by the Ohio river when 1t changed its
course, and began to develope the falls
OF the Ohio, long before this section Of
the country was settled by the white
people.
There were no doubt great floods
and freeze-ups, as there are in these
more modern times, and it may be
supposed that during some food or
freeze-up the current cut its way
through the land, or that the heavy
Ice let go, and either the one, the
other, or both, succeeded in connect
ing the Ohio with Silver creek, and
cut off what is known as Portland.
Shippingport and big slice of Louis
vile, rejoining the main river again
at some point just below where New
Albany now stands. In the course OF
time, being upon solid foundation of
stone, all the soil upon the bed Of the
falls, the current was not strong
enough to do any thing more than wash
it away, and finally desert its old
course forever and run for years where
it is running to-day. The river, in
leaving its old channel, naturally left
an immense bar of sand and gravel,
composed of swamps. and ponds. and
basins, containing stagnant water and
decayed vegetable matter. For years
these ponds and swamps were nothing
more nor less than breeders of sick
ness, disease and death, and there are
in existence to this day, within the
corporate limits of this great and
growing city, some of these cesspools OF
stagnant water and swamps of decayed
vegetable matter. To come here and
live when Louisville was in its infancy
was almost an impossibility, for be-
tween chills, ague and earthquakes, a
cast-iron man, with forty-horse-power
constitution, would have the life
shaken" GU. of him if he stayed long
enough.-LouiseiHe Courter-Journal.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-09
CATCHING SHARKS,

the Fishermen in New York Bay Have
to Protect Their Lines.
men the weak-tishing season is at
Peight sharks make their appear
In the lower New York BAY. for
purpose of dining on sea trout and
small fish that frequent these
rs' sound fishermen in and around
Fesend Bay, where menhaden are
EnV Tor lobster fishermen. have
nets spoiled by these sharks
ii get entangled in them. They
rarely more than four feet long.
oi,eh geton weak-fsh lines, and if
nsier does not know how to handle
ne loses his line. The shark be-
50 ehtangled in the line that it
" oe cut out. When they once
small shark, fishermen some-
s. 'ase d cruel revenge by bending
eaAing the pointed nose of the
~ .na' it stands up, and
throwing it back into the
h,,,. ms they say, prevents
ba N from swimming beneath the
w. ana 1t swims about with its
/, Standing three or four inches
dies. ~ 'ufhs over
.o asn are next to the shark in
''', and are hated by every fisher
~ - fisherman who doesn't get
J finest 'nese fish on his hook two or
,,a anies a day considers himself
|na The fishermen have a
~ ss way of getting even with the
|, a They tie block of wood to
nnt anu throw it overheard again,
etbin,. 'lie cord wears through or
i lilg happens to the fish it is
W. ~ spend its days on the surface
Olock of wood in tow.
n lor shark is not considered q
sn a' sport, but nevertheless
bast uozen or more men in New
|in "a t who are not adverse to
'0' Sharks. A big hook with
i'm, Vnaln attached is used for
mo SHARKS. A piece of pork or
Inca serves for bait. A stout
|eOa De >, Is attached to the chain,
4 bo. 81 that line being made fast
pms 0a =. When a shark is hooked
sentl,, 70 the surface of the water
/ bs as a sunfish. 1t is only
oisht h gets close to the boat that
|ns b Segins' The fishermen keep
8 until tl% In and letting him out
n t thui he is tired out. Then thew
|ted on, : chance, and when his head
|ine t t@sa Of Ia, the water by a pull on
'nss club him to death. some
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-09

Two hundred and thirty-two Zulus
were baptized in the Hermannsberg
mission among the Zulus last year.
There are now 1.529 Zulu Christians.
There are now in New York more
than three hundred religious and char
table institutions or societies, whose
object is to aid the poor. These or
ganized local charitable institutions
receive and distribute annually about
four million dollars.
Christ did not say: "Come and
see our grand church, come and hear
our eloquent pastor, come and hear
our splendid choir, come and see our
elegant people. come and see what q
good time we have, come to our festi-
val. but don't forget to bring quarter
with YOU" but he said: "Go-into all
the world. ~ Chrisfian Leader.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-09
WESTERN pucouTs.


-
IN Kansas and Nebrsskn.
To begin with, the habitation Of the
honesteader Is either dugout or a
house bnilt OF squares of sod taken from
the prairie Nebraska or Kansas brick,
as they are facetiousiy termed The
dugout consists OF a hole dug in the
side Of canyon or any sort Of depres-
sion on the prairie which will serve as
. wind-break- This hole is rooted
across, about ON level with the
prairie with inch boards, and these are
covered with sod. A foot or SO of
stove-pipe protruding from the roof is
the sole Indication Of human habita~
ton. One room generally serves all
the purposes OF the homesteader and
his family. IL he prospers Tor sea-
son, he adds to the front Of his abode
Dy erecting walls OF sod on the sides
ana putting IN new 'front.' the cid one
serving as Partition between the two
rooms. ms Is considered q commodi-
GUS dwelling. After riding over the
quarter section looking for an owner,
espying such an abode, and guiding
your team carefully down break-neck
tescent to the front door, would it sur
prise you, upon entering this hole In
the ground, to ind for instance, a
very modern organ with an imposing
cathedral back towering high in one
corner OF the room? But this is no
cause for astonishment-very fire.
quently organs and ornate designs in
furniture are to be found in the dug
outs. Or, II the Lady OF the house
should invite you 70 remain for the
meetlng OF the literary CLUB there IN
the evening" would you stare at that!
MOI at all. Literary CLUBS, winch the
members ride all the way from i've TO
twenty miles TO attend, and where they
discuss with great earnestness every
thing from the latest political problem
10 the most aostruse point In metapnys-
les, are quite the regular thlng With
our iollieseeaues' Du' " oeioiu 'nis
siIe SO iuli Oh paraooAes III the height
u i's Observation-Disclosures you shouio oe d
sPocea'or ~ 'he uueous wnen heish-
porlooo uanGe Is ~ iuii olaSt- Inc
-. s'.a "a'l' na.e eis
iou ,oi sno o0'a''o IN eaaioo'
anu ~nei 'ne iun oe ins' 'ne 'i's noo,
pes iospon y sAe As -
'no iii0y a'iu 'h
'r'1ea . e'ouu D. " uu1' '''au "o,nu s'in.'
=. A u,' i' ~. nc uon
lli1u q oip " poi'o N.Y.
an inoe. poliueV 'onl =. se11il =
''.','ia'io oouiu "io ''o'ns " 0ne =
n.o'
| me iionieseeaoers are very iiohesl.
| !ou can leave mousse uiilocAeu d. az
'i'.ies ana your STORES are periectiy
sale-wlth the exception Oh what iiquol
you may nave On manu- ior hieulcihai
purposes III otner worus' the nome
seeaoer VIII sleai "liishs every 'llne'
as d CLASS 'iiey are iieis nporis' hllu 10
one III ois'res7' anu eAceeoihsis nos
pi.aoie
| But IL must not De supposed that all
nomesteaders i've In dugouts or sleep
SIX or seven IN ROOM such expert
=
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-09

This is nice box 70 be in" as
he fellow said when he found himself
locked up in the refrigerator. Dan
ville Breeze.
"A country editor wrote at consid-
cradle length upon The Future of Hog
Raising" and rival editor advised
him not to be so anxious regarding his
Observation-Disclosures SJtiags.
"A first class spread at Chinese
restaurant in New York, costs $50. but
it includes about forty courses and
takes two days to get through with,
and is set for a dozen people.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-11-09

Among the rarities in DIR. Will
Jams library in Grafton street, Lon
don, is tiny shorthand Bible, ex-
quisitely written, which is said to have
belonged to an apprentice. who,
suspicious of James lis intentions
regarding Professionalism, wrote the
whole for himself. fearing that he
might be deprived of his printed copy.
In addition, there are fourteen manu-
script volumes relating to Richard
Baxter, and little volume of George
Herbert's, part of which is in the
poets handwriting. and which is be-
lieved to be the copy he sent to Nicho-
las Ferrar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31
Stand and Deliver.
The following correspondence from
the Troy Times has some local interest:

The following correspondence from
the Troy Times has some local interest:
ARGUS AND PATRIOT PRINTING House,
MONTPELIER, Vt, October IL, 1SSS.-W. y.
RdnddU, ShdftSbury, W. DEAR SIR: | can
not understand why you have not replied to
the letters which have been written to you
relative to making some contribution toward
the expense OF the national committee. If
you did not desire to do so it would have
been no more than courtesy to have dropped
me line to that effect. If you do wish to
| should be glad to have you do so at once.
1t will be necessary for us to have all the
money that can possibly be raised to make
the campaign a success If you desire the
reelection of Cleveland / hope you will
make a liberal contribution, such as has
been indicated in former letters Please let
me hear from you at once.
Yours truly, HARRY G.. DEwING,
agent Dem. National Com.
SHAFTsBURy, VT, October IS, 18SS-Harry
q. DelCing, Agent Democratic National Com
miteee, Montpelier, ", DEAR SIR-Yours
of the 18th instant at hand and is the first
intimation have received that ! was ex-
pected to contribute to your fund or to the
fund of any political party. Is this call
sent to every one? If not, why am singled
out? Why demand tribute of me? Is not
your party able to make this campaign
success without republican aid? | can not
conscentiously, with any idea of right and
justice, contribute to your civil service re-
form fund. Very truly yours,
w. b. RANDALL, late Postmaster.
Verify our esteemed contempo-
rary's BaDtams are getting back to
the home roost. AS the Times re-
marks: Mr.. Randall, the ex-post-
master of SALISBURY, is already out of
office, and can defy the edict of the
democratic committees with safety.
But the letter received by him pointedly
illustrates the practices which bring the
civil service reform pretensions of the
Cleveland administration into mall
odorous disrepute."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31
tickle him under the diaphragm. The
most solemn looking mule on our place
had kicked to pieces five dashboards."

THE following is the extract from.the
New York Times that Minister West
inclosed in his letter to Murchison, and
to which he called the latter's attention
as supplementing the views he himself
held on the subject of the relation of
the Cleveland administration to the
settlement of the fisheries question:
There is this further consideration in
favor of supporting the administration on
this issue. 1t will leave the question still
open for friendly means of settlement of
some kind, while a support of the senate's
position would close all negotiations, and
bring upon the country the disastrous con-
sequences of retaliation, hostility and posi-
BILE war. 1t would put an end to all pros
pect of improving the commercial relations
of the United States and Canada. This is
one of the questions which the people
should keep in mind in casting their votes
next November.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

figures we found in Governor Dilling-
hams message, S167 900, which we
now find expressed the excess of esti-
mated resources over all liabilities
active and dormant. The treasurer's
report shows that the estimated re-
sources July 81, 1888, were 1891 ,o62;
active liabilities, S6,SS0; available for
current expenses, 1924 ,1S2. Since that
date, orders on the treasury aggregating
$4,000, we were informed, had been
drawn, leaving at the date of our review
1854 900 available for state expenses,
against S250000 two years ago."
This may not be, in the reeking phrase
of the CORY Argus, "a most surprising
shrinkage in the finances of the state in
the past two years." but it justifies the
solicitude expressed over the steady
and rapid increase of the state expen-
ditures. In this connection the follow
ing extract from Auditor Powell's last
report is pertinent:
Wnlle there mas been In some branches oil
the accounting marked and gratifying i'm
provement, a comparison of the figures for
some years back will show steady increase
in state expenses and that, as whole, they
exceed for the last biennial term the ex-
penses of any two years preceding. This
change is wrought principally by the more
liberal legislation of late years in the mat
ter of special appropriations, increase of
salaries and fees, the transfer to the state of
expenses heretofore borne by the counties
and towns, etc.-all matters with which this
office has no duty at this time except to state
the result. A few of the larger items of this
increase over the preceding term are an ex-
cess in expenditures for highways and
bridges of S33, ASSES, for relief of the in
sane of S4S,310.57, for the militia of S12,-
1865, account for temperance textbooks
S25,611.A North Hero bridge $19,062.50
site for Bennington battle monument S10,-
10000, appropriations for Soldiers Home
S10,0OO.00 and experiment station 49,
10000, etc.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

der its burdens while its treasury has
been biennially turned inside out to aid
almost every other object under the
sun. AS we have said, we believe this
policy is radically wrong, substitution,
in respect of certain institutions, of in.
ordinate appliances of cure for adequate
means of prevention of crime and de-
velopment of criminal propensity-the
more philanthropic and by far the more
economical of the two expedients. We
believe the state should lose no time in
establishing the right relation, in the
bestowal of its fostering care, between
its great moral and material institutions
and its means for the reform of Grim
inals and punishment of offenders.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

Is the Argus trying to Stay Judge
Royce by praising him? Honest men
naturally mistrust that there is "some-
thing rotten in Denmark" when our
contemporary takes to booming that
locality. So the inference may be
reasonable that in eulogizing the chief
judge the Argus understands that it is
taking the most effective course to dis
credit His Honor with reputable people.
Or perhaps the Argus, as the news
paper attorney of the Central railway,
is only doing its duty to its client in
shouting for that corporations alleged
attorney on the supreme bench. At
all events, touch His Honor or the rail-
way never so lightly and the Samson
of the Argus sallies forth to slaughter
the Philistines with, literally, the jaw
bone of an ass. The Argus processes
to see in the election of Judge Royce,
without formal opposition, an ardent
and united desire of the people to re-
tain his eminent services" on the
bench. The pity born of silent con-
tempt and disgust more reasonably ac-
counts for the apathy of public senti-
ment towards the chief judge-a con-
seriousness that his position on the
bench is now entirely negative one,
and to re-elect him is the easier way to
be rid of disagreeable duty. This
may not be complimentary, but it may
be very true. Now if the Argus wants
to revive all these things and keep
them before the public at this time, let
it continue to assail, misrepresent and
impugn the motives of those whose
chief fault in this matter is that they
have always observed too great leniency
towards man whom thousands of
good citizens of Vermont believe to be
only too fit a subject for the unscrupu-
lous democratic organs defense and
blighting eulogy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

VERMONT may learn from her neigh
bors. In an address before the New
England Creamery Association, Colonel
F. D. Curtis of New York told of the
efforts the Empire State is making to
extend dairy knowledge among the
farmers. The state now appropriates
$4,000 annually for dairy instruction
and $4,000 for the state dairymen's as
ISOLATION. The next step will be to
secure sufficient appropriations to es-
tablish dairy schools. The Province of
Ontario gives its dairymen's associa-
ton 81 800 annually. Vermont may
learn wisdom in the matter of encour-
agement to an important domestic in
dustry from even a Cannuck. If the
legislature should grant the Vermont
Dairymen's Association its very modest
request for 81, 900, it would be boost
from point of advantage that would
give the states dairy interest strong
impulse upward.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

AN exchange says: "The conspiracy
of the grain gamblers in Chicago is
bearing its natural fruit in the suicide
of some of the principal victims and
the financial ruin of many others.
Other results of the wheat corner,
more widespread if not so serious in
character, are seen in the advance of
prices for flour and bread. According
to one of the leading bakers of this city,
one thousand barrels of flour week
less will be consumed in New York as
long as the prevailing stringency con-
tinues. This means additional priva-
ton and actual suffering for thousands
of the poor. 1t means that every one
who buys a barrel of flour or eats a
morsel of bread during the next few
weeks or months must contribute to
the overlooking Golfers of the ring of
rascals who have been cornering' the
wheat market. The proper place for
men who work up these corners in
the necessaries of life is corner in
some Jail or penitentiary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

THE country is on the last week of
the national canvass. In the states
which constitute the recognized battle
ground of the election the tension,
mental and physical-not to say moral
lis something terrific. Judged by the
expressions of their prophets, "hope
springs eternal in both the republican
and democratic breast, but the convic-
ton gains strength that, with reason
ably honest election in the doubt
full states, a grand triumph is
in store for the republican cause.
The party has reason for hope and
tangible ground for confidence. The
chief and only source of apprehension
is the political wickedness of the party
of the opposition. Only the develop
ment of the old historic spirit in some
desperate scheme of fraud to reverse
the verdict of the ballot-box can save
the democratic party from the Apo
mattox of its career on the sixth of
November.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

WHEN the facts about the publca-
ton of the West Murchison cores
pondence are found, the status of Muir
Gibson, morally and personally, can be
determined. That is however a matter
that can in no wise relieve Minister
West and the democratic party from
their embarrassment. If Murchison
is a myth or violator of confidence,
Sackville is a terrible reality and his
disclosure of British interest in Cleve-
lands reelection cannot be recalled
by proving Murchison villain and his
letter trap. The more probable ex-
PLANTATION of the publicity given to the
correspondence is that the reply of
Sackville was being used in a quiet
way as a campaign document to help
the democrats among English citizens
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

THE interests involved in this cam
paign are of tremendous importance :;
but in addition to this the voter has it
in his power to elevate to the leader
ship men who distinctly represent what
is best in the American life and spirit.
1t is an eminent Christian minister who
says of General Harrison: d" Precisely
such man should be, as 1 think, at
the head of this nation, full as it is of
Christian homes, schools and churches, ;"
not only to insure good administra-
ton, but for the "moral culture of the
country" "To Christian ministers
and laymen," declares the Independent,
"these words of DR.. Storrs should
come with irresistible force"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

who have for years refrained from be-
ing naturalized," and so got on the
wires. Very likely too, Murchison's
vanity was stirred by getting personal
letter, bearing the British coat of arms,
from England's minister, and, after
the fashion of some other mortals big
with great secret, was not averse to
exalting his personal Importance by
sharing with friend or neighbor the
confidence reposed in him. The row
of bricks thus once started continued on
its mad career till it crushed on the
British envoy himself and his client,
Candidate Cleveland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31

TALMAGE in the New York Observer
has these words of truth about boys:
I" The goody-goody kind of children
make namby-pamby men. should not
be surprised to find that colt which
does not frisk becomes horse that will
not draw. 1t is not religion that makes
that boy sit by the stove while his
brothers are out snow-balling, but the
dumps The boy who has no fire
in his nature may, after he has grown
up, have animation enough to grease a
wagon wheel, but he will not own the
wagon nor have money enough to buy
the grease. The best boy l ever knew
before he went to heaven could strike
a ball till it scared out of sight, and in
the race, far as you could see, you
would find his red tippet coming out
ahead. Look out for the boy who
never has the fingers of good laugh