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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23
HAPPINESS OF FLIGHT.
The Pure Enjoyment Which Birds Take
In Their Aerial Excursions.

The Pure Enjoyment Which Birds Take
In Their Aerial Excursions.
May we not infer that all animals
whose muscular development is great
er in proportion to their bulk than
that of man should derive from its
exercise greater intensity of pleasure.
greater absolutely in proportion to the
attachments and less interfered with
by the greater muscular ease with
which they are accomplished. If this
is so the majority of the mammalia and
almost all birds should in their powers
of speedy movements on earth or lofty
flight in the air possess resources of
mental pleasure intense beyond ours
and less subject to be dimmed by tho
pain of overstrained muscles. The
power of fight is without doubt asso-
ciated with pleasures which we can
not directly gauge or estimate. but of
the value of which our desires can give
us some idea That birds distinctly
enjoy the exercise of their powers there
can be no manner of doubt. Having
once acquired the power of flight or
inherited it from their sauropsidan an
cestor, they have developed it far be-
yond all the requirements of their in
dividual or specific life. If it were
not pleasurable, then fight would be
discontinued when it was no longer
necessary. But, as > fact, bird life
presents innumerable instances of tho
maintenance of tho powers of flight in
species to whose existence it is by no
means essential. The skylark does not
soar from mercenary motives; pigeons.
domesticated for generations, fly about
all day long. though they need to seek
neither food nor shelter. 1t is not nee
essary to watch birds on the wing for
very long to convince ones self that
the act of flight is one of pure enjoy
ment, that it is cultivated and adorned
with the refinements which character
ize an accomplishment" Such is the
evolution of the tumbler pigeon, such
the more refined and mastery lowering
of some birds who possess the power OF
so balancing themselves on a slanting
breeze as to remain motionless with re-
spect to the earth, without apparently
moving a wing or feather, floating
all the time, still and calm. -Nimeteenth
Century,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23
WIT AND WISDOM.
-Sioth is the key of poverty.

Dioth ID eiic hcy VI PONeTby.
With the generality of men, policy
II much more powerful than principle.
There are few who conceive how
instrumental the tongue is to salvation
OF condemnation. Quesnel.
--Jennie-Why, Annie, your hair is
all mussed, your collar is torn and you
are as red as beet Annie-Charlie
called.
Now is the time of year when loves
young dream gets jolted all out of
shape because the hammock lets CO.
Merchant Traveller.
If we strive to become what we
strive to appear, manners may often
be rendered useful guides to tho per-
formance of our duties. = Sidney Smith.
There is woman in Connecticut
who wears number nine shoe. When
she sets her shoe down her husband
walks around it and says: "Yessum,
will. IN T. journal.
-'Men and women make sad mis-
takes about their own symptoms-tak-
ing their vague. uneasy longings, some
times for genius, some times for relig-
ion, and, oftener still, for mighty
love-"
-Heiress-I am afraid it is not for
me that you come here so often, but
for my money. Ardent Wooer-You
are cruel to say so. How can get
your money without getting YOU
Boston Courier.
--Father-"Well, young man, you
must either marry my daughter or pay
for the gas you burned all last winter"
George 'Er-I say-you don't happen
to have an engagement ring about
your-Ttd Bits.
Farmer Wayback-.I want to see
your boss" Office-boy-"Have you a
card. sirp" Farmer Waybaek-"Now
yen go long, We pert little upstart, an
tell yer boss | wanter see him. Ye
San come no three-card monte games
on me; I've read the papers, an I'm
posted.'
"A German was passing along
Broadway the other day when one end
of an overhanging sign came loose and
struck him on the head. "Oh, Pm
dead" exclaimed the man; but wher
he found he was still alive he added
IF dot hat kilt me would heff sued the
owner."-Nyack Journal.
Some people speak as if hypocrites
were confined to religion; but they are
everywhere; people pretending to
wealth when they have not sixpence,
assuming knowledge of which they are
ignorant shamming culture they are
far removed from. adopting opinions
they do not hold.--Reu. Albert Good
ri0A -, =. -.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23

Those who have a conscience and
put it into their work and never swerve
from the plain path of duty achieve
certain triumph. &C Christian Advocate.
The communistic colony at Port
Angeles, on Puget Sound, now numbers
$50 persons They own two thousand
acres of land, and expect to build and
operate a saw-mill soon. Unlike other
successful colonies, they profess no re-
Egious basis, and cast aside creed
The Amateurs Suburban Roscius
-"Ah, | saw you were at our 'Theat-
ricals' the other night. How did you
like my assumptio', of Hamlet" Cam
did Friend-"My dear f'llar, greatst
piece of assumption l ever saw i m
life!'-Pu,ach.
IL don't know what you mean by
not being an Irishman," said a gentle
man who was about hiring boy; "but
you were born in Ireland" 'Och, your
honor, if that's all" said the boy, small
blame to that. Suppose your cat was
to have kittens in the oven, would they
be loaves If hraadp''
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23

the line. There was deserted eoae
at pretty near ev'ry station. l drov
through from the Slope, an had
rattlin' good team. Ev'ry time com
to coach I'd have 'em tie it benin.
an I'd take 1t long. got the bigges
string of EN- you ever seed. an tn"
passengers on the front end would TAX
dinner at one meal station, an tn,
ones on the hind end at mebby tn,
second station back. drove bout the
streets o. Atchison gittin' that string
O. coaches coiled up round the town
fer two days. Come TO find out whole
lot o. movers an EN- grant trains
comm back had hitched on, an had
been haulin' the whole outfit. You bet
my bosses got thin on that trip
burned if it amt funny that we
should have had so many speriences
bout the same. In an early day l was
drivin' in Maine long the coast, an
picked up coaches all long, jes' like
you did. The string got so long that
Icouldn't tell what did hitch on. an
when l got to Squaghaven l found l
had been snakin' long several hundred
farmers wagons. four freight trains
that went on railroad that run by the
side O. the wagon road an two large
fishin' vessels, that were goin' to Squag-
haven an had hitched on the hind end
an been towcd RICH. long into port. "
Then the two drivers drifted apart
Dakota Bell.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


1t is fitting that those who are
made to suffer should suffer weH.-
RArke.
There is something wrong within
all those who are afraid to look within.
Seeker.
Nineteen million of the sixty mil
Non people in this land are members
of churches.
The BostonSchool Board has voted
to reduce the time devoted to arithme-
dc in the public schools and to simplify
the process of instruction.
Mr. A. S. Barnes, of New York,
has given $40, 900 to Cornell University
for the erection of a building for the
college Christian Association.
If l can put one touch of rosy
sunset into the life of any man or
woman, shall feel that l have worked
with God.-George Macdonald.
Over 10000 of the communicate
members in regular connection with
the Lutheran Church in the United
States are found in the State of Penn
sylvania.
In Russia there are $4,000 schools,
having each an average of Sc scholars.
This is one school for 2, 300 inhabitants,
at a cost of less than half-penny d
head of the population.
The Johns Hopkins University of
Baltimore has an income of 1920, 900
from the endowment funds, and $780,
600 to $50, 900 from tuition. The stu
dents. therefore, pay only about one
fifth of the cost Of their education.
DR.. Horatius Bonar, of Edinburgh,
Scotland, an able preacher, author and
hymn-writer, but doubtless best known
IN the latter capacity, is making ar
rangements to retire from active min
isterial life, after fifty years service.
The surprising fact is noted that
while the Wesleyan Church in Great
Britain had 1870 ministers, it had "a.
Ts lay class leaders, and Is, 009 local
preachers last year, so that the greater
part of it's pastoral and preaching work
Is done by laymen-and none the less
effective work for that.--M Y Witness.
-Unaided by revelation the human
mind thinks itself out into an eternity
of gloom. 1t is awful to think when
the thought can not strike God. But,
oh, what a being it is that can think!
Do you notice that man always reasons
upwardsP They are aspirations, and
though yelled at the top, they are al
ways towards those high and hidden
things. Req. DR.. Magee.
Pastor Schneider, who for more
than twenty-five years has been at the
head of the Syrian Orphans Home in
Jerusalem, reports that during the sea-
son just closed there have been more
tourists and pilgrims in Jerusalem than
In any single year in his life in the holy
city. There were nearly 10000 pill
griins. Russia is erecting a tower on
Mt. Olivet hundred metres high. 1t
will be the highest building in the
East
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
The Supreme Court Decides That They Car
Sell Goods Without License.

The Supreme Court Decides That They Can
Sell Goods Without License.
The gentlemen of the road" have
become numerous and important class
of late years. A decade or two 40,
they were few and far between. Mer-
chants visited The cities and made their
own selections. The drummer would
often meet them at their respective
hotels, show them the town, and attend
to their wants at the store or ware
house; but in latter times country mel-
chants need not leave their stores; the
commercial traveller will fill his order
for every thing to be wanted. For a
few years back many States have en-
deavored to increase their revenues and
at the same time to protect their manu-
facturers and Wholesale merchants by
imposing tax on travellers offering to
sell by sample or on delivery, who
come from other States. The amount
of the tax was very considerable, in the
form of a license, in some cases fifty
dollars and in others less. This tax al
most precluded the travelling drummer.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has recently made a decision that "leg-
islatIon by States or municipalities inn
posing taxes on commercial travellers
engaged in Interstate commerce was
not warranted by the Constitution. "
The legislation acted on in this case
was that of Tennessee, entitled the
Robbins Case" Another case arose
in Maryland with similar results.
While some of the States continue to
impose penalties for selling without
license as provided by the local stat
utes. the drummer will thus be required
either to pay or appeal to the United
States Court. It's not likely that they
will continue to impose it after there
has been a decision of the matter in
each respective State. 1t would seem a
most unjust discrimination to make be-
cause of drummer representing goods
grown or made in another State. If
the States can restrict the passage and
business of residents of other States
through their respective territories, it
would be the most emphatic phase of
the principle of "state's rights" that
has yet been promulgated. Every resi-
dent of the United States must be glad
that the Supreme Court has taken that
very sound view of the case. Let us be
united people, and as far as possible
destroy every barrier to our unity-let
self-interest yield to the public good
Denaorest's Monthlv.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23

"A stout, red-nosed man offered to
wager ten dollar bill that he could close
his eyes, and, simply by taste. name any
kind of liquor in the house. The bet
was taken. This is genuine port. !"
said the fat man, tasting from a wine
glass; land this is whisky" and 50 OH.
A wag then poured few drops of
water into glass, and handed it to
the faster This is--ah-ah-this is
Casting it several timcs)-by Jupiter!
gentlemen, lose the bet. / never
tasted this liquor before. ~ z.
Ledger.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23
READING FOR BOYS.
Bob Burdette Discourses on the Funny
Side of q Pathetic Little Story.

Bob Burdette Discourses on the Funny
Side of Pathetic Little Story.
No, oh no; we are not going to pitch
into the five cent blood and thunder
NOVELTIES; not right directly at any
rate. We were just looking over a
story in a most excellent and highly
respectable Juvenile magazine; good
magazine, that doubtless views with
alarm. as do all the rest of us, the
poisonous literature of the news stand.
This story is about a boy, fifteen years
old, who, while standing alone on his
fathers engine on lonely siding, saw
a runaway train of cars, started by the
wind, sweep past him down the grade
Usual thing-the lightning express
nearly due; the train dispatcher always
manages to have lightning express
about due when any thing of this kind
happens. There is "no telegraph wire
either;" this is also usual; road with
out a wire is apt to run lightning ex-
presses and limited expresses every
fifteen minutes. The boy thinks
quickly; boys of fifteen are always
quick thinkers; he runs his engine out
on the main line, setting the switches
for himself, for his father has gone to
supper, miles away in the country,
presumably, as it is quite customary
for railway engineers to take all their
meals on distant ranches, leaving
their engines in charge of chill
dren. The runaway cars "are miles
away" and he has .'less than
u h0V %nI 1T
caught the runaways, which were flying
like the wind; he slowed up with ex-
cellent judgment''-we should think so
-crept along the side of his flying en-
CINE. got on the pilot, lifted the coup
ling bar with one hand" and reached
over as he ''made the coupling and
dropped the pin in with the other;'' had
struggle with the flying cars but at
last checked them; got them started
back, he making thirty-five miles an
hour and the "Lightning' in sight
making sixty-on a road without a
wire he had ten miles to run in this
shape. but he made it, got in on the
siding. time to turn the switch, and the
"Lightning' Numbered by. Then
"the boy tainted dead away" No
wonder; it was enough to make man
faint to read it; it was high time some
body tainted. Now the question is just
this: does the boy get any thing better
out of such nonsense than he does out
of kid, the Sleuth Hound, or The Boy
Terror of Cory Canyon" Between
ourselves and the comma we really
find The Boy Terror" quite as easy to
believe and much more interesting
reading. We haven't the least objec
ton to fiction; we rather like it. but
great Scott. oven fiction for boys should
have some sense in it. Not much, per
haps. but just some urdette, ia
Brooklyn Eagle.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

There are 1000, 900 men engaged
in the building trades in the United
States.
The cost of the recent coke strike
to the men and operators is estimated
at $2,0OO.O0
There are 108 cotton mills in tho
South. Georgia heads the list with SO.
Tennessee comes next with ~, and Ala
bama 20.
"A physician living near the sea
says that during the past five years he
has noted the hour and minute Of death
in ninety-three patients, and every one
has gone out with the tide, save four
who died suddenly by accident
1t is reported that rich American
is about to establish a paper factory at
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, with a capital
of at least 100000. The principal ma
terial used will be ''lechugilla," a
fibrous plant which grows abundantly
in that section.
About midway between st. Peters
burg and Moscow, Prince Putiatin has
made the important archaeological dis
covery of al image Of the constellation
of Ursa Major engraved on grindstone
of the Stone Age. A similar discovery
had already been made near Wellmar
in Germany.
What is termed flexible glass is a
useful product just introduced Paper
of proper thickness is rendered trans
parent by soaking in copal varnish. and
when dry. is polished, rubbed with
pumice stone, and layer of soluble
glass is applied and rubbed with salt.
The surface is as perfect as glass.
Boston Budget.
Though electrical storage batteries
have attracted attention only within
the past seven years, the discovery of
the principle is as old as the century.
Gausherot having first noticed in 1901
that platinum or silver wires gave off
a current after being disconnected
from voltaic battery with which they
had been used for decornposing saline
water. The first sec tary cell of
Plante was made in 1860. A rkansaw
Traveller.
"A universal competitive exhibition
of science and industry will open at
Brussels, Belgium. May 1, 1888. and
continue six months. Fifty-six COM
mittees representing all industries and
various specialties, have framed ques-
tons whose solution forms the basis of
competition. Medals, diplomas and
300, 600 in cash will be awarded to ex-
hibitors, who are given special induce
ments by the Belgian government in
the way of transportation, management
and duties.
In nearly every department flegit-
innate industry greater or less improve
ment is observed in comparison with
the like number of many preceding
years. Lumber, coal. petroleum, and
cotton fabrics are conspicuous for their
steadiness through the usual season of
mid summer dullness. Railroad earn
ings gained fifteen per cent in June,
and fifty roads show an increase of 1913
per cent. for the first week of July.
Money has become more plentiful at
the metropolis, but the daily dealings
in Wall street are small and quotations
sag upon the slightest provocations. -
| Chicago Inter Ocean,
- -
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23

An extraordinary sight at the sea-
shore is presented by the girls dressed
IN one of the largest. most startling
plaids in fashion, and driving on high
seat, while the young man sits humbly
below her in modest Occurrences. AS
she floSrishes the whip he is probably
blushing with timidity lest the horse
should start suddenly. Boston Journal
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23

1.-The volcanoes Popocatepetl and
1xtaccihutl. says Mexican exchange,
present a grand spectacle on clear
mornings. They are covered with ice
and snow from their tops to within a
few hundred feet of their bases. This
is a regular phenomenon of the sum-
mer months.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23

Colonel William T. Shaw, WELL
known Iowa volunteer officer of the
war. is writing a history Of the battle
OF Shiloh. which win be Published in
b. Ok form.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23

Rural Item-New Yorker-"What
fresh air you have out here. It's so
mo IN fresher than in New York"
Ftrmer-''Jess so! That's jest what
Nns saying to my cid woman. Why
amt all these big cities built out In the
seuntrgg"-7sxas Slftinos.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-23

According to a London paper the
bean is the national herb of America
and beans and bacon form the national
dish of the Eastern States. while fried
chickens and the clam are the dishes of
the South. The staple Of the West IL
hash, according to the same authority.
Good Housekeeping.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-09

sites Of the case. indianapolis must have
pure water. and plenty of it, and it is the duty
of the officers of the city, and of the Councils,
to do whatever may be necessary to secure it.
II rs not a matter to be trified with, or to have
any unnecessary delay about Let the truth
be known, the whole truth, but nothing but
the truth; and then we make no doubt that
the municipal authorities, as well as the
water-works company itself, will speedily pro-
vide the necessary remedy. Duty to the pub
lie, and the lowest considerations of self-in-
terest alike, demand and viii irnpel such ac-
fion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-09
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AN EI,ENT l,AnY.

The news that the life of Harriet Beecher
spread regret Some will mourn her as one
of the leading literary women of the century;
some as the last of the "great Beechers;;" all
will think of her as the author of uncle
Toms Cabin" but only those who have a
knowledge of the condition of public senti-
ment when that work was produced will real
ize the debt of gratitude due her from the
country she served. or can measure her real
contribution to the greatest epoch of history.
She had gone from New England filled With
the ideas of freedom which were planted in
that soil by the Pilgrims, and had taken up
abode upon the borders of slave State. The
term ''Abolitionist" then was one Of re-
proach even in the region she came from; to
discuss the question of slavery was to find
oneself Stunned as lawless agitator or dan
gerous character. even by those in no personal
sympathy with the system. Slavery existed,
and the long course of political and social in
timidation by the Southern element had be-
gotten feeling of timid conservatism which
deprecated agitation and urged thai existing
institutions be left undisturbed. There was
an abundance of latent oppositca to the
enslaving of human creatures but it needed
to be aroused. The public mind vas apathet-
ic and needed to be stirred from Is dullness.
Mrs Stowe came, and with her wonderful
book melted away this apathy, lexcited the
latent anti-slavery sentiment, aAd put in mo-
ton train of events that ended in the
Emancipation Proclamation ana the abolition
of African slavery. Had this woman permit
ted herself to be influenced sfd led by the
opinions prevailing in Cincinnati at the time
of her residence there, her book would not
have been written; her mindand her sympa-