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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Joel and the Steer,

The people of East Killingly, in the
adjoining county; think that a pretty
funny thing occurred in that neigh
borhood not long ago: Mr.: Joel
Thomas, who is the hired man of an
East Killingly farm, has a reputation
for mixing himselfinto every dilemma
that can find no other unfortunate
person to fool with.
One morning a few weeks ago Joel
went to the barn to yoke a pair OF
very large untamed steers. The yoke
was large and cumbrous and the
bows were big, but he got the wooden
loop over one steers head and pin
ned him. With the next steer he had
a wrestle, slipping about in the
treaeherous yard in his effort to hold
the animal by one horn and carry
the heavy yoke end with his free
arm. Finally, by an inexplicable
tnischance, either the yoked steer
twisted the other bow over
Joels head and below his arms, or
else joel Tell lnUO IL, ne QOeSn KNOW
which. A moment later a neighbor
approaching the house beheld the IN
happy hired man yoked up with the
frantic steer, his wild red face pro-
truding through the big OK bow,
skipping and plunging at terrific
speed down the road toward him.
Joel espied the neighbor, and at
every jump he roared in sputtering
tones:
Head us of, - it! head us off,"
The neighbor succeeded in doing it,
turning the team by dint of very &C
tive work into an angle of a stone
wall. Then he nervously hoped
around to the steers head, meaning
to release the animal before Joel was
Quilted killed. 1t was at this point
that the hired man manifested the
striking originality of his mind and
his disgust at the neighbours lack OF
gumption at the same time. Heyell-
ed:
"Here, you'll what are We up to?
Never mind the steer; come round
here and unyoke mel"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Where The COlOrs Come From.

"The eochineal insects furnish a
great many of the very fine colors, !"
said an artist recently to a reporter
for the New York Mail and Express.
among them are the gorgeous car
mine, the crimson, scarlet carmine,
and purple lakes. The cutie fish
gives the sepia. 1t is the inky fluid
which the fish discharges in order to
render the water Opaque when at
tackled; Indian yellow comes from
the camel. Ivory chips produced the
ivory black and hone black. The
exquisite Prussian blue Is made by
fusing horses hoofs and other refuse
animal matter with impure POTASH
UNI carbonate. This color was dis
covered accidentally. Various lakes
are derived from roots, barks, and
gums. Blue-black comes from the
charcoal of the vine stalk. Lamp
black is SCOT from certain resin6us
substances. Turkey red is made
from the madden plant, which grows
in Hindostan. The yellow sap of a
tree of Siam produces gamboge; the
natives catch the sap in cocoanut
shells. Raw sienna is the natural
earth from the neighborhood ofSien-
ma, Italy. Raw lumber is also an
earth found neap Umbria and burnt.
India ink is made from burnt cam
phor. The Chinese are the only man
ufacturers of this ink, and they will
not reveal the secret of it's manufac-
ture. Mastic is from the gum of the
mastic tree. which grows in the Gre
clan Archipelago. Blister is the SCOT
of wood ashes. Very little real ulta-
marine is found in the market. 1t is
obtained from the precious lapisla-
zulli, and commands fabulous price.
Chinese white is zinc, scarlet is iodine
of mercury, and native vermillion is
from the quicksilver ore called CHINA
bar"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Romance.

From the New York Sun.
One lovely and illustrieus old maid
has become a wife. She is Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, authoress of many
exquisite religious books, one Of
which is the famous "Gates Ajar. %
/ She also wrote "eld Maids Paradise, I"
and was regarded BY her friends as
confirmed by choicein single blessed
ness. Marriage had certainly been
| optional with her ever since her girl:
hood, but she habitdally declared she
! would never wed. Nevertheless she
is the bride Of Herbert D., Ward.
There is, q little story to tell about
that. The bridegroom is the son of
Rev. William Hayes Ward, editor of
the Independent. 'Last winter the
senior Ward took up Miss Phelps
latest book carelessly," said this in
formant, ''as he sat in his sanctum,
and glanced over it's pages. He im-
mediately became. interested and
kept on reading to the neglect Of
more important duties, until the time
came for him to go home. He walked
to the South Ferry with his mind still
absorbed in what he had read, and he
was so distracted with it that. in
crossing the crowed street to get to
the ferry entrance, he allowed himself
to be run over by a heavy truck and
very badly injured. Some of his ribs
were broken and for a day or two his
life was considered in danger. The
driver who had run him down was
arrested, but Dr. Ward declared that
no blaine ATTACHED to him, 49,.
1t was altogether my e%n FAULT
he said, '''My mind was engrossed
with something else than taking care
Of my body just then or it wouldn't
have happened
"When the season of outing came
around; DR.. Ward was barely con-
valescing, and his son took him on
ayachting cruise! They stopped at
Gloucester, Mass, near which Miss
Phelps had summer residence and
the neighborhood of which she had
long before stirred up immensely by
her story of Jack, in which the
people therea bonts were described
and net altogether agreeably. The
Wards visited Miss Phelps; getting
an introduction through a friend
and at the earnest desire of DR..
Ward, who had become greatly in
terested in the authoress through q
perusal of her works while recover
ing from the accident which she had
Indirectly caused. All through the
past summer the Wards hung about
Gloucester, and it became apparent
to observers that this was due to the
son rather than to the father. AL
though the former was hardly thirty
five years old and Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps is something like fifty, their
relations took on an unmistakable
aspect of courtship. The result was
the marriage ceremony at the
Phelps seashore cottage, East Glou-
eester, a short time ago."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Keeping a Good Conscience.

The moonlight drifted brokenly
through a rift in the roof ola negro
cabin in the Hanover slashes, andfen
on Gabriel jones' grey-bearded face.
He was smoking and mediating.
Hannah he called, presently;
"Hannahp Silence. Hannah I
say, Hannah a trifle louder. There
was a rustling of straw in the bed in
the corner, and a sleepy answer:
"Huh?" Hannah, did yon put dat
watermillion / foun' in Marse Ben
Scott's, patch yistidy in de cool
spring." eyes, Iput dot watermelon
in de cool spring." she answered, de
Iiberatley, Dat was right. A mo-
ment's pause. Hannah did you hang
dat coat dat Mister Hedley sisted on
my takin, hind de hay-rack, like l
tole your" l did dat" "Did you
scall and pick dem chickens borrow
ed fom de man down ON de river
de udr day." Eyes, scall dem chick
ens." Well, fry me one de fust ting
in de mornin', case Use got t. goover
t Mister Chinky Claptin's t'-orrowm
t. lead prar-meetin' an keep dem
trifiin' niggers in de right road"
Then he leaned his grizzled head on
the chair-back and snored the snore
of the just, and the bull frogs in the
marshes echoed it over the Chick
ahominy low grounds.-Richmond
Baton.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Mend Your Own Tinware.

Housekeepers may often find itcon-
venient to know how to keep their
tinware in order, besides it helps to
economic. For the benefit of such
we will say it is easier and just as
satisfactory to solder such things
yourself as to pay travelling tinker
two prices for mending them, says an
exchange. Take a sharp knife and
scrape the tin around the leak until
it is bright, SO that the solder will
stick, then sprinkle on a little pull
verified rosin, lay your solder on the
hole and with your soldering iron
melt it on. Do not have the iron too
hot or the solder will not adhere to
that. After two or three trials you
can do a job that you will feel proud
of. you do not own a soldering
iron, procure one by all means; when
hard pressed use a smooth piece of
iron. Anything is better than stop
ping leaking pans with beeswax or
rags. Your pans should be perfectly
dry when you commence work. Try
it, young housekeeper.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
The Fever MicrObe Comes to Stay.
From the Washington Capitol.

from Une washington CdPitoi.
can illustration of the strange fact
is found in the experience with the
Jamestown, now the training snip at
Baltimore. On one of her trips yell
low fever appeared on board, and
several deaths followed. Subsequent
~ the vessel was thoroughly reno
waited and extensively repaired. Her
woodwork was steamed. Then she
remained in Northern harbors for
several winters. She was finally or
dered South again, and before she
reached the fever district a case was
developed, and the man died. Above
his hammock was found a quantity
offilth. The woodwork was torn out,
and the filth removed. But she is
still fever ship, and I would not
like to 60 South in her. Then again,
is the case of the Portsmouth. She
once had fever on board. Long
afterward she was ordered to Norfolk
for repairs. Naval Constructor
or Hichborn had charge of the work.
A number of his workman died, and
he himself was taken down with ty-
phoid fever, and his workman died,
and he himself was taken down with
typhoid fever, and his life was de-
SPARED of. tits true that once fever
ship, always fever ship"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
The Age Of Speculation.

This is an ageof speculation. Thou
sands crowd around the stock-ticker
every day; thousands more watch the
grain gambling; all the pool rooms
are filled with men and youths whose
faces show how often the right horses
do not win. All the lotteries, all the
policy shops, all the gambling dens
have their victims, and the supply is
undiminishingly large. The poor
sheep are sheared, and are sent, pow
erty-stricken, to do the best they can;
but other sheep come tumbling into
the pitfalls, and the gamblers roll up
their bank accounts and drive their
fast horses, and wonder why anybody
complains of hard times. The mania
of speculation is ruinous to correct
business methods. 1t unsettles q
man, makes him inconsistent and va
cilitating, Injuries his usefulness as q
straightforward worker and destroys
his steady principles and honest pur-
poses. Young men starting out in
life should avoid it as they would q
curse.-Baltimore American.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Work NO Hardship.

THERE'S no hardship in true work.
It is as far removed from drudgery
as is the free movement of clouds in
the upper air from the cheap imita-
lions of shy scenery on the stage of
a theater. True work has something
OF play in it; it is the joyous over
aow of a full nature, the natural out
going of a full heart that cannot
contain it's own life, but must find
speech for itselfin manifold activities,
It is only after we drive ourselves
after the natural impulse is spent,
when we urge ourselves to the task
after the joy of it is gone, that work
becomes monotonous, and then
wearisome, and finally dangerous.
Working days are spent in dealing
with human adaptations and means
and in perfecting human skill. Vaca-
ton days ought to be spent in. un-
broken fellowship with truth and
beauty. They are the recurring Sab
baths which leave an open road
heavenward through our years OF
toil.-Christian Union.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Do Locomotives Cause Storms.

A correspondent of the Northwest
ern Railroader advances a curious
theory for the increasing prevalence
of floods and transforms. He says
that there are over 10000 locomo-
tives in use in North America, and
estimates that from them alone over
$4,000, 100000 cubic yards of vapor
are sent into the atmosphere every
week, to be returned in the form of
rain, or over 00,O00,000 cubic
yards a day-"quite enough" he
says, ''to produce a good rainfall
every "a hours"
Estimating the number of other
non-condensing engines in use as
eight times the number of locomo-
tives, the total vapor thus projected
into the air every week in this coun-
try amounts to more than 470, 000.-
100000 cubic yards. "Is this not. :"
he asks, sufficient for the floods OF
terror? Is there any reason to won
der why our storms are 80 damags
ing?"--Age of Steel
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
A Temperance Lecturer Converted.

At Dodge City, Kan, the cowboys
swore they would have no prohibition
in theirs, and the law was never en-
forced there, says a Boston Tran
script correspondent. A drummer
from the East knowing the antipathy
they had for anything in the tenn
perance line, resolved to have some
fun. He entered the hotel before
supper, registered his name as John
Jones, temperance reformer, Omaha;
got room assigned him; blankly
asked the landlord if there was a hall
in the place that could be procured
for temperance lecture. The land
lord said decidedly there was not
Mr.. Jones informed the landlord
that a hall he must have, his lecture
must be delivered, as he had devoted
his life and and means to the temper
ance reform, and had selected the
wickedest place he could find for his
field ofaction. The landlord informed
him he would be shot, as there was q
rough crowd who would allow no
temperance talk in that place. The
lecturer appeared to be strong in
his purpose and went out A few
cowboys who heard the conversation
Immediately left on their business.
When the drummer returned for sup
per the hotel floors were full of quiet
determined-looking men, who ap-
peared anxiously awaiting the arrival
of some enc. The lecturer appeared
among them;. stepping hastily up
shaking hands with the barkeeper,
who remembered him, he took good,
square drink and went in to supper.
1t is needless to say that that land
lord had to explain things over the
bar to that crowd.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Something About Tobacco.

The botanical specific name and
the common name come from TOBACCO
or Tobacco, the native term in Santo
Domingo for the tube or pipe
through which the smoke Of the
burning leaves was inhaled. Tobac-
CO is largely produced in China. jap
an, Persia and other parts of the
East, in some of which the plant has
become SO thoroughly naturalized
that an Eastern origin has been-
sometimes claimed for IL, bit Al
phonse de Caudolle, after a thorough
study of the subject, finds no salts
factory evidence that its uses and
culture were anywhere known before
the discovery of America, The first
European cultivation of tobacco
took place in Portugal in the early
part of the sixteenth century; it was
raised in France in 1872. The cul-
ture rapidly extended to other parts
Of Europe and Asia; in some cases
being checked by severe laws or
made useful as a source of rev.
enue. Its production in England by
a law of 1860 was restricted to a
small quantity for medicinal pur-
posesj and the prohibition still re-
mains in force. The various kinds of
foreign tobaccos are known by the
countries producing them or the
ports whence they are shipped, such
as Havana, Orinoco, Turkey, Latakia,
Shirog, &c. The Turkish and other
kinds from the East are only used
cut fine for pipes OF granHlated for
cigarettes. Manila tobacco is I'M
ported only in form of peculiar con-
ical cigars called cheroots. Very
fine tobacco isprodlced in Paraguay.
A large amount of tobacco is used to
manufacture snuff. Snuff is much
more largely consumed in Great Brit
ain and France than in the United
States. Besides smoking, chewing,
&C., tdbacco is used for various med
icinal purposes. It's power IF caus-
ing relaxation to the nervous system
is great. 1t is recommended in arti-
culargout, rheumatism and neuralgia,
and the toothache is often relieved
by smoking cigar. The annual ex.
port of tobacco from the United
States exceeds $3O;0O0,000.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Her Beard Was Long.
From the Chicago Herald.

From the Chicago Herald.
A Chicago newspaper man, who
went to Atlanta, Ga, to accept a
position on the Constitution, recently
came across a paragraph in a coun-
try exchange to the effect that a
young woman named Littlejohn, re-
siding at Jacksonville, Ala, had a
beard five feet nine inches in length.
The Atlanta scribe send this to Kohl
& Middleton, dime museum men.
The museum man at once wrote let
tiers to the postmaster at Jackson
vile, asking about Miss Littlejohn
and making her a big offer to appear
at his museum if she really had such
an abnoral growth of beard. A few
days afterwards he received the fol-
lowing letter from Jacksonville in
answer to his inquiries, and he is still
laughing over it:
"Your favor at hand in regard to
Littleiohn' woman with beard five
feet nine inches long. This is a local
Joke, which grew out of the woman's
marrying q man named Beard.
Yours. al. w. GRANT. !"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
The BuZZard In q Shirt.
From the Atlantic Journal.

From the Atlantic Journal.
Jerry Davis is the name of a little
boy. One day he found dead sheep,
around which number of buzzards
were holding high carnival. He de-
termined upon catching one of thu
buzzards and at once built a very
large trap. He baited it with the
dead sheep, and in a very short time
he had captured buzzard.
He then took one OF his shirts and
fitted it on to the buzzard, cutting
off the sleeves and putting the birds
wings through the arm-holes. He
cut off the front tail of the shirt and
sewed the garment firmly to the buzz
yards body, after which he liberated
the bird. The bird tapped his wings
and flew up into the air, the tail OF
the shirt futtering behind him as he
few. About twenty-five crows fol-
lowed after the Strengthening OBJ
ject, and the buzzard was pecked and
knocked about at a terrible rate.
Three or four days afterwards Jer-
ry found the buzzard a mile away
huddled up against a tree, dead.
When washday came, Jerry was
called upon for his shirt, and the story
leaked out. His father was SO much
amused that he would not allow the
boys mother to whip bin.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
Not All Meat Eaters.

All the heavy work of the world is
not done by men who eat meat. The
Roman soldiers, who built such won
derful roads and carried weight of
armor and luggage that would crush
the average farm hand, lived on
coarse brown bread and sour wine.
They were temperate in diet, regular
in exercise. The Spanish peasant
works every day and dances half the
night, yet eats only his black bread,
onion and watermelon. The Smyrna
porter eats only little fruit and
some olives, yet he walks off with his
load of a hundred pounds. The
coolie, fed on rice, is more active and
can endure more than the negro ted
/ On fat,-The Dietetic Gazette.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
A Youthful MO0nshiner.
Atlanta Special to Chicago Tribune.

Atlanta Special to Chicago Tribune.
A curious case of moonshining
was developed in the federal district
court here when Bascom johnson
was placed on trial. He gave in
mis- age as II, and said he had been
running an independent. still for five
years without the knowledge of his
father. He explained that he used
a powder can for still, coffee pot
for the cap, and connected them to-
gether wi til q gun barrel, which serv-
ed for O worm. He could mash q
peck of meal at q time, from which he
could get q pint and a half of whis-
Ky. He had for his customers all the
boys of the neighborhood. The
scene Of his ingenuity was in Frank
lin County.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
The King Of sMeden's Adventures in
Spain.


Spain.
From the London Vanity Fair.
The King of Sweden is relating
with much relish al, Amusing adyen-
ture which befell him recently in
Spain. 1T appears that while his
| majesty was travelling between Cor
dova and Madrid in the dead efnight,
occupying a sleeping-car in the ex:
press train, d mana most respect
able tradesman Of the former place
awakening from his slumbers by the
train stopping at a station, alighted
in the belief that he had reached his
destination. On discovering his ter
ror he attempted to regain the train,
but was too late. Not to be done,
however, he tore along the line after
the train, and succeeded in reaching
it, and, jumping on the foot-board,
wrenched open the first door to hand
and-found himself in the presence of
King Oscar and his suite, who were
slumbering peacefully. Tie Gnhap-
py man, seeing the glittering uni
forms hanging abont the dimly-
lighted car, guessed at once where he
was, and was on the point Officiating
a retreat in sheer despair, when sud-
denly his majesty awoke, and seeing
2 stranger iii the car shouted I!,Ssstiiy
to his companions; 81" DD1riigands!" and
pouncedd upon the unlucky individual,
followed by the Swedish ambassador
and equerry, and Selling him began
to feel for arms. His hand touching
something hard his majesty shouted;
Here is d tfabhccap,' and drew from
the intruder's pocket a long-necked
flask filled with manzanilla. Mean
while the train had stopped and, the
officials arriving upon the scene, the
man was questioned, and, having at
last recovered from his terror at
Struggling with crowned head, ex-
planned; and, after profuse apologies
on both sides, returned to his own
car, when once more the train pro-
ceeded.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
A Short and Tongh Lot.

The lot of our criminal classes
seems demonstrably to be short
one and a tougho one. Ithas actually
no ameliorations. "Out of 10000
prisoners, more than one-half are
between the ages of II and go" 1t
takes but three generations to use
up stock that runs to vice. The
average life OF vicious people is less
than one-half that of people ofvirtue.
A recent writer complains that
science creates a code of morals that
consist in health. Is that not precise
ly why we are SO deeply indebted to
science that it is enlarging and
lengthing the span of life and at the
same time teaching us what valuable
thing life can achieve?-Globe Demo-
craft.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19
He Had No Fever.

DR.. Holmes relates the following
to illustrate the significance of small
things in the sick room: "Will you
have an orange or a fg?" said DR..
James Jackson to a fine little boy
now grown up to goodly stature. "a
fig," answered Master Theodore,
with alacrity. mo fever there. said
the good doctor. cor he would GER
tainly have said an Grange. Her
aid OF Health,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19

THIs campaign has added another
to the list of unsolved queries. as it
seems to be admitted that "Murch-
ison'' had no real existence. The real
..Murchison'' remains yelled in
obscurity. Whether 1t stands for
Egan, Otis or what person is shrouded
in much doubt 1t was o political
artiice, which saw the light too soon
to HAYS any great effect on the election.
'Who struck Billy Patterson" and
who wrote the Morey letterp' are
questions OF the same class with that
of the authorship Of the Murchison
production. -..1
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-01-19

The star fish, it is said, is destroying
the oysters in Long Island Sound at a
rate which threatens TO raise their
price before the winter is over. The
star fish can eat more oysters In day
than fat mans club can eat in year.
Like true epicurean. he. takes them
raw, and wastes no time in the use Of
authorized seasonings. Unless he will
consent to adopt a more variegated
cuisine he is likely to have as bad an
effect on the oyster market as odd
Hutch" has had on the bread market
says the Chicago Herald