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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-12

and MCKAY & ADAMS. Tyler. Texas.
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1t treats of all blood disorders. Ads
dress, BLOOD BALM Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-12

California sent 3,50000O pounds of
honey to Europe last year.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-12

There are six newspapers published in
Iceland.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01
ALL ABOUT BREAD-FRUIT.
It's Useful Properties Outlined by an Expert
in Spices.

That is the bread-fruit," said Mr..
William ID. Bennett, the lecturer upon
spices, to a reporter, who was exam
ming number of long glass jars con-
tanning curious plants and fruits of the
tropics, preserved in alcohol. 81 be-
lieve it is the only specimen of the
kind in the United States. That jar
which stands near to it contains cit
ron-the fruit kind used for candying,
grown here and looks likes melon.
The other fruits belong to the same
class of tree. In the next Jar are
cloves in growing. The Glove of COM
merce is hard substance, while there
you see them growing in punches of
pretty, pinkish-colored flowers. The
seed forms on the top of the flower,
which, when dried, hardens, and to-
gethor they for IN the spice as it is
most commonly seen. That next jar
contains the fruit, leaves, stem and
bark of the cinnamon tree. The bark
forms the spice of commerce. 1t is
also known as cassia, but as such would
hardly find a ready sale. Few know
the full value of this article of conn.,
merce. and a still less number know
how it is grown. To pass through a
cinnamon grove is one of the most de-
lightful experiences any person can
have. | heard Dean Stanley say that
his walk through the cinnamon groves
of Ceylon made him realize in the most
forcible manner the delights pictured
by David, as set forth in the Psalms"
"Can you tell me something definite
about the bread-fruit?n
"The bread-fruit tree belongs to the
tropical order Art0carpdccG. 1t is a
native of the islands of tho Pacific
Ocean and of the Indian Archipelago;
grows to the height 81 fifty or sixty
feet, has spreading branches and large,
rough, pinnatifid leaves, often over
foot long. The male flowers are in
catkins, the female flowers naked and
arranged on a heshy receptacle; the
whole becoming as you see a sub
globose, fieshy fruit about as large as
a child's head. That specimen in the
jar is ripe and has a yellowish skin of
no great thickness. Beneath the skin
is a perfectly white substance. some
what resembling newly baked bread
1t can be used as bread or made into
pudding. Sometimes it is sliced and
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01

dried before the application OF neat.
sometimes cooked in an oven. The
Tahitians prepare il for use by beat
ing it into a paste with water or the
milk Of the cocoanut. making it into
balls or wrapped up in leaves and bak-
ing it in an oven.
Before the breadfruit is ripe il is
filed with "a substance like milk, in
stead of bread. The leaves. il
wounded, give out milky juice. In
fact, all parts of the plant have this
popularity. This makes the tree re-
semble the COW tree of South America,
the milk of which is used as substi-
tute for that of the COW, and is highly
nutritious and pleasant. Another
member of the same class of tree is the
upas of Java, the milk OF which forms
a poison of the most deadly character.
The bread-fruit tree not only supplies
food, but cloth can be made from the
inner bark. and the timber can be EN-.
ployed in bout building and for dwell
ings. The male catSins can be used
for finder, and the viscid. milky juice
as bird lime. ~. Y Mail and En-
3JJCSS
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01

want TO get a big cart horse, but the
wife and children take on so that it
goes against the grain. We raised
him, you know, and he's like one Of
the family"
at you raised him you must know
his exact age"
"Oh. certainly. Got his birthday
down in an old diary. Billie is nine
years and month old"
The man looks at Billie's teeth and
replies:
''Ten years old! Why, the beast is
above twenty or I'm liar!'
Now you want to lead the horse back
into the stall and innocently remark
to the visitor:
You will excuse me, sir, but / am
very busy this morning"
"But about the horsep"
''Oh, he wouldn't please you, sir
You'd always feel that you were
cheated"
'Isn't he twenty?'
Didn't say | had his birthday in
writingP Didn't feed him milk with
my own handspn
''He has the teeth of an old horse"
Every well, sir. No harm done, OF
course.
Ell rather like his looks"
$50 does every body. He's horse
to be proud Of"
Just what | want if was only sure
about his age"
Excuse me, sir, but | must go in
and soothe the children. They are
crying for fear I'll sell Billie"
'Well, I'll take him at one hundred
and fifty dollars. If you say he's only
ten that settles it, for | know you to
be "a man who wouldn't lie nor deceive
in a trade of any sort. "-Detrou Free
Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01
HINTS WORTH NEEDING.
y Funny Old Jockey Explains How to Tel
a Horse Age.

\ Funny Old Jockey Explains How to Tell
Horse Age.
A dozen different articles are re-
sorted to by horsemeu and horse
sharpers TO conceal the age of an ami
NAL after he has passed his tenth year.
No buyer need be deceived. however.
who viii follow the rules herewith
laid down. You want to buy a horse
AN animal not over nine years of
age. The report gets out some way,
and you receive postal card inviting
YOU 10 call at "A certain place. The
would-be seller takes you for green
horn and is all ready for you. Your
line of proceedings is rs straight as n
board. Ask TO have the horse brought
out into the alley, where you have the
full light Of day. Begin by looking at
his feet, and after you have inspected
them shake your head in II dubious
way, ms if you wouldn't give ten dol
lars for the beast.
Next hold the horses head close to
your face and iab your index finger at
his eyes. II you jab hard enough
you'll hit the eye-ball. Then pull his
right ear down and blow into it, You
may blow him oil his feet, but it is not
probable. Then punch him in the
ribs. press on his spine, look very du-
bious and inquire:
'How old do you call himpn
Eight last spring." the man will
reply.
Then you will for the first time open
the horses mouth. take lightning
survey, ANA turn away with the re-
mark
Hell mover see twenty-five again. :"
"What."
1T was very foolish in you to put
up such a iob ON me-"
''Job. Why, sir, you are sadly mis-
taken
.'les. know; but didn't want him
just the same. He's got all the marks
of horse who has passed his twenty
fifth year. want an old nag for
grinding tan-bari1, but can't take one
over sixteen years old"
Say, mister, | see you know your
gait, and it's no use to try to work
you. He's fifteen or u month, and you
can have him for S125."
You can make any excuse you wish
to get away, but you have accom-
plished the gIelt point in horse
transaction.
If you are selling an old horse the
case will be different. When the
would-be buyer makes his call keep
him waiting for at least five minutes.
Then, when he has stated his errand,
you must obviously observe:
Il did say l would sell him. as !
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01
CASTING A HOROSCOPE.
How the Astrologers OF Old Conducted
Their Occult Calculations.

How the Astrologers OF Old Conducted
Their Occult Calculations.
The general idea in casting horo-
scope was that the first hour of each
day was presided over by the heavenly
body that belonged to that day. as set
forth in the French names for the days
of the week, viz: The sun for Sunday.
the moon for Monday, Mars for Mardi
(Tuesday), Mercury for Mercredi
Wedncsday) Jupiter for Jeudi (Thurs-
day), Venus for Vendredi CFriday),
and Saturn for Samedi Saturday..
The second hour of the day belonged
to the second in this order, and so on,
repeating these seven deities as often
as was necessary until the birth-hour
was reached.
Ii, therefore, we wish to cast the
horoscope of a child born at nine a. IN.
on March ,. 1880, we observe first that
the day was Tuesday, and that the sun
rose on that day at 6:34. The first
hour, then, 6:34 to 1854, belongs To
Mars; the second, 1884 to S:3i, to Mer-
curry; the third, 1884 to 9:34, to Jove,
and the child, being born under the
influence OF Jove, will necessarily have
jovial disposition.
A more extended and laborious cast
ing Of the horoscope consists in calcu-
lating backwards to find the exact po-
sition OF the planets at the hour of
birth, and what their relative influence
might thus have been upon each other.
The heavens being regularly divided
into sections, if Saturn should be found
in the house (section) OF Jupiter, his
saturnine influence would of course
qualify the joyial influence of the lord
Of that house. -Medicd1 Classics.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01
AN ANCIENT TRADE
Old Testament References to Carpenters
and Their Work.

Old Testament References to Carpenters
and Their Work.
Though the trade is not definitely
mentioned in Scripture prior to the
time ofNoah, yet it is clear that car
pentering work had been affected GEN.
turtles before. Noah could not have
constructed the Ark of gopher wood
and made it so correct as to dimensions:
he could not have joined the pieces to-
gether. he could not have formed n
window and door such as would open
and close without some knowledge of
carpentering ard some acquaintance
with the tools of u carpenter. More
over, the tools must have been in ex-
istence and in use prior to his time,
which, of course suggests that carpen-
tering must have been practiced in the
patriarchal times. Amid all the changes
which occur in the history of varied
handicrafts, it is interesting to find
that the same trade implements as are
used to-day were in full use in the
childhood of the world. The carpenter
about to begin work selects a piece of
timber which he calls a plank, or a
slightly thinner piece which he
ne terms board. Such are the phrases
used concerning the Tabernacle and
the Temple. God said. Thou shall
make boards for the Tabernacle of
shittim wood, ten cubits shall be the
length of a board and cubit and u
half shall be the breadth of one board"
Then in the first Book of Kings we find
solomon built the walls OF the Temple
with boards of cedar" and covered the
floor with ''planks of fir" In order
10 shape the plank or board, the car
penter uses a saw; and such tool was
known to and employed by the work
ers in the early times, for we read of
the "hewed stones" being "sawed
with saws" for the foundation of Solo
mons Temple. To fashion the wood
according to the needed purpose, the
carpenter must have at hand his rule,
his line, his plane and his compass.
And so Isaiah the prophet says: ''The
carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he
marketh it out with line; he fitch
it with planes and he marketh it out
with compass. Very often the car
penter has to join various pieces of
wood by what he terms a mortise and
tenor; that is to say, the mortise is
hollow place or socket in one piece of
timber, into which the tenon or project
ing piece cut to exact measurement in
the other piece, is intended to fit But
those are God-used terms. The AL
mighty in giving the Israelites full
directions for the construction of the
Tabernacle, said: 1.-TWO lemons shall
there be in the board, set in order one
against another; thus thou shalt make
for all the boards Of the Tabernacle.
And thou shalt make forty sockets OF
silver under the twenty boards, two
sockets under one board for his two
lemons and two sockets under another
board for his two lemons. "-BWlder
md Wood Worker.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01
FORMING A TREE-TCP.
A simple Arrangement for Bringing the
Limbs in proper Position.

n simple Arrangement for Bringing the
Limbs in Proper Position.
1t is of the utmost Importance that
young trees start out with a we'll
formed top. They are to stand as
monuments OF the cultivator's work,
perhaps for centuries after his hands
have ceased to toll. They may be liv-
ing green memorials of work well
done, or unsightly objects of mans
neglect and abuse. Their usefulness
depends altogether upon this early
training Low, broad tops are espe-
cially desirable, and they very seldom
attain them. unless trained with this
object in view. Until young trees are
finally placed in the orchard, the
treatment and way of handling tends
to draw the limbs up near the trunk.
and unless this is cOunteracted, they
assume an almost vertical growth,
giving the tree q narrow and con-
tracted appearance Such trees are
usually unfruitful, and not at all con-
venient for gathering the fruit. Close
contact and rapid growth causes the
limbs to grow up, and when removed
they are tied in the smallest possible
bundle and drawn together in little
knot at the top, Perhaps after re-
naming there for week or two they
are united and buried for the winter,
the tops being pressed together un-
naturally for five or six months.
After all this perversion some even
nf Ton f,a.,i ,,i,, =
unnecessary and injurious as
they will naturally take that
form best adapted to their location and
condition. If the form had not been
artiticially nodded, we could more
readily allow nature to execute her
own designs; but when natures func-
tions are usurped, we must carry on
the work to completion; the contracted
top must be brought back into natural
shape, if we would have thoroughly
fruitful tree. In most cases the trees
as we receive them from the nursery
are so dcformed in shape so far as the
branches are concerned that the trunk
is not at all protected by the narrow
top, but is left exposed to wind and
sun. which work such havoc in the
alternating weather of our Northern
winters. An arrangement may be
made with but little trouble or eX-
pense for bringing the limbs into
proper position. A frame may be made
by driving four posts three feet apart
at tho ground and five at the top, their
height corresponding to that of the
tree. Cross strips can be cut from
bdttin stuff or any odd pieces on hand.
These should be nailed firmly to the
posts; one row around will DO, but two
; will add TO the strength of the frame
and make it better protection for the
young trees against young animals.
Tarred rope or cord may be used for
tying the limbs down to the cross
pieces. Broad strips of cloth are best
to attach to attach to the limbs, that
the bark may not be impaired or the
growth contracted Let the limbs be
drawn down gradually, little at a
time, through the growing season. -
W. ID. Hoynton, IN Western PioWmun.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01
OTHER PEOPLES RIGHTS
Mind Your Own business and You'll he the
Retter Liked.


Retter Liked.
The person of even average moral
sense has Il general understanding OF
the fact that his neighbours house,
trees and material goods are objects
toward which he should show respect
by the -imple process of letting alone.
The right to alter the color of his
house. TO order the pruning Of his
trees, etc, are recognized to be mat
ters solely under the control of their
owner.
But in matters less material, yet
more personal, there is "a great lack of
respect shown in our dealings with
one another.
Persons who would resent being
called discourteous, persons who in
the main are kind of heart and even
generous with their money, are often
sadly wanting in their charitable judy
ment OF their neighbors' opinions and
proper sense of their peculiarities
Too commonly the fact is ignored
that mans opinions and convictions
are his private personal matter, with
which no one else has Il right to med
die.
A man may hold with all the fervor
of heart and strength of mind of which
he is capable the principles Of Protest
antism. but that is no reason why he
should assail the belief of his Catholic
neighbour Indeed, it is an excellent
reason why he should not do so, but,
instead. should extend the federation
supposed to be a part of his religion.
So in politics, the spending of money
in social life. in dress and education
each one should scrupulously avoid
acting as censor of others who may
differ from himself.
Least of all is one privileged while
guest to attack the opinions of the
family whose hospitality he enjoys
When, for any reason, he can not ac-
quiesce in the family regulation, let
him depart and not try to reform the
family to his standard of propriety
BY calm personal arguments. or by
the force of example, one may try to
convince another that his way is the
better, but true courtesy requires
that he shall not, unasked, present his
opinions where to do so will wound
and not alter in the slightest degree
the course of his opponent.
Nor let any one hatter himself that
because Il man is loud of voice and
blunt in speech, ever ready with
cruel judgment of others. and free
with advice on all matters, he will
pleasantly accept such treatment from
others, for he is quite as likely to re-
sent interference with his affairs ~
the man of gentler speech and greater
charity.
IL is so easy to form the habit of
meddlesomeness and to persuade ones
self into the belief that ones mission
Is to be ''private Investigator and
public adviser" that one is apt to for
get that in the regulation of ones own
conduct life presents enough perplex-
ing problems without trespassing upon
the rights of others in mistaken zeal
to convert them to better way.
In short. let no one be so intent upon
the mote in the eye of his neighbor
that he will forget the beam in his
own. DaH9hterS of Americd.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01
THE WAY TO SUCCEED.
Views of Il. T. JefIery, General Manager c
the Illinois Central Railroad.

Views of Il. t. JefIery, General Manager OF
the Illinois Central Railroad.
Average ability, perseverance, hon
esty, candor and other characteristics
of manliness are the mainsprings to
success. boy who has learned the
alphabet has the whole world open be-
fore him. He has the key to all
knowledge, and with experience will
acquire wisdom to guide him in ma
ture years in all his undertakings.
Perseverance will lead him to climb
the ladder of learning after having
mustered the twenty-siX letters of the
alphabet. Honesty and candor and
other manly attributes will win for
him the respect and confidence of all
with whom he may come in contact.
The influence acquired through gain
ing the respect and confidence of 9TH
ers will give MIN strength and power
in what Is right and good Without
influence thus acquired over others,
and used and exerted in the right,
learning, experience, wisdom, wealth
and social position are of small value.
The plodding, painstaking, perSever-
ing honest man of common sense will
accomplish more in this world, and is
of more use in it than the cratic
genius.
Speaking specifically of success in
business as separate and distinct
from all other successes, the causes
are economy, thrift, close at
tentlon 10 details, thorough and
comprehensive understanding and
knowledge of the business engaged in,
discrimination in selecting business
associates, and the acquiring and hold
ing of the confidence of the business
community.
Failure in business, like failure in
every thing else, springs from shiftless-
ness, inattention, luxurious habits, and
desire to make money too rapidly,
and the taking Of chances in con-
sequence thereof; mistakes in the
selection of business associates and
the failure to acquire the confidence
OF those upon whom the business is de-
pendent for support. The love OF
monoy-making leads many to assume
large risks in order that they may ac-
quire large gains. The risk of losing
in such cases is usually greater than
the chance of making money When
ever the old, well established principles
of conducting business are departed
from, failure is more imminent than
success. An habitual violation of the
old-time maxims: "A penny saved is
a penny earnod;" buy when others
must sell, and sell when others must
buy Purchase only that for what
you can pay" and others similar in
tone, leads to disaster.
A man might talk week on the sub
iect, and then not exhaust it. -Chtcdgo
journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01
SELF-CONSClOUS GIRLS.
Young Women Who Succeed in Making
Themselves Very DisagreeabIe.

Young Women Who Succeed in Making
Themselves Very DisagreeabIe.
The seif-conscious girl presents an
interesting study for awhile, and till
at last one grows so weary of her that
even as type she fails to please. But
that does not affect her at ALL indeed,
she is so absorbed in herself that the
absence of the interest of anybody else
is something entirely unnoticed by
her, and it never crosses her mental
horizon but that all the world are as
much absorbed in her affairs as she is
herself The way her gown fits aud
the reason that it fits, the peculiar
choiceness of her gloves, and where
she buys her boots, the charm of her
hat, the CHIC or want of chic in her ap-
pearance, are all matters that she
takes it as reasonable should be of
general moment; she never forgets
any one of them an instant, and is al
ways able to congratulate herself
upon them. If she hears you admire
red hair, although her own braids be
as black as night, she will tell YOU of
She red threads in them that she
treasures. If she hears you praise an
other woman's trick of speech, she
casts about in her mind as to whether
her own lisp is equally praiseworthy;
if she sees for herself beauty in an
others eyes, she straightway bethinks
her of her own. 1t is not always van
ity that possesses the self-conscious
girl; it is not always an admira-
ton of herself; sometimes, in
deed, she is only too painfully
aware of her ugliness1if she be ugly,
and is so afraid that you will suspect
her of ignorance of the fact that she is
always putting it before you. For,
nevertheless she has always desire
that you shall admire her. and if YOU
can not admire her looks, then you can
admire her perspicacity in recognizing
the character of those looks and her
freedom in admitting it, and so she is
perpetually en- ecidonce for the admis-
sion. Although the self-conscious
girl often succeeds in making herself
very disagreeable when plain. she is
absolutely unbearable when beautiful
ANC PCoNp'N CNtl piCtilCu anu
as she does, or drew his stately tail
behind him with more self-approba-
ton than she extends to her least
movement. She does not rise from a
chair that she does not feel and make
you feel the whole anatomy of her
back, the precise crook of elbow ana
curve of wrist; she does not hand a
teacup without a tacit apostrophe TO
her grace; she neither enters nor leaves
room without in way forcing you
to agree with herself as to how much
better she does it than the last one
did. There is no action of her life in
which she loses remembrance of self,
or suffers you to do SO, and you wonder
how it is that she can approach the
throne of grace in her petitions, and il
she is then beseeching the angels and
ministers of grace to remark the angle
of her bowed head, or to observe the
elegant poise of her folded hands in
pray -Hdrpcr's Bazdr.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01

-"Raillery," says a French writer
of the gentler sex, "'should fall on
faults so light that the person to
whom it is directed may also take part
in the pleasantly. Delicate raillery is
q mixture of praise and faultGnding :"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-02-01

In Dublin-"See here, driver,
ordered a smart trap to take a drive in
Phoenix Park, and you come around in
rags not fit for beggarr' Driver OF
iaunting carl knows it. yer honor,
and would like to wear fine clothes,
but there's not tailor in all Dublin
that can take me measure, I'm that
ticklish. n-Americdn.