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Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
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CARTOONIST KEPPLER.
The EARLY Struggles and Later Successes
of the Famous Artist.

The Early Struggles and Later Successes
of the Famous Artist.
Joseph keppler. the great cartoonist,
who is inscparably associated with the
growth OF caricature in America, was
born in Vienna about fifty years ago.
His father was fancy baker. and the
boy fostercd love OF art from orna-
menting wedding and birthday cakes
with quaint and curious designs. He
then made copies Of fine costume plates.
which he offered for sale. and subse-
luently drew for the comic German
papers Finding this did not pay, he
Joined a dramatic troupe and assumed
At will the role OF tragedian and COM
slian The company foundered, and
he became prestidigitateur, doing the
accomplice and assistant act About
1869, feeling the country too small for
him. he came to America, settling in
St. Louis. Most of his time was spent
in making designs for photographers,
but he was too ambitious for that work.
and induced some friends to aid him in
establishing the German Puck. st. Louis
was poor city for such a paper. and
the venture lived but few months.
Thwarted but not discouraged. Keppler
| came to New York in 1872 His genius
was at once recognized, and he and
Matt Morgan drew cartoons on Leslie's
in opposition to Mast on Harper's. He
remained with Leslie until 1876, when,
in company with A. Schwartzman. he
revived the German Puck, the English
edition of which appeared the follow
ing March. Keppler was not mistaken,
and the paper was an assured success
almost from the start. Puck has been
a father to the whole younger genera
ton of cartoonsts and fortune TO its
| owners.
Personally Mr.. Keppler impresses
one as a dashing. brilliant man, He is
five feet ten inches in height, of mill
tary bearing. with mustache and goatee.
Great masses of hair seem to foa,
on top Of his head. His temperament
is very genial His home is in lnwood-
| on-the- Tucson, whe he has beanti.
full house. ~ Chicago News
Wien bad men combine. the good
must associate; or else they will fall,
one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a
contemplate struggle. Edmund Burke.
We are all OF us bound to make
blunders in this life. Most OF our trou-
bles come from trying to uphold them
after they are made. -Somerville Jour.
nal.
Hard work is the cost OF all attain,
ment that is worth having; yet, while
every body wants the attainment, only
now and then one is willing to do the
hard work that is essential to its secur,
ing
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
THE ANDAMAN PiGM,ES.
Tho Fiercese Little ssvages In the World
at Last Won by Kindness.

at Last Won by Kindness.
In the Bay OF Bengal Is chain Of
islands known as the Andamans, whose
inhabitants have long been famous for
their extreme ferocity. their diminu-
tive stature and the utter failure OF
missionaries who have labored among
them for twensy years without making
a single convert 1t has been almost
certain death for stranger to set foot
on some OF these islands. and it may
now be said for the first time that
through the exercises OF long and pa-
tient kindnesses these little folks have
been infused with some measure OF
confidence in the outer world. A large
part of their coasts may now be visited
without inviting the tragedies of which
we have often read as occurring there.
The Indian Government has long
maintained penal colony on South
Andaman. The white officers in charge
dwarfs OF Little Andaman the policy
that had won for them the good will Of
many other islanders. A while ago an
expedition. assailed as usual when it
| landed with arrows and battle axes.
took three women and six men prison.
ers and carried them nearly a hundred
miles away to Fort Blair They were
treated with the utmost kindness, and
after a while began to think they were
among friends. In two months they
were restored to their island loaded
with all the presents they could carry.
Upon the next visit OF the whites the
released captives came to see them, and
In a few days men. women and chill
dren fearless'y visited the camp, and
even ventured on board the steam
launch. Some OF them have since Wis
tied the white settlement on South An
daman. and, though tact and caution
are still required to deal with them, II
is believed that soon shipwrecked
crews will be able to land on Little An
daman with perfect safety.
As far as we know, the Andamanese
are one of the smallest races of men
that ever existed. The average height
OF the men, Prof. Flower tells us. is i
feet inches that OF the women A feet
6 inches. They are about the same
size as the South African Bushmen. and
we know no people smaller than the
Bushmen except the Aka of Central
Africa. Evidently of Negrito stock, the
iso, alton resu ting from their fer, eness
has kept them II pure and primitive
race, still in the stone age, forming
Nieir huts OF boughs and leaves. and
presenting to othnologists most inter
esting field of study.
Only one tribe of these wild peopl,
has thus far proved wholly untamable
The Jarawas OF Great Andaman keel
their arrows sharpened for any white
who pass their way. Some of then
have been taken captive. honorcd will
the kindest attention. and finally sen
I home loaded with presents, but tn
, hatred they cherished for the whit
race is still as fierce and vindictive a
, ever.-N. Y. Sun.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
Why She Removed Her Hat.

Mr.. and Mrs. Simpkins at the thea
ter.
Mr. S.-What are you doing?
Mrs. Sim going to take off my
bonnet and hold it on my lap.
IL never saw you SO considerable Of
any ones pleasure before"
"Umph. You needn't think it's that.
I'm the only woman in the house that
hasn't got IA new spring bonnet, and
you ought to be ashamed Of it. CHI
cago Herald.
The woman VINO mas FOUND man
| to whom she can be an inspiration.
making him toll easily and happily for
her sake, has found the widest possible
sphere. The instincts OF every woman
lead her to seek this; whatever else
women seek is probably sought because
they have been denied or disappointed
in finding this. Rural New Yorker.
There is no bright future for the
young man who is Sinking every re-
sponsibility, ignoring industry, and
glories in being an idler. Good luck
will never come to him. and it never
! should.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
Intelligence of Beavers.

The intelligence OF the beaver Is
proverbial." says correspondent OF
the ST. James Gazette. "but it may not
be general known that II steel trap
Is left visible in one of his runs he will
deliberately spring it with stick; but
II it is SO artfully covered with snow or
leaves that he steps on it unwarily. he
will twist round and round till the limb
is severed. 1t is only under water that
steel trap will hold a beaver. and then
because he browns before he can twist
himself free. once caught beavers
foot in this wa, and some weeks after
ward another trapper caught a three
footed animal in dead-fall. This was
evidently my beaver, so l bought his
skin and eventually brought it to Lon.
don, where it was sold. to be converted
so ( was informed-into q seal-skir
vest"
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25

The library of the British Museum
will not hereafter supply novels to
readers until five years after publica-
ton
There is burden OF care in getting
riches fear in keeping them; tempta-
ton in using them; guilt in abusing
them; sorrow in losing them; and
burden of account at last to be given up
concerning them.-M Henry.
The influences OF outward nature,
OF circumstances, OF our occupations, OF
our fellow-men, are always pressing
upon us but the results of this pressure
upon our welfare, our character and
our life will always depend upon the
nature OF the inward forces With which
we meet II aud respond to it.-Once a
Week.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
BOGUS DIAMONDS.
Gems That Are as Numerous as the Sands
by the Sea- Shore.

Gems That Are as Numerous as the Sands
by the Sea- shore.
OF late years jewelry, and female
jewelry in particular, as it were, has
become very numerous and ostenta-
tious, so to speak. Formerly the pos
session OF pair Of diamond earrings
enveloped the happy female in halo
OF ailluence that caused her to be
regarded as modified female Count
de Monte. Cristo.
A minstrel troupe, whose perform
ance we attended not long since, made
pointed allusion at the increased
cheapness of gems. The interlocutor
in conversation with the genial end
man, congratulated that dusky
humorist because he had been seen on
the streets accompanied by II beautiful
young lady. The happy end man in
quires if the interlocutor had observed
the elegant seal-skin cloak worn by
the lady. The interlocutor had
noticed it. With reversed thumb the
end man intimates that he had be-
slowed it on the attractive female.
at must have cost you quite II large
sum of money! replies the interloc-
utor, who for some inexplicable reason
ignores the negro dialect
"Yes, sab, five hundred dollars, and
did We see dem ar torchesP"
"Those whatP"
Dem torches. l means dem lamps,
hanging in her yeahs.
"Oh. you mean those large solitaire
ca r-ringsP Yes, saw them. They
must have cost you at least fifteen
hundred dollars.
man, reaching down for his bones, or
rather the bones with which he makes
discord.
The shabbily-dressed. poorly paid
shop-giri wears gems that flash in d
dozen different colors, while the
young boy who gets four dollars q
week in button factory carries on
his soiled hand IA diamond ring that
might be princes ransom in older
times-if it were real.
Yet jewelry, which was formerly
supposed to be expensive, Is now worr
so generally as to create suspicion
that the coal deposits are being sub
jected to an alarming drain.
Not everybody knows that it take
an experienced jsweler to detect tn
real from the bogus diamond; hence
frequently happens that grown-ul
persons undergo similar experience
to that of the little girl who compliance
to her grandmother:
MA told me it was diamond. bu
have found out that it was nothin,
but grindstone.
A member OF the famous "poke
legislature" of Texas once said tina
the most expensive diamonds wer
those that staid in the pack when h
had four of them in his own hand
Texas Siftings.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
Ae tanned ERICSSON
H0w Ole Bull Conquered the Iron Hear
with the Charm Of His Music.

How Ole Bull Conquered the Iron Heart
with the Charm Of His Music.
A very interesting incident is told Of
Ole Bull and John Ericsson, each OF
whom have contributed by their lives
no little fame to the Scandinavian
countries in which they were born.
Acquainted in their early life and good
friends for years, they had somehow
been separated and had not met again
until both had earned worldwide fame.
Bull once visited Ericsson and invited
him to his concert. Ericsson refused
on the ground that he had no time for
such folly. Each time Bull came to
New York he visited his old friend and
never forgot to invite him to his con-
certs. His invitations were many
times refused because the inventor
pleaded no time.
IF you don't come to hear me once"
said Bull during one Of his visits, Il
will take my violin along and play for
you right here in your workshop"
'lf you bring your violin here I'll
smash it to bits" was Ericsson's only
answer.
Nothing daunted Bull. He was
bound to try what effect his music, that
had entertained SO many. would have
upon such an earnest and practical
man as Ericsson, who had been coopcd
up all his life. one might say, in his
workshop. One bright day Bull went
to Ericsson's house with his precious
violin, but not without some misgiv-
ings as to how his visit would termi-
nate, for he knew that Ericsson was a
determined man and generally meant
what he said. Whom he entered the
inventors workshop he was greeted
in any thing but a friendly manner
Without allowing + lesson an oppor-
tunity to blow off his wrath on him
Bull opened the conversation in the
easy, fascinating way for which he
was noted, upon the violin's construc-
ton, what it lacked, etc, and finally
asked Ericsson his opinion as to tho
best sounding woods for the manufact.
uriug of violns. This was followed
by quite discussion as to the acoustic
properties of the violin. TO illus
trate one of his opinions, Bull
drew the bow across the strings
of his violin. From one chord
he went to another until he broke
into heightened melody. The
workmen laid aside their tools and
listened with Ericsson to the CRANE
master of the violin. All stood spell
bound Bull became enamored OF his
own playing and made his violin utte
tones that it had never been called OF
before to emit. After awhile he ceased
to play. Ericsson, who had been sit
ting lost in his own emotions, will
tears coursing down his cheoks, criet
out:
go on! Go on! For the first tim,
know what has been lacking in m.
life minneapolis Journal.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25

"A paragraph going the rounds OF
Georgia papers tells OF the first APP
pearance OF a colored lawyer
in Atlanta. 1t was when Aaron
Alpeoria Bradley went to the State
Senate. Bradley was kind-hearted
mulatto, sharp fellow, too, and when
he rose unexpectedly in the courtroom
one day to defend a case the lawyer on
the other side was SO indignant at his
impudence that he Immediately forgot
every thing he knew. The mnlatto
lawyer called for the papers in the case,
looked at them through his eye-g lasses
and made motion TO dismiss upon
some technicality. the court granted
the motion, and Bradley. with an ag-
gravatng twist of his mustache, swag-
gered off, leaving the white lawyer SC
full OF rage and modification that he
would not open his mouth.
-,reeds may be over-emphaslZsd;
but it is Il significant fact that the men
who do the most to demonstrate how
little there is in creeds, and how much
they hinder the progress OF truth are
the men who do the least to conquer
the world for Christ. DE-. +. A. Noble.
1t is just one hundred years since
| the introduction of Methodism into
New England. jesse Lee had the dis.
tinction of having been the first circuit
preacher. and bronze equestrian
statue on the sight OF the old apple tree
at Nol.salk. where he held his first
] meeting, is proposed.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25

"A man of settled convictions is one
who has been sentenced TO life service
in a penitentiary.rN. D. Picayune
Fifty colored men were lately
studying for the priesthood in Rome.
Every civilized country in the
world is represented by students at the
University of Berlin.
More college students come from
Connecticut in proportion to tho popu-
lation than from any other State. She
sends one to every 549 persons.
Useful knowledge can have no en-
emies except the ignorant; it cherishes
youth, delights the aged, is an orna-
ment in prosperity, and yields comfort
in adversely.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25

A well-known Chinaman has start
ed an evening school in New York to
teach the English language to his own
countrymen. A good-sized class began
recently, and it was great fun. All of
the pupils could speak little pigeon
English, and they made it rule to
speak no Chinese while in the school;
but the teachers greatest difficulty was
to get them to pronounce the English
words properly.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25

-Ioung, one IS ricn III all the future
that he dreams; old. one Is poor in all
the past he regrets.
If you are Il diamond, be sure TINT
you will be found out. Cheek. brass or
gall never gets ahead OF merit. Bur
dette.
Not what the world says we may
do, but what we know we ought TO do,
is the standard of duty for us in our
daily conduct
If you would construct \ true and
lasting character you must choose the
right things in the very beginning OF
life. DR.. Gregg.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
A Delicate Chicago Foot
fashionable shoe store.

Fashionable shoe store.
What size do you wear, madame?"
Number four.
Clerk Take seat. / think l car
fit YOU Madame. i find that
you require a number eight. at least.
Number eight, Well, that's four.
isn't it four for each font?"-
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25
BENEFICIAL INSECTS.
chronological Information for HOrticuls
turlsts and Gardeners.

EntOmOIOKICAt
turlsts and Gardeners.
At recent meeting OF farmers in
Iowa. Mr.. G. P. Gillette. speaking Of
entomology for the horticulturist. said:
1T is utterly impossible to definitely
draw the line and say just how much
entomology the horticulturist or farmer
should know. There is no limit to the
information that one might gain In the
study of insects that would be benefit
to him in devising methods OF preven-
ton and remedy. shall not go out
side OF what may be called the essen
tial knowledge to successful warfare
against our insect foes.
1.-The horticulturist should be able to
distinguish injurious from beneficial
species. The majority Of insects are
vegetable feeders, but there are great
many that feed upon or within the
bodies OF other insects, causing them to
die. These latter are called preface.
GUS or parasitic, and in the main are
beneficial, as they destroy many injur-
ious FORMS When the lice have been
mostly eaten from a plant by the lady
beetles, the orchardist finding many OF
the latter and few OF the former, nat
urally attributes the damage to the
beetles, and proceeds to destroy all that
he can find. Natures check is in this
way removed, and the lice increase
again and the injury goes o. perhaps
worse than before. 1t is not at all UNI
common for entomologists to receive
these little friendly insects from farm
ers or fruit growers who report them
as doing much damage to some tree or
plant.
1.-The lady beetles. or lady birds. ae
they are often called. are among the
most beneficial OF our predaceous in
sects. Their food consists almost en-
tirely Of plant lice and the eggs OF in.
sects and they should always be pro.
tected. Nearly every one knows these
insects in their adult state. They are
rather small and are shaped much like
u Colorado potato beetle, and are usu
ally decorated with bright white OF
black spots. Who has not said when Z
child. Lady bird, Lady-bird. fly away
homer Two other very beneficial in
sects that I can only mention are thu
Larvae OF the Surplus flies and the beau
tiful lace winged Chrysopa. These ar
most commonly found in colonies
plant lice, OF which they devour larg
numbers"
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-05-25

-ihe probability In the case OF every
man is that he will finally die rs he
lived, without any essential change
In his character Those who are
hoping to rectify LIES mistakes by a
death-bed repentance, are almost GER
tain to be mistaken in this respect. In
most cases the repentance will not come,
and they will go TO the bar Of God
without it-Independcnt
No man ever did designed injury
to another without doing greater TO
himself. Henry Home.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-10-15

in their individual capacity, cannot
be distinguished from Englishmen;
and the difficulty of discrimination
will be great barrier to the carry
ing out of the restrictive measures
proposed by China. Neither Amer
leans nor Britons carry around with
them certificates of birth, and gen.
orally mans birthplace is where
he states it to be. Numerous in
stances have come under the cogni-
zance of the writer where Amer
leans abroad have passed for English
men and vice versa to suit circum-
stances; and, where consular inter
ference has been necessary, York
shiremen who never saw York
shire, have been granted British
protection. These matters abroad
are seldom severely scrutinized by
British consuls and it depends en-
tlrely upon the conscientious scru-
Piles of the applicants.
So far, however, as Chinese action
in this matter is concerned, the
United States cannot justly com
plain of the restriction above men
toned; and it so happens that japan
supplies all the Oriental products
that are imported into the United
States-those, at least, that are
needed, although they may be all
classed as luxuries.
In a national point of view and
geographically, Japan is very much
nearer to the United States than
China; and Chinese edicts will fall
comparatively harmless upon Uncle
Sam. In any case the price of ex-
clusion from China would be very
small compared to the great benefit
of excluding from American shores
further importations of what is
called in the Japan Gazette:
Filth and all that is foul and peculiar
to the Celestial character. Wherever
Cinnamon gather together, much that is
abominable and bestial finds fertile soil,
and with just as much certainty as that
morning will break there comes into ex-
istence a mighty engine of contamina-
ton that grows and grows despite its
surroundings of civilization and decency
"A mundane, reeky hell framed by the
civilization of the 10Th century, an in
cruous, unsightly state of affairs, but one
never to be disassociated from the pre-
sence OF Chinese in an alien country.
The United States was perfectly justified
in adopting the measure she did to pre-
vent the Celestial octopus stretching its
vicious self over her territory. Justifi-
cation in the highest existed. Chinese
immigration thither had assumed alarm
ing proportions and it was characterized
by all those repulsive features ever as
ISOLATED with the Chinese element.
In similar restrictive measures
Hawaii nei is interested; but the
difference of conditions here and in
the United States should be fully
considered, and not hastily legis-
lated upon by an extra session of
the Legislature. This is a matter
more serious than pressing, and
must have due reflection.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1889-10-15
UNHAPPY HAYTI.

The war in Hsyti is reported as
ended 1t is quite certain that one
Of the rival rulers, Legitime, has ar
rived in New York, en- route to
France The forces of Hyppolte,
his opponent have entered the CAPT
tai Port-su-Pnnce; and the soldiers
On both sides, it is said, will forth
with drop their arms and go to work
picking the coffee crop. Indeed, it
Is probable that TIE necessity to the
islands prosperity of saving this
years coffee crop has had the
strongest influence In causing hostil-
ties 10 cease. The war has lasted a
year, has cost about SI0,OO0,0O0, and
has been marked by many skirm-
ishes, hardly deserving the name of
battles The total loss of life is esti-
mated at four hundred, counting the
killed and starved. The most inter-
esing event was the seizure by
Legiume Of the American steamer
-Hsyden Republic" on the charge of
violating a paper" blockade of the
northern Hsytian ports. Briefly
stated. the cause of the war was
jealousy between the northern and
southern sections of Hayti for the
possession of the Presidency. After
the abdication of President Solomon.
which seems to have been hailed with
JOY by almost every one, an election
took place IN which the candidates
were General Thelemaque (of the
north ana General Legitime. On
the night Of the election the former
was killed in not, and his soldiers
driven out of town by his rivals ad-
herents. The whole northern part
OF Hayti at once rose in arms, with
Hyppolite as their leader, and though
Legi6me, who went through the
form Of being elected and inaugur-
ated, held the capital, and at first
possessed almost all the arms and
ships ID the country, he has been
gradually driven into a corner, and
his own sdherents have fallen away
IS the financial disturbances of
peace became more and more sppar-
ent Hsyti Is one OF the most fertile
and productive spots on the globe,
and II needs only stable govern
ment and g more general diffusion OF
education and intelligence to become
prosperous TO high degree.