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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-05-31
The Dignity of Labor.

"The dignity of labor is phrase, recognized
by society in general and Mrs. Grundy in particu-
lar, as being mere sop to Cerberus, designed to
keep the black beast'of pride quiet among the la
boring classes
The real belief with the majority is that labor is
rough, rude, unkempt, ungraceful and altogether
undignifed, and especially such labor as brings
one in contact with the public. The reason is OBJ
vious. To associate promiscuously, even in
business way, with the masses, is to core in con-
tact with so much rudeness, so much petty jeal-
ousy, so much small spltefulness and so many
other unlovely traits of character that one is apt
to grow weary of manifestng q grace, mercy and
peace of manner, for which there seems to be little
or no demand.
In the rush and hurry of business, one forgets
the repose of manner, esteemed elegant, one loses
the gay spirits of conventional vivacity, and bit
ter sense of drudgery deadens keen perception of
the beautiful. Thus the belief has obtained that
labor is vulgar because its conditions are not ia
vorable to what is purely aesthetic in manner and
environment.
Yet there are two sides even to the labor prob
lem, and the question arises whether it is not in o
majority Of cases the least of many evils
Grace and dignity of manner come from har-
mony and purity of character; and what can be
more degrading to character than aimess idleness,
foolish frivolty or criminal dissipation under the
delusion "this is society,""
If all ones leisure were given to severe study,
practical benevolence and innocent and necessary
recreation, these three combined might develop
clear thought, noble usefulness and pretty gayety
of manner; yet for one who has not an independ-
ent fortune to fancy idleness better thing than
industry is simply ridiculous.
You are not valgarized by labor, but careless
ness.
Why should earning your living necessitate your
use of your 'nose as an organ of speech?'
Why should inexpensive and frugal fare and
daily labor make you say "You bet' or "I'll bet
you'' or any other painful atrocity of speech?
Your dress is the accident of the day; your food
is the measure of your purse; your lodging is part
Of the circumstances" over which nobody has
any control but your language confesSes your
character.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-05-31
WHAT is THE USE OF TRYING,

what is the use of trying?
never can learn to fly.
See how the lark goes floating
Up to the sunt sky;
He never failed, as have
See how he flies at ease,
Light as down Of thistle
Tossed on the tremulous breeze
have been fooshly trying,
Thinking l, too, might RISE
It'll stay down here in the hedges
And leave to the lark the skies"
So he strayed in the crowded hedges,
And lived through the Summer long,
Only common sparrow
One of a common throng.
"What Ia the use of trying?
Pouring DER book and slate.
fail and shall keep on falling
For men are created great.
TITS folly to think that study
For so many hours day,
Is going to make out of boys and girls
Wise women and men Away
So what is the use of trying?
common lot shall be mine;
Why middle my brain with study
never was made to shine"
So away in the closet cupboard
The books kept gathering dust,
And the mind they were meantto noursh
Was buried and lost in rust
SO the hedges go gathering sparrows,
And the lark still mount to the sky
And out from lifes crowded byways
Few souls gain the mountains high.
But try, even keep on trying
Though sparrow or lark cannot be-
The highways that led to the Pisgahs
Are open to you and to me.
TSelected
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-05-31

Yet you cannot be one simply by boasting that
you are one.
Boosting is fatal mistake, since it indicates
that you are more intent upon seeming than upon
being more DESTROYS Of being applauded than of
being sure of your own progress.
Vulgarity, whether Gin society" or out of it,
may be known by ostentation either of speech or
manner.
Culture is quiet simple, modest, deferential to
true worth, and Indifferent to mere pretense Like
charity it vaunteh not itself and not pulled up.
Boosting is the defense of those who feel at
disadvantage, who fancy that they are capable of
better things than their circumstances would indi-
cate, and who attempt to demonstrate this in two
ways, first by Boosting of their own claims and
secondly by refusing to believe in the excellence
of any other standard. They are embittered and
dwarfed and made unlovely not by work, but by
losing sight OF their opportunities for personal i'm
provement.
When tickle fortune turns her back upon us, and
the social shams who smile or frown accordingly,
show us that we are no longer 'tworth while"
then is our opportunity to achieve dignity of pur.
pose and elevation of character
Ii we have not money enough to ego into So
cety," we have money enough to 90 into our
closets and get acquainted with ourselves, and find
out wherein We are shallow and vain-g glorious and
misguided and miserable Also wherein we may
be more earnest, more patient, more humble, more
discriminating concerning the essentials and the
non-essentials of life.
Luxury is non-essential, but honesty is an es-
sential.
Applause we can live without yet the necessity
for sef-respect is imperative.
We can live without reputation for being witty,
yet what joy can we find in life without the knowl-
edge that we are truthful?
1t matters little to-day what we had for dinner
a year ago; yet if one year ago, Or ten or twenty
years ago we were guilty of an injustice or were
led into folly or failed in loyalty to friend or
lover, how does the memory thereof return again
and again and yet again until suffering has re-
deemed us from its sting.
The thought of honest labor hurts nothing but
foolish human pride. The thought of having
shirked sacred duty to carry our own burden
hurts every high aspiration of which we are Ca
pable.
1t is not then labor that vugarzes, but careless
ness, and the idlest and wealthiest woman in the
land may be equally vulgar, if wealth has made
her careless of Speech chaotic of mind, hard of
heart and sensuous of soul.
We proclaim our vulgarity not by what we have
nor yet by what we do, but by what we are, what
our tastes are, what peases us, what offends u.s.
what occupies us, and whereunto we refuse to
"lend hand. Garth Godfrey, in the Elite News
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-05-31

There are various orders of beauty, causing
men to make fools of themselves in various styles,
from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is
one order of beauty which seems made to turn the
heads not only of men but of all intelligent man.
mails, and even of women CD
No story is the same to us after lapse of time;
or rather, we who read it are no longer the same
interpreters.
Melodies die out like the pipe of Pan with the
ears that love them and listen for them.-George
Eliot.
If you want to find out what women are doing
in this and other countries, subscribe for WoMANs
CHRONICLE.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24
Mayhem at Home.

The CGur d'Alene Miner opposes
the election of Mayhem on party
grounds, but says
Yesterday prominent Democratic
candidate and well know mine owner
made wager on the election, the
Democrat backing Mayhem for 800
and the mine owner backing Sweet
for the same sum. In conversation
with the Democrat afterward it was
learned that he bases his belief that
Mayhem will be elected on the suppo-
sition that lie will carry Shoshone
county. If he does this the demo-
Gratis consider his election inevitable.
There is no doubt that Mayhem 5
strength in this county is what the
Democrats figured on when they nom
mated him for Congress. It is true
that Judge Mayhem is popular in this
county. his home. Personally he is
liked by everybody, regardless Of
politics, and for any other office his
personal following would be difficult
to overcome.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24
Now rnAr the election supervisol

Now THAT the election supervisors
are to be supported BY one United
States deputy marshal at each voting
precinct in Bingham county why not
bring on soldiers with bristling bayo-
nets and "let US go the whole hog or
none. Let the people know at the
FIRST State election how much they
can be Inundated. How one man, or
two men can boss it over them. Are
they freemen? No. Are they slaves?
Yes, il they obey the dictation Of
bosses and moye as the supervisors
and marshals say move. Will the
people of Bingham county submit to
this humiliation, to this degradation?
We say not, but rather will rise up
in their manhood, in their might and
in the power of their strength, and at
tie ballot box will say to the bosses
away with you, we are freemen and
you shall not rule over us. Voters Of
Bingham, be men, scorn to be slaves
and show your manhood by voting
down the bosses.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

BINGHAM, Latah and Logan coun.
ties have Republican Independent
candidates for the legislature, and
possibly other counties. But be that
as it may, Independent Republican
voters will be counted by the hun.
dreds. Bossism wont do in this cleo
tion. Idaho voters wont be bosscd;
they are too manly, too brave. They
like Yirginia's motto--'Down with
the tyrant.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24
nIsrArca to the Salt Lake

A nIsrATcH to the Salt Lake
Tribune says United States Attorney.
Wood has in his pocket a letter writ
ten by District Attorney Whittier that
would eriminate HIN under the mail
laws of the United States. If this be
true why don't Mr.. Wood perform his
sworn duty and see that the laws are
lexecuted? Why is he carrying the
letter in his pocket Yes, that's the
question. But may be Mr., Whittier
knows something; maybe there is a
horse of another color in the stable
and he may turn him ont. We don't
know.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

The HALEY News Miner, strong
Republican paper is taking hand in
the bitter fractional struggle brewing
in the ranks of its party and gives
this information to the State Central
Comma-tay which is being run in the
interest of Mr.. Dubois as it SAYS !:
know We that dubois, Dennis and
Defeat all begin with a big D."
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

TRoT out your supervisors, Mr.,
Wood and trot out your deputy mar.
shals and trot out your Gordon of
soldiers, if you want to, with bright
bristling bayonets to stand at the
back Of your supervisors and deputy
marshals and you defeat Mr.. Dubois
in Bingham county. Bingham coun.
ty, if Republican, rightfully belongs
to him but We can tell the State that
the managers of his campaign are kill
ing him rapidly. The bIindest man
in political ranks can see as much.
This statement is all wool and full
yard wide as you will see when cleo
ton comes.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24
HOY. W. ]. McCoNNEL1. The mort

Hon W. j. MCDONALD, the north.
ern candidate for U. s. Senator has
cut loose from the State Republican
Central Comma-tay, SO we hear, and
is making the campaign on his own
responsibility, at his own expense,
and to suit himself. He does not be
Iieve in working with a committee
running the campaign for one man,
Macs head is square on his shoulders
and as level as the waters of the great
fresh water lakes.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

Mr.. DUBoIs. in his Rathdrum
speech, September Is, SAID "Gentle-
men, you arc not to vote at the com
ing election for the personal nominees
but for your appreciation for what
The party has done for you in the
past" A capital way Of getting
around personal endorsement of the
nominees on the State ticket. We
never thought Mr.. Dubois conld en-
dorse all the men on that ticket and
we are right, aren't we
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

SAY, the Republicans everywhere
are catching on to Jim Blalne's re
ciprocity idea All right. Then what
are they going to say about his re-
ciprocity with Mexico and its miners
admitting lead and silver into the
United States, free from all duty.
That is loaded conundrum which
they will please answer
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24


BINGHAM COUNTY TICKET.
For State Senator,
F. w. BEANE.
For Representatives.
II B. kINPORT,
c. II. MOON.
A. ENGLIS.
For Sheriff,
w. A. W0ODIN.
For Treasurer,
r. ]. OSBORN.
For Assessor and Collector,
G. 7. WOODALL.
For Probate Judge,
4. W. FISHER.
For Clerk of the District Court.
u. C. SENTER.
For Surveyor,
j. NJ. TAYLOR.
For Coroner,
NJ. WEDDEKIND
For Commissioners.
First District-0. BUCK.
Second District-W. HOWARD
Third Dist-ict-D. SWINFHAR1
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24
JUDICIAL TICKET.
FOR JOINT SENATOR 18th DISTRICT.
TH0S. SPARKS, of Oneida.

FOR JOINT REPRESENTATION.
ED. CARLISLE, of Bingham.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

NORTH IDAHO has grown so worked
mp over Judge Sweets action in leav-
ing the bench TO stump the State that
Judge Beatty has beer prevailed on
to hold special court for him. The
complaints and murmurings meant
something.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

SPANKING is wholesome remedy
for unruly boys; why do not Repub-
hcan leaders try it on their unruly
party boys. Ii supervisors and dep
uty marshals will not answer. try
spanking, b. all means try spanking.
In bossing, boss it in good shape.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

The latest kicker out of Republi-
can traces, according to the Salt Lake
Tribune. is Eastman of the Overland
hotel, at Boise Spank, spank him.
Let the bosses give the order, spank
him. The bosses rule, You know.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-09-24

WHEN it turns out that Mr. Dubois
is defeated and his defeat understood.
the public verdict will be- his friends
overdid the thing.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-17
Life in Frontier Posts Before the War

In the old regular army years be-
fore the War of the Rebellion, way
back in the early "fifties," punish
ment for dereliction of duty on the
part of enlisted men was more varied
and severe. perhaps, than at present.
For desertion fifty lashes on the bare
back with a raw-hide, well laid on,
was the usual sentence of court
martial, in addition to being drummed
out of the service, or ball-and-chaln
for n definite period and confinement
in the guard house at hard labor. as
the case might be. But desertlons
were rare in those days, not because
of the punishment, but rather for the
reason that soldiers were treated much
better, and the life of an enlisted man
at the frontier post was the happlest
that can be imagined if he behaved
himself. Duty was light and amuse-
ments abundant; the garrisons had
their own theaters, bowling alleys, and
billiard rooms; their pets, comprising
DOGS, wolves badgers, bears, and all
| other species of animals whose habitat
was the surrounding wild region. With
large company gardens and funC
created by the sale of rations not con-
sumed, in many instances the mer
lived as we'll as if boarded at first
class hotel. l have seen pork sold tc
miners at the rate of 5000 a barrel il
gold. and other component parts of th'
Tation in proportion. So with plent,
of game of all kinds, from grouse tt
a black tail deer, it may well be in
ferred there was much of the fare pre-
scribed by the government to be dis
posed of; but those days have passe
away forever, because there is no long
er any frontier. Kansas City Star.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-17
The Summer Girl.

She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the
daintiest of misses,
with her pretty patent feathers, or her alli-
With her eyes inviting glances, and her lips
inviting kisses,
AS see wanders by the ocean or strOlls un-
der country skies.
She's q captivating dresser and her parasols
are stunning;
Her fads will take your breath away; her
hats are dreams of style.
She is not so very bOokish but with repartec
and punning
She can set the servants laughing and make
even dudelets smile.
stage-struck maiden
She is wholly free from hobbies and she
dreams of no career"
She is mostly gay and happy-never sad or
care beladen-
Though she sometimes sighs a little if a gen.
tleman is near.
She's sturdy little walker, and she braves all
kind of weather,
And when the rain or fog or mist drive rival
crimps wreck,
Her fluffy hair goes curling like kinked-up
ostrich feather,
Around her ears, and forehead, and the
white nape of her neck.
She is like q fish in water, she can handle
reins and racket,
From head to toe and finger tips she's thor
oughly alive;
When she goes promenading in a most dis
tracing jacket
The rustic round her feet suggests how
laundresses may thrive.
She can dare the wind and sunshine in the
most bravado manner,
And after hours of sailing she has merely
cheeks of rose;
Old Sol himself seems smitten, and at most
will only tan her.
Though to everybody else he give a danger
signal nose.
She's trif1e sentimental and she's fond of
admiration,
And she sometimes fiirts little in the sea-
sons giddy whirl;
But win her if you can sir she NAV prove
your life's salvation,
For an angel masquerading, oft is she-the
summer girl,
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-17
Personal Characteristics of Texans.

Texas. settled as it is with emigrants
from every part of the Union and OF
Europe, presents such a variety OF
character among its people that 1t will
be hard to say what is their most prom
inent trait. The personal character
istics which usedto distinguish them
are changing. In early times their
lives as pioneers were so hard and
fraught with danger that it made them
Grave and even severe, but now they
have become decidedly a gay people,
pleasure-loving and pleasure-seeking
Formerly a rigid plainness and severity
marked their lives and surroundings.
At this day, even in the counties re-
mote from the centres of population,
their tastes have become more luXuri-
GUS. They crave the elegancies and
refinements of life, which is but the
natural effect of the superior facilities
for education which distinguish the
State. Yet with the simplicity has dis
appeared much of the hospitality OF
the olden time; the warm and unques-
tioning welcome grows rarer each day.
and the entertainment OF guests Is
more a matter of calculation or distant
social obligation than a spontaneous
| outpourlng OF hoSplIaole heaIlS' 90 T
away off upon the frontier are std
found, here and there, specimens OF
those strong brave early settlers who
live literally with their lives in thelr
hands, establishing themselves far be,
yond the outposts of civilization, moi
knowing at what time the red men
might raid upon them and lay theil
homes in ashes. Sturdy houses those
stockades they might better be called
built of heavy upright logs, witt
thatched or sodded roofs, houses tina
are forts as we'll as homes. And ther'
is found a rare hospitality which ask
no questions, but entertains the way
farer, giving him all that he require
and that their store affords ''withou
money and without price. Lee q
Hnrbg IN Harper's Magazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-17
A New Metal.

A metal has been produced that will
melt at a temperature of $50 degrees.
1t is an alloy composed of lead. tin
bismuth, and cadmium, and in weight,
hardness, and color resembles type
metal. 1t melts so easily, that, placed
on comparatively cool part, OF the
stove with piece of paper under 1t. 1t
will melt without the paper being
scorched. 1t will not retain heat, but
becomes cold the moment it melts. 1t
is used in the manufacture of the little
automatic fire alarms for hotels. They
give an electric alarm when the metal
melts owing to the rising of the tenn
| peraturc.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-17
A Socialist Colony in Uruguay.

A doctor of Cremona, Italy, with a
large band of peasants from its neigh
borhood. has just started for Uru-
quay, where he proposes to establish
them as an exclusively socialist colony.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-17
A Postage Stamp in a child's Ear.

A postage stamp was recently found
by Connecticut physician in the ear
Of a little patient, and on its removal
severe pain, from which the child had
suffered and which caused the visit OF
the doctor, disappeared.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-17
But time is up! We must for the best of rea-

But time is up! We must for the best of rea-
sons Qack of space) STOP Remember always glad
to show you what we can do to please you We are
only too glad to have you and look. IF we can't
sell you the first time, will be glad try again,
sring you all that is and earnest endeav-
or to merit your patronage, by trying you bet
ter, if possible than any one else.
D. M CIIE1WE5
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-13

An communications for this paper should be
accompanied by the name Of the author. not
necessarily for publication, but ss evidence of
GOOD faith on tine part OF the writer. Write only
on one side of the paper. In plain hand. An
anymous communlcarlons VIII not be noticsd.
The LIeHT will not be responsible for the state
ment ofits correspondents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-13
A Doctor His Own Prescription

An African chief had a bad cold
and set for his family physician. This
gentleman could no more cure a cold
than any civilized doctor, and was as
little likely to confess it. His busi-
ness, OF course, was to give pre-
scription, not impossible to be made
up, but little out of the way, SO as
to inspire confidence and suggest
anatomical study. He prescribed a
little fat cut from the heart of fat
man. Unhappily (tor the doctor, al
the attendants of the chief were lean
but the doctor himself was fat, and
chief. being unaccustomed to wait fol
anything-far less a cure for colo
Immediately put him to death anC
put his advice into execution.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-13
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-13

mand. He also says THE job would
not pay lobby of one man for one
month";; and yet Galveston paid
100000 to lobby her bill through
Washington. This sum Is considered
respectable for a Texas lobby, even
if it does not count for much with a
Leavenworth editor acquainted with
the Kansas methods.
This much might have been passed
over, had not this injurious statement
of the Times, concerning deep water,
been supplemented by such insulting
reference to the people of Texas.
When the statement is made that
the "men of shady reputation are in
majority" in Texas, it is in order to
say that the statement is false and
without any foundation in fact. Col.
Anthony, of the Times, either does or
does not know the people whom he
thus assails, and whose character he
traduces. If he does not know. them,
and is merely moved by his prejudices
against a great state, he Is guilty Of
using his position as a journalist to
give expression to a personal preju-
dice and an insane bitterness which
is utterly unworthy reputable
editor and disqualifies him for his
office as censor of the public morals.
On the other hand, if he does know
the people of this state, he also knows
that he has lied concerning them,
and that knowing in his heart he
lied, he has had the effrontery to
publish that lie to the world.