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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE.
and SQUIRRELS Bar Out Two
Owls.

Can any one match the following as
an instance Of canine intelligence? A
party Of children had spent the forenoon
IN huckleberry pasture. A dog be-
longing to Mr.. Prindle, father of one Of
the children, had been with them. (lf
he was like dog I know, he had hunt
ed out patch of blackberries. and had
goneinto business, picking and eating,
on his own account). Upon their reach
ing home, it appeared that the Prlndle
girl had lost her pocket handkerchief.
The dog, being remarkable animal,
and up to such tricks, was sent back to
find it. lie came home after while,
dispirited, ana without the missing ar
ticle. AS it would never do TO allow
a precedent like this to become estab-
lished, the owner went back with the
animal to the field, and waited to see
that he properly performed hIstask. He
was at first reluctant, and sat on his
launches for several minutes in state
of evident mental detection. Sudden
ly be started up, all alert: with the air
of having solved the problem, and what
he did was this: Ho took his position a
rod or so from the outside wall, and
made swift circuit OF the entire field,
keeping that distance from its boundar-
les. Returning to his starting point, he
took new course rod or two inside
his former one, and surrounded the
field again as before. His next course
was at the same distance inside that,
and 80 he kept on, till, as must In time
Inevitably happen he found the hand
kerchief and gave 1t to his master.
I have to confess that there is an ele-
ment of tradition about the story Of
Mr.. PIindle's dog, in that respect, that
it belonged to former generation, and
that, while my informant-himself Of
that generation, and acquainted with
both master and dog held 1t as an un-
questionable fact. cannot now abso-
lute.y verify it. This is not true of the
owl story, which is a story of to-day and
can be had at first hand by anybody
who cares to take the trouble. The
home Of these owls has been from i'm
memorial time in an aged elm that
graces the front yard of one Of the old
mansions In :oucteBa. q hoi!o0 ihoi!o10
caused by the breaklng:of q large limb
the owls have taken up their abode.
Three years ago some squirrels took
possession Of the same tree and waged
continual wsr with the owls. The lat
ter maintained their rights. and the con-
test was holly carried on until, at last,
incautiously, the owls took fancy to
spend the day out a-yislting. The
squirrels seized their opportunity and
stopped the hole full of sticks, twigs,
and even branches Of considerable SIZE,
which they drove in 80 firmly that al
the storms Of the succeeding winter did
not dislodge them. For that year, then,
the owls gave it up and made their
home elsewhere, but they are back at
this present writing, and matters are
going on as of oil.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
The Tortoise Market Of PniIadel-
: phia.

The taste for ''stewed terrapin" and
snapper soup" has become 80 general
in Philadelphia, that the United States
are now ransacked for the means of
supplying it. Within a few years the
speciessold were the ''terrapin," Ma:a-
coc7emnags paZustras: the cred belly"
Chskpus sa,scu!ptus; the s'sl:der, "Chry-
semys r,sgosa; land the snapper, "Chely-
dra serpentina. Now large invoices of
turtles are sent from Mobile, New Or
leans, and st. Louis. which include the
following species: Chrysemys bez1ai, C..
elegans, G.. conctnna, and c. troostis;
Mazacoclemnsys geographical and III. les
euris; total, exclusive of sea turtles, ZEN
species. ALI are abundant in the mar.
ket except the O. bella.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
The Flight Of Time.

Time isa great institution. It would
be difficult to get along without it. and
yet we shall have to some day. Have
you ever noticed how long time seems
when you are young? The Christmases
and Fourth Of Julys seem to have small
eternities between them, but when you
grow older time is as brief as a jack rab-
bits tail. Then there is no messenger
boy business about time.
In childhood how lovingly we look
upward to the summit Of that hill OF
years whereon we are to be endowed
with the crown Of manhood, and how
long it seems between each beat Of the
heart-each oscillation Of the pendu-
lun. Gradually this pendulum oscil-
lates with a v,gor unknown before.
Months, years fit past like dogs with
tin cans tied to their combinations. We
are not as supple as we once were, and
'svittles" do not taste like they did when
we tramped twenty or thirty miles vita
a fishing pole or gun at the age Of swees
sixteen. Finally our eyes grow duls
and with STOPPING form and shus
gait We approach that dark, mist. =
ed valley, which when we stood +
vestibnle Of life and played s'hS
seemed 40 far off. vs
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

PRINCE BISMARCK continues to sup.
ply good interviews for the German
papers. He complained to CORE
spondent recently that ga few months
Of laziness had added ten years to bis
life;'' that he had aged considerably
since he left Office, &c. This is the
season when a good many persons, un-
like the ex-chancellor, would take sew
eral months Of dolce far nse'ate with
out growing, and then feel ten years
YOUNGER.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
Frugallty and. Fort
It is stated that one of

It is stated that one of Il
men in this country, whose N.affh is
estimated at over s10O, 600, 600, break
fasts only on boiled eggs, eats only
bacon and liver for lunch, and dimes on
a cut of roast beef and . potato, washed
down with water.
RProbably if he had been in the prac-
tice of dining on quail on, toast, lunch
ing on terrapin, and dining on canvas.
back duck and champagne, te might
not have the slO00ee,00o to can his
own. --
Such things have occurred before in
the history of wealth and those who
have amassed it, don't you know.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Boldness Is ever blind: therefore, says
Bacon, it Is i'll in counsel, but good in
execution.
By taking revenge man is but even
with his enemy, but in passing it over
he is superior.
Prosperity awaits all men, and even
pprsues some, but It ls never found In
the haunts Of vice.
You can't square accounts with God
as long as you owe your brother any
thing. Matt. 5:23-24.
Nothing is more precious than time,
and those vino misspend itare the great
est of all prodigals.
Perfect Yalor consists in doing with
out witnesses all we should be capable
Of doing before the world.
Let US be of good cheer, remember
ing that the m1sfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never come.
TIE wealth of a man is the number
Of things which he loves and blesses,
which be is loved and blessed by.
The happpiest man is he who. being
above the trouble which money brings,
has his hands the fullest Of work.
One who has wronged another with
malice pretense seems to find it difficult
to show him due regard again.
The ear and the eye are the minds
receivers, but the tongue Is only busted
in expending the treasure received.
There is nothing like fixed, steady
aim; with an honorable purpose. It
digni6es the nature and insures sue
cess.
The angriest person in controversy
Is the one most liable to be in the
wrong.
It is said the devil finds plenty of work
for idle hands to do, but he hasn't got
In on modern tramp to any very large
extent.
Ore ought never to speak Of the
faults OF ones friends; it mutilates
them. They can never be the same
afterwards.
Labor, though it was at first inaict-
ed as curse, seems to be the gentiest
Of all punishments and is fruitful of a
thousand blessings.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sir cerity
and truth accomplishes no victories
without 1t.
The labor of the body relieves us
from the fatigues of the mind, and this
it IS which forms the happiness of the
poor.
The proper function Of a government
is to make it easy for the people to do
good, and difficult for them to do
evil.
Never prophesy, for If you prophesy
wrong, NOBODY will forget it; and if
you prophesy right, nobody will remem'
beri
No state can be more destitute than
that Of a person who, when the delights
of sense forsake him, has no pleasures
Of the mind.
It is one of the easiest things ill the
wcrld to get into debt, but debt is one
Of the hardest masters to serve and one
Of the most difficult to escape.
When thou are obliged to speak, be
sure to speak the truth; for equivo'
cation is hslf way to lying, and lying
is the whole way to eternal destruc'
tion.
Life is quarry, out of which we are
to mold and chisel and complete char
acter.
Everything which has form in nature
IS trying to tell US something Tor ou1
good.
Subdue untruthful men with trutl :
fulness.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
The Biggest Lump of Gold

The largest piece Of gold ever taken
from the earth was discovered May 10.
1872, in New South Wales, Australia
It was an irregular shaped slab, four
feet nine inches in length, and three
feet three inches in width, Will an
average thickness of about three inches.
It weighed something over 600 ponnds.
and, although not of virgin pure, as
sayed sl4s,ooo. The most remarkable
part of the story is that the men who
found it did not have money enough.
to pay their board bills the week
before. -
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

OUR regu13- army is small, but it
was made still smaller Dy 1878 deseE.
tions during the past nine montha.
This is a costly piece of business, for
the deserter colts The Government 4
good deal of mouey in one way Of
another from his enlistment until hs
skips. II
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

Cardinal Gibbons thinks that
libraries and art gallaries should be
open on Sunday, and Philadelphia in
sists on closing her barber shops. There
are many men Of many minds.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

Paint the tongues Of your fever
patients with glycerine, says a physi-
clan; it will remove the sensation Of
thirst and discomfort felt when the
orgaI. il dry ed ic1l
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16

Lettuce has sedntive- effect OFT .tr1a
nervous sys EN-, and the ordinary plant.
as well as druggists preparations of it.
may be successfully employed in cases
Of insomnia
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1890-08-16
ESTABLISH ED 1915.
their usual disrateh from snoWf

their usual disIatch from snoat
City: go
The only telegraph operator In
place has the fever and IS fast "a
Then for days there mas no ns = g.
all over the wires from the unfors
village, and the stricken people ~
shout the news and their needs
train men as they passed thre
station. ..s-,.. s.--,-e,.s.sn.,. se,. Z.
But Rod did not die;;S he w:ts oEeHE
the very few who reeeyefel fiona theS
fever, and shortly after lie was stIieken
down the first frost came TO gladden.
and cheer the people OF the south llo'
feared for the spread Of the teIri6sa
infection.
Yes, Rod recovered, and Weht afker
a while, back to the Old farm IssfsI
and gain strength. And Wsile 6.
he received letters and presents -
Vulnerable, cong anon
his plucky behaviour at SnoWf4ke
Among them WAS the Official taanksot
the governor of the state. Rnt the lets
ter which Rod prizes most of al IS ora,
from Superintendent SteBbins and &
this is what it says:
ny DEAR SHIpToN.You did yor duty
nobly. Accept my thanks and the th8iiks s5gf
our directors When you are quite wen Aeetts
we shall like to have yon TO take position. as
assistant train dispatcher ct Jackson. me
salary IS SIS amonth. Sincerely yonrs
HENRY SrEBB1ss
To-day Rodney Shipton IS manager
Of one of the largest offices of the geEy
largest telegraph company in the world. .s
stepped In to see him the osher
and on the wall. over the desk seg-
these words IN aneat frame:
They aisoserye who only stand I'D wait
eSss-e
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03

establish here will not only give EN-.
ployment to hundreds, and possibly
thousands OF American workingmen
and women, but they will demand
supplies Of al kinds for their use,
food for their operatives, and trans
portation for their raw and finished
products. The American demand (. E
plush. i'll be iD no wise lessened be.
cause it is made here instead of in
England, but this country will get
all the incidental advantages which
must accrue from its mi nufacture here.
This is only one out of numbesless
examples that might be cited to show
that the Mckinley bill will he hene.
fetal to the sjori,y Of the American
people. It has already been con.
ced-d that the lahorer will have to
pay FIVE cents more if he insists on
smoking a full sized Havana cigar,
and dollar 4 case more on his cham
pagne, and something more on his
French soap and toilet waters, AMI
considerable more on IL inch kid
gloves; but when it comes to regular
work ut good wages, aud reasonable
prices for articles of necessity. he will
find that the Mckinley bill Is his best
friecd, and its operation of the great
est benefit to him in a great variety
Of WAYS.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
A Tariff Lesson.

San Francisco Chronicle. October q.
The silk plush firm Of Lister & Com
pany, of the Manningham Mills,
Bradford, England, has sent two rep.
resentatives 10 the United States to
select u site for the construction Of
mills in this country. The Listers
transac, larger American plush bust.
ness than any other concern in Europe.
They employ some 5000 operatives,
and possess works in Bradford the
walls of which measure a mile in cir
cumferenoe. Neatly three four.hs OF
their entire product has beeo sold
heretofore in the United States.
lie must be blind who cannot read
Protection lesson IN these facts, and
who cannot set the beneficial opera.
tioE of the Mckinley bill in this move
of the Listers. Here is an article
purely of luxury, which is used to an
enormous extent in the United States,
aud which the Mckinley bill will
compel to he made in this country.
The mills which the Listers will
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
Present Prices Compared With Those
Under Free Trade.

~S0o.s AIsCeS NOupSre0 WIN THOSE
Under Free Trade.
From q speech delivered on Sep.
tember 20, in Humansville, NO., by
Judge A. A. Underwood of Bolivar
of the same State We take the follow
ing forcibIe passage:
There is duty of 4 cents per yard
on oil cotton prints of the lower
grades, OF 2 cents per pound on nails,
OF SI7.5O per ton on steel rails, of q
per thousand upon lumber. Now if
the Democratic theory is true, the
American manufacturer Just adds to
the cost Of production the 4 cents on
cotton prints, : cents per pound upon
nails, 1880 per to" upon railroad
iron. Yet, it is fact that we can
buy at retail the 10 wer grades Of prints
at less tina" the rates Of duty, and
nails at about the same. The st.
Louis Republican calculates that be.
cause OF the tariff the American cons
sumner is robbed OF six hundred aud
fifty Eve million dollars annually.
The facts are that commodities of
all kinds are lower to>1ay than il the
good old free trade times, or we
might saw, than ever; aud the turn Of
prices has been downward for ten
years. / went to town the other dav
and bou.h, pair Of wholrstock bro
gans for IS cents. Lawns and the
lower grades Of prints can be bought
at retail ut from 2 aud / cents per
yard. | built q barn last vrar aud
bought my nails at retail at $>.75 in
Bolivar. Good prints are selling at 5
to Z cents per yard, and a woman can
buy dress pattern for what it COS,
for yard or two before the war The
prices of farm machinery have fallen
from forty to one hundred per cent.
On the other hand, everything that
we have to sell brings US doubl" the
money that we sold like productions
for in those days. Men still live in
Polk county who have hauled VII. at
with OK teams $50 miles 20 St Louis,
and sold It there for SO CENTS per
bushel, aud hauled back salt for which
they paid $3.50 per hundred pounds
These facts, that after 80 years of
protection, our farmers receive more
than double the free.t price for
their produce, and buy all the manu-
featured articles they need for less than
half the free''rade price, outwe'ghs
with sensible men all the sophistries
ard theories OF free traders, and makes
clear the proposition tina, the party
that has brought about this great
change is the party of and for the
people, aud entitled to their continued
'on6dence and support.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

Smoke Davey's home made Cigars
Two carloads OF Red Cloud ore
we're shipped from this point yester-
day.
You can save time and money by
getting your loans through
LENNON & BOONE
David NJ. Carson has purchased
Weber's barber shop. He has no
superior in his line.
One carload of -four, one OF coai,
and one of merchandi were received
here to-day, besides some way freight.
The celebrated Ston-wall Whisky,
in quart aud pint TASKS, at w. r.
Ksnnedy's Famous Sample Rooms.
Insure your property in reliable
companies. None others are repre-.
sented BY LENNON & BOONE.
Dr.. Jones, the dental surgeon, in
tends to leave in couple OF weeks to
visit his parents and relatives in
Oregon. He will be gone five or six
weeks. All persons requiring his
services should therefore call on him
without delay.
Services in Episcopal church,
HALEY, Idaho: Morning on second
aad fourth Sundays, aud evening on
frs. and thirds undays in every month.
Fifth Sundays by special xppointm+ mt.
G. W. G. VAN WlNKLE, Rector.
The Eve hours delay in the arrival
Of the train, last Monday, was due to
collision between an east hound
passenger train and a freight train,
near Cheyenne, which delayed traffic
eight hours. The Oregon Short Line
train gained three hours between
Green River and Shoshone.
John O'Brien, of the Wood Rive,
Meat Market, keeps nothing but the
choicest meats on hand. Try him.
Trains numbered Z and 8 on the
Oregon Short Line have been taken
on the new management claiming
mat the passenger, mail and express
could be done by ons train each wav
o@y' The only passenger trains run
% tho road now ara therefore mail
'.a'n'. the west. bound leaving Sho.
."one about $3.50 o'clock a. m. aud
''e east bound about 1880 o'clock.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
Who Pays the Duty /

New York Psrer.l
1t has long been a point of mos.
bitter controversy whether the duties
on imports are borne fully by the
consumer or in part or wholly by the
foreign producer. Considerable light
on that question begins to come
already. A dry goods dealer who has
always scoffed at protective doctrines
makes this confession: "The aeen. of
a German house with which | deal
has offered to sell me a bill Of fine
wors.eds at exactly the price paid
before the change of duties, the goods
to be delivered rs soon rs they could
be imported. | asked how he could
do that, and he answered that his
house would have TO put down the
prices or else stop the works. 1t
strikes me the foreigner has to pay the
whole duty there" Next comes a
distinguished ironmaster, one OF the
visitors now in this country, and so.
berly explains why the new duties
will not help American manufactures,
thus: "You see we will have an enor.
nous overproductior, and makers will
cut each others threats until they get
prices down to tho bottom. At the
same time your works will have to
pay more for labor. After little our
prizes will be enough below yours
again to enable us to ship as much at
the new duty as we did at the old. :"
But when the British makers put
down the price, who pays the differ
ence?
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
Eserything o. K.

Texas Angel got back to day from
Salt Lake City, whittier he went to
promote the organization of a com.
pany to cooperate with the HALEY,
Gold Belt and Western Company in
building the proposed new railway.
He SAYS the Salt Lakers may be a
little slow to take hold; but that they
will undo ubts div do so. He expects
that by Monday next, on the return
here OF Majo Wilkes, Colonel Bryan,
and Mr.. Washburne, a strong com
pany will have been formed in Salt
Lake City.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
Subaqmeous Photography.

The movements of animals under
water have been photographed by NJ.
Marcy, at the rate of SO negatives per
second, with exposures Of 10000 to
10000 of a second. A srries of ~
pictures gives the undulations of the
umbrella Of the medusa, and other set
shows a squid leaping out Of the wa.
ter. A ray was taken in profile while
waving the edges OF its fat body. and
plates representing the curious nude
of progression of comatula were Sc
crr.d.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
Al. Short Badly Hurt.

AL. Short and Ben. Gray were
thrown from the delivery wagon Of
the Alturas Commercial COMPANY,
this morning. aud the 6rst-named
Was somewhat seriously injured, lie
having sustained compound fracture
of an ankle, besides several bad
bruises. His companion escaped Sc.
rious injury, and even Short was not
as badly injured as wes at first feared i.
The team had not been out for a
week, ard when the two young men
took it out to-day it ran away.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
The WOfll Enrichcd

The facilities Of the preset day for Ii.
production of everything that will con-
duce to the material welfare and comfor.
Of mankind IRE almost unlimited and
when Syrup of Figs was first produced
the world was enriched with the oulv
perfect laxative known, as it is the only
remedy which is truly pleasing and re-
.freshing to the taste and prompt and
edectual to cleanse the system gently in
the Spring time or, in fact, at any time
and the better it 10 known the more pop
ular It becomea
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03

day in January, 1870. I rea an account in the
Tribune of your CUTIcvnA REMEpIhs. It described
my case 30 exactly that thought, as last resort,
to give ITEM Il trial. when Arst applied them
was all raw and bleeding, from scratching mys. H.
but went asleep aim st Immediately. something
had not done for years, the effect was 20 sooth.
ing. In about two weeks could stand straight
but not walk. I was so weak; but my aoles were
nearly we'll. As near ss can Judge. the CrTI.
cuRA REMEDIES cured me In about six to eight
weeks, sud up to this date THAT 10. from January
1873 to January. 1884,, have not been sick in
any way, have had the least signs Of the disease
reappea,ing on Ine.
W. MCDONALD,
S7S2 Dearborn ST., Chicago, H., June 80, 81.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
Relieved Of Rldney Trouble.

o. >. Cronin. Rossini House, To.
'0nto' Canada. writes:
nave been troubled with q back.
,.~ 'oe some time past, and great
u'0''y in passing urine. Three
&' ago applied an ALLcock 3
80 ..ous PLASTER, and have done 90
d;.,:,a 1--WE DAYS since. Almost imm..
N : "ad partial relief. and now I
p,,.; :"''re'y free from pain-w.ter
~i,soae: freely and perfectly clear,
relief :. burning. | owe nv great
rrss 20 ALlcocK's Porous PAS
N, .. ."a heartily recommend them in
'''e OF kidney trouble"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
Single Fare for a Round Trtp.

All station agents of the Western
division of the Union Pacific system
will sell holiday excursion tickets, TO
any station within $50 miles of the
initial point, for one fare for the round
trip, as follows:
For Christmas..-Selline dates, De.
cember ~, and<25 Good for return
until January 5, 1891.
For New Years.-Selling dates DE-.
cember 81 and January LIST. Good
for return until January 5, 1891.
Good for continuous passage in both
directions, going passage to begin on
date of sale.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-03
First SnOwstOrm Of the Spason.

Early this morning it began snow.
ing, aud BY 4 o'clock this afternoon
about four inches had fallen, and the
indications we're good for q much
heavier fall.
This is the first snow. storm, this
season, the total fall of snow 50 far
prior TO to ds, not having exceeded
half.aninch, and none having re-
manned OH the ground.