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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-10-24

is largely dependent upon cattle.
men and cowboys. The cattlemen
and cowboys like whiskey. When
Mrs. Paxton began her rule, her
first move was to start war on
every saloon in the city. She was
vigorous and when she found that
a constable or marshal was prone
to be slow in following her orders
she would deputize another and 60
ahead.
HER VIGOROUS WARFARE ON "JO1NTs"
at last became so obnoxious to the
cattlemen that their trade was
DETECTED, and the merchants began
to complain of hard times. Mrs.
Paxton was implored to ':let up"
on the crusade business or the town
would be ruined. But that was
not what she was there for, and
she said she would break up the
whiskey traffic if all the other trade
in the city went with it. She gave
an order to smash all the barrels
and bottles and nail up the doors
Of the ''joints." This brought mat
ters to crisis. The merchants got a
lawyer, who found that Kiowa had
no ordinance prohibiting the sale
Of liquors. Consequently the mayor
had no right to close the saloons.
The result of this opinion was that
the '.joints" went to the opposite
| extreme and now run with their
doors wide open, but the business
men didn't stop here. They had
had enough of petticoat rule and
they wanted
| A MAYOR WHO WORE TROUSERS
and wore them tucked in the tops
of his boots. So they circulated g
petition calling upon Mrs. Paxton
to resign, and in a short time they
had the signature of every man ir
town on it. Even Mrs. Paxton,
husband signed the paper, and hi
name led all the rest. This docu
ment was presented to the mayo
by a committee of the most coura
geous citizens. They called at he
office in the annex to the kitchen
of her husbands home and lait
the petition upon the desk befor
her; then they fled. The Who'll
town is in open revolt, and tn
men say they say have had enougl
of woman's foolishness, and vii
run the place to suit themselve
, hereafter. Mrs. Paxton says sh
, will not resign. Her husband ha
not been home since signing tn
petition, but as she depends o
him for support, it is thought sh
will resign rather than stand tn
j., chances of a divorce suit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01

NV system is briefly. to put one-hah Of my
receipts into a large tobacco jar which stands
on the mantel in my parlor and let my friends
help themselves. The money goes into the
1ar precisely at midnight every Sunday-and
have noticed that since this scheme was pus
into operation Sunday nigh. is the great time
for gathering at my house, and great many
of INV cronIes who used TO devote that evening
to calling on their faneees, have % deserted the
coai's for ~ mvseIf i ind / am much hann,er
than was before / devised this plan. I ges
three meals a day; l live in comfortable
snite of apartments-in a bed that looks like .
bookcase in the daytime and hay scales az
night.
for find that by charging my hours of ioafing
AGAINST the tobacco jar fund, my own personal
income is never diminished by my lazipess and
nv friends get every cent they are entitled 20
in the bargain / commend this plan TO every
man who has friends, and 50 great is my public
spirit that do not ask for any share in the
profits. 1t works like a charm, and in the long
run it is economical j. 4. BANGS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01

water in the old locomotive will be entirely
unnecessary in the railways of the future,
which will be propelled electrically. Un-
questionably the future electro-locomotion
will show q motor on every axle, or at any
rate upon two axles of each car, and every
car running as unit, in which case they
can run coupled together in train or not,
as may be convenient. Oberlin Smith has
entered a strong proIest against carrying
this enormous dead weight of locomotive
for absolutely no purpose. We have the
weight of the cars, plus the passengers or
freight. for purposes of traction, even il we
make our cars in future of lighter material.
In speaking of the lIghtness OF the future
conveyance by rail, Mr.. Smith says that we
shall not only use steel and aluminium, but
paper, India rubber and other fbrous sub
stances, which will give US remarkable
light cars, far beyond anything we now
speak of practically. just as a wheelbarrow
is to bicycle, so will our present clumsy
cars be to the future ones. To have big
motor car loaded with tons of ballast to give
it traction, is following the path OF steam
Iocomotion; in all probability the neces-
sary adhesion will soon be gained by cleo
trIcity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
A New Type Brush.

Seldom does an invention receive such
welcome as will be given by the thousands
of typewriters throughout the country and
abroad, to device which effectively serves
the purpose of saving the loss of time and
patience and the smearing of the fingers and
injury to the alignment involved in the
ordinary method OF cleaning the type of the
typewriting machine. An invention has
just been brought out which claims to do all
this, and it consists of hand brush applied
at right angles to the type bar. When in
place. the rotating brush is held directly
over the type center, so that by pressing any
key the type is brought into contact with
the brush. It is cleaned almost instantly,
when it is released and another key is
struck, and so on until all are cleaned. One
hand turns the crank, while the other
presses down the keys in order until all are
finished. When not in use the whole at
tachment is swung out of the way, and it
can be at any moment readiusted in an in
slant. If this attachment meets the pre-
valent want of handy and effective type
cleaner it will be a pronounced success.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
DIR. K0CH,s PRINCIPLE.
The Peculiar Fact Upon Which the Cure of
Consumption Depends.

The Peculiar Fact Upon Which the Cure of
Consumption Depends.
Pail Mall Budget.1
DR.. Koch's consumption cure depends on
this important fact. namely. that, just as
the little yeast plant Gan organism not far
removed from the bacteria) produce alcohol
in solution of sugar as one OF the results of
its digestive and nutritIonal chemistry, but
is actually paralvzed and rendered incapa-
BILE OF further growth by the presence of a
limited percentage of this very alcohol ESQ
that we add alcohol to a sweet liquor to
prevent its fermentation } so, too, the poison
or toxin" produced by the growth of path
ogenous bacteria in nourishing fluid
actually prevents the further growth of that
particular bacterium when sufficient
quantity of the toxin is present Not only
that, but the toxin of one bacterium has
been found to be inimical to the growth of
other rdisease-producing bacteria.
Perhaps you could get the poison a little
altered so as to be still paraiyzing to the in
fecting bacteria, but not so harmful TO the
living tissues and phagocytes. If the ap-
propriate poison could be extracted from
CIVILIZATIONS of. tor instance, the bacterium
tuberculosis, or from another allied bacte-
rum, we might inject it into the diseased
parts, and check the bacteria there growing
Just as the winemaker checks the wine-yeast
by pouring alcohol onto it; and once the
bacteria are checked they will be engulphed
by the phagocytes and destroyed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
WORDS, MY LORD.
The New Dictionary Will Define Ten Times
as Many as Educated Men Use.

The New Dictionary Will Define Ten Times
as Many as Educated Men Use.
7. c. Crawford in New York Trlbune.l
Professor Elliot Coues, of the Smithsonian
Institution, who is one of the editors of
"The Century Dictionary" has been en-
gagged for nearly six years upon the depart
ment of biology, which was assigned 10 him.
He saws that the new dictionary will contain
some 200 600 words. The Webster's Una
brldged Dictionary, in its later editions,
contains about 100000 words. The 20, 900
additional words which Will be found in
"The Century Dictionary" come from the
thorough definition of all scientific terms
and the words which have been added to the
language through new discoveries in science
The professor says that in the department
of biology alone there have been ADDED
since Darwin's discoveries some twenty odd
Thousand new words. He said that it was a
well-educated man who could use IL, 900
words, and then it would be some specialist
VINO was familiar with science. Tie most
highly educated and most widely read of
scientific specialists occasionally reached
the actual knowledge of 40 900 words. He
knew OF no one who had ever gone beyond
that. So, to find definitions for the 200, 900
words it has been necessary to employ a
great many individual specialists who are
authorities In their particular departments.
The additions TO the language year by year
are great All of the words of current slang
will he found in the new dictionary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01

An instance of the success attending the
covering of pipes for conserving heat oc-
Cured quite recently, in which a residence
was fitted with complete system OF hot
water supply pipes on a scale sufficiently
large for good boiler in fve-foot kitchen
range; but owing to the e1igencies of a
temporary delay a three-foot range was
fitted up and connected to the chimney and
circulating pipes for temporary cooking and
hot-water supply. 1t was not supposed that
the little range with its boiler would do
much in the way OF water heating, but to
the astonishment of every one it gave an
abundant supply of very hot water in every
part of the house as quickly in the morning
as larger range could be expected to do.
The best material for covering pipes is
hair-felt; hair is poor conductor of heat,
and is uusurpassable for this purpose, es-
pecially as it is so easy of application. The
felt, which is readily obtainable in sheets, is
cut up in strips for pipe work and wound
round the pipe spirally and secured with
cord or wire.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
Eva Mann's Face.

A COURT REPoRTER-The scenes during
the trial of Eva Mann, alias Mrs. Hamilton
were beyond ordinary reportorial description.
That the woman is thoroughly bad the evil
dence shows: but the depth of her badness. the
cunning. tigerish SPIRIT the total depravity,
could only be read in the lines of that remark
able face. The fact that Nurse Donnelly was
not murdered is certainly not due TO forbear-
ance or mercy on the part of this woman. In
all my criminal experience as journalist
never saw her counterpart She perjured her
self over and over again: but perjury is nothing
in her case. During. the long and searching
cross-examination she looked as il she could
jump over the rail and strangle Lawyer Root
where he stood. The constant watchtulness
and momentary admonItion of her counsel we're
necessary to prevent her from some sudden
burst of passion that would overturn what
slender defense she had. l think she Is about
the same type of woman as Sarah Althea Hill,
later Mrs Terry, who made such mark in the
civil and criminal annals of California. How
such a man as Robert Ray Hamilton could be
captIvated and long deceived by such woman
will be one of the unsolved mysteries of New
York social life. Last of her? Not much. If
Eva Observation-Disclosures lives long enough
she will do murder; that's my judgment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
Experiments In Tight Lacing.

Some experiments have just been made
with view of ascertaining the effect of
tight lacing on monkeys. Female monkeys
were put into plaster of paris jackets, to
initiate stays, and tight bandage put
around the waist to initiate pettieoat band.
Several of the monkeys died very quickly,
and all showed signs of injuries resulting
from the treatment. The British Medical
Journal, in treating the subject at some
length, proves that the construction of the
vital organs OF the body caused by tight
lacing is continually working mischief in
the human subject. 1t commends the en-
lightened intelligence of u certain section of
the fashionable community which is dis
carding the use of the corset, and states that
those who are continuing its abuse are work.
ing woe for themselves and their children.
An English paper, commenting on these re-
Elections, SAYS that this is all undoubtedly
very lamentable, but, as an expression of
opinion, 1t considers that the most to be
pitied are the monkeys.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
Healthfulness of the Electric Light.

The healthfulness of the electric light
was recently illustrated in striking man.
ner. Some railway men were discussing in
car factory the relative advantages of IL
Elimination by gas and electricity, and the
advocates Of each system remained uncon-
vinced by the other. Finally the superin-
tendent of the factory suggested that the
matter could easily be put to practical
test. and, turning on the gas in the smoking
com mpartment of an adjacent car, he invited
the officials inside. 1t is said that their
stay was of the briefest, for in very few
minutes even the strongest of them had to
succumb to the heat and oppression and to
seek the outer air.
A like test, made in a compartment
lighted by incandescents, was attended by a
very different result, and the verdict which
followed was unanimous for the cool, whole
some light. This will readily be under
stood by those who, accustomed to the cleo
trio light, have occasion to sit in gaslit
rooms in which the sense of heayiness often
becomes oppressive.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
New pepartment of Trade.

PERCIvAL, dealer in delicatessen-One of the
most striking changes that has taken place in
this city is the number Of delicatessen stores
you'll see along Sixth avenue and on the
avenues of the east side. Originally patronized
by the Germans and French. who there pro-
cured the delcacies of their own country, these
shops are more and more frequented by Ameri-
get cold tongue. turkey, sausage, picked her.
rlng ham anchovies, mustards, a dozen and one
sauces, gravies and gastronomic rienS at a
moments notice, and housekeepers have found
that the delicatessen shop is a better place to
get them than the groceries. You will notice
that we get up our windows almost as artistic
ally as they do in Paris, and ysu'n admit that
the charcuteries of Paris are as great institu-
tions as the Louvre and Luxembourg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
Paper-BacRed Books Going.

G. W. FRANCIS. bookseller-Pm one of the
oldest booksellers in New York. established As
years. Bound books are becoming popular
again, Tn glad to say, and the cheap 10 and 90
cent paper-back reprints are going out. hold
that there was great danger to the cause of
good literature in cheap paper books. You
will find that what is got cheap is usually held
cheap. The passage of an international COPY
right bill would benefit American authors.
because there wouldn't be so many reprints of
English novelists. l have always thought there
was considerable truth and justice in the re.
mark of Ouida. who said, when she heard that
Americans objected to her books on the score
of immortality: The Yankees violate the
Eighth Commandment by stealing my books
and then vince because my heroes and herolnes
occasionally violate some other command.
ment."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01

asked, sympathizing with his distress,
though couldn't help thinking that il was
more than he deserved.
mo, no; take it away, that's all"
took il away. Even after this fearful
morning I couldn't keep it out of my head,
and before had gone 20 PAGES from the spot
was whistling it again.
"Say, my friend" said voice on my
right, "did that fellow Smith tell you he
composed that song?"
"No, he didn't" said I. confronting this
second specter boldly, "he confessed that
he stole it."
"Probabl- he knew that you would meet
me-" continued the ghost; "I'm the man he
stole it from. My name is Cyrus j. Per-
kins. and I was buried before Smith was
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
New Process for Raising Sand.

An improved process for raising sand has
been patented III England. A barge is used,
having a tank to receive drainage or over
flow of water therefrom. A pulsometer or
other pump is furnished with suction pipe
part rigid and part hexible-to reach to
the bed or bank Of sand, which is drawn
through it and deposited in the tank.
Around the mouth of the suction pipe are
placed number of hollow prongs, suitably
connected with another pump. Through
these prongs jets of water from the water
hole Of the barge are forced, and the sand
thus loosened is readily taken up by the sue
ton pipe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
Actors Who Draw.

EDWARD W. KEMBLE, the artist-I know
many actors who are artists with the brush and
pencil, and very fair artists at that. Joseph
Jefferson goes in for water colors. Dixey dI avs
queer caricatures and saw one of his eccen:
tric drawings on Parker House, Boston, bill
of fare only the other day, Louis Harrison. the
comedian, is a rapid draughtsman. Tim
Murphy used to be q house painter in WASH
IDgton, SO he comes rightly by his taste for pen
and pencil. His dressing room wherever he
may be, is covered with daubs roughly, but
effectively, done in grease paint and crayon.
Alice King Hamilton, draw very neatly. E. b.
Sothern has made sketches which Dan Froh-
man considers worthy of hanging framed in
the lobby of the Lyceum Theater. George
Fawcert Rowe used To go in for oils. Alexan-
der Salvini. son of his father, presented very
neat water color to Marie Burroughs last year.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
Women and Fencing.

LESTER SHAFFNER. fencing master-l was
q bad actor before became a fair and popular
fencing master. My pupils are mostly women.
have a dressing room in my fencing establish.
ment and female attendant, and when women
take lessons they do so in a free-and-easy cos.
tune. Women learn fencing much more readily
than men. Actresses go into it to reduce flesh
Marie Jansen lost ten pounds in three weeks
under Colonel Monastery. of Chicago Langtry
and Coghlan are fine fencers. Our best fenc.
ing masters in New York are Senac Fredericks
and Jacobv each of whom has a fine school
There are the foils and boxing gloves of Robert
Raw Hamilton, whogot himself into such mess
with Eva Mann. He was one of my pupils and
paid me for his last quarter just two days be
such an untimely end,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01

Copenhagen or postofice; we amused our
selves more intellectually. I escorted one
of the girls to her home, far, far away on
the other side of the graveyard. 1t was
three miles if we went around the cemetery
and only a mile and half if we went
through it, but my companion was tlmld
young thing, and insisted on the long road.
But after 1 had seen her to her venerable
doorstep, I needed something to cheer me
up, SO took the short cut
speak of the nature of my entertainment
on that evening in order to convince the
reaper that nv experience in the Tombs-I
should say among the tombs-was not the
creation of 4 mind unbalanced by dissipa-
tiol. Not man there was calmer than l..
AS a proof of this, mention the fact that l
whistled a popular song, entitled "Willie
Reilly's White Shirt" as 1 climbed the
graveyard fence.
A Very Persistent Piece.
1 had caught the tune in New York, and
had long waited an opportunity to whistle
it in solitude that would conceal my
degradation, For it was such a bad tune;
so shamelessiy suggestive of every other bad
tune; SO offensive to q sensitive ear; in short,
such thoroughly typical popular song that
felt guilty when carried the remembrance
of it home with me. And yet couldn't
shake 1t of. It had clung to me Ior days;
my mouth had been perpetually in pucker
with it; and every night the silent whistle
in nv brain had lulled me to sleep with
"Willie Reilly's White Shirt"
There was nothing coarse in the words;
they even had a moral purpose. Willie was
represented as residing in the Fourth ward,
and the song appealed directly to the young
men of that locality. Who could say that
it might not be the means of leading many
of them to emulate Willie's example and
procure white shirts FOR their own use, thus
distinctly advancing in the path of civiliza-
tion7 said as much to Patrolman Cassidy
of that district, and he replied that was
| not the first one to think of this possible
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Short Talks on Timely Topics With
All Sorts of People.
THE FUTURE OF JULIA MARLOwE.
Latest Fads and Fashions and Stories About
Well-Known Men.
ENTERTAINMENT AND INSTRUCTION
lFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT ]

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-During nv
peregrinations this week L picked up the
following short interviews which will be Of
interest outside the metropolis:
JAY DURHAM, business manager Julia
Marlowe-Miss Marlowe is on the road to
early recovery from her long and severe ILL
ness. 1t is probable that she will return to
work in March. The prior dates were can
celled. The company was disbanded and
some of the leading people engaged with
other companies; but we will have no
trouble in recognizing. There Is no truth
in the stories to the effect that she has
broken her contract with Falk, the photo
grapher, who has been her hacker, though
some of Miss Marlowe's friends have been
urging her to do so. Falk's contract
covers next season. He has paid her
5000 week right along during
her entire illness and is paying it to-day.
She is lovely and talented young woman,
and has a great dramatic future, no matter
who handles her. In this connection 1 may
say that certain gilt-edged theatrical man
ayers cuftlv told Mr. Falk that they would
take his contract for Julia Marlowe off his
hands and reimburse him for the amount of
money he had spent upon her. This with
out consulting Mr.. Falk as to whether he
wished to give up the contract or not. Think
OF the feelings of man who had purchased
a piece of property for say $40, 900, and the
property having increased within couple Of
years under good management to be worth
$4,000 when some other real estate speculator
demands the title deeds to the same on the
ground that he was ready TO reimburse the
owner IL the amount of the original purchase.
Apropos of this Mary Shaw, the actress. said:
I'm not surprised to hear that Julia Marlowe
intends going back on Falk, the photographer,
who put up money for her last season, and TO
star next season under the management of L.
Henry French. It's very rare that an actress
remains with the hacker vino rsked his money
OIL her when she was beginner and unknown.
After an actress has made a certain reputation
she goes in for some well-known gilt-edged
manager was in Boston the other day and
met Eben Plympton hurrying to catch train.
Where are you going, Plym?' 1 asked To
my country place. said lie. What do you call
itT l asked. Insultngton.' said he; for it was
bought with money earned playing with Julia
Marlowe and bearing her insults"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
Rider Haggard at Dinner.

HORACE STOKES, man-about-town-I was
present at dinner given in honor of Rider
Haggard, the novelist and his wife by wealthy
gentleman uptown last week. The dinner was
for 63O. but Mr. Rider Haggard didn't show up
till z. When the novelist did present himself
his boots were muddy and ever ything but his
hair was rutfied. He appeared to be in revery
during the dinner, and was highly uninterest-
ing. His conversation consisted of "Ah real
lysw and hens and haws. He ran his hand
continually through his carefully barbered
hair. ~ was late" he explained, 'because 1
had to como in one of your tramways on stilts,
you know" The other guests had come in
"a hs and carriaCes