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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

into gardening. His articles had to be car
ried on a pack train, and he walked 450
miles and located his garden near Boise
City. His garden proSpered, and he was
soon selling cabbages BY the thousands
st % cents 4 head. aud his potato crop in one
year netted him S22, 600. He kept up his
gardening for three years and made money
at it right along. His profits enabled him
70 60 into other businesses, and he is now
one Of the well-to-do men of the West.
A Patriotic Genius
He has been an influential man in Idaho
for years, and like most OF these Western
Senators, he seems to think that the whole
United States revolves around his new State.
and that eventually it will be the greatest
place agricnlturaliy and otherwise in the
Union. He says it has the biggest mine in
the world, and carries a lithograph of this
mine about with him to prove to strangers
he is telling the truth. 1t is called the De
Lamar Mine, and It produces $50, 900 worth
of gold and silver q month, with prospect
of its increasing its yield vastly in the
future.
Senator Mcconnell says the panhandle of
Idaho is the finest agricultural region in the
United States, and he tells stories about its
wheat productions which, II true, would
almost enable the owners of the land to get
Of 10 and IL, which are said to hold good in
Kansas. He says that there are hundreds
OF acres of wheat in the panhandle which
turn out 40 bushels per acre right along, and
he relates an incident which occurred in a
sleeping car upon which he was travelling
through Idaho this fall. Said he:
Took the Starch Out.
There were two skeptical Eastern men
IN the berth opposite me and 1 overheard
one talking to the other. They were discuss
ing Western men and Western stories, and
one OF them said: These Westerners are
the most accomplished liars in the world.
They try to pretend that they have lands
out here that will produce 60 bushels of
wheat to the acre. 1 let them 20 on, and
heard them laugh more and more as they
went along about the big wheat stories. At
last broke into the conversation. Gentle
men, said I, Il am Westerner, and sup
pose am something of liar, and do not
know but that I may be something Of a
gambler. know that am liar enough to
say that we have right here in this country
which we are passing through. land which
will not only produce 60 but 100 bushels of
wheat TO the acre.
''Herest both Of the Fasteners laughed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
TIME ON THE ROAD.
The Less That Is Spent There the
Greater Is Human Happiness.
WHAT. RAPID TRANSIT MEANS.
Bellamy's Ideas Alarm the Owners Of Elec-
trio Light Plants.
TELEPHoNINa ORDERS TO SERVANTS

rPRxPARED FOR THE pIsPArcH.l
The editor of the foremost electrical jour
nal of this country thus summaries the
social advantages of "rapid transit"
"By its agency the smallest city in the
country is at once given command it never
had before over the territory around it.
The smallest storekeeper or the humblest
clerk can revel in the sweets of rural life if
he wish. His electric car, running at 15 or
20 miles an hour, will give him more of
home life-a few more golden minutes with
the children in the morning, an earlier re-
turn to the wife at nightfall. The whole
social atmosphere of the place is vivifed
and the social bonds are knit closer, as they
always must inevitably be where the facili-
ties of travel are increased and the oppor-
tunities OF intercourse are multiplied. Nor
is this all. Rapid transit of this nature
opens up number of districts that before
were practically inaccessible for residential
purposes.
"There are few of us who care to prsctice
the ancient form of dissipation known as
early rising. agreeing rather with Charles
Lamb in the idea that to rise with the lark
or to 60 to bed with the sheep is popular
fallacy. There are still fewer of US who, for
the sake of rural delights, care to isolate
and immure ourselves in remote suburbs
reached with difficulty. In vacation time.
it is true. we often seek the loneliness of the
woods or the solitude of the mountains, that
we may commune with nature and hear the
still, small voice of our better self; but when
we are doing the worlds work 80 weeks in
the year, we want to be handlly situated for
reaching our desk or bench. II q man lives
in the city he pays a high rent and
takes Irish views of the landlord question.
If he lives far out and wastes his time
in travel he is in hearty sympathy
with the eight-hour movement. I look
upon electric roads, therefore, as likely to
prove beneficial agency in the more equal
distribution of happier population around
any center, thus increasing the return on
outlying property, while, by the encourage
ment of retail trade, enhancing the profit of
the area lying within the region thereafter
more legitimately restricted to business oc-
cupancy.
81 have watched with much interest the
manner in which electric roads have already
thus developed suburban areas. Booms are
not particularly healthful features of prog
ress, but they may be, and not infrequently
are, genuine and real; and I know nothing
more likely to bring on a real estate boom
of the best character with permanent re-
suits than the installation of well-managed
electric road, enabling a man to leave his
work at 6 o'clock, and be sitting down to
his supper seven or ten miles out, if he
wish, under his own roo-tree, at $50"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
New Magneto-Telephope.

A new magneto-telephone gives promise
of being largely used In England. The in
vention consists Of an arrangement for COM
bining telephone for domestic purposes
with crank bell-pull, such as is ordinarily
met with in houses; and the special merit in
it lies in the fact that it may be fitted with
out disturbing any Of the existing arrange
ments or requiring skilled workman to be
sent to fix it. Indeed, any man OF ordinary
intelligence may fit it for himself without
trouble. A similar telephone being fitted,
say, In the kitchen, a bell Is used In the
usual way to call the servants attention,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

his .aIr ate luaS reminds me Of the mar
tyred President. He is blunt and Western
In his manner, and is apparently a good
business man. Washington and his new
position have by no means overawed him,
and judge that he has sufficient amount
OF that assurance and push which will make
him success here before the departments.
His seli-reliance has been gained by lite
OF hard knocks. He was born in Michigan,
and had graduated at an academy there
when he decided to start West and seek his
fortune. This was IN 1860. He LEFT for Chi
cago with goodly sum in his pocket, the
total Of his possessions. During the night
he spent in Chicago, however, he was
robbed. He woke one morning to find his
pocketbook missing, and just enough spare
change left to get him to Leavenworth, Kan,
which then formed the starting point for
many Of the immigration trains going West
ward.
He Captured CIothier.
He stepped of the boat at Leavenworth
without a cent in his pocket, and as he
walked up the street be was accosted by
clothier who caught hold of him and asked
him to come in ana buy suit OF clothes.
II don't need any clothes" replied McCon-
ne" and besides you don't know how to
sell clothes anyhow. l can sell more goods
In day than you can in a week, and If you
Will give me chance 1 will show you."
This rough address captured the elothier,
who was good-natured fellow and he con-
tinued the talk with Mcconnell and finally.
at the latter's proposition, offered him his
board as long as he stayed in Leavenworth
ii he would sell for him. He made up bed
Tor him in the back part of the store and
allowed him to sell some things on his own
account, SO that within a few davs McCon-
mel had earned some money and felt ready TO
push on toward the West. In looking about
Tor chance TO go he found q man who
wanted wagon train driven to Salt Lake
City. Mcconnell told the man he was an
accomplished muIe-driver, and, though he
had never held the reins behind mule, he
got the job.
Made a Dollar a Day.
The train consisted of big canvas covered
wagon to which were harnessed six mules,
Mcconnell drove these ali the way to Salt
Lake City. 1t took 81 DAYS to make the
trip and he got 81 day. This money made
him feel quite rich, and when be arrived at
Salt Lake he was ready to push on to Cali
fornia and the gold fields. He engaged in
mining In California, and was doing very
well when waShout and a food swept
away all his prospects.
In the meantime he had noticed that eyery-
one who owned farm or garden in the
vicinity Of the California mines made money
out OF it 1t struck him that the same thing
might be done in Idaho, and be put what
money be had saved into farming imple-
ments and seeds AM started eastward 20 go
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
Electric Light Should Be Covered.

The correspondent Of an English paper
states that on consulting an eminent ocu-
list for an affection Of the eyes. he found
that the consulting rooms of the physician
were crowded with persons suffering from
irritation of the retina and other affections,
caused by having exposed the eye to the un-
protected electric light. He goes on to say
that to be harmless to the eye, the electric
light should be guarded in one of three
ways-either with frosted white glass. opal
tinted covers or surmounted with colored
fringe-so that the eve can never see it, cut
or ef1orescent glass covers being objection
able and dangerous.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
cANApA,s TRADE RELATIONS.
The Story of the interference Of the Impe
rial Government Untrue

Tho Story of the interference Of the Imp .
rial Government Untrue.
TORONTO, Jan. 1.-THE Empire, the
Government organ, says: 'The statement
published by the Toronto Mail to the effect
that the Dominion Government has been re-
quested by the Imperial Government to en-
deavor to arrange matters in dispute between
Canada and the United States on the basis
of wide measure or commercial reciproc-
ity is not true.
On the contrary it is learned from the
best sources that the Canadian Government
has recently been approached by the United
States Government with a view to the de-
velopment of the trade relations between
the two countries, and that the Canadian
Government has requested the advice of Her
Majesty's Government on the subject.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

and upon her taking up the telephone the
order is transmitted without rendering it
necessary for her to enter the room. The
telephones being magnetic instruments no
battery is required at all, and the possibility
of future trouble and cost of maintenance is
avoided.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
A Thousand ON q Gard.

''At the great game at Saratoga called the
Cuban Game,'" says Major Crump, 'Thave
seen Pierre Lorillard win SIS, 900 in Is min
utes. He never played less than 81. 900 on
a single card, and no man need play this
game with hope to win unless he has prac-
tically unlimited capital; but the best way
to beat faro-and this is my opinion as an
old gambler-is to let the game alone"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
A Silent AppeaI for Helm.

When your kidneys and bladder are inactive,
they are making silent appeal for help Don't
disregard it, but with Hostetters Stomach Bit
ters safely impel them to activity. They are in
imminent danger, and it is foolhardiness to
shut ones eyes to the fact Be wise in time,
too, If you experience Manifestations Of dys-
nerve trouble. The Bitters before meal adds
zest tn #
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
Multipolar Low-Speed Motors.

The principal elevator builders in New
York are adopting the multipolar low-speed
motor for the operation of the pumps Of
hydraulic elevators. Some of these low
speed machines are being connected direct
to the screw shaft of passenger elevators,
while some are belted to power elevators In
the ordinary manner. The motors are
equipped with self-oiling bearings and with
self-feeding carbon brushes. by which all
the trouble sometimes experienced by at
tendants unfamiliar with motors is obviated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
A Fixture.

Prof. ]. T. Little, expert optician, is per-
manently located with Biggs & Co., jewel
ers, Smithfeld and Sixth avenue. Con-
sultation free.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

CALLED last night
on Mr.. Alexander
Mcconnell, the new
Senator from Idaho.
He is a stocky, broad
shouldered, full
chested man of about
Is. He has hair and
beard very much like
those of Garfield, and
there is q look about
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

SPECIAL low prices this week for fine um.
brellas. --latest styles at Hauch's, No. 20,
Fifth avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

During the last Exposition Mr.. McFate. of
Wurtemburg. Lawrence county. consulted me
for nasal obstruction, supposed to be due to
catarrh, as he had the usual catarrhal symp-
toms. An examination revealed both nostrils
filled with clusters Of gelatinoId tumors. l ad-
vlsed extirpatiOn, anu inside or 30 minutes had
both nostrils free with but very little pain and
loss Of blood. 1 had him visit the office next
morning to note the result, when he said he
hadn't spent such q comfortable night for q
long time and couldn't find words to express
his gratitude.
A few weeks ago Mr.. Porter Of the same
town, was sent to me by Mr.. McFate, as he was
troubled the same way, excepting that his
trouble was confined to nasal obstruction, his
general health being good. cleared both nos
trils in the same manner with like results. Mr..
Porter called next day and said his brother-ln-
law. with whom he spent the night, noticed he
had lost his nasal twang as soon as he spoke to
him.
TREATMENT s5 A MONTH, MEDICINE
INCLUDED.
Office of DR.. Byers, No. 421 Penn av. Estab-
hshed 1885. Specialties, catarrh. all nervous,
blood and skin diseases, all chronic diseases.
Patients treated successfully by mail Hours,
till 4, Z till g. Sundays and all holidays, fore
noononly. jal7-ssu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

ALL kinds of furniture reupholstered.
HAUGH & KEENAN,, SO Water street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

FOR coughs and throat disorders use Browns
Bronchial TrFches.-'Have never changed my
that which l began thinking well of.''-Rev,
Henry Ward Beecher Sold only in boxes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
Both Are Self-Made Men, and They
Have Careers That head Like
First-Class Romances.
sHOUP WAS AN INDIAN FIGHTER.
Mcconnell Drove Mules for a Dollar Day
and Then Got Rich Raising PO-
tatOes and Cabbages.
JUSTICE BROWN on THE BENCH.
stOriss Of cockrs Vest Tui,, TIE socksss stst,smsn
and Others.

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE p1sPArcH.I
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

WE COMMENCE TOMORROW MORNING
OUR ANNUAL INVENTORY SALE, AN
INTERESTING OCCASION FOR ECONOM-
ICAL BUYERS. THE OLD CORNER WILL
BLAZE WITH, BARGAINS
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-08

( If we could have known that we were
going in the right direction there would
have been so little encouragement to per
severe; but when we considered that the
chances were equal to our getting stu
farther away from the point we wished
to reach, there seemed no reason tor
this exertion, and we sat down COM
pieteiy disheartened
well. darling. it will be rs God wills!
| sighed Il have no other consolation
to offer
And am to be punished for my
boastful presumption, in the suffering OF
one whose life is dearer to me than my
own
80, Sibyl darling. you must not accuse
yourself, for that fortunes mel! cried |.
'.Our being here is one of those mistor-
times which were to be. We have reached
a point where the air seems less poison
Gus, and we may possibly exist here for
days. and who knows what time may
do, when there are SO many anxious
souls above who will not rest day or
night till they shall have explored the
mine in search of the living and the
dead?'
In that ray less darkness we could not
make note of time, nor tell whether it
were day or night in the world above,
We only knew that, after a long period,
we began to feel the pansH of hunger
and thirst; that we gradually grew
weaker that we slept at times; and that
at last we began to have strange sensa-
tions in our brains. and see dancing
lights and phantoms, and wonder in
vague sort of way, whether we were
tenants of this world or the other.
That is the last | remember till found
myself in room on a bed weak as an
infant, and numbers Of anxious friends
standing around me- Even then my first
thought was of my dear companion,
and my first words were an inquiry for
her When assured that she was safe,
remember feeling as if | were in heaven,
and ut once fell of into a dreamless
sleep.
subsequently learned that we both
had been found, after three days
search, in an unconscious state, and that
of all the parties as far down in the
mine as ourselves, we were the only
ones brought to the surface alive. One
hundred and nine persons had persisted
in that awful explosion, and the whole
village was in mourning.
| have only to add that my dear Sybil
and both recovered, and in time re-
gained our health, and that she is now
my loving wife. True Flag
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-08

In the botanical department of Cornell
university there have recently been
made some very curious experiments in
the cultivation of plants under electric
light. A number of flowers ana vege-
tables have been placed where the rays
of powerful electric lamps fall upon
them night and day, and their growth ia
compared with that Of others of their
own species planted at the same time
and under similar conditions except in
the matter of light.
The first and most noticeable effect of
this treatment is an enormously increased
rate of growth. The plants which are
lighted seem to work day and night, and
to become especially luxuriant in foliage.
The vegetables shoot forward with
great quickness, peas, for instance, which
become In IA few weeks two or three
times as tall as their brethren living by
common daylight; and the same thing is
true of all the plants.
When 1t came to seeds or fruit of any
sort, the matter was entirely different.
Here the plants which had grown slowly
and by daylight were ahead 1t is true
that the pea which grew by electric light
came to bearing much sooner than the
other, but its hastily made pods had very
few peas, often only one, and those of an
inferior quality.
In every instance the reproductive
powers of the plant seemed to have been
most strongly affected, being sacrificed to
mere foliage and rapidity of increase in
general size.-Youth's Companion.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-08

1t Is asserted that the smallest screws
known are those used in the production
OF watches Thus, the fourth Jewel
wheel screw comes very near 5eing in
visible to the naked eye, looking. when
viewed by a person OF ordinary Gift of
eyesight, like small speck of dust
With a glass it is seen to be a small but
perfect screw, with threads so fine that
II would take $50 of them to wind
around the little speck of wire to the
distance of half an inch. These minute
mechanical atoms are but the forty one
thousandth OF an inch in diameter and
Tess than the ten thousandth of an inch
III length A lady's thimble of the or
a .dn size, say a No. 7, would hold
loO, ooo OF these little but useful specks
OF brass. st. Louis Republic.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-08
IDAHO
Herbert spencer in New Character.

Herbert Spencer In a New Character.
One evening few years ago Duncan
and Donald, residents by the side of
Loeb Rannoch, sauntered into the pub
lie place of refreshment. They had
been fishing all day with fly, and had
caught only a few small trout. There
fore they were very much surprised to
see, on table in the lobby a large
basket full of lovely fish, apparently
fresh from the water. Answering Dun
can the landlord stated that the trout
had been taken that very day by gen
tleman staying at the hotel, who, on
coming in, had remarked that he had
been using worm.
The landlord proudly inclined his
head to a room on the ground floor, in
dicating that the successful sportsman
was within. A few minutes afterward
Duncan, who had not quite caught the
direction in which Bonii.D'e had tossed
his head went toward the room next
door, and, tapping for admission, asked
the waiter what was the shentleman's
name.
Mr. Herbert Spencer" the waiter
said
Come in" voice from the room
added, and soon Duncan stood in the
presence of the great thinker.
Master Spencer, sir, wull you give
me twa bait hooks2 have seen your
troots."
The philosopher looked at Duncan
In silence and surprise.
Duncan repeated his question.
My good man, the discounted phil
osopher at length managed to say, II
have no bait hooks.
Thereupon Duncan turned on his
heel and went away.
'Tonalt, he said, as he rejoined his
cronie in disgust, Herbert Spencer Is
a leein' devull ~ Rod and Gun.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-08
Destruction of French WoIves.

The French minister of agricultm
has published return showing that the
total number of wolves killed during
the past year was 701, and of these two
were wolves which had attacked human
beings, and for each of which a premium
Of 23 was paid; fourteen were 5 he wolves
with young, for each of which pre-
MUM Of f6 was paid; 3l5 were ordinary
wolves, for which premium of GA was
paid, and $40 cubs, for each of which a
premium of 32s. was paid. The total
amount paid in premiums was Ct ,92O, as
against 92,2S4 for $50 wolves in 1886,
and e2,620 for 900 in 1885. The depart
ment in which most wolves were de-
stroyed was the Dordogne QO9), the
gienne (50 and the Haute Vienne 90
Chicago Times
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-08

Dyspeptics Will do well to observe the
following general rules: Live on tive
meals day If possible Never eat tc
excess. Estimate as nearly as you can
the actual needs of the system, and limit
the quantity of food to them, remember.
ing that one grows weak if he eats toe
much. Eat slowly and masticate all
food even longer and more thoroughly
than healthy person careful of his di-
gestlon would do. Quite dry foods, as a
rule, are best suited to dyspeptics, who
should drink sparingly with their meals.
Some can take ice water in very small
quantities without being disturbed by
it, but generally it retards digestion.
And the same Is true of all cold drinks.
Warm ones suit most dyspeptics best,
and very little weak tea, if properly
made, is not Mt all likely to do any harm.
The food should be neither very hot nor
very cold. Properly, it should be about
blood warm. Every one knows from
experience just what foods distress
them, and what are well borne: of course.
the former should be excluded from the
diet.-Bostou Herald
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-08
DR. Abbotss Amcnde Honorable.

The newspapers also mirror life as it is.
They report in full all the murders,
crimes and horrors that happen around
US wish they would not give so much
space to these things. Often when we
want a small Meissonnier cabinet picture
we get broad, startling painting, done
with the brush of a scene painter 1t is
said that the newspapers of today do not
tell the truth, and | think there is not
one Of us who has not seen at some time
OF other in his evening Eagle reports
about himself which he thinks are not
correct, but when we consider that the
newspapers now take in the whole
world, marvel that they are correct as
they are. There is as much truth in them
as there is in the preaching. Laughter
and applause. Lyman Abbott at Frank
Unite Dinner.