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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-10-02

Land Once Ct Haley. Idaho.l
SEPT. u. 1891.
Notice 10 hereby given thas The following. named
settler hae Aled notice Of hts Sntenttou 70 mold
Anal proof II support Of hts claim, and thst esid
psOOS will be ms0s before the Register and Re
ceiveE at Haley. idaho. % Ost0bse %, 1901, Wis
WILLIAM TRlCKI,
for the swA Bee. 10. Up I sosth. =. 10 ssst.
He nam the following Witnesses ~ prove his
continu"us sesidsncs upoa. snd cultivation Of,
said land. viz:
0igls Hosrsll. ". @. 0usry, md Je4ry Peel
Of CSichtOn. Idaho, and
Aicnssl Ferris Of Haley. Idaho.
". T. RILEY.
Register.
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THE SECRET OF GOOD WORK.

Some years ago was brought in contact
with colored man. He was nothing but a
cobbler. He said himself he was not o
decent shoemaker, and con testify to that
from some experience of his work. But II
not elegantly done, it was thoroughly done;
and that was the point. He told me that
when lie became too old and crippled to
work in the field and house he took to COT
bling. I said to him:
MY friend. after this cobbling on earth Is
done. how about that other world? HIVE
YOU any hope for a better world?"
.'Ah, master" suid he, II am nothing. az
told you, but poor cobbler; but, l feel,
when sit here and work at my stool. that
the good Master is looking at me, and when
take stitch it is stitch. and when put
on beel-tap it is not paper, but good
leather"
It is not the work we do upon earth that
makes the whole of life. but it is the way in
which we do that work-it is the motive.
Thou God seest ."-[Christian al Work.
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Awful Slaughter OF Timber.

An alarmed dealer in lumber tells the
Paducah (Ky.) Ne0s that it will not be
ten years before "the supply OF logs will
be hard problem to solve" he says
the timber along the Tennessee and
Cumberland Rivers is fast being cut out:
1.-THE supply of everything is exhaust
able. The slaughter of timber in Ken
lucky and Tennessee is something awful.
Our oalze hickory, ash, gum, poplar and
other valuable woods are rapidly follow
ing the track of the black walnut, which
is now nearly extinct as an article Of
commerce. Other trees will grow up in
the place of those that are destroyed in
some sections, but it takes at least full
generation for any of the varieties to
mature into merchantable timber, and
some of them will require more than
generation to do it. In other sections
the young trees are being wasted in the
most shameful manner"
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HOW TO BE HAPPY.

The pursuit Of happiness as the chief end
of being is sure to lead to disappointment
It is well for US to know that we are to be
surrounded with evils which are inevitable
in this ruined world, and which shall maj
the best estate. Sickness. pain, fear, losses:
and hurtful mistakes which We have made.
Then what we suffer by sympathy with our
friends. and in the bereavement OF them.
Also in our social relations we must bear ouI
part of the wrongs brought upon it by hu-
man imperfection or by wicked intentions.
There is no hiding-place where we can fly
away and be quite happy.
Our ruined state and partial allevlations
of it are indicated by the words which we
use to express our estimate of the best con-
dtions of human life-safety, rest, peace
hope, etc. They declare our danger. and our
toll, and our strife, and also our expectation
of deiiverance. 1t is the forecast Of the gos-
pei written upon the pages Of our lives,
token Of redemption.
It is no solution of the problem to say
that the tone of our happiness must be IN
our own hearts. Our hearts are as much
out of tune as the outward conditions OF our
lives. There is 10 reliable source Of happl-
ness to any one. One joy is III what we es-
cape. in the alleviations Of inevitable ills
and the partial relief which comes with them.
The delightful glow OF lire on the hearth
is in proportion to the darkness and storm
without. The shipwrecked mariner is happy
if be has saved his compass, chronometer
and quadrant. The family; is happy, before
their burning dwelling if they can clasp all
their dear ones saved from the flames.
In all the ills Of life some relief may be
looked for, some alleviation. or the end
hoped for. It is not in vain TO seek relief
and to hope no i'll. Many of the triaing ills
of life may be escaped by having something
to do, and the greater sorrows may be allevi-
ated. And he makes himself happy who
makes others happy by useful labor: Yet in
all the evils Of this life and the partial allevi-
ation of them the Christian may rejoice.
Tribula.ions work patience and experience,
and hope. All things shall not only end
well, but shall work together for good. That
love Of Christ which is the only fountain Of
all happiness is interchangeable. The only
true and enduring happiness is that which
comes from belief in Gods Word and trust
in his promises. 1t is limited and imperfect,
az our faith is imperfect, but it is not uncer..
tain. 1t rests on the Interchangeable love OK
God as revealed in Christ Jesus. Mr..
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DeTt war to Detect DAD COIn.

A well-known restaurant keeper was
observed last night to courteously return
a customer an alleged silver dollar and
advised him to 60 back to the man who
palmed it off on to him.
"How did you know so easily it was
bad2" he was asked.
"By the feel. If you keep your hands
dry you need never take in q bad dollar
in ten years. If very hot weather, when
your thumb and fingers p1espire, there IS
little danger, for with wet fingers or
wet coin the shiny feel of bad coin can
not be so easily detected. With paper
money there is no difficulty and risk,
but it is months since I got a bad bill
left on my hands. The silk thread test
is one of the very best, and there is
something in the texture that is very
hard to beat. l once paid big fee to
learn how to tell bad money from good,
but experience after all is the only re-
liable instructor. st. Louis Star Sayings.
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SHOW US WHAT YOU ARE

Do it now! Begin. Begin! You
Mean to-" That won't take you far;
II the thing is there and in you,
Show US what you are
Future statesmen, preacher, poet,
Playwright, leader of the bar
You may. but we do not, know it.
Show us what you are!
Leave off dreaming. liz and ''and"-ing,
Gazing at a distant star;
The worlds not waiting while you're stand
ing;
Show US what you are!
Set your lofty genius working;
Take task, to make or mar;
Fame nor wealth are won by shirking;
n Show us what you are
If you're abler, noDler, stronger
Than the rest of us by far,
Z Don't just think so any longer;
Show rs what you are!
Arthur Gundry. in BeJords Magazine
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TRUST IN GOD.

There is rare story told Of the Holy Ben
gel, whose monument is the Greek Testa.
ment, the result of diligent comparing OF
all the ancient manuscripts, that not one
grain of truth should be lost. He died in
1852.
A friend on bis journey, lodging for one
night in BengePs house, knowing his Chris
tian character we'll, wished to hear his eve
ming prayer. Busted with his great work,
Bengel sat up late, while his friend waited,
weary though be was, till nearly midnight.
At last Bengel kneeled beside bis chair. and
with reverent tones he spoke to his Lord.
The dear Master. whose words he had been
pouring over, with heart always up'Ifted for
the teaching of the Holy Spirit. from the
early morning until now, scarce asking time
for refreshment, ''esteemiug the words OF his
mouth more than his necessary food" he
knew was very near him. And thus he spake
to him: Lord Jesus. things are just the
same between u.s." and laid himself to rest.
At the first reading Of this story, great as
was the reverence for The man of God. did
not like it. The words seemed so brief so
unbeftting all creatures need before his
Creator God. that-shall I say it?-tht y a.
most savored Of irreverence. But as 1t was
often recurring and turned over in thought.
this impression passed away. Like passage
of holy writ, it broadened shone with a
deeper, truer. reverential meaning: and 80,
from scarce liking it, it has become treas.
ured thought. and oft-repeated prayer.,
Yes! it is one of Gods thoughts; and how
"precious are His thoughts unto His children,
how great is the sum Of them!' See you not:
Here is the rock of Gods unchangeableness.
81 change not,' he said to his wanderers.
"therefore ye are not consumed You may
waver; change not You may wander; |
am ever the same. fou may forget; l will
never forget thee. The uachanging God Of
the Old Testament is "Jesus Christsthe same
yesterday, today and forever" of the New
How blessed he who can thus calmly com.
nit himself to one on whose Interchangeable.
ness he can so perfectly repose that be will
feel that this Interchangeable God is ''his rock,
his fortress and his deliverer. his Cod in
whom be can trust forever, and so ''be kept
in perfect peace because his mind is stayed
on him."-[Christian Intelligencer.
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A Real Nice Young Man.

Friend-To be frank with you. !
can't see how Mrs. Hardcash happened
to consent to your marriage with her
daughter.
Mr.. Slimpurse-She said I was the
only young man who showed any con-
federation for mothers feelings. You
see, when the other fellows took her
daughter out riding, they seldom got
her back until after dark; but when !
took her, I always brought her hume
promptly in an hour.
"Humph! How was that?"
THE other fellows had their own rigs
I hired mine" York Weekly.
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WE SHOULD BIZ HOLY.

Albert Barnes has we'll and forcibly said !:
"A man who has been redeemed by the
blood of the Son of God should be pure. He
who is an heir of life should be holy. He
who is attended by celestial beings, and who
is soon-he knows not how soon-to be
translated to heaven, should be holy. Are
angels my a;tendants2 Then shouId walk
worthy of my companionship. Am so
soon to go and dwell with angels? Then l
should be pure. Are these feet soon to
tread the courts Of heaven? Is this tongue
soon to unite with heavenly beings in prais-
ing God? Are these eyes Of mine so soon to
look on the throne of eternal glory. and on
and ewes, and lips. should be pure and holy,
and 1 should be dead to the world, and live
for heaven
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RELIGIOUS READING,
LET HIM SHARE ALL.

LET HIM SHARE ALL.
Filled with anxiety
And pressed with heavy care
brought by load to God
For Him to bear.
Tenderly He lifted
The care that did annoy;
Instead of mourning, gave
The oil OF joy.
But, 10! the joy just given
Began to fade away
Like Jonah's gourd, thing
OF but day.
So to the Lord went,
And asked the reason why
This joy that He had given,
So soon should die.
Then. answering, He said,
Thou brougbtest Nc thy care
But didst not bring the joy
For Ne to share"
With tears Of penitence,
Forgive" cried,
t'Henceforth both cares and joys
We will divide"
Il Louie H. h. Bilbrough, in London Chris
tian.
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"As Long as Grass Grows"

Nathaniel Ferguson, who died recent
ly at Reading, Penn, was one of the
principal owners of the Robesonia fur
mace. This is still working under an
ore right purchased in 1898 from Peter
Grub, and for nominal sum this fur
mace is allowed to take all the ore it can
use ''as long as grass grows and water
runs" The property and rights are
very valuable. e.-Piladelphia Record.
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E,aconn IustIce,

"Why did you shoot the PLAINTIFF
dog?"
SBecause he tried to bite me.
"Even dog is entitled to ftir trial
You should only have tried to shoos
him. twenty-five dollars. "-AnsrtcaS
Grocer. @
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ne carried q SW0rG

Bluster Ito an opponent with whom
be had been holding an angry discus
sion)-Be careful of your language to
me, sir!
Opponent-What for?
Biuster-I hold to the code. Re-
member, carried a sword during the
war.
Opponent-Yes, I recollert. You
carried it in Knights Temrlar pro-
cession.-Teras Sittings.
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HOPE is itself species Of happiness,
and perhaps the chief happiness thI
world >fsords. .--SanoaIel Johns on
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A transaustralian railroad Is being
talked of il the colony.
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then committed crime again. and was
brought up before the same judge, and he
said, You rascalr And after while l
committed some other crime, and 1 was
You ought to be hanged" That was all
they had done for him in the way ofreforma-
ton and salvation. 'Oh," you say, "these
people are incorrigible." I suppose there
are hundreds of persons this day lying in the
prison hunks who would leap up at the
prospect of reformation if society would
only allow them a way into decency and
respectahiity. -.
"Oh," you say, 81 have no patience with
much much better % would you have been under the
same circumstances? Suppose your mother
had been blasphemer and your father a
sot, and you had started life with body
stuffed with evil proclivities, and you had
spent much Of your time in cellar amid
obscenities and cursing, and If at ten years
of age YOU had been compelled to 60 out and
steal, battered and banged at night if you
came in without any spoils, and suppose
your early manhood and womanhood had
been covered with rags and filth. and decent
society had turned its back upon you, and
left you to consort with vagabonds and
wharf rats-how much better would you
have been? have no sympathy with that
executive clemsncy which would let crime
run loose, or which would s1J In tho gallery
of court room weeping because some hard.
hearted wretch is brought to justice; but l
do say that the safety and life of the COM
munity demand more potential influences In
behalf of public offenders.
In some Of the city prisons the air Is like
that Of the Black Hole Of Calcutta. have
visited prisons where as the air swept
through the wicket, it almost knocked me
down. No sunlight. Young men who had
committed their first crime crswded In
among old offenders saw in Ole prison q
woman, with a child almost bIsnd, who ha
been arrested for the crime o1poverty, VIII
was waiting until the slow law could TAX
belonged; but she was tl1E in there witt
her child amid the nose~ kdoned wretche
of the town. Many Of the( 6enders in tina
prison selpt on the floor. vita nothing but
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work-sleeping at night at public ex-
pense in the station house; during the day
getting their food at your doorstep. !a-
prisonment ioes not scare them. they
would like It, Blackwelrs Island or Sing
Slug would be comfortable home for tkem.
They would have no objection to the aims
house, for they like thin soup II they can
not get mock turtle
Iproposs this for them: On one side or
them put some healthy work; on the other
side put rawhide, and let them take their
choice. I like for that class OF people the
scant bill Of fare that Paul wrote out for
the Thessalonian loafers, IF any work not
neither should he eat" By what law OF
God or man is it right that you and should
toll day in and day out, until our hands are
blistered and our arms ache and our Drain
gets numb, and then be called upon to sup
port what in the United States are about
two million loafers. They are very danger
GUS class. Let the public authorities keep
their eyes on them.
Again, among the uprooting classes 1 place
the oppressed poor. Poverty to certain
extent Is Christening, but after that, when 1t
drives a man to the wall, and he hears his
children cry in vain for bread, 1t sometimes
makes him desperate. I think that there are
thousands of honest men lacerated into vaga-
,bondism. There are men crushed under
burdens for which they are NOT nail paid.
While there is no excuse for cr1minanty,
even in oppression, state it as simple 1act
that much of the scoundrelism Of the COM
.munity is consequent upon ill-treatment;
There are many men and women battered
and bruised and stung until the hour OF de-
lspair has come. and they stand with the
rerocity Of wild beast which, pursued until
it can run no longer, turns round, roaming
and bleeding, to fight the hounds.
There is q vast underground New York
and Brooklyn life that is appalling and
shameful. It wallows and steams with Putre-
faction. You go down the stairs, which are
wet and decayed with filth, and at the bot
tom Won find the Door victims on the floor,
cold, sick, three-fourths dead, Sinking into
still darker corner under the gleam Of the
lantern of the police. There has not been
breath Of fresh air in that room for five
years literally. The broken sewer empties
Is contents upon them. and they lie at night
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A cola Weather Fsend.

There is specimen fiend abroad, IN
winter weather especially, whom it were
calumny to call human. The sole OBJ
ject for which this fend prowls the earth
is to steal up to you unawares and put
an icy hand on some exposed part of
your person with the inquiry, ''Aren't
my hands coldP' The shock is enough
to kill you, but it Is not the purpose of
your tormentor to put you to death
speedily. 1t is his purpose, rather, to
reserve you for experimental practice
Winter weather lasts in this climate
from four to five months, and he aims to
get in his fine work from two to three
times day for that period.
Often the iend Is related to you by
ties of consanguinity, and occasionally
he is on terms of intimacy that admit of
the dwelling beneath the same roof, but
neither ties of blood nor bonds of friend
ship can palliate his offense. There
should be a penalty fitted to the crime,
and in pondering the matter over, after
being victimized to the extent that l
jibbed at every football, and am regu-
lar symphony in goose flesh, have de-
cided that the only adequate punish
ment for such an offense against human
ity and good breeding is shotgun
Chicago Herald
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No Use for Modern Innov..iens.

Editor John jackson, of The Calais
Advertiser, is one of the few types of
the cid fashioned editor who is his own
printer, and strikes off his paper ON a
hand press with a pump handle, remain
it's fftieth volume. recently, and through
all those years Brother jackson has
written editorials, set type, worked the
pump handle and directed wrappers as
faithfully as if the fate Of the nation de
pended ON it Brother jackson is to be
pardoned for modestly congratulaing
himself on his stick-toit-iveness Long
may he wave the composing stick and
ink roller, and as he intimates that he
has not won riches in this world, may he
reap an exceeding reward in the next-
Bangor News.
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excursion noat. in wint,r.

The big feet of white painted, side
wheel summer excursion boats are in the
midst of their long winter rest at the
South Brooklyn basins Viewed from
the decks of the Thirty ninth street ferry
boat they form a picturesque spectacle
as they lie side by side or in long lines
among the tall masted black ocean sail
ing craft and steamships They are in
contrasting positions also with many
small and graceful yachts, which are
slumbering away the time until the
spring breezes will stretch their sails and
they viii skip out to see old ocean again.
Not all the iron steamships of the Coney
Island line are among the idle white
hulled sidewheelers. One of them at
least took the perilous and venturesome
voyage by ocean to Florida and, with a
band of music on board to tempt the
tourist to choose her ahead of her rival,
is daily making the trip from Jackson
vile to Palatka on the st. Johns river,
IN Florida. When with returning warm
weather the land of flowers ceases to al
lure and Coney Islands charms return
to bloom again, the long ocean trip in
the pleasure boat must. be taken again,
but it is safe to say not many will bid
for the task of reaching New York past
stormy Hatteras by that trip.-Brooklyn
Eagle
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is Disease a Punishment?

The following advertisement, published
by prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that they regard
disease as punishment for sin:
''Do you wish to know the quickest
way to cure sever cold? We will tell
you. To cure a cold qickly, it must be
treated before the cold has become set
tied in the system. This can always be
done if you choose to, as nature in her
kindness to man gives timely warning
and plainly tells you in natures way,
that as punishment for some indiscre-
ton, you are to be afflicted with cold
unless you choose to ward it off by
prompt action. The first symptoms of a
cold, in most cases, is dry, loud cough
and sneezing. The cough is soon followed
by profuse watery expectoration and
the sneeZing by a prosuse watery dis
charge from the nose. III severe cases
there is a thin white coating on the
tongue. What to do? 1t is only necessary
to take Chamberlain Cough Remedy in
double doses every hour. That will greatly
lessen the severity of the cold and in
most cases will efectually counteract it,
and cure what would have been severe
cold within one or two DAYS time. Try it
and be convinced" Fifty cent bottles for
sale by Snipes & Kinersley, druggists.
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scarcity Of w.t.r d ruro...


One of the greatest inconveniences
arising from the frost has been scarcity
OF water. No rain worth mentioning
has fallen since November, and the little
water arising from partial melting of
snow on two or three occasions has not
been abae to penetrate the frost bound
soai. Consequently, there has been
nothing to flush springs or fill ponds,
while in very many instances the pumps
attached to wells are frozen up. How
the autumn sown crops will emerge from
their winter quarters under the snow re-
mains to be seen, but it viii be sur
prlsing If they come out unscathed.
Tares and winter beans are likely to
suffer more than wheat.
For farmers who keep much live stock
the outlook Is not cheering, as the
chances of early feed are poor indeed. It
ls true that any promise of feed at this
period of the year, after q mild season, is
often delusive, but this year, when mild
weather comes, start VIII be made
with bare pastures and a very poor pros
pect for turniptops and early rye or
tares, So far as can be told at present,
however, market gardeners have suf-
fered more than farmers from the pro-
longed and severe frost, as great quanti-
ties of celery, broccoli and other vege-
tables have been injured or entirely
spoiled, and there is no chance of put
ting in early peas or beans.-London
Standard
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John DilIion in refined comedy.

Refined comedy, in this country has
never had a more urgent worker than
Mr.. Dillon. His characters in his va
rious plays are all true to nature, and
are seen in the every day walks of life
His classification of comedy eraces all
farcical and unnatural situations, and
sustains dignity above the average
horse-play features that invite the public
to legitimate theatre. Mr.. Dillon s
engagement in this city will be hailed
with delight by his old-time admirers,
and his popular comedy Wanted the
Earth" with its realistic situations,
brilliant features and pure comedy vein,
will undoubtedly meet with a warm re-
ception at the opera house tonight.