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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1893-06-24
MRS. AvERlLL.

man agents of the company were Deputy
Sheriff Herman Cowan and Dan Powers,
but the company was the prime mover and
in this wise:
The trust company is guardian of Mrs.
Mary d. Averill, a widow 10 years of age,
the mother of year-old baby girl. lie
Clear is 2S years old, has an estimable wife
and two pretty little children, and for six
months past had been devoting undue at
tention to the young widow, who seemed
infatuated with him. They had planned an
elopement. The trust company learned tho
particulars. and it's president, H. l.. Whitney,
employed the two agents to give lie Clear a
thrashing
They did it, and he promised to leave the
widow alone, but the promise was not kept,
as the woman planned to go to Chicago the
next day and was stopped at the depot. The
following morning the men found LIE Clear
on the principal business street and gave
him another drubbing. These stern meth
DDS had the desired effect. The woman sees
the error of her ways and promises refOrma-
ton. LIE Clear has had Deputy Cowan ar
rested for assault and has brought suit for
SO 900 damages against Whitney, Cowan
and Powers for his thrashing.
This is indeed new departure, and If
the courts sustain it aggrieved parties may
hereafter let out their jobs of revenge. AS
I'VE have Sugar trust, Oil trust, Cordage
trust and dozens more, why not Whipping
trust? Public opinion in Grand Rapids is
against LIE Clear, but his friends think the
woman should also have been chastised
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1893-06-24
MER CHANT TAILOR

l have opened up a shop
in Caldwell in Mr.. Stark's
building, and will keep a full
line Of samples and do all
kinds Of work, such as mend
ing, cleaning, altering for mer.
chants, etc. etc. Will do good
work and guarantee satisfac-
ton. Come i'll and be meas.
ured for a suit.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1893-06-24

! Hf de club ectf sau lcr han an tchacao
her on de nose
Yes, tank you, Cap'n Arle. De fac
Is ct hain't cut an slash like do dat
nasty sabbage OBJ she bar would or got
on de shelf an rip me inter ribbons in
jis' half or mint. jis' naturally hab to
take dc vantage like you see me do. Ef
Mistah Temple gwine ter git mad wit
me bout dom what KANT help bet-
ter not so on wifi de story, kaise dar's
lot mo- Of things what happen afore git
outer dat scrape dat make me feel bad
to dis day.
"Well, jerry" said Uncle Bob, Ego
on and tell the story in your own way"
Yes, sab, Mistah Temple, tank you.
Dat am de only way ! kin tell it, but /
s'picions dat yer gwine ter be mad wit
me ag'in afove gifts froo.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1893-06-24
ITO DE Continued

When canned lobster is used. on open
ing the contents of the can should be en-
tirely removed, for II a portion be left in
the can it Ii liable to contamination.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Extraordinary bookkeeping.

"Talking about bookkeeping" said
hlilt Brisbine, whom everybody knows,
to Press and Dakotan reporter yester-
day afternoon. ''thEfe Used 20 be man
in Yankton whose system of keeping &C.
counts was wonderfully efficient. He
kept hotel, and he could neither read
nor write. He did not know how to
spell his own name, but he did thriving
business and collected every dollar of his
accounts. Once, years ago, when first
came to this country, l went to his hotel
and stopped there two weeks. When
left he presented me with statement of
what owed him, and it was curiosity.
He had copied it from his ledger. Al
the top of the sheet there was q rude
picture of a soldier on the march, and
utter 1t three straight marks Then there
was scene showing man at table eat
ing. Then appeared bed with a man
in it. In the amount column there was
picture of u doll, and after it the two
letters RS. After the picture of the man
eating there were forty-two marks. After
the view OF man in bed there were
fourteen marks. looked at the 40.
count, then at the proprietor, and told
him it would take me week to answer
that conundrum. / was completely
stumped, and when that hotel man de-
ciphcred the account for me it was this:
"The picture of the soldier walking
meant March, and the three marks sup.
piled the date, March 8, when / began
boarding. The man at table with forty
two marks after it indicated that had
eaten forty-two meals. The man in bed
with fourteen marks showed that had
slept in the house fourteen nights. The
doll with RS after it meant dollars and
in the figure columns appeared the fig
ures IA, which was the amount l owed
him. And it was true bill."-[ Yank-
ton Press and Dakotan.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
How Elephants Drink.

In India domcstioated elephants are
usually given drink from large wooden
troughs filled with we'll water by means
Of pump, and it is commonly an ele
phant that fills this trough, says a writer
in the Manchester Times. Every morn
ing he goes regularly to his task. While
visiting friend at his fine residence in
India correspondent of n paper saw
II large elephant engaged Ill pumping
such trough full OF water. lie con-
tinues: "1n passing noticed that one of
two trco trunks which supported the
trough Mt either end had rolled from its
plnce, so that the trough, still elevated
ut one extremity, would begin to empty
itself rs soon rs the water reached the
level of the top at the other end, which
lay on the ground. / stopped to see if
the elephant would discover anything
wrong. Soon the water began to run off
at the cud which had lost its support.
The animal showed signs of perplcxity
when he saw this, but as the end nearest
him lacked much of being full he con-
tinucd to pump. Finally, seeing half tho
water continued to pass off. he left the.
pump handle and began to consider the
phenomenon. lie seemed to find it diff
cult to explain. Three times he re-
turned to his pumping aud three times
lie examined the trough. l was an ab-
sorbed looker-oD, impatient to sec wba.
would DO done. Soon lively Tapping
Of the ears indicated the dawning Of
light. lie went aud smcled Of the tree
trunk which had rolled from under tho
trough. thought for amomcu. that hc
was going to put il in its plGcs nrnin
But it was not, as soon understood. the
cud which ran over that d., ,rbcd h;s
mind, but the end which he '."l il IN.
possible to fill. Raising tho - ugh,
which he then allowed t0 5cst tor au "A.
slant upon ono Of his huge feet. hs .oIlct,
away the second supporting log with his
trunk aud then st The trough. down, so
that 1T rested a. uOtb ends on ,be ground.
lie then returned TO the rump aud com.
plcted his task.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

''The most disastrous result of tho
recent financial troubles upon tho busi-
ness of California was the effect upon
its extensive f,dit growing industry, I"
says Thomas H. Williams, the San
Francisco millionaire. s'The fruit
growers were unable to secure loans
from the banks to enable them even to
pick the fruit in their orchards. It
had in many cases, consequently, to be
left to rot upon the trees. I should
think the State must have lost over
$4,000 through this alone. Apar t
from this the prosperity of California
has been affected very little by the
'stringency in the money market. But
one bank has failed, and that was
owing to gross mismanagement, If not
something worse. All the other banks
have. plenty of money. Loans have at
all times been procurable on really
good security showing fair margin"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Making Glass Eyes.

In Thuringia there is whole district
which is dependent for its support on
the manufacture of artificial eyes; hus-
bands, wives and children all working
together at this same means Of livelihood.
And yet, though these simple German
village people turn out their produce by
the dozen, no two eyes arc ever the same
No artificial eye has its exact fellow
either in color or in size in the whole
world. The method of manufacture is
not very complicated art. There are
firstly glass plates. which are blown by
gas jets, then moulded by hand into tho
form of an oval-shaped cup. Then there
is the coloriug of the eyes, which is
effected by the means of tracinL with
fine needles, the tints being left to the
taste of the individual worker. though
the scope Of their taste is necessarily
limited to grays and blues, and browns
and blacks, which colors are assorted
together before being eventually dis
patched to thir various destinations.
Hardware.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Bread and Dyspepsia.

The conclusion that wneit bread is
unfit for dyspeptics, sometimes jumped
at because i'll effects are notic.:d to follow
its use, is erroneous. On the contrary,
it has been pointed out by Bcuchard aud
others that farinaceous food 10 peculiarly
adapted to some dyspeptic paticuts. II
is the microbes in the starch, which il -.
pablc of producing irritating acids. hat
cause the trouble. TO avoid thia. Bon
chard recommends that only ttc crust or
toasted crumbs Of the bread b. used yy
dyspeptics, particularly thcsn whose
stomachs arc dilated. Tire reason " this
Is explained by the fact that baking tenn
porarily, though not permanently. ar.
rests the fermentation "t Dough. When
1t Is again heated by tho wrrmth of the
stomach the fermentation is renewed. In
cases where the bread is toastcd brown
through, thc fermentation IS stopped
permaneutly. ---' New Iori; World.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
TIE TERROR OF CoMPoslToRs
stories Told OF the Bad Writing OF
Many Men OF Letters.

Talking of the handwriting of mon Of
genius and and famous authors, many
celebrities have written vile hands, and
there are notable men to-day whose cali
graphy is almost illcgible, says the New
castle (England) Chronicle. joaquin
Miller scrawls in the most haphazard
kind of fashion. have before me q bit
of his manuscript, and it is In a sort of
sense uncanny to think that this ILL
formed, rambling knock knccd kind Of
scribblc is really poetry; sec it in type
you can hardly believe that tho we'll
turned rhyme and the happy thought
have been disguised in that blottcd,
scrubby patch of something that looks
like writing.
Carlyles manuscript was cramped and
crabby. 'What, have you got that man
hcrc!" exclaimed Scotch compositor,
who had obtained situation in London
and found his first stake" of 'tcopy"
was page Of Carlyle. "Why, Just
fled from Scotland to get away from
him." Francis Jeffrey wrote q miserable
hand. Sydney Smith chaffed him about
it constantly In one of,-his letters,
speaking of the efforts he had ,made to
decipher Jeffrey's manuscript, he says:
81 have tried to read it from left to
right, and Mrs. Sydney Smith from right
to left, and we can neither of US de-
cipher a single word of it." But the
champion bad writer was Horace Gree
Icy, the famous editor of the New York
Tribune. '.If Belshazzar had seen hi
writing on the wall, said composite
she would have been more terrified u
he was" There are dozen good st
of the misinterpretation of Greeie
tcrs.
One of tho best is that of his ref
lecture at Sandwich, Ill. 81 am
worked and growing DID," he v,
reply to the Invitation 'I shfie
on February ;. aOn the whol..,
I must decline to Mcclure ecini
except in my own immediateEatch
l do at all; cannot promlsiye
Illinois on that errand" The Cor.
Of Invitation pored over the Greedy c.
graphy, and believed at last that they
had read it correctly. "Ypur accept.
ance, they wrote, "to lncture before our
association next winter has just come to
hand. Your penmanship not being the
plninest, it took some time to translate
it; but we succeeded. and would say
that your time-Feb. 3-and terms, $50,
are quite satisfactory. We may, as you
suggest, bo able to get you other engage
ments in this vicinity, if SO, will adSiss
YOU
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Americans a Tall People.

An article in the "Bulletin dc I'm
stituts International dc Statisque" gives,
as result Of a certain inquiry, the
average height Of different nations. The
English professional classes, who head
the list as the tallest of adult males,
attain the average height of feet st
inches. Next ON the list come the
American males, and minute fraction
behind them come the English Of all
classes. Hence we may conclude that,
taken right through, the English and
American races are approximately Of the
ssne height. Most European nations
average, for the adult male 6 feet 6
inches; but the Aus,riaps, Spauiards
and Portuguese just fall short of this
standard. .--ILoudou Lancet
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
A DREAM OF POOR CHILDREN.

I had dream, 30 sad, 30 sad it Was
1t hurts my heart TO tell that dream again.
I thought stood above the life that draws
Its weary breath in crowded street and
lane, a-s-s
Aboro tho hot, rough pavements, and tho
glnro
From binding roof and wall, and sun
scorchcd air.
looked, as might spirit from on high,
Not strong, but trembling, and L saw-God,
The children's poor. sweet faces, bold or shy.
All, all were piteous, none seemed bright or
glad;
I heard their songs and cries, their restless
feet,
And their wild, longing hearts, that beat
and boat.
Then. as a spirit might, turned my eyes
Out to the broad blue waters of tho bay,
To all tho widespread loveliness that lies
Within the reaches of Gods glorious day
The hills, The fields the streams that laugh
and move,
And the kind. happy heaven that smiled
above.
saw frosh daisies in tho cool deep grass,
And bonding boughs :hat shook theft bios
.oms down.
l. watched tho birds on sun-swept pinions
pass,
And then saw again the crowded town
Tho pale yo1ng children, where they walked
and slept,
Their eager, pleading faces, and wept.
And some seemed wan and faint, for want Of
bread,
And trembling some, with fear Of curse OF
blow,
And some at heavy tasks, bent hand and
head,
Numb with the pain that hopeless toilers
know,
And some were girls, children no more-oh,
God,
I dared not look to see tho path thcy
trodl
Near mo white seraphs hung, and mutely
wept,
And Christ, methought, wept too, above il
all.
broken prayer against my sobbing swept
And awoke. I weep when recall
That dream, SO sad, SO strange! It can but
Only dream! Surely twas but dre.m
hilary Ainge De vere, in tho Ladiesl
Homo Journal.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

Theodore Roosevelt thinks that the
day is not far distant when the lake
country of Wisconsin and Minnesota
will be famous as the summer resort of
both the Eastern and Western States,
and that trip thither will be as pop
'nlar as one to Newport or Saratoga
now is, Mr.. Roosevelt has ranch on
tho Little Missouri, and he ought to
know.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
6~ Averages.

A;~~uty years of age temperate
person is supposed to have >. chnnce of
Gs.pg for foIty-four yea's. Should the
same person. still living temperate life.
reach the age of sixty.6vc, tile chances
are that he will live fourteen years longer
At twenty years of nge au inteupcratc
person is calculated to have chance of
living only to the ago of thirty. five.
while il bo survives sixty his obsuce ot
life is limited to eiuht years more The
death rate among tI,c intcmpcrat, OIL bee.
is about forty six per i.OHO. vnilc ,rat
Of i1tempera'e on spirits reaches the hiyb
sver%Se Of sixty pr t,000. It'd Di,s.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

8 Lady Tryon has given eloquent tes-
~ fsony of her intense grief at the
.howledge that the Victoria disaster
'SRas due to her husbands error, by de-
iSlining the pension of $4,000 yearly
no which she is entitled as an Admir-
I ais widow. She had previously offer
ed it to the Trustees of the Victoria
Relief Fund, but it was not accepted
as the fund exceeded the amount re-
quired. Lady Tryon was heiress to
thepeerage of Willoughby de Eresby
when she married Tryon, who was
then only Lie tenant. The mar
riage was O love match.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Hang'uau's Stone.

There is large bowlder lying ia
h',' near Forcmark, England, which Is
k'""H '-oughout Derbyshire as "HAng-
man S;nnr" The exposed portion Of
the boz der rises about 6 feet aboxe the
surface o' the surrounding field aud haa,j;
n marrow ditch OF indc0tation rum; III,
across the top. The mark, 50 tra''
says, was made iu this way - rs
thief, in the dead Of night, Y
ing against the bowlder to,A :
his booty above the fat M
stone. The man had, t,.as&f
rope, aud In its e. psli' pa
creature slipped
and the rope c.
chin choked =
tation in til
tion OF q
fort =
Rep
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The Baltimore Sun says: eff the
Worlds Columbian exposition has ac-
'complished nothing else. it has made
evident one thing which alone is worth
all the cost and labor expended on the
Fair. That thing is the inherent in
tellectual capacity of woman and her
right to claim an equal place with man
in every field Of effurt.'' '-'h
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

A Detroit book dealer says that
nearly twice as much light literature
is sold during the summer months as
in the winter The increase is caused
by tourists who, as n rule, prefer novels
and books of fiction to those of stand
ard authors.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

THF 'tockholdcr, in the fire insurance
companies @'e Erpauiny over the fire.
7"cncy "t ittes the present year. "Fire
and Wat"r' states that in 1891 there was
s'. ?A1.3.o worth Of property destroyed
by fire: IN 1889, there was $7G,96T. $50,
and this year 1893, thus far, sos, 1Ol, 300.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

Twenty-Five years ago electricity as
a mechanical power was unknown.
Now$900, 600, 600 is invested in various
kinds of electrical machinery.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28

The Washington Star remarks: 'Lief
Erikson's friends are much disap.
pointed. They have been insisting for
years that their hcro-who was I'm
doubtedly great explorer discovered
this continent four hundred years be-
Z fore the daring Genoese navigator
landed on one of the West India Is
lands, and they have further insisted
that among the records of the Catho-
lie Church, slowed away in the library
of the Vatican, was documentary evil
! dence of the most conclusive sort
which would put Lief right on the
J pinnacle. The Vatican holds no such
{ testimony. William E. Curtis says
80, and he ought to know. Mr.. Curtis
I visited Rome year ago as an agent of
the Colun ian Exposition, and having
heard the claims of Rasmus An
derson, Professor Rayn, Professor
a Horsford and other Scandinavian
.Seeholars Of eminencc, determined.
80; far ,.7 wa, possible, to settle the
controversy. He obtained by order
of the Pope copies of all documents
! on file relating to the discovery of
america, and none Of these mentioned
Mr.. Erickson. Over fourteen thousand
manuscripts we're carefully examined
and the search revealed many that con-
tanned valuable and interesting contri.
buttons to history, but in none of them
was there mention of the hardy Morse
9 men who sailed the seas before the
Columbus family had fairly com
( menced to be. But although Eriksop
secured none of the credit it was prov
gen conclusively by some Of the ancient
records that there was a bishopric
.of Greenland in the twelfth century
esfd that the church had information
70 TO the existence of unexplored lands
set if'er south in which savages lived
methinsants, doubtless, of the hundreds
ve been aS,men who sailed from their
aPpeneo "a with Jlwellyn ap Madoe
sndred years, before ~
a;ped his mai&'t
'--~erica1@
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1893-09-28
Georgia is reviving her gold mining
industry with improved machinery.

There are $4,000 square miles of
coal lands in Colorado, or more than
the total area of Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, and Rhode Island.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-04
Tragic Death Of s. c. Par.
ker at Hale City,.
SAID TO HAVE RELATIVES IN VAN
But Nobody Seen This Morning Knew n,
Young Man.

The Hale Globe of August
published at Hale city, contains thss
following account of the tra ,d'
death of S. G. Parker, yo,1 Hm
man who is said to have lived i
Waco, although a News reports,
could ascertain nothing about him
or bis people this morning,
esterday evening about 3 O'Clock
eight miles northwest of Hart,
Camp, S. c. Parker, a young man
about 20 or 81 years of age, va,
killed. He has been working on
Ewood's ranch about month and
was somewhat inexperienced, and
in cutting an animal from the hea
dashed into the bunch full speed
and his horse collided with a COW
and fell, rolling over the man two
or three times. When the hon
regained his feet Parker was hspp,
ing by the left foot in the stirrpp
on the opposite side of the horse
The horse started to run but oul,
made a few jumps when Parkeli
shoe pulled off and he dropped to
the ground.
Mr.. Norheet and several Of The
boys gathered around him, and find
ing him not quite dead, one started
for the doctor and one went to camp
for the blackboard, to bring him 70
town. DR.. Harp met them about
seven miles from town, about 10
O'Clock last night, but the man
breathed his last about minute h.
fore the doctor reached the wega
But little is known of ParkM
history. He worked some timsk
G. o. Baker before going tow
ranch. His parents have been del |
since he was a small child, hut It'll
thought he has an aunt near Abilels
He was unconscious from the time
of the fall, his skull being crushed
near the temple and his right leg
thigh badly broken, besides being
otherwise badly cruched. He will
be buried today in the graveyaa
near town."
If young Parker has any relstiVa
in Waco, Mr.. w. E. Lynch, Of
Hale City, desires them to COM
municate with him.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-04
Notice..

We wish to correct an erroneoi
impression about our water rsts
The number of nydrants,in no way
effects the rate, as we sell water y
yearly privileges only.
The following principal priVl|'
ges will show how we expect pF
ment:
For families of 5 or less IS N
year.
For bath tub privileges (pri7'1
80 per year.
For water closet privilege sly
(private) and So publlc) per ya'|
For horses or COWS (per head \
cents per year.
For trees Outside Of any 10"
measurement) each, 25 cents y
year. ~
For lawn sprinkling (per !"
square feet) 20 cents per year. ..4
No irrigatipg, garden or , s''s'
sprinkling allowed; nor hyal'. I.
permitted to run after 10 oCl~'
D. m. THE BELL WATER w.
per J. D. Bell, f'''
August l., 1891.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-04
1.-THE NEW EAST LYNNE.
The Usual LARGE Audience at the
Auditorium.

The New East Lynne" was re-
pea:ed by request at the Auditorium
last night.
Miss Grace Hezlep, in the dual
role of Lady Isabel and "Madam
Vine" again exhibited her fine tai
ent in the delicate emotional lines.
Her support was excellent, per
haps better than at the last prcduc-
ton of this play.
"Pygmalion and Galatea,"
Gilbert's NEUROLOGICAL three act
comedy, will be the bill for to.
night. 1t will be handsomel y put
on and the costumes will be rich.
Miss Ruby Lafay ette as "Galatea, "
Mr.. Charles King, "Pygmaliop,' y
Miss Hez!ep "Cynisca," j. p.
Curran, "Daphne," will be in the
caste and are expected to do good
comedy acting