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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
pERELicTs or THE OCEAN,.
Abandoned Vessels that Are = Grave Peril
to Vessels.

Abandoned Vessels that Are = Grave Peril
to Vessels.
There are to-day some nifty afar-
doned vessels-derelicts- on
the Atlantic ocean. While most OF
them are on the sailing route to and
from the equator, many are found
drifting along the passenger steamer
lines to Europe, where they are a di-
rect menace to navigation. The
danger involved In striking one OF
these derelicts is apparent. Water
soaked and often floating keel up
such craft might inflict an injury
fatal as that from running on ledge
or from receiving the blow of a ram.
On dark night or in fog a t,ans-
atlantic liner might not be able to
make out such an object until actu-
ally upon it. Perhaps it was in COL
lision with a derelict that the Naron-
ic, the recent mystery of the ocean,
persisted, and the same may have
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
An Uncertain Groom.

Many characteristics of the Scotch
are amusingly displayed in a serbs
of stories published in Edinburgh
some years ago under the title of
Scotch Folk"
Have you brought any witnesses"
asked the Rev. Mr. Wood, of Bath
gate, of middle-aged couple who
had come to be married.
mo, we meier thocht o. that. Is it
necessary"
"Oh, certainly" said the minister,
you should have a groomsman and
bridesmaid as witnesses"
"Wha can we get, Jen, do We
think?"
The bride, thus addressed, sup-
gested a female cousin whom the
bridegroom had never seen, and.
after consultation man also was
thought OF.
step We AVA alang, Jen, an ask
them. an I'll walk ABBOTT till We come
back"
Jen set out as desired. and after
some time returned with the two
friends, the cousin being a blooming
lass considerably younger than the
bride.
When the parties had been proper
ly arranged and the minister was
about to proceed with the ceremony.
the bridegroom suddenly said:
"Wad We bide wee, sir?"
what is it now?" asked the minis
ter.
"Weel, l was just gaun to say that
II it wad be the same to you. l wad
rather hae that ane," pointing to the
bridesmaid.
THAT'S a most extraordinary state.
ment to make at this stage" ex.
claimed the minister. SIN afraid
it's too late to talk of such a thing
now"
us it?" asked the bridegroom. in a
tone of resignation to the inevitable.
"Weel, then, We maun just hang on,
1t is not recorded that there was
any feeling of elation on the part of
the bridesmaid, or of jealousy on the
part of the bride, and the ceremony
proceeded.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
AN OCEAN DERELICT.

been the fate of other vessels which
persisted mysteriously at sea, leaving
not record to tell how they dis
appeared.
1t is quite apparent that some in
ternational action should be taken
to rid the ocean Of these derelicts.
The subject has been agitated for
several years and recently the Mari
time Exchange Of New York passed
a resolution favoring international
action for destroying these and SINH
lar perils to commerce.. With an ad-
equate police supervision of the ocean
for the locating and destroying of
derelicts there would be fewer mys
teries of the deep.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

THE New York Sun has been max
ing STUDY of the debts of the vari-
GUS States, and finds that in the last
ten years there has been a total de-
crease of $40, 900, 900, the forty-four
States owing collectively 1924, OOO,-
900, upon which they are paying $40.
OO0, 900 year in interest. Ten
States, Massachusetts, Indiana, Min
nesota, New Jersey, Virginia, Mary.
land, Georgia, North Carolina, FIori.
da and South Carolina, have in
creased their Indebtedness. Seven
States, Vermont, Iowa, Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Oregon and Mon.
tana. are out of debt. The other
twenty-seven States have reduced
their debts during the ten-year peri
cd. Ten years ago five States had
more than $40, 900, 900 each in out
standing obligations, as follows: Vir-
ginia, $29, 5000 Tennessee, s27,-
900, 900; louisiana, $23, 900, 600; Mas
sachusetts, $40, 900, OcO, and Pennsyl-
vania, $50, 100000. The debts of
these five States now stand as fol-
lows: Virginia, 1871, 900, 900; Tennes-
see, $40, 000,0 900; Louisiana, Sll, OOO,-
900; Massachusetts,, $2s, 900, 900; and
Pennsylvania, s1l, 900, 900. The out
come in general shows that good
financiering is the rule in the ma
jority OF States.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

all the cry about hard times and the
starving masses it is almost impossi-
BILE for city people to obtain a good
servant in the kitchen for less than
exorbitant wages, and farmers are
complaining that they cannot find
men to work for them for love or
money. II they are starving, why
not work at whatever comes to them?
If they are in a position where they
can afford to lie idle, why cry about
short rations? The two things don't
fit, some way.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

relations. There was great deal of
speculation and pointing out Of the
tremendous possibilities in the case,
but the correspondents did not VEN
ture into the probabilities. Even
Mr.. Blowitz, who is supposed to know
more than any one else of the inner
most intentions of flnanciers and
Kings, came near being ''scooped"
when the French minister at Bang
kok called for his passports and his
umbrella. The European CORE
spondents are less unreliable but
also less interesting than they once
were.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
SAYS the Chicago Herald:

SAYS the Chicago Herald: Among
the list Of nuisances with which
downtown Chicago is cursed the
otherwise amiable bicycle enthusiast
Is assuming "A prominent place. Not
satisfied with the freedom of the
bouleyards, where the wheeling is su.
perb and where he will be in no ones
way, this person has taken to spin.
ming along through the business dis
trict where the crowds are thickest.
An exasperating feature of the down
town bicycler is his whistle. Ap.
preaching thronged crossing he
sounds shrill note, and without
slackening speed dashes onward, ex.
pecting people to get out OF the way.
This whistling business is going to
get the lordly wheelman into trouble
one of these days. Chicagoans have
long ago resigned the right of way in
their own streets to cable cars, cabs,
and other deadly vehicles, but when
it comes to being whistled aside like
refractory ours by spindle-shanked
person bestriding bicycle the public
rebels. A good stout cane thrust be.
tween the spokes of a wheel has a re.
pressing effect on the autocratic
bicycler, and it is to be hoped that
this method will be adopted unless
the nuisance is abated. Only frag
ment Of our boosted liberties remains
and we can't afford to surrender the
last shred at the behest of any long
legged, stoop-shouldere1 victim of
Kiphoris bicyclistanum, even if it is
the Worlds Fair year.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

A HORRIBLE story comes from Aus
tria of the discovery by the police of
a gang of men who made it bust
ness to cripple young children in or
der to make them objects Of charity
as beggars When arrested several
children were found in the house suf-
fering from broken limbs and other
mutilations. 1t is hard to conceive
an adequate punishment for such
crimes.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

AN Oakland, Cal, man having re-
appeared after a mysterious absence
explains that he remembers having
taken three drinks of local whisky,
and that the succeeding four days
were blank. However, he deserves
felicitation upon his mental strength.
There seems to be no doubt that he
did remember the three drinks
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
Newspapers as Necessities of Life.

Newspapers as Necessities of Life.
The newspaper has become neces.
sity to Americans, and to be shut out
from a knowledge Of what is going
on in the world would be as great q
hardship to them as any other ex.
cept lack of food, clothing, or shell
ter. The life is more than meat, and
the body more than raiment, and the
satisfaction of the mind is as legiti-
mate as the satisfaction of the bodily
wants, and of higher order. The
newspaper is the university and the
library Of the people, the common
school OF manhood. 1t is the great
debating club of politics, the ex-
change of business, the record of
each day of human experience. 1t
is necessary to the proper discharge
OF the political duties of the citizen.
But newspaper, at least good
newspaper, Is more than a necessity.
1t brings into the narrowest life
some sense of the vast life of the
world. 1t is full of tragedy and
comedy, wit and passion, the heroic
and the humble, the crime and the
merriment of nations. 1t is a great
realist history. 1t is a daily com
mentary upon human nature.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
Driving a Horse to Drink,

A sculptor in town has had the
horses of several fashionable private
stables st his disposal for models this
summer. One day some of the sculp-
tors friends had some whisky to
drink in his studio They gave the
horse a little. The next day the
groom wondered why that horse tug
ged at his halter SO when he was be-
ing led to the studio. He seemed to
be very anxious to get there. He
was restless and whinnied coaxingly.
and was entirely useless as model,
until the sculptor thought OF the
whisky. The horse got another
drink, and thereupon became a mod
ell model. Now he demands drink
every day before he will pose, and &C.
casionally he demand a drink be.
tween drinks. New Yek Sun.
HE VhC travels nv abort S,tc In
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

EUROPEAN correspondents, who
used to be capable of making a war
cloud out Of every fog, have learned
by experience to become conserva-
tive. Not even the extreme tension
of the situation in Siam led to a
declaration of war among them, or
even to a suspension of diplomatic
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

FILLED with a righteous indigna-
tion at the defiant gamblers of Sac
ramento deputy sheriff sailed
among them to the interruption of a
game. Before he could sally out he
had his pockets picked. Save that
virtue is its own reward the deputy
might be considered the victim of
ill-luck
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

10 impossible to give chicken pneu-
monia, although mouse will readily
take it. Pasteur's first discovery in
this direction was this: He had
found that chickens, which are sus.
ceptible to disease called chicken.
cholera" and which, without excep-
tion, die II chicken-cholera mi.
crobe is injected under their skin,
only have a slight and RAPIDLY pass.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

THE next time that yacht Navahoe
goes Swimming around England she
ought to do it as the representative
of Philadelphia, not the United
States
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

WHEN John L. Sullivan is loaded
he always jumps upon somebody
whose gun isn't. Luck favors fools
and drunken men, but the Boston
bruiser is tempting fate too often.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

A BRAZILIAN recently saved his
life by carrying a roll of aIOO notes
inside his vest when bullet came
that way. Yet there are people who
neglect SO simple a precaution
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

ing attack, ii mi
crobes that have
b e e n in contact
with the air Tor
some months are
Injected. A + t e r
the c h i c k en- on
which Pasteur ex-
perilnentcd had re-
gained its natural
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

THE brain is always clearest in the
morning.-Kate Field. How little
some folks know about such things
The bromO-seltzer industry is a refu-
tation of Rates statement.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

The speed OF electricity is so great
That Its passage from point to point
along conducting wire may be re-
gafded as instantaneous. Various
attempts have been made to measure
the rate at which it travels, and OBJ
servers, with delicate instruments,
nave affirmed that it was not less
than ll4,O0O miles per second, and
IN one or two places its speed was as
high as 240, 900 miles.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

science has shown that the world of
micrO-organisms is composed of spe-
cies like the rest of living nature.
Thus the microbe of cholera and the
microbe Of pneumonia have proper
ties essentially different. 1t is in
teresting to know how the microbe
acts after it enters the system. Its
objects are to multiply and feed, and
its methods OF propagation are sim
pie and rapid. After it has grown to
a certain length it divides in the
middle. The two thus created soon
form four, and so on. Suppose a mi
crobe divides into two during the
course of an hour. These divide into
four after two hours, into eight after
three hours, etc. When twenty.four
hours have passed the number OF
microbes attains the formidable sum
OF 62,5O0,000. In two days there are
2S7, 500, 600, 900. After week their
number could only be expressed by a
figure Of f1fty-one periods
Microbes feed on tissues and blood.
but their power does not lie in this.
They poison. Each microbe has the
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

MILE. RHEA denies that she has
married her leading man. Perhaps
her information on this point is at
fault; the young man himself ought
to know. however.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
ANTHRAX,

temperature a few degrees, so killing
the germ and preventing the disease?
Some Of the methods have been sat-
isfactorily tried. At present, how
ever, there is better means that
has already given splendid results
and is destined to astonish the world.
Vaccination against cholera, pneu-
m0nia, typhoid fever, etc, is now
only question of time. 1t may be a
few years only before a child can be
vaccinated against every infectious
disease and be thus protected for life
against the greatest danger that
constantly threatens humanity.
One OF the chief difficulties in all
these examinations is that man can
not be experimental ON. Now and
then a courageous scientist, thor
oughly convinced of the correctness
of his ideas, will experiment on him
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14


cholera and pneu-
mOnla are caused
by m icrO-organ-
isms, small beings
invisible to the
naked eye. Still,
bacteriology as a
science has been in
existence only a
~ 80 FUyr
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

SEYMOUR. the mind reader, has not
yet succeeded in burying himself
alive. Has he tried store that does
not advertise?
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

IN many instances the man who
spends his life waiting for his ship to
come in wastes his time, because he
originally omitted to send any ship
ont.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

strength and normal condition he
made second injection with ordi-
nary microbes that had not been in
contact with the air long. He found
the chicken had acqu red perfect i'm.
munity against the disease. large
quantities Of very active microbes
exercising nTeffects whatever. Pas
teur at once saw the close analogy
between this case and the cas-. Of a
person who after passing through
one attack of scarlet fever is pro-
tected against a second one, and
basing his work on this first funda-
mental observation built, up his
whole system. BY long contact with
the air the microbes, which had
given immunity to the chicken, had
lost great deal of their virulence.
They had been weakened.
The next thing to be done was to
weaken the virulencc of the different
kinds of microbes, to inject them,
cause n slight affection, and thus
bring about an artificial immunity.
This has been tried for almost every
known disease and in almost every
case with satisfactory results. especi.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

THE closed season for seals includes
May, June and July. The closed sea-
son for sealskins this year also in
cludes nine other months
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

ACCORDING to contemporary "golt
is now a drug in Chicago" 1t has
been a drug in Dwight for some time
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
HUMOR OF THE WEEK
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.

Many Odd, Curious, and Laughsblo Phases
Of Human Nature Graphically Portrayed
by Eminent Word Artists Of Our Own Day
"A Budget Of Fun.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

pocketbooks will probably last during
the winter.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

JUDGING from the newspaper re
ports Roby, Ind. is just the riot
sort of a place for a f1ghu.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

If Fay Templeton could manage to
separate from Howell Osborne out
side of the newspaper offices the gen.
eral public would feel better about it.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
THEY DEAL IN DEATH,
BITS OF ORGANIC MATTER DAM
GEROUS TO LIFE.

How Diphtheria, Malaria, Pneumonia, Ty-
phold Fever and Asiatic Cholera Microbes
Look and Act-Meth0ds of Checking and
Controlling Diseases.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

IDLE money is useless money, ant
useless money is no better than nj
money at all.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

A NEW YORK man is in jail
charged with stealing cannon balls.
He probably was about half shot
when he did it.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

To STEAL a child you must catch
the kidnapping.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

THE unemployed who want work
will never find it around anarchistic
meetings.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14


ally in animal dis
eases, where extern
slve experimenting
Is possible. Thou
sands Of sheep and
horses and cows
are ccin a t e d
yearly against a
great number of
n n &C nc De-
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

All experiments on man made in this
direction have SO far proved success
full. Science happily has no martyr
in this cause.
Certain animals cannot contract
certain diseases. Phey possess a
natural immunity. For instance, it
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14


have fastened upon and these decom-
positions have specific poisoning
effects on our system. The symptoms
of this poisoning are identical with
the symptoms Of the disease of which
the microbe is the generator. 1t can
easily be proved that it is by the
action of these poisons exclusively
that the disease is caused. II, for
instance, one cultivates the isolated
microbe Of cholera, under conditions
favorable to its growth in some nu-
tritive liquid at the right temper
allure for a certain length of time, it
will decompose the nutritive liquid,
which thus takes the place OF tissues,
and thus form Il certain quantity Of
its specific poison.
How can this mysterious and invis-
ible foe be successfully grappled with?
The most simple suggestion. saws n
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

the normal temper
allure of our body.
Why not, therefore,
when the first symp-
toms of a disease
brought about by
such microbes ap-
pear arti cially,
raise the patients
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14
Value of Vaccination.

It is almost a fad" nowadays to
speak OF microbes and bacteria. The
most uneducated layman knows that
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

AsiATic CHOLERA fOOthOld in our
system. A long and patient course
OF experimenting will undoubted-
ly bring to light number of
substances, each capable of de-
stroying certain species of microbe,
without, at the same time, harming
the system. At present only a few
such substances are known, and these
were found by chance. For instance.
everybody knows that corrosive sub
Innate and jovoforme are capable of
destroying the germs of suppuration
and OF wound fever. These are, in
consequence, extensively used in sur
gerry as aseptics, and antiseptics. A
simple suggestion for killing microbes
In the system could be based on the fact
that certain micro-organisms perish at
temperature only a few degrees above
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

FACULTY OF secret
ing a certain poi
son in the system
at the place where
1t vegetables. These
parasites by their
roce IS of life
bring about a de-
composition of the
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

self. He will vac
cinate h i'm s e Z
against a certain
disease and then
try by all possible
means to contract
it. II he fails to
get it it proves, OF
course, that his
v1cpina iS uood
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

TALK little and well, and you will
be taken for somebody.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

tours treatment is recognized as eff
fective all over the world, though
only practiced since July 6, 1886.
In view of the cholera danger, a
few words about the progress of vac
cination against this most dangerous
and terrible of epidemic diseases seem
timely. The first man to try vacci.
nation against cholera was Span
lard, DR.. Feran. He went to work
most unscientitically. He made use
OF his knowledge more for making
money than to do good, hept his treat
ment secret and placed himself on
bad footing with the scientific world
in general. The consequence was
that great opposition arose against
him and his methods, so that ulti-
mately he was forbidden to practice.
DIR. Hatfkine at the Pasteur Institute
last year made some more expert
ments, and few months ago pub
lished a few notices relating to his
work. He found means of weak
ening the microbe of cholera, and
discovered that after vaccinating
himself with this weakened virus he
had obtained perfect immunity
against the disease. He tried many
means Of taking the disease, inject
ing strong and active virus, but with
out any results whatever. After OBJ
serving number of other cases, he
expresses his opinion that the prob
lem is solved. A German named
kleinperer also vaccinated himself,
and found that his immunity was so
great that an injection of trace OF
his blood to an animal conferred i'm
munity on it in turn. DIR. Haffkine
has expressed his intention of prac-
ticing his vaccination in Siam on
large numbers of patients. VACCINE.
tion itself is perfectly harmless and
without danger. The slight discom-
fort felt during a few hours is insig.
nificant, and the immunity acquired
against cholera apparently absolute.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

THE ragman's business is picking
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

HE VIC travels by short uts ia
always getting into scrapes.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-14

. SSy -
writer in the Chi
ago Tri bu n e ,
seems to look for
S O m e t h ing that
willdestroy the mi
crobe, the direct
cause of the dis
ease, even after it
had taken strong