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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-12
A clever Trick Dog which Greatly
Amused the Scholars.
LBy Martina MoounOch williams.l

[By Martha McCulloch Williams.]
"Looky yanderl Whose dawg is that!'
s'I dunno. Strange one. reckon. Got
tired a. follerin some Vaughn an came in
of the road. -
Lets rock him an see how fast he kin
run"
'eAll right, but tote fart Wait till I
git pocketfull too. -
''Ilay don't. ought to have first lick
at Jim, cause seen him first. Now watch
me plump him right on the hind leg"
A long, fattish pebble went whizzing
through the air and fell q hands breadth
short of the strange dog, who had stopped
thirty yards away and stood wagging his
stump tan and looking with eyes OF APP
peal at the children clustered about the
schoolhouse door.
1t was play time and the sturdy, we'll
fed, happy youngsters had just got
through their dinners. Bits OF bread and
meat lay here and there upon the grouud.
It was the scent of food most likely that
had drawn thither the shaggy, yellow
brown mongrel, whose wet coat said he
had lately crossed the mill stream, which
ran a mile beyond the schoolhouse, and
was now bankful. Plainly the creature
was foot-sore and hungry. Instead of
running away from the missile he darted
toward the group who scattered slightly
at his coming, looked about HIM for
second, dropped his head, put his bit of a
tail as nearly as possible between his legs,
ran to q boy much smaller than the two
who had spoken, crouched at his feet,
and looked wistfully up into his face.
''Kick him Davyl Kick himl Start
i'm SO we kin all chase i'm down the
hill,' the other boys shouted in the same
breath.
Davy Page stopped to pat the shaggy
head, then stood very straight and said,
breathing hard, ell wont-he's my
dawg now. He choosed me for master
his own self, an Pm goin' to keep i'm -
'sThat is right, Davy,' said pleasant
voice behind him. ga gentleman always
protects the friendless. Who will help 0
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some unknown cause lost his hearing 1t
then became necessary for me to teach
him again the movements he was required
to go through, using an original deaf and
dumb language, or rather certain motions
of the whip.
That Caesar could learn this language
OF signs seems unexplainable to almost
everybody.
By means of signs he not only under
stands right from left, but can tell the
difference between q circle and the figure
eight. Moreover, he will obey commands
given by persons in the audience and
does not have to go through the same act
at every performance.
PUNIsHING A HORSE.
When I am training horse for any
particular trick and he does not go
through his work in proper way, tap
him gently with the whip, but only
enough to attract his attention to the fact
that [ am not exactly pleased with his
conduct. [ never clash them into sub
mission,' for l do not believe in that
theory OF training. Such a course only
tends to scare the horse.
If a horse has successfully gone through
difficult performance, pat him encour-
agingly, as much as to say, 'Tnat' 5
good, old boy; you re all right
After such acts, horse, Just like a
gymnast or an acrobat, will draw long
breath and seemingly say, Gwen, got
through that without making break. -
If see the horse is in trouble or he has
hurt himself by slip or fall in some
difficult act, let him of easy and do not
insist that he shall go through the act
again. While you must be firm with a
horse and not allow him to ''play of
SICK" as boy will sometimes do to es-
cape going to school, you must exerci Sc
consideration; by so doing you will K eep
his respect and strengthen his affect ion
for you.
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looked at him with the most appealing
eyes. Davy dropped beside him and said
with gulp: ss0ld fellow, you did try to
run away. You swan the creek, didn f
you? but you had to come back to me,
didn't you?'
Button whined and crept closer. A
minute later. wet coat notwithstanding
he was going down stairs in Davy's arms
to be dried and comforted on the warm
kitchen hearth and eat a royal supper.
Though he went to school next session,
as merry and as tricky as ever, and
though he remained the ''school's dog''
many season, Button never forgot the
happenings of that day. Until he was an
old, old dog, the notes of fiddle would
make him drop his tall between his legs
and stink whimpering away, and to place
a hat on his head was to lose sight of him
for that day at least.
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he added the alliterative Oliver to the
name in the play which had pleased him,
and it first appeared under the title OF a
poem as 'sOliver Optic, NJ. D. of the Mu-
tual Admiration society,"
He next used it as the signature in the
WdUeTley Magazine for three moral tales.
In those days he wrote all sorts of stories.
Many of them illustrated the foibles and
weaknesses OF the hour, and he used a
different pen name for each variety For
example, his sentimental tales had one
signature. his temperance stories an
other. bis humorous tales another, and
his religious tales still another, and MS
society sketches another still; but when
he began his Juvenile work he chose
ssOlirer Optic.
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Where He Lives and How He Writes His


A man trifie below the medium
height-certainly not FIVE feet and a half
tall-with round face, gray hair, con-
siderably thinned on the top of his head,
short grizzled beard, the mildest blne
eyes, with a half humorous twinkle in
them, and slow manner OF speaking in
E gentle voice-such at the age of seventy
is William T. Adams, whom all the
world knows as stOliver Optic, the man
who in the last forty years has provided
the boys OF this country with large pro-
portion OF their fiction.
OLIVER OPTICS HOME.
Oliver Optic-it does not come easy to
sneak OF him as Mr.. Adams-resides to-
day and has for many years, in an I'M
pretentious but spacious house on Dor
chester avenue in Dorchester, one of the
water front suburbs of Boston. The
house is Just beyond what is known as
Fields corner, and is of wood, painted
brown, and built endwise to the street.
A square tower and q piazza relieve its
severity, In the summer vines grow In
profusion over it, and though it stands
but a few feet back from the thorough
fare, along which electric cars go rush
ing every few minutes, it has an air of
seclusion and quiet among the shade
trees.
An atmosphere of old-fashioned COM
fort reigns within. All is essentially New
England, like Mr.. Adams himself. who
could never be taken for anything else
but a New Highlander. The large parlor
has its walls lined with book shelves, and
at one corner opens into the masters den.
small square room added TO the house
by roofing in part of the back piazza.
This was done years ago that the writer
might have more seclusior when at work.
There is a Spartan simplicity about this
room, where a short time ago l was
allowed to penetrate one morning, when
] CHANGED to choose Mr.. Adams work
ing time for call. One corner is occu-
pied by a typewriter and its ample table.
Mr.. Adams likes plenty of elbow room for
his books and paper, and prefers not to
have to get out of his chair to reach any
impliment of work. Some years ago he
had writer's cramp, and since then he has
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row stairs to the haunted attic at night.
Colonel Dinsmore shouted, come, Jerry,
come, it's getting time for the madame S
trunks.
Jerry pleaded piteously. ''But Cunnel,
you don't think OF sendin' Jerry lone up
there-up there in that regen of dark
ness.''
Go on, Jerry, don't be such babyIv
laughed the colonel.
Il tell you, Cunnel, I is not goin'
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AN APPEARANCE LIZ THE aARRET.

One spring time new glass globes for
the gas burners had come, and while the
fixtures were cleaned the glass was care
fully put out of the way into the garnet.
Some OF the presidents family were 60
ing away, and Jerry was sent up for the
trunks. They, too, were in the garnet.
It was after dark, and but few times in
his life had Jerry ever climbed those mar
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Jerry can tell! All the children in Wash
ington know Uncle Jerry's ghost stories.
Ghosts are his speciality. He sacredly be-
lieves in "sperrftsp and accepts with per-
feet confidence the jokes which the other
servants sometimes play on him. He sees
meaning and a warning in whatever
happens.
AN ENCOUNTER WITH A BEAR.
While Mr.. Hayes was president friend
sent him from Dakota a huge bearskin
coat with sleeves made of old bruins legs
the cuffs being of his feet and claws.
One evening just before dusk Uncle
jerry was stroiling up and down in the
lower rooms after putting to rights the
cabinet rooms and corridors, chatting
with the servants and telling stories in
his good-natured way. As he stood head
and shoulders above them all, suddenly a
great black bear fell upon him. The long
shaggy arms clasped Jerry's neck, and
the claws fastened themselves into his
back. Suddenly the bear disappeared.
Jerry shrieks rang through the White
House. He fell against the pantry door
palIid and speechless. He shook with q
chill. Mrs. Hayes come running down
the stairway into the kitchen. There sat
Jerry in chair into which the cook had
helped him, and the servants were thor
oughly frightened themselves for Jerry
looked so Ill. That an evil spirit had ap-
peared to him and seized upon him Jerry
had no doubt at all.
With her hand on his shoulder, Mrs.
Hayes said kindly, Now Jerry, you
know that was some joke of William 8!
You are too smart to be terrified at Moth
ing-don't allow yourself to be supersti-
tious.''
She opened the pantry door where
tiWilliam' apparently unconcerned was
giving out the dinner. With a grave look
in her beautiful eyes Mrs. Hayes said:
William, l am sorry you give Jerry
these rights; l cannot see how you en-
Joy it: don't repeat It'll You know ne
really believes in spirits, and ! should
never take your way Of curing him."
William-Mr. Crump, the White House
steward-says: ''It was always worth
Jerry's scare to be reproved by Mrs.
Hayes. She always defended Jerry and
protested against our jokes.''
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Cbeap Dentistrv

Is dear at any price. DR.. D. B.
Hewett & Son, Dooly (P.O.) block,
do not know how to do that
kind, but they do the VERY BEST
class of work done west OF Chicago,
where they learned the art in it's highest
perfection. ssDr. Hewitt's new method
teeth without plates is the achme of
modern science, light, natural, clean,
comfortable and lasting as the hills. Fees
moderate and uniform.
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UNCLE JERRy,s GHosTs.
The ..spe-rets' at the White House.

[By Margaret spencer.I
''Uncle jerry has lived in the White
House more than twenty years, and his
fine tall figure, dark shining face and
merry black eyes are as familiar as the
old portico pillars on the north side Of
the executive mansion. People call Uncle
Jerry Lord Chesterfield, for his courtl==
bows and polite ways. The children
flock around him and he is loved and re-
spected by all the families and employees
of the White House.
But such wondrous stories as Uncle
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A Point for You.

In view of what Hoods Sarsaparilla
has done for others, is it not reasonable
to suppose that it will be of benefit to
you? For scrofula, salt rheum, and all
other diseases of the blood, for dyspepsia,
Indigestion, sick headache, loss of appe-
tite, that tired feeling, catarrh, malaria,
Hoods Sarsaparilla is an
uneq1alled remedy.
Hoods Pills cure sick headache. 1s5
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81 DON'T bleeve you'll find him anv

81 DON'T bleeve you'll find him any
where, as he's run clean off, an 1 don't
blame i'm. He thought teacher put
Ounce cap onto him afore all the COM
pany - Jim Barker said, winI1ing furi-
ously as he followed Davy down the road.
Sure enough, they did not find Button,
though they searched and called the
evening through. But that night, when
Dayy went sorrowfully up to bed, he
found just inside his low chamber door a
very wet and hungry and tremulous
small dog, which crawled to his feet and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-12
The American
a Policy

Fire Insurance company OF Philadelphia
will insure you against fire.
II. ]. GRANT & Co., Agents.
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tell him to turn to the right. Continue
turning him to the right until he knows
the meaning of the command.
1t is by this process that one horse will
learn another horse's name. In the pres
ence OF the animal call another horse,
which may be standing over in a corner,
by name. He comes to me. The horse
that is learning his lesson knows that it
is not his name that is called and that he
is NOT called for. He hears me continu-
ally call the other horse, s'John, :" and
he learns that 'sJohn'' is the other
horse's name. He learns this not only by
hearing but by observation and seeing
that horse come to me after being called
"John. -
In.this way my group of twenty-four
horses, OF their own accord, have each
learned to know the name OF the other.
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In the Niagara will insure sweet repose
H. J. GRANT & Co., Agents.
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TEAcHING A DEAF HORSE.

But the most interesting task | have
ever undertaken in training horses was
the teaching of a deaf horse.
About three years ago one Of my most
valuable performing animals, Caesar, y
who understood spoken demands, from
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-12
TRAINING HORSES 70 DO TRICKS.
Horses Are Surprisingly Like Men and
BOYS.

Horses Are Surprisingly Like Men and
Boys.
by Professor George Bartholomew
A horse Of any breed can be trained on
the same principle that uncultiyated per-
sons can be educated and attain COM
paratively high degree of intelligence.
A horse to be susceptible to training
must be spirited, full of sensibility, quick
to understand and to put his conceptions
into action. The fact that horse is spir-
tied is one indication that he is possessed
Of force and intelligence.
In selecting horse for trick purposes
decide beforehand what l want the ami
nal to do. look in the open market for
an animal capable of it, just as ship
builder or carpenter will go out and Sc
lect certain kind of timber which he
needs for special piece of work. OF
course the horse must be sound and nice
looking.
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WHAT I ALWAYS DO FIRST.

turn the new horse into lot with
number of other horses. l stir him up
little with the whip so as to observe his
action. take note of what he looks at,
what he seems to fear.
Sometimes want horse that will take
the lead in party of horses, one that is
imbued with the spirit OF self-reliance,
that can general for himself. l select
one that Clocks out for number one.''
The horse that looks out for himself is a
good deal like a financier, he knows how
TO Calculate
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THE BEGINNING OF TRAINING.

First OF all, the horse trainer, if he
understands his business, tries to make a
favorable acquaintance with the animal.
He introduces himself in an agreeable
way as you would do if going to see some
man upon whom you wanted to create
good impression.
For some time 1 don t request the horse
to do anything. pursue this course I'M
til the horse feels at home with me and
looks upon me as his friend.
I do not use force in Misunderstanding
but kindness. Sometimes give the new
conner lump of sugar or handful of
grain. Then he will come to me of his
own accord for these things. That 1 have
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-02-11
The Apron Party.

The party last Wednesday evening at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Fin
ley given by their daughter, Miss Clara,
was one that afforded great pleasure to a
large number of the leading young peo-
pleo of Wadsworth. There were three large
illuminated rooms filed with artists and
ex-artists. The artists we're the gents,
the apron hemmers, who, on their knees
deceived themselves and surprised the
young ladies', and caused much conten-
ton among the fair sex, as to the work
that had been performed by the above,
till the judges had passed their decision.
The first prize was a beautiful four-in-
hand necktie awarded to Mr.. Osborn,
the second prize, and elegant cream silk
handkerchief, awarded to A. II. Girls
void the BOBBY prize, last but not least
was awarded to M. w. Donelin, a sweet
little apron ready to be hemmed.
An appetizing lunch was passed
and everybody ate and drank to their
CaitC NOiitCht. liC tllcTc Wdb UOtl
instrumental and vocal music furnished
by Mrs. Yergain, Misses Austin and Nc
nevin and Messers Curran and Girls
void which was highly appreciated,
after which the jubilant party departed
for their respective homes at an un-
seemingly late hour with a feeling in
their hearts that the evening was spent
with much enjoyment to each and all.
The following are the names of those
present:
Misses O'Hare, Micander. McNevin,
Whited, Eschevarria, keenan,, Budden,
Austin, Williamson, Donelin, Pike, Fin
ley, Gregory, Murphy, and Messers Mac
pherson, Molten, Curran, Gum, Done
lin, II. Short, Griswold, c. Short, Os-
born, Haight, Goodwin, Greer, McFar-
lain, Sisson; Mr.. and Mrs Yeargin and
daughter, Mrs. Strong and Mr.. and Mrs.
Finley.
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CARSON CORRESPONDENCE.
Nevada Legislature.
DAY.

SENATE-TWENTY-THIBD DAY.
Communication read from the Beet
Sugar Association of Denver Colorado.
Concurrent Resolution No. g., from
the Indiana Legislature relative to the
election Of United States Senator by
the people.
BY Foley-Toa authorize the Washoe
County Commissioners to issue bonds
in aid of the construction OF a public
park in Reno. Ordered engrossed.
By Comins, Senate Joint Resolution.
No. 1-Nicauragua Canal; Assembly
free coinage amendment conquered in.
BY Forbes-Taxing sheep.
ASSEMBLY.
Report of special conference COM
mittee on the Assembly amendment
to the Nicaragua Canal resolution
that the committee had agreed to re-
commend the passage of the Pike
amendment.
By Russell-An Act to define the
manner of electing County Commits
sioner. Districts.
BY Bell-An Act to require the As
SCISSORS to report to the County Com
m~issioners the number of live stock in
their several counties.
A. B. No. 32-An Act concerning
Grand Juries and prescribing the man
ner in which they shall be drawn. Gre
duces the number to twelve, ten of
which shall sit.) Read third time ard
passed.
A. B. No. 28-An Act authorizing
the insurance of bonds to the amount
of $4,000 for fire purposes in Wads-
worth. BIZ ordered %engrossed.
A. b. No. 40-Fixes mileage OF Leg
islatoIs at IL cents per mile, and sal.
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Government Comes High in Nevada.

In the concurrent issue of the Wads-
worth, Nevada, DISPATCH is a timely arti-
Gle by j. w. Freeman formerly of Wood
land, in which the writer protests
against all the unnecessary State OK
penses which go to heap up the burden
Of taxation. He says that State is
steadily shrinking in population and
taxable property and that ranches which
formerly hired large numbers OF men
now do their work with one-ffth the
number formerly required.
The salaries of State officers are de-
clared to be altogether too high and the
Legislature now in session comes in for
it's share of censure on account Of its
needless extravaganza and the army of
needless attaches it creates. In the latter
respect this State can give Nevada points
and beat it every time.-Woodland Mail.
Mr.. Freeman's article attracted .
great deal of attention at home and
abroad, aud much good came Of it.
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ROLL OF HoNoR-PRIMARY GRADE.
George Ashby, Paul Crosby, Wanda
Esden, Maud Simpson, Helen Hetten-
hansen, Ella Palmer.
ROLL OF HoNoR-aRAMMAR GRADE.
Josie Wales, Grace Evans, Maud
Blundell, May Given, Lillian Esden.
A. l.. EIDE, Principal.
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FOR SALE,

"A nice small house we'll located, with
out houses. Cheap OH the installment
plan. Apply of
S. AaNsTEIE.
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Monthly School Report.

Report of the Wadsworth Public
Schools for the month of January, 1893:
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Ew- The Stage for ~SrILLwArEn and other
points In Churchill county leaves the Nevada
House every Monday, "Wednesday. and Friday
morning at 1880 A. NJ and returns the day follow
ug at $50 P. M.
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BREVITTEs.


Valentine Dav o
Silver is reaching for 81.
Snow birds are numerous.
"Old Bill' was sober yesterday.
idle men are scarce in Wadsworth.
Good ~sleighing one night this week.
&C. NJ. Wiley was in town this week.
Not quite enough snow for a sleigh
ride.
E. Sartoris, Nellie Grants husband, is
dead.
The epizootic is killing horses in Sier-
ra Valley.
Mrs. R. H. Richardson's condition
remains unchanged.
There are a great many of Wadsworth
people on the sick list.
Bill Nye and Burbank, funny men
meet at Reno on the Goth.
Sooner or later, the United States will
have the Hawaiian islands.
R. l.. Fuller and Jim Nichols are
tending bar at the Reception.
Fish poles and small boys form COM
binatiohs against the finny tribe.
B. f. Dolan is rafting his double bar
rel shot gun and outfit. 1t is a good one.
Jack Rats little boy knows every
body in town. He is a bright %youngster.
Beulah George and Rosie Bird are on
the Whitaker Hall roll of honor for jan
uarv.
On the 14th Frank Bell will get the
hardest looking set of VALENTINES in the
State.
Vann's resolution favoring free coin
age was defeated in the California As
sembly at Wadsworth.
Members of the Endowment Rank,
Knights Of Pythias, already carry $4,000
insurance.
United States gold is being sent to
Europe and there hoarded for use in
case Of war.
Bill before the Legislature to appro-
pirate SIS, 900 for Nevada's exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
Six quail all the way from China
fame by Wells Fargo and Co. yesterday
or Wah Lee.
There are 109 men on the Austin Min
g Co.'S pay roll for the month OF Janu-
y.-Reveille.
The knife used to clip the goat in the
offs. BIS is now being utilized as a
reese carver.
'What do you know" Nothing"
would get real angry if ANYBODY else
g pnld say it.
Sc a little cautious about going secur-
H Tor a man who takes no newspaper
1 Keeps two dogs.
he Supreme Court has decided that
publication of the Constitutional
.endments was sufficient.
Judge Gresham will probably be Gle
Rnd's Secretary of State-founded ON
TACT that he does not deny it.
speaking of a man he disliked, a
Foader said "give him a swift kick
lie pants and knock his brains out"
nator White OF California will be
Youngest member in the Upper
Y OF Congress. He has just turned
Hce the organization of the Endow-
hank, Knights of Pythias, bene-
ave been paid tt the amount of
I'll.
"lachlnists nave appointed a
'eee to size things up and see If
orth has available material for a
Y tfoup. We are sure they will
~eoundanee OF iifst-class material
pc they will get to work in earn
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1898.