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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

Jackson, {Mich.,) Patriot: Justice to
those who toll, rather than desire for the
welfare OF those who speculate, demands
the relief that would come from exempt
ing labor and it's products from the bur.
den OF supporting governments, and
placing the burden on land values which
are created by all the people.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

Prof. Rogers in Political Economy !:
Every permanent improvement Of the
soil, every railway and road, every bet
tering of the general condition Of society,
every facility given for production, every
stimulus supplied to consumption, raises
rent. The landowner sleeps, but thrives.
He alone, among all the recipients in the
distribution of products owes everything
to the labor Of others, contributes moth.
ing to his own. He inherits part OF the
fruits Of present industry, and has ap-
propriated the lions share Of accumuls
ted intelligence.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

Tiberius Gracious: Men OF Rome,
you are called the lords Of the world, yet
have no right to a square foot Of it's soil +!
The wild beasts have their dens, but the
soldiers Of Italy have only water and air.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

Boston Herald: Every one whose
good disposition is worth desiring ID
kindly disposed toward labor.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

Ar ing on Record 1t has never been
the policy OF orr government TO own
Its own trans,Tr,a ion facilities, such a.
railroads, steamship lines and other
means OF carrying the products OF the
country to market, and We venture the
prediction that 1t will he long time be-
fore the present policy 10 changed In that
particular unless the companies now con-
trolling that business force q different
policy on the country by their unreason
able extortions. There is one fact tina,
the people are familiar with, and that is
there have been great many men wht
have become millionaires in the las
thirty years through extortion and spec
ulation. The farmers and laborin,
classes have either directly or indirectl!
furnished these millions. These SAM
millions are now being used to corrup
legislation, whereby millions more are I,
be obtained. The people Of the Unitet
States are too intelligent aud independ
ent to allow this state OF affairs to be con
tinusd and perpetuated.
La Grande Chronicle: Union peopl
are not waiting for the COW to back up I
be MIXED, but are industriously hustlin
for the sugar factory subsidy. Last sprin
Pendleton people put in Q few hundre
dollars in wool securing plant, and the
now have an industrial enter prise ths
EMPLOYS nearly forty people, and the
town has become at one jump the centri
wool market Of the upper Columb
, basin. All these things would hay
come anyway, would they? Not in
, hundred years. People who imagine tn
, they have the only town and the on
country surrounding 1t, are in conditic
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-09-28

A cyclone passed through Jennings
and Mingo, in Oklahoma, and blew fifty
houses to atoms. A young lady and two
children were killed and several people
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
A Witty savage.

Mr.. Froude tells story Of how a ma
tive Maori chief. Tekoi. managed to
turn the tables upon his missionary
teacher. The chief had been frequent
ly warned by him against the evil OF in
diligence in "firewater." A day came,
however. when the missionary, in dan
ger of catching cold. felt constrained to
fortify himself with u glass of whisky
toddy At the moment he was about
TO raise the tempting fluid to his lips, a
dusky figure appeared. and, laying his
finger on the glass. said: stop. little
fatherl II you drink tirewater, you will
lose your health, you will lose your
character Perhaps you will lose your
life. Nay, little father, You will lose
but that shall not be- Your immortal
soul is more precious than mine. The
drink will hurt me less than it will hurt
you. To save your soul, ! will drink 1t
myself" Which he did forthwith.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
CRESIS AND THEIR ORIGIN.

!hey We-e Used ar Pack ., s"c'ert
Tincs-Some q :ae Moo Notable.
Crcsts arc ascribc;! to the Carians and
they are If vc-y an tent origin. They
are IN / io1cd by Inner and Virgil
and des ribbed as in use among the
heather gods and < )Gdesses. Thus the
crest to Minerva's helmet was an owl.
Mars bore lion or tiger and Jupiter
Ammon am he'd These symbols
were fC merry p s,ct on the helmet
and were great MARKS OF honor, only
worn by heroes of treat valor or by
those who were aIvan ed to some su-
perior military command. Richard L
had crest on his helmet resembling q
plume of feathers; Richard ii. wore Q
lion on a cap of dignity above the
crown on his helmet; Alexander ILL.,, OF
Scotland, had plume Of feathers. and
James l. wore a lion. In the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, a,.cor ling to
the Brooklyn Eagle. the ,rest was de-
scribed as being a figure placed upon Q
wreath, coronet or cap CT maintenance
above the helmet or shield. A crest
was anciently worn on the heads of
commanders in the field, and then only
in order to distinguish them from their
followers After the institution of the
order OF the garter. and in imitation of
Edward III all knights companions of
the order began to wear crests This
practice soon became more general. and
they were assumed by all who oonsid-
cred themselves entitled TO bear arms.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
Love Of Animals tor Drink.

Close observers have noticed that flies
will gather upon half-drunken,
sleepy sot, while a dozen sober men in
the same room are not molested by
them. The flies will buzz around their
sub nct with great delight, frequently
alig ting upon his perspiring face. OF
the, go. and return again and again,
uualAng he alcoholic nectar issuing
from his pores. After awhile their
FIGHT becomes uncertain and eccentric,
and sometimes they come in collision.
Recently drunken man raised his
hand and brushed them from his face
Some fell t. the floor and lay there par
alyzed. After awhile they got on their
feet and YEARLY few off. half dazed.
Many animals yield to the seduction Of
rum drinking, especially elephants,
horses. cows and swine. Poultry, es-
pecially turkeys, viii ,.bsorb the tempt
ing drink till they tumble over in Q
lesden sleep. lying around as if dead,
and utterly ignoring their accustomed
roosts. On awaking they stagger for Q
few moments and soon recover, but it is
hours before they renew their cheerful
cackling.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
Not Americanisms.

An English correspondent Of the Dos
ton Herald has found in a Dictionary
Of the Isle of Wight Dialect" a number
of words which English writer's usually
class as American prOvincialisms.
Among them arc "cute" and ''piert,"
found also IN one Of George Eliot's nov
els: backed up" "call," in the sense Of
reason or necessity; "chipper." darn"
q n mild oath: fall" for autumn;
"galluses." theft" hunk" Jaw"
meaning to scold; "jiffey." get out Of
kilter. rare" in the sense of under
tone; thick" for intimate; ''gumption,"
''tan." meaning to thrash: spells" OF
weather, put to rights" etc. The sub
Jet is a most interesting one and de
serves more attention from philolOgists
than it has thus far received. The
compiler Of the dictionary in question
says that many Of the provincialisms in
the Isle of Wight are identical with
those current In the adjoining counties
Of Hampshire, Willis and Dorset, once
forming a part Of the Saxon Kingdom
of Wessex, and that the basis Of the
dialect of this region Is purely Anglo
AaxOn
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
ODD WAYS OF OSTRICHES.

The Males Brood Over the Young and
Capture Each Others Families
The ostrich has many strange ways,
and I was particularly interested In
studying them. says q writer in Forest
and Stream. They go in flocks of three
or four females and one male about
their nesting time, and for several
weeks before locating their nests the
hens drop their eggs all about the pam
pas. These are called haucho eggs
pronounced ''watcho"l, and are much
more delicate in flavor than the eggs
taken from the nests. They have .
thinner shell. and when fresh laid are
of a beautiful golden color. We
cooked them by roasting them before
the fire. We would first break holo
in the small end of the egg,
large enough to insert teaspoon. The
egg would be set up among some hot
ashes. a pinch Of salt and pepper put in
to it, AM the contents kept stirred with
a stick 50 lat all would be done alike.
The flavor is excellent, and one egg
would satisfy very hungry man.
As soon as the ostriches decide upon
e suitable place for nest, the male
bird scratches away the grass and
slightly hol.ows out the ground for .
space of about three feet in diameter
All the hens of the flock lay in the
same nest until there are from twenty
five TO thirty-fve eggs laid. The male
birds then take possession and sit on
the eggs until they are Matched. As
soon as the flock can leave the nest,
the old fellow leads them away to feed
on flies and small insects, and every
thing is lovely until he espies another
male bird with brood.
As soon as the old birds see each
other they make peculiar booming
sound, and every little ostrich disap-
pears in the grass. The old ones then
approach each other and engage in q
most deadly conflict They fght until
one or the other is killed or runs away.
The remaining one will then utter an
other peculiar sound, and both broods
will spring up from their hiding places
and follow the victor, who struts OF as
proud as a peacock. have seen old
male ostriches with three broods, each
of different size. two of which they
had captured.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
ANCIENTS LOVED OPALS.
A Roman senator Preferred Exile to Par,
Ing with HIS Brilliant Opal.

Roman senator Preferred Exile to Part.
Ing with HIS Brilliant Opal.
There are three varieties of this IA
nous gem Ranking first comes the
oriental; as second in value, the fire;
and, lastly, the common opal The af-
lection for this precious treasure, as ex-
pressed by the ancients, can hardly be
believed, says Hsrper's Bazaar. Nom
MUS. Roman senator, absolutely pre-
ferred exile to parting with brilliant
opal of the size of n filbert, which was
earnestly coveted by Marc Antony. An
opal ranking as third among the finest
in the world is described as having
three longitudinal bands of the harle-
quin kind, from the uppermost of which
rose pcrpendicularly the most re-
splendcnt flames. 1t measured nine
inches by six.
In the last century very round and
brilliant opal was the property of the
amateur Fleury. Another. said to be
fascinatingly vivid. was owned by a
noted French financicr These two
were regarded as marvcls of beauty
among gems. On account OF the thou
sand tissurcs Of the stone, engraving Is
always difficult, and often impossible.
A head of SapphO engraved upon q
''presumable opal" an antique. has
been highly valued and carefully studied
by experts in gem lore. 1t is cata-
logned. so we read. among the treasures
Of . princely home.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
THE INDIANS SUGAR.
How It Was Extracted from the Trees b
Vermont.

How It Was Extracted from the Trees fn
Vermont.
Ever since the Indians in the section
now known as Fletcher discovered
"honey" in the maple trees, that dis
trict has been known far and wide -
the heart of the Vermont maple sugar
country. The way the rod man ex-
tracted the delicious compound WA
somewhat slow Is compared with tho
present process He used to cut q
slanting cash in the bark and insert in
the lower end a gauge-shaped piece Of
wood, from which the sap ran and
dropped into . poplar or Eastwood
trough. At the end of the season these
troughs would be set up against the
trees and left until the following sea-
son, by which time the troughs would
be thoroughly widowed. This ma
terially added to the flavor of the alb
original sugar. but can hardly be said
to have improved it. The evaporator
Of those times consisted of an iron ket-
tie swung from a sapling bent over .
stump. By slow and tedious process
the sap was first heated and then
boiled in this kettle, often taking two
or three days boiling before it could
be sugared of. This was the way In
which the redskins and the early Yer
monitors eked out . "sweetnin'" 10
their tea and johnny cake.
In the best Fletcher groves Of to-day
. long pipe or trough line runs from
some central spot in the grove down
to the big storage tanks in the sugar
house. Here the perfected evaporation,
when under full Roadway, will convert
the first sap into strip in half an hour,
consuming about one cord Of wood to
produce q hundred pounds Of sugar.
There are in the town of Fletcher, ut .
moderate estimate. thirty thousand
trees, this being probably within the
real number
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
AlMANACS IN RUSSIA.

hoy Play . Proaimsat Part In tho Daily
Life Of he People.
what prominent part the almanac
plays in Russian household! And such
almsnscsl There is . recipe for dinner
for every day in the year; there arc in
fallible cures for burns and teething
and commissions. for toothache, oorns
and bald heads. You are told all about
tho imperial family, and there are por-
traits of It's members-vie caricatures
surely.
Tho count gravely consulted IT.
vaccinations in his colloquy with the
steward ~ learn when tho weather
would best suit for sowing mangel,"
says q writer In the Christian World.
II saw the countess hunting In Il for
an Interpretation of . dream she had.
Beyond the almanac no ono ever reads
anything. exclude, Of course, the
young count and his tutor.
There are, however, few books IN
the house. In tho drawing or sitting
room, ono Of tho few articles of furni-
turc there II IN old.fashioned book
case. from which the glass has long
since vanished. I had tho curiosity 70
examine Its contents. There were ten
bound volumes Of an illustrated weekly
paper, q few old-fashioned books on az
riculture, two volumes of Nekrasoh's
pastoral poems, . number of incomplete
works of French bellies lettres of Vol
tsiye's time. q Russian translation Of
SCOTS 'Kenilworth.' much bcthumbed
and greasy. This was all olden-time
stuff, and represented the taste Of some
bygone ancestor Of the count
81 looked for anything that might
denote the taste of the rising genera
tion, and found In . corner . Russian
version of Robinson Crusoe,' and q
well-hidden novel Of Zola's. Do these
latter books signify tho beginning of q
renaissance In the house of BorisoR
To whom did the lola belong? To the
countess, I suspect. We had . pleasant
evening in the drawing-room-the only
comfortable room In the house. There
were few easy chairs, . cspsciou,
sofa, q grand piano and lots Of cane
bottomed chairs. Over the sofa HUNG
portrait of the emperor; opposite the
emperor picture Of the count when HI
was a gay dog in the guards. But there
was hardly q sign of female occupancy
anywhere"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
He was Not q Kicker.

II don't mind your daughters prao-
ticing ten hours day in the next nat"
said the tenant in the apartment house.
"even II she does keep the piano cover
up and the forte pedal down. But
would like family to suggest that three
thousand six hundred and fifty hours .
year of Chopin's second nocturne has
made slight change seem desirable.
Would you mind asking her TO play the
third or fourth nocturne on Tuesdays
and Fridays 20 that my wife can have
. different kind Of headache BY way Of
relief?"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
rOlNGS Or A VOOOO0
A Negro ,octress !, L,usiaaa Swallow
Snakcs for Pastime.

A NEGRO bOctfeh IL VI 6W W.
snekcs for Pastime.
An aged neyress Of great repute as .
"vop loo or. witch dcctress, among the
negroes OF this section, is attracting
much attention, not only from those
Of her own color. but from the more in
telligcnt portion of the community, and
the way in which she does this is to ap-
parent,y swallow = number OF small
snakes OF a variety unknown IN this
section. They are of the dusky color,
nearly black, pied with dull green at
the fiat head. and Of . dirty white in
the belly, says Louisiana correspOn-
dent of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
These reptiles remain sccreted about
old Nanoe's cabin until she gives pc
culiar whistling call, when they will
come to her, wrisgling in great haste
over the floor, up her dress, and run
into her open mouth, Kissing hideously.
They disappear and remain hidden
sometimes for minutes. She asserts
that they are concealed in her stomach
until she recalls them, when they Will
come pouring out to writhe about her
bCTbXKy ucCh du0 Gull Al hCi OOoOAA.
Where the snakes really 60 when
they vanish in her mouth is a mystery,
and has puzzled all the physicians
about, many having come from New
Orleans to witness the phenomenon.
Some really believe that the snakes do
go down into the stomach, while others
are convinced that the witch is simply
playing some sleight-of-hand trick on
them; but IL the latter Is the case it Is
so cleverly done that there is no detect
ing the performance.
The witch presents . most extraor-
binary and hideous appearance sitting
with the snakes darling their fat heads
in al nut of her toothless mouth, with
Their iJtle bead-like eyes swapping a.
if in f:ry at all about their mistress.
As nearly as can be counted there are
six or sven of these reptiles, though
old Nance aays there are as many more,
but they are all so much of q size and
color that they cannot be identified
They are probably Of q harmless ma
ture, though old Nance declares they
are highly poisonous and no one wishes
to experiment with them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
THE COVER ElRD.
One Of the Queer Dcnizens of Australis's
Forests.

One Of the Queer Dcnizens of Australia's
Forests.
The most remarkable instance Of
estheticism among the birds is that
exhibited by the Australian bower
birds who build long galleries in
which to play, adjoining them with
shells, feathers, leaves, bones or any
colored or glittering object which
comes in their way. Capt Stokes do
scribes one of these bower birds -
taking shell alternately from each
side of the bower and carrying Il
through in its beak.
Lumholz describes several of these
playhouses of the bower birds- He
says they are always to be found I'm
small brushwood, never in the open
field; and in their immediate vicinity
the birds collect . mass of different
kinds of objects. especially snail shells,
which are laid in two heaps, one At
each entrance-the one being much
larger than the other. There are fro
quently hundreds of shells, about three
hundred in one heap and thirty in the
other. There Is usually handful OF
green berries, partly inside and partly
outside the bower"
In his interesting book, Among
Cannibals," Lumholz describes . play
ground of what would appear to be
different species of the bird, showing
oven a greater esthetic taste. He says:
ION the top of the mountain heard
In the dense scrubs the loud and IN.
eeasing voice of bird. carefully sp-
preached it, sat on the ground and
shot 1t. 1t was one of the bower birds,
with gray and very modest plumage
and of the size Of . thrush. As
picked up the bird my attention was
drawn TO . fresh covering Of green
leaves on the black soil. This was tho
birds place of amusement, which, BE-
meath the dense scrubs, formed .
square O yard each way, the ground
having boen cleared of leaves and rub
Dish.
ION this neatly-clesred spot the bird
had laid large, fresh leaves, one by the
side of the other, with considerable
regularity, and close by he sat singing,
apparently extremely happy over his
work. AS soon as the leaves decay
they are replaced by new ones"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
IT S?OILS THE WOMEN.
That Is Why the bachelor Won't Give
Up Ills seat on the Cars.

That is Why the bachelor Won't Give
Up Ills seat on the Cars.
why don't get up and give my seat
In a ear 10 a We tnan whom happen to-
see standing after am scated?" said a
broker the other day whose reputation
Tor good breeding, according 10 the
New York Herald. is beyond reproach.
well. III tell you frankly that it is
due to the women. They become more
ill-brcd ard boider every year. They
demand courtesy as a right They
never think of looking at a car as it APP
proaches to see whether IL is full or not
or as to whether it would be better to
wait for the next. They inst board the
FIRST TO come along and look 1T the men
deprecatingly if they do not rise at
once.
Personally have often waited for
four cars to find a seat. Then hang
on to il, except in the case of a woman
with babies or an elderly lady. am a
bachelor and propose to remain so I'M
til a woman thanks me for giving her
my seat in either an elevated train or Q
horse car. To such o one ! think I'd
propose marriage at once. But then
I'm going to be careful to whom l give
up my seat. Pretty soon we men will
have to surrender our seats In the the
atcr to the woman who buys an en-
trance ticket
"And why not? Your seat in the
theater costs perhaps one dollar and
fifty cents and your seat in the car costs
only five cents Still the principle Is
the same, and no woman with a proper
sense Of dolicacy ought to accept any
thing from a stranger which costs
money.
what would woman think at the
postage stamp window in the post Of
fee If a man ahead Of her in the line
turned around and said: Pardon me,
madam. won't you take my stampr
Yet stamp is only two cents"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
Antiouitv OF r ybaeco.

Tobacco was noted by Columbus on
his very first voyage. 1t was 6rst cul-
tivated by John Eolfe in 1919. and Is
early as 1879 a lot of 10000 pounds was
shipped to England. In 1879 tobacco
factory was started on the Rappahan-
mock river. and about 1869 the first
south Of the James river was built in
Mecklenburr county. In i7+5 the ex-
ports from ir,,inia amounted to 42.S4I
hogsheads of about l.OOo pounds each.
there was a decline rn;il after the
revolution Al i. now lrovn in most
Of the southern states with Kentucky
in the lead.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-27
A Deceptive Nane.

A Fhila IcIriian and as wife were
dropped ore hot summer day at the
tiny post village of Mount Pleasant,
on the Delaware railroad, and as they
gazed over fat country, whose differ
cnces of level are scarcely pcrceptible
save by the aid of a surveyors instru-
ment, a native asked them what they
were looking for. then the Philadel-
phian explained that the name of the
place had called up such visions of an
airy eminence that he and his wife had
come down to spend their vacation.
They learned from the native that
summer board was not obtainable
there, and he obligingly explained
that the place received its deceptive
name In commemOration of the fact
that it was situated on the watershed
between Delaware and Chesapeake
bays. the backbone of the peninsula.
rs it is locally called.