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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
He Could Not Tell q Lie.

Peyton Fitzboomer, somewhat effen,
mate representative by descent of one OF
the oldest of the F. F. VS., desired as a
personal attendant or valet servant who
should be absolutely truthful. He had
suffered much from the prevaricating pro
clivities of former menials. He at length
found in the person of julius Caesar, a
youthful darby fresh from the interior,
one who promised to suit him. Julius de-
clared that he did not know how to lie and
that he would never try to learn.
One day Fitzboomer appeared dressed in
a fashion most fetching He was bound on
a visit to some lady friends.
Julius" said he to his new servant,
chow do look?''
'Plendid, mas'r! 'Plendidv
"Do you think I'll do to see the ladies,
Julius?"
lob course yo' will. Golly! mas'r, I
nebber seed yo' look so fine b'fore in all
my born days. Hi! yo' look as bold as
lion!"
why, Julius-what do you know about
lion? You never saw one."
"Nebber see a lion, mas'r? Oh, bress
you, yes. Don't Mas'r Dixon's niger Jim
ride one by here cherry mornin?"
"Why-you fooll that's a donkey"
"Can't help it, mas'r. 1 don't know how
to tell lie. You look just like himr'-
New York Ledger.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Earning q Smoke.

Tom Jenkins was as great joker as he
was smoker. He once got into a first
class compartment in railway carriage
where sour looking old gentleman was
seated.
You mustn't smoke here" said the old
gent as jenkins pulled out his pipe from,
his pocket.
II know that" said Jenkins, calmly fill
ing his pipe.
did not tell you," said the old gent
again, "that you mustn't smoke here? It's
not smoking compartment"
II know that" said Jenkins, calmly tax
ing out his fusee box. They're special kind
that he prides himself on. He calls them
his ''patent stinkers" He lit fusee, and
now the wrath of the old gent was frightful
II say, sir, you shan't smoke here" he
shrieked
II know that" said Jenkins. allowing
his fusee to exhaust itself. He lit one after
another, allowing them to burn out. The
birthstone was awful and the smoke suffo-
eating. The old gent was coughing and
spluttering and struggling for words.
II say, SIR" he exclaimed at length,
smoke, smoke, smoke; for goodness sake,
smoker
Thanks, awfully!' said Jenkins as he
lit another fusee and this time applied j,
to the expectant pipe.-Tit-Bits.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Work That the He.r+ ~.

"AAo Heart Does.
The work OF the heart is the circulat;.c
of the life giving blood throughout the
body. With each stroke or beat of the
heart, it projects something like six ounces
of blood into the bodily conduits throwing
it for a distance of 9 feet. This il does "a
times each minute, 4,l4o times each hon. 70
90, 800 times in day, 80, 266, 400 times in -
year and 2.54O, 337, 100 times in y l;fetime
of 70 years. The blood is propelled by the
heart feet each beat, so7 yards each min.
ute, Z miles in an hour, 1863 niles in y dav
6l,sl7 miles in year and 1880, l2o miles in
the 10 years.
The total force exerted by the heart
every twenty-four hours has been calcu-
lated to be equal to l24 foot tons: that is. if
the whole force expended by the heart in
twenty-four hours were gathered into one
huge stroke, such power would lift lA
tons one foot off the ground. This being
the daily force, that exerted in wear
would be equal to 1890 foot tons. and that
in lifetime of seventy years 3,l70,3O3.
Such is the enormous amount of work per-
formed by the human heart, which only
weighs eleven ounces and is about the size
of the closed fist.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
The Origin of Hoodlum.

About twenty or twenty-five years ago
there lived in San Francisco a couple by the
name of O'Houghlihan, who were blessed
with family of boys who were the terror
of that region; ignorant, brutal young
toughs, whose only pastime was torment
ing, abusing and beating all the other
youngsters in the neighborhood. They
were SO much dreaded by the neighbors
that when they were seen approaching
children were called indoors and kept there
till they had gone to safe distance, and it
was easy to know when they were in sight
by hearing women calling, "Patsey, Mary
Ann, come in; the Houghlihans is comm"
The O was dropped in haste of calling
the young ones and after little the name,
q somewhat difficult one to pronounce at
the best, was in the mouths of the Ger
mans, Italians, Chinese and nationalities
residing on the Barbary coast, corrupted
into ''hoodlums," and the Houghlihan
boys and their associates became generally
known as the Northumberland Orego-
MAN.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
"A Lightning Stroke.

On the 3GGth of May, 1881, party OF Ia
dies and gentlemen went in an OMNIBUS
from Washington to the country seat OF H.
C.. Mctxero.t, distant nine miles, in Prince
Georges county, Md.
During the afternoon the party was
seated on the spacious veranda of the
dwelling, the horses and omnibus standing
on the lawn Immediately to the front.
Suddenly few clouds gathered, and be-
fore any rain fell severe and sudden clap
Of thunder startled them. At the same
instant flash or streak of lightning de-
ecended and ripped apart the southwest
corner of the roof of the frame carriage
house, standing alone 200 feet distant, de-
scended down the sheathing to midway
of the west or end wall of the car
rlage house, then at right angles
apparently to the center of the wall
where the clapboarding was ripped and
shattered; then struck brass tipped pair
OF shafts standing near the northwest an
gle, SCATTERING the right hand shaft about
midway, where stripof iron covered with
leather was placed to serve as a stay for
the breeding strap; then apparently
passed down and out at the floor by the
closed door OF the carriage house, where 1t
was plainly seen by all the company NOV
ing along rapidly in small coils or circles
up the road leading to the veranda, to the
hoofs of the horses, playing around them
with great velocity and then apparently
dissipated, no one could tell where. The
horses were greatly agitated, fairly trem-
bled, but did not move, and most OF the
company on the porch experienced a tin
Cling, singing sensation, but none were
stunned. The sky soon cleared.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Rebuked.

Several years ago the Rothschilds held a
large quantity of cotton in New Orleans,
which they instructed their agent in that
city to sell when cotton should reach GER
tain price. The agent, believing that the
price of cotton would go beyond the figure
named by his employers, held on till he
was able to sell it at price which netted
$4,000 more than he would have got for it
if he had obeyed his orders from London.
He joyfully informed his employers of
his success, supposing they would share
his satisfaction at the result. Imagine his
surprise and chagrin when he received
reply, saying, in substance: "The $4,000
you made by disobeying your instructions
is not ours It is yours. Take it. Mr..
-, your successor, starts for New Orleans
today. San Francisco Argonaut.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Waiting For Wind.


Small Boy ION river bank}-D you know
bout weather?
Old Gentleman-I have studied meteoroi-
ogy little.
well, I've been standin here most q
hour waitin for the wind to blow hard, and
it don't blow bit. Do you think it will
soon?"
II shouldn't wonder. my little man. The
sky looks very streaky. But what do you
want of wind?"
II want to have SWIM"
1T does not require wind to 90 SWIM
ming"
mo, but mamma won't let me 90 in.
That's why want wind"
II don't understand
"Don'ta Guess it's good while since
you was a boy, isn't it?"
Eyes, agood while"
And your mem'ry isn't very good, I
s'pose?"
Perhaps not. l certainly cannot recall
any connection between wind and swim
ming"
IVY, don't you seer, If wind comes
along and blows my hat into the water,
can go after it, and mamma won't say a
word. She paid dollar an half for that
hat. GOOD News.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Meanings of the Word "Stove.,

Meanings of the Word s'St0vo."
The word stove, as applied to a heater
for room, seems to be of about the same
age as the article to which the name is
now applied, as while the word as a name
had an existence in early English, it was
used in different sense.
Both Lord Bacon and Woodward used it
as referring to a house or room artificially
warmed, and particularly dollhouse for
plants. Bacon also used the word as a
verb in the way of keeping warm in q house
or room, as Ito stove orange trees and myr-
Ties" to quote from his writings. Pepys
used the verb in q nautical sense, as heat
ing for the purpose of making pliable, as
"stove bolt ropes"
But all these definitions are obsolete
now, such disuse dating from the time
when DR.. Franklin made his discoveries
and applications. The French word etuve,
it may be added, describes dollhouse or
bathing room, and hence is parallel in
meaning with the early English word
Philadelphia Press
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Facts About Black Ink.

No chemical black ink has yet been made
which will write black Immediately on ex-
posture. The common black ink is made of
nutgalls, and is by all odds the best ink
ever made. Manuscripts written in this
black ink 500 and 600 years ago are Just as
legible today as when first written. The
chemical inks of the present are Of too re-
cent invention to determine whether they
will last, but it is quite probable that most
Of them will be as legible at the end of
fifty or seventy-five years as they are to-
day. There is, however, fortune in store
for the man who will invent a chemical
black ink which will write black at the
first and femain So.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
An Economist.

The summer boarder was fishing when
Farmer Begosh came along.
Gee whillikens! what on airth air YOU
a-doin?' he exclaimed as the sportsman
deposited small fish in his basket.
Pm fishing" was the reply. "You adj.
vertised good fishing, didn't your"
Eyes. Don't you know the fsh'll die eff
you keep 'em out o. water? You don't
think Pm goin ter spend money every week
putin new fish into thet there pond jes' fur
you city fellers to ketch, do your No, sir
reel" and the proprietor of rural joys
turned the contents of the basket into the
pond and Indignantly strobe on.-Wash-
lngton Star.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Repressed Indignation.

Repressed Indignation is an interesting
phase of human feeling Such restraint is
frequently required in good society. had
the pleasure of attending most agreeable
5o'clock tea at a house on Massachusetts
avenue one day. A gentleman who came
in soon after myself, in bowling to the la
dies right and left caught his foot in the
leg of the wicker tea table and upset the
whole affair spirit lamp, cups, sa1cers,
sugar bowl, cream pitcher and all. The
disaster was most lamentably complete.
And yet the hostess was obliged to control
her wrath and to accept apologies with
smiling demeanor, saying thatthe accident
was really of no moment whatever.-Wash-
ington Star.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
An Energetic Young Won an.

A young woman of Harlem repairs,
mends and cleans the dresses of women
whose time is occupied in other ways, and
can better afford to pay her than do the
work themselves. Since the long street
sweeping trains have been in vogue she
has had so much work that she has had to
employ an assistant. In her advertisement
she says she "goes out to do mending, sews
on buttons, repairs trimmings, replaces
worn bindings, mends the f1annels, darns
underwear and hose, mends delicate laces.
cleans gloves and satin slippers, hunts for
rips and weak buttons and puts new whale
bones in basques New York Sun.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
A Won anly Act.

1T was" said the relator, several years
ago when we first moved here At that
time persistent bonnet wearing was not in
vogue in the smaller towns, although in
New York even then the custom was well
established. Soon after my arrival was
invited to a church entertainment, and was
chagrined on reaching the dressing room
to find every woman except myself in a
dressy bonnet which she did not lay aside.
"Perceiving my own blunder instantly,
it was with a keen sense of embarrassment
that l. perforce, put off my knitted fas-
cinator' and faced the prospect of spending
the evening among strangers singled out
by my unfortunate ignorance. Undoubt-
eddy my face displayed the modification
felt, for noticed lady looking at me sew
eral times in friendly, half sympathetic
way. She was evidently well known and
popular woman in the company, for every
body greeted her with great cordiality,
and you may fancy my sweet relief when
this woman, whose heart was as tender as
her face was lovely, fused about, famed
herself conspicuously and finally declared
the rooms were going to be unbearable and
she believed she wculd leave her bonnet
up stairs, it will be SO much more COM
fOrtable.'
"She must have sighed to put off the
dainty little article which completed her
handsome toilet, and l noticed her hair,
dressed for bonnet, needed considerable
arranging to be presentable without one,
but am sure her heavenly crown got an
especially brilliant jewel that night for
her most womanly succor of a sister in
distress. Her Point of View in New York
Times :.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
A Big Livery Bill.

A Bangor man who sent his Office boy
to return a hired team to stable re-
ceived several days after bill for the
board of the horse and another bill for
the hire of the team for the time in
tervening. The stupid boy took the team
to tho wrong stable. The man said he
wouldn't mind 80 much, but there seemed
to be no limit to the number Of cigars no
Is compelled to pay for at the instance Of
jeering MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
THE HIGHEST AWARD.
Royal Baking Powder Has All the Hon.
Ors-In strength and Value 20 Per

Royal Baking Powder Has All the Hon.
ors-In strength and Value 20 PEI
Cent Above Its Nearest Competitor.
The Royal Baking Powder has the envi
able record OF having received the highest
award for articles of it's class greatest
strength. purest ingredients, most perfectly
cOmblned-wherever exhibited in cOmpeti-
ton with others. In the exhibitions OF
former years, at the Centennial, at Paris,
Vienna and at the various State and indus
trial fairs, where it has been exhibited,
Judges have Invariably awarded the Royal
Baking Powder the highest honors.
At the recent Worlds Fair the examina-
tons for the baking powder awards were
made by the experts of the chemical divi-
sion OF the Agricultural Department at
Washington. The officialt repor of the
tests OF the baking powders which were
made by this department for the specific
purpose of ascertaining which was the best,
and which has been made public, shows the
leayening strength of the Royal to be 100
cubic inches of carbonic gas per ounce Of
powder. OF the cream of tartar baking
powders exhibited at the fair the next high.
est In strength thus tested contained but
133 cubic inches of leavening gas. The
other powders gave an average of Ill. The
Royal. therefore, was found Of 20 per cent
greater leavening strength than it's nearest
competitor, and A per cent above the aver
age of all the other tests. Its superiority
in other respects, however, in the quality
of the food it makes as to fineness, delicacy
and wholesomeness, could not be measured
by figures.
1t is these high qualities, known and ap-
preciated by the women of the country for
80 many years. that have caused the sales
of the Royal Baking Powder, as shown by
statistics, to exceed the sales of all other
baking powders combined.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
FIRST LOVE

Oh. gray eyes. tull of love. of light,
Look back with me to that honr
When Dayllgnt IN the arms of Night,
Left one soft tear in every flower.
The stars came out to light o,r wav
Across the meadow we went DER
oh, Love! Oh, Love! can that s,yaat dav
Return no more-no more2
If could have but one dear boon
In all my life it would be this
That hour, that hour that fled so soon,
The ecstacy of your first kiss.
on, LlIe moves on and love and thought
Grow colder-oft my heart is sore.
Returns no more-no more.
Elizabeth Cherry Hare,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Horace Greeley's Umbrella.

remember one incident of my fathers
indulgence. One day he brought home an
umbrella with a wooden dogs head as a
handle. Ny covetous little heart proceeded
to set itself upon that canine eftgy. In
vain papa offered me whole dog. But
pleaded that no other head in the world
would be like that head, and the result
was hesawed it off and went back to town
with q handless umbrella.-Mrs. Greeley
Clendenin in Ladies' Home Journal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Peculiar Showers.

There have been several peculiar showers
In the United States during the last quar-
ter of century, among others shower Of
"quivering flesh" in Kentucky, shower
Of edible mushrooms in South Carolina, a
shower of small seeds in Statesburg, S. c.,
in 1882, and shower of sulphur in the In
dian Territory in the spring OF 1852
American Notes and Queries.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06

II war could be carried on by the rules
laid down for students in the dreadful art,
it would become an easy process. In mill
tary tactics it is the expected" which
happens; in real life. the unexpected"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06
Keep Your Eyes Open.

The man who journeys through this
world with his eyes open will learn things
every day for nothing that other people
have had to go without butter on their
bread to find out.-Ram's Horn.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-06

The wonderful development of the orange
industry OF California is seen from the fact
that in six counties there are already 1,O0O,-
600 trees bearing and over 8, 00O, 600 trees on
the way to productiveness.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-07-20

outburst of loyalty from the lips of the Sena-
take up arms against the Union and one of
the last to lay them down. but he is still more
ready to champion the cause of law and order
against anarchy
No wonder the Senate was in tumult of
enthusiasm over this flaming sword of loyal
ty, and that Senators and spectators alike
were taken quite Off their feet. It was re-
conservation to liberty and reign of law, and
the electrifying effect was not confined to that
chamber. II will be heard all over this land
The appeal of General Gordon must touch
responsive chord in their consciences. Many
of them fought under and for the stars and
stripes, others were too young. or were then
in some foreign land, but they all know
enough of the period from 1861 to 1865, to ap-
precate the force of this magnetic outburst
Of loyalty.
1t Will be remembered that General Gordon
was the first of the "Rebel Brigadiers' to en-
ter The Senate after the war, and that between
him and General Grant a strong personal
friendship sprang up. This speech affords
glimpse of the genuine loyalty of the man
which must have quite won the heart of Gene
ral Grant. The Inter Ocean is confident that
tiie South will cheer to the echo the sentiments
of General Gordon, and that if the Debs in
sufrcction should take Oh the proportions OF
rebellion the South would furnish its full
quota of volunteers for its suppression.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-07-20

eign papers, hasbeen appointed physician
at the famous Womans Clinic of Professor
Won Winkel in Munich
The deepest hole ever bored into the earth
is an arteslan we'll at Pesth, Hungary, which
was driven to a depth of $40 feet, over mile
and half.
Two members of the Harrisonbug bar, John
7. Harris, il, and Geo E. Sipe, had a fiat
boat built at Port Republic. and embarked
there on July 9th for Harper's Ferry.
The Supervisors of Rockingham, have sold
the county jail to the town of Harrisonburg
for s., go, and bought lot on Water street to
build another one.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-07-20
THE SOUTHERN SUPPORT OF TIL
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.


There seems to be a mutual surprise go
ing Oh between the n orthern and Southern
sections Of the country. The North seems
surprised at the prompt, outspoken and
by the National government. And the
South is really surprised to find that any
thing else WAS expected Of it. What queer
| ideas must prevail in some quarters of the
Union about thestate Of feeling at the South.
What could the South do but stand by the
National government? 1t belongs to it as
much as to any other part Of the country:
what other country Oh what other govern
ment could we be interested in? The South
from its peculiar situation knows above all
other sections the supreme value Of law. II
knows the value of enforcing law with
promptness at any cost. As long as the
South remains as purely American as it is
to-day and as free from the foreign imni-
grafton that has poisoned the blood of the
West and Northwest, it will be the sheet
anchor of law and order in this United
States, ready at any call to stand by the
National government with its life.
The South never had any gfudge against
the National government. The Nation
al government was always far, even
more than faig to it. It's quar-
rel was with the States that permitted
mobs to assail Southern men who
went NORTH to recover what was then
property under the lazy; States which not
only tolerated resistance to the United
States laws but passed laws encouraging
such resistance. The South found the
National government too weak to protect
its rights outside of the Southern States,
and it took their protection into it's own
hands, and that is about the short of long
and old story.
Since the war, the South has had nothing
against the National government. Its
fight has been against the Republican party
which it thinks made some grave mistakes
in gtatecraft in reconstructing the Union.
and which it knows put it through a course
of great and unneeded humiliation. 1t has
never supposed that fighting the Republi
Can party had any kinship to resistance OF
hostility to the National government.
though our friends. the Republicans, have
largely inculaated this view of themselves
and the South, OH the people North and
West, Tie South will stand by the Ma
tional government no matter what party
administers it. and will not be slow to give
it substantial aid in men and money. No
Southern Governor will ever be found hold
ing debating society with the President
Of the United States about where he Shall
send troops, While an anarchical mob is de
flying National, State and municipal au-
thority.
The Debs' instruction was costly
affair, but if it has opened the eyes OF the
twosections of this Union to their relations
to cur common country. it was worth all
it cost.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-07-20
pronounced Tariff Reformers"
and Firms of Influence.

Washington Correspondence of the Rich
mond Dispatch July 14th.]
The Virginia and North Carolina senators
are tariff reformers of the most pronounced
type, and at the same time, when it comes to
getting some concessions for firms of influence
that desire their interests looked after, it is
only right and fair that in the distribution of
favors they should be taken care of.