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The Trade For Him.

He told his friend that his son was giving
him great deal of trouble and that he was
undecided what to do with him.
He has lost every position have got
for him" he said, land am in despair"
rs he fast and unreliable2" asked the
friend
"Oh, no; he Gan be depended upon at all
times. hEs amakes such a bad impression
that no one will keep him."
"Untidy in his personal appearance"
mot at all. He always looks we'll"
Lazy, perhapss"
'No, but he talks too much. He can't
seem to help it, He talks all the time, and
talks like II blithering idiot at that. His
remarks are made at random and don't
seem to mean anything or to fit in any
where. There is no sense to them and OF
course in a few weeks he just talks himself
out of his job"
Cant you get him to reformi"
mot bit of it. I've tried, but it seems
to be born in him to babble along like the
inmate of an insane asylum"
well, there's only one thing to do with
him."
Whats thatP"
Make a barber of him. Chicago Even,
ing Post
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30

remember once to have seen the role
of a hero played with all the spontaneity
Of real genius by poor stage supernu-
merary. 1t happened during battle
scene in Henry V at a Philadelphia
theater. In lull in the firing the au-
dience discovered that fly at the top of
the stage was ablaze. A stampede was
imminent. Half the people in the house
were already on their feet. Two men
could be seen aloft, making desperate eff
forts to tear away the burning scene.
This added to the CONSERVATION. An
other instant and panic would 4..atsve
ensuad, in-whieh many lives would have
been lost.
Such was the situation when out of the
troop of soldiers on the stage stepped a
super" and in u roaring aside" adj
dressed to the trembling audience he
shouted:
"Kape yer safes. Don't yer see de fire
is in de playr'
The effect was magical. Few believed
the statement, but unconsciously every
body dropped back into his chair and
the play went on. A roar of laughter
followed, and although it was five min
utes before the fire extinguishers COM
pleted their work not trace of fear re-
appeared among the members of the au-
dience. never knew that mans name,
but l have always thanked God for his
presence of mind and his rich Irish
brogue.-Julius Chambers.
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A Description of the Elegant Mansions Oc-
cupied by Wealthy Members of the Up
per House Few Representatives Own
Houses at the Capital.
Few members of the house of representa-
tives own houses in Washington, but many
of the senators have that felicity. The diff
ference in the length of terms of the mem
bers of the two bodies is probably quite as
largely responsible for this dissimilarity as
the difference in the length Of their purses.
for there are undoubtedly many more rep
resentatives in the house who can afford to
buy residences than have done so, and some
of those who seem to be assured of long
tenure, like Dalzell of Pennsylvania, own
their houses. Most of the legislative real
estate, however, belongs to senators, and q
few of their residences are veritable pal
aces, ranking among the architectural
adornments of the city.
That of Senator Stockbridge of Michigan
is one Of the most conspicuous. 1t is large
and ornate, built of brown stone, with tur-
ret at one corner and high peaked roof
covered with red tiles The interior is very
deliberately decorated. Hard woods are used
lavishly, and some of the rooms have friezes
of oil paintings on canvas. Senator Stock
bridge has fine collection of pictures of
which he is very proud, and the whole ar
rangement of his residence evinces the
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
A Powerful Antiseptic.

Extensive researches made upon cor
rosive sublimate by DR.. McClintock of
London show though the substance is not
valuable germicide-germs withstand
ing its action for some time-it proves
to possess, of all substances, the greatest
antiseptic power, so that germ treated
with the article, unless perchance it gets
into the blood or is exposed to very ex.
ceptional conditions, is powerless to
grow-that is, it is probable that spore
ofsubtilis or anthrax treated with subli-
mate, / in 1000, and then thrown on the
soil or into water, will not terminate,
owing to the fact that the capsule Of
sublimate surrounding it is not removed.
It is found that corrosive sublimate
forms with cellulose, as cloth, filter pa
per, ETC., with silk, with albuminous
bodies, with some part of bacteria, prob
ably the envelope, a chemical compound
that cannot be removed with any amount
of washing in water. Thus sublimate
when acting on germ forms capsule
around it that protects the germ for a
time from the further action of the SUBJ
Innate and in turn forms an impenetra-
BILE barrier to the growth of the organism
unless removed. This barrier may be re-
moved with salines.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
Diet In Diabetas.

The following rigorous" diet is said
to be prescribed by the eminent Dujar-
din Beaumetz of Paris: Eggs. fish, meats
of all kinds, poultry, game, oysters and
cheese; all green vegetables are per-
mitted except beets, carrots and beans;
fatty foods are recommended, such as
sardines in oil, herring, lard, goose
grease, ham fat and caviare; all soups
are permitted, when made of meats in
combination with cabbage, poached
eggs, onions, but no bread or toast is to
be in the soup. Only dietetic breads are
to be used, and saccharine in place of
sugar; all starch foods are strictly for
hidden, as sweet fruits, pastries and
chocolates; patients may drink claret
wine diluted with vichy, but no poor
wines, liquors or spirits are to be used.
Daily exercise morning and evening is
to be taken in the open air; fencing and
gardening also, and other light exercise.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
DON cAMERoN's REMoDELED HOUSE.

bON SaMEItoN hEhODELED HOCGE.
taste of a connoisseur in art. The house
was built by Senator Sawyer of Michigan,
and Senator Stockbridge bought it for
$125, 900.
Don Cameron, who is now serving his
fourth term in the senate, has lived for
years in a house which he owns on the east
side of Lafayette square, within sight of the
White House 1t is one of the most taste
full houses in Washington, built of yellow
brick in the comfortable colonial style, and
the senator has lately had it entirely re-
fitted at cost of $4,000. Its vicinage is
historic. In the house on the corner, now
occupied by the Cosmos club, the largest
scientific club ill the world, Dolly Madison
lived for Is years, and on the other side of
the Cameron residence is the house in which
Blaine died-a house that is popularity con-
sidered unlucky i'll Washington. 1t is the
house in which the attempt was made to
assassinate Secretary Seward, and in front
of it General Sickles killed James Barton
Key.
Stewards Folly" as it was called in the
early seventies, when the senator from Ne
vada erected it out among the brick yards
that then infested the neighborhood of Du-
pont circle-or stewards Castle" as CAPT
III Wien tDt S6udUOF began
selling land in the vicinity for as many dol
lars as it cost him cents-is of the palatial
order, with the mansard roof and central
tower of the Frenchy architecture of it's
era. Senator Stewart is said to have bought
whole blocks of land in the neighborhood
for cents square foot that is now worth
from S. to 81. His house was tenanted for
years by the Chinese legation, but the new
iOfa
the senator's family will occupy it again
this winter.
Senator Hale's house is another fine ex-
ample of colonial architecture, large and
imposing enough to be frequently mistaken
by strangers for a public building. 1t has
a frontage of 100 feet on Sixteenth street
and is said to represent an investment of
$l25, 900. 1t was built for the senator from
Maine by his mother-in-law, the widow of
the late lack Chandler of Michigan. SEN
ator Chandler, so the story goes, promised
Hale $40, 900 for every grandchild born. This
may not be true, but there is great activity
in the nursery of the Hale household.
Senator Brice lives in what some people
consider the handsomest house in Wash
ington, but he does not own it. 1t is the
old Corcoran mansion, on Lafayette square,
not far from Senator Cameron's and was
for IL years the residence of Daniel Web
ster. 1t has a garden taking up nearly half
block of land worth SO square foot in
the real estate market. Mr.. Brice's lease
has four years more to run, or until the
end of his senatorial term.
The Junior senator from Massachusetts,,
Henry Cabot Lodge, has just completed
one of the largest and finest residences in
the national capital 1t is on Massachu-
/ sets avenue between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets and cost not less than
100000. Mr.. Lodge is more of society
man than most of his confreres. He en-
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
Old Time Banking Methods.

While discussing the matter Of the
troubles and trials Of banking business
of today President James Espy Of the
Ohio Valley National bank said to
group Of friends: Il tell you that we do
not know anything about the peculiari-
ties Of the banking business. | have
heard officials Of the bank when Twas be-
ginning in the business rehearse the expe-
riences in early banking in Virginia. As
Is well known, the residents of that state
were not much given to business tactics,
Mhenev1r they had occasion to issue a
note, and II was quite frequent, the bank
officials had to drive around TO the vari-
GUS farms, or to the place where the
maker lived, and II was quite difficult to
get them to sign the original. but much
more 80 d renewal, Experts got so they
could tell whether the note was renewed
in tho house or in the field, as they could
tell whether it was written on the POM
mel Of q saddle or ut regular desk. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
rhe Moon a. We See IL.

Did You ever stop to consider the fact
that the inhabitants of this earth have
never seen but one side Of the moon, and
to inquire the reasons why such is the
casea The explanation Is this: The moon
makes one revolution 81 her axis in the
same period Of time Ut she takes up in
revolving once aronnd the earth, thus
the same geographical region of thelunar
surface is always toward us. As one ex-
PLANTATION usually calls for another, it
may not be out Of place to mention the
fact that the reasons the two motions of
the moon above referred to so nearly
coincide are these:
The moon is not true globe, but is
very elliptical in form. 1t did not in all
probabilities originally start on its axial
rotation with precisely the samevelocity
with which it moved around the earth,
but the very best astronomers say that
the two motions were not far apart in
the start. Assuming that the moon was
semi-liquid or at least soft in those re-
mote days, the earth's attraction caused
the lunar surface to elongate, and in the
untold ages which followed its axial ro-
tation, owing to the attractive influence
Of both the earth and the sun, was made
to correspond with Its orbital movement
around the earth. st. Louis Republic.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30

The story of Sysla and the king is usu-
ally told as good illustration of geo.
metrical progression. Sysla, so the story
goes, was the inventor of the game Of
chess. The king was so delighted with
the diversion that he promised to grant
any request the inventor might make
Sysla, who must have been mathema-
tician as well as mechanical genius,
only asked that the generous king would
put one grain of wheat on the first
square of the board and double the
amount upon each successive square up
to and including the sixty-fourth. Lucas
de Burgo says that there was not enough
wheat in the kingdom to pay the crafty
inventor, which was 10, 446, 744, 073, 709,-
557, 615 grains! According to a curious
medley of figures published in the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, there are 1872, 600
grains in bushel of wheat. How many
bushels did the modest inventor ask for?
The number of bushels as given in the
book "Curiosities of the Game and Play
of Chess" fall more than one-third short
of the actual number.-St. Louis Re-
public.
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tertains great deal and needs big house.
About year ago he bought house from
Judge Adds of the court of claims, to
which he has added an extension twice the
size of the original dwelling.
Senator Sherman has an elaborate stone
mansion on street, opposite Franklin
square, and Senator Mcmillan of Michigan
very handsome and spacious abode on
Vermont avenue. Both of these are $780,
600 houses, and Senator Proctor of Yer
mont is building another, at the corner of
Vermont avenue and X street, that will
cost like amount. 1t will be built of
marble, and marble will be used wherever
possible in the interior. The senator likes
marble, and no wonder, for it was through
the ownership of rich quarry of that stone
in Vermont that he acquired his fortune.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
The Perfect Foot.

The Greek statuary, much of it dated
centuries before Christ. seems to prove
that the Greeks had feet much like those
of modern Americans. The most beauti-
full of the Greek feet are followed out
well both inside and out. They have
short heels, high insteps and long,
straight toes, slightly spatulate at the
ends. That is the type Of the most
beautiful modern foot. 1t is, on the
whole, a foot not frequently seen in its
perfection, for often one or the other
element of beauty is wanting.-San
Francisco Argonaut.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30

-<eu Noseds Man Went on to Tell
Raw the enom Got In Its Work.
Its all humbug, this talk about rat.
tlesnakes being SO deadly poison" said
a red faced man in the smoking car.
Five lived among 'en. They used to
be SO thick outwhere | live that you
had to be mighty careful where you put
your feet down if you didn't want to
hurt a rattler or two every time you
stepped.
my bed was never any more than big
enough for me and the easy conscience ]
always slept with, but I've woke up
more times than I've got fingers and
toes and found that two or three rattle
snakes had managed to find room with
us. They were plenty, l tell you, out
where live. But deadly? Pooh! Why,
I've known scores and scores of people to
be socked, and socked deep, by rattlers,
and l never knew of but one instance
where rattler's bite was fatal; never
but once out of more cases than there's
pimples on goose.
"Bill Bulger was the man that was
bit that time-a great, big, rough scuff
of log chopper that didn't look as if a
whole den of rattlers could raise as much
as a flea bite on him. But he went to
teasing big buck rattlesnake that had
come down to camp to look around one
day, and the snake just threw his upper
teeth against Bill a couple of times, and
every drop of poison he had he emptied
into Bills wrist. Holler? Great jees-
wax, how Bill did holler We grabbed
him and hustled him over to the Pigs
Ear shebang ON t'other side of the camp
and began to decant rum into him, and
it wasn't long before Bill looked as if he
was glad he was bit.
Everybody said he'd die, though, sure
pop, because that buck RATHER must have
unloaded into Jim close on to three fin
gers of the best poison he had. Conse-
quently folks were surprised more than
you can think when they got around
next morning and found Bill on deck as
clipper as red squirrel and sound as "a
white oak knot"
"Whatw exclaimed the man in the
next seat II thought you said that bite
was fatal!'
"It was, SIR" replied the red faced
man. "Bill got blind, crazy drunk on
the strength of that snake bite and killed
the bartenderw-NewY York Sun.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
Inc rvp,cal American Face,

This much might be said respecting
the typical American face-that the
prominent nose, the sloping forehead,
the fairly large mouth, the full eyes and
predominance of the oval type, are the
natural characteristics of an aggressive,
talented and shrewd people, agreeable in
manners, but keenly alive to the main
chance. 1t is a composite face, made up
of qualities taken from Puritan, English,
Scotch and German sources.--Ladies'
Home Journal.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30

One-third of the total area of this
state is underlaid with coal. In several
districts heavy deposits have been ON
fire for years. There are cases where
the conditions have been volcanic on ac-
count of the generation of gases. One
of these disturbances occurred on the
Sweet Water cattle range, $50 miles
west of Cheyenne, last week. More than
hundred acres of surface was displaced
and the report was heard for thirty
miles. Cattle growers reporting the &C.
currence at Rock Springs say that coal
and dirt were thrown into the air
great distance. The existence of this
fire has been known for twelve years.
Wyoming Cor Minneapolis Tribune.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30

I|I@='1+{ ~ NJ - 9MutH AGcOullb III
|l6Se tkon8 of business as was the
y saiy cash for sapital, the merchants
word was as good as his bond. In this
progressive age 1t is different. A type
written letter is of no more value in a
business transaction than would be the
testimony of an idiot in court of law
or the meandering utterances of trance
medium before the faculty of Harvard
college. Shielded behind the progressive
barrier of civilization. cheek takes the
place of capital, and the integrity of old
time merchant princes, as Lawrence,
Appleton, Sears and other honorednames
are not essential or apparent in modern
business methods.
Transactions of any magnitude, in any
line, can be carried on by the aid of a
typewriter, as in most cases the operator
can furnish brains enough for the prin-
cipal, with or without capital. If all
goes well and the prospects are serene,
typewriting counts; if otherwise, this
merchant can disclaim the entire trans
action and ignore any responsibility for
the machine.
The decadence of simple honesty is
greatly to be lamented. We have in
mind at the moment of writing case in
point of peculiar hardship. An honored
gentleman, a helpless cripple, conceived
business plan which promised success
full results. The plan was submitted to
a firm rated high in the mercantile
agencies and a still higher position in
public favor. 1t was eagerly accepted
and cordially Endorsed at every point
and all assistance promised to make it a
permanent success to the mutual advan.
tage of all parties concerned. All CORE
spondence was favorable, and the pro
jector launched his enterprise at heavy
outlay of time and capital, only to be
abandoned at this moment by this hon
orable firm and denounced by them a:
assuming their sanction and support
which they deny in toto. This support
and Endorsement being entirely by type
writer, the victim finds himself il
greater distress in mind, body ant
estate" than before this venture, bu
without any legal redress. - Metros,
(Mass.) Reporter.
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A young and newly married couple were
entertaining their friends, and among the
guests was one whose continued rudeness
made him extremely Objectionable to the
rest of the company. His conduct, although
most unbearable, was put up with for some
time, until at supper he held up on his fork
piece of meat which had been served to
him, and in vein of intended humor he
looked round and remarked, "Is this pigr'
which Immediately drew forth the remark
from quiet looking individual sitting at
the other end Of. the table, (which end of
the fork do you refer to?"-Tit- Bits.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
A Suggestion for Long EVENING".

The mother or the daughter of the
family is naturally expected to provide
entertainment for the long evenings, and
it often requires an unsupported amount
of generalship and forethought to pre-
pare amusement that is interesting and
sufficiently profitable. An excellent and
easily executed plan provides for the
reading and subsequent discussion of one
or more articles or stories in a favorite
periodical. A serial sometimes furnishes
very good starting point for argument,
speculation and invention for family,
and single article has been known to
supply material for study for a fortnight.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1894-03-30
Getting ont Gracefully.

Look at that dark man across by the
punchbowlp' said one lady to another at an
assemblage of newspaper and literary men,
He has taken IL glasses of punch, one after
anotherr' "Ah, indeedp' said the other
dryly; that is my husband" But the wo-
man was born to'tact and luck. rs it pos
sible9 Let me congratulate you, lucky wo-
man, for having a husband able to drink 10
glasses of punch without growing tipsy.
Why, if my husband drinks two, he gets
simply roaring. You fortunate thing, how
envy your'-Boston Gazette
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Our Other Self

Each Of us has two selves, the higher
and the lower. When God seems out of
reach, as is often the case, and our pray
ers return to us heavier and sadder than
when they left our lips, it is a good
plan to commune with that alter ego
which is a shade nearer the divine, that
part which longs to help and to over
come. but is held down by the infirmi-
ties OF the lower nature. Ask it for
strength and instruction, and by so do
ing help the whole man. God is 50 g
beautifully found in such Way
can Woman's journal
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The whIstlinr Tree.

A species of acacia, which grows very
abundantly in Nubia and the Soudan, is
also called the "whistling tree by the
natives. Its shoots are frequently. by
the agency of the larvae of insects, dis
torted in shape and swollen into globu-
lar bladder from to . inches in dame
ter. After the insect has emerged from
q circular hole in the side of this SWELL
ing, the opening. played upon by the
wind, becomes musical instrument
nearly equal in sonnd to sweet toned
flute. New York Telegram.
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Easy Enough to Remember.

A gentleman in Gardiner has been
troubled to remember his wife's frequent
orders to get a yeast cake. He knows
sometimes that there is something he
ought to get, but cannot think what it
Is. Now whenever he cannot remember
what he is after he always gets yeast
cake, and he says he hits it right the
greater part Of the time too.-Bangor
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