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reasoners and plausible speakers are
spawned by our schools, colleges and
universities by the thousand. But on
very many practical details, useful in
popular government, even the public
teachers confess themselves profound
ly ignorant Social science, as study,
is even yet in it's infancy, and many of
the errors made by statesmen and
civicists in human government are the
result Of outright ignorance or of the
half comprehension of abstract prin-
ciples.
The public speaker who wilfully mu
tilates facts in the presence of an audi
ence is only less than criminal. If the
majority is to rule righteously in the
United States of America, the great
masses who do the voting must be
educated. There is species of pOlit-
ical mendacity that may be called
amusing, and which is entirely innoc-
uous. This may be tolerated, but
orators should study the rules of har
mony in their spellbinding, and not
besmirch the intelligence of young
men who are learning political prin
ciples by quoting false statistics or
uttering palpable ntruths.-Minne-
apolis Times.
The mirror., 1896-07-02
LOSING FRIENDS.

One of the things that most people
wake up to when they are approaching
middle-age is that they have lost good
many friends through their own care
lessness. You receive an invitation to
the wedding of one whom you knew
we'll eight or ten years ago. He has
quite passed out of your life; though,
if you were living near each other so
that you would meet occasionally, he
is the kind of man in whose society
you would find real pleasure. When
the invitation comes you express your
pleasure that Dick or John is to be
married, and hope that he may be
happy. And that is the end of it. You
do not send present, or, what is bet
ter-and often costs more-a friendly
note conveying your congratulations
and good wishes. The occasion passes
without any sign from you, and you
have lost an opportunity of Identify
ing yourself with your friends hap
piness. He will not associate you with
that epoch of his life, and very likely
will resent your silence. 1t is the
same when you neglect to take note of
friends affections. 1t is a real effort
to write a letter of sympathy. But
such note may mean a vast deal to
one in trouble, and by it you can bind
heart to your own with hook of
steel. The people who complain that
they have so few friends have them
selves to blame for it. They have lost
them through their Indifference OF
ughtlessness. "a man that hath
friends must show himself friendly
| Watchman.
The mirror., 1896-07-02
THE DELIGHTS OF READING.

The worlds greatest and wisest men
have been unanimous in their opinion
of the delight and profit to be derived
from good reading. Cicero and Lord
Bacon have eulogized the charms of
literary culture in works familiar to
all. The great Archbishop Fenelon
says: "Offer me the kingdoms of the
world in exchange for my love of read
ing, and l would spurn them ALL Sir
John Herschel characterizes the taste
for reading as one that is solace in
every variety of circumstances, life
long source of happiness, and a shield
against all the worlds ills and disap-
pointments.
1--WE may sit in our library, and yet
be in all quarters of the earth,'' says
Sir John Lubbock, "We may travel
around the world with Captain Cook
or Darwin, with Kingsley or Ruskin,
who will show us much more perhaps
than we should ever see for ourselves"
Emerson says that we have in the
smallest select library company of
the wisest and wittiest of all lands and
times. Ruskin asks: "Will you go and
gossip with your housemaid and stable
boy, when you may talk with kings
and queens, while this eternal court
is open to you with this society, the
chosen and mighty of every place and
time?" He adds that you may always
enter this society, and take rank and
fellowship in it, according to your
wish, and never be an outcast from it
save by your own fault.
One should, however, choose his
books with the same care that he
chooses his society. A bad book is as
demoralizing as bad human associ-
ate. In both "evil communications
corrupt good manners" and in the
selection of books, as we'll as in that of
friends, one is known by the company
he Minneapolis Tribune.
The mirror., 1896-07-02
AS TO LYING IN POLITICS.

When presidential campaign has
come, and is with all the people of this
overshadowing republic to stay for
four long months or more, it would
doubtless be useless for the priests and
preachers to turn their spiritual guns
against the sin of lying. Disingenu-
BUSINESS is the soul of political war
fare. This is not because men en-
gagged in the contest deliberately enter
upon a course of unveracity, and lie for
the sake of lying, but rather that the
sin is provoked and stimulated by the
intoxication of conflict.
The average man, when he thinks
himself right in mental assumption
as to principle-or policy in poll
tics, or religion, or social science-or
in barter or trade, events liable to
infringe upon the province of the AL
mighty, by the assertion of the infalli-
bility of his party and his platform.
Then comes the heat of debate, the
opposition of those who believe in op-
posing principles, and all the confus-
ing hurly-burly Of conflict. The i'm
agination is stimulated, and, being a
mental quality of great force, it is
called in to give testimony. Now,
everybody knows that the imagination
of an imaginative man is a most use
full and healthy adjunct to the intel
lectual powers, and yet nobody has
ever claimed that it was entirely
reliable as guide, philosopher and
friend in seasons of excitement.
1t is also natural enough that men
should grow excited when surrounded
by music and banners and listening tC
the fervid oratory of super-heated
partisan speakers. And then the ex
citement of the multitude of listeners
reacts upon the speaker-and if he
happens to be an orator worth listen
ing to, he is very prone to understate
the arguments of his adversaries anC
overstate his own. This constitutes
political lying, and it is against this
seasonable vice the Times would uttel
a protest which might serve to detract
somewhat from the possible injury il
may do in the immediate future.
Doubtless the civilized world hal
very many truths to learn yet on al
social questions. Just now those con
cerning finance and revenue are up
permost, and in this country wher'
education is practically universal, grea
The mirror., 1896-07-02
CONVICTS OF AUSTRALIA.

Australia still bears the traces of the
times when the British possessions at
the antipodes were looked upon by her
majesty's subjects everywhere as but
a little removed from hades. Less than
a century ago criminals and malefac
tors were sent there by the ship-load
and the prosperous states that have
lately given the whole world pointers
as to the best means of dealing with
some of the perplexing economic prob
lens of the times were formerly penal
colonies.
Many of the public buildings and
most of the streets of Hobart, Tasma-
MIA, were built by convicts. There is
a fine carriage road nearly 125 miles
long leading from Hobart to another
town across the island, which was
made entirely by the convicts.
Transportation of convicts to New
South Wales and Victoria stopped in
the '4O's; in Tasmania in 1853 and in
West Australia in 1868. The last ship.
load of conviets sent to New South
| Wales was not permitted to land. West
Australia took the passengers and was
promptly ostracized by the older col.
onies. The real reason for the cessa.
tion of the transporting of convicts
was that the authorities in England
found it did no good; there were just
as many criminals after a ship-load
was sent away as before.
In these convict colonies, when a
man had served two-thirds of his time
he was given his liberty, within GER
tain boundary, allowed to doff the
stripes and to work for himself. If he
transgressed he was taken back tC
prison and made to finish his sentence
Many became good citizens. At the
present day it is unsafe to ask an Aus
tralian who were his grandfather an6
father. Many of the most prominent
men in the country, those holding gov
ernment and professional positions
are descended from the convict labor
ers sent to Australia many years ago
One Honorable Mr." is the son of {
transported gamekeeper.-St. JOSEPH
(Mo.) Gazette.
The mirror., 1896-07-02
SAD PICTURES.

"Oh! the anguish of that thought
that we can never atone to our dead
for the stinted affection we gave them,
for the light answer we returned to
their plants or their pleadings, for the
little reverence we showed to that
sacred human soul that lived so close
to us and was the divinest thing God
had given us to know'-a mother.
"Oh, it is piteous-that sorrow of
aged women. In early youth perhaps
they said to themselves, 4 shall be
happy when l have husband to love
me best of ALL then, when the husband
was too careless, My child will COM
fort me- then, through the mothers
watching and toll, My child will re-
pay me all when it grows up And at
last, after the long journey of years
has been wearily travelled through, the
mothers heart is weighed down by a
heavier burden, and no hope remains
but the grave" Alas. alas!
Passing by the reception-room door
one day recently we caught glimpse
and only a glimpse-of a woman
past middle-age, but yet of fine ap-
pearance-a womanly, mOtherly wom-
an-with kindness and nobleness beam
ing even through the tears and sadness
that distressed and distorted her fea-
lures. We knew who she WaS-She had
been here before, and on the same sad
mission. Her almost grown son, who
seemed irreclaimable, through trial
after trial at this school, was the pain
from which she was suffering in heart
soul and body. She had said, I'm al
my life this has been my first and only
sorrow, and it is killing me-
Another lady, almost Identical il
character and person, said to the writer
in this office: "At the time was com
PEELED to send my son to this school
had not the suspicion of gray hair OF
my head; now, as you see, there are fal
more white hairs than black ones. NJ
tongue can tell the sorrow my son ha
caused me to suffer-"
The above are but two samples
among the grieving, heart-sore moth
ers, whose blasted lives are lying a
the feet of heartless sons. The sons o
the two mothers above referred to, ar
not children-whose waywardness AM
thoughtless misdoings might hav
brought them here-but are younI
men; we say "men" by courtesy only, a
they and their like are as far removed
from men as the north pole is from tn
south. They have persistently refuse'
to become manly, and have as persist
emily violated every instinct of nobil
ity, and been guilty, time and again, o
the most damnable crime in all tn
annals of crlme-that of heaping coal
of fire upon the head of a noble moth
or. There is no epithet strong enoug
to apply to such cases, because sue
deeds are outside the pale of an
The mirror., 1896-07-02

An apt symbol, this traffic in the
temple, not only of the intrusion of the
world spirit into the church, but of the
harboring of darker and sadder evils
in the heart. Not alone amid the ruins
of heather fanes, but in the secret of
our hearts do vultures build their filthy
nests, and unelean creatures make
their lair. Traffic in the forbidden, the
forms of brute-like passions, the rattle
of unhallowed gain, the sweltering
press Of care and worry and rush, have
crowded God out of our life.-Rev. F.
B. Meyer.
The mirror., 1896-07-02

Charity should be done wisely and
judiciously, not taken up as a mere
passing craze and fashion, to be worn
and laid aside, after being displayed to
the eyes of the world, as one lays aside
last years bonnet and gown as being
no longer "the thing."-Philadelphia
(Pa.) Saturday Eve. Post.
The mirror., 1896-07-02
"IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?"

Life is worth living, if we live Alright,
Eyes to the front. the final end in view,-
The end when all aims trivial or untrue
Must burst like airy bubbles on our sight.
Life is worth living, if we do our best;
Our best is often greater than we dream.
Immortal souls with mighty forces teem-
They are revealed by him who makes the quest
Life is worth living when our secret thought
Hides no least wish or impulse, hope or aim.
That can bring disappointment, sorrow, shame
Or hurt to any fellow beings lot.
Life is worth living when we strive to be
OF greater use tomorrow than today,
Moulding ourselves from rough unsightly clay
To something lovely for the world to see.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-04-03
OMciNL Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of County Commissioners Of
Idaho county. Idaho, will meet al
the court house at Mt. Idaho, in
said county on the second Monday
in April, to-wit: ON Monday
April 10, 1896, at the hour o.
ten o'clock a. m. in regular session
pursuant to statute, for the trans
action of such business as may
properly come before them.
All persons having claims against
said county are hereby notified
that the same must be presented
together with the necessary vouch
ers, properly verified by oath tt
their correctness, according to law
to the undersigned, on or before
Saturday, April II, 1896.
A. w. TALKINGToN,
Clerk of the Board
Mt. Idaho, March Is, 1896.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-04-03
Idaho State University.

The University of Idaho has
been taxed almost to its fullest ca
pacity this winter. The enroll
ment has reached 2S3, which is
more than the number of seats in
the assembly hall. There is about
twenty from the prairie-probably
the largest number from any one
section Of the state, outside of La
tab county. During the fine
weather lately quite a number Of
students have quit.
We have just had examinations
for the winter term-that is, those
who had to take them. Last May
the faculty decided that all who
got over 90 per cent in daily stand
ing would be excused from the ex-
aminatiOns., Under this rule many
have not taken a single examine
ton this year. Two or three per-
sons have received a daily standing
of 100 per cent.
Much interest has been shown in
the societies this year. There are
two literary societies-the Web
sterians, with a membership OF
over so, and the Amphictyons, who
have between 80 and 40. Both
give interesting programs and have
large audiences. Girls are admit.
ted to both societies. The Web
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-04-03

to the ~ uare .ineh.~-I understand
that the operation Of the locks by
water power was first suggested by
Lieut.. Taylor, under whose super
vision the plan has been completed
and is one of the most interesting
and practical features of the work.
The dredge working at the upper
end has removed the bulkhead and
now the upper portion of the canal
has depth of lo feet down to the
upper guard gate. When this is
open then the way is clear to the
locks, and l can see nothing to pre-
vent boats passing at any time ex.
cept the completion of the machi'
merry plant.
Now l fancy l hear someone re-
mark; "Well, what does all this
amount Ito for us anyway" ]
wish to remark here that / believe
Idaho will receive as much or
more benefit from this and the
other improvements that will fol-
low than any other locality. The
project is on foot and we'll on the
way to get around The Dalles and
Cello with a ship railroad. This
will surely be done in the near flu
ture, and then from up the Snake
and Clearwater in close proximity
to our mines and other resources
the products can be placed on
boats and foated to the ocean and
the trade of the world. No longer
isolated, we will be an open coun-
ty; and think of the possibility of a
steamboat ride from almost on
Camas prairie to the ocean. l have
travelled on all the chief rivers of
the continent and ! know that
from the Dalles to Astoria the
Columbia is the most magnificent
of them all beyond comparison; and
the extended navigation will give
it new features of great interest. l
see no reason why it should not
have an influence on trade as far
south as Salmon meadows.
The possibility Of cheap trans
portatiOn would open many of our
now idle mines and result in the
establishing Of smelting works on
the lower Columbia, and even
make foreign shipments of ore pos
sible. Our representatives in
Washington ought to do all they
can to further these improvements.
A small appropriation is now
needed to fully complete the work
here, and is far more to the COM
mon interest of all than the mil
lions wasted in war ships that will
be out of date in another decade.
May the time soon come when
Idaho county products and their
owners can float safely down this
broad old river and as they lose
sight of their mountain home turn
their eyes and see the grand old
ocean brought so near to them.
II. G. N.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-04-03

ster;ans have arranged a series Of
lectures by prominent citizens
among whom are ex-Congressmau
Sweet, Prof. Henderson, Rev.
Gormley and Judge Piper.
The third year preparatory stu.
dents now have shopwork- one
hour week of Woodworking for
the ladies, and four hours of car.
entering for the gentlemen. The
equipment is very complete and
the students show much interest
in the work.
There were oyer 20 members in
the class in assaying this winter, a
number of whom were miners.
This is very practical course, and
will be of great benefit to miners
and prospectOrs. The tuition, Of
course, is free.
Additions are being constantly
made to the libraries. The gen.
eral library is outgrowing it's room.
1t is usually well filled with stu
dents. Among the books histori-
cal works are the most numerous.
There is a good assortment of die
tionaries and cyclopedias, works
on political economy, science, lam
guage, oratory and essays, travel,
etc., set of the Library of Ameri-
can Literature, and bound copies
of all the leading magazines. Cur
rent copies Of the magazines and
of all the state papers are kept up
on easy reached racks. The FREE
PRESS file is in constant use.
We have had about two hours a
week military drill all this winter.
The time will probably be in
creased this spring. A detach-
ment of the cadets is being ar
ranged for protection in case of
fire. A class in signaling has been
formed.
There will be four graduates this
spring. The people of Idaho will
judge the institution by these
graduates; and an everlastingly
good opinion of the University OF
Idaho will be the result.
JESSE L. RAINS.
Moscow, March %, 1896.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-04-03
SUMMONS.

TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND
/ Judicial District of the State OF Idaho in
and for the County OF Idaho.
John Coram. Plaintiff, VS.. Junia W. Allen
and Hattie Allen his wife. defendants.
Action brought in the District Court Second
Judicial district. State Of Idaho. In and for Ida
County of Idaho, in the office of the Clerk Of
said District Court.
The State of Idaho sends greeting to Junia
W. Allen and Hattie Allen. Defendants
You are hereby required to appear in an
action brought against you by the above manned
plaintiff in the District. Court Of the Second
Idaho county, and to answer the complaint
filed therein within ten days Exclusive of the
day OF service) after the service on you OF this
summons II served within this county; or II
served without this county, but within this
district, within twenty days; or II served else
where. within forty days-or judgment by de.
fault Will be taken against you according To the
prayer of said complaint.
The said action is brought to obtain decree
of this Court for the foreclosure OF one certain
mortgage. described in the complaint and ex-
ecuted by the said yunia W. Allen and Hattie
Allen his wife to John Coram on the % day of
January. 1895, to secure the payment Of one GER
tain promissory note for the sum OF six hun
dred dollars, dated January 70, 1895, due one
year after date with interest thereon after date
1t the rate OF thirteen per cent per annum un.
til paid, no part OF which has been paid. and In
case suit or action be Instituted to collect said
note or any portion thereof, such sum as The
court should adiudge reasonable as attorney
fee in said complaint alleged to be OF the sum
of seventy-ive dollars The premises convey
ed by said mortgage are described as follows
| to-wit: Lots one and two and east half oil
northwest quarter and lots three and four sec
| ton seven. township thirty. north range two
| east b. NJ. That the premises conveyed by
said mortgage may be sold and the proceed.
thereof applied to the payment OF said prom
issory note and the interest thereon and attor
ney fee, and In case said proceeds are not suf
hcient to pay the same. then to obtain An ex
ecution against said Junia W. Allen and Hattie
Allen for the balance remaining due, and ais,
that the said defendants. and all persons claim
ing by through or under them may be barret
| and foreclosed Of all right. title, claim, lien
equity OF redemption. and interest IN and I,
| said mortgaged premises. and for other ans
further relief. and II you fs,l TO appear ans
answer said complaint Is above required, tn
plaintiff will take default against you LAM
apply to the court for relief demanded In tn
complaint.
Given under my hand and seal of the sal,
District Court OF the Second Judicis
District, State OF Idaho In and for Idah
tsEALl county, this slst day of March In tn
year of our Lord one thousand eigh
hundred and ninety ak.
| A. W. TALkINGTON, Clerk.
! BY W. N. KNOX. Deputy.
IF. FULTON, Atty for Plaintiff. Ap
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-04-03
ALIAS SUMMONS,

JNTHE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND
l Judicial District of the State of Idaho. In
and for the County of Idaho.
l.. p. Brown. plaintiff. VS.. Thomas J. Will
liams, defendant
The State OF Idaho to Thomas j. Williams
In the name Of the people ofthe State OF Idaho:
You are hereby notified that there is now on
file In the office of the Clerk of the District
Court Of the second Judicial Distric' of the
State of Idaho In and for the County of Idaho,
the complaint OF l.. =. Brown. The said action
Ia brought to enforce the specific performance
of your contract to convey to said L. p. Brown
the NJ of the SEA OF Sec. ., in Township 81
North. Of Range e, b. NJ. in the County 81
Idaho, State OF Idaho made in August 1878
and alleging payment of purchase money for
said land according to said contract, and pray
ing for the appointment Of q commissioner IL
make deed To said land to plaintiff and fol
such other AMI further relief as Just ce and en-
uity may require. The particulars more fully
appearing III plaintiffs complaint and that IN
less you appear and answer to said complaint
within ten days after the service thereof, ii
| served within Idaho County. aud within TWEEN
ty days II served out OF said County. but within
| said Judicial District, and within forty days Il
served out of said District exclusive Of the day
OF service), the Plaintiff will apply t0 the Court
for the relief demanded In the c mplaint
In testimony whereof L. A. W. Talkington
Clerk OF said District Court. have here
unto set my hand and atiixe the Sea
| [LRALl of said Court at Mt. Idaho this 18th day
of March, A. d. 1876.
W TALxISGr0N,
Clerk of the district Court
W.N SCALES. Atty for Plaintiff ~
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-04-03

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as there are differences ofopinion among those
who compute and measure poverty and riches
by different standards. Some men deem them
selves poor because they are less rich than
others; again there are comparatively poor peo-
pie who are satisfied with a competence There
Is a kind of poverty for which no amount OF
wealth can compensate. namely,a poverty Of
bodily stamina, evinced by nervousness and n
arrangement OF the functions of digestion. bill
ious secretons and the bowels. To restore
vigor upon a permanent basis there is one
Ais the bill" and this is Hostetter's stomac
Bitters. BY restoring digestion, giving a
healthful impulse TO the action of the bowels
and liver and tranquilizing the nerves. it full.
fills the condition necessary to a resumption Of
strength by the system. 1t also overcomes
malaria and rheumatism.