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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-08-13
RECORD OF THE WEEK.

Diploma 5 cent cigar at the Bon
Bon. Try them.
J. C. Gelbach has oats for sale
at the poor farm. II
John Clark and sister were out
from Florence this week.
Miss Wheelock, a niece of J. A.
Randolph, is up from California on
visit.
John Mullinix and Willie Bone
brake left on visit to Waitsburg
Tuesday.
Always a good assortment of
fresh nuts, candies and fruits at
the Bon Bon.
John Clark is running a stage
and express line between Grange
vile and Florence.
Magee & Matteson dished up ice
cream to their patrons Tuesday,
the occasion being the opening OF
their new grocery store.
Mrs. Harry F. Shissler purchas-
ed the McGaffee restaurant last
week and has been running it in
splendid shape for several days.
The two last loads of machinery
for the Idaho-C CONS took quartz mill
at Dixie arrived Tuesday and were
started inside Wednesday by Mr..
Wax.
Lincoln Phillips goes to Lewis
ton soon after a steam wood saw.
ing machine which he will use in
doing custom work cutting cord
wood in town.
NOTICE TO SALMON RIVER Fruit
GRowERs.-I have on hand a gooG
assortment of new fruit boxes
which l will sell at cost-H. 4
MURRAY, Grangeville. 13.
Hon. Judge Lindsay and Hanl
Bartlett, Of Butte, Montana, wer'
in town this week en- route 10th,
Buffalo hill placer claims in Ell
City, in which they are interested
From the Salubria Citisen W,
learn that Frank Smith, of War
reD, who has been Geo. Riebold'
foreman for IL years, was married
at Salmon Meadows last week t,
Mrs. Tony, of Baker City.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-08-13
Ice cream every day at the Bor

Ice cream every day at the Bon
Bon.
f. E. Mix was visitor from
Florence Monday.
Honest goods at honest prices at
George Browns. Give him call.
Stuart, Idaho.
Mrs. Walter II. Hill and child
are gone to join Mr.. Hill at the
Badger mine.
For full line of fishing tackle
call on G. A. Bonebrake at Grange
vile drug store.
Sash doors of all sizes, kinds and
varieties, at WAY Down prices at
G. G. Bunnell's, Lewiston.
Rev. Silas Perkins will preach in
Mt. Idaho tomorrow Saturday
evening, August Ia, at 8 p. m,
Geo. w. Morrison and Jas. Nc
Crane returned Tuesday from a
trip to the placers on Crooks
corral.
l have established a general
merchandise and outfitting store
at White Bird, and respectfully
solicit the public patronage.--L.
FREIpENRIcH.
The total assessed valuation OF
Nez Perce county for 1897 is
81 ,544 92S, an increase of S53, ,266
over last year.
A force of government engineers
are starting up the government
improvement work on the Clear
water river near kamiah.
j. S. Fockler and John Melee
were up from Salmon river last
Saturday attending to legal bust.
ness in the Probate court.
The most complete line of hard
ware in the state to select from, at
bedrock prices, at the Pioneer
hardware store of G. c. Bunnell,
Lewiston.
Ed. Fountain has leased the
Hotel de France in Lewiston and
Sam Hutchins left last week to
take the position of clerk under
the new management.
Stephen Reuben will pay $2(
reward for the return or infOrma
tion leading to the recovery of hi.
cattle. Four are branded with 3
heart and fifteen S r. Address a
Genesee, Idaho. ell.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-08-13

BoRN.-Near Tolo, Idaho, Aug.
8, 1897, to the wife of Herman
vonBargen, a 10 ID son.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-08-13

BoRN.-In Grangeville, Idaho,
August 6, 1897, to the wife of
Henry 7. Murray, daughter.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-08-13

E0-special rates on application tor transient
and display advertisements.
EO-No paper or advertisement discontinued
Until all arrearages are paid up.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-08-13
THE FREE PRESS
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
FPARKER EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

Entered at the Post-ofhce at Grangeville
IDAHO, as second class matter.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
Our Dear English Cousins.

Somebody has been informing the
London Times that American children
are trained in their higher schools to
exercise the ritual Of 'saluting the flag
in military style, and that their mar
tial ardcr is by this and other means SO
blown into flame that when these young
persons leave their schools they form
themselves into societies and take
vow to avenge with their blood any in
suit to their country's flag" This
somewhat vivid description has excited
the horror of another reader of the
Thunderer, and he leaps to conclusion
in the following amusing and highly
characteristic style: Apparently your
correspondent uses the expression young
person in the technical sense of fe-
male creature somewhere between a girl
and woman. Does he really desire that
young females of this kind should in
England form themselves into societies
to avenge with their blood any insult
to the union jack in Venezuela or else
where? Seriously, I think that the
American example in this, as in some
other things, is to be avoided as degen-
crate rather than followed. Surely our
ancestors managed to conquer at Cressy
and Poictiers and Agincourt, at Blen-
helm and Trafalgar and Waterloo, with
out all this absurd civilian ritual on the
part of schoolgirls, this religious wor-
ship, or rather idolatry, Of the persona
fed country under the symbol of flag,
and these silly VOWS by young Hanni-
balls in petticoats. If the people of the
United States is really beginning to
worship itself as an abstract unity, it is
a sure sign that it is beginning to aban-
don the only true worship, and to retro
grade to mere civic paganism. -
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

see nothing. The man who is perfectly
well and vigorous enjoys life to the full.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
makes people we'll There isn't anything
thing in the world 1t simply puts the di-
gestive organs, the stomach, the liver, the
bowels, in perfect order and thereby makes
the blood pure and rich. All diseases live
and thrive on impure blood: Keep a
stream of pure rich, red blood flowing into
a diseased spot and the disease will not
stay. A man lives on rich, pure blood,
and disease dies on it.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
makes pure, rich blood.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
JUST FOR FUN.

A well known minister is a humor-
GUS lecturer, and he prints his tickets,
sLecture on Fools'' Admit one.
Some men will go to de wah an
fight fob liberty, says Brother Wat
kins; am when dey get it dey can't
keep out oh jail.
Mr.. Barclay, out in the country we
girls learned to milk the cows just for
amusement. Well, don't doubt the
cows got their share.
Young Lady-Oh! oh! oh! l never
in the world could climb into that up
per berth. Porter.-Just imagine it's
a tallyho coach, ma'am.
Teacher-You know, Johnny, if y GU
cut an apple in two each part is called
half Johnny-Not if my brother
Dick cuts it. The part git amt new
er more'n about quarter of it,
ma'am.
Teacher-Now, here is an examp lie
in mental arithmetic: How old would
a person be who was born in 1868?
Tommy Please, mum, was it a man
or woman?
Husband-I hope, my dear, that
your trips abroad has benefited you.
Wife-Indeed it has. I met the Van
Smiths, who live next door, and they
have asked me to call on them.
If you want advice, go to ac-
quaintances. If you do not want any
thing, your relatives may be glad to
see you.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

It's remarkable to see how much
condensed milk is is being used nova
DAYS. remarked the summer boarder.
Yes, replied the guileless dairy man as
he reached for the pump handle, and
how much expanded milk, too.
Your wife wife has such liquid
voice. said Mr.. Fosdick to Mr.. Tiff.
Yes, that's pretty good name for it,
replied Mr.. Tiff Mr.. Fosdick looked
up inquiringly, and Mr.. Tiff added, it
never dries up, you know.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
A VIOLET IN HER HAIR.

A violet in her lovely hair,
A rose upon her bosom fairl
But oil. her eyes
A loveliel violet disclose!
And her RIPE lips the sweetest rose
That's meath the skies.
A lutte beneath her graceful hand
Breathes music forth at her command
But still her tongue
Far richer music calls TO birth
Than al the minstrel power on earth
Can give to song.
And thus she moves in tender light
The purest ray, where all is bright,
Serene and sweet,
And sheds a graceful influence round
That hallows cen the very ground
Beneath her feet.
New York Ledger.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
Balloon Ball.

Balloon BALI is played with bats
and bouncing india rubber balls within
a large circle chalked on the ground. The
moment the ball bounds outside this line
it may be seized on by any onlooker, and
the player must instantly give up the
bat and take turn outside the ring, into
which her playmate steps, keeping a
sharp lookout in case the ball should
bound or roll her way.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
How the Snail Got There-Jacob, the Sec.
rotary Bi-d-Giants and Dwarfs.
Dolly Gets Bath.

JACK.
"Please, Mr.. Snail. want to KNOW
How ever you got in that shell?
We're you put in, or did you grow?
And does it fit you pretty well?'
"You mind your business, little boy,
And don't you come here teasing me.
If you disturb my nap again,
I'll let you see what you shall see!"
JACK.
swell, Mr.. Snail, am surprised,
And am sure never meant
To hurt your feelings in the least
Or rouse your ire to that extent.
merely wanted just to know
How ever you got in that shell,
II some one put you there or no,
And if .'ou like it pretty WELL"
"Wi1l you be quiet and go awayf
A likely thing that I'm to be
Reused from my sleep to crafty
Your vulgar curiosity!''
JACK.
"But, please do tell me, Mr.. Snail
For though we know that there you
dwell,
Yet nobody can understand
How ever you got in that shell"
SNAIL.
"NOw, will you go away, says
You know can't abide noise.
! wish the world was full of snails
Instead of tiresome little boys.
Now, don't make faces, sir. at mel
How dare you dance like that and
shout?
II you don't mind me, Til get out
And soon set you to right abouti''
JACK.
'sDear Mr.. Snail, really will
Be quiet and go if you'll but tell
What everybody wants to know
How ever you got in that SHE'LL
SNAIL.
81 never in my snaily life
Was worried by so rude an elf.
TIL not tell you how | got here
BECAUSE do not know myself
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
Episcopal Prerogative.

The only daughter of the Right Rev.
William Croswell Doane of Albany is
married woman living in the same town
with her episcopal father. Mrs Gardi-
ner and her large family of small chill
dren crossed the Atlantic on steamer,
where the following remark was over
heard by another passenger. Her little
son was caught III some game of play.
Why he exclaimed, IT can't be 'itp
My grandfather is bishopi'''
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
Dolly Gets q. Bath,

This is the birthday of sister Polly.
Come, let US give her nice surprise
Suppose we wash her dear old dolly?
But don It let the soap get in to its eyes,
The precious dolly, the dear old dolly
Fill the basin and III she goes.
Rub away, scrub away. Ism t it jolly?
Now for her cheeks and the tip of her nose
What is the matter? Her cheeks were painted
Where are the eyebrows she had before
Whittier and whiteri The doll has tainted.
And the glue is gone, and the wig she wore
Forgive us. forgive us, sister Pollyi
We have dried her and dressed her, but
what will you say?
You hardly will know your own old dolly
When half of her beauty is washed away
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

Have you no ambition at all? asked
asked the curious lady. Yes'm, said
Dawson, have. But what's the use?
May I ask W hat your ambition is? I'd
like to be the most beautiful man in
America.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

Thompson had great surprise
last evening. Darrow-How was that'
Thompson-My wife introduced me
to fellow who never was one of her
old beauX
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

Many cases of grippe" have lately been
cured by One Minute Cough Cure. This prep
aration seems especially adapted to the cure
of this disease. 1t acts quickly thus prevent
ing serious complications and bad effects in
which this disease often leaves the patient.
H. G. Pierce, Barton; D. w. .Hildreth. Barton
Landing: r E. French, Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

Artie-Darling, you have no idea
how anxious | was while you were
coming down the rope ladder. l was
so afraid you had not fastened it Sc
curely above. Susie-You needn't
have been alarmed, dear. Papa tied
the knot for me.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

Won't you take this seat? said the
gentleman in the car, rising and lift
ing his hat No, thank you, said the
girl with the skates over her arm,
have been skating and Pm tired sit
ting down.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

But my dear sir, you positively
must. follow my directions. You must
take an ice cold bath every morning.
Why, doctor, that's just what l am
doing. Oh, er-well, then you must
stop it.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

The things that
people see are i'm
side of them and not
outside. No two
people see the same
thing exactly alike.
One woman may
look out at a beau
tiful landscape and
see all the beauty
and restfulness and
grandness that there
is in it. Another
one will look out nj
the same scene and
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

They are so small that the most sensitive
persons take them, they eff ctive that
the most obstinate cases of constipation,
headache and torpid liver yield to tnem.-
That is why DeWitt's Little Early Hisers are
known as the famous little pills. IL. Q. Pierce,
Barton D. w. Hidreth, Barton Landing; Il.
It French Glover
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
piles piles :, Itching Plies.

Observation-Disclosures; intense itching and
singing; most at night; worse by scratching.
If allowed 20 continue tumors form. which
often bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore.
Swayne's Ointment stops the itching and
bleeding, heals liberation. aud in most cases
removes the tumors. At druggists or by mail
for so cents. DR.. Swayne & Son, Philadelphia
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

can accomplish. Sick headache, constipa-
ton. dyspepsia, sour stomach. dizziness, are
quickly Danish ed by DeWitt's Little Early
Risers. Small pill Safe pill. Best pill.
III. G. Pierce, Barton; ID. W. Hiidreth. Barton
r. e. French, Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
The Ghost.

A German clergyman was sitting in
his study and was working at the SER
mon for the following Sunday. Sudden
~ the door opened and a peasant entered
with startled countenance. s.Ah, your
reverence, = cried the peasant, 81 am a
dead man! have seen ghostl' "Pray
do not speak SO stupidity" said the
clergyman; there are no ghosts. :"
There certainly are ghosts, said thu
peasant. 81 have truly seen one with
my own eyes. - ssWhen did you see it?''
1.-Two minutes ago. !" 'sWhere?' "On
the church WALL s'What did it look
ike?" Like big donkey" The cler-
gyman smiled and said: ssNow, IN
derstand the business. You must have
seen your own shadow on the church
wall and taken it for ghost. Compose
yourself and go home. But be sure to
say nothing about it. =
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

One minute is all the time necessary to de-
eide from personal experience that One Min
ute Couch Cure does what it's name implies.
H. G. Pierce, Rartou: d. w. Hildreth, Bar
ton Landing; r. E. French Glover.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
Giants and Dwarfs.

How tall is giant? In order to be
able to answer this question i'll a gen.
eral way somebody has examined ~ re-
corded cases of giants ranging from one
at 6 feet 10 inches TO one at 8 feet 8
inches. Taking an average, we find that
8 feet is the height of a giant. No
giantess figured in the calculation. 1t is
curious, by the by, to notice how many
Of these giants were Irish, as if the soil
and climate of the Emerald Isle were
well fitted for the rearing of great men.
How small is a dwarf? It would
hardly be fair to the miniature speci-
mems of humanity to ignore their claims
also to proper measurement. Well, II
cases of dwarfs have been dealt with,
including two or three examples of the
fair and gentle sex, from which it seems
that the average dwarf is, as nearly as
may be, only 2 feet 8 inches high. The
range was from Is inches, the smallest,
to feet 10 inches, the tallest.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08

Dewitt s Wilton s1azS sS7s4sve
Cures Pic. cce2d~. Dl:rF-z.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-08
Jacob, the Secretary Bird.

An English magazine tells of one OF
the queer pets of a lady who, when she
settled on an ostrich farm in South At
RIGA, began to gather around her num-
Der of pet animals. One of the earliest
and most priced members of this COM
pany was secretary bird, upon which
she bestowed the name of Jacob. This
creature had an enormous appetite,
which he satisfied by freeing the house
and gardens from all sorts of animals
lizards, rats, toads, frogs, young chick
ems and even some of the smaller of his
fellow pets. Kittens were his tidbits,
however, which he bo1ted whole. When
the neighbcrs got to know of his partic-
u1ar VANITY as Sam Weller might
have called it, they played up to it as
fast as they could and thus kept under
the number of catlings, which so abound
ed that they threatened to become a
nuisance until Jacobs weakness was dis
covered. 1t should be said that the kit
tens were knocked on the head before
being offered to Mr.. Secretary. Once,
however, this merciful care was forgot
ten, and Jacob swallowed kitten alive.
For some minutes they could actually
hear the poor thing mewing in Jacobs
inside, the bird himself looking all
around him with the most puzzled ex-
preston to see where the noise came
from. He seemed to think there was a
kitten about somewhere and was much
annoyed at not being able to find it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11
OFFENSIVE HABITS.

The Leavenworth Times makes Just
complaint against "the abominable nui-
sance of hawking and splitting" in pub
lie places. The tobacco splitting frater-
nifty is also the subject of criticism, and
very properly so. This twin nuisance
is prohibited by law in New York, as 1t
should be In all other states. Decent
people are fairly entitled to protection
against such filthy habits, and, If there
is no better way, it should be legal pro-
lection.
With the Times permission, we name
nuisance No. 3-that fnsufferable bore
who talks perpetually about himself. He
meets you on the street, or calls at your
place Of business, and even inyades your
parlOr to ding into your ears the tale of
his own affairs, his personal peculiari-
ties, his wonderful achievements
every word directed to, and every SEN
tence eliminating in the Inevitable pro-
noun l. He consumes more time and
incites more profanity that a perpetual
free silver campaign in Massachusetts,.
He is worse than the seven plaques of
Egypt.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11
IMPERIAL BRITAIN'S WAYS

Imperial Britain is most powerful
when she has a great deal of work be-
fore her. Her secret game in European
politics absorbs her. but she has time to
proclaim q sovereignty over the Trans
vaal and irritate Paul Kruger, 10 hold
Egypt in subsection. 10 protect Greece,
10 govern her widely dispersed colonies
and 10 play with an instruction in In
dia.
In studying her success. for Great
Britain rarely has failures. the question
of right or wrong disappears. India is
IN as bad a way IS any Roman prov
ince ever was. The need of the land is
carried away by English gentlemen; the
great famine there was concealed by
the Indian government until thousands
had starved. Immediate and proper
steps were not taken 10 prevent the bu
bonic plague until il had gained great
Roadway. Great Britain is culpable in
every way for lndia's distress. An in
q
priest. the Mad Mullah, with a ferocious
people. the AfridiS. at his back. The
cause of the Afridis may be Just. That.
however, does not enter into the nsarter
England IS playing with the Insurgents
Her scattered troops have not renulsed
the Afridis. but have been driven back
from the frontier. No doubt the Afridis
have gained hope al this temporary sue
cess. Their revolt may grow. uncoubt-
eddy will. Then the strong arm of the
mighty empire will strike and wipe the
whole instruction out ii one blow.
Such success is not right But it is
English. England has the might and
the right. She seems TO he giving the
Afridis just enough license to concen-
trate all the rebellious feeling so that
One reprimand viii suffice.