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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21


Grand Rapids has nearly effected the
organization of a labor exchange.
Milwaukee peddlers have organized
to establish scale of street prices.
Western Federation of Miners advo-
Gates government ownership and oper-
alton of mines.
Iron mOlders report work getting bet
tern England. Four of them left re-
Gently for that country under contracts
calling for wages equivalent to $3.50
per day for the first year and SO per day
for the succeeding two years.-Toledo
| Bee.
OF the 10000 starving tailors who
went on strike two weeks ago, some
! 1000 have returned to work, the en-
ployers conceding their demands.
Assemblyman Saunders of New York
has introduced a bill in the legislature
to facilitate and encourage co-opera-
tive contracts. Organized labor is SOL
idly for it.
Denver's city attorney has warned
the mayor that the city has no power
to fix the amount OF wages to be paid
by men who secure contracts for pub
lie improvements.
An English labor paper of recent date
states that industrial affairs in that
country are the best in years, the de-
mand for skilled labor in some in
stances being beyond the supply.
The manufacturers of East Liverpool
potteries have shown an interest in the
houses established in that city for fac
tory girls employed at the potteries
and have started a movement to en-
dow the institution besides raising So
600 for it.
Five years ago Oakland, Cal. clerks
We're thoroughly organized and not
store in town was open on Sunday
After securing other advantages they
allowed the union to die Sunday work
is now eXacted and hours have been in
creased. They viii organize.
The English Board of Trade saws the
state Of employment as a whole re
NAMED practically unchanged during
April, being still materially better than
at the corresponding period of any year
since 1890, In the ia trade unions
making returns 2.5 per cent were I'M
employed.
a branch Of Debs Cooperative Com,
monwealth has been formed at San
Francisco, 1t is probable the start wi1l
be made in middle Tennessee, which
offers a wide variety of soils and an
equable climate. Members from All
parts of the union will be expected tc
contribute 10 cents a month to the sue
cess of the enterprise,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21
Little Tai wen-Wu.

Perhaps the most interesting one OF
the children from the east in Washing
ton is little Tai Wen-Wu, son of the
new minister from China, as he is the
only child from the Orient who still
clings to the native dress, says the
Philadelphia Times. The minister,
Wr. WI reached Washington about a
month ago. accompanied by his wife
and one SON Little Tai is 10 years of
age, and has already been placed at
Miss Hammers school. He is an ant
pupil, and learns twenty words a day,
great pains being taken to teach l@n
the English construction of sentences
He is quiet, docile boy, with all the
native dignity of the east, and troubled
with none of the mischievous spirit
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21

by his father, WAS the construction of u
five-inch rejecting telescope, which
showed the satellites of Jupiter, the
rings of Saturn and other telescope
objects. Then followed in gradual sue
cession the 12-inch telescope for the
Vienna University, 121A-inch telescope
for Morrison, 1914 inch for Wisconsin,
20-inch for Warren Observatory, 1S12-
inch for Northwestern University, 20
inch for Denver, 23-inch for Princeton,
26-inch for Virginia, 26-inch for the
United States naval observatory, 30
inch for Russia and 36-inch for the
Lick Observatory of California, and
finally the great Yerkes lens.
AS q boy Mr.. Clark learned the trade
Of a machinist and worked with his
brother George on the manufacture Of
objective glasses for telescopes. The
elder Clark, Alvan, has father, had es-
tablished business as Telescopes maker
in East Cambridge, and in 1852 young
Alvan became member Of the firm of
Alvan Clark & Sons. After the death
of his father and his brother he con-
tinued the firm name. It was the Clark
firm that ground the 1S1a-inch refaetor
for the old University OF Chicago,
which is now used in the telescope of
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21
WOULDN'T WHOA,
Oregon Indian Trades HIS Horse for d
bicycle and Is Sorry.

Bicycle and Is Sorry.
The bicycle fever struck Siletz, but
It did not last long, says the Lincoln
County Leader. Jack Ross, an upper
farm Indian, traded his horse to some
cultus white man for a bicycle. Very
impatientiy he waited for the mud to
dry up so that he could try his new
steed. Finally one day last week he
started out to make his first trial. Go
ing down by the river, he selected a
nice, smooth. grassy slope. After get
ting on and off few times in the usual
graceful manner of beginners, he was
finally firmly seated in the saddle, and
wabbled around in great shape for a
time. But fate was after him. In his
wabblings he happened to head the
machine down hill toward the river.
He was delight at the ease in which
he ran the machine, and did not notice
where he was headed until he was
about ten feet from the steep bluff,
that hung right over the deep water Of
the river, but it was then too late He
gave a wild yell, pulled back on the
handle bars, and shouted "Whoa!" but
to no avail, and at the next instant
Jack and the wheel made a graceful
curve and plunged into the deep, chilly
water of the Siletz river. Presently a
very wet and thoroughly Disguised In
dian crawled unto the shore, dragging
a bicycle out after him, and now the
wheel is again for trade.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21

Count Nicholas Esterhazy, who died
the other day at his great Hungarian
estate of Totis, was prominent among
the members Of his family for his fer
vent attachment to sport During his
long residence in England-he was
born in LondOn-his was a leading fig
ure on every race-course, where he was
popular with all sorts and conditions of
men.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21

Life a burden unto you?
Don't give up, but cease repining
over cares that daily come;
Just bid hope a joyful welcome,
rake Gods promise for thy own.
Don't give up when storms assall you,
Bnt Keep close at Jesus feet;
Lie TO you will then be sunshine
And your victory complete,
Don't give up, accept Gods message,
" all promises, the best
come TO me, all We that labor
ZONE and | win give you rest"
axe my yoke, tbs light and easy,
mo VIII give peace unto thy soul;
rake 10 Jesus all thy burdens,
MOI portion, but the whole.
Mrs. j. e. Fleming
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21
Another Nansen.

Denmark has a distinguished Nansen
as well as Norway. A banquet was re-
Gently given in Berlin to the Danish
poet, Peter Nansen, whose love poems
and stories-especially "Julia's Diary"
have won hin many admirers in Ger.
many.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21

AhAdIluE TOT ~ SAlOTAeE "OEAuhSs
More attention is now being paid to
the question of shortening the hours
of labor than ever before, and we ven
ture the assertion that the feverish ex-
pectancy now prevailing will chrystal
ize into solid determination by the time
May /, 1898, is reached. And that day
will witness one of the grandest strug-
giles ever attempted on the field of
economic advancement. A fixed opin-
ion is growing in the minds of the
workers that, in view of the rapid in
PRODUCTION of improved machinery,
steps must at once be taken to find
employment for those who are dis
placed by this process. No movement,
be 1t scientific, theoretical, or common
place, promises so much in that direc-
ton as the remedy proposed by organ
lied labor-the shortening OF theGnours
of toil,-Cigar Makers Journal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21
PROF. ALVAHG.CLARK
HE WAS FAMOUS AMONG
SCIENTISTS.
Maker of the Peerless xerkos Lens ana
Celebrated as an Astronomer Brief
Review of Achievements in a Noted
Lifetime.

LVAH g. CLARK,
aged 65. famed
throughout t h G
world both as a
telescope maker and
an astron o mer,
died of apoplexy at
his home in Cam
bridge a few morn
ings ago.
The result of his
early work, aided
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21
Five Score and Ten.

The death is announced of Hugh
Stewart, well-known County DONEGAL
Qreland) farmer aged 10 years.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21
Don't Give Up.

~H hAH e VI NAAQ
I a ! n I an d
weary,
And the sky be dark
and drear:
For there Is a sill
yer lining,
To each cloud that
doth appear.
Is thy heart bowed
down with sor-
row,
Have thy friends all
proved untrue,
Have thy brightest
hopes all van
tafH4.aFf
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21
LABOR ANDINDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WoRKMEN.

The Government Printing once Is Not
Under Civil ssrvIoe-Ths Iowa state
Federation Of Labor is in a Healthy
Condition of Labor world.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-21

Iowa state Moderation ~ Iahor,
Organized labor is rapidly assum-
ms prominence in the sister state OF
Iowa, where the number Of local unions
Is greater now than ever before, and
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-23
SHERIFFS SALE.

BY virtue OF writ OF alias III. Fa. and vend.
Ex. issued out OF the Court OF Common Pleas OF
Columbia County, Pa, and to me directed there
will be exposed to public sale at the Court
House In Bloomsbury on
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 81. 1907.
at o'clock, p. NJ. all that certain piece parcel
or lot or ground situate In the town OF Blooms
burg. Columbia County and State or Pennsyl-
'ania at the southeast corner OF Ninth Street
and an extension OF Iron Street, thence along
said Ninth Street north sixty-tive degrees and
fifty minutes east, three hundred feet to land
lately laid out and sold by o. A. Jacoby and his
administrators, thence by same south twenty
eight degrees and five minutes east, one hun
dred and twenty-eight and one-tenth feet
thence westwardly parallel with Ninth street
three hundred seven and one-fourth feet to
Iron Street aforesaid thence by same north
twenty-four degrees and twenty minutes west
one hundred and twenty-eght feet to the
place OF be ginning, whereon are erected two
story Brick Building used for manufacturing
purposes, and outbuiliings.
Seized, taken into execution at the suit CT
f. j. Richard, Trustee, VS.. The Bloomsbury
Manufacturing Company and F. W. Jones, vs.
The Bloomsbury Manufacturing Company and
to be sold as the property OF The Bloomsbury
Manufacturing Company.
j. b. MCHENRY, Sheriff.
WALLER,
HERRING, Attys. Dec. 9, 'g7 is
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-23
A ChristinRs "Reminiscences.

One of the most remarkable features Of
the siege of Paris in 1870 was the enor-
nous increase In therapeutics OF the citi-
zens of that unhappy city. The author OF
"France In the Nineteenth Century, VINO
was witness of the scenes she dcscrlpeS
wrote: thinking about food stimulated
the craving for it, and before the end OF
the year there Mere serious apprehensions
of famine Christmas day OF that sad year
camo at last and New Years day, the
great and joyful fcto in all French fam
lilies A few confcctioners kept their stores
open and a few boxes OF bonbons We're
sold, but presents of potatoes or small
packages of coffee were by this time more
acceptable gifts
Nothing during the holiday season was
plcntiful in Paris but champagne and Col
mans mustard The rows upon rows of
tho last named article in the otherwise
empty windows of the groceries reminded
Englishmen and Americans alike OF
Grumios cruel offer to Katherine of the
mustard without the beef, since she could
not have the beef with tho mustard.
The following Is the bill of fare OF dln'
ner given at French restaurant upon
that Christmas day:
"Soup from horse meat Mince OF cat
Shoulder of dog, with tomato sauce. jug
ped cat with mushrooms. Roast donkey
and potatoes Rats, peas and celery. Mice
ON toast. Plum pudding
1t seems most too ridiculous Tor pei'e1'
but the menu is genuine
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-23
CARPET MAKER MISSING.
Absent Mans Wife's Pathetic Plea TO
Unpaid Workmen.

James w. Barker, of Norristown, a
member of Town Council, is mysteri-
ously absent, and Friday forenoon the
Norristown Carpet Mill, of which he
recently became sole owner, was
closed down, throwing out of employ
ment nearly $50 hands. This out
come of Mr.. Barker's disappearance
was being discussed at the mill IN all
its various phases, when the missing
mans wife, prostrated by his depar.
ture, arose from a sick bed and went
to the carpet factory to silence the
workmen, who were using language
rejecting on Mr.. Barker and his
family. She implored the men, with
all the pathos of broken-hearted
woman, to believe that she was ignor.
ant of any intention on her husbands
part to flee from his creditors.
Mr.. Barker has been missing since
December 8, when he left, ostensibly
to visit Washington, ID. c., on bust
ness. H. c. Townsend, bookkeeper
at the carpet mill, said on Friday:
81 went to Philadelphia on Satur-
day last, presented some bills to a
firm and asked for some money on
account of a large order on which the
mill was working. l was told that
Mr. Barker had been given a check
for $4,000 and got it cashed, one Of
the firm accompanying him to bank
for the purpose of identifying him."
Mr.. Barker's sample trunks are
known to have reached Washington,
but there is no trace of his movements
since December s. He returned to
Norristown after receiving the money,
and left in the evening.
Executions for $4,000 were issued
Friday morning by I. J. Keveney &
Brothers, of New York, sales agents
for Mr.. Barker, who in July advanced
him 10000. Thursday afternoon
George Kreckstein, of the Exchange
Hotel, entered judgment against Mr..
Barker for $25o. Other Norristown
persons are financially interested in
the missing man to the extent ol
$4,000, having secured second
mortgage against the carpet mill, on
which trust company made loan
for starting Mr.. Barker in business
when he became owner of the mill,
after it had passed from the hands OF
the assignee of II. c. Townsend 6,
Company, by whom it was formerly
owned and operated. The first
mortgage against the plant is for
$4,000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-23
A CHRISTMAS LULLABY.

Bylow, my babe, bylow.
Hero on thy mothers breast,
And, cuddled warm by her loving arm.
Droop down thy head to rest
Poor. weary head. 80 filed with doubt
OF lifc and what it's all abouti
Bylow, my babe. bylow,
Curl up in flower wise
Thy rosy feet and white limbs sweet,
My bud Of paradise
Dear, tender limbs, too frail to share
The burden cen which babes must bear,
Bylow, my babe, bylow,
Let tired eyelids kiss
And from thy sight shut this worlds ngh,
And thy worlds light from this
Love radiant eyes, twin stars that shine
Through darl,liag doubt with trust divinel
Bylow, my bnbe, bylow,
So shone the star Of love
Long years ago, with guiding glow.
Tho newborn Christ above
And found an answering heavenly rny
Within the mangor who're he lnyi
Bylow, my babe, bylow.
The star still rains its fire,
And the Master mild In the heart Of q child
Bids echoing hamo aspire.
And sphere and soul In concord sing,
"The King is born, and love is kingl"
MARION MILLS MILLER
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-23
A Central American Union.
Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras Will
Form a Sovereign Nation.

Official information has been re-
ceived at Washington that the Greater
Republics of Central America are
about to extend their union, so as to
give it all the attributes of a sovereign
nation. At present the three coun-
tries forming the acknowledgements,
Salvador and Honduras-have a Diet
which conducts diplomatic relations
with the outer world, while each
country maintains its own separate
government of internal affairs.
This has created the impression
that the Greater Republic was merely
an alliance of three republics, but not
a republic in itself. II has been the
chief cause of trouble in sending min
listers from the United States to Cen
tral America.
In view of this feeling, Senator
Corea, the Representative in Wash
ington of the Greater Republics,
wrote to the secretary of the Diet,
asking for authority to state that the
Government was to be more than an
alliance.
In reply, the secretary, Mr.. Men
doza, writes to Mr.. Corea that com.
plete union is about to be formed
1t will no longer be union for diplo-
matte intercourse only, open to the
criticism of being an alliance, but will
be fusing of all the interests of the
several governments into one sover-
eign State. Mr.. Corea has not been
informed as to the details OF this COM
plete union, but he says he believes it
will be accomplished by February, if
| not earlier.
The other two of the FIVE Central
American States, to wit, Guatemala
and Costa Rica have not yet given
adherence to the Union, but it is more
than likely they will at an early day.
The five states comprise about I7o,-
900 square miles with a population of
about 100000, but of very mixed
nationaltles and peoples. Since 1921
it has been independent of Spain,
and it seems an easy thing to establish
government like as the United
States. The country is very rich in
minerals, including gold and silver.
1t produces cotton, coffee, sugar,
tobacco, indigo, cocoa and many
other vegetable productions. Peace
and unity would tend greatly to the
development of the country and then
happiness and wealth of the people.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-23
CHRISTMAS AND CHESS.
Fiction and Fact Concerning the Origin OF
the Game.

tne tame.
The Oldest game known is associated
with the season we now designate as holi
day week. According to tho Brahmans,
chess was invented in the second ago of the
world, about tho time Of tho shortest day
of the year, by the wife of Ravan, king Of
IAauka then capital OF Ceylon, in order to
furnish him with amusement by an image
ry Of war, IL being supposed he was per-
sorally unable to participate in its excite
ments and dangers while his chief city
was closely bescged by an enemy.
Similarly the Chinese annals relate that
an inventive mandarin, 1000 years ago,
while on military cxpedition--when tho
sun shonc the fewest hours-whose labori-
Gus effects undermined the endurance and
esprit de corps of his soldiers, devised the
game Of chess us an exercise which would
at the same time not only amuse but in
spiro them with martial ardor
The oft told story of Palamcdcs Is but u
repetition of the mandarin anccdote, only
that he was then at the siege of Troy and,
presumably, had many "sparo moments"
during those weary ten years. But it Is
wholly impossible for chess either to have
had its beginning In the manner purport-
ed or to have been accepted enthusiastical-
ly and intelligently by camp OF Ignorant,
barbarous soldiery. Like friendship, it
must have been "a plant of slow growth, I"
and in it's infancy represented the attacks
and stratagcms of two or three opposing
forces These tales are fables-creations
of the fancy-while the veritable history
of the game may be divided into three
epochs (1) That of the ancient Hindoo
gamo called chaturanga, which Is coeval
with the most ancient period of Indian
chronology and extends to the beginning
of the fifteenth century; (2) that lasting
but 100 years, ending in the sixteenth CEN
tury, up to which time tho moves and pow
crs of tho chessncn remained principally
as in the chaturanga, though tho men
were ranked in two armies instead of in
four and two Of the kings were trans
formed into queens; (3) tho modern
epoch in which tho moves OF the queen
and Of the bishop have been greatly ex-
tended and the privilege and practice OF
"castling" has been introduced. The game
has consequently undergone gradual i'm
provement and extension rs skilled ex-
ponents have brought to bear upon it their
ingenuity and experience
ALBERT y. 'SoUTHWICK,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-23
Captain Kidd Treasure Go.


The Captain Kidd Treasure Com
pany, composed of Albert and Charles
Holding, Charles Veamans and Samuel
Morgan, of Bristol, N. j.; DR.. Galley,
of Mount Holly, and a colored man
living at Beverly, will make another
attempt during the coming week to
secure the treasure that was dropped
overheard by this noted pirate near
Eddington many years ago. 1t is
necessary to hurry matters somewhat,
before the river is frozen.
Many Intellectual attempts have
been made to recover this treasure.
All sorts OF devices have been tried,
but nothing but Encouragement seems
to follow each effort. Everybody
seems to be skeptical about the affair,
except those who compose the com
pany, but they feel satisfied of its
presence.
The alleged copper box first saw
the light of day about thirty years
ago, when Albert Holding, father of
the Holding boys, weighed anchor in
the river; he having stopped in the
channel for the tide to change while
raking a load of manure to Bristol.
He saw the box or chest as it was
fastened to one of the anchor flukes,
but 1t tell off while the crew were try
ing to secure it. He felt satisfied
that it contained gold, and when ne
died he conhded the secret to his
children. They have previously made
vain attempts to get it, and the per-
sistency with which they are pushing
the matter in the face of all dscour-
agement is due to the use of a
scientific instrument for locating gold
that has been brought into use. These
men evidently have great deal of
patience and some little money to
burn.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-23

"Wo are lG cents to tho bad" said,
"and we haven't got any present The re-
frcshmcnts have como to SO much this
time"
An committees and delegates of com.
mittccs have refreshments" said Alexan-
der dictatorially ut doesn't matter I've
paid the deficit so far, but Uncle William
will have to make it up. It's all his fault
If he hadn't been there, we shouldn't t have
wanted to bo generous to him"
So we sent Uncle William the bill. he
Is still rather puzzled about it Fred and
Dorothea think the thing was misman.
aged. / don't No more does Alexander