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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
Beefsteak Under Many Aliases.

An amiable member of the Travellers
club in this city, who possesses min
ute knowledge Of foreign places, is fire.
quently consulted by friends contem-
plating European tour. He brings
forth his neatly kept notes OF travel
and gives valuable pointers concerning
routes, hotels, cafes, etc. just now he
is beset with inquiries about Antwerp
by intending visitors to its exposition.
To one of these he impaired this hint:
'In patronizing the cafes, which, in
various ways, solicit the custom Of
English and Americans, notice the
spelling of the word 'beefsteak' on the
outdoor signs or bills Of fare, and be
governed accordingly. If you prefer
French cookery, seek out restaurants
where it is spelled 'biftek' or 'bifstik,
But if you wish to try a purely Flems
ish cuisine, look at these various ways
of spelling the word, which copied
literally from signs and menus during
my stay in that city: 'Beefestec,
'beaufsteeaka,' 'beavesteik,' 'biefsteck,
.bafestecke,' 'beevestchek,' 'bifstoake
and 'beeafesteeackc,"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
PuNoeNr PARAGRAPHS.

They say that Cholly has lost his
mind" us that so? Does he know
it?"-Boston Courier.
lie said was his life's sunshine"
Il guess you will find that all moon.
shine."-Boston Courier.
-Prisoner-"What,t that man is GO
ing to defend me? Why, he couldn't
bring an innocent person through!"-
Fliegende Blaetter.
TELL me, guide, why 30 few people
ascend that magnificent mountain"
because no has ever fallen of it."
-Fliegende Blaetter.
-"Well met, COLONEL" "l'm not a
colonel, sir!" Pardon me! was un-
der the impression you had been in
Georgia six weeks!"-AtlantaC onstitu-
ton.
Her Choice.-"What kind of tie do
you admire most 2" he asked as he made
his regular call. 1.-THE marriage tie"
she answered truthfully, and without
hesitation.-Detroit Free Press.
-Hoax-"You worked your way
through college, didn't your" Joax-
Fright" Hoax-"What did you work
att" Joax-"The other students prin-
cipally."-Philadelphia Record.
-Slobbs Jenkins told me Miss
Beaconstreet was an old flame Of
yours" Blobbs-"An old flame? I'm
possiblel" "Why impossible?" "She's
from Boston" Record.
| -A-"When see you always think
Of the proverb: To whom God gives an
Office, to him he gives understanding
B-"But have no ofice!" A-"Well
don't you see how that fits"-Flie'
gende Blaetter.
Mr.. Spinks-"Well, Willie, has your
sister made up her mind to go to the
concert with me?" Willie yep
She's made up her mind and she's max
in up her face now. She'll be down II
q minute" Great Divide.
Miss Kostique-"Do you know wher
, see you looking SO happy it reminds
me of what a great poet once said.
Cholly Sophisticated! Pway, wha
. was it?" Miss K.-"Where ignoranc
, is bliss" -Philadelphia Record.
-He-"I have never loved but ono
5 | in all my life" She-"What?" He
Fact, l assure you. 1t has someho,
always happened that l never was quit
free from the one girl by the time tn
next one came along."- Indianapoli
Journal.
Confident of It.-Lady of the Hous
i, III should think you would be afraid
$ come around in the back yard. I ne
I tice you didn't do it last week on az
: count of our big dog" Tramp-"No'n
d But 1 knew that dog wasn't here an
J, more" Lady of the House-"How d
you know it?" Tramp-"I let hil
j. have that piece of pie you gave me-
|. Detroit Free Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
DlsBELIEvEs IN MICROBES.

An Old Yankee Who Sticks to the Sulphur
(Mo.) 'Lasses and Cider.
The New York Mail and Express
rambler has an old friend in Boston OF
the name of jeremiah Mason, who has
fund of quaint philosophy concerning
the habits of sheep and men. He
lived for many years near Dedham,
and is an authority on wool growing
and on the weather signs indicating
when it is proper to make changes in
clothing and to ''physic the system"
II am seventy-two years of age" he
used to say, "hale and hearty, and
could drive stagecoach to-day as well
as 1 did fifty years ago if there was only
one of 'cm to drive. Why am healthy?
Sho! Every spring take sulphur and
molasses for three days. l lay most O.
my health to that. Never drank any
kind of liquor except now and again
little hard cider, and cider, let me tell
you, is great thing for the stomach.
| Besides, l never took off my winter
clothes until after the sheep storm,
and then never was much of a one to
worry. That's what eats man up
worry. If he wants a lot and can't get
| 1t and he goes out into the cola Win
his pores all open he's just likely to
catch a cold and die, but if he will just
trust to the good Lord, eat breakfast at
daylight, put in good, honest days
work and go to bed at ten o'clock with
an easy conscience, he'll live out the
full span.
I'm no believer in these new-fangled
ideas about microbes and the like. I've
never seen any of 'em. Why, the way
doctors talk you'd think we couldn''
eat anything that's safe. Microbes il
milk to give you consumption; mi
crobes in water to give you fever
J microbes in pork to give you disease
! called trickey something or other; mi
} crobes in the air to give you smallpox
Well, l want to know! What in tn
l name of common sense and Gen
! Jackson are we to eat, anyway?
reckon my plan is the best. My chill
dren and grandchildren are brough
up that way. The only bad habit
Q have" and the old gentleman CAREFUL
9 pulled q silver snuffbox from hi
. pocket, lis taking pinch Of this hal
/ q dozen times a day. It's might
| comfortin'"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES.

stanley Brought Some from the Dark
Costinent to . New York Man.
Berthold Neumoegen, who died in
New York the other day, was noted as
/ an amateur entomologist and spent
over twenty years in forming remark
able collection of over one hundred
thousand rare and beautiful butterflies,
|ays the Newark Times.
This was his hobby and all his lcis-
ure was devoted to improving the col
lection. There are but two known col
Lotions in the world that excel in
variety and number the one gathered
|by Mr.. Neurhoegen. One is in the pos
session of the British museum, London,
| and the other is in Paris.
This work was labor of love with
Mr.. Neumoegen, and he would spend
hours in a room on the top floor of his
residence, which contains the collec-
ton, arranging and rearranging the
beautiful specimens of the insect world,
in which he took 50 much pride. He
generally kept in stock an immense
number of butterfii es for the purpose
Of exchange, and these he kept apart
from his collection, not one OF which
would he dispose of unless he felt GER
tain of being able to replace it.
Butterfly collectors are continually
exchanging specimens and Mr.. Neu'
moegen kept two men employed in re
ceiving and shipping specimens. The
largest shipment made by him wal
eight years ago, when he shipped TWEEN
ty thousand butterflies to Europe.
Livingstone, the great African ex
plorer, furnished Mr.. Neumoegen with
come of his rarest specimens. Other
we're furnished by Henry M. Stanley
Lieut.. Schwatka and members of thu
Greedy relief expedition. Among then
were.s butterfies from Franklin bay
from the shores of Greenland, from
Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria Nyan
"A, and from Labrador, Thibet, Alaska
China. Siberia, Turkestan and KANT
chatka and from the Himalayas an
Rocky mountains and the Alps.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
-.aemluM ON HONESTY

sss.,. verestfulnsss Lsads to ths
b fEti.. q an aHonssty Fund"
afternoon the past winter
~ - 49, ~ q brokerage house in
~ te9s, VAS preparing to 20 home,
In io,N amoved 4 coin from his
ID nsa ,,ocLet 10 .use for car fare
|tcasers i;soovered that he had left his
|Fhen ne u = ,yardrobe In an adjoining
los y r. ~, r,oced the coin ON the top OF
|pcns ~ LIT M !. delaved on his return
W de- - =, !. matter of business. AS
w. GER - ,.onec remained on his desk
~, Wy =. ,,s,,sr tyre. '''1.
sheF - $500 tho c;rcumsta , Ma I
Be renen - S..chaa hi. to,re mi
|bOwevel, WIZ ~. tha riace vac lost
xaclpde1 -. ..t srrrr,sa thorch he
yucn e n,s , 81, IN The deslr when he
| bsnd the aa"s sss. 800 morr;nc A.
rsaqaec -. ,,arsor. must have saen Il
~ 49, .ftar his denarture the
gne satore
|Sgn' :...4.ro. ,r,ro..aa him
me - +hor,ht ~ ~ marv
|jsepy snu -h;,~ r. az hs+4Ia -,
|tnes 'nas 10y ~. 49, =, 49, s+ocl- ~.
|Feieren'11v ~. =. stsr+ed tor hono
banee: ra r,,rrc.e,v forgot tbe
has n'sns AZ. rar+ rnorr;rr ha .,,.
poney o.. ~ ga a. s+;1I ~, t,,o aesIr
Dot surP. $500. - ~. ,on ho ,r.d.
VItu y AS'' 49,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
BETTER THAN A BANK.
Mexican Don's silver Mine, Which He
Taps Whenever He Needs Cash.

Mexican Don's silver Mine, Which He
Taps Whenever He Needs Cash.
A resident of Mexico recently related
the following story to q writer for the
Kansas City Journal:
IA Mexican grandee, whose name is
Don Alcazar de Chilicolorow, owns q
famous mine of inexhaustible riches in
the state Of Chihuahua. 1t contains a
high grade silver ore, and is SO rich
that whenever the don or his sonora
run short of money they simply direct
the head peon to gather together his
delegation of twelve or thirteen serfs
/ and their equally patient and uncom-
planning fellow serfs, the burros. Then
the don mounts the head burro and the
| procession takes the trail for the fam
lily mine, as it is called. The mine has
been in the possession Of the don and
his ancestors for the past four GEN.
turtles. 1t is nothing but a rude tunnel
in the mountain side. The entrance to
the tunnel is securely barricaded with
heavy timber doors, which are securely
locked with three old Spanish locks,
the keys to which are always in the
possession OF the don. When the mine
| ~ EC0CAC0 Vic uOA uulOChS tuc uOOTS.
He then directs his body servant to
swing his hammock beneath the
branches of a massive tree standing
at the entrance to the mine, which was
well grown sapling when the first
don Of the family discovered the mine
four hundred years ago.
1.-THE poems are then set to work
getting out the rich silver ore, which
they put into baskets slung upon the
backs of the burros. 1t is but the worl
: of five or six hours to get out ore tina
will be worth several thousands of dol
lars. The ore is free milling ore ant
it is no trouble to work it. While tn,
ore is being taken out of the mine ant
put into the baskets the don is lying II
his hammock leisurely smoking Gig
arettes. When the baskets are full tn
don manages to pull himself togethe
long enough to lock up the mine an
seal the entrances and the cavalcad
. then starts back and goes straight t
Chihuahua, twelve miles away. A
soon as they arrive there the don sell
u the contents Of the baskets, for whic
he receives from twelve thousand
eighteen thousand dollars in cash
! Mexican money. He gives his poems
;, u liberal tip besides their meager wage
which they divide, like the consciel
- tious poems they are, between IL
y church and the pulque merchants an
- reserve a small modicum to keep then
y selves and their families partly clothe
. and fed until the don holds his ne,
grand rally, which occurs four or fiv
" times a year. The don owns a ma
~ nifcent hacienda, has lovely wife an
y two beautiful daughters, who have a
70 the pride of the true Castilians. I'll
hacienda contains over six thousar
!, acres and is one of the principal hig
y ways leading out of Chihuahua, up'
which, like most of the land ow
~ ers of the country. he paws little taxes
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
OBJECTED TO eLOOMERs.

LAAAlAAy Would Not Allow One Of Her
BeaFdsrs - Wear the Dress at Table.
Hard and awful to contemplate are
the trials that the new woman has to
put up with-that is, that particular
type Of the new woman who doesn't
like to wear skirts and prefers knicker-
bockers at most times and places, says
the New York World. In England the
boarding house landladies are very
much aroused over the subject and are
thinking Of forming an association to
rule out all women who wear what 10
Known in the words Of the day as IRA
tionsl dress." 8.5s 80.
N fhis country there u an interest
ing anecdote, with its scene laid in Ann
Arbor, Mich, relating to one OF the coll
lege girls who was very much I'D
vanced." s.er1 -
There was . girl staying 1t one Of the
boarding houses in the village who
persisted in wearing trousers that were
more masculine even than "bifurcated
skirtA.ns This attire disturbed the land
ladT Intensely and in fearful tones she
pleaded with the young woman to dis
card the distasteful garments. But the
girl was put upon her mettle and re-
sisted the landlady's pleas until that
wrathful individual came out with the
following ultimatum:
"You cannot eat at my table and
wear boomers at the same time"
II is not correct for the new woman
TO weep, and therefore the knicker
bockered girl shed no tears. At the
very laxt meal that was served, how
ever, the other boarders noticed thai
she wore skirt, immediately afte'
dinner she took it of and ave minutes
later was seen parading down thu
streets in masculine garments onc'
more. But the lsndlady has carriet
her point and bifurcated garments arr
not at such premium in Michigan o
they were.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
STILL INSPIRED.

While Insane Susan Mountfort Played
Ophelia with Heart-Rending Pathos.
An Ophelia actually mad, chanting
her pathetic song and uttering her sad
words with all the realism Of genuine
insanity!
1t was a weird sight. and one that
chilled the blood of spectators, as they
gazed in silence upon the uncanny
scene.
They all recognized the actress and
realized the situation. Poor Susan
Mountfort, the former bright actress
of Lincoln's Inn Fields. in her insanity
had escaped from her custodian, and,
with the recollection Of her former
career teeming through her distracted
brain, had made straight for the play
house. Then with all the cunning OF
an insane person. the woman had hid
den for q time behind the wings, while
her former associates carried on the
play of Hamlet" But just at the
moment the Ophelia of the evening was
to enter for the mad scene Susan
Mountfort, seizing her by the arm to
push her back from the entrance,
sprang forward in her place, and with
wild eyes and wavering motion rushed
upon the stage uttering the words:
.They bore him barefaced to the bier;
Hey no nonny. nonny hey nonny."
For . moment the spectators were
amazed. As they began to realize the
/ situation o murmur ran through thu
house and then came the strained 81
leuce of wonderment and perplexity.
Magnificent was the acting. In he
sane days Susan Mountfort had been
good Ophelia and now she threw int
the part such intensity of action ant
such terrible mental effort as to rende
the character overwhelmingly vivid
But It was mercy when friends gen
tly led her away from the footlights
Her vitality was entirely exhausted b
the effort and her death was hastened
This was the sad story OF one Ophelis
To describe all the Ophelias OF tn
stage would be unnecessary, even
possible, since the role has never bee
regarded by any actress as her ult
mate goal. 1t has either served as
intermediary. while players were viii
ming their way to fame in the supper
of eminent Hamiets, or it has bee
awarded to actresses who were foun
wanting and quietly fell into obscurit
--Shalscspeare's Hcroines on the Stag
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
PURE PATRIOTISM.
4 French Soldier Who Was Always Ready
to Do His Duty.

to Do His Duty.
Few men, not endowed with brill
liant ability, have left behind them a
more honorable or distinguished rec
ord than M. Victor Duruy, a French
statesman and scholar who died recent
ly at the age of eighty-four. His life
was an exempliiication of the rewards [
which may wait on the faithful obedi- |
ence of the Scriptural maxim: What
soever thy hand findeth to do, do it
with thy might"
He began, as many another young
scholar has begun, as teacher. Here,
in the performance Of his duty, he
once had occasion to turn out of his
class Victorien Sardou, who afterward
became famous writer. Young Sar-
dou had failed to get some part Of
lesson in Egyptian history, and had
said to NJ. Duruy that he Thought he
might profitably omit it."
But l." said Duruy, ''as your teach.
Or, am the sole Judge as to that"
"And !, since it is l who have to
learn. ought to have some choice in
the matter" Sardou answered
This impertinent remark earned for
6ardou the suspension which he re-
ceived. Sardou, as q man and genius,
obtained early the literary distinction
which caused him to be chosen a men,
Der of the French academy-the forty
immortals," and when Duruy, in his
old age, as the crown of laborious
life, was proposed as member of the
same body, Sardou supported him cor
daily and he was elected.
Duruy. as an emin ent and practical
educator, was wanted by the emperor,
Napoleon I'LL, as minister of public
instruction. The emperor sent for
him and proposed to him to enter the
ministry.
but, your majesty" Duruy an
swcrcd, II have taken very little par'
in politics."
$50 much the better" said the EN-.
A peror.
8 "And what part have taken ha
y been against you!"
t mo matter" said Napoleon, 'yo,
G are the man I want for minister o
public instruction"
e Duruy took the place and worked
= hard in it, still doing with all hi
" might the work that came to his hand
q In the war with the Germans in 1877
. there was no political work for him t
i do For the time, after the surrende
of Napoleon, all who had been in tn
government were discredited. So, a
y the age of sixty, Duruy enlisted in tn
. national guard rs private soldier.
= One evening in September, 1871
Jules Simon, then minister of publ
q. instruction, was entering the ministr
y when he thought he noticed that tn
~ soldier on guard at the door, who pre-
m sented arms to him, had a familia
face. lie paused and looked steadil
at him.
"Duruy." he exclaimed. ''is th'
your
. ut is I-Duruy," the soldier al
swered.
"A "A common SOLDIER"
- "A common soldier. One can't be
"a minister always"
= But see that one can always ser,
=, as an example"
- Duruy smiled, and stood at salu
:, while his successor entered the bull
ing. 1t was not until fourteen yea
after that he was elected member
= the academy-the highest honor.
literature or learning, that Frenc
Ut man can hope to attain. 1t is possit
cy that the fact that Duruy had alwa
stood ready to do his duty, no matt
as in what direction it lay, had much
* do with his elevation to thfs honor
ne Youths Companion.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
The thermometer Hereafter.

1.-THE spirit of John Jones'" said the
medium.
"He died in arrears" replied the ed
itor. "Ask him if it's hot enough for
him c"-Atlanta Constitution. q.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-03-12
PIONEER
Saw and Planning Mill.
c. +. BROWN. Proprietor.

ing. Rustic. shiplsp. ceiling and all kinds q
rough and dressed lumber Of good quality and
ct reasonable prices. Two miles south VI
GrHngeville, Idaho. 80.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-03
MORRIS-FASSETT NUPTIALS.
Ceremony Perform ed in the Nicholson
NJ. T.. Church Parsonage.

Rev. E. f. Ace, pastor of the Nichol-
son Methodist church, performed the
ceremony yesterday which united in
marriage Mrs. NJ. Z. Fassett, of Hop
bottom, and Captain B. E. Morris, of
this city. The happy event occurred
at the church parsonage. and the con-
tracing parties were unattended.
Mrs. Morris is the widow of the late
DR.. Howard Fassett, of Foster, and
has been the efficient postmstress of
Hopbottom for several years. She is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. d.
Carpenter, of Susquehanna, and was
very prominent in church and social
work.
Captain Morris Is well known news
paper man in this city, being at pres
ent managing editor of the Sunday
World. He has held the position of
editor on the Scranton Times and
Carbondale Herald. He resigned from
the Truth staff to accept his present
position. His military title of captain
was acquired by promotion in the
British army.
They will go to Buffalo, Cleveland,
Toronto and Detroit on their wedding
trip, and before coming to Scranton
to reside will spend some time among
Mrs. Morris people in Susquehanna
and Wyoming couties.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-03
FIRE AT GREEN RIDGE.
Almost Entirely Destroyed the Bottliug
Establishment of F. g. Rarrick.
His Estimate OF the Loss.

The bottling establishment of f. G.
Rarrick at Glen street and San
derson avenue was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon
it is supposed that the fire was caused
by a spark from a locomotive.
Monday is always a quiet one about
the bottling establishment, and little
work is done. At 23O yesterday after
noon Mr.. Rarrick awoke from his after
dinner nap in his residence adjoining
the bottling works and told one of his
men to bring his horse and carriage
around from the stable, which is under
the same roof with the bottling works
While the man was hitching up the
horse Mr.. Rarricks daughter came
rushing into the house with the infor-
nation that one of the cupolas which
surmounted the bottling building was
burning.
Mr.. Rarrick directed her to telephone
in an alarm from the office which ad-
joins the building, and with his men
he turned his attention to getting out
horse that was in the stable and in
removing the wagons to place of
safety.
AS soon as the fire companies arrived
OIl lIlt SCellt llGS SdN llldt lhcy "Ouiu
be unable to cope with the blaze and
a second alarm was sent out. The
efforts of the firemen were unavailing,
however, and the building in which
the fire originated, the adjoining one,
occupied as an office and the wagon
shed We're almost entirely destroyed.
The building in which the fire orig
mated was a very old one. 1t was a
wooden structure 100x40 feet, and two
stories in height. One end of it abuts
on the Delaware and Hudson tracks,
which makes the locomotive spark
theory very plausible.
Mr.. Rarrick to a Tribune reporter
said that the buildings destroyed were
worth $4,000. They contained machin-
cry, stock. ETC.. which he valued at
$4,000. Altogether he carried $3,500 in
surance. 1t was placed with the firm
of Norman e. Moore. Mr.. Rarrick says
he will rebuild at once.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-03

A sum of money that in total reaches
away up into the thousands, nearly
$15,0O00, lies in the First National
bank to be paid out beginning this
morning to letter carriers whose claims
for overtime have been allowed by the
federal court of claims. The drafts on
Uncle Sam were received at the bank
yesterday afternoon. and word was
sent to the postoffice that the postmen
would be paid beginning this morning.
The names of the beneficiaries and the
amounts due them have already been
published in the Tribune.
The claims for back pay were insti-
tuted by about half.hundred postmen
for amounts varying from $50 to over
$500, and for period running through
the terms of several postmasters up to
the beginning of n r. Vandling's ap-
pointment. When tie latter assumed
office the postofiice department put in
force some very rigid rules regarding
the time the carriers should work.
The limit was fixed at eight hours.
1t was provided that no claims for
more than that limit would be recog.
nized, and it was further provided that
any postmaster who permitted carriers
to work more than eight bours a day
would be liable to no less a penalty
than dismissal from office
The lines were thus so tightly drawn
that during the past four years post
men have been instructed to quit their
routes at the end of each eight hours,
and to return undelivered mail matter
to the postoffice.
In recent years there has, in conse-
II
ment rule been no claim for overtime.
Nearly half of those fortunate per-
sons who will draw snug sums from
the First National bank are now en-
gagged in occupations other than letter
carving,