davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
CHOP WOOD FOR A HUSBAND
Axes vigorously Welded by Pretty
Girls-LOVers Referees.

There was novel wood cutting con-
test in the Seventh ward of Williamsport.
Pa, the other day, in which five young
women took part. The girls are all en-
ployed in the Lycoming rubber factory,
and, having holiday, they turned their
time to good account, besides settling a
much disputed question as to which was
the most entitled to a husband, The
girls are Bess Mayors Flora Mahl. Lille
Mahl, Lille Dunlap, Belle Gouldy and
Mary Russell, all pretty, vivacious young
women, who earn their own living and
make good wages in the rubber factory.
In banter the other day one of the girls
proposed that they have wood chopping
contest, and the one who proved herself
TO be the champion cutter, should be en-
titled to husband, while the others. II
was agreed, must wait two years before
joining fortunes with her best beau, says
the Ptttsburg Commemorate Gazette.
one Tuesday morning the girls, each
with brand new ak, bedecked with red.
white and blue ribbons, marched into the
back yard of Widow Hartman's home and
made an assault on the woodpile. Widow
hartman is helpless invalid, she hav-
ing tallen and hurt herself quite badly
last winter. Her daughter, Lou, works
In the rubber factory, too, and she was
one of the movers in the wood cutting
scheme' although she took no part in the
contest.
Five loads of hemlock slabwood, cut
to stove lengths, had been delivered AZ
Widow Hartman's place the day before
the girls paying for it-so there was plen-
W OF material for them on which to test
their strength and skill. But the way
the ribboned axes flew, and tongues wag-
ged was only equaled by the shower of
split sticks that gradually piled them.
selves up around each chopping block.
William Baskins and Joseph Schen were
there as referees. One of the young men,
however, had more direct interest in
the contest than being judge, for one OF
the girls was his sweetheart, and, accord
ing to the compact, If she proved one Of
the losers in the contest, he would be
compelled to wait two long years before
she could become his wife. For four hours
the wood chopping went on; the girls
got red in the face; they rolled up their
sleeves until their plump, pink arms were
barred almost to the shoulders, and whack-
ed away at the hemlock blocks as though
their lives instead Of a husband depend
ed upon it.
Finally II o'clock came, and at the end
Of that time there were five weary, per-
spring girls and five big piles of nicely
split hemlock wood for Widow Hartman.
But for the life of them the referees
could not decide between the piles of wood
cut by Miss Dunlap and Miss Russell as
10 which was the larger. And, indeed,
after raking over all the stacks and
counting them separately, the discovery
was made that the two girls had cut ex-
lctly alike. The contest was declared a
iraw. And now all the marrIageable
'oung men of the Seventh ward are
fasting their eyes with favor in the d.
'ection of these fair young women VINO
20 CALAMITY demonstrated their ability to
tut firewood.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
THE HIGHEST BRIDGE I'M EUROPE
One Of Il. the Notss,EoEthy Fsatgres Of

One of the Noteworthy Features of
the Prussian State Line.
The most noteworthy feature in connec-
ton with the new Prussian state line,
which is now in course of construction
between the industrial centers of Rems-
cheid and Solingen, will be the viaduct
spanning the Wupperthal at the Hstle
town of Mungsten, says Popular Science
News" When completed, the structure
will enjoy the distinction of being the loft
lest of its kind on the European CONT
nent.
The total height of the Douro bridge
in Portugal is G. m, or about 2O4 feet,
whereas the viaduct at Mungsten will at
tain an altitude of 1O7 m, or about 1853
feet. The span of the center arch at
Mungsten will be 40 M, or about 657
feet. Upward of 100 tons of iron work
will be required for the principal aF3a,
and the total quantity of iron employed
on the viaduct will amount to 1000 tons.
The cost of the viaduct is estimated at
$625, OOO
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16

minutes, then began to move up and
down in front of the music rack.
The second tenor, who was leading the
air, soon noticed that the movements
of the spider correspondent with the va
riations Of his voice, up and down the
scale, and in perfect time. They then
began series of experiments, and found
that the spider would ascend or descend
about a foot for every octave, and,
though the melody was carried ever SO
lightly, and the bassos Numbered in their
heaviest tones, the insect could not be
deceived, but always followed the lead
ing part accurately, and with the pre-
cision of a directors baton.
All kinds of songs, from Down in the
Cornfield" to 1.-THE Bridge" were sung
to test the ability of this wonderful lit
tie being, and each time he came out of
the conflict not a beat behind. At last
the four voices struck an awful dis
cord, and instantly the spider scurried
up his improvised metronome and dis
appeared in the chimney.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
BOOK PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD
Interesting but Faulty Figures Sc
cured From a French Source,

The author gives from a French source
some interesting figures as to the annual
production of books. In 1896 according
to this statement, 6516 new books and
new editions were issued in Great Brit
ain $3.50 in the United States, 23,6O7 in
Germany, 12,495 in France and 94S7 in
Italy. These are remarkable figures, but
before any deductions are made from
them it would be desired to have some
further information as to the manner
in which the books have been compiled.
Does any one seriously suppose that more
books are printed and published in italy
than in the United States? The fact
is that the photographed methods of the
countries named are so dissimilar that
accurate comparison is impossible. The
lists of publications given in the British
trade journals are VIGOROUSLY incom-
plete. Probably they include all that is
important from the booksellers point of
view, but they take little or no account
of the analOgues of academical disserta-
tlons. reprints of magazine articles,
trifies printed per nozze, and a variety
of other pamphlets and small books that
go to swell the figures of the book pro
ductiOn" of continental countries. Thus
every person who takes a degree at one
of the many universities in Germany
must rint dissertation, and this, If it
be only a compilation of a few pages,
counts as a book" when the figures
come to be tabulated, and deepens the
impression that every man in the faith
erland of Goethe is engaged, more or less,
in adding to the literature of the world.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
PRESERVED A. GOOD BUSINESS"
The Parsons Good Wishes for n
Generous Subscriber.

The debt of the struggling little church
in the suburbs had all been paid off but
$500, says the Chicago Tribune.
A clergyman noted for his skill and
success in raising church debts had been
sent for, and was conducting the morn
ing service. The sermon was over and
the work of stirring up the audience TO
the requisite pitch of enthusiasm had
begun. Subscriptions rose rapidly to $780,
then $500, and after considerable effort
to $500, where they stuck. In vain the
visiting brother exhorted and pleaded
The limit of the cash resources of the
congregation appeared to have been
reached, and at last he sat down, dis
couraged.
Then Brother Plantus, a highly respect
ed undertaken, who had made a liberal
subscription already, rose and said:
Brethren, this thing shan't fall
now that it has got along as far as $780,
I believe in a. man giving as the Lord
has prospered him, and, although I have
given a pretty good sized donation, I am
ready to do more. I'll pay that last hun
dred dollars myself. Here's my check
for the amount"
II don't know your name, brother"
shouted the visiting preacher, jumping
to his feet with enthusiasm, but hope
your business will double during the COM
ing year, and believe it wIllr'
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16

The Pike, the Salmon and the Gold
fish Among Them.

The Pike, the Salmon and the Gold
fish Among Them.
The experts in the different branches
of the sciences are now pretty we'll
agreed that there are several species of
fish, reptiles and insects which never
sleep during their stay in this world.
Among the fish it is now positively
known that the pike, the salmon and the
gold fish never sleep at all. Also that
there are several others of the fish fam
lily that never sleep more than a few
minutes during a month, and which take
no rest whatever during the breeding
season. There are dozens of species of
flies (mostly tropicaD which never in
dulge in slumber, and from three to five
species of serpents on each of the CONT
nents which the naturalists have never
yet been able to catch mapping
Some years ago a theory founded on
the observations of Leuwenhoek Sir
John Lubbock and others was to the eff
feet that the ant is another of the in
sects never caught asleep. At that time
QS7D the result of these observations
excited considerable comment and it was
declared to be 1.-The only exception known
in the animal world to the general rule
that sleep is a necessary consequent of
labor" More extended observations,
however, have proven that there are sew
eral exceptions to the general rule of
periodical slumber in the animal creation
st. Louis Republic.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
HEADLEss NAIL IN A SKULL
Work of n Sherlock Holmes Three
Hundred Years Ago,

huhureu ears Ago,
DR.. John Donne the famous English di-
vine and poet, who lived in the reign of
James I.,was a veritable Sherlock Holmes
in bent of mind. A writer in Tid-Bits tells
Of one of his famous exploits:
He was walking in the churchyard
while a grave was being dug, when the
sexton cast up a moldering skull. The
doctor idly took it up, and, in handling
it, found a headless nail driven into it,.
This he managed to take out and con-
to him that murder had been done. He
questioned the sexton, and learned that
the skull was probably that of a certain
man who was the proprietor of q o1andy
shop, and was a drunkard being found
dead in bed one morning, after night in
which he had drunk two quarts of brandy.
Had he a wife?" asked the doctor.
yes"
What character does she bear?'
"She bore a very good character, only
the neighbors gossiped because she mar
ried the day after her husbands funeral
She still lives here"
The doctor soon called on the woman.
He asked for and received the particu-
lars of the death of her first husband
Suddenly opening his handkerchief, he
showed her the telltale nail, asking, in
loud voice:
Madam. do you know this nail?"
The woman was so surprised that she
confessed; was tried and executed.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
PROFESSOR ELroT's MATCHMAKING.
His Hobby Leads a PhiIOsODher to
an Alternative Proposition.

There is a well known professor at Har-
ward for whom the Boston and Cam
bridge girls should prepare a crown, says
the Philadelphia Press. Every man has
his hobby, and Professor Eliot's hobby is
in the early marriage of young men and
the benefit which accrues therefrom. The
good professor fiouts the old rhyme which
declares that when a man marries his
trouble begins" His theory is that when
a man marries his troubles are ended.
The college boy complains that with
Professor Eliot about it is hard for him
to remain single until the finish of his
collegiate period. For no sooner does the
instructor see a. young fellow walk with
or talk to a young woman than he seeks
private interview with the young man
in question, the object of the interview
being to inquire just why the two young
people may not be at once Joined in the
bonds of matrimony.
WELL" observed an aged PhiladeI-
phian, who heard the story a few days
ago. THAT professor has married a good
wife-or he is MT married at ALL"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Articles of Incorporation Filed Mt
Tacoma.

The Washington State Historical. So
ciety has filed articles of incorporation.
with the following incorporators: E.
Meeker, e. Higgins, Charles w. Hobart.
James Wickersham, E. EelIs, w. H.
Pritchard of Pierce county; John L. VIII
son of Spokane; F. G. Deckabach of Che
halls county; John L. Convey of Thurston
county; John H. Long of Lewis county.
Miles c. Moore of Walla Walla county.
William Prosser of Yakima county:
George V. Calhoun of ,skagit county and
H. H. spaulding of Whatcom county.
Their purpose is the collection and
preservation in substantial form of oh
jects of traditional and historical interest
to the state.
Their main headquarters will be in Ia
coma, and the organization will be kent
up by subscriptions from members ana
annual fees.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
Telegraph in Abyssinia.

Brussels firm has just accepted contract
Tor the establishment Of a telegraph system
is to he furnished with telephone, and the
more important are to be connected with the
residence of the Emperor Menelek. so as to en-
able him to keep, II not an eye, at any rate
an ear upon his subjects.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
SPIDER KEEPS TIME TO MUSIC.

Michigan Singers Have Fun with n
SOnE-LOVing Insect.
AT a recent rehearsal of the Apollo
male quartet of Coldwater Mich, large
spider descended slowly his silken thread
to about the height of the singers shout
ders, where he hung suspended for few
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
NOah's WIfe,s BuriaI place.

Noah's wife is said by Armenians to be bur-
led on Mt Ararat, and the Armenfans trace
their ancestry back to Japhet in one long ge-
theological tree. They have a tradition that
the Garden Of Eden was located in Armenia.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
Premium on Cigar Buyinr,

premium On Cigar buying.
In certain towns of Germany the telephone
is introduced by tobacconists as an additional
attraction to customers. Any one who buys a
cigar may, If he desires, speak over the to-
bacconist's service
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16
SOCIETIES..

ENCANIPMENT = TEMPLE ENCAMP-
ment No, 3, I. o. o. F. Meets the Sec
ond and fourth Monday in each month
at Odd Fellows hall. Visiting patri-
archs made welcome. JOHN ZEHNER,
A. K. STEUNBNBERG, Chief Patriarch.
Scribe.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-01-16

CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION FREs.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24
THE CRUISER DETROIT.
She Is to Run the Gauntlet of the
Plague.

WASHINGTON. January 23.-The Navy
Department finally admitted to-day that
the cruiser Detroit. now on the China
station, would leave for home about
February 9th. proceeding TO New York
via the Suez canal. 1t had been known
for some time that the ship was coming
home. and ii had been understood that
she would cross the Pacific direct to San
Francisco. the nearest home port, as
usual with vessels from the Asiatic
squadron. but that her officers and men
were to be exposed to the ravages OF
the bubonic plague by the absolute essen
tial stops for coal at infected East Indian
ports. including those on the Red Sea,
where healthy conditions never exist,
created astonishment in official circles.
The orders to the Detroit were issued
before the extent OF the plague was
realized, having gone forward by mail,
and in explanation Of the fact that the
ship is ordered over 1900 miles instead
Of $500 miles, TO San Francisco, 1t Is
said that the Detroit is needed for the
North Atlantic fleet and the Suez route
is shorter to New York.
The feasible itinerary OF the Detroit at
Nagasaki homeward IS as follows:
Shanghai 800 miles; Hongkong, $40; Singa-
pore, 1.fi0; Colombo, $50; Alden, 2,l3O;
Suez. 1920; Malta, $50; Gibraltar $50: New
York via Azores, 3170.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24
THE FEDERAL SENATE.
Pension Bills Disposed
RaiIroad Compromise

uAct4rNGTON. January 23-Hhe SEN
ate devoted itself to-day to the business
20 clearing the calendar Of pension biils'
o.a of other bills to which no objection
offered. OF the former, all were
noesed without a single exception. IhsIe .,T.
,cere 1O4 of them, ana II re4uiiS~~ -,
nlne1S M - ,e,ter class of bills there were
- VI tbirtv PASSED, including the 1ol-
lowing: ooo e.. tho heirs of
.,1H Ttoljans killed by mob violence III
Caiorado I'm March. 1898; 10 ieoiors,1 80 ~ ~
,.oilvvay clerks; appropriating SyJ'Vyo
statue of Abraham Lincoln at De.-
t,,shurg Pa: TO pay TO the hets u SS, s,,s
Soscb S290 900, for the occupation u ''''
mons and yards by gunooats. ,ov .ha
Appropriating 100000 9C a1ai%Sn"' Ta iO' '
nublic building at Norloit, o. ruhlic
Authorizing the erecIioh "a
h,,udine at Tampa Fla. =,
uarronTiating $4,000 for light-house, s,', a.
the pitch OF C"P0
mineton. \ c. 49, Cumberland
Aanronriating $500 to the Cuhloei i''or sor
OPP couore McMinnville, Tenn loI
~ ,ee of its buildings during the CIV"
war. 80 mn Gov Messrs. Rhea &:
Anderson. for cotton used oy INC
e.ates forces during the war o
1,bc House bill authorizing tne tha
my ,a of a railroad bridge across the
oto Grande river at El Paso' te~' Court
i'lU The senate bill giving. TO tne Uouos 30
-, Claims jurisdiction OF the claln 90, W
" rem Hail for cotton seized ou'i's INV
war. Ia roilroad compromise
ll,1 ,,,ernent err, was the subject OF [eso,
arr, aIta,e eorcred by Mr.. Allen PopuhsV' ~
,SeiS. hraska and agreed to wltno.. cenopsl
,oet,on calling on the ATTORNEY ~ set-
yec'lon,t s,tatement OF the terms OF th1 go
Tor no,t q ,' and OF the personnel OF the Hooi-
gamiza,1on p.ns,dcnt was requested. through
o.ntSer resolution. offered oy Nj ooniee mic
~an IN furnish the Senate WIN -, Com
ga" su correspondence and OF M az oe,a
ma,rications ~ relating to inc H>i,orae,,a c.',s,,,
since 1887. .,.a .yere the only
.,ers lneSS mat came before the seHSep ethe,.
matters l1 outside Of the pension ana o'''e'
IN aiready mentioned. unit,
Dil, A, 40 the Senate ADJOURNED
Monday. 80, {, session to-day.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24

iett. Commander Mckenzie will confer
with Minister Barrett. and II the circum-
stances warrant II. a salute TO the Ameri-
can nag will be demanded.
The announcement that the Mathias had
Deen ordered 10 Bangkok has already had
the effect OF materially altering the atti-
tude OF the Siamese Government toward
the United States She IS the first Ameri-
can war-vessel TO visit Bankok for seven
years. and the effect OF her mission, as
soon as It's character became known, is
reported TO have been exactly what Secre-
tary Olney desired. This information is
corroborated by the immediate effort OF
Siam to secure a reference 10 arbitration
or the Cheek claim. which that govern
ment has hitherto resisted all efforts TO
collect
An American named Check entered into
partnership with the Siamese Government
to get out teakwood, the government ad-
vancing money. On the pretence thai he
did not meet his obligation. they seized
the wood as II came down the rivers and
sold II. Later. on Cheeks death, they pre-
vented his executors from selling hume
rous elephants he had used In the forests.
and when the State Department took the
matter up, in 1892. Siam resisted the claim
OF 10000. which was presented. The re-
cent attack on Consul Kellett was the cli
max growing out Of the claim. which Sec
retary Olney has now determined 10 press
10 a settlement. Isaac Townsend Smith,
the Siamese Consul General In this coun-
try, is now In Washington asking for ar
bitfation.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24
GREAT MAN'SCAREER
OF THE PERFECTION
OF JUDGE MARsHALL's LIFE.
FROM B0YHOOD UNTIL DEATH.
Personal "Reminiscences OF Friends
Interesting Anecdotes Which Re-
nect n Benignant and Gentle Dis
positiOD-His Antecedents.

Men may learn much that Is good from
each others lives. especially from
good mems lives. Men who live .n our
daily sight. as well as men who have
lived before US and handed down lllustrious
examples for our imitation. are the most
valuable, practical teachers. For it is
not mere literature that makes men-it
is real, practical life that chiefly moulds
our nature. enables us TO work out our
own education, and to build up our own
character.
1t does ones heart good 10 contem-
plate the life of such a man as John
Marshall, third Chief Justice OF the
United States. He possessed that quality
of earnestness which gives force 20
every purpose in life. He was full Of
strong sympathy for all that was true
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-24
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
WHICH SHALL 1T DE, MAJORITY On
MINORITYs
The Question That Agitates the
North Carolina RepubIicans-A BiII
That Has Mcrit-A Reward offered.
Briefs.

RALEIGH. ". c., January D.-(sps-
caL)-Senator Butler and the Populsst
committee. appointed to confer with the
Republican caucus committee were in con-
ference In the Senate chamber TIL / 20 this
morning. The Senator evidently thinks
he and his majority caucus have the Re-
publicans, and also the boilers. In a tight
place. Two of the Populist boilers ac-
knowledged that the resolutions Of the
Populist caucus as to the matter of CO.
operative continuance would necessarily
force the hand OF the Republicans. It
The Republican caucus argued two hours
last night whether II was best to &c
knowledge the majority or the minority
OF the Populists as the true Populist
party. Feeling ran high. Governor Rus
sell is declared to favor recognizing the
majority. He knows that otherwise,
some OF his plans are apt to be balkcd.
Senator Butler and Governor Russell
were I'm conference quite awhile, and it
is said that as late as midnight the Sena-
tor made visits to the Executive Office.
weeks, and is ready to remain forty days
longer. He is attended constantly by
Chairman Fountain and James B. Lloyd,
of the Populist State Committee. With
the exception of Marshall Mott. those
are the only outside politicians now lefe
here, all the scores of others having de-
parted.
1T HAS MERIT.
The bill before the House TO punish
wilful disturbance OF public meetings. and
also TO make Il a misdemeanor to use
vulgar or profane language on the stump
or on the stage, has merit In II.
Ex-Governor Carr writes that he has
had the grip ever since he left Raleigh.
There Is no abatement In the number OF
cases here.
The Stone Mountain railway, which tho
present Legislature Is chartering, will
traverse Wautauga and Ashe counties.
two of the most fertile in the State. ard
which are Of the six that now have no
railway.
North Carolina will have some troops
I'm line at the Inauguration OF Mckinley.
Two divisions of Naval Reserves are to
attend. and perhaps an infantry bat
TALON.
REWARD OFFERED.
Governor Russell offers 500 reward for
the capture of John Keel who. In Pitt
county, killed Dave Crandall.
The Hendersonville and Brevard rail-
way, which was completed In August.
1895, Is to be sold. February 1st, under
decree OF the court.
Two ladies are applicants for the posi-
tion OF State Librarian. There are ap-
licants for every office in the gift OF the
Governor or the Legislature. The Le-
gislature OF 1895. to cripple Governor
Carr, took away most of his appointlve
power. Now the movement IL TO re-
store all this to Governor Russell.
The State superintendent OF Public
instruction appears to feel quite certain
that the Legislature will increase to
iour--mcstlis the term of tho common
schools.