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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
Increased Output.

Invention has produced thousands Oh
machines that perform labor which
before had been done by hand. It has
gone far beyond that in putting ma
chinery where animal power had be-
fore been the chief agency In communi-
eating motion. And still further: The
overshot, the breast and the futter
wheel have gone with other wrecks OF
the past, and steam and electricity
have taken the place of gravity and
water. But the field of labor is Inn
measurable and much as men may
feel the inconvenience of being dis
placed by machinery, the displacement
will continue to the end, This is the
natural order, as the history OF our
own growth has amply proved.
The number Of hands employed IN
manufacturing industries in 1850 was
957, $50, increased to 4,O5O,7S5 in $780,
This shows a growth of more than four
to one in forty years. The value Of
the work done increased in greater
proportion, though the prices for the
things produced fell considerably in
the meantime. The value Of the out
put of the manufacturing establish
ments of the country in 1850 was re-
ported at $1,O1s,1O6,616, made " from
materials that cost S555,123, S22. One
dollars worth of material was wrought
into two dollars worth of useful ar
ticIes. In 1890 our factories turned
more than nine times as much in value
as they did in 1850, though the num-
Der of hands employed in the work
had only been quadrupled. But wages
paid for the work had increased from
1926 ,755, 464 in 1850 to $1,799, 671 ,492 in
1890.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
The Nine-Hour Day.
Hal Reid.

From Typographical Journal: Local
unions should make preparation for
the raising of funds for shorter work
day purposes. Such step has been
taken by some of our subordinate
bodies, but the movement should be
general. San Francisco Union No.
Fl, at its February meeting, unani-
mously adopted the recommendation
of the local shorter workday commit
tee, and an assessment of one per cent
on the earnings Of members took effect
on February 1, and will continue until
May 1, unless an earlier settlement is
reached. In other cities the unions
reserve fund will be placed at the dis
posal of the local officials at the proper
time. A short time ago Boston No 10
adopted resolutions pledging its mem
bership to pay an assessment for short
er workday purposes when called upon
to do so by the executive council of the
International body, The example thus
set has been followed by No. IS. of
Detroit, Mich, as is evidenced by the
appended declaration:
Whereas, In the recent vote on the
shorter workday proposition Detroit
typographical Union No. Is was prac-
tieally unanimous in favor of the plan
to assess the membership for the crea-
ton Of shorter workday campaign
fund; and,
Whereas, It appears that said propo-
sitions failed to receive a majority of
the votes cast throughout the jurisdic-
ton of the International Typographical
Union at large; and,
Whereas, The necessity for shorten
ing the hours is still imminent, and the
need Of funds to successfully fnaugu-
rate the shorter woskday is likely to
arise at any moment; therefore be it
Resolved, That Detroit Topographic
cal Union No, IS, in regular meeting
assembled, in order to uphold the
hands of the International Topographic
cal Union shorter workday committee
and strengthen the cause of the shorter
workday, hereby pledges itself to an
assessment for the shorter workday
whenever called upon by the executive
council Of the international Typo
gEanhical Union.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
ABUsiNo AN ED0oATioN.s


HhS Neglect Of self-Culturs IL q Ruinoas
Wastefulnesa Of AdvAhtasss.
In q thoughtful paper on "A waste
Of Education" in the Woman's Home
Companion, Brand Bunner Huddleston
speaks Of the tendency Of women to
Permit their talents to rust out: Men
TAI culture may be the most costly or
the most valuable gift Of parents 70
eneir children just as they care for Ii
srter they get IT, It is certain that few
would equally neglect material prop
erty OF like monetary cost as they often
90 their Quotations. This, too, when
money lie the very shortest tape-lins
oy which mental gift may be meas
ured. Perhaps it is due in part to the
mistaken idea that when we have
Quilted the school room we carry with
US stationary fund Of knowledge that
VIII, or ought to be SUFFICIENT for our
future. Look at the piles OF
hard dollars and the ilhmitabls hours
o. time spent every year in the study
AND practice of music alone; except
Tor the good they are to teacher and
70 the makers Of musical instruments,
the half might as well be wiped out Of
existence at one clean sweep. A decent
little eternity might be made out Of
the time. And this continues TO exist
ana repeat itself generation after gem
GRAFTON in the very face of the fact that
music Is an Incompatible addition TO
home life, and on that account, II for
NO more lofty or selfish reason, ought
to be perfected and never neglected
BY Woman. How many Of your women
friends will undertake to entertain even
the family circle with creditAble per-
tormance? Usually their planes stand
| idle from the period Immediately sue
ceeding their marriage until there are
daughters old enough to be put at les
sons; then the old folly viii be re-
peated. What folly? Not the placing
Of children to study music or any other
accomplishment that is for their good
or that the purse will permit. Let them
have all the advantages within reach,
but also teach them appreciation; the
folly consists in fostering through en-
ample, and by q tacit acceptance Of the
existing state of things, the idea thRt
1t can be other than q sinful waste OF
time to acquire good thing and then
neglect it. No one has any business
to learn thing that is not worth re-
Numbering. It is foolish from mere
ly utilitarian point of view. Thus II
may not be possible or desirable fos
every mother to teach her own chill
dren, though some count It sweot
privilege to do SO, yet 1t pays them to
keep thoroughly posted, If only to
judge of the quality Of work being
done by the teacher, and to supply that
home cooperation which is SO need
full to the conscientious student and
the teacher"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
aenern1 labor ana 1ndustrlal.


There have been $50 mills closed
since March 4, 1897, or one for every
day of the Mckinley administration.
Open the minis and the mills will not
remain closed.-Ex. VI, ...r
"The cotton mill inquest" is what the
Boston Transcript calls the investiga-
ton now going on in Massachusetts,.
The strike at the Benwood, w. Va,
steel works was short and resulted in
the strikers securing their full de-
mands.
Textile schools for the instruction Of
the cotton mill hands are going up all
over the south, and every assistance
which legislation can lend in that d.
rection is being freely rendered.
The United States circuit court Of APP
peals, Justice Harlan and Circuit Judges
Taft and Lurton on the bench, at Gin
cinnati, has decided that the cast iron
trust is an unlawful combination.
The Chicago Federation of Labor, at
a stormy session last Sunday, opposed
Yerkes' plan to abandon the Chicago
river and nearly mobbed ]. ]. Ryan, the
printers delegate, who spoke for the
Yerkes scheme.
While the cotton goods industry in
New England is depressed the wooden
mills in that territory are working
more than full time. Many of the OPP
eratives have been working at an ad-
vance in wages since January 1.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
Death in the Lions Paw.

The lion, the king of beasts, despite
hds high-sounding title, is rarely. a
hunter in the open. He prefers to lie
In wait for his prey and then to spring
upon it unawares, either telling it with
a blow from his paw or bearing it
down by the impetus of his spring,
and finishing the deadly work with
his teeth. According to Anderson, the
lion usually steals on his prey, just
as a cat would do. or lies in wait near
the water or a pathway frequented by
buffaloes, antelopes, zebras or giraffes.
Then he crouches upon his belly in a
thicket till the victim comes near,
when, with a prodigious bound, he
pounces upon it. In most cases he is
successful, but should the intended
victim escape, as sometimes happens,
from the distance having been miscal-
culated, he makes a second or even a
third bound. These, however, general
ly fail, and then he returns to his
hiding-place to wait for another OPP
portunity.
Sir Samuel Baker has put on record
the terrible effects of blow from a
lions paw. A Bavarian trader, who
was bad shot, had killed an elephant,
and on receiving news that a lion,
which had been feeding on the carcass,
was lying asleep close by, went out
with a native servant to drive the beast
away. The lion was heavily gorged;
the trader aimed between the eyes,
fred, and missed. The great beast
reused himself and crouehed, but be-
fore it could spring the man fired a
second time, and again missed. The
lion bounded forward and struck him
to the ground-dead. A surgeon, who
examined the body, described. the skull
as being as completely shattered as
If it had been a cocoanut struck with a
hammer and the claws had penetrated
through the bones-driven in as a car
penter would drive ordinary nails into
a piece Of wood.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
typhoid Patients and Their rood.

Typhoid Patients and Their Food.
AS the result of long continued and
careful experimenting, an eminent ply
stefan prescribes as food for typhoid
patients bananas as In their perfectly
ripe state. In severe cases of typhoid
the lining membrane of the small in
testines becomes irritated and inflam-
ed, and finally develops ulcers of va
rious sorts, which throw off coating
after coating, leaving the walls of the
intestines dangerously thin. Solid
food coming in contact with, these deli
cate spots might produce a rupture.
with the most serious results. The ba-
mana, which is almost all nutrition, dis
solves, and is largely absorbed before
it reaches the infamed part. The
trihing residuum is so fine and pulp
like that no harm comes from It. For
this reason, and because the banana
has but about FIVE per cent of waste,
it is considered the very best possible
food for people suffering from this
form of disease.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30

Victor HugO's Advice to q Workman.
Among the recently published let
tiers of Victor Hugo is one, under date
OF Oct. 8, 1887, to workman and
poet" which contains the following
passage:
BE proud Of your title of workman.
We are all workmen, God included, and
in your case the brain works still more
than the hands.
The generous class to which wou
belong has great future in store for
it, but it must give the fruit time to
ripen. This class, so noble and so use
ful, should eschew what makes little
and seek what makes great; it should
try to discover reasons for love rather
than pretexts for hatred; it should
learn to respect women and children;
1t should read and study in its leisure
moments; it should develop its intel
1gence, and it will achieve success.
have said in one of my works: The
day when the people becomes intelli-
gent, it will rule In other words,
civilization is the paramount thing.
Sometimes 1t rules through one man,
as with the Popes; sometimes through
more than one, as with the senates;
sometimes through all, as will be the
case with the people. Patience, there
fore. Let us understand what exists,
to be worthy of existence some day,
Let the people work, for we all work
Let it love us, for we love It. Let il
not disturb the young plant, barely
sown If it wishes to enjoy shade and
fruit in the future"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
Railroad Building IN Ch,nn.

For more than a year work has been
going on on fourteen miles of railroad
from Shanghai to WOosung and the
grading has not yet been finished.
Not tie or a rail has been laid. Only
Chinese wOrkmen are employed.
About month or two ago the first sod
was turned at Hankow for the Han
kow-Pekin railway, but It's prosecution
depends upon the success of the Bel
CLAN syndicate in floating a proposed
loan for its construction. @'
The furniture of Young's hotel, 40
rooms, consisting of bedroom sets, par
lor sets, carpets, chairs, lounges, bed
ding, etc., etc, etc., will be sold dur
ing Conference week at 114-116-11S w.
End So. street, Salt Lake City, Don't
miss this chance.
The potters of England a couple of
hundred years ago we're very talented
and much of the. blue and white they
manufactured Is hard to tell from that
of the Dutch 1t is as beautiful with
its quaint designs and soft colors; but
the historical interest attached to the
old Holland delft makes it valuable.
Delft, the Holland city which has
given its name to the well-known brand
of pottery, was long famous for her blue
and white wares, but when the secret
of porcelain manufacture became
known abroad and new coloring mat
ter was discovered the demand for
delft ceased and the factories were
closed. That is why piece Of genuine
old delftware is so expensive. There
are many limitations flooding the mar
ket The delft manufactured today is
very different from that of the seven
tenth century.
Lovers Of china in blue and white If
they investigate the subject learn that
Egypt can show specimens Of this
ware more than 5000 years old, which
in eoloring rivals the finest china pro-
duced today and the delft or Minton
tiles we use around our fireplaces to-
day are the direct descendants of the
lovely ones which ornamented the pail
aces OF Arabia and Persia centuries
ago, or were used in mosques in Ia
brsez Old blue and white tiles are
found in Cairo and adjoining cities
The largest furniture and carpet
sale ever held in Salt Lake City com
mences Monday, April 4th, Conference
week, at 114-116-11s West End South st.
opposite postofice. The furniture and
carpets from $50 rooms in the Wasatch
block, known as the Young's hotel.
sold under foreclosure proceedings.
Sale continued until everything Is
sold.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
To-day and To-morrow.


High hopes that burnd like stars sub
lime
+ 60 down In the Heavens. of Freedom;
And true hearts perish in the time
We bitteriiest need emil
But never sit we down and say
There's nothing left but sorrow;
We walk the wilderness to-day,
The Promised Land tomorrow.
Our birds of song are silent now,
There are no flowers blooming!
Yet life beats in the frozen bough,
And Freedoms spring is eomingl
And Freedoms tide comes UP Away,
Though we may strand in sorrow;
And our good barque, aground to-day,
Shall float again tomorrow.
Thro' all the long, dark night of years
The peoples cry ascendeth,
And earth is wet with blood and tears;
But our meek sufferance endethi
The few shall not for ever sway,
The many MOL in sorrow;
The powers of hell are strong to-day,
But Christ shall rise tomorrow.
Tho hearts brood Ger the past. our
eyes
With smiling futures glisten!
For, 10 our day bursts up the skies;
Lean out your souls and listen!
The world rolls Freedoms radiant way,
And ripens with her sorrow;
Keep heart who bear the Cross to-day,
Shall wear the crown tomorrow.
youth! fame-earnest, still aspire,
With energies immortal!
To many heaven of desire,
Our yearning opes a portal!
And tho age wearies by the way,
And hearts break in the furroW,
Wen SOW the golden grain to-day
The harvest comes tomorrow.
Build up heroic lives, and all
Be like sheathed saber,
Ready to flash out at Gods call,
o chivalry of labor!
Triumph and toll are twins; and aye,
JOY suns the cloud OF sorrow;
And tits the martyrdom to-day
Brings victory tomorrow.
Gerald Massey.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
a plsoovery Of strontlum.

Reports of the discovery of a large
deposit of strontium near Putin Bay
has created great interest among manu-
facturers. Strontium is defined as "a
metallic element Of the calcium group
always naturally occurring combined
as in the mineral strontionite, celes-
tite, etc. It is isolated as a yelloWish
metal, somewhat malleable, but harder
than calcium. It is chiefly employed
as in the nitrate, to color pyroteehnic
flames red" Makers Of fireworks say
that they now pay about TX cents a
pound for strontium, nearly all Of
which comes from Germany. In view
of the fact that one maker of fireworks
uses over 150 tons Of strontium in a
year and has to pay the foreign price
and the cost of importation, this dis
covery is an item of considerable in
terest If the deposit proves as rich
as has been reported it will effect
marked reduction in the cost of all
fireworks that use red lights of any
shade.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30

It ts evident the membership fully
appreciates the Importance of the sit
aation. Az this time IL may not be out
OF place to state that those having
charge Of the increment intend that
the nine-hour day shall take effect in
all book and job offices under the jur-
isdiction Of the international during
the present year, and the date for its
Inauguration will be announced In a
short time. We again urge local
unions to build up their treasures. If
not disposed to do this, the passage of
resolutions Of the tenor Of that given
above will have tendency to strength
en- the position Of the international
committee and executive officers. A
determined effort should be put forth.
unanimity of purpose can have but
one result. .===5=================
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
Made in His Image.

"God is no respecter of persons,
read a young woman who was teach
ing a class of little persons in a Buffa-
10 Sunday school Nov, 1 wonder If
any Of my pupils can tell what the les
son means when it says God is no re-
specter of persons 2 There was .
moment of silence, and then one little
chap piped up with: IT guess it means
that they all look alike to Him."
Which, perhaps, wasn't such a bad
guess, after all, comments the News.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30
Jack Anson. Fireman.


1sck Arson. fireman. let me tell.
was headln' down the road to hell;
'Tbout ever stoppin' mint T. think.
He'd steal, en- cuss, en- drink, en- drink.
why, he got so that even us
Wuddent give bed to the drunken cuss.
He wuz tibet burned mean en- drunken,
too,
Thet we wuz ashamed ov his wearin'
So he got wuss from day to day,
En- slept ov a mite in sum alley way.
He'd a wife, Jack he'd, whose eyes were
bright,
En- shone like stars on summer night.
She'd left him; o. course, no woman cud
stand
man allus drunk, with cruel hand.
A man who'd cuss her at every chance
And led her life like the DEVILS dance.
They'd baby, too, had Jack and she,
T. bind them together till eternity.
He gave her the child en- he used to say
The mother shud hev the child for aye;
Cause the mother he'd carried it meath
her heart
An they wuz kind o. one It'll death did
part"
An the little one never forgot to say:
God bless Papa jack" when she knelt
to pray,
Fer tho he wuz drunken en- full O. fight,
He'd never forgit her O. Christmas mite.
Jacks wife wuz honest, an straightway
trod
The narrer path to the Twin God.
She worked fer her child thro' cold en-
snow,
En- they lived at home in Poverty Row.
Bad bildin's IL them ov the tenement
kind
All fire protection is left behind,
finder boxes they be, en- hard to fite,
Especially eff the fire comes along o.
mite.
III. GET a., hao7,,,,o 49, ,. =, ,.Ir,,,,s ,,,5.
A game o. crib we wuz playin', pards,
When the bells let loose en- begin to go;
They struck No. Z, twas Poverty Row.
We made the run the skies and sevens,
The flames a litenin the very heavens.
God help the souls in the bildin lost,
Fer the flames roared on like an ocean
tossed.
The plug was frozen, the water shy,
The flames a-reachin' the very sky.
When we saw sight that d make you
freeze,
Fer ther' wuz Jacks wife on her Bonded
knees
In winder three stories from the crown
O. the street,
En- her child clingin' to her-'twas awful
sweet
To see child en- mother so near to DEATH
A-blessin' each other with dyin' breath.
We showed up ladder to the winder SILL
Then ever man stood there stark sill.
Twas sure death to go up there;
Twas a moment to test the souls of men,
When bundle of rags come through the
crowd
They're mine! they're mine!" he cried
aloud.
Then Jack Arson wuz up through the liv-
in hell,
His voice rang out like a chapel bell:
Have no fear; I'm comm to you,
Sweet Bess, my wife, with your eyes Of
blue"
On! on! he went, like phoenix bird;
The crowd was still-not a voice was
heard
Till with rope en- muscle he lowered them
down .a,
To terry firmly, which means the ground.
The ladder, afiame, from the winder fell,
En- Jack went down in tibet Twin hell.
In some way er other the boys all say
Thet Jacks ace high on the Judgment
day.
Hal Reid
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30

What is the correct attitude for hue
mans to assume when walking? Do
we walk naturally? Should we not
walk upon all fours? Some scientists
say we are all wrong in our present
mode of locomotion.
]. Carter Beard, in a recent article
in the Scientific American, maintains
that mans present erect posture Is
more natural than any other mammal,
far more so than any of the apes,
whom the bears surpass in this respect,
and he covers in standing smaller
proportion, in proportion to his size
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30

and bulk, of the surface that supports
him than any other animal. AS to his
complete frame, as well as to his skull,
he represents the vertical line. From
finger tip to finger tip a perfectly
formed man, in such position, covers
a line exactly equal to one extending
from the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet The measure of a
man is four square, and the simplest
expression of his framework is a La
tin cross. No other animal is ca
pable Of sharing it, for no other mann
NAL has the power of such lateral
movement at the shoulder joints com
bined with a perfectly upright posi-
ton. In ordinary quadrupeds, as dogs
and horses, for instance, the limbs ex-
tend from the body parallel to the
mesial plane, and when the animal is
forced to take an erect posture project
forward and cannot be spread out to
take a straight line across the back.
In the highest of the anthropoids, the
great apes, a nearer approach to this
attitude is possible.
The illustration shows the various
kinds Of attitudes from the perpendic-
ular Of the man to the creeping mole.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-30

may be found q huge rock known far
and near IS the stone elephant
II Is annually visited by large num-
beers of people, some Of whom pro-
nounee 1t petrified elephant OF mon
ster size, but the, theory most generally
believed is that it was hewed out OF
the solid rock in which it seems inn
bedded centuries ago by some prehis-
toric race.
AS If to substantiate this latter the
Org, from time to time many valuable
tools, relics and implements unknown
to the people of this age, have been
found about its base and in that imme-
date vicinity, It Is about twenty feet
long, six or eight feet high, OF a dark
gray color and weighs hundreds OF
tons. The body only is above the level
OF the ground, its legs being deeply
sunk below, holding it firmly in a
standing position.
A tradition believed by many Is that
around this huge stone the Indians
gathered to offer sacrifices to the great
spirit and burn their prisoners at the
stake, and make them the victims of
slow torture known only to the In
dams. 1t is long established and
generally believed theory that in this
immediate vicinity and about Bald
Bluff and the Big Spring were some
OF their most famous battlcfelds and
hunting-grounds.