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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04
A Novel Rat-Tran.

The Scientific American describes an
invention which it calls "a humane
rat trap" The inventor asserts that
not only are ordinary traps cruel, but
they tend to defeat their own purpose,
because they teach rats and mice to be
wary. The new device is a wide-open
trap, which is so arranged that rat
entering it is clasped around the body
with rubber band, which carries bells
and is covered with tufts coated with
phosphorescent paint. The trap does
not imprison the rat, but simply turns
it into a scarecrow. This, the inventor
thinks, would be the most effectual
method of Kidding house Of such
pests.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

you," returned Love.
Fluttering down the first road JOY
came to a countryman finging SEED IN
the brown burrows of a rough anu
stony field. His face, burned with sun
and wind and scanned with Wrinkles
looked. sullen and unhappy. He was
thinking of how long he must toll De-
for the seed would grow and ripen and
how little it would bring him in re-
turn. His life looked to him toilsome
and miserable in the chill, gray dawn.
Joy whispered word in his breast,
and looking up, the poor man saw the
heavens shining with wings of red
morning light, stretching from the
east even into the far west. 1t was a
glorious sight, and as he looked the
mans thoughts became shining.
TITS good to be always out of doors
in sight of Gods handwriting. Yes,
I'm rich-Pm happy. What fool
never to think of it before!'
Joy next entered house where an
overworked and fretful mother was
preparing breakfast for her children.
Everything went wrong; the children
were provoking; the mother was cross.
De- How can l live through another
+day?" the mother was saying, with
harsh discomfort, when a stir of soft
air and flush of light entered the room.
The youngest child, the first to see the
radiant vision, clapped her hands for
glee; the other children dimpled with
pleased surprise and the mother turned
in time to catch the futter Of joys
wings.
"Joy," she cried, holding the heav-
emily visitor fast, Love has sent you.
Why did we not think of Love be-
fore?"
In a moment every hard burden
slipped from the mothers shoulders
and the room was filed with mirth and
sunshine.
Going her way, Joy next came to a
business man shut in a dingy Office,
reckoning over his accounts with knit
ted brows. 1t seemed to him as il he
were nothing but machine counting
up figures all day long, and the sum OF
1t all was nothing-nothing but vanity
and vexation Of spirit. The tired man
leaned back wearilS and sighed. His
life was to him as hard as the stone
wall outside his window. He could not
remember when he had had days
happiness.
us it not happiness" Joy whispered
softly, ito be such a power for good
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04
The Hardest Metal.

The hardest metal is titanium. This
metal was first recognized by Mr.. Gre
gor in 1891, but it's properties were not
satisfactorily determined until 1922,
when DR.. Wollaston examined it and
described it as it occurred in its per-
feet metallic and crystallized state, in
the Stag of an iron furnace at Merthyr
Tydfil in South Wales The form of
the crystals is the, cube, their color re-
sembles that of bright copper, they are
sufficiently hard to scratch rock crystal
and their specific gravity is SO. Ac-
cording to M. Dumas, the order Of met
ais with reference to hardness is as fol-
lows; Chromium, rhodium, which
cannot be scratched with glass; nickel,
cobalt, iron, anthony, zinc, scratched
by glass; palladium, platinum, copper,
gold, silver, tellurium, bismuth, cad
MUM, tin, scratched by carbonate Of
lime; lead, scratched by the nail; and
potassium and sodium, which are as
soft as wax"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

Of your happiness for q lifetime d 4.
bosom. Do not let It pass!" y
Tho last of the rays of the s..4,.
sun fell over them like a shower !,
gold. as Joy gently turned their fsoss
towards. each other, and the frisns.
only knew they were in each otber,.
arms, forgetting all the world in a rar
.ture, Of tenderness.
Here Love appeared, and taking Ia
by the hand said entreatingly:
Come with me, little sister to mn
more heart and then, we will 90 homs :.
After long fight, they entered an
old tenement house, SO old that ii vss
a mere shell into which the storm ana
bitter cold pierced in winter and ~
sun burned in summer. Joy tainted
and sickened as they entered the ION,
place, but Love held her in her arms
saying, at is for Loves sake, little ais.
ter"
Near the top of the house they came
TO door standing ajar and saw dark
yelled figure gliding out. 1t was Scr.
row, and she was weeping.
why do you weep for this woman?-
questioned Love, touching Sorrows
VEIL
At Loves touch, Sorrow lifted her
veil, revealing face fearful, but "a.
diant
I'VE have lived together for years
now, we are parted forever. Hasten,
Love-she waits for your
Entering the room, they found on a
straw bed in a corner of the poor, bare
place an aged woman whose silvered
hair, white, shrunken face and dimmed
eyes told their own story Of privation
and suffering. Her worn hands were
lifted in prayer to the Father who holds
unspeakable things in His heart for
those who love Him, but the prayer
was never finished.
Seeing her heavenly visitants shin
Ing in the moonlight, the poor woman
stretched out her arms to them with
glad cry, 20 Love! o Joy!" and
straightway she rose from her bed
young and strong, and beautiful, and
the three went home ogether.-Fran'
ces Galloway in Union Signal.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04
WHITE WOMEN IN INDIA.
A Paradise for Girls Who Are COnsld-
cred Plain in England.


cred Plain in England.
There is no place in the world where
women can have better time than in
India. am speaking, of course, of the
English-speaking society in military
India, says writer in the New York
Mail and Express. If an English girl
can only stand the climate India means
paradise to her. woman who, in
London or New York or Paris, would be
considered almost plain, would in Cal
cutta or Bombay be greatly admired
and besieged by adorers. Let her only
have a little life and spirit and go
and her position among Anglo-Indian
society becomes at once secure. En-
gIish mammas used to ship their I'M
manageable and rather passee daugh-
tiers out to some relative or friend in
the east and they would be pretty sure
to become engaged before the year had
closed. OF course, Rudyard Kipling
has not given people on this side of
the world very pleasant idea of En-
glish society in India, while his sister
was not any more charitable in the
strong light she threw upon the do
ings of the Society folk" in and about
Simla in "The Pinchbeck Goddess"
They certainly seem to lose all that de-
mure reticence that is supposed to dis
tinguish the women of the British isles,
and their whole aim in life seems to
see simply and solely how much enjoy
ment they can squeeze out of life. IN
dian society, as take it q have never
been there, so 1 reason from deductions
only, is not ostrich-like. It has a thor
ough good time for no other reason than
pure enjoyment, and gets well sat upon
by It's more conventional and less hon
est sisters in consequence. For in
stance, what would staid New York or
London society think of ladies' race"
that took place at Mhow, near Alfalfa
bad, the other day. The connections
there were twelve, think-were some
OF the smartest and prettiest women
In the English colony. The distance to
be covered was $50 yards. They were
dressed in fine white fannels, rather
short skirts, blouse waists, white shoes
and stockings and small. cIose-ftting
hat Of soft white felt. Their belts were
OF any color that their fancy might die
tate, and the effect was extremely pref
ty' The goal was marked by a line of
twelve large willow baskets, three in
the middle having flags waving from
them, one white, the second blue. the
third red. Each lady at a given signal
at the end Of the race was to lift a
basket from the ground. Under the
three hag-decked wicker cages were
discovered three tiny Indian boys, each
bearing beautiful jeweled prizes, while
to the horror of the remaining nine
competitors from under their baskets
scuttled perfect medley of live stock,
chickens, cats, puppies, tiny pigs. geese
and hares. This denouement occurring
directly in front of the grand stand
gave the spectators an extravaganza
amount of joy.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

The photographic pane of glass has
many poor relation of whom it may
well be ashamed. A young woman
waiting in railway station the other
day noticed ON much-scratched win
dow her own name. She had written
it there years before with her first lit
tie diamond ring. Some stranger had
scratched a heart below it with the
name, John Smith, The young woman
let her train go by, and obtained per-
mission from the station master to
have the obnoxious glass replaced by
a new pane. ..E
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

Not since the opening Of the century
has the earth been so far filed with the
stern threat and preparation for armed
conflict, and it is where the CONNER
Cial spirit runs highest that the talk of
war is loudest, The ornaments of the
great commercial powers have never
been so large either relatively or abso-
lutely as today, but this is not enough,
and to England's special call for $780,
100000 for more war ships, France
echoes $1OO,OO0,OOO, Russia $4,000, 900,
Germany quite as much, and the Unit
ed States anywhere from $4,000, 900 in
special and regular army and navy
bills.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04
DANCES DEMoRALIzE SCHOOLS
Colorado Community Agitated over q
Peculiar Condition.

Colorado Community Agitated Over
Peculiar Condition.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Grace Bspy Patton has received a let
ter from an indignant citizen OF Meek
er, in which complaint is made that
the order and decorum Of the school
is seriously threatened because the
school board permits the desks to be
torn up and the school used for dane
ing academy, says the Denver Times
After describing the condition the
school was in, the writer says: This
was all the result of using the school
house for public dancing hall. Know
ing that an orderly school could not
be kept in this sort of building, l ask
ed permission to arrange and fasten
the desks. This was given, and Ia
bored for days (Saturdays) to get this
accomplished and now have very tidy
cided, so 1 was informed, that the
school building should not be used for
any purpose, except such as would
not require the removal or disturbance
of the furniture. But now some up
start takes a notion that they must
have another dance in the schoolhouse,
and, in spite of my earnest protest to
the board, seems to have secured their
consent. The county superintendent
nor the board of directors have provid-
ed me with a copy of the school laws
of Colorado, hence l am unable to judge
whether it Is lawful or not to use a
public building for dancing purposes;
but it seems to me that even If it is
not contrary to the letter of the law,
it certainly must be to the spirit of the
law. You we'll know that any public
gathering in district, especially any
thing like dance, is bound to draw of
the minds and attention Of many pu-
pills from their school work, thus de-
moralizing and antagonizing the work
of the school. 1t is a common occur
renee here for little girls of IL to IA
years Of age to go to dances and dance
the whole night. You can well under
stand the damnable influence upon ten
der young girls and boys of such do
ings. I think, too, that when such
thing as a dance is held right in the
schoolhouse the evil influence is doub-
ly great. You will oblige me greatly
by giving your decision or the law as
to the lawfulness or unlawfulness of
using public buildings in this state for
dancing. / do not know whether the
desks will be torn from the floor or not
for the dance tonight, but. if such is
done, can the teacher be compelled by
law to teach again before the school
building is restored to the same order
ly condition as that in which l left ii?
1t must be remembered, in considering
this question, that a public dance, as
conducted here, is public evil There
has never been dance held there but
that empty liquor bottles have been
found on the premises or right in the
pupils desks. Please oblige me by
prompt reply to my questions"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

GOD MADE THESE BUDS FOR ME,
as you can be today and tomorrow and
every day."
For awhile the man sat with his face
hid in his clasped hands. ...
II money means bread for the hun-
CRY, and shelter for the homeless. and
care for the sick, and a helping hand
for the unfortunate, if it means that.
the figures may count up to happiness.
The Lord knows"
with strange sensation of new life
through his whole being, as when the
sap begins to stir through an oak tree
In the spring, the man went to his
work.
Once as Joy travelled on she came
to little child crying by the roadside
and the child ran after her a long wsv
but could never overtake her until Low
turned smiling and caught him I'm in
her arms. Tenderly she dried the
child's tears and kissed him and told
him sweet stories along the wav NJ
how God made the sun to shine the
birds to sing and the perfumed HOS
SONS to spread their soft colors for the
gladness OF little children. When she
put him down at last on his own door
step, she filed his lap with flower
buds and left him murmuring with de-
light, God made these buds for me-"
Late in the afternoon, Joy fitting
through a grove of trees, came upon
two friends sitting upon a shaded
bench with their backs turned toward
each Other-the very picture of misery
and despair. Full of bitterness. their
thoughts dweIt upon vexations and
wrongs, and cruel, singing words
which could never be unsaid. Joy paus-
ed moment wondering, and then mt
her arms around them.
Foolish childreh!" she whispered
this golden moment holds the surety
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

It is reported that in Iceland there
have been but two cases of theft in a
thousand years, and that all forms Of
crime are so nearly unknown that the
island has no soldiers, no policemen,
no tramps, no poorhouses, no prisons.
Commenting on this blissful innocence
a Western editor calls out, Just think
of it, boys, and then go kick your
selves! In fact, nearly everybody in
this country had better kick himself a
little bit.'
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

Wagon-ruts have been the subject Of
some recent experiments by a Missouri
scientist. A heavily loaded wagon
with ordinary tires was run over soft
stubble land, and the ruts found to be
fourteen inches deep. With broad eires
the same load made ruts only Eve
inches deep, the difference in the draft
being "a per cent in favor of the broad
tire. On corn land just dry enough to
plow, the difference was 70 per cent,
an enormous loss or saving of horse
power and man-temper, One of the
comprehensive thinkers of the times
dates his interest in public themes to
q conversation with wise country doc
tor, as the two drove on a life-and-
death errand over horrible road. "If
those poor fellows bleed to DEATH" the
doctor exclaimed, lit will be the fault
OF the narrow tires that have made this
road almost impossible. Never make
Tuts, my boy; put broad tires on yGur
life"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

Shakespeare makes a man on a
storm-smitten ship exclaim, Nov
would 1 give a thousand furlongs Of
sea for an acre Of barren ground"
Modernized and amended, this cry may
take the form of the exclamation, NOW
would / give thousand square miles
of Alaska for the roekiest acre on a
New England farm" Many a disap-
pointed Klondiker would compromise
on a half-acre.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

A calamity like that in the harbor
of Havana puts it's victims on com
mon level. Technical and official dis
tinctions vanish. The sailor newest
to the service who persisted in the de-
struction of the Maine is no longer
classed as an ordinary seaman. He,
with the rest, belongs now to the com
pany of those who will not be forgot
ten
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04
PeouIIar oraves IN znlnInnd.

The most curiously decorated graves
IN the world are the natives graves in
Zululand. Some of these mounds are
garnished with the bottles of medicine
used by the departed in their final ILL
ness, and the duration of abe illness is
guessed by the number of bottles.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

1t is doubtful if people generally re-
alize the stealthy attack that is being
made from one end Of the country to
the other upon the public rights. It
does not take a practiced eye to see
that in almost every city the street car
companies are making extraordinary
efforts to invade the rights of the citi-
zens; to fasten themselves for long pc
RODS upon the taxpayers.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

eight fathoms deep they drop the net
and leave it there for short tine
before hauling it up. If they strike 1t
rich they haul it up and let it down un"
til their boat is loaded.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

The New York clergyman who says
that Christ couldn't be elected king
in any ward of this city" seems to have
a very misty notion of Gotham's city
government and an equally misty idea
Of ministerial propriety.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

We feel authorized to say that Spain
warmly indorses the demand by the
Philadelphia peace society that con-
gress refuse to appropriate the money
necessary to strengthen the coast de-
lenses.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04
Electro Magnets at Work.

Electric magnets capable of picking
up load not exceeding five tons are
used by an Illinois steel. company to
transfer steel beams or plates from one
part of the shop to another. .> g.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

Spain may as well understand right
from the start that Uncle Sam doesn't
fight according to the plans and speci-
fications laid down by Greece,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

That Jersey City man who stole a
locomotive the other day is simply
wasting his talents down east. Why
doesn't he go to Chicago and enter
politics? -.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04
LOVES LITTLE SISTER.

ARLY in the morn
ing there descend
ed to earth what
appeared to be a
rosy cloud. 1t was
Love leading her
little sister, Joy.
Where shall l
go?" quest Toned
Joy as they parted.
ITO those who
have not known
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

New York is planning a fair for
1900, but the fair Of 1900 will be held
In Paris. Ases-~
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04
NURSERY OF THE SEA
DISCOVERY OF THE WINTER
HABITAT OF MARINE FISHES.

OE North Carolina shOres-CJaIms that
Fish Do Not Migrate to Distant Re
giOns, but Merely Seek Greater and
CaImer Depths.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-04

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ed, if Y
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about us |
If givina
name
though
praise t |
enemies
by a XII
ant plat
hearts !
TO us b!
Of love
heaven
ness is |
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-08-20
An Historic Landmark Gone.

The old Paul Revere house In Water,
town, Mass, was torn down recently
in the march of building progress. This
old landmark has been the object of in,
tercst to students of colonial and rcvo
lutionary history and to lovers of the
antique. In the provincial congress,
which met in May, 1915, Paul Revere
was authorized to prepare plates fOl
provincial notes to the amount of f1OO,,
GOO. Revere printed these colonial notes
In this building, ana during the revolu
ton its roof sheltered many American
soldiers of note. 1t was large frame
structure of ancient type, constructed
of hand-hcwed timbcrs, with large
chimney and n huge fireplace.
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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-08-20
TO WARD OFF CAD LUCK.
Thinxs Men Carry In the Belief The.
Are Potent Charms.

Are Potent Charms.
1t would astonlsh you to know the
number of persons In this State "who
are not supcrstltiOus. but who do he.
licvc In signs" While returning from
Western Kentucky last week sat talk.
Ing with party of seven gentlemen In
the smoking compartment Of n Pull.
man car, when one of them pulled from
his pocket u graveyard rabbits foot"
which, he said. had always brought
him good luck.
Another OF the gentlemen exhibited
the feather Of IN old gray goose, says
the Louisville Post, which had been
given him by negro charm seller in
the Purchase. The owner said he knew
the thing was u mere trltie. but he
wouldn't part with It for any amount
of money. \ third member of the par.
~ had IN old steel pen. which had been
used by the Governor of Il southern
State In writing the pardon of con-
demncd man.
This non.believer In strange signs"
said he priced the omen higher than
ohs 'hiuS hc posscSscu' 10 hc uuu suS'
ceeded ever since he got 1t. The sleep
ing car conductor carried In his pistol
pocket an Irish potato, shrlveled to one.
third its former size, which "never
failed on a rheumatism case"
A nth gentleman had this to say:
"Fellows, I'm no believer in those
meaningless emblems, but can't help
feeling badly II ! fail to see the new
moon over my right shoulder"
The only two members Of the party
who had not spoken left the car, sm!l
Ing at the 'vapid follles" they. too
were doubtless believers in If they had
only expressed themselves.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-08-20

The most popular bicycle saddle is
oftenest sat upon.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-07-15
Conquered Territory.

Says the New York Tribune, discus.
sing the question of surrendering con
queled territory, gives utterance tC
views that the few who assume to b,
more intelligent than the many, may
study with profit. II says:
Americans do not know what tn,
Philippines will be worth and nobod,
can. But it is like second childhood
for grave men to tell us that we canno'
possibly derive any advantage from
their possession. These islands ar.
actually worth. besides enormous
,tealings, good many millions yeal
to Spain. Whether they would be
worth much or little to the United States
is quite another question, but the men
who think they know beforehand all
about il are not in the reckoning. The
chances are that national honor and a
sense of duty perhaps compel us to
uOlNl llltSt iNiuuN-s Win y llut vi WIFI
out. Nobody yet has shown exactly
how we are to dispose of them with
honor. Ii is at least worth while to
know little before declaring them of
no value, as many men did declare
Alaska valueless when Secretary
Seward purchased that territory.
One thing is certain and the ablest
and the weakest politician alike may as
well have it in mnd, that the Ameri-
can flag will not easily be taken from
any spot where it has been hoisted.
This is not quite matter of sentiment.
This nation Is great and owes it to
itself to behave like nation capable OF
great duty and responsibility. Its place
among the nations of the world de-
ponds, At least Il little, upon the feeling