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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
This Ia Prosnaritv.

Do not lose sight of the fact that
prosperity is here. We are enjoying
good times" In few years the years
1897 and 1898 will be referred to as
specimen periods of great prosperity.
The banks are filled with money. There
is $172,0O0,00O in the gold reserve.
Wheat is selling at $175 bushel. We
are graVely informed that everything
is booming.
How is it with you? Have your
wages been raised? Are you saving
money? Have you built a new house?
How much Of this prosperity has reach
ed you?
After while we will have a panic.
We will have a period of "hard times"
They will be so "hard" that you will
have no difficulty in recognizing them.
Then you will know that which you
doubt today, viz, that the year 1898
was what is called a prosperous" one.
Banks will fail. Factories will shut
down. Riots will occur. Men will be
shot down. Wheat will sell at 40 cents
a bushel.
Prosperity under out system Of in
dustry is temporary cessation of acute
misery.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30

On the rocking chair, the ends. when
gummed, holding the rockers firmly In
place. The projections at the sides OF
the table legs are also to be gummed'
the legs being cut in two parts. Brak-
en- lines show where the furniture is
to be bent in shaping and black lines
where it is to be cut.
The stove line is the most elaborate.
1t is to represent a round parlor stove,
the small oblong at the side being for
the pipe. 1t has four feet, cinder
plate. grating and doors. For the top
Of the stove draw a circle having a di-
ameter of about 1 1-16 of an inch. A
diameter is a straight lire passing
through the center and connecting the
circumference or bounding line Of
circle. The top of the stove may be
laid on or gummed to projections cut
along the top of the main piece and
turned in.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
A Brave Kitten,

The Smith family had never before
owned kitten. Dogs they were sell
dom without, but out of consideration
for Mrs. Smith, who said she could not
bear cat, they had hitherto been con-
tent to worry along with only one pet.
It was only when the mice began to
devour the Smiths and their posses
sions that Mrs. Smith was induced to
waive her prejudice. Mr.. Smith the
next evening brought home nice little
black kitten in his overcoat pocket.
Now, as the Smith family already in
cluded half grown setter dog, a good
deal Of uneasiness was felt as to the
degree Of harmony likely to exist be-
tween the dog and kitten.
The new kitten settled the question
once for all by insisting on being
friendly with the dog. His beautiful
long ears and his plume-like tail were
never failing sources of amusement to
Kitty, and the dog, like all young
animals, anxious for a romp, forgot to
bark in his anxiety to play. The two
would romp for hours upon the hearth
rug, and when tired out by the game
Kitty would curl up on the warm fur
OF the rug and both would go off to
sleep. 1t was funny sight to see the
tiny kitten and the great clumsy dog
curled up thus together
Kitty was the only cat permitted to
promenade in the Smiths garden.
After awhile, when she grew holder
and learned to climb about everywhere,
the kitten penetrated to other gardens
and made the acquaintance OF other
kittens. With kitten two houses be-
yond the Smiths she formed quite
warm friendship. One day the little
gray stranger wandered down to Kitty
Smiths garden and after looking about
jumped down beside a bed Of gerani-
ums. Ftdo had been watching and
bounced upon her in a minute. It
would not be pleasant to think Of what
might have become of tabby had not
the Smith kitten darted out of the
bushes and, like a streak of black
lightning, descended upon the dog
Astounded at the wrath of his little
playmate, Fido dropped the kitten.
which made good it's escape. Gazing
reproachfully into the angry ewes Of
MS little black friend, the dog skunk
away with his tail between his legs.
and Kitty sat down and calmly smooth
ed out her ruffled fur
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30

es OF our largest street railway com
pany there are about to expire, and
there have been negotiations looking
to a renewal. Offers which would be
considered liberal in other cities were
made, but were refused by the city.
During the negotiations some one
pointed out the advantages which had
followed municipal ownership in Ger
man cities and the idea quickly gained
favor, chiefly because the welI-to-do
Germans, who form the bulk of Mil
Waukee's population knew Of the sue
cess OF the plan in their mother-laId.
The democratic and populistic parties
fused and nominated David s. Rose on
platform favoring municipal owner
snip. The republicans afterward
pledged their candidates to the same
plank, but the more aggressive fight
on the issue was made by Mr.. Rose,
who was elected April by a vote Of
26,219 to 1S,207. The significance Of
this poll can be learned from consid-
Grafton Of the fact that in 1896 McKin-
ley's majority was $4,000. Mr.. Roses
platform was essentially that of the
populists in 1896, favoring public own
ership of all natural monopolies and Of
public services.-New Time.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
General Labor and Industrial.

The first convention of the Colo.
RADIO State Federation begins tomorrow
in Colorado Springs.
Six hundred miners at Pana, Ill.
went on strike Monday for the Spring
field scale of 40 cents. The state as
ISOLATION is aiding them.
One hundred "superfluous" members
of New York Typographical union have
gone into agriculture, aided by the
union, at Pelham Park.
Notwithstanding extensive rate cut-
ting, the earnings of the railroads of
the United States show an enormous
expansion for March and April.
Merritt B. Palmer has Withdrawn
from the race for president of the In
ternational typographical union. and
the contest now lies between President
Prescott and Samuel B. Donnellv.
whom Mr.. Palmer indorses.
Bolton Hall tried to get the New
York Labor union at its meeting to in
dorse resolutions deprecatinE the war
with Spain. The union substituted a
very emphatic Endorsement Of the war
and 1t passed @lmost unanimously
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30


ANY small girl with little ingenuity,
piece of stiff paper and a pair of scis-
sors can manufacture a set of dolls
furniture which will give her as much
II not more pleasure than the elegant
and expensive sets that adorn the shop
windows.
A really handsome set of furniture
may be made if each piece of furniture
is first carefully drawn on a piece of
paper divided into small squares, the
outline OF the furniture being marked
along these squares and the furniture
aIterWard cut out, following the mark
ed lines. This pattern should then he
laid on the cardboard and the board
cut out around it. Cover the card
board furniture with piece of bright
crepe paper, and with it the furniture
can be beautifully upholstered. Of
course the crepe paper can be cut a
little larger than the piece of furniture
1t is to cover in order that the edges
OF the paper can be turned under the
cages OF the cardboard where it is fas
tened with mucilage. A piece of smooth
brown glazed paper may be used to
cover the table to give it the effect of
wood although it, too, looks very well
covered with the crepe paper to match
the rest of the set. The bedstead is
done IN white. By taking a piece of
white wadding or two or three sheets
OF pencil paper, folding it loosely. then,
covering this with the white crepa ma
per, a mattress may be made for the
bed, and the sides edged with lace ma
per, such as comes about the inside of
boxes of candy. Pillows may be made
of smaller pieces of paper and edged
with narrow edge of the lace paper
The stove should be covered with black
glazed paper or with silver paper such
as is got at the grocers' wrapped ahout
securing soap. Any one with a box Of
water color paints might paint to imi-
tate furniture, although the creme ma
per furniture is prettier.
The couch should be drawn 5 bv 1%
inches. The chair is outlined in a
space 21z by inch. The table is AZ
by 31s inches. The rocking chair is
3 inches across the rockers. and az
inches up and down. The bedstead Is :
by 29s inches. The headboard of tbe
bed is cut out to represent the bars
OF an iron bedstead. Slips Of naner
turn up at the sides to hold the mo-
tresses in place and are gummed n
the headboard and footboard bv The
projections at the head and foot NJ tho
side pieces. A similar side niece
which, however, turns down, is sean
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
KNOW MUCH ca MlLLlMrn.
Husbands of the Day oriticislne Tb,n.
They DONE Understand.

They Don't Understand.
One milliner on Wabash avenue has
come to the unalterable conclnsior
that some married men are beoomina
altogether too critical Of things tbo,1
wives wear. Hardly a day passes y
she said that one Of my customers
does not come back to me with per.
fectly lovely hat that she has carefnl-
ly picked out and had made herself
after long elaboration, to have me al
ter it, because her husband doesn,t
like it. could just shake the women
who do this. so I could! The idea ~
their permitting their judgment about
such thing as hat for their own
heads to be overruled by their nus
bands! What do men know about
women's hats, anyway? Yet. the moor
little characterless woman who comes
in here to me, saying I think the hat
is perfectly beautiful myself, and
certainly would like to keep it, but nv
husband pooh-poohs it, and says it's
"dinky," and a colored mess, and an
outrage on art, and 473 years too
young for me, anyhow, and so I'll have
to change it for something more
staid. Too young for you'-thats
what the husbands are all saying now
about the hats their wives are select
ing for themselves. It's too exasper-
ating, so it is! Do these husbands
want their fresh-looking wives to get
themselves up like occupants of a
home for superannuated ladies'? Do
they want them to, appear on the
streets in the little bundly black
toques, with punches of cherries stick
ing up in the back, and with Paisley
shawls thrown over their shoulders?
The idea!
"And the big way these men talk Of
colors, too-as if any of them knew the
difference between cerise and burnt
orange! Why, man came in here
with his wife the other day to see that
she changed a hat she had had me
make for her few days before. The
hat was as pretty thing as any Of my
girls ever made, trimmed with deli
cate shade of heliotrope chiffon. Il
certainly was not loud, and It certain
ly was not too young for the lady, who
was not more than 80, and as pretty as
a peach. Well, the way that man
bossed around! And do you know
that all the time he was talking about
loudly-trimmed women's hats he was
wearing a green and yellow necktie
himself positively! If these crazy
men are so afraid Of their wives look.
ing pretty and attractive, why don't
they immune them in converts, or
make them wear those blankets with
eyeholes, that oriental women wear%
From the Chicago Chronicle.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
Uncle George on Politeness.

Politeness pays. Whether it be girl
or boy, man or woman, the one who :.
polite will not only be likely to sue
coed, but he or she will render her own
lie more agreeable and have the
thanks OF those whom her passing kind
words and gentle ways have made feel
more pleasant and cheerful. Does NOT
polite attention from clerk at a desk
or counter. from a merchant in his
store, from passenger in a street oar
or any form Of conveyance. from q
stranger on the street, make Won of
once feel gratified? And, if so can
you not give the same pleasure tn an
other when the chance occurs? We
know there are many boys and girls
VINO are taught true politeness Of
nome and exercise it at all times
whether in the house or out of doors
but there are others who do NOT tbip1,
II is necessary to be polite to their
parents, their brothers and their sis
ters.
Ihey seem to consider it needless
and yet the first demand is that VIC
should treat those who are nearest -
us-our relatives and acquaintancesN
with courtesy.
The man who is genial to every ono
else but his family is a poor EXAMINE
to set before the world Yet there oro
that kind of people. All their sr,,,ns
their good humor, their kindnessoS
are for people outside but as soon os
they reach home they seem tn tbinT
that is the place for scolding ond
FAULT finding, with never the sligbtost
thought of treating their own fami1v
with even common decency. Tboro
are boys and girls, too, who aro car
less and unkind to their mothers i'm
polite to their fathers, when thew daro
TO be, and who treat their brothers and
sisters with rudeness and harsbness
They are not the kind of bovs o1I
girls who make good men and womaN
nor are they likely to be of anv sns,cja1
use to themselves or any one else
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
Grogless American saI1ora,

The practice of serving a ration OF
grog to sailors alG marines was dis.
continued in the United States navy
many years ago, as the custom was
found to be prejudicial to discipline
and morals. Grog is still served, how
ever, in all the other navies Of the
world. The advocates of temperance
IN Great Britain have been trying for
years to persuade the government to
put q stop to the practice but In vain,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
An Hnnast Man.

my friends" said Parson Goodman,
THE subject of my text
This morning is: How many
Brethren pay their honest debts
Please give me your attention
While 1 kindly ask of you
An answer to the question
OF the theme l have in view"
Dear brethren" roared the preacher,
IAN of you who pay your debts
Will please do me the favor
To arise without regrets"
In response to the question
There arose-as If one man
Every member of the church,
Except honest John Poorman.
''Now," continued the parson,
As he turned crimson hue,
sit down, while those who don't pay
VIII please stand in full view"
Just then arose John Poorman-
Who shook in every bone
While the preacher asked this question
In a somewhat hasty tone:
Brother, explain the reason
Why to you it should befall
TO have to admit your sins
In the presence of us all;
And, why of all the brethren,
You should be different?
Speak the truth so that you may
Not afterward repent"
II can't say" said honest John,
AS he smilingly gazed DER
The faces of his warm friends,
Who were edging for the door;
"Onless it's cause I'm no liar
But / stand er slim chance yet
Pervidtn those here pay me,
Ter squar' ev'ry goldarned debt"
viii J. Peckham.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.
Hcw to Furnish a Dolls HOuse-Aneo-
dOte of Brave KItten-UncIe George
on POIiteness-Ants and Architects
Other Sketches.
Alexander selkIrk.

Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor
was, in 17O4, marooned on the island o
Juan Fernandez, Off the coast of Soutl
America, in consequence of a quarre
with his captain. He had a gun, an axe
some ammunition, and few necessaries
and thus equipped managed to live OF
the island until taken Off five years latel
by an English ship He lived on game
ana clothed himself with the skins o.
goats. Selkirk afterwards rose to tht
rank OF lieutenant in the navy, and dice
IN 1I2S. His adventures suggested tc
Daniel Defoe the celebrated romance OF
Robinson Crusoe. The poem, which we
give below, in answer to a request from
reader, was written by VIM. Cowper
am monarch of all survey,
my right there is none TO dispute;
from the center all round to the sea,
am lord Of the man and the brute.
y, Solitude, where are thy charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms
Than reign in this horrible place.
l am out of humanity's reach;
must finish my journey alone;
Never hear the sweet music of speech
start at the sound of my own.
The beasts that roam over the plain
My form with indifference see;
Their tameness is shocking to me.
society, friendship and love,
DiVinely bestowed upon man,
., had l the wings of a dove,
HOW soon would l taste you againE
MY sorrows I then may assuage
In the ways of religion and truth:
Might learn from the wisdom of age,
AND be cheerd by the sallies of youth.
Religion! what treasures untold
RESIDES in that heavenly word!
More precious than silver and gold,
Or all that this earth can afford.
But the sound of the church-going bell
These valleys and rocks never heard
Never sigh'd at the sound of a knell
Or smiled when Sabbath appear'd.
10 winds that have made me your sport
Convey to this desolate shore
some cordial endearing report
OF land shall visit no more.
My friends, do they know and then send
A wish or thought after me?
. tell me 1 have yet a friend,
Though friend ! am never to se4.
How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest itself lags behind,
AND the swtft-winged arrows of light,
Wheh think OF my own native land.
In moment I seem to be there;
But, alas! recollection at hand
Soon hurries me back to despair.
But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest:
Ehe beast is laid down in his lair:
EVEN here is a season of rest,
And to my cabin repair.
There's mercy in every place.
And mercy, encouraging thought
HtVes even affiiction a grace,
And reconciles man to his lot
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
Doodle Carries Chicago.

Chicago held an election. The issue
was Doodle versus honesty. The ere
form" forces pledged their candidates
to vote against Yerkes and his alder
manic representative, John Powers.
The result was proclaimed as an over
whelming victory for reform" The
papers gleefully announced that the
first honest council in years had been
elected. They claimed forty-two out
of sixty-eight aldermen.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WoRKMEN.

a Movement That Doosn's Seem to
MOve--The Struggle for an Eight
Hour Work Day Seems TO BE Unpopu-
lar with the Workers-LabOr Notes.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
In His Line.

How fast time fiies." observed III.
trombone player. u the
yes. said the bandmaster: "but
ind that it is easily beaten"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30
Milwaukee WIN Lead.

Municipal ownership of street rail-
ways is likely to receive its first Amer
lean trial IN Milwaukee. The franchis-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-30

1 am monarch of all survey,
ny right there is none 10 dispute;
From the center all round to the sea,
am lord Of the man and the brute.
y, Solitude, where are thy charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms
Than reign in this horrible place.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-11-12

election. The legislature will be strong
ly Republican. AS to whether it will be
Pingree Republican cannot as yet say
All the Michigan Republican congress
sional candidates appear to be elected,
although the Democrats still have hopes
of carrying the Second district and do
not concede the Third, Eighth and Tenth.
The Democratic committee claim that
one-third of the members of the legisa
ture will be Democrats.
Philadelphia, Nov. 10.--The delegation
from Pennsylvania in the new congress
will comprise q Republicans and nine
Democrats. a Democratic gain of six.
The present delegation is composed of
~ Republicans and three Democrats.
The successful Democrats in the new
districts are Messrs. Barber, Davenport.
Ryan, Polk Sibley and Hall. In each of
these districts, except one, the present
representative was a candidate for re-
election. William McAleer. who was
reelected in the Third district, Is II
sound money Democrat, and the Repub-
licans made no nomination against him.
The complete vote of the state, with
four counties missing. gives Stone (Rep)
435, ,S72 votes; jerks (Dem) 1893, 7S3 Swal-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-11-12

Washington, Nov. 10.-After March 1
next the Republicans Will have a ma
jority in the United States senate.
The present party division in the SEN
ate is: Republicans, 43; Democrats, "a;
Populists, 6; silver Republicans, 4. This
was changed prior to Tuesdays vote by
a Republican gain OF two -McComas Of
Maryland, who will succeed German,
and Simon of Oregon, who is elected to
MI vacancy.
OF the present Republican total of A.
the terms of seven senators expire
March 4 next, leaving 3S hold-overs.
There are u Democratic holdOver SEN
atOrs. The Populist and silver Repub-
liGan hold overs number eight.
An analysis of the party changes In
the senate shows that the Republicans
gain seven seats from the Democrats
California; Delaware, Indiana. New
Jersey, New York, North Dakota and
Wisconsin, and one from the Populists
in Nebraska; they may lose one in Wash
ington. which is in doubt. and gain one
in West Virginia, which is also in doubt.
The political divisions of the senate after
March 1 by states is shown by the follow
ling:
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-11-12

address to the public. in which it was
held that the Independence of the judi
ciary was assailed. Mr. Croker then is
sued u statement to the effect that he
had never in his life asked a favor of
Judge DAILY but that Tammany Hall had
asked him to appoint Michael Il. DAILY to
q court clerkShip, and that his failure 10
comply with this request had cost him
the nomination he desired. The bar as
sociatiun thenforth in the campaign used
Mr.. Crokers statement as it's text tor
apDeals to voters to support Judge DAILY.
A committee of 10 representative men
was formed to manage his campaign.
and fully as much interest was SHOWN
in the judiciary contest as in the rae"
for governor. Judge DAILY was not elect
ed, but he polled 1000 more votes in the
city than Roosevelt
The vote up the state furnished sew
eral surprises. Rochester, the home of
George w. Aldridge, gave Roosevelt only
42O plurality, against 4l96 for Black, in
1896 Rensselaer, county. the home Of
Governor Black. gave Van Wyck a plu
rality of about 7OO Black carried it by
2SOO. Roosevelt ran ahead of Black $
figures in Allegheny by 800, and in
Broorne by $500.
Detroit, Nov. 9.-Chairman Campau
of the Democratic state committee con-
cedes the recollection of Governor Pin
gree by plurality of perhaps $4,000
Chairman Marsh of the Republican state
committee says: 1.-The official count Will
give Governor Pingree a plurality of
100, 900, a gain of over 10000 over his
plurality received in the presidential!