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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29
Telling The Story.

The Evening Post said in a
recent editorial: "Shrewd capt.
talists in the Upper Mississippi
Valley region know that there is
no safer investment for money
than mortgages on farms in the
best agricultural districts of such
States as Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Eastern
Kansas and Eastern Nebraska"
After referring to a fortune of
two millions which, he said, was
invested in such mortgages, the
editor of the Post continued as
follows:
There has never been a single fore
closure. while delay in the payment
of interest occurs in only an infinite
sinai protortion OF cases The chief
complaint of the holder of these mort
cages is that the rate of interest is
steadily falling aud that the farmers
are paying off the principal, too. =.
That is what Protection has
done for the American farmers
by giving them market at their
own doors, where they may dis
pose of the products of their farms
at good9prices. Yet the Post
has in the past and doubtless will
again in the future tell the West
ern farmers that Protection lays
burdens upon them, that it is an
advantage only to the capitalists
If the q Qsf' wants its pet theory
of Free Trade to prosper il
should not take any part in spread.
ing the good news of Protection
list prosperity. The story st tells
now at the end of the second
year Of the operation of the
Dingleysujs a very different
story from 1.-THE one. Which it wal
forced to@telf during our brief in.
term of, Free Trade Tariff re
form. The contrast It present,
is a most pleasing one, but one
not calculated to advance The
cause of Free Trade. EH.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29
ABROTaER'S TRIBUTE

1t was appropriate at Col,
Ingersolls funeral, that there was
read above his bier, the words
that he spoke above his dead
brother Eben. Some of them are
marvels of beauty. Hear this:
"He had not passed on LIES
highway the stone that marks the
highest point; but being weary
for a moment, he lay down by
the wayside, and using his bur-
den for a pillow, fell into that
dreamless sleep that kisses down
his eyelids still. While yet in
love with life and raptured with
the world, he passed into silence
and pathetic dust.* *.*A wreck
at last must mark the end of each
and all. And every life, no mat
ter if its every hour is rich with
love, and every moment jeweled
with JOY, will at its close, be-
come a tragedy as sad and deep
and dark as can be woven of the
wool of mystery and deaths y y
He added to the sum of human
Joy; and were everyone to whom
he did some loving service to
bring a blossom to his grave, ne
would sleep tonight beneath a
wilderness of flowers.
- site is a narrow veil be-
tween the cold and barren peaks
Of two eternities. We strive in
vain to look beyond the heights
We cry aloud and the only an
swer is the echo OF our waning
cry. From the voiiceless lips OF
the unreplying dead there comes
no word; but in the night of death
hope sees a star and listening love
can hear the rustic of a wing.
He who sleeps here, when dy-
ing, mistaking the approach o.
death for returning health
whispered with his latest breath
~ am better now" Let us be-
lieve, in spite of doubts and dog.
mas, of fears and tears, that these
dear words are true OF all the
countless dead.
The,record of generous lite
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29

learned what tracts were vacant
and would then claim to have
leased them and turn the ground
over to some one else to farm on
shares. If they got away with
the crop, they were that much
ahead, and if the state happened
to catch them they would take out
lease and then be just as well
off as honest renters. The fact
that the state has had no agent to
watch these lands has made this
practice safe in the past, but it will
be very unsafe m 4thod here
after.
After examining The leased and
vacant lands in Nez PIERCE county
Mr.. Steunenberg will return to
Latah county to institute penal
proceedings against those that
have failed TO take out leases on
state land they are using, and the
land board at Boise has instruct
ed him to use the most rigorous
measures to put an end to these
fragrant abuses OF the lease sys-
tem.-Lewiston Tribune.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29
>" The Coming Race.

The Philadelphia Record says
a Germantown clergyman is
writing a novel. The date of the
story is $500, and the author de-
scribes the appearance of his
characters in this interesting man
ner:: physically they are per-
feet; they were most beautiful. 1t
was common for men and women
to have The forms of gods and
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29

a vine around the memoryof our
dead, and every sweet, unselfsh
aet is now a perfumed flower
Speech cannot contain our
our love. There was, there is,
no gentler, stronger, manlier
man.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29
A WONDERFULLY HAPPY HAN.

W. C. Blalock of Walls, Walla,
whose eyesight and hearing have
been very poor for the past 80
years, suddenly found himself the
other day in full possession Of
these faculties. He is now in his
10th year and cannot account for
the restoration of his eyesight and
hearing which are the equal Of
those of his youth. His physical
condition has much improved
since his good tortune.-East
OregOmfan.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29
cOLONELlNGERSOLL.

.orful great man is still before us
though he of CHEEKY face, the
voice which was music, the over
flowing heartiness, the faithful
friend. and the one man too big
IN cherish resentments; too sunny
hearted to bear malice; too lofty
Nv nature to care for the sneers
Of petty men or the hates Of small
souls, has passed on, but no one
can be quite just, or capable of
apalyzing his real self, until later
when present distractions melt
away and his memory in its full
ness makes perfect picture on
the retina of the mind. To be-
gin with, he represented the fierce
reaction against the slavery of the
soul which was the rule when he
was born. He was a clergyman's
son; to that clergyman this hum
an life was always dressed in
mourning robes, there were the
terrors of eternal punishment al
ways before him; the Sabbath
day was a terrible day when it
almost seemed wicked for the
birds to sing or the sunbeams to
kiss the smiling brow of the de-
licious morn, The day meant SER
vice at home, two wearisOme SER
mons, a Sunday school; hymns
that brought with them visions of
funeral plumes and open graves,
and even when they described the
joys awaiting the very few who
might be saved; the impulse Of
generous hearts was that an eter-
nifty Of such days would be
one long torture.
If Col. Ingersoll took his gen.
erous ways from his mother, as
we can we'll believe that he did,
the chances are ten thousand to
one that the recoil against the old
terrible past was inherited from
her. The silent rebellion in her
soul was transmitted to her son.
AS the years advanced and the
beautiful world opened more and
more before him, more and more
was the Joy of life realized by
him; then came TO him the excel
Ience of learning, and when he en-
tered the field of competition with
his fellow men and found that his
throat was a flute and his voice a
harp to beguile men with the
music of his eloquence; then he
scorned all petty limitations; he
would not believe that anything
made his fellow men bad save
poverty and ignorance and OPP
preston, he would not believe that
the Infinite cherished malice to-
ward his fellow creatures, and
then began his career. Then, too,
love came to him to soften and
exalt him, and the wife of his
youth became the sweetheart of
his whole life, and it is a pleasure
10 think that the last words he
'poNe were to her, and that the
smile which accompanied his
words, while yet lingering upon
MS face, became fixed, as around
Nm without shock or jar was
drawn like garment, the hush
Of eternity. In no home in
america that we know of was
mere affection so all embracing
ana confidence so absolutely per-
tect as in his. AS a man he was
me highest type of the American
citizen. Life, fortune sacred hon
Or were all held at his country's
command; when it was needed
!" call up the deeper cadences Of
Patrlotlsm no other voice had the
ueDth and DL,..- I 4 -. L =.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29

That the gold standard is the
proper one for India is the con-
clusion Of the Parliamentary Com
mittee on Indian Currency, whose
report, inst issued in the form of
a Blue Book, approves the de-
cision of the government not to
revert to a silver standard, and
sets forth the reason for its con-
Clusion. The committee takes
the ground that it would be inn
possible to maintain the status
quo permanently, and it therefore
recommends that measures be
taken to introduce the gold stand
ard with the British sovereign 40
legal tender, and that the Indian
mints be allowed to coin gold
without restriction on the same
terms as the Australian minis.
The committee, by a majority
vote, recommends fixing the rupee
rate at 10 pence. The general
opinion of the committee is SUM
med up in the declaration that the
effective establishment Of the
gold standard is of paramount inn
portance to the material interests
of India not only to promote ex-
isting trade, but to encourage the
influx of capital.-Bradstrsets.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29

FOR SALE-nousshOld goods ssd
furniture OF DR.. Satterthwslt, inelud.
ing a No. IA Round Oak stove, nearly
new and bran new Nos cbA burner
cook-stoYe with reservoir.
Sulphur Lime and Salt fof spraying
fruit trees. at T. q. EglestOn.s
Take your prescriptions TO the
9latehley Drug Store.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-07-29
When The Baby Ma, cOnvul.lons

There is little to be done when
a child has commissions except to
put it, as quickly as possible, into
a warm bath. Moisten a table,
spoonful of dry mustard, rub it
smooth, and add it to the water
in the bath after the child is in it;
do not wait to do it before. The
doctor will order one or two tea
spoonfuls of syrup of ipecac, until
vomiting is produced, if the con-
vulsion has been caused by un-
,digested food. If from nervous
irritation, as in teething, FIVE or
ten grains of bromide of soda. dis
solved in water may be given
August Ladies' Home Journal.
Kenly, the jeweler. has the finest lin
of jewelry in the State. All guaran.
teed first class or money refunded.
MONEY TO LOAN-Inquire Of
Frank ]. Smith, Caldwell, Idaho.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
PROTECTING HER INTERESTS.
She Had Been @ScrlmInatedaa
Against and Wanted Some
Points on Law.

"Mistuh," said the very large coloreds
woman, stopping a man who was Just leav--
ing the District buildings, 81 wants ter,
state a case"
I'm not lawyer, auntie"
Tain no law case, ain gwinter sues
nobody. jes' wants to know whut my
rights is an how to git EN-"
you see any of the attaches here, if it's
government business"
u amt got no piece o paper to shove in,
at de window SOS ter git noticed. But Is,
ben' scriminated ag'in',"
Whats the trouble?" was the kindly in
quiry.
Il, ain gittin' proper 'tention. Ev'y once
in awhile | hyah's it read out O. de paper
dat somebody has got eel out'n is
hydrant."
"Well, an ell is a very clearly sort Of
creature. 1t doesn't do any harm"
you didn' fink | was a-skyaht of erlt,.
did you? De case wants ter lay befo' de-
governor is dis; | pays extra rent to,
kivver de water tax. rs had a hydrant ins
my back yahd fob fohteen years, an ain
nebber got no eel yt. Whut | wants to-
know is, how does dey 'stribute dem eelsgl
Is they prizes or is dey favoritisms or whut
is dey? If dar's any eels comm to me, Pss
hyah wifi my basket, ready to take 'em,
home, right now, ca Sc we ain got no,
money to buy meat an we's kin of hongryl
fob feesh, anyhow" -Washington Star.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
CONCERNING ADMIRAL DEWEY
lIeved War Department OnicIaIs De-
sIre Him to Remain There.

Washington, March 1.-THE state
ment can be repeated on the authority
of the detail of the office of the navy
department that Admiral Dewey will
not be relieved at Manila until he
chooses to make application for such
relief. So far he has not given any in
timation of purpose to apply for re-
lief in the immediate future and from
the few declarations he has let fall
the department has every reason to
believe that he does not contemplate
any such action. Consequently there
is no foundation for the story that Ad-
miral Schley or any other admiral
has been selected to take command of
the Asiatic station. So far as the
navy department is concerned the
directing officials are not only willing
but anxious that Dewey shall
complete his task and they de-
preciate the circulation of such
stories as those alleging that he is to
be relieved because by reason of con-
slant reiteration the impression might
be conveyed to the admiral that the
department would like to relieve him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
No Hope for John Collins.

Kansas City, Mo-, March ia
Times special from Topeka says; Very
reluctantly the attorneys for John
Henry Collins, after conference last
ing several days, have decided not to
appeal the case to the supreme court.
Judge Hazen will sentence the young
man in ten days or two weeks and that
will end the most remarkable murder
case in the annals of Kansas. Two
considerations-the hopelessness of an
appeal and the tremendous expense
involved-caused the determination to
drop the case,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
Coal Combine Agreement.

New York, March 1.-The Com.
mercial Advertiser says: The coal
men express themselves as well pleased
with the situation, which they say is
livery satisfactory. Beyond this they
will not go, and definite news as to
the alleged combination of interests
represen ting 5000, 100000 of capital is
not procurable at this time. The
arrangement between the companies
for it cannot properly be called a
combination-will have far reaching
and most important effects, but it in
Bures complete harmony of action by
them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
CHANGES IN PENSION LAWS.
Amendments Made by Congress for sup-
port Of Penaioners' Wives and Offspring
--COmmiasioner Evans EIated.

Washington, March LA number
of very important amendments to the
pension law were made in bill which
quietly went through congress and re-
ceived the approval of the president
and which was known by the modest
title, ian act to amend section 4766 of
the revised statutes of the United
States" Commissioners Evans is espe-
cially elated over a paragraph in the
bill which provides briefly that where
a pensioner of the United States
willfully neglects his wife or
offspring, then the commissioner
of pensions, upon being salts
fed of the fact, shall take one
half of such pension due and devote 1t
to their maintenance. The necessity
for such provision of law has been
pointed out time and again, and the
records of the pension o flee bear testi-
mony TO the number of cases where Il
pensioner has deserted his wife and
children and failed to support them.
Almost every day the pension Office
receives letters from soldiers wives
asking for the whereabouts of their
recreant husbands. Many of these
letters bear pathetic appeals for aid.
The pension Office heretofore has been
unable to do anything in this matter
The pensioner every quarter drew his
check and devoted it to whatever use
he saw fit
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
THE war department has undertaken

THE war department has undertaken
the compilation of Photographic his
tory of the war with Spain. 1t has
addressed circular letter to all the
officers in the service, asking them to
contribute such prints, films or mega
Gives as they may have in their posses
sion, promising to return the articles
In good condition. 1t further asks all
officers to report the names of such
persons as to their knowledge carried
cameras in the regions of active oper-
Rtions, so that their aid may be sought
in compiling the volume. Due credit
will be given in the volume to all con-
EributorA
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
CHAIRMAN CANNON TALKS.
He says tho Plan tho House Decided Upon
Regarding the Nicaragua Canal Was
the Only Reasonable One

Washington, March 11.-Chairman
Cannon, OF the committee on appro-
priations has prepared for the Con-
gressional Record a more extended
statement of the appropriations made
by the Fifty-hfth congress than he
made the day after adjournment. He
places the total appropriations for the
entire congress at 1860, 800, Ol6, and
the appropriations authorized for flu
ture congresses under the continuing
contract system for battleshi ps, river
and harbor improvements and public
buildings at $40, 0O0, 900. He cites the
defeat of the provision for the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal, which
the senate attempted TO get through
in connection with the sundry civil
appropriation bill, as an instance of
the success of watchfulness on the
part of the house and saws:
II the senate bill or any measure proposed
had been enacted the United States would have
paid TO- 900 900 for a worthless concession and
would have been committed by law TO the con-
struction OF a canal along the Nicaragua route
and under such conditions II would have been
compelled, before we threw a spadeful OF earth
or In any way began actual construction, to
have acquired by treaty from Nicaragua and
Costa RIGA the territory whereon to construct
the canal and the right to construct It,
Such Legislation would have delayed and em-
barrassed the construction OF an lsthmian
canal The United States cannot afford to en-
ter upon this great work until 1t has acquired
by treaty zone OF territory whereon to con-
struct the same Fortunately the house Of
representatives resisted the enactment Of the
proposed legislation and the contest
between the senate and house resulted
finally In the only practical pro-
vision possible, viz, the appropriation Of ILL.,
900, 900 TO enable the president to make full
and complete invest Ration OF the sthmus,
with view to the future construction of a
canal across the same, particularly the Panama
and Nicaragua routes, and report to congress
the result with his recommendations In the
promises
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
RtYin of Dewen,s UNIFORM.

Washington, March IL - Admiral
Dewey has been instructed to pre-
scribe his own uniform for the exalted
rank to which he has just been ap-
pointed. His uniform, under former
regulations, when the navy had an
admiral, would be four stars on his
shoulder straps, the end stars being
on an anchor Upon his sleeves he
would wear two very broad bands of
gold, between which would be band
of yellow half the width of the out
side bands, The yellow on his sleeves
would extend nearly to the elbow.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
Work OF Recruiting for the ARMY.

Washington, March IL. The war de-
partment has commenced the work of
the recruiting of the additional %, 900
men to give the regular army a
strength of 65, 900 instead of 40, 900 men.
The number of recruiting stations has
been increased from about 40 to be-
tween 20 and so. The principal sta
tions are at Chicago, New York and
Philadelphia. Men will be first re.
cruited for duty in the Philippine is
lands and will be ordered, upon ac-
ceptance, to join the six regiments
which are under orders to re-
inforce Gen. Otis at Manila as soon as
the transports can be arranged.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
ltIa Not Uncle SANS Analr.

Washington, March 1i.-Despite re-
peated rumors to the contrary, the
war department has no intention OF
taking official action in the case of the
Tenth colored immunes and other reg
iments that have been making trouble
in transit through the south since
their discharge. Having been mustered
out they are private citizens in the
fullest sense.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
KANSANS IN IT AGAIN.
Insursents at San Pedro-Capt.
EILiott,s Body Shipped Home

Manila, March 11.-At San Pedro
Macati yesterday band Of insurgents
was discovered building an embank-
ment on the road 80 yards to the left
Of the Kansas regiment. A company
of Kansas soldiers charged the natives
and drove them back.
The remains of Col. w. f. Smith,
Maj. f. McConville, Capt David S.
Elliott and Second Lieut. Eugene s.
French, who were killed in action,
were shipped home to-day by the
United States transport Scandal with
military honors, the Second Oregon
volunteers furnishing the escort
through the city.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
MoNnn Removed by Gov, STANLEY.

Topeka, Kan, March 3.-Gov. Stan
ley at IL O'clock Saturday issued an
order removing Webb McNall, state
superintendent of insurance. The re-
moval was a very formal affair. Gov.
Stanley had set ten o'clock for McNall's
appearance. The commissioner did
not appear and at II the governor sat
as a court, lawyer and governor in the
matter, declared he was fully satisfied
that McNall was guilty of the charges
and issued the order of removal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16

ONE of the lost arts-that of welding
copper and steel-has been discovered,
itis alleged, by a mechanic of ST. Louis.
After six years of experimenting with
another object in view he suddenly
found he had solved a problem which
the mechanical world has been work
ing on for centuries. 1t was the result
Of an accident and the process is sim.
pie. The one substance which is nee
essary to make the weld is one of the
commonest and inexpensive materials
known.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
smnlIpo1 In the Nntionnl OarItal.

Washington, March II, Smallpox
has been widely prevalent here Of
late and the health authorities are
bending every effort to check what
has threatened to assume the aspect
of an epidemic. There are 35 cases Of
the disease in the smallpox hospital,
with an aggregate of So that have
been reported to the health depart.
ment since the outbreak.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16

Ex.Gov, MERRIAM, of Minnesota, the
new director. of the census, stated IL
few days ago that he hoped to get the
organization started by April |. The
statisticians will be selected from
among the best men engaged in that
work in the country. The 800 super
Eisors will not be appointed before
next December /, as the enumera-
tion does not begin before June l.,
1900. The whole plan, he said, was to
accomplish the work as expeditiously
rs possible, and not to take on an inn
mense number of lines of inquiry
which make the census drag ON for u
long period.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-03-16
TEXAS TOUR COMP LETED.
Dallas, DenOuncing Territorial Exc
pansiOn and Trusts.

Dallas, Tex, March li.-.Col. William
j. Bryan completed his lecture tour
in Texas at Dallas yesterday. He adj
dressed packed opera house in the
afternoon and spoke to about 500
laboring men at their hall. His lee
ture was in opposition to terri
torial expansion, which he said
would be checked by the American peo-
pie lowering the stars and stripes in
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine
islands. lie arraigned trusts and syn.
dicates, holding that, while the gov
eminent could tear the husband from
his wife, the son from his mother and
sisters and force them to face the dam
gers Of war, it was powerless, under
republican administration, to strangle
the trusts.