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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

Wordsworth and His Neighbors.
The Worthiest Of Wordsworth's vii
lage in the lake country of England had
their own ideas Of his value as a man
and poet. When questioned after his
death as to his personality, they read
lily admitted that he was kind to those
who were In sickness or need. They
could count on him on a pinch. But he
did not hobnob with his neighbors.
HE did not notice them much" said
an old man, in answer to questions
asked by the author of Lake Country
Sketches
"A Jem Grow and an aud blue cloak
was his rig" continued the old man.
And as for his habits, he had moan.
Niver knew him with a pot I his
hand or pipe T. his mouth"
After deep probing the author
brought out:
Yes, Wordsworth was fond of a
good dinner at times, If you coulG
get him to it; that was t. job"
Then the poets aloofness was AGAR
touched upon.
He was forever pacing the roads
and his own garden walks, and always
composing poetry. He was ter'bl,
throng in visitors and folks ye mu1
ken at times, but If he could get awe
fra them spell, he was out upon hi
walk.
And then he would set his head
DIT forrad, and put his hands benin
MS back. And then he would start
cumming, and it was bum, bum, bum
and go on cumming for long enough
right down and back again. l sur
pose We ken, the cumming helped hir
out q bit"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07
FAMOUS HANK MONK
Stage Driver Whom N...a
Honor at the 81. r.. wa Viz

Stage Driver Whom Nev.a.
Honor at the s.. Louis rs "a. Y
In the earlier and more str..
days of the frontier the erese sa y,
produced many striking ana ersss VET
esque characters, or rather ~. S,Ssel'
the raw material from the Pss S0psed
transformed It by means Of ~ ana
stance and environment into yum su1il.
which at this later day still sta, s1lns
prominently in romance and storv IL ~ 0us
of these characters was HanE 4 s,roas
the famous stage driver, whose rs. 2
ory the State Of Nevada pronos .as.l'
honor by exhibiting at the 81 - ~. =
fair collection of his relics ana ss =.
mentoes. For this purpose the st go,
has sent even to Monks old ho, Ss.s $
st. Lawrence County, N. u lasta :.
asking his surviving relatives for 49,, a..
relics of the famous frontierman uh,as
may be in their possession. For Az Az
exhibition Nevada has already nroc,,s
ed the old stage coach that Monk ~.
accustomed to drive over the mana
tatns, and the identical one in wb,ns
Horace Greeley made his famous rlda
with Monk as driver when Monk mad
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

The New York newspapers have dis
covered young man. an employe for
eight years Of street railway COM
pany, who, by his own admission, has
worked sixteen hours a day, at an av-
erage wage of ten cents an hour, ever
since he has been with the company.
On the face Of it, here ia provocatton
for lurid oratory; but before indigna-
ton rises to too high pitch, let 1t be
added that the young man was ap,
pointed general manager the other day
Perhaps his willingness to work long
hours had something to do with his
promotion.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

At dinner one night when the EN-
peror was staying with Lord Lonsdale,
a guest talking to another across the
table quoted little known passage
from Shakespeare, and, that there
should be no mistake as to its source,
ended with the words, ''as the divine
William said" There happened to be
a lull in the conversation at the time
and the remark was audible to every
one, the Emperor included. Turning tc
his host, the Emperor said, with puz
sled expression: obviously, do no
remember that my sainted grandfather
ever said thatr'-M. A. P.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07
How Mozart Died.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was
born at Salzburg in 1855 and died ID
1891 near Vienna In July OF tnA'
year he Indirectly received cOln'
mission from Count Walsegg, an anna
teur who was anxious to be though
a great composer, to write q REQUIEM
Mozart set about the work at on'''
but was interrupted by other rASA"
He fell ILL in November and never IT,
covered. "On December 4 he nd" wv
score Of his requiem brought 70 nlu
In bed, and tried passage SlnsinS
the alto himself, while his brother'm
law, Hofer. took the tenor, ana sen"s ~a
and Gerl from the theater the soprSnV
and bass. When they got to tns ..D'
few bars of the 'Lacrimosa' 1t suuueu
ly came home to him that ne SnOu..
never finish 1t, and he burst out cryns
and put away the score. In tne w.
ing Sussmayer came in and MO1al'
gave him some directions about Nv
requiem, with which his though"
seemed constantly occupied, ZOE s ~.
while doing he pulled out his cne %o
as If trying to initiate the drums. -,
wards midnight he suddenly 81. Wy w
with his eyes fixed; then he tuEneu t "u
head on one side and appeared % l ,na
asleep. By 1 o'clock in the mOt s.S
of December 8, 1891, his spirit A'
fec, THE Sphere.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

his memorable remark to Mr.. Greeley
Keep your seat, Horace, I'll get you
there on time"
The great editor at that time was
making a trip through the Western
States In the interest Of the Union Pa.
ciie Railroad, endeavoring to interest
individuals along the proposed Nuts
In Its construction. He was to speak
at Placerville and was many miles
from the mining camp when he urged
Monk to hurry on the horses, receiving
the reply quoted. Monk got him Into
Placerville on time, and years later
Mr.. Greeley presented him with a gold
watch bearing this Inscription inside
the case, Keep your seat, Horace; I'll
get you there on time. Presented to
Hank Monk In ton OF, his
famous drive in landing Horace Gree
ley on time" The commission has pro.
cured this watch and 1t will be shown
among the other Monk exhibits.
Hank Monk was born In Wadding-
ton, ST. Lawrence County, in 1928, and
spent his early life here. For many
years he drove the stage from Wad'
dington to Massena and was consid'
cred the best driver ever known upon
the route. He began his labors on the
Waddington-M assena route when only
IL years Of age and continued 1t until
be was past his majority. He went TO-
ward the setting sun In 1852 and had
been in the West but a short time
when he took Up stage driving, follow
ing it until his death In 1882. He was
said to have been one Of the most care
full and yet one Of the most daring
drivers known in the West. His fame
became as wide as the breadth OF the
continent, and during the latter 1VS
and early sos no tourist felt that no
had seen the West and experienced all
Its charms unless he had ridden In q
j stage coach driven by Hank Nook
He was a great friend of Mark Twain
. and the great humorist deyotes cnap-
: ter in his volume, "Roughlng II" 10
! the single incident Of the ride Of Gres'
LEY across the mountains.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

In July, 1886, the Secretary of the
Treasury issued what was known as
the ''specie circular" This directed
receivers in land office to accept pay
ments only in gold, silver or treasury
certificates, except from certain class
es Of persons for limited time. SEN
ator Ewing brought in a bill to annul
this circular, and another to make it
unlawful for the Secretary to make
such discrimination, but these were
not carried. After the expiration of
his term he resumed the practice of
law. Ewing became Secretary of the
Treasury In 1871, under Harrison, and
in 1849 accepted the newly created
portfolio Of the interior, under TAYLOR.
and organized that department. Among
the measures recommended in his first
report, Dec. 3, 1919, were the estab-
lishment of a mint near the California
gold mines, and the construction of a
railroad to the Pacific
When Thomas Corwin became Sec
rotary Of the Treasury in 1850, Ewing
was appointed to succeed him in the
Senate. During this term he opposed
the fugitive slave law, Clays comDrO-
mise bill, reported a bill for the estab-
lishment of branch mint in CalifOr-
MIA, and advocated a reduction in post-
age, and the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia. He retired from
public life in 1851 and again resumed
his law practice in Lancaster. He was
a delegate to the Peace Congress of
1861.
During the Civil War Ewing gave
through the press and by correspond.
ence and personal interviews. his conn.
sci and influence to the support of the
national authorities. While he do.
voted much Of his time to political
subjects, the law was his favorite
study and pursuit. He early won and
maintained throughout his life unoues
,tionable supremacy at the Ohio bar
and ranked in the Supreme Court q,
the United States among the foremost
lawyers Of the nation.
In 1929, just after his fathers death
General William T. Sherman, then -,
boy of 8, was adopted by Mr.. Ewing
who afterward appointed him tn th'
United States Academy, and in 1870
Sherman married Ellen, the dauub+o,
Of his benefactor.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

paws he could beat of an enemy, he
should invest the stone with reveren-
tial awe? Is 1t any wonder that when
he found out that by striking two
pieces of flint together he could start
fire to save him from the cold Of the
steadily ice period, he
should worship fire? Is it any wonder
that when he discovered that grains
sown upon the tumuli of the dead
sprouted and produced again he should
conclude that the grateful ghost be-
meath thus repaid him an hundredfold
the offerings he had made? Is 1t any
wonder that the dog, the first friend
to come to man and lend him warmth
and companionship and devotion, and
the COW, the next animal to be domes-
ticated and to give her milk, should
have been held sacred? The history Of
civilization is development of wor-
ship. By superstitionS- you care to
call them that-man has been lighted
on his way to progress. Yet we know
no more about Immortality to-day than
the first cave man did in the beginning.
The Indian still hopes for land rich
in game, the Turk for a celestial ha-
rem, the Christian and the Jew for
gates of gold and streets Of jasper, the
Asiatic for reincarnations on earth. The
scoffer, noting these contradictions
pretends they are all but misty super
stitions. Maybe they are. Perhaps
they are only shadows Of the truth
But the truth itself-the firm belief In
immortality-has been through count
less cycles of generations inbred In
the human mind; it is the very core OF
all civilization, the nucleus Of all devel
opment the force Of all progress, and
it can no more be cast out Of single
mind than can the difference between
a human brain and that Of monkey
The proof2 The world Is full Of 1t
The whole history Of the development
of man is proof of what the belief ha'
done for him. The whole vast differ
ence that lies to-day between mankind
and apedom Is proof.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

The longest distance man has ever
thrown a baseball is a little more than
8s1 feet. The record for women was
held, until recently, by Vassar cham
pion, who threw a ball 191 feet. There
has now arisen in Tacoma, Wash, a
young woman who beat that record by
twenty four feet. ANTAGONISTS have
frequently explained that the forma-
ton Of a woman's shoulder blade pre-
vents her from throwing straight and
far; but the Tacoma record, 205 feet,
is just about the distance from the
deep outfield to the home plate. Evo-
luton seems to be at work producing
shoulder~blades that win enable the
American girl to share the delights OF
the national game.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

If chairs of common sense VIII bring
young ministers into contact with COM
mon things and common people, let us
have chairs Of common sense In all the
theological seminaries in the country.
We are all tired Of the ministers who
know SO little of common things and Of
common people that they have to
preach about Assyrian cuneiform In
scriptions, or about Shakespeare hero
ines, or about Huxley's mistakes.
Archaeology, metaphysics, poetry and
science can all be made interesting
and Illuminating to a congregation, but
only by a man who knows how and
where to apply them to the lives OF his
auditors. Therefore the minister must
know the lives Of his auditors. What
are the books that people read now
adays2 They are not usually the books
written by recluses. They are not usu-
ally the books written by men who
have received a purely literary and
academic training, and who have lived
purely literary and academic lives.
They are the books written by men like
Mark Twain, Bret Harte, George AIDE,
Stephen Phillips, Lincoln J. Stefens,
Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, and
many others, great and small, who
have actually seen the things they are
writing about. This is an age for the
man who knows the world about him
and not for the man who draws his
spiritual sustenance from written rec
ords What Is true of books is true
of sermons. We have no time for the
minister who reads all the week and
Sunday morning dlsgorges himself OF
his reading. What we want Is a ser
mon permeated, it Is true, with supe'
rior learning, but nevertheless con
structed out Of the daily facts of daily
existence. This does not mean that q
good minister must preach about WON
ems hats or about the latest murder
| The title of his sermon may be "ThG
Stigmata Of st. Francis" AS he dis
cusses the stigmata Of st. Francis
however, one will perceive in his illus
trations and in his applications that h
has spent many days and many nights
with people as we'll as with books, ant
that he has lived in the hearts Of per
sons of the twentieth century. Fo
such a man, skilled in the knowledg'
Of the human heart, consumed witt
love Of the human race, and disc!plinet
by study and meditation, there will al
ways be an audience. In literature tn
man who thinks he can write becaus
he has studied Ruskin's construction
Of sentences is rescued from immed
ate oblivion only by the observer
momentary laughter. In the church tn
man who thinks he can preach b.
cause he has studied Newman's figure
of speech will have the same fatt
The sermon writer needs an even deeI
err acquaintance with common thing
and with common people than the stor
, writer. The story writer simply show
US things and people. The sermo
writer has to show us things and pet
pie In their spiritual possibilities.
r professor of common sense in the
, logical seminary could talk on tn
= point every day and never talk tc
: much.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

Examination Of the pupils In the pub
lie schools Of Boston has shown that
nearly all the children enter school
with normal eyes. In the higher
grades one-fourth are found to be
myopic, and in the colleges from 60
to 10 per cent are said to be thus az
fected. In other words, near-sighted-
ness increases steadily from the pri-
mary school upward-a bald statement
Of fact which makes evident the neces-
sity Of every possible care.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

wHN N a long and thoughtful editorial, the Chicago
KsSE Y Tribune Of recent date dwes upon feature
R8JE in our agricultural situation that is far from
Bc9R-I reassuring to the man trained to think along
k@G3@@&W American lines. Statistics marshalled to
H9NSgH show convncngy that the percentage of farm
@@z1~ ers who own and operate their land has been
steadily diminishing for years. tenant farming showing
corresponding increase In $780, 744 cent Of the
farms were operated by their In 1890 the per
centage had fallen 716 and by the of 1900 is
shown dropped 10 63 COincdent with this decline
has gradual but perceptbe growth in the
age size Of 1t 1865 In 1890 and 1855
acres 1900 There be mstaking the trend 1t Is
the direction of larger holdings and increase Of the
landlord class.
All this is to be expected by who has studied the
tendency people flock into the towns and cities
strength Of this tendency Is amply exhibited in
figures Away back 1870 only "a per cent Of the popua
ton lived in towns of 5000 people By 1860 this
proportion had 1G per 1t 226 per cent
lin $780, and less than 331 cent in 1900 There Is
thus outlined what almost amounts to revolution In the
twenty thirty years Our farmers having
competence retire to the Cities where they enjoy
advantages not to be had i'll rural communities Their
Is rented tenants and whatever of surplus income ac
crues forthwith invested in Increasing their holdings
Their children bred to city fe cling It, that farming
and given to the hands Of those who
not intelligence and energy that characterized the
farmer Of twenty years ago 1t is difficult tC
see in all this the operation of the economic and
social laws that have developed conditions In the OLD
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

Taught to play ball, Latin-Ameri-
cans would forego rebellion and bull
fights and expend their energies in
three-base hits and home runs. AL
ready it has pacifed whole provinces
In our oriental archipelago. Let us
take hint and send, not more teach
ers, soldiers and alleged statesmen to
our colonies, but teams Of professional
ball players.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

The human mind, since it began to
think and believe, has thought Of and
believed in Immortality. Mankind early
divided into races widely separated In
vastly different chimes and conditions,
but wherever the human mind Is that
thought and belief is also. Is 1t any
wonder that when primitive man first
learned that by standing upon his hind
legS and welding a stone with his fore
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

A man slipped on a banana peel, fell
under train and lost hand. If peo-
pie generally realized the peril that
turks in the innocent-looking banana
peel they would make their wills and
carry accident insurance.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07
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World They have been retarded by our insttutohS' NO
% nd in case we adhere to present Ideals thelr TUT
ther action may not be destructive to personal Der
ma tional vrty in other countries 4nve 80 4h+
h soma time there are few who will not regret Lhat
tho dav of the SMALL independent American FARMER Is
it WOW 70 that Of the landlord.-New York News
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

A London soapmaker Is clamoring
for the next chance at racing for the
cup. The excellence Of Sandy Hook
as an advertising medium is being
properly recognized.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

The chewing gum trust recently dis
tr1buted 100000 in dividends. This
sum represents 9o,OOOO0O sticks Of
gum at the retail price of a cent a
stick. How many million other sticks
were sold to yield that profit is an in
teresting problem which the reader
may try to solve If he choose.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

Venezuelan imbroglto between Germahy hlis'
land France and Italy and the South American repuolc
y loanng Venezuela the entire sum OF these
debts And vet fortune huge as to permit oL sucn
offers is as nothing to the power OF another man. MI
Rockefeller personally quiet American citizen from
Cleveland simple liver with few habits OF luxury, coulu
easily buy half of the independent Kingdoms OF
Europe could without feeling it to any great extent IN MS
pockeboo take up the debts Of all the republics OF Central
and South America.
Again, in 1874 Alexander Dumas published DOCK
called THE Count Of Monte Crsto the basis Of which Is
the fabulous wealth of individual. The Count finds
cave full of priceless jewels He buys mems lives;
he spends money everywhere he comes to Paris with
notice from Italian bankers giving him unlimited credit
on Paris bank There is limit what he can draw
from NJ DANGERS 1t is entirely unprecedented Nothing
like it known before. He draws five millions or
francs ruins the banker and still no complaint from
his He rights he more lives;
he Furnishes the guilty by the Of unlimited wealth. And
then by and by he leaves Macmillan on the island Of Monte
Cristo with his bride and sails away AS Macmillan sees
his ship disappear the horizon he finds Monte Crsos
will leaving him his whole fortune This fortune Dumas
suggests in two three places, hundred million
1t is the greatest private fortune the
Frenchman could conceive of in 14t considerably less
| Weekly.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07
Fuel of the Future.
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n 1vos racentv calculated that the visible coai
KSN sunnlv1hch is never visible till it is brought
sSSE n tho surface hence the real meaning 49, Tue
l@0k u calculated supply-would last the World loi
S1s<9[NNV ohont q hundred years longer. But Wlthlh
HWSgE Peu, weeks reports of remarkable discoveries
of new beds have been brought from the llo
a,o os+ whore Anthracite is alleged to have been as
covered from the South especially in Tennessee ABOUT
miles from Knoxville, and IN the Feace iSa NV 1a .,n
where is claimed that 25O0OOOOO tons are
sight" The supplies in China are also coHsu ;l,
Grant Land and Grnne Land be reached more eass
in future there deposits In those Arcuc ies0 N
may be worked at profit - ond
And in spite of the activities of forest choppeiS anu
burners farmers and others utilize the products OF
the SOIL the world is still putting forth so consioeroe
quantity of vegetation that the making of new coal may
be going on unconscious to and not to De copeteu "
centuries Every bog possible peat bed and peat IS ou
unhardened coal The great fern forests ana marshes
caamus that we burning under our boilers anu III
CRATES no longer exist, but have certain OF ther ana
oges and no attempt made by scientific author
ties to estimate the value of potenal 1ueA a Is
being stored in odd corners of the earth to-day
But possibly fuel of the future will be water 1l
Is we shall turn much of it, but we shall use II or
heating purposes by converting the force OF Its fall into
electric currents they doing already at Niagara ana
on the upper For pOstery the blazing heartn
shall rot burn family will collect about steel plate OIL
cold nights and the cooking metal basket Mos
of the wood will oberated by that time ana Will
them of course the will hence we must look
see the power converted to electricity But Il
lis comfort know that have coal to burn for rev
Iyears.-RrOokyn Eagle.
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be made between
the present head
thereof and the
fl t secretary,
Thomas Ewing. In
sterling integrity
they were alike; in
the experiences Of
their lives wholly
unlike. Ewing is
one Of those inter-
esting figures Of
whom the Studant
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07
preserving the Pelican

Pelican Island, in Indian hEet' ,. S
the coast of Florida, has been aequns os
by the Department of Agricul.uiS .teD
a government reservation. Ino .t,nr.
was taken to prevent the entire eL suasd
ton of the brown pelicans when DlS
there.
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Dale Man a Quick wit,

The United States ship Dale, belong,
ing to the Maryland Naval Reserves
presents a very "home-like" appear.
ance, and has often been referred to
facetiously by strangers who beheld
her for the first time.
While passing through a lock on the
Chesapeake and Delaware canal some
time ago a bystander called to one OF
the Dale crew:
well, l see you have the ark ant
all the menagerie on board!"
No." replied the quick-witted Re
serve; I'VE lack one monkey. Com,
aboard!'
And the Dale fioated on in peace.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-07

Ali the powers have agreed upon it
that the Sultan Is to be reformed, but
1t IL doubtful If they will succeed in
convincing the Sultan that such Is the
case