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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-25
Emma Ramsey Concert Co.

The above organization will ap-
pear at the opera house. Saturday
evening, Dec. 26. The entertain
ment is said to be of the highest
class and if p ess reports count for
anything the residents of Shoshone
will enjoy treat such as is seldom
had in places of this size.
Speaking of Miss Ramsey. the
soprano, the Deseret News says:
Miss Ramsey while in Europe won
golden opinions from musical
judges of high renown and her
voice has thrilled even the nobility
in exclusive court circles. Salt La
kers were not disappointed in her
work. 1t was the unfolding of
tones of richest and rarest velvet
quality; tones registered with per-
feet accuracy and precision. Not
for a single moment was there even
a suggestion of faulty note. Self
possessed, confident, unaffected, she
received the plaudits of
her auditors when victory had been
von.n
Tickets are now sale. Admis-
;ion 30 and 75c.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-25
Holiday Excursions.

For the above occasion tickets
will be sold at rat,. of one fare for
the round trip within a radius OF
Two Hundred ard fifty miles of the
selling point. Tickets on sale Dec.
"a. %, 81, and Jan. l. For further
information call at local ticket Of
fee. ID. c. OLMsTEAD, Agi.
47w2.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-25
ATTEND THE PLAY (!
Come Out Next Thursday Evening
and Enjoy the Home Talent
Entertainment.

| Strife, the four act comedy drama
which will be presented at the OPP
era house next Thursday evening,
under the auspices OF the Shoshone
Silver Cornet band, will be hum
mer. Those who will participate
in the ply have been untiring in
their efforts to make the entertain
ment success, and nightly re-
hearsals for several weeks past has
brought the performance to point
where its success is in every way
assured. Shoshone is exceptional
ly well cared for in the matter OF
dramatic talent and the cream OF
what the village affords has been
cast for the play next Thursday
evening.
One of the features OF the even
ing's entertainment will be the
presence of an orchestra which will
furnish music between the acts and
add much to the action of the play.
Strife, itself, is bright, crisp com
edy drama that everyone would EN-
joy seeing at any time, and more
particularly as played by home tai
ent.
At the close OF the performonce
the floor will be cleared and ball
will be given to which are invited
to remain and enjoy to their hearts
content Excellent music has been
engaged for the occasion, and all
who remain to dance the old year
out and give the new year a jolly
start on its way can be assured OF
the best of times.
Come out every body. Give the
band boys a good send off, laugh
and cry your eyes out over the play
and then make merry at the dance
until the small hours of the morn
ing.
The following is the cast of char
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-25
At SH0SHONE FALLS
Big Things Promised by the People
Who Are Constructing the
Power Plant.

The Boise Statesman is authority
for the following:
"The United water power Of Sho-
shone, Augur and Twin Falls is
shortly to be transferred into elec-
trical energy OF 100000 horse
power for distribution in Idaho,
Utah and Nevada. The company
which will construct the power
will be incorporated in few days
under the laws Of Maine. 1t will
expend $750,000 in the enterprise,
and it has the capital at hand to
carry it through.
DR. A. q. Conrad, F. C. Rutan, 1.
b. Perrine and others have quietly
worked out the plans and brought
the deal to successful close. 1t
is said the men who blilt the great
Ogden canyon power plant are in
terested in the Snake river enter
prise and co slider it far superior
to the big Utah project.
At Shoshone Falls the company
has tunnel II feet square, capa-
bic of furnishing 10000 horse
power, driven to within few feet
of the headgates and in shape to
finish as rapidly as tn desire.
Considerable power will be util-
lied in the Twin Fills irrigation
tract, some Of it will be carr ed in
to the Wood river country, guam
tity down south into Nevada, and
thence, it is believed, into Salt Sake
City, where power is said to be sad
ly needed at present.
When aked what the prospects
were for bringing the Shoshone
Falls power into Boise, a gentleman
who is in close touch with the new
company said:
ut is only 125 miles from Sho-
shone falls to Boise and if this CITY |
can show market for the power 1t
will undoubtedly be brought in
here. We are net trying to tram
pie upon anybody's toes but if
Boise needs the Shoshone power it
can have it. The plant will be in
operation much earlier than most
people imagine. The tunnel is in
such shape that it can be finished
in very short time. Only a few
feet remain to be blasted OUT
Within a distance of ten miles
the company can obtain total fall I
of 430 feet from the waterfalls
named. Expert engineers have ex-
amined the ground and declare that
100000 horsepower can be gene ,
rated without difficulty. t
Thesdetails of the project will be {
made public directly the final plans
are perfected and approved" +
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-25
Notice to School Boards.

| am keeping at Nampa, Idaho,
complete stock OF high grade
school furniture and supplies. l
ship only in car load lots from the
largest independent factory in the
US. Address, A. NJ. HENRY,
47w2 Nampa, Idaho.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-25

H'smarck's Autograph Valuable.
Al public sale In 3srlta the other
day budget of fifty autograph let.
ters OF Bismarck. OF no great inter.
est beyond that OF their chirography.
was sold for $40.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-25
mas Paid Fortune in Fees.

Has dtu rVrkuffc N FtcS-
Thomas A. Edison has paid s5l 900
In fees for the 7sl patents be has ia
ken out
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02
A WOMAN BOUGHT HILL OF TARA.
Seat of the Irish Kings and Meeting
Place of the Druids.

The harp that once through Tara's
halls
The soul of music shed
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
AS if that soul were fed.
So sleeps the pride of former days,
So glory's thrill is DER,
And hearts that once beat high for
praise
Now feel that pulse no more
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara swells;
The chord alone that breaks at night
It's tale of ruin tells.
Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes,
The only sound she gives
Is when some heart, indignant, breaks
To show that still she lives.
Thomas Moore.
The historic hill of Tara was sold at
the 5th for S1S,500. The purchaser
was woman whose name was not an
nounced, according to a dispatch to
the Chicago Post. The hill of Tara is
the shrine of the loyalty of every true
Irishman. 1t has figured in the annals
of Irish history and inspired the poets
and musicians of the Emerald isle to
their tenderest strains. Until the COM
ing of the bloody sassenachs" in the
18th century Tara was the royal seat
of the kings of Ireland. Here there
was a palace whose chapel saw daily
the rites of Christian usage where
once oak bound Druids had celebrated
their mystic services alone Here
King Carmack held his splendid court
In the midst of the lovely land of
Meath it rises like a gentle Offering
of prayer toward heaven. The fore
ests about its base were once the lair
of the wild boar. and furnished royal
sport to the kings of Ireland-for Ire
land once had her kings-in the old
days.
After the wasting of the country
and slaughter of its inha hitants by the
invading hosts from ao~~ss the water
the hill of Tara remc.-.cd a melan-
choly monument to forgotten joys, a
reminder that the glory had departed
IolSNSL' It's tuIl was just dS SISeH,
the air that blew across the fields of
Meath was just as sweet. but it
brought no more the call of happy
children, it was heavy with the signs
of outraged lives. Here at the twi-
light hour of Ireland, for centuries
have come the children of the Irish
kings They have come barefoot and
ragged to look at the solitary pillar
which alone remains of the great pal
ace that was their fathers home. The
last important gathering at the hill of
Tara was held in 1S43, when Daniel
O'Connell presided over a gigantic
meeting of Irishmen, urging the re-
peal of the union.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02
MRS. WARDS NEW EPIGRAMs.

Referring to the Duke of Crow
borough: He's rather sticky sort of
person. He thinks there's something
interesting in dukes, which makes
him a bore.
The Delatields are a discontinued
lot. If you plague them they are in
clined to love you.
Insulted because her mother broke
the seventh commandment? Oh,
dear, no! Because they have been
kept in the dark, that's all. Vanity,
not morals.
The people who keep out of scrapes
are not the people one loves.
He is one of the ingenious fools
who despise the old ways of running
themselves and in the end achieve it
as well as the commoner sort.
What will it matter whether I am
free or not free? l shall be alone!
That's all a woman knows.
The loftiness of his mood chilled
her. $ Her husband seemed to her
perhaps less than man in being more.
That a man should not only appear
but be so good was. still in her eyes
a little absurd
Il bow to the institutions Of ny
country" II other words. you for
give the duchess. From Lady Roses
Daughter by Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

Many of the beautiful old Navajo
blankets went in this way. Now they
make blankets in Navajo land of Ger
mantown yarn and aniline dyes, but
they are not at all the blankets of old.
Some good people are trying to get
the Navajos to make the blankets in
the old way, but it is to be feared
that they have lost the knack, and
their taste has become corrupted. The
collectors of Indian basketry are doing
a good thing in gathering in the fine
old specimens. But the baskets are
now being clevery reproduced By
white people, and there seems to be
no good reason why the basket-collec-
ton rage should not be replaced by a
basket-weaving rage.
The art of Woodworking is not yet
lost by any means. In certain tribes
the women ard girls make as beauti
full work as they ever did. But there
is decided tendency away from the
less bright and glittering colors that
were once employed, while the knack
OF free, broad, graceful designing is
passing away There is no reaso /
why their work should not be re-
deemed from this tendency, if the
right personal and commercial inf1u-
ence are brought to bear. To employ
these influences is one of the tasks of
the Sequoya league. which has a par
ticularly strong and influential branch
in this city. Meantime the serious
and understanding collector of Indian
things is reaping harvest nowadays
which may make him rich some day
New Characteristic, genuine and beau
tiful articles which find their way
way here are snapped up" very
promptly by vigilant connoisseurs,
while the tawdry things, limitations
and examples of corrupted Indian
work are left to the multitude. It Is
a happy circumstance that before the
rage set in our museums were fairly
well furnished with great many of
the really illustrative and typical OBJ
jects of Indian ait.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02
Preserved for Mistah GILL;"

A merry laugh is going the rounds
at the expense of Joseph J. Gill, a re-
publican representative from Steuben-
vile, o. The story is told by Rep-
resentative-elect S. r. Dressler. who
came to the capital this week to learn
the ropes. "A short time after the
elections" said Mr.. Dressler, my
wife and were travelling through
Ohio. When we came to the town of
Steubenvile the train stopped and
colored man entered the Pullman car.
He threw an overcoat and several
satchels on the seat in front of US
and announced. That seat. sab. am
reserbed for Mistah Gill. a member
oh congress" Ever since then nv
family has been insisting that l must
engage a colOred porter to look after
my comfort as a congressman travel
ing abroad if l wish properly to main
tain my prestige. "-Washington Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02
TO ENCOURAGE
GIRLS TO MARRY.
English Funds to Provide Dowries for
Those Who Might Not Marry.


To provide young women with
sufficient dowries TO make marriage a
thing more probable so far as they
are concerned - been recognized as
a charity in England.
Like a number of other institutions
in England, this one can be traced
back TO Queen Elizabeth. 1t is re
corded that on one occasion the queen
was passing through one of the big
towns, and was struck with the UNI
common ugliness of the women.
These girls, she was positive. never
would find husbands unless men were
paid to marry them. Acting on the
thought, she provided dowries which
should be paid to the young women
to certain number, in the event OF
their marriage. Today there are a
number of charities which provide
dowries to young women who other
wise would be portionless.
In Sutton-Coldfield the trustees OF
the charity elect four young women
every May day. These young women
are paid each $100. In this case mar.
!riage must precede the gift, and the
marriage certificate. along with ere
dentials of good character. must be
given in evidence when the dowry is
received
In London the municipal corpora
lion has a trust fund from whica
three young women are to be given
dow ries. The girls must be between
the ages of 16 and %. and must be
drawn by lot. For a year this fund
has suspended operations owing to G
disagreement over the method of be
slowing the money. 1t will be re-
sumed as soon as an agreement has
been reached The amount to be
divided among the three successful
in the dowry lottery is $500.
Arnold's marriage gift in another
London matrimonial charity. 1t is
given to a Jewish bride
The Raines' charity provides a fund
to be given a girl student in one al
the schools This dowry consists OF
$500, The founder arranged a quaint
program 10 be followed in making the
award. Each girl draws sealed
ticket out of canister. There are
elaborate ceremonials connected with
the breaking of the seals of these
tickets.
After the wedding. a dinner is pro
vided for the bride and bridegroom
and their friends. The governors ano
friends of the foundation also dine
togeyher at their own expense. Al
an appointed time after the dinner
the bride and bridegroom and theiI
friends enter the room.
\ choir of boys and girls sing ar
ode, after which an address of con
graduation and admonition is de
livered, Then another ode is sung
and the proceedings are brought % I'd
end by the company rising and drink
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

ing to the health and happiness of
the fortunate couple.
In Bristol there are two matrimo-
, NAL charities. One was founded in
1922 by the Rev. Thomas White, who
bequeatned a sum sufficient to pro-
vide four yearly portions of $40 each.
These have been awarded by prefer
ence to poor maidens of honest fame
and account" The applicants must
show that they have done something
tow ards bank account, and the mar
riage they contemplate must be
deemed a prudent one. The prospec-
tive husband must be proven a man
of good character and to be in
dustrious.
John Whitson, an alderman OF
Bristol, founded Red Maids school.
Since 1884 the trustees of the school
have been awarded a dowry to
meritorious girls in the school. The
regulations are much the same as
those in effect in the White fund, but
the young woman has TO produce the
marriage certificate before her ap-
plication is considered.
At Windsor there is another old
marriage fund, which gave iowries of
$50 to applicants. There is no
method of selection in this case. and
the applicants do not have to take
their chances with a lottery. The
trustees of the fund exercise their
discretion when the application is
made and if they pass favorably on it
the grant is made at once.
Cardiff possesses it's fund in the
name of the third marquis of Butes
silver wedding dowry fund. The
patronage is vested in the mayor
alone. One of the stipulations is that
on presentation of the money, after
the marriage, the couple must be re,
minded of the origin of the fund
The mayor is Obliged to read to them
the first eleven verses of the second
chapter of st. John. ''And the third
day there was marriage in Cana of
Galilee.''
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

to metal ball weighing 20 pounds.
The contractors in charge of the
work have been bothered by many
curiosity seekers, attracted by the
stories of discovered dungeons so
that they have posted pickets about
the work to prevent the laborers from
being annoyed.
Forty acres of pure plaster of paris,
from 10 to so feet thick, is the result
of the effort of two boys to smoke a
rabbit out of hole under a ledge on
Gloss mountain, Woods county, Okl
The gypsum ledge was formerly the
home of numberless wild creatures,
which lived in the crevices of the
rocks, using dry COW chips, sticks
and other rubbish for their nests
The whole mountain-side was a mass
of flames almost Immediately when
fire was applied, and it burned for
days. But 800 degrees is required to
convert gypsum into plaster of paris
and the ledge is being transformed
into white powder
| A train stalled in the Cascade tun
uel on the Great Northern railroad
near Wellington, Wash, not long age
endangered the lives of every one on
board The tunnel is $3.50 feet long
and on such grade that a helper Is
required to get trains through. The
helper and regular engine became
separated in the tunnel, and the
orcvvy v-npo ofrosd 10 risl- ,,pooaad; IN q
with the train The helper was sent
ahead for aid and the train remained
in the tunnel The gases from the
locomotives had so poisoned the
atmosphere. however. that most OF
the trainmen and many of the pas
sensers were overcome. Had it not
been Tor an extra fireman, who hap
pened 10 be on the train. and backed
the engine down the mountain, it is
probable that many lives would have
been lost
The sight of a fullgrown centipeae
is said by travellers in tropical lands
TO be enough to affect the strongest
nerves. Ten TO eleven inches is the
average length. although larger ones
have been seen. Lafcadio Hearn in
Two Years in the French West
Indies" says that the vitality of the
centipede is amazing, He kept one in
bottle, without food or water. for Is
weeks. at the end of which time il
remained acnve and dangerous as
ever The hen attacks the centipeie
with delight, and often swallows him
head first, without taking the trouble
to kill him. The cat hunts him. but
is careful never to put her head near
him, She has a trick of whirling hin
round and round upon the floor st
quickly as to Supply him; then wher
she sees a good chance she strikes
him dead with her claws. If you Kill
centipede you are sure to receive
money soon: and even il you dream
of killing one ii is good luck.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02
Losina TheIr erip in surfing.

With five men topping six feet five
inches in height, the Scotch curling
team has again invaded the United
States and Canada, and departed with
a string of hardwon victories to its
credit. Out of total of 11S games,
the list marks 50 for its honor. But
it is entertaining TO the American
sense of pride to realize that the ma
jority in the Scotchmen's favor did
not fall to them so easily this year
as heretofore. The fun of the curling
game has been discovered on both
sides of the Canadian border, and, as
in the case of cricket. in which the
Americans now and then succeed in
soundly drubbing their opponents, the
Yankee and Canuck determination
has gone into the thing for something
else than second place. Another year
or two of games. it is thought, may
put the brawnw men of the other side
of the water to the bad.-ColIier's
Weekly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02
MANY PLAY HOUSES.
Five Million Dollars Now Being Spent
for New Theaters in New York.


for New Theaters in New York.
Sixty-ive theaters will soon be en-
PERTAINING audiences in Manhattan.
The present number is fifty-four.
Nearly five million dollars is now be-
ing spent on new theater buildings.
All but 100000 of tbs sum is going
for theaters within a stones throw of
Long Acre Square.
A circle mile in diameter and hav-
| ing the corner of Forty-third street
and Broadway as it's center would I'M
close twenty-four first-class houses.
Long Acre Square is to be the
theatrical center of the United States
for many years, perhaps for genera
lions. 1t will also be the theatrical
center of the world. Within year
at least eight theaters will directly
| adjoin the square.
Not even in London or Paris is there
| today such a remarkable collection of
places of amusement within small
radius as there is on New York's
Rialto.
is being erected in this city. 1t is
Oscar Hammerstein's Drury Lane,
which is to cost a million dollars, seat
| nearly 5000 people and be finished
next fall. 1t will have the largest
stage, the largest water tank, the high
| est Droscenium arch and the most
modern equipment in the world.
More costly theaters are being built
here than anywhere else in the world.
OF the s25,OOO,O00 paid into the
theater box-offices of the United
States last season more than half was
spent for attendance in New York
City.
1t is estimated that s20,00O,OOO is in
vested in the play-houses of the city
alone.
A further investment of $4,000, 900
within the next two or three years is
more than possible.
The seating capacity of the theaters
in Manhattan at present running, in
Guiding Madison Square Garden, is
over 10000. With the additional ca
pacity of the eleven theaters building
this will be over 10000 persons.
This is more than the entire popula-
ton of many large cities. Syracuse
has only 5000; New Haven, Conn,
about the same; Paterson, N. j.,
! los, 900; Los Angeles Cal, 100000, and
Scranton, Pa, and Omaha, Neb,, the
same number
Seventy-five years ago the theatrical
center of New York was not far from
Bowling Green.
1t is just half century since Jennie
Lind made her New World debut at
Castle Garden, on the southern tip of
the island, then almost in the heart of
the fashionable section.
Today it is more than four miles
away.
How the theatrical center of New
York came to travel from the City
Hall Square to Longacre Square in
fifty years, not by long jumps but by
a constant progress, is an exceedingly
interesting story.
The first theater in New York dates
back to 1892. The next was the Kip
street theater. on Nassau, near Maiden
Lane, which opened in 1850. This is
the first of which there is any concise
record Three more unimportant
houses followed in the next ten years,
in 1856 the John Street Theater was
opened. This is the first house of any
fame.-N. Y. World.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

A crusade against slang in college
yells is started by President
Bridgeman of Hamline university:
dickens" bet" and holy smoke
are barred as profane.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

What is it that makes men great
papa?"
Persistent advertising, my SON.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

Why does a COW rise from lying
posture hind legs first and horse fore
legs first?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02

partnership of great interest the racing world is that of
President W. b. Leeds of the Rock Island railroad and An
drew Miller owner of fine racing stable. They have hired
frank egan trainer at salary of $4,000 year and prep
aaons Will be made wrest the turf honors from Whitney,
Belmont, lIaggin and Keene.