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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11

prise, but when he answered her he
was in desperate earnest.
Il want wife"' he said boldly, and
then blushed as red as a poppy.
That's what l mean" said Jennie,
still lowering on Mysteries. do you
want wife for birthday present?"
Jonas caught his breath and looked
at her sharply. Had she turned mind
reader, or was it simply a chance ques-
ton?
But Jennie was desperately in ear
nest, as well as Jonas. She had to full
fill her part toward securing the COM
bination wife and present.
May Gardner or Sallie Green would
marry you, am sure. They are both
nice girls, and you're bound to like
them" She blurted out the words in
the most astonishing way, and then
finished by bursting into fit of crying.
But I don't want Sallie Green Or
May Gardner! 1 want you, or nobody,
for my wife," Jonas said bravely.
The sight of her tears had made
him bold, and he was holding her hands
now in the tenderest fashion.
And before IL O'Clock she was his
promised wife, and when he left her
there was only one cloud upon her hap
piness. 'The girls will be awfully
mad" she said oyer and over, "but,
anyhow, have kept my promise-I am
going to give Jonas a wife for his birth
day."-New York Daily News.
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a LAKE EIll.Ep WIFE pEAn-
Driven bS Flames, Beasts Take Refuge
in the Water.

Driven by Flnmes, Beasts Take Refuge
in the Water.
4. p. Duval, timber cruiser for the
land department of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad, who has just returned
from trip through Clarke County,
washington, tells of a lake completely
fiiled with dead wild animals hemmed
In by the recent forest fires and smoth-
cred to death in the water. Said he:
In township 6 north, range A east,
Is lake have often visited before. 1t
is about one acre in extent On this
occasion suppose L~was the first to
visit 1t since the Ere, though there have
been many there since I spread the re-
port all of whom can corroborate what
say. Long before reached the lake
l was greeted by smell SO nauseating
that after satisfying my curiosity /
went away and was sick for hours
i found the surface of the lake one
mass of deer, foxes, bears and wolves
and all the varieties of small animals
that roam our woods. The lake is in
deep hollow between the.hills and the
hre had encircled it at great distance
IN the first place, crowding toward
the lake by degrees. and at last drivir
every living animal of the woods int,
the water to be either drowned or
smothered.
The water was completely covered
for the whole acre with rotting car
casses, and how many deep they were
had no means of knowing; was not
equal to stirring them up even could
have secured stick to do it with.
From the remains Of other animals in
the woods nearby surmise that some
tried to escape through the circle of
death. have heard that in such SUI
preme moments the fiercest animals
forget their ferocity. Something like
that must have occurred here, for bears
and deer, minks and squirrels were
mingled in the pestiferous mass indis-
criminately.
Probably the only struggle at all
was for Judgment on the backs of the
already dead. The hides were begin
ming to fall off the bodies of the ami
mails, leaving am unsightly mass as
displeasing to the eyes as to the nos
trils. Several of the people who went
to visit the lake afterwards were
forced to turn back by the stencil"
Duval has included his story in his
report made at headquarters and re-
ports townships and as also COM
pletely cleaned out by the forest holo-
caust which killed the wild animals in
such quantity.
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rest. With work to do. however, extra
pay to earn, and urgent necessity COM
handing that the work be done, the
men assert that they do not feel at
liberty to take for sleep the time
which the companies think should be
spent in moving freight. Some assert
that discharges, on one pretext or an
other, have followed refusals to do
extra work.
Passenger engineers are compare
lively free from calls for this extra
and dangerous work. Their runs are
scheduled. Unless the unusual hap
pens they know to a certainty when
their work begins and when IL ends.
1t is the man on the "chain gang" the
man who comes in from one trip to
find another waiting him, who finds
his days work including the greater
part of the twenty-four hours.
Recent developments in the railroad
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III HeAllSylFdllla. MRS. j. MITCHELL.
Mrs. Mitchell is known to and respect.
ed by every man, woman and child in
Spring Valley. She lives in an unpre-
tentious little home that is a model of
neatness and spends the most of her
time in the personal supervision of her
children. She is an ideal wife and
mother, who finds her duties at home
and who performs them. Of sympa-
thetfc nature and deeply devoted to her
husband, she aided him by her encour-
agement and womanly tenderness in
the work of self-improvement, for John
Mitchell lis self-educated man, all of
his serious reading having been done
since at the age of 10 he entered the
coal industry as breaker boy. The
good priest in Spring Valley. who unit
ed them in marriage and who has aid
ed in directing Mr.. Mitchelrs studies,
pronounces the union of this happy
couple an ideal one. Mrs. Mitchell is
the daughter of miner and was born
in Catlin, near Danville, Ill.
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NN1AA oH IRELAND SHOWING THE CONGESTED DISTRICTS
wELLMAN of the Chicago Herald is assured by
~ sir Anthony MacDonnel
" hat the whole land be net
satisfactory the
manner which will greatly strengthen empire In
wholesale turning Of
people Ireland
oeen made on the lines followed
upon the basis OF the price produce
to
satisfy aspirations
80 another plan be devised
There will
' ~ ~ OWN - 'o
The vital point price Naturally the landlords desire to
as
which deeply concerned in devisg
involve as little cost possible
valuation Of the be made.
1t estimated that this at the
not 700 much to buy and order
the andoo cannot agree the aid
meat 1t may buy out entire
hoeseads
The scheme eontempates thinning
families crowded together small
decent to the number
viii
and instances wide
Den Sparsey will
and homes for the
The landlords
scheme Under existing
and land holding losing it's
1t fascinating
the people Of Ireland the
without
OF SO
people the dignity honor
and subjected to the official jurisdiction his
residence
Where unwnnness
condition unfaVoable public
his property buy from him and sell
the people.
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day in the week, but for the man who
man who keeps up its fires there is no
rest. Long hours of nerve-wearing
work are theirs-hours which some
times add up to eighteen, twenty and
even more of continuous labor. From
the man on the ''chain gang" to the
man who has 'banker's rum" there
is hardly one in the business whose
average days work is not of the kind
which in the end wears down the en-
durance. Add to this average days
work an extra run and the results are
apt to become serious. To the over
working of engineers and firemen is
laid the responsibility of many rail
road disasters. A man has been in
the cab for twenty hours. His eyes
almost refuse to see. He feels, as one
engineer expressed it, like putting
toothpicks under the lids to keep them
open" He runs past a signal his
sleepy eyes did not catch, and a wreck
results.
Railroad managers affirm that no en-
gineer or fireman is sent out on the
road without requisite sleep. They
declare that it is against the wish of
the company when a man assumes the
responsibility for q train unless he is
fitted for it, as a man without rest
could not be. The rules of the broth
erhood make it obligatory for the COM
pGnies to allow their men time for
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Must be sort O. desolate fer We, I'm
thinkin'."
That's So" said Jonas, a little
mouRnfully. "There amt so much fun
a-settin' alone O. evenin's, but I'm used
to It," he added, despondently.
"Pshaw! There amt no sech thing
as gittin' used tew 1t! It amt nat'ral"
said Uncle John, stoutly.
"What'H l do?' asked Jonas, sheep
lshly.
ASK one Of these pretty girls around
here to marry yOu-sort Of birthday
present to yourself, don't you know"
The old man chuckled as he glanced
slyly at Jonas.
"They wouldn't have me-" said
Jonas, with a decided shake Of his
head.
There's three of them that would"
began the old farmer, but he checked
himself abruptly. He had come very
near betraying his pretty nieces Sc
cret. "Just you ask 'em," he finished
abruptly, but with an encouraging
smile.
(Which one'll ask?" queried Jonas.
"Ask 'em ALL" said the old farmer,
with a roar of laughter. He had evil
IDENTITY thought of something that was
exceedingly funny.
John Gardner, be you out of your
headT' said Jonas, half angrily.
But the farmers words burned in his
brain long after he had parted with his
friend and neighbor.
And that evening he put on his best
suit and went over to call on Jennie
Deering.
An hour before midnight they were
sitting alone in the kitchen, for the old
folks had gone to bed in most accom-
modating manner.
"Did you know my birthday was
next week, Jennie?" said Jonas, sud-
denly. He was sitting as near her as
he dared when he asked the question.
Suddenly, Jennie giggled in most
unaccountable way.
"Do you want q birthday present,
JonasT' she asked, with fit Of laugh
ter that bordered on Mysteries.
Jonas looked at her with some sur
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world have increased the hard work
for the engine crews. Mogul engines
make a greater strain on the engineer.
Their firing is a much more laborious
task for the fireman. Business has in
creased more rapidly than the equip
ment of the roads. There is scarcity
of men to do the work. All these con-
ditions add to the hardships of the
freight engineer.
A fireman relates that his engineer
frequently has gone to sleep on his
seat from exhaustion while the train
was running at thirty miles an hour,
and that he has awakened him in time
to make the stops at stations. He saws
that he has left his engineer sleeping
in station while he ran the train
back for water for which the man had
forgotten to stop.
A railroad man says: "After a man
has been under the strain for thirty
hours his eyes may remain open, but
he doesn't realize what he is doing.
and it is not at all strange that men
sometimes make mistakes under those
circumstances. They may lay the
wrecks to fogs and bad weather and
a dozen other causes, but l am con-
WINGED that two-thirds of the wrecks
which occur are caused by men who
from want of sleep are unfit to work"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11
Ais NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

"Well, FISH," said Mr.. Ryefuddle,
partially steadying himself by clawing
on to the door-frame and gazing at the
wife Of his bosom with flshy and TO-
cusless eyes, us the (hic) first time
ever saw a liv(hic)ing puzzle-picture
Now, which of the two is (hic) which
and which is not (hic) which? In osher
words, which Of 'em is (hic) and which
Of her amt one of (hic) 'em? On the
ozher hand, which one of the two THAT
I see is the (hic) one don't see, and
which is the (hic) one see but don't
think 1 do? pause for q (hic) re-
ply" &.
N. Bile got it.-Judge.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11
Fixed Dates.

Routine is exceedingly strong in Rus
STA. There is a day in June upon
which, says tradition, it becomes safe
to battle in the rivers, after the winter
freeze. No matter how warm the
water may be earlier, no matter how
cold it may be on that day, then is the
time to take the first swim. Other fixed
Home" by Herbert Barry. OF course
the statements do not apply to all Rus
slams, but to the average peasant only.
No man dare touch an apple before
the sixth Of August, however ripe the
fruit may really be before that day.
He does not believe it is fit to eat.
The village sportsman, although he
may have observed the bIackcocks
fighting among themselves unusually
early, owing to the warmth of the
spring, cannot make up his mind to
shoot them until the appointed day has
arrived.
No traveller will start on a journey
on either Monday or a Friday.
Although the delay is strongly
against his own interests, the fisher
man will not cast his nets before a GER
tain day, whether the season be late
or early.
No lamb is supposed to be able to
reach the age of mutton should it have
been born before the day named in the
peasants calendar. And so on through
all the common events in their daily
life does this attachment to fixed dates
hedge in a Russians existence.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11
tlOcK' said Jennie, but again Nav
L4tOWned upon the suRgestinn

Slock'" said Jennie, but again MAY
& atOWned upon the suggestion,
No. indeed! That won't do. Jonas
IaS HO end of clocks and needs no moro
give him something that he would
At W, dream of getting for himself"
w. girls" broke in Sallie Green.
"rA ringing laugh. i've thought Of
Ie very thing! Let's give Jonas a wife
.Ol LIZ birthday present! He has ev.
t,''niag else that he needs, and Won
AnOw he is altogether too timid 70 even
= ancep e ASSIST
won't he resent it?" asked the girls
periously. "
W. Certainly not, If she is the right one
~ "n aa man would? The only thing Ia
NJ I S,a, mat She is in every way worthy
ta,, nlln' for Jonas is really a splendid
s staU|' even If he is bashfuL Jonos
m nuau nave "a wife for his birthday, that
1 nutn Is settled! Now, who shall she
y, T% anu now will We present her?"
!, ine Three girls sat for momon4 t.
TIth then suddenly May was struck
s a"u a bright idea. The other pirIs
who ru al ner In breathless amazement
NV" %I,, Sne told them what IT was
o,, why b.! May Gardner, you mnst ho
w.. lucy cried simultaneously.
.,, Not bit of ltv' said Nav s+o,,+,
va s' w.. see here, girls, be sensible, Hero
DIV "le' getting older and older avor,,
il ma anu NOT man In the vilispa thst
We aI, Inl except Jonas. Now
if va al INK. IKE him, you know we do. h"t
die o,t wait Tor him to propose Wen oil
aw r Olo maids, and that wo"1d % h
coura oo, All Jonas needs is a little an.
kuan aSement' and no one will a1n n
each otherv' Ou' hnuence for
Uo nup; hnally, her reasoning prevailed
masl by the aid Of a ter 6ee' ai
bearts eAistng toward Jonas in tho
q ssr Of Dot, both the blushing maidens'
in of Pq nS Jonas, you'd oughter be think
her shortI rSm," said Uncle John Gard
nent hot after the important agree.
Z s'n v,meen the three young ladies.
with a p Iittso So said Jonas absently,
~, Pears to me you,d hate
ndlfereptlv a. the old farmer, as
Ss'S s birthday Is comm and v ,n,[ty,
4'if your life without a WI wife e
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Jonas Birthday Present

"a ERTAINLY, Jonas must have a
III birthday present! Now the ques-
" ton is, what shall it be?" said
|back.eyed May Gardner in q deter
mined manner. Just think! He'll be
s. years old, and has never had one,
except when he was little boy, almost
Too young to rememberw she added,
did be say that?" asked Jennie
Deering, with a curious blush.
"Tes, he told Uncle John So" said
May quickly, "and when uncle repeated
it to me l just decided that he should
have present this year, sure"
Let's send him something that is
useful An old bachelor needs so many
things that he would never think of
buying himself. We could send him a
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11

10 Ds make all kinds of curious surprising
J1 them
suspended the But EIoid
that digs it's Florida burrowp
called
who love and birds and
fishes
Inc burrowng owl does not live underground stupid
nest above ground
or its feahered
out by its brain: The
dwell together
Du cities They prefer prairie
selected the location
the time dawn the town furnished
the inhabitants
$3.50 ~ e' O' NAo1-
Like the prairie owls burrows the Florida
OF danger. " o~' "
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11
THE OvERWoRkED ENGINEER,
Loss of Sleep Is Said to Cause Man,
Railroad Accidents

Loss of Sleep Is Said to Cause Many
Railroad Accidents,
The country has been repeatedly
shocked of late by reports of railroad
horrors. The disasters are ascribed
now to defective signals, again to
carelessness on the part of the man
who runs the train or the fellow who
gives the orders, and various other
more or less plausible theories are
brought forward. The public accepts
most of the explanations given by the
companies, but experienced railroad
men shake their heads and say that
the real cause is overwork. Seven
days in the week and many hours each
day the railway man must toll. Trades
men, artisans, workers in nearly every
other field lay aside their labors one
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11
"a ! YOU TAKE FOR Meq

g.. /.
!, ready to sleep as she lay on my
arm 5,s4,s frllled cap SO fine, -.
uher lltsl Han hair falling out at the
edge, Nom sunshine.
w summed the old tune OF "'''ut'
Cross" ,,.n Who Put Out to
u Three Men "A
Sea" ,;d 90 she closed her
blue eyes: or take for me ~
Papa, wna' "'
!, ! answered, "A dollar dear little
hsaf1 liant baby weary with play,
And ~ ~ her warm in my love-strons
a'l sacked her and rocked away.
|, St y. dollar meant all the W AS a., 70 ms
Tle .I ls~t depths of the lowest place.
h s, ,ss Sisbest Of all that's high
.,t;os with streets and palaces,
1 ~ their people and stores OF art >
VIZ wa not take for one low soft "hrob
a " ~ little ones loving heart;
y, v ! III the gold that was ever found
~ o. u ~ Il husy wealth finding past
- ~ ~ .take for one smile of my dsrliug's
%
~. : know it must be the last. y
,o.ted my baby and rocked away,
~ .nd telt such a sweet content,
:, A -. words of the song expressed more
4 to me,
r,.n they ever before had meant.
!, i tbe night crept on, and l slept and
dreamed
~ things far too gladstone to be,
i waken'd with lips saying close in
my ear,
rpona what would you take for me!"
Eugene Field. H..
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Died Happy,

Wigg-At any rate, poor old Hard.
uppe died happy.
Wagg-Yes; he had lived on tick so
long that he was just tickled to death.
philadelphia Press.
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year, little has been
said of his wife,
who during all the
months of her hus-
bands S tru ggle
presided over his
home in Spring
Valley, ILL.,, hoping
and praying for his
safe return FROM
t h e tumultuous
scenes of the strike
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11

A museum curiosity is a man who
can talk faster than his wife.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-11
MRS. JOHN MITCHELL.

Devoted Wife of the Leader of the An.
thracite Coal Strike.
While John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers Union, has had
his share Of publicity during the past
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-06-12
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

In addition to his other honors
King Edward is the titular and hered-
itary preacher at st. David's cathe-
dral in Wales. He is allowed a sal
ary of five dollars year and pew
in the cathedral is reserved Tor MS
use.
St. Andrews church, at Redheld,
Berkshire. is the only church in Eng
land where the bells are rung by
women instead of men. The vicar be-
ing unable to obtain men, appeared
to the women of his congregation,
and six young women have rung the
bells regularly, although it is heavy
and trying work.
The most notable feature of the
report of United States Commission
er of Education Harris is the great
increase in the number of college stu
dents. There are, he says, 7o,472
men in colleges and universities, as
against 44,926 ten years ago, and 81
SO women students, as against TO-
761. The only decrease noted is In
the schools of theology.
Prof. Charles r. Van Hise, who has
Just been chosen to the presidency
of the University of Wisconsin, is the
first alumnus of the institution to be-
come it's president. He was gradu-
ated in the class of 1879 and since
1892 has been head professor OF ge-
ology His reputation as geolog1st
was gained on the United States geo
logical survey, of which he has been
geologist since 1888.
Near the little town of Pierre, ).
D., there has been established what
is known in that section as Chris
tian Endeavor Rest" for cowboys.
This rest or home is sustained by the
Congregational Christian Endeavor-
ers of Pierre, consisting of but IL
members 1t is neat two-story
cottage, in which the Endeavorers
maintain a reading-room, dining
room, bathrooms and laundry.
Principal Butler, of school at
Missoula, Mont, nearly got into trou-
BILE because he took his fishing tackle
to school and wound and unwound
the reel during recitations. The pu.
pills of the school complained to their
parents about the matter; and there
was an investigation. Mr.. Butler said
that he was an ardent angler and
| fshed in a creek near the school
house before and after school hours
He liked to hear reel click, just as
any other angler does, SO played with
| 1t in school, but could not see EoW
| 1t hurt the children.
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The money handed to her depends not on her b
industry capacity and the disposition OF her
husband
We NAV say her reward the happiness and aec-
ton family other worker does his daily tasks tor scn
of labor the incentive to rise rests
on money rising Only in homeang ana
the rearing of children is this requital lacking.
sanitary inspectors visit the tenement d1str
landlords and melting the mothers to better house
keeping They teach the bad effects of filth and disorder and the prop
feeding care Why should not the fur
housewife who required standard make GER
Though necessarily SMALL this income would add
to the wifes dignity
great of sentiment around the home but prac-
cay man. especially uneducad depses womans work because
bit important to drive cart thn
wash Dishes driving comps respect because receives
wage .n,
system suggested the state would say Your work as
society than serV-
Provided you reach required
standard public will make the loss OF wages
If society does acknowledge the homenakers services
there no wav in gain recognition The
change employers market change its trade From such
off, IF he becomes
Garner daily toll destructive of hone-makng
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1903-06-12

When the catkin's on the willow
And the tassel on the birch,
The wild bees from the hiving rocks
Begin their honey search.
Brown wings among the broWner grass
And breast all Frightening yellow
Pines up from meadows as We pass
The lark's call clear and mellow;
Now wake the FURNISHED dragonf1y
Beside the ginting river,
That shakes with silent laughter where
The iris banners CULVER;
Now on the budding poplar boughs
The tuneful blackbirds perch;
For the catkin's on the willow
And the tassel on the birch.
Now stalks the solemn crow behind
The farmer in the furrow;
The downy owl comes out at dusk
And boots beside his burrow.
Now blows a balmy breath at morn
To call men to the sowing;
Now all the waterways are full,
And all the pastures growing;
Now truant anglers drop line
To catfish and to perch;
For the catkin'S en- the willow
And the tassel on the birch.
st. Nicholas.